New York Tony Said My Guest Don't Have a New York Accent... But Does He?

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Episode Introduction

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Today, my guest is originally from Brooklyn.

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Yes, ma'am.

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He lives here in Orlando now. His name is New York Tony. Welcome to the podcast.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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How long have you been in Florida?

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Uh technically, I would say about 22 years now.

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Okay. 22. Okay. Okay, so I've been here a little longer. Yeah, 22.

Why He Left New York

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So tell us why you moved to Florida. Let's start with your story.

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All right, so let's start from the original story. So the original story, I'm from Brooklyn. Empire Bova, rep, rep, rep. From Brooklyn to Queens, Queens to Long Island. I did the New York getaway, that's what they call it. And I moved from Long Island to Florida, which was Fort Myers, which is Fort Misery.

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I got a friend at Fort Myers. She's been on the world.

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Fort Misery. And Cape Coma. So I lived in both areas, but I transferred with my job from Long Island. So I use I do payroll in my new time, in my new time of my life, my new chapter, I would say.

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Okay, so you moved here for a job?

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Yeah, I transferred.

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Okay, you have a family?

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No, I it's just me.

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So you were like, I'm just tired of New York.

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No, seriously, I really got tired of New York, and New York got too expensive. I was living on Long Island, it was worse. So can you lower the mic? Yeah.

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Just a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So New York wet.

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So they call it, like I said, the New York um getaway. So we went from Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, and I moved to Fort Misery and then Cape Coma. And now I'm living in Orlando.

Fort Myers Culture Shock

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So what was so miserable about Fort Myers?

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Okay. So since you asked, at 8 o'clock at night, everything shuts down. Back then. I don't know about now. That when I first moved out here, it should be earlier than here. It was horrible.

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Eight o'clock.

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Eight o'clock. No, no, no. That's much earlier. Yeah. Here? Yeah, because this place is that open at 2 a.m. now, so I realized that the other day.

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Yeah, the average is like 11, but there's open till two.

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Of course, yeah.

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Yeah. For restaurants anyway. Yeah, restaurants, yeah.

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Nothing serious. Or maybe uh the clubs don't even stay open that late anymore out here. So I noticed that the other day, too.

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Yeah. Oh my gosh, eight o'clock in Fort Myers. Yeah. What year you moved here?

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Uh 2005.

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Okay.

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2005.

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20, 20 years ago, pretty much. Okay. Oh my gosh. So how you like your Florida?

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I I love it in the wintertime. I hate it in the summer. I guess every New Yorker will tell you that.

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I definitely say that. It is horrible here. So what's the what's the thing that you learned here that you weren't

Searching For Pizza And Chinese

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prepared for? Like, what's the one thing you could tell someone if they're thinking about coming to Florida? From New York or anywhere up north.

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There's no bodegas out here.

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That's like the number one answer on the podcast.

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There's no bodegas out here. But there's good pizza. I can tell you that. I did find a good pizza place out here.

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Where?

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Doughboys. Doughboys. Doughboys and Longwood and then Ovito. Ovito, yes.

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Mario, call me. I've been waiting to get you on the show.

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Oh, get Mario on the show. Mario's good people.

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I stopped by one day. I don't know if they ever told him, but I stopped by and left my info. But still.

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Yeah, definitely get Mario on the show. Mario probably has stories for days. I look at his Instagram once in a while. It's crazy.

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So do you think it's the water? Because that's his whole thing.

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No, honestly, honestly, I let me be honest with you. When I first moved down here and tried to look for pizza, pizza was horrible. Like horrid. Horrible. But one day I was driving in Ovido and I saw his place was open. So I stopped in there and I literally got pizza. And I I literally could not believe how amazing this pizza was. I literally bought two slices and then a pie after.

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So did you find them random or did you still have it?

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It was random because they're right next to our Dunkin' Donuts and Ovito. And it was that's why I was going in for iced coffee. But I'm sorry I said coffee the wrong way. But but I literally stopped in there and I saw quarter water.

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Yes, I saw him post that one time. I was like, what?

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So yeah, that was that was what draw me in the core the quarter water. I literally got two bottles of quarter water and the two slices, and literally after two slices, I bought a pie home after that.

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Yeah.

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That's how good I rep that place every time somebody asked me to put a good pizza. Chinese, nothing yet. But yeah.

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Yeah, there's nothing.

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Yummy House is close, but yeah.

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I've never been a Yummy House.

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Yeah, Yummy House is right in Altamont. So yeah, that that it's it's close. Like I could honestly tell you, it's close like Manhattan Chinese food, not like Brooklyn or Bronx Chinese food. Because yeah, that'll not really replace those French fries and wings. So, but outside of that, yeah.

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Oh, I

The Squirrel Freezer Story

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miss New York Chinese food.

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No, I do too. I I had it the last time I was up there.

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But did you hear what happened like last month?

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No, what happened?

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Uh some Chinese uh restaurant, I think it was in the city, I think it was in Manhattan. Uh I don't know if I should even tell you.

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No, tell me because I don't eat in Manhattan anyway. I know too. Come on, I'm a real New Yorker, it's too expensive.

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They shut down one of the restaurants there because when who's it called? Food control? What are they called?

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I'm not sure.

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The the people who check that the restaurants Oh, oh, the inspectors.

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Yes. Yeah.

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The food inspectors showed up and found 250 squirrels in the freezer. Stop. I'm not even playing. That was all over the world.

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Hell no.

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That's the one thing I'm gonna tell you about. Like pork fried rice. That's the little pork in it. Oh, stop. Meat. What does what kind of meat looks like that? Not real. Like, I love Chinese food, but I be squirmished sometimes. I remember being young before I realized that Chinese food might not be what we think it is. And I remember looking at the little like pork that's in pork fried rice, and I'm like, why does it have a little swerve? What is this? What kind of meat is this? It didn't look like that.

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Well, you're about to turn a lot of people off.

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I'm sorry. So, you know, I'll get like shrimp-fried rice instead or something.

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No, I hear you on that. I get chicken fried rice anyway. Okay.

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Oh my gosh, I guess we're talking about food for a little while. Like, okay, so what spots do you miss in New York? Do you have anything other than pizza? Is there anything like specific that you loved growing up or anything like that? Or any like little staple foods?

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I'm gonna be honest with you. We were about to start aging myself. I don't know about you. I could name a couple of spots. Beachtake Charlie's.

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Oh, I remember that.

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I actually waited there. You did? Yeah. Let me just tell you, the back room was in the back room. I'm just gonna Yeah, a lot of people knew a lot of things going on. I don't know nothing about the truck thing. Oh my gosh. Especially the one in Manhattan. What else?

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Sizzlers was like the place we always went to. Sizzlers was like where everybody went for their celebrations. Let me tell you something.

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When I saw that was like when there was I saw the last one in Long Island, I actually celebrated there. I could not believe how because I when I tell you how great Sizzlers used to be, especially for a kid growing up in the hood.

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Oh yeah.

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That food, let me just say that, right? Let's just keep it a buck right there. Oh my gosh. So let me ask you a question.

Is The New York Accent Dying

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Okay.

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So everybody have I've heard on this broadcast so far, even the Floridian girl, which shout out to her because she got a chance to sh hang out on our favorite state. Why is everybody that comes through here don't sound like New Yorkers?

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Ooh. You know, that's interesting because it's funny because a lot of people are saying that the New York accent overall is dying.

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Oh, yeah, okay. You believe that? Because hello.

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I mean, you know, I don't know. I don't know if I believe that, but look at content creators though now. I guess the younger ones, the younger ones, the younger ones.

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But look at the family still. The family dynamic is completely changed. Yeah. That's the difference.

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Yeah, like right now I'm raising my Floridiqua babies. You know, my girls are born here. And, you know, they're not New Yorkans, but they're Floricwas, you know. They're saying Floricas like that.

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No, but seriously.

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They don't got an accent at all.

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I had to say it.

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Who are my people? Yeah, I was gonna say, who of my people you about to diss?

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I'm uh the chef number one.

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Oh, okay.

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Sorry, chef. Uh you know, and and the uh the other guy from I forgot his name. And I apologize. I I don't like doing that part, but the service guy, that the one who said he was claiming from Brooklyn. They couldn't even say Brooklyn, right? I'm like, come on.

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Oh my god, you fighting words.

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Hey, that's how you're talking about RC. Okay, well, RC, I apologize to you as well. Hey, respect, but I know what if you're from Brooklyn, you sound like this. Listen, okay.

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I mean, somebody might listen to you and go, he ain't from Brooklyn either.

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Okay, yeah, okay.

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You got a nice deep voice.

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No, the water works though. The water works. Yeah, exactly. Coffee.

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You had to correct yourself a coffee earlier.

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Exactly. That's what I try to tell you. It's the same. You can never lose. I no matter what anybody says, I mean, if because I know he said he went upstate, so it's probably what happened because that I could see that being diminishing because people that live upstate don't sell like New Yorkers. Clearly, and that's just why we always say you're not from New York. If you yonkers and pass, you don't get a pass. That's it.

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You're not from New York. No, I'm sorry.

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I don't care what state part of the state you in. If you pass yonkers, you're not in New York.

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That's that you know, there's different levels to the New York accent. I mean, there's people that are really thuggish, you know what I mean? And then You're not wrong. But but you know, a lot, I don't know. Are you talking so? Okay, whatever. New York is in Florida then. Are you referring to them being the ones that lost the accent, so to speak?

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I guess because like I said, I I mean, I got a chance to listen in previous broadcasters, and I'm saying to myself, I don't hear no New York accent. The only one I heard was uh-uh, let's separate us.

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Oh my gosh.

Accent Reduction And Code Switching

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Listen, listen, there's the la I don't know, I can't speak for anyone else.

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Right now, I get it, Ma.

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But I know when I started in radio, they were not trying to put me on the radio in the beginning. There was some people, I mean, my the ones who did give give me an opportunity. Right. They were down. But all around them, there was people trying to tell them, really? She can't be on the radio. I believe I was the first Latina in Orlando that had a New York accent to come on the radio. Before everybody else was very proper and or Miami.

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You know.

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Well, I can't.

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Miami has their own accent. I learned that the other day.

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But I can't speak for uh Miami, but I know in my experience here, even if they were African American or Spanish and they were on the radio, they had that clean, proper sound. You know what I mean? So here I come with my accent. They're like, no. I've had people tell me you would never be on the radio.

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Stop.

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Straight to my face. And I was young, impressionable. I came here. You gotta hear my first story. You you admitted to listening to all the other episodes of these non-accent New Yorkers that's been on my show, but you did not hear my first episode, which told my story. Right. And yeah, so I got to experience a lot of uh pushback when it came to me showing interest of being on the radio.

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Wow.

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And so much so I had people tell me, Oh, you need to take an accent reduction class.

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Stop.

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And you know what? I wanted to be on the radio so bad, I considered it, and I was like, yes, no, yes, no. For the longest time, I'm like, Am I gonna do it or am I not gonna do it? I ended up doing it.

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Stop.

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And I was so mad because everybody in there were from like other countries who did not know how to say anything in English. Like it was basically as if I walked into a Spanish class for you know, and they were trying to learn English, is what it seemed like. So when I went in, there people were like, Why are you here? I understand you completely. You can speak very well. Like, and I'm looking at them like, listen, I'm in radio. And they told me to take an accent reduction class. And the only reason why I did it was I was like, okay, one time I did say something on the air that made me feel crazy. I had to say Disney's Wide World of Sports. And when I said that live on the air, I didn't realize I wasn't pronouncing my D's. So Disney Wide World Sports. It felt like it came out like that.

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No, that was true. Definitely New York talking.

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So when I was like Wide World Sports, I'm like, oh my God, that sounded crazy. Maybe I should take this class.

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No.

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But I did. But I'm gonna tell you a quick story. I know, I know you're here to tell yours. No, it's all good, man. But I actually worked down the hall at the station called Mix 105.1.

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Okay.

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And I went from like, oh, what let me see, what were we then with 102 jams? We was Blazing Hip Hop and RB, you know, and then I went from that, like one or two jams, blazing hip hop and RB, to Mix 105.1, the best mix of the 80s, 90s, and today. And I had to find my voice for Mix 105.1.

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Yeah, I know you have to find your voice when you do this, obviously. But yeah, but that I I can't believe they try to take you away from you, though. That I I don't like that part of it. They I'm glad that never happened with me, but that that that's something I would I wouldn't go for at all. Because if you can't take who I am, man, you know what I'm saying?

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And that was a challenge, that was a struggle for me because I was young. I started in radio when I was 19.

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Wow.

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And you know, I wanted to be who I was authentically.

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Of course.

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But I also wanted the opportunity. So I was taking notes.

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Right.

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And I was in some ways, you know, just trying to figure it out as one would do, having no experience, but grateful to be where I was at. So yeah, I had to, unfortunately, and I didn't really even know that's what I was doing, but I kind of had a code switch, you know? Yeah, and I didn't know I was doing that. I didn't know there was a terminology, there was a definition for that.

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Yeah, code switch, code switch is diabolical. I gotta be honest with you. So I get that. I get those.

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But I was young. Yeah, I get it.

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No, and I get it. And you were trying to make it big in radio.

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I was like, okay, watch me. You know? Okay, I'll play this game, but I knew the game I was playing.

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Of course. The long run.

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Yeah. So and I knew I understood the big picture. You know what I'm saying? So it was like, you know, people can hate me for that or call me fake for that, but look where you were. I'm still thank god. Thank God I'm still here.

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Thank God I'm still here.

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I'm not trying to act or whatever. No, no. Because I know this could all be taken away. But you know, yeah, I mean, people might have just adjusted. You know, maybe I don't know. Because sometimes I feel like when I don't have to, like right now, I'm kind of turned on. I have to project my voice. You know what I mean? I guess. When I'm home, I'm a little softer and I feel like my accent goes away. I don't know, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Maybe my speaking voice is.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

I'm pretty sure your accent ain't going nowhere.

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Anyway, I don't know. But um it's just interesting because I have read recently that the New York accent is declining over.

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I did see something like that. But I like I said, it the f family dynamic is completely changing now. So that's what it is.

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It's funny because like when I work here at the radio station, and let's say, uh, for example, I get winners, right? And you know, I I'm thinking I'm speaking to someone who is not Hispanic, and then they give me their last name. And, you know, I'm like, oh my gosh, that was a Rodriguez. That sound did not sound like a Rodriguez. Yeah, exactly. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Like I said, I didn't mean to call people out. I'm just saying I had to ask that question when I got up here finally. So I'm tight words. I didn't hear no, I didn't hear no water, I didn't hear no coffee, I didn't hear no Brooklyn, because that's how you say Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Oh my gosh. So from now on, you are hired to find all the voices for me, okay? If I'm not making you happy with that, I'm gonna put you to work then, okay?

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Here she go.

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Well, you know, you came on here like starting. Those are all my people you talked about.

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Okay, so keep let's keep it a buck. Do I sound like New Yorker or not? And here she goes.

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I mean, I hear the New York.

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Okay.

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I hear you being proper as well.

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Oh, yeah, because I could code switch, because that's what I do with my job.

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But you don't got a code switch here right now.

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No, not now here.

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I'm so don't let it let loose.

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I'm trying. You haven't got to be.

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You gotta warm it up. You gotta warm it up. Warm it up. You gotta practice?

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Warm it up. You gotta practice being a New Yorker. No, I don't gotta practice being New Yorker. Oh my God. Yo, you being out of pocket. Listen, listen. My heart is funny.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

All right, let's get back to the pleasant children. Yes, I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry. There's a reason why I'm here.

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Yeah, okay. Let's tell you a story. Obvious. So, so so I want to hear it in your full-blown New York accent to your whole story.

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All right, let me try. All right, so let me so where I'm from, like I said, I'm from Brooklyn. And I grew up on uh Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn, you know, and back then I wasn't I was in I'm from the generation that you got. Now I was gonna try to curse here, but I forgot. I'm not sure if you can curse. Can we curse?

SPEAKER_02 17:19

It is a podcast. I mean, I've kept it clean so far, only because Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

So I won't be all New York then, though.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

I mean, that's listen. I just want some moms to be able to listen in the call. Oh, I got you. That's it. But it doesn't have to be. I mean, it's a podcast. It's not radio. I asked you. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

I asked that.

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I appreciate that. First time you show respect on the show. I'm just here.

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Oh my heart. That's all right.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm just in the special.

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That's all good.

Grief Family And Moving For Work

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So, like I said before, the point, my point I was trying to share here is because I'm from the generation that you got your butt whip uh from the neighborhood. So, and not just your parent, because my mom worked a lot of jobs before, you know, her, you know, passing for a life, but she worked a lot of jobs. She took that's what made me who I am. So I I I'm a hard worker. I I'm not Jamaican, I'm West Indian Italian, but yeah, I I work like a Jamaican.

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So you got white boy in you, that's what I hear.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

No, that is true. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm half Italian.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

Okay, so like your dad?

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My dad's Italian, my mom's West Indian. Yeah.

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Oh, wow.

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Dad restless hole, yeah.

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Oh, that's so sweet.

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Yeah, she passed away from an asthma attack.

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Oh, goodness.

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Yeah, it was that bad.

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Did it happen in New York?

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Yeah, it happened, and I was trying to save her in front of my little brothers and sisters. Oh no.

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Were you young? How old were you?

SPEAKER_01 18:38

I was 19.

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Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry to hear that. That's trauma. That's trauma. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

It is trauma, and I I I got and I got therapy for it. I and I'm from the era that we don't go to therapy, so and I had to go to therapy because I lost my s I lost a piece of myself and that was her. So Oh wow. Yeah. Oh wow. And then, you know, a a few, you know, a few decades later, I lost my two sisters also. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Yeah, and lost my grandmother the same year. Can you imagine three in one year? Three in one year.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

What happened? Was it COVID?

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Well, my grandmother passed away in c age. I I'll just say that. She was eighty-five. I I think in eighty-five. Yeah, eighty-five. My sister passed away from suicide. My sister princess. And my sister Becky passed away because she couldn't do it anymore. And she left her son and my nephew. So my little brother, who's not little anymore.

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Yeah.

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Shout out to Joe.

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Are they out here or are they in New York?

SPEAKER_01 19:36

New York. Yeah, I'm the only one in Florida. So and it's been like that my whole life. I tried to get them to move down here with me, but it never worked out. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

And so I I I well okay, so you said it was the job. The job is what brought you to the job. Yeah, I transferred here.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Because I back when I first started a company, I was in a meeting and a manager said to me, you know, the only way you're gonna make money in this company is you gotta be able to be mobile. So I did. I moved from Long Island to Fort Myers and Fort Myers to Orlando. Orlando wanted to move me to Tampa, but I just moved here and I'm not breaking my lease unless they're paying for it and they didn't want to pay for it. So I had to So you're here now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

So you've lived in Fort Myers, you've lived in Tampa, now Orlando.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

No, they tried to get me to move to Tampa. Okay, that never happened because I couldn't, because I couldn't break the lease. That's why.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

So you like in Orlando better than Fort Myers?

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Oh, I feel like I'm home

Finding New Yorkers Through Sports

SPEAKER_01 20:30

sometimes. Right. I'm not even kidding. Like, I I mean, like, I'll give you a brief story that what just drove me, my inner New Yorker crazy. I'm a huge sports fan, right? Obviously, you could tell by the outfit I wear and stuff like that, and the car I drive. So I was at Walmart in Fort Myers, right? And I walked in with my Yankee hat and I saw someone with a Yankee hat, and I was like, oh, New Yorker. You know, you know, you know how we are when we see each other, right? Nah, guess what? He's like, I saw, I saw, did you see the game last night? We won by 10. He was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

I'm like, he's just wearing the hat.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Make it make sense, yo.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. I walked away.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

I was like, this was disappointed. He was like, I thought I was finally gonna connect with somebody. Oh, Lord And it didn't happen.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Exactly. So, but I I in my runnings, uh, you know, going to bars and stuff like that, I've met New Yorkers. So, you know, especially there was a really nice bar on Colonial Drive in Fort Myers, and that place that was they were open a lot for a long time before they closed down. And they used to do the FSU games, and that's how I became an FSU fan. It's the only Florida team I support. Oh sorry. Sorry if you get offended by that. Knicks, Yankees, Giants, all New York. Yeah, so outside of that, that's it. But you know, FSU games were awesome. Every time FSU got a touchdown, I got a shot. So I was good. So, you know, That place, but yeah, outside of that, yeah. But Fort Myers, yeah, Orlando's so much better, thank God.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Oh my gosh. So when you I remember the first time I saw, I remember the first time I saw Yankee hat here. I was like, why we didn't move to this part of town? I was like, after I saw the first one, I saw like three more in 10 minutes. I'm like, we're here.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

So yeah. Yeah, you've been down here for a minute, huh?

SPEAKER_02 22:22

I have since the early 90s. Yeah, yeah. So I'm I'm I'm not gonna say I'm a Floridian, but of course, you know, I love Orlando now. It took me a while, but I love Orlando now. Just it was very I was reluctantly falling in love with it, you know, throughout the years. That's understandable.

SPEAKER_03 22:39

I get it.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Because I had always wanted to go back and experience New York just as an adult for at least a couple years, you know. But I go back and visit enough stuff.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Oh, yeah. If you visit, then yeah, call it a day because I I actually, as your last guest, yes, two days isn't enough for me too in New York. So I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

You don't like it when you go back.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

No, when I go back, I love it. I love the the atmosphere, I love the vibe, but it takes two days and I'm I'm it's time to get back on that plane.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

See, for me, like one of the first few times I went back, it took me a couple days to kind of get acclimated again. Like for me, it was like, okay, where am I? Like, I've kind of forgot how to move for a second, and then all of a sudden it'll kick in and I'm good. And then I don't want to leave. Then I'm there and I'm like, oh man, I just I just got acclimated again and you know, to the weather, to whatever it was, you know? No. And I love going back, but anyway.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Yeah, I I I'm a firm believer I go during the holidays and I tell everybody if they first time go during Christmas, it's beautiful, it's great. And if you want somebody to take your picture, they'll take your picture. You want somebody in the summertime to take pictures, they're taking your phone.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

So that's New York.

Growing Up In Brooklyn And Coney Island

SPEAKER_02 23:49

What was New York for you like what was it like for you growing up?

SPEAKER_01 23:53

It was good. It was honestly, I you know, I ran the streets like every other kid. Played, you know, with a ball. I mean, uh Coca Levia, one, two, three, one, two, three. Um, you know, uh manhunt did all the cool things kicked the can, like take it back to when you were little little.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

Wait, I'm just keeping it a buck. So it wasn't a lot to do as a kid, but we felt like we were rich. So even though we were in a poor neighborhood, we were rich in our heart. So and that's why I tell people all the time. So you keep that mentality straight, nobody could tell you anything in life.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

So, what's your one favorite childhood memory of New York that you have?

SPEAKER_01 24:30

One favorite, going to Coney Island.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

You know, I've never been.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

You have never been to Coney Island.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

That is one New York experience my family did not have me do.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

Let me tell you, Coney Island, and the first time my mom let us go on the train by ourselves, Coney Island was probably the best day of my life. Really?

SPEAKER_02 24:46

I could imagine. I've always wanted to go.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Let me just tell you though, it didn't end that way though. So we were, it was five of us, me and my boys was out there, right? So we went to the rides and stuff like that. And all of a sudden, we see a guy trying to rob an old woman. So back then, I'm gonna say back then now, because this is exactly how it is, because back then there was a code no women, no children, and no old people. Excuse me if anybody gets offended by that as well. But yeah, but yeah, so we saw the guy trying to rob this older lady, and then you know, we jumped the guy, you know, and felt good after we got on the train back heading back to Empire. So but that was that was the only bad experience about it, the end of it. But during a day, we did everything. All I had was what, $15, $20 and made the whole day out of that. Now I'm pretty sure you can't do $20 for one ride.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

No, I I don't know what the prices are, but I don't know. I I love rides, but I don't know if I'll do the rides there now. Yeah, like that roller coaster is like a hundred years old.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

No, remember everything changed after Sandy. Yeah, okay. Yeah, remember because after Sandy, everything got destroyed. So Sandy destroyed Coney Island. There's new things there now. Okay, new things we built, including the Nathans.

SPEAKER_00 25:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Nathan's Nathans was my spot. The old Nathans had clams, everything. And when I was a kid, so I was a kid. I actually had clams for the first time because of my mom. And it was she said, just try, just try. It looks slimy as hell, but you know, but I tried. And ever since then, I've eaten it even as an adult.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

So wow. So, okay, so you you loved Coney Island. Yeah did you get to go into the city a lot as a kid? Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

During the Christmas holidays, like I said, that's why I told you. If you bring your phone, you're safe. Yeah. Well, back then it was camera, but yeah. But yeah. Now I yeah, I still go out there. I go about every two years back home.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

So I love it. I'm missing, I'm about due for a trip. Any airlines want to sponsor the show? Hit me up. Hey now.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Let me know, Jeff Lil. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

I need to reach out to them. But yeah, so so tell me what's what is what is it about Florida that keeps you here?

Florida Weather And Summer Survival

SPEAKER_01 26:54

The weather. But you hate the summer, but the weather. October to April. And honestly, October until now, because this has been the best summer, this better transition weather. I've never felt this weather before like this out here. Because usually about the first week of April, it's hot as you know what out here. So it's and it hasn't gotten that hot yet. So I'm kind of happy about this weather right now. This is the best time of the year to be out here. I tell people all the time. But it's summertime, I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it with a passion.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

You hide from the heat. Oh, I know I don't.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

I and everybody tells me, oh, you're fine. No the hell. They don't know. They really don't know. No, they don't. Yo, this heat is not. Last summer was unbearable. Yeah. I was out, what was it? August, about the first week of August, and I couldn't believe how hot it was. Like I would I had to take two showers that hot. That there's there's a label of hot. You get two shower hots or three shower hots. It's a whole different kind of hot.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

I remember in New York, we took showers with cold water.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Because I guess we didn't have the AC, you know. I didn't have central AC.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

No, no, there's no such thing. I don't know about now, but yeah, but yeah, back then.

SPEAKER_02 28:02

Oh, you just you just made me remember a core memory. I used to love taking cold showers.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Cold showers was the best. Especially in social media.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

And it's actually better for you.

SPEAKER_01 28:10

No, it really is. It's a blood circulation, everything. That's the adult talking.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

Yeah, exactly. We gotta think about things we haven't thought about ever before. Oh my gosh. And talking about thinking about things that I didn't think I would have to continue thinking about. I'm still tripping over the accent thing. I really am.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Why?

SPEAKER_02 28:28

I don't know. It just stuck with me, like wow. So now I'm listening for you. I'm like, where's your Brooklyn? Like the raw dog. Listen. You're gonna have to curse to bring it out.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Like go ahead, let me hear it. No, I'm not. You told me I can't curry, I'm not curse.

SPEAKER_02 28:41

I didn't say you can't. Yeah, yeah, you did. No, I didn't. I could put I could put an explicit check mark on the box, you know, for this episode.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Listen, the one comes out, the many come out.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

I feel you.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

I'm keeping it a buck right now. Let me see. No, I know. Let me not start one.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

I get it because, you know, of course, can't curse on the radio, right? So, and and that's what I do.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

So I'm able to like not curse when I'm here. But sometimes, like when I'm home or when I go out with other adults, yeah, oh my gosh, the way that the language comes out my mouth. Like sometimes my husband looks at me, he's like, Why are you cursing so much? I'm like, I don't know. It just all of sudden start I just start talking and it just yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

If it's cursing funny, I'm all down with it. But if I'm mad, every trucker mouth you can imagine comes in one person at that moment. So, and that's when you really hear my accent. And that's when I took I'm told all the time that I'm you know, I can't code switch when I'm angry, obviously. So because I don't give a after that. See, I blanked that out on purpose.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

What about any buzzwords that you notice? Like we say cursing up north, up north, but down here they say cussing, you know. Did you have anything that when they would say things, you'd be like, what? They didn't we don't say it like that or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Yeah, coffee. I mean, like I said before, that's the one, and that's the one that got me in trouble when I somebody wanted to know where I was from. Because I didn't used to wear all this New York stuff when, you know, now I do, I get in the old age anyway. But no, honestly, I when I was growing up, we weren't allowed to curse. So I had to come up with acronyms, and I tell people the honey, my favorite one is and you can steal this if you want. It's sugar honey iced tea.

SPEAKER_02 30:23

Oh, where'd I hear that from? That's like Madagascar or something, right? I heard it, I heard it, I heard it in the cartoon. Oh, sugar honey iced tea. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Seven years old. I got away with it every year because my mom did not play that. I it would be a belt right to the mouth.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

So that's why I was used in the movie. I know I heard it in a movie. Well, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

You can steal it if you need to, but that's why I get away. I and this day it happens sometimes when I'm in a perfect, you know, in that kind of environment that I can't curse. And so something happens, I get hit or something, or I drop something, and I'm like, oh, yeah. You know, that's when that comes out.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

What else do you like about Florida? I mean, we don't like the heat. No. So do you do

Theme Parks Casinos And Lucky Wins

SPEAKER_02 31:00

any of the typical stuff? Like, what was okay, you hated Fort Myers, but when you got to Orlando, what was your first day like here? What did you do? Did you explore to try to figure it out? Yeah, your first week, your first day.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

That's part of it. I went to every park out here.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

You went to all the theme parks?

SPEAKER_01 31:17

I went to all the theme parks, including in Tampa. Okay. I went to all the theme parks. You know, now at this age, you know, it's a different story. You know, theme parks, uh, the the heat. I can't, I will not do a theme park in the summer. I learned my learned my lesson. Almost passed out one time, so I was like, nah, I'm doing this ever again. But outside of that, you know, the casino's awesome in Tampa also.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

Hard rock, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Yeah, you like it?

SPEAKER_01 31:41

The one in the one in where the heck is that area? Hollywood, Hollywood, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

That one's nice.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

The Hollywood's sexy, but the one in Tampa is awesome. I love that. I love that one. I if I want to just go and chill, I go there.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

So I call it the adult arcade. Yeah, honestly, it really is.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Yeah, I might win something up to something.

SPEAKER_02 31:58

You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not gonna be little cheap yo-yos and true. Little five cent candies. Yeah, pulling. My husband's like, he knows I like it. Um, you know, I'm I go, I like playing the slots, you know? And I always win a little something. I'm gonna I was in Vegas a couple years ago, and I'm like, I only got $20. That's all I'm gonna do. $20 because I was tight anyway. So I'm like, I'm either gonna hit big. And I put in, like, I did, I'm like, I'm gonna do one $5 bet and then I'll go cheap and play the rest. I did my first little $5 slot machine and I won like $500. I was like, whoa. Okay, and I was like, I'm done, but I'm just itching to play. And I was like, well, I could play the rest of the $20. I was gonna say, but yeah, I was I disciplined myself, but yeah, I hit on the first try. I'm like, man, I'm done for the week, I'm here for the whole like I was there for four days, I think. I'm like, I'm here for four days, and I can't play anymore. I'm taking this money home.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Oh, of course. $500 is $500.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

I was gonna say, Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

Yeah, I remember the first summer hit big. Uh I was playing uh a 21 and I was playing what, $10 a hand?

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 33:08

So I got $21 on the first hand. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Nice. Okay, pass that over here. Have you been to the casinos in New York? There's one in Yonkers, I think.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

No, I haven't been to any of the casinos because I'm down here, so I've never been to, but when I go back, the next time I go back, I am gonna go to the one in what is it? Belmont? Yeah, Belmont and Queens.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Yeah, I want to go to Nas's new one.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

Oh word.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

When that when that opens up, I will be there. I'm not a Mets fan, but hey, I'll be at that casino. I'll check it out. No, I definitely will check it out because I saw the whole dimensions online because they have it online, and I was like, oh, I'm definitely going to see this place. I want If Yankees are playing the Mets that day, it might be a win for two, but yeah, but I'm definitely when they open that casino, I'm definitely going there because it's gonna be amazing. Yo, that trust me, it's gonna be futuristic too. The way they have it set up, kind of. Yeah, Steve Cohen definitely knew what he was doing when he bought the Mets.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

If you go, you need to come back on the show and talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Yeah, if you go before me.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

I know I definitely will, but shout out to Yeah, I hope, I hope, I hope we can get invited one day. Like to like a little tour or something before it opens. That'd be nice. But uh yeah, I got to go to the one, I think it's in Yonkers.

SPEAKER_03 34:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Because it was just outside the Bronx. I mean, so it had to be in Yonkers. But I had a friend take me because uh he knows I get lucky with winning stuff.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

And I was like, but I feel the pressure. I can't, I can't, I can't tune in to the winning. I was like, I I don't know, I can't explain it. It's almost like I channel in. Yeah, you haven't heard my first story and how I got in radio. You don't know that story yet. I'm not gonna tell you, you gotta listen to the first episode.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

See, and I'm gonna say this again because we had a small conversation before we started. I again, the reason why I didn't listen to it, because like me, I didn't I after I did my first broadcast, I just decided to leave that as my baby. So that's why I was like, I that's why I was being respectful. But since you invited me to listen to your first one, I will listen to your first one.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

Of course. I will listen to it now.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

And that's just me. That's how I've always been. Because when after I did my first one and all the ups, downs and everything that went wrong with it, the first one, it just got better and better at the time.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

So good.

From Podcasting To iHeartRadio

SPEAKER_02 35:16

So yeah, what you got an old you you was telling me something you have an older podcast or something?

SPEAKER_01 35:20

Yes, yeah, it was broadcast podcast. Before podcast was a word, it was uh again, it's the New York Tony show. And shout out to speaker.com that got it on iHeart. That's what made me a little famous. So Yeah, so you know, it was it it honestly it was the voice, but you know Yeah, you got like a nice broadcasting voice. I appreciate you, but uh that that I What a touch of Brooklyn accent, just a touch. So I got a story for you since you brought that up. So when I started my job back in Long Island when I was doing payroll in Long Island, I won't shout out the company because you know it's whatever. But I was on the phone because I started a reception. I star literally started from the beginning to reaching to the top of that company, right? So I I picked up my first phone call and all of a sudden I was like, hello, this is so-and-so, how can I help you? And she said, Who is this? I'm gonna say my real name. So she's I said, This is Anthony, how can I help you?

SPEAKER_02 36:23

And she said, Oh she didn't know who you were.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

So she and she the funny part about this, I'm getting to it right now, is she actually called back and complained to my supervisor. She called and complained to say, I just called the payroll. I didn't call get called to get turned on.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Do I look like I'm joking? She said, Wow. So ever since then, I was always teased about my voice, but then I took it to an another level.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

So that's where I that's that's when you decided to go all quiet, storm, and sexy.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 37:01

Because I you do the slow you did the slow jams on your show. Look at you, you're like, oh, I could bank. Hey, hey, hey, it did work. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

I got a little chance.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

So she was your number one fan.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

I don't know about her. Yeah, but I I started in Long Island and then I ended up doing it in Fort Myers because I was bored as hell. Fort Myers, I just went and picked up Steam, and then I did it in Long Orlando, and then that's when everything started happening, and then the show got transferred over to um Heart iHeartRadio.

SPEAKER_02 37:32

So nice. What year was that?

SPEAKER_01 37:34

My last show was 2018, October of 2018.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_01 37:39

Yeah, because I the funny thing is I used to do Christmas specials, and that's when everybody really tuned in because you know I kept it, you know, really Christmas like. So I do old Christmas songs, and I did the newer, the slow jams Christmas songs. You know, so and that's what made it, you know, that the I had I made it to um uh what it was season three of my Christmas show, and that was my last one.

SPEAKER_02 38:02

So Okay.

Send A Voice Message With Your Take

SPEAKER_02 38:03

You know, I'm gonna let my audience know right now that there's a new feature on the podcast that if you go into the description area and scroll down, you could send a voice message, all right, and become a part of the show. So I want the audience to tell me what they think about your accent. Here we go. About what they think about your radio voice. You're the one that came out here starting shit.

SPEAKER_00 38:24

Hey, okay, hey, listen, uh at least I could back it up.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

So yeah, I just uh I want I want to invite people listening right now to uh comment. Hey, you know, voice comment. We want to hear your voice.

SPEAKER_01 38:38

Please, uh please let them know. Let her know. Let her know. And tell her, yes, the only real New Yorker one here was me so far.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Oh, wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

Hey, I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

I know you may need to apologize for all my former guests. You're gonna have to apologize before we end the show. Seriously.

unknown 39:00

What?

SPEAKER_02 39:01

You need to apologize.

SPEAKER_01 39:02

I'm gonna go apologize. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna try to move on. You see who's really holding me to this. Okay. So I'm gonna say this again. If you don't sound like a New Yorker, I apologize.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Damn. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 39:15

If you come back and do round two, you're always welcome to challenge me on the news.

SPEAKER_02 39:19

Oh my gosh. No, but I definitely want uh people to send us a voice message. Please, please. I want to hear those voice, those, those accents and your opinion on what's happening with the New York ac the New York accent, because I'm not coming out of this out of the blue like I saw an article.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

No, there's a true article about it. Yeah, I agree with you. Like I said, and code switching, that that's a good topic to have also.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Yeah, but I think what the article was referring to when it came to the accent was because of social media. And like at least for the younger generations, everybody's on their phone and being proper, and that's who they're being influenced by. Yep, they're no longer being influenced by their uncles and their cousins.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

Yeah, aunts, I already know.

SPEAKER_02 40:00

Yeah, that the block is not influenced them, influencing them.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

And seriously, the block is not hot anymore. So it really isn't. No. Everybody isn't stuck on their phone.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

Everybody moved to Florida.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

Yeah, well, yeah, but everybody's stuck on their phone also.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Everybody is stuck on their phone, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Honestly.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Yeah. That's a good point, because it's true. Like, yeah, I don't see people hanging out. When I've been going back, I haven't noticed as much, but I haven't really been back course sum up because I always want to catch the winter. Right. The fall, you know, oh, it's beautiful out there.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

But you know, in the summer, everybody was in the streets. So I don't know if that's still true.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

You know, one eventually I'll make the trip and trip back to New York in the summertime because I do want to go back one summer. Hey, if the Knicks win, I'll be up there.

SPEAKER_02 40:43

Hey. Yeah.

Knicks Fans Take Over Orlando

SPEAKER_02 40:45

Have you been to a Knicks game out here?

SPEAKER_01 40:47

Yes, plenty of them. Actually, my boss is a hookup. Yeah, he I get the expensive seats. You know why? He shout out to Phil on that one. Uncle Phil. Yeah, but Phil, yeah. Yeah, I would I have never been treated like that in my entire life, but every time they come out here, tickets to the game.

SPEAKER_02 41:06

I love it. I got to go to my first one a few months ago, thanks to my hookup. Okay. Besitos to you, slaba boom. That's all I'm gonna say. Because I don't want everyone calling him. But uh, yeah, I got to go and I was actually so, so surprised. Like, I knew we were gonna be there. I knew New Yorkers was gonna represent.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

No, New York turn turns up. No. Oh my god. New York turns up. Orlando and Miami, forget it. We took over over that.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

They cheer. We ch New Yorkers cheer louder for the New York team versus the Orlando team. They started booing.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Orlando fans started booing me when they heard let's go next. I'm gonna say it just like that. That's exactly what happens. Every time they start the chant, the um Orlando fans start booing and they start leaving. I'm not even kidding.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

I was so blown away at how much louder we were than the Magic fan.

SPEAKER_01 41:53

Come on, we are loud people as it is, girl.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

I know you ain't going into it. I know you ain't trying. I know that it's just, you know, it's just one of them things that I was like, I felt so at home. And it was just one of those moments I soaked it in. I was like, oh, this is what I'm talking about. The New York energy. That's the one thing I miss the most.

SPEAKER_01 42:11

Of course, the vibe. The vibe.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

I just I miss it so much.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:15

And I'm just so glad that I caught that. I was like, oh, I gotta come to more Knick games. Like, that has to be a thing.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

No, trust me. Every Knicks game, you will see me there. The cool thing about, and this is why I always bring it up, because after the game's over, we always run to the side, and I I get, you know, you know, give them the flowers because we can actually see the players come in and everything. So I love, like I said, shout out to Uncle Phil. So yeah, but every time the Knicks come out to Orlando, me and my boys, or me and my co-workers go there. So I'll go to the game. Because they once he gives me the tickets, it's whoever I bring at that point.

SPEAKER_02 42:51

So nice. Okay, I know who to call for.

SPEAKER_01 42:54

No, definitely not. Yeah. If you ever want to go, let me know. Because like I say, we we we doing the You in trouble now. No, seriously, we do we do the candies, everything. They feed us and everything. Those are the kind of tickets I'm talking about. I ain't talking about Yeah, they so technically what they call it is the skybox room. So that so everybody's in there. I met Alan Houston in there.

unknown 43:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

So that and I got a picture of me on my phone, but that was awesome. I I literally I almost geeked out, but I realized who I had to I snapped out of it real quick, and I I walked up to him and asked him if we can I get a picture of you. And I was like, he's like, yeah, come on. And then me and my coworker took a picture of Alan Houston. So it was cool. Yeah, called me.

SPEAKER_03 43:33

I need two tickets to the next game. That's all.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

Hey, listen, listen. Now that we're friends, friends on um on social media and now in real life, yeah, definitely. The next time I get tickets, I'll definitely let you know, Ma. I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 43:45

That's no, it's been great. It's been so much fun talking to you now. Um, so I I want to give you a chance to kind of share another story before we wrap up or you know, whatever you thought about coming up here. If you want to share some thoughts, you know, talk to me.

SPEAKER_01 43:59

So honestly. Honestly, your show, and let's be honest with you, that chef taught me a lot of things. He, you know, even though a fake New Yorker, he is not a fake New Yorker.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Stop that.

SPEAKER_01 44:08

I'm joking. I'm joking.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

He's not a fake New Yorker.

SPEAKER_01 44:11

No, I'm joking. Everybody loses their accent somewhere or something. But no, he was talking about you know his kidney situation, and that that that literally resonates to me because I'm going

Dialysis Life And Kidney Waitlist

SPEAKER_01 44:23

through it right now.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Really?

SPEAKER_01 44:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 44:25

Yes, okay. And I literally just started two years ago. So you're on dialysis? Yeah, yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02 44:31

God bless you.

SPEAKER_01 44:32

Hey, I'm a fighter.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

So, you know, that's the crazy thing about this podcast so far.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:38

It's been playing out like a novella. Like from when I had DJ Kool Mike Sky on the show. A few episodes later, I had DJ Kasper. And I didn't know they even knew each other. And Casper's like, yeah, I started DJing because of you know DJ Cool Mike Sky.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

Right.

SPEAKER_02 44:55

And like little, little things. When I had my friend Wendy on the show, and we're talking about Eric, and then Eric was in town. He was on the next episode. Little things just it's just been playing out like a novella. You know? And here you are telling me now after everybody has a story. Deep conversation with Chef Javon in my last episode. You need to check that episode out if you haven't.

SPEAKER_01 45:14

Yeah, it's really a good one. You should definitely check it out.

SPEAKER_02 45:16

And yeah, he he shared a portion of uh him going through five years of dialysis because he found a kidney. Are you currently looking for a kidney? Are they are they?

SPEAKER_01 45:26

Yes, I'm currently on the list. Like, and he mentioned, yes, there's plenty of lists. That's the sad part. But outside of that, yeah, I get I get up every day. God bless. I go and I tell everybody I ever I tell people this all the time. I don't mean to gibber or jabber or whatever, but I tell people all the time as long as you wake up in the morning, you you already achieved the day. Because literally two years ago, I didn't think I was gonna wake up ever again. And I know what whatever happened with him, it was two times worse with me. And I didn't know I was sick. That's the worst part of the whole situation. So but I am a hundred cent better right now. I feel better. I'm still going through the dialysis three times a week. You know, I I do it for three hours, three hours each session. But but the great part is I started at four and a half and I'm dwindling down because this my right side of my body is healing. My left side is still you're going through whatever it's going through, you know, but at least my right side's healing. So if I can make if I can maintain it and get it fully uh operational, then I might not be on dialysis anymore.

SPEAKER_02 46:31

Oh, that'd be great. Well, I'll keep doing my prayers.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

I appreciate you for that. But like I said, that show is what resonated to me to be on this one.

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Nice. Well, I'm glad it played out the way it did because um this was pretty last minute, and um, I felt led to have you on. So now I know why, because you had to share that.

SPEAKER_01 46:47

No, I really, I really, and like I said, even it feels like a novella because all your podcast has stories to it, and I appreciate everybody prior to me because I actually enjoyed each one.

SPEAKER_02 46:58

The the New Yorkers that don't have the accent, you enjoyed their stories. I'm glad to hear that.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

I'm sorry, she tried to check me on radio.

SPEAKER_02 47:10

Listen, now I gotta be nicer to you. No, but I I want you to make it up to Chef Javon after all the nasty things you said about him not having a Chef Javon.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

If you're listening, and I appreciate if you're listening in mine.

SPEAKER_02 47:24

Tell him what actually resonated with you. Did he say something that made you that gave you an eye hollering?

SPEAKER_01 47:30

Just being able to come out and say that, it's not easy to say it. A lot of people like pretend it's not happening. I'm not pretending it's not happening. When I first had when I first went in that room to get it, you know, the treatment, that's what we call it, that we don't call it dialysis, we call it treatment. I felt like it was in a city morgue.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 47:48

I'm I'm not even kidding. They literally looked at it.

SPEAKER_02 47:51

And you're getting it here.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:54

So when he said on the show that if he was to ever get sick again, he'd go back to New York. Did you ever consider that for yourself?

SPEAKER_01 48:03

See, that's the only thing I when I heard that part, I the only thing I honestly gotta tell you, I I didn't agree with that because I the way the doctors have been to me, especially my foot doctor who saved my foot, that was another story. You know, they've been great to me. I can honestly say. Even the one that at my treatment center, my the nurses that take care of me, they've they've been awesome. I I wouldn't change the world. And I I feel like the treatment's better here than in New York, especially I'm I'm from Kings, the Kings County area in Empire Boulevard. So and Kings County Hospital, if you don't know about Kings County, I don't know. So that's let me just keep it a buck with you. It's just yeah, I'm better here.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

Okay. I could say here. Well, I don't know about New York. Maybe I shouldn't say anything. I just remember, you know, as a kid going to the doctor as a teenager visiting people. Like, I just feel like the New York attitude was like not good. No, especially with the service.

SPEAKER_01 49:02

Oh, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

But I do feel like, because I've had for my daughters like home nurses and I could tell the difference just in that. And from the hospital staff that were from New York that moved out here, experiencing them, I saw a level, a different level of care and concern.

SPEAKER_03 49:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:23

So here, I mean, there might be some areas of better customer service, but I don't know. Sometimes it makes me nervous though being here with my daughters. Although I'm not gonna say that where we go for them is bad. It's been pretty good, but we've had up and down moments.

SPEAKER_01 49:36

No, I mean I get that. I'm not gonna say because you know, no place is, you know, 100%. Let's just put it that way. But like I said before, the places I've experienced here, especially with my healthcare, is way better than when I experienced when I was a kid. When I broke my foot roll skating in Brooklyn, I had to wait four hours before I was seen for a broken foot. Four hours. Yeah. And I was a kid. Can you imagine the rustling and everything? Because you can keep trying to keep me still from one of the.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 50:06

So, yeah, yeah. So and me experiencing that made me never want to go to a hospital ever again. So the next time I went to a hospital, the Lindsay and I was living out here.

SPEAKER_02 50:15

So my gosh, New York Tony.

SPEAKER_01 50:18

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02 50:18

So glad to meet you. I, you know, thank you for sharing everything today, you know, that you did.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:25

Thank you for apologizing to my former guest. Yeah, I apologize, even Kung Chef. Okay, that's the last time I would say anything about that. And um, yeah, so uh, thank you so much. I mean it's been fun. I enjoyed it. This was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 50:41

This was fun. It was awesome. I gotta tell you that. Especially, of course, I hear the voice. Um, so you know, the voice. She does sound like the voice of the city. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02 50:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

Now she's gonna be the voice of Orlando.

SPEAKER_02 50:54

Hey, I've been called that before.

SPEAKER_01 50:56

Okay. I mean, well, you you definitely earned that due to and respect to the voice, like I said before. I I don't want to be disrespectful and say the person's name, but if you know, you know. Let's just leave it at that.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

I appreciate you again for being

Final Thanks And Support The Show

SPEAKER_02 51:11

here. Thank you so much for Maple to Oranges Podcast. Let your people know that this podcast is about the New Yorkers that now live in Florida. Again, go to the description area. That's where you can send a voice message, leave a comment, and you can also support the show if you want. It's right there. Just click the button. Just gotta say so. I thank you so much. And what it's New York Tony, right?

SPEAKER_01 51:34

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02 51:35

Thank you so much, New York Tony, once again for joining the show.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

Thank you for having me. I appreciate you.