
Joey Diaz welcomes Renee Graziano, star of Mob Wives, to The Church of What's Happening Now. Joey talks about why he will never move to Texas and bribing airport employees. Renee tells an unbelievable story of betrayal, how being sober has changed her...
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Kick this mule. What's happening? Beautiful people. It's the Church of what's happening Now? New Testament, Tuesday 7th October. It's myself and my little Jewish Cato Lee Boogaloo Syed. We're here to bring you another week of nonsense, some news and a beautiful interview. What's up with you, Tarzan?
B
Good week, dude? No, no, no, real complaints. What's up with you?
A
Same shit. Just getting older. Went down to Texas.
B
Oh, yeah.
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To fucking hot. That's. Listen, no, no, it's not gonna fucking happen, okay? I don't like the heat. Tony Montana don't like Colombians. I don't fucking like the heat. There's a certain heat I could take. There's a certain heat I'm durable for and I could rock with. There's a certain heat that destroys my fucking central nervous system. And it started growing up here in the summers with the humidity. When you're 13, 14, you want a little piece of nookie cookie, you walk up to one of Charlie's parties, and by the time you get here, you got puddles under your arms. I didn't like that. No, I never liked that.
B
Humidity is different.
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Colorado was low humidity. And I tried to live in that type of atmosphere for years, and I did. And even California has got two weeks where it's fucking unbearable. But the other 50 weeks, you know, fantastic. That shit for two days was unbearable from the minute.
B
And it was September, like late September was that bad.
A
I waited. And everybody's like, I'll be 80, it'll be 80 tops. 70 at night. Because it does drop at night. That's the thing about Austin, Texas. It's. It must. I don't even know if it's a fuckman desert. I don't. I. I got like an F in geography. I don't know what the fuck it is. But it gets cooler at night, all right? So I land. I land at 4 o'.
C
Clock.
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I mean, I left here, it was fucking perfect. Perfect the weather's been in New Jersey and New York City. Perfect the way it's supposed to be every fucking year at this time. This is supposed to be, you know, Yankees and Mets and fucking the Giants. Well, all those four teams suck. But it's supposed to be this type. It's beautiful. This is the type of the year you come to New York right fucking now. There's a little window between March and May that's fucking gorgeous. But this is it. So I leave the airport here. I'm leaving, like Zsa Zsa Gabor Let me tell you something. I had check. You know, I look up the Austin 10 day weather, right? The five day weather, the three day weather, and I fucking make my cause. All the, all the weather is, is a hypothesis, right? Okay. They don't know more than you. They know more than you. Okay?
B
It's a complete guess.
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They look, they got the maps and they make a follow. This. It's going to be pressure here. There's a 60% rain chance of fucking on Tuesday. Well, The jets got 60% of beating fucking nobody. So what are you telling me? It's going to rain or not? But they always end you, right? So you don't look bad. It's like when you go take a car for service, it's going to be 10 days. The tariffs, the Chinese people, you know, right? They hate you and everything. And then you get your car in four days. Yeah, you look great. They knew you were going to get in four fucking days. But just in case, just in case they hit you with the ten day fucking rule.
B
Yeah, the weather's a pain in the ass. And you, and you like watching the local news. You couldn't do that with Texas. You had to like go online and like you were doing research.
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No, I just go on Austin weather and I look at the three days. So I pack light the whole fucking thing. Okay? Here's what they don't fucking tell you. Okay? I land. Beautiful flight. Not bad meal. Not a fucking bad meal. United, very nice. They even had a banana pudding. I gave it to a baby who was sitting next to me. I was a gentleman. I didn't touch the bread. I just ate the fucking entree. I get there, I'm like the third guy off the plane. Guess what? What? We're in gate like 12. Guess where baggage claim is. 10 and a half, you know what I'm saying? Like it's one of those planes where you're like this. I don't even need my inhaler. I made it to baggage claim. Guess what? What? I fucking look up and guess what. There's my fucking luggage. I take the luggage.
B
Oh, fantastic.
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As I'm walking out, some Puerto Rican kids start talking to me from the Bronx. I talk to them as I'm talking to him. I press in the hotel, in my Uber. When I look at the fucking thing, it says two minutes away. Okay, two minutes is fine. Beep, whatever. 45 bucks. And then my card didn't take, so I had to go through PayPal, which is fine. I doubled it up through PayPal. So boom. Horse and the thing we've located, his name was Hector. All right, Hector will be there in eight minutes.
C
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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You just told me two fucking minutes. I felt like, what's his name in that movie with Brad Pitt where he's a fighter?
B
Oh, Fight Club.
A
No, no, the other one where he's a Russian when he's a fucking. From Ireland, Snatch.
B
Oh, I just watched that this week.
A
How good is that fucking movie?
B
Fucking a great movie.
A
That's a great movie. But when the guy's cooking the sausages and he goes, how long? Five minutes. Hey, how long for the sausage? Ten minutes. You just told me five minutes ten minutes ago. What the fuck? That's how you feel? You just told me two minutes and it doubled up to eight. Now I'm in there four minutes and it's still stuck at eight. So I want to see where this motherfucker is. I'm looking at this fucking arrow and I'm out there, where's all this traffic? I want to see what it's fucking traffic is. So I made the mistake to going out there, dog. And I got hit with a shot of fucking hot air. If you thought landing in Florida was bad.
B
Oh, I know.
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I was going to say that this was. Made it look like a fucking dream vacation. It just hit me. And I had a T shirt on. Nice. Very nice T shirt. And nice black shorts with a belt with socks, sneakers. Okay, I'm not out there. Two minutes. And I could feel a bead pop out of the Cuban Afro. Surprised?
B
It took two minutes.
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And it went quick because there's no more hair back there. It goes quick down the valley. It really does. Right down my back. I'm sitting there. Eight minutes. Eight minutes. Eight minutes. 8 minutes. 8 minutes. 8 minutes. Guess what? Now he's down to a minute. He went from eight to one. I don't know how the fuck he did this unless he's fucking got one of those rocket ships. He went from eight to one and he's like, I'm arriving, I'm arriving. I'm arriving. I'm standing there for fucking 10 minutes. I'm there 22 minutes. I'm fucking furious. I'm steaming. I finally asked one of the guys, I go, dog, where's the Ubers? And he goes, come here. You see that building over there? He goes, you gotta walk through that, all the way through there. And when you.
B
Oh, yeah, Austin's a pain in the ass.
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Oh, my.
B
I forgot about that.
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I fucking told him. Are you fucking kidding me? And he's like, no, you gotta do it. I go, okay, halfway. I was having a heart attack. I was just throwing. It was like when I gave Christy Lorenzo the edible, he threw the cold water in his face on the way home, telling me he just put the bottled water in the car. I'm like, chris, you're all right. He's like, not really. That's why I poured water in my head. That's what I thought. I had to do that. And then I got there and I'm like, hector, where the fuck are you? He's like, arriving in four minutes. I'm like, you know what? Fuck Hector.
B
Yeah.
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And there was some Arabian cab driver, and I asked him, I gotta get here. And he goes, get in, chubby.
B
I'm surprised you didn't do that.
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I gave that guy, like, a $50 tip.
B
Nice.
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Because he gave me a towel and he had fucking cold waters with ice. He took it right out. He goes, no, I'm sorry. It's very hot down here. Put the towel on your head. I'm like, you're a fucking bad motherfucker.
B
Oh, nice.
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He opened the windows. He had it perfect. The air, he's like, yes. Gets very hot.
B
Did he even cancel the Uber, or did you just, like, let him go? Like, let him show up? To be honest with you, I'm actually impressed with you that you knew how.
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To call an Uber dog. You don't know Uncle Joey. Uncle Joey's a traveling man.
C
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Bring that beat back. Bring that be back. So now I do my stem cells. It weighs too well. I do a spot at the fucking Comedy Mothership, which was a perfect night. My friend got sick, which I love her to death. I didn't give a fuck. And then I get there and I'm like, what am I gonna do in this heat? What the fuck am I gonna do in this heat? But we're gonna go back to ways too. Well, we're gonna do it in this heat. And I go, you know what? I'm just gonna go home. Going home. When I got back to the hotel, the Uber dropped me around the corner. They were doing construction on 6th Street. Oh, no, look. Another fucking. Another batch of fucking sweat that attacked my body. I basically went upstairs. I was packed already. I just basically took a T shirt out and a pair of shorts and rewashed my ass because I'm not flying with a fucking muggy ass. That's not a good recipe. No, I fucking powdered the balls. Good. I put that Bethany can ache the powder. I save it just to get. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, what's that in the flat? Because when you have shorts, you have to really imagine. Listen, I'm a 62 year old man, right? It's like an old animal, okay? I'm that old bull on the fucking farm, okay? And I got a nice pair of balls and all the other things around me, you don't see them hanging too much. You know why? Why? Because out of all those bulls, my balls smell the worst, okay? So now I'm on a plane and I don't like wearing underwear with a fucking pair of shorts. Why? Because it just don't work. I don't like wearing underwear with a pair of jeans either. But with a pair of jeans nobody could get a whiff. But with the shorts, somebody's getting away with. I don't know who sits next to me on the plane.
B
You can smell your balls to the shorts.
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Listen, if there's a dirty woman two seat from me, I can smell that pussy. I just have.
B
No, you can't.
A
Oh, bro, please. I can smell a dirty pussy from fucking. I grew up over here. I grew up in Jersey. I'm trained to smell like a. Like if, you know you could smell a smelly fucking dragon, you could smell it when you're talking to them, you know? Jesus Christ. And it's not bad. I like the smell of vagina. And if it's got that wank to it, it's not bad. I'm not complaining. But you could smell it. You could sense it like, oh, that's good. Okay, you know, whatever.
B
But it's not what people think when they smell your balls.
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Not really. I'm 62. When I was 22, my balls must have been a paradise. It was like. It's like eating a double cone. It's like getting a double cone ice cream, right? You lick both the sides once. Chocolate one's vanilla. Women love your balls when you're under 30. They fucking lick them to death with coke. No coke. They don't give. They suck them individually.
B
I look at how all this is going through your head on the way to the airport.
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So no, no, it doesn't matter right now. So I get to the airport, everything's going beautiful. But I had shot stem cell in my knee and they put a band aid on it. I had like a little boo boo and I really wasn't in the mood to fucking walk through this airport. But I'm a man and I'm not going to take away a seat. First of all, they drive you on a wheelchair. I don't want to be driven around a wheelchair. If you got one of those scooters, you better throw that crippled guy out. Because I'm taking that seat for the C140. I'm taking that. I've done it before. Some guy was there with crutches. I got one of those black dudes for 50 in Dallas. Shit, they'll clean up the. Everybody off the. Everybody in the house.
B
All the golf carts or something.
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Yeah, in Dallas, the connections are deep. Chicago, yeah, you have to take. Before you go to Chicago. Dallas always have an emergency $50bill. Because if they don't get you on the way out, on the way in, they're going to get you on the way out. You're going to be in a pinch. And Chicago, $50 bills work best. They don't give a fuck if you're a cop. They don't give a fuck if you're a soldier. They don't give a fuck if you're in the army. How do I know? Because I've seen it. I had my American airline ID one time, right? And I put a 50 behind it in Chicago. I was on a line from here to Bulgaria. And let me tell you something. Some dude was, what's going on? I go, listen. I put the card on. He goes, get out of the line. This motherfucker walked me to my plane. People can even get plane tickets. Everything was canceled. The small 50, that definitely gets their attention. They pulled me out of the line, and I gave him, like, an edible. Once we walked through a line, I started giving them edibles and gorilla biscuits. I gave him everything I had because you saved my life.
B
You give, like. Have you kicked somebody off one of those golf carts? You, like, stop it. And like, I need to get. And they kick somebody off of a golf cart.
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I can't lie twice.
B
That is.
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I didn't kick him off. The black dude kicked him off, not me. He's like, doug, homie's paying the tab here. You know what I'm saying? I remember one time, it was this old couple that. You know, when an old couple that's white is a real pain in the ass. And they asked you a lot of questions. Yeah. And I pulled up, and I'm like, doug, where we going? He's like, hold on one second, folks. And he put him to the side, and they were like, where are we going? He's like, another guy coming for you. And he called one of his cousins, all right, now we can do business. Get on this Motherfucker. I'm like, stop at the taco place. Stop here and get me right to the fucking window.
B
Oh, my God, that is fantastic.
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But this is terrible. So I get to the airport. I'm fucking tired, guys. I was out till 2. I couldn't fall asleep. Now, I got up early because I forgot to take my fucking prescription pill shit to sleep. I couldn't sleep all night. I was restless. And then you get up and everything's a fucking hike in that heat. Now I get to the airport and I'm like, it's gonna be. The fucking airport was empty as fuck. I get to the airport and they're like, oh, boom, boom, boom. Take your luggage. I got my little sleep apnea bag. I walk and I see a little window for clear. All right, I'm in. Let me get. Oh, you are clear. But you have to walk all the way down there because you're not TSA approved. I go, duh. What if. What if I was. You can't even ask. You know who you could bribe and you know who you can't bribe at the airport? The new generation. I can accept that trap. You know they're fucking retarded, right? So I didn't say nothing. I go, where is it? And the lady points again. Remember that fucking guy the day before with the Uber? It was even twice long.
B
Oh, no.
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I saw a little. I couldn't even see it. I'm like, oh, my God. I start walking over there, I gotta start peeing. I'm an old man. That bladder breaks at any time. And dog, they hold it to the end. Like, when I pull the skin back on the Cuban egg roll, it just blows on the wall. At the hotel, there was a Chinese man next to me. I didn't even make it the other day. Anybody who came in after me slid into fucking the toilet. There was piss everywhere on the floor.
B
So I could just imagine pulling by your feet.
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That's why I hate Newark, because I get anxiety when I walk in an airport. I say, you walk into Newark, United States, right? Walking the premium, right? Premium. Premium means white people. White people who are out of shape. That's what premium means, who don't mind paying a little extra for all the comforts of home to be close by, right? Walk into United. By the time you walk to your window for premium, you gotta pee. And guess where that bathroom is. Their pinga. That's down in fucking Hoboken. Now you gotta take your little fucking bag, you already gotta pee, and you gotta walk the whole Balkan and Hold your pee and then pee and then walk back. Anyway, why get into that topic? Let's just get to the situation at hand, right? So they made me walk over. The line was quick. I'm not gonna lie to nobody. It was maybe fucking a minute 30 and I was through. On the way there, they saw something hot over here, so they felled up my balls with the guy with the gloves on both sides. I don't know why. Both ends. They kept. I mean, my balls were on fire. So fucking. Some little black guy's hitting my balls with his. Fucking. With his.
B
With the back of his hand.
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Yeah, like it's a speed bag. Like, he's like, so fucking. Like, they're nice guys and they're like, where you going? And I show him my plant ticket. He goes, oh, you're in 3A. I look up, I'm window 18. I could live with that. I walk all the way down to 3. Guess what, motherfuckers? There ain't no 3A. I already had the sandwich. I bought some Shadou sandwich. There ain't no 3A. I show it to the United lady, and she's like, no, you're window 29. It looks like you're not left to walk over there now. Let me explain something to you. Some people do kinky things at airports. I do kinky things for all the wrong reasons, okay? I want to get on that plane. Either number one, number two, or number three, Lee. Right. You're my witness. Am I always on that plane first? Oh, I don't care if I gotta lie to him. I'm one K military. I tell them whatever they need to.
B
You set up. I could paint the picture. Right now, you're right at the edge of the line with the sleep apnea machine and just looking for like, you're just ready.
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I'm focused. I want to be in that plane, the top three people. Cause I never want to get into a misunderstanding about the luggage thing. Nothing bothers me more when you actually pay for a first class ticket. And some guy that's sitting in 26B walks on and throws his luggage in his bin. And now the people in first class can't fit their fucking luggage. Yeah, that's why they paid for that fucking plane ticket. And you know what? I stick to it. Even though I get my upgrades out the ass. I got 2 million fucking upgrades for everybody. Every time I fly, they're like, oh, you get the bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. For five years I played donkey and they kept giving me shit. Ah, you motherfuckers wanted to fly during the pandemic. Dun dun. Not me. And they kept giving me tickets. They matched them. They offered me a credit card for like half of what they. They even called my fucking house. JetBlue called my house and said, Mr. Diaz, what's the fucking problem?
B
We missed you.
A
What do we need to do here? You have not. You were on our flights once a month. What did we do wrong? Nothing. I don't live in California no more. They were like, oh, my God, we're so sorry. I don't travel as much. They were always very good to me. I think I had two delays. Now they get delayed every three weeks anyway.
B
So you had to walk. Did he walk all the way there?
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I started to make the trek, but I tapped out. By 5, I was done. Isn't that true? I'd already walked to Uber. Yeah, two was all I needed. You went from three to five, dog. Listen, this is how bad society is today. My face is red. The airport, it was 94 degrees with I don't know what level of humidity. And the airport was humid, guys. Like a fucking swamp. You could actually see that the shirt I had on was like a gray T shirt. It was already sweaty down here. My hair was wet, I'm sweating. I go up to the guy now, again, I reach in my pocket, guys, the money's in my hand. If he would have been smart, if he knows Uncle Joey and how chubby and how you don't like to fuck around, he could have said, give me the whole knot and I would have gave it to him. Take me to the fucking plane. Take it. I want you to fucking cut everybody off. You see a guy walking with stilts, kick to stilt, let them know we're coming. I'll give you the whole fucking wad. It was like 300 bucks. Again, the kid looked at me and he goes, we can't do it unless you fly Frontier or American Airlines. I go, dog, I'm over here dying. I'm a 62 year old senior now I've got to go for the violin strings. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And he's like, I still can't do it. And I'm talking to him with the roll of 20s right there on a yardstick. I can't do it. I'm like, dog, I'm sure. I looked at him, I go, you know what? You really suck. You really do as a human being. You suck. You won't take a bribe. You didn't do anything here. You didn't do anything. You can only work for Frontier. They're fucking bagel eaters. You. You can only. You know, that's it. That's all you can fucking do. So now I'm walking, I'm huffing and puffing, and a fucking Mexican lady actually comes up to me and she goes, sir, are you okay? I go, no, I got to get to fucking gate 29. Blah, blah, blah, blah. She goes, well, I'll try to send a cart for you, but we don't really have carts. They're going to have to call Central Booking, and then they have to call here, and they have to call Newark. No, no, no, no, no. I'm like, listen, I'll just take my time. Guess what this lady did? She got on the thing and she goes, are you United? I have a very angry man here. I wasn't even angry. I was just breathing at me, and I'm sweating. And you want to fucking stop me from walking to my destination to ask me what my ticket number is on the flight? I'm like, jose Diaz, I've been flying with you guys since Jesus left. You know, what the fuck? You know? It's just.
B
Right?
A
And then, thank God, a cop from the club saw me.
B
Oh, thank God.
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One of Rogan's employees. A bunch of cops there at night, right? He goes, joey, everything all right? I go, nah, I can't get a fucking thing. I just went to waste. To where? He goes, hold on. He went behind the thing. They were looking at him like, you're not allowed to do that. He was telling them, relax. And he pulled it out on the walk. He said it to me. He goes, this is one America is building. This is the bullshit. This is why it's all bullshit. For America to get better, people have to start acting like, are you fucking. I could have been somebody's grandfather with a missing fucking lung. You know what I'm saying? And these two kids. They were kids, both of them 24. Listen, when I was 24, if you would have showed me 300 bucks after I got to carry old people around for a $2 tip, I would have fucking robbed the sleep apnea bag and kicked me down the stairs. I would have took me to United and go, hold on, there's a door. Get the fuck. Stupid motherfucker. And I would have had everything. The chain. They just. I'm not saying I want you to be a criminal, but at least be a half a human being. You know what, sir? To hell with frontier. Give me 25 bucks, I'll have you there. Tip Top Magoo. Oh, yeah. I got an Asian friend. He knows how to. You could whip him for the extra 10, you know what I'm saying?
B
Have you ever thought about. They have suitcases now that, like, you can sit on and drive you places. Like, you could actually sit, like, sit on the top of your suitcase.
A
There's some point where you cannot be a fat fuck all year long. I don't want to have knee surgery. I did not want to have knee surgery. And it was Covid. People had to wear a mask. And the day I went, it was a cold day in January to do the pre screening. I went in there. You know me, dog. I always got an itchy figure. I'll leave at the drop of a fucking dime.
B
You really will.
A
I walked out of a weed store the other day. That's it. They kept me waiting for 20 minutes. Four times done. I go into a wee show down the corner. I'm in and out of there like I'm a fucking man. Good for you, you know? So what are we talking about?
B
About the suitcase.
A
That. With wheels.
B
But it's. That's crazy.
A
Oh, no, no. I go to the doctor's office, nine in the morning. My wife drops me off. So I know I gotta take an Uber home, okay? I know I'm not sitting in this doctor's office. This is bullshit. It's Covid. You got 80 fucking people in this doctor's office. Why everybody needs knee surgery now. My knee was fucked up, but I'm like, I don't even want the knee surgery. I don't want to do this. I'd rather stay at home. I'm scared to leave the house. I don't even want to leave the fucking house. And I'm standing there holding onto a wall, and this guy comes in that had to be 360 pounds. And therefore the grace of God go I. At the time, I was like, 316. And this motherfucker had the giant gear. Both knees had braces on him. Shorts. He hasn't put pants on in 10 years. The one calf had the blood in it from the starting to swell. This motherfucker gets to the front of the line. I think he's got, like, a suitcase. I don't even know what he's got. He flipped it over. Boom. He opened it up. It was a cooler. He took, like, a beer out. He sat on the beer on the cooler, and he's like, telling the lady, yeah, six for four, you know, 200. I mean, he was like, five, six, 400 pounds or something. And I go, that's not going to be me. I might as well get the fucking knee surgery. You know what I'm saying?
B
Yeah. Fuck yeah.
A
You have to do something, right? It even says if you have knee problems to walk 6700 steps and your knees will null against some of the fucking pain. It's the people that just tap out and go, I got a bad knee. Don't you all have a fucking bad knee? Right? There were bad knee because there hasn't been blood in there since you had blood in your dick. By the way.
B
I can't wait to see where this goes.
A
I have a dear, dear friend that works at Chill cryotherapy in Marlboro, okay? And the other day I was having Starbucks. She was telling me that. She goes, this week I have to work, I can't see my son till Sunday. And I go, why not? Because Saturday they're coming. They're training us. And out of all the girls, we all signed up because they're paying you a lot to train. And what they do is they put something on a guy's dick and they, they put gloves on you and they shoot the dick with a pee hole inside the pee hole.
B
Oh, fuck that.
A
And it makes your dick grow and itching and it makes your dick get harder up to 90%. Whatever.
B
Is it a one time shot or you gotta keep going back?
A
I think they blast you two times. Ah. But she, I asked her like a week later, I go, how did that go? I go, did you have to hold the guy's balls and squeeze them? And she goes, no, they sent the lady. We just had to do it on like a fake dildo or something like.
B
Holy shit.
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C
Really?
A
What was the name of the show.
C
They were giving somebody 90 grand? Was the biggest loser an episode.
A
90 grand. I'm coming back 90 grand for the season.
C
Oh, for the season. Okay, listen.
A
But it was like eight episodes.
C
Really.
A
They sent a car for you to pick you up. You went to whatever gym or trainer you wanted to.
C
Really?
A
They would cover your meals if you needed them. Yeah, Celebrity Loser.
C
Oh, the biggest.
A
The Biggest Loser.
C
That wasn't Mob. That wasn't VH1.
A
Yes, it was. There's. Anyway, don't listen to anybody on this.
C
Because I would have started before mob wise.
A
Don't listen to anybody, please. Okay, there was one on NBC. Yes, that was very big.
C
That one. I remember.
A
Then there was one on VH1. It was the one like fucking what? Every fucking stiff in America went on there. Like every weird stiff.
C
Okay, I missed that because I was chubby when we started.
A
90,000 for eight Sundays or something.
C
Really?
A
You taped on Sunday. They. They took you to Mountain Resort. They rubbed your feet. You went to different things to get healthy.
C
Really? Yeah, I missed that one.
A
Yeah.
C
Yeah, I missed that one.
A
So there was a big one on NBC. Where Jillian Michaels.
C
Yes.
A
And everybody else became a fucking star.
C
Right, okay.
A
Celebrity Fit Club.
C
Yes.
A
Celebrity Fit club was at VH1.
C
Really? Very interesting.
A
Well, and they had another one, too. Celebrity. Something else. Not cook off. There's nothing like that.
C
But on VH1 they had celebrity Rehab.
A
Yeah, Celebrity Rehab. Yeah, I remember that. That's the one. That's the one.
C
Yes, that's right. Right.
A
And they had crazy man on there. The guy who played whatever Gary Busey was on there.
C
Yep.
A
A lot of crazy people on there. Stephen Adler. That's right. They had the.
C
They had a lot of celebrities on Celebrity Rehab.
A
Then they had a celebrity. My God.
C
Celebrity Wife Swap. Big Ang. Did that one with Jack. What's his name? George Hamilton. Right. Is that his name? Is that the guy that's all slicked back and stuff? She was. Had to be his wife. Yeah, they did have. They had Celebrity Rehab. They had a lot of. Actually, they. VH1 used to, in my opinion, used to be a really good channel to watch, especially when Mob Wipers was on, if you ask my opinion. But not just because I'm from Mob Wives, but because. Well, I'm a huge fan of the love and hip hop franchise, so I do watch it. But I think when Mob Wives came along, we. We dropped jaws like the way we were. Nobody was expecting anything like us. Got a lot of shit for it. In real life. My dad stopped talking to me for two years because of the show, so I paid a lot, emotionally and mentally, actually, even physically. I die in the end of season one. It airs in season two with bad plastic surgery. Flatlined, like, got MRSA through my body. Had to. I swear to God, sat up during surgery while I was chopped in half. Yeah. I'm a very interesting person, so. And, you know, never know what I'm going to do. And that's true. Yeah, it was. It was interesting. And shout out to my sister, Jennifer Graziano, who created and produced the show. She. She's responsible. So when you people, like, have bad things to say, please say it to her and not me for a change.
B
But that was like a weird. Not a weird time, but I remember it like 2011 was right out, like four or five years into reality.
A
Right. It was on Sunday.
C
We changed a few days, but I know we were on Sunday, Sundays at one point. Sorry to interrupt you, because I remember it was the playoffs and our numbers were so close. We were as almost. I think maybe the Giants. Possibly the Giants were in the playoff. Maybe back then.
A
Yeah.
C
They could not. They were like 3 8. And we were 3 5. And nobody could get over it. We. Because that was the season right after my radx husband did the shit that he did. So. So I. I die. I die. He comes to me in the hospital, he gives me this Rolex that I didn't have, which was the stainless steel in my very demented pain. And I'm very honest when I speak, so I don't want to. No sympathy here whatsoever. But I'm a domestic violence abuse survivor, rape survivor all. And he's my abuser. So he comes back and I think to myself, oh, I had to die for this man to love me. And I took him back. And the watch. I wanted the watch. Long story short, that watch had a wire in it. And he does go on to cooperate, so. And put my dad in jail. So when we came out of the gate in season two, everybody was like. And it happened all in real time. So while you were watching it, it was happening to me.
B
He put a wire in a watch.
C
I can curse, right?
B
You can do whatever you want.
C
That stool pigeon motherfucker. You have no clue. No clue that he not only did that, he only came back to me to set my father up. My father just came home after doing 11 and a half. He comes back. I think he loves me. I move this jerk off in, and the next thing you know, he turns himself in. I find out the. The newspaper reads and ex mob wife star hubby's this niche. I got that when you got that when you open the news. I opened the news and I remember, oh, shit. I just lost train of thought because I was thinking, rat, rat, rat. That's all I could think about. I'm so sorry. It consumes me sometimes because I'm so appalled that this man that we took in, that my father ultimately wanted to give him our last name. My father loved this man. Loved him. He got in less trouble than I did. Like, it was always, it's Renee's fault. My father would be like, renee, what'd you do? But meanwhile, it was really never me. It was always him. But long story short, he comes back, he does all this shit. He leaves. He leaves me with tax bill. And we know the IRS does not fuck around. So I'm like, how am I going to.
A
But if he's a stoolie, they should have picked up the tab.
C
They should have. But you know what they did? They gave him these watches, right? So I go to the Jewel, I said, fuck this. I'll lock the watches. I'll pay the bill. I'm good. They're Rolex. There. There's like all these fancy watches. I can't say half the names because I'm. I'm not a label whore. Maybe a little bit of a tramp, but not a label. But anyway, bring him to the jeweler. The jeweler says, renee, sit down. He comes out. He goes, I got a bit. I got something to tell you. And it's bad. I was like, jimmy, give me the fucking money. I got to go pay these taxes. He said, sit down. I sat down. He goes, renee, all the watches are fake. And I said, how much worse could this fucking get? He goes, and they all have wires. He said, who gave you the watch? I said, my ex husband. He said, take it off. And that's how I found out that.
B
My watch had a wire and it was fake. Which one pissed you off more.
C
That they were fake?
B
Yeah.
A
That's a.
C
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No joke. Thank God, for his sake. I did not know I would not be here. I'd be in jail for murder. I would have killed him because he put my father, my uncle, my best friend's husband, and a couple other gentlemen away. And there's not even a question in my mind of how, because then people were like, oh, she must have known. She must have known. Let me tell you something about me. I love my father so much. Like my father, God is first and foremost, and God is my God up there, but on earth, that was my God, like my father's. I shouldn't call him God. That's my hero. He's my. He's my superman, you know. So for me, I think. And I had gotten sober the second I found that out. It didn't last very long, though, but I did. But I did. But I did. I stayed sober like six months. But I also had a nervous breakdown. A legitimate, like, hospitalized nervous breakdown. And then I started, you know, got carried away with partying. And I was never a. I shouldn't even say partying. I self medicated. I never got. I didn't party. Maybe when I was younger, champagne, cocaine, a little bit of this. But I was never a party girl. I was. I'm going to medicate myself so much that I can't feel anything because I didn't want. They took my father. My father was home. For three months. I waited for this man. For. For he. He did 15. I waited for him. And I remember writing him a letter shortly before he came home. And my mom still has it. And it said, daddy, don't talk to anybody. I, I, I put money on it before Thanksgiving, like the day before. Like they normally come and pinch you, you're going and it's over. Talk to nobody. He didn't listen to me. And it normally would be the Wednesday or they would pick you up on a Thursday, but they picked him up on that Tuesday before Thanksgiving. And I once again lost my father to the federal correctional facility. I should just say the government and my ex husband went off and I didn't believe it. I still wouldn't believe it. I read it, everybody said it, and I didn't believe it. And then one day I was on the phone, I was still taking calls, but understand I took a couple of calls because I really wanted to find out a few other things. And I said, did you do it? He's like, you got to come with me. I said, did you do this? And he said, yes. And I was like, you should just die. I hung up the phone and that was November, that was December of 11. And I've never spoke to him again. He wrote, you know, he's always trying to kill me. That's his big thing. But dude, already, because he's not, he's not killing fucking nobody. Um, but the bottom line for me is Mob wives on a lighter note. On a lighter note, I think God handed me the sentence he did in life. And I talk about the addiction, the abuse, the sexual assault and everything else because it's my job to help somebody else get through it. If I'm still standing after everything I've been through. And trust me, you, you guys got this much compared to what I've been through, then. Okay, cool.
A
Let's talk about some real fucking shit here though, okay?
C
Which shit?
A
You.
C
Aside from rats?
A
Huh?
C
Aside from the rats.
A
Let's talk about all this shit, okay?
C
Let's go.
A
You were a little girl.
C
Yes.
A
One day, I'm just assuming, dad. One day you kind of had an idea about what your dad did.
C
I was 16, but I'll tell you that story after it's dead.
A
Well, before you were 16, something happened. You opened up the fucking paper one day and there was a guy laying in a fucking yard with a cigar in his mouth who had been shot by fucking one of those rats, you know, the other side of the faction.
C
Okay.
A
I mean. Cause it was 1979. Carmine Galante got shot at, Joan Mary's in some fucking whatever, Brooklyn, Staten Island. And I still remember being a kid and opening up that newspaper and seeing that fucking picture. They didn't shoot him with the cigar in his mouth.
C
Talk about the man in the backyard. Yeah, Gallo, Crazy Joe Gall now.
A
No, I don't know this guy, Carmine Galante. So Carmine Galante was in Sicily and he was in jail, okay? And while he was in jail, I guess Rusty was running everything. And this fucking guy came out of jail and he goes, you know, I'm doing. I'm running things. So he just started making so much money he didn't want to pay up. And they whacked him. Somebody whacked him and he became a captain with another family. And that's the fucking history of the Bonannos or the alleged family.
C
Did you know about Rusty Rastelli?
A
Yes, that was the alleged family that your father was associated with. And then after that, it was just a tremendous history and folklore because, yeah, you had all these other families doing what they were doing, but this family was in charge of doing one thing and doing one thing only, and that was them bringing in the real motherfucking cha shot, okay? And they were bringing it in from over there. But their main course was out of fucking Montreal. There was a family up there, motorcycle family, who I ended up meeting 20 years later through Jiu Jitsu. Believe that? How small is that? Yeah, that, my friend. I go, what are you doing in Montreal? I'm going to do a seminar. I go, what? Jujitsu school. He goes. And I go, call him up, ask him if his father's such and such. And he called him right in front of me and he goes, all right. And I go, oh, shit. Drop that phone. You're on fucking. Can the camera, motherfucker. And they just did some fucking. To a regular taxpaying American, you guys would call them criminals. They were probably on the Epstein list, you know, whatever the fuck, right? But when I was growing up, that was my fucking world was reading this shit. But they were interesting because, you know, there was such an interesting family. I know you were around all these motherfuckers because I've read some of your comments and seen some of your shit, okay? So let's lay it out here. So. All right, so.
C
Better lay that out than bodies, gang.
A
The fucking beautiful thing about this is that the guy who was. And I know you know that sexy motherfucker, the Bonaventure guys, that's a Ray Bonaventure. Were you around when he was still a good looking dude?
C
I was only born in seven. In 69, right?
A
So this happened in 79. So you're 10, I'm 10. I'm 14. Maybe 15. And I still remember this in the papers. I mean, I'm like seeing this fucking picture of this gangland style shooting and whatever the fuck you're into at that time, it just became that, like I had always been into that because of my family, the numbers, the Cubans, the whole fucking deal. But now is like, wait a second, this is getting interesting because all your life you heard about the Lucchese's, now it's the fucking banana. And then Bonanno from there started. They started ripping shit up. And that's where you get the Joe Pistone thing. We were discussing with Sonny Black and fucking Lefty and fucking Nikki Glasses and that's a complete different history. That's a. And after that shit Edge rolled, they lost the commission. And then a guy called a chubby dude that was pretty tight up there, that a brother in law called Vitaly and he had fucking Joe Messina, who, believe it or not, about 10 years ago, somebody sent me a script and they really want me to play Big Joe, but I was four inches too small. Two of the producers wanted me to play Joe. Two of them said, he's too small.
C
They should have just put something in your shoes. But then again, why you want to play?
A
He's just a bigger guy. He was a big, big guy. He was a big guy.
C
I will say this.
A
You grew up around fucking men that were gangsters. What I'm trying to say.
C
Yeah.
A
And you ended up with, look at the pip squeaks walking around today that have given evidence. And they. Sonny Black, that happened with Pistone, he was in a hole three days later. Yeah, like this is.
C
And the guy. I will say this. Um. So I didn't know anything really about my Dad. I was 13 the first time my dad got arrested. And this is what's really fudgeing crazy. So I'm going to sidetrack it for one second. So I go visit my dad at the cemetery a lot. So I've been there very recently, like more than the normal. Like, take the guy upstairs for a walk. We got to, we got to figure it out down here. I need something to do. I need more work. I go home and I swear, my four grandchildren. I decide to throw on tv and it comes up the Bronx Zoo and it's, do you guys like the Yankees? Okay, so I'm not a baseball girl, but my father took me to see everybody and it's about the Yankees and I don't know why, don't know why. I said whatever. I turn it on and now I'm So enthralled in this. Like, I'm shocked about the Yankees and the scandal and the this and then that. And it gets to the second episode and I'm texting people, oh, you got to watch this. Swear on everything fucking holy. All of a sudden, my father's face pops up. He's talking about how this guy, the rat. This guy Howie the rat who told on George Steinbrenner. It talks about the five families, and he owes everybody money, and. And there's every wise guy's face. But for some reason, my father staring at me on the tv, it was like, I don't know why I brought this up, but I'm bringing it up. I have add, okay? And I have ocd, which stands for Organized Crime Disorder, too. But anyway, my point was, I saw my father and then I saw all those names, and I had such a flashback of, like, Casabella Restaurant. So Uncle Mike was the owner. Was Mike Cebella. He was Uncle Mike. Lefty Ruggiero. My father loved Lefty. So to me, all these men were uncle. And all these men were good men. And I don't care what anybody says, rats. A rat's a rat, and I'll never fucking change my feelings on them. But the old timer, good wise guys. And I know Joe became a rat. But when I knew Joe as a child, these men were men. They were solid men back then. You know what I mean? We're going to remove Joe out of the conversation now. But these were men. Men like that. Shut up. My father's mug shot is so bad. I'm going to show you a little clip. God, you could spot him anywhere. Didn't know if he wanted to break your legs or eat you, one or the other. But it was the worst picture.
A
One picture with a smile. Only one.
C
No, he. No, not. You know what? There are a couple with me with a smile. Usually he didn't even smile. He's like, I'm getting rid of her finally. No, but you know what?
A
The old smiled in the 70s. Everybody today.
C
Yeah, that.
A
Permission to smile when I was a kid. Shut the up. What are you laughing about?
C
The old.
A
Nobody remembers that.
C
Nobody smiled. The old school wise guys were on such another level. It was so all the other kids were embarrassed. I took the news article to school. Like, look, my dad made the paper. I said, everybody's ducking. Nobody picked on me in school after that. I was bullied in school really bad until that. And my father, you come home and tell me who's bullying you. And, man, he was such A great man. He was such a great man. I wish he. I would have la. I shouldn't say that. I'm glad he. I'm not happy he passed, but I'm glad he passed when he passed, because if he was to see what the fuck is going on now. Who's got a podcast? We got Franchesi. I know it's Francisi. It's Francisi. It's the other person. I don't even say his name. But every day you got that Casal person. You got the one that I just had a fight with all over social media. I don't. Wouldn't give him air time right now neither. But you guys know I'm talking about the guys who do podcasts and make a ton of money, but nobody's paid back any family member that they've murdered. And I say it like that because I can. A lot of those kids that were left behind were my friends. And they didn't get lunch money no fucking more. And they didn't get to go shopping no more. Because what. And I know it's that world, and I understand what you sign up for. I'm not saying that they walk a straight fucking line, but I'm saying, you know what? If you owe somebody, pay them the fuck back. Okay? Come back to me. It's a. It's a very heated topic for me because my father did his fucking time like a man more. And then they. They put my father in a position when he passed away, they. They took something from him that meant more to him than anybody. And then they put you up there on one of those things. And you know what I say? Top motherfucking shelf. That's what my father is. Top fucking shelf all day. He didn't even need to be one of them. My father's self fucking made. Self made. Man couldn't read. He couldn't write. He couldn't read. He couldn't write. He couldn't not. Yeah, Consulari. That's the fucking position he made it to. So they can say whatever they want. They could blame mob wives all they want. Let me break this down too. For the people that don't know. It's called the change of hands. They didn't want to give him back what was coming him, so they blamed his fucking daughters. Well, I've never said that before.
A
They put them on a shelf.
C
Yeah, Top fucking shelf. Top fucking shelf. That's where they put them. But guess what? It's fine. It's fine. My father's still more of a fucking man, than all of them men out there. Well, not all of them. I like some.
A
You know what the reality of the world is? A lot of people never get to see this. That it takes something like that to see the color of people, to see what direction and how quickly they turn. And you go, wow. You can't even get upset. You go, wow. 30 years of friendship, 10 years of friendship, 15 years of friendship. We did time together, we stole together. You know, it comes and you're like, it just takes a piece of your fucking soul. You know, like, it's just. It's fucking weird.
C
It's terrible. My father never opens up his mouth. He did his 15 standing on his head. What? By the way, my father had cancer of the prostate, the bladder, the urethra, kidney. My father had Cushing syndrome, all while he was in jail. All was very, very sick. Pissing blood. When I tell you, I'll never forget, he called one day, told my mom he was like a half a gallon of blood from the prostate cancer. And they weren't taking him to the hospital. Do you know why I somehow don't ask how I got the fucking warden on the phone. I said, I'm going to jump out of the window and commit suicide if you do not get my father to a fucking hospital. They put my father on a bus the next day. Granted, I lived on the first floor, so I wasn't jumping.
A
You didn't have to know them.
C
I was probably just going to walk out, but let me. You have to fight. You have to fight for them when they're in there. And it's very heartbreaking. And that's why I say I'm kind of happy that he's now passed, because my father would die there still on his beliefs, even though they treated him like shit at the end and blamed his daughters, which is the funniest thing I've ever heard. How are you going to blame girls? What did I do wrong? I talked about my father and I called my ex husband a rat. Fucking stool pigeon, which he is. But I technically didn't do anything wrong for them to say that. And I do understand why my father was mad at me. It's something you're not supposed to. Supposed to talk about. Okay, dad, well, what about Joe Pistone? What about the Valachi papers? What about that other guy? What about that guy? They're all talking. I did a TV show that, that we made some money. I bet if we would have paid somebody, they wouldn't have said a fucking word that we did. Mob Wives So it bothers me terribly that we got the short end. I got the short end of the stick. Very, very much so. People felt some way about me. They started to disrespect my son because of his father. And at the end of the day, I say this, I get it. I. I despise my ex husband. I don't wish him death. That's too nice. 100 angry Renee's every day of your life is punishment. Trust me, I'm alone with me. When I'm mad, I'm like, bitch, shut the fuck up. But the bottom line is, for me, where I went in my life and my addiction and the dark hole it took me down because I didn't want to even live. And I would never commit suicide. You know, I think I heard in my lifetime, the nuns always saying, you're going to hell. And I didn't want to go to hell. And it was a sin, and I didn't want to commit that sin. Committed a lot of others, but not. And I never did anything like legally wrong, but I didn't even want to live. I didn't want to live. I had a son. I had a son, the most beautiful child. He was 16. I didn't care. I just didn't care anymore. Because what they took from me by taking my father, ultimately, which I know now, took my identity. So who was I? Who am I? I didn't figure out who I was until maybe a few years ago.
A
Who told you?
C
I told myself. Yeah, I told myself. Because you know what? I was Anthony. I was known as Anthony's Jordy. I have two other sisters. Obviously, we're all Anthony's daughters, but I was always called Anthony's daughter. My older sister was called Lana. My little sister Jennifer. I was called Anthony's daughter. I was Anthony's twin. So for me, when they took that, they took me. I was the pr. I listen, talk about proud as a peacock. I was so proud to be a mob boss's daughter. I was fucking overwhelmed. I thought it was the greatest. And it was. When I grew up to be my.
A
Fucking father's daughter, I never waited cigarettes online. What?
C
What? Do you remember Regines, the nightclub in Regines.
A
I heard about it.
C
Okay.
A
Is it the one in Staten Island?
C
No, Regines was on Park Avenue. A woman owns it. So I'm going back when I was 16. I'm 56, 40 years ago. Drinks were $22. Then they would roll a red carpet when I pulled up. I. I was treated like I was, which I was mob royalty. But I was treated like royalty. Like, you know, real life royalty.
A
And like Henry Hill.
C
No, he's a fucking rat.
A
Remember he walked in the kitchen of the Copa.
C
Yeah, he walked through the kitchen. I bet you they would have cooked him in the kitchen, actually. Believe it or not, true story. My father was a partner in the Copacabana.
A
They all were.
C
Yeah, they all were.
A
They were.
C
Everybody had a piece of everything. I remember.
A
I don't know how the owner made it in that. He got like a little piece of paper at the end of the day.
C
Those were the good old days.
A
Everybody got a piece of that place.
C
And forgive me for getting so bent out of shape when I'm talking about that, but those type of things, they affect me.
A
We won't talk about them.
C
No, no, no. I'm good now. I got it out. Right, right, right, right, right, right. I got it all out.
A
Listen, for the rest of your life, there's going to be rats involved and what are you going to do? For years, I didn't like bikers.
C
Really?
A
Yeah. Because one fucking.
C
Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't know.
A
I just took it for fucking granted. But this guy was right. Steve, whatever his name was, was a fucking. He was like a. It's like seeing somebody in Manhattan and they have, like the shorts on and they have the tattoo on their calf. Everything is perfect. The hair, the sunglasses. But there they are smoking a vapor pit, trying to be cool. Meanwhile, we're down the corner smoking with fucking Jesus smoke before he left the Comeback, which is like. And that's what this guy was. He had everything. I learned a lot from him later because now you know what an insecure man was. He had the pit bull. He had. He had the pit bull. He had the. The car with the tinted windows. He had the motorcycle. He hung out his strip clubs. He had everything that you're screaming that I'm a fucking meek, right? I was just so fucking coked up in those days, I didn't read it now. Would have said, you're a fucking idiot. You know, at the end, we all have. You know, when you're an actor, you have a motivation, right? So I always thought his motivation, at the end of the day, and that's my brother George, he had met a girl at a strip club that was hotter than fuck. This guy must have been 37. She was lucky if she was 25. Spanish Girl, Green eyes, the body, the whole thing. She wanted to leave her husband, so Steve took her in. Steve was trying to have sex with her. Now, this is an all nude strip club. Women are fucking, jumping up and down naked. This is 80 fucking 7. People had no idea what was going on in strip clubs at this time. It was every strip club. You get something.
C
It was like Atlanta.
A
Yeah. Have you watched that show on HBO this month?
C
Gigi Maguire. Yeah, that is Gigi.
A
That is fucking insane. But you know what we talking.
C
We were talking about that you could smell crotch everywhere.
A
No, no, that was earlier. That was earlier.
C
Well, all I know you said naked strip club, and I was listening to conversation, and all I'm thinking right now is, don't want to be there.
A
So this girl told this motherfucker that.
C
She wanted to leave a husband, so he moved her in.
A
Her husband, he moved her in. She took over his bedroom. He slept on the couch. So he goes, when can we start having sex? She goes, when? My divorce is paid in full and it's $10,000 once you pay the 10,000 for my divorce. I'm a Catholic girl and I can't sleep with another man if I'm married to another man.
C
But I could take my clothes off.
A
And please come on and do lap dances and sit on bottles. You know, that's all kosher, but God forbid you give a little guy a nookie cookie for sleep on his couch, right? I don't know. No, it was just a 10 grand for the divorce.
C
That, that, that was.
A
He was just. It was just outlandish. So I don't even know what my point was.
C
But did he kill the husband?
A
No. He ended up doing 10 years for what we did.
C
So he went through all that shit. Gay. Did he give it the 10,000? Did she get divorced? No. So we got nothing.
A
She got nothing either.
C
And he got time.
A
10 years.
C
And he told on you?
A
Yep.
C
Rat, I got. Listen, you know what I learned from rats? I learned that they're the loudest ones in the room and they all. Well, I don't know. I don't. I try not to watch too many rat podcasts. Well, actually, I don't watch any, but there's this one kid that pops up everywhere. Oh, my God, I wish he would just wax his chest instead of shave it. But anyway, I learned that all they're doing is telling the same story over and over and over, adding, there, there. There's nothing to them. There's nothing. There's nothing to them. Maybe when they were in the street, but now I can. I can actually laugh. I mean, I'll never laugh at my ex husband because that's personal to me, you know? What? I mean, ultimately my father ended up getting dementia and died on that last bed. So for me, it's a little bit different. But all these guys, you know, who are being flashy this, that, and the third or telling these stories like, get a fucking job. You still trying to earn off what you did, and it's not okay anymore.
A
I'll tell you what's not okay.
C
Tell me that.
A
People still trying to sell mob scripts with the name Gino in it. Gino, Listen, I get one of those.
C
Do you.
A
I think that.
C
Oh, they want you first off. They want you to.
A
No more rat talk. It's over.
C
Okay, good. Okay.
A
This turns into a different podcast.
C
Yep.
A
We ain't talking.
C
We're not going there.
A
So it's just weird what's happened. I've been back in New Jersey after being basically gone for 30 years.
C
Okay.
A
I was here pre Soprano, and I came back post Soprano ten years after the show has died. And it's so weird now that I don't know who's buying these shows, but the mob. John was dead. Like, it's fucking dead. It's fucking dead. Like, whoever wants to hear this nonsense is fucking living in death right now. Whoever wants to hear any of this shit all over again. They're pulling out all these gangsters from the past. You see what happened in America last week? Fucking the Rock came out a movie about Mark Kerr. The movie bottomed out and made $6 million. Exactly. It made $6 million, okay? This is what I want people to start looking at. Made $6 million.
C
Wait, the rock made a movie, right?
A
About a wrestler, a UFC wrestler, I heard about that. Named Mark Kerr.
C
And it flopped.
A
It made 6 million move dollars last weekend. I know that. The Hollywood. You make 10 movies, six of them flop, two of them destroy it, and one of them do men's and men's. And at the end of the year, it goes down a funnel. And at the end, you're gonna have a great fucking year. Okay? You're not gonna have 10 for 10 great movies. And that's half of what these movies are doing. But I want you to watch what's going on here. They're making movies about people that. Guys, these kids that go to the movies on Fridays and Saturdays, they don't know who fucking mark her is.
C
I. I don't even know, okay? No, Right.
A
Do you know who mark her is? You. You. He's a wrestler. Yeah, I know who it is. But was it worth me getting off my couch to go drop the fist? So what? I'M trying to say, look at the. And again, everybody had their thing. I'm not going to go into that. The last in Arrow movie, not a bad movie on hbo.
C
Oh, that's the one where he plays two people.
A
Two people.
C
I didn't see it.
A
No, don't. You know, don't kill yourself. But it's not a bad movie. Okay, but you could see that. Now you're digging up guys from 1950. What do you want these people to do?
C
Like, first of all, the young kids don't know. Okay? Best mob movies were like, the Goodfellas, the casinos. You can't. You've already done it.
A
You've done it.
C
Right, right, right, Right.
A
Now, my daughter, whatever Mafia movie you come out with in the next two years, that's what she's going to think the label is. Oh, I've had the Godfather on since she was 2, so it's never going to go rotten. And she loves Goodfellas, the Beaten, the grandmother's house. She loves all that. And she likes the Irishman. When De Niro beats up the butcher for pushing his daughter, she likes the Irishman.
C
I didn't see the Irishman because it was three hours.
A
Let me tell you what's very interesting. That's how Mercy discovered Goodfellas. And then she saw the Irishman. She was like, no, no, no, dad, leave it on. I like that guy. What guy you talking about? She goes, joe Patch. Because he was in a fucking movie about kids. Yeah.
B
Oh, Home Alone.
A
Yeah, yeah.
C
Home Alone. Yes.
A
Fucking kids. Like, another time, they were there, they were upstairs and I went up and they were watching fucking like three girls were watching fucking Goodfellows. And I'm like, no, no.
C
But I was sitting there watching when. When movies were good.
A
I mean, it's too slow for them.
C
Yeah. No, it's not. They don't even know that for them at all.
A
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It is for them, but their mind from what they're already trained on, right? It's even like when I was a kid. Come on. When I was 10, if you put a black and white movie on, I tend to go suck my dick. I don't want to. I want to watch fucking Steve McQueen.
C
Right?
A
I want to watch Rock Hutch. Not Rock Hudson. I like Rock Hudson, too. I want to watch Burt Reynolds. I want to watch after Vito Corleone, you know? But I didn't want to watch. Yeah, come. You know, you go to your grandfather's house. Come here. This is a real movie.
C
Come on, Mr. My Father Liked. He liked westerns. You know what? Speaking of like, did anybody see the Charlie Sheen documentary?
B
No, not yet.
C
Why are you laughing? Is that not the best thing you've ever seen in your life? You didn't see it.
A
I saw it, but you didn't. I don't want to put more Darkness on this fucking podcast.
C
It's not dark. I think it's a beautiful story.
A
I ended up with AIDS and getting in the ass and. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what I. That's a great bedtime story. There was a man long, long, long, long time ago.
C
We didn't put no darkness.
A
His name was Charlie. His name was Charlie Sheen. Okay.
C
I think it's.
A
Let me tell you what happened.
C
Wonderfully still alive.
A
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But listen, let's get to the bottom. He made $8 million, and now he's got to take medication to stay away from the sun every day. You know what I'm saying? You need that shit in your life. Why can't we just be fucking?
C
Do we need comedies? I think we need more comedy.
A
No, there's too much comedy.
C
What's comedy to you, like, movie wise? Movie wise?
A
There's shit I rewatch.
C
You don't think we need a really good comedy?
A
They don't know how to make them anymore.
C
Well, Tina Fey knows how to make everything she needs.
A
Tina Fey knows how to make anybody but the people that put up the money, scared people. And nobody wants to take a chance in this economy or in the next five fucking years. If I say the word fuck and you say the word fuck, or there's a nude scene, it's a 50. 50. You're just throwing dice, really.
C
I guess I don't pay attention to that much.
A
Think about what's going on in America today.
C
I try not to. I watch, like, Colombo and Mer as she wrote.
A
I understand. But look at what's getting made. When was the last time you watched a network television show and didn't have suicide hotline by the third minute? Because you can't believe it's so put together. You have maybe 10 solid shows on TV. Maybe. And that's. That's, you know, I'm talking about Mayor of Kingtown. I'm talking about.
C
That's violent. Isn't that the violent one? Is it Mayor of Kingtown violent?
A
It's about a dude, a white dude who's dealing with gangs.
C
I think I watched the first in real life.
A
He got hit by a tractor. So it's pretty.
C
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
A
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so then you got Jeremy or. Yeah, Jeremy. Yeah, I know he won an Oscar. And you know what? When he won the Oscar, I was like, what the fuck? But now in this series, I'm like, I fucked up. He could have won an Oscar. That dude.
C
I watched the early. I didn't watch the later ones. I watched all the ones. What about Mobland? You watched Mob.
A
Very good.
C
Was it? I didn't. I didn't watch it. What about Ray Donovan?
A
That's a long time ago. I don't like the one dude.
C
So, you know. Wow, that's. That's like you like the 10 person I heard that from.
A
I'm the type.
C
I know the real one.
A
Okay, yeah, great. But the problem with me is if, like, my wife watch a lot of limey tv.
C
Who?
A
English television.
C
Oh, English tv.
A
My wife. When I come. When I walk in the door at night, as soon as I hit the fucking living room, I hear chipcha.
C
Oh, okay.
A
She likes limey tv. And I'm not mad at her for it. I just. I'm deaf, so it ricochets off the walls and I hear something completely different.
C
Right.
A
That's why when I watch Mobland, I have to put the fucking credits underneath.
C
Oh, okay.
A
Because it's like watching Snatch. Oh, yeah, Checkery. Whatever. What the fuck?
C
Oh, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.
A
So there's two of those shows that are very good. It was Mobland and the dude about the. Mobland's about the. The white good looking dude.
C
The Family.
A
That's a great show with the Chinese dude. But then there's another. You gotta get. Stop it. I'm not talking about that one.
C
There's two Mobland, Tom Hardy.
A
And there's another one about a family that sells weed and they have a Chinese guy that cultivates it.
C
Oh, not Tulsa King. No, no, I don't. I don't know. I don't. I. I don't know A show about.
A
Listen, if you don't know, now, you know. I'm trying to drop it on you, okay?
C
Drop the jewel.
A
Drop it on you, baby girl. Hold on. So there was two of them. There was one about a family who took over a wee company and by mistake and the English fucking what? The gentleman.
C
The gentleman.
A
And it's Guy Ritchie.
B
Oh, okay.
A
Oh, yeah. Guy Ritchie's back. Madonna took a sucked superpowers out for a while. Madonna has a gift of doing that. I don't blame. That's what, you know. Madonna live takes your soul out by the Time you finish with Madonna. You need a year of, like, acupuncture.
C
The Gentleman.
A
The Gentleman's a very good television show.
C
Okay?
A
Mobland. And then, you know everybody. I don't know. Sneaky Blinders, Peaky Blinders, people.
B
Like, I think Sneaky Blinders is better.
C
Sneaky Blinders.
A
I think whatever the fuck it is, you know, we're in that club now that you and I are in that club, that we get very excited when we get a text message and somebody invites us somewhere, right? And then three days before the thing, we might even go do our hair. I'll color this fucking white mop I got you take a good shower. Because I always take a good shower. Like, I scrub my legs and shit, but on this day, I go between the toes, I get the special loofah for the muffler. You want to look good for your people, you put cream on, whatever the fuck, you know. And then you go downstairs, you lay.
C
Down in your tuva and you got.
A
In the chair, you smoke a joint, you go, okay.
C
Yep.
A
And you feel like. Like people have no idea what it is to live by. Like, I don't know.
C
There's some days we get tired. You get tired. I just thought of a movie. Wait, TV show. Day of the Jackal.
A
I went straight last week.
C
Oh, going out?
A
No, no. If I want, I smoke dope, maybe.
C
No, I know you don't. I know. No, that's.
A
That saves me.
C
Right, right, right.
A
If I drank.
C
Oh, no, forget it.
A
Two nights is a fucking three day setback. You gotta go out on Friday or Thursday and recover till Monday.
C
Monday. Yeah, yeah.
A
No, no, recovery's too tough.
C
I mean, I don't. I don't drink or smoke or whatever. I went out on Saturday. I got home at like 11 o'. Clock. I couldn't get out of bed until, like, I spoke to you this morning and I didn't even do anything wrong. And it just. The body.
A
You exercise, you drink water, you skip dessert. No, I just take a spoon.
C
No, I think when you get to a certain age, you get really. That's why I know so much about fucking television. But. Sorry, the ADD kicked in.
A
Obviously you don't fucking know, because I'm telling you this shit, but I'm telling you.
C
Did you ever see the Day of the Jackal with Eddie Redmond? The new. The new one.
A
Oh, what's the Day of the Jackal about?
C
Okay, the original Day of the Jackal is the old one. And then Bruce Willis made it with Val Kilmer. No, he made it with Richie Ghia, I think. Yeah, really. But now they made. I. I'm pretty sure it's called the Day of the Jackal again. It's fucking Eddie Redmond. When I tell you the acting. And this is ph. Nominal. There's a season two. What about the Lincoln Lawyer?
A
What are you scaring me for with this?
C
Kidding me? You stare at me like you never watched the link. Because I, first of all, I'm 31. I'm 30 months celebrating. Today's. What's the. Today's. The 6th. 30 months and 5 days celibate, too. Right. So I. Yeah. Congratulations. Oh, no. Oh. Oh.
A
Did you hear the date today? Yeah.
C
No, today is not the seventh.
A
What is October 6th? And what else?
C
It's somebody's clean date.
A
Huh?
C
It's got to be a clean date the way.
A
No, no, no. Anyway, it doesn't matter right now.
C
Somebody passed. I'm sorry.
A
Huh?
C
Somebody passed.
A
No, no.
C
Okay.
A
Only he would say that. I just give him the date and he's got to say names again.
C
What is it?
A
That's the last you want to get into custody anymore. He will drop a name within a second. Oh, my God.
B
Well, here's like. Because when I found out you were coming on, I was thinking, like, when did, like, the mob movies? The. So the. The Godfather was what, early 70s, 72. So before then was like, did the. Did the rest of the country know about the mob before? Like in the 60s and 50s?
A
Or was that like the outdoor nights?
C
See, I don't.
A
That's who you should be watching is the outdoor nights.
C
I was six.
B
I've never even heard of it.
A
That gives you. That's the. That's.
C
That's like the guy.
A
That's what that war is about. It's about 1950, right before Cuba. Cuba was still ticking and this shit was going on. And then later on, Vito Genovese. It's an interesting history lesson.
C
I gotta watch it.
A
It's a very interesting history lesson.
C
I didn't learn anything about my father. I was 16. I was in pastels at the end of the bar, and I was having a drink, and a friend of mine was there, and this guy comes over you, and he's says, oh, this is TG's daughter. He goes, yeah, yeah, her father's a captain. I go, my father doesn't fucking sail a ship. Talking about. Dead serious. My father doesn't drive a boat. Tell him. Tell him. And he said, you gotta go home and talk to your father. And I was 16. I was like, dad, is that why you're always gone on the weekends? Because you sail ships? I swear he looked at me, said, what? I go, you're a captain, Daddy. It's nothing to be embarrassed about. He said, sit down, Renee. And he goes, I can't say nothing. But he explained it to me in a way that I could understand. And I said, when all the other kids were learning about burns and bees, I learned about captains and soldiers, like, so my life changed for me. I was older. I knew we were different because we get to go away and things fell off truck. But I didn't know what the mob was.
A
What was your dad's occupation at that.
C
Time that you thought he was a captain?
A
No.
B
What was his on paper job when.
A
You went home to school?
C
You mean, what did he do for.
A
A living when you left the house, did he have a construction suit on?
C
We had tort. Trucking. He was so. We had restaurants, and my father had a trucking company. My father always really did work. Like, as a young man, when he met my mom, he pushed a hand truck. He worked. He washed dishes in a restaurant. He had three jobs. My dad. My father comes from the Lower east side. He comes from dirt. Like, literally dirt. He was shipped off to California when his father and mom got divorced. And my father's mother was a nut job. He lived in a trailer park, which people don't know. His curtains was made out of newspapers.
A
Mine were made out of human skin.
C
Were they?
A
No.
C
Cowhide? No. And then his first arrest was actually when he was like 9 years old for robbing corn Flakes to feed his sisters. Yeah. He also saved a family from a burning building. True story. Not. He wasn't just telling stories. And he saved a girl that was drowning him and Ronnie Kaluchi. I could say it. They passed. A girl was drowning in Prospect park on the ice, and he ran out there and saved life. So. So as many bad things as he did, I'm sure, but not that I know of. He did good things, too.
A
Listen, they did whatever the fuck they did.
C
They weren't always bad people, though.
A
No, you're not talking. But who knows what they were doing in reality? And it's like I read a book years ago, Sins of My Father.
C
Yep.
A
And that's a very interesting read when you read that, no matter what it is, it's somewhere in our blood now. Somewhere in your fucking blood. I could put on a fancy suit, you know, and. Yeah, I could put on a fancy suit and make up a great story to you guys that My family was royalty in Cuba, and Fidel took the farms for what they were, peasants. You know what I'm saying? Like, you can't change who the fuck you are.
C
No. And I'm proud of the things that I learned about him when he passed away.
A
You just. There's some problems now when you just see people and they're overcompensating. Like, I remember, like, for years I wanted a fucking car. And then when I could finance, when I go, I don't even want a fucking car. Like, my wife had to beg me to get her car. Like, she was taking the bus till she was 8 months pregnant, 6 months pregnant. One day she's like, hey, motherfucker, we're going to buy a car today. Enough of this shit. And I had to buy her, like, remember the silver car? The Subaru? No, I had the Subaru. She bought a Subaru for herself, okay? And then I used to go, I'm taking the car at night. And she goes, take it. Because she liked taking the fucking bus anyway.
C
Did she? I never took a bus in my life.
A
She'd take the train. The LA train?
C
Oh, no, no, no.
A
She'd take the LA train.
C
I've never been on the train.
A
No Sleepy people? No, I think no. So.
C
But this is back then.
A
This is back then. This is 2011, 2012. It's only four stops. And I remember going down and going, this fucking train. This is a fucking paradise compared to what I've grown around.
C
I've never been on the subway, even in the city. I've never taken a bus, even a fucking. Or a subway.
A
What's wrong with you?
C
My father said I couldn't.
A
Who gives a fuck? He's gone. You gotta go on that bus one fucking time.
C
Why would I go underground? Why?
A
Why would you get on a fucking train?
C
Because there's rats and there's rats up here and there's rats down.
A
Yeah, that's right. You're surrounded by rats. But every once in a while, you got to go in there to realize what you've gone through and then come back out.
C
No, I realize what I have by not going.
A
We're doing a video next week.
C
No, we're not. No, no, I can't go underground. No, listen.
A
Oh, you got hypophobia.
C
No, listen.
A
Tell me that you get hypophobia, but don't tell me you hate the rats underneath.
C
No, at least give me something. I'll tell you why. My heart breaks for a lot of people that have to like that. I I have such a blessed life. And it breaks when I see people that are poor and homeless and stuff. And I don't think I could handle what I would see on the train.
A
But let me explain something to you, you know. You know what would connect your soul more? What do I. What do. What does everybody say to do when you're lost?
C
Go to church?
A
No, what do people tell you?
C
When I'm lost?
A
Yeah.
C
My family usually tells me to go.
A
To rehab, but, I don't know, you go outside and you find the patch of grass.
C
Oh, you ground.
A
And you take your shoes off.
C
Yeah, Grounding.
A
And you get yourself back. Ground. And for me, it's sometimes just driving through my own neighborhood and getting out and walking.
C
Okay, I ground, then I had to.
A
Ground my own neighborhood, you know?
C
So you want me to go underground to see other people? Take a train.
A
Listen, man, the only way you connect with other people is to see what other people see. Okay? If you're telling me. Look, when I was fucking 24 and my brother over there tell you I was 24, I went to a house one night. I was invited to a very nice house. And the girl had two cats. Her boyfriend had a dog. And I loved the dog. He was a wolf. I kept playing with the dog, but the cat wanted my love. But every time he her, I push him off. Push him off. I finally told the owner, I hate this cat. And I went on a tangent. Till this day, that tangent haunts me because I didn't hate the cat. I just didn't know about the cat. If she would have taken the time to go, hold on. Get that fucking wolf away from her. Let him sit on your leg. He's not going to attack you. So sometimes. I'm not fucking putting you down. You're going through a lot in your fucking life right now. Let's take the fucking past off. Let's get rid of the rats. You either gotta take a bus.
C
I'll take the bus.
B
The buses aren't bad.
C
I'll take the bus.
A
The buses. But you don't know what life is. Cause all we're gonna. Listen. What do you think I lived? I wake up every morning.
C
No, But I'm afraid to go down there. There's bad things.
B
I'll take you to a nice one. There's nice ones.
A
Bad things. Bad things always happen. We'll make a video of me and you walking hand by hand to the 57th street exit. And we'll get off at Times Square and there'll be a gift waiting for you and the cameras, you'll be sweating a little bit. You know what I'm saying? If something happens.
C
Okay, I'll do it. Yeah, we'll take.
A
Look this.
C
I'll do it.
A
Remember how you used to do the things you used to do? No more. I got the. This saves everything. All right, let's do it.
C
I got one. I got one. I'll do it. Okay. Okay.
A
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C
No, we don't.
A
So boys don't mix. It's time for you to start playing the Bongos remake or the Go Gos or whatever the fuck you do.
C
So I am working on a television project which hopefully in 2026, will return. I am writing my memoir, Once Upon a Mob Wife I have a body butter line launching for Black Friday. And of course, it's a play on words. We called it like bada bean butter. We made all these really cute names to it. I'm working on an immersive theater project with my sister Jennifer. I would love to tell all the names, but I was full of secrecy. What else? I am a full time grandmother of four, which is probably the coolest job. And I am coming up on two years sober. I have a great relationship with my son.
A
What are you doing? Your spare time. You mend sweaters? You collect stamps? What do you do?
C
Yeah, okay, just me. I. I still stamps because I'm still writing. Correctional facilities? No, I actually have been writing along with my sister a movie called Jail Mail. That is a comedy. It's a rom com, so I'm working on that. But almost.
A
What's a rom com? I'm sorry to interrupt you. Oh, romantic.
C
Yeah, romantic.
A
I think it's like a sexual move, you know? Like the first time I heard bukkake when that girl was on the part, I'm like, I sat there for like 18 minutes. I don't know what a bukkake is. I thought it was like a pudding. I didn't.
B
It kind of is.
A
Tell them what a bukkake is.
B
Oh, you can't do this. You're a woman of God.
A
He's not a woman of God.
C
I'm Catholic. Slow down.
A
Nothing.
B
Bukaki is when one person is in the middle and there's a large group of guys.
C
Yeah.
B
And they, they do some stuff on her face or they all jerk off.
C
Okay. So you know what I just learned? What's. Somebody will know. What's the name of the chair in the room?
B
Oh, the cuck chair.
C
Do you know what the fuck that is? How disgusting.
A
What?
C
Say it again.
B
The cuck. So it's like that. You know how. You know how, like chair and like hotels, they have like one random, like little love seat in the corner for no reason?
A
Yeah.
B
A cuck chair is. Now what people do is they go to like a Hampton Inn and like, you. Like this one scrawny white dude will bring his wife and six black guys will come and fuck her. And he'll just watch and he sits in like.
C
That was a little drastic. About six. It is when a person watches two people have sex. It's a real fucking thing. It dates back to like almost the wrong. I went and I researched. It's called their cuckers. These people are cuckers. They sit in a fucking Chair. And they watch. And. And now every time. And they're in every single room. So I thought that somebody had really good decorating skills in all these hotels now. Nope. It's a fucking cock chair. I was devastated when I found out. I turned the chair around and made it face the wall.
A
Devastated because nobody invited you to watch.
C
I don't fucking want to watch nobody.
A
Comics that didn't get invited to Riyadh, all of a sudden, they're anti politicians. I'm doing business with them. Not for nothing, nobody invited your bone. You're Your bony ass.
C
That's why you. No, it's a real. It's a thing. In every hotel room, you will see a chair. And it's. It's a cooking chair.
A
So that's. No. See.
C
Yes. No, it's true. Google it.
A
Google it. Listen, I don't need to Google shit because that's why I boycott hotels. That's it. I'm done. I'm gonna start going to a company that just pitches tents with a heater with a little cuck in the fucking thing.
B
I'd love to see you in a dentist.
A
I want people who cucked on the floor in a fucking tent.
C
Huckers.
A
There's always fucking something. Always remember in life that they're just getting weirder and weirder and weirder. Wait till you get invited to your first tranny sex escapade.
C
Oh, I've been too.
A
Madonna will be singing, and they're all trannies with big dicks hitting each other with dicks.
C
Oh, I haven't seen them swing them. But I have been. I have been invited to a couple. A couple parties.
A
I'm not mad at anybody's sexual preferences, but get ready for what's coming. You wanted it. It's like Ted New just said in 75, right? You wanted it, you got it.
C
You know, Wango Tango. Didn't he sing Wango Tango?
A
Wasn't it Wang Tango, but years later. That's after he drank the poison in Atlanta, Georgia. Somebody knew he didn't like black people and they gave him. I don't know. I'm just saying. Oh, Wango Tango was his way out. That was it.
C
Yeah, but that's all I know about Ted Nugent.
A
No, Ted Nugent had a pre. And that's when he was a real bad. You know what I'm saying?
C
Okay.
A
Double Live. Gonzo. And the first album, Tremendous.
C
Really. I mean, I did listen to Van Halen.
A
I know you'd listen to a lot.
C
Of things I did. I have a Sister that's nine years older than me.
A
Sure. So you Pavarotti, too? I don't know.
B
Were you single at all?
A
Your husband was Puerto Rican.
C
He's a rat.
A
It's rat no more.
C
Say it. I. What do you want me to call him?
A
Just don't say him at all. Don't ignore.
B
Were you single at all on, like, Mob Wives?
A
Like, she's always single.
B
So did you. Did you have any. Did you have any, like, guys hit you up?
C
Smart now, aren't you always single?
B
I would love for you to go.
C
Out single on Mob Wife.
A
Like.
B
Like, did. Did, like, guys hit you up?
C
Oh, yeah, I did. I went on, like, one date on Mob Wives. That was hilarious. And, yeah, I was single. Ultra mob Wives.
B
And did you, like, have fun or the people hitting you up were gross?
C
Oh, no, I've had some. Some fun. I have dated some very fun people in my life. I won't talk about any of them because they're celebrities, but I. I've had my share that I don't have to date anymore if I didn't really want to. I've had some fun.
A
No, I'm just teasing.
C
No, I have claustrophobia. No, I've had. So I've. Listen, Mob Wives was a really great springboard to other things that I've done in my life. I've. I've been on Celebrity Big Brother. I did two TV shows on we TV marriage boot camp. He was not my boyfriend, though. But we went on it. Family boot camp. I've done chopped. I've had. I've had a lot of great things. I have cookbook. I have a cookbook, an erotic novel, children's book. I've been really.
A
You haven't sang yet. You've got to make it an album.
C
Oh, yeah. I would sound like Barry White.
A
Who gives a fuck?
C
All together. Somebody actually just asked me. Her name is Bribiase. She's like, would you do something on my album? I was like, I could talk on your album, but I can't sing or anything like that. And she's like, no, I want you to talk shit in the beginning of the album. I was like, something like that I could do, but I think if there was something, anything that I really could do. Oh, I. I became a catechist teacher. I taught religion.
A
Yeah, that's always great.
C
I. It was. It was fun.
A
I saw you told. I saw you throw, like, 18 punches on VH1.
C
No, no, I pull hair. I pull hair. I don't fist fight. I really.
A
No, that wasn't you, that was a guy dressed like you.
C
No, that was the other girls. I only pulled hair, I swear to God.
A
Right, right. You pulled hair.
C
I have a very extra expensive nose. I am not fist fighting. What else?
B
You pulled someone's hair on the show.
C
Oh, we pulled down out of each other's hair on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
B
How good does it feel to pull someone's hair when you're mad at them?
C
So good. You have to learn how to pull from the really bottom though, so make sure you get it all when you're pulling it. I'm not, actually, I'm not. Believe it or not, I'm not a violent person. I really don't believe. Believe in violence. I really don't. Unless it had something to do, like somebody picking on my son on my grandkid. But otherwise I don't believe in violence. Sounds strange. And I think for me, I think at this stage of my life, I would love to find a grandpa like oxygen, maybe like a couple weeks to live and sign everything over. But, you know. No, I'm joking. I would really, I would. I would love to date. I think. I think I'm probably ready to date. But like, what I mean by date is like, you don't live with me, I don't live with you. I see you two, maybe three days a week and that's it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't allow anybody around my grandchildren. I'm very, very protective.
A
Anything else?
C
I need a baby on a plane.
A
To fucking Europe once a month, too.
C
I never been to. I've never been to Italy.
A
All right, I'll make a list too. Yeah, it's just.
C
I mean, why do you think I'm asking for two months?
A
Crazy. Like, I see those ads of guys like my age and they're walking with their wives who got khakis on and like a shirt with a collar. And they look at the horizon, they're both in awe. And I look at them, I go, I should be doing that. But first of all, I'm not going to stop when I'm walking to go look at the sun. I'm in awe. Keep fucking walking. I'm 64. I've seen this on a thousand times. All right? At night and at daytime.
B
What would your commercial be like?
A
What do you. Romantic. Too hot to be. The mosquitoes are about to come out.
C
You could see it again tomorrow.
A
You want to stop and talk to me about the. You know, it's just, you look at that and you go, that's a dream. That's a dream for a lot of American people. And you know what? It's a dream.
C
The happily ever after. Yeah, that is a dream.
A
It's a fucking dream. And I buy into everything. I'm a romantic, nostalgic guy. I see those commercials and I'm like, man, I would love to do something like that with Terry, where nobody has to go to work and we could just walk down a beach in two years. And I'm like, that's great. That's great. For about 18 months. And I'll be sucking dick, you know, trying to sell tickets in New York City.
C
Again, that's not realistic life. That's not life.
A
I understand, but it's a.
C
It would be nice. But that's not what I want. I don't want that.
A
I'm not saying that. But at the other end, you're sitting there, a 62 year old man in the United fucking States of America. And you're sitting there and I got a bum knee and I got a fucked up toenail. But I'm sitting there going, I could be doing something. I come from that school. Like at 62, I don't want to be walking around going, look, look, George, look at the whale. I saw like that in Jersey City. Who gives a fuck? Just look at the fucking whale, okay? I'm one of those guys. Just look at the fucking whale.
C
So if you could be, if you had the opportunity to do something different with your life right now, what would you do?
A
I'd still do what I'm doing. But listen, when you stop is when you're going to die. Oh, okay. When they say that, surrender.
B
More or less.
A
They have statistics that'll blow your mind of people retiring. And three years later they punch the ticket. You worked 60 fucking years of your life doing whatever the fuck you didn't want to do. It becomes. What's that? When you throw a punch, it becomes muscle memory. Muscle memory. You become a fucking robot. By the time you're 50, 12 more years, 11 more years, I'll be free. 11 more years. You might as well turn yourself in now. See if you could do six and get retired after that. At your think about it. And then you're 62 and all of a sudden you're turning through. Yahoo. Yeah. If you're 63 and you don't have 82 million in the bank, you're gonna die. And you're like, what the fuck? What the fuck? How do I win this fucking rattle here? Because you're always scared. You're not gonna. You know. Right. And they bang out. Once you're 65. Yeah. That's that. That's fucking. What's that shit?
C
They give you Social Security.
A
Yeah. That's like 800amonth. And pray that check you gotta cash within minutes after next year. That's it. That's. Money's going to different places. They don't give a fuck about old people. And then you have the other thing. What's the fucking insurance they give you?
C
Medicare.
A
Medicare? Yeah. That's for. That's for Band Aids. Maybe an eye doctor. When you get down to an integrity, that shit don't cover anywhere. That's why they have Medicare, A, B, C, D, and all of the above. And then you got to buy all that shit, dog. That's a curveball right there. Everybody's thinking, when I'm 65, I got free insurance.
C
No. My mother's 80. And let me tell you something.
A
Yeah. You complain about your insurance now and you're working.
C
Yep.
A
Wait till you're not working and they don't need you no more. So it's really weird. Like, now you have to get in shape. You have to be prepared for 75. And I'm doing it. I can see myself puffing reefer and then one day going, this is shit. Boom. He's dying from a heart attack. And that's how you want to do it anyway. You don't want to die at home watching the cosby kids at 2 in the noon.
C
My mom is 80. All she does is watch TV every week with him.
B
He's planning his death every. God damn it.
A
I do this because I'm preparing for. But it's not even that. You know, I'm only a couple years. No, I'm a few years older than my guest, who I love to death. But everybody starts thinking about this now. You guys shouldn't. Well, guess what? You should.
C
Oh, bullshit. I think about it.
A
I didn't think about shit. I didn't think about anything until I was like, 48. And people started telling me things. Hey, you know about insurance? What? Insurance? You know. No, I had SAG insurance at the time, but there was so many things. If it wasn't for my wife, I wouldn't know what people talking about.
C
No. What about life insurance? Young people should have life insurance. They should invest their money into their policies. Absolutely. I thought my. Honestly, I thought my father was. Which I believed him. Go figure. He was like, I'm never gonna die. Don't worry. I'm gonna take care of Everything for you all your life. And I really, truly believed everything my father said. And then, you know, when he passed, I was like, what do you mean I have to pay a car payment? What do you mean? I have to get a house.
A
By the way, don't you call, oh, yeah, yeah, you're false and to take care of you, but the rent is due.
C
He's like, by the way, he's gone now. What do you do?
A
Yeah, he ain't around unless you see ghosts around this motherfucker with baby, I still need mucho de niro on the first and shit. Yeah, it's very, you know, you look at things, that's what. And that's what I'm just telling Lee where you are. And people from all ages watch this podcast. Right now there's 23 year olds that they're stuck in an apartment in New York. They went to four years of college, they've been in, in the market for a year now and they still can't find a job doing what they went to college for. They thought that was the right move. And every month they got a bill from fucking the government, student loans, 6850. And don't think we don't know where you are, you know what I'm saying? Don't think you don't know where you are.
C
Absolutely.
A
You have a bunch of 38 year olds that have been divorced with a kid and they got to start all over with a minus 600amonth and 200 for groceries and they ain't getting no raises. You know, they work for a Chinese company. The tariffs are done. You know, everybody in this that watches this is going through something at a certain age group. I'm sure there's a lot of 50 year olds going, what the fuck is my next move? Your next move is to sit still. Play it out. You've done this before.
C
Yeah.
A
Everybody in this room, George, we've all got out of ourselves, out of a hole before. This is just something that we just did this time we're more prepared and we're ready. We're going to work smarter, get there faster.
C
But I think that's the difference with us compared to the younger generation. We've done it before. We've done, we've seen hard times. These young kids haven't seen what we were about to see again.
A
I never want to sound like our grandparents at these young kids, this new last two generations weren't dragged to work at 5. There's a big trend going on in this company. A lot of Businesses are closing because the kids don't want nothing to do with the business. With a business has been open for 89 years. Well, fuck it.
C
Yep.
A
I want to get my dicks up in New York City. You know what I'm saying? I want to do this in Idaho. I want to fucking go to Iran or whatever the fuck these kids want to do today. Whatever they want to do. I don't know. I'm just spitting shit out here.
C
Yep.
A
But that's happened also. I can't blame you.
C
Yeah, a lot of stuff going on.
A
You grew up in that shit. You saw what your grandpa went through, your dad went through, and your uncle went through. Your uncle's missing a hand. All three of them are missing hands from carrying Brick all those years. And you want me to carry this fucking tradition? I carry a suitcase, bitch. I like fingering people. Yeah. You know it's the truth. You want me to be a baker? Look at these. Everybody says, well, those Italian cookies aren't the same, bitch. I'll tell you why. Because you have 8th generation Italian. They don't even know what those. They're so far removed from the original taste of that. They don't even know what that is. They don't even know what that is. Think about when I tell you guys. It's so fucking funny. We're in a different world. Even when I go for Cuban food, some of it is good. Some of it is God awful. God awful. They're like a map off the fucking recipe. Do I get up and go, I want this redone? No. I look in the kitchen. First of all, God bless them. I don't know what they are. You know what I'm saying? I don't know what they are. They might have a backpack on. They all have parachutes on now in case the ice comes in. They're ready to go. Doug, they all got a little suitcase on their back.
C
Yeah, but don't you think that this is all really the parents fault? That the parents aren't teaching their children better at home?
A
Listen, it's not me grabbing my daughter and saying, clean this fucking garage or paint this fucking wall. That's not even it by a mile. It's the fact that social interaction, learning how to fucking count. I swear to God. Listen, guys, I got a. A deep problem. I love Coke Zero from McDonald's, okay? They pack that motherfucker with ice. Like they don't own the ice company. You ever go somewhere, you're thirsty and they give you half the glass full of ice like they're in on the ice. Just give me a fucking ice. It's a penny for a fucking big Slurpee filled with ice. And you want to hold back on the ice. McDonald never holds back. They fill that motherfucker to the brim. I go in there and try to throw them off, change wise every day like it's $1.29. So I'll give them like four. I'll give them like six quarters. They go bananas. Bananas. You have to see them.
B
And they can't do the math.
A
They start looking up, they start looking at the register. They don't know how to because the bill is one thing. Hit them with a quarter, Hit him with four quarters.
B
I do love doing, like, when the bill's like 11 and I give them 21, so I get a 10 back. And they're like, they look at it, they're like, what?
C
Oh, they can't figure that out.
A
We had a more. We delivered papers. I've always said that the generations sucked because they never delivered papers. That delivering paper made you a gangster. Plus everything else that you did along the way, especially where we grew up over here, we were very lucky. We had a lot of little things you could fall into by mistake and pick up somebody to give you five bucks. You know, it snows now, I want you to. Unless this is different in the Bronx. Listen, the Bronx never changes. And parts of Brooklyn don't ever change, okay? Because hustling never changes. It just lets people know how to hustle. But if it snows in my neighborhood, you think there's eight kids out there making a small 20 pushing your car like we did. Remember when it snowed? We could go to the movies on Friday and we didn't have to ask our parents and we could actually get a piece of pizza and shit. Now, if we could make 20 bucks. If we can make 20 bucks shoveling snow each. And trust me, when a guy like me, a fat thug that's 60 is driving down the street and he goes and he gets caught on black ice and he sees six little gangsters. Trust me, I don't care if this guy's the king of the Jews. He parts with that money. Because the alternative is his fat ass pushing himself out of there and shoveling himself. Those kids could call whatever price they want. Whatever price they want. Listen, chubby, relax. We got hot cocoa. Like there's got to be one Arab because they know what to show up with. We have hot cocoa, okay? Drink the hot cocoa. We're going to get you out. We're going to fill up your tank with gas. Just give us 80 bucks. And you'll give it to them. I don't have to do dick. I'm over here warm in the car with the fuck, with Jody Adams.
C
They don't, they don't dishevel.
A
That's the mathematics. I'm talking about that hustle, that flow. And I'm not pulling. I'm not that old guy at the barbershop. I don't even want to be that grandpa. My day, you know, we walked from here to Baghdad. No, you didn't. No, you fucking didn't. Okay? No, you didn't. If anybody did that, today's the day to do it. With all the reconstructive knees and all this shit you could do. You can't walk nowhere with the sneakers they had. But anyway, my point is that it's just so much has changed social media, I am in awe of women. I am in awe of. Just so much has changed and it's supposed to change. My way of thinking is 40 years out of line. Let's face is 40 years out of the line. I'm 62. The best I was ever cooking was maybe 30. All right? That's where my mind is.
C
I don't believe that. I think that's unfair to say about you.
A
There's a part of a person that stays. I'm a fucking old school prude. I like things to say. And I'll sit here and talk about.
C
What makes that wrong. Wrong.
A
Because there's just things that are so old school that they take you down because you won't let them go.
C
Oh, your belief systems, I believe.
A
And that's why when people put down the chick with the nice titties in San Francisco, that she's 80 years old and she makes 80 million a month. Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi and all those old politicians, you know, all.
B
The chick with the nice titties, she's.
A
Got banging little titties.
C
Nancy makes 80. I'm saying, who, who the hell is he talking about?
A
You look at Nancy Pelosi. Titties. Them things are banging. Women that are 20 want Pelosi's titties. They're perfect. They're round, they're hard, they push her shoulders back. Whoever did the plastic surgery pushed. Look at her titties. Banging people. I would sure join her Patreon or whatever the fuck.
B
Only fans.
A
Only fans. Just to see those little titties. They're like little Spalding number twos. You know what I'm saying hard like a motherfucker. Look at those titties banging. Look, she even has cleavage like an animal. You understand me? But that's not my point. My point is that.
C
What was your point now that these boobs are showing?
A
My point is that there's a lot of politicians, people who are in high post in this country that are in their 60s, 50s and 70s, that think like me. And my thinking is whacked. Okay? Like, I smoke pot, but I don't want legal reefer. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of going into New York City. And it's the greatest city in the world now. You've made it every other city.
C
I agree with you.
A
It smells like fucking dick in this city.
C
I agree.
A
You go to the Jersey shore because we don't know how to control it. And if we're gonna control it, then you might as well move to fucking Cuba. So why? Because now it's backfiring. I fucking hate it. Every time I walk into the city. You smell it at the, you know, it's a fancy fucking restaurant.
C
I'm sorry, I got three guys smoking.
A
Weed and trust me for the grace of God go I, I'm one of those idiots, okay? But after a while, like everywhere I went from taxicab to the thing back, I'm like, I hear you go down the shore. It's the smell of reefer. My views are completely different. They're kind of a little fucking different. Like, I kind of admire now like Texas and people like Tennessee I don't think has legal weed.
C
I don't think so.
B
No, no.
A
You know, because they see what now they wanted to give it a look. And there's a lot of money in reefer. Yeah, bro, you want to make, this is a fucking state. But guess What? You have 80 hands here in New Jersey, New York city, you got 80 hands for every $20 nickel bag you sell. You're only getting 3 cents out of that nickel bag at the end of the week. So you better have good fucking advertising. You better be getting some, some low priced shit. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's a squeeze.
C
I think it's a disgrace to do it to these kids. Like, my grandson will be like, nene, what's that? And I'm like a body Oda, you know, I, I mean I think it's absolutely, I, I, but I'm, I think old school and I don't think that there's anything wrong with the way that we were brought Up. And whoever is running this country right now needs some of us to let them know that shouldn't be done. It. First of all, I think it, it demoralizes and what it does to a woman. Like talking about all these things that are allowed, like no, no, I'm talking about marijuana. Okay, we're sticking to pot. We're sticking to pot.
A
We're talking about pot.
C
Well, I'm just talking about a lot of things that they let go in general that aren't in line with the old school thinking. I think a lot of things that are happening is because they're not thinking old school, they're more thinking. They're thinking more money than they are thinking morals. And you want to bring your kids. I don't want to bring my kids to Manhattan, my grandkids, not even to go see, you know, Radio City. Because of everything you're going to see and smell and why.
A
Well, guess what? We saw and we smelled that too.
C
But we saw it and smelled it on a smaller scale.
A
But we at that age, we were intrigued. Mom, mom, why is that guy smoking a cigarette with his toes? You know what I'm saying?
C
Right? But we didn't have to talk about weed.
A
No, right. Listen, how many nights do I sit there and it's 9, 15 at night and I'm about to change the channel and again, no racism involved, right? I'm not gonna say nothing. Some big black guy with dreads makes out on TV with a little Chinese guy camera and they're like, if you're a member of this and you don't want HIV, that's great, do the ad. But what if my 8 year old son is sitting in that room? Daddy, Daddy, why are two men kissing each other? Now you gotta go. Listen that, that's a question on Jeopardy. They can never get. You know what I'm saying? Like, forget that. That, that destroys you. Even two women and you're a mom and two women are swapped and spit. Or you put on like the other night about a month ago, it was 10 o' clock at night and there was a show that was actually like not. They didn't show the woman's monkey, but they were like stimulating it, they're simulating it like some guy was going down and out. And this is where you become a hypocrite because 15 years ago I would have pulled my dick out and banged with that.
C
Are you talking about the Hunting Wives?
A
I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. And you know, but now what if my Daughter walks in, right?
C
Yep.
A
You know what I'm saying? So you see how your perspective always changes. That's why you can't tell me you're this or you're that. Because along the line, and then your perspective change and then you become a fucking hypocrite for a year. You feel bad about the decision you made 20 years earlier. But that goes around in all the decision making. And that's what the problem is that we just got. We gotta start cutting this old blood out of a lot of things, policing, it's just at a certain age. By the way, I saw your boy today with the half a wig. He was over there with Skolani, whatever, Ciccarelli over at Cuomo's. He seen if he got a job, you know what I'm saying? I love when people have to cry for a job. You know what I'm saying? Oh, my God. Even at a later age in your life, you still gotta show up and make believe you're gonna vote and shit like that. Yeah, I'm here. You know what I'm saying? How sad. You've had an interesting life, my love, you know, and yeah, there's been some pain, but you had a fun time with your dad. People gonna do what they're gonna do.
C
I know.
A
You gotta keep doing what the fuck you're doing, you know what I'm saying? Which is looking good. Like a thank you to take one of those sneakers off and beat you with it.
C
Not before you find it up your ass. I appreciate you for the compliments, and I. I even appreciate you telling me to curse. And that was really a very. That was very good for me because I sometimes let other things that are negative get the best of me. Where. Why would you let anything that's negative get the best of you? But for my future and for my grandkids, I just want them to see this grandma show up for them and let them know if they do have to see a commercial like that, that they don't have to watch it. They can go in the other room.
A
Room.
C
You know, there's things that we're not going to be able to change. Obviously, you know, we're not one of the lawmakers and to each his own. But, you know, where I come from and where I live, I still implement my very old school mentality when it comes to respect and honor and integrity and morals.
A
They just want to know what. What's the. What's the only fans page? Would you stop?
C
I. I don't have only fans. I do Have a page, actually, but I don't do anything on it.
A
You got to tell these guys there's a lot of guys interested in you.
C
Oh. Oh, yeah.
A
Put a bikini on and jump up and down. No, no, you played the bass. No, I love you. Renee. Renee. I moved to Jersey five years ago, and I knew about Staten Island. I'd gone there two or three times. It was a comedy club that I did an open mic at over there once. But I didn't know what the people were about. I just thought there were Jersey people who were fucking rednecks. I didn't know what they were. And over the years, I read there was a garbage dump and this and that and the whole fucking thing. So along the line, I knew anything that came out of Staten Line was fucked up. And then I moved to my hometown, where I live now, Marlboro and Jesus Christ. 70% of the population is Staten Island. So I got the woman across the street from me who I love dearly. She's Staten Island. And the girl around the corner from me, Christina, who was just her 40th birthday. I clicked with them first, and they're fucking like my soul. Like, one started bringing me chocolate. Like, one night I was getting high in my yard and I'm like, wow, it's a beautiful night. Let me go out to the front of the house. It's like 10 o' clock at night. I go to the front of the house, I look down, there's a loaf of bread, and I'm like, what the fuck? And I bring it inside. I didn't know what chocolate bread was. Oh, from Royal Crown. I didn't know what that was.
C
Oh, from Royal Crown.
A
I took it in the kitchen and I cut it up. And it was like that scene in Animal House with little kids looking at Playboy. He's about to bang one out, and all of a sudden a woman comes flying through the window and he's like, thank you, God. Yeah, that. You know, every time I. Oh, my God.
C
Especially Royal Court.
A
Wow. She took. She texted me, did you enjoy it? And I'm like, yeah. And there's something about Staten Island. Now I know, like, 32 of you, you know, I know who went to Moore and who are the Moors whores.
C
The Moors whores, You know? Yes.
A
Fucking hilarious shit. Just, you know, 20 years younger than me, 25 years younger than me, but they are hysterical and they go off on all that. And then they told me the drugs, bills and the traffic and it just. And it was like a big exodus. I had a Great time, George. At that book signing there. We were fucking. That was one of the best book. There was some weird fucking Staten island women. And there was one woman, like, I'm not weighing online. She remember the. Really? No. There was a really pretty Italian girl with three brothers that looked like gorillas. They weren't gonna wait. I even told this guy, just let her drop. This is not gonna end well. Let it through. Let us through. Because I could tell she wanted to tell me something. She did. She was very nice. And I left there going, man, but the food and stuff, like, if it wasn't for Staten island, they'd still be eating macaroni and cheese and Marlboro and whatever cold snack that has all that money.
C
We had Staten Island. A lot of restaurants ended up in New Jersey. Cafe Loon is there. Yeah.
A
There's a Chinese restaurant. Is there The. The 79 Royal. They had, like, a brown Royal.
C
No, they do not.
A
Yes, they do. Three minutes from my house. Oh, my God, the best shrimp and lobster.
C
So excited.
A
Forking it.
C
And I will drive for it, because down where I am.
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's.
C
You go to lavotes, right?
A
Once in a while.
C
Oh, that's the best Italian.
A
But I got another. I got four hours around the corner from my house.
C
Really?
A
Oh, my God. They do. Because my friend just did it on Sunday. They do a Sunday football special. Listen, I don't want to give the number out, because I don't want to, but the number I remember is not a bad deal. Like, it's a fucking spread, really. Like, they send you a tray of fucking nachos, and they're good with sides of avocado. And then they send. No, no. Pizza sandwiches. They sent honey. Whatever. Mustard, chicken strips, chicken wings, three different flavors. Vodka broccoli. I mean, it was, like, much. Not bad. I like lodes, too, but everything with them is balsamic, balsamic, balsamic. I don't want that much balsamic.
C
I'm not a huge balsamic. But when it comes to Italian blood.
A
I got so many different Italians down there.
C
Well, you know what? You're closer to New York.
A
No, Levotes is walking distance from my house.
C
Yeah, no, you're closer to New York, in other words, where I'm from, than where I'm. Because I'm in hell.
A
Yeah.
C
No, Like, I. Like, I'm a block, two blocks from the fucking beach in Point Pleasant. Like, you shoot me, you ain't getting nothing but sand.
A
Or you're down in Point Pleasant.
C
I'm like. My next town over is. I'm in Braille, so I'm in the.
A
I went to eat Point Pleasant one day. I returned everything. Even the clam chowder tasted like chicken noodles.
C
Oh, you gotta. Then you gotta go to Spikes. Cause Spikes is really good for the fish.
A
I don't need to go anywhere. I got restaurants right by my house.
C
You're right.
A
I'm sick and tired of driving for. Just look for the new thing. Who am I, Columbus? You know where to get chicken? Franchise. Go there and shut your fucking mouth. That's it. Well, I'm happy you came on tonight.
C
And I am very grateful.
A
You know I love you to death. You always welcome to. Come on.
C
Thank you so much. I appreciate you greatly. And I.
A
You don't want an edible or anything?
C
No, no.
A
You're so bad. I don't know if you want to fall off the wagon.
C
Yeah, and I would say that on camera, too.
A
No, you won't. All right, we got some.
C
That's that sneaker that was going up his ass. It's in his mouth now. No, no, no joking.
A
Yo, what date you got this week?
C
I'm.
B
I'm going back to Mass, so I don't have anything on in the books this week.
A
And then what's your next big day?
B
Next big one. The next weekend, I'm in Massachusetts at Roar and Laugh. Boston.
A
Beautiful thing. Thank you. We got a couple dates coming up. I don't remember what the fuck they are.
B
You got Niac come up this week.
A
Nyack is done. So nyack is gone. Mgm. What is it? Oh, D.C. mgm. November 8th. It's a beautiful Saturday night right outside the White House. Come on up. Tickets are still on sale. That's it. That's all I got for you. I wish I had more. One date at a time. You know what I'm saying? Beautiful.
C
That's right. One date at a time.
A
One day at a time. One step at a time.
C
That's right.
A
Start talking about December and February, people. So we like an appearance, huh?
C
I got an appearance.
A
Well, say it.
C
Oh, I forgot all about it. I got two. I got one Tuesday at Patrizia's in Stanton. And November 3rd, it's also at Patrizia in Massapequa. It'll be on my page. That's all I remember. Oh, my Instagram page. Renee Graziano, because that's me.
A
I love you.
C
And I love you.
A
Thank you. Lee.
B
Yes.
A
Stay black. And I hope everything goes well with Mom. Thank you. Dude, you. I'll see you Next week. Tip top, Magoo. Stay black. What's happening, beautiful people? Uncle Joey here. Listen, the biggest dick in the world won't do any good if you can't get it hard. No matter what your downstairs is packing, make it rock solid with Blue Chew. Listen, Blue Chew is the original brand offering chewable tablets for better sex. Now you can got tablets that taste like mint. Listen, they taste tremendous. You could pop one and blow mint right in a girl's nose. It's like that Viagra scent right to the fucking nose. They go butts. And you can take them any time of the day. And the whole process just takes a little time online. No more wasting time at the doctor's office telling them stories about your great grandfather. Listen, he don't care. With Blue Chew, it's easy. Get bluechew and get ready to become an absolute legend. And Uncle Joey's got a special deal for all my listeners on a beautiful Tuesday morning. Ready as always. You're going to get your first month of Bluechew for free. Yes, free. Just pressing promo code. Joey, Joey at checkout. And pay five bucks for shipping. And that's it. Join BlueChew's mission to upgrade humanity one thrust at a time. You. Yeah. Head to bluechew.com for details and safety info. And I want to thank Bluechew from the bottom of my heart for sponsoring the show and for putting some oomph in these men that don't know what it's like to sling dick. You know what I'm saying? It's the season to sling dick. Ho, ho, ho. It.
Date: October 7, 2025
Host: Joey “Coco” Diaz, with Lee Syatt
Guest: Renee Graziano (Mob Wives)
This episode features an in-depth, hilarious, and at times raw conversation about love, loyalty, betrayals, addiction, and family tradition. Joey and Lee sit down in New York City with Renee Graziano, star of VH1’s "Mob Wives" and daughter of reputed mobster Anthony Graziano. The discussion ranges from growing up in a notorious family, the costs of reality TV fame, family betrayals, addiction, the evolution of organized crime, and old-school values in a new world. It’s equal parts mob history lesson, therapy session, and stand-up set, delivered in the hosts’ signature brutally honest, streetwise style.
On Betrayal & Loyalty
"He only came back to me to set my father up... Thank God, for his sake, I did not know I would not be here. I'd be in jail for murder." – Renee (36:08)
On Identity & Fatherhood
"I was always called Anthony's daughter. ... When they took that, they took me." – Renee (53:56)
On Tradition & Respect
"Old school wise guys were such another level... All these men were men. They were solid men back then." – Renee (47:33)
On Addiction & Survival
"If I'm still standing after everything I've been through... then, okay, cool." – Renee (39:30)
On Generational Changes
"My way of thinking is 40 years out of line... I'm a fucking old school prude." – Joey (106:24)
On Society’s Problems
"They're thinking more money than they are morals. ... Whoever is running this country right now needs some of us to let them know that shouldn't be done." – Renee (110:01)
On Health and Mortality
"When you stop is when you're going to die." – Joey (95:07)
On Staten Island in Jersey
"There’s something about Staten Island. Now I know 32 of you ... they're fucking like my soul." – Joey (116:28)
A blend of hilarious streetwise wisdom and heartfelt real talk, this episode centers on what’s gained and lost through fame, family legacy, and modern life. Renee Graziano brings her raw, battle-tested perspective on the cost of loyalty, surviving betrayal, and finding your own path after tradition is shattered—while Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt ground the conversation in their signature comedy and world-weary honesty. Whether you’re here for mob tales, therapy, laughs, or a little old-school griping about new world problems, you’ll find something to connect with in this unfiltered, memorable conversation.
Find Renee Graziano:
Instagram: @reneegraziano
Upcoming Appearances: Patrizia's (Staten Island, Nov 3rd in Massapequa—details on Instagram)
Memoir, Bada Bean Butter, immersive theater – all upcoming projects teased in this episode.