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Mark interviews Sal Scognamillo from Patsy’s Italian Restaurant in New York City. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: He's more marks.
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  Speaker 2: So Mark Simone show on seven ten wo.
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  Speaker 1: Or well, you know, Patsy is the landmark restaurant fifty
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  Speaker 1: sixth Street between Broadway and Eighth It was Frank Sinatra's
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  Speaker 1: favorite restaurant. And there's a lot to talk about with
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra. It's that time of year, not Christmas. It's
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra's birthday this week and with us right now, the
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  Speaker 1: owner of Patsy sal Skygnamillo Sal How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Good morning, Mark, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You too. Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant. Where do we even start?
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  Speaker 1: Tell us Frank Sinatra's favorite meal? What like? If you
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  Speaker 1: went to Patsy's and said to you make me Sinatra's
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  Speaker 1: favorite meal, what would you make?
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  Speaker 2: He liked it the auditok reaganot appetizers and then he'd
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  Speaker 2: have some kind of short pasti the pen of Rigatonio
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  Speaker 2: Sperali with the tomato basil sauce which is onions, no garlic.
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  Speaker 2: If I made a galic sauce for him, sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: have the clams the garlic sauce. It would be the
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  Speaker 2: whole garlic. We brace it in the olive oil and
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  Speaker 2: take it out. You see, you had the flavor and
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  Speaker 2: then the edge of tomatoes and clams and white wine
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  Speaker 2: and all the spices, and he loved it. From the
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  Speaker 2: main course, the veal and chicken milonnaise, it's his scillapini beat,
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  Speaker 2: very fawns, flours, sea egg and seasoned bread from fried pills,
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  Speaker 2: Chris a lit will rouble, a tomato salad and most
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  Speaker 2: importantly red wine vinegar nobalsmic Fan.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a very good meal. But if you go
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  Speaker 1: to Patti look at the menu, there's probably twenty five
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  Speaker 1: better things to order there.
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  Speaker 2: What that's just well, my favorite I like, I like
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  Speaker 2: pasta with cheese, So my favorite is rigatoni so andino
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  Speaker 2: with the tomato basil. Regard to Milton Mola, Palmachan, all
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  Speaker 2: the Palmegan's and Gueeny with the clam sauce. Popular h
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  Speaker 2: anything with fish, locks, the fry, the owl, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's spectacular, makes a great dish, and you know, just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great Southern Italian classics. The heart of
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  Speaker 2: the menu the same. Only three chefs all these years
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  Speaker 2: was my grandfather, squal Patsy Scott, the Millow, my dad
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  Speaker 2: and my else. It's over eighty one years now and
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  Speaker 2: this Friday would have been Frank one hundred and tenth
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  Speaker 2: birthday and we always celebrate his birthday at a restaurant
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  Speaker 2: with a beautiful muncheon. From our twelfth to three, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be halted by Adriana Trigiani. She's a very
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  Speaker 2: famous author. She's written I think twenty seven books. Our
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  Speaker 2: latest book was A View from Lake Cuomo, which we
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  Speaker 2: actually had the book signing and our restaurant. It was
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  Speaker 2: just sold out, so much sold out. We added a
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  Speaker 2: second event and so popular, great stuff. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: have some video tributes also. We are not in person,
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  Speaker 2: but video tributes. We have Michael Biblay and Robert Dobby,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Longame son David Beautiful because they loved the play too,
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  Speaker 2: and Gene Kelly's wife Patricia Kelly beautiful stuff. And the latest,
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  Speaker 2: the real surprise guest we just added is Frank Sinatra's granddaughter, A. J.
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  Speaker 2: Lambert is going to be there and it's just so exciting.
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  Speaker 2: She's such a such a sweet woman. That's Nancy's daughter
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna be so happy. We've got Steve Maglio
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  Speaker 2: who performs at the Carnegie Club. The Sinatra tributes all
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's this. Friday is Sinatra's birthday, the.
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  Speaker 2: Twelfth, so you can Friday is the birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Can people go to this Sinatra luncheon?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we have about five seats left. They can call
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  Speaker 2: the restaurant two one two two four seven three four
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  Speaker 2: nine one two one two two four seven three four
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  Speaker 2: nine one includes all this great entertainment and of course, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Frank's favorite meal as between on some things we've talked about,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to be a great time. We always, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we always love remembering him.
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  Speaker 1: Hony people, how much is it to go to this
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra Luncheon?
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  Speaker 2: It's a one ninety five plus taxi.
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  Speaker 1: Tip one ye, yes, well that includes music and the
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  Speaker 1: food and the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Music, everything, the whole nine yards and it's uh, it
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  Speaker 2: always sells act this this year. We just had a
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  Speaker 2: few few seats left. It's always so much fun and
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  Speaker 2: everybody enjoys. It's just a wonderful remembrance of such a
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  Speaker 2: spectacular man. And I know how much you loved him
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  Speaker 2: and how much you know about him. You're definitely an
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  Speaker 2: encyclopedia when it comes to Frank Sinatra. But you just
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  Speaker 2: take a look at the wall of all the photos
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  Speaker 2: we have, and almost everyone could be traced back to
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  Speaker 2: Frank Sinatra, like he brought in Jackie Gleeson, who brought
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  Speaker 2: in the Rosemary Coon, who brought in George Corney, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And Jerry Stilla was very close friends with Nancy Sinatra,
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  Speaker 2: and of course they brought their son, Ben Stola. He
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  Speaker 2: wrote the phot Nancy and the Sinatra wrote the forward
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  Speaker 2: to my first cookbook, and Ben Stilla wrote the forward
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  Speaker 2: to my second cookbook. And we sell, you know, during
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  Speaker 2: the holidays, we sell a lot of that as a gift.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know what to get anyone, we have
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  Speaker 2: apasta sauces, mariinada, frodiallo, tomato basil and vodka sauce. You
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  Speaker 2: can get the cookbooks, and we have a little gift
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  Speaker 2: box at some pasta and coffee. If you don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to get anyone, you go to our website which
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  Speaker 2: is Patchies without the apostrophe p A T s y
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  Speaker 2: s dot com. And you said it's all only location
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  Speaker 2: where between Ast and Broadway by Connegie Hall and no great.
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  Speaker 1: When you go to Patsy's, do not rush right into
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant when you walk through the door, stop and
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  Speaker 1: look at the pictures on the wall. These are all
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  Speaker 1: the customers through the years, all famous, famous faces. Look
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  Speaker 1: at all the pictures and look carefully the end of
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  Speaker 1: the bar. There's a beautiful statue of Frank Sinatra there.
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  Speaker 2: So that one we got. It was commissioned by Tina Sinatra.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's only a nine hundred limited edition. We
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  Speaker 2: have that for many, many years. And then on the
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  Speaker 2: upstairs we have a smaller statue of Frank Dean and
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  Speaker 2: Sammy the rat Pack. A great, great remembrance. Is great fun.
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  Speaker 2: We're is so lucky because even like last week, my
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  Speaker 2: wife is a big country music fan. And Kenny Chesney
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  Speaker 2: came in and he said the first time he came
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  Speaker 2: here was seeming like thirty years ago because he heard
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  Speaker 2: it was Frank Sinatra's favorite place. So you can't ask
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  Speaker 2: for a better pr guy than that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, let me ask you an important question.
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  Speaker 1: Let's Sinatra would always pick up the check. Let's there
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  Speaker 1: was a whole bunch of people to check was a
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars? What would Sinatra tip on that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? He was easily thirty thirty five percent without And
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  Speaker 2: that's not including the hundreds he threw out everybody when
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars was a lot of money. Yes, he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was so generous. I mean, he just was in
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  Speaker 2: every way, I mean, with his philanthropy, with his help,
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  Speaker 2: and the most important point, and I know you know
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  Speaker 2: this Mark was he wanted to be anonymous. He just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do it because he wanted to do it,
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  Speaker 2: not to get his name in the paper. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: that's just such a wonderful quality. The man was so
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  Speaker 2: ahead of his time, even with civil rights. Thought you,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to tell you all those stories.
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  Speaker 1: Now when he was in the restaurants, Big Tipper ended
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  Speaker 1: out hundreds and that was like thousands back then. Also,
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  Speaker 1: how many times would he pick up the check for
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  Speaker 1: other tables?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so many times. There's so many times. The most
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  Speaker 2: famous one I think I probably told you New York
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  Speaker 2: Yankees were in they won the World Series. He they
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  Speaker 2: introduced to each other and at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: night Sinatra left and Billie Martin was manager back then.
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  Speaker 2: He says, all right, now that Frank left, we can leave.
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  Speaker 2: He says, give me the check. He says, too late,
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  Speaker 2: Frank paid for you for.
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  Speaker 1: The whole team, the entire Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: There was one time, Mark, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: told you this story. One time when he said to
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  Speaker 2: my father, he says, me and Barbara and another couple
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  Speaker 2: were coming in. It's okay for the other man to
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  Speaker 2: pay the check. And Ty came to pay the check.
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  Speaker 2: He gave him his gold American Express card. It was denied.
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  Speaker 2: It wind up that that was the president of American
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  Speaker 2: Express and his goal call is denied. He thought Sinatra
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  Speaker 2: was playing a practical joke on him.
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  Speaker 1: And he was I don't know how he pulled that off,
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  Speaker 1: but that was Jim Robinson, right, the chairman of America Express.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow Sinatra got his card to be denied.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were friends. They lived close together on pom Springs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was so. I was the one time because he
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  Speaker 2: said I don't want I don't want to owe anyone anything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, because when he was down and out, nobody
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  Speaker 2: wanted to talk to him. When he came back, he says,
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  Speaker 2: now I don't want nothing from nobody. So God bless him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you want to celebrate Sinatra, this Friday is
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  Speaker 1: the birthday Frank Sinatra. It's December twelfth and they've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this every year for a million years, the Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: Birthday party, and it's at Patsies. They'll be live music,
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  Speaker 1: singing and some well known people there. And so what
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  Speaker 1: now what do people do? If they want to come,
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  Speaker 1: you make a reservation.
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  Speaker 2: Please please give us a call at the restaurant. It's
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  Speaker 2: two and two two four seven three four nine one
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  Speaker 2: two one two two four seven three four nine one
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  Speaker 2: and so the products and everything else. You go to
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  Speaker 2: the website it's Patsies dot com, p A T. S
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  Speaker 2: y s No apostrophe dot com. And it's it's always
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  Speaker 2: such fun, it's it's such a great event. I know
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  Speaker 2: w O has been there many times. Yeah, you've been
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  Speaker 2: there too as well.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you follow Patsy's on Patsy's Italian Restaurant on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Very good pictures, all sorts of stuff there. We only
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  Speaker 1: got a few seconds left. Sinatra always brought a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people to dinner. What's the biggest unto rush you
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  Speaker 1: ever came in with?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he was there when he when he did for
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  Speaker 2: the seventy fifth birthday of James. He took over the
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  Speaker 2: whole upstairs and it was probably probably about eighty or
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  Speaker 2: eighty five people came time to sing Happy Birthday to
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  Speaker 2: James Cagney. Dean Martin was singing, Sammy Davis was doing
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  Speaker 2: a soft shoe, and Sinatra was just about to join
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  Speaker 2: him to sing Happy Birthday to James Cagney. My father
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  Speaker 2: said wait, wait, Frank, you can't do this, and Frank
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  Speaker 2: Sinatra got mad. What can I do? My father said,
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  Speaker 2: I can't afford this kind of entertainment here.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to see and again, when you
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  Speaker 1: walk into Patsy's, don't rush in, stop us through. You
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  Speaker 1: come through the door and look at the pictures on
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  Speaker 1: the wall. They're amazing of all the celebrities were there,
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  Speaker 1: and he's called Patsy's. Follow him on Instagram Patsy's Italian
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  Speaker 1: Restaurant sal great stuff. Thanks for being with.
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  Speaker 2: Us, always a pleasure. God bless you happy and healthy
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  Speaker 2: to you and your family.
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