Mocktails Or Messy
Mocktails Or Messy
#31: Marine Mischief
What happens when you mix the unfiltered humor of a Marine Corps veteran with the challenges of post-service fitness? Scotty, a tall and muscular Marine Corps veteran, joins us to spill some of his wildest stories and best fitness tips. From the infamous Whisper Alley to the banana show, Scotty's tales will have you laughing and learning the importance of staying fit, both in and out of the military. Kelly and I also delve into the complexities of balancing rigorous fitness routines with family life, sharing our own experiences and goals along the way.
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a military police officer in Okinawa, Japan? This episode features a gripping recount of a gruesome accident and the heightened security measures post-9/11. We explore the daily responsibilities and occasional mishaps of young Marines stationed overseas, whether they're getting physically fit, finding religion, or indulging in nightlife. Scotty takes us through the stringent drug testing procedures and the fine line commanding officers walk to maintain discipline, sharing some jaw-dropping anecdotes, including a Marine's bizarre excuse for testing positive.
We wrap up the episode with a deep dive into the addictive nature of tattoos and the personal significance they hold for Marines, from Nordic symbols to Viking culture. Family planning and the challenges of balancing time and resources also come into play as we share personal stories and reflections. And of course, we couldn't forget the lighter side of things – gym talk, quirky humor, and a standing invitation for Scotty to join us anytime. It’s an engaging mix of camaraderie, respect, and a lot of laughs, making this episode a must-listen for anyone interested in military life and fitness.
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You are so tall and so muscular I joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. What's the messiest Marine story? Well, you're asking the right guy Whisper Alley. Whisper Alley, oh, sounds like a dirty stripper. It's worse than that. Actually, people are going to want to hear it's the banana show.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, what If you divulge, we'll divulge. Okay, I like this a nature.
Speaker 3:That's a normal thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, but people don't really discuss it as often. Cheers, cheers to the. Burm Pits.
Speaker 1:You're listening to. Mocktails Are Messy with Kelly Mazgorski and Ryan Frankofsky.
Speaker 2:Today we have Scotty. We got the Burm Pit podcast. Scotty doesn't know, or Scotty does know.
Speaker 3:It's both sometimes, sometimes I don't know what I'm talking about? I just don't know.
Speaker 2:This has been in the works and I know Kelly, she's got her eye out on you. She's like she loves her Marine men. We've got a jarhead in the house, similar to her husband, so you guys have that in common. I watch your stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, In fact I told Peter and I told Keith I keep my eye on podcasts that come through the studio just to see what everyone else is doing. Maybe I can pick something out of something you guys do. There's a lot of podcasts that come through the studio to me, you guys have something here.
Speaker 2:And you know what? Peter over there mentioned that too, and I was like oh, you know, he probably says that about everyone. And Peter was like no, no, no, no. He actually thinks you guys have some shit going on.
Speaker 3:The dynamic is good.
Speaker 1:We love the support, so that's why we had to have you on. You are so tall.
Speaker 2:And so muscular. Yes, how do we, like you know, get a piece of Scotty? You guys are in shape too.
Speaker 3:You guys do really well for yourself. I see you, I'm on IG.
Speaker 2:We do a little orange theory next door. Yeah, they're good, you going to do a workout with us.
Speaker 3:I would be more than willing to do that. Yes, you're not afraid to take your shirt off.
Speaker 2:Oh no, he's not afraid it's embarrassing. She's always like are you serious? Like are you that obsessed with your body, you're that confident? That's good, okay, thank you, you understand when you put work into it.
Speaker 3:You want to be able to say here's the product of my hard work.
Speaker 2:There you go, thank you. It's not just vanity, no, no.
Speaker 3:No, you do it. Put it out there, say, look, this is what I've earned.
Speaker 2:Right? Well, you've got to tell me what's your workout routine. What do you like to do? Because you yourself are pretty in shape, because you yourself are pretty in shape.
Speaker 3:So well, I'm 42, and it's something that I've always just held on to. Yeah, marine Corps is a big part of that. At the Marine Corps fitness level, they always have high fitness standards. But I do. I just take the big three. You know the holy trinity of lifting, which is squat, bench, deadlift, and I'll just take a day and I'll revolve the workout around one of those with accessories. So, like a squat day, whether it's front squat, back squat, I'll do a lunges, leg curls, leg extents, all the accessory movements that you would do with the leg day, deadlifts. Back day I'll do some lat pull downs and all the other stuff there, some biceps maybe, and then you know chest bench press I'll do. It'll be a push day and that's what kind of revolves around it. I'll take one more day, maybe, and do some cardio on that day. So I only work out like four days a week. That's nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's about what I used to do when I used to lift heavy, before I had my kids. Now I'm like just getting back into it again how many kids I have two, my youngest is 10 months old. Again kids, I, I have two, my youngest is 10 months old.
Speaker 2:They've just kind of consumed me. Newborn, yeah, I guess yeah, takes up a lot of time. I mean, I know myself like I'm like shit. I thought I wanted to have kids, but like I don't want to give up my freedom, like it's a lot of work. Do you have any kids? I have three. Oh my god shit.
Speaker 3:I have a 14 girlyear-old girl who's amazing, but she's a handful, oh yeah, especially at that age.
Speaker 1:What are the other ages?
Speaker 3:I have an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old boy.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, she's got a 4-year-old. Yeah, mine just turned 4. I have a 4 and a 10. Boy girl, she's a girl, yeah.
Speaker 2:A boy, girl, she's a girl, yeah, a girl, the girl's four and the boy is 10 months. A boy and a girl, best of both worlds. Yeah, yeah. Now what's the saying? Like what son's a wife until, or a son's a son until he takes a wife.
Speaker 3:A girl's a girl, your whole life, forever for your whole life. Yeah, that's. That's pretty close, can?
Speaker 2:you did? You tell me what the saying?
Speaker 3:No, that's pretty accurate Okay.
Speaker 2:A daughter's a daughter, your whole life. A son's a son, until he takes a wife. Yes, that's it. That's it, we got it. Good stuff, we figured it out.
Speaker 3:So, wonder.
Speaker 2:Is that true? I have an older brother.
Speaker 3:Okay, we're the only two in the family and when we were ready to go we left the house. I mean, I joined the marine corps right out of high school so my brother, we're gone did you do it?
Speaker 2:because you always had that mindset you wanted to be part of the military no, no, that was my brother.
Speaker 3:So when he did it and I saw the way the marine corps looked on him like when he came home from boot camp, it was like a different person. Yeah, yeah, the way he looked, his fitness level, way he spoke, the way he carried himself, the way he dressed, even in his civilian attire, I was like man, this guy's put together. And I saw the way his career like is going and I was like I can't let him be the only badass here in the family.
Speaker 3:I gotta do this, so I had no other choice. I had no other choice. I got to do this, so I had no other choice.
Speaker 1:I had no other choice. That was it for me. What?
Speaker 3:did you do in the Marine Corps? I was an MP Okay, military police, and then I had a secondary. I had the opportunity my CO was a chief warrant officer and he was a helicopter pilot and he gave me the opportunity to get a secondary MOS, which is how I got the name for the Burn Pit podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I enjoyed my time in the Marine Corps a lot. I want to hear like a military police story, like what was the craziest thing that happened?
Speaker 3:I don't know if you're allowed to say Well, no, the craziest thing I ever saw was I was stationed in Okinawa, japan, on Camp Foster. Where were you? So? Okinawa is this island south of mainland Japan?
Speaker 2:Yep, and was Ryan there.
Speaker 1:No, we could have. We almost went, but then I was pregnant and they actually didn't send us because of that.
Speaker 3:They they were nice to us and didn't make us go. That's awesome. That could be tough traveling overseas. You would have lived over there.
Speaker 1:We would have. Yeah, he, he flew the F-18s in the Marine Corps.
Speaker 3:He was an officer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we could have been stationed there for a few years, and they normally aren't that nice, but I think my due date was pretty close to when we would have left and they actually didn't make us go.
Speaker 3:Wow, I didn't even know that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we almost went and I was excited about it. I thought this would be a great experience.
Speaker 3:What's a tropical island? Okinawa's a tropical island. Okinawa's a tropical island, yeah, um, kind of like hawaii. I mean it's in the pacific, okay, over there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my crazy story was I was working, I was a junior marine, so I was an e3 it's a lance corporal and I was working, uh, the gate on camp foster, and it happened right outside the gate. It was crazy. A vehicle was making a turn into base and a local motorcyclist and these motorcyclists they were like I want to say gangs, but there was just tons of them running outside the base all the time, especially at night. This motorcyclist just was probably going 90, a hundred miles an hour and goes right into this van right in front of us. And so myself, they had a job, there's Japanese security there too, along with us. Uh, we ran out there and, um, it's, it's, it was a brutal scene, I'm telling you. It was like this person wasn't wearing a helmet and there were just pieces. You, it was just, it was horrible. That's the most gruesome thing I saw as a, as an mp yeah when I was in it was post 9-11, like right after 9-11, right.
Speaker 3:so it was constantly and I was on gate guard duty and it was constantly just every third or every fifth car pulling them over at a canine with me and then we would just check vehicles. Yeah, the security level was really high. Where was your husband stationed? Did you live on any?
Speaker 1:bases. We lived in Meridian Mississippi. We lived on the base there. We were stationed in Beaufort, south Carolina.
Speaker 3:That's Parris Island. That's yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And San Diego.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:We were only four places, I guess. Oh, and we went to like Pensacola Florida.
Speaker 3:He had some training there, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:That was one of my favorite places. San Diego and Pensacola I totally, I was going through the gate the one time and I just got like a stick shift and I didn't really know how to drive it, yeah, and I thought they were going to arrest me.
Speaker 3:Like intimidating. So I was doing like worse and I just kept stalling it out. The young marines on the gate and that's the worst thing I could do, because you give a young marine any type of position, of a power, authority over anybody, and it's like my brother's still in today and he'll be like. I visited him at camp pendleton last year and he was like god, it's a mistake giving these marines a gun and putting them on a gate like that they scare.
Speaker 1:They scare me. Like me, they've been not the best with their guns. Sometimes I definitely have seen them flash people with it, just not paying attention where it's pointing. I'm like, oh my god, muscle awareness.
Speaker 3:Treat, never keep. Keep. That's the weapon safety rules. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded. You don't point at anybody. Yes, you know, even if it's an unloaded weapon, you just keep the barrel of the firearm down.
Speaker 2:I mean, I remember her husband took us to the range in Mississippi and like my buddy that was with us, he was like moving around I'm like your husband is husband is a saint, like to just deal with like a bunch of newbies, like learning how to shoot he always hurts himself. I don't know how like he always ends up bleeding I always like I guess the way I'm holding it, like I end up like cutting myself with it, like popping slide hits.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it is, it's a slide maybe I was just not meant to do it what's the messiest Marine story? Well, you're asking the right guy. You've got to have a slide, you're asking the right guy, unfiltered with Scotty from the burn pit.
Speaker 3:When you go overseas in Okinawa, japan, japan they tell you there's three things you can do over there to fill your time. One is get big Go to fill your time. One is get big, go to the gym. Because you're away from your friends and family, especially as a young Marine. If you're not married or don't have kids, no one's coming with you. Going over there solo, um. So you can either go and get big, lift all the time and get religious. A lot of guys did that. Some churches off base there's a chapel on base. A lot of guys fill their time with going to church and reading the Bible and getting part of church groups, stuff like that. I was the first one. I just got big, I wasn't much of a drinker, yeah. And then the third one is get drunk. So you can get big, you can find Jesus, you can get drunk and off base. There's a lot of nightclubs and bars, especially outside of.
Speaker 3:Kadena Air Force Base. It nightclubs and bars, especially outside of kadena air force base, was called gate two street. It's like bourbon street, I mean there's bars everywhere.
Speaker 2:You have street vendors cooking chicken or cat, whatever it is you know right, you don't know.
Speaker 3:But uh, little kitty cat there's, uh, there's something called whisper alley whisper alley sounds like a dirty stripper. Well, yeah, it's worse than that actually, because you go down whisper alley and there's all these, uh japanese, and you don't know how old they are. You have no idea. And japanese women too, they age so well, yeah, yeah I worked at a bar over. There too, I worked at a bar.
Speaker 3:That's where I started in the service industry actually, because here when I was a primary marksmanship instructor, it'd be monday through friday, one week in the classroom, yeah, and then monday through friday, the second week out on the range, so I had weekends off. So I got a job off base, working at a bar. It was called manhattans and it was. There was other nightclubs attached, it was a conglomerate. There was club pyramids, manhattans and club L's. I worked at Manhattan's and it was just a mess.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, Airmen drinking over there they're fighting and doing all this stuff. But you'd see these Japanese women come in and you'd card them or you'd ask them how old they are and you'd be like she's 40? She looks like she's 19. He's like really well so. But here you go to whisper alley, you pay a little bit of money and you could sleep. This whisper alley was. They'd whisper to you like hey, come, come here, come here. And then the guys would pay money and sleep with these prostitutes.
Speaker 3:I've heard about this, so I had a roommate of mine that every wednesday he'd get a six pack of corona from the px and then he'd go to Whisper.
Speaker 2:Alley, oh my God, and that was his shtick every Wednesday. That's so funny, so you had this free time.
Speaker 3:I had some free time, yeah, but the second thing here that people are going to want to hear is the banana show. Oh wait, why is it the banana show? The banana show is you go into this bar and there was a stage with a pole, a stripper, and sometimes she would be. Was she cute? Well, sometimes, sometimes it would be like an older, like a mama, son, like it would be a mama son.
Speaker 3:But anyway, she'd do her dance, she'd be naked, and then you'd see her pull out a banana. Oh fuck, what kind of banana. I mean she'd peel it first, Like a banana in the inner you know where oh cool, and then did people eat it so here she'd be, like you know, with her leg up like this and she had the ability to shoot it out.
Speaker 3:Wow, yeah, she probably did some kegels or something oh yeah she'd shoot it across the room and of course, there'd be some jarhead in the room seeing it for the first time, and the rest of the marines would be like eat it, eat it, pick it up and eat it oh my god, that is hilarious then the quarter thing was a big thing too, the what. She'd take a roll of quarters and she'd throw it up there yeah and then she'd be like how many, how many, how, and someone would be like three and she'd shoot Make change. She could make change. That's impressive.
Speaker 2:I'd go there to see that this bitch is intense. I'd go there to see that I was at Camp Pendleton for a little bit.
Speaker 3:You go across the border to Tijuana. Oh yeah, there's a donkey show over there. Marines are sick man.
Speaker 2:They are, but in the best, yeah, she lives with one. Mine is pretty tame, I think I did think it was kind of crazy this story you told me about this person that was like tested for. He was a Marine and he got tested for like cocaine in his system but then he had explained to like the officer that like they had, oh, it was like this crazy.
Speaker 1:We got piss tested all the time so he he had sex with a man and they do like this, these booty bump things, where they like put cocaine on their dick and then have sex sure heard it. I guess I heard it, but I just got off the hook. He didn't get in trouble because he was just honest and like, hey, this happened. I didn't know. Wait, why is?
Speaker 2:it called just honest and like, hey, this happened, I didn't know. Wait, why is it called a booty bump if you're doing it off a dick?
Speaker 3:You ever see Wolf of Wall Street? Yes, Like in the beginning, he's snorting cocaine out of a bottle right, oh, I thought that was that's a booty bump.
Speaker 2:I thought that's the booty bump, yeah, yeah yeah, how crazy is a Marine Corps to be or to like be like. Oh yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Like, whatever, we'll retest you the next day yeah, I don't know, there's definitely a lot more it all depends on the command my brother actually told me because my brother here.
Speaker 3:He was a commanding officer of the 11th marine expeditionary unit. It's a mu so it's a it's a naval ready.
Speaker 3:Uh, basically it's a marine and Navy um just conglomerate where they work together so they can be anywhere in the world in 48 hours. Yes, so here he told me, one of his Marines, junior Marines, enlisted guy tested positive for cocaine, which is very difficult to do. Yeah, it stays in your system like two days. So my brother will joke and be like he had to just be like all right, give me the fucking piss cuff and I'll piss it.
Speaker 3:So it takes like two days. So some Marines are strategic. They'll be like you know. We'll go out Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3:Maybe I'll you know, do some cocaine and Monday when they do the health and comfort inspection or they start, you know, bringing us in for piss test. We got my system by then, yeah. So here he tells me this marine test positive cocaine. He brings him into the office and he goes. What's going on, man? He goes. Sir, I'm sorry, you know, I I uh just was partying this weekend and I did, did some coke and uh. So my brother handled it in a way. He's like all right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna njp you. And njp is a non-judicial punishment. Basically it goes on your service record book as like kind of a slap on the wrist, but it can affect promotions here and there. So here the guy, a couple months later tests positive again.
Speaker 2:Damn it.
Speaker 3:And he's like man, I'm either going to have to separate this guy, kick him out, or we're going to have to send him to a correctional custody unit, a CCU which is in the brig, and he's going to have to do something like. It Depends on how he handles talking with him, what he says here, the explanation he gives. So he brings the Marine in again and he's like look, man, there's an issue or problem. The Marine Corps can help. If you have a substance abuse issue, he goes. No, sir, he goes. Sir, have you ever fucked on cocaine and my brother's? Like you know, I was telling stories like I tried so hard not to crack a smile or laugh and he's like nope, I can't say I have, he goes, it's so good. He's like it's so good.
Speaker 3:So he goes, you have to try it, and he's like so that's the problem here is that you get, you know you party and you want to fuck on cocaine he's like here's the thing he's like. What we're going to do is this I think you put them in like some sort of correctional custody. You tried to. You know they try and save their investment as much as possible. They put so much money into training these Marines. The last thing they really want to do is separate or kick somebody out, unless it's like a real heinous problem. Oh, yes, like you committed some murder or raped somebody, then of course, right. But if you've got a guy smoking weed, that's actually. My brother even said he's a good Marine. Yeah, I mean, he's a good Marine. Just work hard, play hard type of thing. Yes, he gets 96, which is 96 hours of liberty to go out and just have some fun, blow off some steam. He's out there, you know, banging hookers and doing cocaine.
Speaker 1:So you know he's like listen, you got to stop with the cocaine here.
Speaker 3:This has got to end. Yeah, booty bumps, I've heard of.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I was like shocked. I'm like what, like, what the hell is this? I mean, I actually had like a boss that was like a coke head and he was always after sex because he was coked up all the time. Yeah, and it's kind of a shame, like when you are like that addicted, but like you can't be like on it while you're training. No, like you really have to like have it like out of your seat because you're getting tested all the time.
Speaker 3:Yes, we got tested all the time Right and the monitors used to do the piss test. They would stand like on top of you. They'd be just like can I get like a arm length distance here? Yeah, They'd be like sniffing you. It was just you couldn't get out of peeing probably once or twice a week in a cup and getting your urine tested for whatever.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I remember getting a piss test and they were staring over. They had a little window for, like the urinal and it was just to work at like a steel plant. It was literally just to be like an engineer at the steel mill. And I'm like, wow, you really are investigating to make sure that I don't whip out some fake dick filled with like clean piss, right? You investigating to make sure that I don't whip out some fake dick filled with like clean piss, right?
Speaker 3:you guys are bringing back some good memories here for me well, what inspired you to start your own pod?
Speaker 2:we love watching you. You definitely have that voice, that energy. That's stoic, but then you're also like cracking it and being very like fun and goofy.
Speaker 1:The first time we saw you, I'm like wait, is he? Is he famous?
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly you have this aura and yeah, I'm like, is he an actor? Like who is he? You guys are really good to me. I'm serious. It's the voice, it's the energy, the height, it's something. It's like you're giving us main character energy, and we say that about jackie too. Yeah, we do what is like your motive with the pod. I'd like to hear your motive too, after I'll tell you. If you divulge, we'll divulge deal.
Speaker 3:Okay, I like this. I'm normally on the other end of the thing here, uh-huh I'm asking questions I get to sit back and listen. Now I'm in a position here where I have to entertain. I'm a guest on a podcast. I don't really. I saw you guys are in the top like 10 or 15 on feed spot congratulations thank you, I thank you, I'm telling you, you guys have something and I'm following it along.
Speaker 2:Cheers to Mocktails Are Messy and the Berm Pit and to Studio.
Speaker 3:Me for making it all possible. None of it would be possible if it wasn't for Peter JS Regan and Studio Me.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, Peter Parker. We call him Peter Parker behind closed doors. Oh, I call him Peter.
Speaker 1:Piper, so he's in the hot seat right now.
Speaker 3:Tell me up Behind it was. I was always a huge fan of podcasts. Just you know, you watch a 60-minute interview or a 2020, a Barbara Walters. It's so very just scripted and you know, and then here I work at Mario's here in the city. It's a bar conglomerate. There's multiple locations. You can see us in the south side, shady side and also oakland.
Speaker 3:But little yinzer mafia money there yeah it is a pittsburgh stable, like you said before we started filming, but I helped open the location shady side in 2011 wow, it's not been that long.
Speaker 3:It was called Doc's Place before that, yeah, and the ownership bought it and the current ownership of Mario's bought in 2011. And I helped with the renovations, I helped open it. Oh wow, I was the GM and I was motivated to show the ownership that they selected the right guy for this position. And I did a lot. I was there six or seven days a week to the point where the one owner was like, look, you're doing everybody's job for them. You need to just dial things back, like, once you're done fulfilling your responsibility, it's okay just to sit back and observe. You have a big office up there with a recliner. Chill, there's a TV, go on there and watch.
Speaker 3:YouTube and at the time I was a Joe Rogan guy Very early on. By the way, joe Rogan's podcast the JRE podcast has been around forever and I used to watch Joe Rogan and he'd make fun of me. He goes oh, he's up there probably watching Joe Rogan in the office. And then another guy came around a few years later, Patrick Bet-David, pvd Very good guy. He's a Syrian pvd very good guy. He's a syrian. He's a syrian. He's got a huge platform. Value attainment is like his network of there's a network of podcasts, and somewhere, probably around 2018, I was like I want my own thing, right. I think I have some connections here where I can make things interesting. I can have some good conversations. I like how the podcast format is you, you and I. This is like if there were no cameras or anybody here and we're just sitting here drinking.
Speaker 2:It'd be like we're just that's what it is and we love that and we love listening to that. Like people want to be part of this little party, they do that's what.
Speaker 3:That's why I wanted to have my own podcast, because I wanted to be on the joe rogan show. Yeah, so 2018. I'm looking around and I'm thinking I'm getting ideas together and I just procrastinated. Yeah, 2019, and then 2020 rolls around, covet happens and it's like everything kind of got put on hold and then finally, in 2022, I'm at a, I'm in an rv with my boss out in Washington. We went to go see Dave Matthews band out at the gorge. The gorge is a famous kind of outdoor amphitheater. You put that up there with, like red rocks and Washington, pa, washington state. Oh, beautiful, washington state, not PA, no, state of Washington. We flew out there to Seattle, tacoma, picked up an RV, drove out this campsite.
Speaker 3:We're going to spend three days there and we're smoking weed taking edibles, yeah, drinking, and he's like what do you want to do with your life, man? You just turned 40 what do you want to do? He goes you could own your own bar, you could do something like that if you wanted to, right, and I said I want, I want to my own podcast and I want to start something and build something there. And he goes what are you waiting for? Like, just fucking do it.
Speaker 3:So I came home from that trip and I started looking around, just I went to multiple studios actually in the pittsburgh area I've told this before to peter and to keith I went to one specific studio and I the guy actually reached out to me recently and complimented the podcast in the studio here today. But the studio is the guys that do the Taylor Gang. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, wiz Khalifa, those guys, oh right, so, they have a studio out in Off 28.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And I went to visit them. Didn't feel right there was more gear till music right, not podcast, even though they have a podcast out of there exactly. I'm not gonna say which one it is, I'll tell you off air right um, I just kept calling around.
Speaker 3:I visited one studio down on uh downtown off grand street and then, uh, small setup looked here. I called here, first, spoke with peter on the phone and then he was like come down, take a look. Yeah, and then when I came down, this was pretty much brand new. This room was pretty. Am I wrong there, peter? I don't think I'm wrong here. At that time, 2022, this room was pretty like fresh, brand new. And when I walked in here, this is exactly what I had envisioned me sitting across the table from somebody, because you sit there normally. This room is pretty like fresh, brand new. And when I walked in here, this is exactly what I envisioned Me sitting across the table from somebody, because you sit there normally at the table Right On the one, on ones.
Speaker 3:Now the podcast now has morphed into something absurd, ridiculous. Here I get. I work with some guys. I work with a gentleman. His name was Dominic Izzo. I'm on his podcast every Wednesday at one o'clock.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But he was a radio host in 2018, 2017, 2018 in Chicago, an AM radio host, and then he got fired. First he got fired from law enforcement. Why did he get fired? Because he says whatever he wants. Oh shit His show is the Rance of Izzo Show and it's like a Howard Stern.
Speaker 1:We love Howard, that's why we have to be our own boss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, yes.
Speaker 3:Good Right, you can't answer to anybody or have someone have like creative control of a content you produce.
Speaker 2:Yes, right here.
Speaker 3:I worked with Izzo and he's part of a free speech network that I didn't even know existed until he told me about it and I looked it up and I was like, oh, it's legit, it's on Roku and it's on Apple TV, it's on Firestick. They have some apps out there you can download in like the app store, and so I. It basically was an audition kind of Me and another gentleman who I'd had on before. His name was Matt Wakulik. He ran for county sheriff here in Allegheny County. The story's long, but I brought him on to do a live show with Dominic Izzo. Yeah, and.
Speaker 3:Izzo was like I'm going to refer you to the people at Spreely. I think you got something here. Oh, wow, and now we do a live podcast every Monday, that's so cool From Studio Me for Spreely TV.
Speaker 2:Their headquarters out of Las Vegas, Nevada. The live shows are exciting. You can say that.
Speaker 1:It seems like it's kind of like what?
Speaker 2:you want to be doing. You think it's a little nerve-wracking.
Speaker 3:Well, I used to get nervous. I still get a little bit nervous now, but the conversations we have, it has to be because it's a political network it's got to be news of the day politics. You've got to prepare, we are prepared.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of work. Yeah, it could be a lot of work.
Speaker 3:And we get into topics that nobody else will touch.
Speaker 1:And we say things that are pretty crazy and outlandish for the average viewer. Well, that's why you guys are so successful. Now I think I'm like staring at you. I want to know the story, like story, behind some of your tattoos.
Speaker 3:if you don't mind sharing I don't mind at all, but do I get to hear why you guys started your podcast? Oh yes, you guys are just glossing over that.
Speaker 2:I know the pressure is on.
Speaker 1:Because we both moved home to Pittsburgh. Pencil talking Kind of around the same time period and we were best friends for so long.
Speaker 2:Yes. And we wanted to work together and do something together and we really enjoy like entertaining also, on top of it, the mission behind the podcast was created back in like 2020 while, like everybody was getting so fucked up and me and her were talking like you know, we really like this like mocktail movement, like not be like completely sober, but you can really like implement. Right now, the ritual whiskey is kind of like I'm getting a little tipsy because you guys are drinking people would get like hazed if they didn't drink and like they get made fun of and they're like this little wimp if they don't drink, probably in the ring core for sure, right so like.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like you can have a mocktail or a cocktail and everyone can be involved and we don't need to like control people and tell them they have to like drink if they don't want to.
Speaker 3:You're kind of promoting a healthy, sober lifestyle. We're trying, while saying you can still be messy.
Speaker 2:Yes, we still want to be messy. Like we do get in trouble. We get slapped on the wrist a lot by people that are like, hey, what the fuck? What did you just say? Like you know, and so, like, we love being messy, but we also like to be held accountable ourselves. You know, if you want to come on and talk about hey, that was not cool, you shouldn't have said that. I would love to invite that kind of energy because, you know, being a moderate when it comes to a lot of things, I could see both sides of the equation and I never want to have like a sparring match and I'm like, hey, like, let's talk it out, let's be like, you know, we can all come together, we can agree to disagree. Scott, I'm with you. Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3:I'm up for people having whatever opinion they want and I feel you're free to share it and voice it.
Speaker 2:Have should have at it, right. Yeah, have you reached out to this? You know what? When I first started, they were able to fund episodes like editing, so then they kept, like you know, sending funds to produce and edit, but it was very small scale, like out of our apartment, gotcha, so that was kind of where it started. And then I took a hiatus and, like she was busy with having babies and now that she's good on that front and now that we haven't any more yet?
Speaker 1:that's a good question. I go back and forth every day. I'm like one day I'm like, no, I'm done. Then the next day I'm like, oh, maybe just one more. I'm sure you went through the same thing my wife did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure you did.
Speaker 2:You were like, yeah, we're good and she's like can I have another it? You were like, oh, we're good and she's like can I have?
Speaker 1:another, my husband's, like no, we're good, but I'm like I only wanted two.
Speaker 3:The last one was actually kind of more me oh yeah, wow, that's kind of cool if I had more time and more money, I'd probably have more yes, yeah, yeah it's a big thing Time and money.
Speaker 2:I know I always thought, if I'm going to have them, I would love to have full-time help. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Right, a nanny or something. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, tell us about your tattoos, because I feel like tattoos and the reason behind them tells so much about a person.
Speaker 2:Like the snowflake. Does that have anything to do with cocaine?
Speaker 3:No, Like the snowflake. Does that have anything to do with cocaine? Everyone calls it a snowflake too, but it's a Nordic symbol. So, my grandparents on my father's side moved here from Norway, okay, wow, and they had settled up in the North Dakota area. Okay, and they still have farmland up there today Fargo Farmland, but it's around Fargo, okay.
Speaker 2:Very good.
Speaker 3:My mom kind of made me learn about the history traditions of my grandparents on my father's side. And then, coming from Norway, you have Eric the Red and all these different Vikings, the history of Vikings. You kind of do look like a Viking, leif Erikson.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you do look like a Viking, leif Erikson, all these guys. So there's a history there, history there and, of course, one of my favorite uh television series or programs is actually vikings, with one of the best characters I think has ever been written into on screen, which is ragnar lothbrok. If you've never seen the series of vikings, it's very good. On this side, my right arm, you have a viking ship. There you have this viking uh symbol, which is for prosperity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can you show that to the camera?
Speaker 3:so the the tree. When you see what the vikings believed the world to be, was this like tree. It was like a giant tree and and marvel does an okay job of showing it with the, the thor movies, with odin, these are real characters in norse mythology. Loki was the god of mischief, thor the god of thunder.
Speaker 2:Oh, loki, we were just talking you kind of look like him you kind of look like him, by the way somebody was talking about yes, somebody was talking about that on set recently you kind of look like him. They said loki. And I'm like who the fuck's that? The?
Speaker 3:Vikings, that's the Vikings. Well, in Marvel is a character, there's the brother of four.
Speaker 2:Yes, that was it, that was it. Okay, now it's coming all together.
Speaker 3:But this stuff I got done in Okinawa, Japan. Oh, fuck it had the koi fish. It was the big stuff over there.
Speaker 2:Okay, I couldn't see that, and you did so they had like the flowers and stuff I'd go off base and find a tattoo shop and just yeah, plastered on me, uh-huh, I don't care, it fits you well as much as we talk about like not liking tattoos in front of my grandparents who came on I saw that do we really fucking like, just like you don't? Have any tats we don't have any tats yeah neither one of you.
Speaker 1:No, you might have to be the first person to take this to the shop. I'd have it on my wrist right here if I got one yeah, yeah, your husband no, no, we both don't, I think there's nothing. I I guess I feel like I'm a passionate person. I'm like too passionate. I'd have too many tattoos if I started yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it does get addicting too for me, right? I like the pain of it, yeah oh yeah, I like a little pain.
Speaker 2:I like getting shots, yeah, like the yeah, feeling of that yeah, we like the pain too, is that weird. Does that sound like dominatrix?
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think that's people have, that's a normal thing yeah, okay, but people don't really discuss it as often.
Speaker 3:No, yeah yeah, but I liked it. I liked the pain of it all, that's why it was in Marine Corps too, the pain going through like suffering, the pain of it, yeah. I enjoyed it, yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Now on assault Not right up here You're a jawhead, it's not right. I mean I can understand, like what I'm talking to, like on a very mild scale, like I love the pain of, like the working out talking like on a very mild scale like I love the pain of, like the working out, like you're like breaking down feeling sore.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, we, we were saying I love when I can barely sit, like after a workout, like after a leg workout unless it's like on a dick, I knew it was coming.
Speaker 2:I expected this oh, I'm so sorry to offend you. I know know that we got to, like he looks so offended.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can. I just talked about a Japanese lady squirting bananas out of her. Make them change with quarters.
Speaker 2:Right, right, so you're not going to offend me with anything. We just got to put some peanut butter on that banana and I'll eat it.
Speaker 3:If you ever need to guess someone pulls out or you just want to say let's have Scott on again.
Speaker 2:I'll show up, no problem. There's a lot of people that are pulling out, not me. Cheers, cheers to the burn pit. Scotty, thank you so much for coming on. Mocktails or Messy, this was a joy. Thank you for having me. This is Ryan Frankofsky and Kelly Musgorski. Thank you, scotty.
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