Two Cool MomsSnow Days and Supernatural Stays: Episode 94 with Joe Gatto and Steve Byrne
Get ready to shovel through the laughs in this icy episode of "Two Cool Moms"! This week, Joe spills the beans about his childhood entrepreneurial ventures with a hot cocoa stand that wasn’t exactly a winter wonder. Then, dive into a frosty discussion about the unexpected perks of inherited house maintenance and the ghostly barks that haunt Joe’s hallway. Steve chips in with tales of snowy escapades and the pros and cons of plowmen versus neighborhood kids. Wrap up with a heartwarming (or chilling?) chat about whether our furry friends can sense spirits or just sniff out squirrels. Bundle up for this whirlwind of wintry tales and eerie encounters!
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Hey everybody, welcome to the newest episode of Two Cool Moms. I'm Joe Gatto, I'm Steve Burn, and we are your two cool moms here to help you with your life's tilemmas and just you know, chat for the next thirty to forty five to one hour depending.
Yeah. By the way, I love the smell of coffee.
Smells great good.
I don't drink coffee, but I love the smell.
But you just had a banger hot cocoa.
I had a hot coco like a third grader. Yeah, on a cold winter day, and I loved it.
You do the tease?
Do you drink tea every now and then? I love? What's a hot beverage?
Would you hop? Average of choice? I know, iced tea, hot chocolate, hot coco, yeah, you go cocos or.
Tequila, A hot one.
You have to do like a hot toddy.
Never, no, you're done.
A chocolate New Mexican. You put the kill on the hot chocolate.
Chocolate e Mexican.
Put it your kill on the hot chocolate. You know.
That was like it sounds like a d H for the Mets.
That was a That was a baseball reference that I got it.
Wow, we're back.
I did H when you were younger. Do you have to like eleven eight stand or whatever? Of course, so I did a hot cocoa stand once, me and Jason Joseph me, my boy.
That's tough too.
And yeah, we were outside for like twelve minutes and my father came back from work and he's like, we're free, Like we make a hot coco stand. He's like, first of all, nobody's walking on the streets, you idiot, so on the ground. And the second hot cocoa is out cult coco getting sawt It was so because my mom was like, that's good, you'd be entrepreneurs. Goh, yes, now she helped us make it. And my dad gets someone's like, what are you doing your dummies?
Just right to the fact, right in fact.
There's no there was no sidewalk. It was covered in snow. I remember, and I remember across the street one of our neighbors was like shoveling and we're like just sitting there a watch.
I'm like you want to but that's did you ever shovel driveways?
Yeah? That was the that was the way to make them. That's where you make you get to. She had a big time there. That's pre plow. That's pre plow action. When guys coming with the plow. Do you remember that?
Do you see and pre plow?
Yeah? When people do the Hong Kong Did you ever get that? It's been a clear driveway? Remember you go outside there all in the window twenty bucks or do you driveway?
Oh really you never got that? No? Yeah, we just had kids in the neighborhood that did it. So I was I was the kid in our neighborhood that I would go do that and break your clean house and then blow it all at like pizza hut, playing like videos us turtles.
Yeah, I did. We used to someone I got the new house where I live now. We inherited a lot of things, meaning like you know, they had their landscape or who took over the joke. You know, they didn't even know it.
Right.
So, the first year I'm living there, no snow. The second year i'm living there, a huge snowfall. I wake up. I'm like, all right, am I gonna What am I gonna do here?
Right?
So I was like, right, I had to figure out. I'm like googling plow stuff.
Whatever.
I go outside, it's all gone. So it's all gone, and I go what happened or whatever? I look back on the cameras. A guy came and plowed the whole place.
Right.
I got a phone call from the old owner. He's like hey, He's like, Tommy came and plowed your your dryway and he's charging me. I was like, who's Tommy. He's like, oh, he's a guy who plows the who plows the house. So I but I had skipped a season, so I had no idea I even had. He just showed up and took care of the problem. So it's so funny. So I was like, oh, and I was like, well, you could pay a problem now bench No, I paid him, but it was so interesting. It was like I was like, oh, you know, I was like, what do I do? I have this big driveway. I don't even know what to do, and there go boom. He just came in and did it haunted my house? Possibly? We just talked about this yesterday. Did you really Two of my dogs are starting to do this thing where they bark at a corner where nothing's at Really, my dogs, are you serious? I swear Tartoofo, Napoleon, Tartoofhon and Cupcake get scared of a corner near where they eat, bark at the corner. Cupcakes straight up pisses herself and runs away, and Tartufa runs in a circle and but then bears down and barks at the corner.
You got a Blair.
I've got a Blair bitch in my house. I use a bitch named Blair in my house. Yeah, so it was very weird.
So the dogs know something's up, not all of them, it's just these two.
So maybe these two have something going on.
But they don't bar. No other dog barks in, not any other.
Corner on the other twelve and it's the same area. It's near where they eat though, so then I was also thinking it's right by the outside and there might be some sort of like rodent issue or something living, like in the bushes or something they're seen because this glass windows and everything right where they are, So I'm thinking maybe it's something outside. It's very very interesting.
Have you ever had a haunted experience?
Yes?
Multiple, First was the scariest one.
Uh. I didn't necessarily say scary, but from beyond, like bed bath. I was touched from bed bath beyond what Uh? There was this, there was this uh that came to me the night, a lavender scented hand soap from bed bath and beyond came. No, my dad, I told you, sorry about my dad with acorn. No, you won't remember anyway. You don't even listen to the podcast. I think I told the story. I'm not sure. We have so many episodes. I'm not sure. But I my father had passed away and I was driving in Philadelphia, born and raised where I was. I was thinking about my dad, you got it, and I'm driving.
I was thinking the eighth song, Oh Philadelphia, He's sorry.
Rest in peace. So yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm driving. So I'm driving back. I was working down in outside Philly Manny Yunk it was the name of the town I was working, and my dad. I was thinking my Daddy just passed away a little while ago, and I had my first big job, and I was thinking about it when as I was driving. I'm driving through a parking lot that connected the shopping center and my apartment building there, and I'm driving through and I, for some reason, I just see this tree and I was thinking about my dad. Music was on the radio, and I was like doing like a you know, a heavy phill die, not a full blown tier, which is a phill die. Yeah, you caught my fields. And I'm driving and I see a big tree with it and I just fixate on this one acorn that was up in the tree and I see it and I'm driving slow through the parking lot twenty miles an hour, and I see the acorn fall out of the tree as I'm driving. Now I'm moving twenty miles for our windows down, and it bounces and lands in my window and I catch it like in the crook of my god, as if I as if I'm hugging somebody, because I was thinking, oh my god, I wish I could hugg my dad one more time. I'm getting filled up thinking about it. And I hugged and I caught the acorn like this as I always driving and I still have the acorn.
Wow.
Cool.
Yeah, see, I don't think those things are coincidence.
That's that's the only thing. I was like, Oh, that's pretty in depth, Yeah, that's pretty, and that's a it's kind of thing. I think it has to happen to you because you could explain stuff away all the time. You're like, oh, well, you know, but it's pretty surreal to be thinking about my father at that moment, thinking I wish I could hug him. Seeing an acorn in a tree and just fixating on it, watching it fall, and then counting like that's moving through a moving vehicle, like I'm going twenty miles an hour and it lands through my open window and I catch it Like that's way too many dots to connect from me.
Isn't it great that that happened and you didn't round a corner and see like a homeless guy taking a shit in the middle sidewalk. Collect we got to clean.
These streets up.
Sorry, dad, I'll sorry.
I'll try to see you later.
Oh my god, that I think that is. I don't know you you hear about those stories, right, and so sweet and I it's interesting. My uncle passed away, and they had a wind up clock, an antiquated wind up clock that had been in our family for a long time. I think it was my grandmother's and then my uncle took over her apartment, kept the clock whatever. And he had a brain tumor and his girlfriend was living with him at the time, and she was going across street to visit him at the hospital and she sees the clock and she's like, oh, it's out, so I, you know, wind the clock away, wind it up, and so she goes over it sees him, and he had passed away, and he passed away like let's say two forty five. She came back and the clock stopped at two forty five. She went to wind it and it snapped, so the clock stopped and I broke and time is frozen. Wow, forty five.
That's pretty interesting, pretty wild. She broke the fucking clock.
She broke the clock.
That bitch. Bitch broke the clock, broke them and tried to be like, oh, that's what he died. She moved the fucking thing. She like looked over her shoulders like nobody, Oh my god, you guys don't worry what happened? Yeah, Thennis acorn fell up. Oh that's pretty sick too.
Yeah, pretty wild that that the exact time that he died is when it stopped and fuck broke. So I know odd odd for sure?
My uh yeah, that's that's interesting.
Do you think that there is uh?
Do you think when you're dead your kids will mission? Excuse me, think about that old talk? You think, like you think something like how long do they get over? Who gets over it first?
Oh? My daughter, for sure, she gets over pretty quickly. But she blows everything in the will?
Right, Yeah, she's gonna first of all, how much is in the will? It's be gone besides a broken clock? Who has this broken clock?
D am I in the won't know? You?
I know? I I think about that all the time, Like you think about, well, you're different than me because you still have both your parents, right, I have both your parents? Right? Okay, so you have both of them, yes? And then what about Jesse was justice your wife's situation? She has both folks?
Yeah?
Okay, so they're all there. We're surrounded by life, right, so everybody's dead on my side?
Bring it up?
So but I lost my parents early, right, so my dad nineteen.
I never had grandparents, growing up though. Really, yeah, my my grandfather passed away when I was I think, uh, nine or ten.
She didn't remember.
Yeah, I remember him, yeah, but I I you know, everybody had grandparents, you know, I don't really.
You started out by saying I never had grandparents, and I said, you said, died nine or ten. I said, oh, so you never remember? He goes, no, I remember, So what the fuck are you talking about?
I never had grandparents really one before, but he passed pretty early. But no, I hear for sure.
But I know the experience like I have. Some people have their grand like that my age still had their grandparents, which is insane to me. People in their thirties that still other grandparents forties, you know. Yeah, But so like I think think that just is always like I'm always like, oh, I wonder how they're gonna how much they're gonna remember me, or like how much they will because I think after a certain point they start get more memories, you build up more more stuff. But you know, because my dad was nineteen, I was nineteen when I lost my dad, right, so then, like you when do you do your memory start like they really really remember stuff? Seven six seven? Right? Probably there, So like gas me, like, you know, fourteen thirteen years of remembering stuff, you know, twelve years of that. So it's pretty insane to think of the impact you have. So I think about, like, I'm trying to like get all the impact I can with these kids before you know, it's clocks ticking right, hull puns intended to your uncle, and it's almost two forty five. So I'm like trying to work all that. But I wonder that sometimes like how long they'll like or what they not even how long because it's not really that they will remember, but like what will then, right, you know, what will they like we had our brothers, we'd be like, oh, we want to remember we were a great dad, But you know it's gonna be something stupid, like do you remember the way that used to like pop out his belly and we don't laugh, Like you.
Know it's gonna be something yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the afternoon this while my dad's waking up. Yes, right, it's amazing you lost both your parents at an early age and you became Captain Fatbelly. Yes, so you, much like Batman became a superhero. Right in your latter.
Years, were murdered by pastry. My father chokes. My father choked on that's true, that's worry. I yeah, I think about that. Yeah, but you know what this is what the thing is too, like you try, you've.
Given them so many experiences.
That's true. But then even I was ready, I was literally just gonna say that, because it is gonna be the other the stuff that you you not that you try to give good experiences, but you do have good experiences. But then you always think. I always about the funny like little things that didn't mean anything in a moment. The number like one memory I have with my dad was the time he came home. It was the summer. We were in the pool. My dad came home from work selling life insurance. So you know, it was like six o'clock and we're all hanging out in the pool and I said to dad and my dad and I said, I said, oh, come in the pool, come in the pools. And he's like no, he's like I'm not gonna He's like, you know, it's getting late. We gotta go eat dinner, blah blah. I don't have time to change. I said, so just come in like that, and he said okay, and he jumped in his full suit over the side. Really, he just jumped in the pool and we laughed hysterically. My mother was cursing him out what you like, we were laughing like it was really funny and that he wasn't like let me do that. And that is like the one main vivid like could still see him hop in the side almost taking that makes me.
So, you know, awesome. Yeah wow.
So you think about those little things that you do as a dad, like you, and then I think about like, well, my kids, I'm like, oh, we did this awesome. You know. We go to Lego Land every year for your birthday. We put on this big thing. We do all these trips together and like it's gonna be the little things they remember. Yeah, So, which is insane in.
A moment, that was such an awesome story. Oh my god, that's not my dad.
But it's like that is because your dad's alive. You can call your dad right now if you want it. But my stead, that's again to bring it up, Steve, it's not very nice to you to keep rubbing your alive father in my face. Send your dad an acorn.
But that's such a cool memory and that's such a good dad thing. But that's also dude, that's such a youth thing. That's totally where you get it from. Yeah, I mean, I know you've told multiple stories about your mom and your father beats so outgoing, so gregarious, so honest, but also that playful side.
Yeah, I definitely got my dad's dad is that's you, dude.
I could see you doing that in a heartbeat. You do it every day in the air, you do whatever. Where we go, everywhere we go, Yeah, everywhere we go. Oh there's a door, it won't know it works, but I won't. It will not work when I go to a.
Favorite thing is walking into an unlocked door, pretending it's locked.
My favorite game, kicking it and then and then the look after me, and like what is like looking at the people.
Who remember Niagara Falls?
You did it? There was?
There was the I mean, it's the most ridiculous. It's such a there was. They had this stupid like cut out huge thing of the falls and a fake door like it.
Was at which is clearly against the wall, right.
Clearly against the wall, like a twelve by fourteen foot sticker, and Joe, all these tourists are around and everybody is the gift shops. They are the tickets whatever. Joe literally he just turned around, jaking's watch.
This and he runs it ran it was It wasn't a door. It was a photo of a bridge that went to the fall. Yeah, and the falls were behind us.
Yes, and you ran into it like remember when Doctor Evil, random thing and then fell like that was it? And then and then.
You you you, then I got a complaint.
You got up and you always act amazed.
Like what what? What is?
What is this? It doesn't work?
Oh you crumble?
Do what?
You get tears whenever I look at you two when we're on the road together and I go watch this, it's my favorite moment.
It was hilarious and just everybody's faces. And the thing now is though, like it takes people three seconds to go what oh that's Joe, and then then it becomes a thing.
You know what. I do a new thing now which has been really fun for me. I asked people to take a picture of me while I'm jumping on three and I'll jump on two.
You know stupid photos when you jump and freeze on two. I'll go one two and I'll jump I'll did you get it?
Like?
No, just wait for three and I'll jump on three. It's so fun. I highly recommend it to friends.
That should be your new show. Watch this, Watch this. That's a great idea.
Watch this. That's a fun idea. Maybe'll maybe I'll develop that out. You should do it? Would you watch this?
Y'all?
Yeah? That's what I want to watch.
This joke.
That's my that's my equivalent of hold my beer.
Right.
That is so you yeah, do you think that, uh? Do you think that Jess has moments that with with your kids? Do you think your wife with your kids has moments more moments than you have with your kids that were on the road so much? Do you think there's like I know she spends more time, right, like he spends more time, But do you think that are you missing out on moments? Are you? Are you lucky enough to make them as family moments?
I think she's more practical, right, Like she's going to do the things that you know, our everyday life, like like she's gonna make dinner, she's gonna take it to soccer. Can do this, she can do that. I'm the one that's like, let's get the car and let's just go to that hiking trail. Let's go see that dinosaur example, let's go. You know, usually it's stuff that involves spending money. She's like, oh god, but she's a lot a lot less spontaneous, and I think, again, that's probably why we get along so well.
But she goes along for the ride, which I love.
She goes along for the ride.
Phil in the moment like all.
Right, let's do it, you know kind of yeah, even if it's Hawaii, she's like, all right, we shouldn't be doing this, let's go, but aloha. Yeah, she's she's a lot more. Yeah, she's a thinker, she's a planner, whereas I'm just like fuck it.
You know.
I remember there were times, like my daughter was in first grade. We're in California and it's like we had the Disney season pass and it's like, it's a beautiful day out. I'm home, it's Monday.
Fuck it.
She's like, where are you going. I'm like, I'm gonna go get live. I'm gonna take her to Disney. She's like, wait, what, Mike, We're just gonna go to Disney today. She's like, but she's in school. I'm like, it's first grade, Like she knows d she's fine, and I would take her out and and it got it got to the point even where she she would she was like, are we going to Disney again? Like I was like, I'm telling you, one day you're gonna you're gonna realize how much you're taking this for granted. You're gonna love it. And when we moved to Nashville, about a year into Nashville, she goes, she said it from the back of the car. She goes, Dad, I go, yeah, she goes, I miss all those times she took this. You're right. And I was like, you're right.
Told you I told you, Yeah, you can remember. That's when I'm gone and.
I'll tell you another thing. Your mom is wrong. I am successful. Take that all right?
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This comes from Katie. Hey, Mommy's I'm twenty four and recently got engage back in October and Halloween night. Any advice on planning a ceremony or wedding. I've been married before and was always extremely hesitant when it came to the idea of getting married again. This time, I really want to make it as simple as possible and enjoy the day rather than stress. How can I make the best of a small celebration?
Who was good with this?
Yeah? Just do it first of all, I mean, yeah, take his dreaming of a big wedding away, because you already did it with you know, you already struck out, So he's got to bear that brunt. He can have a big fun one.
He already knows that your body was used and abused by another man, and he got what he wanted, and he left, and he left, he ravaged your body. He did everything he wanted.
Was just start over. Okay, that's great, I wanted that was very fun.
She got engaged on Devil's Night.
That's great. Well, here's what I would say about this about that intimate one. This you're gonna be able to see, which is cool. You're gonna have two different experiences because you probably have the big, gaudy wedding, which we all do, right or most people do, and and you realize that it's not worth it. It's really just good to have a nice collection of people that matter in your life. So what I would say with the smaller ceremony, you do get to capitalize on time spent with your guests. You get to make memories and have fun with your friends and family at a smaller scale as opposed to working the room with a big, big wedding. Yeah, all that stuff. So I will say that's the first thing that I was going to bring you new joy with that and your husband is to have some memories of spending time with your guests and actually partying with them instead of being at a party. I think that's the biggest difference between a big wedding and a little wedding. You party with your guests or you're at a party. At the big wedding, you know, it's like a little different. So I would say that's the number one thing, the number two thing that's great about a smaller one is that you could really pay attention to some of the details in a different way, and you can make it feel very much your own. Like I remember, like I left photography and we found this thing at the last minute about putting up a polaroid wall where we would just have everybody, you know, snap a picture and then put up, you know, write a little note on the back of the polar and I thought that was really cool. Yeah, so you could take your time to find some that's really about you and that that could be really cool to add those little details which kind of get lost at a big wedding because you're like, I can't order one hundred and seventy of these things or whatever it is. Yeah, so I think that's another thing that I'll help. And then also the food, you could dive in a little bit better. With the food, you don't even have to do the penne alavaka for four hundred people. Well you did, you try to do like an artisanal linguini.
For the DeMar But the meal, by the way, is that much better because it's so much more intimated percent as well, Yeah, you just enjoy it more.
Yeah, what are your thoughts?
Yeah, I would echo a lot of your sentiments, and I think, like there's I think any couple that has got married or will get married, you also romanticize like that Vegas. Well, yeah, that's something I kind of wish, Yeah, we had done that. Yeah, to just go with like a handful of your best pals go going to Vegas and you don't even tell them and then you, you know, Elvis marries you and then you just blow it out that weekend like that, to me, in retrospect, sounds a lot more fun because then you have all that money for the vacation and your honeymoon or whatever. Speak and blackjack, which you would do well at I would not do.
So yeah, I think that's cool. Yeah, so I would embrace it. And it sounds like she's on the right path. I feel like she's excited about this from the tone of it, So, yeah, excited about a smaller wedding. So yeah, I would definitely embrace the differences and celebrate those. I mean, you know, you do also have to the hardest part about it is the guest list, Right, if you're committing to a small wedding, you're gonna you know, you have to cut off some people. Yeah, you know, I think it was your wedding. Do you remember how many people you had to yours?
I mean, Jess comes from a big family, so she invited like like seventy five people. I think I'd like ten or twelve. Yeah, and like retrospect, I wish i'd I had invited more. But then I also felt like all my friends are working, yeah, like you know comics, right. I remember getting an invitation from Sebastian Menoscalco right to go to his wedding, and he the invitation was a It was an invitation, but there was also like a People magazine with them on the cover, and I was like, oh, that's kind of cool, Like they put it on. I was like, well, I'll read the People. No, the whole I think I still have it in the closet somewhere. The whole People magazine was them. They had articles on them. This is years ago ago, dude, So I mean it was like her likes his likes. They're just like us. What does mom say about it? What is dad? Like? They had a full on, full blown People magazine And it was one of those things where I was so young I needed to pay my rent. Right, I was like I can't go to this, and then I'm getting all these messages.
Like this wedding.
I mean they have like their pictures in front of the Sebastian and I was like.
Well, that looks sick.
And I was like one of those regrets and I couldn't do it. And then when I was getting hitched, I was like, oh, I should have Sebastian. I'm just like, he's not gonna come, you know, he's you know, And that was so stupid to me to assume. But I just I felt like it was more just in my own head, like oh, it's a burden. Yeah, yeah to some of my friends, and I felt like they'd rather work than come to this, Like why would they? I don't know. It was so selfish and stupid at me.
You want to give people the opportunity to say no. I think it's a big problem with anything in life. Yeah, you always put it on yourself, like, oh, I don't want to burn people. Give if people don't want they have give them the chance to say no if they don't want to come, because then you are taking away the chance from them saying yeah, i'll tell you this.
My mom had cancer. She had breast cancer. She didn't tell us.
Isn't that crazy at your wedding?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no. I didn't want to bring down the mood. No, at my wedding. She poked my stomach, goes, you'll fat. Literally, she poked my tummy. You're fat there, thanks mom. But I mean to your point, like, my mom kept it from us for a while, and my dad's like, all right, I got to tell him at some point, and he told us and he's like, I don't want you to feel a burden or whatever. And I was all going on the road and they was thinking of me like in that.
Regard, right, that's crazy. Yeah, your mom still alive. Right, next question, when you get our speaker, I love you. You're fat fat. Okay, you're in a phonus fat son. She went, show fat.
It's just me on a clearance rack.
Some Bard shorts. Okay.
Kelly says, I get so lazy and tired in the winter. Any tips to keep the winter blues away.
That's a big thing for people. That's seasonal depression.
Right, It's so easy to stay inside, it's so easy to be like comfort food. I totally get that. Yeah, I mean I just went through the holidays. Yeah, I lost so much weight for the special than the holiday is hit and I put it all back on.
Don't jump, junk it up, double up.
So I do want more serving. Yeah, I literally ate like I have two assholes. Yeah, and I was like, all right, you gotta get it back in shape. So I completely grew with you. I understand that. I think it's just like force yourself to get out there. Even if you think it's cold. It's never that cold unless it's really cold.
Unless it's really cold. Yeah, you know, but even that, like jimsy indoor gyms aren't cold. Yeah, you know. You have to find destination stuff. Nor Northeast is like where I live is annoyingly cold. And then the seasonal depression. The biggest part for me is the light and dark. It gets dark, so it's like pitch black out of four forty five. Yeah, it's insane. It's like, oh, I hate that, you know, And you know, it's really interesting. I see it of my dogs when I want them, when A're not busy barking to ghosts, they're walking outside in the dark, Like my dogs be like, oh, they're like fall asleep the night at like five pm.
Aren't you related though that the dogs? Yeah, chill, which is nice, chill so much earlier.
Yeah, that is cool. But I do feel like the darkness is the biggest thing for me. The darken light thing is worse than the cold. Like I could live with the cold like that it gets it's so depressing when it's like all of a sudden, it's like, you look, I still at five pm. I still have six hours of my life to live in the pure dark, like I'm a fucking bat flapping around a cavern.
You do that Alaska thing where it's like forty I went to Alaska in June.
When I went there, it was the sun was setting at like ten pm or someone was crazy. I was like nine people or something like that.
Yeah, but what time is it?
Which was nuts?
What times it start? What times the day.
Started as like six to nine or something like that, six six am or so. Yeah, it so it was kind of normal by last night there. I think it would beginning of June. I think at the sunset like eight thirty five. That's why it was just crazy pretty cool. Yeah, it was really cool. It might even been later, I think.
But just consecutive days of night. Did you ever do that.
No, I mean I think that would be like super unless I was and crime. If I was like a vigilante, I would want I wouldn't want to get executive.
Yeah, night fights, but a rose where your parents you know, Yeah, well.
When my mother got taken down by my mother got killed.
By the I think, uh, the best way to deal with it is I think the first thing is to really Bessie, my wife, really really affects her.
It's like because she was from California too, so she's used to all that warm and stuff. But I think a big thing is to know your triggers and realize what's coming and prep yourself for it. Like you get those Vitamin D lamps which really helped her. Like I had, I was like this is bullshit, but I see how it works on her.
It's crazy.
Yeah. So they're like a basically just a lamp that just shoots out like UV light, and it like she just like looks into this laight stares into this life for a little bit and it's like recharges a battery unlike your solar powered watch. So she like loves that.
That sounds exactly like something that would be on the back cover of the Sharper image. Remember that definitely like the.
By the way that Sharper image has been has been, you know, replaced with TikTok shop. TikTok shop is a scrolling Sharper image. Or what was the one in the airplane of the Brookston No, not Brookst The sky mall. Sky was the best.
I love sky mall.
Yeah, yeah, I had a good friend of mine used to Christmas shop exclusively from the sky.
I get eight foot gargoyles from my garden.
Who doesn't want to garden? I love that?
Yes, please?
Yeah, oh man, the sky mall. That was a great thing to shop at. I'm a sucker for a good bargain. But I would say those UV light things help.
UV lights that work.
And I think eating right is important to you.
Gotta eat right, Yeah, you gotta eat right. But I I love taking walks around my neighborhood.
Even you even do cold. You bundle up, I'll bundle up. Yeah, you a penny from South Park.
I'm UPI's brother, bundle up and you force yourself to get out there. And I've never I've never went out and taken a walk and came back and said I shouldn't have done.
That, don't you think Sometimes you've set us like, fuck, it's cold out there. Why did I do that? Yes, yes, but you're also in Nashville, but cold to get in Nashville.
It doesn't get too cold. I mean there's nights where it's gotten cold. But I also think it's frame of mind. Okay, frame of mind. Oh God, I don't want to say it.
Come on.
I was reading a book on the Endurance cap Shackleton.
Ernest.
This is one of the greatest stories in terms of like expedition ever and you could google it. Ernest Shackleton.
Okay, tell me what Ernie did.
They went down to the South Pole on a ship called the Endurance.
And they won one by one, one by one. There was twelve of them. What's that there's twelve of them. You told me the story, right, Didn't they only eat seals?
No, they survived I believe, like a year and a half in the Arctic by themselves. And he went from They were literally on an ice shelf and their ship got crushed and went down. They salvaged supplies, They went and took one of the smaller boats, found a place they could lodge up, and then essentially went to another island to get help that wasn't there, and then they had to catch the right current otherwise they would drift out in the sea and die. And then that means the guy's marooned that the island would die. And they hedged their bets and found this island. And not only did they got to the island, they had to hike from one side of the island to the other and through mountainous terrain and get back in enough time to save those guys on the other side. And that side it was crazy. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy, and every single member of his crew survived and it's only because of him. So my point is, there are nights where I go out, I walk and it's like eighteen degrees. It's fifteen degrees, okay, But you think I swear to God. I do because because you're gonna I swear it again. But it's all frame of mind because those guys, like I'd seen like these pictures. Uh, there was a photographer that had filmed for a little bit, but they would be outside in like twelve degrees working and sandwiching the ship in like short sleeved shirts or whatever, and then at night it would get incredibly cold, and I was like, these guys did not have north face. They didn't have any of it. They just had like the little bit of clothing they did and they survived. And I every time out and it's super coold. I'm like, it's just a frame of mind. Is is it really that cold? Mess? Shorts? I wear boys shorts and I roller blade. I go, this is for you, Ernest. And I looked at that north story and I point.
I walk out. I'm just triple fat, no goose.
Don't you think there are times where you're doing things that are physical or mental and you know you can supersede the circumstances with frame of mind. Do you ever think that? Oh?
For sure, for sure. But I don't think about that as most physical stuff because I don't do a lot of physical stuff right, Like I don't like, I don't go out a what But I think about like I'm trying to problem solve or if i'm thinking right, work through something like an issue that's coming through, Like I'm trying to think of an example of something. But okay, let's say I have had like a big decision to come through and you break it down with the process, right, you know, I'll think of Gary Oldstein, who's like a Do you ever hear the story of Gary olds They never read a book about him, So Gary Oldstein him?
And are you making? You're making?
They were stuck in Pennsylvania. Okay, the car broke down.
You know I'm talking.
You got a story about Gary Altstein. Car broke down in Pennsylvania. Okay, there's ten of them in the woods. Okay, Joe very a lost fimilarities to your's. Okay, they didn't know. They'd go up the mountain and down the mountain, and six of the guys are waiting more on the other tree, and they guess back and Gary Olsen didn't lose one man. And I think about it all, tak.
This is the Donner Party. That's that's what you're telling about.
Okay, No, No, I do no, I do think. I do think about that a lot. I was making a joke there, but I do think about people who work through I hate the saying it could be worse. I do hate that saying. I do hate that because it's always like you're comparing your misery to somebody else, which is never. Never, nobody's story is equal nobody's services equal, right, it could be worse. Of course, it could be worse, but also could be better. So which way you're picking it up from, like which way you're looking at? You know, it doesn't make any sense to us to say that it could be worse, it could be better, you know, So it doesn't make any sense to me for that saying. But I will say I sometimes I think of, Okay, this is my biggest problem. Okay, so how do we solve this problem? People are out there solving way better problems, So that's I could relate to it in that way, I would say.
But could be better as the mindset that people are in. And that's why you say, well it could be worse because your present isn't where you want to be, because it should be where it's better. Yeah, but it's so when you're when you when it's not better, you're going, well it could be worse. No, I think medicating yourself back to the present. No.
I think people there are downgrading their their present. I think it's downgraded and they say, well, it could be worse, that's what they're dealing with. But no, it could be better if you work harder. See what I'm saying, like you're almost to your other way. You know, you're saying it could be worse when people are like, you know, oh I got this flat tire. Hey, it could be worse, you know what, be like but like that in that situation. Yeah, but it's a lot of people are like, hey, you know what, I only make this much, But it could be worse. But yeah, it could also be better if you worked harder, you discipline yourself in a different way. So I think it depends on the way that you're the intention behind the saying.
I think that's that's probably what our listeners think when they listen to Definitely.
It's definitely No. They think it is worse, it's getting worse, It is worse, presents it was worse, could be better. Well, it looks like we found our title gov's episode whatever number.
It is worse, all right, we have time for a couple more.
Thank goodness.
That could be worse, yea, and also.
Could be better.
Charlie says, I'm turning forty in a few weeks and my husband is ten years younger than I am. We're a gay couple interested in adopting in the future. But my age is a concern for me. My idea was to adopt an older kid and get some years back. But my husband is interested in a baby.
What should we do? Get both go one of each? How old is so?
Charlie's forty and his husband is ten years younger.
Than thirty forty and thirty. I did a quick math theft for I had my I mean I had my second kid.
At forty, I was thirty, I was thirty.
I was thirty nine when I had my first one, and forty one and I had my second one.
Yeah, yeah, thirty eight when I have my first.
So I think you get you get some time. I do see what the you know, if you want more, if you want to be there and be able to establish a better future for the kid and have more time to set them up when they're We just spoke about how like you don't remember much before six or seven, right, I think he's trying to cut that time out. If you get a seven year old whatever, you're starting to make memories and bonding with the kid instantly, right, Yeah, we're having more of an impact, should I say? And they're long term life planned, you know, right, you had more different years. But then this benefits to both sides. I could see both sides of it. As far as what you could do here, I mean, we can't answer that for you. I would say, talk about it as much as you can and see who's going to be less unhappy with the kid, right, because somebody's going to come out the way they want it to be.
Yeah. Look, I would think that age. I think he's fixated on the fact that he feels older. Yeah, but again, I think much of what we talk about frame of mind. So I think you got to stop with that because.
Out you can live to ninety yeah, right, and then you get fifty years with this kid.
Robert de Niro just had a kid at eighty one.
Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
So did Pacino. I think Patina is the same thing. So my only question between you guys is who's the bottom.
That's a good question, I would say, maybe, but I don't know it was one we should be asking.
Okay, maybe we should try to brass tacks Chuck figure out talk to me.
Yeah. I do think mortality is on the mind for sure, for Charlie or whoever the old one is. I think it was Charlie. But mortality is on the mind for the old one. But then again, you'd never know how long it's gonna, you know, last. So whatever I think is going to make the couple happiest after you communicated about it, I think that's a route to go that makes sense.
Yeah, I also think, Uh, I don't know, I'm gonna cut it before you say it was I was seriously like trying to answer this.
Forget it all out. That's great. No, I know you're gonna make a joke.
No, no, I wasn't.
Well, you should start doing that.
How many beads is he should? Steve?
We should name a full season called cutting Room Floor.
Oh a hundred percent starring Steve, all of it. I would love that, all of it.
Yeah, i'd have to blur my face and you're one of those voice like date line. Yeah, we just pixelated hover. I love you, buddy.
Yeah. I would say to Charles that age should not be an issue at all. Obviously, it's what what makes you happy. But please don't think you're too old too sure, I mean that's ridiculous.
Yeah.
Yeah, my dad had me when he was forty eight, so oh will he's seventy now I'm twenty two.
Wow, there you go, there's your answer, there's your answers living and you're on mes.
Yeah, you're just just firstly off first, okay, last question. Ali says, this one's really fun. My boyfriend and I are going into Joe's show at Foxwoods and bought meet and greet tickets. What is something memorable we can bring or do so that you remember us forever?
I'll tell you right now, take the picture and thank say thanks, and get the fuck out. I mean, honestly, does everything have to you mean so, I mean, we like, we shut up, just come in. If you just come in, your polite and take the picture, he'll remember you because it never fucking happens.
This is what Steve, this is what this is coming from.
We want to eat.
Steve has been on the road with me and we can't eat till after the meat and great right, and Steve is always hungry and that I'll have my meat gred I'll He'll be like, how many of the meat grid I'm like, you know, like one hundred and twenty, be like, oh Jesus cried, and I will come back to the green room and I'll just be sitting there like an angry kid, like I'll be cranking to talk to Jiggy ask about a stupid elephant, had stupid hat. Yeah, so another ducks. So I said, uh I, I that's coming from a place of I want to get out of here.
So I can so I can feed Stevie's no, no, no. But but in all sincerity, I look, that's that's a you question for me. I've just seen so many people. Look, I totally get it right. It's like a meet and great, you finally get to meet somebody that you're you see on TV all the time. You know. My thing is just like just be cool, just be cool, and you'll stand out.
It's it's the real moments. There is always to make it For me. I love when somebody you know just you know, you have a real moment, you laugh about something and have a cool connection about things. You know. For me, it's not like that's that one. Hundreds of the time. Those of the people I remember, It'll be like, you know, I met this really cool couple. I meant, you know, yeah, and there Mark and I will talk about it because Mark will be the back of the meet and Greek too, and we'll you know, recap we're talking about do you remember them? And whatnot. I think, I think just being real and being human because it's awkward for me as well, right, because it's a you know, it's a weird experience to just be in there and waiting down lot a line of people come to see you like it's a wedding reception. So but it's cool when it's just like it's normalized because I'm pretty normal, you know. And people always say that too, They're like, oh, well, you know you don't you know what am I gonna like? I'm standing here like, Hi, how are you? He's just saw me on stage, you know. And I actually like to meet great a little bit more because I get to like talk.
But you disarm them with that, literally with that.
I also have candies I give people, can't you can't And I'm snacking on those. Yeah, I see. I look at Stephen Cordy's covered in chocolate, being like, are you done?
He's amend joys my appetite ruling. But you do such a great job of connecting with with your audience, and you're really really giving and times I think your patient too great patient, because there are there are some Look I'm not saying everybody is, but there are certainly those people that feel they're owed something or entitled or overbearing, and you've always handled it with grace. I mean some people are a little drunk, some people a little sauced. It just you know, there's you see, you're seeing a gauntlet of emotions coming at you every time, and you're you're a great safe cracker of like knowing. Okay, left r.
Yeah for sure. But I would just say have fun and be normal. I think I think that's the best to do. And if you wanted to bring me something, I mean, you know, I never shy away from baked good, a baked good.
He loves a baked good.
Yeah, I love I love a hand drawn fan art. I think those are always fun. Those are cool or money just cash and an envelope.
I like when when you're on when people make custom T shirts, shirts you or something. Those those I find very fun.
Love people love doing that and people, you know, people love putting my dogs on stuff. That's always so fun too. Yeah, I have all these pictures, like people will drum my dogs.
Right.
This is the thing on our set right here is from a fan that drew two of my favorite dogs, be warning Biscotti and gave me a meet and greet, but uh yeah, I would just say I don't need anything. I just need you to have a good time to come out and left.
You know, it's so crazy. I mean, I know we're drawing to a close. But I had an experience for I was in Vegas and it was like a double whammy. Some in Vegas doing the Kimmel Show and there's a young man with sunglasses on.
Right and.
Kind of like needling him a bit because he's out this mom and I eventually asked him. I'm like, are you are you visual impaired orre you?
You know?
Are you just super cool? He's like, no, I'm actually I'm legally blind. I can't see and I'm out here, and I go, okay, well, by the end of my show, you're gonna wish not only can you not see that you couldn't hear. And the audience kind of groans and he laughs, he laughs hysterically, right, and I make a few other kind of like blind jokes or whatever, and the audience is kind of groaning and he's dying laughing, and I come down to the audience, so I go, you guys don't get it, like he told me is blind for a reason because he wants to be included. He wants to And that's the thing like I think people think, is like they hear these things and just like the Expirits are going a comedy show is so cathartic sometimes to people that he's going around.
You're one of the crowd. You're one of the group.
It's a pity party, right or oh my god, he can't see. It's like, no, it's the opposite. He wants to be shit on because this is his everyday life. And he literally was one and I said, I never asked to take pictures with the audience, but I took a picture with him and his mom because there were such great sports, fantastic and literally right across from him was a young woman who was by herself, and I go, oh, what happened? You know, how awful is your personality or whatever? And so I pressed and I pressed, and she goes, well, i'll just tell you I'm a widower and this is like my first night out. I go, oh my, And so the three of us ended up doing a shot together, the blind kid and this young lady, and then she became another focal point and it was one of those things where I never had a show like that where you have these two individuals that are like you, like you see my show, where they're allowing me to kind of go to these vulnerable parts and expose it, but also it bec cathartic. And she came up to me after this show and she's like, I needed this so bad. And it's one of those things where it's like you remember her forever. I literally will remember her forever, and I'll remember him forever, and I remember that show. And it's countless shows have done right, but I will absolutely remember that show. So sometimes, like when somebody's like, hey, this is really cool to be here and meet you, sometimes it's the opposite. Sometimes it's like you hear what somebody is going through, what brought them to that intersection of light between you and them, And that to me is like that's when it's like that, that's awesome.
Yeah, it gets cool for you to be that person.
It's really cool. Yeah, And you know this, like this is the sandbox I get to play in for an hour. This is gonna be the best. And I have your permission and you're on board, and you're gonna have a great time, and we ended up doing two or three shots together and she got sauced and then he got sauced and the mom was like the mom was just like over the moon, like this is one and they were from Germany and oh wow, just visiting from Germany and it couldn't have been nicer. That's great, dude.
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