WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:16.519 Ready, get ready, all right, July seven, twenty twenty six, 2 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.519 allegedly according to that thing we call a calendar. And 3 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:24.280 if I sound a bit extra nasially and a bit 4 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.280 more crackly in the throat, like I just woke up, 5 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.440 it's because I did just woke up, or just I 6 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.079 just waked up. I don't know, did I I just 7 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:38.280 recently in the past few minutes, in the past little while, 8 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.000 I just woke up this moment and an eight morning. 9 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:45.520 It's a little bit after eight pm Eastern, which means 10 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.799 we're live. And it's Friday, Friar's Day. That's right, the 11 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:53.399 third day of July. So not quite the independence day 12 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.399 that everybody claims to recognize and all that stuff and 13 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:01.719 claims to have independence on. Nope, it's one day before that. 14 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.000 So let's see where things go tonight, and you can 15 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.120 join into this. Three one nine five two seven five 16 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.760 zero one six is the number to call about eighteen 17 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:19.840 minutes after eight pm Eastern on Friday, July three, twenty 18 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:23.120 twenty six, allegedly, according to that thing we call a calendar. 19 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.680 In a country that was once America and among people 20 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:33.040 that used to think, I believe, although I'm not certain anymore. Anyway, 21 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.599 here we are, and there you are, and let's get 22 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:38.959 to it. My cost Bpete is with me, and we'd 23 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.439 love to hear from you and throw any topic on 24 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.519 the table you wish, whether it be the mundane or 25 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:50.040 the mondacity of the news, or the preoccupations that people 26 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:55.200 have in the mass psychosis oops psychology that is, or 27 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:59.760 how about the other derangement syndromes, or exactly what might 28 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.519 have here? And is everything a syndrome, a condition, or 29 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.560 an affect in some way? And are we all on 30 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.439 some sort of spectrum? Well, let's find out. Three one 31 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.719 nine five two seven, five zero one six that's the 32 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.560 number to join this and be Pete, you're joining me anyway, 33 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.199 but you're not calling in. I was supposed to do 34 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:26.159 a show with Jimmy James, be Pete. I overslept. I 35 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:29.240 wrote a note to Jimmy saying I'm sorry. I slept 36 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.039 actually and did not mean to sleep up into the 37 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.159 seven o'clock hour. We should have had a pre show 38 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.919 with Jimmy James, but I blew it. I wrote to 39 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.039 him and he said, it's okay. I'm not really feeling 40 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:47.439 energetic today anyway, so look out next week about seven 41 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:50.840 pm Eastern, and we'll have a live pre show for 42 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:55.080 the Ocelli Effect open mic on Friday night and see 43 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.039 how that experiment continues if I can manage to be 44 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.759 awake at the right time and h and Jimmy James 45 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.080 is ready to roll, because both things will be necessary 46 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.400 plus the Internet. God's will let me kind to us 47 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:11.240 and I'll have to avoid getting the stuff cut off anyway, BP, 48 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.319 how are you doing and how has your week been? 49 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:16.919 Oh, it's been hot. 50 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.280 Moved back up into one hundred for the next couple 51 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.840 of days, so it's Summer's definitely settled. 52 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.280 In just a few days after it started. Other than that, 53 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:28.120 it's been a busy week. 54 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.840 We've got a few yards mode and some maintenance done 55 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:37.759 and parts replaced and been watching uh Thief for World 56 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.080 Cup all week, which is going quite. 57 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.240 Well for a lot of teams. Shout out to Hurricane 58 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:43.759 with the. 59 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.120 The England team who has surpassed Peley's scoring record for 60 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:49.879 World Cups. 61 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.400 So congrats to him. That's that's an achievement when you 62 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:54.360 can do better than Pele. 63 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.479 Yeah, I don't know if this generation would even appreciate 64 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:02.120 Pele despite the pack that you know, the generation where 65 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:07.599 Pele was around didn't exactly love soccer, although they tried, 66 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:09.879 because they put them in movies and everything. I don't 67 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.520 know if anybody remembers Pele start in like that weird 68 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.800 prison Break movie where of course they had to bring 69 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.000 in soccer. It's like, you know, the excuse of bringing 70 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:21.839 Jackie chann on the movie all of a sudden, karates necessary, 71 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.360 and you know there's all these skilled theatrical you know, 72 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.959 drunken master attacks on them, you know, just for the 73 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:34.560 sake of the script. Pele was around in that time period. 74 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.120 What was it the very early eighties or the late 75 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:42.480 seventies where we tried to have the National Soccer what 76 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.480 was it the NSCA or national something like that, where 77 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:51.680 it was the National Soccer Coalition or something in this country. 78 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.079 In New York, the name of the team was the Cosmos. 79 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.879 I think it was the North American Soccer League. 80 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.759 North American Soccer League. Okay, remember it, you see, I 81 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.160 know it was there. I remember it. There were there 82 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:08.480 were collector cards for it, but and it was a 83 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:10.839 thing for a minute, and I'm and I will look 84 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.879 it up. The New York team, if I remember, right, 85 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:17.480 was the Cosmos, you know, and that was right around 86 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.879 the time that the USFL had just failed for the 87 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.279 first time. Or maybe the USFL came after, you know, 88 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.759 the USFL I think came after the attempt to really 89 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:34.439 push the North American Soccer So anyways, so yeah, how 90 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.959 how else is all that going? I mean I lost track. 91 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.160 There was some interesting stuff like last week or the 92 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.079 week before, but I think the US is actually in 93 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.519 contention for the World Cup or am I wrong? 94 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.759 Well, we're into this round of thirty two is finishing up, 95 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:50.839 and they're getting all the teams from around the sixteen 96 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.959 and we've moved on to hit we play I think 97 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:57.720 Sunday night against Belgium. 98 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.959 Okay, so single elimination is happening. And we went from 99 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:04.920 thirty two to sixteen teams, which means we'll be down 100 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.000 to eight and then we'll be down to four and 101 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:08.399 then we'll be down to two. Right. 102 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:09.759 Yeah. 103 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:14.000 The North American Soccer League actually was around for fifty. 104 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.079 No, let's see, fifty went from nineteen. 105 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.959 It was founded in sixty seven and it folded in 106 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.959 eighty five, about quite twenty years. 107 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:28.600 See, like I said, I did remember it from the 108 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:32.360 early eighties, but not much else. So can you this 109 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.000 look real quick? Was it? I'm almost certain it was 110 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.399 the Cosmos in New York? 111 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:39.680 Yeah it was, Yeah, it was the Cosmo. Okay, Champions 112 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.519 was the Chicago State in eighty four. 113 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:47.240 The Chicago what sting? Oh sting? I thought you said stink, 114 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:51.040 which would have worked for Chicago too, But the Chicago 115 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.160 Stink or the Chicago Sting either way, you know, that 116 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.319 probably came out because of that movie The Sting, right 117 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:00.839 where they were like nigga right that, Remember, wasn't that 118 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:01.199 a thing? 119 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:03.839 What's that? 120 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.519 That was like a thing towards the end of the 121 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:07.839 existence of that soccer lead the movie The Sting. 122 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:11.720 I'm not sure when it got thought it came out 123 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:12.399 in the seventies. 124 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.439 You see, I might be confusing the timeline a little bit. 125 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.519 It almost feels like that team's name was inspired by that, 126 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.480 but maybe it had absolutely nothing to do with it. 127 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:21.920 I don't know. 128 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:25.439 Yeah, the Pelee paid for played for New York from 129 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.199 seventy five to ninety or seventy five to seventy. 130 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.079 Seven, two years okay, so he was there when I 131 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.399 was five. That's why I vaguely remember Pele and the 132 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:38.360 Cosmos and they did have collector cards. I know they 133 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.639 had collector cards. I saw them. Yeah. 134 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:45.279 God, Los Angeles Astecs, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. 135 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:49.680 Okay, the Aztecs though, Why are the Aztecs in Los Angeles? 136 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:49.879 Right? 137 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:52.160 I mean what? Because we couldn't know the team in Mexico? 138 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.120 Well, I mean think about it. Half of LA is 139 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:55.839 from Mexico. 140 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.480 So okay, no, I'm laughing at that, you know where 141 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.839 it's like, you know, but. 142 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:08.319 Uh, let's see the Minnesota Kicks, Washington Diplomats, the San 143 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:12.000 Diego Soccers, the Portland Timbers. 144 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:14.759 Else here. 145 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:20.839 So no Minneapolis Morons, I guess no, they were the No, 146 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:26.519 that was the minor league affiliate. Okay, So uh what else? 147 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:30.199 What else? Because we do have a caller waiting, and 148 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.240 I want to get to the callers quick because I 149 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:33.919 don't have a lot to say except I could just 150 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:38.759 pokepon and stuff. I can do that adequately tonight, I'm sure. Uh, 151 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:40.960 but we might have a caller with something to say, 152 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.440 and I don't want to discourage any of that. Three 153 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:47.360 one nine five two seven five zero one six. So yeah, 154 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:48.679 let me know what else you want to cut to, 155 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.600 and then we'll we'll cut back to things later after 156 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.720 we get to the caller. If that's okay with you, Ppete. 157 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.039 Yeah, that's fine, Yeah, go ahead, and uh uh, Like 158 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.200 just a couple of the teams had the Atlantic Tea's, 159 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:04.000 the Kansas City Spurs, the Rochester Lancers, the Dallas Tornado, 160 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:10.960 the Cosmos, the Philadelphia Adams, the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Toronto 161 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:15.919 had a team that eventually went to the Minnesota Kicks. 162 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:21.399 See, and they had the tornadoes in Texas? Is that right? 163 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:24.720 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. 164 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.919 Yeah, the Dallas Tornadoes, the Dallas Tornado, Okay, because there 165 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.279 was a wrestler named the Texas Tornado. That's why I 166 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:35.399 said Texas Tornado. But and that was what Carrie van 167 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.320 Eric was, you know, from Texas, and was the Texas 168 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.720 Tornado in the WWF if I remember, right. So, but 169 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:45.720 it's weird to me because Texas is not the first 170 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:47.919 place I think of for tornadoes, even when I was 171 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.480 a kid. I would think they would have put the 172 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:55.039 tornadoes in Oklahoma or Alabama, you know. 173 00:09:55.240 --> 00:10:04.799 But the Chicago's in reference to the popular seventy three filming, 174 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:06.600 it was actually. 175 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.240 Was set in Chicago in the nineteen. 176 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.720 Thirty oh bizarre. I threw a mental dart at a 177 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.440 at the information board and scored one there because that's 178 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.879 what I thought of, But I had no basis for it. 179 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:20.720 So we had all, right, this thing. I remember that 180 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.240 because what was it? Jackie Gleeson was definitely in the 181 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:25.600 second part of it, and there was like some piano 182 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.960 music that was important to it. Again, what is that? 183 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:34.960 A movie when I'm a little kid came out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, 184 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.720 you know, and we didn't have like replay TV back then, 185 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.799 and you know, you couldn't see stuff immediately or anything 186 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:42.039 like that. You had to wait for it to be 187 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.200 in the movie theater and eventually it would go to TV. 188 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:47.720 And I didn't have cable for years and years. I'm 189 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.360 told they like HBO existed like pretty much my whole life, 190 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:53.440 but I didn't see it until a few years later 191 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:59.000 for sure. Okay, anyways, what else you got? 192 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.799 We can go ahead and bring your call on. 193 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.840 Absolutely, Well, here we go. It looks like we got 194 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.159 Nanny and California and again, anybody else? Three one nine, five, 195 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.759 two seven, five zero one six And I'll probably even 196 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.080 forget to mention the number after this, but there it 197 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.240 is three one nine five two seven five zero one 198 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:26.720 six and uh, let's see, Danny, that's you. Huh, good evening. 199 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:31.399 I guess I'm barely awake. Yeah, I'm barely awake, Danny. 200 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.240 So it's like I took a nap overslept, and that's 201 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.919 weird because I'm hardly sleeping lately anyway. But what the 202 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.519 hell here I am. But I did throw an interesting 203 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:46.639 blind dart, you know, pun intended blind dart at the 204 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.799 information board and picked out that the Sting was named 205 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.480 you know, the Chicago Sting was named after the movie 206 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:55.919 The Sting. So you know, there's that that victory for 207 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.639 me today. I guess I got to take what I 208 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:02.960 can get. Uh of anything on your mind, go for it. 209 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:10.320 Oh, the the United States is gonna play Belgium. That'll 210 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:15.639 be Monday, Monday noon at Pacific time, So they'll be 211 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:19.679 playing Belgium at the World Cup. And hey, we're on 212 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:24.759 the eve of the two and fiftieth anniversary of this 213 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.720 great nation that we all love's drill also complain about, 214 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.840 and so that's all good. There'll be a lot of fireworks. 215 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:36.919 The puppy dogs will probably be upset. But oh yeah, 216 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.000 I just got it from a nap too, So I'll 217 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:41.919 come with you as far as deep sleep. 218 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:45.000 Yeah, but you don't sound as nasally screwed up as me. 219 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.320 And I'll tell you the the weenie dogs you just 220 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.159 you just reminded me of that. Yeah, the weenie dogs 221 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.080 will probably make some noise because I guarantee there's gonna 222 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.279 be fireworks and guns we had shot off in the 223 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:01.639 air around my house, you know, because first of all, 224 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.919 that that just happens Fourth of July and Christmas and 225 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:10.240 you know, and secondly, yeah, Christmas, they blow fireworks here. Yeah, 226 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:10.960 I don't know why. 227 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.679 Oh fireworks. Okay, I thought you said no that too. 228 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.559 See, okay, you get the fireworks because they're legal here. 229 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.559 You know. They set up special tents in the Walmart 230 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.639 parking lots and stuff here for fireworks. Uh and and 231 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.879 people go there and spend lots of money, even poor people, 232 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.480 on stuff they're just going to blow up and burn 233 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.240 in order so that they can participate. But yeah, New Year's, 234 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.679 New Year's, Christmas and fourth of July time, and it's 235 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.440 not just one night, It'll be like all that week. 236 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:48.360 You might have fireworks at around your house. Plus people 237 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.480 will just pull out their guns and fire them into 238 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:56.120 the air. Uh yeah in uh in, in Georgia. This 239 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:01.039 this I've seen for the past decade. It always happens again. 240 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:06.039 Fourth of July, uh, Christmas and New Year's you get 241 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.279 fireworks and gunfire. That isn't at least it's a good thing. 242 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:12.799 It's not people shooting each other on the streets around here. 243 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:13.559 Uh. 244 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.039 They are shooting into the air. So it's an improvement, 245 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:16.639 you see. 246 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:22.600 Yeah, yeah, but still shooting them up there bullets boot's 247 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.279 gonna land someplace because you know, my old our old 248 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.080 warehouse was in the more how can I say urban 249 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:36.440 area and start in California urban areas and more fitted sorryaborhood, 250 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:40.159 they'd be fire enough guns. Yeah, the fourth of July 251 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.039 and everyone needed to kind of take cover that evening 252 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.480 because you just never knew where a street bullet is 253 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.440 gonna go if you're in the if you're in there. 254 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.919 They created a state law here for that. That was 255 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.480 a big thing on New Year's Eve. By shooting into 256 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:53.840 the air. 257 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.159 Yeah, finally passed the law that uh they can now 258 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.399 aft report see but law, no law. 259 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.039 I guarantee if people are still doing it, and you know, 260 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:08.840 and so okay, fun thing is you know, somebody might think, well, 261 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.799 didn't they do that in Jersey where you grew up. No, 262 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.120 if there was fireworks. The only people that could do 263 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:19.600 that technically in Jersey was usually the townships. You know, 264 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.360 they could hire a fireworks place to come in and 265 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.600 put on a show. And in some parts of New 266 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:30.240 York and New Jersey, quite frankly, Italian businessmen would just 267 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:35.600 simply buy lots of fireworks and just do their own thing. 268 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.360 If memory serves me, John Gotti used to do that 269 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.519 in Brooklyn, where it was just like screw it, you know, 270 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.639 and he'd actually buy the professional type fireworks and whatever, 271 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.039 and his guys who broke many other laws would go 272 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.440 up on the route and fire this crap off. And 273 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:56.559 he just did it for like, hey, you know what, 274 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:00.639 I'm giving a show to the neighborhood kids. Cops always 275 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:03.759 showed up, but nobody got arrested, and you know, they 276 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.960 tell them to cease and desist, and that just meant 277 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.200 that they'd reload and do another round in a little while. So, 278 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:13.360 you know, but the guns being fired in the air, 279 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:16.080 that's something I've only seen since I came down south, 280 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.320 you know. But but Italian businessman would just buy the 281 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.960 professional stuff. Like I remember hearing stuff like, hey, you 282 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.639 know what this guy over here, he does the fireworks 283 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:31.919 at Shay Stadium, because the Mets used to have a display. 284 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.399 Every time somebody would hit a home run, there'd be fireworks, 285 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.200 and b they had fireworks night like at Shay Stadium, 286 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.080 where if you watched a game, after the game there 287 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:46.879 would be a fireworks display over the stadium at Shay 288 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.320 And yeah, it was like your special ticket instead of 289 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.320 bat night or you know, something you could take home 290 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.679 with you. You know, they'd be like, hey, hang around 291 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.679 for another couple hours, We're gonna do fireworks, you know, 292 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:00.799 because you were already there three where hours watching the 293 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.440 baseball game. Might as well hang out a little while 294 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.920 longer and get fireworks to the kiddies. So I don't 295 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.160 know anyway, I don't even know why I went on 296 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:11.880 that rant, Danny, Sorry, no, no, no. 297 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.960 I witnessed that at Oakland, Hello Media, Colise. And they's 298 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.240 as a kid and they's are playing in Sacramento and 299 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.119 they'll be at the it's actually a stadium at a 300 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.480 minor league ballpeck West, Sacramento, just cross the river from 301 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.880 the state. They will be having fireworks tonight and tomorrow 302 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.440 night in the city we live in, we have a 303 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:34.079 large fireworks display. 304 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:36.880 Plus on top of all the legal fireworks. 305 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:39.400 They'll be going off. Oh yeah, even though they are legal, 306 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.279 they war and still they're just too many. And we 307 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:44.519 got drones flying around trying to bust people. But I 308 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:46.039 don't think they're too successful. 309 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.599 Well you never know if the drones will catch him now, 310 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.799 but yeah, that is a good point though, because in California, 311 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.200 a lot of you know, everybody's like, hey, drugs come 312 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.279 over that. Yeah, drugs And guess what else. Fireworks come 313 00:17:58.359 --> 00:17:59.960 over from Mexico all the time. 314 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:05.240 They just just over in the next county, Yola County. 315 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.079 You could go google us. They had a large is 316 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.559 in town of Esparto, Okay, and they had a large 317 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:18.480 warehouse fire that went off and it was an illegal 318 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:20.200 fireworks operation. 319 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:21.839 Yeah, that happens every now. 320 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.599 It's a lot of people busted for it, and here 321 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.599 it was. They got busted for it, but they were 322 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.799 trying to start it up. Now they're throwing more charges 323 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.359 on because they were trying to start up their operation, 324 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:37.799 like days after they got busted for it. I mean 325 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:39.839 it was crazy. I just saw it on the news, 326 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:41.000 the local news here. 327 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.759 Wow, well, you know what, I don't know again if 328 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:49.720 this is like everywhere, but I knew when it was 329 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:53.599 like Fourth of July was coming because new fireworks and 330 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.759 stuff like firecrackers would suddenly show up. You know, just 331 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.440 kids would have firecrackers and quite often if you look 332 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.480 carefully at the packages, uh, there would be Spanish writing 333 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:06.160 on them because they came from Mexico. 334 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:07.200 Uh. 335 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.319 You know, I myself know that I picked up you 336 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:13.480 know what we used to call cherry moms and m 337 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:17.200 a s uh. You know, which is what an eighth 338 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:18.880 of a stick of dynamite or something like that. 339 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:24.799 Yeah, it's an eighth of a stick. So we what 340 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.680 we had was they were actually came from Asia because 341 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.319 just south I grew up in a little farming community 342 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.039 and just south was this town and it's still in existence. 343 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:37.880 You can look it up. 344 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.079 It's called Lock l O c k E. 345 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:46.240 It was an all Chinese community of farm workers because 346 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:50.559 the settlement of River was built by Chinese coolies workers 347 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:54.079 from China and they would work in the in the 348 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:55.480 fields and they had. 349 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:56.440 An Asian exclusion. 350 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:58.160 So these men and men, but they built an all 351 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.519 Chinese community called Lock and there was the food Chung 352 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.799 market there, and we knew his kids. I mean we'd 353 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.480 be nine years old, eight, nine years old. We could 354 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.920 walk into a cash and the guy would barely speaking 355 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.039 of this. So we just say firecrackers and all of 356 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:17.079 a sudden they'd come out and your cash was good. 357 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:18.920 There didn't matter whether you were a child or not. 358 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.200 We would load up on firewoods. All the kids knew it. Well, 359 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.279 parents knew too. They let us get away with it. 360 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:27.880 Yeah, well, isn't part of the reason for that though, 361 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:32.400 that quite frankly. I mean the Chinese themselves are importing 362 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:36.279 the fireworks because they use them in their their New 363 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.039 Year's celebrations. 364 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:42.160 Exactly, Chinese New Year go need fuck CHOI. Matter of fact, 365 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.599 four houses down was a guy named Bob Jang and 366 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.200 he was always always told he had. 367 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:49.119 He was a farmer. 368 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:55.559 And there's a Chinese underworld group called the tong and 369 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.799 I was always told by my father and others that 370 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:01.480 he was the head of the little Tongue. As a 371 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:03.960 matter of fact, he even they even said he went 372 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:08.759 to jail in the fifties or tax of Asian and 373 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:11.160 everybody was like, everybody laughed it because it's a joke, 374 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:12.759 he'll bob and get out soon. 375 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:13.240 He did. 376 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:16.440 But he would always want like, you know, he would 377 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.799 like he he'd ask my daddy goes he you know, 378 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:22.400 he'd wanted to give us firecrackers. And he was quite 379 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:24.319 a character, you. 380 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.400 Know, and not to do the racist thing, you know, uh, 381 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:35.240 sort of conflating different Asian groups, but a tom I 382 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:40.519 think in you know, tongue in uh in some Asian languages, 383 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.240 ends up being like just the local like organized crime, 384 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:47.079 uh thing, right. 385 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:49.279 Yeah, that's what it was. It was. It was actually 386 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:55.359 kind of an underground community of businessman if he could say, yeah, 387 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:56.759 there you go, like a consort. 388 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:02.160 Hum, yes, a consortium if you will, Asian businessmen, unlike 389 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.279 the Association of Italian Businessmen. But then again kind of similar, 390 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:11.000 right yeah, yeah, okay, fair enough. But a tongue to 391 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:16.279 me was just like the local hierarchies from my understanding. 392 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.799 But that was among ready for this one, Vietnamese and 393 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:25.640 Korean gangsters, because they exist, by the way, in case 394 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:28.000 people don't know that exists as well. 395 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:30.400 Well, well, we had we had a large we had 396 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:34.400 a large influx, you know, in the seventies, after Vietnam 397 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:38.319 War was over, a large influx of Vietnase. I grew 398 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:43.920 up with three Asian cultures, Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos. But 399 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:48.599 when the seventies, late seventies, mid lates, the vietnase first Vietnase, 400 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:53.319 the Mong came, the Theotians, Cambodians, they all started coming 401 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:53.759