the podguyz podcast with tony moranca toy drive/santa squad

We are joined by Tony Moranca the supporter of The santa squad a local charity to help the needy children to recieve christmas joy. tune in laugh and enjoy

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
I think we're live, right we are.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I push the buttons, we do the things. We are
the pod guys podcast, bringing it to you live as
we do every Monday ten fifteen Eastern Standard time. Kevin,
guess what what we are on time? My god, I'm
Tony Kaz.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Kevin Neary here.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Of course we have the everleven p Cosso the draw
or the tumultuous tormentor of tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm sure that mattered.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It does.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
And Sparky's got his big board there, says high for
our new viewers out there and older viewers. You know
what Sparky's about. He draws what he sees. He's been
all around the world. Yeah uh, and we will try
to describe what he has drawn to our non viewing
audience as well. Tony, we got a fourth square going

(00:56):
on there, we do.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
We are very joint, very much joined by Tony Marinka.
Thanks very much for coming on our show. No problem,
tell the world here you are, what you do, why
you're here? Of course?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Sure? So My name is Tony Miraka.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Like you said, I eight years ago, with a bunch
of friends decided to start a grassroots effort to help
kids for Christmas. We thought it would be a one
time thing. Talk to my mom a few of her
friends that volunteered into the Salvation Army, and the toy
drive was running low. So we play a football game.
We'll put that in quotes. Not much of a game
at this point, So we threw a tarp out. We

(01:36):
put on social media. We were hoping to get maybe
fifty hundred toys. I think we checked in with close
to five hundred toys. So based on that success, we
came up with the Greater Pittston Santas Squad and now
going into our ninth Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Last year, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Last year we helped about sixteen hundred and fifty kids toys, bikes, bags,
not just one toy. We like to get them within reasons.
We can't buy buicks or anything but toys Golding Bike CA.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah. Yeah, giving back to the community, uh, enriching your lives,
you know, as far as trying to help the kids out,
And that's really what it's all about. It's all about
the kids and trying to help out and trying to
do what you can do, especially in these times. It's
a little bit tough for everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
But yeah, I truly feel like we get as much
out of it as the kids do.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
We're still kids at heart.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
We see toys coming through the door and we're still
pumped to see playto and slinkies. It's like, yeah, you know, so, uh,
we have a lot of fun down and we're down
at the Seeing Catholic Gymnasium on William Street. That's our
Santa Squad headquarters. We pretty much eat pizza, drink wine,
and collect toys and we make some kids happy.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
That sounds like an episode of the Sopranos. Yeah, right,
only only Piston style, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Like yeah, yeah, there's all kinds of stuff coming through
that door.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I like the it be like it's so you guys
kind of have to be like the pond Stars of
toys right there. You know, guy walks in. You do
you do a quality check on these toys, Tony? What
are the standards for the toys and what are the
toys where you'd want to say, right now, keep them
at home, don't bring them to the Santus Squad. Holy crap,

(03:14):
that is not a toy.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
That's really funny. So obviously nothing with the sharp edge.
It's really it's really a strict thing. We have to
do not really by our standards. We'll take just about
anything that doesn't have a heartbeat. We'll we have to
scan everything for the I R S. When a kid
gives us a list, it becomes really important to nail

(03:36):
that list for them.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
So if they list five things, we'll so.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
In other words, we'll make these these wish lists into
angel trees and hand them out to the public, whether
it's families, folks like you, or even corporations, businesses, And
once that list is out, we hope they nail five
out of five or do the best they can. If
they fall short, then the funds re raised. The money
re raised during the year, we'll go toward filling in
those blanks. Say a kid wants a a Philadelphia Eagles jersey.

(04:06):
Why I don't know, But say a kid will want
a Philadelphia Eagles j well, there's some of our collective
money we're using for that kid wants a bike. You know,
sometimes bikes are donated, Oftentimes we buy the bikes. We've
been lucky enough to get some grants from the casino,
from the A.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Belch You Memorial Fund.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
But fundraising is important to us as far as the
toys that come through I mean, we get a lot
of board games, and every year it's we're surprised how
many kids still ask for simple board games like Sorry
and Trouble and Monopoly. So there's really not a bad
toy when you think about it. Some of these families
are in dire streets.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're the pod Guys podcast. Of course, we would love
to help you donate for the kids, especially for the
for the drive. So if you do have a lift,
we would love to share it with our fans as
well to get as many as many donations as possible.
We'll even donate ourselves as well. So if you have anything,
you know, we'll be happy to do that.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, we would love to see you guys. Maybe come
down and maybe do a broadcast or something right from
the gym and check us out and I'd be amazed
you're interested in doing that. We can hang out and
you know, take a look at the warehouse.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, of course absolutely.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
You know the generic version of the game Sorry if
you can't get the regular game Sorry by Milton Bradley.
You know, the name brands are always a little bit
more expensive. You can go for the generic version called Apologize, right.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know who always has the best board games, Kevin,
Who is that Sparky does?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my god, you know he has plenty of board
games round, Sparky, what board games do you have?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now? Now get to give him a little bit of
time to draw this, you know. You know, Sparky is
very much a family guy. He likes to spend a
lot of time with his family because they're amazing. He
just has a great family core that is very you know,
very close. Now, of course, there's no game that that

(06:00):
is off the table for Sparky at all, I think,
except for probably one or two, uh you know, non
Star Wars related ones. Yeah. I always like to think
of of Sparky as like the old Walton's of uh

(06:20):
you know, with like Lincoln Bunk goes behind Sparky and
make a lot of kids happy.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Just well Tony, that's where he got most of the
funk goes from kids just ripping them out into their
hands and running as.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Fast as I did see his picture at Walmart, I
did see that.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, he is the sky that he is the Sparky
that's still Christmas.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
He's on the naughty list.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, he just dresses up like Dan Ackroyd when with
the Santa thing. You know, drunk as a skunk, just
eating lobster on the wall.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Four off the bad checks.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now, I like, Tony, I like how you're keeping You're
keeping the name Santa in with the holiday. Have you
gotten any alt thrown out there? Have you got any
shit for keeping Santa there or Christmas or anything like that?

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Absolutely not, Absolutely not, we said, and I'm hoping all
this what I'm gonna say is appropriate. The very beginning
when I was fortunate to win the Greater Pitston Person
of the Year in twenty eighteen, we never really when
we took these requests for the kids. We don't ask
political affiliation, skin color, ethnicity. We're you know, we're all

(07:36):
about just helping kids have a great Christmas. We've never
had someone say, you know, why Santo, why anything?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
For the not the most part, for the entirety of
the parents.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
On distribution day, there's a lot of tears that gets emotional.
There has not been knock on wood, knock on wood.
There's not been one negative to the Santa squad yet.
This this we've had it really, it's been all positive.
It's been And when I tell you, we get as
much of it as the kids do and the parents do.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
It's true. It's been a real labor of love for
our volunteers.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
We haven't had anybody walk away with a bad taste
in their mouth that I know.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Of, Tony. Do you guys have a website or a
page to go to uh to check out those donations
as well or we do?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
We have two things we do.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
We have an Amazon wish list and we just actually
had that up and running a few days ago, because.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
We could Christmas in July. You gotta start, yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, yeah, we could pretty much predict what's going to
be hot already toy wise. We're you know, we're on
the ball with that. We also have the Facebook page
greater pits than Santa Squad, so if people go there,
they'll see what the gym looked like last year. And
if you are down on Christmas spirit, you just need
to come by because it is toys and bags and
bikes every square inch of a of a full sized gymnasium.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Now, Sparky's got something there on the big board. And
Sparky flip that big board around and see what's going on.
Been working on there? This is uh, hey, look we
got them. We got a lot of toys from Pete
Ditty's estate. Uh oh, it's sparking you hold on, hey,
most it must be an electric football game.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
You gotta put like a blue ocean underneath it so
that it doesn't slip away. I guess some things.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Should not be toys anymore. Now after nine years, Tony,
you kind of look like you're slowly turning into Santa Claus. Like, yeah,
I got the white beer going on there.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yea, yeah, yeah, I grew the beard.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I grew the beard during COVID just couldn't get out
to really get a haircut and all that, and just
decided to keep it. You know, I had a wolverine
look going a few years ago, but it's really just morphing.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Like you said in the Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you ever dress do the part thing?
Do you dress up like like that when you hand out.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
The Well, we really don't deal with the kids. We
deal with parents mostly. We did go to the YMCA.
We had one of our board members play the part
and he did a great job.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
No, I have no plans on on dotting.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
The suit, but we do have a suit and we
do have certain people at certain times of the year,
like the parade coming up that will do that, but
mostly we're dealing.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
With dropping off.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
So what we'll do is when when the families from
Wyoming area and Pittston area sign up for our assistance,
we'll give them a day already like they'll they'll pick up.
So it's basically on say December seventh or eighth, they'll
come by, they'll give us a tag. We have volunteers
in the board will run out. It's almost like toy
spast food. We just keep the line moving. We probably
get about eight hundred kids that way, two hundred families.

(10:45):
After we know that's satisfied, we'll reach out to Luzern
County children and youth will hit area daycares. There'll always
be schools where if kids are in danger of missing Christmas,
and then some of those people will pick up. We
did a We didn't want to go as far as
Hazelton because we did think we had the manpower or
the toys, but we did so we took a preschool
from Hazleton and they'll take the drive up and just

(11:07):
the cutest toys, guys, like it just melts your heart
to see like you have little tricycles ready and blocks
for kids and baby play mats, and it really drives
home that these families depend on us. And here we
have a lot of fun, but we take what we
do deadly serious because again, growing up myself, like you know,
Kevin and I talked about the Pitston Pool, I grew

(11:28):
up on Market Street right across. We were middle class,
probably lower middle class, but we all were. So one
Christmas would be great. The next Christmas, a furnace would break,
a car would break, and you know you're busted down.
You know, your Christmas gets cut in half. So a
lot of us who do this, we've been through the
highs and the lows. So it's important for us to

(11:48):
help as many kids as we can.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh yeah, one thing goes wrong from buying new school
clothes to right now Halloween and then into Thanksgiving and
now you need to buy a whole bunch of gifts,
right because if it's a social inclusive sort of thing,
you know, if you're the only kid that didn't get gifts,
you know, your parents start putting a hat on you
and say we don't celebrate. You know, here's a pretty hat,

(12:13):
is a whole whole thing, but uh, are you you're
taking the pressure off of Toys for Tots then, right.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, Toys for Tots.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
We always say we're like one of the few organizations
that have beat the Marines. We like to say because
they've kind of taken over the city for Toys for Tots,
which good for them too. They don't have to worry.
We have it covered. We'll reach out to Toys for
Tots sometimes and ask if they need toys. We always
like to donate. We'll go up to the bus at
Walmart by a couple hundred dollars worth of toys and

(12:41):
do our part. But yeah, I'm not saying this in
any kind of a weird way, but it's really not
needed in Pittston. We we feel like we have it covered, yep,
so they can, you know, focus on other areas around here.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Now. Of course we're joined by Tony Marinka from the
Santa Squad. What is the weirdest toy that probably has
passed through?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
So I wouldn't say it was a toy. We were
up at Doctor Casey. He was great to us every
year and gives us a toy uh place to collect
toys and his staff donate. Somebody came by with like
knockoff designer shoes and cologns, and I was like, I'm
not really sure what to do with any of this,
so I never made it to the to the floor.

(13:26):
We had one kid asked for a hamster, so we
just gave a gift certificate to pet Zone. You know,
we didn't want to be dealing with any live animals,
but I would say the designer Bruno Mally's.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Then they box it up, freaking let it go.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
We had some some strange like Men's cologne, but they
were knockoffs, and I said, there's no way they're They're
making it to a bag.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
And you don't want, Tony, to your point, you don't
want to give them a future taxidermy to hamster.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
You know there you go, Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
That would kind of you know, ruin Christmas. Well mean
you you know, you don't want to play the evil genie, right, Tony.
You don't want to say, like, well you never said
the hamster had to be alive, right, exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Starter set.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
But most of the most of the toys we get
are great once.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
So while we'll get something used, people don't understand the assignment,
so we put them off to the side and call
it the Island the misfit toys, anything that comes and used,
and we'll still donate that to UH, like some kind
of a women's shelter where if kids come in and
they just want a game room to play, so nothing
gets wasted other than the plone.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
There are people in Wilkesbury I call the island of
misfit toys. Nobody wants a heroin. Harry's wrong with you?
Stop talking about Tony. I was telling Tony, Tony and Tony, see,
I'm getting this mixed, this mix going on here, Ye

(14:56):
I was. I was kind of bragging about you and
UH and the most genuine way possible by saying that
your charitable work and donation to community has never hasn't
started just with the Santa Squad. You also used to
work at the Pittston City Pool watching out for the
kids that were jumping in the pool, and yeah, all
that good jazz. You want to tell us a little

(15:17):
bit about.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
That, Yeah, sure, Well the Pittston Pool started when I
was a very young kid across the street. Like I said,
I lived across the street. Joe and George Cosgrove were
running the pool and we just loved them. They were great.
We all looked up to them. In fact, I just
had lunch with Georgia and we were reminiscing. So then
in high school, old enough to lifeguard at the pool,

(15:38):
then for a little while, you become too cool for
the pool.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
You know, I'm not going there, you know.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
But then I had the chance actually to work at
the pool with a few people I admired, Jimmy Dice
and Sala Montagna, both who recently passed away.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
And that was a labor of love.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
I mean, my job at that time was installing flooring
and carpeting. I would take the summer off and make
like seven bucks an hour just.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
To be at the pool.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
It was it was a way to give back. We
were working for free, but we might as well have been.
But it was just a really cool you know it
was it was the Pittston Pool. I mean, anybody who's
watched the Sandlot. I tell people all the time. It
was really close to the Sandlot.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
That was our utopia. We all had a windy peppercorn.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's that's for sure. Yeah. And then
once they once Pittston decided or whoever the decider was
on the idea to not open it up again, I mean,
you have all it's it's a perfect opportunity to open
up a pool, the McDade park up or I guess
in scrant is it McDade up there, Tony or not. Yeah, yeah,

(16:43):
they're not opening up their park there their pool either.
And it's it's it's a sad reflection on where we
are right now because the on in defense of what
the public pools are facing right now is the work
the insurance companies are looking at what the worst people

(17:03):
will do to their own children, you know, and you know,
like they for example, I was telling Tony last last week, like, oh,
you know, Tony, they're not gonna they're not gonna open
up the McDade park because the people that probably aren't
from Scranton originally will come there, drown their kid, try
to get a lawsuit and then say well why not

(17:24):
you know it is the pool attacked them, and you're
just like, you know, it's it's that type of mentality
that's really messed up society as a whole. You know,
we need more people, sadly.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Sadly, there's a there's a lot of things that kind
of reflect as far as the City of Scranton and
the dire straits that are that are in the city
of Scranton as far as funding and uh, you know,
trying to find lifeguards and insurance and pairs and all
that other fun stuff when they've already spent all of

(17:58):
their money throughout the year on other youthless stuff. Yeah, yeah,
why not try to uplift the community a little bit, Yeah,
trying to give them something else. And I kind of
referred to like the Roman times where they had the
Colisseum and they said, they said, I don't care about
your weary and poor and dying and you know, diseased people.

(18:22):
Let's give them entertainment.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Right, Yeah, they said it just like that, only in Italian,
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
I'm holding out hope for maybe like a splash pad
where the pool grounds used to be. There were just
so many good memories and so many good times there
to go by now in my flooring stores right down
below the pool, next to the festival lot, and I
see it every day, and especially on a day in
July when it's ninety It's like, man, that place was alive,

(18:51):
you know, that was the place to be.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
It was hopping, and see the way it is now.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
I get times change, and I get insurance and I
get all that, But a park or a splash bad
tighten with the library, the festival lot. I think it's
an opportunity that's so far been unexplored to do something there.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Tell me and my wife. We go to Saint John
the Evangelist church, right, and I was an ultra boy
for five or six years. I you know, just theology
has always been very interesting. You know, I don't I
don't bite one way or the other on certain stuff,
but just to go down there from what it was
to what it is now, yeah, yeah, it is a

(19:29):
completely different. Remember back in the day you had Saint
John the Baptist right across the street. They'd tout the
kids over all the kids would fill up the choir
in the backside and they'd all be, you know, we'd
all be singing up there sort of thing. And it
was a packed church, especially for like Easter. We went
there for Easter, and and I got blessed the whoever

(19:50):
drew the short straw and to do most of talking.
But they got this guy down there, nicest guy in
the world, right, Indian dude, you can't understand him, and
you just can't there's the accent is too thick, But
whose call was that? Where it's like, all right, guys,
this prime time easter out, like, dude, now you get
the guy that could talk a little bit, a little

(20:10):
bit more. Yeah, And here people are kind of like missing,
you know, with some things where they're like saying the
amen back or whatever, saying no not yet, no, no, no,
I'm like, nobody knows what you know. They're trying to
fake it, and I'm looking and did you see the
Jesus of the Christ. My wife, she speaks. She speaks
five different languages. She's very smart. So she a person

(20:34):
comes up to her start speaking Spanish and she spoke
Spanish back to him. I said, what did you say
to him? She says, oh, I told him that we
are in America, and it's very rude not to speak English,
like Jesus Christ, yellow five foot firecracker right there, like
Jesus wonder. The guy walked away like ashamed of himselves
sort of thing. But Sparky's got something there on that. Yeah,

(20:58):
he's got something on the big board. Sparky up that
beautiful big border around for us. Hey, card Pop, you
better not get you better get out and feel my
leg hair. I do not want to because I am
a bad dude. That's a that's a quote from a
Joe Biden story perfectly, uh probably put there. I don't

(21:19):
know why he's wearing red shorts sparky, but uh, you know,
no political affiliation with the shorts there because it was
a lifeguard he was Joe, Joe Biden was a lifeguard
there and he you know, he he described the story.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
It's reminiscent of the Pittston Pool, by.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
The way, that should have been the moment wherever he's like,
so he's not good?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Is he something that was his time in Scranton at
the Scranton Pool? Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah. We got the We got the beautiful Biden Expressway,
which feels just like the Scranton Expressway, only named differently
for no apparent reason. And you know, I don't care
how people are politically affiliated, but I think it is
a very appropriate name for a road that leads to
town full of shit.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know. Just I did some research the other day
because I was like, man, how much money did the
City of Scranton actually pay out officially for the switchover
of the sign? And believe it or not, it was
done by private donors and federal funding in order to

(22:25):
uh to switch everything over. So it didn't cost taxpayer
as anything.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
To change your address as a business, though, I think
that might cost a little bit.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
That might cost a little bit.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, one hundred dollars year, one hundred dollars there, you know,
it's yeah, it's kind of fun like that.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
But what I mean, in the long run it did
cost taxpayers something. What it costs of their dignity. Wah
wah wah.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, unavoidable to talk about there, Tony, we have to
talk about it. It is unavoidable. It is the biggest
list that never existed. I guess, oh, what is that?
It is the Epstein List? No, is it? They should have, Tony,
They should have given the list to Tony Maranka here

(23:21):
with the Santa squad. They would have they would have
kept it more than just on top of a desk
for anybody, you know, to just pick up and walk away.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I heard it's not a list.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
What do you mean it's not a list? Would you
hear it was?

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I heard it's not a list in the more of
a more of a manifesto.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, all right, so that's what they were that's what
they're banking on, burbage, right, just just just wordas you know,
we got I like it, you know how such.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Thing to name names and people in places in time
of when their comings and goings are. This is what
I think.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
How I knew they were never going to release the
list is because if you say you have it on
your desk, wrong idea, bring it from your desk, read
it live, Read every name live. I want to fucking
know people should know who were on the list who wasn't,
because it's the same justification for why sex offenders have

(24:28):
to knock on your door and tell you their crime
sort of thing. That way you're like, okay, cool, so
you can leave now now.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
In their defense, Kevin, in their defense, yeah, not going
there with not a crime. The things that they did
there were correct.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
It was a beautiful Like I feel bad for Elizabeth
Smart who was kept in a basement for eight years
of her life and then after she was released after
being sexually abused for years and years and years, now.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
She goes to why by the way, supposedly.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, she gets to watch people talk about how bad
the beach was. You know, if you're comparing one to
the next or you know, yeah, they say, well, you know,
all sexual assaults are not created the same. Correct, Sometimes
there's a beach. But in this situation, Prince Andrew. By
the way, Prince Andrew just sounds like a lame name

(25:21):
for a prince, right, you got a George A William
something like something dignified to a degree. What do you
think about that, Tony, I think that's.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
As ludicrous as the twenty three million Americans that believe
that brown cows give chocolate milk.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
They do. But Tony, Marinka your thoughts on the Epstein list.
I know that you are very articulate when it comes
to keeping up with the meat, with the news of
the of the day. Your take on it.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
I think that would be a lot of coal in
those fishnet stockings.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
True.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's it's it's disappointing. It's disappointing what people
that we used to maybe it was a lack of reporting,
but we used to take pride in our politicians and
our our movie stars were so regal and they were
so you know, guys like Boguard and you know, and
now it's there's so many grease fires. To be honest,

(26:16):
you just got to try. You know, I I try
to ignore a lot of it. You know, of course
I have my opinions like everyone else, but I have
to I have to ignore a lot of it and
and just take care of your own corner, you know.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
That's what I always say. Yep, But I like you.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
I like the keep your eyes on your own flate mentality.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yep, you're right. Yeah, I think we
got away from that.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
I think we got When I was a kid, we
couldn't do anything wrong in the neighborhood. You know, we
had our little corner was eyes on us everywhere. If
you did something wrong three blocks away, you got the
crap eat audio three times by the time you got home.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, you know, I think we lose that now.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
I find it kind of funny, like even in my
neighborhood that I live right now, Like there's video cameras
on every single house and every single person in the block.
We don't even live in a bad area, but we
have We have no nosy neighbors, you know, per se
h to say, hey, you know, this is what's going on,

(27:16):
this is what's going on, this is what's going on.
Oh really you were watching? Oh yeah, I've seen it
through my camera and now every day like that, not
to say even in my area, but in every area
across the nation. Right no matter where you are, everybody's
got a blink or a ring or you know, some
sort of surveillance camera that's just taking pictures of everybody

(27:37):
in the neighborhood. So there's there's a little bit of
give and take.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah, and given with that, no one will go next
door and say hi to their neighbor, reach across the
fence and say hello. But if your dog takes a
dump in the yard, you know they're an hour later,
you know what I mean. Like I said, I think
the days of the backyard, they let's get together.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't see it much, to be honest, I don't.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
My brother lives up in Stofford Heights and it's a
nice neighborhood. There's some younger people moving in. I'm on
Searle Street. I have great neighbors here. But I don't
think it's the norm. I don't think people talk to
each other the way they used to.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh no way, do you know who to talk to people?
Sparky Every once in a while.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Sparky is normally in the side. And now Tony you
said that your your place is so secure, would you
call it secure enough to keep a client list in
just throwing it out there if you hypothetically you had
like a book, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
I would, but there would be one minute missing somewhere,
you know.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
The only thing, honestly, I got to touch back on this
real quick. The only thing I could possibly think that
happened in the most innocent way is while Pam Bondi
was saying the client list is on my desk right now,
that somebody was like really and walked in there and
fucking took it. And wow, she was not lying. Oh
my god, I just walked right out. And then she

(28:59):
gets it's in there and looks like, looks around her
desk and says.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
What if it was Monica Lewinsky that just took it?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Did anybody see him lost? Did anybody see he's of
paper around here?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
She got invited to the White House several times after
after her incidents. Uh oh yeah, yeah yeah. And I
always wondered why. I always wondered why that always like
came to be.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know what that feels like, Uh, that feels like
the old auto invite. She stayed the auto pen invite,
you know where they invite all and then she was
just still stuck there. You know, she's like, she looks,
you know, she looks at it immediately and she's like,
I'm not sucking everybody's deck. What the fuck throws her

(29:46):
phone down. There's no way she would have.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Been an Oval office circle jerk or an Oval circus jerk.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
You know, there's probably a shape to describe it, Tony
and uh oval office org circled York, Yeah, something something
to that degree. It's gonna count as it's gonna be
like that music. You know, you have said it to
the music of Let's get physical, you know, and uh yeah,
it's just help.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
In the background.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
You know. It's the weirdest thing that the same time
that she was accused of the crime that she or
you know that Bill Clinton was accused of the crime
of a lying under oath or whatever, because there was
no crime. Really, it was just two guys one girl
people getting together. Yeah yeah, yeah, Jared that that was
the same time that viager was invented. So think about

(30:37):
that for a second. Priorities in line spark, you flipped
that big board around and see what's going on. Yeah,
high credit. I have the list and want to tell
you about myself. How sad you want to go for
a boat ride?

Speaker 2 (30:59):
The credit let the latest on Greta Thunberg.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Tony's favorite word. I'm gonna let you just say it,
Tony your favorite word on the Flotilla of Love.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
In the Latest on uh, of course, Greta Thunberg, she
was on her way over to the Gaza Strip and
then got stopped on her flotilla of fortress for solitude.
It got uh, it got abducted, and she was then
deported back to her nation of origin. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(31:38):
it was you go there to stop war and they're
they're like, I'm sorry, no flotilla's on the on the gods.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah. The pictures for the media shoot didn't pass the
eye teens at all, right, so it was just her
and she still looks very childlike. Okay. I don't know
if they gave her the Gary Coleman pills to look
that way forever, but she still looks like fifteen years old,
sixteen Tony maybe right somewhere in that range. She's all

(32:07):
disheveled and behind her or a bunch of like grown
men like you know, like, hey, what's going It just
didn't I'm like, whoa, somebody, somebody get that little girl
out of there. You know, why is she already?

Speaker 2 (32:18):
It was like the picture of five dudes around her.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, she's on the camera. You know, there's a boat
just did not pass the.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
She was away. By the way, I don't think that's
hitting the porn circuit yet. It's for as far as uh,
you know, somebody, somebody's idea is right there. That's a
million dollar idea for the flotilla of flotilla of fun.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Now we're gonna change the subject up a little bit.
Now everybody knows someone and they might be somebody on
here that might be affected by diabetes type one? Tony Maranka,
do you know anyone that is affected by diabetes type one? Know?

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Many people diabetes type two, me being one of them,
Type one?

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Few people?

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Sure, yep, so didn't Mattel. They are now introducing Barbie
as the first Barbie to ever have type one diabetes.
This is trying to help kids with their small talk.
While Ken tries to move himself forward on Barbie and say, hey, Barbie,
you want to get a soda? And she says, oh no,
I would, but I have type one diabetes. So that

(33:25):
way they can work on their small talk, right, they
diet coke for her. I love it. Barbie is expanding
its commitment to inclusivity with the debut of its first
ever doll with type one diabetes. Now, Tony, you deal
with toys a lot. Have you ever had a child
say hey, mister Moreenka, I have diabetes. Do you have

(33:47):
a Barbie with diabetes? And You're just like, holy.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Crap, that's weird.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
We have not done that. The closest we got was
missus potato Head.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Oh okay, that was a big thing for one Waite.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Diabetes is very round. The doll was designed in partnership
with Breakthrough t one D, a leading diabetes research and
advocacy organization. So if you donated to t one D

(34:23):
and you wonder where your donation money was going, guys,
this is where it was going all the time, right
to Mattel to help Barbie raise awareness to diabetes type
one for children that want to play with Barbies that
specifically have diabetes type one. The design features a continuous
glucose monitor on her arm, secure with pink heart shaped

(34:45):
medical tape, along with an insulin pump at her waist,
Tony Marega, where are we in the line of society
right now? Is what is going on?

Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's a little bit crazy.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
I'm all for kids being educated on certain things, but yeah,
I don't know how that benefits any child on Christmas morning?

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Can't you just can't you just pretend Barbie had diabetes
without all the you know, all the clip bond stuff.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Maybe skip the picnics.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yep, yeah, yeah, I guess a mom might want to
buy that for a tool for a child, But I
think for Christmas that would be a real downter.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
It.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Thumbs down from the uh from los Anta squad On, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Thumbs down on that toy?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
What about?

Speaker 1 (35:30):
What? What about?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
What about terminally ill Barbie? Just put her on the
stretcher out there and have the kids play with that
dead fish Barbie, marbidly obese Barbie. You know, just my
thousand pound life Barbie. You know, just have the doctor
coming with it. You know, these kids. Let the kids
be a kid for a little bit of a pick.

(35:53):
Let them have some imagination to themselves. They're adding a
lot of reality and everyone is one, Hey, why are
kids so stress? Why do they need all this anxiety medication.
How do they have all this pressure on them? It's
because they're being told to be an adult but not
be an adult in the same sentence most of the time.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Exactly right.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, yep, we keep it light at the Santus good.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
We keep it light. We don't do uh yeah, we
don't get too serious with that stuff.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Sparky's got something on the big board there. Might explain
a little bit about what we were just talking about,
or might not. Who knows. Sparky flipped that big board
around for us there, brother.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Sorry Barbie, Oh no, sorry, Barbie. I confuse the insulin
for a horse sedative. What do we do now?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Kids, in their imagination, she's out like a light. You're
gonna need the You're gonna need to buy the pulp fiction,
Barbie said, to kind of bring her back to life.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
That's the empty island Barbie, right there, Barbie.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
That is the the Barbie. I swear I didn't suicide
my alf Barbie.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I heard that they're gonna come out with a CARDI
b Barbie soon.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
What's that Barbie gonna do? Steal your wallet while you're
passed out from her? What they do?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
It's gonna come up with the stinky, stinky garbage Brazilian
butt lift.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
She's gonna do, Stefan Diggs pink coke. Stefan Diggs pink coke.
That's great, Almighty.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
You know, there's been a lot, there's been a lot
back and forth between Stefan Diggs and Cardi B right now,
and it's been freaking hilarious because she came out and
said that he has a small wiener and uh, the
way that he came out was that he said that
her booty hole smells, and uh, the when she got
her Brazilian butt lift, it smelled, it like smelled like

(37:49):
sewer trash.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
I'm glad, I'm a baseball fan.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Who is your baseball team? Telling?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
So, I was a Yankees fan until nineteen eighty four,
solely the Yankees and eighty four I'm aging myself now.
My two favorite Yankees were Greg Nettles and Goose Gossage.
Both went to the West Coast to the Padres. And
I've had a split alliance since I literally and I get.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Teased about it all the era as well, right.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
A little bit, yeah, right, he was just starting. But
I actually fell in love with Tony Gwynn he was
my guard for the longest time.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
And most accurate hitter of all time. Man.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yeah, I was lucky enough to get to meet him
and talk to him once, sadly passed away early. But
I get teased about it. You're you know, I said, Guys,
I'm not twelve years older. I'm scribbling.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
I love the Yankees or the Padres are making up
a lineup? I said, I'm I'm fifty five. I could
have two favorite teams. I love the sport. I love baseball.
My nephew is fifteen and started varsity as a freshman,
so I'm glad. The one thing I was hoping other
than being healthy, was that he would love baseball, and
I just I love the sport. But Yankees Padre's World
Series is Alwi's the most fun for me.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Now, have you, being a lifelong you know, fan, of
course of sports, have you seen the decline, not necessarily
of the way that sports is being run and televised,
And you know, of course, like people not going to
the regular stadiums anymore, just because of the outcry of

(39:27):
of money that just freaking poors right into it. So
I tried game ticket.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
I try to get to a few games every year.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
I haven't any team that's decently competitive is still drawing fans.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
On the field. I've seen a little bit of so.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
I think defensively, uh, baseball is being played at a
higher level than ever. But we used to have guys
like Tony Gwynn and Wade Boggs and Rod Carew. We
don't have three thirty hitters anymore. We've got the guy
hits two seventy five. It seems to be like a
really good season. We have the launch angle. I don't
mind the amazing, amazing. I don't mind the pitch clock.

(40:07):
I don't mind some of the changes. I think maybe
love the pitch clock. I love the pitch block.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
It makes me. It makes me say, God, throw the
ball already, you know, like get the game moving.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
I think there's a I think there's maybe a few
extra teams that shouldn't make the playoffs that do. I
think the formats a little crazy there.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Oh, but defensively, I just I'll talk to my nephew
every couple of.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Days and say, did you see that play? Did you
see what you know Pete pro Armstrong did or tatis
and uh? I like that. I like that side of it.
But to have a I played fans. I've been in
the same fantasy baseball league for thirty four years. Believe
it or not, God's job. Yeah, right, my file.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
I think my first ever pick, I think was like
Dennis Secresley or something when he was the closer with Oakland.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
He was a good pick.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
That's you know, that's that's how.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Far back we're going. And I've just seen the decline
from a three thirty hitter down into a two thirty
hitter in the last twenty five years. And I wish
there was more, not small ball, but base to base
rather than a walk and then a home run. And
you know, I like to see batting averages up around
to eighty to ninety.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
My number one pick for my first baseball fantasy was
jose Canseeko.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Yeah, that's going back mid nineties, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
late eighties, mid nineties, yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Nineties, yeah yeah, Sparky.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
What do you got on the board right there?

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Buddy?

Speaker 1 (41:34):
What a butt fumble? All the humanity? What is going
on there, Sparky? I guess that is her new button
plant right there. I don't understand women doing the button plants.
Just wait your butt's going to get really big. It's good,
it's gonna happen, and you're gonna wish it wasn't that big.
It's just a thing that happens. I guess.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
I guess that's a huge, huge thing. I guess for
the Brazilian butt lift is that you're butt like smells
no matter where you get it, You're you're injecting your
button full of fat cells. So it's like.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Frank, It's like Frank Baron.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
It's like Frank Barone said on everybody else Raymond, he said,
Reid a deal fashion Wait pound cake. Yeah right, wait,
long enough, it's gonna happen regardless.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Yeah, she did pounds of coke. Let's get in one
last story before we need to go. Yeah. I think
a great topic to uh to finish us out is
that uh. In the news, there was a twenty nine
year old Jessica Aruja and she was arrested for actually

(42:43):
accidentally being paid four hundred and fourteen thousand dollars from
her job, and she spent over two hundred thousand dollars
on luxury shopping and UH wire transfers to her family. Now,
she spent one hundred thousand dollars to buy a friend
of her mother's a brand new food truck as well

(43:06):
to get their their food truck started off, and Arua
thought that the money was a gift from God, a
gift from God.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Kevin, all right, So just to throw in a couple
more details there, she is a horse clinic receptionist. A
horse clinic receptionist. Accident, she was four hundred one more
time horse and worse clinic receptionist. Yeah. Now this is

(43:35):
why some people get direct deposit. That way, you get
a happy surprise and you're like.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Well, all right, shit is their fault? Their fault?

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Wellington. Yeah, she was spending more than half of it
on shopping and transfers to her family. But what she
didn't do was spending it on get the fuck out
of the country. Holy shit, Run like hell what he's doing. No,
don't go back to work, God damn it. Change your face, dude,
Just you know, do something. Here's your identity. Just keep

(44:06):
going the Yessica, Well I love that name, right, Yes,
holy sh Yessica, whose annual salary was sixty thousand, was
overpaid from February twenty twenty two to January twenty twenty three.
According to Palm Beach Sheriff's office report obtained by The
Daily Mail. While she allegedly admitted she knew she was

(44:29):
being overpaid, she said she thought the extra cash was
a bonus for her work as a receptionist. According to
the police report, she said she heard rumors before that
the previous receptionist had received one for saving the practice
money on supplies the Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Echnic

(44:52):
Clinics spot of the mistake in early twenty twenty three
and alert of the company's payroll provider, Harbor America. So
if any one out there is thinking about grabbing up
Harbor America for your payroll, you'd be out of your
fucking mind right about now.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Yesk was rested on June twenty seventh. She allegedly did
not report the overpayment to the clinic, instead spending the
money at stores like Coach Michael Core's, furniture stores restaurants.
According to reports, allegedly she spent the money. It added
that thousands of dollars were sent through Zell to a
person nicknamed Mama Dukes, while eighty thousand was used to

(45:34):
buy a food truck for her friend's mother. Yescas, said
that she also sent money to people in Argentina, where
she is originally from, to build a house for Hitler,
who still lives there. I mean, oh no, I'm sorry.
That was just no.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
That was right, That was great. That was right.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah, I mean, somebody's got to get the guy a house.
He's hurting, right. The veterinarian on the eighty was salary.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Lies by the way, he needed art supplies.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
The veterinarian on the annual arts of place. The veterinary
on the annual salary of four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars did not monitor her checking account and deposits for
the past year. According to police, she only relisted. She
only realized that she had not been paid when her
credit cards declined holy shit. When the veterinarian confronted her,

(46:25):
Yeska broke down crying, admitting the criminal action. According to
the police report, then issued a cashiers check for two
hundred thousand dollars of the estimated four hundred and fourteen
thousand she pocketed, but she claimed she could not return
the rest of the money because her mother had already
spent one hundred thousand dollars. The family trip down to
Argentina to visit Hitler and other Civil War decorated veterans,

(46:48):
and shit, I don't know. Yeah, she's being charged with
grand theft, money laundering, Tony, play judge Judy for a second. Well,
I'm gonna flip around Sparky's big board. Opinions all around.
She be charged, should she not? Sparky flipped that big
board around. Please, you are not going to give me

(47:10):
extra to do what? You are going to give me extra? Okay,
there you go, a move bit more.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Do what? What the what?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Not on fans.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
So Sparky's opinion is that she probably did stuff with
the horses to make up for it.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, a lot of shake waking, shake waiting with the horses.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
We're not going to call the police. Put the horse
over there and needs to be relieved. Answer his phone.
We need a specimen, Tony. I I think that she,
although totally stole the money, has potential to pay it

(48:02):
back through ownership of the food truck. So allow her
to pay it back, you know, just throw somebody in
jail that has ill willed intentions. She did not openly
steal it. She didn't, but the.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Food truck is owned by a friend of her of
her mother's. Now her mom's all.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Right, well, now you own it. I mean, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
go to be like, hey, they're gonna throw me in
jail if I don't get some of that food truck money.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
I need some of that profit from the food at
the and probably I'm just going to assume tacos.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
I'm going to assume that the tacos are made out
of horse meat. Yeah, I'm just throwing it out there
in a fucking circle of life right.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
There, perfectly perfect.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
If they should give her an opportunity to pay it back,
I agree. Sometimes people will amaze you with those gofundmes,
you know what I mean. They'll feel sorry for her,
realized she tried to do some good things with it,
and maybe they'll they'll pony up, give her a shot.
I don't think she needs to be in a place
with violent offenders.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
This just in the name of the food truck is
called Sizzling Stallions.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
By the way, the the comments on here are are
pretty great. Kiki Van Winkle has commented. She says it's
called answered prayers, gift from God, Go and arrest a
person who has sent it to her. If they didn't,
she wouldn't have spent having to spend I'll be in

(49:24):
the Caribbean somewhere, drinking rum punching, counting my money. Now.
Kiki Van Winkle has had one hundred and seventy three
replies to that bullshit of two point one thousand reactions
to it. What happened to common senses? Andrea Stone? I
don't know, Andrea, you're fucking what would you do if
money just fell in your laugh? I mean, what happened

(49:47):
to the dictionary, flash cards and phonics is the bigger question? Okay,
you're also wondering where those things are? Go on Amazon,
type them in figured out? Eh, fucking idiots? Man? How
Roy Egan? How about honesty? It gets fucked Andreas Stone.
You know I'm not liking Andrea Stone right now. She's uh,

(50:07):
she's a little bit too much on this. First, you
need a little bit of time to spend that money
that way that she was being overpaid. So if I
get that in my paycheck, I'm waiting a week, I'm
waiting a second week. If I'm waiting two to three months,
right then I'm like, oh, okay, well they must have

(50:29):
don there. Yeah, they should have known. They should have
known something was wrong when they saw her too happy
to be at work answering phones. Right, you know she's
fucking like damn Marie over there. Sure is chipper to
be paid fucking ten dollars an hour to answer those phones?

(50:51):
Oh well, how big.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Does the clinic have to be to I miss a
quarter of a million dollars? Also, that's a big yes.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
Yeah, Kimberly Lopez says, man, I remember I got paid
a big check, but I had been there only a
month and thought, that's how they do that's how they did.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Tips. Next month they called me in talking about your.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Fire, Like, Kevin, you know where all my money is
going in?

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Where is all your money going in?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Tell you the Santa Squad squad definitely.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Absolutely, you know, yeah, take it and then don't give it,
especially if you're paid too much, and then you know
you give it to the Santa Squad, they're gonna be
able to hold it for you. You know, it's not
as good as it's better than a food truck investment,
because you're investing.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
We don't have your money any longer, but we've got
five thousand slinkies.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
If you're interested.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
That's true, tikies. It's just a spring that they've messed up, right.
I don't think they're supposed to look like this. Boss
the toys now.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
The slinky came to be because they brought the They
broke the coils off of old cars and they had
the spring left over and they were playing around with
the spring, and because it had had lost its elasticity,
it actually kind of played around with it and it
was enjoyable for kids.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yep, that's right, Tony.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
What Tony Burka? What is your favorite toy that you
had growing up? Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:23):
I mean Slinky's way up there.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
To be honest with you, I had a Our main
house was on a second level, so to get that
slinky and like bounce it to the ground and up
about twelve feet was awesome. Plus I was grounded most
of my childhood, so I was confined to the porch.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
I really enjoyed.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
When I was probably eleven or twelve, the handheld football
matelectronics games came out nice and again, dating myself, they
were great. Back of my brother and I would get
into brutal blood bats over Attari twenty six hundred. Also,
we had some some serious, gnipkin op battles. So we

(53:00):
said the basic stuff, you know, Super Toe, Digital Derby,
all that kind of fun stuff. Slime slime was always fun.
Even today, you would be shocked at all the kids
who look for slime. I remember why I put two
containers of slime in my hair once and had to
get a crew.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Cut because there was no way to save anything I was.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
I was marched down the street with like crusted slime
all over my head. So yeah, but it's crazy. Some
of the toys that are still popular, like bright Operation
is still nuts. Kids love operation.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
I want an operation. My dad said that our healthcare
wasn't good enough for it, but I'm pretty sure he
was a little drunken. Uh, I can't do that.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Well, let's wrap up this show, Kevin.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Yeah, we're wrapping away. We're at fifty three right now,
so that's okay.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah, we're we're okay. Okay. We don't have to shoot
for an hour.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
We don't have to We don't have to shoot anybody, Tony.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
We don't have to shoot anybody.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
We like to have you guys down to our gym
or maybe even come up and play in our touch
football game.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
You know, come up.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
We if you want to donate toys, we we have
a toy for a buy into the game. We have
some local restaurants donate food to us. It's really in
a in a time where you see so much, so
many people being cold and callous. It's a really heartwarming
thing to be honest. You know, you'll see people even
on Facebook just pooh pooh everything. You'll go to the

(54:23):
Pittston community page and it's crazy. Everything can be made
into a negative, you know. So uh, it's good to
see some of these things that are solely positive and
it's kind of restores your faith in humanity. Our area
lots still lots of good people where we live.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Humanity is lost.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Of course, that we humbly, humbly accept the invitation for
the Pod guys to come down and play some football
for the Santa squad. Tony will be the quarterback, maybe kicker.
I don't know what Tony's position is. What do you
think of something tough reader? Right, man?

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
A sparky. Sparky can do some stuff too, but you know,
spark will definitely come down though. Man, it's gonna it's
for a good It's definitely for one of the best
causes year round. We can't put a price on happiness
of a child at the most at the pinnacle point
of their of the year.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Yeah, people are going to get in touch with to Tony.
How would they do it and how would they donate
as well?

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Like I mentioned earlier, the best thing would be right
now our Amazon wish list. They can wait until the
middle of October when they'll see uh notices on our
Facebook page saying we now have children's lists to be adopted.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
They can reach out.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
They can message us on Facebook private, send a direct
message through Facebook like that. They could just throw a
note on one of our posts. Hey, I'd like to
adopt a kid.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Now what would for? What would they look? What page
would they go to?

Speaker 3 (55:53):
It's the Greater Pittston Santa Squad on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Yeah, so there's several different ways.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
We have a vend moost people like, oh, I don't
feel like it's twenty degrees below zero, but I want
to help.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
We'll take donations.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
We probably cycle through about twenty five thousand dollars every
year buying toys. Yeah, so several ways, Yep, there's always
a way to help.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Of course, we'll be posting on our page not only
for Christmas in July, but throughout the year. Of course,
you know, we'd be happy to post it on our
page in order to get donations.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
And sure, yeah, i'll keep you guys, I'll keep you
guys in the loop and anything I have I can
forward over and yeah, that'd be great. We're always looking
for even volunteers. Probably sometime around the month from now,
we'll have a new volunteer meeting. We usually meet at
Tony's Pizza and we'll give our spiel, say the reasons
why we think you should volunteer, and usually have those

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meetings will get three, four or five people who really
care and they'll want to volunteer with us. And that's important.
During the Christmas season, again, every toy needs to be
scanned for the irs. After that, you're talking about filling
these bags and getting them out to the floor numerical order,
or maybe hey, we have a bunch of toys coming
and can you help us unload the trucks with the toys.

(57:06):
So it's a lot of moving parks. Those six weeks
are lack of a better term, are hellish for us.
But keep the eye on the price, you know, with
what we're trying to do. So if you don't have
a dime to your name, you know, to extra to spend,
you can always just come by and give us some muscle.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
We'll take that.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Awesome, awesome, awesome. All right, guys, that's the amount of
time that we have for today. Make sure you tune
in every Monday ten to fifteen Eastern Standard time. Sparky,
where can you happen to find us? If you were
looking for us to take you off a mute?

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Oh my god, he's trying to talk.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Hmm, the things, the things of the things.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Oh boy, the people.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Well, here we go, spark you go ahead. You can
find out on every single major streaming platform including I heard,
Spot up, Free, Deezer Cast, Box, Pocket Cast, Geo, Rio, Facebook,
Live Video, YouTube, Google Video, and soon to come. You're
gonna find us on Roco TV, Road.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Cood TV Pod. Guys, you're coming to the road, Coude TV.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
We're working it, We're working working it. Yeah, guys, make
sure you tune in every Monday ten fifteen it is
through Standard time. I'm Tony Kasz heavn NEARI of course
you ever love him? Picasso Le Sparkee guys. We're the
pod Guys podcast. We will catch you next week with
another Greek guest. We'll catch you soon.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Thank you, great night. It's been a blast. Thank you,
Thanks bye. Yep see it