Three and a Half Sicilians - Italian American vs. American Italian

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Italian Sicilians do it better. Oh, can't you see?

[00:00:07]From cooking to come, it's pure family.

[00:00:14]Turn it up. Turn it up.

[00:00:22]>> Well, I got a bone to pick.

[00:00:23]>> Who doesn't?

[00:00:25]>> So, I'm Sicilian.

[00:00:26]>> You're Sicilian? You're Sicilian?

[00:00:28]>> I hope so. You're better half Sicilian, right, Joe?

[00:00:30]>> Yes. I don't tell I don't tell too many people. But yeah, you know why I do that though, right?

[00:00:36]>> Why?

[00:00:36]>> Because when all the Sicilians talk their [ __ ] in their dialect, I pretend I don't know what they say.

[00:00:40]>> Oh, all right. Well, it's already late.

[00:00:42]We advertised it already. So, you're kind of [ __ ] now.

[00:00:44]>> Oh, it was advertised a while ago.

[00:00:46]>> Oh, it was. Yeah, it was.

[00:00:47]>> Yeah. Mario, little Mario dragged it out of me.

[00:00:49]>> He dragged it out of you? How do you do that?

[00:00:50]>> Cuz you know, he was You know, he did.

[00:00:53]>> Wow, man. Come on. It can't be that easy to get that kind of information from you, bro. What are we doing? It's not.

[00:00:57]It usually isn't.

[00:00:58]>> Is it?

[00:00:58]>> You had a weak moment.

[00:01:00]>> It was a weak moment. I guess you can say, man.

[00:01:02]>> Listen, you know, I speak both dialects, >> right?

[00:01:06]>> But I don't show you my Sicilian dialect.

[00:01:08]>> I was about to say I never heard it.

[00:01:09]>> No, neither heard it.

[00:01:10]>> Can we hear it tonight?

[00:01:11]>> Can you say?

[00:01:19]>> All right. I like this joke.

[00:01:22]>> You got It's got to come out. Maybe it should come out just for this pocket.

[00:01:25]>> Maybe we should. It depends on how far you guys push me.

[00:01:27]>> Oh, well, we might test limits, you know. Let's see what happens, bro.

[00:01:30]>> We can test it. Let's go.

[00:01:31]>> Let's keep going.

[00:01:32]>> I got a question about the horn around your neck.

[00:01:35]>> I the pepper.

[00:01:36]>> Whatever. I bought one for myself and my family started yelling at me cuz you're not supposed to buy it for yourself. I didn't know this. So, I had to return it.

[00:01:44]>> So, do you buy your own or you get >> No, this was a gift. And and and if anybody >> You're not supposed to buy your own.

[00:01:49]You're supposed gift, you know. In fact, my assistant was telling me the other day she needed a a horn. I said, "I have like 16 in the back. You know, we're going to sell them at events." No, you have to give it to me. It's not good for me to just pick it. But, you know, >> so if anybody's watching, can somebody buy me a horn and just >> I'll give you a [ __ ] horn right here.

[00:02:07]>> That's not a horn. That's a chandelier.

[00:02:12]>> See, you know what?

[00:02:13]>> No. Actually, you know what?

[00:02:15]>> What you got?

[00:02:16]>> I carry I carry one in my pocket, right?

[00:02:18]>> Okay.

[00:02:18]>> It's very long. I carry with a with a red string, you know.

[00:02:21]>> Uh-huh. besides the one I have in my neck. But I didn't know how many people were going to be on the podcast, so I brought a couple. So, you know, yeah, that that solves your problem.

[00:02:29]>> That solves your problem. And that solves your problem.

[00:02:32]>> You know what, bro? I got scared for a second. I saw the beads come out. I thought you wanted to see my tits. I I I was ready to take my [ __ ] shirt off.

[00:02:39]>> Listen, I got to wear a lot of red, you know, because there's a lot of dude, bro.

[00:02:42]>> Nice.

[00:02:43]>> Thank you.

[00:02:43]>> I can defend myself at night with this if this comes.

[00:02:46]>> Yo, you [ __ ] This is a weight, bro.

[00:02:48]>> Ain't no plastic [ __ ] >> Thank you. So here's a question for all of us that I know we all could relate to and have a deep conversation with, right? Do you think that the culture is being kept alive the right way online as we all see today?

[00:03:04]>> No, that was easy, >> right? And the reason why I'm asking that is because all four of us have different aspects of what we're doing, right?

[00:03:11]>> And I'm sure all four of us have different opinions on how we see people portraying the Italian American way.

[00:03:18]>> Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. What do you guys think about that? Like what what a >> dude. My take is that there's nothing you could you first of all that can't get fixed because we're in a society now today where this is Italian-American.

[00:03:29]That's what they boost up. They don't boost the old stuff because it's that's not relevant anymore. That's just what it is, >> right? And the way I I look at when people say fake Italian, not fake Italian. Listen, the way I've always and this is just my opinion so people don't go after me.

[00:03:44]>> Too late. If you're born there, if you're first generation, you could consider yourself Italian.

[00:03:50]Okay.

[00:03:53]Italian, like straight Italian, cuz after that it goes into Italian American for me. More like American Italian.

[00:03:59]That's what I say. So when people are like the fifth, sixth, seventh generation, I got Italian blood in my in my veins. Bro, you're you're American.

[00:04:07]>> Let me see it. You're And that's okay.

[00:04:10]>> You know what I mean? That's okay. You know, the whole, you know, how I feel about the stereotype, the whole I don't what the [ __ ] I am. You know, you know that gobble gole that's always driven me nuts. But that's some people that's what they like. You know what I mean?

[00:04:24]>> That's just the way I look at it.

[00:04:25]>> How about you, Joe?

[00:04:26]>> I think that question has to be broken down in into generations.

[00:04:30]>> Okay.

[00:04:30]>> Um different age groups obviously because the younger generation, it's like, you know, they don't understand certain traditions because it's not it's not not shown to them. No. You know, then we have the old generations. I want to say older generations like us. We're relatively the same age, the four of us, right?

[00:04:45]>> Yeah, kind of. I'm younger than all you guys. You guys are [ __ ] >> How old are you?

[00:04:49]>> 35.

[00:04:50]>> You're see.

[00:04:51]>> See, that's what I'm saying. But I wasn't. No, no, no. But I wasn't raised by that. Let's just say that second generation. I was raised by by people who came over the [ __ ] boat.

[00:04:59]>> So, I have the mentality that you guys have because that's what I grew up with versus somebody who grew up second gen as a parent and then they taught their kid their third gen, they're [ __ ] So your first sec, first second.

[00:05:10]>> I'm first generation. My parents were born in Italy. Your parents were born in Italy, right? What is yours?

[00:05:14]>> I was born in Italy.

[00:05:15]>> You were born in Italy. And your parents >> born in Italy.

[00:05:17]>> Yeah. We got to get IC.

[00:05:18]>> All four of us obviously didn't too.

[00:05:20]Could actually become Italian citizens because our parents were born there.

[00:05:23]>> I already am.

[00:05:24]>> Oh, see.

[00:05:25]>> Right. Go.

[00:05:26]>> I I was supposed to, but my mother didn't want me to go to the military at the time because back then you were supposed to go >> 17, right?

[00:05:32]>> Can you imagine this guy with a [ __ ] sca, bro? You imagine this [ __ ] guy?

[00:05:35]>> I think I could go. I could do it now.

[00:05:37]But that's the whole thing. So I I do consider myself Italian because I can be an Italian citizen.

[00:05:42]>> You should. Absolutely. And you should.

[00:05:43]>> But >> but you're first generation. You that makes you Italian by by blood, by heart, by your parents being born there and everything. You're Italian.

[00:05:52]>> He was busting my chop saying I wasn't.

[00:05:54]You remember that?

[00:05:56]>> Okay. All right. Here we go.

[00:05:57]>> I'm glad they're with me.

[00:05:58]>> Yeah, of course.

[00:05:59]>> I'm not saying >> Mhm.

[00:06:01]>> you're not satisfied.

[00:06:03]>> I'm not Okay.

[00:06:05]because he got his papers and s you could give me your opinion cuz you were born there. He's saying that now he's Italian.

[00:06:12]>> What did you just say >> on document paperwork? You may but you're always American.

[00:06:16]>> What are you saying?

[00:06:16]>> We were born here, >> right? You guys were born here, >> right? But I just a lot of people might not agree with my way of looking at it, but I feel like if you're first generation, you could consider yourself Italian American. You're Italian. Italian American. But there's another way of looking at it that people don't bring up like after second third generation. I consider it American Italian.

[00:06:40]>> So what if >> you're American first. So then about the vein in I consider you Italian because he's my parents were born there.

[00:06:48]>> Not that he doesn't but he has a different view on it.

[00:06:51]>> No, not because your parents again because he got >> I'm dual citizen.

[00:06:54]>> He's dual citizenship that takes time.

[00:06:56]>> He got the dual citizen. I'm just saying that out there. No one can just get that [ __ ] >> That's just paperwork. Yes. I understand what he's saying. not understand what he's saying though.

[00:07:03]>> Okay. Like I have a lot of Italian friends, a lot of Italian older friends that came here, born there, right? Like s >> and they goal New York. They don't believe they like him. You were born here. You're not [ __ ] Italian. You That's not true, >> right?

[00:07:20]>> All right. I speak this I speak the language. I speak the dialect. I >> have the traditions. You know the culture.

[00:07:24]>> I'm more Italian than some of the ties over there.

[00:07:27]>> I I do believe it. We We hold on to our traditions here more than the people over there. 100%. 100%.

[00:07:32]>> Well, they have to lose it because just like here, things evolve. People evolve, you know, social media.

[00:07:38]>> People here don't evolve. We're trapped in this time capsule. People in >> We are trapped in the time capsule. Oh, specifically the younger ones that are under me or whatever, second gen third, those are evolving. They're changing into something else. That's what I'm saying. And that's what I'm, you know, that's what makes the difference here.

[00:07:55]So, yeah, it is changing.

[00:07:56]>> Yeah, he does have a point. the younger younger generation like my son's generation, right? You know, the 12-year-olds, the the the beginning teenagers, that's a whole different ball game now cuz they they I think they they're lost.

[00:08:06]>> Yeah. They're like Bad Bunny.

[00:08:07]>> Yeah.

[00:08:07]>> Yeah.

[00:08:08]>> Are we going to do that here? Really?

[00:08:10]Right.

[00:08:11]>> Oh man.

[00:08:12]>> But that's just how it is, man.

[00:08:13]>> Joe, one thing I have a lot of respect for you about when you do all the social media stuff is that you don't portray yourself and you don't put yourself part of one click. No.

[00:08:23]>> You work with everyone. And that's what I love about you. Like I see you everywhere. I see you working with this one, that one, this one. And there's a lot of people that just remain with one click. And that's fine. That's up to them. It's what they choose to do. I've never been part of clicks. I just like to just do my own thing.

[00:08:39]>> Frank, what the [ __ ] You know what I mean? I mean, I'm my own click. That's how I look at it. Like, >> that's how everyone should be.

[00:08:46]>> I'm friends with everybody and I get along with everybody.

[00:08:48]>> And you could tell Frank. I always say I have a lot of respect for Joe. He's very genuine. He He works with everyone and he's not >> See, I always said this. You could be the most successful person, rich person, >> but if you're not humble, if you're arrogant about it, you're going to be rich, famous, and alone.

[00:09:08]>> Absolutely.

[00:09:08]>> Okay. But if you if you're humble and you have all that stuff, people are going to want to be surrounded by you.

[00:09:15]>> Absolutely.

[00:09:16]>> You know, somebody asked me once, "What advice would you give the world?" Be humble. be humble because no matter how successful you are, if you're arrogant, >> if you're rich, if you're famous, you're going to be alone. You're going to have all that, but no one's going to want to be around you. And I I honestly see that you're a very humble person. And that's how I feel like >> people need to wake up a little bit.

[00:09:39]Yeah.

[00:09:40]>> And just be more humble in life. You'll have more friends. Not to Also, we had a comedian on this podcast a while back.

[00:09:48]>> Yep. And I we don't have to you don't even have to air this but I lost a lot of respect for him because how arrogant he was after how much we helped him promote his standup.

[00:09:59]>> Okay. Then we had another comedian which I will mention his name Anthony Roodia.

[00:10:04]We had him on this podcast. He was the most humble person. He responded to every comment that people were leaving on his page. People were you know when he we we put the clips on of him being on the podcast. He responded to every single comment. Who does that?

[00:10:21]>> Very engaging, which was nice to see cuz a lot of people don't do that.

[00:10:24]>> But that's the audience that you want to have. You want to have a relationship with them. You don't want to just show up, make them laugh, [ __ ] off, and then that's it. Because they're going to be like, "Well, he's just a [ __ ] a puppet. That's all he is. He goes on stage, makes you laugh." You need to be connecting with them. You got to understand, you know, and you get a broader idea of who your audience is.

[00:10:40]>> People forget. people. Some people just uh they'll let the fame get to their head and they'll let the >> you know and I you you'll never hear me say and this is just me. Oh, I won't stop. I won't say what's up to all my fans. I don't have fans, man. At the end of the day, I work for a union. I work I go to my union job. You have bro. You have fans.

[00:10:59]>> No, I have followers. I have friends. I consider every but I I I'll never say what's up to all my fans. I want to say I just I I can't do it. I honestly as a person I can't do it. Just because you don't label it that doesn't mean that's not true.

[00:11:13]>> And I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm not label it. But it's true. When you have a following, if you have followers, you have whatever how many people, right?

[00:11:20]They love your stuff. They comment. They share. They v.

[00:11:23]>> Those are fans. I >> I get it. But you'll never hear me call them fans.

[00:11:26]>> You don't have to. They're doing it themselves. I'm a fan of Salzo.

[00:11:30]>> Well, he has a different way of thinking about it.

[00:11:32]>> That's fine. But that's for himself. And no one cares about what he thinks, but I'm just saying just what he thinks for himself. And that's all right. But at in actuality, if you just understand what the platform is and what you do, you have fans. Joe, you have fans. [ __ ] ton of haters, too. But you have [ __ ] fans. Those are the different >> I have a shitload of haters, >> bro. But those are a different type of fans.

[00:11:50]>> I got I got three different type of ceiling fans in this house.

[00:11:53]>> Yeah, exactly. I got oscillating, reverse, >> bay, >> bay. But that's what it is. Whether you want to label it that or not, it doesn't matter. You have fans. You have people who want to know what you're doing. They love what you do. That's it. You can label it any which way you want.

[00:12:08]>> So, this is a question for Joe and then I like to hear Sal because again they got a huge platform when it comes to independence, right?

[00:12:15]>> Yeah.

[00:12:16]>> Do you feel that social media as it grows for you both that demand and all the stuff that comes with it that do you ever feel pressured? Does that make sense? Do you ever feel like you have to do this or you have to make a real or you have to make an appearance? Like do you feel pressured? Like >> I don't Sorry. No, no, go. Go ahead, John. I I don't feel pressured about it cuz I don't nothing really pressures me.

[00:12:37]>> Uh I feel sometimes it's an inconvenience because it now this became part of your life.

[00:12:42]>> Yeah.

[00:12:43]>> You know, now that I don't have like most you I'm assuming all three of you have a full-time job besides this, >> I don't anymore. I do this full-time because I have to because I became so busy and my platform is is like a a marketing platform now. This is this is my job. This is my brand. So, do I feel pressure about it? I won't say pressure, but I have now I'm obligated. Now I have to do my my job's duties now. It's my job, you know. So that's that's the answer to your question.

[00:13:09]>> So Joe, I give you so much credit for what you said because to me it's exhausting. This is why I I tell Frank all the time, I'm not going to post videos every day because for me it's quality over quantity. If I post If I come up with ideas every day, I can't come up with ideas every day. The way I come up with ideas if I listen to music from back in the day and it reminds me of something from back in the day.

[00:13:31]>> But to have to have to have the pressure to post something every day because that's something you're doing full time.

[00:13:38]I give you a lot of credit. I can't do it. I go weeks sometimes without posting. I'll post old stuff repeatedly, but like to to do this and I get it. It is pressure. It is a lot of pressure when you feel like you need you have the need to like put content out there all the time. And I tell Frank, I'm like, "Frank, this shit's exhausting sometimes." So, I give a lot of credit to the people that do this full time >> cuz, you know, it's not something easy to do.

[00:14:02]>> Sometimes S makes me want to go like this to my phone because >> he he puts he puts work into his stuff like we all do.

[00:14:08]>> We all do. Yes.

[00:14:09]>> But what I noticed that he likes to second guess himself a lot. So, the video is up and the video is down. I'm like, "Yo, what the [ __ ] you doing? That was good."

[00:14:14]>> Yeah. If I feel if I feel like I look like an idiot or it's just >> I take it I take it down. There was a time that we did a show here and you told me that he's like that. So in my head I'm like, "All right, let me get him. I just want to [ __ ] with him a little bit." It was the end of the show, whatever. And I go, >> I told him not to do it because I just know.

[00:14:32]>> Yeah, I know. But you know me, I'm an [ __ ] So I I I go to S. I go, S, you all right, bro? You look a little a little pissed off tonight. You're like, "Yo, for real, >> dude. Yo, for real. Come on, for real.

[00:14:41]Don't tell me that." And I And you [ __ ] Yeah. At least 5 seconds. I'm like, I'm [ __ ] with you, bro. Don't worry about it.

[00:14:48]>> You got to get out of your own head, though. You know that already. So, it's just how it is.

[00:14:51]>> But like I said, the for me the most funniest and content that I've ever put out there is always a spur of the moment and the way I get my ideas cuz you know I go on my walks every day, three, four mile walk. I listen to music >> and that's a song will give me a memory from back in the day >> like the the video that I put up with the with the white boys listening to hip-hop in the club. It reminded me of all those types of guys back then. You know what I mean?

[00:15:15]>> Oh, the different types of guys.

[00:15:17]guys, the Harold Beach guy, the Staten Island guy. So, it just that song reminded me of that.

[00:15:23]>> That's why I chose that song.

[00:15:25]>> I mean, it's very creative, you know, when you guys come up with these type of stuff.

[00:15:29]>> Yeah.

[00:15:30]>> And again, spur of the moment is the word you use and sometimes you could be blank and sometimes you could be just watching TV or listening to music and all of a sudden you >> the idea will come to you. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100%.

[00:15:39]>> And then it's like, you know, um, and I know you're like this, like we got to get it done now.

[00:15:44]>> That's that's another thing I have. If I get an idea, I have to [ __ ] do it right away. I go home, I got to set everything up. I got to do it right away cuz it's the spur of the moment once. My funeral skit, I was >> I was home doing nothing. And I at the time, this is a little dark, but my I was going through a lot of my mom died, my sister died within the same year, you know what I mean? But and I just something dark made me think of something so funny. And all that stuff that I was saying was all true. Like my aunt was pissed off. she couldn't come in the limo, the flowers, open the car so they could see the name, all that stuff was like true things that actually happened and it's just I couldn't believe how relatable it was to so many people.

[00:16:24]>> Yeah.

[00:16:25]>> Yeah.

[00:16:25]>> You know, and speaking about social media, what is there I want to know what what something about you that people get wrong like about you in real life? Like there's got to be something that people say that you're something that you're not. That's a good question. Where do I start?

[00:16:38]>> Well, that's why we're here. He's a gangster, >> bro.

[00:16:41]>> I'm a gangster. I'm not Italian. I'm Persian. I'm Egyptian. Yo, I got a lot.

[00:16:47]I'm not going to lie to you, bro. You would look like a [ __ ] fantastic Persian, bro. I'm not going to lie to you, bro. You full.

[00:16:52]>> People think I People think I'm making thousands off of social media alone. They think I'm rich off of that.

[00:16:58]>> Yeah.

[00:16:58]>> You know what I mean? That's one of the things that I always get. Yeah. You making a lot of money. I'm like, yeah, making so much.

[00:17:04]>> Making a lot of money as you drag the [ __ ] garbage can.

[00:17:07]>> Yeah.

[00:17:08]>> I don't work for sanitation, bro.

[00:17:10]>> What happened, bro? You want me to tell you where you were? All right. So, shut the [ __ ] up.

[00:17:16]>> So, so another funny thing is cuz I I kind of feel this pressure and maybe it's a stupid way of thinking it.

[00:17:21]>> Do you feel because the persona you created, you know, and the sao funeral skits or the freestyle music stuff that the genre you brought back?

[00:17:29]>> Do you feel pressured also like that's what you represent so you want to stick to that?

[00:17:35]>> You know what I'm trying to say? Is that is that something that goes through your mind? Like for me, yes. Italians, Sicilians do it better, you know, but it's not always about the Sicilians, but I do feel I have a thumb out there of some type of messaging I have to continue to put out. So, that will give me some type of pressure. Like, do you do you that make sense to you guys?

[00:17:54]>> Joe, you want to start this?

[00:17:55]>> No, you got to sell.

[00:17:56]>> All right. So, that's why I sometimes change it up. You see how I sometimes change it up, right? I don't always >> stick to one stick to the same thing.

[00:18:05]Sometimes I'll get a spur of moment like my one of my biggest videos is a video of not the stuff that I do is where I'm in the car and I'm asking when you're lost in Queens and you ask for the directions and that guy is like that's you know I try to change it up because you can't for me I feel like I can't stick to the same thing over and over and so there are times you got to throw in that like random video that you don't normally do cuz it's going to get just repetitive and all that. You know what I mean? Mhm. No, and I totally agree what you just said. Took the words out of my mouth.

[00:18:36]>> You know, you try >> like my big thing is not social media.

[00:18:40]That's not my It's I could say my career. It's what I do now, but it's not what I want to picture towards.

[00:18:45]>> It's a bigger picture and that is acting.

[00:18:47]>> I love being in front of a camera. I love to act, you know, and I'm pretty pretty good at it, you know. I'm not being cocky about it. I mean, I I want to I want to learn from the bottom up like I've been doing, >> but I want to I want to portray myself.

[00:19:00]Look, obviously, you look at my look. I play a good gangster. I look good. I I look good in a mob film, but I also want to play other other parts. I want I want to play a boxing movie. I want to play a a horror film. I want to diverse myself to just being a really good actor >> and that's that's my goal. So, I try to incorporate that sometimes with social media, but it's hard because you have your group, you know.

[00:19:22]>> Did you get stuck with that persona or that's what that's what you enjoy?

[00:19:26]>> I enjoy both. I enjoy I enjoy I enjoy this persona because this is me. Like we discussed last time I was on this podcast. I don't dress up to impress anybody. I don't dress up to be a gangster. This is how I dress up since I was a kid, >> right?

[00:19:38]>> Okay. This is how my grandfather used to dress up. This is how I am.

[00:19:42]>> So, a lot of people say, "Joe, you know, you you try too hard." This this new this new thing that this trend this younger trend they said >> uh the other day was uh I'm I'm mastering I'm mastering something.

[00:19:53]>> I'm mastering something. Like um >> you're putting something out there too much. It's It's a I didn't even know what the terminology meant. Okay.

[00:19:59]>> You're mastering trying to be Italian.

[00:20:02]>> What is What does that mean? I said, "What is What are you trying to like You're trying too hard.

[00:20:05]>> I'm trying too hard to be myself."

[00:20:07]>> Okay, >> that's a new one.

[00:20:09]>> It's a new thing, you know? It's like mastering. I don't It's a new terminology. But >> so with all this stuff, right, I guess to the both to use is kind of like out for the term success, >> right? outside of recognition out of money. What's what does it mean to be successful for you guys with what you do outside of recognition and money?

[00:20:28]>> Just for me, it's just making people laugh. You know what I mean? Just bringing people back to a better time.

[00:20:34]So, a question that you know that that's that's what it is for me. Like the nostalgia that people remember from back in the day. It was just an easier life, >> you know, the '9s, the early 2000s, even the 80s. It was definitely a different life than where we live now. It was more It was more of an organic life. You know what I mean? Today, nothing is [ __ ] organic, bro. Nothing is natural anymore.

[00:20:58]>> Not even the [ __ ] tomatoes.

[00:20:59]>> That's why my videos do well is because people miss the way we used to live.

[00:21:05]>> Mhm.

[00:21:06]>> You know, after Joe responds, I have a question for you guys, too.

[00:21:09]>> Oh, that' be good. No, no, I totally agree with Sal and that's another reason why I love and I have a passion for my Bonanima sayings because these Banana sayings, >> they're sayings that people remember.

[00:21:19]Oh, my father used to say that. My grandfather used to say that. And it brings them it brings them back to a time >> that it was like, "Oh, wow. I'm I'm I'm a kid again. Oh, wow. I'm here with my family again." And it brings so much nostalgia that I'll never stop doing them.

[00:21:33]>> I'll never stop doing. I mean, it brings it brings back memories from my grandfather. You kidding me? So, yeah. I I I get it. And the whole look that you I remember you saying that a while back.

[00:21:43]Your whole look was your look from your grandfather. You know what I mean? So it's not No one I'm the last person that's going to tell you that you're fake or this and that cuz you know that >> my grandfather wear tent bikinis. I'm just trying to follow >> his footsteps too.

[00:21:56]>> And the white sneakers, right? White >> Yes. Yes.

[00:21:58]>> So the question that I have is about social media.

[00:22:02]>> Do you think social media has made life better or worse?

[00:22:05]>> Worse.

[00:22:06]>> Both. I'm leaning Are you leaning towards anything more in particular? It can't be 50/50.

[00:22:10]>> Both is where I feel like people could just put out anything, >> right?

[00:22:15]>> Of course.

[00:22:16]>> Right. People could easily mock you.

[00:22:18]Everybody's a key a keyboard warrior.

[00:22:20]>> Yeah.

[00:22:20]>> You know, um and then the good thing is like you could get your message out to someone or you could kind of show and tell your your your talent, you know, your messages. So I think it has its pros and it has its cons but if I had to weigh the two I kind of feel there's more negativity than positivity >> from social media but again it's the way the person views it.

[00:22:43]>> Okay.

[00:22:44]>> So the way I look at it is has social media has the internet okay for example the internet in whole has made life more convenient. I want a pair of socks I go to Amazon I order socks then next day the next day I get socks in the mail.

[00:23:00]But as far as like also social media, this is why my my content does well is because of the nostalgia of the way we used to live. You know what I mean? We never went out. We got a phone number.

[00:23:13]We put it on the napkin. There was no going back home looking up the person.

[00:23:17]There's nothing. It really affected the thing that affected social life on social media is social life. We don't have the social life anymore the way we used to at all. I I really feel like that social life is completely gone the way we had it. You know what I mean? So, I feel like yes, social media has been convenient, >> but I feel like it destroyed social social life, >> which is I got bad news for you. It's going to get a lot worse.

[00:23:44]>> Absolutely.

[00:23:45]>> As as I see my son's generation, too.

[00:23:47]That's all it is. Not only social media, but it's they taken over life. Like they they'll never remember the way we grew up.

[00:23:53]>> Oh, no.

[00:23:54]>> And you don't social life. like it socialize. They don't even know how to talk to each other anymore, you know?

[00:24:00]They talk in a different lang to me.

[00:24:01]They talk in a different language. No, they talk they talk Roblox. They talk computer and I don't understand it. Like like my son's name is Joseph, too. I said, "Jose, what the [ __ ] did you just say?" You know, "Oh, it's a term we use on Roblox." And and it's like I don't even remember it. something silly, but it's like they speak a whole different language because they're so there's such an they don't have the I guess you could say the spread of um what we used to have growing up.

[00:24:27]>> But do you think it's that because when we grew up we had our slang too?

[00:24:32]>> I think it's different though. Yeah.

[00:24:33]>> We had more freedom.

[00:24:35]>> Yes.

[00:24:35]>> Let me ask you a question. You have daughters, right?

[00:24:37]>> And I know the answer. No, I won't let them out.

[00:24:39]>> You won't let them out. I used to go out at my son's age riding my bike. They used to go out.

[00:24:43]>> Let me tell you something happened.

[00:24:44]>> I wouldn't let my my kid go out now.

[00:24:45]Yeah.

[00:24:45]>> I wouldn't, you know, maybe it's my fault. Or maybe it's not. I don't know.

[00:24:48]>> Or is that honestly, forget about social media. Or is it social media? Cuz it's in your face.

[00:24:54]>> So my daughter and his daughter are like really close. They're in the same class.

[00:24:58]They're like attached to their best friends. So my I told my daughter I was coming here tonight. And she's like, "All right, that my daughter's 11 years old." She's like, "All right, Dad. Can I just walk there? It's four blocks away."

[00:25:07]And she's like joking because she knows she's not going to walk by herself. I'm like, "No, you can't walk by yourself.

[00:25:12]I'm not making you walk by." My daughter's like so responsible. But look at us when we were kids. I My mother didn't know where I was for somehow.

[00:25:21]>> Found us though, right?

[00:25:22]>> Somehow they found us.

[00:25:23]>> Yeah. I for hours 11 years old. My I didn't I I left at like 12:00 in the afternoon. I didn't come home till like dinner time. You know what I mean? My mother had no clue where I was. And just because everything is in our face now.

[00:25:36]This is what social media did.

[00:25:38]>> Everything bad. A child gets kidnapped.

[00:25:40]We get a [ __ ] word on our phone.

[00:25:42]>> It happened back then, too.

[00:25:43]>> Oh, it did. You just didn't hear about it enough about it. Exactly. It's not like that life is worse now.

[00:25:48]>> But life is worse now because of social media. But >> it also I'm sorry to interrupt you. It's also made the world a lot smaller.

[00:25:55]>> A lot smaller. Like you said, you you meet you meet somebody, right?

[00:25:59]>> A girl. I'm going to go look up her name. Look up her Facebook. Look up her Instagram.

[00:26:02]>> Everybody's a [ __ ] detective. You know, back then you freaking you you got a number, you know, off a napkin or you, you know, you took >> back then there was more of a um getting to know someone and see where it goes.

[00:26:12]Today, >> you meet someone look the same.

[00:26:15]>> You meet someone on like a dating site.

[00:26:17]If you don't fall head over heels on with that person right away, you're going to go back home and start swiping again after that first date. If you don't fall head over heels like, "This is the one. That's it. I'm [ __ ] in love." you're just going to go back home and try to look for something better.

[00:26:34]Back then was different. This is part of the social life. How bad it got ruined.

[00:26:38]Back then was totally different. You got to know someone. Let me take her out for steak. Let me take her out for dinner. H let me see how it goes. You worked on that relationship. There's no more working on [ __ ] anymore.

[00:26:49]>> No one puts effort into anything anymore.

[00:26:52]>> I also feel like everyone >> and it's including guys.

[00:26:56]>> It's the filters. It's the >> And then when you meet the person, it's mostly not the person. It's >> Let me break it down as easy as possible. You get those apps. You know what that is? That's a menu.

[00:27:07]>> It's all it is. It's a menu. I want this one. I want that one. I don't want that one. And then at the end of the day, >> it's really It's just really simp.

[00:27:14]>> Am I Am I [ __ ] wrong here?

[00:27:15]>> You're right.

[00:27:16]>> Simple. If you if you go on a first date with someone, if you don't hit it off right away, you're just going to like go look for something better until you get that feeling. There's no more working into it.

[00:27:27]>> He goes, "I don't understand, Marco. You don't go out. You don't do this. You don't do that. You don't meet anybody."

[00:27:32]>> Yeah.

[00:27:33]>> Because all the people I need to meet because now they don't go out. They don't do this [ __ ] >> That's the problem he's just talking about.

[00:27:39]>> That's what I'm saying. I'm confirming it that it's like I'm telling him it's pointless for me to go out because they didn't find me here first. That's the problem. It's not like I would love to go to a bar.

[00:27:50]>> You got to go out more. Yeah, >> I would love to go to a bar and find they don't go.

[00:27:56]>> They go with their You mean >> what? Go ahead.

[00:27:58]>> I took you to sales event.

[00:28:00]>> Yeah. No, every dude, >> we're going to go out tonight. That's what I'm saying. Come out.

[00:28:04]>> I'm out. I'm going.

[00:28:05]>> You can't.

[00:28:06]>> You can't order a girl that gets Chinese food and expect her to come to your apartment.

[00:28:09]>> I would love it if it was the way that when you guys were, you know, going out and all this other stuff. It's not like that anymore. Yes, we went to the event, but they're all coupling. They're all groups of whatever. It's not the same.

[00:28:21]Like you have to have this to meet a single person. You there for a specific reason. That's why you're there. Cuz other than that, I'm with my friends. I don't want to hang out with them. I don't I don't want I don't want >> I mean, the social life totally different.

[00:28:33]>> It's different. It makes life [ __ ] harder.

[00:28:35]>> It's different.

[00:28:37]>> But that's what it is.

[00:28:38]>> If you guys had to choose a stereotype to eliminate of what you see with the Italian American, >> don't get me. I'll get I'll get [ __ ] >> one one that you want to eliminate.

[00:28:48]>> One stereotype for Italian Let's start.

[00:28:50]Let's start with Joe first. Joe, if you had to eliminate one stereotype that's [ __ ] annoying, >> which one would you say this has got to go?

[00:28:57]>> This whole [ __ ] gobble go [ __ ] >> Yo, you took my answer, you [ __ ] What the [ __ ] dude?

[00:29:02]>> What the [ __ ] is Gobble Ghoul? What is it? Cuz I It sounds like a [ __ ] movie. Gold cobbles and ghouls. What the [ __ ] >> I always say Sopranos completely destroyed the Italian-American culture.

[00:29:13]As great as a show it was, I and I watched the whole [ __ ] thing and I probably would rewatch it. It destroyed all Jersey Italian-Americans.

[00:29:22]>> Yeah.

[00:29:22]>> It just like >> Oh, you know what I mean?

[00:29:24]>> And speaking of, you want to know mine?

[00:29:25]I wish Jersey saw never even started.

[00:29:28]Swear to God. I wish that was eliminated completely.

[00:29:30]>> I don't think anyone even Jersey Shaw considered them Italian.

[00:29:33]>> They weren't. They did. No, they did.

[00:29:34]That's exactly what they promoted themselves.

[00:29:36]>> Two really Italian was Vinnie and uh >> and then everyone was like three quarter of a [ __ ] of of a salami. Like there would But that's what everyone cuz growing up when I went high school and all that other stuff, everyone just kept saying, "Well, you [ __ ] Jersey Shore." No [ __ ] >> Was Jersey Shore on? It was on at the same time as Sopranos, wasn't it?

[00:29:54]>> Was it?

[00:29:55]>> Yeah, it was.

[00:29:55]>> Yeah.

[00:29:56]>> So if you don't want watch one, >> Jersey got [ __ ] double like >> he got double >> double penetration.

[00:30:04]>> You know what I mean? So >> we're here to ruin everybody. Boom.

[00:30:09]Since real quick, since we're on the subject of Jersey, right?

[00:30:11]>> Oh, [ __ ] >> You guys are all New Yorkers, right?

[00:30:14]>> Thank God.

[00:30:15]>> You know, Queens, right?

[00:30:17]>> You guys consider Staten Island New Jersey or New York?

[00:30:20]>> Jersey. I don't We don't claim it, >> right? Where Staten Island, s >> you know, that's hard for me to respond to because I grew up in Brooklyn. So, >> did you used to commute to Staten Island?

[00:30:32]>> I used to go to Staten Island all the time.

[00:30:33]>> So, you like paying a [ __ ] bridge every time you go in and out?

[00:30:35]>> Back then was $7. That's the cheapest I remember a $7 toll.

[00:30:39]>> Yeah, the triple.

[00:30:40]>> But yeah, so I don't know. I consider it I consider it I know a lot of people consider it Jersey, but I still consider it.

[00:30:45]>> I have a lot of events held in Staten Island. I have an assistant that lives in Staten Island. I have to see her, you know, often. You know how much my [ __ ] toll bill is to go back and forth to Staten Island.

[00:30:55]>> I feel heat coming from this direction.

[00:30:57]>> It's in that direction.

[00:30:58]>> And then they want to take they want to take their commission this and that. No, it it cost me [ __ ] $600 700 a month to cross the [ __ ] bridge a month to come to Staten Island to do these events to see you.

[00:31:06]>> Hey, why aren't you doing any events in Queens?

[00:31:09]>> Well, well, she has to they have to work up my my team has to work their way over the bridge is what I'm saying.

[00:31:15]>> So, it's a slow grow.

[00:31:16]>> It's a slow grow.

[00:31:16]>> Gotcha. I think that if we get together and push hard enough, we can move Staten Island to touch.

[00:31:21]>> It's convenient for them because one lives in Jersey, one lives in Staten Island.

[00:31:24]>> M.

[00:31:25]>> So, it's like they're right [ __ ] there. All right.

[00:31:28]>> There's other stuff. There's other burrows. I promise you one thing. When you start doing events closer, I'll come to all of them.

[00:31:33]>> Oh yeah, >> cuz we don't want to pay all the [ __ ] tolls.

[00:31:38]>> It's like I buy my kids a gallon of milk or I pay a toll, right? I got a bite of milk.

[00:31:43]>> And the kids need milk, bro. I'm not going to lie to you.

[00:31:45]>> Best part is that [ __ ] bridge has been paid off for about 35 years. That bridge has been already paid off and we're still [ __ ] paying.

[00:31:51]>> That bridge got paid off in one year it was built.

[00:31:53]>> Jesus Christ. That's billions.

[00:31:55]>> You know what's funny? It's funny they mentioned that because I was talking uh to to you keep calling your assistant and I'm just going to leave it that way.

[00:32:02]Do you do anything like that pisses her off in particular?

[00:32:06]>> Probably everything I say >> say or and do or just just say >> I'm the type of person that I'm very very hard-headed. I'm not see >> that's fine. You know, >> we all are.

[00:32:15]>> I'm half Non, half Sicilian.

[00:32:16]>> So you got the >> I put the color brace to say I put the color strikes by hardhead. That's two strikes. If you don't do things the way you're supposed to do it, I'm going to have a I'm going to get about it. Not the way you're supposed to do it.

[00:32:26]>> No, I'm just saying I'm worse than that.

[00:32:28]>> I thought you robbed, steal, and dish the dude right. Yeah, that's a three strikes.

[00:32:32]>> But the thing is, it's not do it right.

[00:32:34]It's do it your way cuz your way is the right way.

[00:32:37]>> 100%.

[00:32:38]>> Me? Yeah, bro. It's like I'm talking to my father.

[00:32:41]>> God damn, bro. It's what it is.

[00:32:43]>> Come on, Joe. You got to be kind.

[00:32:45]>> Do I bend a little bit?

[00:32:46]>> You have to. You got to be gummy, bro.

[00:32:49]>> No, no, no. Not gummy. Not gummy. Not gummy, bro. You always got to wear [ __ ] pants. If you don't wear pants, >> I'm not saying with your skirt you want to show your ass. I'm just saying, you know, be nice.

[00:32:57]>> There has to be has to be a limit. Like, you know, like this generation, >> your generation, >> who's the boss in your house? Who's the boss?

[00:33:05]>> And I love him. Who's the boss?

[00:33:07]>> Me.

[00:33:10]He's going to get a shot later like you've never seen.

[00:33:13]>> Is she Is she looking at me right now?

[00:33:14]>> Oh, she's right through the [ __ ] screen. Trust me, >> I understand.

[00:33:18]>> There has to be a little bit of Come on.

[00:33:20]>> There needs to be give and take.

[00:33:21]>> That's how it is, right? That's how you make it work.

[00:33:23]>> You can't piss her off all the time.

[00:33:25]Joe, come on.

[00:33:25]>> Marcus is a single, right?

[00:33:26]>> That's That's his problem. He doesn't understand that when you got married, >> you actually married another mother because you have to ask permission to go out. You have to see if you could buy new pair of sneakers, >> a new tattoo, >> a new tattoo, >> you know, you have to do all these things. But because I love my wife, I don't do them. That's it. Cuz you don't want to fight. I think a good fight once in a while makes things healthy.

[00:33:47]>> Spices up the relationship.

[00:33:48]>> Spices up, right? Like a good shot to the throat. Like you >> agree. I totally agree. S. What do you think?

[00:33:53]>> No. No. You got you if you have like no arguments. I honestly think that's >> that's not normal. You know, if you yes someone to death like I can't be in a relationship where I'm just yesing my significant other to death.

[00:34:06]>> I mean I understand you're happy wife, happy life, happy girl, happy girl.

[00:34:10]>> I don't I don't believe that.

[00:34:11]>> But >> you know, you got to have some back and forth. And I think a woman would want that, too. A woman doesn't want a guy that just yeses her to death all the time. Who wants that? There's a couple of them who want that. Trust me, they want to wear the pants on every relationship.

[00:34:24]>> I don't think most women would want that. I don't think they want someone soft like that to just yes them to death.

[00:34:28]>> I don't mean I don't want to be mean about it or speak for women, but I feel like sometimes women love jerkoffs.

[00:34:34]>> Sometimes.

[00:34:35]>> Oh yeah, >> sometimes.

[00:34:37]>> Where do you get sometimes?

[00:34:38]>> Like [ __ ] >> 90% of the time a jerk off, but I can't [ __ ] do it, but I should.

[00:34:44]>> Right.

[00:34:45]>> That's the advice that people give.

[00:34:46]Well, be an [ __ ] once in a while.

[00:34:47]It's not in me, bro. But listen, when it comes to that, my father has a saying. I don't and I don't like repeating a lot of stuff that he says, but one of the things he says to if there's an argument and he wants it to to go away quickly, he just says, >> wait, what?

[00:35:10]So he's calling you a dick, as long as we don't say as stupid as you are, as long as we don't argue. Letting it go.

[00:35:16]>> What the [ __ ] Like and that and that was the thing that he ran on like cuz he didn't want to get aggravated. He said get out of him whatever the [ __ ] you want to do.

[00:35:23]>> How about still around?

[00:35:24]>> Yes.

[00:35:25]>> I would love to meet him.

[00:35:26]>> You would get a [ __ ] kick out of him.

[00:35:28]You would get a kick out of him. Trust me, bro. He's a special type of guy.

[00:35:32]Trust me.

[00:35:34]>> So, it's funny you said that, you know, who's the boss, but growing up, who was the boss in your family? Was it the grandparents or was it the father or was it the mother? Who was it for you guys?

[00:35:44]>> Mine was Mine's quick. It was my dad until something got heated and then my mother ended up like it got to the point where if it was really big heavy [ __ ] it was my mother. But the mo 90% 95% it was my pops. He was the one who said and my mom's like go ahead.

[00:35:59]>> I mean in my house it wasn't that who was the boss. It's who I listen to the most. I didn't get along with my father that well but my mother was like my strength. So I just my mother I would say was my boss. You know what I mean?

[00:36:10]That's how I looked at it.

[00:36:11]>> Well my mother stayed home without me and my brother. So cuz my father always worked. So it was like my mother was the I say boss and the one I you know he used to get our balad from >> but my father when he came home he didn't have to say much he just have to give me that look and yeah >> you know you know [ __ ] up >> yeah that was the lightning strike >> what happens if we give that same look today to our kids >> they you can't you have >> I tried laugh at me like your eyes are crooked or something what's the matter with your eyes >> bro I'm telling you there was a joke that says you know why you can't hit kids these days cuz they got guns Oh [ __ ] >> That's a rough one. That's a rough one.

[00:36:47]>> It's [ __ ] true though, bro. This came up on our last podcast and it was actually, I would say, a funny argument between me, Marcus, and my brother.

[00:36:55]>> Tough love then versus the love we give our kids now.

[00:37:01]You can't do that today, obviously.

[00:37:03]>> No, you can't.

[00:37:03]>> But the tough love that came from, I'll say specifically, sometimes it's the father, right? Or it could be the mom, too.

[00:37:09]>> Yeah.

[00:37:11]How did we put up with that where it was okay, we grew up fine, but now it's like I can't do that to my kids today. Like what did you guys think about that? I grew up fine. I mean, a couple ashrays to the face. I was still >> No, I think still went to school the next morning.

[00:37:24]>> There's residual trauma. Even though you don't bring it up, there's residual trauma that that's why you're not doing it to your kids cuz if you were cool with it back then, you'd be doing it now.

[00:37:30]>> I was never cool with it.

[00:37:31]>> Well, that's what I'm saying. But that's why you're not doing it.

[00:37:33]>> Went around the table till I I got tired.

[00:37:35]>> Exactly. One of us got tired whenever that belt went down. I'm done. But that's what it is. That's still trauma that you had, but you just don't you don't want to re repeat that. That's why.

[00:37:43]>> Here's a funny story that happened to you when I was young.

[00:37:46]Because I got in trouble and I wouldn't stop running around the table and my father got tired.

[00:37:52]>> My father goes to me, "Don't worry about it. I'll catch you while you're sleeping."

[00:37:56]>> Again, not the same night. Maybe three weeks passed.

[00:37:59]>> He got me while I was sleeping.

[00:38:01]>> I got really sweaty, really cold, really fast. I don't know what hit me.

[00:38:04]>> What was the phrase?

[00:38:07]the freed.

[00:38:10]>> Oh man.

[00:38:11]>> But that's how it was, man.

[00:38:12]>> But that's how it was.

[00:38:14]>> But yeah. No, but bringing that down now to the new kids, you can't you can't do that.

[00:38:18]>> Do you think tough love would work today in our kids?

[00:38:20]>> You know, I don't give tough I I you know, I'm so soft with my kids. It's not But that's the thing. I'm really soft with my kids, but when they get me see me upset, >> you know, not because they're my kids. I got good kids. Like, you know what I mean? My kids don't do much wrong in my eyes, >> you know? And it's just but when they do they they know it because they never see it from me.

[00:38:42]>> Like all right dad I'm sorry. You know what I mean? But if it you know you have kids if kids are getting in trouble all the time >> then you're probably like me. You sit there and be like I'm such an [ __ ] >> Yeah. And then I I feel guilty. You know what I mean? But >> even when I was a kid I never really did. My sister got into a lot of trouble. Like my sister my sister got into so much trouble. May she rest in peace. like she we sent her she dropped out of high school and we sent her to Sicily to live for 3 years. So she lived with my aunt for 3 years. So we picked her up 3 years later she was like a totally different person. She hung out with the wrong crowd here. But when we picked her up 3 years later she was like a saint. Like speaking differently and you know sometimes a change of like scenery environment changes people I guess. Joe, what's something that you grew up with that I would say either taught you a lesson or will stick to you to the day you die?

[00:39:39]You had that imprint >> when you used to do something bad or or or it was really like you have some selfrespect.

[00:39:49]>> Do yourself a favor. So they would yell at you, right?

[00:39:53]>> My mother, she goes, but do yourself a favor, okay? You want to look like this to this one. You want to look like that one. Have some selfrespect. don't do it.

[00:39:59]>> And that and and I do that with my son, >> you know, I instead of getting mad at him and I seem it kind of works now, you know, because he >> he's he's a rough kid. He's a rough kid, you know, he misbehaves. So sometimes instead of yelling at him and doing the old tough love, I become his friend, but I become his friend and I judge him like, >> "You really want to do that?" Like, "How are you going to look?" You know, I I says, "You going to be embarrassed?

[00:40:23]She's going to embarrass." You know, I I make I make I give him a scenario.

[00:40:26]>> Shame. I shame him and it works.

[00:40:28]>> You know that's not a good idea. You know that's great parenting and you don't even realize it.

[00:40:32]>> They say that to like try to like become your child's friend when something bad happens. They actually actually say that. It's like a really great thing to do.

[00:40:42]>> Yeah. But then the line becomes when does the kid realize that >> that's my father not my friend?

[00:40:48]>> It's not that.

[00:40:49]>> No.

[00:40:50]>> He's changing the perspective.

[00:40:51]>> Okay. But for that moment, but it's only when that that moment comes out, only when something bad comes out. Like when there's So that's what I'm saying. You don't want to confuse that portion with >> being your friend when things are bad and then you know when you take [ __ ] seriously. You know what I mean?

[00:41:06]>> Yeah. There has to be that kind of line about that.

[00:41:08]>> You see what I'm saying? Like I get it though. I understand cuz I would love to have my own father sit down and have a >> with you with his belt, >> belt, fist, foot, uh sheetrock. That doesn't take >> It turned out fine though. Look at you.

[00:41:20]>> Did I Joe? Did I turn out fine?

[00:41:24]>> My therapist doesn't think so.

[00:41:26]>> Are you going to talk to a therapist?

[00:41:27]>> I did four weeks in and he says, "I can't [ __ ] fix you." And I left.

[00:41:29]>> Therapist's name Dr. Bel.

[00:41:31]>> [ __ ] is his [ __ ] name. He didn't help me for [ __ ] He goes, "You know, you're a really angry kid." I'm like, "Why? I wonder why." But that's what it is. Cuz listen, they they they grew up angry cuz they didn't have much, right?

[00:41:43]He grew up the way they were. My father, unfortunately, that's the way he was. He grew up survival mode, always looking to make it to the next day, whatever. So that doesn't that's hard to leave it in the head. You know what I mean?

[00:41:55]>> Even years later. So you only do what you know what you know. That's it.

[00:42:01]That's all you know. What are you going to do? You can't change the person when he's in his [ __ ] 30s. You know what I mean? Who you are is who you are. You're set for that and you're done. You can't keep that. That's just now embedded in you. He used to say my mother this, my mother that. I swear to God I think half the stuff is genetic. You know, part of me actually kind of does believe that half of these things how they are ha it has to be embedded genetically at some point.

[00:42:29]It has to I agree with that also site scientifically every person has about six generations DNA in them, you know.

[00:42:37]So it's it is embedded somewhere somewhere down the line >> and between both sides of the family. My father said because it's true because you are just angry little [ __ ] bastard. Like it's like he just called you a dog, bro. You know what he means like that. Come on, bro.

[00:42:55]>> He called me worse than a dog. Trust me.

[00:42:57]But that's just what it is. It's like it's it's that survival mode, that anger, that thing. And just you can't shake that off, you know?

[00:43:03]>> Feel like this is a therapy session right now.

[00:43:05]>> Every time I'm here, I'm doing a [ __ ] therapy session. It doesn't help. I'm going to screw >> at the end of this show. We're going to give Marcus hugs. Yeah, hugs don't help no more. You know what helps?

[00:43:12]>> A belt.

[00:43:14]>> Eye touches. Those help now.

[00:43:15]>> No, no, that's Oh, then I don't want your hug.

[00:43:17]>> No, I'll find you somebody later.

[00:43:18]>> Oh, okay. No problem. Let me know how much you got to put down.

[00:43:22]>> But uh again, I wanted to go back to um some input on on social media itself because I feel like it's it's a heavy topic these days for kids, for us, for what we're doing, right? For what people are promoting, >> right?

[00:43:35]>> What are your thoughts on people's commenting on you? like the the keyboard warriors. Do you feel like they're all people call ghost profiles or do you feel like someone who actually has balls, it's the real person? I feel like majority of 90% of it, it's the guy who has one profile picture and one post and >> and they follow God and they follow God in their bio.

[00:43:57]>> Follow God. All of them follow God.

[00:43:58]>> I got one I got one better for you. I I believe there's people that you know.

[00:44:02]>> That's what I was getting at. people, you know, >> you know, new profiles or or people that just have a fake profile just to go on air just to talk [ __ ] because they can't say to your face.

[00:44:12]>> Well, I have I have a trick that I just learned which I'm not going to say it on air to give away my trick, but I'm going to teach you guys how you could figure out who that person is now.

[00:44:19]>> Well, mutual friends.

[00:44:21]>> No.

[00:44:22]>> No.

[00:44:22]>> Oh. Do you guys feel like you get more more support on social media than strange from strangers than your own family and friends?

[00:44:32]>> Absolutely.

[00:44:32]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:44:33]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:44:33]>> Isn't that Isn't that sad?

[00:44:35]>> It's sad. It is sad.

[00:44:36]>> Isn't that sad? Like my own like good friends I grew up with or even my family, you know, they try to support, but I guess cuz they know the real you, >> right?

[00:44:45]>> So maybe I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, but you sometimes you just get more support from strangers than your own family and people you grew up with.

[00:44:54]>> But when you run into them, they know everything you're doing.

[00:44:57]>> You're great. You're 40 and >> they watch and you could tell they see all your stuff. They're the first ones that like you look at your stories who watch your stories and they're the first ones always that pop up.

[00:45:08]>> Yeah.

[00:45:08]>> But god forbid they like hit a like or a share or anything like that. No, they won't do it.

[00:45:14]>> And I don't think they mean mal intent from it. I just you they just I don't I don't know. Maybe they do. I I mean I'm trying.

[00:45:21]>> Some I'm not defending them, but sometimes I could be guilty of that. You know, if you guys could relate.

[00:45:25]Sometimes I just scroll. It's like I just don't or sometimes for some reason I'm just liking [ __ ] without even looking at the whole thing. Are you just It's just a bad of a habit.

[00:45:33]>> You're the king of that.

[00:45:34]>> Yeah. Sorry, sir.

[00:45:34]>> It's called HDHD.

[00:45:37]>> HDHD. Two HDs.

[00:45:39]>> ADHD.

[00:45:40]>> I can't even pronounce it right.

[00:45:41]>> Not so remember when somebody had the fake profile of S and I'm like, Frank, you just shared that video and it was a fake profile.

[00:45:51]>> Yeah. Yeah. That's the other thing.

[00:45:53]People mimicking your own profiles. Like he has >> I had a few of those and Salo comedy one. I'm like, what the [ __ ] like >> I deleted it. It's >> I know you did it. I stopped.

[00:46:05]>> A couple out there on TikTok. I keep I keep reporting them, but they're still out there. It's just >> Wait, before we go, I got one more thing.

[00:46:12]>> And I I I picked this question because I know it it could stand here in the back of his neck. I know sometimes we do skits where it portrays this, but I want all of us to answer this question. If your life was a Soprano style episode, >> here we go.

[00:46:28]What would the title be called?

[00:46:31]>> Think about it.

[00:46:32]>> Um, >> the title of the episode. Yes. For my like say my life.

[00:46:36]>> Yes. If your life was a Soprano style episode.

[00:46:40]>> Yeah.

[00:46:41]>> What title would you >> Perfect. I got a perfect one for me.

[00:46:43]What the [ __ ] are you mad about now?

[00:46:45]>> That's mine.

[00:46:48]>> That's actually a good one.

[00:46:49]>> Right.

[00:46:50]>> Off the [ __ ] dome like that.

[00:46:53]>> From Sis. Wait. From Sicily to Benenhurst. That's what it would Sicily to Bensonhurst.

[00:46:59]>> Give me one, Joe.

[00:47:00]>> Come on, Joe. Thank you.

[00:47:01]>> If you had to give yourself a title of an episode, Soprano style of yourself, you would call it, I would say, what are you talking about? [ __ ] that. I'll say it again. What are you talking about, [ __ ] That's [ __ ] Queens.

[00:47:17]>> How about you, Frank?

[00:47:20]>> How you doing?

[00:47:21]>> Nah, come on. No.

[00:47:23]>> No. No. No. No. We gave thoughtful ones.

[00:47:26][ __ ] you. You go do a good one.

[00:47:28]>> Come on. That wasn't a good one.

[00:47:29]>> Have a good night, everybody.

[00:47:30]>> Bastard. Bastard that you are.

[00:47:33]>> Is this still recording?

[00:47:34]>> Yeah.

[00:47:35]>> One more thing I forgot to do, but you could do this. You could throw it in there.

[00:47:38]>> Whatever in there, right? I got a little gift for you. I I didn't I didn't realize and I didn't remember that you had my picture on the wall, your wall of fame here. I brought a personal picture of mine.

[00:47:48]>> All right. I I I usually do this. It's a little bigger than the normal pictures you have up there, but if this picture doesn't fit in the in the size categories as the other ones, >> we'll make it fit.

[00:47:59]>> Feel free to put in your bedroom or something like that.

[00:48:00]>> Oh, yeah. Above the bed.

[00:48:02]>> Let me see. Let's see this thing. Let's see what we got.

[00:48:05]>> We get >> Holy [ __ ] >> I'm going to put this above my bed.

[00:48:11]>> Yo, read it.

[00:48:12]>> I'm going to >> read it. Italian Sicilians not do it much better.

[00:48:19]>> You [ __ ] this [ __ ] Son of a [ __ ] >> Yo, I love you, bro. I love you guys.

[00:48:26]>> Awesome. Awesome. Have a good night.

[00:48:28]>> Was good.

[00:48:28]>> You got to put that up.

[00:48:30]>> Yo, that's got to go like right. It's got to go up on the wall.