Hey, Virgos, welcome back to the channel.  Let's see what your love messages are for the end here of July. All right, let's take a look. If you're new, please do smash that subscribe button. This is a channel for Virgos, Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus. And as usual, some of the messages may or may not resonate. Just take a fits, leave the rest. Okay, what do we have here? Self indulgence, a love call, and a date. Okay, focusing on yourself, self-worth, time to heal, shadow work, self appreciation, and you have a love call. Someone is calling, hello. Someone's calling to express their love, a message of love, thinking of you, letting you know, and a date, meeting somebody. Dating, getting back out there, plus planning and setting a date. Oh, lovely. Wow, Virgo, this is awesome. Looks like you're really indulging in all the sweetness of self, realizing you're worth healing, taking some time out, appreciating yourself, working on that shadow work, looking on all that nasty, yucky stuff that you probably feel like now you need to, if you haven't already been doing this, Virgo, going in and healing the self, okay? But yeah, I mean, Virgo, you're getting a call. You're getting a phone call, and we will take a look and see who's giving you a call and asking about, whoa, on a date. Okay, let's get into this reading, Virgo.  Are you ready? Okay, are you ready? Could be meeting somebody new, or this could be just connecting with someone. Let me see. All right, when is Virgo gonna need to know here? Okay, we've got the chariot, all right? Cancer energy. Okay, movement forward. Someone's, okay, this feels like an energy. Somebody coming towards you, traveling, moving in your direction. This is a card of balance. Let's see what else do we have here for you, Virgo. That chariot energy is like making plans and taking action. And this, somebody here, okay, making plans to connect with you, taking some action, might be, do you wanna meet up? Gonna be in the area.  Well, now this person's coming in with a lot of anxiety and stress, so they're running towards you. They're coming towards you. Oh my goodness, five of cups, yeah. This is somebody who's coming towards you out of grief. They have an anxiety and fear and just regret. There's regret here. Somebody's regretting something. Okay, let's see. Somebody's sitting in a position of sorrow, they miss you, but you could also be getting a call from somebody new as well. Let me see here. This could be somebody new. For some of you, this is somebody that you, I just heard sorry for what they said. And this might be, maybe somebody new that came into your life that you just decided that you were just gonna take some healing time and just go within and do you. And now, maybe this was somebody who was trying to date you, and now they're coming in, like, where are you? Where did you go? What are you doing? This person feels a sense of loss, okay? And reaching out to tell you that they've been thinking of you. All right, King of Wands. So we've got fire energy here. This looks like it's a King of Wands, Sagittarius Leo, and Aries, okay. Yep, that's who it is. It's, or Mars energy, this is somebody who's very bold and passionate. And Virgo, some of you might be turning this down, this invitation to get together with someone or getting, or go back out there. Some of you might not be ready for that. You're busy building your own empire, focusing on yourself, doing what you need to do for you. Let me see. But this King of Wands is showing up here. They're racing towards you out of fear and out of regret. And out of, there's like a fear of abandonment or feeling unloved, missing you. They have remorse, so is this somebody that you knew before? It very well could be. I mean, it wouldn't be somebody new because who would, if it's somebody new, you know, I mean, it doesn't make sense because then they wouldn't be feeling sad without you or feeling lost without you. All right, let's see. Now for others, I have to just give you this message. You could be getting a love call. You could be meaning somebody new and receiving a love call from another person. And this new person here, not showing up. Why? Because they're new. All right, this feels like you're getting some kind of a love call, but we can take a look. Let's see, you know, who is this new person? Actually, I know what I'm gonna do. They just told me, okay, hold on. Let me organize this for a second. Yeah, okay. We've got three, we have three situations here. Okay, so yeah, you're getting a love call from someone who's regretful, who's missing you. There's a message or a text expressing their love.  They have a lot of regret, remorse, they're in a position of grief and they're boldly going where no one dares to go before and that's straight to your heart. And I don't think this is something that this person would normally do. So, you know, even if you don't have this person, like if they're blocked, they're gonna somehow get in through some kind of message or a love call. Let me take a look, let's take a look at you.  So, look at you, yeah. Wow, okay, Virgo, you've got the five of wands. Wow, you've retreated due to a lot of conflict. There's been conflict, okay?  You're not trying to compete with anybody. It's too much. There's drama, a lot of drama. You're pulling yourself away from drama, whether that's with other people. Maybe there's like a lot of drama online, a lot of drama in dating sites. If you were on there, work type things, you're just trying not to get involved too much and just kind of take on your own, okay, your own path. All right, you've got the eight of wands as well. So, I feel like you're waiting for something. You're some news. You're waiting for something to come in. You're waiting to hear about something. So, I feel like you're kind of pulled your energy back until you get this, it's good news. You're waiting to hear some good news and you're not going out and stirring up any trouble. I feel there might be a lot of competition. You might be waiting for just seeing maybe a reward or an award or something that you know that you deserve or for some of you, you're just like, I'm gonna sit here and let love come to me. I'm gonna let love come to me.  It's too fierce out there. There's a lot of competition, a lot of obstacles, challenges. It's hard to trust people. You don't know. People come into your life and just cause a lot of problems and drama. So you're like, no, I'm just gonna focus on myself. And if love comes in, keep it's arrow strikes, then keep it's arrow strikes. And I'm just gonna stay very still and present. So I feel like for you, you're in self-protective mode right now. Self appreciation, self worth, focusing on self. You're all about yourself right now. All right, let me see. Okay. All right. Two pentacles. Some of you have like this major decision. You're trying to weigh some options and you're not really sure there's a lot of drama involved with that. And for some of you, it's like, okay, whoever races to me, whoever gets your first, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. You might have two options that you're trying to make a decision about. You're also trying to just keep balance and weigh things out. Okay. You're basically leaving everyone and everything out in the cold burgo.   I don't want any drama. I want things simple. Oh, I want to keep things simple. I'm keeping to myself. You know, if somebody approached me, I feel like your motto here is, you know, what's meant for me will be for me and there isn't anything I can do about it. I want isn't, well, it's not anything to do. You don't have to chase it. And what isn't meant for you isn't meant for you. Okay. So you're kind of sitting in this position of like, I'm just doing me. Now, as far as new king of, sorry, swords popped out here. So there's somebody new. This is new. This is not your past person. This is somebody who's showing up here asking you for a date. Okay. Gemini Libra Aquarius. I know some of you are like, I am not getting involved with an air sign again. Okay. Let me see who is this person? Okay. Seven of wands. Oh my goodness, saying of the king of pentacles. Okay. Male or female energy. So, wow Virgo, I feel like there's two people coming in here, an earth sign and an air sign coming towards you. So you've got basically, you've got someone from your past that you're gonna be getting a phone call from or someone may not be from your past, deep past with somebody who's regretting a loss is remorseful. Okay. It does show up as a king of wands. It doesn't have to be that sign, but it is someone who comes in with fiery, passionate, bold energy. Okay. This is their personality. I mean, they could be like a stubborn Taurus or they could be like a sleepy Pisces. But the way they're showing up here is emboldened. And I feel like they have like their anxiety and their sadness and their grief is driving them towards you, towards reaching out. But there's two new people here. There's gonna be competition between these two. I don't know, they might know each other. There's definitely communication coming up with this Ace of Swords. Okay. So let me see. What else do we wanna look at? You know, there is no, the only major arcana here is the chariot. So you might get a phone call. Somebody tells you either they're buying you a new car or they bought a new car. Okay.  Okay. Yeah. So the overall message is there's a lot of change happening here.  You're like not looking outward anymore. You're just manifesting, building and creating with the magician what is best for you at this time, which direction you wanna go for yourself. And you are the one who is making these changes. Even though the energy is shifting in your favor, you're not fighting it. You're like, okay, I'm gonna do what I gotta do here. And I feel like, okay. So you have all this major arcana after I said that now is showing up. You have major arcana of nothing but movement and design. You're going out on a limb. Some of you are going back to a church as part of their healing or you're getting into spiritual healing. But you're stepping out here, Virgo, for yourself, I feel. And that's when all this energy starts coming in. That's when all of a sudden, somebody's missing you and they wanna talk to you. They have a lot of loss. You've got two new people showing up here, Virgitaurus, Capricorn, Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. And again, they don't have to be those exact signs, but one person is a really strong communicator, very witty, quick on their feet and the other is very grounded and like a business person. All right, let me see. You also have Gemini, Scorpio, I said Taurus and Aquarius. Okay, let me see. Okay, yep, here comes the love, Virgo.   I'm not going after, I'm not chasing anybody. If people come in, it's not even like, you may not even be really taking a full break.  Refocusing the energy on self. All right, let me see. I'm gonna get some love messages here for, let's take a look at this love phone call. What is this person trying to say to you, Virgo? Okay, you don't know how hard it was to let you go. I feel like there's regret. This person stays awake thinking about you. They're always, they always think about it.   Are they up all night thinking about you? And, okay, this person wants to take back their words. They wish they could take back their words. I wonder what words were said. What did this person say to you? For some of you, they told you they didn't love you. Are they weren't in love with you? Or, yeah, something, it was a phrase with the love word in it.  And now they're regretting it. Okay, there's the love word. This person loves you. And I feel like that's what they're, they might have told you that they didn't love you or they weren't in love with you, but the truth is they do love you. And now they wish, and they wanna come back in and try to replenish. Let me take a look at what your love messages are up here at the top for you.  You know what, I'm going on vacation. I'm shutting off my phone. I'm getting off the computer. I'm just, I'm working on my business. I just don't wanna be. Yup, that's so funny, unavailable. This is you. Okay, this person is unavailable to give you all you deserve. This is you. You're unavailable to give anybody all of you because maybe you did in the past. You gave a lot of yourself. And now you're like, nope, I'm done giving. And it's not, because you're being mean, it's not manipulative. It's like, I'm giving to myself now. I am, I have nothing left. Maybe you've become emotionally unavailable. And then like all this love comes in. Virgo, I know, right? You can't win for losing, right? Cause you're, here you are. You know, you're leaving people out in the cold. You know, you've got like five pentacles left on your tree there out in the winter, cold, freezer energy here. And it's just like, this is all I got left to work with.  Virgo, seriously. All right, let me take a look and see what is the love message with this King of Swords. Okay, it's King of Swords, secretly longing for you. Okay, this must be, either you'll meet them and this person's like, they'll be carrying around a napkin, wiping the corners of their lips, all the drool, they'll be longing for you. Okay, okay. All right, all right. And then this King of Pentacles. And I hope you guys, please forgive me if I sound kind of like, I don't like a surfer dude. I'm like, super, super exhausted from my weekend and I'm just half asleep here. All right, let me see what this King of Pentacles, this love message, okay.  Ooh, it doesn't feel like a bad, it's not a bad thing. A very, okay. This is how these, they're giving you some spiritual truths. Okay, this King of Pentacles. Let me see. This is someone who's like coming in with the light bulb moment. They're gonna help you with something and I'm gonna look and so, they're gonna bring clarity. Okay, this King of Pentacles. It could be a spiritual teacher.  Let me see. Okay, yeah, they help bring balance.  I don't feel like they're coming in like a love thing. They might, but they might have this overarching energy about them where they might say, you know, you give way too much. You deserve everything you give and return, all the good that you've given out.  Okay, yeah, they're showing up. They could show up as a friend first, but then it turns into like some kind of date or maybe coffee date or something. I just want to get another message for this King of Swords. I'm kind of like freestyling here. Okay, oh, protected. This person's a protector. Okay, they just told me this person either, either they're in the military or they work for the government or they work in social type of service industry like firefighter, police, okay. They could be like a lawyer or a politician, but they're on the good side, whatever your good side is, okay. So gosh, Fargo, this reading is insanity. So yeah, you are just like, I'm doing me boo. You're doing what you need to do for yourself.  They regret not telling you that they love you and that they don't want to let you go and they still keep thinking about you and you've got two new people showing up here. All right, so your first card here, you have transition. So this is a message here.  And even though this isn't easy, the season in your life is transforming and bringing you into a new hemisphere. Allow it to happen, go with the flow. It's now time for change. That's a beautiful message, okay. And you have endure and be patient, Fargo. Okay, yeah. You know, Fargo, believe it or not, everything works out in the end. It really does. Sometimes like 90% of the things we fear aren't really things that are going to happen or are happening. It's usually just all in our heads. Fear has a way of magnifying everything. Okay, a lusty fiery spirit. Ooh, what's this? Oh, okay, this doesn't feel negative to me. I just feel like you're gonna get that spark back in yourself if you feel like you've lost some kind of spark and you're just retreating or if there was a lot of drama and conflict and somebody left you out in the cold or people places and things or if you just feel kind of lost. So you're going in and you're comforting yourself, you know, at this time, you're giving a lot of self hugs. You're curling up with your favorite blanket. You're getting into your shows. You're, you know, reading passages, self-help books. You know, you're taking time to be in your garden. You're spending time with people you know who really care. You're unavailable at this time for drama. And conflict, okay. And I think you're still gonna be that way but I feel like you're going within to try to get your spark back. That fire, that fire that you had in your soul at one point, okay.  You know, let me see what else. Okay, yeah. Wow, you're in reflection mode. You're in your cave. You've gone into regroup and recollect Virgo because a lot is going on, you need some alone time. So your advice is to stay in the stillness and the quiet but don't get lost there. Just take a temporary time out. Tell people you're taking a vacation if you have to but pull your energy back so you can get a good recharge. You know, that's like taking your phone, putting it on the charger, leaving it in the other room, not taking any calls and just leaving it alone for a minute, a New York minute, you know, a power hour, however long you need to do it just so that you can breathe and regroup, recharge, figure out what the heck you're doing with yourself. I just feel like that's why you have that to a pentacles because you're trying to weigh your options here. It could be people could be trying to weigh up date options.  What's the better path for me? And right now telling people, you know, I'm unavailable right now for dating maybe in a week, maybe in a month. I don't know.  I'm committing to self right now and I need to keep doing that. All right, let me see what your love messages are. Okay, express your love. Go ahead and make the romantic gesture. So that kind of feels to me like, you know, if you are unavailable for dating anybody or you're just like, I don't know right now or this is kind of like if somebody reaches out you could say, you know what? Kind of busy right now, but I would love to go out and have dinner or something with you. I would just love that. But can I get a rain check right now? You know, that's a form of expressing your love. Like you're making a romantic gesture. It doesn't say go ahead and initiate the romantic gesture. It's just like, stay in your love energy. Stay in the love circle. Okay, don't go into the bitter hate circle where you get like isolated and you get real down on yourself for whatever's going on in your life because like that card said, you know, take some time out, but don't get lost there. Don't go down the rabbit hole. Let me see.  Work on this partnership. Okay, so you could be telling everybody, you're not available at this time. Can we get a rain check? Or you could be telling these two people and giving this past person a chance. Or you could be giving one of these people a chance and telling the past person rain check. So that's gonna be up to you. I'm not gonna tell you what to do. Okay, that's gonna be up to you. But one of these, you're being kind of nudged a little to work on a partnership. So I don't know who that's gonna be. You'll have to see, but let me see. Normally if it was just one person showing up here, I might be able to, okay, calling in your soulmate. Okay. Well, I'm putting call and call together here.   But I don't know that you're gonna commit to anybody just yet, okay?  I don't think that's been happening, but maybe you've been praying, okay? You've been maybe praying and sending positive affirmations to somebody in terms of like getting their healing while you're getting yours. With not necessarily the intention to get back together, but just some forgiveness so that you can both move on, but some others you've been like, you know, doing your prayers and hoping for healing for both of you and you do have other two other people coming in. So you got a lot on your plate, Virgo. Let me see what's going on here with the Chinese signs. Okay, so year of the rat, we have year of the pig, year of the tiger, year of the rooster, year of the ox, year of the horse, year of the dragon, year of the snake. Okay, could be you, could be your other person, it could be these two people coming in. Let me get a couple of, you know what? They just said we're gonna do some names. Oh, flipping right out here. Oh, there's that dragon. Okay, I just heard Elizabeth or somebody. So with the initial, the letter P, okay, let's see. Somebody's got a bearded dragon, maybe, or lives somewhere where there are one of those lizards, place where there's, listen, I'm up in the northeast of the US. We have no lizards here. If I saw a lizard on the street, I would probably scream or squeal. Not that I'm afraid of them because I had a bearded dragon once and I don't have a problem with reptiles, but it would just shock me because we don't have those. So this is an area where it's kind of humid or there's just that type of animal or species somewhere where there's a lot of these, like, Heela monsters, I don't know what the heck they are called. All right, let me see, let's see. And I just, they just said El Paso. So I don't know if there's lizards there, but they just gave me the name El Paso. Okay, we've got the, oh no, they just gave me the name Zach or Zachariah. Okay, and I'm seeing two children. Somebody has two children also. Oh wow, okay. And somebody right now is kneeling down. Or just knelt down. Kneeling, kneeling down or just knelt down. Oh, somebody's a writer. Okay. And I just heard the word knuckle, knuckle. I don't know what that means, knuckle or knock. Maybe you heard a knock at the door. Somebody knocked on the door with their knuckles. We have a letter K. Somebody's name starts with a K. And we have an H. And then I see somebody texting and just the word's high. Somebody's saying hi to you. Also, some either, it's either the age 61 or someone was born in 1961. Or they live, like apartment number is 61. We have a Q. I just heard they are heavily equipped. Somebody is heavily equipped.  Or something is heavily equipped. Okay. And somebody's just getting their PhD. But I'm hearing the name Phil or Philip or Philamina. It's a Phil name. P-H or F-I-L. Could be a restaurant, like an Italian restaurant, like Philamina. Maybe that's a place you went to or somewhere you're going to or somebody's name. Okay, let me get some charms and see. Looks like it's gonna be a very interesting rest of the year, or rest of July. Okay. Ooh, here we go. We've got a swan. No, a flamingo. Flamingo, yeah. Somewhere, wherever there's flamingos. Okay, so we have a Virgo showing up here. And let's see. Gemini, Taurus. Virgo, Gemini, Taurus.  Oh, I don't even, oh, okay. Somebody lives out where there's a lot of cornfields. They just said, they just said a lot. All right, so we've got swan, or flamingos and lizards. So that's an area where those types of species are there. And then I'm just picking up like a cornfield. There's a cornfield somewhere. Okay, so we have, I'm picking up Pisces, Leo, Scorpio. We have Cancer as well. Okay, let me see. And there's also a ship's wheel.  You have the wheel in your hand. Jesus, take the wheel. You're there, you're the, that Incubus song drive. You're like driving the ship now. It's, it's you're making the, you're calling the shots.  I feel like that's part of your focusing on self and asking yourself, what do you want, not just what everybody else wants. So we've got Scorpio and Libra. Could be on the cusp, Libra, Scorpio. There's Leo again. Okay, August 28th, August 22nd and 24th. Somebody's born in 83. We have 1972, somebody's 42. Somebody's born in December. Oh, this is 1944. So it might be a parent. Maybe someone has a Sagittarius parent. Okay. Also August, did I say August 2nd? Oh, and they're giving me April 27th as well. Let me see if we have any September birthdays. Oh yeah, we do. Okay, somebody is 40 years old. We have Pisces here twice in Capricorn. Okay. September 17th, the 11th, the 9th, the 1st, and the 4th. And if I didn't call your birth date, don't worry. It doesn't mean it's not your message. And the 7th, okay, hold on. Oh, now they're telling me, did I say? Now I can't remember what I said. Did I say September 17th? And then I have the 19th. And now they're giving me the 14th and the year 1970. Wow, okay. That was really interesting messages here for you, Virgo. I feel like, you know, you're doing what's best for you and that's just the most important. That's the self-love thing that you have going on here. You can't help it if people are coming out of the woodwork, you know, and you have to like just deal with them accordingly.   I'll always love you as well and I wish you all the best and maybe someday in the future we could be friends. And then you've got two other people here showing up. Excuse me, and if you're currently involved with somebody right now, I do feel like somebody's going out of their, or will be going out of the way to protect this relationship, like full force, okay? Just because I have such a strong thing for you here, I don't feel like somebody wants to run the risk of losing you and wants to keep dating. So if you're involved with someone and that's hot, that's like healthy, whether somebody, that could be why some of you are like, no, I'm not going back to the past, I found someone.  I just sometimes like to listen to the readings. I feel like your relationship's in good shape and we'll keep going forward in good shape. All right, Virgo. So don't forget to go over to my other channel, MoonPitero. I'm going to be doing daily love messages, all signs, and at the end of that reading over on my other channel, I'm going to implement if you're dealing with a particular sign with the messages are there. Okay, so it's going to be a little bit similar to here, but since it's not going to be specific, it'll be collective, you'll be able to get more messages over there as well. All right, you guys, so awesome to catch up with you. I hope you guys had a great weekend and I will see you guys tomorrow. All right, love you, bye.


Hi my name is Ann Long. I am a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and today I'm going to show you all my process of moving in and decorating. Right now I'm with my brother William and we have the car completely packed and I'm on my way to campus so super excited to move in and get the year started. So I just got to campus and I am walking in going to get my key. So I have moved most of my stuff in. I still have to put away all my clothes which is going to be a task. As you saw they gave us a nice little like welcome pack with a lot of cleaning supplies which is super awesome and so this is the room so far and I am going to just keep on working on getting everything you did. Now I am decorating my desk. I have these cute little wooden outlines of one of the towns that I visit every summer so those are cute little buildings from the town that are really nice. So I have those there and then I have me and my brother and me and some friends so I'm going to put those pictures up here set up the pictures and I have those and I have a little A for my name this is Rex Orange County my absolute favorite artist. I have this cute little fish and this pin from UVM that says Explorers Forever that I got on my first day of my first year so that's really special to me so that's what the top looks like and I think I'm going to put I have these fun mirrors and I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to put them kind of staggered up there to add hello to add more um light and to I don't know make it look a little bit more fun so that's what I'm going to do now is figuring out how to get these up here if you need some command hooks that's a little difficult by myself but I will make it work. Kind of cute I like it. I have more at home I might add one more right there but for what it is I think it looks good it adds a little bit more dimension to my desk area. I'm going to take the mirrors off to let the command hooks sit overnight before I put the mirrors back on but that is the desk area finished and decorated. Then I left and took a break to go get my COVID test and this is some footage from the testing. So I just got finished with getting my COVID test done I was super impressed with how organized it was it took like 10 minutes they were all super helpful and really clear with the instructions so that was an awesome experience got a nice free water bottle some hand sanitizer and three masks which is super cool so now I'm heading back to U Heights to finish up some of the decorating in my room waiting for my roommate to come so see you later.  So my roommate Megan just got here all of her stuff is in and we are trying to figure out we're going to try to rearrange the room tower so we may have it and we will see if it works so we're going to move our wardrobes to our desks our there's my brother I will keep you all updated on how it looks but this is the before and we will be working on the after and see how it goes. Unfortunately I have to undo all of the command hooks that I put on earlier. This is us rearranging the furniture in the room we tried really every single rearrangement possible we actually only ended up moving one of the wardrobes in one of the desks the furniture was super heavy so I'm glad that my brother was there to help.  Right now we are figuring out where our rugs go we have two cute rugs and so we're just going to try some different configurations and see what we like I just got the rest of my posters printed so now I am going to use some spray mount to put them onto the canvases so then I can put them up on my wall just figured out where I'm going to put my tapestry and all my pictures so now I'm going to put my tapestry up um a really good tip I have for all of you is to get these velcro command strips um if you don't want to put holes in your wall because um they work really well for tapestries and stuff and then won't leave marks um when you're moving out. Tapestry is up and now I am just figuring out where I'm going to put my different posters and pictures that I have. Here I am putting up the posters I ended up putting them on the top of my tapestry which I think looks really nice and I use the same velcro command strips to put all of these pictures up as well. Here I am adding some finishing details I put another tapestry up and these really cute flowers in test tubes. So I just officially finished decorating the room and I will show you all what we have put together this is a little mudroom area that we have for a dorm we just have our shoes sink some toiletries this holds all of our kitchen appliances and supplies and then our fridge and microwave and then this is our room this is my roommate Megan's desk we put up a little scratch away map up there this is my wardrobe this is my desk the mirrors up there and then all my little personalized pictures and everything and then this is my side of the room I have this tapestry and some string lights with some pictures and then those are the collages that I did and then those are pictures of some sunsets and then over here I have this other tapestry of wildflowers and those are the little flowers and the little vials that I was talking about and this really fun moon lamp that I have and then I just have pillows to match that tapestry and then I have some underbed storage this is my bedside table water bottle speaker diffuser alarm clock this is our view you can actually see the mountain right there and I think once it's winter and we don't have the leaves on this tree we'll get even better view and then these are our little dorm plants that we have and then this is Megan's side of the room my roommate she's writing a letter right now I'll just give you guys a little overview what she has this is her wardrobe and then we just have some extra storage here and a printer and then again this is back out in the common area and we also have a bathroom we have our toiletries there our towels toilet and our shower so that has been the process of me decorating my room getting moved in and everything like that I hope you all enjoyed watching and consider coming to UVM so you can do the same


Time once again to check in with our Miami bureau chief Bruce Murnoff who is covering Miami. I got it all covered Hey listen, I had such a great time being on your podcast about two or three weeks ago So many of my friends went on and listened to it. Just just incredible. Thank you for the opportunity Well, thank you for doing this and I owe you know, I owe you an apology because I You know, you forget absence. I forgot what a great funny comic you are Thank you. How far you're in Boca de Berger Boca Berger Boca Berger. I live in Delray Beach, Florida I'm like 38 miles from Miami Beach. Okay What's going on in the show business world? What big names are playing? Well as we spoke about last time nothing is going on Zero I will be performing at Valencia Cove, which is an over 55 community You don't even know wherever you live in America and you listen or whatever country and you listen to this What you're going on? What's over 55 over 55 means you have to be minimum 55 years old to live in this community and the good part about it is like if you don't like your neighbor Give it a week I have a great thing about it Like let's say when I lived in West Hollywood, I had a barking dog situation, right? I knew I had a move because these was a young families or orthodox Jews. You want to hear that story? It's a very interesting story or orthodox Jews in West Hollywood in on Detroit Street I guess it's not West Hollywood yet. Well, it's about the farmer's market. So that's West Hollywood ish, you know Detroit Street, La Brea that whole thing. Okay, so I was active with Schwartzie who you just recently I know you knew him You knew him. I used to do his Purim shows. I'll tell you a great story for any of you people whether you like Jews or not it's a nice story and Schwartzie used to do a Purim show you're popping your peas. So stop saying Purim Purim And don't say Passover don't say public or Pesach Okay, so he did these shows at the comedy store every year for Paso or Purim and I was The emcee and I would get the comedians and the irony was the comedy stores owned by Mitzi Shore Who was a they call her the queen of comedy and she was a great great influence helped develop as you know So many great people but the thing is she never liked me. In fact, she hated me if she in fact I was synonymous with not funny. That's how bad it was and Yet she had to donate the room because all about Orthodox Jews it's all about giving and doing mitzvahs and donating so she would donate the room And she really couldn't have a say in who was performing.  I can't tell you but and there was a African-American dwarf who used to shine shoes and he would look for this African-American dwarf and he would rub them on the head. I want to oh my god This is what we did in Virginia.  You remember him that actor. Sure. Yeah, I love the idol maker and And that was what made him a big star and this is like this is just like two years later And he was a full Fledged junkie at this point and he would walk around you had a this is in the turf club He had to wear like a jacket and tie and he would have all that on But it would be misplaced like he'd have the jacket around his crotch and the pants over his head and the tie on his Elbow he was so messed up and yet he was like a big star. I remember always seeing Sharkey there But yeah, I he dated somebody I grew up with who was the daughter of a Yes, unfortunately he gave her the disease. Yes, do you know do we know how she is? You know, she's still alive thank God and she has a You know like a web page and she talks about her her recovery from all that so Fortunately knock wood they have really made Yeah, a lot of progress with those drugs. Yes, great her father was a very funny comic and You should do the Ed Sullivan show all the time No, her uncle her uncle was also a comedian up in the Catskills, too. Who well, let's not let's not I can't yeah Yeah, you know certain things we don't want to yeah, okay. Yeah, all right So then where were we now? I don't know whether the race race Mendel Schwartz I still get emails from him. He as I remember Mendel Schwartz was I think a Lobovitcher or a very orthodox Jew and he was instrumental in changing The attitude that people like you and I have towards the orthodox Jews He was very embracing very loving very, you know, he included everybody Because you know as you know Mendel is the son of of Rabbi of Shlomo Shlomo is the main guy that we're talking about Shlomo Schwartz And he was from the story I cobbled together. He was by the way, Shlomo is also what people Called him as a put-down Yeah, but that's his real name that's his name So he was hired as the UCLA Abad Rabbi and then at some point he got into a quabba with them So he call he created this own thing called the high center and that was based out of his house He has 12 children in the whole and they would his big thing was to put Jewish single lost people like myself in a room and try to get them to meet each other and then get married hopefully and have Jewish children because the Chabad is different than all of Judaism and there are an outreach and they try to a little bit convert people to Judaism where Judaism really doesn't promote conversion But they do wonderful things Abad Even suing even but I did lose it on them when they sued the Seattle Airport and I just said boy they've really you know even the good people overstep it because they had the Christmas tree So of course the rabbi in Seattle, which is all Gentiles. He has to come in and go What is a Mazuzzi a lunatic I'm gonna sue so that was the end of the Christmas tree So, you know new Nazi parties started into coma probably and all because of Chabad, but that wasn't Schwartz. He was an outreach of that anyway The Schwartz he has these Friday night you go to his house the wife makes dinner and there's like 30 Jews there And you try to hit on all the women but under you know, you try to do it under a nice way But the funny thing was his wife such an Olivia still around great woman. She would make this hummus and The hummus must have had 800 cloves of garlic in it So here you were trying to meet guy meet girl and you'd eat this hummus and your breath was vomit on vomit So you'd be standing I would be in Mar Vista The girl would be in Playa del Rey and you'd be on a megaphone because the everyone's breath was so horrible You couldn't make a contact with anybody so they tried but I Once said to Olivia because you know, we're having one of their singles events And it was the most misfitted Jews the missing links of Judy is Their house and I guess me included they liked me because I was funny I kept it kept it light and I once turned to live you go look at these Mieskites. These are Unmatchable even if you go back to Fiddler on the roof No one would want these people I go What do you do when they hit like 50 and she just deadpan turned to me and she go we shoot them I Shoot them, you know with that look with the rolling to the eyes You taught me and I always quote you for Bissin upon him Yeah, I always that you told me what a for Bissin upon him is described for my audience would have for Bissin Interesting my mother used to always say don't make that face you'll grow into it and you know, that's like a old wives tale and For Bissin, well, you can see the movie Austin Powers frow for Bissin or so, you know, they've got that A far Bissiner is to my understanding and I could be a little bit off the path is someone who's sour on the inside and it grows To the outside and it's an amazing thing because I'm 60 now And I know people my whole life and I know people who are like like women who were like so hot when they were 1415 see not that I was dating them before they were in high school with me at 14 But I was saying people I knew when they were 14 how beautiful they were but they were sour people and now you see them Like at 40 and the mouth grows into the downward pout and the nose droops down because they're inside grew To their outside and that's what a far Bissiner is. Yeah, I've talked about that on the show before and you taught me Are you working the cruise ships? I got to finish the Schwartz. Oh, I'm sorry.  Oh, we're gonna do with the comedy so I go not a problem I can't wait to help you out. We're gonna have a show that's even better than last year You know the irony though rabbi is Mitzi sure does not like me for whatever reason And she does not feel that I'm very funny or anything like that and I don't care But it's just such an ironic thing so okay I do the show the kill and I look over to where she was sitting and of course the chair is empty she got up and Left the room at the end of the show She's waiting for me backstage when she got up to leave the rabbi's wife grabbed her and made her watch me And she had only seen me like 15 years before when I bombed in front of her on audition night And there was Mitzi backstage going I can't believe how funny you've gotten Please call me tomorrow and that was in 1993 and from that day Until the day I left LA in 2001. I had the best spots at the comedy store I had every night of the week. I had main room on Saturday So it's a beautiful story and that was strictly Because of the rabbi and his wife. So there there was paying it paying it forward. There you go. Wow Well, now what do you want to know? cruise ships I have this fantasy about Florida this is my fantasy about Florida I Never moved to San Francisco. I never Tried to be the kind of comedian that I ended up becoming instead. I Stayed in New York. I developed an act that was like a tank that could go anywhere. Yes, and now I moved to Florida and In my 70s 80s life is good. I'm working the condo circuit I'm hanging out at Wolfie's is Wolfie's still around No, that that was owned by that got bought by the guy that owns Jerry's deli in LA I'm blanking on his last name. I think it begins with a Z and Jerry's whatever is in Jerry Z, but It it it no one eats that food anymore. Not even Jewish people. There's just very few people can digest that horrific food so it became what's called Epicure Market, which is like What's the equivalent? What's the war chasens is in LA where chasens was Beverly and Doheny became that gourmet food market So it became something like that, but it was so expensive.  They go let's spin the wheel and it would go from five dollars to like nine dollars a pound really just went out of business Yeah, I'm exaggerating It's like a great market, but the prices were even too much for rich people So I noticed like the Carnegie deli you go in there. There'd be like a slice of cheesecake I'm gonna do this just because we're talking about the Carnegie deli a slice of cheesecake the size of a Buick. Sorry, but You know yes comedy would People Jews are not eating that kind of food anymore No, no these restaurants, you know, there's a man. I was listening to on the John Bachelor show the radio show And he wrote a book about the last delis. I forget what it is, but there's something like 17 Delis left in the United States talking about there's like 17 deli It's a book you get to you can look it up on Amazon called delis or the last delis and there's like 17 left where there used To be hundreds. I mean listen how many are in LA is juniors still on Westwood? No, we don't live in New York and then there's arts in the valley There was langers maybe langers opened up but langers used to close it to or maybe they closed it to 15 But that's not you know, that's like only open for a few hours New York Carnegie closed There's the second Avenue deli. There's the one that's down in the lower east side of the second Avenue deli I think closed. There's one I close to I think so Listen when you hire Al Goldstein the publisher of screw magazine to be the creator at your deli cats is is still around Yes, that's the one I just went to a few months ago But and but that's in that hip hip area So it's supported because it's just so cool that it's a throwback. So yes, but but again We're all on we're on one hand right now of delis down here. We've got there's three G's down here There's this is like Ben's deli, but this is a major Jewish area down here, and there's probably five five Jerry's deli and Beverly Hills across the street from Cedar Sinai, right? They closed. Oh There you go. I'm the clock. That's what this book is about being you're questioning me.  So were you you went to watch the liver getting well I was a Jerry's deli and and you could see all this action going on It was you know It was you could look right into Cedar Sinai parking lot from Jerry's deli especially from the chair I was sitting in and and that's what it was. Did I know it was Larry Hagman's liver? I think so because the television was on something so it was they were doing a live Broadcast so I just looked at the TV said Larry Larry Hagman's liver being delivered And like just like Jerry's deli delivers and right out the window. They had all the trucks and everything. Yeah Well, we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back, we're gonna talk about cruise ships. Okay Welcome back. We're talking with Bruce Smirnoff. He is our Miami bureau chief That's so funny tell me about the cruise ships. I've never done a cruise ship Well, I also have a day gig now where I work for an agency and We're one of the top agencies in the world and we book the talent on the cruise ships And the name of the agency is is Don Casino Productions and Don was a great singer down here in that when we were talking about the heyday of Miami and Don was dating a beautiful woman named Candy What was her name candy Scott was her show business name and they got married and They didn't want to go on the ships anymore. So candy created this agency ships used to used to just mail away for your dates That's how crazy it was that they were so eager to have entertainers 30 40 years ago and candy created you know the The the agenting whatever liaison down here and then she has turned it over to her daughter Wendy Wendy Garvis and Wendy runs the company with Robin Cahill and I work for them like as a like they like talent liaison, which is a Fancy word for I come in once a week and I tell them look here's some people to put on the ships But it's a big job because we got we get like I'd say 200 people a week want to be on cruise ships. You're asking me What does it take and you have to be really specific to work on cruise ships?  So you kind of have to be vanilla ish You have to be kind of like everything else, but you still have to be great So it's it's hard to you know to Stand on both sides of the fence and describe it But you know you have to be a little schmaltzy and at the same time you have to be really good Well, somebody if you're at the top of your game like Rick goes or he's edgy, but he could have played a cruise ship I would assume. Yeah, well, he was a he's a star. So that supersedes everything. Yes Are there any instances where a star does a cruise ship and people they used to though They used to use norm Crosby a lot. They used I'm Jerry Lewis If you watch that documentary called Telethon, you can get it on YouTube. You ever seen that it by the way I've seen that just go to YouTube type in Telethon. It's some Somebody made a documentary. It's like cinema verite where the camera is just on and it just follows Jerry Lewis I believe it's the 1982 Telethon in Vegas. Well, why didn't I know about that? I'm upset. It's phenomenal I'm up. Oh, you've got it. You've got to see it and you remember Ralph Cardinale Remember when Rick Corso was doing a Vigorama in LA and we were all doing little parts on it and Ralph was one of the henchmen Well, Ralph was Jerry Lewis's like right-hand guy. We never believed him and there's Ralph this whole documentary You know as his right-hand guy. It's really as we're speaking Yeah, I'm looking up Telethon. It's two hours in like six minutes. It's not long enough Exactly. It's not long enough Black and white on video and it's telling because it starts like three hours before the telethon And it ends literally as he steps onto the stage and it's the machinations that go on But what's interesting about him is that he goes which is what he was like How did I not know about? Oh, this is great. It's great. It only has 15,000 views I know and I've sent it. I've sent it on I've told everyone that will listen to me to watch this and it's As we're speaking I'm posting it to the website. Okay, man He's addicted in this in this documentary time I which I never my mother said you eat two ice cream sandwiches. You're gonna get your stomach pumped I think he eats like 12 ice cream sandwiches in this in these three hours that at least they show on screen And he washes it down with red wine. It's amazing Everybody has a peculiar peculiar air and peculiar whatever it is the word. I'm thinking of but it he it's peculiar Behavior and yes, it's great. He goes like very serious I need a shot You have to put a 35 millimeter lens because he was very obviously very smart at this and he is Still living and you know, he said you got to use a 35 you can't use a whatever and a thing and it's so and then all of a sudden He sees Anna Maria alberghetti And he just goes like whack job and you're laughing. He's like, you know, it's an amazing mind Amazing amazing. I mean, I never thought Jerry Lewis was funny and then somebody who I really respect Said go back to the 50s and look at this stuff and I went. Oh, yes. Okay. I get it the guys are genius Yeah, it's the stuff that came afterwards that was funny, but for the wrong reasons. All right Well, I want my what it's now on my website. All right. I never enjoyed him as a child and because and Then I saw that documentary I believe it was cinemax did it and I just changed my whole opinion of him and I went back and rewatched a lot of his stuff and Again, it's not my favorite But like the nutty professor is great But just the talent and and and his ability and who he was and how famous he was at 18 You know, 19, I think 47 48 the way they had throngs of people and they would throw their you know They would you they'd be in a hotel like in in Times Square and open the window and women would be screaming at them That's pretty powerful. I mean it was like Beatle mania In the late 40s pretty powerful. All right, it's up on my website. I telephoned the entire movie and It's under News from around the world Yeah, they never front page You can never like they haven't blacked it out because I think the guy who did it never got paid or some crazy thing so he owns it and You know, I keep waiting for them to take it down. They never take it down. Wow That's one of those. So you have this job. So who's the best cruise ship comic right now? There's a few of them Um, I hate to mention names because if I don't mention someone's names are gonna get pissed But John Joseph, you must know John from New York. He is in very very high demand My guy it's amazing His name jumps out because he he's very very versatile. He can work What's called a mass market ship which maybe has 6,000 passengers So you've got people of all walks of life and then you can put him on Kunard Which is like uppity very high-end British and US guests and he will kill with them as he kills with a mass market What kind of life is that? What kind of life is that it pays a lot of money It pays more than any cut there's nothing left on land anymore unless you're in Branson, Missouri Or unless you're on television. So everything has been squeezed and All that's left are the cruise ships and they don't even pay what they used to pay 30 years ago When I hear what guys made then but still what they pay today is is really good money, you know, and and I As we as we are speaking here on this podcast I've got like three emails that came in the past two hours of people that want to be with us now a lot of these people are lunatics I mean, I got a I had a guy some of my favorite ones was a guy Because my last name is Smirnoff. He thinks he's got an in with me This guy's like from Ukraine or something and he's living in Staten Island and he plays the ball a lot What's it called a balalaika?  I could just jump on ship Smirnoff and of course when a guy is this insane, I got to call him back and go We're working on it Igor. We are we are busy busy busy. I can't sleep at night Igor smirnoff when when the ship coming So now then I read a book about the Russian Mafia Then I stopped all of a sudden playing with this guy because people are gonna come and fill a me like a Maui fish Ray Beach, so I stopped with the tormenting of the Ukrainians if that's that's over with You have done cruise ships. Have they all been here's how it's When I moved to Florida, I you know, I was edgy ish and I had you know dirty material And so the condos got me clean because you have to be clean So the next step with where the cruise ships and I tried the mass market ships where people are from all walks of life And they didn't like me Mike Mike, you know, I'm very funny guy, but it's not for everybody It's it's ethnic. It's whatever it is and and I didn't do well So I laid off the ships for a few years and then I didn't realize I never knew about these high-end ships where they're very wealthy people Very wealthy people like me because they're very very elderly and I'm like a throwback to the comics See everything as you get older. You always remember your point of reference is when you got married So that's why the music if you're 80 you still like the music of the 1950s because that was your wedding song And you got married and your dance you were still, you know, a lot live via a vibrant at that point in your life So they remember the comedians that they liked were the ones they saw on the Ed Sullivan show and the sticky and then take my wife Please kind of thing and I'm like a throwback to that generation So that's I didn't know about those ships So those ships exist and that's what my act is still like that so I did it So they found me and my first ship is a Regent cruise line phenomenal And they send me to Alaska and I'm all excited and it's a it's a charter cruise of funeral directors me right that they send me on a cruise of funeral directors and The most amazing thing happens they Introduce me and I'm nervous because you know, you know funeral directors are not peppy people They're they're they're not not that they party people the opposite, but they're not you know They're they're very solemn people are over there around death all day long So there's no energy in the room and as they introduce me The house PA system cuts out. It's being overridden by the captain and I know this sounds crazy folks listening But I swear to you I have this is all true stuff They interrupt someone is cold is dying in the showroom. So you get an interruption in New York Code blue code blue showroom code blue.  Hey folks looking at this way.  You can write this trip off And they all got up like rows of corn. I would do a joke row H up out I would do another joke row C4 up out and I got fired. I mean they fired me so I Told the agent at the time the agency that I work for now They were my ship agent and I told them store. They started laughing. I know this is not supposed to be funny But this is why they fired me so they go no, this is this this is amazing this story So they had me call the vice president Because this was they made a big deal about they gave me like 20 weeks of work And they just fired me from all 20 weeks Immediately so they got the vice president on the phone. He said tell him the story So I very calmly told him the story and this guy starts laughing We're making an exception. We're putting you back on they put me back on So now I know because this has happened now three times where people died or they have fallen and they're bleeding profusely Right as they're bringing me on say now I know what to do now you go on like at the comedy cellar in New York or the comic strip in New York these great club No one's rupturing. No one's having heart attacks. No one's having seizures because people are 19 years old in these places But now I'm so I'm so What's the word I'm so akin to this I know what to do. What would you do David? I'm asking you you tell me what would you do if you were coming on stage someone starts rupturing blood What do you do and everyone's watching the blood rupturing? What would you do? Well, my instincts is To make fun of the guy Right, so the last thing that's not what you're supposed to do. So we know that you gotta rule that out So what would you do? Well, obviously you just keep going That's one option But that is a good option, but I've learned now.  I've learned what you do now Let's say it's not that bad. Let's say they're doing mouth-to-mouth Which I just down here a few months ago You just do what you do you just do your act and it's the most amazing thing Human nature takes over where they know what's going on.  So no one got hurt. No one insulted anybody And we all live to live another day and that's what that's it's amazing It's show business and this has to be skilled and versed at you know, what happens for the rest of the day You're you're on a cruise ship. I have a friend who used to do cruise ships and then he couldn't take it anymore He said he would work one day a week and the rest of the time was just spent waiting for the show Well, it's killing time, but here's the big problem. Here's the worst thing It's called the walk of shame and it is very possible You can be on a ship for seven days Sometimes even ten and they put you on the very first night and and going on and whatever it is you don't have a good set in fact you stink and You are now Involved in what's called the walk of shame because everywhere you go these people look at you like let's say you have a bad Set at a comedy club. You're never going to see these people again when Michael Richards had that problem at the Laugh Factory Technically in his mind. He was never going to see these people again. So that's the end of it Unfortunately, somebody had it on video.   This is it's a heart if you said to if you said to me if I weren't a comic Yeah, all you have to do is one lousy show and then you get to hang out on a cruise ship for a week No, it's not good not when you're a sensitive listen The whole idea of being a comedian is that you're off your your rocker and you rely on Love the fake love from strange people which is the sickness that we are in so when you know You haven't done what you're supposed to do and you know these people that are supposed to give you the the fake sick love are now Giving you real hate. It's not good. It's Absolutely worst thing It's the worst it's worse than the bullies that caused you to get into this business There are people literally walk down the hallway and then like two feet after they pass you They are like you know within the what is it called sado vache? They don't that's that guy that stinks God and then you're back to the room with the oatmeal and you're looking at the watch. It's 2 a.m There's nobody up. I can run out on the ship.  And it's all over it's curtains. I'm selling big and tall clothing. Hello. Yeah, it's all over And if it goes well, oh That it's then it's you know, it's phenomenal then you're like the star of the ship especially I'll tell you funny ship story Do we have like eight minutes? Whatever you want? Okay, whatever you want? Okay?  So this I'm setting it up So there's these two tables that are sitting not next to each other They're apart, but they're in front of the quartet and I just happen to know both couples and two Jewish couples That are on the ship. There's not many Jewish people on this But these are the two Jews because they like to the Jewish people like to show how you know We know about the arts We have to sit close because we're gonna give it the nod of approval We're Jewish and we know what's good and we're giving it the s nod So you're you know, you've been blessed like the Pope coming in and going good works So they're sitting there and now I'm opposite them at the bar So the bay the quartet is in front of me and the two tables are in front of me and they watch so the So all of their playing, you know, the blue Danube. It's wonderful and then all of a sudden they play Handles, I believe it was Honda and it was a song that he wrote in 1740 but it's it became Deutschland Ubralis it became the German national and it still is the German national anthem But you know Hitler took it up a couple of notches made it, you know, like a big thing So they start playing And one table of Jews Gets up. I've never seen anything like it. They throw their silk napkins down I commend you to stop and these four Ukrainian girls did 20 years old They don't know from Jew. They don't know from they don't know from anything They just they're just two passengers that it's screaming at them throwing their silk napkins on the ground You will stop and they just stop and they're frozen in terror.  They're in a drenched in sweat because they don't want to go back to Ukraine It's a horrible country. They're in war right now. They want to stay on a five-star ship Jews on the loose and now all of a sudden the two Jewish couples stop fighting and they look at me and they go Bruce What do you think? I turned into member Ted Levine in silence of the lambs when Clarice Starling Asked him for the business card and he kind of like comes around the corner and he just got hands of the business card and then I Ran out of that bar so fast That's all I remember and it was just those four Jews standing commanding these these four Ukrainians to not play play play Not play play not play. It was the funniest thing I ever saw in my life. Remember Leon Klinghofer Yeah, of course. Yeah. Well, you know that joke, right? You know, that's that's supposedly the Peter Fogel story What? You know member there's that urban myth and I can't I don't know if it's true or not But I think it is but I cannot prove it that he was on a ship You know Fogel's a wise guy a Weisenheimer and he did that joke about you know I was at the bar the other day and I ordered a Leon Klinghofer two shots and a splash Hopped him off the ship. They didn't they didn't like wait till the next port They sent a helicopter. So that's the urban story about him and I tell Tell the audience who Leon Klinghofer was Leon Klinghofer. It was on the Achille Loro, which was a cruise ship This was I believe 1986. This is the first instance of Muslim terrorism aboard a cruise ship I jacked the cruise ship. They shot. Are you laughing at? Unless you count the Baba Ghanoush that they served They they shot him they you know, it's terrible. They killed him and he was in a wheelchair It was like he was a defenseless man But because they went through the manifest looking for Jews and he was a Jew they shot him so it was great to then do a Leon Klinghofer joke and You know when you're not supposed to do that, but that's hang on for one second about Leon Klinghofer Yeah, as I remember Every Jew I knew in public would say this is terrible They took a poor old Jewish man and in a wheelchair and they threw him overboard the Achille Loro Yeah, then in private And it turned I think his son was like a program executive over at Comedy Central Geez, I did not know that way listen We can when we finish this we can Google it, but it was it was a terrible tragedy And let me tell you something the cruise industry there are Every year more ships coming out these ships David they had they hold 6,000 passengers and the crew that's not the crew the crew is like 5,000 you're talking about 11,000 people on a ship it's bigger than some cities in the world and They're they build these ships now they have Briggs because when you have 11,000 people stuff happens So this is a these are these this is the future of travel and entertainment and all in one packaging Oh, that's a with the ice cap With the ice caps melting. Yeah, we may have to live permanently on cruise ships Boy, that'd be a lot of comedians work and are there are there people who live on cruise ships all year round? there's a cruise ship called the world and It came out I don't know like ten ish years ago and this was like condos you where you bought a residence on the ship and the trip Traveled around I think Oprah Winfrey Was and they had a supermarket on the ship and you have your own in your own You have like a not just a cabin, but you've got like a one or two bedroom Apartment so you've got your own kitchen you can eat on the ship in their restaurant. Anyway, I don't think it took off I've been in port with it, and I don't think it became the They hit that it was but yes, there are could you live on a ship if you didn't have to perform Would I could I live on a ship now? How long could you stay on a ship before you went crazy?  It's tough and the food Can vary some of these cruise ships the worst food on on earth and some of the food is Phenomenal on obviously on the more expensive high-end ships I heard all they do is eat on these cruise ships right because it's free So I mean you know it's the Woody Allen joke You know what is it horrible food and such small portions? You know So the food you go to the restaurant and the food is the ships are exactly The copycat of the cat skills It's as much food as you can eat on demand anytime and Entertainment up the yin yang and that's the formula of the cat skills and just taken to the corporate Level and done to the nth degree. I mean when I say the food is terrible.  It's good food. So living in Florida Yeah, sounds like you're happy. I love it. This is the greatest thing I ever did I want I have to go on the well because when I was a kid I grew up in Connecticut Isolated and I didn't have very many friends because I grew up in such an isolated area And I must have had such a defective part of me that I caused people to bully me So I was bullied by the few people that lived on my neighborhood So I had like a very sad lonely child that not looking for tears or anything I'm just telling you the reality was so I lived in this nice home Isolated and like my mother love I love my mother so much I miss her so much but my mother was constantly concerned that I was gonna get kidnapped. This is how Jewish mothers So I lived with a mother who believed that I was gonna be kidnapped. So she didn't want to pay the ransom She wasn't worried about getting hurt My mother would do things like, you know, like I go out to play Well, I lived in an isolated area and if I couldn't be seen because she was from the Bronx So she was used to that urban life. So if she couldn't see me She was convinced the kidnappers had gotten the net on me and were taking me away to some location So my mother would ring a bell so matter where I was if I heard the bell ring, I'd have to show up at the house I'm here. I'm okay.  So these I'm just trying to give you a nutshell why I like Florida So I would I would come to float we come to visit grandma in Miami and all of a sudden I was around kids They were and I and I was funny. So instead of these nitwits Meanwhile, all these kids that bullied me growing up in Connecticut. They turned out to be junkies Many of them killed themselves. These are what these are the happy stories. I love those morons He used to tie me the trace to go. I think there's something wrong with these guys I can't quite put my hand in what they were needling themselves like at 14 with with heroin And they were dead by 20. So they I just have to grow up around like nine But not even nine for defective people that made my life miserable. Anyway, they're dead. I'm still here anyway So I come to Florida and I have the greatest. I even got action down here. I got my first action I met a girl. I was like the last thing was gonna happen in Connecticut. So it was great So I had all these wonderful feelings of Florida and I left LA in 01 because LA was all about my career And I realized in 01 it wasn't gonna sadly was not gonna go the way I thought it was gonna go even though I was Absolutely convinced that it was but it didn't so I went to Brooklyn I think we talked about this in the last podcast and in Brooklyn I was a fish out of water because I was living in the mafia neighborhood and and and I couldn't handle the winter because I had Like 23 years of no winter in LA. So I said, you know what? I'll go to Florida and this is I love it here This is not a great place for show business because there's no comedy club So I there are laments, but other than that I and and nobody laughs down here Like I told you all my friends are on medication. So no one laughs at my jokes. You're the only you're the only laughter I've heard other than in months and But I live great. I just love it here You should come and visit you live in New York, you know take a few days. You can come and stay here I don't take fake. I don't know how to relax. I don't either, but if you ever need to be down here, you can stay here at my place How do you relax? What do you do to relax? I? Don't even know the begin. I like reading to me or watching a movie. I read. I what you see I was a terrible student and I have what I do now is I I educate myself I just I spend about three to four hours a night reading and googling I mean, I'm just like walking around want to be tested I take these tests on Facebook. I get 99 percent. It's amazing how much information. I don't know everything I mean, I don't know like whatever was that period when the Renaissance. I don't know. I don't know that much history I'm good on like 80s 19th and 20th century history and Non-mathematical stuff. Hmm. I love reading, you know good for you one more story. All right. What do you want? I Don't want to hear that. I'm next week. We'll ask you about rich Jenny's wake That's just that was terrible.  Yes, but I only I have a funny story about someone's wake But yes, that was that was it just a tragedy You want to hear a Story about a comedian that I can't mention, but it's a good story But we'll call him X or you don't like stuff like that Pete Fogel. No, no, it's a famous famous comedian Yeah, but yeah, I won't mention his name. Okay. Okay Paul Newman had a son named Scott who unfortunately passed away from heroin abuse. So they named UCLA came up with a wings called the Scott Newman drug rehabilitation Center and I was a doorman at the improv at the time and when they opened this they christened the night the night was the following You would meet at UCLA where you would cut the ribbon to the drug drug clinic Then you got on buses and you were taken to the improv to see X Who was the biggest comedian in the United States at the time? What year is this? I'm gonna say 80 could have been 81 I'm not you just all you have to do is see when the Scott Newman drug center opened up at UCLA So it's that it's them, but this is the hottest comedian in the probably in the world So it's seven o'clock. It's seven o'clock. Thank you computer. So I'm it I'm the doorman and What I didn't know about the improv Is everybody complained when you when you sat people I would have to see people and everybody was always like, you know I don't want to sit here.  No one said, do you know who I am? I'm not sitting over so it was just this amazing thing So I had the room seated in I thought was gonna be 30 minutes I had it seated in like nine minutes So I'm killing time and and you know They're all getting ready for the show and I go into the bathroom and there had been a fight Over the weekend in the improv bathroom.  Thank you. I don't do that and then X inhaled the entire Whatever two grams of cocaine and then went on stage for the christening of the drug rehabilitation And that's when I said I don't know if I can stay a Democrat anymore I can't believe what I'm seeing. This is like and they and of course 19 standing ovations You know and no one suspected that X was was high and there you go.  I can't believe what I'm seeing.  He it's he you know, I actually researched him. He had no children. He's been passed away for a long time Yeah, but it's if he was in the closet, we should respect that Well, he wasn't in the closet when I saw him He was wearing a purple he had gotten heavy So he's working like a purple drape like like like a drape that they just cut a hole out of so he draped a purple thing He had a Chanel a woman Chanel. Yeah, we better not leave this in but he had a Chanel handbag All right, and it's like hi. How are you?  Oh my god I'm keeping that in. Oh, you're keeping that in. All right, fine. Fine. He was a great actor But and you if you can research him he always played that that was a great great character He was you know lumpy's lumpy's dad on leave it to be the Billy Wilder Jimmy Stewart Lindberg movie Probably because I when I did my research on me He was in a he was he played serious He was in very serious role great as he always played a serious guy But you couldn't help but laugh because he was such a great actor. He wasn't trying to be funny It just they would always like they'd make him the funeral They whatever he was like the comic relief in serious movies But then his forte of course was it was comedy, you know, that's it comes please tell me he was happy at the party It was great. Yeah. Yeah, that's when I used to hang around with we'll call this guy X and X was the big manager Who used to take me to the racetrack and X was gay but X had children and This is another podcast you'll hear about how that crazy side of LA boy. That was a that was weird That was weird hanging.  He didn't do that with me because he liked me for another reason, but it wasn't sexually Thank God, but I said X is going to want his Five cents worth and it goes all of them said the same thing David I can handle it and of course the stories end in complete comedy tragedy Because they couldn't handle it and they one guy peed in his pants. He got so near I'll go into it But some of them are very tragic stories, but yeah, I if you want to go into that We can and how everybody you play for peas in their pants Bruce Smirnoff is our Miami bureau chief I'll talk to you next week. Thank you David. Bye.  Let me stop tape. That was great Bruce


Good morning. Good morning citizenship candidates and distinguished guests Please stand for the National Anthem sung by USCIS Community Relations Officer Shai Koneo Burden Oh, say can you but so proud whose broad stripes and he's besieged in Thank You Ms. Burden for that wonderful rendition of our anthem On behalf of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services It is my pleasure to welcome you to this special ceremony My name is Susie Quintana, and I'm the field office director for the New York City Field Office. It is my honor to welcome you here today We are incredibly grateful to be conducting today's ceremony at New York City Hall And it is even more meaningful because we have distinguished guests who are here to mark the end of your citizenship journey Please welcome Tamika Gray The district director for USCIS New York District Commissioner Manuel Castro the commissioner of the mayor's office of Immigrant Affairs and Mayor Eric Adams Mayor of the city of New York Thank you all for joining us Now I'd like to give a brief introduction of Commissioner Manuel Castro in January of 2022 Manuel Castro was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams as Commissioner of New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs He is responsible for running a city agency dedicated to supporting the immigrant community in one of the most diverse and welcoming cities in the world Before joining Mayor Adams administration He served as executive director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment nice a Queens-based Organization working to create a world where immigrants can live and work with justice dignity and respect Please welcome Commissioner Castro Welcome everyone. My name is Manuel Castro, and I am the commissioner of the mayor's office of Immigrant Affairs Today as you reflect on your journey that led you to this moment and Begin your life as citizens of the United States of America.  Aspire to one day Stand here to fully be welcomed as Americans. I Want to congratulate you?  Thank you to the team at the New York office of the United States citizenship and immigration services And thank you to the team at the mayor's office of Immigrant Affairs I'm joined here today By me so this munoz our deputy commissioner of external affairs Sharon the Coronel I director of communications And I also want to thank Cesar Vargas our legal counsel a fellow dreamer and officer of the US Army reserves for making this possible But I especially want to thank mayor Eric Adams For allowing us to hold the citizenship ceremony at the steps of City Hall after two decades of Not happening at our city Hall. We get to celebrate you Your family and your journey to this moment Thank you mayor Adams for being the champion of all immigrant communities Champion of the nearest New Yorkers and the champion of our newest Americans. Thank you Thank you commissioner Castro Now we get to the moment these 40 candidates have all been waiting for Candidates you come from 23 countries from across the globe But soon you will become citizens of the United States of America. I will now call the names of your countries Please remain standing when I call the country Argentina Bangladesh China Colombia Dominican Republic Ecuador Stay standing the Gambia Ghana Guinea Haiti Jamaica Kenya Mexico Nepal Nigeria Pakistan Peru the Philippines Russia Serbia Spain and Togo Let's have a round of applause for all these countries District director gray. I would like to invite you to the podium District director gray each of these 40 candidates has been personally examined under oath by a designated officer Each has demonstrated an understanding of English unless exempt and knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of history and principles of the government of the United States Each has been found to be a person of good moral character attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States and well disposed to the great order of the happiness of the United States The investigations of the government have been completed in their cases and each has been found to meet all the criteria of The law to be naturalized District director gray the candidates are ready for oath Good morning Good morning This is a great morning in a great nation in a great city and it is my honor To provide to you your oath That will turn you from candidates to United States citizens. Are you excited? All right, so I'm a New Yorker So my voice is loud enough and you have to hear me and repeat after me I will ask you to raise your right hand. You're going to take an oath So I asked you to raise your right hand and repeat after me as loud as you can and let the world know This is the city you want to be in and the country that you want to be in Right, here we go. I hereby declare on oath That I absolutely and entirely renounce and of Jor allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince potentate states or sovereignty of Whom or which I Have here to foreman a citizen or subject that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of The United States of America against all enemies and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same That I will bear arms On behalf of the United States When required by the law That I will perform Non-combatant service in the armed forces of the United States When required by the law That I will perform work of National importance under civilian direction When required by the law and That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation of evasion So help me God Congratulations Those words you are now officially citizens of the United States of America Please be seated Take a moment to let this sink in your journey Where you started however old you were whatever country you were in That journey has now come to fruition here on the very steps in City Hall in one of the greatest cities in the world What a remarkable day for you and what a remarkable achievement You are now United States citizens at City Hall and About to be congratulated in person by the mayor of the city of New York It doesn't get much better than that Doesn't get much better than that And now it is my honor to introduce Mayor Eric Adams Mayor Adams is a lifelong New Yorker Brooklyn-born and raised he has dedicated his career to serving the people of New York City He was an officer and later a captain in the New York police department Where he was always outspoken calling out racism and bias in the department and pushing for major reforms His efforts to change policing began his lifelong work to improve and protect New York From the NYPD he moved on to State Senate where he represented sections of Central and Brownstone Brooklyn in 2013 Mayor Adams was elected Brooklyn borough president Representing one of the nation's largest counties my county Brooklyn Then in November of 2021 he was elected mayor of the city of New York As mayor he has prioritized public safety and justice equality recovering from the pandemic lifting up new york's youth investing in infrastructure Supporting our vibrant immigrant community and getting stuff done Yes, he has please welcome the 110th mayor of the city of new york mayor eric adams Want to thank uh district director gray uh commissioner castro And all those behind the scene who are making this possible such a significant moment and I am 61 years old and have been a citizen From the date of birth But my number of years being a citizen Does not matter because day one you have all the rights and privileges of being a citizen of the united states It doesn't matter if it's 60 years if it's one year if it's two years You are now citizens of this country and you are a part of this elite Worship and you should be proud of that. But let me ask you this question. You tell me who am I talking about? Come to the america america May leave family members home Take any job to provide resources go to school. Maybe at night may start a small business Willing to do whatever is possible to participate in the american dream Willing to stand up for the country If I were to ask you what group am I describing? You'll have a difficult time telling me because that's the pathway of every immigrant group that has ever come to this country If you look under the fingernails of every group You'll see that they climbed up the mountain of opportunity and hope One hand at a time and you see the dirt and grime of saying i want to be part of the american dream The uniqueness of america This is the only country where dream is attached to his name Only place else. There's no other place where you have attached dream to the country But there's something else unique about this country. This is the only country where we say don't abandon your Native country to embrace your new adopted country Our secret weapon is the dash Is that dash that sits between our cultures Ghana ghanayan dash american african dash american chinese dash american ecuadorian dash american polis german You hold on to your culture and you bring it to america and make this unique experience that we call the american dream This is a great moment for you Countless number of people have been pursuing to participate and be part of this unique membership club We call american citizens And we're not perfect In fact, we're perfectly imperfect But that is the experience That we are participating in We're not supposed to be perfect Perfection is not american Dedication is american And there's something unique about our immigrant and new arrivals to this country. They're hungry They're hungry They're hungry to be part of this experience During the height of covet as I moved around covet and saw businesses shut down And lack of participation, you know what I saw I saw immigrant businesses stay open I saw them continue to work I saw them understanding that this is an opportunity That america presents And you should be proud of that You're so much part of this country now as not only citizens But even prior to being citizens fighting in the armed services Those of you who are willing to shed blood To water the tree of freedom That all of us sit under the shades from the hateful divisive actions of those who want to harm this country But we need a renewal of patriotism It was a survey that came out That stated 52 percent of americans Will not defend this country if it's attacked on foreign by foreign enemies I know and you know That you would defend I know and you know that you would stand up for this country I know and you know that there's something great about this country And I know when you said that pledge You felt something special in your heart You wanted to say I last I last And then you are a twofer you don't win just by becoming an american citizen You won because you're an american citizen in the greatest city on the globe new york city So you are winning all the way around I'm so excited for you and I know in the audience. I believe francisco moey's mother is here he His dad came and fought in vietnam To eat gotta live in And now He is the councilman That represents his council matter district Or how about commissioner castro?  You say i'm an american citizen I'm american citizen And that's respected And admired all over the globe And this is the first time in 20 years That we've allowed this ceremony to take place here on these steps To 24 23 nations who are here You are now ambassadors For others who want to come and participate in this american dream You pursue The dream That is your dream But it is the dream Too many people who are attempting pursue The dream Are living a nightmarish reality as they attempt to cross borders and come and participate in the dream They're turned away by other states But not here in new york In new york city with a keeper of the dream This is america's city And you must go out and ensure everyone who attempts to get the dream has an opportunity To acquire the dream And so i thank you on behalf Of every new yorker Every american Everyone who has fought to protect the dash You are now members of the club The defenders of the dash Bring your uniqueness bring your culture bring your energy bring your spirit only here Can you go to a chinese restaurant? Have a nigerian cook make a russian meal that he learned from his polish girlfriend only in america only in new york Congratulations to you all Thank you mayor adams Now mr. Cesar vodga special counsel and senior advisor will lead us in the pledge of allegiance Buenos dias Felicidades congratulations to my fellow service members who are Everyone please stand Put your right hand on your heart And repeat after me I pledge allegiance To the flag of the united states of america And to the republic For which it stands One nation On the god Indivisible With liberty And justice for all Congratulations everyone Thank you Please be seated New citizens we will now present you with your certificates Our staff will guide you as you come forward to the receiving line Umucoro Viannay Marie De Castro Esteves Rosinia Gabriela Campos Armijos Osmarlin Brito Alberto Gregorio Alfonso Isidoro Sanchez Marco Tatarac Vanessa Matos Peña Darlene Charestal Hussan Mohammed Abdullah Chaudhry Angela Mabel Reyes Fernandez Augenia Blanco Kulzuma Akhtar Rubi Belkis Antonia Garcia De Dennis Bernice Boatang Radhamiz Villafana Reyes Awul Khan Enwa Chan Andra Francisco Santiago Rodriguez Patrick John Calley Eunice Rivera Perez Toch Kadra Anatoly Andreevich Morozov Tanisa Taliba Thomas Maria Delpilar Batista Andrew Dale Giovanni Blair Flores Ramos Tex Lloyd Keyes Ruiz Felipe Pescador Tascón Sma Begum Mamasa Kamara Sisei Andemoi Shaniz McCullen Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our very special ceremony. Please join me in thanking Mayor Eric Adams, Commissioner Castro, and District Director Tamika Gray for being part of this very special ceremony. So now the first row can please come this way. We're going to be taking photos. The second row, the next row.