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me today ladies and gentlemen Eleanor car in

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even close. Thank you You're amazing. right,

4:15

so we've talked a while you and

4:17

I have known each other. We've done

4:19

plenty of podcasts together -hmm. I

4:22

always ask people if they sat on this seat

4:24

back in the day, the old school station wagon

4:26

seat to out in traffic. That's how I like

4:28

to start this. Yeah, we for sure

4:30

did. I just, I don't remember

4:32

the cloth. Like I said, I a

4:34

joke about, you know, there would

4:36

be all 10 of us. in this,

4:38

my dad had, I want to say it's

4:40

called an impala. You know my dad

4:42

owns a typewriter store so he had a little money. That's

4:49

closer to that second one. the

4:51

Impala. Impala, I I think it was the

4:53

Impala. I think I'm right or that white one

4:55

down there, but we always had blue We

4:57

always had blue so it was like that, but

4:59

there's no seat turning back, right? No,

5:01

there definitely is. I don't remember that. No

5:03

doubt there's one in every one of these

5:05

things. it was again it could have been

5:08

blocked out. tell you why you probably don't

5:10

know. The back of the day, those seats

5:12

also would fold down flat. So you had

5:14

a whole area in the back, like almost

5:16

a fucking playpen. That's what did. know what

5:18

I mean? And it was metal. Because that was

5:20

that right that was that seat If

5:22

you would have popped that seat up. you

5:25

would have had it facing out the back. My

5:27

dad always had stuff back there and

5:29

that was a terrible story now

5:31

I was only an infant when this

5:33

happened. So I only know from

5:35

other people telling the stories, but we

5:37

went from Philly to Syracuse, New

5:40

York to visit either my mom or

5:42

my dad's for I don't remember,

5:44

but he had the nose of it.

5:46

I'm number eight. Yes, so real

5:48

quick how many total kids do your

5:50

mom and dad have ten ten and

5:52

you're the eighth I'm number eight how

5:55

many boys how many girls six boys

5:57

four girls six and four. Okay. Yeah,

5:59

and what? girl are you in order? The

6:02

number three on the third There

6:04

was, I only have one little

6:06

sister, okay, and And so, they're

6:08

all were packed in

6:10

this. car, right well for you in

6:12

this station. Yeah, dad's up front chain

6:15

smoking. I'm sitting on my mom's

6:17

lap. Windows are up, we're fine.

6:19

Everybody's fine. And so

6:21

the car is a little smoky and

6:23

there's luggage. Cause you

6:25

gotta remember, you got all of us,

6:27

but you also gotta have luggage cause

6:29

we're gonna stay overnight. And, And... Is that

6:32

up on top or is that also in the back?

6:34

That's the back. I'm going to say

6:36

it's in the back because of this. The

6:40

Boys were sitting in the back in between

6:42

the bags kind of thing. So everybody's

6:44

just wedged in there. I don't think anything's

6:46

on top. I I be honest. And

6:48

my dad was big on those hook on

6:50

use. So maybe there was something up

6:52

there. I just don't know what it was.

6:54

They're not called hook on use, you

6:56

know. they are. Yeah, straps, the belt strap.

6:58

We use to to pull each other's

7:00

clothes apart with those. Anyway, that's not what

7:02

they're used for. do you mean you would take

7:04

their straps and put them on your pants, rip you

7:06

from them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

7:08

yeah. We'd them but with belt pants. I've never

7:11

even thought of that. yeah. My brother Billy would go

7:13

hook on you and I'd be like,

7:15

and whatever it was, he'd say it,

7:17

but he was already like halfway away

7:19

from you. So you're, you're going to

7:21

get a wedgie or you're going to

7:23

get something. And so the hook on

7:25

us, I don't know the real name.

7:27

That's what we call them. And so,

7:29

um, we're in this car we get

7:31

up to everybody's getting car stick starting

7:33

with yours truly. This is why everybody

7:35

tells the story with the hatred for

7:37

Eleanor. So, um, I throw up On

7:39

your mom's lap on my mom's lap. She's

7:42

trying to clean it up Jesus Christ what

7:44

the hell is that? you know yelling

7:46

with the terry tin in his mouth

7:49

a a terry tin? That's a kind of cigarette. There

7:51

it is. There we go. Oh,

7:53

he just had an anxiety attack. Let

7:56

me see that Oh, God. And

7:58

their soft pack always You he would

8:00

sleep on them, so we would when we would

8:03

feel them they were we would

8:05

smoke them we would smoke them like you're

8:07

steal You would steal and you got

8:09

a black eye, what

8:11

the hell is that? a black

8:13

guy. tucked the wrong cigarette.

8:16

She must have does she have a

8:18

black eye? Why does she have

8:20

a black eye? Tarryton is better

8:22

than a bad is why to say a bad

8:24

in it. I don't know bad the

8:26

hell that ad. a .S. ad. Oh, I

8:28

see. bad ad. Oh, I see she's

8:31

eye a she's fighting eye smoke

8:33

her cigarette, fighting to smoke her

8:35

tell you the graphics. than

8:37

switch to it. That's that's what

8:39

mine's gonna look like if

8:41

I do my own. you the graphics

8:43

gonna do my own Shit, that's what

8:45

I'm gonna, mine's gonna look

8:48

like if I do my own.

8:50

I'm gonna do my own makeup

8:52

guys. Here I am. It's all

8:54

bad. What the fuck were they

8:57

they promoting? Not only cancer, you

8:59

could beat your wife, she'll fucking

9:01

fight you. you. This down

9:03

here is like here is like, look at

9:05

at this God. They don't want

9:07

to switch, don't dad loved them. I

9:09

them, never never in

9:11

my life heard of

9:13

this Me either. Only from my dad. You

9:16

know from my to smoke these

9:18

of us that smoke these cigarettes? because I because

9:20

I started smoking and that's uncomfortable

9:22

too, but I was but I was

9:24

nine. And so my dad left when

9:26

I was was seven. So I I would

9:28

steal them from my brothers, know, and

9:30

they would smoke them flat like that.

9:33

And I was just like, like, stupid,

9:35

you know? He left when I was like

9:37

like eight. or eight. I throwing up in

9:39

the car I throw up in the

9:41

trying to clean it up mom's

9:43

trying to clean it upset, you know

9:46

oh, don't she's cleaning it up

9:48

and everybody cleaning was like everybody,

9:50

it was it went Everybody

9:52

in the second second row up. Everybody

9:54

in the back started throwing

9:56

up. My dad lost it, right? up.

9:58

My dad lost car right? all that shit, you

10:01

know, we get up to Syracuse and

10:03

everybody's fighting and it's awful and they're

10:05

cleaning shit out and they're cleaning up

10:07

the car and then we hang out

10:09

with the people and then I don't

10:11

know if they stayed overnight again I'm

10:13

very little but on the way back

10:15

my brother Jimmy got really sick in

10:17

the back so he opened the suitcase

10:19

and he threw up in it. And

10:21

it was my dad's brand new suit,

10:23

like whatever they wore to that party.

10:25

He threw up all over. That's disgusting.

10:27

Just quietly trying to be like, oh,

10:29

because he was like, I will give.

10:31

Because Jimmy was older. So, you know,

10:33

he's at the age, you could, you

10:35

fucking hit him, I guess. And so

10:37

he. opened it up and threw up

10:39

in there and when they took the

10:41

stuff upstairs you just hear my dad

10:43

Jesus Christ that I just did. Mother's

10:45

holding him back like please don't kill

10:47

him please don't kill him we don't

10:49

know which one did it. We don't

10:51

know what it is. fucking nine possibilities

10:53

back there. Is it this one? Is

10:55

it this one? Is it this little

10:57

one? Like it's it was so I

10:59

can't imagine like I don't remember that

11:01

obviously because I was a baby but

11:03

that was things like that I can't

11:05

imagine going on a long trip in

11:07

these and I always joke about You

11:09

know, we'd all 10 of us being

11:11

there. And my dad, if he made

11:13

a hard right, I could get pregnant

11:15

by one of my brothers, because these

11:17

things, you just slide it for us,

11:19

right? Yep. I remember that we was

11:21

like squeezed the lemon. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

11:23

Squeeze the lemon. We were just flying

11:26

around. I remember being hanging out the

11:28

back, oh, that might have been his

11:30

truck, his suburban truck. counting cars or

11:32

saying we're beating you, you know, stupid

11:34

kids, totally, nothing anybody would ever do

11:36

today. There would be a, a, a,

11:38

a, a, Lether of cops,

11:40

maybe even the National

11:42

Guard would come

11:44

in come in, the way

11:46

We were hanging

11:48

out the back and

11:50

we're like like, ah. and

11:52

my dad's just fucking driving chain

11:54

smoking and hanging out

11:56

the back window And

11:58

my dad hit

12:00

a bump and I

12:02

went and I

12:04

had a and on

12:06

and it cracked in

12:08

half and my

12:10

head started bleeding head started

12:12

bleeding the fucking comb went

12:14

comb my head. head I

12:16

I I like, I

12:18

mean a while while

12:20

I was like, I

12:22

don't think I

12:24

could drink water. It'll

12:26

drink water it'll price for it right out

12:28

that it hurt so hard I couldn't tell

12:30

my bleeding So I just tell my guys,

12:32

I can't tell at we threw and

12:35

we threw away. away Oh, her

12:37

hair stayed nice. Yeah, Oh, her hair

12:39

stayed nice, it that's blood Can't tell my

12:41

dad I'm bleeding or I'll get trouble.

12:43

That's the way way it

12:45

I'll get get beat. That's old Moose. you

12:47

just let the blood blood. Keep the the

12:50

hair nice. what I mean? So I'm guessing So

12:52

I'm guessing after not a you're not a

12:54

vacation family anymore. You're not really as

12:56

mom throwing in? We you in? We weren't

12:58

one before that gets weird, the vacation where it

13:00

gets weird the vacation thing away to

13:02

people away to that. know We'll go away

13:04

to this had a license. Oh, never mom never

13:06

drove just didn't prefer had a license.

13:08

Oh a license. She got a you meant just

13:10

didn't a license later. She got a a license

13:13

She got a she goes, I She

13:15

learn. a license later. goes, she got a license later.

13:17

They're separated years at

13:19

this point Years, I'm a teenager a

13:21

teenager at this point. So they've been

13:23

gone, He's been gone a long time time.

13:25

And he saw saw her driving on the

13:27

road and he drove up to her up to her

13:29

and like started yelling. Oh, nobody's safe

13:31

out here with you out here girl, cuz

13:33

they got they didn't like they You

13:35

know, you were very classy about their

13:37

breakup. their breakup. And so she goes, get the hell out here. get

13:39

the hell out of here. And then

13:41

she got nervous and she never drove

13:43

again. again. So she, so we we don't have. If

13:46

you don't have a car, we're not going

13:48

anywhere. car, we're not going years, we

13:50

didn't go anywhere go anywhere. And then Jimmy,

13:52

my older brother, he got

13:54

his his life, Tommy, Karen, they would

13:56

offer to drive, but we

13:58

would go. go. When Jimmy drove

14:01

down the he he was worse than

14:03

my dad at that point because he

14:05

was a kid he was a kid. And he caught

14:07

us caught us my brother Charlie had pee. Oh, I

14:09

brother, Charlie, had a we were in, Oh,

14:11

I remember what. car we were in And

14:13

it's traumatic. like, I'm Charlie was like, I'm

14:15

going to if I don't I don't so he And

14:17

so he just peed in a bottle of

14:19

sorts of, and it wasn't like a I

14:21

was was probably a soda bottle, bottle. or a

14:23

or a beer camp. no I'm kidding. But

14:26

he peed in that in that and, pull over

14:28

cause he was mad at him. And I'm

14:30

like, you can't, like now I'm like,

14:32

you can't have him. And I'm like, you can't,

14:34

like now I'm like, you he was

14:36

a kid his so he was

14:38

just, like, and Charlie was just crying quietly in

14:40

the back, like, okay. I can't

14:42

say he was no one

14:44

can say anything was just crying

14:47

quietly in the back, like, I can't in

14:49

the bottle, was just, no I remember

14:51

being like, so we're gonna keep that

14:53

in the car? happening to that hot?

14:55

That was that was the first

14:57

time I I sold Charlie's cock. And I'm like,

14:59

all right, it's weird how he's getting

15:01

it right in like, all right, I'm kidding.

15:04

I he's getting it right in

15:06

there. awful. Charlie kidding. can't. That's awful. attack.

15:08

But it will have a heart attack.

15:10

because like you were But it was with

15:12

just bathrooms. you were saying with the

15:14

want to talk I want to talk about. Growing

15:16

up with, now you got. Dad left there's 11

15:18

of you in a house. Yeah. How many

15:21

dog. always have a dog.

15:23

house? We always have a dog. have

15:25

my uncle Tommy was an amazing

15:27

like an amazing, whatever like there's

15:29

whatever. Don't we look a like fluffy? Don't

15:31

we look alike? Is

15:33

that fluffy? Are we twins?

15:35

twins do look you do How do you look?

15:37

a say little? How do you look like Look at

15:40

the 30 dog? by the way. the 30 year

15:42

old by the way. 30 No,

15:44

you're not. right there. No you're not.

15:46

Shut your face. Does it? Don't know? I

15:48

was like an old lady? Shut up! The

15:50

hair is the only... That was the

15:52

For sure. for sure. doesn't

15:55

matter. think, let's see,

15:57

let's see, Fluffy was... We got Fluffy

15:59

like... She could barely walk and she was she

16:01

was my therapist. was my, I would

16:03

hide under the table with her and be

16:05

like, no one loves me in here

16:08

and you're the only one the only I and I

16:10

hate it here we gotta get out I can't

16:12

can't the bathroom I don't

16:14

what's happening like it was so

16:16

bad she was my bestie was my

16:18

bestie, but I was probably in

16:20

fourth grade like that it's like that.

16:22

It's pretty serious. with a My

16:24

sister with too so she would so she would

16:26

do all kinds of wild shit. But anyway,

16:29

so care, maybe I was in I was in like

16:31

sixth grade there. I don't know, but

16:33

I do look old. It's funny. And

16:35

I used to buy beer for people.

16:37

beer for people a kid. And a kid. go

16:39

go into Asian. Oh, she's so tall. She's

16:41

so tall. She's so tall. that Is that

16:43

right? Give me the beer. And me the beer.

16:45

fine with it. No problem. I go fine with it.

16:47

out. I was out and are we going to we

16:49

going to get an older person

16:51

to get us to No, a here. Eleanor

16:54

What? What? person. Because I was tall,

16:56

would go. go. been I was saying 16 is

16:58

when I could walk in, no

17:00

problem. And I had my sister's ID

17:02

that said that said I was, 10 years

17:04

older. older. 14, I was

17:06

going to to nightclubs. 14, they they

17:08

were like, oh, she's 24, no question.

17:10

Not a question. Oh, go ahead. Not

17:12

what's your street address? Nothing. nothing.

17:15

one. with your birth. No you saw

17:17

that elderly woman there elderly woman there.

17:19

I was a I was a golden

17:21

girl I was six. You were a girl

17:23

girl. But anyway, so she. So

17:25

you're saying your uncle's handy man

17:28

was like, it's just too. like, not,

17:30

too, if you're not. awful story.

17:32

This is an awful story. Again, I

17:34

wasn't born yet. My mom was

17:36

pregnant with my brother, my brother and my

17:38

dad said, going to, you know, out out a

17:41

new house. house. So So my mom

17:43

thought he was gonna. gonna buy

17:45

a new house and a

17:47

bigger house that fit have

17:49

that point would have been

17:51

she you kids pregnant with pregnant

17:54

with Johnny. halfway yeah only

17:56

have point. That's that's

17:58

nuts so my mom They go

18:00

to the realtor and they find out

18:02

they can't afford anything else. So

18:04

they're going to buy this house. And

18:06

my mom cried the whole way

18:08

home. And she was like, we can't

18:10

fit, we can't fit. So my

18:12

uncle Tommy put a bathroom, a powder

18:14

room down. This was the big

18:16

solution, a powder room downstairs. Was there

18:18

only one bathroom at the time?

18:20

Yeah. So you're eating dinner. And there's

18:22

a toilet right there. We have

18:24

a everybody always goes the pet. It's

18:26

in the kitchen. Everything's in the

18:28

kitchen. in in the kitchen. And then

18:31

you go upstairs. We

18:33

didn't have air conditioning. No

18:35

air conditioning at all. So

18:37

it's disgusting. That's got to

18:39

be Billy. That's Billy. I'll

18:41

say it's Billy. I'm

18:46

like, are you shitting there right now, dude?

18:48

Yeah. I'm like, God, just want to come into

18:50

the fridge and get something real quick. I don't

18:52

even want to have a drink out of

18:54

there. You gave me the flashback of a lifetime.

18:56

this is you got to help me. You gave

18:58

got to help me. And a I run in

19:00

the powder room. My brother Johnny goes, you look

19:02

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20:08

this shit. Look at this. If

20:11

we had the internet. Oh

20:13

man. none of us are

20:15

having Every single time they

20:17

me in that fucking bathroom to

20:20

look at their shit I mean

20:22

I could tell you the colors

20:24

So It's what I'm saying. I just lived

20:26

in a house. It was me, my two

20:28

brothers and my dad and we had one

20:30

bathroom and it was a problem. You've got

20:32

10 people. And that would be like, look,

20:34

man, I need to take a shit, open

20:36

the fucking door while you're taking a shower.

20:38

And I got, I'm going sit here and

20:40

take this shit right now. And it's in

20:43

the steam, it's in the hot and you

20:45

flush the toilet. it's have somebody you their teeth.

20:47

did it all. We did it all. Flushing

20:49

the toilet, the mess with the water too.

20:51

Do you Naturally. I mean it just. yelling.

20:53

by and hit one if it's over,

20:55

like. Yes. oh, what the fuck

20:57

is wrong with you? always, they

20:59

always knew who it was. It was the best now.

21:01

Did you have a door on your bathroom a door?

21:04

A door! Yeah, we had a door! We

21:06

broke it down and we had a sheet. We

21:08

pinned up. I swear swear swear on Johnny,

21:10

we had a she always shouldn't say that

21:12

out loud, Whatever. I always say swear

21:14

to God, but I swear on this person

21:17

that I liked. So I always say

21:19

their name. Uh, and so I, I swear

21:21

to God, that's what we did. We

21:23

had a sheet pinned up that that got

21:25

ripped down too, because if you took

21:27

long and they were like, get out and

21:29

then just the came through and we

21:31

would be, I'd be in the shower, Jimmy

21:33

be taking a shit. Johnny would be.

21:35

brushing his teeth. But the powder room, God, are

21:37

you serious? I to And then

21:39

downstairs, you know, The powder room is just

21:41

a toilet and a sink, right? half bath. but

21:43

also if you flush that toilet, that

21:45

fucks what upstairs too. so we're all

21:47

one little. You said my uncle was

21:49

an amazing handyman and you just

21:51

said well, he could re -do

21:53

the whole - plumbing of the house. But

21:56

he just a toilet. a hole for you

21:58

like, hey, Hey, you got to watch. machine. You got

22:00

a dryer, a dryer you got this

22:02

but your pipe is this big So use

22:05

it sparingly. And your kid's this long

22:07

over here here. I mean a lot

22:09

of bodies. You have to

22:11

really think about septic tanks

22:13

and stuff like that plumbing

22:15

and stuff lot of flushing like, this

22:18

day! of flushing, of it. To

22:20

this day, my mom still owns

22:22

that still owns It took her 54

22:24

years to pay it off. She paid pay

22:26

it off. She they have to redo the

22:28

plumbing? Has it been redone? No, she

22:30

hasn't done the plumbing Has it been redo? Original plumbing?

22:32

Still worked up though. She's had had

22:34

things done here and

22:36

there, but like. to get

22:39

it work to work properly to

22:41

you could go to the bathroom dose. flush

22:43

it and if somebody's taking a

22:45

shower. shower it's not going to fuck

22:47

up. Or if you're doing dishes or running

22:49

the dish, it's not going to mess with the

22:51

water. not You'd have to rip up the you'd have

22:53

to rip up the payment the way

22:55

underneath underneath that. to get get that to

22:57

work properly. So no, we don't we don't have

22:59

the money for that. A couple of years

23:01

ago I took my daughter to visit

23:03

one of my one She's my like my dad's

23:05

first my She's more like an aunt, but

23:08

she's a cousin more like an aunt, I think

23:10

she's in her cousin. And I think walk in her

23:12

house and I tell my daughter I

23:14

go house think I'm old. my yeah you think I'm

23:16

about to see right now. This is a

23:18

now? This is a This is what her

23:20

oven is still still. Like that one

23:22

there, that black and gee black and white like

23:24

like that. grandpa works for gee and she's

23:26

she's done nothing, or no upgrades

23:28

or anything. And I said, Stella,

23:30

you'll see. she She still has

23:32

a parlor area and then

23:34

the dining room. The kitchen doesn't even

23:36

Exactly how my got enough room for

23:39

a small, maybe two person,

23:41

tiny little something to to on. on

23:43

You cook you You cook, you go

23:45

a there, that's a good one, that second one. That's

23:47

it. That's her stove there. No

23:50

doubt. What year is that? she she

23:52

hasn't done. the That's the one

23:54

that came with Yeah, it's killer. her that

23:56

that opens up like that it and it's

23:58

fucking, it's like a old GE. The white

24:00

one with the handle here you pull

24:02

open it's got a little tiny shelf

24:04

for freezer stuff Yeah, we have updated

24:06

that stuff because You have to.

24:08

break everything. Yeah. You know

24:10

and you can only hold somebody's hand

24:13

over that fire a couple times

24:15

and then you got to get a

24:17

new one because there's too much

24:19

flesh in there Do you, When you

24:21

go down in the basement in the row home,

24:23

is it low ceiling? We got a

24:25

decent one. It is pretty

24:27

high actually. My grandmoms was

24:29

real low, her steps were

24:32

narrow and you go down

24:34

and you're like, whoa. My

24:36

brother Charlie lives in the basement

24:39

of my mom's house and they

24:41

redid it years ago and then

24:43

Charlie puts his flair in it.

24:45

But it's pretty nice. as a

24:47

kid we didn't have that. It

24:49

It was broken. So, Charlie waited

24:51

you all out and then he got the whole basement.

24:53

motherfucker. He's got the whole place. Well, he left

24:55

and came back so that's a whole

24:57

another story but we had the

24:59

unfinished basement so the pipes were exposed

25:02

in the ceiling and the guy

25:04

who redid it was my mom's neighbor

25:06

and I don't know how he

25:08

did it but if it doesn't feel

25:10

like closed it Like he did a

25:12

good job, whatever that ceiling is. then

25:14

they did the floors and stuff But

25:16

for years it was my dad had

25:18

this like sledgehammer We used to put

25:20

holes and we would playing miniature golf

25:22

we will put shit in there no

25:24

Oh yeah it's terrible children we were

25:27

just ever we were playing miniature golf

25:29

with a hockey stick So it wasn't

25:31

like a real golf and then we

25:33

play hide -and -go -seek in the dark

25:35

and if my mom wasn't home because nobody

25:37

was allowed over because the house was always

25:39

a mess. But if my mom wasn't

25:41

home, we would invite other kids over and

25:43

we had this kid come over and

25:45

we're playing hide and go seek in the

25:47

dark And he almost broke his ankle

25:49

because he fell in a hole. Nah,

25:52

I was a hole. that. Frank, got

25:54

a lot of sorry, buddy. And he

25:56

literally was like, oh, what was that?

25:58

So we stopped playing And then

26:00

one time, and I may have told this

26:02

before, my brother Bobby hid in the

26:04

dryer. No. That was his like, oh, I

26:06

got it, you're never finding me lights,

26:09

not on or off, You're never finding me.

26:11

So we figured out he was in

26:13

the dryer and Billy turned it off. No.

26:15

Yeah. Did it, did it crack?

26:17

Oh, Oh, it was great. And Bobby

26:19

went around. And he goes, yo,

26:21

that was fucking awesome. So they got

26:23

helmets. and we went back in. Yeah.

26:25

I started riding the dryer. Absolutely.

26:27

absolutely, did it twice. I it.

26:30

It threw you around,

26:32

really? What? are we

26:34

not dead? I Seriously.

26:36

seriously In dryer Bobby loved

26:38

it he did it cause Bobby was really little

26:40

like he had a big head they used to call

26:42

him soup bone he was really skinny he didn't

26:44

grow until he was in like 11th grade He

26:47

fit anywhere, and he was love he loved

26:49

that kind of shit, so his kids are

26:51

a little fucked up, but he's fine No,

26:54

no, no. Imagine. Slow

26:58

You mentioned playing with a hockey stick and

27:00

I want you to tell a story

27:03

that you told years ago the craft feast

27:05

about your mom and the Broad Street

27:07

bullies. And so I don't remember what year

27:09

it was. I just know. and

27:11

I'll say, I remember this. It

27:14

was. a storm outside and

27:16

it was mayhem in the house like just

27:18

we were all in you know when

27:20

you're stuck in and it's just crazy stuff

27:22

going on. And we're fighting with

27:24

each other and doing whatever and running

27:26

around the house like crazy and

27:28

trying to find something to take the

27:30

radios on, like the radio, the

27:32

TVs on, like it's just, there's no

27:34

head. your mom loved hockey, right

27:36

Like wasn't that her like a scape?

27:38

Like was her soups. Okay, he's

27:40

he's not coming home. Let's watch the

27:43

Flyers, that kind of thing and so

27:45

the Flyers were her fit, but this

27:47

is what I remember. My mom answered

27:49

the phone and she went, uh -huh, uh

27:51

-huh, again. Like, this was one of

27:53

my first early memories. And she went,

27:55

uh -huh, again. And she just hung up

27:58

the phone and she had E - see

28:00

little sister in her arms, and

28:02

so Edie a baby baby. And

28:06

so. She goes

28:08

um um, Maybe she was

28:10

two, whatever, a toddler, was that a

28:12

toddler? Okay. Okay, so I I don't

28:14

carry the full term now. So

28:18

she, she hangs up

28:20

the phone and on

28:22

the radio they say

28:24

uh, the Flyers game

28:26

is still happening if you

28:28

could get there um, We'll give

28:30

you free hot dogs and

28:32

hot chocolate And my mom

28:34

was just like, you know what, fuck this, wrap

28:36

them up. So she made

28:39

my sister Karen stay home to

28:41

watch the little ones my brother

28:43

Jimmy was stuck somewhere Um, and

28:45

I think Tommy, maybe Tommy and

28:47

Kathleen were stuck somewhere but

28:50

coming back, like on their way.

28:52

she took Johnny, Charlie, myself

28:54

and Billy. We bundled up, she

28:56

put us on a sled,

28:58

our fluffy, that dog you just

29:00

saw, fluffy. um, comes

29:03

out of a snowdrift. Oh,

29:05

I'm just surprised. were like, ah, and

29:07

then go oh shit. It's fluffy

29:09

go home Fluffy. Cause she was like

29:12

an old You know, she would

29:14

walk the neighborhood. more people knew fluffy

29:16

than me People used to refer

29:18

to me as fluffy sister like a

29:20

problem. More

29:22

people knew fluffy Fluffy's

29:24

sister is hilarious. My grandma, like

29:26

I said, my mom didn't drive, lived

29:28

a few blocks away from us in

29:30

a different parish, and my dog Fluffy

29:32

would walk her all the way home

29:34

and then walk back. That's sweet. Like,

29:36

I got you bitch. let's go. And

29:39

my grandma hated dogs, but Fluffy would

29:41

walk her home, and then my grandma

29:43

would go shoo, shoo, shoo, and Fluffy

29:45

was like, I know bitch, and she'd

29:47

just walk home. And so this dog

29:49

was out just being rogue. like she

29:51

always was, and she loved the snow.

29:53

So she's like, don't follow us, we're

29:55

going Like we're going

29:57

out, you know, and we're

29:59

bundled. And I remember she's pulling and

30:01

pulling, Charlie and Johnny are walking and

30:03

I'm pulling on sleds. Yeah, I'm pulling

30:05

on the sled. And I go, mom,

30:07

mom, and we lost Billy in one

30:09

of the snowdrifts. He fell off. I'm

30:11

sure we were fighting. I was like,

30:13

and he just went flying. So she

30:15

had to go find him. We get

30:17

to the spectrum, which is only a

30:19

mile, a get little over a mile away

30:21

from us. So we get there, over

30:23

nobody. a She's dragging her kids on sleds

30:25

to go see hockey for free, right?

30:27

And you get hot dogs and hot

30:29

chocolate. Bitch, we in. You're lucky all

30:31

of us ain't here. And so I'm

30:33

just sitting hot chocolate. The hot dog

30:35

is probably the last hot dog I

30:37

ever had. And you have good seats,

30:39

right? Cause nobody's there. the the glass. hot

30:41

maybe 50 people in the whole place.

30:43

Maybe 20, I don't remember. Like I

30:46

just remember it was empty. It was

30:48

empty. And Bobby, they were playing St.

30:50

Louis, St. Louis Blues and Bobby Clark

30:52

checks this guy up and his nose

30:54

goes, you know, it's just splatting blood

30:56

everywhere. That's how they would fight all

30:58

the time, the broad street bullies. And

31:00

my brother, Billy's just looked at him.

31:02

He's just like, and then Bobby Clark

31:04

like looked at Billy, like almost fainting

31:06

and then looked at my mom and

31:08

he was like, and he just backed

31:10

off the guy. Like, him. maybe I

31:12

should kill him in front of these

31:14

kids. Commit a felony on the ice

31:16

in front of this little boy. But

31:18

my brother, Johnny and Charlie were such

31:20

like Rick McLeish and Reggie Leach fans

31:22

that they were like, kill him, kill

31:24

him. Like they were at the age,

31:26

you know, they could get into it,

31:28

but me and Billy were just kind

31:30

of shocked. the McLeish Kings game, they were

31:32

playing the Oilers. is just a couple

31:34

of months ago. She's like, I hope

31:36

we see a fight. And I was

31:38

like, what? It's the only way. mean,

31:40

were you really do? She's like, yeah.

31:42

then she got, we had two good

31:44

ones. Good. Yeah, you know, I told

31:46

her, I couple was like, these days it

31:48

doesn't happen as much. school good one

31:50

this year. You were seeing one every

31:52

game back in the day, I feel

31:54

like, like, know yeah. what I mean? Last

31:56

year, they had a good one. Is

31:58

hockey still the last one? let you

32:00

go. Yeah it was great and then we it was just

32:02

something we used to say, like when

32:04

we would play football, we won the

32:06

fight, but we lost the game. the game

32:09

that happened a lot, but it was that's how the

32:11

was, at the how they we looked at the

32:13

bullies. Like they were winning mom into that's

32:15

what got my mom into it. Cause

32:17

that brought the city back. They the

32:19

brought back the city of Philadelphia. remember like

32:21

Detroit, when they're going through that time

32:24

where that like, Detroit's going under. Philadelphia was

32:26

doing the same thing in the doing the

32:28

same thing in the 70s and so the flyers brought

32:30

it back, brought people happy and

32:32

all shit. Is that that the only game you

32:34

ever got got to see? And money. Yeah, I

32:37

don't go to because I mean, also,

32:39

I mean, not taking 10 kids. taking 10

32:41

and her sister had her kids

32:43

too, so kids too. So yeah, we're

32:45

a problem yeah, we're nobody pulls And

32:47

nobody mom and her sister sister

32:49

to combine children. Yes, so shit. Do

32:51

they Do they have any

32:53

other siblings? What you mean?

32:56

kids and your mom, just the

32:58

two of them. them. Yeah. Two children. No,

33:00

wait, my mom, I'm sorry. My has another sister

33:02

and a brother so my

33:04

grandma had four kids had four

33:06

kids and 27 grandchildren. So the

33:08

other two two 20 and the

33:10

other two combined for a little

33:12

a three and a four, a little on

33:14

a So a little smarter. So much. So,

33:16

my my aunt had the

33:18

10 kids, she had a

33:20

house in Wildwood, New

33:22

Jersey. Jersey. which is technically a

33:25

vacation. vacation spot. Yep. And her and

33:27

her husband, their neighborhood went to to

33:29

shit. So had had to get out

33:31

of there and once the kids were

33:33

out of high school. high school. They then

33:35

moved to to New New Jersey, and they

33:37

were just going to stay down

33:39

there. They sold that house, but my,

33:41

my uncle was they they stayed together.

33:43

you So. helps. you know, that helps. She

33:46

wasn't a single mom like my mom.

33:48

stayed And so they stayed together and

33:50

he was a sheriff and he worked

33:52

for General like he had great jobs with

33:54

great pensions. So So we would, would let

33:56

us us come stay with them in

33:58

Wildwood. So now there's 20. Jesus adults.

34:00

We're head to foot. And

34:02

how many bedrooms? and yeah,

34:05

I bet. Three. No, one

34:07

two, and a back house Two. you're going

34:09

ahead foot like that. Yeah, it

34:11

was great, but it was fun.

34:13

I mean. it was some of my

34:15

fondest memories. say the same

34:17

thing about some of the hardest times or

34:19

still to this day some they I had

34:22

a system, my mom was in charge of

34:24

this, my aunt was in charge of that, my

34:26

uncle was in charge of just keeping us

34:28

in line because he was a big motherfucker. He

34:30

was like my dad, yeah, Yeah, He was

34:32

like my dad, he was big, my my Bobby.

34:34

And it like, know, he'd just come in

34:36

and we'd all just, Don't

34:40

say we ain't going. we ain't to bleed. We won't

34:42

get out. We know

34:44

a case like. we don't My dad's

34:46

named Charlie too. But we laugh

34:48

a two years ago, we all got

34:50

together. My cousins, we went down

34:52

and we were telling stories from childhood

34:54

and they were like, Yeah,

34:57

we waited in line for the bathroom.

34:59

They only had one bathroom and

35:01

we were like, remember when Jolly threw

35:03

Johnny through a window and they're

35:05

like, I never happened. They

35:07

remember when daddy beat the fuck out of Jimmy

35:09

so bad he couldn't come to Christmas dinner. No,

35:14

and my aunt Joy is looking

35:16

at my mother. Is this true? like

35:18

we kept it. on

35:20

the deal Yeah, don't want to blow that out. now

35:22

we don't blow them up Yeah want to come back

35:24

to that how do to be back What are

35:26

you gonna do? have my go after my

35:28

dad. He'll fucking you up. He's crazy. He'll shoot

35:30

you right now and he's 88 He's

35:33

a little he showed me a picture

35:35

of a German Luger yesterday. I like dad

35:38

He's crazy. God love him. Well, I love

35:40

you, Eleanor Kerrigan. Thank you so much

35:42

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35:44

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in the next That's

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in the next season of the

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