Giannis Pop and Chris Stephano, the History Hyenas, mourn character Poo while analyzing Bay Ridge's harmonious Muslim-Italian coexistence despite historical tensions. They debate NYC's unique status as "the city," joking aliens would meet there for Italian food, before discussing Bensonhurst's shifting demographics where boxing instructor Paula Gassy feels besieged by Asian neighbors, calling it the "Italian Alamo." The segment touches on Trump 2020, racial slurs, and 9/11's specific impact on New York, ultimately concluding with a promotion for Sean Terry's Patreon podcast, I'm Patrick Marooney, featuring Ladder 14 firefighters. [Automatically generated summary]
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Born and Bred New Yorkers00:10:22
Welcome to Flagrant to No Easy Buckets Patreon episode water cooler commentary for sports and eats analysis by assholes.
You know who you were just listening to.
On my right is Kazim Famuyide, the Nigerian nice guy.
And across from us.
Yeah.
I'll tell you, fuck it.
Yeah, across from us.
We have the wildest boys we have had on this podcast.
Yes.
Flagrant family, the history hyenas.
They're like our flagrant cousins.
Yeah.
Yannis heard some regular conversation.
They're not any different off and on the podcast.
Yeah.
Giannis Pop is Chris Stephano.
Thank you guys for coming in.
What's up?
Thanks for having us, guys.
And we were with a lot of things to talk about.
We were just lamenting the loss of a poo.
I hope you guys don't think I thought he should be gone.
No, I love him.
We've talked about it on this podcast.
I just had a moment where I had an emotional RIP poo.
It's going to be happening to me once a month.
Rest in peace to a legendary character.
You're one of the good Sandra D's.
Wait.
What is a Sandra D?
Right out of the gate.
He's a Patreon.
Got a Patreon.
When I got my chain out, I'm saying guy, and I'm fucking ready and fly.
That's when I cut my chain out, guys.
Yeah, I mean, his whole personality has changed since he put that chain back on.
And what's even funnier about that chain is his mother bought it from him in high school.
Yeah, when I got this chain out.
When I got this fucking chain out, every thought ends with Trump 2020.
And he calls everybody guy, including women.
Yeah, I call everybody, yeah.
I was like, what's a guy or babe?
He's more hair gel, though.
Because today I was walking in Bay Ridge, and there's a lot of, you know, like fun, like hardcore Muslims, and there was a Muslim woman dressed headstone, just her eyes and I was like, have a nice day, babe.
Because I had the chain out.
Yeah.
I called a full Muslim woman, babe.
I then looked into her eye that I could see.
Yeah, we live in Bay Ridge.
How did she feel that she was acknowledged as a person for once?
Good shit.
She looks confused.
Yeah.
She just puts her mouse down.
She blinked twice.
I don't know what that means in Muslim world.
We got so many Muslims in Bay Ridge.
It's a huge Muslim population.
And I swear to God, a lot of my neighbors are Muslim.
And I don't know.
A lot of them are in the full stormtrooper.
I get it.
No.
Full storm.
They're in the full stormtrooper.
So I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know if I'm saying hello to my neighbor or not because I see someone who wear, you know, it's like, is that my neighbor?
I just say hello to everybody.
Because I don't know if that's my neighbor.
It's funny, though, that like with that's our neighborhood because our neighborhood, Bay Ridge, is very much like, you know, those, you know, Muslim, like true, like devout Muslims, and then also like the old school Guidos, like Paulie Walnuts, Tony Sorico, the actual actor who played Paulie Walnuts lives in Bay Ridge and walks past those people too.
So it's an itch.
But what's happened, though, like in a good way, is like you see now like Muslim people coming into the pizzerias and like Italians with fucking chains out being like, yeah, I gotta go get some fucking hummus guys.
You know, like Chef Campbell's got nice.
It's harmonious.
That's harmonious.
So it's kind of a beautiful thing.
They're coming together.
They're coming together.
They talk about each other behind their back, but they live in the same place.
It's like they're talking together to a point.
I mean, I wouldn't go above 86th Street.
You know what I mean?
I got you.
I got you.
I feel the same way about Manhattan.
Okay, guys, we normally start this episode with a flagrant thought of the week.
I know I texted you guys about this.
Do you have anything?
If not, no big deal.
I have a feeling we're going to be pretty flagrant.
I think we're going to be doing that.
Yeah, I said you were one of the roots.
No, let's get to that.
So, Sandra D, what does that mean?
I mean, I know what it means, but why does it mean that?
You're going to let me do explain.
Because I got my chain out and I'm just scared.
I'm going to eat a donut.
Yeah.
Sandra D is a character from Greece.
Remember, look at me, I'm Sandra D.
No, I never saw Greece.
I'm not gay.
Yeah.
Well, I'm thinking about Greece, like the country, the movie.
No, the movie Greece.
Look at me.
I'm Sandra D. People of a picture.
Is she brown?
She's white.
No.
All right, let me just explain why she wasn't.
We were saying that that movie was made at a time that there were no brown entertainers.
And that is shout out to the woke crowd because the woke crowd is right about that.
Because you were talking about a holding deal you got, and Chris said something about, hey, if it was 15 years ago, your money would have been triple.
And I said, if that was 15 minutes ago, 15 years ago, you wouldn't have had a holding deal because you would have been behind the counter for 7-Eleven.
Flagrant thoughts?
You complete it.
Check that out.
So Sandra D means you're from a part of the world that has a lot of sand.
Oh, okay.
Sand.
Yeah, end it, Chris.
Right there.
That's all I have to say about that.
Trump 22.
It just has, there's a lot of desert.
And then we call Asian people Eastern Hemis from the Eastern Hemisphere.
That's my favorite.
It's no disrespect.
So we'll say like in Eastern Hemis.
Eastern Hemis.
But when the chain's out and it's above 90 degrees, the Eastern Hemis aren't safe around me.
I will say that.
Yeah, after the whole Shane Gillis thing happened, he just went outside and started staring down Chinese.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much, put it this way.
One of our close friends on the podcast and my actual boxing instructor, Paula Gassy.
Shout out, Paula Gassy.
What a Guido.
Paulie Gassy.
He's having a funeral for his dog, Rocco, tomorrow.
I swear to God, this is a bit of a shit.
It's been a rough couple of weeks for me.
I'm like, okay, well, the dog should be buried.
It's decaying in your backyard.
But he was like, he calls, because, you know, it's become Bensonhurst, Brooklyn now.
It used to be like the old school, like mafia Italian neighbor, but like 18th Avenue Feast, it was like Guido Central, right?
Now it's mostly Eastern Hemis now.
A lot of Asians have moved in.
Benson Hemis.
And he says, and he says his address, you know, he'll say, he's like, my address, 7611, 14th Avenue.
He goes, you know what I call this place?
The Italian Alamo.
He goes, this is the last stand.
We got Chinese attackers from all sides.
And he'll stand on his fucking porch with his chain out.
He's like, I'm fucking Alamo, cuz.
He'll sit down and have cappuccino.
He's the type of guy that when he gets to the Brooklyn Bridge, he brings his passport.
He's not sure.
He hasn't been to the city that many times.
He's the kind of kid, too, to make extra cash for Christmas.
He'll sell tickle me almost out of the back of his trunk.
I swear to God, to make some cash.
His dream is to make it big in the city one day.
He's got to make it big in the city.
Yeah, one day he's going to get it in the city.
Yeah, he told me we were talking the other day and he was like, hey, he goes home.
He goes, I met a guy who's got some space for me over there in the city.
He said, I'm going to put a boxing gym out there down there, right downtown Manhattan in the city.
And he goes, but I really can only pay about $1,000 a month.
You think he'll make a deal?
Probably not.
I would say, no, not for $1,000 a month.
Oh, my God.
I was like, it might be $1,000 a minute.
Yeah.
For somebody you train.
Oh, my God.
You guys are born and bred New Yorkers, right?
Yes, sir.
Who fucking coined the city?
Like, who started running with that first?
Was that black folks?
Was that Italians?
Was that just immigrants?
Oh, the city?
For people who don't live in New York, Manhattan is what we call the city, right?
Yeah, exactly.
If you live in Brooklyn and you say, I'm going to go to the hospital.
I'm going to go to the city.
You're going to Manhattan.
It doesn't make any sense.
For me, at first, I was like, it's all New York City.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This shows how arrogant we are because you can even be like, if you're with a New Yorker and you're in St. Louis in the suburbs and someone says we're going to the city, the New Yorkers are like, we're going to Manhattan right now.
That's going to be a long drive.
It's like one city.
We just consider it.
It's the Ohio State of Cities.
It's going to be Ohio.
We look at other cities and we look at them almost like Vegas casinos.
We're like, oh, this is a cute little, looks like a fake New York.
Yeah, because let's be honest.
It doesn't even look real.
Listen, you know, no disrespect to other people's cities.
I know you're from Texas, but you know what?
Cal, where are you from?
Built race, area.
Built a race, New York City.
The city matters.
No, no, the thing is, I appreciate all, I appreciate American cities.
I know New York can't do it on our own, but I mean, you know what I mean?
It's New York City, and then there's just everything else.
I heard somebody having a conversation about how they feel like Houston is really making a run for New York as being one of the best cities in the country.
And I'm like, it's not.
It's not.
The thing is, it's not.
If aliens come and invade this planet and we have to fucking fight for our survival as a human race, the meeting's going to be held in New York City and we're going to serve them Italian food.
It's just what it is.
Those are the two best things we have to offer Italian food and New York City.
Yeah, the meeting's not going to take place in a Jimmy Johnson.
No, now here's what I think.
I think Papa Dough and New South Wales.
I think if we have to defend something, I said this on the last episode, you got to go to the South.
Everybody there got guns.
Everybody there ready to fight.
I'm just talking about that.
You have to sit down.
No, no, those fucking southern fucking maniacs, they're the front line of defense.
I'm not, I can't fight.
I can't fuck my chain up.
I'm not fighting, guy.
I'll talk about where they're going to hold it because this is what you'd be like, yo, we got New York City here.
I'm not going down to fight.
That's Billy Foster for that.
You got that.
I'm going to say something that's uncomfortable, but 9-11 wasn't in Chicago.
Yeah.
It wasn't in LA.
It wasn't in Houston.
They knew where they were going.
They knew exactly where to go.
Yeah, they know how to cripple us.
I'm the wrong guy to make that observation.
I was about to say, like, it sounded like I was in a state of the world.
It's like 9-11 in Chicago.
Only to the untrained eye.
To the trained eye, you're okay because you're Hindi.
I told him he'll be Trinidadian.
We had a whole thing last week where I was like, yo, if you said the N-word, and I was just a stranger, I wouldn't blink twice.
But Trinidad's a lot of Indians in Trinidad.
Exactly.
This is the second horseboat ride in history.
They're like a diet brown.
But it's like a smooth hue.
It's not like, oh, yeah.
Bro, my friends that I went to high school with are just stupid fucking kids.
I mean, they're all like, you know, firefighters cops up, but they're just dumb fuckers.
They raped their mouth.
I mean, there's another thing.
My body brothers.
Shout out.
Saturday limitation just got extended.
Be ready.
That made you who you are, though.
Make no mistake.
If it wasn't for that, Bill's character.
Yeah, you would have ended up championing like a bad man.
Yeah, yeah.
Something's got to hit one off the tonsils.
But I remember when 9-11 happened, right?
This kid, he's a firefighter.
Now, of course, fuck firefighter.
He went up to Lad of 14.
Which is another thing that we do.
We have a subsidiary podcast called I'm Patrick Marooney.
This is Sean Terry.
And we just talk about firefighters that, you know, we work for Ladder 14, New York City.
We're doing an audio podcast.
Yeah, we're just doing an audio podcast.
So we can just say a podcast.
We can just speak freely about certain topics.
No disrespect or anything like that.
You know what I mean?
It's like, yeah, I'd like my coffee, Leroy.
Yo, what's up?
This is Akash.
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