rant · moment 8 of 15
Joe Castagna, the Mortgage Office's Failed Comedian
from Fuck Gary Vee · #46
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3 minTim recalls a coworker named Joe Castagna at his old mortgage firm who had bizarre nicknames and non-sequitur insults, did hacky joke-book comedy at office parties, and how hustlers and scammers often end up drawn to comedy.
- 31:58Darrell Davis was brought into failing mortgage and real estate outfits on Long Island where desperate, talentless people worked as salesmen.
- 32:30Tim describes the sales pitch: calling for-sale-by-owner leads and asking if their property is available while claiming his wife left and took his kids.
- 32:55Darrell claimed he did stand-up comedy at Caroline's and told a joke about running on a treadmill while holding a Tom Collins and asking someone about his cigarette.
- 33:12Joe Castagna was a guy in Tim's mortgage firm who'd walk around calling people random names like "Dylenite" for no reason.
- 33:28Castagna would make nonsensical observations like telling a man in a yellow tie that he looked like a piece of mustard.
- 33:54Tim recalls Castagna cold-calling people on the phone, saying things like "Hey, it's Joe Castagna. Is this Arlene?" in a cartoonish way.
- 34:17Castagna would do comedy at bars after monthly meetings by buying joke books and reciting jokes from them verbatim.
- 34:42Tim notes how slimeball hucksters and scammers keep finding their way into comedy as a side thing.
- 34:59People don't want to work; if you want money, you just get a scam and work it rather than doing honest labor.
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