Held at gunpoint, Beautiful Women & Spitwads

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Speaker 0 (0s): What's up. How's everybody feeling out there, guys. Enjoy your weekend. Did you have a, do anything special? Hanging out with the family, have a couple drinks, maybe have too many drinks on Friday, too many drinks on Saturday. You get up and go to church on Sunday. What'd you guys do anything fun? Oh, I'm just checking in on you guys. You know what I love you. 

You know, I haven't seen you for a couple of days and wanting to start this week off the right way. Give you guys something, hopefully to laugh about something, to think about so much tragedy going on right now. So much chaos. It kind of got me thinking it got me thinking about how in times of chaos in times of absolute uncertainty, you can find, I think you can find some pretty good humor. 

You can find that little golden nugget of comedy. And I want to give you an example of something that happened to me back when I was a young buck, I was probably, I don't know, let's say 17, 17 year old George Monte working at a pizza place. And it was up it's called ProQuest pizza, man. Some of you guys know upper crust pizza. 

They make a phenomenal pizza. This Italian guy, Frank DeStefano runs it. It was like a happening spot man. And like Frank would hire a bunch of kids. And when I say kids, I mean, you know, everywhere between 15 to like 26 and it was, it was, it was popping there, man. And it was all the, it kind of reminded me of you guys from that show happy days. And they, they would all go to like Al's diner, wasn't Al's diner, you know, were Fonzie would hit the jukebox and you'd be like, Hey, the music would come on. 

But all the kids would go there is what I'm trying to say. It was like, it was the happening hangout. And especially Fridays and Saturdays, like Fridays and Saturdays, it would just be packed in there, like standing room only. And just so, because everybody's listening to this, I'm going to try to give you some dimensions. So you would walk, you, you would drive up and then you would walk in the glass doors and you would tell the glass, you would go in the double glass doors on your right hand side would be a takeout window with a cash register. And then straight ahead of you would be the dine-in register about 10 feet from the door. 

And then you would follow all the way down the corridor. And there would be a bar where you would get your drinks, you know, be it soda or beer or wine or, or whatever. And then it opened up and like a really big dining room that probably had an occupancy of maybe 230 people. So it was a relatively large place, had a big screen TV and just think of your local pizza joint, man. Everybody's got a pizza joint in their, in their town or at least they did when I was growing up and this pizza place, it wasn't in a really bad area, but it wasn't in like a, a great area. 

It was kind of an older part of town. And it just so happened that that place got robbed a couple of times. And it just so happened that I was there two times it got robbed. And I don't know if anybody has ever been held at gunpoint before, but it can be kind of traumatic. It can also be kind of humorous. I know what you're thinking. It doesn't sound very funny. And it wasn't funny at the time, but looking back at it, there was some funny things that happened. 

So the first time, the first time was like on a Wednesday night and there was a three man closing crew. It was me, my friend ward and the manager, Frank de Stefano, and anybody who's ever worked in like a restaurant business knows that like right before, you're about to close. We were closing at 10 o'clock and like we were wiping down the counters and we're putting stuff away and doing the dishes. 

And, you know, there was only three people there. And so it turned out that Frank, he was in the very back part of like the, a, he was actually working on dishes back there. We had the industrial dish cleaner and that kind of stuff. And he took it upon himself just to be the dish guy for that night. I was wiping down like the counters and cleaning up all the dough and you know, putting stuff away and ward, he was out mopping the floor. So he was out in the game room. 

And the game room I forgot to mention is right. When you walk into double doors, instead of turning to the right to the cash register, you would take a left and you'd walk down about 20 feet. And there would be a game room that had like, I don't know, maybe 10 arcade games in there. And so about nine 50, nobody in the building, nobody there I'm wiping down. I'm ready to close. Get out of there. And ward comes back with the mop and the bucket and he says, George, we're going to get robbed right now. 

People are gonna kill us. And ward was kind of a jokester, but you could tell by the look on his face, he wasn't joking. So I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? That's what do you mean? And he's like, man, I was mopping the game room and I seen two guys outside the game room window with a gun man. And they were talking, 

Speaker 1 (5m 59s): I'm like, what the hell are you talking about? He goes, yeah, dude. He's like, I'm pretty sure they're gonna come in here and Rob us. And I was, you know, in that moment, that's one of those moments where time kind of slows down and you're like, Whoa, I'm trying to process this information from this guide. Obviously I don't want to get robbed or shot or anything like that, but I want to take him seriously. So he comes, he comes into the kitchen area and we're talking and he goes, man, I'm telling you, dude, shit's about to go down. 

And as he says that, I look up, like, I hear the door. You know, when the door opens, it has like a little bell, like ding, ding, ding, ding. And so as soon as we're talking, all of a sudden you hear that ding, ding, like someone came in through the front door. And so we get kind of quiet and we look up to the dining registered and there's two guys just staring at us at the dining register, like waiting to order. 

And ward looks at me and I look at him and he's because he doesn't say anything with his words, but his eyes tell me, Hey, these are the guys. And so the guys, the registers, they don't say anything. They're just, so now I'm I am a good processing. What word said? So I call it Frank, the manager from the back, Hey Frank, can you get the Dynon register? And you know, Frank was in a hurry. He wanted to get out of there. 

So Frank comes up from the back and he looks at us just standing there. And then he looks at them. Guys are the diamond register. And he looks back at me and ward. And he's like, dude, what the hell? What's wrong with you guys? And more reaches out to grab on Frank shirt, b...