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Mario Capparelli - The San Gennaro Feast Experience with Kathrine Narducci · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 2: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, welcome to our special episode of Kats and
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, reer, we already had a cat.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a special edition at the San Gennaro
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  Speaker 3: Feast and we have a special guess who is is it?
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  Speaker 1: The Graham Marshall.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a broad directory director, Grandma she was the Grandmashal
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 1: He's an idiot.
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  Speaker 4: Mario is the Barter Directors. First of all, we're at
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  Speaker 4: live at Look at these people out here. Hi, we
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  Speaker 4: got some people outside do you hear us? Do you
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  Speaker 4: hear us out there? I don't think they hear us anyway.
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  Speaker 4: We're on Mulberry and Brand at Red Sauce Studios.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you studio, Bye.
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  Speaker 4: Sabino and John Viola. We have wonderful mario here. You're
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  Speaker 4: gonna explain to us who you were affiliated with the feast,
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  Speaker 4: give us a rundown on the feast, a little history
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  Speaker 4: on the feast, and what your input is with this feast.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, no, proud gody, as you know, this young lady
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  Speaker 2: was our grand Marshal last year on ninety seventh annual parade,
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  Speaker 2: and this year is our ninety eight. I'm my great
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  Speaker 2: grandfather was the one of the founding fathers. In nineteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. Wow, they decided to have a block party.
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  Speaker 2: They came from Naples and a couple of business owners
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  Speaker 2: decided to have.
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  Speaker 1: A block party.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they picked a patron state of Naples was
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  Speaker 2: the son Gronao, who was a bishop who got beheaded
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Three hundred and fifty eight d I guess it was.
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  Speaker 2: And they tried to kill him twice, they couldn't kill him,
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  Speaker 2: and then they finally beheaded out. Yeah, it's like a,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't kill him. And that's the way the Italians
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  Speaker 2: were good. We's lest forever. And I grew up in
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  Speaker 2: this neighborhood. And like I said, my great grandfather started
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  Speaker 2: to fea salvatorresp bosiito with his business friend and now
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  Speaker 2: then relative, Luigi Vitally, and they started this feast.
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  Speaker 1: They started a block party.
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  Speaker 2: They lit up the fire escapes with lights like Christmas lights,
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  Speaker 2: and they would bring out food from their houses and
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  Speaker 2: everybody would share it.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, wow, this is a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: And ninety eight years later we only missed two years
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  Speaker 2: obviously nine to eleven and COVID twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: And I grew up right down the block here.
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  Speaker 2: I during the feast, they have the princesses and the
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  Speaker 2: queens on the floor. As a seven or eight year old,
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  Speaker 2: I would dress up like g I Joe and protect
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  Speaker 2: the princesses and I have princes Evan.
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  Speaker 1: I'll send it to you guys later on see that.
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  Speaker 2: And then later on, as I got older, I carried
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  Speaker 2: the flags, the Italian flag, the banner.
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  Speaker 1: Studying go very much into tradition. Tradition is my old
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  Speaker 1: school culture, family tradition. That's impotant.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that as holding the tradition of the culture,
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  Speaker 4: the feast, the whole nine yards.
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  Speaker 2: Just tradition, tradition. The members now we are all volunteer members.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them have relatives, cousins, best friends from kindergarten up.
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  Speaker 2: We're nineteen of us that put this feast together, all volunteers,
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  Speaker 2: all total. Note nobody gets paid, nobody gets We work hard.
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  Speaker 2: It takes us twelve months. We'll finish this feast on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday and by October we'll start preparing for the next show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and we are also putting together a committee for the
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  Speaker 2: one hundred anniversary where we're going to try to really
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  Speaker 2: blow it up and have it a.
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  Speaker 1: Coming back without that.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to what our plan is and don't tell nobody,
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  Speaker 2: but our brand is to get all our grand Marshall's back,
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  Speaker 2: such as Kathy, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Shirrippa, I'm on ASANTI and on and on and Honorary
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  Speaker 1: Graham Marshall. Just because we'll bring it up at the meeting. Well, Sue,
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  Speaker 1: where could do?
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  Speaker 2: Ad Burrell was our Grand Marshall this year. She was fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I grew up in this neighborhood. I
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  Speaker 2: married a neighborhood girl, my wife Joyce, forty two years.
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  Speaker 2: I have three children who my oldest son is Christopher
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  Speaker 2: and his wife and so SHEI have two grandchildren out
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  Speaker 2: there of Vallamere and Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: They live in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: My middle daughter is married now with her husband Will
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  Speaker 2: and she's has a thirteenth fifteen month old and she's
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  Speaker 2: pregnant again. And then my baby's thirty and he had
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  Speaker 2: a baby and he's married to Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: And my grandson are j I love him. I love
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  Speaker 1: them all in their family.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully I could get my sons to come back and
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  Speaker 2: be members at some point and my grandsons. You know,
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  Speaker 2: but family is everything, and this is my family, my tradition.
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  Speaker 2: I remember growing up watching the stands go up at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of September school starting, and then such a
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  Speaker 2: great failure.
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  Speaker 4: I had the montcarmofet.
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  Speaker 1: So when you saw them start to put.
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  Speaker 4: The lights up, as a kid, you lose your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You lose your mind.
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  Speaker 2: But then the sad part is that Sunday night when
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  Speaker 2: they're breaking on the stands.
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  Speaker 1: You know that school is in. We're done. Next thing
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  Speaker 1: we could look forward to his Thanksgiving. Probably I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 4: What I missed that you'll remember. You might remember in
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  Speaker 4: Montcalmofe said, I know they sold them here, the dolls
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  Speaker 4: on the stick that the Italians would put on the bed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and you know who, my cousin, Frankie Capello's brother, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: he would make those.
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  Speaker 1: He would sell them in the feast. He would have
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  Speaker 1: two or three stands in the feast, and he would
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  Speaker 1: sell those. And and you put them on your bed.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, my wife had one for her wedding. He
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  Speaker 1: made one for her wedding. We had it on the bed.
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  Speaker 1: We took pictures in her mom's bedroom. Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you remember John I passed many years ago.
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  Speaker 2: So he had a novelty business. Yeah, no, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a beautiful against some traditions. I mean this
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  Speaker 2: stand here, Vinie Peanuts, which they renamed the corner after
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  Speaker 2: this cousin of mine.
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  Speaker 1: He's married into the family and they've been here for
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  Speaker 1: just as long as the feast I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the torone and the nuts and uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know the staples in the name. But obviously baby John's
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  Speaker 2: got the cafe. He's uh, he's been here forever.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be here forever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean my first dollar in the feast with him
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  Speaker 2: stuff and Gonoli's coming from La Salle Academy, my high
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  Speaker 2: school and running here.
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  Speaker 1: I went to La Salle Academy and we used to
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  Speaker 1: walk there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I lived here once twenty six Mobiley Street
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  Speaker 2: until until I get married. I got married a young
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  Speaker 2: age twenty one, and I had my own vending business
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  Speaker 2: for thirty years with the Bureau of Prisons. I did vending,
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  Speaker 2: and now I work in the school and stand out
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  Speaker 2: at PS eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a para.
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  Speaker 2: I coach baseball. Uh, but my life keeps coming back
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  Speaker 2: here as a volunteer. You know, we need mobis.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this.
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  Speaker 2: My mother had dinner with the President of the United States,
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan, and into this restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: She was part of an organization called Leris. She was
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  Speaker 1: part of an organization called LERA, the literally.
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  Speaker 2: Restoration Association, and they kept the neighborhood strong so that
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  Speaker 2: we can have these feasts. The geographics of little Litley
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  Speaker 2: when we had Little Lira was canal to house.
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  Speaker 1: In the Bari to Broadway. Huge. Huge. Now it's it's
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  Speaker 1: canal straight up mover with the broom.
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  Speaker 2: Probably you have no leader, no hout, a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: different groupings within that.
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  Speaker 4: Besides demographically shrinking, how old has this feast changed?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the feasts has changed for me. I mean every
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  Speaker 1: stand I knew everybody.
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  Speaker 2: My aunt had a butcher especialis, but she would come
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  Speaker 2: out and cook a plant, parmajan meat, all this stuff
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  Speaker 2: straight out the frattas used to have sausage and peppers
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  Speaker 2: outs there.
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  Speaker 1: You had everybody that you knew. It was either a
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  Speaker 1: restaurant or person that lived in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: That was cook home, cook home.
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  Speaker 1: In the back of the butcher.
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  Speaker 2: They were cooking the equipment and it was top notch.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's these are vendors the people that would
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  Speaker 2: have except the loc sauceage. She's probably the only one
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  Speaker 2: left of the realm that we had back in the
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you can walk up and down the
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  Speaker 2: block and they're all great people, you know, ethically, all.
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  Speaker 1: Different ethic groups. And yeah, we love that absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But the difference, like you asked, was the difference is
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  Speaker 2: that there were people that literally had storefronts and they'd
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  Speaker 2: come out with their food and the city.
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  Speaker 3: That's how it started. Period I love that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's Do you feel that since it's Trump, do
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  Speaker 3: you feel that it's less Italians and there because there
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  Speaker 3: are less of times in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's probably there's every less as times the day.
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  Speaker 2: But my mom died in twenty twenty. She still lived
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  Speaker 2: at one twenty six more bars sheet and there.
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  Speaker 1: Are very few left here. I mean there's a handful.
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  Speaker 2: But we used to the doors were open, everybody running
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  Speaker 2: up and down the building on Sunday. You smell the
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  Speaker 2: sauce on everybody, so you know, it was you know, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, now it's a lot of uh, you know, street.
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  Speaker 1: People coming here. They can't afford to live here.
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  Speaker 2: Well you can't afford to live but literally no more
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  Speaker 2: because of the price of the rent and everything. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's changed. But you know what, it's sill a beautiful neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: People come from.
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  Speaker 1: Around the world to eat here, to come in this festival.
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  Speaker 1: We have people.
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  Speaker 2: I met people from Australia, I met people from China,
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  Speaker 2: I met people from all over the world that come
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  Speaker 2: here specifically for this feast. And that's an amazing thing
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  Speaker 2: and that makes me feel so good.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta tell you you should feel good because I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna tell you my best New York moment, my number
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  Speaker 4: one iconic New York, most joyful New York moment with
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  Speaker 4: my family on that float, I was the Grand Marshall.
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  Speaker 4: Mario and the committee asked me to be the Grand Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: I was so honored. You get on this float and
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  Speaker 4: you get on with they give you up to twenty
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  Speaker 4: six people, right, twenty something people. You go from what
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  Speaker 4: to what, you go up Houston. It's magical. You're looking
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  Speaker 4: down at the crowds, is so happy to be here,
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  Speaker 4: people from all over the world, with people from all
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  Speaker 4: over the world. I felt so proud to be Italian.
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  Speaker 4: I felt so proud I'm coming to this feast since
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  Speaker 4: I'm a baby. My mother, my grandparents came and I
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  Speaker 4: got to tell you, I want to be on that
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  Speaker 4: float every year because it's such a happy, beautiful New
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  Speaker 4: York iconic moment and and and I hope next year
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  Speaker 4: we can get Sebastian manaskawco.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad you really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no problem, you know, Sebastian.
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  Speaker 2: This year, Ambera was magnificent, but I was searching and
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  Speaker 2: I'm searching for that year.
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  Speaker 1: Sebastian would be a great way. We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: them all.
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  Speaker 2: You know he was he was born in the health's kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if you watch the podcast sly we watched
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  Speaker 2: it about that's about. Yeah, we got we got connections
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  Speaker 2: with Yeah, we gotta marry.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to say to you looking, I wish
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  Speaker 3: everybody could see what I'm staring at.
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  Speaker 4: You and they could turn it around.
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  Speaker 3: Can we say I would just I just want you
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  Speaker 3: to you should be proud of this that all people
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  Speaker 3: are here because of you and they and not direct.
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  Speaker 1: But my crew everybody. Yeah, we work hard. I mean
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  Speaker 1: some people do more than I still work.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm a teacher's assistant in PS eight
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  Speaker 2: second career and a couple of the members are retired,
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  Speaker 2: so they do put in a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: Time than I do.
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  Speaker 2: But at every meeting and whenever I can, when I'm
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  Speaker 2: from the summer, we come, we measure the spots, we
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  Speaker 2: do our spray painting.
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  Speaker 1: We meet with the applicants of the people coming in.
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  Speaker 1: You make it happen. We may get the center.
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  Speaker 2: Stage's going to be there, Ricky Tanelly here on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Come Saturday. We got a great group that go on that.
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  Speaker 1: Francis will be there as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, so don't miss out on the Grid and
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  Speaker 2: then Mott Street Bandstand seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday night, and I will be there to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately I won't. My daughter is getting married. She's having
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  Speaker 1: a Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: She has married my daughter and she's having a ceremony,
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  Speaker 2: and you so unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be here, but I'll be here in spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll get some text messages and some video
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  Speaker 2: send me some videos.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna come.
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  Speaker 1: Mary.
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  Speaker 4: We want to thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me get it.
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  Speaker 1: Dog.
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  Speaker 4: We love you and I love you.
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  Speaker 1: You're so wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for coming