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The Bro Show – Season 4 Episode 1
John Natale and Joshua Berman: Real Estate, Food, and Local Flavor

On this episode of The Bro Show, hosts Jamie Giovinazzo and Troy Sears sit down with John Natale, founder of Natale Realtors, and Joshua Berman, food blogger and local content creator. John brings years of real estate experience and insight into the Monmouth County market, while Joshua shares his journey from the restaurant world to creating food content that highlights some of the best spots around New Jersey.

John and Joshua talk about building trust through local knowledge, creating content that connects with people, and what it takes to grow in industries that are always changing. From real estate market cycles to Jersey Shore food debates, this episode blends business, community, and plenty of laughs along the way.


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You will also hear about:

  • Why local content works so well in real estate
  • Some of the best bakeries at the Jersey Shore
  • Joshua’s journey from the Las Vegas restaurant world to content creation
  • John’s path from getting licensed in 2008 to building Natale Realtors
  • Favorite Chinese food orders and go-to spots

If you’re into real estate, local food, Jersey Shore stories, or need a good laugh, this episode is just for you!

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SPEAKER_06

Let's go, Troy. I'm ready. It's fucking Go Time. It's your local lender breaking off season four, episode one. Wow. With fucking Josh. Josh Food Stuff. And Jersey John. Jersey John. Yeah. These are my two friends. This is a Jersey as fuck episode. It is. Josh is uh is a food influencer. John is a a realtor in the Jersey Shore area.

SPEAKER_03

He does uh very popular on TikTok, he is.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah. John's the man.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he really is.

SPEAKER_06

So we're gonna have a good fucking episode, dude. We're gonna represent New Jersey hard as fuck. Obviously, we're gonna talk restaurants, we're talking real estate. I'm sure Netflix is gonna come up because it will. Netflix is probably the biggest thing we got going on in Monmouth County right now.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And everyone has an opinion on it, honestly. And we're gonna get their opinion. So I'm super excited about it. I can't believe we're at episode one of season four.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, and we got our interlude or whatever it's called, our interlude with uh with us. The other day, the other day. Yeah, it was great.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, just just talking, chopping it up.

SPEAKER_06

But I loved it coming live. Okay. All right, yo, let's welcome our guests and let's get this show started. I'm I'm so excited. I I think some good Jersey stuff is gonna come out of this.

SPEAKER_03

I I'm super pumped about it.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

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SPEAKER_03

Jersey John.

SPEAKER_06

Jersey guys. I enjoy following both of you. That's kind of why I wanted to have this episode. This was my my idea, because I thought we could chop up some Jersey Shore. Dude, look, this episode is going to air in two weeks. We're going to be in June. We're going to talk like Jersey Shore. We're going to talk about what's popping out the shore, what's going on in New Jersey. I thought local people would love this episode. Cool. We love your food reviews. Yeah. And I gotta tell you, I think you're one of like I mean, bro, I've been I've been hawking the internet for a long time. You were one of the first guys I saw doing the car food reviews. Yeah. I have so many people. I don't know, like I don't know if I'm right about that, but like you're the first guy really maybe because you're local, but I just don't recall seeing anyone else doing the food reviews in the car like you.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe not in Jersey, but they were like I only knew about it because I saw other people do it. So like that's I I I was not the first, definitely by far. But there was like um how Kev Eats, like that guy's a big one. Mr. Chime Time, he's like a big one. But there's there's quite a few. I just kind of that seems like a comfortable environment for me.

SPEAKER_03

What was the first place you did? Do you remember?

unknown

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03

Oh man, you don't know?

SPEAKER_04

No. I oh, I think it was um Main Street Donuts. Okay. Main Street Donuts, is that what it's called? Main Street Donuts they in Red Bank? In Belmore. Belmore? It was in Belmore, yeah. Okay. It was in Belmore. Now it's only one location, I think, in Madawan. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I think that was the first one I filmed. Wow.

SPEAKER_06

Does anything beat like fresh donuts, bro?

SPEAKER_04

No, nothing.

SPEAKER_06

Donuts are my weakness. I did, yeah, me too. That's why I don't even like to have them, because once I start eating them, I can't stop.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I did something, I don't know if it was Meg Things or whatever. We were talking about uh once bitten donuts in Red Bank. Oh, they're so good. And then somebody in the comments like, they're so expensive. I'm like, what are you, a daily drive? Like, are you eating donuts every day? Like how much is how much do the donuts cost?

SPEAKER_04

Like also, have you been to Redbank? Yeah, the Rentsa Astronomical Bank. Everything's expensive. That's okay. It's a donut. Bro, it's gourmet.

SPEAKER_06

Don't eat 25 donuts. You'll be fine. The once bitten donuts, like, I don't I don't recall them being expensive, but like, dude, they're like four to five bucks a donut.

SPEAKER_04

But bro, they're worth every fucking dollar. They're delicious.

SPEAKER_06

They're insane.

SPEAKER_04

And great people too. The people who own it are awesome.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Like, honestly, I I like um well, when we had that big open house, you had Del Monte's. Yeah. Del Pontes. Oh, Del Ponte's Del Ponte's. Del Pontes. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry for the mix up. I felt like that bakery, you got that, you got them, you got Baker's Grove, Delicious Orchards. I mean, there's just some spots around here, dude.

SPEAKER_04

Vio is legend. Yo, is legends. We had them on the podcast. He was, they were so awesome.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, Mike's awesome. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_06

So we had a good time with him. Nice. Let's open up with some baked goods at the Jersey Shore, man.

SPEAKER_04

You want to go? You go. You're the technical football. One of my favorite, I'd say, my two favorite bakeries, I think, would probably be Del Pontes, is definitely on the top two. I've never been. Oh, it's great. They're amazing. They're rainbow cookies to dive for. Oh, they're one of the best in Jersey. Easily one of the best in Jersey. I have a rainbow cookie series. I haven't kept up on it, but I find the best rainbow cookies in Jersey. It's gonna get you uh it's gonna get you.

SPEAKER_03

Can I be in like the passenger seat for an episode?

SPEAKER_04

You got it, sure. It's but yeah, it's theirs are phenomenal. Okay. And Muller's Bakery in Bayhead are probably like two, like the best their top three crumb cake in Jersey, probably, top four. My sister-in-law's at Muller somewhere. But their donuts too. Muller's donuts are phenomenal. Really great donuts. Like really, really great. Yeah, those are probably my two favorite. Like, I love Bakers Grove.

SPEAKER_06

I love their pepper cake is just so insane at Baker's Grove. That's my favorite.

SPEAKER_04

But like for like classic bakeries, like classic, like Jersey bakeries, Del Pontes, Muller's, probably my two favorite in the at the shore. Oh wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I gotta get to that one.

SPEAKER_06

Did he steal your thunder cheap?

SPEAKER_01

I was gonna say you you I should have gone first because uh those were those were you agree with him. Oh nice. Um but Del Pontes is amazing. Their cannoli's the best, probably best cannolian in Jersey. Great cannoli. Great cannoli. If not, I wouldn't say the world, I've been to Italy, but uh, but their their cannolis are phenomenal. Um everything there is great. Uh Simona's is great as well. And they're they're related. Same family. Yeah, same family in Simona. Yeah, so Simona's I live right behind there, which is Simona's a great bakery, too. Dangerous as hell. Yeah, yeah. Uh but they their chocolate fudge at Simona's, like inside of a cake, is some of the best chocolate fudge.

unknown

Fuck.

SPEAKER_01

Get hungry or anything. No, I knew it's starting them hungry. I should have brought food. Yeah. I was just filming somewhere.

SPEAKER_03

So in the car, right? Yeah. Do you have like a little snack table that you get attached to your steering wheel? Like what's a setup?

SPEAKER_04

So I have this little like basket with all my gear. Okay. So my setup where I'm sitting is I have a tray that locks on to the steering wheel. Okay, I've seen that before. I have in my bucket or whatever I want to call it, I have different trays or different like presenting items. Like I have a an actual tray, I have a cutting board, um, I have always paper towels, I always have I buy the to-go cutlery. Okay. Like I buy those, I always have those in my car. I have car wipes, paper plates, and like plastic plates. So I have like a whole thing.

SPEAKER_03

And when you're done with the meal, what do you do? Do you have a do you have a garbage bag? Do you go to a location and dump it out? Like I want to know.

SPEAKER_04

I I try to give it away. So like if I have leftovers, my girlfriend's the first call. Because I'll see if she wants it. I'll try to bring it to my family if they want it. Or just friends. Like, I have people I'll just text, do you guys want this? If it's something I want to keep, I'll just put it in the freezer. Or if it's something I can put in the freezer, or I'll eat over the next day or two.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. I just saw you just did uh Little Andy's burgers. Oh, so good. So he's gonna be at our golf out and he's setting up his truck there, and he's gonna be handing out burgers because he just got the truck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So shout out to Little Andy's burgers.

SPEAKER_04

He's gonna be there at the uh one of the best smash burgers in Jersey, hands down.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he was doing like only opening up like two days a week at one point. Yeah, he was at a pop-up spot. We were in touch with him.

SPEAKER_06

I was trying to give him my freehold kitchen and I was like, yo, just make burgers here.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. But he just got a truck now. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

He was in that bakery in Asbury. What's it called? What's her face uh what's her name? Um Yeah, no, uh Confections of the Rocky. Confections of Rock's right. Yeah, he was he was like three days a week or two days a week, yeah. And now he's got the truck now, so it's awesome. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

To just there. So how was that? It was awesome. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, his his honestly, he very few places that call themselves Smash Burgers really do smash burgers. Like I think just because by virtue of pushing the patty down, they think it's a smash burger, but they need to be thin. Like they have to be smashed out nice and thin, and he does it right.

SPEAKER_06

Nice, like a crispy bite. Like the galley had that. I went to the galley.

SPEAKER_04

The galley smash is real is for real. They are.

SPEAKER_06

Well, I gotta tell you about the galley. Don't say it. They're Detroit style pizza.

SPEAKER_04

You got me. But I knew it. It's my favorite one there.

SPEAKER_06

It's just, dude, it's the star of the show, and I know he's like, his cheesesteak's good, his cheeseburger's good, and by the way, great. Okay. The cheesesteak is fucking great. The burger is great. And I'm not saying there is no way, shape, or form, nothing. There's not a bad item there. No. The galley is a phenomenal place. And if you live in Nasbury Park, that's where you fucking eat. Okay. It's okay. Okay. It's amazing. If you want, you should drive. And I would recommend even driving up to a fucking hour. But the fucking goddamn Detroit style pizza at the galley is such like it's perfection. It yeah, dude, it's like um it's like trying to play golf with Tiger Woods or trying to play basketball with LeBron James. Like, it's that fucking good. It dwarfs everything else on the menu. And although all of his shit is great, that I would just, I would just double like personally, I'd be like, dude, this Detroit style pizza is so fucking good, nothing can stand next to it. And then, like, you know, because he's like, What do you think of this? What do you think of that? And I'm like, Chris, I'm sorry, but the Detroit style pizza here is so fucking good. Yeah, it's dwarfing all this other shit that because he's using the best shit, he's making the best shit, and in the hierarchy of food, like a cheat meal, I'm going for the pizza first, then the cheeseburger, and then cheese. And it's a huge menu, too. It's a big menu. Yeah, it was actually surprised. It's like a diner, it's like a Jersey diner. That's exactly what it is. Yeah, but that the Detroit style pizza, the galley, is um does it get the recognition it deserves? Yes, I don't know. I reviewed it a couple times.

SPEAKER_04

I I think it does. Like that was one of my favorite the Detroit Rony is like my go-to pizza there. And I rate I forgot I rated that one really high. It's insane. It's so good. It's one of the best Detroits I've ever had, if not the best one I've had.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I think it gets the recognition. I just think it gets it gets a little clouded because, and I've talked about this before, southeastern Mammoth County in particular, the top to bottom lineup for pizza is some of the best in the country. Southeastern Southeastern Mammoth County. I mean, when you go from like Manisquan to Asbury Park, you got Squan Tavern, you got Qua in Manisquan. I don't know if I remember. Rosies is insane. Rosie's is kind of cool. They're our our little sister, a little brother, right? Because it's in Ocean County. But uh in the video I did, Rosie's I put in there and how many people yelled at me, it's in Ocean County.

SPEAKER_04

It's not in Mammoth County, but they have Luchy's, which is the same guy from little Doms. I love the sauce and ocean porn. I don't think that place gets enough love. Oh yeah, of him as well.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's that's came up a couple of times in the sauce. Jason is so funny, dude. Yeah, I've never been there. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Bro, you gotta follow his page just to see what he's he's calmed down, bro. He used to shoot at everybody really and he's calmed down, but bro, yeah, he was really funny. Remember, bro, one of my favorite videos he did, he was like, you know, all these other guys, they're driving around in their Lamborghinis and Ferraris. He's like, I do this for love of the game. Look at my car. That's missing a hubcap. Yeah, I I followed his ass immediately. I was like, dude, I gotta see what this kid says. He's so But his pizza's legit. Yeah. Very legit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

John, so you like you talked about that you also rated pizza, whatever. So you it's real estate, but you also I've seen a couple things on your page. Like I was following you when you're talking about, you know, real estate, real estate, but then you came up with maybe like a restone or two. So you do a little bit of both.

SPEAKER_01

I do uh I do a lot of everything. Okay. Uh and I think it's because real estate can be boring. Uh, you know, you can only say how great Monmouth County is so many times for people to really understand it. So about a little over a year ago, I said, what's a little bit different? Yeah. Everybody's just, you know, anybody who's talking about real estate is just talking about social media or just talking about real estate on social media. Let's start talking about what's awesome actually here. And I would do like a lot of listical videos where I'd be like, these are the top ten pizza places and go through those and go through those, and people loved it. And you would get in traction on that. Yeah. A huge amount of traction. Probably 50-50. And then when you realize that when people are actually moving here, which most people that could actually afford Monmouth County, some of them live here already, but you know, most that are coming into the area don't live here. Yeah. They have no idea what it's actually like. They don't know the best pizza place. And I remember one of the mo she's with me now as an agent, uh, Sophia. She's fantastic. But when she moved down here from Brooklyn in 2017, we used to text all the time, like this this Greek place is awesome because she's great. Uh all the you know, this this spot, go here, go try this. And basically I just took all that and said, you know what, let me just start pouring it out to the world, bring the information to the people. That's it. And people love it. So then they work with you more, uh, and then at the same time you're helping local business owners out. Yeah. I like that.

SPEAKER_03

Because I think it's like a it's a balance, like giving the local businesses even a spotlight without saying, oh, by the way, give me some money, I'm gonna spotlight you. Like you're just doing it because you want to give the information out, and it's places that you love, you know. So it's not like you're just doing it to film a place to get paid or to get recognition, you're doing it of the places that you enjoy going to. Yeah, and that's I think is the biggest part. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_06

It's the point of the bro show, too.

SPEAKER_03

And that's exactly what I was gonna bring it back to. That's kind of what we're doing here, is we could you know take people. Oh, you charge us to come on the show. No, we don't charge anymore. We just want people to come on the show, promote people.

SPEAKER_07

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_03

We want to promote people because we we love what everyone is doing in so many different ways, and this is the way to expand it.

SPEAKER_06

And where I live, dude, yeah, I'm got so I'm on I'm in a tucked away nicely in in Marlboro. So on one side I have Papinos, Daninos, um La Madonna. La Medina? No, it's uh La Medina's in Brielle. La Madonna is the pizzeria I'm talking about. Not bad. And then um Espositos is also very good. Espositos is awesome. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's that's like Murder's Row and Pizza, man. It's insane. Yeah. When like the Nino's is around and there's other people you talk about. And then um Brooklyn Square just opened up.

SPEAKER_04

So like I got like a place for every night of the world. One of the best in the world. Yeah, it's all real.

SPEAKER_06

Murders, like murderers. So like, yeah, obviously I'm I'm getting Brooklyn Square way too often now. And then um and then I have Oseria down the road with cousins, ten minutes away. And like, and then also downtown Freehold, you know. I think the American Hotel is uh pretty fucking awesome. I don't know if you've been there recently, dude. The menu's awesome.

SPEAKER_04

They change things up, right? Like they Yeah, the menu's pretty cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. So when I think about real estate being close proximity to awesome restaurants, oh, and also Lita, dude, that place is fucking awesome. It's off the charts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I think Western Monmouth County in general, the food scene in the last 15 years is completely different. Yeah. Like when I'm wild. Like I started in 2008 and I've lived here my whole life. It was a barren desert out in Western Monmouth County. Like you would be on a couple places on Route 9, couple spots, you know, a couple good pizzerias and whatnot, but the food scene there is I think exploded. It did. A lot of people that came from Staten Island, they opened up restaurants and got a lot of people.

SPEAKER_04

Month County in general, I think, because now I've traveled around the state, I would put it top five counties for food in Jersey. Like it's easy. Yeah. Easy. I mean, I I would put it higher. I don't know, but there's so I mean Jersey, we have we're very underestimated for our food in general. Yeah. But like Mammoth County really kills the st like is like really one of the best in the state by far. I agree.

SPEAKER_06

Well, ChatGPT ranked us like fucking last place. What? Well, it was New Jersey for food. Ranked New Jersey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which was annoying.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it was some stupid survey.

SPEAKER_04

We don't, you know, I kind of like that we're the underdog in a lot of things like that, but like we are slept on for so much stuff. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's annoying. Yeah, whatever. Have you been in Jersey your whole life? No. Staten Island until I was 10. We moved to Jersey when I was 10 years old to Fort Lee. Oh, okay. So you've been in basically. Basically my whole life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But um, yeah, moved to Jersey when I was 10, Fort Lee. So I was in North Jersey for first part of my life and then central.

SPEAKER_03

So, like, what made you do what you're doing now? Like, what is this is is this full time or it's full time. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. What did you do before that? I was an accountant.

SPEAKER_04

Really? Well, I was in the food industry before that, but I left the food industry to become an accountant.

SPEAKER_06

Tell him, Josh. Yeah. Joshua. Yeah. Tell them.

SPEAKER_04

It was a weird change. Like, I so I lived in Las Vegas for 13 years. Oh shit. So out there, I was a Sommelier. I was a bartender. No way. What level? Uh well, I went to the International Sommelier Guild, which is a different, it's just an all-encompassing diploma. Okay. But I'd be somewhere between a level two and three in the quartermasters.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. Yeah. See, I asked that because now I'm I have a couple of friends at R and they all talk about it, so I'm not asking questions. Like I know what I'm talking about. His wife, she she doesn't miss. She doesn't miss. She's she's she's getting, she's not, you know, Assam, whatever. Is that what she wants to do? No, she just likes wine. Yeah. That's it. She just, you know, she it's an R.

SPEAKER_04

But there are people who study to become a Psalm not to do it professionally just because they love wine and they want to and they want to learn. So it's fun to do it.

SPEAKER_06

It's the best way to enjoy a pairing it with wine. There's nothing better than that. Yep.

SPEAKER_04

So you were a Psalm and then you came back to Jersey? Yeah, so basically I was a psalm. I live, you know, living in Vegas is not easy lifestyle lived within the restaurant industry. So I was just burning out. And like I needed a change. And I thought, oh, an accountant, like I'm gonna go back to school for my master's degree in something. I can't I had this weird idea that accountant would be just kind of like not an easy job, but like I wanted nine to five, I wanted simple, I wanted a regular everyday life, and just because the lifestyle the other way was too much for me. Okay, yeah. So I started doing that toward the end of my time in Vegas, but the idea was to move back to Jersey. Okay. So I came back to Jersey. I was miserable as being an accountant because I hated it. It doesn't sound fun, it's not fun. No, you know, but you but you wanted boring. I wanted boring and realized I don't want boring. Okay. So like while I was bored. No. So while I was bored, I'd started making food videos, like cooking videos on Instagram. Like that's how the page started was doing cooking videos. Like, all right, this is fun. It's like a creative outlet to do something different. I saw people who do what I do now, just started, just decided to try it, and it just took off.

SPEAKER_03

Really?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And that was it. That was it. Just haven't looked back. Damn. That's pretty cool. How about you, John? Yeah, I want to hear your story, John. Oh Jersey John. How much time we got? We have a lot. We have a lot of where'd you grow up?

SPEAKER_01

So I was born in uh Riverview Medical, Red Bank. Uh grew up in I love how they named the hospital.

SPEAKER_03

Nice. Yo, my aunt my aunt. Well, my aunt Jan has worked there forever.

SPEAKER_01

Listen, there's there's a lot of there's a lot of people that say they're from Monmouth County, but they've lived here for 15, 20 years, which is okay, valid at a certain point, but I like to you know, I guess I'm getting older in age uh myself, so it actually is impressive. You know, almost 40 years of living here in this county. Grew up in uh Homedale, uh moved to Spring Lake Heights about 13, 14 years ago, and then uh moved to Wall about six years ago in the middle pandemic. Okay. So uh yeah, lived in Monmouth County every day of my life.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So what's your story?

SPEAKER_01

Wait a second.

SPEAKER_06

Is that why you ranked Wall number one telling me living?

SPEAKER_01

Well, I actually say it in the video if you watch it, Jamie. No, Jones. I say it in the video. I'm watching that shit. I say if I'm gonna live anywhere I'm I'm gonna live where I think it's best. Wall is not because I have you know unlimited amount of income.

SPEAKER_06

Live wherever I want to. I can tell you I'm dealing with Wall right now, opening up a a store there, and they're actually responsive. It's getting done. It's getting done in half the time, and Alban's getting done at Walls of Beautiful. Yeah, it's very good.

SPEAKER_01

It's uh you know, I grew up in Homedale, so that normal suburban, you know, nicer town in Monmouth County. Yeah. And uh what I like about Wall is it feels very similar in terms of suburbia, you know, normal, you know, sports are a priority, not like uh you know, macho sense, just like you know, staying outside and being active is a priority for kids. And uh at the same time you're five, ten minutes from the beach. Yeah. You know, like I'm I live right off the bike path, so literally hop on my bike with my kids, I can ride into downtown Manasquan, go to the beach. Oh, that's right. So like I feel like you get the best of both worlds. You get the shore, but you're actually in a normal suburban town, so like the crowd doesn't leave in the winter. Like you're in a normal town with you know, everybody you see in school as well. So that's why I love it. Um but uh but it is you know, it's gotten insanely expensive, like everything else is. It's the whole state, man.

SPEAKER_03

It's just it's it's unless you're living in Atlantic City, like down, down, down south. That's actually getting expensive now, too. That's true, it is but very very slowly because but it is people's options, they're like, oh, you know what? I'm gonna have to go down there, you know, because the cost of living is just super expensive. That's it. Yeah, it's just it is what it is.

SPEAKER_06

Well, I was born in Perth Amboy, and I grew up in Lawrence Harbor, which is in Old Bridge, which is almost Monmouth County. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01

I mean it's technically Monmouth County almost.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, the Go Go Rama. That was gonna say the Go Go Rama.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Oh, is that how far from Go Go Rama?

SPEAKER_06

Lawrence Harbor is famous for the Go Go Rama. Yes. On one corner it's Go Go Rama, and then the last corner is the church, and somebody was like, Man, Lawrence Harbor, like the only town in America that has a strip club next to a church. And I'm like, damn, I I never realized, you know, like my whole life living there.

SPEAKER_01

And Fun Time America, only like uh, that was is that still open? Perfectly. It closed in like 1995.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, man. I had my birthday parties there. Well, wasn't it was it Rasmatazz? Wasn't it? Rasmataz was by Amboy Cinemas. That was fucking awesome. I used to be a strip club too. It does. Well, it was like 1983.

SPEAKER_04

It's like a nineteen eighty three strip club, right?

SPEAKER_06

It was like uh it it honestly, I bet you that's where Chucky Chuck E. Cheese probably ripped off Rasmataz. I don't know if it was the other way around. I wonder maybe.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. But we would go because I lived in Staten Island, it was close. So we would go either to Chuck E. Cheese in Brooklyn or Rasmataz. I never heard of Rasmus.

SPEAKER_06

Bro, it was like it was like a Chuck E. Cheese kids casino, dude. It was insane. Yeah. Rasmus.

SPEAKER_03

I was a Discovery Zone guy. Remember Discovery Zone? That was a fucking beautiful place. I was the one in King's Plaza in Brooklyn, but yeah, Discovery Zone was a shit. Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You remember Rasmataz? It was awesome because I don't know. How old are you? Uh 36. So Yeah, but I'm 42.

SPEAKER_06

I don't remember it. 39. I'm 46. Oh. Yeah, so I should remember it. So you were a little older, but that you got to hit it at that time.

SPEAKER_04

There was a tunnel under the under the yeah, Amboy Cinemas. We used to go there. But at Rasmatez, there was a tunnel under the stage that you could go run under. It was really cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I was a kid.

SPEAKER_03

Did they knock that down yet? Yeah, I think they're knocking it down. I don't think they're knocked down yet, though. Oh, no. There was like a a drug uh bust with a cop or whatever a long time ago. There was like a murder there over there.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I don't think they pay cops enough. You know, sometimes they gotta turn the crop.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I guess so.

SPEAKER_06

But dude, do you see they're developing over there? They're doing the uh vast pro shop, right? You'll be able to test drive your boats. And then I think you're doing a ferry there too. Really? Which is gonna be huge for development.

SPEAKER_03

The Bass Pro Shop thing, it looks enormous. It's enormous, yeah. Enormous.

SPEAKER_06

It's gonna be, I think, the biggest one in the country. Yeah. Because you're gonna have a boat, you're gonna be able to buy your boat there and test drive your boat. It's like I hear. I don't know.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

This could be in in real water or like a virtual boat. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You're talking about the screen in front of you and they splash water in your face. Yeah. Your boat's simulated. Boat race. Isn't that a swamp area though? There is, yeah. That was what took so long for them to know what they built. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04

Boats are gonna go in the swamp? Hey, man, Lawrence Harbor. Well, that's what I meant.

SPEAKER_01

I didn't know what real water is there for you to test drive.

SPEAKER_06

That area is super polluted, bro. Yeah. Where I grew up swimming and shit, man. It's highly toxic.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know if they're dropping boats in that. Look at what's happening in Keyport.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, basically where Laurence Lawrence Harbor is, um, Keyport's a little south of there. And yeah, so they used to just dump in the in those waterways, and they never um remediated any of the toxic waste. And the thing is, like with lead, lead is one of the better um contaminants because it doesn't move, but you do have to remi you have to remove it. So if you don't, it's you know, that's what they're not doing. And the uh you know, they decided to just it's cheaper to put a fucking fence up and not let people in the water than do the clean it. But yeah, there was a lot of bad shit that went on back in the day that but we're all dealing with now.

SPEAKER_03

But John, like you're so you've been in real estate for how long?

SPEAKER_01

18 years. 18 years. So I got I got licensed in uh the winter of 2008. Oh no.

SPEAKER_03

That's exactly when I got my loan off licensed at the market crash.

SPEAKER_01

Worst fucking time. Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_03

But we learned the most. That's when I left it.

SPEAKER_01

We learned it. I was fortunate because I was I was still in college at the time, so I was young, I was broke, and any any check was a good check. Yeah. When you literally need no money, uh just to serve, you know, you're just getting by in college and and doing that. But yeah, I I mean I got out of college in 2011 as a very average Seton Hall grad, which in 2011 job market meant you were basically unemployed. So uh I went on a few job interviews, went to a few financial advisor job interviews, not gonna put down financial advisors, but like index funds. Pretending it's uh you know spoiler room. Yeah, of course, uh, and we're gonna make millions. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06

Always be closing.

SPEAKER_01

And I yes, that was actually said. Of course it was. It was it was it's it was still set up until like a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_03

I went on a lot of those interviews too, because they were hiring anybody pretty much.

SPEAKER_01

So so I ended up just saying to myself, you know what? I'm gonna kind of bet on myself, what does life look like if real estate takes off and I'm in my mid-30s? Uh now that I'm in my mid-30s and I have two young kids, a beautiful wife, and actually massive business, it's paid off. But yeah, uh I was very fortunate to kind of get in when I got in, and I say that to a lot of people because it's very hard to be in real estate right now. And I tell people, listen, this is the best if you can make it now, even if you can just survive, it does get easier. And I've seen market cycles go up and down. Yeah. And when it gets easier, things take off. And then you you take market share, and then your business actually grows. And this is when you build a pipeline.

SPEAKER_03

This is when you build, build, build right now.

SPEAKER_01

And if you can make it now, it's real hard, yeah. You can make it when it's easy. Uh and the issue is like any other industry where you basically just sign up, real estate is a little bit hard to actually grow a business, just like anything else. Being an entrepreneur is fucking hard. Yeah. So uh especially when you're dealing with, you know, Monmouth County and like you know, the people around here.

SPEAKER_03

It's not an easy area, you know. And I think learning of the market changes and what we're dealing with in this area is not like most of the country, like at all. It changes neighborhood to neighborhood. Correct. And like it's people don't understand that. Like, you know, what's going on with houses being sold over asking prices and that like that shit's just normal now. A list price is actually a joke at this point. Yeah, if you want to make an offer, like, yeah, I'm going in at list price, like, yeah, and what else you got? Like that's a starting point. I know. And you used to offer a list price, it was like, oh, you meant business. I I want offer price, yeah. The list price, whatever it is. And it's not like that anymore.

SPEAKER_06

That's what I did for my house. Yeah. Because I offered the list.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And you thought, like, okay, I'm getting this. That's guided right now.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. My builder called up the guy who had it under contract, was like, hey, I like these guys better than you.

SPEAKER_03

I'm ripping up the contract and gave it to us. Yeah. Yeah. It's uh it's different. Not now. Yeah. So then like TikTok, Instagram, all that stuff like that. How did you incorporate that in your business? And when you realized, like, okay, this is actually gonna make me, you know, really like known on social media platform. You just kept going with it. What was the video that you realized like okay, this is gonna work?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so I mean, I I started in in 2023. And the reason I started on social media was real simple. I looked around and I was on social media, like a putz, like myself, just scrolling, scrolling, and I'd see people across the country. Kind of probably what you saw with with the food stuff. And I was like, this Jabroni doesn't know shit. Yeah. And he got 500,000 views on his video, just sitting there, like a putz.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I go, I can be that putts. I am that puts. I am that putz. Let me be that putts. We're doing it right now. So I I I got in front of the camera, I started talking. I sat in my office in one off one chair in front of you know one of our one of our rooms in our office in front of a glass uh behind me, and I committed for 60 days to post on two different accounts for uh twice a day. Wow, nice. That's that's not easy. I don't know. Especially at that time, I I had never made a video before. So now like if I had to do it again, I could probably do it pretty because I could sit in my car and just rattle off videos like psycho now.

SPEAKER_06

You were making videos yourself. Yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I think he just recorded and that was it, he was just going for it.

SPEAKER_01

And then I just I forced myself because I looked out and I was like, if I can do this, I think this changes everything. Um I saw where real estate was going, and it was in this in this era of personal brand before personal brand became a buzz buzzword and uh started building it on TikTok, and then you know, there were a few videos I used to talk about like affordability across the country and different things like that that just blew up and took off. Ultimately, what happened was uh a couple years go by, and then early last year is where everything really, really took off. That's where Instagram and Facebook went nuts. Um and uh the first video on Instagram that absolutely blew up, it was it was literally just me putting on more clothes. I was like, I told my wife, I was like, I know this sounds really stupid, just record me for a minute, and I kept putting on more and more clothes, more and more clothes. And then I cut it up, it was right after the Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar, so the um popular song that he sang at the time was trending. And uh it was uh POV, everybody in New Jersey getting their uh gas bill this month. Because if you remember, that was right after gas prices, uh natural gas prices spiked uh in 2025, and that went to like three or four million views. No shit. Uh in that stupid six-second video, I don't want to say changed everything, but that was the first thing that really exploded. It opened up like okay on Instagram.

SPEAKER_03

This is it, it could work.

SPEAKER_01

And with Instagram and Facebook, it honestly I tell people because I coach people across the country that do this as well, you need one video to take off. And it doesn't mean like it's not like a lottery, it's just you need one to start going. Yeah, and then as long as you keep building on that, if you post one and then do nothing, you have to be consistent, it's gonna be shit. Yep. But if you post one and it takes off to like one, two, three million views and goes crazy, that's all you need. And then just go from there, see what makes people tick, and that's you know, that's what I've done.

SPEAKER_04

You have to be consistent, you have to keep doing it because once you get that one video, if you sit back, like you're saying, it's gonna die. Interesting. Yeah, you gotta keep going.

SPEAKER_03

Hmm. That's good to know.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you gotta keep doing that. That's what happened to me. Like I when I did the the car videos, I did a handful, and just one all of a sudden just started taking off. I wasn't doing them every day. I was still believing in my cooking videos, and that happened, and I'm like, okay, I guess I have to focus now and just keep consistent and keep doing it, and it just keeps going.

SPEAKER_03

What's like a food treading that's going on right now that you're like, eh.

SPEAKER_04

Dubai chocolate. Yeah, I think it's I think it's it's had it. It's good. I never had it. You never had it? It's good. Yeah. I enjoy it, it's good, but I feel like pistachio everywhere. I love pistachio. Yeah, me too. You'll it's delicious, but it's just everywhere. Everything is Dubai everything now. Interesting. Hot honey. I'm I'm a little bit over the hot honey. I never really liked the hot honey. No, I don't like it on pizza. And I know it's like the big thing is on pizza now, pepperoni pizza with hot honey. And any place I go, like, oh, you gotta try our hot honey, I'm like, I don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_03

Tolula's has good hot honey pizza.

SPEAKER_04

I'm just not a I I like hot honey on chicken. I like hot honey. I think it it's got its do now. I think it should be a condiment on every table, but not every it doesn't belong on everything. Okay. So that's a food trend I see that's just like it's a little too. I'm with you.

SPEAKER_06

Because when I eat a pepperoni slice, dude, I want that salt, dude. Yes. I don't want it to be cut with anything sweet or nothing. I'm like, just give me the salt. Okay. Like Chinese food, bro. Don't don't fucking don't sugar up my wonton soup. I want my blood pressure to spike. I want to feel my heartbeat.

SPEAKER_03

Are you back on the Chinese uh food trend? Or stock for a while.

SPEAKER_06

Me and me and my wife have been cooking a little. Um my wife doesn't really like Chinese food. Really? And um, yeah, it's like it just hasn't been happening. But I did do I've been doing Kings because you could like um you could alter your your general Taus chicken, like you could add ginger, scallion, spicy. You could like add shit to it, which is cool. Which like normally on DoorDash you can't do at other Chinese spots. So sometimes if I fucking hide and closet eat Chinese food, I'll pop in Kings. But um have you been you know we're going there, bro. Yeah. Top Chinese spots.

SPEAKER_04

King's is a classic, just all-time Jersey Chinese restaurant. Have you been to Sichuan Cottage?

SPEAKER_06

That's right in uh Marlboro, right? Yeah. Have you been there? I've been there a while ago and I feel bad because I didn't include them in mine. They're very good. They're really good. And honestly, dude, they're rice, they're brown rice. The reason he cleaned bros rice is there is it was them. Oh they had the medium grain brown rice back in fucking 2005. I was there with Matt Schultz. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, I feel bad. I actually forgot about them because they're so good. Fuck. Yeah, I mean their shit is perfect. And then, dude, they're they're they're fucking general towel shit. Any of their fried chicken, dude, is so crispy and great when you eat it there, it's fucking amazing. And I do feel bad. And then another thing too about fucking Crown Palace, we'd be like, Crown Palace is around Sorry, I grew up eating Crown Palace. I do love Crown Palace, but like a divorced woman, right? You know, you marry me and the kid. I don't like I'm not in love with their wonton. It's a little firmer than everyone. Like, I want it like soft and shit. So I'm like, fuck, disqualified. Because I have wonton soup in every Chinese order. Yeah. So like Crown Palace was unfortunately disqualified from my list, but they are another great spot. But yeah, I I like peacing. Yeah, well, you can't go wrong there.

SPEAKER_03

Peakin Pavilion.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I'm gonna not say anything. That's okay.

SPEAKER_01

That's okay.

SPEAKER_06

I'm like the one person. You got a bad oh well, I got a did you go there once and had a bad experience? I just yeah. Was it in the car?

SPEAKER_04

No. No, no, no. Like I could tell you, you gotta give them a second chance. Yeah, no, like the food was fine. Yeah, the place is cool. Yeah, like I love the environment. Like, it's it's a really fun place to go. Okay. But I don't want I don't want to talk smack on the street. Yeah, it's okay. Everybody's mistakes. It just wasn't for me. It wasn't, it wasn't, it just wasn't for me.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, we'll go back. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, John.

SPEAKER_04

What about Shanghai Bun? Oh, dude. Yeah, that's my that's where I live.

SPEAKER_06

I live down the street.

SPEAKER_04

That might be to me the best in the area.

SPEAKER_06

It's a sleeper. I don't know. Dude, I go back, I go back. Shanghai Bun is up there. I go, dude, honestly, man, Shanghai Bun is really fucking good too.

SPEAKER_03

John, have you ever like posted a video? I'm getting away from this Chinese stuff. All right.

SPEAKER_04

Fine. Only get away from my most. I was about to tell you the best Chinese restaurant in Jersey, but I'm not gonna say anything. Okay, go ahead. I'm kidding. What is it? I don't know. I don't know. I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_06

Honestly, it's probably somewhere in Edison, to be honest with you. It is.

SPEAKER_04

My favorite one is called Tasty Moment in Edison, is unbelievable. Yeah, I know. Sorry.

SPEAKER_06

You're not gonna lose. Indian food and the Chinese food in Edison is just gonna fucking blitz. Really? I love Indian food. Malka, what is it? Is it Malca in in uh at Eaton Town? Their Indian food's pretty fucking great. But I mean, bro, you're just gonna get like the it's a dude, the shit that they put out in Edison is fucking very good.

SPEAKER_01

Do you like uh Indian food?

SPEAKER_06

I do, yeah. It depends. India is such a big like I I was pretty um I didn't know what the fuck was going on with Indian food, to be honest. And I feel bad because I should. India is such a big country that like on the east side you got like more Asian influence, on the west side it's more like Middle Eastern influence, and then like it's just a cool fucking cuisine. It you will fucking like it. I tried it.

SPEAKER_03

My wife loves it and she tries to feed it to me all the time. I just like it. It's not a fan of it.

SPEAKER_04

So something I read a long time ago, I don't know if this is true, but it was like a study they did on why certain foods are good and why they claim that Indian food is the best food in the world, is their cuisine is the only, this is what they said, the only cuisine where it actually hits every single uh taste bud of your palate. Like it actually covers the entire part of it. So maybe my my palate's overwhelmed.

SPEAKER_06

There's a lot of steps in Indian cooking, like they'll roast the vegetables, blend it, marinate it. Like there's a lot of like there's a lot of flavor on flavor on flavor, and then spice on spice on spice, and you're like, whoa, it's like a lot of work. Yeah. I I I like it. Look, it's not in the sounds overwhelming.

SPEAKER_03

It does. Maybe that's why I don't like it. You will you will like, I promise you'll like it.

SPEAKER_06

I'm not gonna force you to do it. Alright, fine.

SPEAKER_03

John, have you ever posted a video and just posted like, oh shit, this is gonna stir up some drama. Yeah, tell us about the drama.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I mean w to be perfectly honest, every every video I put out there, I am thinking ultimately of how people are gonna respond to it. And that was a skill I kind of honestly acquired because in the beginning you just throw enough shit at the wall and just see what actually makes people tick. Um so every video I'm putting out there I have a feeling is possible for people to have some opinions about. Okay. Um But that's engagement, you want that. Yeah, you well, you have to have that. And that's that's what keeps most people from doing it cons honestly consistently, is is people's opinions. Because I don't know if Josh agrees with this, but I would say 80% of the engagement on social media is negative. Negative, yeah. Uh if not more than 80%. So you have to have and grow pretty thick screen thick skin really quick. Uh, because those first people, especially when you're, you know, just trying to get going and are and then people just abusing you. Like that's not that's not fun. Yeah, whether it's your intelligence where you're a bigger guy like me, you know, people come after physical appearance really call me fat every day. You know, so they do. Yeah, but it's it at a certain point though, it doesn't matter. Um but the first few times that happens, yeah, it's hard. Yeah. Um but so almost every video I put out there, I'm I'm thinking, okay, this could this could do well. Um anytime I do a list, like Jamie just brought up the uh putting wall number one, if I'm doing top ten county top ten towns in Month County to live, everyone's gonna have an opinion. Everyone's gonna have an opinion on that, right? So whenever you say that type stuff, I just put up right before I literally filmed it because I just saw the news. I just put up a video about how they're they're gonna do ferry service. I don't know if you guys even saw this. No. Ferry service to Point Pleasant. Sick. Sea Streak Ferry now from Manhattan Friday afternoon. Oh wow and then back on Sunday to Point Pleasant Beach. Oh wow, if this trial period becomes more than a trial period, and they actually can get these Sea Streak ferries, they have the technology to get them in and out of Point Pleasant Beach, Belmar, yeah. And you're gonna see you're gonna see home values absolutely skyrocket.

SPEAKER_06

I and I will say this about Point Pleasant. If you're coming here to fuck around, do not fuck with the Point Pleasant police, dude. Like, don't fuck around in Point Pleasant, you will get fucked up. Do we talk about what went on in Long Branch or we stay away from that? Uh I mean, like, whatever, dude.

SPEAKER_04

I I'm I'm I heard from people on the ground who were there that they said the whole thing was completely blown out of proportion. That wasn't nearly as bad. It they said literally, I mean it was because they explained the situation that because a lot of people who were there take the train. So basically, yeah, they cut everything off and everyone had to leave. So it was like this one mass exodus, and they said literally it was like five or six people who got out of control, and it really they just made it look like a bigger thing than it really was. That's at least what I was told. Okay, that it really wasn't that bad. I mean, it's pretty bad every year though. Yeah, it happens every year.

SPEAKER_06

Every year after this, like well, I saw some like some video like some influencers post and stuff, and like I could see how I can understand what you're saying, Josh, where like they kind of if they're if you hone in on the one group, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It was chaos. It looked like fucking chaos, and they can't stop that shit. Yeah, and not when they're outnumbered, like when there's a couple hundred people acting crazy. Someone's gonna get hurt at one point, and then I think it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_06

But the thing is about Point Pleasant is they have more police and security guards than people, yeah. So you're never gonna outnumber the police in Point Pleasant.

SPEAKER_01

They bring in the county, they bring in the they're prepared for this.

SPEAKER_03

They were bringing in state police, everybody. It was it was wild.

SPEAKER_06

Don't act, don't get out of control in Point Pleasant. It's not Seaside, it's not Long Branch. Point Pleasant is they will not, it's a great town and they don't fuck around.

SPEAKER_03

You know what it is? We didn't have the reach. Yeah. We didn't have the reach like people do. Think about it. If we had a if it was a house party, if we're in high school and there was a party in Marlboro, and I was able to blast out to four towns around the area. You're a Manalpin guy, bro. Those house parties were too much. That's what I'm trying to get.

SPEAKER_06

There were always multiple fights at those house parties.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, there was. And there was if there was times or an opportunity for me to blast out. Were you at a party where someone body slammed the fucking body, the uh the ashes or whatever?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it was kids are gonna be kids.

SPEAKER_05

I I just think it's like I don't think that's infinitely body slam the cream the cremator's body.

SPEAKER_04

It was the urn. I'm just saying when you have large groups of anyone, there's gonna be chaos. Yeah. And it's not any reflection on them. You have a whole giant group of people that you're looking to move out of the area all at one time. Yeah, it was a nightmare. It's gonna be it's a chaotic situation, but they can't control it.

SPEAKER_03

That's the problem.

SPEAKER_01

I think it's just the like I I think slight differences, like I at least from my point of view, like I would never do that in public, just like so like haphazardly. Haphazardly, haphazardly, haphazardly. You know, it's just it that's what I don't know. I kind of feared cops. Like I feared getting arrested. Yeah, I was terrified. As a kid, I was terrified.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, but again, now if you're having a problem with a cop, the phone comes out and like you're in the cop's face, like you couldn't do that back then. Like you fucking put you in a goddamn headlock. You can't feel your phone, it's just like you just blow one megapixel. Yeah, and that's it. I got you, I got the picture. Like it's like a it's a faded picture of the cop's face. Special thanks again to Raceway Kia of Freehold. Raceway Nissan, and the newest addition to the family, Raceway Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram of Freehold. Your new Jeep destination opening soon. Whether you're looking for a brand new Kia, Nissan, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge Ram, or a quality pre-owned vehicle, the Raceway team is known for their great customer service and helping people find the right vehicle for their needs and budget. With a huge selection, competitive financing options, and an easy, transparent buying experience, they make the process simple. Shop online or visit the dealerships in Freehold, New Jersey, Raceway, where you always finish first. Now, back to the bro show.

SPEAKER_06

So the summer's coming up, man. It's gonna be fucking great. It's always gonna be great. Last year was so hot. Do you remember last year? It was brutal. Summer was like, it was hot from I think May to October. We had like 90s weekends. No, well, I deliver food, so it was fucking murky.

SPEAKER_04

It's terrible for me when I do reviews, believe it or not. Yeah. My phones crap out. Or the camera shuts off with the heat. Yeah. Yeah. Really? And then you actually overheat, so it's like I have a hard time. I have to like turn it off and turn it on and like go back to where I was doing.

SPEAKER_06

It's really hard for restaurants. Like restaurant, it's really hard for it's really hard. Essentially, dude, the the the refrigeration is built at like it could withstand 80 degrees radiant heat outside. So once the fucking kitchen gets smoking hot and everything's hot, your refrigerators start to bog down, break, so you don't like the heat, technically. I I'm I'm I'm insulated for it. It it makes it harder. Like it is harder to to do to keep all of your temperatures and shit. It it does put a strain on all the systems.

SPEAKER_03

But uh it was just such a cold winter that gave me the heat. Like I'm I'm ready to get it. Oh no, this last week was a little too much. Well, because it went from 40 to 95 and now it's and it's back to 60. Yeah, which really sucks because I was super excited for this this weekend.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we're hot Memorial Day weekend, it's good.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, because you're like ready for it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you know, and now it's now just like now it's just what do you what are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_03

I had we have pool parties, this, that where I'm not going to no one's pool at 60 degrees. Yeah, no way. But there will be some people, maybe Jamie, will jump in a pool because it's heated at 60 degrees outside. Right? You would jump in a pool?

SPEAKER_06

Of course.

SPEAKER_01

I mean if it's 80, 85 in the pool.

SPEAKER_03

No, then you gotta get out. It's gonna be cold and get out. That's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04

It's good for you though, then it wakes you up. Like a it's like a reverse uh dunk, whatever the thing is. Oh yeah, cold plunge. It's a reverse cold plunge. I can't do the cold plunge.

SPEAKER_06

Where's your go-to spot in the summer, John? Like, what do you love, bro? Are you a Donovan's guy? Where do you like to go?

SPEAKER_01

Uh I would say Leggett's. Uh oh yeah, nice. Uh I think it's just you know, it's the cheers at the Jersey Shore. Uh, you got a good balance of young and old and Leggets, wow. Manuscore in such a on one of my home tours I called it Legoes. Oh. But back to back to my point about making people tick. Doing stupid shit like that really gets people going. Like when you call Leggettes or you just take, you know, you know, you take a simple word like that and I called it leguts. Yeah. The pronunciation, please. Oh, have to come in. Yeah, no way.

SPEAKER_04

I get no Nailed for so many things. Wow.

SPEAKER_01

But sometimes they do it on purpose like that, and that's yeah, that that actually gets me a s gets a smile out of my face. But yeah. Martel's, you know, Jenks. Not bad. I mean, I'm not a big partier at this point. Two young kids. Uh but um, you know, uh Osprey back in the day. Oh yeah. Osprey, wow. Young and chipper and not old and beaten down now. How about you, Jess?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, you're not old? You're 36 years old. I feel old. Yeah, I get it. Listen, you know what it is? It's the industry. That's that's what really beats us up. I'm the oldest one.

SPEAKER_04

I'm the oldest one in the room, so where's your jersey, your go-to jersey spots?

SPEAKER_06

You're an Asbury guy, right?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I lived in Neptune. I just moved, but I was in Neptune. Um, I love, and it's a newer spot is um Brothers Daily. Oh, yeah. That is my that might be my favorite restaurant in New Jersey. Whoa. Like for real. I love every single little thing about that place. And environmentally core, the environment, the food, like the cocktails, like everything is like exactly what I like. Wow.

SPEAKER_03

I got shut down there when I tried to get a table.

SPEAKER_06

Really?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. It was during the holidays. Yeah. I walked up to the guy at the front, whoever it was, not gonna say anyone's name. I was like, Yeah, you know, can I get a table? I was there to grab a drink before Angelica's. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, can I can I get a table? He goes, Oh, we're booked up for the next drink. Yeah, I know. Like, is there any way, you know, I'll be able to get a little bit of a guy who's on the bro show. Come on, man. Well, listen, this is what happened. So I was like, yeah, so I was like Troy Troy reaps all the benefits of this show. First of all, I don't reap any benefits. Yeah, anything. Tell me about that big loan you refinance, motherfucker. It was literally, I was like, listen, I'll take a five o'clock reservation. Like, you know, he's like, No, I'm like, so I walked away. I was like, what if I give you money? And he's like, there's nothing about that. He spins a little thing, he goes, I have no tables. I said, Listen, I don't like to do this, but you know, I'm a host of a very big podcast.

SPEAKER_02

I was like, I don't feel this card. I really don't, but I'm pulling you down.

SPEAKER_06

And he kind of like just drop just drop my fucking name now.

SPEAKER_02

And he's like, What's the name of the show? And I told him, he goes, Oh, okay, cool, cool. Yeah, I still don't really have tables. I was like, what the fuck? I walked out of there.

SPEAKER_03

I told my wife, she goes, Wow. I was like, because I I I tell my wife I'm a local celebrity sometimes. And she goes, How'd that work out? I'm like, not really well. Yeah. Yeah. The only time I pulled the card. Yeah. Did you know what's going on?

SPEAKER_06

I had an only time story at Brothers Daily as well.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06

We're like, this was one of the only times I thought maybe I have a problem with alcohol. And I walked in there and everybody knew who I was. And uh it was scary. You don't remember the next day. I no. I I remember that day because I was taking my five-month break. I was having Diet Cokes there when my boy Rob Giuliani from founder of Pliables, and everybody kept coming up to me, and everybody was so happy to see me. And they were asking me really personal questions and shit. I guess they like knew me f from somewhere else. And uh yeah, I mean I had to give everybody a hundred dollars to to make it cool, but fuck, yeah, it was scary. So I haven't been back since.

SPEAKER_04

Oh I'm sure they'd they'd love to have you back. But have you guys seen that video that's gone viral? It's this influencer, I think somewhere in the Midwest, who's I guess a part of his whole food thing is his food journey to lose weight.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04

But he went to Culver's the Oh yeah, yeah. He went to Culver's and he basically they were charging him for the food. They didn't ask him to come in and he's like, You're really gonna charge me? He goes, Do you know who I am? Uh-huh. Do you know what I can do for this place? Like, I do this for businesses. Your business is gonna go through the roof, like, and like it is the cringiest thing I've ever seen. Damn, that was me. Yeah, but I did it on a real low scan. You're the film idea. But here's the thing he walked into a major corporation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He walked into a friggin' culverse, yeah, yeah, which it may not be no, no one may know it here. No, it's in Chicago, like over there. But it's a monstrous monster. They don't need him. Yeah, you know, it's like, but there was another guy. Did you guys see this one in Jersey? I forget, oh, where was it in Tom's River he went into? What's that? What's I saw that it was over with the holidays, right? He's like Jersey guy. Jersey food guy. Tom's River. You didn't see this? Oh my god, I gotta see. He was like in his 50s, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

No, he might have been in his 60s. Well, his like daughters, his wife, Arrow's. His wife was with him. Really? So grossed out with the bigger.

SPEAKER_04

He said he made a reservation at the bar, which first off, you could only do in very, very few places. It's not a common thing. Yeah, damn. Because it tells you it selects it. You know if you're selecting a bar. This place doesn't do that. Uh-huh. And he's like, I made a reservation. All he kept saying is, I made a reservation. Jersey food guy. I'm not gonna get a seat, Jersey food guy. He just kept literally repeating Jersey food guy. Oh man. No one I it was the worst but funniest. That video went so viral, like other people were just doing reaction videos of this guy. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03

It was so mine wasn't recorded.

SPEAKER_06

I don't think you're you're not an embarrassing person, Troy. So what happened, bro? Did people can't did he get cancelled? No, I didn't. Jersey food guy?

SPEAKER_01

He only had like 900 followers. He's like, I'm gonna tell this to all my followers, and then everyone would check his. I don't even think he had a thousand followers. Yeah, if he had like 900 followers, all your family.

SPEAKER_04

He was threatening them to tell them. Yeah, no followers. Like nothing. He wasn't like an influencer.

SPEAKER_03

You know, I put my tail between my legs and I walked right out. I didn't close a scene. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

That's all right. I think I think there's like right now the whole influencer thing, like, um like it's crazy. Like these fucking personal trainers want me to pay them like five grand to do video, and I'm like, no, like I could, you know, if you have a following and you can drink me up business, I'll I'll break you off some free food. But like I think I think honestly, dude, where the where the internet's going is like if you can make engaging um content, like uh content creation, enlighten people on things, but I think like the days of just paying people for impressions are long gone. Like I think the impressions are just worthless now. Like I think um like you drive people to to businesses. I tell people all the time, I'm like, bro, I think Meg is in my I think Meg in Monmouth County is more influential than fucking Aaron Judge, and people are like, no, what I'm like, yo, I'm fucking telling you these girls, like uh that girl Francesca too, bro. Same thing. Like they just fucking they're like, oh go try this restaurant, and people are like, oh fuck, and then it's like bang, you're like, holy shit! Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like it's like uh Aaron Judge, bro. It's fucking crazy. But the whole uh like the whole but dude, what's crazy is like radio is completely dead, TV is dead, so like people are still watching things, but like how are they watching things? They're tuning into podcasts, they're tuning into pages that are cool, YouTube, they're watching YouTube, yeah, and like the whole radio TV thing's dead, and then like I guess people do need to get paid to do this stuff because creating content and shit does cost money.

SPEAKER_04

It's a lot of look, it's a lot of time, you know, I don't think people understand like what I'm doing is not rocket science, it's not anything important in the world. But it's fun, but it's fun. What I'm saying is I don't think people know there's a lot of time and effort that goes into making videos and learning. Like, you know, it's it's not just making videos. I have to research things constantly, how the algorithm's changing, all this stuff. Again, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a doctor, I'm nothing like that. But people need to be able to do that. But I think people underestimate how much goes into doing what content creators in general do. There's a lot more than just hitting record and posting. Yes, there's a lot more than than than people see. Entertainment.

SPEAKER_06

That's why people honestly, dude, how many people listen to our show? Because they're like, yo, you don't cover politics, yeah, you're not fucking doom and gloom. It's just entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. And like people like entertainment. Yeah. I like I like New Jersey entertainment. Me too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. People love local.

SPEAKER_06

I want to know, John. It's gonna come down to a few places for the cheeseburger. What's your favorite fucking cheeseburgers around? Give me the cheeseburger, John. Top three.

SPEAKER_01

Grand Tavern is good. Woohoo! That's my number one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Grand Tavern's amazing.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, their burger's the best. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Is it Paul Paul over there? Did we try that burger? Uh-huh. I get everything. River Point? River Point or something. I don't know how much. You're stealing John's fucking board here.

SPEAKER_01

Well, oh, I was gonna say, outside of, I'm not a huge believe it or not, I'm not a huge burger guy. Like, I love burgers, but also it's not a spot we like, you know, we're not like a family. It's like, hey, let's go out and get burgers today. Wow. See, I'm a burger. And not that that's like a bad thing. I'm just uh we're like if we're going out, it's um you know, it's you typically like Italian pizza, that type environment, because my my son just fucking govones pizza. Um kids love pizza.

SPEAKER_06

So give me your top three Italian, bro, down the shore.

SPEAKER_01

That's a tough one. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_06

Sorry, do top five. Sorry. Um just two favorites. I didn't mean to upset you, please.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, not upset. It's just it's thought. Um it is I mean it's precious. So, you know, I I love La Mandina. You know, I think there's different categories here, though. There is. I mean, it's it's date night, it's family night, and it's just you know, good good old-fashioned Italian food. Right.

SPEAKER_03

Um La Mandina's great, bro. Their veal palm is amazing.

SPEAKER_01

You know, like even back to Del Ponte's, like they have a restaurant attached to there. Their pizza's phenomenal, but this food is awesome too. You know, Vic's is great.

SPEAKER_06

I gotta get over to Vicks.

SPEAKER_01

Pizza's so damn good.

SPEAKER_06

Where's that? Vic scored real high. Bradley Beach. Bradley Beach. Bradley Beach is.

SPEAKER_01

So my point is there's so many great spots.

SPEAKER_06

Where do you go every week, bro? Where's your every week?

SPEAKER_01

I don't I cook my own food. Oh, wow. I cook my food or you cook my food? One of the two answer. Another good answer. Fuck. Scoring like I meal prep a lot. So I I when you guys see me on camera, like that's usually me, that's me going out, typically.

SPEAKER_06

What's your favorite e clean bro meal?

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I like the general bros chicken. Yeah, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06

You make that sauce from scratch, man. You taste it.

SPEAKER_01

You know, because I back to the Chinese, like, I'm not my wife doesn't really like Chinese food, so like if I'm getting Chinese food, like it's it's e clean bro, like that's that's my Chinese.

SPEAKER_06

Some of the the Chinese stuff's like my best sellers. Yeah. You know what's so fucking annoying about the seed oil mafia? I pulled like so many ingredients we pulled out, but like the seed oil mafia? Yeah, dude, I get hammered. I get hammered because I mean I do the fucking soy.

SPEAKER_03

I do the um I don't even know what that means. Seed oil is now the bad thing.

SPEAKER_04

Anything seed oil is now the bad oil. They only want like tallow and things like that.

SPEAKER_03

Man, making everything's so complicated.

SPEAKER_06

But the thing that drives me crazy is there's blue zones in the world, there's parts of fucking Japan. People eat sesame oil every day and they live to over a hundred.

SPEAKER_03

So it's and smoke cigarettes.

SPEAKER_06

And the thing is, sesame oil's got the antioxidants, apparently it's anti-inflammatory, and I'm like, guys, like this is it. Like this is the enemy. Let me live. So fucking annoying. Don't you agree? Yeah. Like, maybe I could pull it, but like, these are my best sellers, dude. People really like it. So it's a much it's a it's a better for you.

SPEAKER_03

If you don't pull it, what's gonna happen? I mean, protest in front of the E clean bro like.

SPEAKER_06

But I hate I hate hearing like that. One fucking ingredient is like a fucking stain on my shirt. It's always one thing though, dude.

SPEAKER_04

Doesn't matter what of anything in the world, there's always the one thing you just you gotta do.

SPEAKER_03

I gotta look at how many people love it to the couple people that don't like it. Um, John. One word. Netflix. I have to bring it up, so we have to talk about it. It's a very controversial topic. There's a lot of opinions about it. It's happening, it is what it is, and we're gonna have to deal with it. And you did a post the other day, you know, Jennifer Anison is not gonna be your neighbor. And I and I agree with you because they're not going to be our neighbor. Maybe they'll be here for a little bit, you'll pop in at a restaurant, you'll see a celebrity, but they're not gonna be, and people say I'm wrong. They're like, what do you mean? It's gonna be the new California, whatever, the new West Coast. And I'm like, it's not gonna happen. But am I are we wrong? Like, or we just don't know.

SPEAKER_01

No, I I mean, and I made a video about this back in 2023, right? So three years ago at this point, and I said, you know, uh Monmouth County will be one of the most expensive counties in the entire country uh a decade from now. But the reality is that's happening a lot sooner than a decade, right? So recently I said the hype of Netflix is greater than the reality of Netflix. The hype of seeing movie stars, yeah, seeing you know, going past Middletown on 35, you see where Adam Driver's film filming the gas station. And once you see that stuff, okay, that happens. But the reality is like Adam Sandler's not relocated, then they're not giving up Beverly Hills and Southern California weather for New Jersey's weather. I agree. They're not going from high-tax state of California to a high-tax state of New Jersey. So I do think it is beneficial. I think the hype has driven values. Uh, because a lot of people, when they reach out to me, they're like, I gotta get in before Netflix, I gotta get in before Netflix. To a certain extent, you do because Monmouth County is an amazing place to live. That's first and foremost. That really has like Netflix coming in is hype, uh, and it will bring more jobs, more industry. The film industry in New Jersey is gonna be huge. But at the same time, our state's pretty fucking broke if we're being honest. Like, we can't even fund our schools right.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Uh teachers are getting laid off. What actually matters to us when we have home values? How good are the schools? What are the property taxes? Yeah. Values are gonna go up, yes, but then so are property taxes. California has proposition 13 that keeps property taxes frozen. Yeah, that's why people own houses from the 1970s. New Jersey, you can live in your house, never sell, and your property taxes and go from 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. Uh-huh. Yeah. For us that are working, perfectly fine. But the average homeowner in Monmouth County is like 57, 60 years old. Yeah, they're on their way to the house. They're not gonna pay 30, 40 grand a year like Bergen County does. They're gonna sell their houses. That's gonna bring up some inventory. I think values are still going up, but I think the hype of it is far greater than the reality. I agree. Because once you see a movie star, you're like, oh, okay, I saw big deal.

SPEAKER_03

You can go to New York, you see them, maybe they're all over the place.

SPEAKER_01

I think I think the ferry coming here, like if you start having ferry trips daily to Bel Mar, Point Pleasant, if they build a pier off of Long Branch or people would want to live there because they can control easily. That would be uh absolute game. Because the people who work from home, they could still live in Manisquan, they could still go from their place in Spring Lake, they don't need to take a you know, go to the private airport or that helicopter. That's a game changer. If that happens, Netflix, film industry, more hype uh than reality.

SPEAKER_06

The C streak is fucking awesome. They have a bar.

SPEAKER_01

I love the C-Streak. Yeah, you can take them to like Met games now, yeah. Yankee games.

SPEAKER_06

Sitting in traffic sucks. I love the C-Streak. There was one time the the water was super choppy. That that was rough for me, but it was a it was a rough day. But dude, I still take getting rough water on the C streak over sitting in that traffic.

SPEAKER_01

Traffic is awful.

SPEAKER_06

Are they running a C streak out of Red Bank? I heard they were doing something in Red Bank. Or was that your video? I saw somebody's video. Like that would drive.

SPEAKER_01

I think eventually they're gonna be up and down the shore, to be honest. Like if they figure it out, if they can get into the ocean and then they can have peers out in the ocean, that's the biggest thing. And then even like probably two months ago, I went into like Google Gemini, like a smart ass, and I was like, give me the realistic percentage that they could ever get a sea streak ferry in the in the ocean. And and even Google Gemini was like, it's close to zero. And then, but then today they announce it going to Point Pleasant. So once once they have the technology to get on the now, it's only one trip there and one trip back. So it's not like a highlands, Atlantic Highlands, it's it's it's like taking the train. But if they get the technology there, that's watch out.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, because uh dude, it took me 90, it took me I had to go to Hobulgan for my house, which is not that like mileage-wise, it's not crazy. Hoboken, I don't know. I gotta check it out. But it took almost two hours to get there.

SPEAKER_01

I hate it.

SPEAKER_04

I would do more reviews or I hate driving to Hoboken. It's terrible.

SPEAKER_01

Some 50 places in once.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. It's just that traffic right before the Holland tunnel. It's just like you know it's gonna take an extra or just get to that one light to go into Hoboken. That's what happens.

SPEAKER_04

Like I drive, like, oh, this isn't that bad. I get to the exit really quick. I get I get through the toll, like, and I'm like, done. Choke. Shut down. Now I'm just gonna sit in that weird little merge before the Holland tunnel show.

SPEAKER_03

But you could do a video in your car, eat some. No, yeah while I'm driving.

SPEAKER_06

Dude, you should get a self-driving Tesla, dude, and just whack like literally.

SPEAKER_01

I I need to know one thing. What it what does your car smell like? Do you like have to use like air fresheners, galore?

SPEAKER_04

It obviously changes based on what I'm eating. Yeah. I I did white mana the other day. It's stunk of onions for like two days.

SPEAKER_06

Fucking miss that place.

SPEAKER_04

It's so good. It is so good.

SPEAKER_06

It's so historical, dude. It just feels good going to those places. It is. Doesn't it feel good just going to those places?

SPEAKER_04

It does. And I think that's part of like maybe the burger itself isn't the greatest burger, but there's something about the whole experience that makes it taste better. What place are you talking about? White manna.

SPEAKER_06

White mana, dude. It was like an original burger spot. It's like where's that?

SPEAKER_04

It's like if White Castle was a real burger. That's what I was gonna say. Yeah. Yeah. There's two of them. There's Hackensack, is where I went, and there's a Jersey City location. I got a lot of people arguing the comments Hackensack is shit, Jersey City's better. Jersey City's. It's the original one. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure. People said people also argued that. I'm sure you could probably look up when they opened. And they're small? Yes. Literally, you walk in. I'm not kidding when I tell you the cooking area is this square here. And that's it.

SPEAKER_06

They're just slamming them nonstop.

SPEAKER_04

They just move and you have to order your items, everything you want from different people. One person's handling the burgers, one guy takes your French fry order or like the milkshake order, like and it's it's a really tucked-in little area you go into. But my car is stunk of onions for like two days, maybe longer than that. But it changes. The smells change, they linger. The biggest thing are crumbs. My car is just like it's like uh it's like the beach. It's just like there's so many crumbs.

SPEAKER_06

Have you ever had someone to like detail your car?

SPEAKER_04

That's a funny shout out. Yeah, I did, I did do that. I did a video for someone, they deal they detailed my car for free, and I gave them a video for it. So have you had a really big accident in the not oh stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, food accident. Yeah, food accident. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. Like you're like, oh, and you spilled everything all over the place.

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Fuck.

SPEAKER_03

I bet that'd be really engaging. People are like, this this motherfucker eating his food.

SPEAKER_05

I'm glad he spilled it in the back. Like you just have a big dining cog and it spilled.

SPEAKER_06

You should do like a fake like hot chili in your balls.

SPEAKER_05

It'll be like 50 million views. Like, good, fuck you. Fuck you, fuck you.

SPEAKER_06

I get so you lose your balls, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_04

That would be the internet like going down. Yeah. I get so many people like, why are you eating your car? Why are you eating your car? I get that all the time.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Constantly. That was my kind of my that was my thought. Yeah, but like eating your car for me, it's easier. Like, I I don't we we were actually talking about this before.

SPEAKER_06

Soundproof, right?

SPEAKER_04

Well, it's soundproof, but also like I don't I don't like to feel intrusive in people's meals in a restaurant.

SPEAKER_03

And I like to set up a camera, then it's like a whole thing. Yeah. And it's a whole thing.

SPEAKER_04

So I I do it. I I do those videos, but I try to go at times where there's no one there and I'm like tucked me away in the corner somewhere, so I'm not bothering anybody. Because you know, a lot of people film restaurant videos where they don't talk, they just film everything. It's different. I'm trying to talk to the camera. Yeah. So in the car, I can I have free reign. I can be as loud as I want. I can do a million takes of something if I want. I don't, it's it's easier, but I had a bad accident recently where I literally had to take I have this really nice jacket that I love, this uh um from Boot Barn that's like suede. Wow, what do you think loves boot barn? Yeah, awesome place. And um I reviewed two Costco items. I reviewed two of their cakes. Those, you know, those long cakes? Oh my god. It literally just fell on my arm.

SPEAKER_03

No, on the jacket.

SPEAKER_04

On the jacket. Did you lick it off?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like it destroyed the jacket.

SPEAKER_04

I had to go to the cleaners, like I spent a lot of money to like have it cleaned. Oh man. But like I'm like holding it and it just I knew I I have the footage on the review where it's just I'm just like I just looked at the.

SPEAKER_03

Did you post it? Yeah. Oh, you did post the blooper? Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04

I think I post, I don't know if I posted the blooper or like I think part of it's in there. Oh nice. I think you see it. Like I'm holding it, it just slid. Because I had it laying on on the top of the car while I was doing the other one, and it just slid. I go, Oh my god. That happens, things just spill. I yeah, I have constant just messes, messes all over my car.

SPEAKER_01

Well, so I was talking we were talking about this beforehand. We were waiting, and I was like, I am so I don't know if anyone else agrees, but like Josh doesn't do this, but I am so grossed out by the like I guess it's called like buckbang or something. Oh yeah. But like the people who like eat the food, like animals, and like you hear like the sounds and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I get it. We we I again I do some food stuff and like people like hearing the crunch of the bread. Yeah, crunch is one thing. But like they want my dog crunches. That's the only person I know.

SPEAKER_03

When my dog eats a little crunchy, I'm like, oh crunchy, that's it.

SPEAKER_01

But they're spilling it all over them, so they're making a fucking disgust.

SPEAKER_06

People in the some weird shit. Disgust.

SPEAKER_03

But they have like millions of views. People love it, but I edit out what's the when everyone taps on the microphone. Yeah, like people love that shit.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, but I purposely edit out when you see me take a bite, you don't hear anything after that. I cut it so you don't hear my chewing. Because like in the beginning, I people like comment, oh, this chewing is disgusting. I can't watch it live.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Hey, you know what? That's what we call constructive constructive criticism.

SPEAKER_04

The stuff I deal with comment-wise is just it's in it's pure insanity. It's just I get everything.

SPEAKER_06

Hey, the the loudest boos are from the cheapest shit cheapest.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. And I get nasty, just nasty shit. It's that's really yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you wouldn't think anything like if you look at my content or Josh's content like as a whole, yeah, there's nothing threatening there. No. I don't talk politics, I don't you know, I don't I don't talk really even economy outside of like micro economy here at the shore. And the amount of just pure negative crap that comes back, you're like, God damn, like imagine if I did, you know, I get comments on my eyebrows. You mentioned Trump's game in one video or something like it.

SPEAKER_04

I get comments on my eyebrows, dude. Like people were like, like, like, what the fuck's with this guy's eyebrows? Like, I literally have had that. Like, I'm sorry I'm laughing, it's just funny because I can't he just pictures of people like, you know, like who does like Malibu, bro?

SPEAKER_06

The Malibu fitness who had to lie about an IED to his face. And he's going viral, the internet's cut in half, like he's famous from Stolen Valor, but like, dude, the dude was getting online bullied so bad about his face that he just made up a story that his face got blown up in like Afghanistan and his face looks like that, and like everyone's like, damn, yo, your face actually looks pretty good for an IED. And like and then it went from like, yo, what's wrong with your face? Like, damn, who did the plastic surgery? And yeah, he's he's you guys know Malibu Fitness. Yes, yeah. He's like famous. I haven't seen him in a while, but uh when he was blown up, I saw him like every every day. Yeah, I follow him because I I think he's funny.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. No, he seems like a genuine dude. I don't know who this is. Yeah, me neither. Really? He's one of the biggest scandals on the internet.

SPEAKER_06

Malibu fitness. That's his that's his name? He's one of the biggest scandals on the internet, dude. You know this guy? No. No, even Napoleon Dynamite is shooting shots at him. It's like a big I love Napoleon Dynamite.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he's got like a slightly disfigured mouth type of thing going on. Is it like a new thing?

SPEAKER_06

He looks he looks very unique. I wouldn't Say, like, but he was bullied so bad that he didn't know how to handle it. So he made up a lie that his his face was suffered an IED. Big scandal. But that blew him up though, too, because he's one of the most famous fitness people on the internet now. And he he was essentially famous because people were like, Yo, look at how nice this guy is. He got a bomb to his face. So, like, but the story was made up, then he apologized, and somebody were like, Apology's not enough. We need to take them down. Jeez. And uh that's just going back to the internet on like your eyebrows, you know. Even though, like, dude, I think your eyebrows are pretty normal to your face.

SPEAKER_04

Like, I'm yeah, I I don't know. Pretty normal to your face. I don't know, dude. Every now and then, if they if they're messed up, they look really like scraggly. Yeah. But people like I got told I don't want to take my food advice from someone who looks like they ate dirt as a kid. Oh my god. I'm telling you, you get hit so hard. Really? And just and they will look for anything. What about you, John?

SPEAKER_01

They get a little bit of you? Ten times worse, I think. Ten times worse. I've had I actually recently had someone call me uh at about 7 30 in the morning. My wife, we were I was making breakfast for the kids, and my wife was there, pick up the phone, and he goes, Listen here, motherfucker. I want you to get the fuck out of New Jersey. Oh my god. And I go, I go, who is this? Like I mean, listen, like it's all it's funny to tell the story, but I was like, who are you? Yeah, it's 7 30. That's annoying. That's exactly scary. That's not funny at all. He's really scary. You know, and then uh so I was like, I was like, listen, dude, never never call me again. Blocked the number, um, sent it to a cop buddy, and I looked up the dumbass called me from like his own number. Like I looked up the number and I just couldn't wait until business. You couldn't press star six.

SPEAKER_04

What was that show Dumb Criminals? They had like the show like dumb criminals. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I was like, really? Like, number one, it's just not needed, but number two, that that's why I'm huge on like a lot of people. Uh, you know, I think I've mentioned my kids, my wife, you know, uh a couple times here. That's like what I'm all about is my family. I keep my family away. Like, my wife is never on it, my kids are never on it. And I'm not like here to say like there's a right and wrong way, but I have basically everywhere I go, someone knows who I am. And I remember like two years ago, someone came up to me and my wife and and my son at the time at Costco. Yeah, it was like it was in positive in it. It was the first time someone came up to me in public and was like, hey man, I just want to say I'm a huge fan, I know you're here with your family, blah blah blah. And I thought and I realized at that time I was like, shit, I can't like I don't want like someone coming up to my wife or my kids or in school, like to one of my kids and be like, Your dad's my dad's your dad's now, you know. Yeah, yeah. None of that stuff. So um, I'm not saying no one can have their kids and their stuff, but that's the reason why. Like people are fucking crazy on the internet, and they have so much access. Well, they think their opinion matters, right? Like in reality, your opinion means shit. Yeah, because 80% is negative, but 100% of people who come up to me, it's positive. Yeah, yeah. Like no one comes up to me. Like, I don't know, Jimmy. You've ever had someone come up to me be like, Jimmy, you're a fucking asshole. I fucking hate you. No, yeah. They're gonna be like, hey, I'm a huge fan of yours, you know, you're a nice guy. Yeah, that's so cool what you built.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, you know, they hide beyond the top the only one there's only one person who's like very, very angry with me all the time, and it's always at like 6 30 in the morning. Yep.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. What do you guys got going on like for the rest of this year? I mean, we're basically halfway through the year. Any exciting projects or things coming down the pipe for 2026?

SPEAKER_04

You can go first. Oh uh nothing. I mean, just doing what I'm doing. Like I don't really have anything specific coming up, really. Oh, I am, I got hired to do the Belmont Stakes. That's so there, so uh it's called Naira or the New York uh Racing Association. They hired me, they're sending me up to Saratoga Springs to go do the uh cover of Belmont Stakes. Hell yeah, yeah. That's pretty exciting. When's that? Uh June 6th. Oh wow, that's coming up. Yeah, I'm so nice, man. Yeah, so I'm excited about that. So it's fun to try to do something a little different. So yeah, that's that's that's like the one thing I can really think of the top of my head. Other than that, I'm just gonna be doing my doing my reviews.

SPEAKER_03

I gave uh Meg things a suggestion and she didn't bite on it to review uh strip club buffets.

SPEAKER_04

You know, you want to know it's funny. I think that's such a great idea. Never seen well, I don't know. So there's a guy, if you if you haven't watched him, that's what Jamie wanted to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um no, but there's one of the guys I mentioned earlier, Mr. Chime Time, he's a huge food influencer. He was reviewing food from strip clubs. Wow. See? He was doing it. I think it's great. It'd be pretty funny. It's gotta be funny. It would be funny. I'd co-host with you.

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SPEAKER_04

Oh, the second car. He took the food to his car. He didn't do it in the strip club. Oh, okay. All right, let's still okay.

SPEAKER_01

I'm already envisioning the hook of Jersey John Heard.

SPEAKER_02

This strip club has the best buffet in New Jersey. Guarantee it goes viral.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, it guarantee it viral viral.

SPEAKER_04

Everyone has told me these are the best wings of any strip club in Jersey.

SPEAKER_03

Exactly. Oh my god, where? And then that would be it. Imagine the comments on that. Yeah, you guys could either take that. I think it would be just tag me in it.

SPEAKER_06

How about you, John? What do you got going on?

SPEAKER_01

Ton, man. Uh, I mean, I'm I'm very blessed. This this whole thing has just been, I don't want to say blown out of proportion because it's just it's just crazy to me uh from a business perspective. So, I mean, real estate's blown up. Uh, we opened our company in Florida last year. We have a nice you know, grid group of agents down there. We obviously have the real estate company here that's exploding. My whole food side and smile really small business, because I try to not just do food because there's so many different businesses out there in Mammoth County in New Jersey that you know not necessarily need the help, but like people need to know about. Yeah, yeah. And I I I feel like with my creativity, we all need the help, John.

SPEAKER_06

We all could use the help, believe me.

SPEAKER_01

But uh, so anything like I look at it as like whatever I can use my platform for at this point. Like, I'm you know, I I like using the income that I have to give to charities, you know. We gotta get uh I gotta get a foursome before I leave for uh for uh the golf outing. That could have if we splice that up, that could sound really weird. But I'm not involved in that foursome. Yeah, I mean, other than that though, uh with the whole is it legit uh trying to do, you know, I have Frank uh he's right outside here, Frank helps me film him. Yeah, um, try to do at least one a week. Because every one of those like people love that shit. What is that? So is it legit is my actual like when I go to a small business and I film it. Oh yeah. Um, so uh it's I was telling Josh, it's basically Guy Fieri triple D here at the shore. Right? So like I I was telling Josh, like I I hate the people who eat. I also don't, you know, get how bad a car could smell, you know, at the same time, but like I get why he does it. Uh because for volume-based, like if I was doing that every day to meet with business owners, to go film, like it's a huge I've uh again, if I didn't have an assistant, I would never do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it it's a it's a huge burden to take on. But is it legit? You know, again, taking triple D, bringing it here to the shore, showing off the business, eating at the restaurant. Uh, I am that obnoxious guy uh who's sitting at the restaurant, people are trying to enjoy their food, and I'm gonna emphasize this. I'm sorry for saying that earlier. Well, listen, we we have a differing view towards it. That's okay. Like I look at it like I would never sit in my car. And that's promos everywhere.

SPEAKER_06

But both work, right?

SPEAKER_04

You know what it is it's my projection. I feel obnoxious doing it in a restaurant and speaking to a camera in the restaurant. That's why I don't really do it that often. Yeah, to me, I it's my own projection of how I feel. Your videos are good.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, and that's the thing with making content. It works. You have to um you have to play to who you are. That's what makes you um that's what makes the video authentic and engaging, and you like you want to watch it.

SPEAKER_03

I agree.

SPEAKER_06

So like whatever makes you the most comfortable behind camera, just fucking do it, and then it's like cool.

SPEAKER_03

Everyone's gonna have their own thing. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_06

I'm more like John, though, where I'm at the fucking bar eating, yeah. I fucking love this place. Four cameras. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, uh, you know, it's it's funny because every business owner obviously appreciates it. Yeah. Uh and I do I I actually think about like the other patrons, right? That's what I think about. That's what I think about it. I'm like, look at this fucking jabroni, you know, they're serving this guy, they're making him like all in like I'm still waiting for a couple water. Like, you know what I mean? Like it was funny though when I did Talercio's when I when I met when I talked to Eric.

SPEAKER_06

His fucking cheesesteak is something else.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it is so good. I still haven't had it.

SPEAKER_04

I gotta try it.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god, bring that to your car. Do you want me to help you cut the line? And he puts it on the everything. He puts the semolina relish.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, it's so good. My father got to have it.

SPEAKER_06

I gotta give him the nod, dude. Like I did, I do, I I got shit, I got shit for fucking saying I love Palmers the most. Eric was like, hey, you haven't tried mine. Then I went to the galley. I liked it. They're all great. But yes, exactly. That's it. Yes, yeah, great. Good good answer. That's it. Why can't like anyone be happy enough with fucking grate? Yes. But that everything bagel, the everything bagel seasoning on the fucking bread, dude, it's it's just fucking through the roof. It's like a pillow. Yeah. It's not as much cheese. Less cheese. More meat. Yeah. I like the Tolercio's ratio of meat to cheese the best. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

The ratio is everything, and that's what speaks to people at any sandwich. Yeah. You gotta like the ratio, especially with the cheesesteak.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Ratio is very, very key. Yeah. Yeah. I think too much cheese on a sandwich could fuck it up. Yeah, absolutely. Like, I'm not like Or it looks like tuna fish.

SPEAKER_04

Like it's like it's like got the color of the white cheese on the stage. Gross.

SPEAKER_06

Some people love fucking cheese. Like when their sandwich is drowning in cheese. I'm like, you like, I don't know, dude. Show the steak, show the steak. I that's my opinion, though. Okay. I'm not a little bit more than a lot of people. I like it on cheese.

SPEAKER_04

I like a good ratio. I I think the cheese should be very present, but there's a line. The steak should take over. I want to taste the cheese. I really do want to. I do like it cheesy, but not to the point like what you're talking about. Where the thing looks white, not like meat. Yeah. It's it's a different thing. But we have a we've the jer the cheesesteak scene in Jersey has gotten insane. Insanely good. So good. And like, and those are like the most contentious videos that I make is like cheesesteak videos. People go to war.

SPEAKER_06

I'll set you up with Eric whenever you want to go.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I mean, yeah. But when I went there to that point, like when I went there, Eric was like, no, come come with the prime of prime of the you know, height of the.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, the line isn't the line insane.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I I still even I was like, dude, like I don't want to do that to the customers, whatever. Like, let me let me come a little earlier. I came, Frank and I went at like 10. When we left at 11:30, there was 45 people waiting in line.

SPEAKER_06

Easily. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. And then, like, dude, they're fucking thrown. Like, the line, I honestly. Raviolis on the line. On the toilet shows being in the line is kind of like it's kind of part of the fucking experience. Yeah. And then you're getting the fried raviolis in line. You're seeing everything goes you're getting fucking performance anxiety because the menu's fucking overwhelming. You're like, oh my God, what do I do? I'll take a cheesesteak, please. I just tell her, please God, just make me something good. I'd tell him what I want and he makes it. But uh, dude, I thought the episode was great. We covered everything we wanted to cover. Yeah. We talked bakeries, Chinese, burgers, Italian, pizza, cars, Netflix, cars, police, cars, crumbs, crumbs, crumbs.

SPEAKER_03

By the way, foresomes.

SPEAKER_06

If you need anything with a car, we got a guy at Raceway, Nissan, Kia, Chrysler and Cheap.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. This was the season four premiere, by the way, guys. This is the first episode of season four. Coming in. Coming in real hot.

SPEAKER_06

Oh nice again. Yeah, they're killing it with the franchise.

SPEAKER_03

So and he has uh Nook Nights or something coming out. Like there's a new thing they're doing. They're doing like food at night. Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I could tell you this about Bagelnook, dude. There's a lot of great bagels, but what Bagelnook does on DoorDash or third party deliveries, I think, yeah, he's the most um he he's definitely the most organized bagel business for sure. If I give number one to anybody, the what what he's does with uh bagel delivery at all times, I mean the dude it's a lightning. Like you're hungover, you need a fucking egg sandwich with an orange juice, he's 20 minutes, dude, at your door. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So you guys have fun? This is fantastic.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, it's great, yeah. Sure. Everything I booked in dreams.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's all right. No, no, I had fun. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

You guys want to go do a food review somewhere? I got to start today actually street. Own Z Clean Bro.

SPEAKER_03

All four of us in your car? Yeah. Yeah, well, food review eClean Bro. Four guys hanging in four guys one car. Yeah, four guys, one car. That could be a champ. That would be great. Hell yeah. All right. All right, cool. Thanks for coming on. No, thanks for having me. I'm excited now. Yeah, no, thanks. Thanks for having us in. Yeah. Peace. Special thanks again to Raceway Kia of Freehold, Raceway Nissan of Freehold, and the new Raceway Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram of Freehold, your new Jeep destination in Freehold, New Jersey, for sponsoring today's episode. Visit the Raceway Freehold dealerships in person or online to browse inventory, explore current offers, and experience why Raceway, you always finish first.

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SPEAKER_03

Now that's a wrap on season four.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, what a great way back into the game.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Season four, episode one.

SPEAKER_06

Season four, episode one. Joshua and John.

SPEAKER_03

So what was your key brochure takeaways?

SPEAKER_06

Well um social media is a bit critical for eyeballs in your business.

SPEAKER_03

I can't believe they get like abused that much. Like that's crazy.

SPEAKER_06

Well, you know, when I'm with situation, dude, there's always people in the comments that tell me to kill myself. Like it's crazy. It's wild. It's har bro, people get mean.

SPEAKER_03

You have to really like rise above that stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah, but dude, it's crazy what the internet is a bad place.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, try to like spread positivity. But I'm not, you know.

SPEAKER_03

It's toxic, but you just have to look at the the good side of it. That's all what it is.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, without a doubt. How did you like it, bro? What was your key takeaway?

SPEAKER_03

I thought it was again, I think what they said was just rising above those negative comments because 80% of those comments are gonna be negative. So if you're gonna put yourself out there on social media, you gotta br you gotta expect people to make fun of you and go at you. You just gotta rise above it.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, it's true. That's it. So yeah, dude, this is a wrap, man. I I we we covered a lot of good stuff. I had a really good time. I thought the episode was great. Yeah, we were rolling, man. Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah, I don't know I had an awesome time.

SPEAKER_03

I'm super excited to be back.

SPEAKER_06

We talk Netflix, we talk food.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

But yeah, man, I'm gonna go home and eat some chicken cutlets. Ooh. Tina lost all of her front teeth, so she's having soup as well. She requested soup for dinner.

SPEAKER_03

How much do you give for one tooth? Like like 20 bucks. 20 bucks. I think that's a normal 20 bucks, right? I mean 20 bucks. I think I used to get a dollar or five.

SPEAKER_06

I think I got five dollars when I lost a two bill. 20s are the new $2 bills, too. Yeah. 20. 20s are the new two dollar bill. That's terrible.

SPEAKER_03

Interesting.

SPEAKER_06

Go enjoy. Hey, thank you for tuning in. Like and subscribe. Local lender, Jamie.

SPEAKER_03

EClean Bro.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, we're out. And freehold IKEA.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

SPEAKER_06

Freehold raceway.

SPEAKER_03

Freehold raceway. I love it. Peace. Bye bye.