speaker-3: ⁓ there you are. Do you see me? speaker-0: Peter? speaker-3: All right. ⁓ speaker-1: I still don't own a phone just because of shit like this. speaker-0: You should own a phone. speaker-1: I don't own a phone, I will never buy a phone. speaker-2: I got smoke signals. speaker-1: I don't want to be fucking annoyed all day. Doesn't take much these days. speaker-3: video. speaker-0: Yeah, go! speaker-2: That's no. speaker-1: Yep, there he is. speaker-3: I hate computers, it's my kryptonite. speaker-1: I don't know, I couldn't copy or paste anything. I don't know how to do anything. We're good at the porno. speaker-3: Yeah. That sounds good. speaker-0: Well, back in the day, was smoke a joint, have a beer, do a shot. Now it's don't forget to stretch before you put it on your socks. What went around these days? speaker-1: I it's. I keep on hearing about this stretching. just I can't it just doesn't go. Stop working. speaker-0: We used to think old was 80. Now old is whenever you make a sound getting off the couch. speaker-1: Well, my brain I'm 15, my fucking head I'm 90. My body is 90. I went to the gym yesterday. I am so goddamn sore today I can barely walk. It takes like three days to recover. Mostly chest and triceps. speaker-3: Yeah, that's, yeah, that's the. speaker-0: did you do yesterday? speaker-2: He walked to the gym. speaker-3: Got it. speaker-1: I don't do I'll lift weights all day. I don't like doing cardio speaker-2: Well, you should speaker-0: I tell you, the fact that he lost the weight that he did, I think that's just amazing. speaker-1: Like I said, I have a vagina here. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-2: You should come with me, Pete. Yeah, I've been pushing around 200 pound red oak logs for the last week. Yeah. speaker-1: You'd have to just like give me mouth to mouth right after that. speaker-2: Ha speaker-0: I would hire a landscaping company in a second. I would have just said, Hey, get a landscaping company. speaker-2: But that's my gym! speaker-1: How being old is different now than what you thought it would be in your head when you were young? speaker-3: Oh, you know what I always think? Like three years ago, I had a house in Mooresville and I needed 17 railroad ties. And I built the big retaining wall and I was trying to think, so I was like 69. I'm trying to think if my father and my grandfather used to do work with the railroad ties. I couldn't even lift one. I had to put them on bowels to push them across the lawn. That's how heavy it was. speaker-1: My father had two strong sons after 60. He didn't lift a goddamn thing. did it all. speaker-2: Yeah, my father told me if I wanted to shit out of you, I'd squeeze your head. Get out in the yard and do something. speaker-0: ⁓ my God, kids today don't even know what we went through. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-3: Thank God we didn't have cell phones. speaker-2: Yeah, that's true. speaker-1: Hey, one of my favorite stories about Kevin and Muskie. One time we took a rowboat, threw it over the wall behind your house, Kevin, and a bunch of fat drunk bastards went out on the res. How we didn't die that night. The water was like, you know, the boat was so down in the water, was like an inch above the water line. speaker-2: Amazing. speaker-0: guess some of the things we did on the res, we used to take a log and push it across the reservoir while swimming. mean, that's. speaker-1: remember walking across that thing in the ice and hearing it crack and going what the 50 years later what the fuck was I thinking? speaker-2: I remember we had a drought and we walked across. We walked across, there was only a little bit of water, there was foundations under there. ⁓ huh? Yeah, it's probably about 20, 30 feet in spots. But we walked right across. Yeah, was years ago. Years ago. speaker-1: It's only like 20 feet deep, speaker-2: that thing dried up and we were walking across there, you could walk right over into Harrington Park. speaker-0: So Phil, the res was right behind our high school, where the woods, the pines are, where we used to go and get high. speaker-2: What? Don't wrestle in practice. speaker-1: We're really smart. We used to set bonfires in the middle of the dry woods because we were idiots. speaker-3: Me and John Vogel swam across that reservoir and we left our clothes and sneakers on the other side and we took home with just shorts on, no pants. ⁓ speaker-2: I think I found them. speaker-0: I a lot of time. speaker-3: I've placed 15 sneakers. If you found them, you're going to take a trip across. speaker-1: What defines good times now? Getting out of bed and feeling okay. speaker-3: you speaker-0: We're one stretch away from greatness or a nap. speaker-1: Yeah, I can walk from my house to my car about 50 yards and my body will change three times before I get there. First I'll start off real great, then I'm like right in the middle of it I'll be like, then I'll be fine again. It's the arthritis. speaker-2: You gotta do it every day. walk with my neighbor's wife. I walk with my neighbor's wife every day. We do three and a half miles. speaker-3: Yeah. speaker-0: Is your neighbor's wife and your wife is okay with that? speaker-2: Yeah, well, she's sleeping and his what his husband works at night. Funny, funny story. Funny story. This woman walks out. We're walking the dogs in the morning. She says, ⁓ okay. Yeah, we were walking the dogs. She says, ⁓ this is your husband. So my neighbor, Sandy says, it's not my husband. So my neighbor, Mike takes off in the summertime. He takes off on Mondays and he walks with us. Now there's two guys and my neighbor's wife. speaker-0: walking the dogs. speaker-2: She says, ⁓ this is your husband. She goes, that's not my husband either. She goes, ⁓ you go, girl. speaker-1: Is there a ball of activity that guy? speaker-3: ⁓ that's too funny. speaker-1: Get me. speaker-0: The neighbors speaker-2: Well, they got the basketball Hall of Fame right there too. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, right next to the dispensary. speaker-1: That's right. Does anyone go to a podiatrist? What a damn pleasure. You go. Costs nothing. Get your nails clipped when you're a fat bastard and can't stretch. It's like going to a hooker. Five minutes, you're done. feel a thousand percent better. speaker-0: They're literally done. speaker-2: I just did my physical, everything's good. speaker-3: Yeah, me too. Life is good. speaker-1: Here we go. speaker-0: My numbers are all very good right now, so I'm pretty happy. speaker-2: My old man used to say, you wake up in the morning, you're above the dirt. You're having a good day. speaker-0: Emancy is the real flex. speaker-3: I worked at Chili's last year as a line cook. My watch said at the end of the day, 26, 27,000 steps. I used to get home and sit on the couch and my wife would wake me up at five o'clock. You want dinner? I was exhausted. But literally, 26, 27,000 steps at work. That's a speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-1: It's not like, you know, steps like this. like you're going sideways, you're going backwards. speaker-3: And I got two Labradors that they like to take two or three walks a day too. So you come home and then yeah speaker-0: He asked you, Phil, you just finished working in Chili's. Peter, what's the difference between help these days? Kids versus when you were starting? speaker-3: You know, I quit three. speaker-1: out. when I first started it was all white stupid teenagers who just wanted to fuck around, get high and eat. Now I have all Mexicans and they're the fucking best. don't have to tell them a damn thing. Everything is perfect every day. speaker-0: Thank so much. speaker-3: That's awesome. I worked at Lowe's, Lowe's Foods, Harris Teeter and Chili's and I cannot believe how much everybody sucks. quit Chili's, not Chili's, I quit Harris Teeter and Lowe's because I couldn't stand to work with the people anymore. No, I didn't get fired. got a, actually they actually, that lady, they actually loved me. They paid me like 19 bucks an hour to be a part-time cook. They loved me. speaker-0: from Jilly's. speaker-3: I work with this guy, the guy's name is Jerry. This guy was like a biker guy, badass, tattoos, crazy. He goes, have you heard my story? I go, no. Yeah, I just got out of prison. I'm sitting there chopping something going, okay, you're good. speaker-1: Who's that? speaker-2: Stay away from the knives, dude. speaker-3: He keeps talking. go, how long are you in prison? He goes, 28 years. Now I'm with the night. ⁓ boy. What happened? He had murdered a pedophile. The guy murdered somebody. goes, the the judge had, the judge didn't want to send him to jail, he had to do it. He served 28 years. He got out. He was out six months. He got arrested for selling marijuana. They threw him back in jail. What's that? Down here, marijuana is illegal. speaker-0: ⁓ man. speaker-3: but you could buy it anywhere in the store. And they sell, I saw 15,000 milligram gummies. You could buy those, you could get a recipe. 15,000 milligrams. 15,000 milligrams, yeah. That's insane. It was insane. speaker-0: grants. speaker-2: That's insane. speaker-1: never took a gummy I liked, ever. speaker-3: ⁓ I do. I take one every night. speaker-1: Either I don't feel anything or I'm so fucked up. I can't stand yeah speaker-2: Yeah, well, I do the five milligram indicas for sleep. Yeah, I just take one in a way. speaker-1: ⁓ Does that make a difference that it's that? speaker-2: What's that? speaker-1: Does the Indica part of it make a difference? speaker-2: Indica is Indi-couch. Indi-couch. That's the strain, you know, it makes you tired. The sativa gets you going. speaker-3: Yeah. Yeah. speaker-0: What is something like that cost? What is something like that cost? speaker-2: What's that? I get 20 of the things in a package right down the road here from the thing. I think they're 18, 20 bucks a package. No, it's not bad. I quit that 40 years ago. speaker-1: That's tough. About cheaper than drinking. I got people spending $60 a day on booze here every fucking day. How do you afford that? know, brewery opened across the street in Westwood here where the old 5 and 10 used to be. It's called 5 10. speaker-2: I believe it. That place was cool. speaker-1: It's cool, but everybody hates the beer. It's nine dollars for a fucking beer. speaker-2: Yeah, it's ridiculous. We used to get two cases, three cases of beer for that. speaker-0: You remember? speaker-1: Throwing joints out of a helicopter advance on park. I remember that. First 420,000s of joints. speaker-0: realize I'm- speaker-3: Didn't you get chased by the county cops on the golf course next to Bergen? Yeah. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-2: So listen, we went up to Yorktown Heights on Saturday to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park. First thing that came to my mind was you stealing the refrigerator out of that guy's room and throwing the other one in window. Pete. speaker-0: Yorktown. speaker-1: the window. do remember that. speaker-2: When you and Ira were ⁓ up in the culinary, me and Muskie come up. speaker-1: I thought he was hiding out there. speaker-2: with snowballs and we're throwing the snowballs and knocking the beer off everybody's window legs. speaker-0: I never ate so good spending the time up at the car never ate so good. That was delicious. speaker-2: And pretty good too because we were not getting it was free. speaker-1: Right. That's right. You're hiding out from what's his name? Della Volpe. Yeah. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: No, that wasn't that. Something else. speaker-1: ⁓ I don't want to know then. speaker-3: in my class. I went to high school 289 out of 333 but a culinary school was number one. speaker-2: as a food taster. ⁓ speaker-3: I that solid 2.0 from Bergen when I moved on. Actually, 2.0 was the best report card I ever got. My parents thought I was going to be the valedictorian. I'm telling you, I graduated 289 out of 333. I had like a 0.7 grade average. And then I started thinking, forgive me for saying this, all the kids I called retards. Yeah, I guess I'm one now. And I'm friends with some of them. And they're retired. And they work for the department. roads in New Jersey and stuff and they're all living a nice life and I'm like yeah speaker-0: With the retirement plan. speaker-2: There you go, there you go. speaker-3: That's why I who's the retard now? Me. speaker-1: I applied for the DPW at high school, didn't get it. I would have been retired 10 years ago. speaker-0: I should have stayed working for the post office right across the street from there. used to work there. What's that for you pills? speaker-1: It's for me. Hello, video. Hello. speaker-0: This is why you record it. speaker-2: It says we're close. speaker-1: I'm great, Robert. Why are you calling? You know, this is a restaurant. Did you know that? Well, take us off your list, please. Thank you. 87 of those fucking things a day. My voicemail, like, once a month is like 75 calls and every one of them is nothing. speaker-3: On the front of my house, have three signs that says no soliciting, no nothing. And then I got one that says, don't knock on the door, don't ring the doorbell. And a freaking guy comes and rings the doorbell. I just went out and stood there and just pointed to the sign. And he kept talking. I just get pointed to the sign. speaker-2: You're giving it! speaker-0: the solicitors down there. speaker-3: Everybody's coming by. Do you want us to paint? Do you want us to fix you? You know, it's all new people. trying to everybody's trying to sell you stuff. It's crazy. speaker-1: Yeah, I just get it over the phone. speaker-3: I have a thing on my phone that if you're not in my list, it won't ring. speaker-1: Wow. speaker-0: I am, too. speaker-3: Yeah, but the bad thing is when the doctor says they'll call you or the car dealer says they'll call you and you don't have the number and they the calls. it's a small price to pay. speaker-1: Hey, I don't have a phone. I have a landline at home. Landline at home, and if you want to call me, I'm at home or I'm at work. If you're not going to reach me, it's because I don't want you. speaker-3: You're lucky. That's funny, because I saw my wife, she says, you have your phone? I said, no. Well, what if there's an emergency? said, well, first I go, everyone I want to talk to is here. Yeah. What if there's an emergency? go, they'll get in touch with you. go, it's simple. speaker-1: I have an emergency go give me your phone for a minute speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-3: I can't stand it. I almost went back to a flip phone and I can't stand it. I never even know where is sometimes. speaker-2: I remember Eddie Egan on the job one time, this production person says, you know, I don't know what we would have done without these phones and he goes, well, you would have got off your lazy ass and came and talked to me. speaker-3: ⁓ When I worked at Chili's, was nine of us on the line and I'm standing there one night and I have a picture, eight people on their cell phones. speaker-1: It used to be between stuff you did little side jobs, now you talk on your phone. Yeah. speaker-3: Yeah, when I got hired, I said I show up on time and I leave my phone in the car and the manager goes, well, so far you better than everyone that works here. Yeah. speaker-2: ⁓ I used to go in in morning to get the boys going on the movie sets and everybody be sitting there with their phones, the thumbers would be going like this. I said, hey, is there an app to get this work done? Because that's why we're here. speaker-0: Does that come with coffee? speaker-2: So he goes to me, he goes, you know, I really was in your class. He says, it was that nasty Mrs. Reddington. says, I called her a. speaker-1: I love Mrs. Reddington. She's my favorite teacher. speaker-2: Well, he got sent to the office and she failed him, so he had to come back and be in our class too. He's a freaking mental case. He's got this massive house. He lives in one room in the house. There's squirrels running through the house, the ceiling's falling down. Me and Peter, I went up there to check out his wood stove for him. We started a fire in it. The smoke was coming from everywhere except from out of the chimney. speaker-1: ⁓ yeah, I knew that. speaker-2: It was coming out of the eaves, was coming out of the bedroom windows. A couple of years ago we did a weekend up there where we throw the boats, we got boats on the reservoir, so we have a fishing tournament and then we camp out in Joe's yard. What a trip. What a trip. speaker-0: Pete, what's on the menu for tonight? ⁓ guys, we're coming down to the end. This is proof that bad knees make good stories. ⁓ speaker-1: These are pretty good. My hips would bother me, but that's just sciatica. speaker-2: I got one good one, but it's a store boy. ⁓ speaker-3: I've had 70 operations. got two replacements. speaker-2: Yeah, I've had my share of them. speaker-3: My worst operation when I was like junior in college, I blew my knee out. I was in the hospital for 39 days. Yeah, 39 days. speaker-2: They kick you out the next day. You're walking in, they throw you out. speaker-3: So, you know, that's when I got my knee replaced. I was having a lot of trouble with the pain on the first day and the doctor goes, well, I got to send you home. It's only insurance is going to pay. said, good way to make a decision, I guess. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-3: They, I think I had them like 12 years ago. They're doing pretty good, but I do like, you can't run. I mean, that's, I can't. speaker-2: I have my right one done. speaker-1: Every word into here has a new name. speaker-2: My left one I had the ACLs, they took my patella ligaments out and made new ACL out of them. speaker-3: Yeah. ⁓ speaker-1: could use a little of that. My kneecaps are hanging by a thread. speaker-3: I can't speaker-2: Duck tape. Yeah, wrestling was good for that. Hey, before we go, does anybody remember, ⁓ Phil, you wouldn't, but remember when Stan Woods had his adenoids taken out and we tied up a ⁓ Diasecki, remember that guy, Diasecki? We tied him up and threw him in the corner. And it was Louis Gortez, all of us, we ganged up, we tied him up. speaker-1: You Okay. speaker-2: And then when Woods came back the next day, we all got our asses kicked. We ran them fucking hallways for hours. speaker-0: Stan Woods, know, the top of the wrestling world in New Jersey. Famer. speaker-1: Yeah. Have you seen them lately though? looks like it went like this. ⁓ speaker-3: Yeah. Is he still? speaker-2: Yeah. He's got the, he's got the, what you call it too. He told me he goes, he goes, you know, I can remember what I eat for breakfast. says, but that's only because I eat the same thing every day. speaker-3: very speaker-1: What is he like, 82? How old is he? speaker-2: Yeah, he's up in his 80s, speaker-1: My favorite Stan Wood story is Eddie Stern made it to the States, you know, third place. And had to share a hotel room with Stan. said, all Stan did was just scratch his balls. He's in your picture, right? He was always scratching his nuts, that fucking guy. All right, Musk. I'm not good for Thursdays, only Mondays. All right, catch you. speaker-0: I gotta go. Hey, we'll do it again. Thanks a Okay, cool. speaker-2: See you later. speaker-3: guys.