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hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pod on. Thanks for telling
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for supporting those that support us, like our friend Jimmy Z's Plates and Shakes.
Jimmy's in the house, so yeah, maybe got his Brett hard ad
on. Yes, Mark the vest there is the vest there was the vester
ever will be. He's a he's a bitch though we'll talk about that.
He's not that big of a bitch. And uh, Mark Hillman, it's
his birthday on Thursday. It's getting all ready for that. Get a whole
week off, I do a week. Yeah, this is this is fantastic.
Kevin's back. Kevin's back. This is amazing shape. So the uh
I get a text from Kevin yesterday with your statement that Jimmy Z's Plates and
Shakes, after twenty one years, has decided that it is just going to
close on the twenty ninth, but keep opening the catering portion which your dad
runs, Poppy yep, as well as the food truck, which you have
a big hand in. Yeah. Since this past season, I you know,
we had management. We had a great we you know, we had
a great manager at the restaurant, which allowed me to step away from day
to day at the restaurant, which and he was new at it, and
he was doing a great job. But the one thing that was relieving for
him was that I just took the food truck completely, Like I took care
of all the bookings. I ran it, you know, I worked it,
so you do that again. Uh yeah, myself and Poppy. You
know, I worked more with Pops last summer on the truck than I have
in years. And it was contact, like I had so much fun.
Good, I'm glad. That's awesome. That's awesome. It was fun.
Again. I needed to rely on one to two people, which is not
hard to rely on, and we all had fun. I was on the
line, I was cooking all the food like I was having you. It
felt like it used to feel. So you were cranking that one day at
Victor Kraser Dodge Sheep. You were out there. It was I mean,
I had to have Bill both to the to and get me more burger and
hot dog bus. I said, I'm on the throughway. Are you going
to pass tops? Yes? I said, you know, and you know
because we you know, we tend to, you know, when we do
parties like that. Okay, you know you normally it's so tough to judge
how many are going to get plates and how many are going to get burgers
and dogs on buns. And I sold and we sold like two plates and
like thirty hot dogs and thirty hamburgers, and I'm like, I'm running out
of bread, you know, so Bill for the win. Talk to me
about the decision to close. Hard one to come. I mean, you're
you're it wasn't. It was all in the building. It was very hard
to come because this is something that we worked so hard for for so long
to have what we have today. And the last thing you want something,
the last thing you want to happen is for something so important to you and
something so important to a lot of people. It seems, it seems by
the reaction we've gotten. No, it was. It was very It was
one of the hardest decisions we had to make. But but unfortunately the business
just has not been profitable since COVID, Like since COVID, I think the
business has not ate and it and it's not because we're not busy. Okay,
Uh, the bridge isn't helping. The bridges has has really really hurt
every business on Main Street and Brockport. But it wasn't. We were struggling
before the bridge closed. Okay, it's we finally we finally got ourselves to
a position where we could get food costs under Food costs are great right now,
which when during COVID, those those were a big problem. We were
able to make. We've been able to things go up and go down.
That that's just the nature of the market with anything that you're doing. There's
certain times that you're lettuce is going to cost you more money. There's certain
times things are going to cost you more money, you know. And the
food cost was able to go down. But one thing, with one thing
that is almost impossible to make right now unless myself and Poppy work full time
like we did twenty years ago, is the payroll, gotcha? Yeah,
So what's the point? So so it just got to a point where how
much more are we going to put in to get out to try to make
this thing work, to get through this right? So you know, and
so what's next. Well, we have a lot of catering booked up that's
perfect, and you know, I work, we're I mean, we're collecting
uh you know, food truck deposits. So that's where the money is now,
right, Isn't that where catering. Catering is where the money's at,
and it's and it's here, here's the whole thing. It's you definitely want
to go where the money's at, right, But but we are the catering
and the food truck are not the reason why where we have to shut down,
we have to shut down because we are. It's costing us money to
operate under these Under these circumstances, there are so many places closing down.
Down the labor rate, the labor rate in New York State has made it
impossible for the average small business to stay profitable. Got it, Well,
that's really encouraging news. It's it's unfortunate truth of what's going on. So
have you seen the piece that Channel eight did on you? Yes? You
did? Yeah? All right, Well for those who haven't, we'll play
the audio. This is Channel eight. I think that's a pretty You have
to think, Jimmy, how many places of a similar type, right,
there's lots of plates place plates places have the cachet of Jimmy Z. The
news is coming. I mean, I think that's pretty impressive. No,
you want to know what is the biggest acknowledgment in times like this all the
people is when Nick Tajos tweets you with a respect. I believe it that
that right there for us, the support they've shown us over the years period
when we closed for COVID, when we opened back up, when we had
to close when I tore my meniscus and we opened back up like the people
who gave us a platform, plate society, a platform to be able to
make a living, and because of them and their creation, I was able
to open up something, make it my own, give them the credit they
deserve for what they created, and have our own following Yeah, yeah,
and you did. This is the the Channel eight piece, the CBS affiliate
in the Rochester area, well sad business news for customers of Jimmy Z's in
Brockport, as a Facebook post from earlier today announcing the area garbage plate hospot
will close its restaurant portion later this month. Geopataglia stopped by there today to
hear how the community is reacting to the announcement. Is about Jimmy Z's Plates
and Shakes and Brockport has provided to the community and nearby college students during its
twenty one year run, but a post on Facebook earlier today did announce they
will close the doors of their restaurant at the end of the month. A
staple on State Street. That's what those who attend Sunny Brockport told me is
the perfect way to describe Jimmy Z's Plates and shakes on Facebook Sunday morning,
owner Jimmy's Azofski writing to all of our devoted faith did you get your last
name right? Yes? Okay souls after on the money on the month.
I was very impressed. I saw that and went, wow, make time
today, ask you right? I mean nobody talked to me. Yeah,
they didn't see me that day, They did not know. So he hit
it right on the money. For having time to reflect, Poppy and I
have decided that it would just not be Jimmy Z's without us, going on
to say it has been an absolute privilege to serve you and we cannot thank
you enough for embracing us. I talked with a group of first year college
students who had heard the news early Sunday, stocking up on T shirts and
other memorabilia. They say, to get a this could be amazing. I'm
honestly, I would think that the plates, the merchandise has got to sell
out. Oh, they we sold a lot of teas. I'm thinking,
yeah, I actually have I'm actually going to go to the factory. So
I thought of those who will be coming up for one last Jimmy Z's plate,
adding while they've only been there a few times. It's going to be
hard to find somewhere as fulfilling and as close as Jimmy Z's is. You
really are leaving a kind of a gaping hole there in a way, right,
I mean, oh, definitely right. If my health physically and mentally
did not suffer as much as it has over the last six years, you'd
keep going. I would keep going. Yeah, why don't I have a
funny feeling like you just need to take a break. You need to You
almost need to be like Ricky Waters when he just stepped away from the Miami
Dolphins for a little while and then he came back and he was a monster.
I have gone. I've been non stop since fifth grade on the weekends.
Yeah, I believe. But he Jimmy you, You're never gonna not
stopped. So don't I mean that that which is we're just gonna apply that
notting to different But I mean, you're gonna tell me you worked on the
weekend. You were hustling in something in the hallways, you were probably some
candy. I will tell you this story, and I might have shared it
before, Okay, but the first pair of tickets amricks tickets I ever won
off of Bob Matthews. Yeah, I was in fifth grade also, Okay,
I walked to and I walked and knocked on every door in my apartment
complex until somebody bought those tickets. Yeah, in fifth grade. Yeah,
nobody, you know, so yeah, you know so. Yeah. So
that was a Thursday night, not a weekend. Right, There's not another
spot that's like close that I feel like it is like this. Yeah,
there's nowhere else where you really think to go to if you're like, Okay,
I'm hungry and it's late, there's nowhere else around here. I really
feel like you could just go with your friends and just kind of, you
know, a relaxed environment and you know, just kind of enjoy a meal
together with your friends. That Facebook post going on to explain this year's Leap
Day, February twenty ninth, will be when they closed their doors of the
restaurant reporting in Brockport Geobteglia News eight. Now listen up to this, Jimmy
pay attention. Listen. Listen. Listen to this. Listen listen a whole
second. No warning is necessary for what I'm about to hear. Okay,
that's right, all right, So you thank you very much and owner Jimmy
z Vosky, see see what it says, His Papa's catering and food truck
will still be available until September of this year. You know she she went
to the butcher shop. Yeah, she butchers everything. But you know what,
but listen, you know what it's spectable to have gotten that has been
happening my whole life. I means so like in gym class when they got
to me, it was just like, okay, you're here. Okay,
now, Mark, you've lived here your whole life. Yeah, what had
something that you know, something like this closing? Yeah right, it's sort
of uh, I guess for lack of a better tournament institutional in a way.
Right, we all know it, we know where it is. What
closed? That was the biggest marker of time, Like I think it's been
it's happening now, it's happening now. Yeah. Tuccheese on Lyle Avenue,
which I've been going to for many years. What is it? It's a
It was a it was like a kind of a darve, kind of an
old school mob bar. Okay, no, that's the It's called too cheese.
It's called to cheese. Two cheese I thought it was too like like
what I thought he meant. But but it's Tucci. Yeah yeah, the
last name. Yeah, okay, and that closed down. That's closing down,
and that's been there for what thirty forty years? Really? Yeah,
because I always thought, like, you know, you had Diamonds, and
you had all these other places that kind of went came and went right.
Those those came and went, Yeah, they didn't really matter all of a
sudden, you have a place like this to cheese was a well, that
would be like Thirsty's closing right. Yeah. You remember Bosdykes back in the
corner. That was a big restaurant back in the day. I used to
love that place and they closed down. What about the what's the one that
was around the corner from you that? Oh god, it was a party
house. Oh Golden Ponds, Golden Ponds that was closed because that was the
station. Yeah, but that was by the way, Jimmy. There's been
a few places that have made the news recently for health cold violations not so
nice. No, there's a list. Yeah, did you see these?
There's a couple like I go, oh man, now one had the dude
who in the flower I didn't I see I didn't want to read it.
I'm like, how how do you? I mean, it's because it because
it's the mouse got in there and it was around there. Yeah yeah,
BTV the mouse get in there and ship. How did they get out?
Did it just climb himself back out? Yeah? Yeah, I'm sure it
did. Jimmy's he's is on there either bag, right, we're pristine.
Yeah, Well, it's got to be very hard. Do they come in
often? How does the health inspect a year? Twice a year? Is
that what they did when you were Yeah, and it's funny our health inspectors
her and her husband used to come in and have dinner. That's how good.
That's how clean Bad Billies was. Okay, that's how mad did it?
That they would come in. We would see Hern her husband at least
once a week. But it's got to be a tough thing now. I
remember when balsam Bage got shut down and I said to somebody, I go
when they reopen. But I would be the first in line because I know
had I been eating there before I survived. I'll keep you know what I
mean, like, if I like it, if it's become a Tucciese bar
in my life. You know the thing with infestation, it's gonna happen and
it just needs to be taken care of before it becomes a problem. Like
we can't stop you know, the businesses like like that can't stop sometimes from
from some of you know, these critics showing up, you know what I
mean, But like they don't they can't be there for very long. And
if you're finding this stuff in flower, if you're finding this stuff on counters,
if you're finding this stuff on tables, means the problem wasn't taking care
of in the timely fashion take care of because you're going to find them in
your house like these this this is a part of nature. Hanging on a
second, I have a new job for you. Consult. I could be
a consult I think you could be a damn good consult right because it's easy.
You don't have the day to day pressure when you like getting in the
line of fire. You can get I mean there, listen, success is
not there is any cheat codes with success. It's pretty black and white.
It's pretty simple. You know. There's there's multiple processes and you just have
to follow them. You know, yeah, well you got you have so
many other things I mean, like, you know, you know, you
don't need the headache is basically at this point, hey, we had a
sneaker release again, you know, you know how to take care of that.
He's got this whole sneaker empire on the side that's going on any and
and and the thing about it is that the sad part about this and I
don't talk about this a lot, but this is sad but true. Okay,
it's been too long that the earnings that I've made in my other ventures
are the reason why we've been able to keep the store open. Had that,
okay, And that's the sad sad is truth about this whole thing,
and that that we tried. We talked to multiple potential buyers, you know,
and there were a few that could that could cut the mustard and just
wasn't good timing for them. And there were just some people that we just
didn't feel would be the right fit. And we feel that it would you
know, it sounds good on paper type things, but you know what,
like you gotta go with your gut, you know, and then we work
and then you know, I just said I'm a poppy and I said listen,
you know, I said, I just think that we you know,
I go back to the end of led Zeppelin. Yeah, and it ended
when John Bonham died because without John Bonham there's no led Zeppelin, right,
and without Jimmy and Poppy there's no Jimmy Z's agree, I agree, Yeah,
Yeah, it's good analogy. So okay, but I will ask this
Jimmy Z's also. So it's almost like an odd thing because the sneaker empire,
i'll call that, came about because of Jimmy Z's, the four Oh
Onesie, Yeah, the four Roh's one Zi came about because I was a
natural, Like I grew up a sneakerhead. Yeah, so that was always
going on or it just grew more. Yeah. Passion for sneakers started when
I was a kid because I idolized Michael Jordan. Yeah. So my first
pair of Jordan's was fourth grade ye air Jordan's six is. Yeah. I
wanted the fives to be my first pair, and my uncle was gonna get
them for me until that Sports Illustrated cover came out that said your sneakers or
Your Life, and the photo of the shoes that were on the cover were
the exact ones that I wanted. We got it and he said, I
can't get these for you. Of course not. Could you imagine what your
mom would have done? Well, my dad gone from me to your amba.
Things calmed down. I was gonna say things blew over. Yeah,
you know, but I've been the sneaker head ever since. And you know,
and then when Jordan retired, I stopped buying Jordan's. Yeah, and
then uh, you know nine came around, which was ten years later.
A pair of shoes was being re released that I always wanted and I was
never able to get came out and I bought four pairs for one hundred and
ninety bucks apiece. The next day, I sold one pair on Christmas Eve
for four hundred bucks and I said, you know this is this is this
is not a bad hustle, not a bad hustle. No, not a
bad muscle. And it started in nine small time. You know, probably
had like thirty or forty brand new pairs of sneakers at one point. Yeah,
probably had like fifty of my own personal pairs. But you know,
I didn't just bust open brand new pairs like I'm on eBay here buying you
know shoes I want. You lightly used buying them for way less retail.
You know what I mean, just like you know you know I've I've lived
below my means on top of all this. Well I know that because but
you also were smart, because I think you took some of the money and
then invested into You own the building that Jimmy Z's in. You own so
because because of In two thousand and five, we bought our first investment property
in Brockport, and since then we have purchased uh sixteen or seventeen properties,
and we have now uh on twelve damn yes, okay, yeah, all
right, so and pretty good, huh pretty good? And and now I
want a partner up and did nothing. Now Jimmy Z's good. That's where
I am. Jimmy Z's in two ways, helped finance the first property.
The first way it helped finance the property was a the funding available to to
have enough for a down payment. The second part of how Jimmy Z's funded
this place was while it was for sale. This was the old Jimmy Max
one Main Street, and once Jimmy Max closed, the building had already been
for sale by the owner, which is not Max. They paid rent.
Once Max closed, it just got people looking at the property. They saw
it was for sale. I went and looked at it. Not gonna lie.
I went and looked at it for operational reasons, and I went and
looked at it for purchasing reasons. Okay, because no, five, I
didn't know any better yet that I didn't need another restaurant, like I need
a hole in my head, gotcha, No, and we backed. We
looked at it, but that was as far as it went. Lady who
was interested in buying the property, she heard that we looked at it and
interested in the business. She walked into Jimmy Z's asking us if we want
to rent it, and I was kind of I mean, I was five,
I was twenty two, twenty three years old. Yeah, you know
I was. It was five pm. I had been working. I'd been
working seven days a week straight till four am Wednesday through Saturday. Like this
lady walks in at five o'clock, right in the beginning of my shift when
I haven't even drinking my full throttle yet, and she wants to talk business,
and I'm like, you know what, if I'm not buying this place,
I don't want to talk to her. My dad like okay, fine.
Old man comes back like ten minutes later and he goes, well,
Son, you just bought yourself your first property. I said, what do
you mean, she's buying the business or she's buying the property, and she's
and she's willing to hold the paper for us, and we're going to purchase
it from her. Nice. So my credibility to find a mortgage someone to
mortgage a property for me happened because of what we had accomplished just in the
first two years. That's amazing. It's amazing. And then the reason why
the portfolio got to the size it is is because to this day, I
have not taken a paycheck from any of the housing income. Okay, all
the housing income has all rolled over, it's all rolled over, and it's
all paid. It's it's just paid off mortgage after mortgage. So right now
I'm still sitting on twelve properties, and I think we need to have the
Jimmy Z economics class ship tell that. Yeah, so right and so and
right now, So right now the twelve properties were sitting on uh the there's
only I only have one mortgage on it. It's all everything's paid because every
year, once I had enough role in I looked, I look. I
looked at the next. I looked at the next. Because every mortgage what
was what was, was built differently. There were some that had a minimum
of umbrella life, some that didn't have life. You can pay it off.
I saw one I didn't have life on it. Oh I have I'm
gonna cut you a check next week, sir, got all right, we
will. Uh, we'll take a moment when we come back. We talk
about all the things that I've you know, that you know I've lost and
that I can't get. Would you like to Yeah? I mean, is
this this is your life, this is your birthday week? Do you want
to be depressed as your perhaps the memories of the watching market? I will
so when we come back. Uh, there's Facebook, well, let's say
Facebook, social media in general. We tell in ourselves so much and I
don't think we realize it. And Kevin sent me a news story. But
then since Jimmy Z's here and you hire and probably have had to fire people,
I don't know. I want you part of the job. I can
tell you that worst part of the job. Yeah, I'm sure. I
don't like being a mean guy. Yeah I can I can see that Matt
loved this shit, Matt love. I mean, they made me, but
I didn't like it. So we will. I will play you what's happening
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And it's him and it goes through the whole a whole generation of amazing.
It's a brilliant idea. It was great. Yeah, put him back
on the Billboard top one hundred for the first time in years thirty years.
Okay, so it's that the biggest I hate using this term for Billy Joel
because to me, Billy Joel was never off the radar, right because but
then when then think about it, even in pop culture, still playing all
those shows at Madison Square Garden every year everywhere. So yeah, so,
Mike, so it feels weird to say, but is it the biggest comeback
and musically only in that to your point, it's the first album in a
number of years and put them back in the and he just had no interest
in putting another album, I have to He was talking about putting together a
supergroup. Yeah, him, Don Henley, John Mayer, sting, and
they wanted to ask Paul McCartney, but they're afraid. Yeah, so they
were gonna ask John Mayer. Al McCartney wants to play with like the Nirvana
guys. He doesn't want to be he does want to play with the Nirvana.
It's so funny. But the Nirvana guys are old now, the next
generation old. All right, So Billy Joel, would you say, like
this was always one I thought I had. It was a great comeback.
This is a great comeback right here, Santana Santana, because it put him
back on the map. I mean Santana was like, I mean, come
on, man, you're talking a whole generation prior now wout from seventy to
like the seventies to ninety nine. You got it exactly like that. But
that's what you do, you always say. I hate to say this,
but match Box twenty is not on It is on my top five, not
like list what Rob Thomas is amazing? I like Rob Thomas, just not
You're my thing, right, okay? Yeah, Like I won't say anything
bad about max Box twenty. Fuck Nickelback, but I won't say it about
max Box twenty. Okay. And see, I haven't think about Nickelback.
What's your thing about Nickelback? I used to say the same thing. I
was in Nashville. I got a free ticket, so I went the fucking
band rack morning. The one thing I always everybody I hate why Why do
you hate Knuckleback? And nobody can ever give you a reason. I think
everywhere. I think when Nickelback plays, like I couldn't tell you the name
of a song, but I think I know the lyrics. Like we started
to play one, I think we would, Wow, that's a that's a
good wreck. That's a wreck. Yeah, And you know what. I
don't really hate anybody in the Don't get me wrong, I don't. I
just don't. I don't care about this song. Do you like this song
or what I was getting at over here when I started this whole rant?
Yes? Okay? Was that the genius behind the how Santana presented this album
and putting guys like Rob Thomas in there, putting different singers almost on everything.
Yes, yes, and that's what made it work. And you know
so, and this is such a sexy song. Thomas wrote this song.
Yeah, I love the song, the lyrics he wrote this, and Carlos
Santana said to him, you must be married to Latina girl in order to
write a song like that. And his wife is Latino. Oh look at
that? Hell yeah? All right? How about this come back for Van
Hellen once getting rid of David ly Roths to be coming back with Sammy Hagar
and being even bigger than with That's that's that's a fair one. I felt
like they never really went away, do you know what I'm saying? And
they never really went away. Now, Aerosmith I had a lull in the
eighties, like they they thought the band was over. Joe Perry went and
started the Joe Perry project. Because Stephen was so coked out of his mind.
I think he was almost living in the streets. And then he was
and then this comes along. Yeah, Run DMC rejuvenated. I think he
did. I think it was and actually they helped DM. Yes, they
did. It worked, it went. It was a double x. It
was a double edged sword as far as cross putting Run DMC on the map
and getting Aerosmith's back on the map. Yes, there and then and then
and then they signed their deal with Geffen and now here comes Permanent Vacation.
You got your rap doll. That was exactly got your angel like and then
here we are now and then they like, look at Aerosmith Permanent Vacation.
Yeah, Pump Pump got a grip. They had three back to back album
songs that were in movies on their second run. Yes, that is true.
And I think it was this. This sort of kicked it off.
It was that brought them back. It was it was. It was this.
There is a three part series on Peacock about Run DMC. Really it's
just fantastic. Okay, gotta watch. Does it take you right up to
the death of Uh, didn't one of them get killed the DJ dj G
I think, okay, yeah, it takes you the whole, the whole
thing. It's just fantastic. H here's another one I think was another big
comeback, only especially solo Tina Turner. Oh yeah, because Tina Turner couldn't
get anything. And when you know after Ike, Ike was trying to shut
everything down. Yeah. Well but when she left, right, she's trying
to do her own things. She was a backup singer. She I don't
think she could really get anything. And she was a woman in her forties
early forties by that point. And then all of a sudden, man,
this comes along. What's love got to do with it? And I go,
it's a it's another I mean this this launched it for that. This
is what a comeback is. This is okay all right? Shared did go
away after Sonny and Chair and then she she had married Greg Alman after that,
and yeah, Share, I think in nineteen eighty nine had like a
big album that came back. Shed that one in the nineties two with the
video on the boat's her back time and she was she Sambora, Yeah,
she was dating she Sambora about her when she will you were running pittsiclan Meg,
but she came in. Oh yeah, they got her sign up for
a Shoppers Club cards love the Star. So that's funny because share, now
I think, is she's gotta be damn near eighties. She has to be,
and she's dating like a guy his thirties. She's dating somebody who's forty
years younger than her, however old share is. Let's say she's seventy five,
this guy's got to be thirty five. Wow, Marianne's dating the gross
your guys here twenty years younger than her. Share is seventy seven, Okay,
and this guy's got to be thirty seven. Let's find out. Yes,
see, I know, but I don't know. If I'm sorry,
I don't know. Twenty years is twenty years, no big deal, right,
twenty years you still have things that she can You know what I'm saying,
you can get all you can understanding forty years forty years Jimmy, could
you date someone forty years older than you? That's saying boyfriend thirty eight A
I can be. I can be the one that's forty years older. You
know what I'm saying. Not now, but you know, I know exactly
Okay, when you know when that AARP comes in, you know, share
called I think you pick up? Yeah, Share called you pick up?
She would how could you not? Well, I'm I'm a taking man these
days, you are, So I can't talk about looking. But yeah,
but I couldn't. So I can't. I can't talk like I used to.
So I gotta, you know, I gotta watch my I mean,
I called talking, I called the darling because I'm used to saying that all
the time. And boy, I was in some hot water really well not
not real hot water, but you know, you know it was a little
steamy. Yeah, you know, darling. Darling that is an old school
term. Yeah, I mean, I'm just I'm charmless. Yeah, yeah,
it was, and she knew it was. But we have such a
banter in our relationship and it's so so fun and it's so fun to be
around her, and you know, uh, it's such a different environment for
me because I've spent most of my life single, you know, so I
understand that, you know. So yeah, me and me and Mark,
we you know, we know, we we cooked, We were cut from
the same cloth, you know, we basically were Yeah, Mark, well
you've done a single. Jimmy, I've known you for a while. You've
not always been You've had I've been single since Donkey Punch. How many years
has that been? Forty? Thirteen years? Thirteen years? Okay, all
right, yeah, hey Mary Anne's my first real, real serious relationship relationships
since then. Yeah, and it's uh and you're responsible you text. Yeah.
The responsibility that I have right now is freaking almost sickening. I mean,
this is my this is my first relationship in six years. But you're
young. Though you're young, you're still young, Jimmy. Uh, I've
had three the last two months. Jimmy, When you are hiring people,
do you do any kind of uh face not Facebook, but social media search
on them? Did you ever do that? I will when I was hiring
or looking at applications. Yeah, you definitely look at see if you can
look up the name and see if you know, you can get some kind
of like impression of the person based on how they portray themselves on the page
of its open you know. Yeah, why why what I mean, listen,
this is absolute, this is all it's out there for the public to
see. You know, you got it, so you know, and I've
opened up some pages, and I've said this is probably not going to work
out, you know, and then you know, so yeah, it's it's
it's good to know kind of what you're stepping into. Yeah, what you're
you know what you're Yeah, what what you're walking into? Yeah? What
do you mark? When you were doing b TV? Same thing? Oh
yeah, we always checked and you you you know, Jimmy said you you'll
find out right away what we're telling ourselves, you know. I mean,
you can learn a lot about a person just in terms of their patterns.
And we all A big complaint these days is being tracked online and hey,
how do I get these ads and all this? I get it. I
understand. It's almost like somebody who's listening in. But at the same time,
you volunteer a shit ton of information. People could see your pattern if
you look got my you know, my daily Starbucks woo woo, not your
stripper name, your first name of your last pat don't forget those those drunk
texts. There's drunk feastbook you did actually yeah, I mean all those oh
man, So check this out. This is a news story from somewhere in
the Great United States of America. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Florida.
The cop is great. Yes, yes, we'll sound of business news
for customers of jim Whoops Jimmy Z. A Facebook live video lands a Polk
County woman behind bars despite being wanted by the Sheriff's office. Marksha Wilkerson went
live on Facebook from a Lakeland Chucky Cheese. His channel, It's Melissa Marino,
shows us how the post got her cuffed. As soon as she hit
the button to go live on Facebook, everybody could see that she was at
this Chucky Cheese, including police. Ready, so she's live. She's eighteen,
she got a couple of warrants. She's a kid. She's not thinking.
Markeisha Wilkerson may have been having a good time at the Chucky Cheese in
North Lakeland, but she wasn't smiling for long. While we're on Facebook live,
Wila, we discovered this lady who has outstanding warrants. Hey, Wilkerson
had two warrants for improper display of a firearm and failing to appear in court,
but that didn't stop her from posting this live video on Facebook and leading
investigators right to her. They called Lakeland Police, who went to the Chucky
cheese and cuffed her. Crazy criminals are appreciated, Stupid criminals are really appreciated.
Look at her. I mean, what were you thinking? Is what
you want to say. But people do that all the time, of course
they do. And we highly recommend that when we're out looking for you that
you immediately post all of your information that you can on Facebook, Instagram,
tweet it out however you want, because that helps us. The eighteen year
old has fourteen previous charges, at least six of which are violent. Chriff
Brady Joe tells news Channel eight this is a prime example of how social media
is helping, right. Sure, I just don't know who's the cop that
gets to sit back at the office and watch Facebook Live all day because that's
the gig I want. Yeah, well, I mean this is how they're
tracking. We had talked to the Sheriff's department. I mean, they monitor
social media often because people trip up, and I think the problem with social
media for most people, and whenever I've seen somebody that gets themselves into some
trouble is you're by yourself. It's almost like you feel like you're just yelling
out into the air. Whatever you're saying. It doesn't have any real consequence.
Right if I said, if I said one thing here alone and nobody
hears it, nothing happens. If I type it, I put it out
to whomever. That's where we have a problem. Well, it's there's this.
What's the word I'm looking for. This is virus called face your problem
instead of facebooking your problems. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, that's a
quote from my buddy Mario Skala. Okay, okay, face your problems.
Don't facebook them. Well, there's a lot of people who do facebook them,
but they just they just get on there. They don't face them.
No, you got to face them. Yeah, you do have to face
them. It's an uncomfortable thing to face them. Jimmy. Yes, people
don't like being uncomfortable, and we like to find misery loves company. So
if we can get out there, listen, that's pate for sympathy. Yes,
right, that is true. That is very true. That's the way
all that happens now on TikTok a new trend. I think twenty people have
done this going live while you're being let go from a job. Oh they
do that all the time, going live. Oh you see that all the
time. I have not seen this. Oh, I see it, but
I think some of it's fake. Though this one I don't have real.
This one I have is real. Okay, did you see it? Yes,
I watched it. It's nine minutes long long, it's not even so
long. I'll play a little bit of the audio from it. But I
guess there's There's been over three hundred million views of the twenty thousand people who
have gone live on TikTok during basically a firing or whatever you want to call
it. Because you are allowed to record. It's not against the law.
Is it against a lot of videotape somebody without their knowledge? Though? That's
or like I can record you, but can I broadcast it? Yes?
Okay, there's no law that says that. When did you get a legal
degree? I am learned it from uh learned it from this whole thing,
all right? So remember I almost got in trouble with it, and I
tried. I went and remember right, I was going to get in trouble.
Yes, researched it. So here we go, all right. This
is a woman named Brittany. She was an account executive at cloud Fair,
and she posted a video of her being fired via a zoom call. She
knew it was coming, and I only gret The thing is nine minutes long,
but you don't need to hear the whole thing, and you can hear
her defend herself and we'll kind of see and Jimmy as a guy who is
hired and fired people, what you what do you think of this when we
uh zoom? Well, I think it was a remote job, so she
I don't know where cloud Fair operates, but she's in Atlanta, so I
don't know this. What it was was zoom. So you'll hear I picked
it up just to get all the uncomfortableness because the first person who comes on
for her is the HR person who she's never met. So here we go.
That you hear all the young car Here we go. Hey Brittany,
Hi, Yes, I'm so sorry. My name's Rosie. I'm just joining
the call. Uh, nice to meet you, Monday HR team. She
was about twenty two to twenty three. The girl, the young yeah,
the girl, yeah, yeah, yeah, she is young. Hi Brittany,
Hi, thanks for meeting with me and Rosie. It sounds like me
when I got when I got let go from freaking Time Warner. It's so
uncomfortable. Isn't it not cleven? This guy sounds nerve. I couldn't wait.
Thanks when coming to this meeting where we're gonna fire here. I never
wanted to get fired so bad in my entire life. Really, Yes,
why because I wanted my I wanted my bye. I wanted my bye,
I wanted my Uh okay, all right, we have an important meeting today.
We finished our evaluations of twenty twenty three performance. This is where you
have not met cloud flair expectations for performance. Cloud Flair's expectation for performance.
Now this this check. Now she looked like she looks like a young attractive
girl. She liked the girl from Wayne County. Yes. Probably, Yeah,
we've decided part ways with you. Yeah, I'm gonna stop you right
there, stop you right there. So I started August twenty fifth. I've
been on a three month ramp and then what ramp? So probably like three
months that you get to we aget. But I think like when you start,
you don't have to meet this number. You got to meet this number
here, so the so they ramp you up. All right. It was
three weeks of December and then a week of Christmas and then here we are.
I have had the highest activity amongst my team since I've started. I
have had three contracts out, done a really great job managing my deals up
until the very end that decided not to close last minute. It sounds like
this, sounds like CMF sales back in the nineties. So I don't think
that that makes a lot of sense for me in my Cloud Flair journey here
so far. Also, every single one on one I've had with my manager,
every conversation I've had with him has he has been given me nothing.
But I am doing a great job. I have had great activity, I
have really great meetings, I'm picking up the products very quickly, and things
have been going really really well. I make really great relationships with my clients.
So, I mean, she's trying to defend herself, right, But
sure, here's the thing. Unfortunately, business is cold. There's no real
feelings here, and you can defend yourself. I will disagree. My performance
hasn't been I haven't met performance expectations, no matter what she said, I
certainly have just because I haven't closed to hear the guy dog Also, why
are you doing this and not my manager? Not? You know, we've
never met so this seems a little odd. Manager has no idea and the
director has no idea that this has been happening. So I'm just definitely confused.
And yeah, I would love like an explanation that makes sense. Really
question, let me carve out the two threads, carve out. Yeah,
there's a buzz term for a ladder of why I'm on this conversation. I'll
put that one. The second half really might be better to explain the process
of who's giving this information. He's gonna I'm gonna let what's your name from
HR talk anyway. Look here, we don't need to hear the whole call.
Here's here's my question. So it sounds like she's getting screwed over because
she sounds like she knows what she's doing. She's herself like, right,
but this is it, this is this is cloud Flare. Obviously internet security.
I just looked them up. Okay, so internet security not meaning standards
probably have investors need to report. Comes down to the bottom line. Last
in first out. You were hired in August. It's the first out.
You can have a great argument either way. The CEO of cloud Fair,
his name is Matthew Prince, saw this video on Twitter, and he wrote,
the video is painful for me to watch. Managers should always be involved.
Her manager was not. HR should be involved, but it shouldn't be
outsourced to them, which is what happened. And no employee should ever actually
be surprised they weren't performing according to this guy. So I don't know.
If this young lady, then the CEO reaches back goes, listen, we'll
give you another chance because it seems like the right thing. I don't know
what happened, but here's but here's my question. And I and I'm and
I'm serious about this because I don't like the taping and releasing. I don't,
okay, I don't mind. I don't because you only hear You're only
hearing certain Well, look, I didn't play you the whole thing. It
is nine minutes long, and you can hear the entire dialogue. You can
hear it from beginning to end. She did not edit any of this.
I believe. I think she put it out there fairly. But there is
a piece of me that goes, I'm, I don't know. We we
weaponize this right, So now I've got a camera and I can do it.
But like I said, business is cold, there's no feelings. They
don't care. They don't care. I'm gonna tell you how truly. Obviously
they do have the CEO. Well, the CEO did later on, but
he wouldn't have had she not done it. So I guess there's some good
that comes from it, like, hey, we need to clean up.
You can also say that if she just puts us out without the other side
of its Mark fired me. Mark's an asshole. It's just me saying Mark
nashole. This is showing that markshole. Same thing happened to me though.
This is what happened when I got When we got let go, we were
told that we were doing a Spectrum uh, we were doing a meeting,
heads meeting, you know, uh, brainstorming, and instead, so they
started calling us one by one, and a guy I've never met before,
actually a guy that was with Spectrum for three weeks. It was a new
job for him, and he let us go. Our bosses didn't even know
about it, that this was happening. Okay, See now, that kind
of stuff usually doesn't happen to big corporations cover the rass big time. They
they there's a paper trail, there's a paper trail to get you. Hey,
I want you to do X, Y and Z today, and you
know you come in and report did you do X, Y and Z.
We had we had one that I was trained out of a paper trail.
There was one that was training at work and he was just not cutting a
mustard. And it took probably three months of us month documenting everything he didn't
do right, because you've got to do it, unfortunately, the right way,
because otherwise you wind up in a situation like this. This doesn't look
good for cloud Flare, and I know there's a lot of people that say
this is good. Now. This woman did take to LinkedIn to say that
the most incredible outpouring of support has honestly restored my faith in the corporate world.
A lot of people on our side. However, the most common message
I'm receiving is how many people have experienced something shockingly similar, cold, unexplainable
firing by people they've never met, even after years of loyalty. For some
all people saying they wish they would have stood up for themselves as I did.
Heartbreaking stories of people's lives suddenly changing with no explanation and just told to
deal with it. What I'll never be able to wrap my mind around it.
Well, I understand that, but that's that's just part of business.
I mean that part is just part of business. We as employees are expected
to give two weeks notice, and yet we don't deserve even a sliver of
respect when the roles are reversed. I don't know what to say to that.
Because she is showing something that may improve some things. Some people are
calling her a loose Kennon. And she said, I'll tell you why.
Any company that wouldn't want to hire me because I shared a video of how
a company fired me, or because I asked questions as to why I was
being let go, is not a company or whatever I want? I thought
you did. Yes, she asked very fact finding questions. She was very
educated about it. Well, she did say if I don't stand up for
myself, who will? And to me, this trend is a broader reflection
of the digital age we live in, and the digital age we live in
is going more transparent right where you get to see sort of both sides.
No one would know about this, even if I don't necessarily agree that it
should have gotten out and authentic. That's what's happening in the digital age.
There is a woman, her name is Victoria MacLean. She is a career
coach, and she said, I don't like this trend. I think hiring
and firing is very much an employer employee experience. And you see can't tell
from one video all the context and backstory. And there might be the person
filming the video is going to want to put themselves in the best possible light.
After all, that may be true. I don't think this young lady,
and it's nine minutes long, I don't that seems about as long as
it would take to fire her. I don't think she edited it, but
you know, this is the line that I don't think she'd be crossed to
this lady. Additionally, for employees, I don't know. I get it.
Man, you get fired, you kind of want to punch back.
You ever get so upset you just want everybody else to feel the same pain
you're feeling in some fashion. Yeah, so I'm going it could lead to
better work environment. I agree with that, But I don't know all this
stuff about feelings. Sometimes I go, look, they don't care about your
life in the end, and that's the hard But I'll tell you what,
you got a guy like Jimmy z a family business, and you probably did
care about the employees. But it's different than this is. I mean,
you're working remotely with people you're not interacting with every day other than over a
computer screen from time to time. You're absolutely right. So I worked,
so I worked seven days a week for so long that my only friends during
that time were the people that you worked with. It's absolutely yeah, me
too. Yeah, and I remember and and like and those people that I
spent that much time with are there are some of the people that are assisting
the current staff that we have to get through this next eight days. Yeah,
okay, Yeah, So I mean when you when you had to let
people go, and anybody ever flip out or try to defend themselves of course,
I mean, listen, there's two sides to every story. Yeah,
okay, And then you know, and there's plenty of times where I could
have probably done situations better, and there's plenty of times where they probably could
have done situations better. Yeah, you know, nobody's perfect. Did you
have anybody flip out with it? Yeah? But I can't talk about that,
No, I know you can't. But I mean no, no,
yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing is in our thing too, is
is when Blair passed away, Matt was already to sell we bet too,
We're gonna we were gonna sell it. Yeah, and we met with the
staff and they talked us into keep going. Yeah, that's how close you
are with the staff, how close you are with the staff and the people.
So, I don't know. It feels like tattling in a way to
me. And I I love that she did stand up for herself. I
like the transparency that this this offers. I like the authenticity behind it.
I don't think she edited anything. I'm not saying anything, but I just
don't like the it feels like tattling. And as an implorer, I wouldn't
want to get I don't know. I don't know. The thing is,
I say this every time we're on You know what I hate more than anything
else in the world. I hate the core. I hate corporate world.
Yeah, terrible. And what she did was she did exactly what I would
want to do. You know, you, all of a sudden, you
put them against the wall. The guy couldn't even finish a fucking cent.
No, but they never can. I mean, look, I I got
fired time. Wow, I got fired from the Zone A radio station.
I was doing mornings there and I've gone fired before before, I was my
employer. Yeah yeah, so but the cheese did we talking about? Yes,
Jesus. But I got called in. I was really pissed off the
way they did it. I remember that because they called me. They they
happened to be all listening that day. Whatever. I left a couple of
the volume buttons down on the CD players, so there was dead air,
dead air, then a song, then dead air, dead air for you
know, ten minutes, and then in the song and they finally and they
happened to be listening. They were doing what they called the listen Day,
where they all sat in some hotel room and listened to all the different stations
as a listener would to see what was going on. That was the big
management project of the day. And it happened to be the day that I
fucked up. So they tell me to come back at five o'clock. Five
o'clock, and I was firing. So mad time of radio is five o'class
is it? Okay? So here's what was embarrassing. So I walk in
and they go, you have to sit in the lobby. All right.
So now the place that I work, I can't go past the door back
to the studios or anything. I got to sit there until they come get
me. Meanwhile, all the salespeople are coming back from their their day out
on the streets and they're going, hey, man, what's going on?
And I so, now I go in and I have to sit with the
general manager and the program director and the program director. God rest his soul,
he is no longer here. He I just thought he was an idiot.
He was. I just thought he was a big dope. I did.
And so what I wanted to get him out of the room. And
I wanted to have my Brittany like this woman. Her name was Brittany.
I want to have my Brittany moment. And it was a guy named Terry
was the general manager. And I got this guy Rick, and I said,
I think my contracts is something different. I knew my contract didn't but
I knew he got like the HR guy that we heard on this and he's
what And then so he goes, I don't have it. I don't have
it, And so the GM goes, well, then go get his contract.
You should have it here. So that got him to leave, and
I sat there and I go, this is the shittiest thing you could have
done. You needed to do this at five o'clock. You couldn't have called
me, You couldn't have waited till seven. And it needs to parade me
back and let me sit here. I go, boy, this is the
most humid this you you I get the firing. I'm not going to argue
I fucked up. I got it, I understand. But to then take
my nose like a dog that shit on the rug and rub my nose in
it, That's exactly what I said to him. I go, you are
the biggest piece of shit I've ever worked for. Really. Yeah, I
never liked that guy. No, I know I didn't either. I didn't
like him, and it's unfortunate and whatever. I have no problem now.
But there were other things that happened later in life that maybe not like him
even more. Yes, that's okay, man, But I wouldn't have taped
that. And you know what, I can't say that I was younger.
I was younger, But I look at it now and I go, I
wouldn't tape that and put that out. That would be a conversation between me
and him, doesn't he the world doesn't need to say. I actually would
like to hear that right now. You would have taped it, taken a
run across the street and said, here, play this real quick. All
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Well, no, that's not true. But I will be traveling next
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closing. You look back over all the years, is there anything that really
stands out as a memory. There's just too many. Any funny thing that
happened, like hysterically funny. Oh yeah, there's okay, well yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So it was a Thursday late night.
It wasn't that busy and Jimmy Z. So Thursday night, it wasn't
that busy. And I see this kid walk in and as he walks in,
he's zipping up his zipper. WHOA, okay, my man, I
go outside. There's not a soul on the street. It's like twenty two
degrees outside, and his piss is freezing at the bottom of the fucking step
at the front door. He literally was so plastered that he literally just stood
at the front door and it's a stoop. Yeah, and he pissed right
at the on the front sidewalk. Okay, so he so he had literally
a good twenty seconds where he could have got arrested if he got caught,
right. Yeah. And the part that makes this so fascinating is as I
walked backed in and I said, Bro, did you just piss in the
front And you know what his response was, yeah, man, Bro,
I'm so sorry. Man, I just I couldn't hold it anymore. And
the fact that he just straight up you know, didn't didn't owned it.
Yeah, I was just I just I couldn't even get mad at it.
I couldn't get mad at him. And then you and then we became straight
up buddies. Ever said from that point on, really we actually went outside
and had to smoke together. He's like, hey, man, you gotta
smoke. I was like, yeah, dude, let's go, you know,
And it's just because you know what, I've been there before, and
the fact that you know, like, yeah, it's just like that you
don't see this kind of stuff every day. But then I'm just like,
you know, you you didn't you literally just owned it from the second I
said something, you apologize and you're so blastered, plastered right now that I
got your back. Man. Were you ever in a situation at the restaurant
or you're held up or any kind of strange situations like that. No,
no hold ups, thankfully, no hold ups. For the amount of late
night hours that we did and for the amount of people that walked through there
in such a short period of time per evening, we it was just organized
chaos. You know. We always had people at the door or you know
it depend There was nights where there was two people standing on chairs, one
at the front door, one right next to the counter by the hallway,
and their job was just to mediate the crowd and to sniff out potential issues.
And because we had those guys doing that, not security shirts. They
were just wearing a Jimmy Z shirt or whatever, like nothing to make it
look like, oh, you know, we're here to be tough guys.
They literally were there for the safety of everyone else who was just there trying
to have a good time. Because you're gonna have that one person who is
only gonna make uh or cause a scene or become a disruption because they're under
the influence. Got so you know this, when you're open that late,
you need to be And I called it nightcare, not daycare. I called
it nightcare. We've had some good ones. We had. We had some
good ones. A couple of domestics taking the domestics. I a second domestics.
I thought it would be like college frat boys going, I mean,
yeah, we listen, we you know, it's always just fun to say,
you know, you know, a couple of domestics, you know,
you know, me and this one kid had a joke. Uh, you
know, he was just a frequent customer, college kid going on all the
barge seam all the time, and we just had this you know he he
he like one time asked me like, you know, uh, he didn't
really ask me serious questions, but he's just like, you know, like,
hey, no, you know, no domestics. And literally every time
we saw each other we would just say that just to laugh, you know.
But no, there was some scary there was a few scary moments that
we had and uh, but to be honest with you, for the amount
of time we spent open late, which was for seventeen years, we did
not have we didn't have anybody have to leave there on a hospital and on
a you know, on a stretcher because of a fight, maybe because they
passed out from drinking or nothing that was caused by something that happened at Jimmy
Z's exactly. So no stretchers involved, uh you know, so that's always
great. Uh No, Never did we have a time where anybody threatened our
staff, you know, or threaten our life, you know. And you
know, and you know, when we first opened up, there was barely
in a credit card transactions. Yeah, like there it was cash. It
was ash, dude, and and you know what not to lot. And
I never really cared for credit card transactions and all the interest and stuff.
But you know what, at the end of the day, when you're running
a business that late, with that much volume that late, I will give
you the three percent to five percent so I don't have to have that cash
in hand and I don't have to worry about my staff for that ca It's
like it's like it's you're almost like paying for for a security blanket, you
know. And that's about the only positive thing I have say about credit cards.
Mark twenty one years, what are you doing Thursday after shoul I want
to go out there and knock over the place. I think you're going to
be jammed. Yeah, that's not funny. I think you're going to be
jammed. Yesterday I opened up in the kitchen. Yeah, and we opened
up at eleven and I did not move from the same five steps until two
thirty. Wow, okay, and we rocked. That's great. Yesterday we
had a close to eight hundred people walk in the restaurant. Hang on a
second, this isn't gonna be one of these fake retirements where I was like
Tom Brady said he was going to retire, that he didn't retire. Is
that what we're getting here, Jimmy, I think so, Like, no,
no, no, if it comes time where this kind of business can
become as profitable as it did before and you're able to find enough people to
support it. One thing that I failed to say this whole time. We've
been only open five days okay for the last almost two years, Like we're
not getting all the juice out of the squeeze there. And and it's because
we can't find we can't find more than the employees that we have to be
able to consistently prepare and give our clientele the product they deserve, you know.
So it's just so many different factors that unfortunately forced us to lead into
this decision. What about you guys. Some of you guys ever get robbed
up where you were? Well? He did? I know he did at
the liquor store. That's the billity. No, I never gonna rob because
you know, cops watched out for the cops hung out in the place.
So yeah, but the liquor store, that had to be scary as hell.
You know, it's funny. As much as my anxiety's bad. I
knew he wasn't going to shoot me. Okay. I gave him five dollars
to go get food, like a week before. He was just bugging out
and he wanted money and alcohol. So there you go go ahead, tell
all you do is that it's so, it's so, I mean, it's
God, that's just scary to me, it is. It's that's scary,
you know. Uh, Kevin has become a gambler. He's on the online
betting and he's all excited. He bet on Nascar. I was bored the
other day. I was betting on golf. Is this why we're watching the
race right now. Yeah, that's why he had the race. I was
going to say, this guy, well, the Daytona five hundred was supposed
to be run yesterday, the first I don't know. Honestly. I could
tell you about Air Jordan's one through fourteen, and I could tell you about
so many like I can tell you about WrestleMania one through forty, Okay,
but I cannot tell you anything about NASCAR. I could tell you thing about
das Karl was listening to. I was listening to raising Randy problem. Well,
listen to rac and Randy and Randy rayson Randy who had the most I
have to say, the most three one, five wedding day ever a Hello,
hey, Race and Randy were on the podcast. I didn't know that
Kevin was betting via what do you Got Fan Duels? DraftKings betting via DraftKings
on NASCAR and the Daytona five hundred, and he lost. He lost.
He didn't lose, Oh, Kevin one, I'm sorry. Yeah, he
had William Byron, Byron, he had William Byron on a five dollars bet
and he won one hundred and five. They're glad for him to get How
the guy to get freaking gets take takes out half the field because he get
hit by his teammate, don't hurt his car, wins the rate. I
can't forget this went out for the life of me. That's just my but
just just my opinion. Okay, but who did you want to win,
Randy? I don't, Well, I really wanted Kyle Busch to win.
This where I really want to win Kyle Busch. I mean, which one's
the dick got Kyle Kurt uh? I think Kurt's more than Dick, right,
Kurt Busch he was when he was younger, Yes, yes, who's
when he was younger? Yes? He fights and stuff. Right, there's
one though that well not anymore now. The most hated guy is like Bubba
Wallace or Denny Hamlin. Well, he used to be a lot of people
didn't like Kyle because he's just so good and he won and he could win
and any crack. I think I saw Kyle come down in his car in
front of the Dinosaur Barbecue downtown Rochester over the river closed the road and he
just did donuts in his NASCAR like they trailed it up walking one week and
he just did don't I thought it was the I go. That is so
fucking cool. I want someone to pay me to just go to donuts in
the middle of the street. That's awesome. You want to make a call
the Camels, We can take care for him. He well, that was
also the year he won the Gun. Yeah, he won the GluN that
year, and he did the same thing. That's where he sat. He
sat on the window sill while the car was going around in circles. Oh
going he actually had the car was going around with he was sitting on the
window sell he did, he did the burnout, and he did he did
the burnout right in front of me and Tracy. We were there when he
did it. At the Gun, he was sitting right on the window looking
right at him. Look at that, Look at that. I always rooted
for him because everybody hated him. Yeah, some me and Matt would root
for him. So everybody everybody liked Who's who? Who's the popular guy?
Who's the one everybody likes Jeff Gordon, everybody likes now Johnson john who was
the popular guy to David Johnson? Chase Elliott, Yeah, she Elliott,
Chase Elliott's He's rooting for him. So he decided to go. You know,
I'm looking at Kevin Harvick. I wouldn't recognize him. He looks old,
and so does Jeff Gordon. Jeff Gordon looks pudgy. I have a
picture of me and Kevin Kevin Harvard drive last year. Yes, yeah,
he just retired. He looks like he's about Yes, he retired at the
end of the year. And that's what happens. Where's Jeff Gordon? Jeff,
he does he looks really Yeah? What really? What really impressed me
with Kyle Bush was years ago he was racing that Daytona was the summer.
It was the race in the summer, and he got sideways in between three
and four at one hundred and eighty something miles an hour, the car was
sideways and he saved it. Wow, drivers, Kyles always been your driver?
Is that who you root for? No, he's been always been one
of my in my top three. Well, you have a picture of underestimated.
I think he has a picture of Kyle Busch. No, is it
Kyle? It's you and your wife with Kyle Busch's No. Yeah, but
isn't there one with Kyle Busch's wife? Yes, we have. Samantha came
into our camper and signed Kyle. Let me just tell you something. That
was my favorite picture because they hauled up the eminem flag, says Kyle Busch.
And on one side is Randy's wife. On the other side, it's
Randy and Kyle Busch's why he fighting was like, and man, Randy,
I'm sorry, but that woman is stunning talking about Tracy. Oh yeah,
yeah, Absolutracy is, but I mean, yes, Tracy is, but
Kyle Busch is what like I'm going You see athletes, they usually have good
looking wives, but some of these drivers, their wives are I mean their
model. All right, Randy, well, I'm sure I know this race
didn't go the way you wanted it to, but Kevin didn't one hundred and
five dollars on it, so he's very happy. Yeah, how did the
so did he win any money? And the other guys because where they finished
or not just them? I think that winners. I think that winners and
manufacturers. I think he just did a uh yeah, straight up? Bet
okay, all right, okay, my wife listening. I won fifty bucks,
I tell you. And they say they like they said on TV Ford
one Ford one qualifying the Toyota's won the duels and Chevrolet wins. The race
just kind of went that way this year, but it was it was a
it was a good race. I mean literally, I thought, like me,
Tracey thought, ye mean Tracy both thought Ross chaft Thame was going to
win that race. We really thought he after the after all the accident,
we thought Ross was going to win. It just missed time that one,
that one pass just I'm coming to the white just miss timed it a little
bit. And and but he got pasted or got punted too. So it
didn't help. That happens, you know, it's what it is. It
is what it is, and it's remember that that's Hendricks. That's members the
anniversary of hendricks first year racing NASCAR, So it's just forty the anniversary when
they started racing NASCAR. So it's he actually won that didn't win the back
down when he first started. But it's fortieth year business. He won Daytona
five hundred. He's got now he's got six different drivers I have won for
him driving Damn Well, Randy, when does the TV show start, Well,
we don't know for we're shooting the pilot April twenty seventh, and then
once we shoot that, it goes to producer and she goes and uh and
she goes and takes it to the thing and U, I know there's three
right now, there's three and now I heard maybe a fourth may be interested
in it. So we got we got a little bit of help from actually,
uh, you know, it's somebody that wants to help out us with
it. So we'll see what happens. All right. Well, well we'll
keep asking about this and talk more about it. But it's a show about
street racing. Correct, it's the actual street It's going to be a showballs
street racing. It's a team system. There's five, five or six cars
per team. It's going to be family friendly. Uh, they're not not
going to be any arguing that's going to wait, it's going to be anybody
that's too bad. That's too bad. We need to argue it. I
don't care you don't like it. I don't care. I like that.
All right, Well, are you gonna drive? We want we want to
do something fam No, No, it's I'm We're just going to be shooting
it and I'm not driving. And we've got five to first five teams that
are coming as one out of Maryland, one out of South Carolina, North
Carolina, one out of Canada's extremely fast, and one out of New York
State. All right, well, the first five teams and it's a it's
going to be a team thing. We're gonna shoot and hopefully we get it
sold and hopefully we'll have fun. It should be a lot of fun.
Well, I think that's great and I can't wait to learn more about it.
And Randy, I'm sorry this the Daytona didn't go the way you want.
But how funny that Kevin because of you is now uh ASCAR gambler.
Oh boy, there Ago and going where. They're going to Atlanta next year
next week, so we'll see what happens there. That's good. That's a
good fast track if they change that around. And the funny cause last year
they went to California, which they not on the which is not on the
circuit no more because they tore that track. Get two mile track down.
Suppose they're going to be abild either a half mile or three quarter a mile
short track that's going to turn into but it won't be ready to suppose be
sometime next year. So we'll see the ends back on the schedule. So
they're going to Atlanta. That's a mile and a half and it's fast,
and that's a good and that's a good track for Kyle. Don't do you
need somebody to sing the national anthem? What I think? Joey Bricato go
there and see the national don't you You can do it? Rose Enstein,
why would you do that too? Don't torture with nothing. Joey can do
a fine job. That's a shot. I beg I actually have a lady.
I actually have a lady that sings first at salth butler who sings really
well will probably have her do it. We have anybody? All right?
Well, thank you, Randy, and thanks for let me interrupt your evening
here. Hey, no problem, man, Just that's O Kevin. Next
week Kyle Busch take him, all right, Kyle Busch. Next week I'm
gonna jump on that too. On draft Kings, we're gonna take race and
Randy betting tips. All right, Randy, we'll talk to you buddy.
All right, guys, se well, who knew? I haven't en get
this? This is no you're not you are. I've been rooting for Kyle
Busch for years just because the pieces are the best. Was seeing the picture
of it's race and Randy and Kyle Busch's wife on one side and way over
on the other side holding up the other side of the bat are all by
herself. Is his fight only half urs in the picture? And uh yeah,
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Okay, this is I mean, this is the official music video. This
is the edited version that they play on one local radio station around here.
I don't listen to a lot anymore. Okay, I don't understand why they
play the edited version of this in November Rain. It's just so wee I
love but they play when they play the edited one, it's just it's just
it's terrible. Wow sweet, Just right here, hands down, is one
of the greatest solos of all time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Slash
was ahead of his time, super talented guy. I would say, I
don't know if he's one of the greatest guitarists of all this do you think
so? Not? When I don't say this, but he's in the conversation.
Okay, you're putting him up against some of the great you're putting them
up being well, the guys who sort of got there first. Unfortunate.
But he can play a guitar like I've never seen any He is underrated.
Let's think about this, Yes, how many people have made that same list
that Slashes on recurrently right now? Since Slash Nobody That's That's what I'm saying.
How many people really had a chance to be on that list in the
late eighties with everyone that had already established everything. Probably nobody, really,
that's true. He broke through, Yeah, now definitely at a time when
Eddie van everyone wanted to be Eddie van Halen. Yeah, Slash created Slash
Hi still so he took a little bit of Gary Richrath from Rio. Watch
the way he played his that guitar. I think a lot of the greats
are influenced by the greats Slashes. My brother spent hours with Slash one time.
How crazy? How how has this happened? So my brother used My
brother used to be a beverage director at Jean George Trump Towers. He was
there from two thousand and let's say four or five. No, two thousand
and five till two thousand and thirteen. Okay, and people, this is
all the celebrities will go in this restaurant. So he'd call me up at
the restaurant. Aim and Johnny and Ritchie are hanging out at the bar,
and I'm like, go fuck yourself, and I hung up the phone,
you know what I mean, Like So by Jovi's sitting there drinking at the
bar and he's calling me to tell me or like, you know, so
and so is here, so and so. Then he goes, dude,
you'll never believe it. Slash came in tonight and like they're on contract.
They can't be like all starstruck around these guys, you had. They have
a job to do. And he was just like, I just want to
tell you I've been listening to Appetite for Destruction like every day of my life
since, you know, since this first grade. And he just looks up
at my brother and says, well, you don't look like you're in the
first grade anymore. And he was just so cool and so humbling with my
brother. My brother was just so real with him for a few minutes that
before that evening was over. You know, they hit it off. And
then the next day Slash was staying upstairs. He comes down, he goes,
hey, what are you doing. Later he goes, I got some
balcony seats for you for the show. Wow. And you're a guest of
Your brother was a guest of Slash at the show of Slash is Bragging Rights,
My man. They played at the Roosevelt in New York. It was
a radio station style like jam, like you know, the summer jam.
I don't want to get tickets from the ship from the radio station. Right
Revolver was the headliner, im PLJ and and I go to my brother.
I was like, dude, can you just please wear Jimmy Z shirt?
And I and my brother had a super Z shirt that was one of three
prints, and I gave him one and Slash invited him backstage after he got
the shirt signed by Slash, by Matt Sordam and by Dave Kushner, the
rhythm guitarist, and then Slash goes, hey, you know I can.
I'm gonna meet you back at you know, at John George my brother.
In order to be on the floor for a he you have x M amount
of time that if you're there, like in and out. You're cool,
but if you're there for for over X amount of time, you need to
be in uniform. My brother puts his uniform back on. They sit in
the back room him at the time, his girlfriend, which now was my
sister in law, and Slash talked for over two hours. Wow, and
and and he just said, he's one of the most humble people. What
yours this two thousand and six seven? Was that guns or was that Velvet
Revolver? And even when even then when publicly the Guns n' Roses and Slash
Axle thing was big, then right, Yeah, they started out Revolver to
basically fuck you Guns and Roses and it was a great band. Yeah.
And then Axel was putting together his hired guns, which was just sacrilege,
it was. But even so he only praised Axel while they spoke. That's
good, he he you know, he my brother's like, so, where
did the November Rain solo come from? Yeah? And he said it was
all Axel. Yeah. Actual took like years to write this song. You'll
hear guys go, you know I got I don't know, divine intrevenures something.
I wrote this song in five minutes fifteen minutes twenty minutes. We've heard
all that. That song, I think too, he had that riff,
the piano riff. I think it was eight or nine years Jimmy before he
figured yes one of their I can't remember what this guy was to the band,
but Axel's November Rain piano medal medally in the beginning was what his wife
walked out too before anybody I've even ever heard the song. Well, that's
interesting, and he said, basically, I took Axel's notes and I and
I and I did the solo. Yeah, very uh, you know.
And then I have to say that argument about him being one of the greatest
guitarists is pretty sustainable because that I've been thinking in my head. You've got
the list. Nobody really cracked that. In the eighties. We could say
Petty was pretty good, you know, but there wasn't. I always argue
that Brad Paisley's a great guitarist, is a great guitar. People make fun
of me, but that was after a after Prince may be the only other
guy out of the eighties and nobody knows. And the whole thing about it
is that you need to know who Prince is and have listened to him and
know enough about him to know that he is one of them. He was
one of the greatest guitarists live because if you just listen to his music,
he doesn't know he didn't. He didn't do it in music. But when
he played, Oh, come on, Mark, I mean when he played,
he was amazing. Have you seen some live in concerts? Have you
seen have you seen him do George Harrison's Uh yes, Oh no, I
didn't. Okay, look it up on YouTube. It was him and everybody
else at the Hall of Fame. Oh he did see that. I did
see that. Yeah he did. He did. You can't touch that.
And I think they started bowing to him credit. I'm forgetting some of the
other guys I think started bowing if I remember that video correctly. So there
you go, Mark, what do you say now? And then to put
the whole just to put a whole rap on this last three months later,
Slash Pops in the restaurant asked my brother, he's got time for a smoke?
Break stop it. I can't, and he took a picture with him.
I have it all in the one can and the one frame. Man.
Look listen, I'm acting like this happened to me. I know in
a way it did the way it did vicarious sound though, is you hear
that? You know what it is? Yeah? He's amazing, yep,
Okay, absolutely, I totally agree the Prince thing. Prince is awesome.
Don't get me wrong, but that's guitarists. I wish. I were very
impressed. I didn't realize how good he was until one of snl Yeah he
couldn't sing, Yeah, what I mean? He couldn't sing, man,
Prince. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you why. The two
people that didn't show up for the freaking USA for Africa were Madonna and Prince
because they couldn't sing. You think so? Absolutely? Don was invited.
Management wouldn't let Management wouldn't like. Prince didn't want to sing. Prince wanted
to do a guitarist right because he can't sing? All right. I don't
know. I fell asleep watching that documentary. I loved it. I gotta
go back. I don't know. I dozed. I get tired of tire
boy. That's small. I didn't watch another small thing about Prince. There
was a gentleman that was the Prince was Yes, he was a production major
at Brockport. After graduation, he ended up getting a gig being a stage
crew for Prince really before you know, before he died, right, and
he comes back, he goes, Jimmy, he goes. He has the
worst case of short man syndrome that you ever if you see him coming.
I've never looked at so many rafters, so many roof ceilings, so many
bricks in a wall in my life because once you see him, you have
to look the other way and wait for him to pass. It's the verry
manimal thing. I don't be stage. When we went backstage, very manly,
so we weren't allowed to look at this Kid's nickname was ham Sandwich,
right, and he had it on the back of his chair. And Prince
is like this crazy was a crazy vegan. He almost fired him because his
name was on the back. Yeah, so you know, like, guys,
the guy was nuts. All right, Kevin, Let's get to the
game and then wait, I want to close it that one last Jimmy z
story. Let's get to Mark at first birthday theft. Yes, let's get
to Mark Gellen at you for your birthday. Adam Sandler last night was named
the People's Choice Icon for twenty twenty four. Really, how many movies has
the Sandman been in? Dang? How many movies has Adam Sandler been in?
The movies he's been in, not the movies that he produced, but
they could also be something that he's been in. He's been in some of
the ones, he made most of the ones. Yeah, now, how
many is this? How many movies has he starred in? Or how many
movies has he been featured in? How many movies has he been in?
Just in in? Yeah? Okay, that makes it much broader. Yeah,
I don't know why this number is coming to mind. I can't even
Is it sixty nine like usual? No, but that has been an occurring
speed on four ninety. I look down at it's sixty nine, four or
five days in a row, just holding at sixty nine. I've been amazed.
Rain postponed the Ring of the Daytona five hundred. We just saw William
Byron one tonight. The King Richard Petty has the most wins with how many
at the Daytona five hundred? How many Daytona wins does Richard Petty have dat
five hundred wins? I thank you as much, multiple races there and Richard
Petty, we're going back into the fifty alright, what'd you write there?
No, I was gonna write down one one less. Lenny Kravitz was also
named in People's Choice I Contact twenty twenty four, his first contributions to music.
Lenny Kravitz, by the way, too fucking cool. I'm sorry he
can't be that. You can't be that cool for that long. There's nobody
cluling because he's one hundred percent real at all times. Yeah, but one
hundred percent real. The guy walks around with no shirt on because he can't.
He's in phenomenal shape because he can listen. If me and you can
walk around, he'd be doing it too. He's like fifty eight. That's
a lot different than seventy's right. The price still look that good when he
sent me The Son of a Gun. Yeah, I'll never forget. One
time we were watching it. I was seeing seeing something younger than me,
and we were in Lenny Kravite. There was Lenny Kravitz video on. Yeah,
and she she goes, wait a minute, she goes, he looks
like whatever his name was from Hunger Games. Oh, she yes. All
the younger people know him from Hunger Games. All right, what's the question
about this guy changing it up? Now? How old is Lenny Kravitz?
Why would she change it? Just gave it? No, I like that,
But you're not right? So how old is Lenny Kravitz? Okay,
watch it? Yeah? I think I am wrong. The original question was
how many Grammys is Lenny one? Here's the whole thing. I know how
old slashes and they were in class together. So that's why I have a
good idea of how old Lenny. Oh they weren't class, Yeah, yes,
they were guitar because Slash his mom was went to high school. Yeah,
Slash. His mom was a fashion designer. She made close for Bowie.
Yeah she did, and dated bow and David all that stuff. You
know after you know her and that. As a kid, yeah, he
was around the realness of rock and roll. He grew up in rock and
roll in the seventies. Is there? It was his dad His dad was
some I don't I don't remember his dad was I remember something. His dad
had some I can't remember. Monney Gravis's mother was yeah, good time,
you know, no one day at a time, No, no, no.
Jefferson's oh yeah, yeah, yes, it was back to the game.
We're back to the game. I'm sorry, I'm stumping myself. My
son Tyler and his fourteen you Roch Strace is when of the Niagara presidential playdown
university. Congratulations, that's impressive. What year where the Niagara Purple Egles last
in the n c a A Men's ice hockey tournaments? What year were they
last? There was only one year they finished last. No, what were
they in that year? Were they in the tournament? What's the last time
there was? When the last time they made it in the tournament? Small
conference, don't make it very often. Sometimes they sneak through sometimes. So
this is literally straight up we have to guess a year here like there,
I mean, yeah, yeah, come on, it's fun of the game.
Pure guess. That's what brings this literally closest to the pin. Jimmy,
we're going and even kind of guess. That's what brings the field back.
That's right, it does bring the field back. That's like a you
need to pull out of your ass answer. Yes, it is learned this
today as well. The game Trivial Pursuit was created in Niagara on the Lake
in Ontario by Chris Haney a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette, and Scott
Abbott, a sports editor for the Kadian Press, on December fifteenth of what
year? What year was trivial pursuit created? I like these questions. By
the way, we'll screw you. You don't really bitch about it. He's
not going. I always got one that brings the field back. Got to
keep it close last, but at least Parker Bird became the first player in
NCAA Division One baseball history to play a game with a prosthetic lagging, earning
praise from on Twitter or x from former Major League pitcher Jim Abbott, who
pitched the Major with Twitter forever pal over ten seasons, four different teams.
How many wins did Jim Abbitt have over how many seasons? Ten seasons,
four teams, four teams? How many wins did one arm? Jim Abbott
have a fucking idea? Okay, back to the top. How many movies
is Adam Sandler been in? I have no idea? Fifteen fifteen. Now
you said I went high, and I don't know why this number came to
me. I said thirty two. I said twenty five, forty nine,
forty nine. Dang yeah, but I'm thinking all the Netflix stuff that he
did that I'm not familiar with, don't forget way off. Yeah so all
right, I'm closest on that one. But King Richard Petty is how many
wins the Daytona five hundred? I have seven? Okay, I rode six,
but I'm going in the fifties. I think he just won everything.
I watched the answer be twenty five. I got five, five, I
said, I said, I did say six, five, six and some
Summery's in the hole. It's the birthday boy. Come on, Mark Hillman,
Wow, my Mark Firsday, Texas raised Randy. While you were bitching
off flash all Righty Kramitz, how old? Alright? One? You said
sixty one, oh fifty seven. I went down from my fifty eight to
fifty six fifty nine? Who Mark again, Mark's in fifty seven. Yeah,
yeah, but it's still closest sixty one to the other way right,
Well, yeah, but if this was the price of right, I went
over the way I was thinking of that. I went over the original question
is how many Grammys as Leney won? I said, he only one?
Three? I think seven. He's got four on nine nominations, Yeah,
that's pretty good because I saw the Quincy Jones documentary. At the end they
give you how many times he was nominated, and I know all these number
was like one hundred and twenty nine to twenty nine wins. I went,
this is nuts, I mean, and those numbers aren't correct, but it's
something like that, all right? What else we got here? What year
was the Niager Purplegals last? In the end, I want Jimmy's answer,
because Jimmy says he's pulling it out of his ass. What year nineteen ninety
seven incorrect? Twenty sixteen incorrect, ninety six, twenty thirteen lost in the
first round to North Dakota. Not the first time my ass was wrong?
What year was Trivial Pursuit created? Okay? Niagara, I'm the lake didn't
know that. I didn't either, and I feel like I'm wrong because I
think I remember playing this as a kid. Me too, right, So
I did write down, but I know it's wrong. Nineteen eighty three,
I did eighty one? Oh you did? Okay? I did eighty five
and I wasn't even around as a kid back then. That's nineteen hundred,
seventy nine, seventy nine, So you were closest again, three closest,
one in the hole and one of those in the hole. Look at Mark
a winner tonight. Keep going, Jim Abbot. How many did the one
armed Jim Abbot? Wins did he have over ten seasons? Over ten seasons,
four teams? Yeah, I went one hundred and fourteen wins. I
went in ninety seven sixty eight seven winoway one first thing, and I was
a little high. One perfect game, one perfect game. Wow, look
at that. That's pretty good. I remember the perfect game you have with
the Yankees, right, yep, yeah, I remember that. But for
the Yankees, Angels, the White Sox and one of the two back on
the Donny Baseball Days. Congratulations to uh Hillman on his birthday. And Matt's
not here to see it. Got we got them some rattlesnake roases. Yeah,
there's a great mix. I I love, Yeah, dangerous. I
think you'd like it that, Yeah, Jimmy. Before we wrap things up,
Jimmy Z's Plates and Shakes officially closing down on Leap on Leap Day right
the twenty ninth. Yes, all the years in there, all the memorabilia
on the walls, all those framed sports illustrateds posters all that one went missing.
I don't know that I would notice one was missing, but you noticed,
bro, I noticed it missing, and in like I go in straight
and to like you know, inspector, inspector, you know, gadget mode.
Okay, so you know, I get on the surveillance right away,
and I was able to you know, figure out when I got pulled off,
how I got pulled off, and I was able to get some good
shots of the person who pulled it off. So was it yanked off?
Walk becas they're screwed in the sports illustrates actually are glued. But it was
like one that was on the edge. It wasn't like there were you know
they yeah, yeah, so there was enough to kind of like it.
There's a little loose crack there. So they just you know, were kind
of cool about it and then took it. And it was right next to
the girl's bathroom, Like it was the one right next to the bathroom too,
So it was really you know, slick in the bathroom out and you
know, I got some shots I put. I finally got the shots of
her after we closed. It was a woman. I finally got some shots
of her after we closed, and then I had put them up online before
I went to bed, you know, because I was up till like five
six in the morning doing this and by the time I woke up, Man
boy, the internet was pissed. Really, I'm amazing. They were not
happy. And the part that made it uncomfortable for me is like she was
a heavier set girl, so people were really like hammering on her, you
know. Of course, in which I didn't care for La mark Ellmen's come
out of the woodwork. I didn't call her fat jokes, so I mean,
you're fat, you shouldn't. Yeah. So now this is two thousand
and so I want to see her receipt. Does it way more than her
Yeah? So this happened in September of twenty seventeen. Then she comes into
Jimmy z E's. They called down, They called down to the beer garden
for help. That morning. That morning, I was on my way to
Toronto for a Yankees game. Oh okay, twenty seventeen. My phone it
still wasn't like, you know, it was roaming in Canada. So here
I am like monitoring social media on the way up there. My girlfriend's driving
and with all this as going on, the comments and this and that,
and you know, like the amount of shares and the amount you know of
just and then I had people in boxing me saying, hey, I know
who this person is. You know, YadA YadA, YadA, YadA,
YadA YadA. I'm sitting here calm Verizon to make sure I'm like, I
have service when I crossed, because I literally have to monitor this thing.
I'm I'm I was. I was getting rid of comments that I had control
over, yes, you know what I mean, and just you know,
because I wasn't about that. That's not that we weren't. We were.
We were here to say this person took something from us and we want it
back. Yes, that's it. Yeah okay. And then I got a
call or text message around like twelve fifteen saying that the Sports Illustrated has been
returned back. Really and then all the posts were taken down. And did
that woman ever come into Jimmy C's again, I don't think so, And
if she did, I would have known. Like you can't really tell who
they are on the camera, you know what I mean, Like you once
you see them in person, you're like, oh, okay, you kind
of look like that person, but you don't. But but the camera was
enough for people that who she was to say, hey, listen, like
you fucked up. You need to go bring that back because you're seriously being
She's gonna play like let's eat like you know what I mean, like like
the mouths. The amount of shame that the general public put on this person
is crazy. Was nuts, you know. So she was fair and you
know what, and you know what, there were so many other crazy things
that just don't come to mind right now because it was twenty one years of
I mean, it was really seventeen years of late night you know, you
know craziness. Yes, uh, you know, eighteen years whatnot. But
uh yeah, you know so, but there's a lot a lot of crazy
memories, that's for sure. Well, very good. Jimmy Z's closing down
on February twenty ninth, Hillman having a birthday on Thursday. That's right,
baby, that's right. Yeah. Kevin a proud pop is his kids tournament.
As hockey team won the tournament, he was more happy about winning the
fucking natscar. What do you get it? I got me money. Kids
just cost me money. I'm Bill Moran, Will I'll see you tomorrow.
I woke a big hotel, didn't know what to do. I'm find a
TV, gone, do the letter to you, and starting out of danger.
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