Unscripted Roots: From Samoa to the Sideline

Tino Savaiinaea is back. Last time he was here, Ryan and his best friend from college broke down football. This time, they go somewhere deeper. Tino — a Paulsboro, New Jersey native with deep Samoan roots — opens up about family, culture, and what it truly means to carry your heritage with you everywhere you go.

The two also revisit one of the most defining moments of their friendship — suffering serious injuries on the same weekend before their senior season, and how that painful pivot led them both to the sideline as coaches. For Tino, that moment turned into a full-time calling. He's now in his first year as a Graduate Assistant and defensive line coach for the Franklin Pierce Ravens while pursuing his master's degree.

Two defensive linemen. One unscripted conversation about where they came from and where they're going.

Thanks for listening! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Back with Unscripted with Ryan. I'm your host, Ryan Fitzpatrick. Today we are not live, pre-recording today. And I have an old guest, uh, one that was um on just about a month and a half ago. Mr. Um, you know, today's guest is a good friend of mine, very good friend of mine, old teammate, now Franco Pierce, football defensive line coach out of uh southern New Jersey by the Philadelphia area, Mr. Tino Savai Naya. What's up, buddy?

SPEAKER_02 0:27

What up, what up? Just hanging around, guys. Yeah, no, thanks for having me back, dude. It's uh I was kind of looking forward to this. I was waiting for that text to come through with uh, yeah, you wanna come on? So definitely. I I enjoyed last time, and hopefully we can kind of dive deeper into my simple life.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Your simple life dude, it's it feels a lot better in here, it's a lot of spacious. I know, dude.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

We weren't like we were like like right on top of each other in the other studio, but I like this spot. This is where we did our first podcast in in college, it's pretty fun. That's right. Yeah. What was that about? That was about football too, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Ooh, that's a great question.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Dude, I have no idea. To the archives.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

That was old bigger Tino back in the day. Yeah, I wore glasses in that one. I know you did. I've sunglasses in this one too. Well, we we recorded that one on the eye.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

I just didn't want to be see my eyes. Why?

SPEAKER_01 1:19

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Can't say, can't say. Ooh, what?

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Yeah, I mentioned we're not live today. Uh Tino, like I said, the defensive line coach. We're heading into a very interesting part of your season where um, you know, it's almost spring ball. The boys are hit in uh their lifts, their deadlifts, and uh not deadlifts, but their max weight um in the weight room. And uh things are getting going over there. Um I know you have a meeting at four o'clock or around there, so you want to get a little early session in. I know we go live at four o'clock every Wednesday on the Talon, but uh today we were we're recording this night in the nice podcast studio, and um how's that all going for you, man?

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Like Yeah, no, this has been um Wow. Yeah, no, this has definitely been an interesting year just for me, just because like I've been around the program for you know we've been around the program since the start. And um, you know, I guess this is the first, like just to speak for my unit, um by itself. I can't I don't really like to speak for other people's uh, you know, other position groups or anything like that. Um but this is the first unit that none of the guys have been at, like true starters, like we're not bringing back any true starter guys. Everybody was like a second string type of dude, so like um it's been an like interesting year from like trying to motivate these guys to like alright, this is your guy's turn, you know, it's time to pass the torch now, and um kind of getting them ready for that. But they they've responded really well. We have a really, really young group, um really sophomore heavy this year, um, you know, with a really good freshman class, and obviously we got the twenty s uh twenty-sixth class coming in with with four more dudes. I think that'll be really good for our for our unit. But yeah, no, it's it's been an interesting one. The guys have responded really well to what I've been asking them to do. I've been taking more of a Hendo approach with being able to give them their own lives, but like, all right, this is what we're doing, guys. Like Thursdays, be ready to like practice or practice and go out to eat right after. Um and trying to keep them as busy as as as I can without getting in trouble with the NCAA. Um but yeah, no, they they've been good. They're they're their their numbers in the the weight room have been really good. Um look, some of them have some tight, you know, tight hips, tight, you know, their legs are a little kind of got draft legs right now. They're still babies behind themselves. But um I think going into to spring ball in the next two weeks, I I think this is gonna be really uh a real a real big um stepping stone for a lot of the guys, especially the three guys I do expect to start. Um you know, this spring is gonna be they need to kind of turn the page. So really banking on on three of my guys, uh Ish, Kevin, and uh and Jairis to to really have uh a good a good spring. And and the other guys too, you know. I I've always said um you know I want everybody to eat at my table. I don't believe in just three starters, I believe in everybody starters. The more guys you have that are able to play football and understand your scheme, um, the better your overall team is and the better your unit is. So um try to get all those guys prepared as much as I can. And uh, you know, myself being a young coach, I try to um try to give my true self. You know, I'm I don't I'm not a drill sergeant or anything, so just I appreciate that how they're responding to how I'm coaching them right now. And I can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but um I love them up just as much. So yeah, to kind of sum it up, I'm really excited, they're really excited. Um kind of got those pre-spring ball jitters right now. Um kind of sick of the weight room warrior aspect of it. You're sick of it? I want to see I want to see some some pads crack. I want to hear that that sweet, sweet sound that we that we that I that every football player and fan loves to hear. So um, you know, I'm ready to get going with these dudes.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

So yeah, you see it in sports all the time. Like the weight weight room can only do so much. Like, obviously, guys that can lift weight, you know, could can produce better on the football field, but you see guys, like as the terminology used, the weight room warrior, man. Like, you see those guys that put up all the numbers in the weight room and it does not translate at all to the field. So you see that right now. This is the big weight room time of the year because it's cold outside, we're not we're not doing as many drills, but then it got it's got to translate. How do you make it translate onto the field?

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Um, yeah, that's a really good question. So being able to get the movements that we're doing, especially in the defensive line. You know, we're doing a lot of Olympic lifting and you know, um, you know, the testing, like broad jump, uh your vertical, your, you know, your five ten five times, things like that, like those things have to relate. Like, you know, when it comes down to simple things of just coming out of your hips and using your hands. So um trying to get that the trying to get these guys to get those drills to relate, it it's not hard, but just being able to it's buying in. It's not relating anything. It's all right, are you gonna buy into what I'm telling you to do? Yeah, you know what I mean? Like it's telling those getting those guys to believe what you believe, and as long as you can get them to do that, I'm I'm I'm a firm believer that like they'll do it, they'll do what you're asking them to do. So um, I guess that was kind of a weird answer, but yeah, no, definitely. Like it's it's hard sometimes to to try to get that to relate. Some guys like it takes a little bit more time. Everybody's on a different time frame, you know. Um so some guys you might think that they're ready, but in reality they're really not. Um but you know, we'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

We always do.

unknown 6:38

We always do.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yeah, and it's an interesting time, like you said, for the D-line group, because we've always had those guys that had so much playing time returning, but we've seen it in our time in the past few years, we've seen other position groups go through that where they retire those experienced guys and the younger guys that haven't really had any experience had to step up to the table. So are you asking around other coaching uh coaching coaches in the position groups what they did for them? Or are you finding your own way and how are you uh how are you planning on motivating them?

SPEAKER_02 7:07

I feel like um for me, especially being a younger coach, I definitely look towards gas and ewing for guidance and like that. They've been around this game for a really long time. Smart guys too. Um and it's not for me, sorry it was a weird pause. For like me, like the ceiling for these guys is is huge. They have a high they have a high ceiling, and I I think like I can't treat them like that, and I can't worry, because once you start to worry, those the the players will start to see that. And I'm not worried at all. I I think um seeing other groups go through that, like how we have, uh have kind of given my own way of of trying to make sure these dudes are ready and being able to go out there and play, you know, don't be thinker, just be a doer, you know, like trying to get those guys to understand scheme uh from from like even from install one, trying to break things down to the very simplest form. So all they can have to do is just alright, this is what I gotta do. Boom, boom, boom, it's done. Instead of, alright, man, what gap am I in? Alright, what what technique do I have to play? Oh man, like I don't want them to think like that. I just go out there, let me do all the thinking. I'll do the thinking, you guys do the playing. Um and now having two years under my belt coaching, you know, uh there's things that I you know I have looked back and I've done a lot of self-reflection on. There's things that I need to get better in as a coach to to give these guys the best chance possible on the field. So um so to kind of answer your question, like I've done a lot of looking within like what am I doing internally to the day. Um the pla the it's never gonna be the player's fault. It's gonna be the coach's fault. I didn't get them ready enough. So as long as I'm on my P's and Q's, I'm sure that they're gonna be on their Ps and Q's because we work as a unit and I head it. So I I I have to make sure I'm on a hundred miles per hour every day, uh, making sure I know as much as I can. And if I don't know, I go find the answer with Coach Ewan, Coach Gas, or I outsource, watch clinics. And um, so I guess for me to kind of sum up that whole kind of conversation, like I've really been looking within um to try to figure out like all right, what what can I do? Like, because I have a big old uh whiteboard and my thing, and what my the question right at the top, what can I do to be a better coach this year? And I I have that up there. Well what can I do? What can I do to be better? What can I do to make these guys better? What can I do to impact these dudes' lives? Um, so just trying to be there in all aspects, not just for you know the athletic part of it, but for outside of athletics, for you know, for their education, for their personal lives, like how things are going on at home. I want to make sure I know everything so I know how to attack different situations because people go through different things every day. 100%. So just trying to make sure I'm doing everything I can to make sure I'm giving my unit the best opportunity to go out there this spring and hopefully compete again in the fall. Um so yeah, yeah, that's it's kind of what I've been doing. A lot of self-reflection of what I did last year and breaking down film and um you know, kind of just bringing it down to percentages and fast, dude. You know, like what did we do good? Like on on first down, did we do good on second down? Did we do good in this run? Um, you know, were we more you know efficient enough to give the back end a chance? Um so it all kind of ties in together, you know. Um it comes in for from from a unit standpoint, and then just from for an actual position group standpoint, everything you can break down to the small things, right? So sorry, that's kind of a long answer.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

No, you're good, man. I mean um hanging around, man. Hanging around, dude. I mean speaking of hanging around, I mean outside of football. Let's let's outside of football. Football is like, I know, your life. It's out it was it was it was my life. I get it. No, you m you keep it go, you're keeping it going. Yeah and um, but how you been, dude? You look good, you look awesome. I wish I recorded this podcast today. Yeah, man. You're looking good. You got the all black, necklace action.

unknown 11:09

Just hanging around, dude.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Honestly, um, yeah, yeah. Football is my life, man. I never I always joke about it. Like when I was a player, and I was like, I'd never be a coach, never be a coach. And I'll be a goddamn coach. Um I love it though. Um, yeah, most of my days consist in me just hanging out in the office and going home and watching film or or doing a project that Ewan or Cass has for me. Um other than that, man, just trying to stay in touch with my family and and you know be as uh involved with with especially my nieces and nephews live as much as I can, especially their grandma. Maybe Scope. They're getting older, man. So maybe Scope's how old now? That's a good question.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Um, I think a year. Uh yeah, he's about a year and a half, two years old.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

We're coming up on his second birthday, actually. You'll have to come back home for that. It'll be fine. Okay. It's at the place our class had his commute.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Yo, that place was awesome. It's it's on the water right there. Yeah. Next to that weird bar. Yeah, that was a really weird bar. Oh man, I'm so I'm so happy that uh that things are going well back at home. With uh I know you don't have a car yet. What's going on with that, dude? Dude, so like I seated the parking lot.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

You know what I'm I'm you know, to everybody who's listening that's from New England, this is your guy's fault. The roads are terrible here.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Oh, seriously, bro. Mountain Road? The potholes on the reel.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

So I um my HC compressors is is gone, my serpentine belt. Serpentine. Yeah, man. So my dad's gotta come up. My dad's a mechanic. I I mean I feel like I'd be able to probably maybe fix it if I had the right tools, but you know, my dad's a mechanic and he's just trying to make time and everybody's got work, you know. So I've been really patient walking around, hitching drives here and there when I can. But other, yeah, other than that, man, just enjoying being up in Ringe, you know, it could always be worse.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

So not having a car, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

Especially in the winter months, it's it's definitely hard getting up at six o'clock in the morning to walk up to the bubble and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

It wakes you up real quick.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Hey man, if you ever need a ride, let me know. I will. Come on now, baby. Oh, come on, talk to me. Hey man, you talk you talk talk about your dad a little bit, man. Um your dad's the man. Yeah. Your dad is the man, dude. He's a grammar. He's uh he's a mechanic, he's a hardworking guy.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Yeah, my dad is a um what do they say? Uh Jack of all trades or uh ace of all? I don't know. Jack of all trades. Jack of all trades, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Um he's a master of uh some though. Not like people say some master. No, he's he's a master of some. He knows a lot, man. A dog or a cat?

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Yeah, I don't know. Uh yeah, so a little bit about my dad. Um scope, man. Yeah, so my dad um is originally from Samoa, um, Kalifa and uh Yusu in Samoa. Then um in the 70s he ended up moving to Hawaii with my Uncle Tino, who I'm actually named after. And after that, um in like 81, I believe, uh they both moved to the States. My Uncle Tino ended up going and dancing for Disney World, and my dad went up to Atlantic City under a contract with another um Polynesian dance group um to to go dance at all the resorts in Atlantic City. And then that's kind of where my the the story kind of starts with the the rest of my family. Uh my dad, my dad's a big guy. If you if anybody from New England or around the area that's listening, if you know Samoan people or we're nationally big people, and uh my dad's actually a you know a professional power lifter too. Um he kind of got into that in his you know his his late teens, going in his early twenties, especially when he moved over here in the States and when he spent his time in Hawaii. Um you know, he did a bunch of jobs when he first came here. He did a lot of stuff. He was a bouncer, uh fire knife dancer, a power lifter, a mechanic. Uh so he kind of did it all when he came here. But that but that's what you gotta do when when you're you know when when you're an immigrant and you come to a new country, you gotta find a way to make ends meet. Um didn't really have much, came here with a a bag with maybe a shirt and some shorts and twenty bucks his name. And um yeah, and that that's kind of where it started, and he started dancing Atlantic City. Um then he met my mom while he was Irish, an Irish lady.

SPEAKER_01 15:29

An Irish lady, dude.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Old Miss Colleen McMichael. Oh man. And uh yeah, then nine months later, my sister popped out. So um, yeah, and that's how it kind of started. And you know, um they danced. My dad, we and we own a Polynesian dance studio and a uh Polynesian entertainment uh entertainment business where we cater, you know, roast pigs and all that good stuff. Um and that's kind of where the the roots of my culture come from. I was really fortunate enough growing up to to be a part of that and and know where I'm from and be proud of where you know my people. Because that's at first in the early 2000s and stuff, people didn't really know too much about Samoan people.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Oh, they don't.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

I didn't until I bet you people kind of grouped us into Hawaiian people, and it's kind of cool now. Um, you know, when I was younger, I you know I knew who I was. I knew I was a proud Samoan. And I was proud to be Irish, just Irish too. Everybody else Irish, man. There's not too many people you grew up with around the especially this side of the country that that are Samoan. So um, you know, being able to be brought up every you know with the shows and going and doing luaus and cooking pigs and doing the fire knife dance and being around my siblings, all six of us.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Yeah, someone's that those families run deep, man.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

Yeah, man. So just being able to be, especially because we didn't grow up in the islands as much as we want, we're fortunate enough to go back a lot um when we were younger, and I actually went back last year too. Um really fortunate, but especially living here in the States, it was really um good for us to to be able to practice our culture and our traditions and you know, be able to wear our our tattoo, our tattoos, um, to to embrace our culture because we don't get to be with it every day back on the islands. So Yeah, no, it's kind of the story of how my family came to be. So we're all we're all over the place though. I'm up in New Hampshire. Everybody's still kind of in that Jersey Philly area, but I'm the one who's away from home, so it kind of sucks. Yeah, man. Having a tight-knit family that's kind of just I just feel left out sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 17:29

You are very close with your family. You mentioned you when you were talking about the uh the dance company, you said we, and a lot of people that know Tino, that know him as a defensive line coach, might not know that uh you're a dancer. You are a dancer, you work very deep with your with your uh dance, dance um family. Yeah, yeah, the whole company. Very that business is awesome. Go check him out on Instagram and uh talk about that a little bit more.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Yeah, so um so my family started well my mom and dad um started our Polynesian dance business um back in the eighties, late 80s going into the 90s. Um started off really small. People really didn't know what Polynesian dancing was. They kind of knew about hula dancing back then, but they didn't really know about like Tahitian dancing, Fijian dancing, Tongan Sabamo. Oh, you said Tongan Um They they didn't know too much uh back in the day, like the the people um that that we were you know teaching about our culture. Because we don't just do Sabamo and we do we do it all around the the Pacific because that's that's Polynesia, you know. We're all we're all connected. You know, we're not connected by land, but we're connected by ocean. Um so we try to t touch every island and give a little bit of their tradition and we've gone out of our way to learn different um different islands' languages and um how they dance, so we're able to, you know, because we're ambassadors of of of the Pacific when we do things like this, as as little as it might seem, like we are we're showing, you know, we're we're showing our culture off to people that don't really know too much about it. So we have to make sure we're on our Ps and Q's, make sure we're you know presenting you know the items the right way and doing those islands justice. Um so yeah, to kind of get back on track. Um yeah, my family started it back in like the late 80s, going in the 90s, really small. And then over the years it's kind of just built up. You know, we we traveled a lot, we've been trying, we know we traveled to Florida to go dance, Indiana, all over the place, all over the states. And yeah, it's it's it's been interesting. I've been dancing since I was since I could walk. It's so funny like when the new guys come in, and we still have a couple guys that we played with on the team, and they're like, you know, like Coach Tino does like that fire dance stuff, and they're like, What?

SPEAKER_01 19:37

Fire knife, don't undersell it, dude. It's the fire knife dance. Y'all ever heard of that? That stuff looks so cool, and y'all know it. Yeah, like Tino does that, his mother does that.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

I will say, um, the Ayla Wafi is what it's uh traditionally what it would be called the uh the the the tooth of death is really what the okay the terminology. Yeah, so it's uh it's a machete basically on a stick with a hook on it. And um you just light it on fire, and that's you know what they would do. Um, you know, before war and all that. Before the fire came along, it was just a machete, and then they added the fire, maybe in the 60s. What six son of a gun is like?

SPEAKER_01 20:15

Let me light this thing on fire and start dancing with it. Thanks for that.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Um, but it is cool. I I I really every summer when I go home and I go work with my family. It's um when you're little, it's like, man, like you look at all your other friends, they're having a fun summer. They're they're out, they're out going on vacation, this, that, and the third. Where for me, like summer was work season since I could walk. Like, I go, and I used to complain about it a lot when I was like, hey, look at where go do all these shows for these other people. Where's the time for us? Where's the time for our family? And like little did I know, like now that I've been here for uh close to six years, like that was our time together. Like, I when I go back home, like that's that's everything to me. Like, that's an excuse to be around my siblings, 24-7, 8-2. Oh, seriously. Because the summer season, everybody wants a luau at their party, so we're traveling down to the shore, we're traveling to Maryland, PA, Florida to to go dance at uh at venues. I mean, even the Phillies were going over to the Phillies Stadium to go dance on their dugouts and stuff like that. Yeah, y'all have done that before, too. Yeah, so it's just like you know, we did Shane Victorino's uh retirement party actually. Shane Victorino, man, Ryan Howard and all those guys, dude. Ugh. Insane, man. Um, but you know, when I was little, even when I was in high school, like I'd just be like, man, I wish I had just a little bit more free time. But now that we're all kind of getting older, and you know, unfortunately, you know, the truth is my um my dad has more years behind him than he has ahead of him now. And I always like to just be brutally honest. I love going home when I can and being able to go dance. And sometimes it's a pain that you gotta be half naked in front of people, but it's alright because it's it's for my culture, and I'm really lucky and fortunate to be a part of. part of a um a really special culture that a lot of people admire um because we we hold our um you know we hold our customs and and and our traditions really close to us and we really live by it still to this day and I I got to see it again in person after being away for eleven years from Sahamo I I got to go touch Sahamo and soil again and that was a really spiritual moment for me to to go back to Sahamo and see family and go back to Falifa and Bayusu and Soisinga all the villages that my my you know all my family are from to to be able to go back there and see all my cousins I've never seen met before and you know go up to the bush where my dad grew up you know in his little little house up in the mountains it was cool you get to see all your cousins and they're looking at you I'm just white guy coming out of the car all these little brown kids are family yeah yeah I'm your cousin and all that so it was cool I enjoyed it it was such a spiritual trip for me when I went back to Samoa and then it kind of got me more in touch with the dance studio like I was like I I can do I could be doing more. Um you know I might my dad made a lot of sacrifices to come here to start this business came here with twenty dollars in his pocket and didn't have a roof he was sleeping under trees when he first got here for the first two years in the States so like it kind of gave me pers uh you know perspective like I got things really good. Like my cousins over here don't have shit excuse my language. So being able to kind of do those things and and be proud of my culture and and where I come from and have a good better understanding was really good for me. It's actually one of my players right there. I'll be seeing him here shortly he's a gremlin that kid Josh Moore man he is he's a hoot we would have loved him he's like the Troy Vento he's like the Troy Vento of uh of our defensive line so for anybody listening right now we're kind of in this like fishbowl type of deal and uh there's a college class coming out right now and it's our defense line one of my defensive linemen just came out recording me so just kind of explaining to old Ryan Fitzpatrick uh why we're getting recorded by a random kid but I love that guy Josh Moore is a he's a hilarious human being like he does he's one of those guys that like he doesn't mean to be funny he's just funny like you just you and I don't mean that in a condescending way like an ignorant no no no no no you look at him it's like oh my gosh like you're just funny bro you look like a little rubber ducky bro like squeeze him bro he's a little goofy guy man yeah man Troy Vento I know we're gonna get off topic real quick Troy Vento called me the other day no yes he did we'll call him the night we'll call him the night perfect we'll call him the night if we want me hang out we hang out yo if anybody's listening make sure you pull up to Winchin and for uh for the women's hockey game uh playoffs playoffs right round two round two this really big really big moment for their program right big moment yeah really big moment so definitely pull up lacrosse is playing here in four o'clock yo we need we need the we need the town out here man we need to get you this is good this is living this is airing live at four o'clock so it's alright if you guys don't make it seven o'clock make sure you're in winch I'll be posting this podcast very soon I'll be I'll be getting this out today um but yeah man I I really appreciate you taking the time today I I want to I I would love to talk about your family bro what like I was kind of like I didn't really know what we were coming in here to talk about last time I knew it was about football so I'm being honest with you guys I didn't really uh I didn't care about my body that much when I played football so my head's all over the place so sometimes I'm just like blank staring at the wall because I hit my head so many times playing football and I uh um I was almost paralyzed for the rest of my life because of it so that was a good warning um but yeah no man I always love coming on here and we'll have to get the all the boys man we gotta get that the LV thing going man that you're also the DB group wants to hop on here.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Don't have them on here.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Yo DBs until you uh if you listen to this until you guys put on 10 pounds each you ain't coming on this you ain't coming on this podcast you worry about the wrong things right now you need to tighten up hey but bro what you texting I really appreciate your text the other morning by the way saying I love you. Yeah man I was thinking about you the other day I was reading through our old messages from college we can stay on a little bit longer another five minutes um I was I was reading our text like I don't know why I was just going through them I think I had to find something something you just sent me some funny thing you just sent me and um I was just I got I got into a rabbit hole like it was like it was like four o'clock in the morning and I was like what's up with that you still don't sleep d I don't sleep man I'm up I'm up at like four I was this guy's roommate and I just walked around random hours not sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

Yeah man I got so much weird things on my mind um but no I'm sitting there reading it at like four o'clock in the morning while I woke up to kind of get my day started and um I'm I'm literally sitting in my room like laughing I'm cackling on on on the phone right because you said something so funny that I can't repeat on this podcast and I'm sitting there dying bro I'm I'm literally crying at this guy I'm like why are we like who are we right now where is my bread can you say what was it what was it about my bread yeah it was about my bread one of the breads it was about one of the breads definitely one of the piece of breads that we that we were eating wow bread man and uh yeah dude this is so funny that one yeah man I appreciated that text dude you ever like wake up and like have a weird dream about someone and then be like I have to go text them tell them I love them yeah yeah that's what it was definitely I definitely had some weird some weird dreams about things like that old Joe Muggs I was out dinner with that kid last night he's he's yo he's a guy you guys you gotta keep your eye on right there like what do you mean like he is good oh yeah he's gonna be really good wide receiver he can run man okay run but he's from Connecticut oh you hate Connecticut man talk about that before we get out of here talking about you're talking about doing it's like totally degrade uh Connecticut right now listen before anyone hops off of here and before they don't want to listen to this anymore just know that I am uh in support of Connecticut sort of so I'm I'm a neighboring town from there so let's just start with this this is Al Tino go ahead man if you're from Connecticut and I'm like I'm I'm pushed up on this mic right now I hope you can hear me loud and clear your pizza is not better than New Jersey or New York's it's not even close.

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How can you call yourself the pizza capital of the world when Davy Portnoy rated New Jersey one of the best spots honestly we have the highest rated spot on his thing. You do it's uh it's in North Jersey it's North Jersey it's called the Delucio's yeah it is it's Deluches Delucio's so go ahead and come talk to me nice I'm sick and tired of this pizza conversation with y'all because y'all out here talking no how you how can you have the best pizza when most of your pizza shops don't even sell individual slices oh yeah that's very true that you can't do that if you're the best pizza shop sometimes people don't just want a whole pie they gotta look out for the kids after school man gotta and then the pizza shops that do it's like a $7 slice of pizza look up for the kids get a hold of yourself give me a $3 with the can of soda on the side I'm sticking tired you going any place in Jersey $3 a slice of pizza can of soda the thing with Long Island brother yeah like get get out of here get and it's in Long Island Long Island is way more bougier than Connecticut and it's three dollars. So where are the other four dollars going? We have higher taxes than it's not like you use a lot of dough that thin pizza get the heck out of here that thing's a pizza burnt toast bud yeah and I know that Pepe is I'm talking to you buddy yeah and I know this grudge in of Connecticut is not about the just the food though every time you drive up here you always say you get I was getting to it I was getting to it okay my bad sorry my fault my fault I had to take a sip my smoothie real quick Connecticut you also have the worst drivers in your is in mankind ever ever Georgie is the worst it's the yo Connecticut is terrible you need to fix your roads you need to get rid of the residents in the state I don't know what it is I I don't know if you guys don't know how to drive you be flicking your high beams at people don't flick your high beams at me dude I'm going the speed limit like get out of here get out of here and let's come up with some original names in Connecticut New London get a hold of yourself New Britain New Haven New Haven come on now come on I bet you never heard of a Paul's borough before no you haven't because we're original we don't need that only Woodbury Heights Woodbury Heights my bad yeah I'm from Paulsboro I'm not from Woodbury Heights or anybody I said a sister but I know I I do live in Woodbury Heights here and there but I'm just not from there.

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That's where I visit that's where you visit I don't want to visit I mean I visited Paulsboro it's not like that but trench baby gremlins over there I remember driving around there I drove around for the first time I went around into Paulsboro started to cut off your rant went into Paulsboro the South Jersey my first time we're in the car and um driving around in a nicer car I was in the back of it nice Kia and uh people were staring at the car I'm like why are they looking at us? They're trying to steal it trying to steal it I'm being serious I'm there's a pizza shop right in Quincy's right in front of my house literally right in front of my house they stole two of their delivery drivers' cars I I love Paul's brother interesting place they the cars got returned but it's all good they said to borrow them but yeah man um I really appreciate you dude coming on here giving you a little rant yeah well the next time I come on I promise you I'm gonna be more prepared I'm gonna come in here with some more ammunition for Connecticut oh my god there's more yeah there's more i there's more there's more there's a lot more um we have a lot of people from here from Connecticut so uh listen up he's got a message for y'all and and yo hey if y'all got something to say about New Jersey or Long Island come by leave some in the comments all you can say about New Jersey is that our air smells everything else is better than you're better than your beaches better pizza they don't have pizza I just burped into the mic that was gross I'm sorry they don't even have beaches in Connecticut but yeah we can get into that next time man yeah they got a bay that's what you got a bay overlooking Long Island and they the the it's to Long Island Sound it's not even called the Connecticut sound is it no I don't think so it's probably not because who really wants to what what else is in Connecticut other than the WWE convention center nothing or the headquarters that's what you guys are known for get out of here guys I'm not taking sides here just so I don't know come see me come on Rutgers vs UConn who's winning in Rutgers 100% we are I didn't even say a sport I didn't even say it we are slamming them in everything besides a women's basketball that is very true that is very true Paige Bukers I do not want any problem with you but she can see me with a one-on-one what oh like basketball okay okay hey man I really appreciate you coming on here today bro absolutely we got sidetracked I I wrote some stuff out but we kept I didn't yeah I didn't know I didn't even who cares hey but I appreciate you I know you got a schedule to get back to keeping it busy I love you man and uh I really do and let's keep going with this um some other time man love you absolutely love you dude I'll be seeing tonight love you too man I'll be seeing you later why don't you just what time are you done? 4 30 We're going to games I asked Doug Hardy if we can do a fire so yeah let's uh sweep by it down in the song though sounds good brother hey once again thank you for joining me thank you all for listening absolutely I love you guys too I love you guys too man yeah unless what did bad buddy say hey hey hey man but I appreciate y'all for listening 105.3 fm radio live at four o'clock every Wednesday or wherever you get your podcast I'm Ryan Fitzpatrick this is on scripted with Ryan and we will see you next time peace