Speaker 1: Hey, what the fuck was that? Mike?
Speaker 2: Happy New Year and welcome to episode twelve of Relationships
Speaker 2: Is a Bitch. Relationships Is a Bitch is brought to
Speaker 2: you by the Gemini near Me app, the self love
Speaker 2: and Relationship Intelligence app inspired by relationships expert Irena Wood,
Speaker 2: who is with us today.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Arena.
Speaker 2: And we have yeah lifelong pal. Aj Ben's here with
Speaker 2: us as well.
Speaker 3: Dude, it's a man.
Speaker 1: He's healed, Yeah, very much, pretty much. Struggles over the holiday.
Speaker 4: No, it might have been it might have been COVID actually,
Speaker 4: because my wife had it and I ran into her
Speaker 4: Rockos basketball game for like five minutes. But she had
Speaker 4: tested the day after and it's positive. And I got
Speaker 4: sick two days later, and I didn't test myself till
Speaker 4: like the last day or two. And you know, on
Speaker 4: the second line, I don't know if how many COVID
Speaker 4: tests you're taken, but the second line means you're positive.
Speaker 3: The first line was bold, the second one was a
Speaker 3: little bit visible, So maybe I had it. By the
Speaker 3: time I tested myself it was gone.
Speaker 2: It's just you know, see that's the power of an X,
Speaker 2: Like you can just cross paths with an X. Basketball
Speaker 2: game and they just look at you and give you COVID.
Speaker 1: I know it shouldn't work. I mean, that's bullshit.
Speaker 3: That's basically all we did. Kind of wave.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, well I think if I stepped foot in
Speaker 2: the town that my ex wife lives in, yea, she had.
Speaker 1: COVID, I would I would, I would get COVID.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing what they can do. They're all witches. Arena,
Speaker 3: are you a witch?
Speaker 5: That's what women are born to be. But we inherited
Speaker 5: from the ansectors. It's not us who choose, you know.
Speaker 5: They say, call it it's a transformational disease. If you
Speaker 5: took it, take it twicely. It can teach you a
Speaker 5: lot because it really gives you an opportunity to appreciate
Speaker 5: life because you can't move, can't can't feel, can do anything? Yes, right,
Speaker 5: and you really rethink your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Okay, well, guys, we all think the start
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five is an excellent time to fall
Speaker 2: in love with yourself. So give it a try. And
Speaker 2: the way to give it a try is to give
Speaker 2: the Gemini near Me app a try, and you can
Speaker 2: find it in any of the app store stores.
Speaker 6: So and playmarket, Mike.
Speaker 5: We're available for Android users as well, and our ads
Speaker 5: are saying that even Android users love us more for
Speaker 5: some reason.
Speaker 1: Really, Android users love you more. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I have Apple use it, but still Android us.
Speaker 2: Your husband is the last person on Earth I know
Speaker 2: that is still using.
Speaker 3: Android phone people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people who are loyal to Android. That's forever love,
Speaker 6: That's it forever.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 5: I switched from Nokia to Apple, and like, I can't
Speaker 5: spend with Android an hour. Believe me, it's a different arena.
Speaker 6: I get irritated. It's not my thing at all.
Speaker 1: Really, it's New Year's Eve for us.
Speaker 2: For a lot of people, you're probably listening to this
Speaker 2: on New Year's Day or maybe even a day or two,
Speaker 2: a day or two after that. But for me, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four was the shittiest year of my life. And
Speaker 2: I am so happy to see it go bye bye.
Speaker 2: So I will celebrate heart at midnight tonight, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the year twenty twenty four throughout this episode,
Speaker 2: and you know, follow a little bit less ringently than
Speaker 2: we normally do our segments here.
Speaker 4: I got to tell you, though, I was with you
Speaker 4: a lot in twenty twenty four actually not really, but
Speaker 4: we were together in Florida, but it was like every
Speaker 4: month there was another thing on your head, another thing
Speaker 4: on your plate that was that was going to level you.
Speaker 4: But you just kept you kept on going, and you
Speaker 4: got through it. And I know Irina was a big help.
Speaker 4: Of course, you guys, thank you, Okay, so she was.
Speaker 2: And at really the darkest the darkest time was end
Speaker 2: of August early September.
Speaker 5: But like Mike, not to interrupt you, but twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: if you think, even numerologically makes eight, and it's your number.
Speaker 5: For both of you, you have a life past number
Speaker 5: eight and eight. It's always about karma. At the beginning
Speaker 5: of the year, I said to all my clients who
Speaker 5: asked me about it, that it could be a year
Speaker 5: of challenging moments and separations because everybody who is not
Speaker 5: united and strong enough to be together, a lot of
Speaker 5: couples God separated. And yes, you went through a lot
Speaker 5: of changes, but you both guys and AJ and you Mike,
Speaker 5: changed places of living. You embraced a new home, which
Speaker 5: is one of the most important things for a person,
Speaker 5: for human and for a man. Also, I think that matters.
Speaker 5: You know, your pain brought you.
Speaker 4: To gain also, yeah, absolutely, Look, whenever thing's happened with
Speaker 4: our children, they can't be anything worse in the world.
Speaker 4: On top of that, moving another high stress situation. You know,
Speaker 4: there's we just you got you got plunked a bunch
Speaker 4: of times, and I would have to say you finished
Speaker 4: the year fine, but there was a there was a
Speaker 4: period there where I just couldn't believe with you you
Speaker 4: were taken on.
Speaker 2: So it's definitely, like I said, definitely the toughest one
Speaker 2: that I've had of my sixty two. So hopefully starting
Speaker 2: at midnight tonight where we will up and really the
Speaker 2: last two months.
Speaker 1: Of the year actually have been have been great.
Speaker 3: Yeah good.
Speaker 2: You know, we turned the corner with my son, which
Speaker 2: is fabulous, and my wife and I are doing well
Speaker 2: and getting used to life here in Florida and Jupiter
Speaker 2: and and liking it and and so uh, you know,
Speaker 2: things are things are looking up. And that's why I'm
Speaker 2: I'm bullish on twenty five and very very happy to
Speaker 2: see twenty.
Speaker 3: Four go by.
Speaker 2: But first we got to talk about Christmas of twenty
Speaker 2: four a little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just take a look back.
Speaker 2: Last time we got together, we talked about some of
Speaker 2: these crazy gifts that were out there that that people
Speaker 2: were buying and stuff like that, and so, you know,
Speaker 2: let's let's talk about some of the gifts that maybe
Speaker 2: were the best ones we received or maybe the worst
Speaker 2: ones we received. And so for me, I got this
Speaker 2: unbelievable surprise. I guess when Jerry Amne was over here
Speaker 2: at Kenny's house one day, Kenny's mom Dot showed him
Speaker 2: a picture of Kenny and I and a couple other
Speaker 2: friends together at our.
Speaker 1: H was it you who found about? Here's the us.
Speaker 2: The irony of the picture is that the girl another
Speaker 2: friend of ours, very very close with AJ by the
Speaker 2: name of Ronnie Kennear, the girl that Ronnie took to
Speaker 2: the prom.
Speaker 1: I started dating like days after the prom.
Speaker 2: She and I really hit it off over that prom weekend,
Speaker 2: and I took to the prom a girl I had
Speaker 2: driven to school for years, and we had this notorious
Speaker 2: love hate relationship our entire lives.
Speaker 1: And she was she was just such a bitch, but.
Speaker 2: I found her incredibly entertaining in her bitchiness, and so
Speaker 2: we just got along and so we went.
Speaker 1: We went as friends.
Speaker 2: We never I went with Marguerite Oh, I haven't thought.
Speaker 3: Of her so long. My God, hot.
Speaker 5: Here, who's supposed to be a girlfriend? And I said, oh,
Speaker 5: that's like a venus girlfriend and she said yes. I said,
Speaker 5: he told me the truth that he likes this shot.
Speaker 5: Hair finds it saxy. You remember the last episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to know something interesting, Arena that girl huh.
Speaker 1: Was born on the same day as Jerry Anne.
Speaker 5: They're both tenth Did you tell me something about the karma?
Speaker 6: Wow, I've seen those.
Speaker 5: I had a girl who was twice divorced with the
Speaker 5: guys who were married or who was born on.
Speaker 6: The same day. Yeah, I know a lot of couples
Speaker 6: who had these tricky things.
Speaker 1: That's treacky.
Speaker 2: That's a point three percent chance, right, that's interesting. A
Speaker 2: point less than point three chants three tens of one
Speaker 2: percent chance of somebody being born in the same day.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. I you know a lot of things.
Speaker 4: So apparently so Ronnie Kenny was at my table and
Speaker 4: I get he was Chris Christian.
Speaker 3: Apparently he took christ and the problem he did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was at my table with Tommy Colegan, Sharon Vanaker,
Speaker 4: John Monne, Mary Gigan, Me and Linda Buren and Annie
Speaker 4: Maria ROSSI went with somebody.
Speaker 3: Maybe Joe Bruno took her.
Speaker 1: Only AJ would know his whole tape.
Speaker 2: Well, well I was wrong, So Ronnie just happened to
Speaker 2: be talking to us and there for no but I
Speaker 2: but I hung out with Chris all weekend.
Speaker 4: Then maybe Ronnie took someone else, because I know.
Speaker 1: He definitely took her.
Speaker 2: He definitely took her because I remember feeling bad that
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know that, that he took her all
Speaker 2: the prom and you know a week later she and I,
Speaker 2: she and I are dating.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it all work.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, both of my friends fell for the
Speaker 4: same girl. She was a beautiful girl. Chris really sweet girl,
Speaker 4: really sweet person too. But you know I was gonna
Speaker 4: take dorin Orlando. I told her, you're going to problem
Speaker 4: with me. And then right before Prom I fell for
Speaker 4: Linda Buren and I had to reneg on Doreen with
Speaker 4: like a month ago, and she was crushed and then
Speaker 4: Rob rushed and took her and they ended up getting married.
Speaker 3: They had like four kids down in Flora, So it
Speaker 3: all worked out for her. And I'm still looking. But
Speaker 3: I took uh, yeah, I took Wenda Beeren.
Speaker 4: Chico took Laura shot her. It was a wild table.
Speaker 4: It was a crazy day. We weren't together that that
Speaker 4: that that night at the same she.
Speaker 1: She turned into she was my first love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh. She followed me to college. So we
Speaker 2: went to college together, so I did. Everyone assumed we
Speaker 2: were going.
Speaker 1: To be together.
Speaker 2: And then she went away with her Her mother never
Speaker 2: liked me. Her mother never thought I was good enough.
Speaker 3: For her daughter. In my how ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And and her mother took her to the Galopicos Islands on
Speaker 2: a trip. What And she got back from the Galopicos
Speaker 2: Islands and I remember we're out in the bay and
Speaker 2: my boat, like the first day she's back from the
Speaker 2: Galopicos Islands, and she hits me with the you know,
Speaker 2: we're so young, and you know, I really I want
Speaker 2: to see the world and I need to sew my
Speaker 2: you know, basically, I don't want to be pinned down
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So I was like heartburnk And.
Speaker 2: I remember, like fifteen years later, I'm the thirty three
Speaker 2: year old president of a company and I'm in Boston
Speaker 2: at Logan Airport ready to board a flight back to LaGuardia,
Speaker 2: and I see her mother waiting to board the same plane.
Speaker 2: And so I've never done this. I mean, I just
Speaker 2: generally don't operate this way, right. But number one, I
Speaker 2: knew who she went ahead and married. Who's a good
Speaker 2: guy who was football player in school. God name is
Speaker 2: Steve Beard, and very good guy, an excellent football player
Speaker 2: at Vanderbilt. But I needed to I needed to do
Speaker 2: a little flaunting in front of her mother, who I knew,
Speaker 2: you know, didn't think I was good enough for her daughter.
Speaker 2: So I plopped myself down next to her mother. She
Speaker 2: didn't recognize me for half a second.
Speaker 1: And then and then, you.
Speaker 2: Know, when I told her who I was, you know,
Speaker 2: it clicked in, and you know then I just maybe
Speaker 2: even embellished a little bit how well I was doing.
Speaker 1: But I was doing well, But I just laid it.
Speaker 2: I just laid it on really freaking pick to just
Speaker 2: make sure that she knew that I knew.
Speaker 1: I said to her daughter.
Speaker 4: But I don't believe I can't believe a mother. You know,
Speaker 4: Mike was a very good student, a great athlete, funny guy, handsome.
Speaker 4: What the fuck was my mother looking for?
Speaker 2: I think someone more worldly. I wasn't a big at
Speaker 2: that point in my life, I wasn't traveling.
Speaker 1: The world that you know. My family, well, our family did.
Speaker 1: Her family, That's what they did.
Speaker 2: They went on these exifications. They her mother lived in
Speaker 2: Great Neck and they were divorced, and her mother lived
Speaker 2: in Great Neck, so she was she was snooty. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the guy that she lived with, I don't think she
Speaker 2: ever married him.
Speaker 1: I loved this guy, Barry. He was big New York giants.
Speaker 2: Family went to lots of games together over time and
Speaker 2: stuff and and uh watched a lot of games together.
Speaker 1: I mean, great, great guy.
Speaker 2: And and so it h But I always knew that
Speaker 2: she just didn't think I was good enough for her daughter.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I got I got the last giggle on
Speaker 2: on that one. But I shared the picture with both. Well,
Speaker 2: now I know that Arena's seen the picture a bunch
Speaker 2: of times.
Speaker 1: But but Age, I don't know if you've ever seen
Speaker 1: this picture.
Speaker 2: Happened the I mean the mustaches that Kenny and I
Speaker 2: are sports probably come.
Speaker 6: On to my husband.
Speaker 5: I'm happy I met you much longer than that mustache.
Speaker 5: It's not something I'm attracted.
Speaker 2: It was look at Cowerstachus, look at our overgrown hair.
Speaker 2: The hair News we've got the collars on those cheap,
Speaker 2: shitty tuxes.
Speaker 1: I mean we were fire.
Speaker 3: Then you have ruffle. I think I had ruffles.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the.
Speaker 6: Man I agree on that. But it's like, you know.
Speaker 2: Look, I love Whitey and I love Ronnie, but I
Speaker 2: mean we steal that picture. I mean you look at
Speaker 2: the two of us and it's like, you know, but
Speaker 2: but yeah, that's Marguy.
Speaker 1: I don't know who who's JJ's date there. I can't
Speaker 1: even do you know how I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have a picture.
Speaker 6: I don't remember I.
Speaker 1: Send it to you in the uh what the show notes?
Speaker 1: It's in there? Yeah, it should be at the bottom
Speaker 1: of that file.
Speaker 3: Let's say this. I don't know that. Hold on, I
Speaker 3: got to look for this. This is great. Let me see.
Speaker 3: Uh okay, I'll tell you right now. If I find it,
Speaker 3: here you go on the show notes, right, okay? Where
Speaker 3: are we? Relationships?
Speaker 1: Hold on the bottom.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm gonna got about it here? Uh uh prep call? Now?
Speaker 3: Where the oh?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 4: Recording session? Okay, well that's January seventh. Why am I
Speaker 4: what the hell's going on? I can't find the last
Speaker 4: here's the prep call? December thirty would that be it. Now,
Speaker 4: that's a Google reminder. I don't know why I can't.
Speaker 1: I can feel that, I can feel listeners dropping off.
Speaker 3: I forget. Yeah, I'll find it later. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: who it is later. Yeah, you know what. That was
Speaker 3: the beginning of you and I and Mike, I mean
Speaker 3: and Kenny and not a split.
Speaker 4: But that's when I got really close with John Mono
Speaker 4: right in high school and I me and him spent
Speaker 4: a lot of time on soccer together and weekends, and
Speaker 4: he became like my go to everyday friend in school
Speaker 4: because we were in the same classes. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: was with Mono and she and Ronnie. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 4: you had a good table. But yeah, Sharon Vanaker, we
Speaker 4: can't get she was at my table. Sharon, Sharon, she
Speaker 4: was something else.
Speaker 1: No, I love Sharon.
Speaker 2: Sharon had our our time and and uh when Tony
Speaker 2: Botch was dating her sister, So that's when Tony and
Speaker 2: I got to be got to be good friends.
Speaker 1: So so the best gift.
Speaker 2: That was a great surprise gift because I hadn't seen that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even remember that she was framed.
Speaker 3: It got framed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jerry Ane, Jerry Ane got it.
Speaker 2: From guy and then took it and framed it and uh,
Speaker 2: it's great, it's great. So that was the that was
Speaker 2: the best gift. And then the worst gift. First of all,
Speaker 2: my mother has been giving everyone, my kids, me, Jerry, Anne,
Speaker 2: my sisters, my nieces, my nephews, everybody, the same gift
Speaker 2: for every birthday and every Christmas, for however long I
Speaker 2: can go back. It's going to be a card, it's
Speaker 2: going to have a check in it. And she's never
Speaker 2: adjusted for inflation. So back in you know, back in
Speaker 2: the eighties, that one hundred dollars was a really nice gime.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, it doesn't go quite so far.
Speaker 2: But this Christmas it went even less far because everything
Speaker 2: came in one big envelope from my mother for the
Speaker 2: four of us, right, And so I handed everybody their
Speaker 2: their cards and I opened mine.
Speaker 1: And when I opened it, the place where you're supposed
Speaker 1: to put the check or the cash, oh no, it
Speaker 1: was empty. There's nothing. I got skumped by my mother
Speaker 1: for Christmas. I'm like, Jerry, it's like, Mike, did you
Speaker 1: pish him?
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I haven't pissed my mother, but I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell her. No, I can't tell
Speaker 2: her that she forgot, that she forgot to.
Speaker 1: Put because it'll hard feelings. I can't do it. So
Speaker 1: but anyway, so my best is the picture. My worst was.
Speaker 2: That's great, the empty, the empty envelope without my mother's
Speaker 2: my mother's usual check.
Speaker 4: But I can tell you my worst. My worst was
Speaker 4: several years ago, not this year. Mi am Mary was old,
Speaker 4: always old. Even when I was a kid. She was
Speaker 4: very autistic. She could draw, she could paint. She used
Speaker 4: to paint scenes and big clamshells. Her whole room was
Speaker 4: all her paintings of Hawaii and Africa. Anyhow, one Christmas,
Speaker 4: she decides to paint my high school graduation picture.
Speaker 3: I didn't know this.
Speaker 4: It was a surprise or opening gifts on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 4: I opened this frame picture of me.
Speaker 3: But as Mia.
Speaker 4: Mary got older, her eyesight was just getting so she
Speaker 4: was legally blind in one eye and half blind to
Speaker 4: the other. So this portrait of me, while it was
Speaker 4: a great try, looked nothing like me in my cap
Speaker 4: and gown. And my nephews are like, you have to
Speaker 4: put this up on the wall right now, And I did,
Speaker 4: and we used to say Mary and Mary's studio paintings
Speaker 4: for the portrait That's not quite you, and.
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish I still had it. I don't
Speaker 3: have it.
Speaker 4: But I think the best gift was probably you know,
Speaker 4: it wasn't Even when I was a kid, I used
Speaker 4: to love to look at all the boxes around the
Speaker 4: tree from my sisters and with so many presents.
Speaker 3: They used to come down the hallway and I would
Speaker 3: play with my army men.
Speaker 4: Remember little do you ever play with armament, little plastic armymen? Yeah,
Speaker 4: and put them all over the boxes and make them
Speaker 4: kill each other. On Christmas even that was my favorite
Speaker 4: army men. And I guess the bicycle I got. I
Speaker 4: finally got a shwim with the banana seat and the
Speaker 4: extended forks. Remember the big high handlebars. I wrecked that
Speaker 4: in about two months. But that was a big gift.
Speaker 4: But this year, you know, I don't rely. I get
Speaker 4: embarrassed getting gifts from my kids. And it's just I
Speaker 4: feel like, all right, you know, thank you, And I
Speaker 4: just feel like they don't need to get me anything.
Speaker 4: I like getting them stuff. I'm at that phase where
Speaker 4: I don't I'm uncomfortable getting I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't need anything.
Speaker 4: I know, I don't. You know you guys, So there's
Speaker 4: your kids, not for me, but you know they did well.
Speaker 4: They did well arena, arena, how about you.
Speaker 5: I want to tell something to our audience because I
Speaker 5: had a magic here with magic gifts, and it's not
Speaker 5: something that I would consider to be the best one
Speaker 5: or less. So I'm the one who believes in manifesting.
Speaker 5: In even if I believe in God and I believe
Speaker 5: that everything comes from the sky and so and so
Speaker 5: that I believe in manifesting. Also I believe on the
Speaker 5: power of subconscious mind. And a year ago we're supposed
Speaker 5: to go on there New Year. We had some plans.
Speaker 5: We had to go to the club, to the community
Speaker 5: where we moved in uh and it had to be
Speaker 5: nice and beautiful, but unfortunately we had some familiar circumstances
Speaker 5: because of which we couldn't go out. So I decided
Speaker 5: whatever my husband was resting, he wasn't in the mood
Speaker 5: to go to live and I took supported him and
Speaker 5: understood him. So I decided, I'm not going to waste time.
Speaker 5: As soon as I have to be quiet at home,
Speaker 5: I would like to candle and do my manifesting board.
Speaker 6: I take a.
Speaker 5: Huge white piece of paper and I wrote everything, how
Speaker 5: I see myself, how I picture myself playing golf.
Speaker 6: I didn't play golf by that time.
Speaker 5: Riding the bicycle, and I didn't write it for years,
Speaker 5: so maybe I even forgot how to do it, like
Speaker 5: painting la la la la la, doing podcast, guys, and
Speaker 5: you brought it into my life, you know, this year
Speaker 5: and ear rings that I dreamt about for many many years,
Speaker 5: and so on and so on and so so that
Speaker 5: was a whole picture I opened up after one year
Speaker 5: because I totally forgot about it. And I have to
Speaker 5: tell you the last thing that was there. They are
Speaker 5: just few little things that didn't come true yet, but
Speaker 5: it's okay because it's not you know, world wasn't built
Speaker 5: like chrome wasn't built on a second, you.
Speaker 6: Know, any day. And the last thing that was a puppy.
Speaker 5: Oh so yesterday, Katy and I we exchanged gifts. But
Speaker 5: I don't want to speak about material stuff and everything
Speaker 5: and everything. I want to tell you that totally surprised
Speaker 5: that I got from mother in law. She got us
Speaker 5: two bicycles that was a part of the board, which
Speaker 5: is great for him. And for me to do something
Speaker 5: together and gifts that we get for ourselves is a puppy.
Speaker 5: When I showed him the picture, it's almost the same
Speaker 5: like I made.
Speaker 6: A year ago.
Speaker 5: Well, instead of crying and being disappointed. So, ladies or
Speaker 5: all our audience, who is maybe not that happy today,
Speaker 5: who feels miserable or feels a lot or whatever you're
Speaker 5: doing and you have no plans, don't waste this time.
Speaker 5: Don't think that you would like to be somewhere somewhere
Speaker 5: else when you're not or grass is greener somewhere else.
Speaker 6: Please just take the board, take your time, meditate, manifest
Speaker 6: and design your new reality and check it out within
Speaker 6: a year and you'll see how your dreams are coming
Speaker 6: through naturally.
Speaker 3: That's kind.
Speaker 1: I just got to play with the puppy a little
Speaker 1: bit of going.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it so cute. What kind of dog
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 6: Ah, it's golden doodle, they say, like the doodle. It's
Speaker 6: a mix and it's pretty.
Speaker 5: And Kenny, my husband, I should brag about him, because
Speaker 5: he had his position that he would never he wanted
Speaker 5: to rescue a dog. He wanted to save the life,
Speaker 5: and he didn't want to pay for a dog it.
Speaker 5: We still paid for it because it was some kind
Speaker 5: of mixed tation. The lady had to get rid of
Speaker 5: them because of feminine circumstances and mother's illness, but she
Speaker 5: has still to sell them. And I saw this link
Speaker 5: from girls chart with Jerry and Mike's wife and Valerie Gallagher's.
Speaker 6: Wife and a Wall just sent it the link. I
Speaker 6: resent it to my husband.
Speaker 5: And when we had Dorothy in the hospital, unfortunately, Kenny
Speaker 5: called them and he said, Irena, that's the doggie.
Speaker 6: And I looked at say, oh wow, I love it.
Speaker 5: So when a whim as usual with my husband, we
Speaker 5: went pick up the doggy last day of the months.
Speaker 5: Hopefully mother when she comes back from the hospital, mother
Speaker 5: in law, she will be very happy. And Kenny as well,
Speaker 5: because he felt uncomfortable. We went to some rescue dog center.
Speaker 5: So he donated some.
Speaker 6: Amount of money to them to you know, still make
Speaker 6: a good deed.
Speaker 2: So he manifested Eva the dogs. He manifested Eva.
Speaker 6: I manifested Ava.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Did you call it a because you love Ava Gardner,
Speaker 4: the actress?
Speaker 6: I know it's I just love Ava.
Speaker 5: It's one of the protag in my book who cares
Speaker 5: about your ex lady's probably gonna appreciate it.
Speaker 6: But it's actually a love story.
Speaker 5: And the story of success.
Speaker 3: It's not just that's my niece's name. I love. That
Speaker 3: name is so powerful, it's so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad because I remember when when Kenny lost
Speaker 4: his dog years ago in your backyard, Mike, right, not
Speaker 4: not well Pepe.
Speaker 3: The other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we were in your backyard. He showed me
Speaker 4: a picture of it. I hadn't ever seen it, but yeah,
Speaker 4: dogs mean everything. I mean, Mike, Mike knows that they
Speaker 4: mean everything. I can't wait in this this coming month,
Speaker 4: and I'll bring it back to l A for a
Speaker 4: while because I miss her so much.
Speaker 2: I want to mention one other gift because it's driving
Speaker 2: my wife crazy and I love. I got her a
Speaker 2: gag dildo.
Speaker 1: It is a dildo and the head is Trump. It's
Speaker 1: Trump's head on a.
Speaker 2: Gildo, and and so she keeps getting like I will
Speaker 2: just take it and I'll put it on her desk,
Speaker 2: and then she'll find it, you know a few hours
Speaker 2: later or the next day, and she'll she'll throw it
Speaker 2: in my office or she'll put it in a drawer,
Speaker 2: and I find it every time she tries to get
Speaker 2: rid of it, and I put it back in a
Speaker 2: prominent place of hers. So she's being stalked by and
Speaker 2: it's pink. It's a pink Trump dilda that is following
Speaker 2: my wife everywhere, and it's it's.
Speaker 6: Have made it? This is your face made?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah, it would.
Speaker 1: Trump dildo much better.
Speaker 3: Than the Trump is a big hot cellar. You know,
Speaker 3: I have a fake, a funny dildo.
Speaker 1: I'm texting.
Speaker 3: Acond years ago.
Speaker 4: Twenty something years ago, I went to Italy with a
Speaker 4: girlfriend of my family and I bought I packed a
Speaker 4: big rubber of large rubber dildo in her bag without
Speaker 4: her knowing it. And I was waiting for us to
Speaker 4: get the customs and for the guy to pull it
Speaker 4: out and investigate it.
Speaker 3: But it didn't happen.
Speaker 4: So we get to Italy where in Naples, we're on
Speaker 4: the water, this beautiful hotel, all looking to see if
Speaker 4: the Bay of Naples, and we had an argument. So
Speaker 4: I took the dildo and threw it off the balcony
Speaker 4: and this thing went like a tomahawk into the ocean,
Speaker 4: into the bay, crystal clear water, and it sank to
Speaker 4: the bottom of like six feet of water. And we
Speaker 4: could see that dildo from our room for the whole week,
Speaker 4: sitting on the bottom of the bay, and we had
Speaker 4: to laugh about it. I actually went and retrieved it
Speaker 4: and repacked it, hoping she'd see it again in cussins,
Speaker 4: but they didn't pull her bag. But yeah, fun with
Speaker 4: dildo's fun stories.
Speaker 3: Love them.
Speaker 6: Think if sharing Mike, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I sent you the picture as well, Arena, So I say,
Speaker 1: it looks like you can't the pink drive.
Speaker 3: I love it. In front of Sala's flag too, That's
Speaker 3: that's a nice touch.
Speaker 1: Currently in front of my father's American flag. Okay, So
Speaker 1: on that note, well, let's do a little bit of news. AJ.
Speaker 1: What what's going on in the world?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, not too many great, well, a lot
Speaker 4: of sad things. We have a lot to look forward
Speaker 4: to in the next three weeks with Trump coming aboard.
Speaker 4: But uh, the holiday was a little tragic with that
Speaker 4: terrible plane crash in Korea that killed about one hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy nine people, the most fatal plane crash in decades.
Speaker 4: We also lost Jimmy Carter, our thirty ninth president. Uh
Speaker 4: wasn't a big fan, but he was a good man
Speaker 4: in the long run, and you know, sad to see
Speaker 4: him go whenever he was a president. But that plane,
Speaker 4: you know, those plane stories scare the shit out of me.
Speaker 4: I don't know the airline, not many of us do.
Speaker 4: Was Jesu Air in South Korea.
Speaker 3: But the guy was landing. I'm not frequent with Jesu.
Speaker 3: I'm mint with the Jet Blue, but not to Uh.
Speaker 4: The guy's landing. The pilots landing, and then they were
Speaker 4: told there might be bird strikes. There's birds coming around,
Speaker 4: and okay. Then he said, yeah, we were struck. He's
Speaker 4: trying to land.
Speaker 3: He couldn't quite nail it, turns around the sky, tries
Speaker 3: to go down again, didn't deploy the landing gear or
Speaker 3: it wasn't able to deploy. Overshoots, the runway slams'll do,
Speaker 3: concrete fans, fireball, everybody dies except two people, two flight
Speaker 3: instruct attendants who were in the back of the plane
Speaker 3: and walked out of it. Unbelievable. But there's still coming
Speaker 3: through it, they said. I've read they found more than
Speaker 3: six hundred body parts. You could still smell the blood
Speaker 3: in the air. Reminds me of nine to eleven on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: You could still smell the death at nine to eleven
Speaker 3: from New Jersey when I Thanksgiving dinner at a cousin's house.
Speaker 3: But one hundred and forty one bodies were identified. The
Speaker 3: youngest was three years old, oldest was seventy eight. I
Speaker 3: don't know what do you do when you're coming in
Speaker 3: for a crash landing? You know it.
Speaker 4: There was a video about a week before that of
Speaker 4: a plane going down in Kazakhstan. And there's a video
Speaker 4: of a guy in the plane, obviously just saying a
Speaker 4: lah afbar repeatedly, and he's calm as can be. The
Speaker 4: plane's tilting and he's just saying a lah afbar and
Speaker 4: it goes down and the plane that the phone goes dead.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I would think. What do you
Speaker 3: do when you know your.
Speaker 4: Plane's going down? And that's just a horrifying thought. Every
Speaker 4: time I feel turbulence. I'm not a great flyer. I
Speaker 4: get that I have to grab the seat in front
Speaker 4: of me. I don't like that feeling.
Speaker 3: But I think, after living sixty two years and change,
Speaker 3: I fly a lot.
Speaker 4: If I was gonna go down, I'd like to think
Speaker 4: I would say to myself, you know what, I had
Speaker 4: a great fucking time. I had a great run, and
Speaker 4: if this is how it ends, I'm not that shocked
Speaker 4: because I always have to do something that's dramatic, so
Speaker 4: maybe this is how I go out.
Speaker 3: I don't know, how do you guys feel about that?
Speaker 5: You know, I have a fear of flying s like Mike,
Speaker 5: and I have to tell you. As much as I
Speaker 5: believe in God, I believe in Karamid. I believe that
Speaker 5: everything happens for a reason. I still haven't a power
Speaker 5: of control, because you know, aja is probably because we
Speaker 5: have both control and personalities. I know people who are
Speaker 5: drinking on the plane, who are sleeping on the plane,
Speaker 5: who are having.
Speaker 6: Fun, who like turbulence. I'm not one of them. It's
Speaker 6: because we have.
Speaker 5: Control, and they try to degred of control as much
Speaker 5: as possible, being psychologists, especially working with people. But it's
Speaker 5: still a part of me and I accept it so
Speaker 5: a playing it's not something. I don't know how this
Speaker 5: machine is working. I don't know how it's like operating.
Speaker 5: It's out of my mind. I just pray every time
Speaker 5: I fly, I pray that's what I'm doing. But I understand.
Speaker 5: I know the safetest seat is the last one. But
Speaker 5: I always tried, and I tell Kenny he's invested a
Speaker 5: lot of money in buying the city as much upfront
Speaker 5: as possible because of it's less surable and solutive.
Speaker 3: Connected to the pilot.
Speaker 1: Feel, it's also the deplaning. I mean, it just takes
Speaker 1: you know, that's so much longer to get off a
Speaker 1: plane from that.
Speaker 5: It's just related to fear of control and fear of death,
Speaker 5: to fears, you know, but like every every time, it
Speaker 5: brings you to the fear of death by the end
Speaker 5: of the story, if you dig and dive into that psychologically.
Speaker 5: Sorry if you're interrupting you, Mike.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, And I mean to me, it's like
Speaker 2: one of the scariest ways to go. I just don't
Speaker 2: the idea of being in a plane. I mean, I
Speaker 2: hope those people didn't know what was happening. I hope
Speaker 2: it was just it happened in an instant and it
Speaker 2: was over for them, and they didn't have a great
Speaker 2: awareness of you know, how much jeopardy they were actually
Speaker 2: in and and uh, but.
Speaker 3: I think they did. I mean, you know, they're skinning
Speaker 3: on the run by.
Speaker 2: The obviously came back around. But but lots of weird
Speaker 2: behavior like why, you know, why didn't they dump fuel?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Lots of questions they have that they've got to get
Speaker 2: answered around this. You know, it seems like they're sort
Speaker 2: of leaning toward the pilots, not having you know, done
Speaker 2: the everything they could have done.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, more will come out in the in
Speaker 2: the coming days. But but definitely a scary thing. Whenever
Speaker 2: you see two uh, you know stories in a row.
Speaker 2: These things always happen, and yeah, twos and threes uh,
Speaker 2: and again it's Boeing bowing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I talk about a bad year.
Speaker 4: Boeing has been a disaster, to the point where I
Speaker 4: never even care what whol manufactures my airplane I fly.
Speaker 4: And now that's all I think about what I bought.
Speaker 4: And and I don't know about you guys, we all
Speaker 4: know that DEI all that nonsense was ever where, including pilots.
Speaker 4: And let me ask you a question. You walk into
Speaker 4: an airplane and you look to your left and there's
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm gonna say, an Asian woman as the
Speaker 4: pilot or a black woman as your pilot?
Speaker 3: Do you want to stay on that plane? I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I would leave, but I refuse. No, yeah,
Speaker 3: not these days, not in these I want a man.
Speaker 3: I want a man with a crew cut, six foot one,
Speaker 3: maybe serve some military time.
Speaker 1: I don't want, I don't.
Speaker 3: I just give me the best, give me the best
Speaker 3: that comes to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, But here's what I'll saying. The Asian women fail
Speaker 2: because they can't even drive cars. So why would anyone
Speaker 2: let someone who can't drive a car right behind you know,
Speaker 2: the wheel of a plane, A black woman, any other one,
Speaker 2: but really fine. But the Asian pilot, no, because she'll
Speaker 2: be going fifty five in the plane. We can't go
Speaker 2: for to five speed limits up there that if this
Speaker 2: build them, it's four hundred. She's only gonna go four hundred,
Speaker 2: gonna be three hours late.
Speaker 4: And now night flights make me nervous because of the
Speaker 4: drone bullshit. Although the drones have slowed down a little
Speaker 4: bit right in the last week or so. Oh, the
Speaker 4: drones flying above New Jersey.
Speaker 2: You know, they just don't fly to Newark. Why would
Speaker 2: you ever fly to Newark anyway?
Speaker 3: I used to when I live in downtown in the
Speaker 3: West Village.
Speaker 6: Somebody find out what those drones?
Speaker 3: No, not really they think in the road part of
Speaker 3: our military. Who knows. I don't know what the White
Speaker 3: House knows. They just can't tell us. I think it's us.
Speaker 3: I think we're doing it and we can't let anybody
Speaker 3: know the type of weapons we're manufacturing and what they
Speaker 3: can do. I think it's US. I don't think it's aliens.
Speaker 3: If it is, what else can we do get.
Speaker 6: Any America can let somebody get in above this.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know, fly a.
Speaker 1: Balloon all the way across the country.
Speaker 6: So I think America knows everything in every part of
Speaker 6: the world. I think America is powerful.
Speaker 4: It is, and I think they know who's flying those drums.
Speaker 4: I think it's as they can't tell us. But look,
Speaker 4: we've been we were always were always kept in the
Speaker 4: dark with many things when it comes to the government.
Speaker 4: But let's hope uh Trump will If Trump doesn't talk
Speaker 4: about it, then you know it's the government because if
Speaker 4: it was somebody else, he'd let us know. So we'll
Speaker 4: find out in three weeks.
Speaker 2: Well, one thing, a big thing I am looking forward
Speaker 2: to in twenty five is finding out a lot of
Speaker 2: things that, yeah, we don't know if some of these
Speaker 2: appointments get confirmed, and some of these people do the
Speaker 2: things they say they're going to do. It'll be an
Speaker 2: interesting year of finding out all the stuff that we
Speaker 2: didn't know that was going on, that we suspected.
Speaker 3: Was going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also he said Trump, I mean not don Trump,
Speaker 4: Carter Carter died.
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't. I didn't vote for Jimmy Carter. But
Speaker 3: you were fourteen, dude, Oh that's right, we were too young.
Speaker 3: I vote if my first was ragged first was Reagan?
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: I was young. I wouldn't have voted. Voted that way.
Speaker 4: But very very different than our past presidents with the
Speaker 4: accent and the crazy brother. I don't think you know
Speaker 4: his brother, Billy Billy caught It was a crazy, crazy,
Speaker 4: wacko dude, beer drinker, drunk crazy. But you know, I
Speaker 4: guess he was a wonderful man in terms of the
Speaker 4: things he got accomplished once he left the White House,
Speaker 4: and how he was looked upon as a dignified person.
Speaker 4: And you gotta give it to anybody who lives over
Speaker 4: one hundred years old and stays married for.
Speaker 3: Was it seventy seven years?
Speaker 1: Seven years?
Speaker 3: Was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually met her the day she was born.
Speaker 2: By the way, what met her the day she was born?
Speaker 2: So their family would.
Speaker 1: Them, Well, come on, left to calculate.
Speaker 6: They don't need any case.
Speaker 1: There's nothing left to calculate.
Speaker 6: Hundreds are kidding?
Speaker 1: Seventy seven years so it might have been a shitty president.
Speaker 1: But he was a good man.
Speaker 6: And here Kenny said that he was a good man.
Speaker 6: He had a kind heart, and you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah he was, you know he actually the more the
Speaker 3: big mark on him was that we had those hostages.
Speaker 3: Remember when they the Iranian Hostagesian hostage.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't give him the Carter, but Ronald Reagan's first
Speaker 4: day in office, they coughed up the hostages.
Speaker 3: That's that right there.
Speaker 4: I told you what other countries thought of Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 4: How what they thought of Ronald Reagan. Don't fuck with Reagan.
Speaker 4: I feel like they feel the same way about Trump
Speaker 4: all these years later, and we'll find out.
Speaker 1: Well, we get some hostages back in January.
Speaker 2: But I mean, guy was a peanut farmer. I mean,
Speaker 2: he can't be a bad guy. If you know, if
Speaker 2: your life is farming peanuts, I mean, come on, it's.
Speaker 3: The American dream. I mean, the guy did. Really what
Speaker 3: a story poverty to become president. It's really amazing.
Speaker 1: And those Georgia peanuts are give those boiled peanuts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's good to Adam. You like n nim
Speaker 3: at him? All right?
Speaker 1: Did you watch the how It?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: We all talked about holiday movies last time we were together,
Speaker 2: So AJ, did you watch Jingle all the way?
Speaker 3: I didn't catch it. I was too sick.
Speaker 4: But I did catch one movie that I've never seen before,
Speaker 4: from nineteen seventy four called Black Christmas. It's a horror
Speaker 4: movie and it's good. It's scary. Don't watch the remakes
Speaker 4: in the two thousands, they're awful. But the first one
Speaker 4: was with Olivia Hussey, who just died a week ago,
Speaker 4: who played Juliet and Romeo and Juliet. I had such
Speaker 4: a crush on her as a kid when that movie
Speaker 4: came out, And now she's in this horror movie from
Speaker 4: seventy four, really scary. You don't think of Christmas and
Speaker 4: a scary movie together. But it's worked for me. Set
Speaker 4: in England.
Speaker 3: Scary. But I didn't see Jing. I'll try to watch
Speaker 3: it this week if I get a wild hair late
Speaker 3: at night. But that was too sick to enjoy a movie. Unfortunately, guys,
Speaker 3: how about you, Arina.
Speaker 6: I didn't watch anything Christmas wise, unfortunately.
Speaker 5: And I talked to my mother and she's watching that
Speaker 5: movie that I told you the last time about the
Speaker 5: guy who was you know, our classic movie when the
Speaker 5: guy gets out of the sonar. So we had a
Speaker 5: jet Blue experience. And I usually not to feel this
Speaker 5: extra fear of flying. I do one glass of wine
Speaker 5: and nice movie. And I was looking for some Christmas
Speaker 5: movie in Jet Blue, and guys, probably because of my karma,
Speaker 5: professional karma, I got into very psychological movie. There is
Speaker 5: nothing to do with Christmas. It was the last session
Speaker 5: of Freud. It was the last session of Freud of
Speaker 5: zig Mund Freud, and I heard his biography that one
Speaker 5: of his daughters died and he disbelieved in God. He said,
Speaker 5: what kind of god he is if I lose in
Speaker 5: people I love? And he was very dedicated in his profession.
Speaker 5: That's for she, yes, his daughter, she has a huge
Speaker 5: attachment to him. But I understood why I watched that
Speaker 5: movie because I had.
Speaker 6: A huge attachment to my own father.
Speaker 5: So unfortunately, I'm not ready to share anything happy and funny,
Speaker 5: and I probably will rewatch Home Alone with because that's
Speaker 5: my favorite part of it and I love watching it.
Speaker 5: And but that was my really final movie I watched
Speaker 5: for this year because I'm not gonna watch anything to night.
Speaker 6: I guess, so unless maybe not changed, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I well, I don't write.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why I don't really go for fun
Speaker 4: movies on Christmas because Mike knows this. You don't know
Speaker 4: this arena. But my mother died on Christmas morning, uh
Speaker 4: many years. Yeah, it was it was just it was
Speaker 4: I mean it was it was awful. But actually the
Speaker 4: way she went calling for my father as she got
Speaker 4: out of her coma, it was beautiful because me and
Speaker 4: my sister and my ex wife are there and we
Speaker 4: said she's she's calling for Daddy. She kept saying al
Speaker 4: and then she was reaching for him and then she passed.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't dead like. It was kind of pretty,
Speaker 4: I have to say.
Speaker 3: So I never end up.
Speaker 4: For many years, I've not been in a great mood
Speaker 4: on Christmas to be happy and sing song and watch
Speaker 4: a funny movie.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's why Christmas is a little weird for me.
Speaker 3: And it's been weird. But you know, we Italians a
Speaker 3: lot of us make the seafood and we do the
Speaker 3: It's kind of a misnom where that Italians eat seven fish,
Speaker 3: seven dishes of different fish.
Speaker 4: It's not really true. We like seafood on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4: So I made uh I don't you know. My kids
Speaker 4: don't eat a lot. So I made flameing on and
Speaker 4: bopster tails.
Speaker 3: I started with a colds kan Jilie South, which I love,
Speaker 3: colds Kan Julie salad and uh pasta with minorada sauce
Speaker 3: with shrimp, you know, with a butterfly shrimp in the pasta,
Speaker 3: and then the steak and lobster.
Speaker 1: So dude, that's a.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6: Started to cook at our home as soon as you're right.
Speaker 4: It was the shopping, I know, it was the shopping
Speaker 4: for food that I can't stand the lines and the people.
Speaker 4: But cooking itself makes me feel much better. So yeah,
Speaker 4: not a huge meal, but still big enough that we
Speaker 4: all enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: You know, I think it's in your Italian blood because
Speaker 5: with this year, it's the second year almost a tradition.
Speaker 5: Kenny's son invites us big family and most of them
Speaker 5: are Italian or like have some part of Italian blood
Speaker 5: and his daughter in law and they are staying with
Speaker 5: us right now.
Speaker 6: She did amazing stuff. She cooked and she has these
Speaker 6: Italian roots and she cooked for all of us. It
Speaker 6: was great.
Speaker 5: It was so many people like I like, really, I
Speaker 5: have a new family of twenty people I already like.
Speaker 5: I didn't have it for years. I didn't have it
Speaker 5: for years because my family or almost everybody died. So
Speaker 5: it was great as well, you know this cooking and
Speaker 5: family fun and so Mike, what about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well I did my I did my power
Speaker 2: one two of jingle all the way with Diard and
Speaker 2: have my sons doing that with me. But I made
Speaker 2: my own power move for uh for Christmas Eve, and
Speaker 2: and it nearly turned into disaster.
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 2: End up finding this secret that saved me a ton
Speaker 2: of money. But I love stone Crabs. And there's you
Speaker 2: know this famous place in Miami, Joe's Stone Crab, that
Speaker 2: is the the most profitable restaurant in the United States.
Speaker 2: Restaurant makes forty something million dollars a year in profit.
Speaker 3: I mean I've been there a couple of times.
Speaker 2: They charge a ton for these crabs, right, So I
Speaker 2: start looking at Phish markets, and I'm searching online and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh shit, okay, so for for Joe's. If
Speaker 2: I wanted to order from Joe's, pick them up, and
Speaker 2: then for that was gonna be likes, you know, and
Speaker 2: this is for the sort of like the appetizer of
Speaker 2: the meal.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Then I found another place online that was called George's
Speaker 2: Stone Crab, and there I could get a dinner for four,
Speaker 2: which is really just a pound an and a half,
Speaker 2: which is like five or six claws per person, And
Speaker 2: that would have been four hundred and something, so half
Speaker 2: of what it was to do it from Joe's. But
Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm gonna make really nice steaks with everything,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's just.
Speaker 1: Way too much money.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I end up finding out about this business called
Speaker 2: Steve's Stone Crabs, and it's actually a woman and she
Speaker 2: gets the stone crabs directly from the fishermen.
Speaker 3: Nice they're a.
Speaker 2: Little smaller than the colossals that the high end restaurants
Speaker 2: want to buy, you know, so they're a little bit
Speaker 2: smaller claw than you might get in at Joe's or
Speaker 2: somewhere like that. But they sell them out of the
Speaker 2: back of a truck that she pulls into this parking
Speaker 2: lot in Palm Beach and she does it on Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sundays in season.
Speaker 3: Right, So.
Speaker 2: I find out about it and I'm like, okay, great,
Speaker 2: I'll go there ten thirty in the morning the Sunday
Speaker 2: because it starts at ten thirty. And well, I get
Speaker 2: there and I leave early so I can get there early.
Speaker 2: I know i'll be there and plenty of time. I
Speaker 2: get there at ten fifteen and when I pull into
Speaker 2: the lot, I see a line of people that you know,
Speaker 2: looks like a reality show casting call in la in
Speaker 2: like nineteen ninety eight, of course, and I'm like, oh shit.
Speaker 2: So there I see there are people towards the front
Speaker 2: that literally have tents so they've stayed there all night
Speaker 2: so they could be first in lawn. And then everybody
Speaker 2: at minimum has a folding chair and a cooler. I mean,
Speaker 2: everybody's got a plan, but me, My plan is just
Speaker 2: to show up. So I've got nothing, and I'm about
Speaker 2: one hundred and fiftieth I guess in line, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, what a freaking moron.
Speaker 1: There's no way.
Speaker 2: So after about an hour of being online, and the
Speaker 2: line slowly dwindling down. She stands up and she makes
Speaker 2: an announcement that that she doesn't have a whole lot left,
Speaker 2: she's going to run out, and that she does have
Speaker 2: some bags with some cracked clause that's fine, that she'll
Speaker 2: sell if people are willing to buy the crackhaust. So
Speaker 2: the line dwindles down a little bit more. She announces
Speaker 2: that she's out of the regular clause, and I mean
Speaker 2: everybody but like five people. So instantly I go from
Speaker 2: you know, twenty fifth online to like fifth online, right.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 2: They were She was supposed to sell their claws for
Speaker 2: twenty four dollars a pound, which is like a third
Speaker 2: of what any other places, but because they were cracked,
Speaker 2: and not all of them, just some of them were cracked,
Speaker 2: she sells them for me for eighteen.
Speaker 1: So I ended up getting the deal. I end up
Speaker 1: getting six pounds of stone crabs for eighty bucks.
Speaker 3: That's great, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: It was so great that I went back, and this
Speaker 2: time this time I got in right. I got there
Speaker 2: at nine thirty, so I got there and plenty of
Speaker 2: time to be like twentieth online, and she.
Speaker 1: Still had my singing address again. Yeah, I will, or
Speaker 1: if you guys want them, I'll pick them up for
Speaker 1: your next comment.
Speaker 6: I'm joking.
Speaker 5: I'm joking. You already gave me a table. Every time
Speaker 5: I come I steal something from your house.
Speaker 6: It's not the way to do it.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now. Stop It wde in me.
Speaker 6: But I like stone crabs, so.
Speaker 2: They're fabulous and now I'm addicted. Now when I can
Speaker 2: get them for that, I mean, it's better than next time.
Speaker 5: You know, we invited because last time a j unfortunately
Speaker 5: you learned with us. They they made a great party, Jerry,
Speaker 5: and is always perfect. That's what you call ideas. You
Speaker 5: organized that. It was beautiful, it was tasty. Min did
Speaker 5: filaming you on that is out of competition. Next day
Speaker 5: we went to Prime, which I liked a lot before's sake, you.
Speaker 3: Know, beautiful.
Speaker 2: Gay Prime steak was as good as mine.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, wait a minute, no, I think.
Speaker 6: I didn't have a chance. They gave you this streep.
Speaker 6: I fell in love with your film and a lot
Speaker 6: like I love it that you know, you know.
Speaker 4: It's not my favorite stake, but if it's done right,
Speaker 4: it's just it's perfect. It's a right amount of you
Speaker 4: don't get great.
Speaker 1: Well, I did the place for of girls.
Speaker 2: My son likes New York, and the New York for him,
Speaker 2: and then I did ReBs for me Kenny and the
Speaker 2: other son, and uh and Gallagher and uh.
Speaker 1: And and and dot too.
Speaker 2: But I bought I bought a tragger. I finally went
Speaker 2: out and got a and got a tragger. And that
Speaker 2: thing is the greatest freaking thing ever. I nearly died
Speaker 2: in New Orleans with that stupid green ee trying to
Speaker 2: get the temperature right and that freaking nothing costs a
Speaker 2: ton and it never works. And I don't know why
Speaker 2: it's got this reputation that it's a great barbecue.
Speaker 3: But Trager is the way to go.
Speaker 2: Uh not.
Speaker 4: When I come to Florida again, let me find where
Speaker 4: they sell Dungeoness crabs. That's my favorite. I love blue
Speaker 4: claw too, but Dungeoness has the most meat to me.
Speaker 4: And I make a Dungeoness crab. I make platters of
Speaker 4: it with hot.
Speaker 1: But those are those are Northwest though, yeah, those down here.
Speaker 1: It's down here.
Speaker 4: A great but I make I make a nice dungeness
Speaker 4: with the red sauce and a lot of garlic, heavy garlic.
Speaker 4: You know, we leve the dining room table with a
Speaker 4: bunch of newspapers and we just cracked our hearts content.
Speaker 3: It's the best. I love craft, fantastic.
Speaker 1: I can't get enough of them. Now it's New Year's guys,
Speaker 1: so yeah, let's talk resolutions. Who's wid a resolution?
Speaker 3: I guess, I rena. Have you made one yet? I did?
Speaker 3: What is it? Do you mind?
Speaker 5: And I? Okay, May I tell you one minute funny
Speaker 5: story before and after I tell you my resolution? So
Speaker 5: I we go to New York and I worked, not
Speaker 5: only celebrated the life there, so and I do for
Speaker 5: jovnin Em. I go and question people around in the
Speaker 5: Brian Park about their New year resolution. And I asked
Speaker 5: one girl and I said, did you got last you mag?
Speaker 5: And I said, did you come out with your New
Speaker 5: Year resolution twenty twenty five? And she said, yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: I said, what's that?
Speaker 6: And she told me to keep up with my old
Speaker 6: previous resolutions?
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I know.
Speaker 5: So not in my cage, because whatever I decided, I
Speaker 5: did it. That's my character. I became very stubborn many
Speaker 5: years ago. But I decided this year to be brave
Speaker 5: enough to go how to say, to overcome my not fear,
Speaker 5: but I always did something. I was all behind the
Speaker 5: back of my parents because they were known in Ukraine,
Speaker 5: or I represented my husband. Oh, I've been hiding by
Speaker 5: the name of Gemini and m me up, which is
Speaker 5: product of mine. I was always pushing my projects, my book, people,
Speaker 5: counseling you always. I decided, you know, let this be
Speaker 5: the year of Rena wud. Let me find out what
Speaker 5: I am. And I have two niches that I need
Speaker 5: to cover. I want to learn how to film myself
Speaker 5: because I'm not to take a girl and I have
Speaker 5: to end up with this. And I had hard time
Speaker 5: finding my pr person. So I decaided, why don't I
Speaker 5: become pr pers myself. So I'm going to take care
Speaker 5: of Jemina. I am you from a different and my
Speaker 5: creative part is over, my expertise is over. I still
Speaker 5: work with people in dividually. So this year my resolution
Speaker 5: is to become the best pr ever for myself, for Gemini,
Speaker 5: nam Me and maybe even for the other people.
Speaker 6: If I can help others after I manage myself.
Speaker 3: That's big.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's okay, major, major leader.
Speaker 3: That's a huge. Major, guys, that's big. That's big. Gotta
Speaker 3: think big, gotta think big. I don't. I think what
Speaker 3: I want to do well. I always I like, grow
Speaker 3: the show, Grow the show, Grow the show. That's got
Speaker 3: to be the period all the shows, grow the shows.
Speaker 3: And you know, I've been, I've been. I've had this book,
Speaker 3: my third book that I've written here and there and
Speaker 3: stopped and started and stopped. I got to finish it
Speaker 3: and get it out. It's all my many people who
Speaker 3: listen to my show, I've heard some of the stories,
Speaker 3: but there's something that I haven't told that are all
Speaker 3: my brushes with celebrity in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: My first book was about my New York brushes, and
Speaker 3: then I wrote my memoir about the summer nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: four a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: But now I want to do all my celebrity and
Speaker 4: you know, just the crazy moments in my life being
Speaker 4: in television and in movies and out.
Speaker 3: Here in California. I have to read it. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: I just get hung up on titles. But I can't
Speaker 3: get I can't do that. I have to just get
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 4: I've written like five chopters. I got to finish it
Speaker 4: and we'll see where that goes. But it'll be fun,
Speaker 4: it'll be good for the show, and it'll be a
Speaker 4: good dose of publicity once a.
Speaker 1: Yeah you do you need to do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about you?
Speaker 1: For whatever? I guess, I guess I just didn't think
Speaker 1: I deserved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, but I I stopped playing golf
Speaker 2: like two years ago. Just I didn't pick up a
Speaker 2: golf club for like two years. I played all the
Speaker 2: time in California, and I belonged to a club there.
Speaker 2: I loved it, these friends and you know, Uh, but
Speaker 2: I got to New Orleans and I was like f it.
Speaker 2: And but now my sons have gotten into it a
Speaker 2: little bit and it's a great way to get time
Speaker 2: with them and to be able to to just talk
Speaker 2: about stuff and and uh have family time together. And
Speaker 2: it's something that we'll hopefully be able to do, you know,
Speaker 2: for a long time. So I am getting back into
Speaker 2: it and actually playing to to play well and you know,
Speaker 2: and take golf fairly seriously again, so that in fact,
Speaker 2: I'm as soon as we're done, I'm going to play
Speaker 2: with so we uh, we're giving it a ghost. So
Speaker 2: we've got a family sport that that at least the
Speaker 2: three of us can can do together for the next
Speaker 2: fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 4: That's fun because now that I'm in the basketball with
Speaker 4: with Rocco and where you were with Law, it's great
Speaker 4: to have some place to go, like three nights a week,
Speaker 4: constantly seeing games, playing games, watching him going, you know, traveling.
Speaker 4: It's a great time. So I know, I know, but
Speaker 4: it's nice to know down the road there's another way
Speaker 4: to recapture that and hang together. And so that's really good.
Speaker 4: That's good. Good for you.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought you were going to play golf
Speaker 3: with the way you addressed. I said, that's a dolf
Speaker 3: outfit for Mike.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, tomorrow you start to take I
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good, good for you, buddy, Good for you.
Speaker 3: You earned it. You earned it.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. Never say you don't deserve you do big letters.
Speaker 2: Well, and I bought Jack's club set clubs for Christian
Speaker 2: and he's got I mean, he's a crap out of
Speaker 2: the ball, he's got a hell of a swinging Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I need to I need to give him a
Speaker 2: chance to fall in love with the with the game
Speaker 2: and and all.
Speaker 4: So well, could you imagine Tiger Woods, how great he
Speaker 4: feels now with Charlie, him and Charlie playing together.
Speaker 3: Come on, that's probably the best memories of this.
Speaker 1: They almost won the father's time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's beautiful. It's a great story. Beautiful story, no,
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 1: And and and Elan gave him a hug at the.
Speaker 3: End of that. Yeah, that was all nice man, all your.
Speaker 2: Neighbor, probably just to give him COVID, probably just she
Speaker 2: probably felt it coming.
Speaker 1: On, my god.
Speaker 2: On that note, on that, Happy New Year, guys, Happy
Speaker 2: new year everybody out there, and let's talk for a
Speaker 2: great twenty five.
Speaker 3: You gotta take care of gain bye y'all. Well,