Trapeze, Scratchers, and Stories from the California Sky

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Today on [music] the pod, we're talking to Megan, trapeze artist and scratchers enthusiast. So, Megan, what do you like about playing scratchers? Well, they're easy to play when I'm hanging around. Oh, okay. Like when you're relaxing? No, like when I'm hanging on the trapeze. I swing upside down, then do a quadruple somersault, all while playing a scratchers. Watch this. Ta. Unbelievable. I know, right? Scratchers from [music] the California Lottery. A little play can make your day. Please play responsibly. must be 18 years or older to purchase player claim. What the hell are you doing here? From the streets of [music] Union City to your nighttime radio, Steve Travel [music] keeps you in the Jersey from 7 [music] till 11. Loud local and live Steve travel [music] jersey 101.5 week [music] night Steve's loud local call at 1 800283101.5. [music] I hope you had a great Monday. You [music] deserve it. Steve Trevolise, welcome to the night show. going to be until 11:00 [music] tonight with Net Fetch producing. Boy, do we have a great Thursday [music] night that we got to talk about. You got to come in here. Come on. We got to do this together. Uh we're going to talk about I got a pizza named after me. How about that? We'll talk about pizza later [music] on. What would Jersey be without pizza? What would Jersey be without talking about what's going on at Delaney Hall? [music] That time you snuck into an event and actually upgraded your tickets. And uh we got to start off with uh Thursday night because um first of all I uh I took the night off because I'm a huge Bobby Darren fan. And uh I was actually lucky enough to get tickets from the station for Just in Time, which is the Broadway show at Circle in the Square starring uh I saw Jeremy Jordan uh play the role of Bobby Darren and uh Annette saw Jonathan Gra play the role of Bobby Darren. Um I thought the show was great. I really did. Uh, it wasn't what I liked about Jeremy Jordan, he wasn't trying to be Bobby Darren as much as he was paying tribute to Bobby Darren. If you're a Bobby Darren fan, Bobby Darren was nothing like Jeremy Jordan. He was nothing like Jonathan Gra either. But the problem with Bobby Darren playing him is that he was so unique and so charismatic that it's really hard to find anybody that could play him. But despite that, the show was great and they did such a fantastic job. And you know they say getting there is half the fun. So uh I'm you know I don't go to New York very much. I used to go all the time. But uh like many I try to stay out of New York now because it really is such a dump and that was kind of brought home to me when I was there. But my sister says, "You know what you got to do? Save your money. Take the bus. The bus is the way to go." She says $17. You get on the bus, they take you right through everything and uh you know, we um the way it worked out um the bus was supposed to leave Ryan Road in Manalapin at 5:22. I called them up. I buy my ticket online. The whole thing I got the ticket on my phone and I What happened was Dwayne my sister, you go online, you put on tickets on your phone. I've done that. And then you go, you show your ticket. When you get on the bus, you get up there, right? And uh what I ended up doing, I bought the roundtrip tickets. And we get on the bus at 5:22. Was it a 7:00 curtain? It was a 7:00 curtain. Oh, you were cutting it close. Tell me about it. Well, but here's what happened. They I I get the I don't do this all the time. Last time I was on a bus, I think I was going to high school. I told you. Uh-uh. Well, I I get the ticket and then I say, "I call the bus company. I call NJ Transit." What time will the bus? They don't tell you what time the bus schedule. We have to call them for that. So, I called them with the bus schedule. 5:22. You're going to arrive in Manhattan at 6:24 if you're lucky. Oh, they didn't say that part. I'm thinking, "All right, 6:24. Circle in a square. Six blocks over. I'm in. No problem." Right. Oh, yeah. We get there 10 to 7. Oh, of course. Now, somebody rearranged New York on me because I thought that Broadway was like between seventh and eighth. Turns out Broadway is between sixth and seventh. Correct. Somehow we ended up on fifth. [laughter] And now we're running like crazy. And I'm thinking I'm looking at the ticket. No late seating. And now I'm thinking, I'm just going to go up there. I'm going to get on my knees. I'm going to beg. I'm going to throw money at these people and do whatever I got to do to be able to get in. So, what time did you walk through the doors at Circle Quarter after 7? Wow. And they say, "You're just in you're just in time for the late seating." And I'm like, "Thank God." Okay. So, you missed probably the opening number. That was it. Okay. And we get in, but Connie Francis, you know, is he and Connie Francis are going strong. And the seats were like right on like to the side of the stage. I saw your pictures. Your seats are great. And there's really no bad seat in that theater because it's such a great theater. It's so intimate. anything that you see there, you're going to have a good view. And that's the way they set it up. They set it up like you were in a nightclub. Oh, yeah. Seeing Bobby Darren and And he's I'm realizing that those are not actors in that floor. Those are all paid customers that the they're moving through. And what a well produced show. Oh, yeah. Those are not actors. No, they were people. And at a premium, I might add, they're paying premium for those seats. They uh Jeremy Jordan's like moving around and like I said, he's like every mother's son. He's just got that look about him and he's so Yeah, I'm telling you the way they I can't believe I was thinking about this with Jersey Boys, you know, they they would do two shows a day and he had to hit those notes that John, what's his name? And you know, Jeremy Jordan, the same thing, you know, and the way they move and dance. He must he must go he he must go into an oxygen tent after the thing was over. They're athletes. Yeah, they really are. They're absolute athletes. They really are. It's a lot of hard work, a lot of training. Yeah, because you have to be able to preserve your voice for eight shows a week and know all those moves, those dance moves, song after song. But it it was amazing. So now, you know, and I am literally crying through the show cuz I'm a Bobby Darren fan and every I can't believe it. And then at the end, oh, forget about it. you know, the the worst part when you know and and every time I go see a rock movie or play, you know, it's not going to end well and you got to be ready to cry when it happens. And I'm watching it and and then they the way they did the ending. So, uh, now it's over. So, now, okay, we leave the theater and we're walking back to the Port Authority. And you learned now that New York didn't rearrange where No, no, no. They actually put the Port Authority where it was. So now and I got my GPS. Uh I went to announcing school on on Seventh in Broadway. Uh no, Seventh and 42nd. So um we're walking back, you know, grab a SL Race Pizza. I can now go to Raised Pizza. So we go and we're sitting in there eating and then we decorate authority and see what time the last bus leaves. You didn't know this going into it. That would be too easy. Okay. Oh my gosh. I was so happy I figured out how to get there. Getting home never occurred to me. I wish I had known all of this. I would have helped you. I should have. You should have come with me. Because you didn't need to call New Jersey Transit. They do have a useful app that you could have used. I had the app. Oh, I don't know what you were doing then. Neither do I. So now we walk back and so we get in there and it turns out that the tickets are on my phone. My phone died. Oh no. literally died. Oh my gosh. We go in, we ask the people. All right. We go in, we, you know, the the information desk. Listen, I I got two. Is there any way I could charge, you know? Oh, we don't do that here. Is there any place? I don't know. Go to NJ Transit. Maybe they do. They're so nice up there. Run to NJ Transit. Woman sitting behind the behind the glass. Listen, they Well, you you're in big trouble now. I don't know what you're going to do, but I know what I'm going to do. I'm gonna pray is what I'm gonna do. I'm walking home. Pretty much thinking about that. So, as it turns out, she's like, "Well, maybe somebody around the building walk around and we walk out." And I'm thinking to myself, "This is ridiculous." Walk back in. I want to buy two tickets to Jersey. That's the way to do it. Forget it. Well, $38. And now we get on, you know, we get on the bus. So now, okay, we the the one good thing that happened when we got to the Port Authority, we got the ticket, we get on the bus, and it's right there. We soon as we got to the Perfect. So now driving back to, you know, going back to Route 9, hit the um you know, we were on Craig Road. Okay. And when I when I do Fred, Fred Murray's right by there. So when I leave comedy, I I see the three signs. So they say, uh you can go to Sime's Road, you know, the Sims Road stop. I'm thinking it's God will be the same thing, right? Oh, no, it's not. It's about a mile. So, now middle of the night. [laughter] It's now like 11:30. This is a nightmare. It's Manal. Is that why you don't like to go to New York? Not at all. It's Manalopin and it's dark and we have to walk down Route 9 South. Did you tell me that your wife was at least wearing sneakers? My wife was staying married to me at that time. Surprised enough. She had No, she had one more. She had the high the heels. She took the heels off. I had a feeling she's running barefoot through New York. Oh my gosh, that poor thing. Oh my goodness. We finally get to the car at like uh you know like4 to 12, 12:00, whatever. Had to walk a mile to get to them. I'm just so happy to see the car, right? I didn't get home till like 12:30. I'm just still impressed that you left when you did because whenever I am going to see any show I am like at least three hours before current curtain time I'm there because I have had too many problems. Well, from now on New Jersey Transit that's what I I was thinking that you know why don't I leave you know I I was in the 4:00 hour but she made it sound so 5:00. I tell my wife, "We're going to get there at 6:24. We got 35 minutes and a 15inut walk there at 6:24." You know what I thought it when I saw 624 and I was still at exit 13 of a turn bike. That's what I say. This is going to be I'm thinking they must have special bus lanes. Oh, they do, but not not like that. Not Not the whole drive. [laughter] All right, we're going to do uh 1 800283 101.5. We got to hear a story coming up. I want to hear from you. Have you ever been in a situation where your phone has failed you? Where your phone went dead and you missed either bus tickets or concert tickets or anything or anything that you needed your phone and a time of crisis through no fault of the phone through fault of you forgot to charge it or maybe the phone broke. [snorts] But uh tell me your tell me your phone story. 18283101.5. I'm Steve Treval here. New Jersey 101.5. Ah, the night shift. I may never [music] take another night off again. The security of knowing where I'm [music] going and knowing that I'll have a phone when I get there. I'll tell you, [music] do yourself a favor. Whether you're a Bobby Darren fan or not, go see Just in Time. [music] It was fantastic. Jeremy Jordan was great. But have you ever had a situation [music] where you uh needed your phone to produce tickets or bus passes? Bus passes. I know, right? Or anything and your phone died. It's always the worst nightmare. Like, you know, what do you do when you have your Now we live in a world where the tickets are on the phone, where most of life is on the phone, and you can't live without your phone. And then you need your phone and the phone is dead. And it's, you know, is it 11:30 at night and you're like, uh, in New York City, the city that never sleeps, somebody's got to have a charger, right? Uh-uh. You ever had that happen to you? Have you ever needed your phone and it was dead and you couldn't find a place to charge it? Or what do you do? It wasn't like there were charging stations, you know, like you figure like more places would have charging stations, but that's nothing. And in that committee, we didn't talk about your night. We didn't talk about your night. Cuz while I was on the bus on the bus, right, going to New York seemed like a great idea. Sit there, read. It was nice going in. I'm leaving about 3 hours early next time. Cuz in theory, it was a good idea. It was just timing that sucked. We definitely need Leon for this. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. When Levon will be here in two minutes. Yes. Well, Thursday was very entertaining. I learned some things. The first thing I learned is that despite my many years in radio when faced with needing to run that board, which I have never run before, I was like, "What is this and what am I doing?" And if I had just been able to like have a minute to just process the fact that we didn't have anybody working, we did, but they didn't know they had to come in. So, Eric Pototts, he he apologized so many times, but he just forgot. He thought he was working next week and he just got his dates mixed up. And so I walked in here and I was like, "Wow, there's nobody here. That's not good." And then I hear Levon basically stalling. So I just started immediately making phone calls. I called I called our boss. I called Mike, who some of you guys might know because he's on the air on the weekends. And then I called Eric. And nobody was picking up. [laughter] So I was like, "Oh my gosh." And poor Levi stalling. and uh but you know he's a pro and he's used to just doing long form radio so uh he had no problem stalling but it was quite entertaining to listen back to it after the fact because you can you can hear the panic in our voices so did you put that on the YouTube channel? Yes, exactly. So we were able to at least get myself on. And so I was discussing with Levon the uh the the things that he was going to be doing that weekend and things that popular places to go in New Jersey, places that you have never been, etc. But yeah, it was quite comical [laughter] and I didn't know how to get callers on. So I was like, you know, and again after the fact when things calmed down and I had a chance to actually take more than a minute to look at the board, I was like, "Oh, of course." But in the moment, I was just like, I have no idea what I'm in front of. What is this? What's going on? I don't work in radio. I've never worked in radio. Like, what do you want me to do? So, it was just one of those sort of reactions. I don't handle that sort of stuff well. Like, I'm [laughter] not very good on the fly. So, everybody knows like I'm just not I'm good in a medical emergency, but that's about it. Everything else I need to like process it and then react. And this time around, it was like I needed to react first, and I don't do that well with [laughter] that. Well, this is like the Starship Enterprise with all these buttons really. One is the microphone. That's pretty much it. There's like three buttons that really work everything, but it looks like Star Wars. Yes, absolutely. But Leon did a great job. Hi, Leon. [laughter] Hello. Did a great job. The future morning show [laughter] just rolling with it and my lane. He decided to air story just, you know, aired more stories. That worked out well. Next time that happens, I'm gonna leave you a 20inut version of [music] Give me. That's what we do. Front page driving. [music] You had to see me and my wife running through the streets of New York. I was imagine someone yell stop thief. I mean, what do you do? Uh, have you ever had a situation where your phone went dead at a time when you absolutely positively needed it? I go to NJ Transit. I got the tickets on my phone. It's 11:30 at night and I go to produce my tickets and my phone is dead and there's no place to charge the phone and I had to buy new tickets. And I'm thinking like, so what happens if like what if I were at a Bruce Springsteen concert Thursday night, right? What if I were in Philadelphia and you got your tickets on your phone and you don't realize that your phone is dead? What do they Has it ever happened to you where you show up and you know and your phone dies? I know you have you actually have to keep it charged, but I don't know how it happened. It I I thought it was charged and I went to get it and I'm I'm looking at it. I'm racing down the streets and I'm seeing the red and like please don't die. Please don't die. But my wife's like turn it off and turn it back on. No, if I do that, it'll die. And sure enough, I got there and it was dead. And also, uh, the side topic, Miss Annette's topic, were you ever um, you know, did you were you ever scheduled to work and completely forgot about it? And only only to be called by work saying, "Where the hell are you?" That only happened to me once. That happened to me once. And I'll tell you the story after we hear from Mark and Jackson. Mark, what happened? I'll tell you. Um, I don't know about 20 years ago, what when cell phones were in their infancy, right? Um, I had just a cheap cell phone, no no um couldn't take pictures, no Google, no Facebook, none of that, right? All I could do with it was make phone calls with it. Well, I took a bus trip to Georgia, Marietta, Georgia. Okay. and I stayed there for two weeks and came and coming home uh back to Atlantic City. Um I was in the bathroom and uh the bus uh made a turn and my phone was on the little ledge inside the bathroom. Oh no. And when the bus made the turn, right, the phone just slid right off and right into the toilet. Into the bowl. Uh yeah, they have they have toilets on Greyhound. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. And you had your Did you have to take your phone out of the Greyhound toilet? Yes. Oh god. With your hands? I I I Yes. What am I going to do? And it was an unflushed toilet. Well, no. I think those kind of toilets are similar to a out house. Oh, okay. I don't know. To a port, you know, to a portage. Oh, okay. So, did the phone the phone didn't come in contact with anything germy, shall we say? Well, I didn't get anything on my hands except wetness. Okay. And and I I you know I had to dig around in in the bottom until I found [snorts] until I until I until I felt the phone. I'm changing the topic. Go ahead. [laughter] This is true story. This true story. Did it work? And um and and but the phone was shot. It it was it was shot. it. Um, so um I had to buy another phone, you know, shot. The three of the letters I would have changed. I would have changed the O, [laughter] but yeah. Okay, let's go with shot. The phone was shot. Okay. Yeah, the phone was shot. Yeah, let's go with that. All right. Uh, let's get Matt Portoi, who saved somebody here. 6,000. Not me. What's happening, pal? Hey, I'll go out swinging. Give me a chance. I'm listening. So, what did you do? So, all right. First date with my wife. Oh, gosh. That I've been married to for five years now. How much you save her in insurance? Oh, a lot. And I also saved her company money on insurance costs, too. All right. Stop bragging back to the story. All right. All right. All right. Back to the story. So anyway, we met at Deer Garden in Asbury Park and we connected online before the date right as she said, "Yeah, I'm on my way." Phone dies. Get out. I got nothing. And and this is the first date with the wife who I'm married to for 5 years now. Mhm. So anyway, uh luckily she showed up after the phone died and long story short, the date went well and we were we were we went to Beer Garden. Then later we went to Martell's and Point Pleasant, overlooked the ocean. It was the most beautiful first date you could ever think of. Yeah. Sounds great. We've been married for 5 years. When you met her at the beer garden, was she drunk? No. That would explain a lot. Matt, I I gotta say though, I I was there with my Well, I was there with my roommate at the time, Pete, right? And we were we were lifeguards together back in Ortley, and it was just like a day with the guys at first, but then she texted me and said, "Hey, I'm in the area." So, long story short, she showed up. She became history. And Yeah. Right. Mhm. And anyway, I went into what I called Diet Coke mode and I just started ordering Diet Coke and long story short, the date went great and that was it. There you go. That's a diet coke. Beer garden is correct. And yeah, Beer Garden is no longer there, I believe. Now, see, if they had you insuring him, they'd probably still be in business. I would have had the right coverage. There you go. That's Matt Portoi, ladies and gentlemen. Andrew in Flemington, tell us your story. Hey, I'm really really happy for you, Steve, that uh Thanks for taking the call. I'm really really happy that you were able to not have to beg and plead and bribe the guy to get in cuz I'm thinking, "Wow, that's got to be the greatest moment ever." I was. And like, "Oh, well, we're we were just taking our last seating." And I thought, "Yes, he did." Literally at the last set. I mean, seriously, I'm running down there like running. My heart is beating like two idiots. Like tourists. Like I was I like tourists, right? The accidental tourists. And I'm thinking to myself, okay, all I'm going to do is just throw money at these people, beg, plead until they let me in. I'm not coming all the way up here and not see Bobby Darren. But they were right there as soon as we got there. Oh, no problem. Just about to do the final seating. And they have you watching on a monitor and then when they uh when the break comes, they bring you in. They seat you. But oh my god, what a show. Got a story. Go ahead. Yeah. So, uh, uh, I I I'm better off if we don't say the name of the place I worked at, but I worked at a pizzeria a long time ago, right? In the early 90s, mid 90s, okay, back in the day, you might want to say, right, I worked deliver I was a pizza drive, uh, a driver, food, you know, delivery driver, right? And I was doing pretty good. I was getting paid every two weeks and I was netting about 300 before tips because I was like a 25 25 hours a week, you know? So one day I had about 400 bucks on me. I thought, "Okay, good. I have a day off. I'm going to Atlantic City by myself. I think I'm going to treat myself." And I had a pager at the time. Now, mind you, this is in the '9s when I didn't even have a cell phone. And you know, I think cell phones were scarce. So I get the page about halfway through Atlantic City, right? And it was a number from the boss's number. I thought, "Oh [ __ ] I was supposed to I was supposed to come in." Okay. Right. I was supposed to come in today and uh I I I got to the next phone call uh uh I I got to a phone booth off the AC expressway and told him I'm sorry I can't make it. I'm halfway to Atlantic City and I think it was funny cuz I doubled my money on a swap machine. There you go. So there you went made more money than if you were drove to the pizzeria. Yeah, but I played it back and lost everything. Oh, you see that? That's where you got to know when to stop. Andrew, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. There's a point. There's a point in gambling when you got to know where to stop. That point is as soon as you win. When you win, walk away. That's what I try to do. Never works out that way. But for me, when I gamble, it's easy to just hand the guy the money. Just go up there. Listen, I ain't have time for this. Take the money. I would I would have probably lost this. And they go on your merry with although every now and then you do get lucky. Uh but 18283101.5. Two questions. one, have you ever been in a situation where your cell phone went dead? You needed it, you had maybe tickets on it, you had information on it, you know, and uh you go to reach for your phone to present, it's dead, or maybe you need to make a call and your phone is dead. The worst situation you've ever had where you ended up with a dead phone. And two, uh, side topic, the net topic. Have you ever been scheduled for work and forgot about it? That didn't happen to a net. That happened to the guy who was supposed to come in and work with a net. [music] So, Phil Collins says he's not going to play sing when uh, Genesis [music] goes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He may sing, but he says he really can't sing. said at one point, Phil [music] Collins was everywhere, every minute, every day between the band and the solo career and everything else he was doing. All right. [music] 1800283 101.5 and that is here. Who uh You know what? You should have called me. I could have done the show running through the streets of New York. That would have been entertaining. Actually, you could have listened to me able to help you at least get to the theater. It would have been a big deal. Next time a trail of breadcrumbs from the theater to the port. Just call me. You know what? I I just figured I I think I thinking I know where it is, right? So I'm going down. We get on 42nd Street and okay, I got to go to 50th. So I got to go that way. And I'm going and I'm thinking, okay, after this comes, you know, after 7th Avenue comes Broadway. Oh, wait. It was Avenue of the Americas and then it went to Sixth Avenue and then it went to Fifth Avenue. Where's Broadway? Oh, no. You got to go that way. But you got off at at at uh Port Authority on 8th. 42nd and 8th. So you walked up first. We walked. Is that what you did? So you walked to seventh and I walked to seventh and then I started going down and somehow I I must have went around it. You Right. Right. You overshot it. Yeah. Because it's between Right. And some guy's like, "Well, you're on the east side. This isn't the west side. What are you crazy?" [laughter] Chris in Flemington, what's going on? Hey, how's it going? I I was just listening about, you know, when your phone dies and I heard you talking about your story at the train station. The same thing happened to me probably a couple months ago. What happened? I was uh I I was coming home from uh a Yankees game actually in the Bronx. So, I took the subway back to Penn and Penn. I'm going back to to Flemington. So, the Ritan Station got to take the hop over and pen and same thing. My phone's on like 7% coming from New York. I'm like, "Oh my god, yeah, I need to scan another ticket once I get to Newark." That the the hop over train needs to scan the same ticket. My phone actually died. And I and I walk out of I walk out the of the Penn Station at this point. It was after the Yankees game, so it's damn near midnight. Yeah, you're screwed. I'm walking around trying to find a 7-Eleven. I'm asking the guy at the Popeye's uh restaurant if he if he can has a phone charger for me to use. Nothing. Uh so I honestly I just get on the train. Uh-huh. Thank god somebody on the train and I'm walking up and down the aisles to find someone with a phone charger. Thank god I find somebody with a phone charger and they let me charge their phone. Oh yeah. Up to like 20%. Oh, I was so lucky. Then the guy and the guy came like five minutes later to scan the ticket, too. I was honestly like couldn't have worked out any better. But I was stressing out the whole entire time. Say a prayer. Thank God you. Oh, man. I'm like I'm I got so bad cuz they were like, "Walk around, you'll find somebody." And I'm thinking to do I'm walking around like wait a minute back to the just give me it's easier to spend the money on the two tickets. And meanwhile in my phone I ended up somehow screwing this up where I've got on my phone if you ever go to New York I got four roundtrip bus tickets [laughter] from from Ryan Road in Manal all the way in. Chris, thanks for the call. The New Jersey 101.5. Well, you'll just have to go see more shows. Yeah, I guess. Right. And like leave and leave much earlier. Yeah. like like the day before. That's the thing. Like in in theory, it was a great idea. No, no, it never was. No, it really wasn't. I got to tell you, I would never have cut it that close. I was very impressed with your story that I'm like, "Wait, you left when?" No, I mean, the idea of just taking the bus in the bus was a great idea. That was a great idea. The timing was a great No, the timing was not good. Originally, I'm thinking I'm going to leave between 4 and 5. Okay. But then she says, I said, "When's the next?" Which is what time? Well, we're around 5:00. We have one at 5:22. All right. I'm thinking I'm playing along. So, when does it get there? Oh, perfect. I get off at 6:25. 35 minutes. Yeah. Who knew? And I'm And I'm watching. I'm thinking to myself as we're going in. Well, let's see. You know, I could probably do this this probably have one magic yellow brick road that takes the bus bypassing everything. And I lived up there. And I typically take the rail, which doesn't usually have traffic, and I still give myself plenty of time because you just don't know. Well, the only thing with the rail was that it would have taken me to Penn Station, so that would put me on 33rd, whereas that's a much further walk. 42nd. Yeah. And it just seems so the way my sister laid because my my brother-in-law, you know, my brother-in-law John said he will never do he'll never go to New York any other way. Get on the bus, you read, right? No congestion pricing, no parking, no tunnel, no nothing, no tolls and theory was great until you realize it's 10 to 10 to 7. We And then like you got to get outside in this rush hour. You're like, where the hell am I? And that takes time. Yeah. And you figure out get your bearings and meanwhile it's just run. And I'm hoping to find the cab. That wasn't happening. No. And I don't know that that would have gotten you there much quicker to be honest with you. No, he would have sat in traffic and I would have been even more frustrated. Yes, absolutely. I would have been a nervous wreck on the bus. I would have been a nervous wreck. We're not going to make it. We're not going to make it. We're not going to make it. Oh, that was me all the way up and [clears throat] all the way back. Do I hit the right stop? Do I hit the right stop? And then I'm a mile before my stop in the middle of the night walking down Route Nine. Your poor wife, she's never going anywhere with you again. Yeah, we did go on our last date. Yeah, pretty much. Game over. [music] [music] [music] Oh yeah, Steve Travel is talking to you till 11:00 tonight at [music] 1800283 101.5. Uh, I saw a story on Facebook about how a guy snuck into the orchestra at the Bruce Springsteen concert in Philadelphia and it's really great. And uh, next hour we're going to talk about [music] the places that you were able to sneak into. But uh, I would be remiss uh, if we didn't talk about uh, you know, weekend at Bernies. How about Weekend at Delaneies? And you know, uh, you hear about the Robing Carnival getting closed down and Pier Village being overrun with kids. Nothing compared to what the grown-ups are doing. And none of this had to happen if only, you know, Governor Mikey would have let local law enforcement, i.e. the state police, work with ICE from the beginning. But no, we can't have that. You know, none of this would have happened if um Newark Mayor Ralph Baraka, who smart enough to know how to run his town, we're going to put a curfew in. Enough of this. You get a curfew. Everybody off the street. He knows his town. He imposes the curfew. But instead, she's still when you see 60 protesters from out of state arrested, mostly from out of state, you know, arrested over the weekend, she's still blaming ICE. Yesterday, New Jersey law enforcement established a peaceful, protected protest zone in the area outside Delaney Hall. In the evening, the New Jersey State Police public safety response team acted to secure the area. We did not make this decision lightly. It was absolutely necessary to avoid escalation from ICE. From ICE. ICE was there all along. The protesters came from all over the country to go after ICE. How do we know this? But over the last two nights, that protected zone has been violated repeatedly. Last night, we saw masked individuals attack the barrier, taking aggressive, dangerous actions against Newark and New Jersey State Police. They threw projectiles. They used barriers as weapons and lit tires on fire in the street. And where'd they come from? We know that people from outside the state have been interfering in the protests and escalating them. Five of the six people arrested last night by state police were from outside New Jersey. And some national extremist groups have become involved in the protest here today. Remember when people came to New Jersey for the shore? They came to New Jersey for the food, the pizza, right? Remember when New Jersey used to be a great tourist attraction, great adventure? Now they come for the protests. Now they come because they know that if they go protest at Delaney Hall, nobody's going to not only will nobody bother them. Uh the politicians will go down there and make appearances with they'll take selfies with them. They'll take snapshots because they're all down there. Let's all be there until Governor Mikey finally realized this is getting out of control. And how long can you hold on to this argument about blaming ICE? ICE is in 49 other states. This ain't happening in Minnesota. You know, uh Minnesota Springsteen's writing songs about people in Minnesota who, you know, one drove at a guy from ICE. The other shows up with the loaded gun in the clip. We know all that story. But I mean, right here, I mean, if anybody were to die at these protests, would Bruce write another song? God forbid anybody should die at these protests. But what the hell are they doing? 1800283 101.5. It's, you know, on the one hand, she's uh she wants to be the sanctuary state. So when you're the sanctuary state, then all the illegals come here. We're not just talking about, you know, the the the fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers of the community. We're talking about the murders and rapists and uh, you know, and all the people, the sex traffickers and the drug dealers who are also mixed in with the lot. We're more concerned with what they eat for breakfast than the affordability that's going on in New Jersey or lack thereof. So, 1800283101.5. Couple of things on this one. Overall, how did you feel? I mean, New Jersey, whether you wanted to see it or not, every time you went on social media, there we were. And this guy, was it Rick Sorder, Nick Sorder, uh, because, God forbid, like real reporters should go in there and do their job. We got to rely on independent people, to take their own cameras, sometimes hidden, and go in there and get the footage as to what was really going on out there. And this guy got into the camp and saw that, you know, these these peaceful protesters had all kinds of an arsenal. So when you watch and you see this is what we're known for right now. This is what's putting New Jersey on the map right now. How did you feel about it? And when you do you still believe if you do that ICE is the problem? Do you still believe that ICE is the reason that this is all going on? If local law enforcement were working with ICE from the beginning, then local law enforcement, the New York Police Department, the New Jersey State Police, who are fantastic. They really are the best both. Um, you see just how great our police are in situations like this. But when you think about the fact that if they were working together from the beginning, none of this would be happening. Protesters take to the streets outside Delany Hall. You could peacefully protest. Okay. The governor, good intention. Let's set up an area where you could protest. That's nice. Peacefully. Good. Go stand out there. Carry your signs professionally made by someone you don't know. U fine. But then he gets violent. But if the local police were working with ICE, I'm sure the ICE agents don't hate the police department and vice versa. I'm sure they work together. And if there really was a problem, be honest, if there really was a problem, you bring in Tom Holman, the borders are, and he makes it go away like he did in Minneapolis. But this isn't about making it go away. This is about bringing it on. This is about theater performative. sit back, have a beer, watch watch the TV, watch your social media, watch it play out, be happy you're not there. But if the police were able to work with ICE from the beginning, none of this would have happened. If the protest got out of control, the New York Police Department would have been there to patrol their streets outside the Delaney Detention Center. And if there's a problem with ICE, the state police who finally came in to solve the situation because ICE can't do anything. That's not their job. That's not what they do. They're not crowd control. They're there to guard the detainees. Their job is immigration enforcement, not crowd control, not local law enforcement. So 1800 283101.5. Sure. I'll ask you again. I've asked you many times before when you look at this and you see that once the police were able to work together with ICE, should we keep up that relationship? Should we now change the rules and allow ICE and local law enforcement to work together? Maybe take it a step further that those who are caught, those here illegally who break the law and who are caught can be turned over to ICE officers to be taken into custody. Would that solve the problem? Yes. 1 800283101.5. Very simple. You know, if you have overall if you have an overall opinion of what went on, I'd love to hear it. your thoughts if you side with the protesters. And the other thing too is part of why this happened is because one thing, you know, when when the the one side protests show up, you know, the people with the funny colored hair and all that and wacky signs and all that's fun, but then on the other side, you got the MAG of people saying, you know what, we're going to go help out ICE row and then we better get the cops on this. This could get out of control. This could get ugly. And it did. 60 arrests so far. So, are we a sanctuary state to the people who come here to protest? Are we just a sanctuary state to those who are in the country illegally and committing crimes? 1800 283 101.5. But overall, the very basic question at this point, does this go away if we allow local law enforcement to work with ICE when it comes to immigration? And uh do you believe that this is theater or do you believe there's a serious problem here? 1 800283101.5. It's you know it's like summertime's here and what are we going to do? You know summertime's here. What are we going to find? Is anything on Netflix? No. Let's just let's just get there. Let's let's watch the Delaney detention show. Well, they tried. [music] Ah, the cast of thousands that were knocking trying to get into Delaney Hall. [music] Let's see. We have Josh Genheimr, [music] Rob Mendez, Representative Moyer, Keem Jeff, Cory [music] Booker, of course, Cy Booker, Governor Mikey Cheryl, Andy Kim, a little kid 1800 283 [music] 101.5. So, what makes it stop? What makes it stop is the one thing, the last thing the governor wanted to do, and that was have local law enforcement work together with ICE. They got together and the whole thing basically uh got cleared up and continues to be cleared out. We've seen what has happened with ICE across the country. I won't let that unfold here. Having worked with New Jersey State Police and local law enforcement, I know how well trained they are, the best in the nation. I trust them to follow our constitution. I knew it would be better to have them handle the situation rather than ICE. That's why we called them in and created a protected, peaceful protest area outside of Delaney Hall. You know what? However she wants to phrase it, however she wants to position it, I don't care. You know, I I cannot believe that after seeing what we have seen this weekend, after seeing what she has seen this weekend, that this delusion that she continues to blame ICE. Come on. I mean, you know, I don't know. 1 800 283101.5. Greg, what do you think? Hey, Steve. So, she continues to blame ICE because that's the Democrat talking point. And they love these pro these manufactured quote unquote protests. They're really more like an uprising with these paid protesters that are bust in and and given all kinds of equipment and stuff. This isn't grassroots anything. They love it because it provides material for the the propaganda news to broadcast. You know, the the people inside are being fed food with maggots in it. They're being whipped and harassed. Have you seen the menus that they're getting? Have you seen the menus? They're like Taco Bell. I mean, [laughter] they're getting fritters. They're getting Oh my. It's It's It's insane, you know, cuz they release the menus. And And the thing about it, though, is that worse than that. You know what this is like? This is like the kid who, you know, lights a match and he's going to burn like he's and you know, the fire got out of control. You know what I mean? She's playing with fire. The fire got out of control. She never expected this. And then she also realizes that if, god forbid, anything does happen really bad, like people start dying from it, then it's going to come down to she wouldn't let the cops go in and fix it, which was they'll play it off as an they'll play it off as another Trump disaster. Everything's Trump's fault. That is the position that they all take despite all evidence to the contrary. And I heard the the propaganda news media on NBC refer to the criminals that were locked up there as trapped immigrants. Trapped. You know what? Let them go in there with the trapped immigrants. Idiots. They're just they really are. They're just freaking idiots. But it's it's lying. It's it's been lying forever. They've been lying forever. And referring to them as trapped immigrants makes it look like these Marxists that are there are there to, you know, to free the innocent or something. They wanted to be another, you know, freeing Martin Luther King from jail. Nelson Mandela. These guys are not. We don't live in that world. No, they're not Nelson Mandela. They're not Martin Luther King. And I invite any one of these media geniuses to take one of them home and house them and see how that works out. Greg, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Let's get Johnny in Manchester. Johnny, what are you thinking? Hey, Steve O. How are you? All right. How about you? Very good. I like that little cut of steel his wheel there. Boy, I ain't heard that one in a long time. I like that. Liking that. All right. So, what do you think about this? Well, these illegals have been coming in this country for a long long time. And uh but nobody really really paid attention to it like 20 years ago or whatever. and then the uh uh the contractors and all the people who have tried to build up the New York and New Jersey uh who hired them. Um you know that was part of the problem right there because nobody really had their eyes open and it uh this was this is what happens. It spirals down and then this is what you get. And I do like the idea of local and uh ICE uh working together because that's what the federal government is supposed to do. Work with the the states and I like that idea. So I'm with you Johnny. I'm with you. I like that idea too. Gary and Col's neck. You like that idea? You like that idea? I love that idea. Steve, what's up? You know what idea I love too? What's that? Fred and Murray's when is that next date? [laughter] Look at you. I want to treat you some onion rings. All right. June 13th going to be Joseph Anthony Julia Scott. The onion rings. They're amazing. Hook me up with those onion rings. They're fabulous. But anyway, everything's fabulous. Hey, listen. Um, you know, I'm a huge Trump supporter. But here's what I don't understand. Anyone in their right mind, especially a Jerseyian, how can you really like this woman? What gets me is you got 6.6 six 100,000 registered voters in New Jersey and only 3.4 roughly went out to vote. So, you know what? I blame the people that didn't go out and vote because you got to vote for somebody. Even if you vote for the wrong person. Well, I tell you, I don't want to hear these people anymore about potholes. This 49 12 cents per gallon. We're we're we're paying for our road tax. She weighs us 4.5 cents. I'm getting punished just like you are too. No, I think Gary, you know, thanks for the call. I think she is the wrong person. And I think she's in way over her head. And it could have gotten a lot worse had she not backed down and let the local law enforcement and the state troopers work with ICE. [music] Jersey Joe Walsh, New Jersey 101.5, Steve [music] Treble. All right. Maybe we should uh send Joe [music] to entertain the protesters. How about that? Maybe like give a little comedy show or something, right? Send the band up there. A little music for the protesters. [music] Give me some entertainment. That'd be pretty cool. 1 800 283 [music] 101.5. Maybe uh maybe we get like Smokey Robinson going to a protest. Everybody, here's what I like. This is this is the clip I really like from uh from Mikey. We've seen what has happened with ICE across the country. I won't let that unfold here. What happened? Having worked with New Jersey State Police and local law enforcement, I know how well trained they are, the best in the nation. I trust them to follow our constitution. I knew it would be better to have them handle the situation rather than ICE. That's why we called them in and created a protected, peaceful protest area outside of Delaney Hall. This is her trying to save face. She really believes ICE is the problem. Like ICE, you know, we're going to come in here and what are we going to do? What are you going to do to attract these protesters? How is ICE the problem? And what is ICE doing that is so wrong, right? They're doing their job. So meanwhile, uh the protesters, you know, ICE attracts the protesters. The protesters know that they can come here simply because all the government is there. They're all taking selfies. They're all getting their photo moments. So the protesters show up and they're not going to get in trouble. I can't touch them. they can go up there and have their way till the cops came. She had no choice but to bring the cops in and now she's trying to save face and seriously it's kind of pathetic. It's kind of sad. Eddie in Jackson, what are your thoughts? Hey Steve, how you doing? Good buddy. How about you? Yeah, I agree entirely. I think the uh law enforcement here, I got a lot of respect for the police department here as well as ICE. They should be working together. Sure. But my point of my point of view when she's making these statements, this governor, whatever she is, uh she's no leader. She's no governor to me, but she's reckless and she put nothing but put fuel on the fire for what she did. And she thinks that these people here in New Jersey are stupid that it was a peaceful protest. I don't know what she's looking at, but what I see on channel 12 and all the news I've seen, that was out of control. And those are paid protesters. 100%. Oh, absolutely. Everybody knows it. She knows it. And that's that's the thing that's so odd about it. I don't think she expected what she got. You know, the idea that, you know, one side is going to show up and protest. Okay. What happened was it wasn't just one side. It was one side and the and the pros showed up and then you you start hearing about how the MAGA people are going to show up. Now you can have all these factions together and nobody there to stop them because ICE, you know, they don't that's not their job. Their job is to deal with the people who are inside Delaney Hall. And instead now they don't do crowd control. It's not their job to be taking care of what's going on on the streets of Newark. That is the Newark Police Department's job. And they weren't there because they weren't allowed to be. Now Baraka comes in. He's the mayor. Hey, enough of this curfew. stop. The arrests continue to go on. It's kind of like, I was saying this before, it's kind of like, you know, like when a kid's playing with matches and all of a sudden a fire, a real fire starts. That's what I think this is. I Steve, I think, you know, we pay their salaries and we the people pay their salaries here and yet we should have safety on the streets. She did not put safety on that streets. No. And in the beginning, she did not let the law enforcement, New Jersey law enforcement go and help ICE to detain this stuff. Now, what if something really serious would have happened? All this would have been on her. And it seems like these far-left radicals don't care. No. And all this would have been on but instead of it being on her, she would have blamed it on Trump. And they're still doing it. It's kind of like I don't know. It's like you're living in this bizarro world. In what way did ICE start the protests? In what way did ICE have anything to do with the protest? But she continues to blame. You cannot be that delusional to look at this weekend and continue to call press conferences or have, you know, and statements blaming. I It's not them. Sorry. If you disagree, please give me a call. But I don't see it. Point it out to me. 1800283101.5. Mike's in Woodbine. What's happening, dude? Hey, how you doing, my man? All right. How about you? I'm doing pretty good. Listen, when you know when the Democrats are the ones who cause the problems, you know, Mikey Cheryl has been fanning the flames and then all this all hell breaks loose. So, like what is she supposed to do? You know, shoot your mother, cry, you're an orphan. You know, I mean, this is this is a problem that they have created. If people would just abide by the law, by federal law, immigration law is what they should be doing, right? Then this never would have happened. Total anarchy, but I don't know how they got away with this crap. I really don't because you know what? I don't know now. Like, if you had it to do over again, would people actually vote for her? You know, the turnout I I don't think I don't know what they were expecting because she really wasn't that bright to begin with. She really didn't have much to run on to begin with. And the idea that I'm a helicopter pilot and I'm the mother of four teenagers and that was pretty much the platform. And I hate Trump and that was pretty much it. So now she got the job and it's Ice. ICE is the bad guy. Meanwhile, we see these paid pros coming in from all over the country. ICE is the bad guy. But then when it gets out of control, uh, you know, I said I wasn't going to get the cops in. We weren't going to let the cops work together. I think we better get them in here. But the thing is with Jack Chitter Terelli, she ran against a a nothing candidate. The guy didn't have a coherent plan for for property taxes. He She doesn't. He did. I mean, at least I'll tell you one thing he did say that he would do and I had him on here many times. He said day one this whole thing goes away. We No more sanctuary state, no more immigrant trust directive, no more of that. And what happened? Well, that would have happened that No, that would have happened, but there were other areas and he he was running in a heavily democratic state. He had to really come out with a lot of really good ideas forcefully and she was she just walked away with it and and people would vote for her again if it was an election again unless Republicans put someone else against her. Well, here's my question with it. Let's put it this way. B I'm not going to as far as the candidate goes. I don't even know who it would be. But after watching what we're watching now, after seeing where we are so far with her, we've seen the budget, the biggest budget in the history, we've seen this, we see affordability out the window. It's getting more and more expensive to live in New Jersey. We see gas prices, electricity going through the roof. Why? You know, I think if anything, you could you could run, you know, you could run a German Shepherd against her and you could win. No, I think we're going to run Steve Shrealise against her. I think that's the next uh you know next election. You my man. No, I'm gonna let you do it. I'm gonna let you do it. But I will I will support you on the radio, my friend. Thanks for calling New Jersey 101.5. 1 800 283101.5. That's all I need. But seriously, when you look at this now, you just you shake your head and you say, "All right, why? First of all, why is my governor at a detention center or worried about, you know, what the uh what those here illegally, the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, murderers, rapists, sex traffickers, and drug dealers are having for breakfast?" Since when? I mean, all of a sudden, the food has become a big deal. Who ever went to prison and said, "You know what was really great about Alcatres?" The food. And by the way, if you know anything about Alcatres, you know the food really was good at Alcatraz. I took the tour. I was there. They would bring in or they would have at when Alcatraz was open the greatest chefs in the area cooking the meals because they did everything possible to keep the prisoners happy, you know, h by in other words, you know, so they'd want to riot or go crazy, but they used to bring in good food. But now you see the menus that were released, they're all out there now on what's on these Delaney Hall menus. And by the way, wasn't Obama the one that opened Delaney Hall. And for many, many years, we didn't have a problem at Delaney Hall. Now, suddenly Delaney Hall has become like a tourist attraction in New Jersey. You know, go go to New Jersey. You could you could hit the beach. You could go to uh Great Adventure. You can go to the mountains. You could protest. Go to Delaney Hall. Maybe you set a merch up there. T-shirts. I protested at the Laney Hall. I don't know. I mean, what the hell? Well, and the idea that they don't get the visitation rights. Okay. Well, it's very hard to get visitation, very hard to attract people to want to come see you when they got to get through a riot. I don't know, maybe it's me. 1 800283101.5 Steve Trevalizes. So, if you uh happen to watch the news at all this weekend, it wasn't just uh 12, it was like uh every news cable channel, suddenly we made the news and we ended up getting to the point where as much as the governor did not want local law enforcement working with ICE, this problem wasn't solved. These arrests weren't made until ICE and local law enforcement started working together. So now that they're working together on this, should they continue to work together on other things? 1 800283101.5. I'm Steve Trevalis. Here's New Jersey 101.5. Fast traffic. [music] Ah, your evening rush. [music] A lot of [music] rush in New York, man. Rushing around New York, getting the contact high while you're rushing around in New York. I mean, I get the idea [music] of the legal weave, but that was just bad legal weave. The whole city stunk. Maybe it's the combination of pot and urine together that you really don't want to be, you know, involved with or whatever while you're running and need oxygen in your lungs. All right. So, the Laney Hall tourist trap, I mean, what do you think about what's going on up there? Louis and Penn, did you get off the couch for this? Actually, yes. What's going on, pal? Hi. How you doing, Stephen? I'm good. How about you? I'm doing well. Kathy's here. Say hi, Kathy. Hi, Steve. Hey, Kathy. What are you thinking? What What I'm gonna tell you next, I'm 100% right. And I don't care what anybody says. Okay. I don't care how educated you are. Okay. The problem with ice is when it's hot outside, it melts. Okay. You called You got off the couch to do that joke. Did you really? No. Come on. Something better than that. I do. Okay. You don't say any of this stuff happened in the red states? No. Because when they get locked up, they get locked up. You start locking these people up, they'll stop coming out, but they know they're not going to get locked up. They'll get arrested, kicked out of jail same night. Well, this is going to be interesting now because we have like 60 arrests. So now that's a good point. So they arrested him. Now we should follow and see what they do to these protesters who got arrested for causing all their lives. Yeah. But the thing is they're attacking federal agents. So it's a federal crime. That's jail. So yeah, that you know what, Louie, that's a softball anymore. It's it's hard ball. Yeah, that they attacking federal agents. And the one guy that said, "We know your f we're going to get your family and I see who you are." That's federal. And he and they got him like within a day. And then the the guy had a record of like assault, like sexual assaults and all kinds of craziness. Yeah. Sounds like the people they let out ice, you know, retainers. Yeah. Well, let's see what happens. Louie, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Great point. Because now, okay, you made the arrests. Now, if it's catch and release and you put him back out the next day, what's the difference? Where do they going to go? Do we have anything on the app chat? We do. We have something from Carrie in Island Heights. All right. So, she says to you, Steve, you're another Trumpster, a Trumpster, who is a pro magamoron. Okay. Also, under Trump's leadership, the recent hired ICE agents no longer have to have the requirements like a bachelor's degree. These agents are as young as 18 recently graduated high school kids who are not passing the written exams. Does Kathy have a bachelor's degree? I don't know. She doesn't. I know. Who cares about the degree? The required physical exam is even worse. Used to be a 13-week program now knocked down to four weeks. Okay. Some of them are former Proud Boys and have criminal records because the federal government under Trump is no longer vetting new ICE recruits. In addition, if it wasn't for the lefties, those these detainees wouldn't have a voice. They were peacefully protesting until ICE the governor inside. Uh the governor, first of all, they're a law. Let me take these one by one and bring them. All right. The governor, uh, the senators were allowed inside. They have a list of who's allowed in and who's allowed who's not allowed in. She's not allowed in. Those are not those are the rules that were made before she got there. So, that was all performative. As far as I didn't vet every ICE agent, and I don't think that you did either. So, I don't know who's a proud boy, who's not a proud boy. I don't know what the requirements are, but they're doing their jobs. and these peaceful protest you're if you're telling me that that's a peaceful protest and you're telling me that ICE is the problem here respectfully delusional well as far as magamoron this isn't about Trump this is about a situation at the Delaney Hall the man was elected to get rid of illegal immigration and they did and this is what they're doing if you got a problem bring in Tom Hman he everybody likes him work it out they don't want to work it out what's the other guy anymore Any more from uh Calli? Calli? Whatever. That's what we got. That's it. That's what we got. What about What about the other one? There's no other one. No, the other one. It doesn't even make any sense. Like, I literally can't [laughter] even read it. It's just a bunch of symbols. Oh, okay. And I'm not [clears throat] sure I'm not sure what was going on there. All right. Did you ever sneak in someplace? Maybe a movie. Maybe way back. No, no, no. I'm too much of a goody two shoes. You've never snuck in anywhere? No. I I can't recall any great stories about sneaking in. Probably yes. A movie. A movie. After paying for a film. Are you Jack? After No, I would. No. No. Because I want to make sure that Hugh knows I supported him so I'd give him my money. Probably after seeing a film. I maybe probably snuck into another film. I'm sure I did that a couple of times in my youth. I was trying to find a way out and I couldn't. So, I just stayed and watched the movie. Did you ever sneak into anything, Levon? Hey, what's up? I'm Moy's distracting him. Oh, but I didn't mean to interrupt you. I'm looking at this boring nerdy news stuff. Yeah. What's going on? Did you ever try to sneak into anything? Try to sneak into anything? Yeah. Yeah. Would you sneak into Where'd you sneak into? No, no, no. We got to hit the news. Tell me later. Tell me [laughter] later. Tell me. It's all [music] right. All right. Steve Treval getting you through the night. 1800 [music] 283101.5. Hope you're having a great Monday. You deserve it. [music] So, uh, I go on Facebook this morning and I see this guy Nick telling the story about how he snuck into the pit at a Bruce Springsteen concert in Philadelphia, uh, when he was in Philly on May 30th. Uh, a great story and I friended him. I should have messaged him, but basically he talks about uh how they got in, him and his friend, and they were determined to get into the pit. And when you think about like I had a guy call me over the weekend who went to see Bruce in Philadelphia and sat all the way like he behind behind the band and paid $375 for the ticket face value. And this guy uh just got into the stadium and managed to get himself into the orchestra pit and the elaborate way of going about it to go on Amazon and buy every possible color wristband you can think of only to find out that he still didn't have the right one. They were using midnight green that night, eagle green. Uh but it's a great story and I want to know I'm watching this. I don't want to get him in trouble, but I although he did put on his Facebook page, but I mean, uh, have you ever snuck into anything? 1 800283101.5. Especially, you know, we used to do this thing when I worked in Philadelphia. I was talking to my boss about it today. Um, if you're older, you may remember ticket upgrade where radio stations would run contests that if you bought a ticket to a show, you could up, you know, you would go to the show and people be walking around from the different radio stations. We used to, when I worked at YSP, if you hung a YSP banner at the at the concert and we saw it, we would find you and bring you down into like, you know, the front row or like the first 10 rows. people was all the way up in the upper deck. We called it ticket upgrade and it was huge. And I said to Sam, my boss, how come we don't do that anymore? He goes, no more tickets. It's how the business has changed, right? Uh but 1800 283 101.5. Two questions. Have you ever I want to know what you snuck into? And also, have you ever managed to sneak into a venue, a game, a concert, something, and upgrade your own seats where you suddenly find better seats? 1 800 283 101.5. To start us off, we have a man Eddie said, Eric says he's the master of breaking into things. Okay, master, talk to me. Oh, boy. So, it started back I'm a big Billy Joel fan and it started off back the Yankee Stadium show in 1990, right? I deserted my friends. We had like, you know, 100 level seats in the back of the stadium and I went to go get a beer or drink or something and then I I saw a whole bunch of people about my age walk into the entrance to the floor, which is like the side gate and whatever it was. You know, we were already in the stadium, but I was like, I want to get down to the floor. And I was like, I just walked behind these kids that were about my age and I held up my nose bleed ticket while the guard just let them all in and I ended up on the floor and I had to hop a couple of seats. So, fast forward, I've been to most of the shows at the garden this past run and one of the things I did was I would look on I would get like lousy seats on the floor last minute for cheap, right? and then look on StubHub for any seats, the highest price ones that are usually like third row or something that haven't sold and I would plant my butt in that seat and you know I would look and make sure it doesn't get sold till as the concert starts and then within you and I watch it for 20 more minutes on StubHub to make sure it doesn't get sold. Occasionally I would move to another seat if I see it gets old. And I would I used to take do like spreadsheets before I enter the concert of what seats like an hour before were available on StubHub and I would monitor the prices so I can gauge which ones won't go down and are the most expensive and and not sell. And I would sit in those seats. That's one way. Okay. What's the other way? Another way. So going to all these Billy concerts, I became friends with a whole group of fans and you talked about those ticket upgrades. We had what we call ticket fairies. So Billy had a crew of people that would go around and look for people like 300 level and give out seats. He would buy the first 10 rows, right? He he has the first couple on the sides and the first couple of rows he has he doesn't sell those tickets and he gives out those tickets right so and he usually gives them out I'm not trying to be sexist here but to pretty women young women so you know all of our group of friends we go with our wives or girlfriends or whatever and we kind of pimp them out to go find [laughter] all right so you know they dress provocatively they go find the ticket fairies and they get as many tickets as they and from that ticket fair like oh they pretend like oh um I am lost whatever and like hey do you want these seats we'll give you these big seats they're like oh really and they they end up at the front and they'll get as many as they can maybe four or five tickets right and we might have like 20 of us so what we would do is once a group of them are up there in the middle of a show a couple people go back with a few of those tickets and recruit our friends and we'd all go up there we had they had this release song usually Allentown or something and before co you could all stand by the stage so the standing room so we would all be up at the stage. Oh man, that's beautiful. Loving it. And like it was so much fun. See, that's fantastic. That that you know what that that is great. And Billy's like that, you know, like he he'll make the seats available. You can come down and see up close. Eric, thanks for the call. The New Jersey 101.5. Uh Mike in Rosel Park. What did you sneak into? Uh hey, what's happening Steve? Good buddy. How are uh didn't sneak into anything, but uh years ago, right, uh Marvin Haggler was a middleweight champ, right? And he was I forget how many years ago, but anyway, he was starting out and he had a title fight at the Garden. So, me and my friend Tony bought tickets and they were $100 a seat, which is not a lot of money for the Garden, right, to be honest with you, at the time or even now. But anyway, so we're sitting upstairs a little bit and we spotted these two seats in the fifth and the ninth row, right? Ringside, right? Wow. So, and we're sitting upstairs and you need binoculars to see a a boxing fight from upstairs. Oh, yeah. So, so anyway, there's this usher there. They had ushers at the time. I don't know if they still do. So me and this guy Tony both dropped a $50 bill on the floor. I says, "Hey, my man, you got to be more careful with your money." [laughter] You just dropped 250s. I don't have 250s. Well, ain't ours. He says, "Here." So we give them to him, right? And say, "Just be a little more careful next time. But by the way, we want those two seats downstairs." [laughter] And we got them ringside. That's beautiful. And you know what? that scouting and everything. You you you zoned in on the seats. You got a plan. You got down there. And how was the fight? What was it was it like seeing the fight that close? Uh oh, it was unbelievable. I like boxing and when you see on TV, but when you sit sitting ringside and these guys are going at it, Marvin Haggle won in the fifth round, by the way. Right. And uh Yeah. But when you're seeing these guys right there and you could hear them punches and bop bop bop, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like it's like, you know, the Rocky where he put hits him in the face in slow motion and the blood spurts out. Is it like that? Yeah. Yeah. Oh god. All right, Mike. Thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Johnny in Manchester, what did you say? You're going to like this one. About 55 years ago, I used to go to a concert uh hall that had two shows, right? So, we used to get the second show for free. Uh, shortly before the, uh, doors closed for the end of the first show, we would hit the men's room. Okay. Okay. Squat [laughter] the key and squat on the top of the toilet, not sit on it because then the ushers will see your feet, right? And whatever. And they were half wasted anyway. So they'd come in with the flashlight after the first show and we'd be like squatted on the on the seat and uh and then when they let the second show in and we'd hear them come down and out we'd go and get the second show for free. So what did you say? Oh, in those days I don't I don't know if I should mention the theater, but anyway, it was like Are they still Are they still in business? Oh, yes. Actually, they renovated the place. Uh, you can mention it. Well, what the hell? I'm an old man. Nobody's going to catch me now. Portchester, New York. Oh, I don't think Portchester, New York is coming to find you. Don't worry. The the right the Capitol Theater. Portchester, New York. 450, 550 for a show. Jefferson Airplane, Rad. Uh, let me see. Oh, you name it. I've I saw at least 20. Jeff Roto, nice. Johnny Winner multiple times. Prool Haram, Rod Stewart, and the Small Faces. Okay. Uh, yeah. Pay for any of it. Those are the D those those No, you No, you'd have to pay for the first show, but they had two they did two shows. One at 8. So, you got the second one at midnight. They get the second show for free by hitting the men's room and squatting on the toilet and as soon as you heard the the [laughter] doors open for the second show. Oh, we used to bust the ushers too on the outside. Uhhuh. We used to we used to tell the ushers on the inside that we were the usher on the outside and they're beating the hell out of me. The guy would kick the doors open. This is some big hippie monster. Wow. And about 20 20 of us would run in. [laughter] Oh yeah, it was a grand old time. Those were the good old days. Those were the good old days. 180 283 101.5. Oh, this is going to be a great story. Joan Belleville. All right, I want to know what have you ever snuck into? And also, did you ever upgrade your own seats? You ever go into a show or a game and find yourself find a way to get the better seats? 1 800283101.5. What was the game? What was the show? Where did you sit? Where did you end up? Is fast travel 1800 283 101.5 Steve Trevalis. Saw on Facebook a guy talking about sneaking [music] into the orchestra pit at the Bruce concert. I want to know what have you snuck into? Uh we've all got that story. [music] Or if you uh actually bought a ticket and got in, what did you upgrade yourself to? Where'd you find that better seat? [music] That's the dream. You get in, you want to find the better seats. I uh I was with my pal TC and uh we uh got into the Phillies game. We I had tickets for the Flyers and the Rangers. And at the time the Flyers and the Rangers basically stunk. But it's also the second night of the 1994 Philly season and they are coming off the World Series. And as we're walking past the stadium to get to the Spectrum where the lowly Flyers and Rangers are going to play, I see my pal Tom looking looking hungrily [clears throat] lovingly at the vet. All right, you want to go in? In those days the um media people and I was working I was the news director of YSP. So in those days we got the teams would give us passes and the way the pass worked you got uh you could buy for a dollar you were able to buy two seats in the upper deck. So that means you get into the stadium and you're on your own once you get into the stadium and find your best ticket or worm your way into the press box which is a whole other story. So, I don't have anything with me, but everybody wants to go in. I'm like, "Wait a minute." So, I go over to the ticket guy and I show him my license. I'm like, "Dude." He goes, "Just get in here." So, before go now, we got to go find our seats. And everywhere we sat, he's like, "I don't want to get caught. I don't want to get thrown out of these seats. I don't want to get thrown out." So, we keep moving down. We start at the first base. We go to first base. We go down to like, you know, uh, left field slowly, slowly. So, I don't want anybody to look at us. I don't want anybody to look at us. We're all the way in the freaking bleachers and no one's going to look at us here. Tom, don't worry about it. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the national anthem. And the entire stadium is looking at us as we are sitting under the flag. [laughter] I kid you not. Bruno is in Wildwood Crest. What's happening, pal? How you doing, buddy? I am good. Tell me your story. There so many good memories, huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Um, uh, listen, back in the day, it was 1971. We were we're freshman at Paul the 6 High School and we hitchhiked over Uhhuh. to the Cherry Hill Arena. Wow. It's not there anymore. That's where No, it's not. And that's where the Flyers started. Um, you know, it wasn't They weren't even a professional team then. But uh but anyway, Slime the Family Stone was there. Nice. And we hitchhiked over. Uhhuh. And we didn't we didn't have tickets. We didn't know what we were going to do. We were just going to go to the event. We hitchhiked over. You could do that back then. Yeah. That's the fun of it, right? And then uh Yeah. And then we noticed that there was a a a door in the back of it was like a barn kind of uh structure, right? and and and in the back it was a sliding door that went through the roof right to the ground. And then we had a you know it was three guys, three of us and it was one guy that was a monster guy and we found like a um you know one of those uh a tire uh a tire iron. Yeah. A a tire iron, right? Uh on the ground somewhere. and he said, "Uh, you guys want to sneak in?" She said, "Yeah, we'll do it." Okay. And he said, "All right." And he he just pried that door open and we uh got on our hands and knees and snuck in and [laughter] that he could open it up and we we realized we were on the back of the stage. Wow. And then uh yeah, there was no ice back then. There was no security. No, [laughter] no protest. Different protest. It was a Vietnam War protest. [laughter] That That's exactly what it was, pal. Yeah. Um, so we just ran around and then, you know, were a little nervous and then we reconnected again in the back of the arena and we got to watch Fly and the Family Stone concerts. Nice. Hey, that was a good one. That was a great one. Hey, before I let you go, man, you uh you're down wild with my Bob Kelly. Absolutely. every uh Wednesday night and Friday night and then uh Thursday nights at Carolines in Summers Point. All right. Where where in Wildwood? Uh Wildwood at the Fair View on Wednesday night. Uhhuh. And then Seapport Pier on Friday night. All right. Give Bob a hug for me. We'll talk soon, my friend. I'll come. I'm going to come down and surprise you guys one night. I'm looking forward to it, buddy. You got it. All right. 1 800 283101.5. Bob Kelly does traffic and he does Kelly Drives on Fox 29. All right. We worked together many, many years ago in a galaxy far, far away, known as Express Traffic. All right. 1800 283 101.5. You ready to tell me what you snuck into there? The only thing I can think of are movies. I mean, you know how back in the day we used to never snuck into anything else? That's the only thing I can think of. Come on. You're a Levon freaking Putney. Never gotten into a place upgraded your seats. I was such an innocent your way in. Well, no, not sports or concerts. No, I none I can think of at least. But but movie I can't remember the movie. We used to do that, you know. We used to do that. I mean, we would go to one and then the showing was over and oo look. We would spend the day, [clears throat] especially during the summer. Long long time ago, Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon came out and my friend was dying to see it. So, we drive, he got his license. We drive to Brooklyn and we go to see like the 1:00 show and he loved it so much he refused to leave and we he was our ride back to Jersey. So, I had to sit through the 1:00 show, the 4:00 show, the 7:00 show, and the 9:30. Oh, no. You went to the late night, too. Oh, no. That was too much. I wanted to strangle. Well, yeah. What'd you have for dinner? Popcorn. Exactly. Popcorn and raisinets was my meal. [music] Sing it. Roger. [music] Coming to Parks Casino. How about that? All right. [music] 1800283 101.5. Steve Trevalis. Uh guy posts on Facebook how he snuck into the orchestra pit at Bruce Springsteen Thursday night. I started thinking about all the places I snuck into. And then I started thinking about all the places you snuck into. Uh all not only snuck in, but if you ever like uh giving yourself an upgrade, you get in and you find the better seats. 1 800283101.5. Let's go to Joseph in Belleville. What did you do, Steve? I'm a big Rolling Stones fan. I first saw them at Madison Square Garden in 1972. Right. and I've seen them every tour since. I have three quick Rolling Stone stories. Go ahead. Madison Square Garden 1997. I know that they have a second stage because I was at the show at Giant Stadium the night before. So, I treat myself. I paid $150 at the box office knowing that I'd be eight rows from the second stage. The Stones come down to the second stage. I run up to the stage. The only person between me and the Rolling Stones was a security guard. I sang It's Only Rock and Roll like I was a rock star and I can't sing for beans. Get out. Yes. All right. Was number two. Again, at Madison Square Garden, I go over by myself and there's only one scalper selling tickets. I buy a nose bleed in 407. I said, "There's no way I'm sitting up there." I go 10 rows off the side of this Keith Richard side of the stage where all the people in the music business. Paul McCartney's band and Lenny Kravis were a few rows in front of me and there was an empty seat to my left. Jackson Brown sits down next to me. Get out. Did you talk to him? I just said I just I was cool. I said Jackson, how are you? I didn't say anything. He said I really don't get out much. And I'm not downing the guy. I just I just said if he doesn't talk to me, I I won't talk to him. That's all. And I couldn't believe that I'm singing Rolling Stones next to Jackson Brown. Did you offer to play the kazoo for him? No, but I could play the kazoo for you if you let me tell my third story. All right, one more story. I got a whole bunch of [laughter] Here's a kazoo real quick. Start me up. [laughter] Okay, third story. A third story. 2000 2012 the Rolling Stones are playing the Credential Center in Newark. They're playing a Thursday night's show and Saturday night's the pay-per-view. So, I tell my coworker that I haven't missed the Stones concert. He goes, "Go." So, I I leave work, right? And I I I go I go and I I I complain to the uh I was in the Star Ledger. Peggy Mclo did a story and Jerry McCrae took a picture of me and he had Come on. Come on with the name dropping. Let's go. What are we doing? All right. Whatever. All right. So any anyway, uh I buy a I buy a $300 ticket from somebody outside, give them $150. I get into the venue. I sat in an empty $700 seat. Oh man. Oh man. All right. Good stuff. Empty $700 seat. Oh my god. And this was back before the uh what do you call that pricing that Springsteen's got? The I forget what it got the the the not the $100 seats, the thousands of dollar seats. Let's go to Sheila in Trenton. Hi Sheila. Hi. I can't uh tap that story, but uh nobody can. [clears throat] But can you play the kazoo? No. Okay, tell me the story. My story is it's probably like 1998, right, when Tom Petty was playing in Camden. I'd have to check the date. Oh, yeah. But I bought tickets and I was supposed to go with my boyfriend at the time and my brother-in-law was going with a couple of his friends and I got in a fight. I bought the tickets and my boyfriend had the tickets and he took off to the concert and I was like, "Hell no." Mhm. So I bought lawn seats because it was sold out, right? And then [clears throat] I saw my brother-in-law. He saw me and I was on the lawn and he pulled me up over the wall. All right. And I got into the concert arena. Nice. And and what did your boyfriend do about that? He was cool. He was happy to see me. I wasn't happy about him. And then my car got [laughter] lost somewhere in Camden. And but yeah, it was my brother-in-law saved the day again. He's a great guy. Exactly. Sheila, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Let's go to Dave in Manchester. Dave, tell me your story. How you doing, Stevie? Good, Dave. How about you? Judith Priest at Madison Square Garden early 1980s. Ah, we got another thing coming. Couldn't get a ticket. Couldn't scalp a ticket. Right. We throw it up from Jersey Shore. Uhhuh. Start walking around outside the garden. All of a sudden, one of the big metal overhead gates pops open and the limo start going into going to the garden. Ah. Me and my friend at each other, just popped in. As soon as the last went in, popped in under the door. [laughter] Security guard looked at us. He goes, "Give me 20 bucks each. Go up this stairway over here." Oh, we we go up the stairway. We're behind the stage. A different security guard looks at us. You guys got tickets [laughter] with me. I don't think we were in the garden for two minutes. Oh, they threw you out. They threw us out as quick as a And you got And you cost you $40 for two minutes in Madison Square Garden. Oh, dude, that sucks. Oh, man. [laughter] That would be my luck. You give the guy 20 bucks. See, those days, you know, you give guy 20 bucks, right? I remember parking at Giant Stadium like when they would try to route you all the way through the cow tunnel on the other side at the arena and you'd pull in and you wave like a fighter bill at the parking attention and he would move the cones. You can go in. Those days don't happen anymore. All right, let's get Bill in Lambertville. Bill, what happened? Hey Steve, I was in college back in the 1980s and then we were at a party the night before a big concert which was the Live Aid concert. Wow. Philadelphia. So these two girls, girlfriends of mine and I went down there on a train, right? We get up to the gate and I was one of those photographers for the school for the school newspaper. So I brought a couple cameras with me, right? So we we pay the ticket, we get in, I see a security guard. I said, "Excuse me, sir. I'm here to document the live a concert for the Trenton signal." The Trenton signal twice. [laughter] You Trenton Signal was the name of the newspaper for the for the college. Oh, okay. It existed. I thought you made it up. Okay. F. Yeah. He goes, "Hey, just follow me." So, he pulls me all the way up to like the third row where all the other security guards are watching the stage. He sits me down. He goes, "You can be right here. This is my seat, but I'm not going to be sitting for this concert." Right? So, I was able to film most of that concert with my 35 millimeter and then I would print the photos and sell them at a flea market. That started my career there. So, then fast forward about 6 months later, I took a date to the Trenton War Memorial and it was a Smoky Robinson concert. So, I did the same thing there. I said like after the concert was over, I went to the backside door and I said, "Hi, I'm here to interview Mr. Robinson for the Trenton." Oh, dude, that's great. And they let me right in. Uhhuh. And I sat next to Smokey. We We talked for a couple minutes and then somebody got us beers. There was a picture of me somewhere. I don't know where it is now. How about that? Picture of me and him having a beer together. Oh, that's fantastic. Bill, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Peter and Lawrence, what's happening, Peter? Well, I can't top that. Nobody could top that. I got um my sister called and said, "What are you doing?" And I said, "Nothing." She goes, "I got free tickets to go see Journey, the Final Frontier Tour." And uh I got section 215 row E1 11 for $191 in the nosebleleed seats. Wow. She's in a suite. Uhhuh. With everything, food, booze, you name it. How'd she end up in a suite? She knows people. And not you ever, obviously. No, I don't. I just know uh Debbie Dutch and uh people like that. Okay. But uh she [laughter] she comes up to to where I'm sitting and goes, "Come on, I'm getting you in." I'm saying I said, "You're getting me into what? Trouble?" Royalty. [laughter] Oh, dude. That's great. That is hysterical. So, she takes me She takes me into the suite, right? I brought my charger with me. Good move. I know. Yeah. I had video of Jouri Arnell Peneda. Nice. Neil, Sean, Jonathan Kaine. It was an excellent show. It was a good farewell tour. An ends of an era. An end of an era. Thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. 1800283101.5. We have the app chat. You could always get us on the app chat and if anything's on there, we'll get to you. So, I want to know what have you snuck into. 1 800283101.5. The guy got into the orchestra pit at the Bruce Springsteen show. So, uh, what did you manage to do? Here's fast track station. [music] All we hear is radio. All [music] we hear is radio. [music] [music] still love you. And that's us, Steve Trevalis. When Freddy Mercury's on, you can't just cut that after a few seconds. You got to let Freddy [music] sing. [clears throat] All right. 1800 283 101.5 is the number. [music] Um, did you ever sneak into some place? You know, you could talk about concerts, um, games. used to be uh Madison Square Garden at a side door back in the 70s. And when I was a kid, we would go sneak into that side door to see the Rangers, see the Knicks, depending on who was playing, when you could get in. But have you ever done it? Or I'll tell you another one, man. When I lived in Malber when I was a teenager, we used to sneak into the Birch Swim Club. There was a fence and we actually dug under the fence so that you would go and slide under the fence and go swimming because the fence was behind bushes. So nobody saw us coming and going cuz you'd slide under and there'd be the, you know, there'd be the bushes and you just come out from the bushes and go in the pool. Um, Great Adventure was a great place to sneak into. I worked at Great Adventure for 5 years and uh a lot of people snuck into Great Adventure. We were sneak people into Great Adventure. That's a whole other story. But uh I want to know from you. 1800283 101.5. What do Hold on. Andrew, did you sneak into some place, Andrew? Yeah, man. I told you the story about the basketball game the other day. I don't want to tell you the same story about how I saw Patrick Yuing and the Knicks in the second row and I was upstairs and nosebleleeds, but uh me and a friend when we were uh Hey. Okay. Yeah. How you doing, by the way? I'm doing good, Andrew. How are you? Hanging in. Hanging in. I did some cleaning tonight. Spring cleaning. Spring cleaning. All right. So, tell me your story. Come on. So, uh me and a friend, we went to uh in the summertime, sometimes on a Saturday, right? We take the subway down to Chinatown. Ah, in Manhattan and near Little Italy, the same region, you know, right? And so I was there in Chinatown. We'd watch what we called ninja movies, karate movies imported from god knows where, Hong Kong, China or whatever might have been. And we paid for the one ticket each uh matinea for uh uh under 14 or whatever. And we were we were not even in high school yet. and we'd pay the one ticket each and see it the same movie two or three times. A couple of funny things about the movies, they had like three or four different uh languages with subtitles. Oh yeah. And you know, and they were badly dubbed. Uhhuh. And it was kind of like you do not then they were old people that were bald and they knew how to fight with all kinds of weapons and they would say something like you you need to learn to fight better. You must train with my uncle. He will show you the way. Yeah. And what is he talking about? The voices never matched up to the uh you know, the voices never matched up to the lips in the movie. All right. Uh Al Stewart had a couple of hits. Year of the cat time passages. I got to talk to him and what an incredible voice. He is going to talk about the story of how he actually snuck in to meet the Beatles. My friend and I, we we thought we got to meet the Beatles. you know, you have to. It was the height of Beetle Mania. And if you've ever seen a Hard Day tonight, you'll know that all the, you know, 2,000 kids around the stage door and a police cordon holding everybody back. It was just like that. Um, so instead, we went to the theater manager and we said that we represented Rick and Backer guitars, which is what John was playing at the time, and you know, and that our client, Mr. Lennon, was waiting for us, but [laughter] but we couldn't get past the police cordon. and uh you know would he kindly phone down and and you know give them our names and and let us in. And you know we're 17 years old. [laughter] The theater manager is 50 and he he's just totally frazzled. He doesn't know what's going on. But to to our amazement, he picked up the phone and called down and gave, you know, gave the stage door manager our names and and said, "Go on. Go ahead." So, we walked through the police cordon that was holding back all these people that we'd grown up with that we knew. [laughter] Oh my god. And we got to the stage door and they led us in and I said, you know, okay, you know, where where's the Beatles dressing room? They said down the corridor and turned left and then go straight ahead. So, we did, right? And uh we got to the this, you know, you got to their dressing room door, right? And um I think uh Neil Aspenol was their road manager at the time and he came out and and he looked he took one look at us and he knew we were just stupid kids, you know. [laughter] So he just points down the corridor and he says like back the way you came, I think and and at that moment John Lennon appeared in the doorway and he was bored because he had nothing to do between the shows. It was like a you know a two-hour break while they got the the audience out and the new one in and Lenon didn't know what to do. So, so, um, he looked at us and I I had to say something something that he would recognize and so I said, you know, why don't you use your Fender amplifier anymore? You because he always used to play through a Fender, right? And, um, he said, "Oh, bloody Brian, you know, Brian Epstein, their manager, uh, had signed a deal with Vox." So, now he was having to play through a box amplifier, which he said he'd kick it off the end of the period, but it was up to [laughter] him. And, and he and I said, "Well, you know, what's that guitar you're playing? We think it might be a Rick and Becker. Oh, that. Yes. Oh, yes. Rick and Backa. So, he goes in and gets it and hands it to This is great. [laughter] This is great. So, I put it around my neck and I start playing Chuck Barry Risk cuz I want to show him that, you know, like you're auditioning now that we can do this. You know, we're in a local band, you know. Um, so this goes on for about 10 minutes. We're just talking about guitars and amplifiers and, you know, all the rest of it. And we asked him if he'd ever heard of the Rolling Stones and he said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're great. They're mates of ours, you know." And eventually he um goes back in the dressing room. It was Billy J. Kramer's birthday party. How about that? Al Stewart talking about the time he snuck in to meet the Beetle. We get [music] it every night. And when that moon gets so big and bright, it's super [music] delight. Every border was dancing in the moonlight. Uh, dancing in the moonlight. Steve Trevalise. 1 [music] 800283101.5 is the number. Uh, we got I'm not going to be here Thursday night. I'm going to be at Restoante Luca doing comedy with Chris Johnston who's going to be here Wednesday night along with Gemini and Jeff Paul. Friday night I'm going to be at uh Dena's Beastro with Jeff Paul and uh Buddha the comedian. A very funny show. shall be had by you all next Friday night dinner with Dena's dinner with Dennis Dennis Mallaloy going to be cooking a meal for you uh over at Dena's Beastro but uh we talked last hour about the snow the shows you've snuck you what the hell is that the shows you've snuck into uh I want to know about the shows that were worth sneaking into Frankie Valley has decided well he's not decided Frankie Valley at 92 years old for health reasons has to stop the Four Seasons farewell tour. I didn't know this was the farewell tour, but uh he's got to cancel the remainder of the Four Seasons farewell tour to focus on his health. 92. Now, I got to say, I saw Frankie Valley July 31st, I think 23, 24. He was incredible at the uh Hard Rock. And I really enjoyed the show. And granted, you know, Frankie, you know, the the band is great. The way everything's arranged is great. You love seeing Frankie sing. But at 92, I've also seen clips where he barely knows where he is. And you wonder like how long these guys can go. And you know, when Paul McCartney played Saturday Night Live, you know, a lot of people were wondering when they heard this. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Paul McCartney. [music] Once there was a way [music] to get back home once [music] there was a way to get back home. [music] 84 now sleep pretty darling. Do not cry. 300 a ticket. [music] You get the idea, right? Now, think about this. This is Ringo at 85. [music] I've never seen anything like this. [music] Ringo runs around the stage. He's jumping around. [music] He's dancing. You would never think this guy is 85 years old. Have you seen a clip of that? [music] He's amazing. So, I'm wondering here, uh, morning 1800 283 101.5. I was going to do a pizza topic. Maybe save that for tomorrow night. But of the of the concerts that you've seen, the older people, the classic rockers, who are the ones that you've seen that still haven't, and who are the ones that you've seen that maybe it's time to stop, you know, uh, and and I didn't want to tell anybody when it's time to stop because as long as you can go and as long as somebody's willing to buy the ticket, then uh, by all means go. But when you deal about $300 worth for a ticket and up, who's worth seeing today of the classic rockers, who are the shows, the classic rock shows that you saw recently that you're like, "My god, these guys are great or they still got it or the ones that you say, you know what, maybe it's time or they're not as good as they used to be." But that's okay because I love the band and this is a party. You know, people got down on Bon Joy because of his voice. I know John does a lot of work on his voice and that was the whole Hulu documentary. But John's not about his voice. You go see John Bon Joy because you love the songs. You ought to be taken back to your youth. You want to remember when. So why not, you know, uh go see Bon Joy? You're not expecting him to hit the notes. And the thing with Ringo, you know, when you hear Ringo, [music] he never really had much of an octave. [music] And Ned, come here. Look at this. Look at Just look at this video. I mean, this it's it's amazing that this is an 85y old man. Come around here. He's in the Sergeant Pepper suit. And uh and and this was taken on May 28th. Look at this. This is Ringo. May 28th of this year. [music] Is it amazing? You never know. He's 25. [music] He's got the dyed black hair. That's okay. And now now he's going to like he's doing plenty of drums. [music] Yeah. So 1800283101.5. Who have you seen that still got it? What' you think of that video, Annette? Yeah. jump on. Ain't that amazing? It is amazing. I I can't move that well now. Yeah. [laughter] And he comes out and he's doing jumping jacks to start the show. It's awesome. And he go and you know the thing about Ringo was that he he goes from playing with the greatest band ever. And then it' be very easy for Ringo to just get a couple of session people and be Ringo star. Sure. But he puts together the all-star band and every year he changes and he gets all these like uh famous musicians to tour with him in this all-star band and they all do each guy does a couple of his songs. Like Burton Cummings was in it. Did some Guess Who songs. Mark Farner was in it. Did Grant Funk songs. Joe Walsh was in it. Joe Walsh's brother-in-law by the way did Joe Walsh songs. So when you go see the show you're seeing all these people and then Ringo does his he does Yellow Submarine. and he does Little Help for My Friends, you know, the classic Beatles stuff and his own at Don't Come Easy, but it's such a great blend. But I don't know what he eats. I know like a friend of mine toured with him doing the con, you know, doing the concerts and at the end of every day he has two scoops of coconut ice cream. I love that. That's That's how he ends his day. That's awesome. Well, he looks really fit, so I'm guessing he eats pretty healthy. Yeah, they I think he's vegan, but it's amazing. Is there anybody you've seen that you could think of that like who puts puts on a really good show? Like classic rockers. They may be in their 70s, they may be in their 80s, but still when they go out, they put on a great show. I mean, I love Elton John and Billy Joel. Those are two of my favorites. But I it's been a minute since I've seen either one. But he's And you know what? Both of them Elton John, you know, that farewell yellow road tour that went on for about 10 years. Uh, but they still got it. And when you see Billy Joel, you saw that final show that he did at the Garden and it was a CBS. In fact, public television is running it now and it was amazing. Yeah. And then you figure this is the farewell and now he's touring with Rod Stewart. He's touring with Stevie Nicks. They just want to play. They do. I mean, they certainly don't need the money. They just love to be out there. I'm assuming Ringo the when they did that Circus O thing in Las Vegas, which was amazing. Um, Ringo and Paul and George's wife and Yoko were at the, you know, the the ceremony starting it off and Larry King was there and he asked, you know, Ringo said, "Why do you do this?" He goes, "This is what we do. This is our job." You know, as old as we are, this is we're still doing it. Yeah. Paul said the same thing. If I'm retiring, I'm going to sit home and do nothing. I love being in front of people. And when we saw just in time, you know, remember when I you saw Grath do it, I saw Jordan do it, but basically he said, you know, this is when Bobby was most alive when he was on stage in front of people. Sure. And you know, singing to them, just live for it. Yeah. And that's what they do. And as long as you know, the other thing too is like at this point they know that people are willing to pay $400 to see them, right? Why not? Exactly. Yeah. Absolutely. Right. 1 800 283101.5. Meg, who's worth seeing today? Uh, in 2023, right? We saw Barry Man. Was he good? [clears throat] Oh, man. He still got the voice. He had, you know what? He has such an incredible voice to begin with. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You know, when you listen to like because he had he had those Clive Davis mixes where when I used to do audition tapes to get Radio Job, you know, you talk up the song and then you pick it up from the end and everyone they'd always start off soft. They always started off, you know, a very very mellow and they'd end with the when will our eyes be and you scream and hit the notes. Yeah. And they were all basically a night in New Weekend in New England was the same as Mandy was the same as trying to get the feeling was the same as you know. But yeah, and he did that very strange medley with all the commercials that he wrote the McDonald's stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was he's talented. He really is. Meg, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Johnny, hang out. 1 800283101.5. Who are the classic rockers that you've recently seen that you really liked? Or who are the ones that you weren't that crazy about? Here's Fast Traffic. All right. 180 283 101.5. The classic [music] rockers. They keep aging. They keep getting older. Some of them it don't even matter. Go see Ringo. 85 years old. He moves like he's 20. [music] Paul, not so much. Uh, but at $300 a ticket and up, who's still worth seeing? Who are the ones that you really really liked? And who are the ones that you like? Oh my god. Uh, Tommy in Hillsboro. Who you got for me? Hey, Steve. How's it going, man? Good pal. How are you? I'm good, man. Hey, listen. My answer is going to be a little bit different from probably all the other answers because I'm a younger guy with an old soul, right? But I saw this band twice at Starland Ballroom in Seerville and they're called Zoso, the Led Zeppelin Experience. Wow. And I'm a giant Led Zeppelin fan. Giant Led Zeppelin fan. And you know, my generation, you know, doesn't didn't have the music that, you know, you guys had back in the day, which is just very unfortunate for me because I can't stand this music today. But I'm telling you, you have to look up this band because the members are identical to Robert, John, John, and Jimmy, dude. Wow. They are exactly identical with the get up, the dress up, the mannerisms, the guy that sings. Outstanding. Identical to Robert Plant. It's almost as if you're in an actual Led Zeppelin concert. And it was just probably the best show I've ever seen in my entire life. They did um the Home Bobby Dick uh drum solo. Wow. White Summer, the whole first album. And it it was just wild. So good. I highly highly recommend you guys to look them up. it it just just because of you know you know obviously you know we don't have um John Bonham anymore and everyone's older but it's just almost like they just took these members and they just inherited just every bit of talent that these guys had and it's just such a great band. Such a great band, dude. Such a good cover band. Highly recommend to see them. You know what, Robert Plant still can sing and he sings Ramble On. He tours by him. He tours with either Allison Krauss or he's got somebody else he was touring with, but you know, he's still got the voice. But, uh, yeah, Starling Bow's a great place. By the way, Chris Johnson, who uh manages it, comes in here on Wednesday nights. He's also a comedian. But the thing you said about, you know, you didn't grow up when we grew up. You're lucky in that we grew up while it was happening, so we didn't know what was going to happen. whereas you've got the entire body work available to you at any time. So your experience with Led Zeppelin is different than mine, but it's a great experience to have. Don't worry about when you grew up. You just just be thankful that it's all still out there in the technology and it'll always get reproduced in the new technology. You know what I mean? So enjoy. Yeah, they did um Yeah, dude. They did the whole like 12 n 9 to 12 minutes of dazed and confused and the guy that does the guitar pulled out the violin bow. He just did everything, dude. It was just it's such a such a great performance. If you ever want to go look them up or see them, I just highly recommend it. You got it, Tommy. Thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Jeff in Slington, where are you? Stattington, Pennsylvania. Slington, Pennsylvania. Actually, it's the home of America's blackboard. Oh, the blackboard% of America's blackboards were manufactured in Slington, Pennsylvania. That makes sense. Slington. That makes sense. Okay. So, my band is Iron Maiden. They always put a great show on. Every couple years I always go to see them and they're consistent. Um, it's something that you can count on. When you pay those big bucks for a ticket, you know you're going to go see a good show with good voice. That's the most important thing, Jeffrey. That's the most important thing. And thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. We got Jimmy in Marstown. Jimmy, who you got for me? Odell Beckham. Odell Beckham. [laughter] We're going back in time. What do you think? Any good or bad? You know what? Uh I I want to know how bad is uh neighbors really hurt that suddenly today we went out and got three guys off the clearance rack. Juju Smith, Shuster, uh Barios, they signed Barios first and he's the returner. So I think that that made sense. But then like the other two, it's like you roll the dice, what do you got to lose? Yeah. Yeah. But I was thinking MC Jagger, he says MC Jagger runs like five miles a day. I don't know if he's still doing it, but I think he is. And you know what? When you see him run, when you see him on stage, Ringo, I mean, I was surprised that, you know, there are guys, think about how many guys, you know, that are 85. Not many. Do you see them running around? I mean, you know, just go stand on the stage for three hours. Forget about anything else. Just stand there. And you see these guys like being in shape and this rock and roll shape, right? Did you have you seen Ringo? You got it, Jimmy. Thanks for the call. The New Jersey 101.5. Do yourself a favor. go on YouTube or whatever. Just it's amazing, you know. Uh and Frankie Valley, you know, he uh I didn't realize he's had like domestic uh problems and stuff like that. I can't his wife is like really young, too. Frankie Valley, there's a picture of him and his wife. Uh but 1800 283 101.5 the for what you're paying for the ticket. I get the idea. You know, you also got that bucket list factor like this may be the last time you get to see him. But you know what? For what you're going to pay for your ticket, you should get to see him. And it's sad. I don't know, like if it were me on the one hand, you know, after a while, there's only so much money you could have. I start thinking more about how I want to be remembered because when the clips come out, I would much ra I would much rather see like the young Paul clips than the old Paul clips. All right, 1800 283 [music] 101.5 Steve Trevalis talking about who still [music] got it and who doesn't still have it when it comes to the classic rockers. Let's talk [music] to Dawn and Brick. Hi Don. Hi Steve. Um, first thing I want to say is love Frankie Valley. My parents named me. I'm named after one of his songs. Oh, you're named after Dawn. Go away. I'm no good for you. Right. All right. There we go. Yes, I am. How about that? Also, uh, Fleetwood Mac. Best show I ever saw. Uh-huh. Now, when did you see tickets? Uh, I'd say five, six years ago. They had Mike Campbell. Oh, nice. Filling in. Fantastic show. Fantastic show. Um, but I bought tickets in September to go see AC/DC. Did you see him? Not yet. I'm I'm going in September. Oh, in September. Okay. Yep. I figured it's going to be my last shot to see AC/DC. Oh, they're great. You're going to love them. They still got it. So, I out of all the bands that I've never been able to see, they are the ones that I just couldn't. I mean, the last time I think it was last year, the year before that I tried to get tickets, it was like $500 a ticket. Oh, wow. They better be good for 500. They better shake you all night long for $500 a ticket. [laughter] So, I was able to get a good price. Uh they're playing at Metife Stadium in September, and I said, I have to go. It'll probably be my last chance to ever go see them. I've seen I'm telling you what's great about AC/DC. I saw them in Tampa. Every song three minutes. Every song. No slow songs. None of that wash the window stuff. Every song is three minutes. Great hook, fast one right after the other after the other. They don't mess around. And they're all about four feet tall. [laughter] They should all be singing on a dashboard. I mean, I've probably seen everybody else. I've wanted to see Halen, the Stones, Arrol. I mean, who's left AC/DC. All right. Well, you know what? After you see him, call. Let me know what you thought. Absolutely. I will let you know. You got it, Don. Thanks for calling. New Jersey 101.5. Ready? Ready. Let's do it. Where is it? Excellent news. Now, it's time for [music] headlines and Trevlines. I read the news today. Doctor, doctor, [music] give me the news. As Steve comments on the headlines of New Jersey, brace yourself, folks, for mindblowing news as only Steve can. What the hell's going on out here? What do [music] we got? Are you hungry, Steve? I'm always hungry. I'm really hungry after reading Kylie Moore's article on Ready for It? [music] What's that? A new nonky place. A nonky place? Yes. in Jersey City. It's called Noki on Ninth. [music] Offers $10 no dishes. Served in like a cute Chinese container, [music] like a little takeaway container. I'm so going to take a road trip. Are [music] they taking the from us? They took the mozzarell from us, right? Mozadell became mass appeal. Now the is going to be mass appeal. [music] Yes. Potato macaroni. H I'm super excited about this. So the grand opening is on Friday. [music] Really? Yeah. I mean, they're already opened. They open their doors at the end of May, but they're going to have the grand opening on Friday. I [music] say road trip. Oh, absolutely. You know, no, no, better yet. Better yet, get them down here. Yes. [music] Get them down here. So, listen, you guys, we want we were talking about you on the radio. Get them down here. Then they show up and they put out a big spread and we talk about how great Young was. All right. So, you guys might remember Mike the situation from Jersey Shore. Well, he's considering a run for governor. New Jersey governor. Of what state? Of New Jersey. Really? He made the comment at the View Magazine spring edition party in Wall Township. He says he's putting his reality television career on hold while he opens more rehab centers. And he's going to and then he's going to focus on politics. He could be the next Spencer Pratt, right? All of a sudden be we have a reality president. We'll have a reality governor. Reality governor in California. And this will be fun. Is he a Democrat or Republican? I believe Republican. What's his situation? Well, I would imagine that his his platform might be something like, you know, no taxes, no sales tax on was it Jim Tan Laundry. Am I getting the order right? Cuz I didn't watch Jersey Shore. My theory on Jersey Shore is that God saw one episode and send Supertorm Sandy to wipe out all evidence. That was my theory. That's terrible. All right. Well, the uh very popular Tribeca Film Festival kicks off this week. It's the 25th annual film festival and they're going to be showing tons of different things including a documentary about R&B band Earth, Wind, and Fire. Really? So, that would be pretty cool. And uh Bruce Springsteen is also going to be presented with an award, the Harry Bellfonte Voices for Social Justice Award. So, you know, there's that, free screenings and whatnot. But and Springsteen together again. How nice. There you go. Is he going to accept the award or do a rant? Well, I don't know. It doesn't say whether he's going to accept the award, but is he going to be there to accept the award, right? It doesn't say whether he's going to be there to accept the award. I guess we'll have to just stay tuned to find out. I'm thinking. Yeah. So, uh, Jen Z is Cory Booker introduces him. It may take an hour and a half, but he'll be there, right? Exactly. Gen Z is fueling box office demand. Fandango found the generation which ranges from ages 14 to 29 years old is one of the most active moviegoing demographics and attends more films per year than any than some older generations. I mean I think this is great news because I feel like movies has have really the theater itself has really struggled postco and then also everybody's got their own setup right well the problem is the movies have become so expensive and the theaters can't make any money I was talking to in fact um I was talking to Chris Johnston and he's playing at a theater I forget where it is but the guy was saying to him he says you know we lose money with the movies because they're so expensive. So, they try to make side money by doing like concerts and comedy shows and bringing bands in, stuff like that because they're just so I think about what the price is of a movie. And then on top of that, they only hold them in the theater for like 2 weeks. I know. It's so different than it used to be. Yeah. Yeah. I saw The Devil Wears Prada 2 over the weekend and I was just thinking about the fact that I was like, you know, you can only charge so much for a movie ticket. Like I don't think most people there's definitely like a a ceiling. For the popcorn, right? But there's a ceiling on the ticket itself. Like I don't know that most people are going to fork over, you know, $25 for a theater ticket. And then I'm looking I'm like sitting in there and I'm like, "Wow, you know, these spaces are super expensive to heat and cool, keep the lights on." So yeah, the concessions I imagine is how they make money. But they overcharge you for them in order to do that. Sure. A lot of I'm really surprised that they've that they're still in business that they wouldn't just go right to Netflix and just say, "You know what? Just bypass it, put them out there, and because they know they're going to get paid from Netflix." There is nothing though like seeing one of those like popcorn films like any Marvel film. Like there's nothing like seeing it in a theater. Like you're you're just not no matter what your home setup is, it's not going to compete with that experience. IMAX. Yeah. Right. So I You got that. Exactly. So, I think that that still drives people to the theater, but I imagine like films that are like quieter in scope, like dramas and whatnot, it's a little bit harder these days. It's nice to have a place where you can go and get away or a place where you can take a date, you know, or just have a night out. Well, it's also nice to have that collective experience. Like I remember when I was growing up and it was, you know, in high school, like one of the things that I always like remember and and think it's kind of sad because now we don't have that sort of collective experience was you didn't have so much content. You pretty much just had network TV, cable, but not a lot of people had cable like I feel like in the early 90s and you had the theater and you had the big whatever that big movie was that was going to be, you know, for that weekend. And I remember like leaving high school on a Friday and talking with my friends like, "What are you going to do?" "Oh, I'm going to go see the new, you know, Tom Cruz or Arnold Schwarzenegger film." And then on Monday when you came back to school, cuz of course we didn't have cell phones then. Um I'm really dating myself, but on Monday you'd come back and you know you put your stuff in the locker and everybody would be talking about oh you know did you see Terminator 2 blah blah blah. I really missed that because it was like a lot of people were doing the same thing that you were doing. And so we all had this like shared experience. Yeah. And that was the thing like but the difference too is that you didn't have a clock on it. Like today when you're telling people if you don't if you don't make it don't worry it's going to be on Netflix on a week from Friday. Exactly. Why would you go out and spend the money? Right. You know it's easy to just do and plus today like you see these look at the size of the TVs. There are 90in televisions. It is true. I was at a friend's house and he's built a theater in his house and he's like a proper theater withad with the stadium seating. Does he have concessions, too? Yeah. [laughter] Really? Charge me $15 for a popcorn. What else we got? All right. So, Taylor Swift is releasing new music for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think that's just too super cool. The singer announced her original song, I Knew It, I Knew You, on social media today. She said she uh wrote the song after she was lucky enough to see the film in its early stages. And the song releases on Friday and the the uh the Toy Story 5 is in theaters June 19th. I remember seeing the first Toy Story and just thought it was like one of the best films ever. Every kid will age with that Toy Story with the Toy Story series. Is she playing the Barbie doll in the movie or what's the deal? I don't know that she's playing anything other than just the song. Yeah. Yeah. You know Tim Allen, did you read Tim Allen? Um they almost they almost changed him because his voice got old and they brought him in and because they want they don't want Buzz Lightyear have an old voice. No. Right. So they brought him in and he said that uh they had me doing these v I've never done vocal exercises in my life and they told me I had to do these vocal exercises in order to sound like Buzz Lighty you're always supposed to sound and so that did I'm assuming he obviously got to he gets to stay. Yeah he he gets to stay but yeah he goes you know that his voice was getting grally and they didn't want buzz to be old. Uh we're going to come back in a little bit after fast traffic. All right. 1 800283 101.5 Steve Trevalis and the net. What's happening? [music] What else is happening? All right. So, a lot of people are blaming AI [music] on the issue of unemployment among recent college graduates. But [music] a new study really is debunking that. They're saying the rise of remote work since the pandemic [music] has made businesses more reluctant to hire young inexperienced workers. and the key driver of higher unemployment rates for recent college graduates. A study found today that was released today. Uh the reason so the study concludes that businesses are reluctant to hire new college grads into remote work because it is harder to train and mentor them when they are working remotely. I do think that remote work is unfortunate in that regard. I think when you're first starting out in your career, I'm not sure like how many years, uh maybe the first 5 years, it would really be beneficial for you to be in an office as opposed to working from home. Oh, agreed. Because I just think you're probably missing out on Well, you don't know. Somebody's got you this. You need someone to ask. You need someone to mentor you. And you also need to feel like you're working and not home. Yes. You need to feel like you're part of something. You ever worked at home from home? No, never. Oh my god. It's I'm telling I've I did it for a couple years uh when I did traffic and part of the deal that got me out of traffic and into this place that place was and you go work from home. Oh, this is great. I'll save. But you're you're so disconnected because you're doing your job and you don't have that camaraderie. You don't have like, you know, you walk in here and you see everybody, how you doing? You crack a few jokes. You you know the person that you see every day and you go, that doesn't exist. It's just the job. And you don't have, you know, and you it's it affects your performance. You don't feel connected. You don't feel like you're part of the team. You know, you feel like you're kind of looking through the glass. And some people like that, you know, and some people too if you're doing depending on what you're doing. But, you know, if you if you're independent, you're really not part of a team anyway. So, it's different where you're just putting yourself out there everywhere. But, yeah, and especially when you're when you're young and you're learning and you want to be accepted because the one thing you need when you start out is acceptance. Absolutely. And you need somebody who's going to be able to guide you. And I think that is hard to do remotely. I mean, I imagine having not ever worked remotely, there are a lot of benefits to it. I could see like saving on gas for example and probably like doing a couple loads of laundry while you're working. That could be annoying. I talked to Ann about that once. It's like you know you know what sucks about that because your home Dina Blizzard we talked about it. I need to be focused when I work. I [clears throat] need nothing on the desk. I need and I'm the same way. I need no clutter. I need everything because I don't want to be distracted. And what happens is like when you see the law oh no I got to do it. You get distracted. I got to load the dishwasher. I got to fold the clothes. And now you, why am I folding clothes when I'm supposed to be working? I got to do stuff. Don't they understand how important my job is? [laughter] Right. You're distracting yourself. You're distracting yourself. Right. Right. You're like, "Wait a minute." Yeah. It's kind of like people keep throw like you running down the road and they keep throwing bowling balls underneath you and you're jumping over them. Yeah. I mean, I also I mean, there are times when sometimes, you know, you always have a couple of um moments where there's a lot of distraction in the office and there are definitely times when I'm like, "Oh, I wish I could just lock myself away and get this done." Especially if there's a lot of chatter. That's why the office that can be difficult at times. And I can see where that could be, you know, an advantage to working from home is that, you know, you're pretty much just you yourself. Your home is one room. That's easy to work. That's very easy. You have to worry. [laughter] Although that would drive people I mean you'd get stir crazy if especially because I have such a small space to then work and sleep and live in it. Oh my gosh. Go out in written house square. Sit on Pierre's bench. [laughter] Pier got his bench dedicated today. I I know that. Or a couple of days ago, I think it was. Yeah. Yeah. I have to go and check it out. I haven't seen it yet, you know. Well, that's the famous picture with Pierre with the coffee in the newspaper reading the ben reading on the bench. That's classic. That really is. And they dedicated the bench to him. But I imagine like it's got to be difficult for kids today, you know, because when we started out, any of us really, it was all, you know, you went into a facility, whether it be an office, a hospital, a radio station, whatever, and you were introduced to people like that. I would imagine that if you're working from home, that still happens, but you're not getting to know anyone, especially if you don't really have any um engagement with them, like if they're not really part of your team. Like here, for example, you know, we have a programming department, we have a news department, and we have a sales department. You hear the echoes in all of them. And honestly, like the news and the sales department don't really interact. I mean, if we all worked from home, we would never really interact. But because we're here in the building, we say hi to each other. What's going on? They can hear us. Crack a joke. You hear you may have had a conversation, right? Yeah. That's the thing. But the thing too is when you're when you're working like when you're young, you need to understand the structure. Absolutely. And that's the most important thing. It's got to be hard for young people to fill in the blanks with that like when you're working on teams like to to try to understand like what is the hierarchy and what is the process you know and I mean I'm sure the training is probably only a couple weeks and then you're off on your own to go do the job and that's really challenging and you know what else when I need the interaction of my boss I need and that's the thing like and everybody I think you need You need to have that conf have interaction because if anything, you know, you're still doing a good job, right? You know, everything's okay. Because sometimes when you don't, you know, [clears throat] and one of the biggest problems we have today with the way we communicate through text and email and everything is you don't understand tone. And you can read anything the way you want and especially when you're a kid. Sure. Because you don't understand. You know, you don't have that. Okay. What do you know? 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