Gio is back from vacation, but he is in NO mood to be needled.
All it took was about eight hours on the air before fired-up Gio returned, thanks to an old “friend” named Muzz. You may remember that backinnaday adafah (that’s a little Gio as JJ for “back in the day on the FAN”), Muzz and Gio made a bet whereby Gio predicted the Knicks would win at least 35 games.
The Knicks were 21-45 when the NBA season was halted, and with no resumption for the ‘Bockers, the bet is considered null and void under Vegas rules – the season wasn’t completed in full, and the Knicks still could’ve fulfilled the bet if it was, so there's no action. That’s not good enough for Muzz, though, and on top of a rough July that was capped off by Gregg’s boat disaster last week, well, Muzz pushed that button one too many times and karma came back around on him.
“There’s no such thing as karma, Muzz, because if there was, you’d be dead by now,” Gio told Muzz. “And the bet is dead – they didn’t play enough games, get it through your thick bald head!”
Muzz tried to needle a little more, but his call was cut off, and then Gio WENT OFF.
“No more Muzz calls, he’s done. Muzz is over, bet’s over, the bit’s over, he’s the only one who cares about it. If he wants to make a joke about the boat, I’ll take the shards of fiberglass and shove it up his (butt),” Gio angrily commented. “It’s not me not paying it, they didn’t play enough games! If you cashed that ticket in out in Vegas, they’ll laugh at you. And karma, there’s no such thing as karma. You do the right things, bad stuff still happens to you. Karma is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard in my life!”
Boomer tried to bring some levity by mentioning the “Karma Sutra” (intentionally misidentifying the first word), but Gio was too wound up to not continue on his rant.
“You take care of your family, you bring the boat over, it’s all on me…and boom, thunderstorm rolls through, 60 mile per hour winds, and destroys the only thing that you like,” Gio yelled. “But I’m such a bad guy. Give me a break. I’m tired of it. I took the phone call because I thought he’d have something new, but he goes to the boat karma. Great.”
“He’s a one-gimmick guy,” Al Dukes chimed in, as Boomer exhorted Gio to calm down.
“I don’t want to calm down. I had the worst July of my life, and you know other reasons why it’s been horrible,” Gio told Boomer, as he started to talk more about his boat. “Karma…it’s supposed to be what goes around comes around, and whatever you put out is supposed to come back. The thing is, to try to act like I’m trying to skimp out, you DIDN’T WIN THE BET! It’s not my fault the pandemic shut down the season and you can’t afford snappy hour on your own. I can send you some Nutri-Systems or something if you want, if you’re really that hungry.”
This rant is better heard than transcribed, because, well, you need to hear the passion in Gio’s voice as he discusses the icing on the crap sundae that was his July.
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