Hodgetwins - HOT MIC! Boston sports radio host Tony Massarotti in trouble for black joke
Aired: 2023-02-25
Duration: 09:45


=== Names That Sound Like Pasta (08:00) ===

[00:00:00]  Yeah, I got a new show for y'all.
[00:00:02]  Got a damn good show.
[00:00:04]  Damn good show.
[00:00:06]  Yeah.
[00:00:06]  So it's this guy.
[00:00:07]  I think he's Italian.
[00:00:09]  His name is Maserati.
[00:00:10]  He's up in Boston.
[00:00:11]  That sounds like some kind of pasta or something.
[00:00:14]  Have you noticed that about Italians?
[00:00:17]  Names sound like pasta.
[00:00:20]  Like some kind of like Rigatoni.
[00:00:24]  What's your name?
[00:00:25]  My name is Tony Rigatoni.
[00:00:28]  I'm the bar boss up here.
[00:00:29]  What's your middle name?
[00:00:30]  Spaghetti.
[00:00:32]  What's your nickname?
[00:00:33]  Meatball.
[00:00:36]  See, that was racial insensitive.
[00:00:39]  That was racially insensitive.
[00:00:40]  I apologize.
[00:00:42]  Fuck no.
[00:00:45]  I think we got to start over, man.
[00:00:47]  He's starting shit over.
[00:00:48]  What's wrong with you?
[00:00:49]  You're going to start sensing yourself?
[00:00:52]  So, Tony Maserati, he's a...
[00:00:54]  He's in hot water.
[00:00:55]  Yeah, he's a sports radio talk guy.
[00:00:58]  Yeah.
[00:00:58]  And he made some racially insensitive remarks about these couple niggas sitting behind this.
[00:01:13]  So let me give y'all some.
[00:01:14]  Let me give y'all some backstory on this.
[00:01:16]  Oh, man.
[00:01:17]  So they're doing this radio podcast thing, right?
[00:01:20]  Tony Boston.
[00:01:20]  They're talking sports, right?
[00:01:21]  Yeah.
[00:01:22]  Tony Maserati, right?
[00:01:25]  They're talking sports, right?
[00:01:26]  Yeah.
[00:01:26]  And one of the guys on the podcast radio show with him, he's in New Orleans.
[00:01:33]  He's doing the show remotely, right?
[00:01:34]  He's doing it.
[00:01:35]  He's being all ghetto about his stuff.
[00:01:37]  I think he was in the lobby, huh?
[00:01:38]  Yeah, he was in the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans.
[00:01:40]  Now, in New Orleans, I think that place is 80% black.
[00:01:44]  Every time I go, that's all you see.
[00:01:45]  I'd be 90% black.
[00:01:46]  Yeah, it's a Chocolate City, man.
[00:01:48]  Yeah, man.
[00:01:49]  So he's sitting in the lobby, and then Tony Maserati says some racist shit.
[00:01:53]  Well, it's not racist.
[00:01:54]  It's racially insensitive.
[00:01:55]  It was racially insensitive.
[00:01:56]  Yeah, like what I say, it was racial insensitive.
[00:01:59]  You know, it's racially insensitive.
[00:02:01]  Even though a lot of that shit is true, a lot of times got nicknames meatball, you know.
[00:02:06]  What?
[00:02:06]  Meatball.
[00:02:08]  Ain't nobody got no nickname meatball.
[00:02:10]  I mean, every culture, every race, every ethnicity got some racially insensitive nicknames.
[00:02:16]  Oh, I see.
[00:02:16]  Look what black people call each other.
[00:02:18]  They call each other the N-word 24-7.
[00:02:19]  What's up, nigga?
[00:02:21]  Man, I'm doing all right, nigga.
[00:02:23]  Man, I'm just over here being a nigga.
[00:02:27]  So he said, well, look at gay people.
[00:02:29]  They call themselves the F-word all the time.
[00:02:31]  Okay, let's keep it about.
[00:02:32]  I'm just trying to make a point, man.
[00:02:33]  All right, that's cool.
[00:02:34]  It's only offensive when you're not included in that group.
[00:02:37]  Okay.
[00:02:38]  You see what I'm saying?
[00:02:38]  Yeah.
[00:02:39]  Just laying down some groundwork.
[00:02:41]  Okay, so his friend is doing the show remotely in New Orleans, and there's a couple black guys sitting in the back.
[00:02:47]  And then what got Tony in trouble is what he said.
[00:02:50]  Check it out.
[00:02:52]  Yeah, I want to know now who the two guys behind you are.
[00:02:54]  That's what I look at.
[00:02:55]  Because if I were you, I'll be off in two minutes.
[00:02:57]  I'm just doing, I got just, if I'm too loud, just let me know.
[00:03:01]  Honestly.
[00:03:01]  They can't do more minutes.
[00:03:02]  They can't hear us, right?
[00:03:04]  No, not you.
[00:03:04]  Okay, no, sir.
[00:03:05]  I would be careful if I were you because the last time you were on a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.
[00:03:09]  There's Chris in Boston.
[00:03:11]  Glad Crest.
[00:03:12]  Hey, what's going on, guys?
[00:03:14]  I want to talk about Mr. Oh my God.
[00:03:16]  I can't believe he just said it.
[00:03:18]  Hold up that image again.
[00:03:19]  Look at the guy that said he's so proud of himself.
[00:03:23]  The other guy that's with him.
[00:03:24]  The dude that he made the joke to, he's disgusted.
[00:03:27]  He's like, look at his reaction one more time.
[00:03:29]  Go back a little bit.
[00:03:30]  Yeah.
[00:03:31]  Watch what he says.
[00:03:31]  Look at the guy he says it to.
[00:03:32]  What?
[00:03:33]  Okay.
[00:03:33]  Too loud.
[00:03:34]  Just let me know.
[00:03:35]  Honestly.
[00:03:35]  They can't do more minutes.
[00:03:36]  They can't hear us, right?
[00:03:38]  No, not you.
[00:03:38]  Okay, no, sir.
[00:03:39]  I would be careful if I were you because the last time you were on a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.
[00:03:43]  There's Chris in Boston.
[00:03:45]  Glad Crest.
[00:03:46]  Hey, what's going on, guys?
[00:03:48]  I want to talk about Mr. See how proud of himself he was.
[00:03:54]  Bring his pitch up, but he's laughing again.
[00:03:59]  He thinks this shit's so funny he's about to bite his lip off.
[00:04:03]  He's like, I got off a good one right now.
[00:04:07]  Well, okay, look, how the okay, let me say this.
[00:04:10]  You know what's going on, Keith?
[00:04:11]  They're in a hotel.
[00:04:12]  You know how you, in every hotel, they got like a business center where you can go online, use a computer.
[00:04:16]  That's where he's at.
[00:04:18]  Who gives a shit?
[00:04:19]  That nigga in the back is probably waiting for the computer.
[00:04:24]  No, that nigga's waiting for him to go outside.
[00:04:29]  According to Tony Maserati.
[00:04:31]  Yeah.
[00:04:31]  But so let me say this.
[00:04:34]  Okay, it's racially insensitive.
[00:04:35]  But what I want to say this: why do he make that observation about that?
[00:04:41]  Because something happened to his friend.
[00:04:42]  That's how racism starts.
[00:04:44]  Yeah.
[00:04:44]  You see what I'm saying?
[00:04:45]  Yeah.
[00:04:46]  Like, give the example.
[00:04:47]  Let's say you take an old lady walking up and down the street, right?
[00:04:50]  She's 80 years old.
[00:04:51]  She got a purse.
[00:04:52]  A couple niggas come up, rob her, take a purse, and push it on the street.
[00:04:55]  Yeah.
[00:04:55]  All right, next time she walked down the street, she's going to see if she sees some black people.
[00:05:00]  Oh, say the Harsh Twins is walking up.
[00:05:02]  Even if it was just us walking up, right?
[00:05:04]  She's like, oh, hold up.
[00:05:06]  It's a couple more.
[00:05:08]  That's how racism starts.
[00:05:10]  Yeah, like if I go in the club and I get jumped by a bunch of white men, shaved heads.
[00:05:14]  Yeah.
[00:05:15]  They're not even skinny as they got shaved heads and they beat the shit out of me, right?
[00:05:18]  Yeah.
[00:05:18]  Next time I'm out and about and I see a bunch of white guys with shaved heads.
[00:05:22]  What's the first thing that's going to pop my mind?
[00:05:24]  What's the first thing that's I'm going to just gonna oh shit, here we go again.
[00:05:29]  More skinheads.
[00:05:30]  They bought the big shit out of me again.
[00:05:32]  I remember I was a kid.
[00:05:34]  I was probably about what, nine, ten, ten years old.
[00:05:37]  I grew up in Marnesville, Virginia.
[00:05:38]  It's a rural era.
[00:05:39]  I remember that.
[00:05:39]  Right?
[00:05:40]  And walking up the street and this damn old pickup pulled up.
[00:05:45]  A couple guys sitting there with mullets.
[00:05:47]  They threw like Peps Blue Ribbon Birchheads at me and told me to say the street.
[00:05:52]  That ain't funny, man.
[00:05:53]  That shit ain't funny.
[00:05:54]  But later on, like whenever I go walking somewhere and I see a damn truck coming over the damn fucked up mufflers, I would think, oh, here we go again.
[00:06:01]  Yeah.
[00:06:02]  You know?
[00:06:02]  It's human nature, man.
[00:06:03]  It's human nature.
[00:06:04]  I mean, how many times does somebody from a particular race guy do something to you before you be like, hold on, I'm starting to catch on to this shit?
[00:06:12]  Yeah.
[00:06:12]  You know?
[00:06:13]  Yeah.
[00:06:13]  And it's not being racist.
[00:06:15]  It's being logical.
[00:06:20]  I mean, my problem is.
[00:06:21]  It's logical.
[00:06:22]  Yeah, I agree with you, but it's racial and system.
[00:06:25]  Yeah, it's racial and system.
[00:06:27]  My problem is this.
[00:06:28]  Why you say this live on air?
[00:06:30]  Yeah.
[00:06:30]  I mean, are you that damn stupid?
[00:06:32]  Yeah, I would say this.
[00:06:33]  Do you know the political climate we're living in right now?
[00:06:36]  You can't make any.
[00:06:38]  I mean, even though you may have been.
[00:06:40]  Fucking.
[00:06:44]  Well, you do the Jewish people, they call it anti-Semitic, right?
[00:06:47]  Anti-Semitism.
[00:06:48]  Anti-Semitism.
[00:06:50]  He's generalizing a group of people because of something bad happened.
[00:06:55]  That's just stupid.
[00:06:56]  That's ignorant.
[00:06:57]  That's wrong.
[00:06:58]  It's a normal reaction, though.
[00:06:59]  Yeah, it's a normal reaction.
[00:07:00]  It's like when 9-11 happened, what happened?
[00:07:02]  Anybody got on a plane that looked like those people that did that from that part of the world?
[00:07:08]  Excuse me.
[00:07:10]  Shut up.
[00:07:10]  Don't say it.
[00:07:13]  I like to change my flight.
[00:07:17]  I like to change my plight.
[00:07:18]  Yeah, you got another flight?
[00:07:20]  Yeah.
[00:07:20]  Well, tomorrow morning, that's cool.
[00:07:22]  I'll wait.
[00:07:24]  I'm not getting on that plane.
[00:07:28]  I mean, but that was a normal reaction.
[00:07:30]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:07:30]  It's a human reaction.
[00:07:32]  It's a human reaction.
[00:07:33]  So if his friend turns out he got robbed by a couple of black guys for his car, I mean, it was wrong for me to do that.
[00:07:39]  You putting that message out there on live radio.
[00:07:41]  If you're just joking amongst friends, we all do it.
[00:07:44]  I do it.
[00:07:44]  You do it.
[00:07:45]  We all do it.
[00:07:46]  Democrats do it.
[00:07:47]  Republicans do it all the time, but you can't put that type of message out there on the air because people are just too sensitive.
[00:07:53]  Because you could, if you do that, you're kind of condoning that kind of behavior.
[00:07:56]  And that kind of behavior is a behavior.
[00:07:58]  It's a slippery slope to racism.

=== Condoning Racist Behavior (01:44) ===

[00:08:00]  Just full-fledged racism.
[00:08:02]  He apologized, though, man.
[00:08:03]  Yeah, he apologized.
[00:08:04]  Yeah, I think he's been suspended with no pay.
[00:08:08]  Yeah, that's good, I guess.
[00:08:10]  Yeah.
[00:08:11]  Man, it was crazy.
[00:08:12]  I mean, he's he, you was, I mean, you laugh so hard.
[00:08:16]  I mean, you got to have balls the size of watermelons to say that live on air.
[00:08:22]  Well, and then you laughing so hard like nothing's going to happen to you.
[00:08:26]  That's the strange thing about it.
[00:08:28]  Are these got big balls or he's got a small brain?
[00:08:31]  No, he's got probably a little both.
[00:08:33]  You're going to say that on national.
[00:08:35]  I mean, yeah, why?
[00:08:40]  I mean, you got to be crazy.
[00:08:42]  You got to be white and to make a racially insensitive joke live on air.
[00:08:47]  There's video, there's sound, and you got the best quality of sound.
[00:08:50]  Everybody can hear what you're saying.
[00:08:51]  And you just right there laughing so hard.
[00:08:53]  It's like you want to get canceled.
[00:08:56]  They ain't going to cancel us up in Boston.
[00:08:58]  I heard Boston man not saying this about Tony.
[00:09:01]  Yeah.
[00:09:02]  Probably a cool guy.
[00:09:03]  Yeah, I heard some stories from black friends.
[00:09:05]  Black people up in Boston.
[00:09:06]  Yeah.
[00:09:06]  And that's a racist area.
[00:09:08]  Yeah.
[00:09:08]  He told me he said.
[00:09:10]  Well, it's not a racist area.
[00:09:11]  Some people that in the area is racist.
[00:09:13]  Stop generalizing people.
[00:09:16]  You do the same thing this Tony Rickett Tony's doing.
[00:09:23]  Look, he told me that racism, he experienced it in a Boston area.
[00:09:29]  And he lived in Georgia.
[00:09:31]  Yeah.
[00:09:31]  Rural era.
[00:09:32]  All these white people, converted flags, all these damn pickup trucks.
[00:09:35]  He never experienced that down there.
[00:09:37]  Yeah.
[00:09:37]  But go up into the Boston area.
[00:09:40]  Just stay away from them damn Italians.
[00:09:44]  It was a day of good show.