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Dan Romano On Risk Taking, Film Success, and Staying Grounded · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: Ged ready Staaten Island.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 1: of footing. And now here's Jenody.
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  Speaker 3: Afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Kats
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  Speaker 3: and Pudding and today. Oh my, I've been gone for
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  Speaker 3: so long. I've been gone for like two months not
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  Speaker 3: doing my podcast. This is crazy, but I'm so happy
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  Speaker 3: today that I am with somebody who I love, who
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  Speaker 3: is awesome since the first day I met you, Miss
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  Speaker 3: the Dan Romano, Welcome today to my show.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I am so hoted to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you here.
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  Speaker 4: You are such a beautiful, amazing woman. I swear, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. You always film me up with all these compliments.
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  Speaker 3: You give me a big head.
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  Speaker 4: I call it facts. I don't call I just say facts.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. You are awesome. So I'm so glad you
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  Speaker 3: here today and tell everybody what you do, because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I know you're an actor. I know you're a comedian.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, I doubt I am an actor. I'm an actor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm in about fifteen or twenty movies. I'm on a
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  Speaker 4: lot of that thing called Amazon Prime. Oh, I think
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  Speaker 4: we got something on Netflix, mob King. We just did
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  Speaker 4: a movie called mob King, which has been blowing up lately,
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  Speaker 4: thank god.
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  Speaker 3: So you more like a mobster?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Actor, So you're an Italian actor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you I want something more challenging
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  Speaker 4: like you want.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you could definitely do that. If you're a good actor,
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  Speaker 3: you could do it.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think an actor could do anything.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, could do anything. Did you have training?
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  Speaker 4: No? No, I was, I was. Do you know who
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  Speaker 4: Michelle Franciscus from Yess?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Her husband. Yeah that's beautiful. Well congratulations, Yes, well michelle
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  Speaker 4: husband is named Nick, and they were like, I love Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Me and Nick. We played in the same play pen together.
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  Speaker 4: That's how many years I know Nick and Nick had
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  Speaker 4: a friend named Eddie rock Rivera who was looking for
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  Speaker 4: somebody that played ahead of the mob. So Nick says,
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  Speaker 4: I think I have somebody. I want to introduce you
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  Speaker 4: to my friend Danny And this is for this was
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  Speaker 4: for the movie The Streets. Uh. They came in. I
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  Speaker 4: sat down with them for about ten minutes and Eddie
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  Speaker 4: rock Rivera says, this is the guy I want to
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  Speaker 4: play the head of the Mapia. From that movie we won.
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  Speaker 4: We wound up winning Best Movie of the Year award
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  Speaker 4: and I wound up having the honor of winning Best
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  Speaker 4: Actor of the Year award in the in the first
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  Speaker 4: ever Corona film First, which I was very And that's
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  Speaker 4: how my acting career started.
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  Speaker 3: How many years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Was that about six five or six?
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  Speaker 3: So you started later in your life.
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  Speaker 4: Like me, Oh yeah, yeah. I said it as a joke,
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  Speaker 4: like when they asked me I said I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to be I.
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  Speaker 3: Was, well, well, yeah, Staten Island.
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  Speaker 4: When you have that in your blood, I definitely agree
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  Speaker 4: with you. But after that movie came in, then another
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  Speaker 4: one came in, and I never auditioned. I have never
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  Speaker 4: auditioned for a movie which I'm very happy about because
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  Speaker 4: I think I would suck at audition, but I am blessed.
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  Speaker 3: Auditions aren't like they used to be anymore. That's not
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  Speaker 3: like yeah, now it's like they do it online.
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  Speaker 4: They said, I don't think you did anything online, stay,
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  Speaker 4: I think you have to actually meet the person, to
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  Speaker 4: their physical their facial expression. How did they act? I
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  Speaker 4: mean online you limited you are.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking to Chas's Sun was on the show
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  Speaker 3: that was my last episode I did, it was and
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  Speaker 3: he said the same thing. And he's he's been a
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  Speaker 3: child actor too, I mean obviously his father's childs who's
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  Speaker 3: a great actor.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But he said the same thing. He said that you know. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the way it is is that you know, they look
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  Speaker 3: they're looking for like scouting social media, they're scouting all
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  Speaker 3: the places for other avenues to find it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now it's more competition because now the influences have
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  Speaker 4: been taking of everything, which is a beautiful thing. It's
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  Speaker 4: an absolutely beautiful thing. And now you get a hundred
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  Speaker 4: different faces to choose from instead of six, instead of seven,
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  Speaker 4: because the abroad is out there, the selection is out there.
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  Speaker 4: Now you could just click a button and now you
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  Speaker 4: have hundreds of thousands of applicants to look from. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: back in the day, it was not like that. It
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  Speaker 4: was a lot easier because it was you versus one
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  Speaker 4: the other room everybody. Well that's true too, right, yes,
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  Speaker 4: but there.
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  Speaker 3: Was also a lot of people, a lot of stolets
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  Speaker 3: in Hollywood. When they started out. They start with two
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  Speaker 3: three hundred people that they start they well roomed them,
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  Speaker 3: and then they would hamp the ones that they.
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  Speaker 4: Like the best. Well, even the best people in the world,
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  Speaker 4: even the most famous people in the world, started in
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  Speaker 4: a small part, a bedroom part, or it could have
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  Speaker 4: been the found them somewhere. Well, yeah, exactly. Oh, they
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  Speaker 4: were having dinner when somebody just approached them.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, if you got it, you know, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what you could You could actually, like
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  Speaker 4: like you said, you could actually groom somebody to become
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  Speaker 4: the part, which is an amazing thing about acting. You
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  Speaker 4: could actually teach, you can actually put somebody through emotion.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of different ways, a lot of different
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  Speaker 4: techniques to get what you need to get out.
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  Speaker 3: But you also have to have it too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: not everybody can act.
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  Speaker 4: The hardest thing in the world is the ability to cry.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I cried in my scene. Michael Lewis about that,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you the funniest story.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I could imagine.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, So we were doing it was a funeral
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  Speaker 3: scene and I play Chaz's wife's sister. So we play
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  Speaker 3: Gina Gershwin's sister. Okay, so I'm in the front and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, all right, Jen, you're crying and you're upset.
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  Speaker 3: I actually issued to this, this young actress who plays
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  Speaker 3: my want to sit next man. I didn't met the
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  Speaker 3: girlf metaph like that.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't even have any Now.
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  Speaker 3: Come in do this so cool? But I go to
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  Speaker 3: I do have I do take acting classes and Michael
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  Speaker 3: Lewis was laughing. He's like, Jen, when you were sitting
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  Speaker 3: there cracking, I was sitting there laughing with Tony Darryl
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  Speaker 3: like and five minutes before. And then they were like
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  Speaker 3: all right, Jen, action and then I'm and I started
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  Speaker 3: crying and he was like, Jen, I was so impressed
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  Speaker 3: with you that you just got out of that and
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  Speaker 3: you into that character I did. I was crying.
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  Speaker 4: Amazing skill.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, but it's like again, it's method. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about something that was really sad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and you know this is what how.
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  Speaker 4: Well I could see I could see you lighting up,
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  Speaker 4: but lighting up a screen with no problem.
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  Speaker 3: I really the screen too.
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  Speaker 4: Well, No, a little bit of a little bit, not
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  Speaker 4: too big. But you know what, we have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things we got accomplished in the acting world, which
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  Speaker 4: is something again, something that fell on my lot. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy, very honored that it did. And I have
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  Speaker 4: a show if i'm if I may, I have a
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  Speaker 4: show called the Dan Will Mono Show. But it's the
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  Speaker 4: rated our show.
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  Speaker 3: You could talk about it well.
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  Speaker 4: Because I was a little bit I had the show
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  Speaker 4: like we had the number one show with GOBS Radio,
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  Speaker 4: you know governors Governor's Comedy clubs. We had, they had
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  Speaker 4: a little studio there and we had the number one
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  Speaker 4: rated our show there. That's where I started out in
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  Speaker 4: the in the in the internet world. I was the
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  Speaker 4: kind of guy that I never liked to be told
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  Speaker 4: what to do, and I didn't like rules and I
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  Speaker 4: didn't like regulations. So I always quit the station that
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  Speaker 4: I was on because once they started having a hook
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  Speaker 4: in your mouth, you're not yourself anymore. You're there's your property,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't want to be anybody's property. My rule
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  Speaker 4: was simple, whatever you charge for the show, here's your money.
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  Speaker 4: The rest leave up to me. And they would always
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  Speaker 4: agree in the beginning, but after the popularity and after
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  Speaker 4: the money started coming in, they wanted a bigger piece.
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  Speaker 4: And that's where I always had the problem, because why
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  Speaker 4: should I be paying more for my show while everybody
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  Speaker 4: else is paying peanuts? Why do you need to make
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  Speaker 4: from me but you're doing the exact same work as
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  Speaker 4: everybody else's show. To me, it made no sense.
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  Speaker 3: So now you're start it again.
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  Speaker 4: I think, well, now I have the I'm blessed with
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  Speaker 4: a brand new guy who wants to put all his
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  Speaker 4: money behind my show and pay me and then he
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  Speaker 4: takes over the property. So I think I might do that.
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  Speaker 4: I think that on my show.
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  Speaker 3: So what do you talk about on the show?
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  Speaker 4: Everything? There's nothing I don't I put everything. I put
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  Speaker 4: regular people, workers, strippers, models, No, what's the promise, It's
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  Speaker 4: just the d it's just the damn mount. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: a talk about anything. Anything can happen. I've had people
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  Speaker 4: break up on my show. I've had I've had girls
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  Speaker 4: make out on my show. I had guys make out
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  Speaker 4: on my show. I had Louis c K on my
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  Speaker 4: show with a naked girl. I love Louis I had
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  Speaker 4: I had Louis c K with a naked girl on
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  Speaker 4: my show and him running around to see Louis run
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  Speaker 4: away from the naked girl. It's comedy. It's it's comical.
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  Speaker 3: So do you like stud you stand up to?
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  Speaker 4: No, I just sit down.
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  Speaker 3: You just sit down, okay? Said down instead?
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  Speaker 4: I never do stand up. I just want to be
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  Speaker 4: Dan Romano the host and uh and I want the comedians.
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  Speaker 3: You want to be like the Johnny Carson that.
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  Speaker 4: I want the comedians to come and to bring the
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  Speaker 4: best that they got and enjoy the show. That's their job.
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  Speaker 4: My job is to advertise it. My job is to
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  Speaker 4: fill up the place. Their job is to come and
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  Speaker 4: bring the comedy. So I don't want to ever take
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  Speaker 4: away from their job. I don't call myself a comedian.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to call myself a comedian. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: a comedian. I'm just me.
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  Speaker 3: What would be your what would be like your dream
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  Speaker 3: person to have on the show when you're when you're ready,
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  Speaker 3: when you when you start doing your show again, you
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  Speaker 3: now me, now.
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  Speaker 4: You know I'm already there were a lot of people.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I've had. I mean, I've had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people I've I've had. I mean, I would love
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  Speaker 4: to do the Mayo again because he's getting so much.
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  Speaker 4: But I've had him on the show. I've had Michelle
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  Speaker 4: on the show. And Michelle I worked with in the
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  Speaker 4: movie The Streets. She actually did an amazing I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if you ever saw Michelle acting, but she is
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  Speaker 4: one of them, and she did. She did a movie
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  Speaker 4: herself too. Yeah, I forgot. I'm embarrassed, but I was.
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  Speaker 4: It's not on my brain, but she did The Streets movie.
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  Speaker 4: She did a phenomenal job. She played her mother who
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  Speaker 4: was concerned about the daughter and she was in charge.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, she did an amazing job. She's one hell
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  Speaker 4: of an actress. Beyond what she does on the on
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  Speaker 4: the sets, but she she brings a lot of talent
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  Speaker 4: to the screen. She's a talented she's well lit. She's
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  Speaker 4: a well live young lady.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she definitely is. And Willie we hope that graves crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I know, great Grays and William you know I love it. Well,
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  Speaker 4: let me tell you a quick story about William. William
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  Speaker 4: knew I was in the restaurant business, working eighty ninety
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  Speaker 4: hours a week. William gave me a call one day.
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  Speaker 4: He says, Danny, you come up with me. So where
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  Speaker 4: we're going. So we're gonna go to John Gotties Junior's fights.
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  Speaker 4: These doing the m M A fight. I got front
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  Speaker 4: road tickets. You don't expect that from a guy. You don't.
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  Speaker 4: You don't expect that. That lifeline out of nowhere. But
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  Speaker 4: let me tell you something. The man is inviting me
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  Speaker 4: in the house. The man is a gentleman. The man
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  Speaker 4: is h he's God gift, he's a God sent man,
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  Speaker 4: and he's a beautiful guy. And he and he talked
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  Speaker 4: to me for a couple of hours. I talked to
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  Speaker 4: his beautiful son. Was just with the son. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: just with the son at the at the Pizza Bowl,
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  Speaker 4: which was great. Seeing Chris Well. I had the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I had a two hour ride with Chris and I
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  Speaker 4: would sit with him the whole time because they were
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  Speaker 4: yapping about the fight and we didn't I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: that about the fight. I'm not I'm not into that.
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  Speaker 4: But I was talking with him and he's got one
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  Speaker 4: of the most incredible minds you can ever get in.
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  Speaker 3: From this time. Yes, definitely not. I mean that's he's
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  Speaker 3: definitely not a gen z or.
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  Speaker 4: Can I can I talk about New York City pizza
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  Speaker 4: joints really quick?
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  Speaker 3: I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: Next year they're doing a contest in Jersey, the same
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  Speaker 4: place where this six best pizzerias in Jersey are gonna
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  Speaker 4: go up against the six best pizzerias from all over
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  Speaker 4: New York. And and I get the honor of picking
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  Speaker 4: who is going to represent the Bronx.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I love that.
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  Speaker 4: So I got every pizzeria calling me, Dan, you gotta
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  Speaker 4: come taste this, Danny, you gotta come. And it's it's overwhelming.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what what what guy match has put together?
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  Speaker 4: And for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, beautiful thing. And
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  Speaker 4: you were a big part of that. You were a
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  Speaker 4: big part that people gave because you were there.
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  Speaker 3: They were a big part of the station here too.
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  Speaker 4: I love it. I love it, I love I love them,
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  Speaker 4: I love the group. I love the young lady who's
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  Speaker 4: in charge of I got the name, I got the pictures,
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  Speaker 4: but you know me, I forget everybody's name. I was
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  Speaker 4: nine years old.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anybody. It doesn't know anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Well, usually they know me. I don't know. It's easier.
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  Speaker 4: It's easier when they know you. I put, I put,
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  Speaker 4: I'll put the picture on my Facebook and I'll wait
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  Speaker 4: for them to reply. So I know the way.
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  Speaker 3: That's me.
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  Speaker 4: You have what I have to learn. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm still were how old do I look?
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  Speaker 3: Well? You know nobody. You can't tell anybody's agent anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Fifty four. Okay, so I'm an old man.
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  Speaker 3: Your ex a like me. I'm just saying you, there's
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  Speaker 3: no excuse you not to know how to use a phone.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what the hell they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: And they need to learn. But generation access there's no business.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not. You have to learn. You better start tagging.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna try. I'm gonna truy.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta be, I'll teacher, I'll be. I have to learn,
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  Speaker 3: and I have to know you.
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  Speaker 4: I would absolutely be honest. By the way. Audie push
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  Speaker 4: Wall says, Hello, my boy, he gave me a call.
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  Speaker 4: He wished me luck on it before I came on, which, which, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love audio.
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  Speaker 3: We had so much fun at that. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Gambino was there, his beautiful girlfriend Gina.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, sweet, but I have a birthday party for Joe
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  Speaker 3: my oh my god. It wasn't really It started out
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  Speaker 3: with five people.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're not You're gonna get under it by
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  Speaker 4: the end.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then the day before they were like,
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  Speaker 3: can we invite this one? On that one? I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, you know, I was like, I would have
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  Speaker 3: invited more people.
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  Speaker 4: How are you gonna do that? Yeah? It's and he
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  Speaker 4: knows so many? Then you then you'll be getting instead
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  Speaker 4: of ten people, you get two thousands or what are
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  Speaker 4: you gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: But we had, we had We wished him happy birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Lewis was their birthday. So you know michaelis he's
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  Speaker 3: an act Yeah, I know, I know, but he's yeah,
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  Speaker 3: good people.
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  Speaker 4: Me and Joe Gambino, all right, we're in a we're
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  Speaker 4: in a movie together. But he plays I play one
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  Speaker 4: of the mobsters in another movie, The Saints Code, but
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  Speaker 4: he plays something totally different. But I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: reveal it until he does it. But he is. He's
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  Speaker 4: got a remarkable voice, very very well dressed man, well
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  Speaker 4: talented man. And and I and I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we did. We did a show with him. I did
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  Speaker 4: a show with him and the Bronx And this is
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  Speaker 4: the first time I believe we welcomed Joe Gambino to
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  Speaker 4: the Bronx. One hundred people showed up. Everybody love the great,
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  Speaker 4: great atmosphere, came around, shook hands. You know, he's being Joe,
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  Speaker 4: being big Joe. And you gotta you gotta love people
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: like that because people that give back to the community,
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: people they want to help, and they know, those are
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: the kind of people you want, like you you want
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: to associate with a good, good circle of people. Ever
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: since I started getting out, getting back into the acting world,
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: I started looking at life a little bit different, and
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: I started making my circle a little bit smaller.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: And when you make it, they are Yeah, that's the truth.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: One thing I love, Oh yeah, well, the one thing
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: I learned is so much jealousy in this business. I
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: get phone calls, Danny, you didn't deserve to win, all right,
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: take the ward back, he says, you want to take
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: it back? What do you want me to do? Like,
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: you know, I don't know the answer to these people.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: You know, it's so funny. I was watching something that
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: was What's her name from Shock Tank. Who's the blonde
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: that does all the the pvs.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, no, no, not the young one I'm
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: talking about.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: She's sad. This is how you know if somebody is
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: your friends are not not now if they come and
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: help you with in the bad times, it's if they
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: come in the good times and they're there for you.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Because if they come and support you when something is
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: good is happening to you, that's just that's the truth.
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  Speaker 3: That's a true friend.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: That is the true things.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: No, because when they when they when they're Laurie right,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: her name is Laurie. Okay, thank you Laurie. The girl's
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: name is she said, because the bad times they could
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: stand over you and feel better that something bad is
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: happening to you, and they make them feel they feel better.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: But the good times, if they're not around, that means
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: they're not supporting you, and that makes a lot of sense.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: They're like, you know, you know when somebody tell somebody
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: somebody is something good has happening. By the way, this
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: is happening, uh whatever, it is like I got a
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: part to a show and they're like, that's nice. That's like,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: you know, we want them to say Oh my god,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: that's great. I'm so happy I'm there for you. That's
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: a that's the true, true people. That's the true people.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Now I want to thank the people that were so
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: happy that I were coming on this show. And there
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: were a lot there were a lot of people they're like,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: oh my god, she's beautiful, she's amazing. I'm like, I know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: I know, I met every time I see you on
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: a show, every time I see you at an event,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: You're always smiling, You're always pleasant. You always got that,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: you know. Especially I don't know if I'm allowed to
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: say what kind of singer you are, but you're very
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: great thing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: But I know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: To go on the microphone, you gotta look we do
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: on the microphone right now. We do where we're born.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: For this, you have to. But I do get a
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: lot of good feedback with the show. I'm happy. I'm
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: happy that people watch it. So it's it's it's nice
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: to get that, you know, those accolades. People say that
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: to you, Well.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Have you done? Have you done anything else besides GRAYSND.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I did a show with Steve stanielis great kills. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: know I'm that and I'm going to be in the
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: next season. I was a season two that's beautiful, that's
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: out on Prime. I mean I do. I've been doing
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: a lot of reality that that I do. But now
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I want to do I want to really act like
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: that's what that's I love it, that's what I want.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I want to do. So now I have a manager.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Now you know what I think. I have a movie
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: called Penance. Maybe I get you in it. Oh please,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I have a movie that's all. See this is the problem.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I have a movie that's written and and you know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: it was half by me and half by a friend
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: of mine, and somebody wants to buy it. I want
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to bring it to life. I don't want to sell.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I can make an extra thirty forty grand, but I
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: don't want it. I want to. I want to bring
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: it to life myself. It's hard, I know, believe me.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Willy goes through. Look what Willy does. Willi's back the
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: director produce.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: That Willly Willly? WILLI listen. I was there. I was
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: there in the beginning when WILLI was scared or hesitant,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I sat down. I was I had the the when
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: he was selling the BB You're you familiar with the
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: BB brand? Yeah, and I had. I had a restaurant
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: where we were selling the BB brand for him, so
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I came up with this idea. We're in the middle
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: of seven restaurants or seven bars that the kids always
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: forget to wear a certain shirt so they can't get
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: in the bar. So I used to put them in
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the in the window. If you can't get into a bar,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: buy a BB brand shirt. We show twenty thirty shirts
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: a week because you know these kids. Day they they
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: come out with something they can't wear, they can't get in,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: so what are they doing? But when William was selling
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: the BB brand, I'm so proud that he decided to
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: go forth because I think I believe it was during
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: COVID nineteen when all the starters, when all the started happening,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: and but I'm very proud that he went. I said,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: will you got one shot? Take it?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Hold onto it? So you take it, You roll the dice,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: you got, you got, you got the storyline, you got.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: The mafia thinks.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: It even if it doesn't play the hand. And that's
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: why I.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Give I give credit to anybody, even if they put
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: crap out there. Just to put it out and give
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: it the shot you got to give you got you
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: got to give them the deuce, you know it. Miss
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: that's what one person's garbage is another person's u value.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: So you don't know, you don't know who you put.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: It in, never know, and you don't know what the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: people are gonna like. You never know, like you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: it's just it's just a hit or a messlee.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, well that's what it is. And you know what,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: now there's ten billions much, there's ten billion people out there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: You don't need the right people to watch you now,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: you just need you can have a million of the
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: wrong people to watch you. And those exactly Irish celebrity.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It's not like years ago when there was five three channels,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: one shot everybody got everybody. People are not watching one
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: shot exactly. That's like the honeymoon is age.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: That's what happened. That's that was the beautiful thing about
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: COVID nineteen, COVID nineteen. The only blessing I seen out
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: of COVID nineteen was all the people, all these independent actors.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: They had a chance to strive, they had a chance
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: to actually be seen, because you can't the other ones
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: ain't gonna work for no money, you know. But me,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I'll work for two or three hundred dollars a day
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: to put it on, you know, and be part of
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: a movie and make somebody else's dream come true. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: would love to do that. And that's why you got
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: all these independ thing guys. Now they're blowing up because
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: everybody else is sleeping, and what are we going to watch?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I think Hollywood is dead at this point.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I think it'll wake up, but I.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Think it's going to be more. It's all wrong, the.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Gold and stuff about people eating kids and all this
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: garbage that they talk about it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just I think it's just it's
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: just lived its lifespan, you know what I'm saying. Now,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Now there's so many streaming channels, people could do stuff
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: on their phone. I mean, they don't have to have
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: these big Hollywood productions with the money people are spending,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: and these like elite actors and all this other stuff.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: You know. It's just I think I think that the
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: times and the tastes have changed.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: I think putting all these big actors, these ten million
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: dollar actors in low budget films is the wrong thing.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: To do. I really think it's because what are you
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: dependent on your own or you dependent on the name.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: So yeah, but you know what the problem is is
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: that in the beginning, if you want to get something
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: out there, sometimes you need that to get it pushed out.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: This gets to look at it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: I could see what I get. Yeah, I mean I
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: worked with Eric Roberts. I think Eric Robbers is one
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: of the I love Eric. Oh my god.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I worked with him on Great Hills.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love Warwick. I hung out with him in
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Atlantic City. I worked with him in what was it mob?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: One of those mob things. I forget.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I was there with Catherine Oh yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got. I forgot her name, the really really
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: pretty one, uh Meme Medle. I was a driver. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: had to go pick her up. I had to go
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: pick her up. She I think she's Engraves and I
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: just forgot. She's really gorgeous.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: She was in the Sopranos too, I know.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got the names.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I can't think of her name right now.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: So she's like, good Dan, I'm like, yeah, yeah, as
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: long as she remember me, I'm bear with names.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: She's like, oh, you're driving me. I'm like yeah, yes,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I come on, let's go in the car.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: She's she's a she's a good actress.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, she's very beautiful, very stunny.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Young.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: I remembers stuff. I got her name, but it is Look,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I was nine before I learned.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Mah, so you're admitted that to people.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Oh it's a joke. I'm just joking with you.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: So tell everybody where they can find you on social
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: media if you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Want to do me a favorite. Everybody joined New York City,
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• 23:27
  Speaker 4: and you can find me Daniel Romano on Facebook Dan
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  Speaker 4: Romano sixty nine, sixty eight was taken Dan Romandel sixty
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  Speaker 4: nine on Instagram. And I don't know my TikTok thing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: That's okay, but yeah, I'm easy to find at least,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: and you can see me right here on kats and
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: putting cats to put it with with the beautiful Jennifer
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  Speaker 4: over here, I have.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: To I don't even have to introduce myself. I got
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: you introduced.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, thank you. I am so honored to
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: be here. What a great studio, beautiful place, beautiful workers.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: You gotta be going on. I'm very very honest to
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: me and I love I love this. You should have
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: a picture of me in this somewhere, you know, maybe
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: with with with with the things off, I.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Will table that we're gonna talk to I'll talk to
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: my producers.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: I love that. I love that. I am very honest.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Well, Dan, I'm so happy to have you on the
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: show today. You did great. This is glad and I
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: have to have you back to you about what's happening.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: And I want to help you with the pizza.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I will if you want, I could talk to Guy.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Maybe I can make you my partner. Whill we go
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: around doing the interview.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I'll visible video, I would ill pig youre right now,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: let's do it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Let's do it. Well, all right, you heard that we're
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: gonna do the pizza.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I would be honest. I would be honest.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Cool guy, right now, when you get off, I get
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: him on.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I'll get him on the phone. I'll say, Guy, go now.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Next time, if I'm allowed, I'll bring him with me.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, I love to have guy.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: He's great guy guys, one of the hardest working people
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: out there. And he put me under his wing. Goes, Danny,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you're with me, You're with me. I'm like, I didn't
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: expect all day. But he knew I was going through
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: a hard time, losing the two parents in one month,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: you know, getting back on life. It's not the easiest
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: thing in the world. But those are the people you
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: see there. You got the guy was a lifeline. Paul
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Prince was a lifeline. There's a lot of great people.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you know Johnny, you know Paul, Yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: you know Johnny? So that those are my boys. I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: supposed to be with them tonight. Actually the podcast is
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: going to be a might be with soho Johnny? Oh nice,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I want to do it here. I'll join one of you.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Joke.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I probably couldn't afford it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: This is what I am. You could could talk to
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: one of them.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, I love it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Well, it was great to have you on the show.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: So happy to be here.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And everybody digs for tuning into the show and we'll
• 25:42
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  Speaker 3: to YouTube, Apple and spotisfy. You better, I will come
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: and get you. I'm gonna send Dan after you.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Oh you don't want to. I'll bring Joe Gambino with
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: me in the trunk.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Have a good time.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Goblish.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: That was good.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: You're beautiful.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you.