Spring Break Chaos & Internet Meltdowns

Welcome to Trigger Warning — the boozy, blunt podcast that is absolutely not a safe space.

In this spring fever episode, I’m back with Daniel and we cover everything from St. Patrick’s Day nostalgia to Easter atheism, Irish-American identity spirals, online trolls, fake reviews, Fire Island bunny antics, and why I might be done with internet comment sections forever.

Because apparently, having opinions on the internet now makes you a political extremist. Who knew?

Spring is here. The comments are unhinged. And I’m reconsidering my relationship with the algorithm.

If you’re here for sharp takes, travel rants, cultural commentary, LGBTQ life between Mexico and Fire Island, and the occasional existential spiral — welcome home.

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SPEAKER_03 0:03

What happens when you let Enfantrible, now just terrible, Daniel Nardicho, off his leash to say and do whatever he wants?

SPEAKER_02 0:11

The man who has offended everyone is back. Along with my brother from another mother, Adam Klesh, we're back with our latest creation, Trigger Warning, a podcast that is not for the faint of heart. Prepare to be offended, enlightened, and highly entertained. Trigger Warning is not a safe space podcast, but answers the questions no one wants to ask. Serves steep in vodka and a dash of bitter.

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Each week we'll bring you the highest and lowest in NYC nightlife.

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So buckle up.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

You've been warned. We're gonna do our springtime episode.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

Springtime for Hitler in Germany. Could I have some of that popcorn? You didn't realize I had such a good voice, did you? Oh. Sorry, popcorn.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

I made popcorn. Otherwise, I would cheer. No, everybody, every time anybody says, like, oh my god, I'm so happy it's springtime. I always think of springtime for Hitler. Which literally, with what's going on in the world today, it's it is it's springtime for Hitler. That's what's happening right now. I had such a good time the other day with Giddy and Glick. Oh, he was great. I know. So today we're recording this episode. Welcome to Trigger Warning with Adam Clash and Daniel or D Cio. Sorry, I'm eating popcorn. It's it's St. Patrick's Day today, and by the time you listen to this episode, we will have done St. Patrick's Day. What does that even mean to you? Easter. It used to mean a lot. I grew up in like an Irish Catholic family, yeah. And like when I came to New York, it was always really fun. My family used to get like a hotel room in Cleveland, Ohio, and like I always had family members that were like carrying the flags or playing the bagpipes or Irish step dancing and stuff like that. Um, and then when I came to New York, you know, I knew we know so many people from the Midwest, and like there's one thing that Americans do best, and it's like renounce their nationality by hyphenating it with whatever their great-great-great-grandparents are from. I'm an Italian American, I'm an Irish American, I'm whatever. No, you you've been here for like four generations. Your dad's a steel mill worker, you're Polish. You know, like you're an American. You're not Polish. You've never been to Poland, you don't have a Polish passport. Like, like when you go to Germany, like nobody says, like, you know, uh, I'm Romanian German, you know, I'm Visigoth German. No, they're just they're just Germans.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

I don't think no Yeah, no, most people wouldn't say they're German because they're not they're embarrassed about being German most of the time, unless they're actually German.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

No, in Germany.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Nobody says they're German American. No, because they don't want to be known. But people want to be American because they're American, but they also love the idea that they're not like American's kind of boring, so they kind of want to be Italian, like I would say I would say American, but like Italian American, I guess. You know what I mean? I'm not.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

No, I grew up with everyone saying they were Irish-American, and like it was just until I went abroad and like everyone was just laughing at me for being like, Oh, where are you from? Like, oh, American, but I, you know, my family's Irish American. They're like, So who's from Ireland? And I was like, Oh, my great-great-grandpa, they're like, Oh, so people you've never met, so you're an American. Have you been to Ireland? Yeah, several times. Yeah, I lived there for a little while in Dublin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but no, uh going back to what I was saying, when I first came to New York City, like 17 through I think it was like 24, 25 when I went to Berlin and then 25, 26 for LA, whatever it was, uh, I would do a pub crawl and I'd everybody meet at my house and we'd have like corned beef and cabbage, and like I'd make Irish stuff, we drink it, and then we would just go pub to pub following the parade and just get absolutely smashed and finish it at the Phoenix.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

So of my brother Dennis, who passed away when I was uh 10, he was 17, so he was a lot older than me. He lived in like Callarney or someplace, I can't even know the names. He lived in Ireland, he kissed the Barney stone. I'll never forget. Oh, he did all that. Yeah, and I just have this thing about Ireland. I've never been, have I? No, I've never been. It's a wonderful country, and I really, really have always wanted to go. And I don't know why I'm almost 60 years old and I've never gone to go to Ireland. It's like there's something about it like You'd love the boys. I love them. You'd love the Irish boys.

SPEAKER_04 4:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

That's my thing. I'm afraid if I went there, I would just lose my mind. Um but I just there's something about it that I'm always attracted to because my brother was like really into it. Dennis, he loved it, he lived there, like I said, for a while. I also love, I mean, now that we've been in Zibelite for so long, been here basically since October 15th, it's now the end. Um, the end is nigh. I leave on April 7th. I just booked my ticket. And then I'm basically. The day keeps moving. No, no, seventh. I mean, I'm doing that thing with the magazine that wants to come down and do something. I think.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

You said you were gonna leave on the first because you don't want to wait around.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

No, I know, but it was cheaper to leave on the seventh. And right now I'm living on the smell of an oily rag, as they say in Australia. So I decided, like, I'll keep looking and I thought, oh, it's only four for main plus because I didn't want to do business this time. Yeah. Um, I thought it was like$475, and it was still eight hours. Like the thing coming to Zibolita is I don't care about the money, I care about the time. Right. Because like you can get a$4,000 ticket and it takes 24 hours with two layovers, and I'm like, I ain't doing that. I you know, I mean then you get a four hundred dollar ticket with like in your home in eight hours, which is kind of what I did. So I leave in the afternoon from Puerto Escondido.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

Yeah, like I leave, I leave where we're living right now in Zipalite, uh, this Saturday coming, which is towards the end of March, and I think I have to be in the cab at like 10 30 in the morning, and I get into Newark airport at 11 p.m. That's that's a fine day for me.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

It's a whole day of travel, you know. It is, but I love traveling now. For someone who had a fear of flying, girl, I live now for the airport.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

My thing is I don't like time changes in the wrong direction. Like when I go to Berlin, like I leave at 5 50 at night and I arrive at 7 30 in the morning. It's great. When you get into New York City, like at midnight, it's brutal.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Yeah, but when you in a club, you go to the club, yeah. Go home, throw my club upstairs, jump in the shower, do a tri-mix, throw in your curlers. The most exciting part about it is it'll be the first time in months since I was on the cruise because the cruise had a hot shower that I've had a hot shower. I don't want to deter people from coming to Ziblite because it is magical. And when you stay at a really nice hotel or even a decent hotel, you usually have hot water. But where we're staying, the trade-off is it's like the most incredible nature reserve. But yeah, we've got pigs and chickens and wheels and turkeys and chicks and peacocks and peacocks and the water's cold a lot, so like I end up going by the pool. Okay, yeah. I go to the pool. That's my whole trick. They have black Tanakos. Well, because they have the black Tanako on the roof, so it collects the heat, but you have to get there early.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

Tanako? They got the black tonacos on the roof. Ooh, I love a black tonako. Maybe gringo mendigo quiere black.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Gringo mendingo. Tanako gringo. Coco for cocoa pups. I know, get ready. So the the the fucking we talked about this in the last one. I'm not gonna go. The fucking loonies are out there still because somehow I told this in the last podcast, but it was uh it was short-lived, but about somehow, some nut job, I don't know who it was, and I'm not saying who it was because everyone keeps going, it was me, and you're like upset with me. And I'm like, girl, I don't even know you, but like someone decided that I was a Trumper, which I am not. Oh, this whole um chestnut was not only that old, it's only been a week, but it's been fucking annoying because what basically happened was I posted a meme of a bunch of guys walking on the beach. It was a cartoon, and they all had different tote bags, and one of the bags said I heart Trump. And someone decided that meant that it was a cartoon mocking, sort of like the flight pattern of the gay male going to Palaya Del Moore. And someone decided that that was me saying I heart Trump. Even though the other bags said, I hurt this, I hurt New York, I hurt this. No one said, Oh, you love New York. They only said, Oh, you you're a Trumper. And then it started. People started doing Google reviews for the restaurant. Don't eat there, he's a Trumper. For the record, I'm not gonna defend myself. I've never been a Trumper, I've never been even remote, so I can't stand the guy. But what's weird is this afterlife that it has. Last night I'm sitting here minding my own business. I look at my social media, and someone goes, You're a Trumper. You probably go on Grinder and hook up with 17-year-olds and pretend that you don't know. Whoa. First of all, I'm sorry, I've never hooked up with a 17-year-old. No. Secondly, I don't even know if that's illegal, is it? Uh I think it depends what country you're in. You know, age of New York, I don't think it's illegal. But it's just weird to me that someone like thinks. I mean, you don't have to debate it, but it's like No, no, no, no. I want to know. No, I'm kidding. I want to know because I got someone. Just for clarification, no, no, because I'm for grinder that I didn't know. I got to kind of need an answer real quick here because I got a I got a grinder. I got a grinder hook up in an hour and need to know. It was so bizarre. Like, and it just every day some kook. And so I put I put this little Mia Copa thing on Facebook and Instagram, and of course, this wacko is like, you're playing the victim. I'm not playing the victim, girl. I'm just saying like I'm not a Trumper, like I don't feel like a victim. I just feel like it's so weird how you know the old adage, the lie goes around the world in the time that it takes for the truth to put its shoes on. Yeah. There's this thing that's happening, and I'm sure it's just because we're here building something and people are sort of looking at us as the great, you know, gentrifiers and oh well.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

I have several people that dog me on Facebook, which first of all, like, I don't know, if you're under 55, stop dogging me on Facebook. There's a chance I'm gonna miss it. Like dog me in real social media. Hit me up on Facebook though, because I'm in my six, I'm gonna be six. I just hate when people see anybody going anywhere doing anything that they would never do, be able to do, have the guts to do, put in the hard work to do, and all of a sudden they've got to yuck your yum, you know, and it's like, I'm sorry, like I'm sure, you know, in the world we don't have a leg to stand on, but like just because we're white and we went somewhere, like, as far as people don't know, and let me explain to them, like, we emigrated, you know, we did not take, you know, our sacks of money and drag it down here and do whatever we wanted to do. We came down here very slowly with little faith left in our nation, taking our hard-earned money. You've done the underwear party for 25 years, I've been in this game for 20 years, and taking every red cent we had to get ourselves down here and build a better life because I've talked about it before, but like we were priced out of Berlin, we were priced out of Williamsburg, priced out of San Francisco, you know. Like, I couldn't buy a house in Cleveland, Ohio right now.

SPEAKER_02 10:50

I could buy a place in New Orleans because it was like super cheap, and it has appreciated approximately ten dollars since I bought it 10 years ago, because New Orleans doesn't appreciate. So I was I definitely understand that I have privilege. I get that. And I get that even down here privilege. But what's happening is is like I I I fully accept and I understand that I have privilege, but I also think to come at me and be like, you're a bad person because you're doing this thing. People move to countries for a better life. I don't know that I want to live in the United States. I don't know what's gonna happen in the United States. And I came down here and I'm slowly we're trying to figure out what we're gonna do. We're slowly figuring it out over time. I love Mexico. I'm involved in the culture, I love it, I love the people. I'm learning Spanish, I'm trying to learn Spanish. I mean like, but it's just so weird that there's a backlash, but it also is happening all over Mexico because Mexico is experiencing this major boom right now. Boom, right, which is going on right now, which is all of a sudden like there's a lot of people moving to Mexico. Mexico is becoming like a really uh popular country for expats, but also for just for people coming down here.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

And their federal, and their federal government is doing the best they can to keep up with it and try to continue its attraction and like changing where their major shipping hubs are and where they're putting in tourist dollars and whatnot. And you know what? Like things change, people change, places change, and other people come in, you know. Like the great nation we live in wouldn't be what it is without immigration, you know. It it attracted people, and I hope someday it gets back to that. Right now, it's not a great nation.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

You know, it's it's I've been thinking that uh in my lifetime that I've been watching the fall of the great American Empire, and and so I've been looking at like what do I want my you know 60s, 70s, whatever to be. And I found this place that I'm really in love with and I'm really involved in the culture enough that I'm gonna live down here for the whole winter and and be involved in it. And I I'm just like kind of surprised at the amount. Then I shouldn't say the amount, it's only like it's like it's like Trumpers. Yeah, there are not many of them. They just have they're just losers with a lot of time on their hands that go on and like and the weird thing, Adam, is every person who said this bullshit online about me, like you're into underage guys, or you're a Trumper, or this, that, whatever. I always look at their Instagram, because whatever they say it on Instagram normally. Yeah, but they always have zero posts. They follow 1600, 1700 people and then have maybe a hundred followers. Yeah, which means they've never posted anything. So I'm like, are they just joining it to troll people because they never post anything? They don't ever have a picture of themselves. There was this weird guy the other day, like Lord Havar or something, L-O-A-R-D, Havar. I only remember it because it was a stupid name.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

You're talking like the Google reviews now.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

No, no, this was some guy who went on and was just like, You're a fucking loser because you opened Lord Havar, L-O-A-R-D, H E V A R. I looked him up because I wanted to see what he looked like because his photo, his photo on Instagram was so fucking stupid. And he was going on about how the name of the restaurant is dumb, I'm dumb, I've never had creativity in my life. It was just like this ongoing thing. And it was just by the way, this is gonna basically be my trigger. I'm just gonna get out of the way. Sure, sure. It's just so weird. And I look and I think there's a picture of you with like these stupid fucking sunglasses on, which probably isn't even you because it's never them. You have zero followers, or you have a few followers, you're following whatever. And it's just like they're just so intense, and I've never experienced anything like it. You know, I talked to my shrink, yeah, Bryce. Hey Bryce, he doesn't listen, he's not allowed to. He probably should. You could be really short. He did. I mean, I'm so into Bryce. I'm kidding. He'd be like, he'd be like, I see we have a lot more work to do. We have a lot more exactly. How do you how does that make you feel? Horny. No, I love Bryce.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

He's such a good I'm a Trumper, of course I'm horny.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Bright, exactly, exactly. No, um the stock markets at 50. I don't even know what that means. So anyway, Bryce It means they haven't released the Epstein files. You haven't heard about that? Yeah. Just talk about the stock market. So Bryce basically said you need to just eventually get off social media. I can't because of the work I do. But no, eventually we can hire some like 20 years old. That's what I'm working on. That's what I'm working on. My goal this summer is to find someone to take over my social media. If you're out there and you really want to do my social media, have at it, girl, because I'm done with this. When I look at people that I really aspire to that I really liked, like Rue, Paul, which by the way is parenthetically our guest today, is uh winner of RuPaul's Drag Race.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

Oh, on our next episode, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

A next episode, not this one? Our next episode. Oh, goddamn.

SPEAKER_03 15:28

Josh will fix it in post.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Excuse me. Uh uh so anyway, uh like Rue or someone like that. I'm like, they know not to look at the comments. Nikki Dahl told me that too. Don't look at the comments. Our last guest, John Groff, he doesn't even have social media. He doesn't have social media, but he can do that because he also is a publicist, and then he goes on Kelly and Mark. I don't go on Kelly and Mark.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

But I think we're big enough that, you know, like I think a New York Times interview, which you've had several of, and I think a travel magazine interview, which you've had several of, it's enough to get our word out and then just have a PR department. I think it's fine. We don't need to we don't need to engage with these idiots.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

We don't even need to read the comments. No, I try not to read the comments and I start to read them and I just go, oh, it's a loser again.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

And we're and a lot of them have come and begged for jobs and or had a job for a day and couldn't complete the simple tools.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

They're bitter because I didn't hire them. Yeah. And so that's why it ends up that comes out in the wash. Um usually that they were try to get a job or something, or this one in case of this one guy who's like losing his mind on social with me. It's always like crazy. Um, anyway, enough about that. That being said, that's kind of my trigger right now. It's like it's like I'm in a world right now where and I do the same thing because Taylor, our business partner, knows this. I have a secret sort of fetish that I go on you, I go on Yahoo and I comment and I had troll Trumpers all the time. I say all these things to them. And it's like a little more deserving of it. I don't think it's the exact same thing. No, but I get my anger out by like going after people and being like Trump's a fucking orange loser or Milana's a hooker, or she showed her snatch and photos. Like I say these things to like troll them. So I'm doing the same thing, and I'm realizing that maybe what I'm doing is I'm putting out the world what I want and I'm getting it back because the world at the end of the day is lazy Susan. And I think what I need to do is start looking at that and figuring out how to like not get engaged in any of this. But it's hard because I'm here and I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

But I mean, you also you also go out and you you positively comment on things and you you help people when they're trying to get like a charity thing started and whatnot. So I think just focus your energy into that and literally stop listening to the losers. I just like with the person that you know called me a colonizer and the other person that you tell them you were a colonizer? Exactly. But no, there's so many people that have so many things to say about like Fire Island. I'm just throwing events for people to do drugs at, and you know, um, it's nothing but you know uh COVID spreading and colonizing down here. And I just, you know, I didn't I engaged for a short enough amount of time to make the mistake, and but I caught myself early enough to just be like, you know what? Uh I'm done talking to you. I'm gonna let you talk until you're blue in the face. Because everyone else who actually knows you knows me, whatever. They they ignore them. The mass population ignores these crazies. We're actually giving them more than they deserve by even talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

Well, like I said, I read one line into it and I block them. But the problem is that sometimes that one line is really kind of like cuts.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

And like, but that's why you have Bryce.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Well, exactly, but I don't want to be calling that therapist talking about he's always like, Why are you why do you even care? And it's like, I don't know why I care. Like most of these people, not most of them, all of them don't matter to me. Um probably because you know your true self and you strive for perfection. Or, you know, we I just don't I don't like being misunderstood. I like keep thinking like I bend well. This is my whole thing, and this is the thing I'll say, this is the moment of truth. I spent my entire life bending over backwards to be a good guy so people would like me. And then when you realize that it doesn't matter, people aren't gonna like you. I'm starting to think I should just be the fucking dick inside of myself. Maybe I just let that dick out and just be a fucking dick and screw people over because it doesn't matter. Yeah, and I mean that's a respect. We have someone that we know who owns a business on Fire Island. I won't say her name. Yeah, exactly. She's offered to her employees. Um, and they all love her because she treats them kind of shitty, and I feel like, oh my god, we bend over backwards for our employees, and I really try to, except for that one loose or Maddie or whatever his name was. You know, the one that looked like a plastic kendal.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

But see, this reminds me of like the old AA slogans they used to say where it's like you drink the poison and expect them to die.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Oh, a hundred percent. You know, it's like we're we're I did not start this conversation saying off this is healthy.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

Yeah, no, we're better people, we're just better people, and I think it behooves us to just ignore them. You know. All right, well, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. But that's the first part of uh our springtime for Hitler trigger warning episode. Uh, we'll be right back after a short break to talk about uh all the people that drive me crazy at spring break and Easter and all those bullshit traditions.

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SPEAKER_02 21:00

So, you know the thing about Easter is this Easter was always loved Easter as a kid.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Yeah? You don't anymore? No. I one, I'm an atheist. I excommunicated myself from the Roman Catholic Church when I was like 15. I wrote a letter to the Pope, all that fun stuff. But as a kid, it's kind of like a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. I mean, the medicine being like, let's believe in a vampire zombie, you know, son of God bullshit. It's really kind of crazy. But the spoonful of sugar is like the fucking Easter eggs full of chocolate, Reese's peanut butter cups, jelly beans, choke on the fake grass, trying to get the last peep out of the basket. Like you literally do that every day. I can see you eating that shit all the time.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

All of a sudden you're acting like, I can't have sugar. First of all, can't take Christ out of the boy. You can't. I there's nothing about Easter that I think of uh religious. I just literally thought of it as like a, you know, I never thought of it as a religious like a three day holiday. Well, first of all In Germany it's a four day holiday. My parents were never good people, so I always had this thing where I said, You get Easter. Because you don't deserve Christmas. You don't deserve Thanksgiving. You don't deserve New Year's for sure. Oh, no, no. You get Easter. Easter is a throwaway. No one does anything in New York for it. Now, Diane Romano, who I love so much, she always does Easter dinner. And she's kind of become like your mom. Yeah, but she also is not doing it this year because Easter is really early. Yeah, it's like April 5th or 6th or something. And she's not able to, they're in South Beach, she and her wife, and they're not going to be out on the island until like the 7th. So they're going to have a dinner after. So it kind of bums me up because I always dress up like a giant rabbit. Yeah. And then I walk around and go to the Diane's thing and have this whole thing where I'm dressed up like a rabbit. Everyone laughs because it's like Daniel's the kook, you know, whatever. And then I walk around in the pines and I say to boys, I jump around corners and say things like, Hey, you want to try my carrot? And the weird thing about it, Adam, is they say, What's up, Jock? Yeah. They say, What's up? And I go, This, this is up right now. You want to see it up? Come back to my place.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

And you bounce around in that fucking bunny outfit that looks like you're from the Christmas story.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

It's the best outfit ever. I bought it at like Blamo. Blamo. Super good quality shit from Blamo. It's this bunny outfit. It looks, I don't look great in it, but it looks good. I just don't look good in it. It doesn't frame you. You look better than most six-foot bunnies. I'm telling you, man, the Pines boys, because I used to like go and you hang around corners and you wait and you go, hey, and they freak the fuck out because of giant rabbit. But you know, also I'm really into creepy clown stuff. So it's like creepy clown and giant rabbits are really the same thing to me.

unknown 23:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

So anyway, I'm bummed because while I have the rabbit outfit ready to go, I will go out for Easter to the Pines. Oh, I'm not back. No, you're gonna be down here for Easter. I'll go the week after it doesn't matter. Easter is Easter's a whole month.

SPEAKER_03 23:48

Is it? I feel like it's just a day.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

But you know, if I walk around, I don't care. My carrot knows no dates. Literally.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

The one thing I like about an adult now about Easter is that it kind of marks the end of spring break. And I loathe spring break. Why? I fly a lot, I travel a lot. The airports are a mess with everything from like small children. You know, one of your triggers was like people should stop having kids. And you can tell that these aren't adopted children because they're not like willing, gracious, and grateful. You know, they have no fear of their parents. Yeah. Um, and it's and also just like all the the Karen's and Beckys of the world, like everyone's drunk. Every all the prices go up because they can people can't couch. Flights are expensive, uh, hotels are expensive, beaches are crowded with drunkards. My favorite place on earth, Disney World, is like a fucking mess for spring breaks. It's so interesting.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

I never notice any of this. I have this weird thing that happens ever since I got over my fear of flying. That I go to an airport. But you don't even have a fear of flying. You have what is it? Minered Manair's disorder, which gave which resulted in a few years. But I didn't realize it. So I had this in terror of flying. What I didn't realize is like quite literally. Um now go to I have my headphones in, I'm listening to um the Zen Garden on Spotify. I walk in the airport, I go through TSA pre-check. I don't everything is just like yes and whatever happens, yes and. And I've just had this thing happen. We go to the airport, huge lines, and I just like listening to it, whatever. It's the most bizarre thing. I've gotten is such a good zone in the airports. I sit down at the gate, I fall asleep, I hear them announce you know, my whatever row, well, not row, but whatever group I'm in. I get up, I walk over, people are pushing to get on it like fucking animals, which you know our guest uh last week talked about. Um yeah, and then I just was like, yeah, who cares? Go on, get it. We're all I got my seat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all going the same place. My only concern is sometimes about the overhead, but I'm like, oh, I don't really care. This is such a what is it now? White people problems is such a not rich people problems because poor people travel. Like it's just uh modern day problems. Modern day problems like animals. So I just go, Yeah, I don't really care. I'm gonna get on.

SPEAKER_03 26:02

I'm only worried that I'm on the plane in time to get my pre-flight beverage. I really like my glass of bubbles before we take off.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

Well, you know what's interesting now. I've realized that if you don't check your bag and then you get up there and people push in front of you, eventually they go, We have can't we have no rooms, so we can check your bag for free. So you actually get your bag checked for free.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Yeah, that's true. So a lot of times now I go, push ahead of me, girl. But see, I didn't mind doing that when they would what what was called like gate check or like um jet check and you could get it when you got off the plane. I hate when you have to check your carry-on and then you have to go to baggage and get it. That's what pisses me off.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

Yeah, no, see, like I said, it's weird I get in a zone and none of it bothers me. I have Tabasco with me. I'm just like, hey, you and I are just gonna bless your heart. And then I just because I don't get upset about anything, I literally get on the plane and fall asleep. It has changed my life. I on the way to the airport, it starts to hit me, especially because a lot of times I take early morning flights, but yeah, it hits me and I just get in this zone where I'm just like, this is one place you can't call me, you can't you love to be on the phone or like I'm texting. Girl, if I figured out that fucking in-flight Wi-Fi, I would it would be another thing I hate. It would be another trigger. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

I like it just because uh, you know, I'm I'll get bored on flight. I don't sleep a lot on flights unless I'm like, you know, once again, like modern problems, but like if I'm in a lie flat, I'm not on that Wi-Fi because I'm sleeping. But if I'm in a chair of any kind, I have this like pressurized pass out, which isn't really a fall asleep. Like as the plane starts to rev, I'll kind of like nod out and I'm not back till that I get like bumped with a service cart. And then when we come in for a landing, I'll pass out because of the change of the pressure in the cabin. Oh, see, I just but other than that, like I'm up. I'm up.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

I bring a blanket which I have here on my bed in Zibelite, and the blanket goes over me, and there was a security blanket. I pull it over me, so I'm in darkness, I fall asleep, and this guy had told me. Um, I met him here in Zipalite, Jason, his name was nice guy. And he says to me, You are the guy. I was in first class at the time, and he was like, We were talking about flying, and I said, Yeah, I get on the plane, I immediately cover myself with a blanket and go to sleep. He goes, Oh my god, I thought you were a dead body. He goes, You were like in this weird- I thought somebody died, and they just were like literally You died midair. Stella gave me this really good fig um down jacket that compacts down really small, so I have it in my suitcase. Oh, you told me about this, yeah. And I use it as a pillow because it's like it's like a baked potato size, right? Totally, but then it expands. I have it as my thing, and then if I'm cold, because airplanes are always cold now. Um, it's just the best. I like have it down to a whole system. But I will say, I mean, I'd love to do it. I'm a woman of a certain age and I've started flying business or first. I'm not all the time.

SPEAKER_03 28:45

So you don't know if you can live like that in your partner posey.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Right, exactly. When I went to the cruise, um the the uh Kaya cruise recently, I was like, look, I got a free cruise. I'm not gonna fly first class and like blow all my money on it.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

Right, right. So I didn't Yeah, don't spend the savings, right? Yeah, I don't do economy so well.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

I hate to sound like that person, but I didn't have Tabasco because he didn't go on the cruise with me. So I thought, you know what? I'll just fly cheap and cheerful. I hated it, but I didn't get it.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

And then you upgrade it on the way home.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

I did upgrade.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you do the cruise again, but I don't economy's rough. Economy's a young man's game. Like I've got knee and back and shoulder problems and all that fun stuff, and it's like it's no joke. Like, if I'm I I could do like I could go to Cleveland or Chicago or like the flight to Houston. I don't, I don't mind. It's not comfortable, but like I'm not in any pain. We're like if I have to fly to like Berlin economy, like I uh we're doing like a yoga session. I'm on painkillers, muscle relaxers, like right. I'm not okay from that position because you can't get comfortable, you know. If it's direct, I can do it. I'll take a Zanny. And it's not the 90s anymore. They have made those seats as cheap and as close as they can get them.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Crazy.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

When I went to Alaska, because I did that Kathy Griffin show my life on the D list many years ago, and I remember I sat next to this woman that was so fat that she her she basically poured over into my seat.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

That's the worst.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

They didn't fly me first class, I remember, which I thought was wild because I thought, well, can't they afford to fly me first class? But I guess not. Yeah, they got that Bravo money, right?

SPEAKER_03 30:14

Yeah, well, Bravo, I don't know what Bravo is. They were owned by E Entertainment back then. E was it. When she was doing my life on the D list, like every reality show was on Bravo. I don't think they spent much money though. I just don't know. Didn't they end up buying VH1? That's probably high.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

I just don't know. I get the feeling like Bravo's cheap.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

But um, but what do I know? Did you ever go on spring break? Um parents would take me to Daytona Beach because my dad had property.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Oh, that is like the spring break.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

Oh my god, and all he did was walk around thinking, I just want to fuck all of the guys. Oh, they were really good. When I was like 10.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

And they were all like high. When I was like somewhere between like 10 and 14, like right before coming out. I came out when I was 15, but like somewhere right before that, I was glued. If I wasn't playing baseball or like out with my friends, I was glued to MTV's grind, like spring break edition, just like all those guys and they're back when board shorts were really inmature. I love it. Horrendous now, but they're sexy on like a muscle guy who's like them now on dancing by the pool and he's wearing like a pair of like oakleys or vipers, you know. And I was just like, oh, someday, someday I'm gonna be at spring break. No, and I can drool now thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

My parents hated it because we would go there, I forget whatever, we had property. My father had property in Lehigh Acres, I think it's near Daytona Beach or something like that. My uncles, but my my uncle lived in Daytona. We went and they hated it, and I loved it. I was like, this is so much fun. But that was when Daytona Beach was. Is that the Elko Nevada uncle? Elko Elko Elko was my brother Dennis. Oh, Dennis brought the property. Okay. Yeah. Um, so anyway, yeah, I um I had a spring break moment. Uh my dads would always go to Myrtle Beach. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of Myrtle Beach. I mean, it's not spring break.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

No, it's not. It's uh it's spring broken. It's spring broken.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

The only thing broken there is hips. Anyway, uh, you're listening to Trigger Warning. We'll be back in just a moment. And we're back. We're right. You're listening to Trigger Warning. My name is Daniel Nardiccio. And uh I'm Adam Clesh. You didn't have a mouthful of popcorn that time. I know, right? I've been brushing it down. I know. You make good popcorn. Oh, I love popcorn. I've always loved popcorn. It's cheap, it fills you up, it's really easy. You can spice it up. It's so interesting as we finish out this spring break episode. Spring break. Well, no, this this this this experiment of this season. You know, I've been here since October 15th, and I'm looking at it now and literally second season, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Like it's our second season down here.

SPEAKER_02 32:51

We were we were doing business all last winter down here. That's true. But I mean, this was like me living here day in, day out. And like all of a sudden, you know, we're heading into rainy season. Every night at this time, it the sun is blazing through the windows. It's hot as fuck here at the restaurant. We're recording at Zip66. And today it's cloudy, and I feel like mosquitoes are starting. You can actually feel like the rainy season coming. Yeah, it's it's wild. All of a sudden, it's like, and then I'm so excited about Fire Island too, you know, because we basically get out there in six weeks, the first underwear party. Then it's Dina Martina, Varla Jean Merman, Sister Helen Holy, uh, Margaret Show, John Waters, John Marco Saressi, Jay Jordan, um Adam Pascal. Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Margaret. I mentioned Margaret Show. I always mention Sher Show. Mother Disco, Kerry Nation. We haven't even announced Jimbo yet who's going to be doing Alaska. Thunderfuck. Alaska Thunderfuck. I mean, it's such a fucking great season. Yeah. That it's like now I'm having that thing that happens when you are about to leave for vacation. I'm having it in reverse where you're like, I just want to get the fuck out of here and go on vacation. Yeah. Brushing your teeth pisses you off.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

You're just like this fucking sink one more time.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

And so now what I'm doing in my head is okay, we've we've closed the restaurant for the season and we're basically closing it up and just cleaning up everything here. And then I think I'm gonna go on a trip. I've been looking at places to go here and a little spring break. I have a car, I have a few shekels. I'm thinking I might just get in the car and go somewhere. I've been looking at places that are, you know, there's a little um island right off of Port Escondido that I've been here.

SPEAKER_03 34:24

Put a gas can in your car, just in case. It'll make me feel better. Why? Uh just you never know how far you are from the next gas fill-up. I mean, I yeah, you got a 91 Volkswagen.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

But I know, but when I'm by I'm going to Puerto Escondido, it's like much more.

SPEAKER_03 34:37

Yeah, yeah. I thought you said you'd like, you know, another one.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

No, I'm not gonna go to like the mountains. I mean, I'm gonna really be careful, but I would but you can't get up 'em. We tried to get up 'em with my boyfriend Alex.

SPEAKER_03 34:45

You can't get up the mountain.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

Oh, I know. We tried to go up to our mountain spot and we got basically slid back down the hill because it's still now it's too dusty. Yeah. But um, yeah, no, we're definitely uh, I'm just wanting, I'm thinking I want to go on a vacation in Mexico. Like right now, Mexico has become a place I work and I need to have a place that I play.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

And I'm thinking about I'm gonna go to like someplace in Porta Escondido, the little I was I was gonna suggest something, but I don't think it'd be your thing because you're not big, you enjoy a glass of wine, but you're not a big wine drinker. Somebody told me recently, I think it was um our business partner, Sam's husband, Phil, he had a friend that went um and did like a Mexican wine country tour, and he really thought that it was gonna be kind of tourist-trappy and like he likes wine, all that stuff. And he said it was wonderful. He said the region was beautiful, the wine was incredible, the food was wonderful. But I mean, you do that with a boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. You do it for the romance of it.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Yeah, I would do that for the with a boyfriend, but I'm not gonna do it alone. Well, I would go to the coffee growing region, which is like an hour and a half from here. One glass in, and you'd be like, Do you have any uh buttered rum?

SPEAKER_03 35:43

Right, exactly. Got a bump? The wine's great, got a bump.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

Have you ever heard of a booba libre? They never the old triggers, they never go away.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

No. Anyway, springtime um uh uh gets me going because it's when like I get to go out to the island, and like I love opening the house up there. And I also I love spending a bunch of time in the ice palace, like hooking the speakers up and the sound and the lights and whatnot, and it's it's quiet, nobody bothers you. You have to cook dinner because nothing's open, you know, and it's like just a lot of time in this. Like I've said it a bunch, but like it's just such a special, sacred place. And then like you come out and Sam comes out and Taylor and all of our friends, and like we fill it with such vibrant life because it was it was on life support before we got it. That's not to blow smoke up our own asses, but like we had friends that were like, you know, they hadn't been up there in years, um, which uh is crazy to me because now it's just it's full of thousands of people and visitors and people love it.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

I mean, I can't wait. It's just I this year I've given up my house because the uh the guy that bought the house that I've rented for a couple years is a Trumper, um, which you know you would think, based on my Google reviews, that I would love that. Don't do it. Don't do it. But I I don't remaining positive. And he's a dick. So I thought I'm not gonna rent from it. We're remaining positive, and he's a dick. And he's a dick. Diamond Dave. Ugh, what a dick. So he wrote me like dicky texts, and I thought, you know, I don't want to give you my money. It's a lot of fucking money for me to rent that house,$43,000.

SPEAKER_03 37:14

Expensive out there.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

I'm not gonna rent it. So I'm gonna look for a house. I want to have a little place to myself. I love the island. Yeah, but the island is a little bit like Zippelite now for me. Oh, you're ready to go right after your birthday. When you no, when you go, you have to make a mental decision to enjoy it. You have a different life there. Yeah, I walk around and it becomes all work. I have to make a mental decision. It's very well you're barely sober anytime I've ever seen you.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

That's my mental decision of how to enjoy the island. Exactly. I'm gonna stay quite lubricated Monday to Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

By the way, you have any K, haven't you?

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Wow. I don't know. Maybe our uh producer Josh is loving the chimes for the big words. Oh, really? He loves the SAT word chime. Oh, that's so funny. I had a really long conversation with Josh. For our listener, um, you might have company soon. Josh thinks we're gonna get listeners because in our next season, um, we're actually gonna have a proper studio and you'll be able to watch trigger warning on our YouTube channel. Oh my god, can you imagine? We're going full video watching us. Just stuff our faces with popcorn and make 18 classes of I would have liked to have had the video.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

Well, we do have the video when we had Gideon Click on we recorded last week, right? We have a video of Jimbo.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

We're in we're in our beta session of our digital era. Yeah, yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

Beta fish because we're always fighting.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. It's so stupid. We're not we we are we you and I are the least acrimonious people I know. Do you know the word? Acrimonious? I do. I couldn't, I mean, when it's used in a sentence, yeah, I get it. Um, but I couldn't, like, if you asked me to define it, I couldn't. Like an acrimonious divorce is the opposite of a friendly one. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's uh it's bad. I mean, I we I don't think anyone could ever describe us as acrimonious. No. No, no, more ceremonious. No. I'm like chewing like a fucking horse. It's making me a little acrimonious here. Sinner is coming soon from La Fenice. This Neapolitan pizza place down here. I will miss that. Um, but yeah, this has been uh our springtime for Hitler episode on trigger warning. Exactly. I think the entire episode was a trigger from Daniel. Really? Yeah, he went on for a while about how pissed you were about everyone. But that's okay. I want you to get it out. It's it's better than keeping it in. You want me to keep it in? No, no, no. That's never gonna happen. I wasn't asking. I just whipped my dick out for him.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

I need an adult. I need an adult. I'd slip it out the side, but I can't.

SPEAKER_03 39:55

Oh my god, so stupid. I'm so glad that waistband is so tight.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

Oh my god, it really is.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

I'm busting out all over. All right. We love you guys. Thanks for listening. This is uh this has been our spring break, St. Patty's Day, Easter springtime for Hitler episode. Um, you're probably hearing this while the ice balls is open. Come and make some plans and visit us on Fire Island. I think so. My God. Yeah. Josh is slow. I understand. Well, we've got a couple in the can. The old rusty drum bone. Wait a minute. We're just gonna end this episode pushing every button.

SPEAKER_04 40:36

Oh, Patty Lapone.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

That could be Gideon Glit, Jiddy and Glit, whatever his name is. Patty Lapone. Remember when he said that? That was so funny.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

Oh my god, I was dying. I was dying. And we have it on video. It was good. Josh has a lot of editing to do in that one. I know. He won't have a lot to do in this one. Um, we've got another episode to do if you're just gonna be like, I'm not doing this episode. It's you don't have a guest. He's like, nope, no guest. There's a there's a hole in the butt um follow us. Uh like, subscribe anywhere you listen to your podcast. Uh, you can write in uh to trigger warning nyc on our Instagram.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

Oh, yeah, we had a reader, uh listener who wrote us something, so that's kind of fun. So if you we like it. You want any questions? You want to ask us about anything?

SPEAKER_03 41:15

You know, obviously we uh I think I'm gonna try and get um a trigger warning phone number um for people to call in for the next one. I think we're uh I think because we're gonna go digital, we should take some callers. That's right. That's fine. We love you guys. Thanks, listener. We'll talk to you soon. Bye. Trigger warning, hosted by Dalen Ardiccio and Adam Meet Hammer Clesh, is a Pride House media production and produced by Josh Rotzensweig. Please note the views reflected in this podcast do not represent the views of Red Eye, the Ice Palace, or any of its subsidiaries. And any reference to scat, shrimping, upperductors, skanks, masturbating, rump riding, wolfbagging, Cleveland Steamers, Jigglypuffing, Rusty Trombones, Cosby Sweaters, Mexican pancakes, and Alabama Hot Pockets are the views of Mr. Ardiccio, Mr. Clesh, and his listeners, not the establishment. If you are offended, please seek immediate psychiatric attention.

SPEAKER_02 42:05

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