High Quality Meats: Episode 76 with Joe Gatto and Steve Byrne

Published Oct 1, 2024, 2:55 PM

It’s lunchtime for the moms in this oven fresh new episode! Discover some of their favorite sandwich spots, go to treats from the ice cream man and what gets Steve the most excited for nom noms. On this episode we also hear travel hijinks stories, least favorite airports and the sound the gets Joe going!

 

The moms answer your questions ranging from how to overcome excuses to achieve goals to navigating dating with a crazy ex. Joe and Steve also try to help calm navigate a dad’s question on raising a rambunctious boy while sharing stories of their own childhood. All on this brand new episode of Two Cool Moms!  

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And three two one. Hi, I'm Joe Gatto and this is two Cool Mouse Pod. Now I was just you gonna say your name. Oh shoot, let's go. Let's try the other way. One two three, Hey, my name's Joe Gatto.

I'm Steve Mom. Cool close and you're so cool. All right, you know what, I'll just take the whole thing. You just give a thumb up at the end, a thumbs up at the Endready, Hey, everybody, I'm Joe Gatto along with Steve Burn, and they're listening to two Cool Moms. Great because if they're listening, you didn't do anything and they're not watching the video for you.

That thumbs up. You know what, Steve, this is what I love about you. Yes, adding value, so much, so much value.

Just setting the plate for you, just setting the plate, adding value.

I think that's very important.

So you know, the dinner to a plate at the table is always nice to have when we're eating together. And here we are and feasting on the podcast world with our friends. Everyone who's joined us, all six people listening, Yeah you me. Jigg's barely listening, but he's got his own cameram good. To see Jiggy.

How are you doing great? It's great to be here. Yeah, we love it.

I've never seen Jigging in bad mood. I'm sure you might.

It's a rare occasion. It's rare gets moods. You know.

He does a good job of hiding it. But I will say there are some triggers for our friend Jiggers.

Yeah.

One of them. One of the trigger triggs for Jiggy Jigs is incompetence by someone. It's his biggest one. If there's an incompetent thing.

Yeah, yeah, I've been out to eat with him and if like he asked for like the salt, and they'll come back to that. When it comes back, it's like, is everything okay?

And he'll be like just the salt, Oh, yes, the salt. You know that kind of thing. You know that kind of thing, you know.

Or I see him on phone calls where his whole demeanoral change, like be like, hey, what's.

Up and they're like, oh okay. Then I just of this, you know, he becomes Mark. He goes from jig and he goes to Mark right right.

Hospitality situations do get me frustrated because I worked in hospitality for.

A while, I worked at one of the premiere the premier.

Hospitality, So I feel like I take it personally, like when when service isn't right, it does affect me.

There's a bar of excellence you have, but that that is so true anywhere we've gone hotels, restaurants, doesn't matter store. You both are pretty keen on great service, oh for.

Sure, but I mean him and hotels.

When there's an incompetence at the front desk, he literally starts telling people how to do their job. He's like, you can just rout the chargers to the both room for both rooms that like he said. He says like that, He's like, it's one card, we don't have to scand the three times you could just wrap route the charges to that your rude.

And the woman's like, oh, you're right, I could do that, Like I know you can do that.

But he doesn't realize we're in a freaking married courtyard and fucking but duncan duncan Wisconsin.

He gets it, like I I can't imagine what would be like for Joe to check into a hotel. And sometimes we've seen some crazy stuff, like we were checking into a hotel in like Illinois and it's like, oh, we got the reservation right here, and then she pulls out her phone and is on a full blown face time with her husband.

Like look, who's here? Are you serious? We weren't even at the.

Credit card transaction And it's a full face time where Joe.

Especially for like that gets me going. I get uncom.

I will say, I'm I'm normally in a good mood too. I do think when people say no when they.

Could clearly say yes to help.

You as a customer, those things are like like what airlines is like, there's just little things that you could do that are that that that's for me. That's that's a choice someone's making you not to be helpful, you know. So that that is where I get it. It's not really an incompetence. It's more like the choice because some people sometimes does and they don't understand what's going on. So they don't understand what's going on. It's like, all right, this person just doesn't you know, every light's not on in the attic.

I see it all the time with with with airlines, we fly all the time. I'll never forget this one time, this one flight attendant there was a guy who was a little shorter that was having trouble putting his thing up, and he put it down. He looked at the flight attendant, the flight attend and goes, it's not my job, sir, and you're just thinking.

Come on considered, you help him and put him in the overhead. So you ever get there, Phil, don't worry.

Save some night's safe down here, speed or hanging out. You shut the damn thing, get these sketchers in there.

Oh man. I had I love when.

I used to do this bit all the time, and I still do it just for fun. Where I'll will it'll take me too long to put my put my bag overhead, and you've seen it, and I just have like my I make sure my shirt's up just enough to be. It's a backpack this big, and it's no reason why, and I'll just bounce around and like this. And then sometimes I used to travel with the boys. I would travel with Sal. I would always take Sala's bag down, put my bag in. I'd wait to look because see when he gets on, he clicks in, he puts his head on, and I remember what time we were flying, wherever we were flying. He puts his shot on like he puts he looks like he has a he looks like who's from South Park Kenny who gets killed?

He looks like that, like he's got his thing, his hood on. You can't even see anything.

And one time I took down his bag and put my bag up because there's no more room, and I loved in the middle of the aisle and then.

Goes, whose bag is this? Whose bag is this? And it sounds like got his headphones on listening to Biggie Smalls. Well he does not.

He's listening to like Tony Tony and the Tony Tones, like because he knows every band right, and he's like sitting there listening to his music whatever.

He's got his sting on, his face is covered, and he're like, whose bag is this? Whose bag is this? And it's stuck getting more urgent.

And then I was like, I think it's that guy's and she's like, sir, it's this year bag goes yeah, He's like it's I was like, he's like it was in the overhead and he's like.

No, my bag's in the He's like so funny.

He's like he's he's the one person you you you shouldn't do that stuff too, right, because that's why you do it right.

Everyone laughing him. It's fun.

But like getting getting onto a plane is always an opportunity for fun for me.

I always enjoy getting like into my seat.

I'll always like look like if I'm seat sixteen like b and I'll start.

A two up, like two three like my brother law Vini. You know he's a big deal, right, so I always book him in the middle seat no purpose, big Vin. I'll get him right in the middle of purpose.

Like he's like, why book twelve E And he's like they're trying to put him in the b He's the.

Guy if you're like on a Southwest flight and he's walking down here, like do not keep going?

Yeah? Yeah. But in the Caribbean, we all, like Bessie likes to book us.

We've traveled with his family a lot, and she likes to book us sitting together. And I'm like, just put them and just put Vin grab Vinnie a comfort plus seat, and she's like no, because then we're not all sitting together, Like do you think Vinnie cares for the three hours are going to paid, there's gonna be sitting with us crammed in the middle like he wants that vacation to start in the play and in the extra leg room section.

Yeah, of course you can't do that.

Sometimes people will look and be like, no, no, no, not you.

What are you doing? Do you ever think the bus that where it's open seating.

And when I used to go for Infant Staten Island, there was open seating, and you'd have to be like you just it was the express bus from Staten Island to get into the city. You sit wherever, you just pay for your ticket to get on right, and you would hate if somebody was gonna sit next to you right, and you would just hope that it wouldn't. And ever when it came to the last stop, like if you had an empty seat, you'd be like, oh, please, don't be a lot of people at least right, And then there'd always just be four empty seats and the person would always just pick the one next to me all the ways.

Yeah, I was.

I got sad at a restaurant in Vegas recently, and I love this restaurant.

It's one of my favorites.

But I you know, I'm by myself, so I'm like, well, I was with wy It. Actually it was with wyat or good front white, the same thing as I sit at the bar right right next to each other. The hoess brings a guy over and sits him next to me, literally next to me on the same table, four top at a bar.

Oh at a bar, at the whole bar.

Okay what? And then she comes over ten minutes later and sits a guy next to that guy. Now there's four of us and sitting at an empty bar, all next to each other, and.

Nobody's talking to each other. And I just look at him and go, guys, are you a little uncomfortable that she set us all next to each other? And the one guy goes, I can't stand it. And guy goes, I don't understand what's happening. But nobody moved and we all just ate our lunch together. So why did I talk? And then we talked about baseball for a second, all of us, and then everybody just ate their meals and they could have moved down. By the way, this is a huge square bar. It's like cheers, right, and we were all just four people in the corner and an empty bar around us, And I was like, why did this moron see us like this?

This is so weird. I don't know.

Maybe she thought we wanted to beat He was like, hey, maybe i'll make some friends here.

Maybe we'll make some best friends, because every you know, best friend starts as a stranger.

Oh my god, I used to you know, I used to be so on the bus there's like two people. You're either the waiter, you know, the waiter of people walking down the aisle. I praise people doesn't sit with me. And now I used to be a waiter, like pray someone doesn't sit with me. And then I changed to be a picker, so I used Now I went to the back of the line of the bus because you get to pick or you get to sit with.

Total game changer, So take your time to get on the bus. So you you are picking your destiny.

I'm picking I get to sit with. But if you go early, you're a waiter.

You get this.

You don't have any choice.

So you say smart game changer. Smart. See IM tell you he's not Sigg's.

He gets the layer of the land. I used to do the backpack on the seat and then I would like, if I like, who was coming, I would make sure I'd be like, oh, let me move that for you. And like trying to invite them to the seat, and then he'd be like no, thank you, and they'd keep walking.

I'm like, son of a bitch.

When I'm underwrated a train, train is you know, I have some dates coming up, and I was like I could fly.

I was like, wait, I could take train. I'm just gonna take the train. I'd rather four hours, yeah, four hours max.

Four hours on a train, read, write, watch a movie. I mean get out, you get case, you take the airport out of it. Oh, I will do. I will take a mule. I'll get on mule back and I'll be fucking hoofing it. I'll be hoofing it to Adelaide, Texas. I'll be hoofing it Detroit. Detroit's airport, I'd rather walk. I'd rather walk.

Where's there?

I'd rather that airport. It is five miles long.

And if you get off.

At A A whatever one, and then your connecting flight is A sixty six and thirty eight, it's like you are screwed. They have that tram that's still It's just it's a garbage airport.

I hate it.

I don't city hate there. I don't mind the airport. I don't like the tram. I like a tram that's integrated into it. You know who could use that tram?

JFK. They got some.

Balls putting you in your flight lands at gate fucking in Delta Lions in flight gate B yeah sixty two, and they're like, go to the exit, and the exit is by gate B eighteen and I'm hoofing it all the way. They got, they got. It has so many of those moving walkways, but there's so much there is much.

Equal ground that's not covered by the moving walkway.

I timed it, and I'm a fast walker, and it took me twenty two minutes to walk.

Who's got twenty two minutes. I'll give you the world to walk all the way down there. That's insanity. That was a ten ten ten ten. I'll give you the world in the world. It was ten ten ten ten wins. That was.

But it's insane how far that every day it angers me so much?

And when great minutes to.

Give me the world what walking, I'm not getting the world.

I get in fury. When we're landing.

I do this thing when it because me and Jiggy fly a lot, right, and when we're landing I'll open the shutter and I look at the like and I'll see where we're pulling in.

I'm like, we're going to be sixty. This is bullshit.

We're gonna be like I'll be like hoping to go to a closer gate. And it makes me instantly angry.

That's the worst. If you miss a lay over it because you couldn't walk fast enough. That is gutted. That's the worst.

That is Alice, Oh, I thought you're mad District footwear, But Dallas that that Detroit, by the way, sneaky city.

I've always thought Detroit's kind of like, you know, just the perception of the media, run down you why get a hotel, just buy a house, you know, It's just like it's so awful there. And then I got there and I spent a week there, blown away, great restaurants, believable, beautiful, down, up and coming.

I looked in real estate, no joke, really, And we went to Shinola to do that. They have their one of my favorite watch brands, one of my favorite brands. They have a their fact there, so we went on a factory tour. I did their podcast there and the I was like on the concrete floor. Remember, yes, Oh, let's take you there.

Yeah, I forgot because you didn't add any value.

And I said we. I was like, this is unbelievable to be like here. And I was like, I'm this is like up and coming.

There's got to be.

There was the university around there. There was like a lot of that money coming in.

I agree with you totally. It's one of my favorite cities.

Detroit now it's it's It's definitely my top ten. I had great meals. That stadium is awesome, Tiger Stadium, America Park, home.

Of my favorite, my favorite theater that I'm one of my favorite theaters I've ever played, The Fox there. Fox is completely up there. It was one of my favorite memorable spots that I ever played. Well, I want to get back there, like I love that. I'm just not big enough Detroit.

You Well, we.

Love you, Detroit. We'll be back soon, should we?

Uh Roco's Italian Deli By the way, that sandwich was incredible. Which was Rocko's Italian Deli. I just I had to look it up because when we were in Detroit. Oh, shut your man, it was it was the Italian Deli. We were three bites into Rocos Italian Deli when you started looking at real estate.

That's right, That's right, I was. I was fed with it was so good that meal.

The many you said it, I go back in time in heaven and the only thing I wish is that we got to sit down and eat in there.

But we got the Sandys to go and.

All of us everyone was like, Holy house, what is happening here? I want to go back. When we go into Detroit, we gotta go to Troy. Look at my tost schedule. Go to tru I'll meet you guys a guy. That's how we'll get Steve to come with us. It's like, where you playing? Let me see what can I eat there? That's how Steve picks the daytimes to play with me.

Like, uh, I'm not saying this because we're friends with him. Joe DeRosa, Joey Roses. Uh, you know I'm staying at his place. I was like, Oh, where's Joey Roses? Is like half a mile from his plate.

I walk over there.

That sandwich could be one of the best sandwiches I've ever had because it's literally and Jiggy and I have talked about this at Nauseum Bread a great roll.

Makes makes the first thing that's in your mouth, the first thing that's it's always the first thing, the first thing, the.

First thing that's in your mouth.

But he he has high quality meats. There's no dressing, there's no like cream, there's no secret sauce, there's no you know, Joey's cream.

It's just did you.

Pick out the term high quality meats on you? It is high quality meats and roll it up in a way.

Way quality failing you.

They roll it up in a way where they roll the meat into the bun. There's nothing's dripping. It's just the meat, a tinge of cheese and this bread. And I'm like, this is one of the best sandwiches I've ever had. And there's nothing on it. There's nothing on it.

If you took what you just did and muted it, it would look like that you were explaining sex to someone because you were.

Like, you take this, you get excited. I get excited for a good sandwich show.

Yeah, that is all right, I've never had.

I gotta go. I don't need high quality meats that you want. I talked to him about it.

They have high quality vegetables, they meeting quality vegetables, but high quality meats.

I'm telling you, if you make it out and you're downtown in New York City, you gotta go.

I got it.

We we talk about food all the time.

We're when you're in the back doing your dude as you do, is as you would say we are.

It's literally just talking about food. And uh yeah, that's a that's.

The experience of a good sandwich.

It's like an art, and it's an art, yes, I mean when you go, that's a talk about picking somebody right when you go.

That's the worst. That's worse than the bus.

When you are online in a deli and there's the three people making the sandwiches, and you see the guy back there who's doing his he's doing his thing there.

He's getting up the nice cuts of everything, and he's layer it well.

He's looking to make sure that everything's evenly dispersed with your balsama glazes.

He's picking the right peppers.

And then you got the one guy, what do you want next? Like that, I'm hoping that when they say my number, I've not I've not raised.

My hand when they say a number right right, and I'd be like, oh, you missed it. They're like number thirty two, and if it's not the right guy calling it, I'll just sit there and they're like thirty three. They pick it. And then when my guy I goes thirty four, I go, oh, I saw I missed.

I'm thirty two. I get new and they go this, oh yeah, what do you want? And now'll pick my guy. That is the worst person if you get the wrong person making your sandwich in an Italian deli, Yeah, I hate that.

But that's the thing about like an Italian sandwich.

It doesn't need much. Yeah, it doesn't need Like you.

Go to Jersey Mics, It's like they're slicing it all up there gausing it with oil and vinegar and throw the mayo wan salt and pepper.

It's I love Jersey Mike's of all those, but Subway.

When I first had a Subway in Pittsburgh, I was like, this is the greatest sandwich.

I've ever had in my like God, and then I don't.

Know, for some reason, it's just not as uh, did you have blimpy in your I had blimpy and I had uh blimpy. I remember the double dose.

One time I had a bad sandy and uh upstairs and downstairs.

It was it was a yards. Yeah you got blimpeed, I got blimped. Oh I got blimomy Blumpet. I got blumpy my bliopy went blumpy. Oh yeah.

We had Blimpy's in the Staten Island wall. And I remember they had the shredded lettuce that I couldn't get enough of. I and I just have basically a shredded lettuce on top of my sandwich. It was so good because they had that oil vinegar and just sat in there so nice.

You can tell it's a lunchtime.

I tell you something real quick.

Guy, Sojiggy, I don't know if you heard this, but we're sitting there and before the show starts, Joe goes, all right, listen this episode.

You know, here's what I don't want you to do. I don't want you to talk about food.

We talked about food too much, Okay, so let's not talking about food. And I'm sitting here like the shredded lettuce, the oil vinegar ad just sits.

I'm like, yeah, I'm talking about foo. I'd even get here.

How do you even get to talking about a blimpy sandwich because it's lunchtime.

AND's lunchtime, right, Let's get into questions.

Let's get to why people come for help for help and the dilemmas.

A Donna hit us up.

On em A Donna?

Donna Madonna? And what should I have for lunch?

Talk to me about blimpy? So the quote is be stronger than your excuse. What's one excuse that you have come that you have overcome to achieve your goals?

Pretty good question? Wait can you just say that one more time? What's one excuse?

Yeah, so there's a quote.

The quote is be stronger than You're stronger than.

Your excuse, which I think is a saying. And what's one excuse that you have had to overcome to achieve your goals?

Hm? That's a that's very deep.

Yeah, I will say so one excuse you always you know, I used to always blame work, right, you know It's like, well I'm out here working.

You know, when I was away and whatever.

So I would say, probably I had to overcome that to actually become a better partner and father, for sure. I think that was that was a big one I always use as an excuse. I'm trying to think of things I use as excuses. I keep myself pretty accountable for the most part, especially nowadays, but back then even even so, I think I was. I just think I was misguided. But I think an excuse for a lot of people. One that off for a lot of people is that like you're like, I gotta do what I gotta do to put food on the table, like especially as at.

That right, yeah, you know that thing.

It's like I'm out here, you know, making money or you know, providing. I think that's probably one of the biggest excuses that.

You hear from fatherhood or or whatever. So I think that was probably.

One for me that was like I'm busy working shore me ignore stuff that should have had my attention.

I would get a little more granular of of what you would say, but I try to, and you know this, I'm probably not the best at like getting back text twise, unless it's like happening in real time. If it's in real time, I'm right there, I'm like, yeah, boom, boom, do it, Okay. But then the minute I sit down, or I'm with my kids and I'm playing baseball, or I'm out taking a walk with my wife, whatever, I just check out. I check out so I'm trying to not make an excuse of like not getting back to you know, somebody's reaching out, they're communicating with you, and I'm not communicating back with them, and there's an annoyance that because I don't like when it happens to me. Right, Yeah, So that's one thing I've been trying to nip in the butt recently and not make an excuse for that, but like be more present with that and not let like even today, I had thirty nine text messages I didn't get back to. So in the cab ride over here that took forty five minutes because I was downtown and it was seventy dollars in uber. I'm not here to complain I had to. I just went through and just was like, I want to get back to everybody whant to set us out the time and make sure I do that. So that's an excuse I'm trying to walk away from. I will say, not get put an email, gotcha, gotcha?

Gotcha. I will say the.

Not getting in shape has been an excuse that I've been battling with too, like of dropping the pounds, like I've always wanted to get a little bit not in shape by any means of meaning muscular, I just mean not a big like big fat guy that gets out of breath going up steps. So for a while, my excuse was like my excuse was like, oh, I'll do it after this or after like you.

Always have the time. So the excuse wasn't necessarily an excuse.

It was like a timeline you put yourself on, sure, which becomes an excuse.

It's like, oh, yeah, I said I'm going to start that, you know, in June or whatever. You know.

So I eventually started being like, okay, stop, you got to start, like.

Start something right, but the hardest because we're of a certain age. I think we were guys that probably in our twenties and thirties never worked out.

I ate whatever I wanted.

I didn't care. I was like, never had to do a push up. It was just like everything was fine. And then you at a certain age, it's like it's not just getting in shape, it's like you have to change the lifestyle. You've got to be like, all right, I've got to eat healthier.

Are you one of the people that you are?

If you surround yourself with people, you take on their behaviors or you one that helps define the behaviors of others around you, because I feel like when you're I feel like when you're on tour with me, yeah, you eat a little worse worse and you drink a little less.

Well, yeah, there's probably truth to that.

I eat, it's like I'm breaking even then, Yeah, I think so, I think you should probably stay away from me.

No, but that's one of the reasons I love going on tour with you and Jiggy, especially like I love being out with you guys. Hey, the camaraderie is great. The hang is always fun, for sure. The road trips are a blast just traveling with you guys. And then again, like boarding a plane is an adventure with Joe Gatto, it's never not dull because you're watching the reactions of people.

Going, oh the Joe Gatto. Oh he's doing a bit. Oh my god, this is crazy.

Look at he's doing the thing. You know, Like that's always fun.

But but I do drink less. But but I've also been drinking less lately, I think.

But do you like.

Also, like what made me think of that was when you said, like the workout, Are you a guy that needs like a workout?

Buddy?

Or you no, no, no, that is something I do. I've been pretty regimented at especially the last few months, and.

Again because you we have a laugh, because I'll just talk to you on the phone and I was like, hey, what's.

Up, Like, oh my god.

It's like I like, I'm in my fourth what's the place like Peterson's, what's the place that you go to with the pay all time Pinoli?

What's some place Parpadell's the place the each.

I went to brother seventeen Dogs today, And then I'll go to your Instagram store and you're like hitting the gem and yeah, it's you're jumping rope at three in the morning.

I'm like, yes, you just ate nine per manning because that's why.

That's why to break even again.

It's so awesome. You're living your life to break even. Yeah I could just I could just be healthy.

Yeah, but I can't.

It's so like even here in New York City, it's like, well, I'm not gonna not have pizza times. Of course, I'm gonna have pizza. I'm not gonna not have a fresh bagel from a bodega and have a great sandwich.

Of course I have to go sliced stop talking about food.

Sorry, But to put to your point, I think I'm somebody who uh, I think you're You're very much a leader. I think in any group you're you're pretty dominant in terms of your personality. And that's why it's easy to go out with you, for example, like on tour, because it's like, oh, we're gonna go here for lunch. It's like great, awesome. You know, when it's me by myself, I kind of meander. I make a thing of it. But but when I always a group of friends, I think there's like a little bit a give and take of Like, you know, I could have a personality trait that might be receptive, or a word or a phrase you say that your friends pick up on. But then I'm a sponge too, you know. A blurf is one of the greatest words I've ever heard in my life, and I used it on stage the other day. I was like, look at me. I was like in Mississippi. I was like one hundred people and I told a monologue joke that was new and it got like a middling laugh, and you know, it's riddled with bomb lines, and I'm like, look at me.

I'm dressed in a suit.

I should be doing blow out a steakhouse, but I'm entertaining you blurfs.

And they all get it.

They are the greatest word.

Yeah, but do.

You consider yourself more because I think you're more of a dominant p not than somebody who is receiving and mirroring.

Yeah, I think I take that role.

But I will say I've lived a life of collaboration. Sure, more than I think, especially in our industry, but more than most. But it's always been collaborative. So I think there are certain things that simulate. But like I would never like go to work out by myself.

I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna go work out.

But like when I live with Murray for a minute, we were working out together because we had a gym in the place. My brother in law, Vinni, he lived down the street from me, so he took me for like three weeks and we started working out and stuff. So for like some of those things, I think when it comes to bettering myself, I feel like it's better to have a partner. I write like scripts better if I'm writing with somebody.

I feel like that's kind of a fun thing.

So I think there's certain things, But I'm not afraid to try to bring out a different personality and people or make them better or try to like get people to like do something fun or out of their comfort zone.

But that's like goes to the heart of the question of like, you know you you You could say, oh, so there's an excuse in reality, right, yep. The excuse is, well, to work out, I probably need somebody. The reality is, well, probably not gonna work out. Yeah, right, So it's like, is that wrong to make an excuse or is it better to just accept the reality of the situation. The reality is just like you know, my reality is I will jump rope for thirty minutes a day by myself. But the excuses, you know, I'm gonna have a pizza by myself. And if you're gonna have pizza, well, I'll probably have a coke. Yeah, if I have a coke, call, I'll probably get cherry coke.

And it counts not enough, you know, it might not doesn't help Pinia poppers up in there.

I uh, yeah, I don't know.

I think I think excuses are It's hard excuses because they're self imposed.

Right, But the only person I could get rid of them is really you. And to do that acknowledge it.

Yeah, to acknowledge the important an excuse from you. Right, it's your brain saying this is why not?

But excuses ultimately, And I told my kids this before when they lie to me, I'm like, you're not lying to me. You know that you are, but you're really lying yourself. You're putting yourself in a situation where you're lying to yourself about this situation very profound. So that is almost an excuse within itself.

And also inexcusable.

Now we're in a van going off a bridge like inception, which is reality.

I don't know where we are, Okay, all right, that's good. That's a great question.

That great, great question.

Thank you, a Donna, Adonna a Donna, great question.

This one's a fun one, kind of on theme for today. What was your go to from getting something from the ice cream truck?

As?

Oh, what a great from Susan, she said that her favorite was pac Man.

Or blue Ghost with a bubble gum eyeball, which is a great detail. Yeah, I didn't have a if I didn't have enough money, would get a piece of bazooka Joe. So that's from Susan.

On Instagram. I think that's a fun one.

I basically think of the freehold.

H There was like a public pool.

My grandfather lived in apartment complex and we go swimming there all the time.

My folks would drop us off there because they had to work. And so when the ice Cream Man came, they didn't think that pac Man was like the filame Mignon on the menu.

You had to get it though, because they sold a lot of Jumbo.

Jetstar Jet Star Classic Sucking jets Star. Yeah.

And by the way, it's kind of a I'm looking back, it's kind of like a girthy pop.

Yeah, not exactly for young boys. Young boy, Yeah, definitely, definitely. This is the Kevin Spacey alert here. But yeah, ice the ice cream Dryer was like, what do you want, boy? Yeah, it's on the house. Jumbo Jet Star was mine.

How about you guys. Bubblo Bill what is that? Bubbleo Bill was basically a pac Man kind of deal.

It was.

It was a cowboy hat with a bubble gum nose.

It was a cowboy. It was just his head. He had a bubble gum nose and he had two chocolate chip eyes.

Yeah, that was a bubble bubble O Bill bubble like Buffalo Bill, bubble O Bill.

I always loved the Choco Taco.

Oh yeah, that's another good one. People went nuts when I think got discontinued.

Remember that when you'd open up the silver Choco Taco and like the steam would come out of the back. Well that's everything with the ice cream A nine thousand degrees like the ice cream steam.

Yeah, I the way steam, but you get it, you get it. I'm doing my jiggy. I did the I I go with. I don't really like ice cream, which is weird because I yeah, I don't. I'm not an ice cream guy.

But my I if I get if I have to, and I get forced a new corner, I'm straight up like a vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkies. Oh to Carvell, Yeah, car Bell is greatest soft serve.

Scream. But look at about it.

I have fond members of the at the vel we had we had a local vel. Did you have the local ones? Like you used to go to the Dad would take.

A car back when I lived in Manalapin. My father would get us in the pickup and that was like.

Did you eat it in the pickup? In the back.

We we'd stay because I don't I don't want to get my sprinkles all over here and pick up, So we would eat in the park a lot.

Yeah. Yeah.

My dad used to lay on the car and eat, uh and eat the what do you call it?

Eat the cookie puss?

Yeah, the saucers.

Flying saucers used to get. Yeah, Fudgie the Whale was the was the go to.

But that's why I don't like ice cream because my mother on my birthdays in June, he used to foroce ice cream cakes on me because it was just like ice cream cake is the greatest.

Yeah, I hate it, really hate it. Look Fudgi the Whale.

To this day, right.

Now, if I look at a cookie puss, come on for me.

Your puss looks at the cookie puss and that's like, oh, it gives me a puss. My smile turns into a pus when I see a cookie puss.

Come on, man, the greatest. What's the greatest birthday cake ever? That to me, it's carvel hands down. You put candles. I go to publics in in Nashville now they sell them in the freezer section.

I'm like, yeah, I get them.

You're getting you're getting the push in publics. I get publics. I'm a grown man. I'm an adult.

That's what I tell my why I'll eat it right now. It's not my birthday.

That's it, right right, it's not my birthday. I don't need license.

I'm getting this public's puss and I'm getting into it.

You get on board or go out and get out of my house. Give me. It's my birthday. Your wife. Your wife's talking to a girlfriends in the Newlon. She's like, oh, he's gonna want that buzz for birthday. To get it.

I'm like, all right, girlfriend, He's like, no, the cookie, budd sandwich and publics.

What is your birthday dessert?

Then?

Well, I love a cake like I love to blow out the candle cake, but I can't. You can't beat the Duncan Hines with a chocolate frost and just a standard by.

The way, yellow cake chocolate frost. Yeah, give me that.

That's the bird.

I feel like that's more of the birthday cake than well. No, you're right. Those are probably the two leading birthday cakes.

It's like a carvel ice cream cake, or it's you don't have ice cream cake, not at a birthday party.

And now that I'm thinking about this, you don't.

You're right, you don't have nobody's like comes over the house and brings an ice cream cake because there's a lot of maintenance with it.

They do the cupcakes, or they get like the sheet cake and sheet cake.

Fuck out of here with your sheet cake? Is that what you me? I'm a sheet cake person because I don't go to I don't go to a house empty handed. You don't. You know that's a discrusticht. You have to show up with something. So I'm not going to show up with a sheet cake from Ralphs. Oh my god, the worst. Oh that kind of person. I shut the door.

Just bring me a bag of sugar and flour.

You know what white is?

Take a ship in a bag and right chocolate and giving me and I'll rather, I'll.

Tell you what. Leave it on the street though homeless won't even touch it. You know how bad I see the guy walking.

By throws it awayd The worst sheet cake is disgusting.

There's no flavor.

It even sounds terrible. Would you like for dessert? Give me a nice like a sheet cake.

Piece of sheet you piece of sheet cake?

All right?

Well?

Uh, summer deserve. I go Carvel. Carvel is my but but jumbo Jets stars, the ice Cream Man.

From the ice Cream Man, you your deep throat, and the fucking jumbo Jets. Yeah, I would bubble gum. But now that my kids go to it, we see all the new flavors, and my son it's the same prototype, right, it's the Sonic the Hedgehog. Now my son loves the Sonic the Hedgehog because it's the same thing. It's got the you know, the eyes that you can eat their gum and stuff.

So Joe, here's here's here's our shark tank. Pick shark tank. Yeah, here's our pitch. Ready, good humor. You know, jumbo Jet Star comes out. Wooden stick.

Let's make an edible an edible.

Stick, so you finish it like drugs, like mushrooms. But then you have like the stick itself is like a candy.

You can eat that. Yeah, they had that.

When they had that, they combined forces with the stick people, you know the stick candy sticks back in the day. I remember it vaguely, but it didn't didn't catch on. That's why it's not a good deal, because you.

Just then it's just the boss'd start melted in your hand. It's making your hand pink. It was like those sugar sticks.

It could be like a pretzel if you had like a flat pretzel stick.

Oh dude, a flat pretzel with a chocolate on. Oh call me trade Mark, Lloyd Greneer, your friends, Llurid, tell her we got a.

We gotta Let's call her and ask her, Yeah, pretzel stick?

Are you really calling her? She's after ten years on Shark Tank, right, fifteen years?

I think they just I'll send her a text.

How many businesses is she a part of?

Because I know you have the conglomerate so many and you have so many execs that bandle it.

That's how many are under her umbrella.

When you're good at it, I mean, when you're good at it, there's so many. But I don't want to call her. I'll send her a voice message watching Hey, Laurie, it's Joe. I quick question for you.

I'm doing my podcast two Cool Moms with my friend Steve burn here, and we think we came over with the genius idea, and I said I needed to.

Call a profession. So here it is.

We were talking about ice creams, and we were talking about ice cream like on a edible like a good humor like you know you used to get off the ice cream truck.

What if that.

Stick was edible like a pretzel like maybe like a pretzel stick.

As I'm sending this this, I realized it's a bad idea. Sorry to waste time. I love you, I miss you. Buy.

I think a pretzel stick is a smart call, like a chocolate pudding pop.

Yeah, oh, you know what the edible because you're gonna be touching it right then you have to eat it.

Yeah, what's gonna make it melt in your hands?

It's gotta be eminem technology melts in your mouth, not in your hand, right technology.

Put it all together. We got to go. It's not that easy, buddy. We don't have any prototypes. We have no we have no sales.

You walk into show that It's like Steve Burne has an idea of an edible stick.

Hi, I'm Steve burn I'm out.

I didn't even thank you.

You won't even get to the bird.

I wouldn't even get to it.

Hi, I'm Steve. But yeah, out here, you won't even get to the urn.

All right, So we got a question here. This is from Jennifer hit us up on the Instagram. She says, any advice for dating a man with kids that has a less than delightful X.

Oh, that's tough because you're part of that equation.

So it looks like she's she's in the she's got a dynamic. She doesn't like with this X sounds like he's snooping around.

So no, she So she's got the guy's got an ex wife that has he has kids with, and now she's the girlfriend.

That's the dynamic, right right.

Yes, Well, the new lady is there, you know right away like all the tropes, she's not going to be their mother for the kids.

But you're dealing with the problems that you're dealing.

With the the mom, the X so real mom. So I think the best way is to steer clear of anything when it comes to raising her children or of that.

Or you'll never win. You'll never win. Yeah, you'll never win.

It's it's that cake's already baked.

Yeah, you can't go back.

So you can be as supportive, you can be as wonderful to the kids. But I think everything's behind closed doors. Once it's out there, it's like you're right, you're the mom, you got it, you make the rules whatever. But the minute they're on site with you, it's like, you know, you can make your rules.

Take the kids out of the equation. Let's talk about the dynamic between you and the woman. This woman has no more has no say in your relationship with her ex husband or a person, so that's going to be different.

So there, you've got to make sure you're assertive in that relationship.

You can't be pushing the footing around that stuff because hey, you had your shot with him, he didn't want it, and now I'm here, so listen, this is my man and this is going to be our situation. You can't talk to me like that exactly that you can't talk to him like that or about things like So I think that's important to establish the relationship of you and the man. Is the relationship between you and the man. She has nothing to do with that. And there's the pendulums, right Yep. It's like, Okay, I have nothing to say here because you always will be the mom, but I have everything to say here. So I think there's got to be if if you're at least.

Mentally balanced and somewhat healthy, you should be able to meet in the middle. But it sounds like that's not the perspective on the other end. But that's always what you're gonna hear, right, And I'm sure that she's going to think the same thing this.

But this puts our. This puts our, Fella.

It's in a tricky situation here because he needs to make sure that he's towing the line in the right way here. You know, that's that's a situation for him as well. It's got to be like you got to make sure. She's got to make sure that he's supporting her when she needs it.

But also, look at.

That dog, had someone on the sign a new one or he failed as a husband, Go get a horrible husband.

Now he's going to wreck another woman's life.

Yeah, keep them on up, wreck him up, let's wreck it, Ralph. I think you know, sometimes it doesn't work out, so you know, it really is hard.

I guess communication is always keen.

We always say this, but really communication is if you're like, hey, listen, you know she's this is what's happening here? How do I navigate this? I mean, it's it's got to be built together. Yeah, but she can't be the one.

Voice being like I don't like that. You know that's not gonna work.

The core dynamic is the relationship with her and her fella. Yeah, and they set the precedent from there forward, so you know it's got to be a healthy set of parameters obviously.

Yeah.

In the question, the tone of it sounds like she's getting guff from the woman, not about the kids.

Like kids aren't even mentioned.

It's more like just or they are, but it's more like it's like, hey, how do I establish myself in this relationship?

Yeah?

Yeah, it's or causing stress to her boyfriend. Yes, if she's like just always nagging the boyfriend even if she doesn't even talk to them.

And guess who pays for that she does, right, because she ain't getting that dong because he's not in food because his ex wife is running him out. Oh my god, the school that you didn't register them for the summer camp.

And you think he's like it's like boner alert. It's a flat on the left and the right. So that's not fair. She ain't getting the thing, don donky kong.

You know what I'm saying. She's just trying to fucking she just trying to get this a little boo. But you can't because she is I just hear.

Go to the bedroom. The top is just a dog donkey dong.

She's trying to get the king Kong donkey dong dong will always be funny.

That's the best word.

Oh dong oh dong when he says that in sixteen Candles, Yes, the donger oh god, one of my favorites.

Yeah, so I think we helped that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, get that dong dong dong dong.

She got that dom donga donk mom dongda dounk.

You would be a great cruise ship DJ.

But phenomenal fist. My life's not over. That might be my I might go on, I might go down that path. I might do a cruise. Hit that airhorn like a mofo. I love an airhorn.

Ahn is my favorite sound. My favorite sound better than children laughter. An airhorn.

I love it and it was great.

The DJ airhorn those are my That's my favorite thing. Nothing gets me juiced like that. I multiple DJs and multiple circles know that that's my sound.

And if they want to get me started.

Cipher sounds, DJ Reg West, the Kid justin Gerrais Lucci, all those guys know you hit that air horn, It's like putting the quarter in my back. And here he goes, I'm going fire me up with the and I'm going love it, love it.

What sound effect does that to you?

My top five?

Top five?

You have one of them?

What's that? Oh? You get hurt?

You love always?

You love always?

Because we'll see somebody trip on a sidewalk, g e O stub his toe and just you're always right.

You love that sound effect? Love it? Love that. Then you're right, you're right. I provide that for you.

Yeah, good time for one more so. This one is from Chuck on the Instagram. He has a son who's four, who's all gased, no breaks. He's very sweet and loving, but also loves to be rough. Definitely a sour Patch kid. Since you both have sons, what advice would you mommies have in helping him calm down but also allowing him to be a boy.

Wow, that's a great way to put it, all gas and no breaks. I've never heard that before.

I unfortunately don't have much to offer here because my son is not that.

I only have one son.

I will and I wasn't that type of kid, so I don't really have a dog in this fight.

If you will, I would say hurt him once lightly. Excuse me.

I would just say hurt him once lightly, and then he'll know not to, you know, fuck around and find out like just a nice little olf, a little sweep. I don't know know my son is like the opposite that. So I don't know is how is yours?

Is he a kids?

I think middle ground? But I think you know, I remember this bit again.

I don't know why I keep bringing a Billy gardelle, But he had this great bit about being a kid and like kids these days were in helmets and everything. He's like when we were a kid, you just ride your bike and you go off in the woods and you hit this fast band. You know, if you fell down, you know, okay, slow down, and that was it. So I think that, you know, a personality trait is a personality traite, right, Some kids are a little more passive, some kids are a little more energetic.

I don't think you can I don't think you can rain that in.

I think the kid is part of his personality, and I think that kid, if you're physically more active, you're going to learn your lessons a lot quicker than someone who is a little more kind of laid back.

I guess, yeah, But.

I would just say that that's part of it, right, Like you get a dog that's super energetic, it's like, all right, well there's nothing we can do.

That's the dog.

A terrier is going to be more energetic than you know, a bloodhound or whatever. So I just think that's part of him. Enjoy it, appreciate it, and you know, you'll always have somebody to throw a ball with on take a walk or.

I think that you need to.

I think one part of it, though, is you need to help him manage that, right as the dad. You're trying because if that's gonna be part of his personality, you want to be a part that he's able to take care of, like when he's like in school or whatnot, and calm down when he needs to write and whatnot. So at four, though, like that's about when they're starting I'm thinking back what my son was for. That's when they're starting to realize they could run fest or do things like that, Like they could do stuff like that.

It's also part of that age, you're right, I think around four, you know, my son was kind of pretty adventurous. And I think, of course that stuff's going to temper down because at four, like to your point, you're learning to sprint, you're learning to run, and you're also learning how to fall.

I mean that's another thing.

Like when you're playing ice hockey, you know, you learn how to fall. You don't just learn how to skate. You don't learn how to slept. You learn how to you know, like basically self protect yourself. You learn how to get up against the glass when somebody's checking you. So the glass takes takes a lot of the uh inertia, And I think with a child at that age especially, you're gonna learn when you stand on the table, you fall, you don't see the table anymore.

So yeah, yeah, I think, enjoy the enjoy the ride.

But but to your point, you got to know, hey, there are times to uh to dial it down.

There's times to dial it I did.

Look, you do you have a lesson that you learned when you were younger, Like you talked about like don't take that turn fast.

You have a memory of like, yeah, don't smart off to dad.

I remember my dad cracked me a fresh one in front of my friends, and it spun me around like a Jackie Chan movie and I fell down and I was like, you do your own stunts too. That day I had, I was forced to, but my dad taught. Yeah, that was my lesson, like don't smart off in front of my friends.

My dad when I was getting my sassy mouth. My dad wasn't really a hit or ever. And I remember he just hit me once, didn't even look out from his plate. When we sat the dinner table, I was on his left end. He just was at the head of the table and we.

Were eating something. I was being, you know, funny and quirky, and I said some of my mom said.

Something like mom, don't be such a bitch, and he didn't even look up, and he went wapping, just got me riding something.

I fell on the floor and he said, you'll never call all that again.

Then he was right right, I.

Didn't even look up.

Yeah, it's just like, you know, it's part of being a dad. You know, my dad was not abusive, buying the means at all, but you.

Know, when when you needed to be, you know, course corrected.

He was there to write.

I don't think I think the most interesting I remember in that in the house We had a like a circuit. We had a carpeted circular stairway like a half circle, like so up top came down a couple to like a landing, then it turned to a landing and came down right. And then I remember like I was running up the stairs with a blanket and uh and I slipped like on the blanket because it was between the carpet.

I was like, Oh, that's slippery. And I was like, oh, that's slippery. That could be fun to use as a sled down this right.

I just wrapped myself in the blanket like a mummy and I.

Bound. I was like and in my mind it was gonna be more fun.

And my father thought I came and fell down the steps and he comes running in and he's like, he's like oh and he sees me I'm right in a blanket like a burrito, and I'm like, ah, he goes. He just to me, goes, what are you doing? Like it went from like padding, Oh, my son fell. He's hurt, so like what is this mummy burrito? Like?

I know you more like, how do you think that was gonna pan out? In your head?

You know?

I think part of it is self discovery.

My father got me a go cart and I was I think it was seven. I was like, what are you thinking. By the way, this is not like a go carts powered, like gas powered. It's just metal bars put together that somebody like welded together this far off the ground right literally, And he got it for me at like seven or eight, and I was like, wow, this is cool. And he puts me in. It's fucking fast. I'm sure like as an adult now, i'd look at it and be like, oh, it's probably twenty twenty five miles. It's still fast for a fucking eight year old. So we lived where we lived, there was this doctor's building, you know, behind us in a big park a lot.

So my dad puts me in and he just fucking gets the thing.

He's like, all right, I have at it.

And I hit the gas and I gun it and I go to a turn and I hit the turn.

And my brother was with me, he was probably five at the time.

Bye bye.

Just hit the turn and he fucking barreled out of there.

God, and he teamed it.

He he eight team did pretty hard and he was crying and it was just like, oh my god, that was my first lesson in speed of like.

But then your dad wasn't upset about that, but he was upset that when you've spent away, we're like, see a bitch.

That part was unset about. That was that was that was a lesson. They liked speed, but yeah, that was.

I mean, my dad, I can't believe to this day, I still can't believe he got me real card there that fast.

But yeah, it was. I do all this stuff too.

Like my daughter just went to a playdate and her nanny sends her, sends a video and she and her remo, they both went and she sends a video and they had a full blown zip line and here comes my daughter on the like twenty, you know, fifteen feet off the ground, like hey, and I'm like, oh my god, I'm like that's so much. I was like, oh, that's so my daughter to jump on this. And then she sends a second video. It's my son who is not it's at a character and he literally goes She's like watch and he's just going stop me, stop me, stop, And he does speak because he's a big little big boy now right, and he's not. He's like and he hits the spring and he just comes back in. The video ends with him going.

You missed me so funny.

Yah.

I guess they find that stuff out. You know, it's weird.

Your your daughter's son dynamic is somewhat similar to mine. My son might be a little more adventurous, but like, you know, we're planning to go to like Universal next week and he's like, I'm not going on any fast rides and he establishes it out of the gates and like, you know, we know it's like, all right, he's gonna sit out or we'll have to do something else.

But he does not like speed at all. Oh wow, it's he's his aversion to it.

I don't know. He's old gas no farts.

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