August 20, 2024 • 45 mins
The moms are back with an episode packed with career, workplace and life advice…plus, the first question that leaves the moms completely baffled. Joe shares a cuisine that leaves him hungry while Steve finally unveils his fitness routine secrets.
The mom’s answer listener submitted questions on how to handle being laid off, working in a toxic work environment and career pivots. Steve recounts getting fired 2 weeks before Christmas, directing his first feature film and the advice from Chris Rock that changed his perspective. Plus, find out how Joe’s past jobs changed his life for the better. All on this brand new episode of Two Cool Moms!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
We're taking m.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I love the posts. I love the enthusiasm that pose
is bringing. Thank you for coming to two cool moms.
I am Joe Gatto, I'm Steven, and we are here
moming it up.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Moment it up?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh what happened? You were turning butter? I don't know
that was the jackhammer like mix it to a pigeon.
I love it. I love the dance moves. Stevie.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, we're back.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We're here. We have a tablecloth.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Really nice to core. Yes, apparently you didn't like my
shower curtains that I got last.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I asked Steve, do me a solid buddy. I'm running
little late. I don't want to have a blank table.
Could you pick up something to cover the table with?
He comes back with two see completely see through light
pastel one pink one blue shower curtains.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
There there was not many options.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're in Manhattan, you're in midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
There was like a CBS, but it's not like they
have a picnic or us like there's store. You have
to do picnics.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You do picnics. I'm not a picnic guy. I can't
sit like that that long. I need to cheah put
it in a basket. I'm wondering if I ever did
a romantic gesture like a picnic you've done. I'm sure
I've done a romantic gesture. I never done a picnic,
which is odd for me because you think I want
to travel with food.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh yeah, you I mean, but but you know pastries. Pastries,
for sure, your pastries.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think the cost. The closest thing I came to
a picnic was me and Murr used to do this
thing in in New York City in Brian Park, mid
Timpinhammy used to do this thing where they would do
summer movie nights and they would set up they would
show outdoor movies at Brian Park and and you and
Murr would me and Mar. So me and mar would
get something very much like this tablecloth. We would get
(01:45):
like two big blankets, just me and Marr. We would
have a basket of goodies and we would just they
unlocked the fields like they dropped the caution tape and
you could run out and you find your best spot
and you would set up trip and c yeah, and
you would sit there and we would just set up
and we would invite people to come and join us.
And me and murder would throw like, yeah, movie and
night thing and it ended up we did it pretty
consistently throughout the summers.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Wait are you is this pre jokers or pretty sure
pre jokers? And you would just invite people to come
and hang out, just.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Come and hang on your Yeah, we would have olive
top of nod to share.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Really did people take you up?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah? A couple, Yeah we did. Actually, I actually got
my worst one of my one of my worst dates
came out of that. Ever. I shared a blanket with
with the lady. Yeah, very nice lady. And then we
ended up going on the worst first date I've ever
had in my life.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I showed up?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Wait wait okay, so wait hold on, you met her,
you met HER's back, but you met her at the thing? Yes, okay,
so you met her. You struck it up, just girls,
kind of cute.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
She had a friend. We're all talking, hanging out, and
at the end it was like, hey, so we get a.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Good vibe from her, you should hang out. Okay, So
then then you actually so it's weird because you had
a great time with a complete stranger for two hours. Yeah,
and then you go on a date in what happened.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, it was a group setting, and then you go
to the on one right. So we go to the one
on one and I got out the elevator of her
building and I'm walking towards the door, and she was
waiting at the door, like because I'm walking down the
hall and I see her and she sees my face
and she goes, she sees what. She goes, you're wearing that?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh no, like oh, out of the gates.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Twenty like twenty feet from me. Yells it down the
hallway and goes, oh, and that like goes in and
has like the door locked on, like you know, like
the hotel chairs at the doors. Oh. And so I
just come in. She's like gosh. She's like I have
to change now because she had like a dress on
or something and I was like in rings and the
button up like we do. We're going to dinner. So
we go and then now I have to wait for
(03:37):
her to change, right. So I'm just sitting in her
apartment and like she's all flustered and whatnot. And I
had brought her flowers and like literally it is like
a little bouquet and she was like she's like took
the bouquet and just like filled a glass of water
like this, and I was like thanks, and like I
like dropped them Jesus. So we went to She took
me to.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The out of the gates. Here are you just thinking,
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No, So I said, oh, okay, well, maybe she's just
having an off moment. You know, I'm not running. So
we ended up going to a restaurant. And the conversation
at the restaurant was completely just bad. Like she was
like she was like a mean girl. She was like
like bad about people. She was talking about how she
doesn't like to sit next to fat people on airplanes
because this fat She told me the story about how
this fat guy was spilling over on her seat. She's like,
(04:21):
this fat man saitt next to me. He was gross
and it's spilling over on my seat. And I was like,
you're so fatch like that. I just tell people about
what it is. I was like, she I told him
to move his fat arm.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I like this girl, and I was and I was like,
this girl's kind of awesome movie a fucking fat arm.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So that she was like that and I was like, oh,
and then.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Get your bingoing out of here, you fat She.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Went to the bathroom. I remember she went to the
bathroom and then the waiter came over and he's like,
we do you like the dessert and I was like no,
And that's how you know it's a bad thing. I
want before dessert. And I did turn down dessert and
I was like, no, it's okay. So she came back
and got it to us there and I did. I
stopped on the one home.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
If I'm gonna be you, because you're in little little
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I stopped. I was like, Joey, don't go home without dessert.
Nobody takes that from Joey.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This is how he did.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I went, I had the bill and I was like,
sign the check. As she came back, she goes, oh,
we're not getting dessert. I said, oh, no, we're not.
And she goes. She goes, oh really, She goes, oh,
what's the matter to have a good time? I said, honestly, no,
it wasn't a good match. And I said, I said,
but thanks, I hope you you know, take care.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I could see that. I think ninety guys would ride
it out like best for you you always do, Yeah, sorry,
best part of the store. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I drive her back to her place. She asked me
if I want to come up. I said no, thank you,
and she's like, okay, fine. Then I leave and as
I'm driving, my cell phone rings and it's her and
I will drive it. And she had forgot her license
dropped out of my car. Her license fell out in
my seat from her purse when she was getting he
key out or whatever. She's like, is my license on
your floor? Which I to this now thinking about it,
(05:52):
back about it. I think she threw it on the
floor and I said yeah. I said it's here. Now
I'm on my way out the city and she's like, oh,
could you bring it back? I'm like sure, So I
go around bring it back. I'm sitting in traffic whatever.
So as I come by and I'm like, okay, what's
the way to do this because this is not a
nice person. I've not had a good time. I'm inconvenience
at this point, YEP, window down, out the door window down,
(06:15):
slow down, toss it to her and I yelled deuces
and I drove away. And that was it. Really, that
was it? Yeah? Oh my yeah, because on the phone
she was like I was like, oh, I said, I said, well,
I'll be back in the city in the mart. She's like,
I need it tonight and I'm like why, Like, are
you're going to buy alcohol? Like I was like yeah.
I was like all right, I said, I'll come back
and I drove. I drove around, oh, and then I
asked her to come down the block to meet you.
(06:35):
Started to go around. She's like, that's a far walk.
My heels hurt like that, and I was like, come
on you just so at that point, I was just
I was done with it. So I was I said,
what's the funniest choice that I could make right here?
It's like to throw roll down the window, and just
tossed it to her. And I did that and I
rolled down the window. I slowed down it through it around.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I said, duces, it's just like bangs.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And I drove away.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And that was the last time you saw Joy Bayhart.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That was it. Me and Joy never never caught up
since then.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, was that your worst state?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
New York hands own worst?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Really?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The only other bad deed I had is a girl
took me for Indian food and that's not for me offense,
That's just not my type of food.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That's the roll of the dice.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So I had never had Indian food, and it was
a really nice restaurant and they bring over just it
was basically just plates of stuff you like, dip stuff.
And it wasn't even like it's.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like it's like that one more time. It's like just
stuck ubbed up, like stubbing it up, stubody, you know what.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, Like you've had Indian food, right, It was
like just like just this weird tasting things.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Non. What's that non? The bread?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I had no? I had done that and I had
there was me I had none. It's like I'll take none,
I think. I was like, you want not?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I was like, yeah, take one none, it's good for me, right.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I literally had bread for dinner. I had the non.
So they bring the none, lots of non for everybody,
and like all these gross dipping buckets we made.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
There's some good for me?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, okay, yeah for other people, yeah, people love it
for Norfolk Okay. So they had all these things and
I tried, Steve, you tried, and you could see the
disgust on my face. I couldn't hide it. And the
girls like, oh, do you not like Indian food? And
I was like, ah, I've never tried it and I said,
and the jury's back, No, I don't like it. So
I had to sit there and just her watch her
eat Indian food. As I was getting like a little like,
(08:14):
I was like, this is not the smells and everything
in a weird way, and I was like, this is
not for me. So that was the only other to
But I know, multiple dates with that girl and I
ended up being a nice time. We ended up seeing
each other for a little while, but that was the
one and done with the ID girl. Yeah, you're wearing that.
It's good too, I thought, I thought, what did she
(08:34):
change into that?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
There was so different.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Jeans and a jeans and like a top she had
like a she had like a sunsh.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Had a dress on a sundress.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But I'm still hour sundress.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You can wear a sundress sundress a guy with jeans.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I can't wear a sun dress. Guys in the sundressesn't
make it. So these days you could you know what
I want yoga pants? Excuse me, I want to wear
yoga pants.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Will you please out with you when you're wearing yoga?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But what's the next song withing together? We we're matching
yoga pants on a flight.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm not wearing yoga pants. No, if you will look good? No, no,
no package. No you need an ass when you wear
young pants. I as you know, my ass is like
it's like a checkerboard.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, why do I know? Why do you go as show?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
My show?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You do have a flat Asian ass? I was like, yeah,
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You threw it out of me.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's awful, just how you can always tell, like a
girl from their back, like the ethnicity. Whenever they're walking.
It's like you see the black hair. It's like Actu's
Asian because it's like there is nothing, there's nothing. Yeah,
it's like a level.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You go to the gym, though, I don't go to
a gym. Oh you don't. You just walk around your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I do my jump rope and I do my walks up.
I should do more crunches.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You should do some crunches. Don't help your booty.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No, I mean the the wall squats or what squat? Yeah,
you should do some squats.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Get some Let's get you a bump. Let's get Stevia bump.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's too late to get a bump. Im you know
what am I gonna do? With a bump.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Just what love bump? Rest a drink on it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Jess has enough bump for the two. No, she knows.
I've made jokes about in my act about her. She
has enough as both row Ton.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh, yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I would. I would say bestie, Bessie's curvy. I
would say Bessie's curvy. So why though we have different
decider curves because she's like hippie and I'm like belly.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So like it's like a full it's like a full
thing if you turn it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Just all like it's like this silhouette just all like
it's like the opera Hitchcock.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's hilarious. Have you ever ever and I mean this like,
have you ever gone to a gym? Yeah? Yeah you have. Yeah,
what do you do?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
My brother in law took me and trained me for
three for for three weeks and I threw up in
the in the I threw up And that was the
last time we worked out together.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Wait did you do it once?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Or you went for three weeks?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Me and vy heat and then you booted? Were you
on an elliptical?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No? I was doing He's making me do a what's
the thing where you don't move plank. Oh, he's made
me do plank planks, sit up sit a push up
plank thing like a thing like that. Yeah, So I
planked to lie plank too long. I walked the plank
and I went right to the bathroom threw up, and
then I came out and I couldn't take it. And
I said, that's enough of this, and he said, well,
we tried.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
We want when you don't like something, it's so apparent
you did. That's the one thing I respect.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Don't beat around the bush. It's disgusting, not for you.
I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But there's a way to do that, to be respectful
to people's opinions. Though, there is because if people I
think in who's disgusting? I hate? It's not for me.
People enjoy and love it. Go ahead to eat it.
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Like I'm not going to judge, but you you will
literally look at something it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I do this and push it. This your way, people
come over. I actually the way is straight too, the
way to come over? Are you doing everything?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
This is a little this is not good.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You do that?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah I do, because you know
if you like something like it, I love it. But then,
you know, here's the thing about me. There's always a
multiple things on a menu that I like. So when
I pick one, I'm like, I will be like, this
is not good. I don't like this. Give me the
other thing. You know, I won't be like all this
place is no good. I'm like, this dish is not
for me. Try something else. It doesn't come from a place.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And you'll wait, yeah, your way, you don't make a
fussing about it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, I'll insist to pay for it. And then I'll
take it and I'll just throw it out in front
of people and just go like over the chef and
I just dump it in a nice way. I just
dump it in a nice way.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What is your favorite restaurant here in the city.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I like a lot of places around that. We had
We just had a nice one the other day, me
and you Mylo's next Miloss.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Because we're in Ashy neighborhood now now we're in a
Shishi neighborhood. Up with being in part of the iHeart
family here we get sixhi. But look at this, we
don't have it. But yeah, my Low's was pretty good right.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We had a good grunch there, fresh seafood.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know what I like about eat eating with you?
You're different because you enjoy to eat like I do.
No because I pay you don't. Don't tell that on
me because you're fighting about it all the time. All
the time you fight about it. At least you add value, So.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So we you and I when we go out to eat,
we enjoy the meal, and you're excited to eat a
good meal.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You match makes me.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I love that you match my energy with that. When
you go out to eat with other people, Yeah, jiggy,
they just sit there and just annoyingly eat rice like
one at a time, like with the slow chop.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And then you can see it's like, no, my whole
day is built around what am I going to eat today?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Like as soon as I got here, I'm like, okay,
where are we going? I'm gonna plow through this and
I can't at wait eat lunch and then I'll take
a little nap ski and I wake up. I do
my sets tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I'm like, okay, what where am I eat from? And
I get I get souls going, Gotta get it going.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You gotta get it. Well, they're starting to press again.
You did.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You're doing all right though the hood, he helps. It
was getting bad, yeah, and no it got bad. It
wasn't getting it got bad and now you're getting better.
And that's the way to think about it.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
How that didn't get Joe.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Your circumference was up, Steve, your circumference a show.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I knew.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You get a plate face. You get around, you're gonna
completely round because of everything, because you have good Joe
bones like this is you have good here and your
neck this comes out a little bit and you get
like a circle face.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I look like North Korea propaganda. Kim Jones. Like my
my face gets like like like chirrup.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, you like the Mooney Tunes Asian back in nineteen forties,
right that far what you bugs?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Not like that?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That the record bottom glass.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Guys, I did not do that. Don't put that out there.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's all folks.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh man, let's dive in. Let's show you know. Thanks
everybody for if you're new to to Two Cool Moms.
If you're new to Two Cool Moms, this is what
we do here. We help people. We take fans admissions,
they give us their delight. Steve and I did the
best of our abilities that helped solve problems.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Nobody better, nobody.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
More, me better. But these are the people you're listening.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes, yes, this is what you could afford by the
show's free. Okay, this is coming to us from Lauren. Okay, Hey, mommies,
love you guys. Saw you in Nashville. Great show at
Zany's Live, too cool. Mom's a lot of fun. I
was just randomly laid off from my job with no warning.
Have y'all ever ever experienced that? Do you have any
(15:27):
advice on how to bounce back? Thanks for bringing so
much laughter in my life, Lauren, it was very sweet.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Did when did laid off turn into go from fire
to laid off? It's the same thing you're going to
rough air from turbulence in a plane. Now they say
rough air instead of turbulence or turbulence is gone. You've
noticed that when you flew, they don't say turbulence anymore. Really,
we're about to experience rough air. Rough air, that's what
they say. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That sounds like a bad Nick Cage movie or person fall.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Cage in rough air is NonStop.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, UFOs they changed UFOs.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What you a peace?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think it's called no.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You think of the Black Eyed peas, you think about
where I am? Wow? Uh u a p unidentified aircraft
phenomenon phenomena.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Really as you? Yeah, it's I believe that's what it's called.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But I was like, what can't Yeah, that's different. People
are doing that. So just pay attention everybody. That's really
where I want.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Can't say tranny anymore?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh god, what do you have to time? Mark?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh my god? Okay, okay, okay, all right, what is
you want to be back?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
It's good to be.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I can't say colored anymore. Jesus, the iyeard.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
People are just like what, okay, So what was the question?
I forgot? I caught up on that. So they're asking
about you just.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Got lai fired laid off? Yeah right, but you don't
say laid off. What is it now?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
People say laid off. They don't say fired anymore. I
got fired. I got laid off. You know, you didn't
really hear the word fired anymore. I guess Trump took
that away from us.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
What is laid off?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
What what the technical?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah? Laid off? I mean you got fired. It's the
same same thing. But I don't know how late fired.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I think you would, you would have done something wrong.
Laid Off is like, hey, we're making.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Redundancy redundancies layoffs, so.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
We got okay, maybe cut corners and yeah sorry because
the act. Yeah yeah yeah. But fired's like security will
be at your desk and here's you're fired.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like you yell at somebody can what are you crazy?
Your fire? You can't be like what are you crazy?
You're laid off the same, just though laid off is yeah,
we'll get the door for you.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah I got.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I got laid off. I knew it was coming, though
I didn't unexpectedly from my accenture, my big consulting gig,
my first job I had for five years there in
the city, and it was after you have to get
placed on projects. That's the way consulting works. And I
was living at Queens in the time, and they gave
me one the same We found this great project for you,
but it's in it's in New Jersey. And I was like,
(18:11):
I'm not going from Jersey to Jersey every day from Queens.
That's ridiculous. It's gonna take me forever to get there.
The commute's gonna be insane. And they were like they're like, oh,
but that's you know, it's a big project. They want
you on it. And I was like, I was like nah,
and they're like you can't say nah, like that's your job.
You have to go. I'm like, yeah, I'll find something else,
Like all right, and all the all the manager, all.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The way, are you saying you'll find something else in
the company and the company? Yeah, They're like, we're the company.
You're not trying to get.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
A partner in their own project. So I reach out
to all the partners that will and I was like, Hey,
does anybody have anything that can put me on? So
and I had to end up going to Jersey and
all the partners really liked me because you know, I
was just it was funny. So I tried to get
onto these jobs. I couldn't get one, and they're like
all right. So they're like, all right, you have to
take this job. And I was like, that's the And
the partner called me in one of my friends there
that I liked, and he was like, Joe, he's like,
you have to take this job. We're gonna have to
(18:54):
lay off. And I was like, just lay me off
because I knew my heart wasn't in it anymore, and
I was like, I'm just I'm not going to be
gonna be miserable. I don't want to do that. I
rather try to find something else. He's like, are you sure.
He's like, are you sure? And he's like, give me
a week, let me try to find you something else.
So he tried to find something else he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Well that's nice, I mean that was kind of your decision.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah. So it was like you were telling them elective layoff.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I would say, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I got Severn's package, so, which was nice.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh that's good. But that's that's nice, especially you quit basically,
but you got to say my fourth their hand. That's
a pretty crafty way of quitting. You turned it into
a laid off.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeahs, average package.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's some Jedime Trich. I never had a real job,
so I don't know, you don't know. Yeah, And like
the jobs I had, it was waiting tables, cooking. It
was just like there's a party Friday, fucking I'm going
and I just quit. So I never, like, I never
got laid off, although once I worked at Carolines Comedy
Club here and there was a above Carolines was Comedy Nation.
(19:55):
It was like this theme comedy themed restaurant that was
open for like a year. And I worked up there
and I was a host up there, and I would
host downstairs with Carolines. But Combination was like my main gig.
And uh I remember two weeks before Christmas they fired everybody?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Wow, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So ever since the old everybody stocking? Yo? Oh when
when Carolines closed down, it's like them, Yeah, of course shitty.
I thought it was so bad. Yeah, she wanted to
hire the kitchen staff.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh not because they were closing the things. Just fired
everybody and hired new people.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yep, that is shitty clean house.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Two weeks before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh my goodness. I guess it's always a certain amount
of weeks before Christmas. You'd be like, I got laid
off forty two weeks before Christmas. This bitch fired me
forty six weeks before Christmas. Like it's January what he's
talking about. So I would say, if you got laid off,
(20:50):
I mean, you got to try to turn everything into
an opportunity right now. Was that your passion? Was that
your dream job? Probably not right, Let's go get it.
Let's turn this you're fired into your higher to your
dream job. That's what I would look at you, That's
what I would say. I would say, look around. But
it's a terrible market out there, so good luck.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
To you, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Anybody's not really hiring economies in the toilet. But yeah, yeah,
I mean, but hey, you know you can maybe you
could paint, Maybe you could, like if you are an artisan,
maybe you wanted to always passion. You had a passion, Yep,
you do that.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, while you're under a bridge because you have You've
still got to get a job.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, yeah, I would say, I mean, getting laid off
does suck. But you know, every I mean every job,
I mean unless it's your dream, dream job, which I
you know, people throw that term around because I've had
so many different careers. I've had like five or six
different careers, sure, completely different careers, and I've I've taken
away and enjoyed each of them in a different way.
(21:43):
So I would say, maybe it's just an opportunity for
a new one. So now just try something new. If
don't get stuck in what you're at, maybe it's a
chance to like, Okay, I can't get hired here doing
what I was doing right, Maybe make a turn and see,
let me try this out, because.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Sometimes like those opportunities, like you know, you get hired
in Montana, You're like, maybe I'll moved him on Tanah. Yeah,
you know, I don't know. It's like, oh, you're saying,
if you got a blank slate, it's like a straight reboot.
Why not?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Sure. I mean I did it with comedy. I moved
from LA to Nashville, and that's completely like the opposite
of what most people would do. But it was just like,
I'll do it now and I've been I'm busier now
than I've ever been when I lived in LA, which
is crazy to think. Wasn't that But everything's changed so much.
But if you've had five careers, what was the most
fulfilling career you've had?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh, jokers for sure? Yeah, yeah, I mean that was
great to be able to bring comedy to the nation.
Heal a nation at the time and needed it most.
I mean, without you know, think about it. Thank goodness.
We were around for a decade. It's part of that
train for a decade.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I'll never forget when the towers went down and George
Bush is on the megaphone. You guys were right there.
The nation was like we had, God.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We had I think now, I think, yeah, I mean,
and you know, Joker, you can't compared to that. That
thing is crazy. But I will say I did have
fulfilling things as fulfilling you know, in each of my jobs.
I mean I got my family basically for my salesman job,
r I'd met Bessie through that. My whole life through
you know, my whole personal life came from that job,
(23:14):
you know, with Jokers. I got all these opportunities and careers,
you know, through the accenture job that we're talking about.
I definitely got like my people skills for sure. Consulting
is all about dealing with people and working with that.
And I also learned actually how to like run business stuff,
you know, websites and things of that nature. I learned
a lot of business through that, so which I took
(23:34):
forward with me and each one. And then you know,
through this I got you, Stevie. There we go. I mean,
that's it, that's what what what can I want through podcasting?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This is it? It's all downhill from here.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, No, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, maybe, well Good luck to you, Lauren.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, I hope it pans out for you. And you
know it is. It's all about attitude exactly respective Right,
It's not about the job.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's about what you make of it, right, Yeah, And
I don't know. It's weird, by the way, does anybody
give a shit about their jobs? Now? It's just like
I can't tell you how many places you go into
or just like yeah, they don't, they don't care.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well. I think perspective as shifts since the world went
through this whole pandemic thing. I think a lot of
people are like realized that their job doesn't matter as
much as it used to to people. And I'm not
even saying like you're talking about like bad service. I'm
not talking about that. I'm talking about like quality of life.
Like it's like everybody's like, you know what am I
doing this home?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah? Exactly what am I doing this for? Because the
whole thing got shut off? And I was like, oh shit,
what am I going to do here?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You know? And then you put your energy into your family,
into your friends, into your livelihood, you know, and then
it was like, oh, you have to go back to work.
And I was like wait, what about all that stuff
that was so important me for two years?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's why Jiggy, like, you know he did comedy for years. Yes,
it's just like I'm so glad he's like a chocolate tear.
Now follow my troop pass.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You'd be a great chocolate tear.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'd be in like the storefront window, like like the
lint chocolate tears being on the chocolate.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You would always go like this trofling it up.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah. But I will say Jiggy had one of the
most prolific turns during right when you say during the pandemic,
Jiggy took online comedy made this whole thing with his
Jiggy took he put on shows.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh he did.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I did that Taste funny cooking comedy show online.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And then you never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What did you plate?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You played it in Florida two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So I think that did help some people who didn't
really have a good career, Like Jiggy was like, you
know what was he doing?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know, I was making chocolate.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, that was that was interesting with the uh by
the way, like when pandemic hit, people are like freaking out,
Like I loved every second of it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You have to get you have to put pants on.
It was the best comfort pants.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Like literally the whole world is not work like everybody,
it's just like, yeah, no one's going to work. I
loved it. I loved every beat. I would have loved
it for one another, like another year. I would have
totally been on board. The one thing I'll say is
we zip through our savings. Yeah, we had a nice
little I was like, oh, guys, I think we're good,
(26:19):
and then pandemic hit. But like you know it, it sucked.
But at the same time, it was like trying to
take away to watch movies, popcorn.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Every look, it's it wasn't a good experience overall for everybody, right,
or anybody if you think about it, because it did
it did damage. But most of all, I think on
a personal level, it helped people develop in a way
that you can't even You didn't even think you would
have to. You didn't even think that it would be possible,
because you couldn't imagine like, hey, you're not gonna work
for two years, Like nobody ever thought that without being
(26:49):
like out of a job and trying to get ustle.
It's like, hey, nobody's gonna work for two years. Hey,
the whole world's changing for two years. Sure, so you
have to really realign.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So but that's when I started plotting January sixth.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, and that's and you did what.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It worked definitely, Like I think it was pretty successful.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, nobody could take that away from you. No, as
the mastermind behind January saw me.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I still have Pelosi's Uh okay, I get.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The next complet on her drinking glass. You're having all
the bus's glass.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Wait, did you ever see a video of her and
her husband going up the stairs in their house?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
What? Why do you have that video? Do you? Did
you hack their nest camera? No, I'm not making this up.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't know if you guys there this video saw
the other day.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I guess the reputation is like she's a she enjoys
her wine, okay, and her husband and her husband I
guess he he you know, he got a DUI recently.
Oh and but they I guess the word on the
street is that they enjoyed too. And they enjoyed and
go Belgia. Right, Yeah, they're going up these steps and
(27:52):
he he's like trying to make it up, and she's
like trying to make it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
It just really like it looks.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Like newborn fawns trying to get like like when Bambi
was on the ice note looked like that. But finally
she goes up and he's he he like went up
before her, and she's holding this glass of wine and
she's like kind it to the top and then you
just see Paul Pelosi just shoot straight back down, right
(28:20):
back down, and she just turns around.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
She just goes back up.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I was like, God, damn, these guys party.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Oh there you go. Star's getting the way. That's really it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So check that out. Chance here we go. This is
uh Zoe, Hi too go mommies, love you both. I
listen to your podcast every day at work. It keeps
me alive. I have two questions for you to.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Run and Zoe that you have a job after we
just covered that last thing.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, stop ragging. Okay, how would you deal with a
toxic work environment? I'm twenty three and every job I've
had I've ended up in a management or supervisor position.
I'm great, Okay, relax, you're twenty three. Just chill out. Zoe.
Grateful to be receiving decent pay, emphasis on decent, but
(29:04):
everywhere I go, I deal with rude coworkers and attitude
from fellow management or staff. Honestly, it makes me miserable.
What's the best way to deal with this?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Job?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Hopping I've learned never works. And here's a second question.
Are y'all hiring I'll do anything.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
We don't want you to come and make this work
environment toxic. We're good? Yeah? Yeah, She's like, hey, I
always have a toxic work environment.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
It's not my fault. Can I come work for you?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I would say, well, you're twenty three, right, so you're
still your perspective on, you're still growing as a professional.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
But I also think it's like everybody's toxic, Like that's
what it's. It seems like you're just like, I'm grateful
if we're receiving. But everywhere I go, I deal with
rout coworkers and attitude from fellow management or staff. It
makes me missing.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It might be time to look inward. Yeah, I mean,
here's a rough truth coming at you, Zoe. It might
be time to look a little bit in word. How
are you dealing with? What is your relationship with? What's
a soona you put on at work? Right? Are you
somebody that people want to work with. Are you somebody
that people just tolerate it work or somebody that people
don't like it work? Because it's a big thing. It's
your contributing factor to your workplace environment for sure. And
(30:11):
people that don't think that are are crazy. You know,
workplaces are toxic. Sure, I'm not talking about the extremes.
I'm not talking about the extremes, you know, but that
the extremes are the extremes most of the work. Right.
People don't like to work. People don't want to work,
but they do what they have to do. Right, So
you're there doing your what you have to do. Try
to make that experience as pleasant as you can. Is
(30:32):
the only satisfaction you're getting into going to this job.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, you can only do the best that you You're
ultimately in control of yourself and how you handle or
communicate or respond to situations. Right, And so, I mean
it must be kind of funny to be like in
charge of people like hey, Rick, I need this. That
would just I would laugh at that.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It would make me come.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I got to make these copies.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I would say. It's important to remember, like camaraderie is
huge in a job, and you know, these people aren't
going to be like I've had so many work friends
and at the time it's like they felt like great
best friends for life, forever friends, and then they're not.
They're people that you work with and they're great and
you it makes experience so much better. So I would say,
(31:24):
try to concentrate on, you know, just be nice, civil,
polite two people at work, and then you'll get that
in return. I feel, you know, you hope to write.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I remember when we were on the set of Sullivan's
son Christine Ever saw, you know, two time twenty award
winning actress, and we're doing a summer sitcom, and she
she would ask like, on certain at least once an
episode though for sure, and usually at least once a day,
(31:53):
she'd have a problem with something in the script and
she would have to work through it right. And so
other cast members are.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Like, it's a sitcom, who gives it shoes?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Just plow through this right, But she was like, she'd
have to get to the bottom of it, and she'd
sit with the director and we don't kind of be
sitting there. This is a cast of nine people. We're
all just sitting around and and I learned when I
you know, I'm like the lead, so I know if
I yawn, it looks bad. I know if I get frustrated,
it looks bad, and it just ripples down. So I
(32:23):
always kind of like kept it up top and just
been like try to be cool, you know. And then
one day it just like a switch. It was like,
that's her process, that's her process. She's not imposing it
on anybody she works. It's just how she has to
execute her job. And I have my process. My process
(32:44):
is just give it to me. I'll memorize it. And
I was just bang out the line and I just
don't think too much about it, you know. And that's
probably why she has two Tony awards how many of you?
And I'm at Iheart's studio without an award, without anything.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, you don't even you don't even have a key
card to get in here.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
You have to get let up.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, I learned you don't validate today. But it was like, okay,
that's your process. And once I understood that, it helped
me with everything after that, And there was just like
anytime I saw anybody just strategically doing their own thing,
it was just like, all right, that's if it takes
ten minutes, it takes an hour. It's like, all right,
(33:23):
that's how that's how they feel comfortable doing it, and
they never impose it on you, and you don't impose
it on them, and you just you know, I'm not
going to sit there and go once. You just read
it and just do it right, right right right? Yeah.
Uh it's like yeah, yeah, patience is key.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
In a workplace, I think so I would say it
is our friend Zoe here. Uh, you know you have
to be patient too, Like you guys aren't going to
be besties in each other's like wedding parties, like you know,
it takes time to build relationships, and you know, you
have to really get to know people outside their work too.
So if you want to it's all about how much
effort you put into anything, as is everything in life.
But if you want to, like you want your workplace
to be good, you have to put some energy into it.
(33:56):
It can't just be like we work together, okay, we
have to be No, it's not like you have to
see how people's weekend was and you know, yeah, exact nature,
you know.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I mean, I hate to make everything analogous to like
being on a set or something. But I remember when
I when I was getting ready to direct the Opening Act,
which is available on iTunes for one on rental. But
when I when I was getting ready to do it,
I was just asking everybody, everybody that had done a
film before, like, what's the piece of advice you give me?
And Chris Rock was at the store one night. I
(34:24):
was like, Chris, I'm about to direct this film. What
would you would you say? And he said, uh, he
said direct. He said some of the effect of take
the time to get to know everybody on your crew.
(34:46):
I go, okay, And I would think that goes without
saying He's like, He's like, because there will be a
situation in every one of those departments where something goes
wrong and you're gonna need them.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And I was like, wow, okay, And and what he
said was right. I mean, every day something, no matter
how well you plan anything, something's going to go to
hell and you've got to rectify it and remedy it.
And you're relying on these guys to kind of like
figure it out and you can be there to support it.
But but what I did was every day I made
an effort to sit down with different departments and different
(35:21):
people and spend my lunch time with them and got
to know them and when they should hit the fan, yeah,
of course. And I don't think it's I don't think
you'd do it for like, you know, like you want
to do something for good karma. It's like you're doing
it because also like you're getting to know them, which
which was very valuable or nice for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I think. I mean we met our crew family basically,
you know, we went, we got in there, not just
by saying like it made it fun. We were doing
a fun thing, of course, but it's hard work, and
especially it was more hard work for the crew because
they were not in the part of like when it's
time to make jokes, like they're doing all these stupid
they're building all the stupid stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
They making sure the.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Cameras they're there hours before it is, they're hours after,
you know. And I would just do things like, you know,
hang out to the trucks loaded a couple of times
a week, right, you know, hang out and be there
and you know, see how people do everything. And I'd
also make suggestions about maybe ways we could do a
little bit quicker or better and things like that. But
I would put the work in and then more like
when it came down to him, people weren't happy. They
knew like, come talk to me, let's figure figure out
(36:15):
a way to make it happy. Especially when it came
to money, right, because a lot of these people were
newer into the scene, having negotiated their own things and whatnot,
and you know, it was like, Okay, let's get you
where you need to be sure, or get you on
a path to be like, Okay, this is what we're
going to do to get you there. Be patient with it,
just so they felt heard. But I think it's important.
You know, I've always worked in a place and even
like one of my best friends in life I met
(36:36):
working the floora north Stroms, you know, DJ Justin Jerry.
I'm sure he's, you know, one of my best friends.
He is like he started as a guy that I
folded the T shirts with, right, you know what I mean.
And now we're almost fifteen years later, you know, and
he's a bottom and he is you mean, he folds
the pants. He folds pants now and I fall shirts.
(36:57):
But yeah, like he's like he's one of the you know,
one of the dudes. And it just came from a work,
so you never know what's there.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah. My point, Zoe is maybe you know when you
see somebody having lunch, sit down with them, you're stop
being less toxic. Yeah, it's about you. We're not hiring over. Okay,
this is coming up from Brian Briley.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Oh, that's a named Briley.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Very Briley's like it sounds like it sounds like a
white country club, like like Riley is swimming in the
this weekend. You know that's a really white Bridley.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Are you yachting this weekend? Of course I'm yachting. It's
only three weekends left to Labor Day.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Briley, did you submit to Yale yet or Harvard or
going to neither? What a name?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Oxford only? Okay, Briley, how do I.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Get jokes off the heart? Because I'm never able to?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Bridley is not good at English?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, how do I get jokes off the heart?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
How do I get jokes? Oh? You can go to
the iHeartRadio app and you listen to our podcast. Is
that what you meant?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I don't think so. No, how do I get jokes
off the heart? So I'm never because I'm never.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Okay, I think I get it I think she means
she takes him too heart, too much, and like, how
does she have a thicker skin?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I think that's what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, right, is that right? I think that that's how
I'm interpreting it. So let's go with that.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Okay, Briley, There's easier ways to communicate this. I mean,
who writes.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Like this Bridley does?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
How do I get jokes off the heart? Because I'm
never able to see what You're.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Not operating on Bridley's level though only no word she needs.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I'm a grown man, you know, Briley, I read. I
have no idea what this means. All right, you do it.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I'm gonna say, you do it.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You do this one. I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
It's cool, mom, I would say. If he's taking things
to heart and she can't shake it, she gets hurt
by people's words, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Is that? Am I out of my mind? That what
you guys?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I thought you made I thought it was you said
it was a girl.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Oh is it a gy?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I think you said Briley was swimming. He was swimming
down by the lake.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Briley is a dude.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Well, now, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I threw it in Google and it could be either.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
But okay, so let's say, okay, so him, so listen,
So Bridley, let's just go with Brie. Bridley is saying,
I interpret that as they take jokes to heart and
they can't shake it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah. I think I took it as I how do
I get jokes off the heart? Because I'm never able
to tell jokes. That's what I thought, tell jokes from
the heart.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Ah, that's the room is nodding to that. The room
is nodding to that, which is weird. How do I
tell jokes? Maybe they're asking two comedians how to tell
jokes and.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Off the heart?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
How do I? All right, let's go with that one.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You can't teach like you gotta, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
I will say, though, with practice, don't you think it works?
Don't you think with you got the jokes? A big
percentage of jokes is delivery. Yeah, being able to tell
a joke, and that comes with practice, right, It's like anything, Yes,
still trying, still trying to make it happen. I saw Yeah,
I said, I'm gonna beat you to it. I'm still
working on it. I'll live it in the game for
forty two years.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I saw that in your big dumb eyeballs. I saw
my cherub face and your big cherrub my face face.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, you should be more angelic with a cherub face
like yours, but you're not. You're a little devil. That's
what I'm saying it, Stevie, Devil's.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Give me the horror.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, okay, so so both ways, I think, how do
you get jokes off the heart? I would I would
have interpreted it as you want to tell jokes.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
So let's answer it your way and I'll answer it
my way. Yeah, you answer your question. If that's the question,
what's the answer, I would say, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
I mean make your friends laugh, goof off, have fun.
Do your friends. They'll port you. And the more you
do it, the better you get at it. I think
if you're looking at it like from a professional level,
like there's always open mics, Yeah, go try it out.
You got nothing to you got nothing to lose. That's
that's the great thing about trying it for the first time.
And I think once you do it for the first time,
(41:17):
it'll never get It'll never get worse or harder than
the first time. The first time you do it. It's
just like it's so confusing, and it's it goes by
so quick, and all these variables are shooting at you
and you're just like you don't know how to take it,
but you're just chasing the laugh. If you get one,
you're off to the races.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
That's it, Okay. My interpretation, okay, was how do I
not take jokes to the heart and I get hurt
by them? How do I be have about a thick skin?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I have a thunk Bridley. Just fast forward to the
part where you start talking. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I would say, bry Um, you know it's hard because
words sting, words hurt, words deep.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Because you need to remember that sometimes you big fucking idiot.
I would say, But I love you, but you're a
fucking jerk. Sometimes I would say, briy. It was a
lesson I had to learn younger in life because I
got quick fastep. So I remember this very vividly. It
was when I was like thirteen years old and I
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had fourteen years old fifteen years old maybe, and I
had started being funny and I realized I was making
people laugh at people instead of making people laugh with
people right, and I could cut I'm quick, and I
just you know, I would just if somebody get if
I got a giggle on making fun of someone, I
would just dig deeper and harder. And I remember one
guy and I'm at the end, he was like and
(42:43):
he just came up to me. He just looked me
in the face. He goes, you're not nice, and it
just hit me and I was like, oh shit, like
but we were talking about we're all laughing, but like he's not.
So now, I always look to make sure that every
you know, the person that you're talking about, would you
do a good job on you make sure like when
you're making fun of people, like you make sure they're
laughing and have a good time, because that's what we do.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
We want to make less. I had to deal yeah
on stage, you know you you take your lumps too. Yeah,
and you're like, oh, that's not how you do it right.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
So I would say, if you're getting you know, if
it's if it is hurtful and someone is hurting you
that and it's coming from a friend, talk to the
friend because they are your friend, you know. And if
they're making fun of you in a group, because That's
what it was with me. I was with a group
of friends. There's one guy we all picked on and
it was that And no, it's not Murray. Uh you know,
where's you know, a lovable loser and he was totally
game for it. And I actually treated my whole Murray
(43:32):
relationship way different because of this relationship that I was
dealing with in high school. Although I did go to
high school Murray, it still wasn't Murray. But I would say, like,
you need to remember that as you know, if you
are getting hurt, you know, empower yourself to not let
yourself get hurt by people's jokes. And remember if people
are joking, words are just words. Sticks and stones might
(43:54):
break my bones, but you know, at the end of
the day, live a good life and fuck that person.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Steve nailed it.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
I also put into Google who are you? Google said, uh,
it took that question how to take jokes off the
heart and said how to stop taking jokes so seriously?
And it has eleven steps with pictures. So I would say,
priorly google it.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
There we go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
If we don't know, if this answer didn't happen, you
got two cool moms and one cool one cool search engine.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
So thank you, Jiggy GPT appreciate that. That was incredible insight,
and thank you for not mentioning any of the eleven steps.
You couldn't give us one one.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
I could have done.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Oh well, let me let me.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Do it out of time.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
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Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yes, or follo us on Instagram at two cool Moms Pod.
You see me your questions there as well. Stevie's dates
are up for touring, right, yeah, we're all around at
where where where do people find your tour?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
It's breagslist and people find mine on Canol Productions. Is that?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Or yeah, you go to Joe Gattoofficial dot com, but
it's a redirect to Canoli Productions dot com.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Got it. And my new special is on Punch Up Live.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I have two specials of CrowdWork and a stand up
special and also the live Tapical Moms will be released
on Punch Up Live very soon.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
Yes, and uh, Jiggy is always available for any Kinsonia.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
To cater not for comedy.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
Thanks guys,
We're taking m.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I love the posts. I love the enthusiasm that pose
is bringing. Thank you for coming to two cool moms.
I am Joe Gatto, I'm Steven, and we are here
moming it up.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Moment it up?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh what happened? You were turning butter? I don't know
that was the jackhammer like mix it to a pigeon.
I love it. I love the dance moves. Stevie.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, we're back.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We're here. We have a tablecloth.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Really nice to core. Yes, apparently you didn't like my
shower curtains that I got last.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I asked Steve, do me a solid buddy. I'm running
little late. I don't want to have a blank table.
Could you pick up something to cover the table with?
He comes back with two see completely see through light
pastel one pink one blue shower curtains.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
There there was not many options.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're in Manhattan, you're in midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
There was like a CBS, but it's not like they
have a picnic or us like there's store. You have
to do picnics.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You do picnics. I'm not a picnic guy. I can't
sit like that that long. I need to cheah put
it in a basket. I'm wondering if I ever did
a romantic gesture like a picnic you've done. I'm sure
I've done a romantic gesture. I never done a picnic,
which is odd for me because you think I want
to travel with food.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh yeah, you I mean, but but you know pastries. Pastries,
for sure, your pastries.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think the cost. The closest thing I came to
a picnic was me and Murr used to do this
thing in in New York City in Brian Park, mid
Timpinhammy used to do this thing where they would do
summer movie nights and they would set up they would
show outdoor movies at Brian Park and and you and
Murr would me and Mar. So me and mar would
get something very much like this tablecloth. We would get
(01:45):
like two big blankets, just me and Marr. We would
have a basket of goodies and we would just they
unlocked the fields like they dropped the caution tape and
you could run out and you find your best spot
and you would set up trip and c yeah, and
you would sit there and we would just set up
and we would invite people to come and join us.
And me and murder would throw like, yeah, movie and
night thing and it ended up we did it pretty
consistently throughout the summers.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Wait are you is this pre jokers or pretty sure
pre jokers? And you would just invite people to come
and hang out, just.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Come and hang on your Yeah, we would have olive
top of nod to share.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Really did people take you up?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah? A couple, Yeah we did. Actually, I actually got
my worst one of my one of my worst dates
came out of that. Ever. I shared a blanket with
with the lady. Yeah, very nice lady. And then we
ended up going on the worst first date I've ever
had in my life.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I showed up?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Wait wait okay, so wait hold on, you met her,
you met HER's back, but you met her at the thing? Yes, okay,
so you met her. You struck it up, just girls,
kind of cute.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
She had a friend. We're all talking, hanging out, and
at the end it was like, hey, so we get a.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Good vibe from her, you should hang out. Okay, So
then then you actually so it's weird because you had
a great time with a complete stranger for two hours. Yeah,
and then you go on a date in what happened.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, it was a group setting, and then you go
to the on one right. So we go to the one
on one and I got out the elevator of her
building and I'm walking towards the door, and she was
waiting at the door, like because I'm walking down the
hall and I see her and she sees my face
and she goes, she sees what. She goes, you're wearing that?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh no, like oh, out of the gates.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Twenty like twenty feet from me. Yells it down the
hallway and goes, oh, and that like goes in and
has like the door locked on, like you know, like
the hotel chairs at the doors. Oh. And so I
just come in. She's like gosh. She's like I have
to change now because she had like a dress on
or something and I was like in rings and the
button up like we do. We're going to dinner. So
we go and then now I have to wait for
(03:37):
her to change, right. So I'm just sitting in her
apartment and like she's all flustered and whatnot. And I
had brought her flowers and like literally it is like
a little bouquet and she was like she's like took
the bouquet and just like filled a glass of water
like this, and I was like thanks, and like I
like dropped them Jesus. So we went to She took
me to.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The out of the gates. Here are you just thinking,
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No, So I said, oh, okay, well, maybe she's just
having an off moment. You know, I'm not running. So
we ended up going to a restaurant. And the conversation
at the restaurant was completely just bad. Like she was
like she was like a mean girl. She was like
like bad about people. She was talking about how she
doesn't like to sit next to fat people on airplanes
because this fat She told me the story about how
this fat guy was spilling over on her seat. She's like,
(04:21):
this fat man saitt next to me. He was gross
and it's spilling over on my seat. And I was like,
you're so fatch like that. I just tell people about
what it is. I was like, she I told him
to move his fat arm.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I like this girl, and I was and I was like,
this girl's kind of awesome movie a fucking fat arm.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So that she was like that and I was like, oh,
and then.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Get your bingoing out of here, you fat She.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Went to the bathroom. I remember she went to the
bathroom and then the waiter came over and he's like,
we do you like the dessert and I was like no,
And that's how you know it's a bad thing. I
want before dessert. And I did turn down dessert and
I was like, no, it's okay. So she came back
and got it to us there and I did. I
stopped on the one home.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
If I'm gonna be you, because you're in little little
I stopped.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I stopped. I was like, Joey, don't go home without dessert.
Nobody takes that from Joey.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This is how he did.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I went, I had the bill and I was like,
sign the check. As she came back, she goes, oh,
we're not getting dessert. I said, oh, no, we're not.
And she goes. She goes, oh really, She goes, oh,
what's the matter to have a good time? I said, honestly, no,
it wasn't a good match. And I said, I said,
but thanks, I hope you you know, take care.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I could see that. I think ninety guys would ride
it out like best for you you always do, Yeah, sorry,
best part of the store. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I drive her back to her place. She asked me
if I want to come up. I said no, thank you,
and she's like, okay, fine. Then I leave and as
I'm driving, my cell phone rings and it's her and
I will drive it. And she had forgot her license
dropped out of my car. Her license fell out in
my seat from her purse when she was getting he
key out or whatever. She's like, is my license on
your floor? Which I to this now thinking about it,
(05:52):
back about it. I think she threw it on the
floor and I said yeah. I said it's here. Now
I'm on my way out the city and she's like, oh,
could you bring it back? I'm like sure, So I
go around bring it back. I'm sitting in traffic whatever.
So as I come by and I'm like, okay, what's
the way to do this because this is not a
nice person. I've not had a good time. I'm inconvenience
at this point, YEP, window down, out the door window down,
(06:15):
slow down, toss it to her and I yelled deuces
and I drove away. And that was it. Really, that
was it? Yeah? Oh my yeah, because on the phone
she was like I was like, oh, I said, I said, well,
I'll be back in the city in the mart. She's like,
I need it tonight and I'm like why, Like, are
you're going to buy alcohol? Like I was like yeah.
I was like all right, I said, I'll come back
and I drove. I drove around, oh, and then I
asked her to come down the block to meet you.
(06:35):
Started to go around. She's like, that's a far walk.
My heels hurt like that, and I was like, come
on you just so at that point, I was just
I was done with it. So I was I said,
what's the funniest choice that I could make right here?
It's like to throw roll down the window, and just
tossed it to her. And I did that and I
rolled down the window. I slowed down it through it around.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I said, duces, it's just like bangs.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And I drove away.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And that was the last time you saw Joy Bayhart.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That was it. Me and Joy never never caught up
since then.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, was that your worst state?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
New York hands own worst?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Really?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The only other bad deed I had is a girl
took me for Indian food and that's not for me offense,
That's just not my type of food.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That's the roll of the dice.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So I had never had Indian food, and it was
a really nice restaurant and they bring over just it
was basically just plates of stuff you like, dip stuff.
And it wasn't even like it's.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like it's like that one more time. It's like just
stuck ubbed up, like stubbing it up, stubody, you know what.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, Like you've had Indian food, right, It was
like just like just this weird tasting things.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Non. What's that non? The bread?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I had no? I had done that and I had
there was me I had none. It's like I'll take none,
I think. I was like, you want not?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I was like, yeah, take one none, it's good for me, right.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I literally had bread for dinner. I had the non.
So they bring the none, lots of non for everybody,
and like all these gross dipping buckets we made.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
There's some good for me?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, okay, yeah for other people, yeah, people love it
for Norfolk Okay. So they had all these things and
I tried, Steve, you tried, and you could see the
disgust on my face. I couldn't hide it. And the
girls like, oh, do you not like Indian food? And
I was like, ah, I've never tried it and I said,
and the jury's back, No, I don't like it. So
I had to sit there and just her watch her
eat Indian food. As I was getting like a little like,
(08:14):
I was like, this is not the smells and everything
in a weird way, and I was like, this is
not for me. So that was the only other to
But I know, multiple dates with that girl and I
ended up being a nice time. We ended up seeing
each other for a little while, but that was the
one and done with the ID girl. Yeah, you're wearing that.
It's good too, I thought, I thought, what did she
(08:34):
change into that?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
There was so different.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Jeans and a jeans and like a top she had
like a she had like a sunsh.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Had a dress on a sundress.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But I'm still hour sundress.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You can wear a sundress sundress a guy with jeans.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I can't wear a sun dress. Guys in the sundressesn't
make it. So these days you could you know what
I want yoga pants? Excuse me, I want to wear
yoga pants.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Will you please out with you when you're wearing yoga?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But what's the next song withing together? We we're matching
yoga pants on a flight.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I'm not wearing yoga pants. No, if you will look good? No, no,
no package. No you need an ass when you wear
young pants. I as you know, my ass is like
it's like a checkerboard.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, why do I know? Why do you go as show?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
My show?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You do have a flat Asian ass? I was like, yeah,
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You threw it out of me.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's awful, just how you can always tell, like a
girl from their back, like the ethnicity. Whenever they're walking.
It's like you see the black hair. It's like Actu's
Asian because it's like there is nothing, there's nothing. Yeah,
it's like a level.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You go to the gym, though, I don't go to
a gym. Oh you don't. You just walk around your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I do my jump rope and I do my walks up.
I should do more crunches.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You should do some crunches. Don't help your booty.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No, I mean the the wall squats or what squat? Yeah,
you should do some squats.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Get some Let's get you a bump. Let's get Stevia bump.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's too late to get a bump. Im you know
what am I gonna do? With a bump.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Just what love bump? Rest a drink on it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Jess has enough bump for the two. No, she knows.
I've made jokes about in my act about her. She
has enough as both row Ton.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh, yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I would. I would say bestie, Bessie's curvy. I
would say Bessie's curvy. So why though we have different
decider curves because she's like hippie and I'm like belly.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So like it's like a full it's like a full
thing if you turn it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Just all like it's like this silhouette just all like
it's like the opera Hitchcock.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's hilarious. Have you ever ever and I mean this like,
have you ever gone to a gym? Yeah? Yeah you have. Yeah,
what do you do?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
My brother in law took me and trained me for
three for for three weeks and I threw up in
the in the I threw up And that was the
last time we worked out together.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Wait did you do it once?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Or you went for three weeks?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Me and vy heat and then you booted? Were you
on an elliptical?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No? I was doing He's making me do a what's
the thing where you don't move plank. Oh, he's made
me do plank planks, sit up sit a push up
plank thing like a thing like that. Yeah, So I
planked to lie plank too long. I walked the plank
and I went right to the bathroom threw up, and
then I came out and I couldn't take it. And
I said, that's enough of this, and he said, well,
we tried.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
We want when you don't like something, it's so apparent
you did. That's the one thing I respect.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Don't beat around the bush. It's disgusting, not for you.
I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But there's a way to do that, to be respectful
to people's opinions. Though, there is because if people I
think in who's disgusting? I hate? It's not for me.
People enjoy and love it. Go ahead to eat it.
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Like I'm not going to judge, but you you will
literally look at something it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I do this and push it. This your way, people
come over. I actually the way is straight too, the
way to come over? Are you doing everything?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
This is a little this is not good.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You do that?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah I do, because you know
if you like something like it, I love it. But then,
you know, here's the thing about me. There's always a
multiple things on a menu that I like. So when
I pick one, I'm like, I will be like, this
is not good. I don't like this. Give me the
other thing. You know, I won't be like all this
place is no good. I'm like, this dish is not
for me. Try something else. It doesn't come from a place.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And you'll wait, yeah, your way, you don't make a
fussing about it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, I'll insist to pay for it. And then I'll
take it and I'll just throw it out in front
of people and just go like over the chef and
I just dump it in a nice way. I just
dump it in a nice way.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What is your favorite restaurant here in the city.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I like a lot of places around that. We had
We just had a nice one the other day, me
and you Mylo's next Miloss.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Because we're in Ashy neighborhood now now we're in a
Shishi neighborhood. Up with being in part of the iHeart
family here we get sixhi. But look at this, we
don't have it. But yeah, my Low's was pretty good right.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We had a good grunch there, fresh seafood.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know what I like about eat eating with you?
You're different because you enjoy to eat like I do.
No because I pay you don't. Don't tell that on
me because you're fighting about it all the time. All
the time you fight about it. At least you add value, So.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So we you and I when we go out to eat,
we enjoy the meal, and you're excited to eat a
good meal.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You match makes me.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I love that you match my energy with that. When
you go out to eat with other people, Yeah, jiggy,
they just sit there and just annoyingly eat rice like
one at a time, like with the slow chop.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And then you can see it's like, no, my whole
day is built around what am I going to eat today?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Like as soon as I got here, I'm like, okay,
where are we going? I'm gonna plow through this and
I can't at wait eat lunch and then I'll take
a little nap ski and I wake up. I do
my sets tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I'm like, okay, what where am I eat from? And
I get I get souls going, Gotta get it going.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You gotta get it. Well, they're starting to press again.
You did.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You're doing all right though the hood, he helps. It
was getting bad, yeah, and no it got bad. It
wasn't getting it got bad and now you're getting better.
And that's the way to think about it.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
How that didn't get Joe.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Your circumference was up, Steve, your circumference a show.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I knew.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You get a plate face. You get around, you're gonna
completely round because of everything, because you have good Joe
bones like this is you have good here and your
neck this comes out a little bit and you get
like a circle face.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I look like North Korea propaganda. Kim Jones. Like my
my face gets like like like chirrup.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, you like the Mooney Tunes Asian back in nineteen forties,
right that far what you bugs?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Not like that?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That the record bottom glass.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Guys, I did not do that. Don't put that out there.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's all folks.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh man, let's dive in. Let's show you know. Thanks
everybody for if you're new to to Two Cool Moms.
If you're new to Two Cool Moms, this is what
we do here. We help people. We take fans admissions,
they give us their delight. Steve and I did the
best of our abilities that helped solve problems.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Nobody better, nobody.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
More, me better. But these are the people you're listening.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes, yes, this is what you could afford by the
show's free. Okay, this is coming to us from Lauren. Okay, Hey, mommies,
love you guys. Saw you in Nashville. Great show at
Zany's Live, too cool. Mom's a lot of fun. I
was just randomly laid off from my job with no warning.
Have y'all ever ever experienced that? Do you have any
(15:27):
advice on how to bounce back? Thanks for bringing so
much laughter in my life, Lauren, it was very sweet.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Did when did laid off turn into go from fire
to laid off? It's the same thing you're going to
rough air from turbulence in a plane. Now they say
rough air instead of turbulence or turbulence is gone. You've
noticed that when you flew, they don't say turbulence anymore. Really,
we're about to experience rough air. Rough air, that's what
they say. Now.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That sounds like a bad Nick Cage movie or person fall.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Cage in rough air is NonStop.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, UFOs they changed UFOs.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What you a peace?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I think it's called no.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You think of the Black Eyed peas, you think about
where I am? Wow? Uh u a p unidentified aircraft
phenomenon phenomena.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Really as you? Yeah, it's I believe that's what it's called.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But I was like, what can't Yeah, that's different. People
are doing that. So just pay attention everybody. That's really
where I want.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Can't say tranny anymore?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh god, what do you have to time? Mark?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh my god? Okay, okay, okay, all right, what is
you want to be back?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
It's good to be.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I can't say colored anymore. Jesus, the iyeard.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
People are just like what, okay, So what was the question?
I forgot? I caught up on that. So they're asking
about you just.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Got lai fired laid off? Yeah right, but you don't
say laid off. What is it now?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
People say laid off. They don't say fired anymore. I
got fired. I got laid off. You know, you didn't
really hear the word fired anymore. I guess Trump took
that away from us.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
What is laid off?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
What what the technical?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah? Laid off? I mean you got fired. It's the
same same thing. But I don't know how late fired.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I think you would, you would have done something wrong.
Laid Off is like, hey, we're making.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Redundancy redundancies layoffs, so.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
We got okay, maybe cut corners and yeah sorry because
the act. Yeah yeah yeah. But fired's like security will
be at your desk and here's you're fired.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like you yell at somebody can what are you crazy?
Your fire? You can't be like what are you crazy?
You're laid off the same, just though laid off is yeah,
we'll get the door for you.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah I got.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I got laid off. I knew it was coming, though
I didn't unexpectedly from my accenture, my big consulting gig,
my first job I had for five years there in
the city, and it was after you have to get
placed on projects. That's the way consulting works. And I
was living at Queens in the time, and they gave
me one the same We found this great project for you,
but it's in it's in New Jersey. And I was like,
(18:11):
I'm not going from Jersey to Jersey every day from Queens.
That's ridiculous. It's gonna take me forever to get there.
The commute's gonna be insane. And they were like they're like, oh,
but that's you know, it's a big project. They want
you on it. And I was like, I was like nah,
and they're like you can't say nah, like that's your job.
You have to go. I'm like, yeah, I'll find something else,
Like all right, and all the all the manager, all.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The way, are you saying you'll find something else in
the company and the company? Yeah, They're like, we're the company.
You're not trying to get.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
A partner in their own project. So I reach out
to all the partners that will and I was like, Hey,
does anybody have anything that can put me on? So
and I had to end up going to Jersey and
all the partners really liked me because you know, I
was just it was funny. So I tried to get
onto these jobs. I couldn't get one, and they're like
all right. So they're like, all right, you have to
take this job. And I was like, that's the And
the partner called me in one of my friends there
that I liked, and he was like, Joe, he's like,
you have to take this job. We're gonna have to
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lay off. And I was like, just lay me off
because I knew my heart wasn't in it anymore, and
I was like, I'm just I'm not going to be
gonna be miserable. I don't want to do that. I
rather try to find something else. He's like, are you sure.
He's like, are you sure? And he's like, give me
a week, let me try to find you something else.
So he tried to find something else he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Well that's nice, I mean that was kind of your decision.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah. So it was like you were telling them elective layoff.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I would say, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I got Severn's package, so, which was nice.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh that's good. But that's that's nice, especially you quit basically,
but you got to say my fourth their hand. That's
a pretty crafty way of quitting. You turned it into
a laid off.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeahs, average package.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's some Jedime Trich. I never had a real job,
so I don't know, you don't know. Yeah, And like
the jobs I had, it was waiting tables, cooking. It
was just like there's a party Friday, fucking I'm going
and I just quit. So I never, like, I never
got laid off, although once I worked at Carolines Comedy
Club here and there was a above Carolines was Comedy Nation.
(19:55):
It was like this theme comedy themed restaurant that was
open for like a year. And I worked up there
and I was a host up there, and I would
host downstairs with Carolines. But Combination was like my main gig.
And uh I remember two weeks before Christmas they fired everybody?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Wow, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So ever since the old everybody stocking? Yo? Oh when
when Carolines closed down, it's like them, Yeah, of course shitty.
I thought it was so bad. Yeah, she wanted to
hire the kitchen staff.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh not because they were closing the things. Just fired
everybody and hired new people.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yep, that is shitty clean house.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Two weeks before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh my goodness. I guess it's always a certain amount
of weeks before Christmas. You'd be like, I got laid
off forty two weeks before Christmas. This bitch fired me
forty six weeks before Christmas. Like it's January what he's
talking about. So I would say, if you got laid off,
(20:50):
I mean, you got to try to turn everything into
an opportunity right now. Was that your passion? Was that
your dream job? Probably not right, Let's go get it.
Let's turn this you're fired into your higher to your
dream job. That's what I would look at you, That's
what I would say. I would say, look around. But
it's a terrible market out there, so good luck.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
To you, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Anybody's not really hiring economies in the toilet. But yeah, yeah,
I mean, but hey, you know you can maybe you
could paint, Maybe you could, like if you are an artisan,
maybe you wanted to always passion. You had a passion, Yep,
you do that.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, while you're under a bridge because you have You've
still got to get a job.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, yeah, I would say, I mean, getting laid off
does suck. But you know, every I mean every job,
I mean unless it's your dream, dream job, which I
you know, people throw that term around because I've had
so many different careers. I've had like five or six
different careers, sure, completely different careers, and I've I've taken
away and enjoyed each of them in a different way.
(21:43):
So I would say, maybe it's just an opportunity for
a new one. So now just try something new. If
don't get stuck in what you're at, maybe it's a
chance to like, Okay, I can't get hired here doing
what I was doing right, Maybe make a turn and see,
let me try this out, because.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Sometimes like those opportunities, like you know, you get hired
in Montana, You're like, maybe I'll moved him on Tanah. Yeah,
you know, I don't know. It's like, oh, you're saying,
if you got a blank slate, it's like a straight reboot.
Why not?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Sure. I mean I did it with comedy. I moved
from LA to Nashville, and that's completely like the opposite
of what most people would do. But it was just like,
I'll do it now and I've been I'm busier now
than I've ever been when I lived in LA, which
is crazy to think. Wasn't that But everything's changed so much.
But if you've had five careers, what was the most
fulfilling career you've had?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh, jokers for sure? Yeah, yeah, I mean that was
great to be able to bring comedy to the nation.
Heal a nation at the time and needed it most.
I mean, without you know, think about it. Thank goodness.
We were around for a decade. It's part of that
train for a decade.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I'll never forget when the towers went down and George
Bush is on the megaphone. You guys were right there.
The nation was like we had, God.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
We had I think now, I think, yeah, I mean,
and you know, Joker, you can't compared to that. That
thing is crazy. But I will say I did have
fulfilling things as fulfilling you know, in each of my jobs.
I mean I got my family basically for my salesman job,
r I'd met Bessie through that. My whole life through
you know, my whole personal life came from that job,
(23:14):
you know, with Jokers. I got all these opportunities and careers,
you know, through the accenture job that we're talking about.
I definitely got like my people skills for sure. Consulting
is all about dealing with people and working with that.
And I also learned actually how to like run business stuff,
you know, websites and things of that nature. I learned
a lot of business through that, so which I took
(23:34):
forward with me and each one. And then you know,
through this I got you, Stevie. There we go. I mean,
that's it, that's what what what can I want through podcasting?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This is it? It's all downhill from here.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, No, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, maybe, well Good luck to you, Lauren.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, I hope it pans out for you. And you
know it is. It's all about attitude exactly respective Right,
It's not about the job.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's about what you make of it, right, Yeah, And
I don't know. It's weird, by the way, does anybody
give a shit about their jobs? Now? It's just like
I can't tell you how many places you go into
or just like yeah, they don't, they don't care.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Well. I think perspective as shifts since the world went
through this whole pandemic thing. I think a lot of
people are like realized that their job doesn't matter as
much as it used to to people. And I'm not
even saying like you're talking about like bad service. I'm
not talking about that. I'm talking about like quality of life.
Like it's like everybody's like, you know what am I
doing this home?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah? Exactly what am I doing this for? Because the
whole thing got shut off? And I was like, oh shit,
what am I going to do here?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You know? And then you put your energy into your family,
into your friends, into your livelihood, you know, and then
it was like, oh, you have to go back to work.
And I was like wait, what about all that stuff
that was so important me for two years?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's why Jiggy, like, you know he did comedy for years. Yes,
it's just like I'm so glad he's like a chocolate tear.
Now follow my troop pass.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You'd be a great chocolate tear.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I'd be in like the storefront window, like like the
lint chocolate tears being on the chocolate.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You would always go like this trofling it up.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah. But I will say Jiggy had one of the
most prolific turns during right when you say during the pandemic,
Jiggy took online comedy made this whole thing with his
Jiggy took he put on shows.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh he did.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I did that Taste funny cooking comedy show online.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And then you never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What did you plate?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You played it in Florida two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
So I think that did help some people who didn't
really have a good career, Like Jiggy was like, you
know what was he doing?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know, I was making chocolate.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, that was that was interesting with the uh by
the way, like when pandemic hit, people are like freaking out,
Like I loved every second of it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You have to get you have to put pants on.
It was the best comfort pants.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Like literally the whole world is not work like everybody,
it's just like, yeah, no one's going to work. I
loved it. I loved every beat. I would have loved
it for one another, like another year. I would have
totally been on board. The one thing I'll say is
we zip through our savings. Yeah, we had a nice
little I was like, oh, guys, I think we're good,
(26:19):
and then pandemic hit. But like you know it, it sucked.
But at the same time, it was like trying to
take away to watch movies, popcorn.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Every look, it's it wasn't a good experience overall for everybody, right,
or anybody if you think about it, because it did
it did damage. But most of all, I think on
a personal level, it helped people develop in a way
that you can't even You didn't even think you would
have to. You didn't even think that it would be possible,
because you couldn't imagine like, hey, you're not gonna work
for two years, Like nobody ever thought that without being
(26:49):
like out of a job and trying to get ustle.
It's like, hey, nobody's gonna work for two years. Hey,
the whole world's changing for two years. Sure, so you
have to really realign.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So but that's when I started plotting January sixth.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, and that's and you did what.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It worked definitely, Like I think it was pretty successful.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, nobody could take that away from you. No, as
the mastermind behind January saw me.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I still have Pelosi's Uh okay, I get.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
The next complet on her drinking glass. You're having all
the bus's glass.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Wait, did you ever see a video of her and
her husband going up the stairs in their house?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
What? Why do you have that video? Do you? Did
you hack their nest camera? No, I'm not making this up.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't know if you guys there this video saw
the other day.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I guess the reputation is like she's a she enjoys
her wine, okay, and her husband and her husband I
guess he he you know, he got a DUI recently.
Oh and but they I guess the word on the
street is that they enjoyed too. And they enjoyed and
go Belgia. Right, Yeah, they're going up these steps and
(27:52):
he he's like trying to make it up, and she's
like trying to make it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
It just really like it looks.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Like newborn fawns trying to get like like when Bambi
was on the ice note looked like that. But finally
she goes up and he's he he like went up
before her, and she's holding this glass of wine and
she's like kind it to the top and then you
just see Paul Pelosi just shoot straight back down, right
(28:20):
back down, and she just turns around.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
She just goes back up.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I was like, God, damn, these guys party.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Oh there you go. Star's getting the way. That's really it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So check that out. Chance here we go. This is
uh Zoe, Hi too go mommies, love you both. I
listen to your podcast every day at work. It keeps
me alive. I have two questions for you to.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Run and Zoe that you have a job after we
just covered that last thing.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, stop ragging. Okay, how would you deal with a
toxic work environment? I'm twenty three and every job I've
had I've ended up in a management or supervisor position.
I'm great, Okay, relax, you're twenty three. Just chill out. Zoe.
Grateful to be receiving decent pay, emphasis on decent, but
(29:04):
everywhere I go, I deal with rude coworkers and attitude
from fellow management or staff. Honestly, it makes me miserable.
What's the best way to deal with this?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Job?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Hopping I've learned never works. And here's a second question.
Are y'all hiring I'll do anything.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
We don't want you to come and make this work
environment toxic. We're good? Yeah? Yeah, She's like, hey, I
always have a toxic work environment.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
It's not my fault. Can I come work for you?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I would say, well, you're twenty three, right, so you're
still your perspective on, you're still growing as a professional.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
But I also think it's like everybody's toxic, Like that's
what it's. It seems like you're just like, I'm grateful
if we're receiving. But everywhere I go, I deal with
rout coworkers and attitude from fellow management or staff. It
makes me missing.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It might be time to look inward. Yeah, I mean,
here's a rough truth coming at you, Zoe. It might
be time to look a little bit in word. How
are you dealing with? What is your relationship with? What's
a soona you put on at work? Right? Are you
somebody that people want to work with. Are you somebody
that people just tolerate it work or somebody that people
don't like it work? Because it's a big thing. It's
your contributing factor to your workplace environment for sure. And
(30:11):
people that don't think that are are crazy. You know,
workplaces are toxic. Sure, I'm not talking about the extremes.
I'm not talking about the extremes, you know, but that
the extremes are the extremes most of the work. Right.
People don't like to work. People don't want to work,
but they do what they have to do. Right, So
you're there doing your what you have to do. Try
to make that experience as pleasant as you can. Is
(30:32):
the only satisfaction you're getting into going to this job.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, you can only do the best that you You're
ultimately in control of yourself and how you handle or
communicate or respond to situations. Right, And so, I mean
it must be kind of funny to be like in
charge of people like hey, Rick, I need this. That
would just I would laugh at that.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It would make me come.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I got to make these copies.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I would say. It's important to remember, like camaraderie is
huge in a job, and you know, these people aren't
going to be like I've had so many work friends
and at the time it's like they felt like great
best friends for life, forever friends, and then they're not.
They're people that you work with and they're great and
you it makes experience so much better. So I would say,
(31:24):
try to concentrate on, you know, just be nice, civil,
polite two people at work, and then you'll get that
in return. I feel, you know, you hope to write.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I remember when we were on the set of Sullivan's
son Christine Ever saw, you know, two time twenty award
winning actress, and we're doing a summer sitcom, and she
she would ask like, on certain at least once an
episode though for sure, and usually at least once a day,
(31:53):
she'd have a problem with something in the script and
she would have to work through it right. And so
other cast members are.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Like, it's a sitcom, who gives it shoes?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Just plow through this right, But she was like, she'd
have to get to the bottom of it, and she'd
sit with the director and we don't kind of be
sitting there. This is a cast of nine people. We're
all just sitting around and and I learned when I
you know, I'm like the lead, so I know if
I yawn, it looks bad. I know if I get frustrated,
it looks bad, and it just ripples down. So I
(32:23):
always kind of like kept it up top and just
been like try to be cool, you know. And then
one day it just like a switch. It was like,
that's her process, that's her process. She's not imposing it
on anybody she works. It's just how she has to
execute her job. And I have my process. My process
(32:44):
is just give it to me. I'll memorize it. And
I was just bang out the line and I just
don't think too much about it, you know. And that's
probably why she has two Tony awards how many of you?
And I'm at Iheart's studio without an award, without anything.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, you don't even you don't even have a key
card to get in here.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
You have to get let up.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, I learned you don't validate today. But it was like, okay,
that's your process. And once I understood that, it helped
me with everything after that, And there was just like
anytime I saw anybody just strategically doing their own thing,
it was just like, all right, that's if it takes
ten minutes, it takes an hour. It's like, all right,
(33:23):
that's how that's how they feel comfortable doing it, and
they never impose it on you, and you don't impose
it on them, and you just you know, I'm not
going to sit there and go once. You just read
it and just do it right, right right right? Yeah.
Uh it's like yeah, yeah, patience is key.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
In a workplace, I think so I would say it
is our friend Zoe here. Uh, you know you have
to be patient too, Like you guys aren't going to
be besties in each other's like wedding parties, like you know,
it takes time to build relationships, and you know, you
have to really get to know people outside their work too.
So if you want to it's all about how much
effort you put into anything, as is everything in life.
But if you want to, like you want your workplace
to be good, you have to put some energy into it.
(33:56):
It can't just be like we work together, okay, we
have to be No, it's not like you have to
see how people's weekend was and you know, yeah, exact nature,
you know.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I mean, I hate to make everything analogous to like
being on a set or something. But I remember when
I when I was getting ready to direct the Opening Act,
which is available on iTunes for one on rental. But
when I when I was getting ready to do it,
I was just asking everybody, everybody that had done a
film before, like, what's the piece of advice you give me?
And Chris Rock was at the store one night. I
(34:24):
was like, Chris, I'm about to direct this film. What
would you would you say? And he said, uh, he
said direct. He said some of the effect of take
the time to get to know everybody on your crew.
(34:46):
I go, okay, And I would think that goes without
saying He's like, He's like, because there will be a
situation in every one of those departments where something goes
wrong and you're gonna need them.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And I was like, wow, okay, And and what he
said was right. I mean, every day something, no matter
how well you plan anything, something's going to go to
hell and you've got to rectify it and remedy it.
And you're relying on these guys to kind of like
figure it out and you can be there to support it.
But but what I did was every day I made
an effort to sit down with different departments and different
(35:21):
people and spend my lunch time with them and got
to know them and when they should hit the fan, yeah,
of course. And I don't think it's I don't think
you'd do it for like, you know, like you want
to do something for good karma. It's like you're doing
it because also like you're getting to know them, which
which was very valuable or nice for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I think. I mean we met our crew family basically,
you know, we went, we got in there, not just
by saying like it made it fun. We were doing
a fun thing, of course, but it's hard work, and
especially it was more hard work for the crew because
they were not in the part of like when it's
time to make jokes, like they're doing all these stupid
they're building all the stupid stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
They making sure the.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Cameras they're there hours before it is, they're hours after,
you know. And I would just do things like, you know,
hang out to the trucks loaded a couple of times
a week, right, you know, hang out and be there
and you know, see how people do everything. And I'd
also make suggestions about maybe ways we could do a
little bit quicker or better and things like that. But
I would put the work in and then more like
when it came down to him, people weren't happy. They
knew like, come talk to me, let's figure figure out
(36:15):
a way to make it happy. Especially when it came
to money, right, because a lot of these people were
newer into the scene, having negotiated their own things and whatnot,
and you know, it was like, Okay, let's get you
where you need to be sure, or get you on
a path to be like, Okay, this is what we're
going to do to get you there. Be patient with it,
just so they felt heard. But I think it's important.
You know, I've always worked in a place and even
like one of my best friends in life I met
(36:36):
working the floora north Stroms, you know, DJ Justin Jerry.
I'm sure he's, you know, one of my best friends.
He is like he started as a guy that I
folded the T shirts with, right, you know what I mean.
And now we're almost fifteen years later, you know, and
he's a bottom and he is you mean, he folds
the pants. He folds pants now and I fall shirts.
(36:57):
But yeah, like he's like he's one of the you know,
one of the dudes. And it just came from a work,
so you never know what's there.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah. My point, Zoe is maybe you know when you
see somebody having lunch, sit down with them, you're stop
being less toxic. Yeah, it's about you. We're not hiring over. Okay,
this is coming up from Brian Briley.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Oh, that's a named Briley.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Very Briley's like it sounds like it sounds like a
white country club, like like Riley is swimming in the
this weekend. You know that's a really white Bridley.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Are you yachting this weekend? Of course I'm yachting. It's
only three weekends left to Labor Day.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Briley, did you submit to Yale yet or Harvard or
going to neither? What a name?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Oxford only? Okay, Briley, how do I.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Get jokes off the heart? Because I'm never able to?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Bridley is not good at English?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, how do I get jokes off the heart?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
How do I get jokes? Oh? You can go to
the iHeartRadio app and you listen to our podcast. Is
that what you meant?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I don't think so. No, how do I get jokes
off the heart? So I'm never because I'm never.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Okay, I think I get it I think she means
she takes him too heart, too much, and like, how
does she have a thicker skin?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I think that's what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, right, is that right? I think that that's how
I'm interpreting it. So let's go with that.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Okay, Briley, There's easier ways to communicate this. I mean,
who writes.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Like this Bridley does?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
How do I get jokes off the heart? Because I'm
never able to see what You're.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Not operating on Bridley's level though only no word she needs.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I'm a grown man, you know, Briley, I read. I
have no idea what this means. All right, you do it.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I'm gonna say, you do it.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You do this one. I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
It's cool, mom, I would say. If he's taking things
to heart and she can't shake it, she gets hurt
by people's words, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Is that? Am I out of my mind? That what
you guys?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I thought you made I thought it was you said
it was a girl.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Oh is it a gy?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I think you said Briley was swimming. He was swimming
down by the lake.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Briley is a dude.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Well, now, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I threw it in Google and it could be either.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
But okay, so let's say, okay, so him, so listen,
So Bridley, let's just go with Brie. Bridley is saying,
I interpret that as they take jokes to heart and
they can't shake it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah. I think I took it as I how do
I get jokes off the heart? Because I'm never able
to tell jokes. That's what I thought, tell jokes from
the heart.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Ah, that's the room is nodding to that. The room
is nodding to that, which is weird. How do I
tell jokes? Maybe they're asking two comedians how to tell
jokes and.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Off the heart?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
How do I? All right, let's go with that one.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You can't teach like you gotta, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
I will say, though, with practice, don't you think it works?
Don't you think with you got the jokes? A big
percentage of jokes is delivery. Yeah, being able to tell
a joke, and that comes with practice, right, It's like anything, Yes,
still trying, still trying to make it happen. I saw Yeah,
I said, I'm gonna beat you to it. I'm still
working on it. I'll live it in the game for
forty two years.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I saw that in your big dumb eyeballs. I saw
my cherub face and your big cherrub my face face.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, you should be more angelic with a cherub face
like yours, but you're not. You're a little devil. That's
what I'm saying it, Stevie, Devil's.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Give me the horror.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, okay, so so both ways, I think, how do
you get jokes off the heart? I would I would
have interpreted it as you want to tell jokes.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
So let's answer it your way and I'll answer it
my way. Yeah, you answer your question. If that's the question,
what's the answer, I would say, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
I mean make your friends laugh, goof off, have fun.
Do your friends. They'll port you. And the more you
do it, the better you get at it. I think
if you're looking at it like from a professional level,
like there's always open mics, Yeah, go try it out.
You got nothing to you got nothing to lose. That's
that's the great thing about trying it for the first time.
And I think once you do it for the first time,
(41:17):
it'll never get It'll never get worse or harder than
the first time. The first time you do it. It's
just like it's so confusing, and it's it goes by
so quick, and all these variables are shooting at you
and you're just like you don't know how to take it,
but you're just chasing the laugh. If you get one,
you're off to the races.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
That's it, Okay. My interpretation, okay, was how do I
not take jokes to the heart and I get hurt
by them? How do I be have about a thick skin?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I have a thunk Bridley. Just fast forward to the
part where you start talking. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I would say, bry Um, you know it's hard because
words sting, words hurt, words deep.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Because you need to remember that sometimes you big fucking idiot.
I would say, But I love you, but you're a
fucking jerk. Sometimes I would say, briy. It was a
lesson I had to learn younger in life because I
got quick fastep. So I remember this very vividly. It
was when I was like thirteen years old and I
(42:22):
had fourteen years old fifteen years old maybe, and I
had started being funny and I realized I was making
people laugh at people instead of making people laugh with
people right, and I could cut I'm quick, and I
just you know, I would just if somebody get if
I got a giggle on making fun of someone, I
would just dig deeper and harder. And I remember one
guy and I'm at the end, he was like and
(42:43):
he just came up to me. He just looked me
in the face. He goes, you're not nice, and it
just hit me and I was like, oh shit, like
but we were talking about we're all laughing, but like he's not.
So now, I always look to make sure that every
you know, the person that you're talking about, would you
do a good job on you make sure like when
you're making fun of people, like you make sure they're
laughing and have a good time, because that's what we do.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
We want to make less. I had to deal yeah
on stage, you know you you take your lumps too. Yeah,
and you're like, oh, that's not how you do it right.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
So I would say, if you're getting you know, if
it's if it is hurtful and someone is hurting you
that and it's coming from a friend, talk to the
friend because they are your friend, you know. And if
they're making fun of you in a group, because That's
what it was with me. I was with a group
of friends. There's one guy we all picked on and
it was that And no, it's not Murray. Uh you know,
where's you know, a lovable loser and he was totally
game for it. And I actually treated my whole Murray
(43:32):
relationship way different because of this relationship that I was
dealing with in high school. Although I did go to
high school Murray, it still wasn't Murray. But I would say, like,
you need to remember that as you know, if you
are getting hurt, you know, empower yourself to not let
yourself get hurt by people's jokes. And remember if people
are joking, words are just words. Sticks and stones might
(43:54):
break my bones, but you know, at the end of
the day, live a good life and fuck that person.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Steve nailed it.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
I also put into Google who are you? Google said, uh,
it took that question how to take jokes off the
heart and said how to stop taking jokes so seriously?
And it has eleven steps with pictures. So I would say,
priorly google it.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
There we go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
If we don't know, if this answer didn't happen, you
got two cool moms and one cool one cool search engine.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
So thank you, Jiggy GPT appreciate that. That was incredible insight,
and thank you for not mentioning any of the eleven steps.
You couldn't give us one one.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
I could have done.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Oh well, let me let me.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Do it out of time.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Cool Moms, we appreciate it. Subscribe, rate, review all that
good stuff. Email us at two Cool Moms Pod at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yes, or follo us on Instagram at two cool Moms Pod.
You see me your questions there as well. Stevie's dates
are up for touring, right, yeah, we're all around at
where where where do people find your tour?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
It's breagslist and people find mine on Canol Productions. Is that?
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Or yeah, you go to Joe Gattoofficial dot com, but
it's a redirect to Canoli Productions dot com.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Got it. And my new special is on Punch Up Live.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I have two specials of CrowdWork and a stand up
special and also the live Tapical Moms will be released
on Punch Up Live very soon.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
Yes, and uh, Jiggy is always available for any Kinsonia.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
To cater not for comedy.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
Thanks guys,
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