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Pasquale Villano joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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Back Day Drinking with Dog. Merry Christmas, hope everyone. I had a
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good weekend last weekend. It's a little hectic. I kind of glad it's
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over, to be honest with you. So Pascual pasqual Vlano is my guest
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this afternoon, on this dreary, chilly, rainy Wednesday after Christmas, And
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quite honestly, he's blown me off quite a few times already, but this
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is I'm a three strikes you're out, so you only have two strikes,
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so you're good to go. Now, how you doing, buddy, I'm
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doing great. I know you got a lot on your plate. We're gonna
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get to in a little bit, but can we just jump right into this
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Tommy Cutlets fucking shit. I think this shit. This dude was turning down
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twenty thousand dollars, you know, well he would know. He didn't turn
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it down, but something happened with the agent and he tried to finagle his
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appearance at that pizza place in Jersey. So Tommy did it on his own,
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like, didn't get any money. He got Aaron Judged by Hi Dinner
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though Aaron Judge did buy him. Did I read that today? What if?
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And then like he was, I didn't watch it, but I saw
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it on TV? Was the Uh? They had this huge interview with him
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on Sunday before the games and he's sitting down with Pam Oliver and all this
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shit. And then by halftime like you will never see the probably start a
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game again and you're a big giant fan. Yeah, I heard you bet
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on the Giants too? On Uh? I did? Was that? Was
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that Christmas Day? It was Christmas Day? Right? I did? Yeah?
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How'd that go for you? You were so confident in Tommy Cutletz.
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I heard you took the money line I did? I did. I took
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it for two hundred dollars. Well whatever, that's not that much money.
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No, But then I heard her you had a little bounce back. I
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did have a bounce back after that. So my question to you is you
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bet large on the Ravens. Correct? Yeah, you were a little intoxicated,
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is what I was understanding? Also? Correct? Yes? And then
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see I didn't know this when you texted me to work for you on Tuesday
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night. So the reasoning, the reasoning why, yes, oh okay it
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was. I guess you were hungover severely. Okay. Now, when I
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went to work and saw Drew, he told me the story of your betting
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the night before. I said, no, this dude just got got rich
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quick and he wants to shift covered. Why can't you bet on your own?
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You got you got some criminal activity on your fandels, So I used
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to. I used to go to Jersey when it was legal in Jersey and
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not legal in Connecticut. Yep. So I had my IP address like set
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as in Jersey, so I was using it, and then once it became
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legal in Connecticut, I thought I could just just change it back to Connecticut's
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legal Connecticut Bank Connecticut. But I guess that's not how it works. And
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they were mad that I was a resident of Connecticut but using fandel for numerous
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years before it was in Connecticut. So fandol in DraftKings banned me for life.
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Wow. Yeah, I got an email and that was it. So
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now Drew is your I called him up just like a regal Italian book.
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Hey, I need this for this much and uh, hell, are you
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vending them the money? Oh yeah, ahead of time? Yeah yeah,
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because the sum of money you bet on that Baltimore game. I'm like,
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I don't I don't think. I don't know Jew's finances, but I'm sure
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he's not wanting to dish out that kind of money for your bet. I
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because I asked him. I go, We're you know, you didn't try
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to stop me at all. He goes, no, No, I didn't
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try to stop you. I just wanted to make sure you knew exactly what
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you were doing. That's what he told me. He asked you seven times.
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This is really what you want to do. Yeah, man, hey,
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Greg worked out great game. Do you remember any of it? Nope?
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Nope. Did you bet money line on that? Or you took the
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six and a half? No? I took the points. Yeah, that's
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two points. That was an easy bet. I I thought it was a
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showing. I mean, I didn't think it was gonna be six and a
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half points. But those six and a half points are weird though, you
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know, but I Baltimore is a great team, and you know, san
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Fran has shown, you know, a lot of weaknesses the entire year.
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Normally because someone is injured, right, but six and a half points against
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you know, the Ravens. I'll take that all day. Yeah, that
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wasn't too The games were okay. The Giant game was probably the best game
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of the day. Like, it was interesting. You know, I never
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thought I was out of it at any point of time. No. Uh,
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what was the final? They lose by like eight, lost by eight.
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Yeah, so you would have lost either way. Oh no, no,
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you would have won if you did two point. Well, what was
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the line in that game? The line was fourteen, Yeah, so you
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would have Why would you do money line on that because it paid thirteen hundred
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on a two hundred dollars bet. Yeah, they were plus six to fifty.
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What sucks, though, is Drews in control, so you can't see
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what the pay cashouts could be. I wouldn't have cash shout anyway. Non
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were when they got that pick six and got back into it, they were
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probably offering you some money. You don't care. I didn't care, your
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old school Italian. I wanted that thirteen hundred or nothing. I you know,
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I was on that hot streak for a little while. It cooled off
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some, but like this, this is Sunday and Monday, I missed Sunday,
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I missed out on a four teamer that would have paid thirteen by the
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fucking Jets blowing that lead and only winning by two. They had to win
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by three. So I hit out every other game, and then on Monday,
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I did what did I do? Like a fourteen four player parlay touchdowns
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and stuff, and I hit three of the four and it was I needed
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to rush you rise to score. But I was watching that game at one
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o'clock and then like Casey Eing went and shit, they fucking sucked this year.
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But anyway, so the real reason we got you on is you got
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a lot of a lot of ventures going on in your life. You are
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a food prepper that you started during COVID, right, and now you have
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bought anyone knows, Full Circle Pizza in West Haven, like on the backside
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of Randall's by the swamp they closed down, and you saw an opportunity.
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Yeah, so it's Papa does show that that logo there, nice Papa dos
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pizza. So when I asked you about it, I thought you were just
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buying the place to have your own kitchen to do your food prep stuff for
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the week, because I know you you were around the clock on the weekends
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getting that stuff ready, right, yep. Yeah, So explain a little
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bit how that all started, and we'll get into Papa does. Basically,
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you know, family's been in the restaurant business. I started the restaurant business,
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stuck with it for a long time, and then once COVID hit and
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the restaurants shut down, there was don't work for anyone and kind of like
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the world just stopped. But it didn't stop for a lot of other people
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like nurses, you know, barbers, you know, stuff like that.
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And these are people that were ordering take out delivery stuff like that. People
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that were coming to see me on a weekly basis to you know, get
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food, have drinks at the bar et cetera. So one day my barber
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reached out to me and he was like, hey, any chance you're you
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know, I know you're not working right now, so were you interested in
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you know, meal prepping for me and a few of the guys at the
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barbershop. It'll be like, you know, twenty thirty meals. He goes,
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you know, charges whatever you want. He's like, we don't have
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time to cook, you know, we're still going strong. So I started
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for him, and then he posted it on social media. I reposted it
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and just trickled from there. I mean, nurses started to reach out to
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me, other people that were trying to get into the fitness unlike us that
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were just drinking the entire time during COVID. I didn't get off my couch.
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Yeah, so you know, it just started to snowball from there and
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and it turned into what it is now. I mean, so how does
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what's the name of it? How do people? So it's are you taking
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new like like you're almost like a doctor, you're taking new clients. So
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right now we're kind of in like a transitional period because of the restaurant purchase
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of the restaurant, So right now we're just doing uh, phone orders or
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you know, if people reach out to me personally. Everything has been done
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off off word of mouth. And you know a lot of my clients will
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actually post my product and you know, tag me across multiple platforms because of
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how much they like, you know, believe in it, you know,
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rely on it. So I've I've gotten a lot of business off just good
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people, you know, helping me out and posting you know the stuff.
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What's the phone number it's two zero three nine seven four nine zero seven nine,
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and then my Instagram is squalv. Squ al v menu gets posted every
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single week, comes out on Tuesdays. They have till Saturday at noon order
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and then they get delivered right to their house. Job work whenever you want
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on Monday mornings. I was actually hoping something would have been delivered here today.
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I heard you make a mean blueberry pancake. Yeah, I said about
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twelve of them to camp be. Yeah. Right again, I get the
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short end of that stick. Unbelievable. I did bring your shirt, you
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did, yes, So let's get right into that Papa doze. Yeah.
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I love the idea of well, you know, we love pizza all that
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stuff, and I know you make a good one. You're going to be
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open late late yeah late. Yeah. When I say late, not ten
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o'clock late late yeah, like you're gonna hit those stoners, those college kids.
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Yep, I'll you know, I'll be calling you Thursday night after work.
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Yo. Yeah, bring one down, baby, Yeah, that's the
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goal. I mean we're trying to you know, I've never been shy of
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you know, work pretty much, so I mean, like now I'm I
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got the meal prep company. I have the restaurant that you know, I'm
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putting together, and then I'm at Stonebridge still, I'm at Loudall's, and
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I'm at my friend's place townhouse in Branford working Saturday lunch. So I'm doing
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a lot of stuff. Now, I got a really good team behind me.
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So why not be open for those hours in kind of corner of the
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market for you know, none of the places, all the pizza places that
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are closed Mondays, we're gonna be upening on Mondays. Uh close at nine
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o'clock, ten o'clock. You know, Are you're gonna be two am every
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night? We're not gonna be two am every night. We're probably gonna be
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two am. We're definitely gonna be two am Friday and Saturday, and then
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we're gonna we're gonna talk about Thursday. I think you could adjust around College
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is Thursday night actually is a huge college drinking Yeah, so you know,
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if the demand is there, then yeah, we're definitely gonna We're gonna stay
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open those hours. So are you gonna have a full menu like an Italian
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restaurant, not Italian restaurant, but like like a pizza place menu like grinders
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and yeah, so we're gonna have We're gonna have grinders. We're gonna be
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able for lunch too. Grinders, by the ways they correct. Yeah,
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yes, don't throw hog at me, No, hero, Hero, it's
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a it's a grinder. It's one hundred grinder. We're gonna be doing eight
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inch grinders. Uh, same thing as our pizza toppings is gonna be you
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know, you're gonna have your classics and then you're gonna have your not so
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classics. This is what I call them. And that's kind of like my
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take our take on stuff. So you're gonna have those grinders, you're gonna
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have. Uh, we're doing square pizza, so it's gonna be square,
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it's gonna be pan and then it's gonna be finished off on the deck oven.
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So we're gonna do a small personal pot and then we're gonna do a
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large pie. So it's gonna be like Papa Junior and a Papa Senior,
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So there's gonna be two different sizes. Are gonna be square pies, and
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then we're gonna also build in some creative stuff like mix and match. You
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know. The four the personal is actually four times smaller than the large right,
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so you could actually hit four of the personals in the large box.
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So you can kind of make like you have one Philly steak, one Buffalo
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chicken, like a sampler board of all those different kinds of pizzas that some
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people don't want to order a whole large Philly steak, They just want one
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slice of it. You know, this is catered towards more. Is it
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a thicker crust, because so it's not gonna be a Sicilian style. It's
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gonna be just panic. It's just gonna be square and it's gonna be like
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thin to medium. It's not gonna be it's not gonna be thick crust.
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It's not gonna be you know, Detroit style or not gonna be Chicago style.
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By the way, wait, did the detroits like they just popped?
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It was always Sicilian to me? Is there a difference. It's not really
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a difference now, I don't think so. No, there's not much pizza.
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Okay, oh we do Detroit. I'm like, what the fuck is
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Detroit style? It's Sicilian. Might be a tad bit larger, yeah,
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a little bit thicker, thicker, you know, but it's it's it's really
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the same thing I used to get. It's no longer Armolino's restaurant. They
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had a really good Sicilian. Yeah, I used to get them all the
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time. But you know, I was like, it's you have to like
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go in thinking you're not getting New Haven style, you know, and you
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know, people post all the time like it was the only style. Like
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listen, I love New Haven Style, but like I love Chicago style,
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especially when you're in Chicago. You know. Uh, but you know it's
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it's a fork and knife thing, you know, It's you just gonna have
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a different mindset when you go into It's like pizza, It's it's not something
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you get you can get weekly, you know what I mean. You know,
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it's more of like a like a loaded sucking up. No, I'm
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currently testing out like a bunch of different concepts, a bunch of different doze
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pans, cross thickness. If you need like a you know, something to
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try to out just like it, just call me up. I'm right down
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the street. Though, probably I gotta drop Monday. Are you there Monday
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nights? I know you're gonna be open Mondays, But yeah, I always
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drop off Braiden at CCD in west Haven, the church down by the water.
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Just swing over for an hour and try some pizza. Yeah, No,
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it's gonna be good because I have a cocktail with Dorin down at uh
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Randalls. It's gonna it's definitely a different concept. There's definitely gonna be some
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backlash. There's definitely gonna be some you know getting adjusted to you know,
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singing the square. But it really is gonna be very good. It's gonna
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be different, and I have no doubts about yeah, making it doesn't have
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to be round. Yeah, I prefer a Wendy square burger to a fucking
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McDonald's fucking round one. Yeah, but uh, the way like crisps off
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in the pan and then we finish it off in the oven. It's gonna
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be it's it's definitely good. So it's gonna have that like crunch to it
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too. Yep. Yeah, no, I like that. I like that,
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you know. Uh so you're gonna be delivering all that yep. How
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do you find the time in your week to do all this shit? And
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and I want to apologize in advance for kind of taking your Saturday day shift
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away at stone Bridge, because I fucking call out on all of them.
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I get him covered. I didn't know you were. I didn't know you're
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working at a townhouse. Yeah that's cool, so I need it. Yeah
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it's great. Yeah, my buddy, uh ten mons the place and I
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basically reached out to him. I was like, hey, listen, I'm
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not working Saturday lunch. I know it's probably not ideal for you to hire
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someone for, you know, one shift out of the entire week, and
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he goes, no Saturday lunch. I actually really need someone. I'm like,
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all right, perfect, sign me up. So he's he's been great,
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and uh he hooked it up for me. So it's it's nice.
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Yeah, I mean I get the honor tomorrow night of working with Drew.
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Yeah, what was it that Tuesday night? I came in. You two
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were working. You two are like fucking just bicker all night long. It's
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fun. It's I mean, there's almost like you get it. You get
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dinner in a show when you watch you too, we have a good time.
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I'm looking a little fucking drinks back here and you're just chatting with me.
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I'm like, well, how do you think I feel when I work
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with Campy Every fucking night? I'm running around like an asshole. It's kind
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of fun to watch it to somebody else. I feel like every other week
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we like take it off. It's like he shows up, he's like,
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oh damn, Like I'm dead tonight I was like, all right, I
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got you. And the next week I walk in, I'm like, yeah,
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yeah, you got No he's on the floor. Tomorrow night, I'm
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behind the bar there. I really get that. You know, can't be
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a little fucking I mean, kiddy, i'ms out, like he'll grab a
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table or two when I get slammed, but yeah, you know, I'm
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the one that then he just hands him off to me, like all right,
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they're all set. And then I kind of, you know, in
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this world, like when I would rather like when I'm waiting on tables in
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the wintertime, I'd rather start him, wait on him, and finish him
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because when he starts a table, it's not in my head that's my table,
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So I kind of forget about him, yeah you know what I mean.
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And then I'm like, ah fuck, he's not going back over there.
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Like if Drew starts a table, he takes the table, and that's
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how we work. Yeah, you know, well we'll kind of like rotab.
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We'll both do the bar and then you know, a table comes in,
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Hey I got it, table comes in, Hey I got it.
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Yeah. Like the bar is easy because they're right in front of you.
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Yeah, you know, when the tables are sat, it's like he'll go
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there, goes, oh, I got fifty five the table number. He
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goes, I got fifty five's drink orders, and it might like subconsciously I'm
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like, okay, that's your table. Then they're sitting there, the menus
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are still out. Twenty minutes later, I'm like, oh, he didn't
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go back over there. Fuck, And I'll go over and be like,
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can't they get back to you because like I didn't know this was my table.
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All right, thank you. But uh so we're doing delivery. We're
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doing seven days a week, lunch, lunch, lunch. So I mean
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you you are a machine. You are eleven am to two am. Yep,
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pretty much round the clock. Yep. We're probably gonna go right now.
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I think we're gonna stick with Sunday through Thursday eleven to eleven, and
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then yeah, Friday, and then as Friday and Saturday and adjust accordingly from
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the area. Yeah, still eleven, Like there's not many places around this
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area that to sell decent pizza that are open. Soul A love now.
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So when I was I was just talking about this the other day. We
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were talking about who was somebody whos asked me who's coming on the show,
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and I said, you know, Passcoral about the whatever it's called Full Circle,
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And I said, he's going to be doing late night deliveries. You
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know, probably you're probably going to go out to New Haven and back right,
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Like, I don't think many people from Milford or they all fucking go
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night night and then the kids are from Fairfield anyway, so I doubt you're
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going that far. No, So yeah, you and age she got,
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you know, Yale and whatever, all the southern and all that stuff.
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When I was in college, actually after college, when I was probably like
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ninety seven ish, I lived on a third app extension in west Haven,
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down by down by the water, and we used to order from a place
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I think it was called either ABC or Triple A Pizza out of New Haven
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and they were open till three in the morning, like they they knew when
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we were calling because there was like four four fat dudes living in a fucking
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apartment and we get home from like fucking the club or the bars or whatever,
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and we would uh and they were there in like fucking twenty five minutes.
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I'm like, holy shit, Like you guys just stay open for us.
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But there is a market for it, especially the college kids. It's
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definitely market for it, you know. And you can run late night spat
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on that time and run your business, but you do late night specials with
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the kids, the college kids, you know, and all that shit.
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It's like like you order shit now, like for delivery, and it's just
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the prices are like especially if you're doing like uber eats or something. Yeah,
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Like people are so lazy, like they'll order like McDonald's through uber eats.
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Yeah, well we're gonna be able. You're gonna be able to pick
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it up too, right right. You know. That's the thing. Like,
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you know, if you got a designated driver or you haven't drinking that
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much stiff want food at one o'clock in the morning, you know, place
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you order of a pickup, you don't have to pay anything. Do you
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already have a vision of a food truck in your head? Not a food
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truck just because the way our concept is, it's it wouldn't work with the
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pans. You know, if I was going like a wood fire, you
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know, thin cross pie, then then maybe that would be something. But
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you know, we're thinking, we're definitely thinking of, you know, the
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next venture while we while we do this, but you know, food truck
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definitely probably not. But multiple locations is definitely where you know, I branded
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this and the concept and the whole, especially with delivery, you can expand
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your reach, especially with you know, with the late night concept as well.
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's the lucky you man. You know,
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I'll be a customer of you. I'll come down and I'll pick it
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up. Though I'll see you perfect. You know, I know you ain't
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gonna be driving specially delivery now where you gonna originally name it pass. There's
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a pass Squall's Pizza in Milford, there is, Yeah, do you know
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them? I do know? Oh you do, Okay, because I was
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like when you first said you were buying a pizza place, Like I said,
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I originally thought you were just buying it for your food prep. Just
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have your own kitchen, and by the way you're doing it, you will
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be doing your food prep out of there too, right consuming because you have,
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you'll have a full working kitchen. Yeah. So right now, I
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rent rent space base right, no, no, no, I rent a
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spot in New Haven. Oh okay, yep, so I do that.
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So this this is kind of like a you know, a double edged sword
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for me. So I get to use that spot and also do the meal
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prep have this place. Everything gets run through the business, so everything is
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up to code. You know, everything works out. Are we going to
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lose you at Stonebridge? I'm going to try and stay for you know,
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one or two shifts during the summertime. You know, that's obviously the goal.
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I assume, I mean, I hope not, but I assume that
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my spot's going to be a little bit slower in the summertime with you know,
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college is not being there and everything like that. So if there's a
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chance that I could sneak out, you know and work two shifts you know,
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a week, then I'm gonna continue to do that. You know,
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we'll have you back, that's for sure. Awesome. So let me know
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when you guys, when you have a date. I know you're weeks away,
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right, yeah, weeks away, you know what I mean? Weeks
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like coming up quickly, not like months away. You're you're right around the
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corner. Yeah, we should we should be before the super Bowl. Uh
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yeah, and you're gonna have wings. We are. Wings are gonna be
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are pretty much our second main thing. Nice. So we're doing wings bredit
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or no bread non breaded nice. So we're doing wings and batches of Uh.
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They're gonna be seasoned though, So they're gonna be seasoned. And how
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we do them the stone Bridge I love it. I love it that way.
22:44
Yeah, so they're gonna be seasoned, not breaded. Seven fourteen and
22:47
twenty one we have so we have two different categories. We have Classic.
22:52
The classic has ten different classic flavors. Uh, you're gonna have like your
22:56
buffalo, your barbecue, your sweet chili, your honey mustard, and then
22:59
you have your you're not so classic, You're not so classic as were.
23:02
We're gonna do like vodka parmesan wings. We're gonna do alfredo peppercorn, you
23:10
know, miso soy honey, uh miso. Yeah. You know there's gonna
23:15
be like some crazy, really unique flavors that are gonna be good, really
23:19
good. Yeah. I mean by just judging by looking at me, I'm
23:23
a pizza wing guy. Yeah, Yeah, I did pizza. We did
23:26
pizza from uh. We had a little poker tournament here last night. We
23:30
did pizza from uh Jim Jimmy's. But I've heard they're gonna be closing and
23:34
he's trying to sell. But I don't you can't quote me on that,
23:37
But that's kind of the rum we're going around town. Yeah, which would
23:41
be sad if it just just went away. They're solid and they got good
23:45
food too. Yeah. Well it doesn't matter anyway, because I'm gonna geting
23:48
my pizza from fucking there. You go app of those, baby. Yeah,
23:51
we're gonna be doing the pies. Cow Zones are gonna be another huge
23:55
part of our menu. So we're doing personal cow zones. They're gonna be
23:59
all we're gonna have, like you know, I build your own colsone,
24:02
build your own pizza, and then we have all these different specialty pies that
24:04
we're putting out in specialty personal cowzones as well. Nice. I like col
24:10
zones, but I can't do the rigatt. I'm just strictly moots. No,
24:14
no, nope, wait a second, that's not so classic, not
24:18
so classic, really not putting got on it not putting because our order one
24:22
I'll fucking forget and I just I just think it. I don't know,
24:26
not doing I don't mind. We got cheese, I just don't like it
24:27
in a like in a pizza form, a calzone form. I don't don't
24:32
know. Yep. So you just going strict Motts and then add the tops
24:36
cheese blend, Yeah, different cheese blends, Mots toppings, sauces. We're
24:41
gonna do like a Philly steak one with an Alfredo sauce base Philly steak,
24:45
peppers, onions, mushrooms in there. And there's one other thing that,
24:52
uh, I'm gonna wait till we open. That's gonna be a little bit
24:55
of a surprise that no one's really no one does in this area that we're
24:59
gonna see if we can we can pump that out as well. You fucking
25:02
can't announce it on my fucking show, you fucking prick. It's it's just
25:06
a variation. It's a variation of a of a of a col zone that
25:11
someone doesn't really, no one really does yet. I think it'll be a
25:14
huge, huge hit in Sarah, What's uh, what's the thing that Papa
25:18
John's calls there they do like a Poppa Dia or something like that. I
25:23
hope you don't get sued by them. Dude. It's it's it's fucking weird.
25:30
My brother got kicked off a Facebook banned for life because he has a
25:34
like a little side project candle company he does, and he takes you know,
25:38
he'll take a Viva can cut the top off and then fill it with
25:42
soy wax and scent it and whatever, you know, does it with bottles.
25:45
He has like a little machine he does. So he did a White
25:49
Claw and he posted you know, what's what's he selling during the holidays a
25:55
couple of years ago, and somebody from White Claw saw it and called Facebook
25:59
and said, bandness are life And they're like, okay, you know we're
26:02
liberals. We'll do whatever you say. Wow. Yeah, So he's fucking
26:04
He's like, fuck the fuck Facebook. He's not on anymore, but he's
26:08
on Instagram. It's just funny because it's the same ownership ownership. So but
26:12
it's, uh, it's weird. You know, these corporate lawyers and ship
26:15
they're so fucking I don't know, lizen if if if, if if I
26:21
get big enough where Papa John's is fucking pissed. That pissed a man.
26:26
It's a good thing. Then, yeah, problem, that's a good problem.
26:29
So awesome. All right, so I will announce, uh, you
26:33
let me know when you're you know, I'll post it on my Instagram as
26:36
well. Yeah, when you guys are opening, and uh, I'd love
26:38
to be there for opening day as well. Yeah, I might be in
26:41
Florida, but hopefully i'm back by then. I'll be gone most of the
26:45
month of January, but we're looking definitely not in the beginning of January.
26:49
Yeah, we're going, like, you know, after the twelfth. You
26:55
know, there's obviously gonna be things that you know, we don't think of
26:57
that might set us back a little bit, like the city of like the
27:02
city of which currently the new mayor right currently waiting on that. But we
27:07
just we just submitted everything normally. They're actually not that bad. They're pretty
27:11
quick. Yeah, so as long as we don't have to do anything major,
27:15
you know, which we shouldn't. Are you hiring not? How good?
27:19
You know? Solid? So basically I just a lot of my meal
27:22
prep is part time, so now I made them full time. Oh nice.
27:26
So my staff there, you know, instead of is there gonna be
27:30
any sit down area to come in and dine. So there are seventy five
27:33
seats there? Oh wow? Really yeah wow. So it's twenty six hundred
27:37
square feet. There's seventy five seats. We are not going to be so
27:41
we're going to be open to private parties, kids, parties, people want
27:45
to book out the room, do catering in there and stuff like that,
27:49
but we're not going to do any dining service in terms of you know,
27:53
having servers there full time. Plus you're not serving alcohol, right, We're
27:57
not serving alcohol now. So if someone will to come in and uh,
28:02
you know, go up to the counter and eat it there, which honestly
28:04
I recommend. It's a beautiful spot and you get to try it there,
28:08
but they're not going to be waited on, right. You know, you
28:11
come up, you order your pizza, you sit down here it is,
28:14
and you go sit down on the table and eat it exactly. Yeah,
28:17
you know, not like a Papa Gino's where you know, yeah, I
28:22
want to get all the Papa Pizza place. There's a Papas and Milford.
28:27
So you and I and ate six other clowns went on a trip to Cape
28:32
Cod this past summer. My first question is do you want to do it
28:36
again? Absolutely? Okay, well we'll pick a different spot next year.
28:40
I have one rule. I am not putting the fucking Airbnb in my name.
28:47
I had to pay extra, all right, this is kind of fucked
28:51
up. So I talked to somebody that I was telling the story, and
28:55
they own three properties in Milford that the Airbnb out in the summer, and
29:02
I was telling them. So what happened was is I got an extra bill
29:06
for a broken plank on a deck, an extra cleaning charge, which I
29:11
thought, wayneb I thought, you went from one day to the next,
29:17
You're like, how to help the guys clean it like this? I mean
29:19
the recycling bin was overflowed with you know, fifteen cases of white clothes and
29:25
fucking vivas and all sorts of shit. So they whacked me an extra two
29:30
hundred or something like that, and Ryan was just like, dude, I'll
29:33
pay it. I jumped off the roof and broke the blake in his eye.
29:38
AM a golden God moment. So you know, you got to pay
29:44
it or they give it so they give you a bad review, you know,
29:47
in return. So he said, oh, listen, I'll give you
29:48
five stars or whatever it is. It just just pay it. I'm like,
29:52
so they kind of put your feet to the fire a little bit.
29:55
But the guy was talking to that owns three of them, He's like,
29:56
dude, He's like, that is bullshit. He goes you know how many
29:59
times? I like, you know, it's Milford, it's summer, it's
30:03
fucking a big house that can hold ten people, like whatever, Like,
30:07
just deal with it. That deck was already beat the ship from before we
30:10
got there too. There was already a hole on the other side of the
30:12
deck. Yeah, he didn't fix So if he didn't fix that hole,
30:15
he probably didn't fix the one that that he sent me receipts, like,
30:18
I'm like, fuck you. But the cleaning thing was like, cause you
30:22
guys move furniture around or something upstairs. I don't fucking know what you guys
30:25
are doing up there. We pulled the chair outside, yeah, bringing it
30:27
back in. So that was one hundred dollars extra cleaning fee there. So
30:32
what happened was you would we would all get I think Drew had the best
30:37
line. I think he said I blacked out three times in one day.
30:45
I couldn't even drink the last night. Remember, I went to dinner and
30:48
I said no ived myself. So I was just like I can't. I'm
30:52
just you know, I'm just too old to day drink, you know,
30:56
and then go night drinking. I don't know how I did get up the
31:00
next day and day drink again. It's like, it's just I was like,
31:03
holy fuck, that was the worst night sleep ever got in my life
31:06
that last night there. Yeah, but because it was in the house,
31:11
we played poker, We did all sorts of ship so yeah, so I
31:15
will not be putting it in my name this year that somebody else. Somebody
31:18
else can do that, and I'll just give you guys the money. Uh.
31:22
But yeah, that was that was we went. It was Falmouth,
31:25
right, we weren't Falmouth, yep, Falmouth cape Cod and we found it
31:29
was the house is as nice as the house was. It was the thinnest
31:33
walls in the world. Because I kept hearing Drew you you would pass out
31:41
and for some reason, you you were upstairs and you had a deck and
31:42
you would lock the door as Drew was still outside. And the last night,
31:48
because I wasn't drinking, I heard everything and Drew was like passuall fuck
31:56
again. He locked me out again because this happened every night, and he's
32:00
banging on that door, sold out. I think he's gonna fucking smash it
32:04
just to get into that fucking room. But uh, that was quite the
32:08
that was Drew. Drew passed out under the deck. He fell off the
32:12
deck, the lower deck, the lower passed out on the upper deck three
32:15
times, and then passed out underneath the actual physical yes deck once. Yeah.
32:20
Yeah, And uh Ryan, the first night, Ryan was on the
32:23
roof and you know me is the father of the group. Ryan, get
32:28
down, yeah, you know, and he did. But then the next
32:30
night, when I wasn't there, back on the road, jumps up,
32:35
jumps off. I don't know, I don't know what. I don't know
32:37
if there was something in our Viva's, in our white clothes and our fucking
32:39
surf sides and our booze and our whiskey. And that was. Yeah,
32:45
that was It was honestly so much fun though it was. It was We
32:47
definitely got to do it again. It was a it was a good group
32:51
too, you know, it's a good crew. But yeah, Cape God
32:54
twenty twenty three in the books, and uh, you know, My girlfriends
33:00
so great because she's like, when I go away, she's like, just
33:02
do whatever, you know what I mean, Like, you don't have to
33:05
call me every day, you know, you know, we'll text a little
33:07
bit, but by nine o'clock I don't even look at my phone anymore.
33:09
I'm just fucking bombed. The only time I look at it is they get
33:14
it uber. Yeah, but it was found. It was good. It
33:16
was it was kind of not really didn't only have a younger vibe to it,
33:20
though. The downtown was okay, yeah, you know, maybe we're
33:24
in like uh, Honestly, the best part of the trip was us sitting
33:30
in the house. Yeah, and and and just hanging out with each other
33:35
and you know, having a great time. I think that was honestly some
33:38
of my favorite parts of the trip. Yeah, obviously, because you know,
33:42
I suck at golf, So I think I would love to do one
33:45
day golf one day, like charter a boat or something. Yea, you
33:49
know, I mean there's eight or ten of us, it's not going to
33:51
be that much ahead. Yeah, I didn't think. I thought the food
33:54
was really good in some places, and then yeah, the other the first
33:59
night was was good. That Captain's quarters or whatever. Yeah, that was
34:02
and then we did the soprano. We had to go to it. He's
34:07
like, I booked the sopranos. Guys like, no ship really pass ball.
34:12
I was in charge of dinner one night and I took my opportunity.
34:15
That wasn't bad. That was right on the water. It was a nice
34:17
location. Food okay, yeah, foods okay. I don't know about the
34:22
last night because I ubered before I even ordered it was. It was good
34:24
until can't be decided to order one of every postile for no reason at all.
34:30
Call him Tommy. Tommy cutlets can't be cutlets over there. Yeah.
34:36
Oh, so you're a big Giant fan. I was cleaning out my car
34:39
the other day and I think I won something in a raffle back in God,
34:47
it must have been June, and uh, I know you're a big
34:52
Giants fan. So it's all dinged up and ripped. But a little autographed
35:00
Manning poster for you, it's probably worth less than the fucking thing it's printed
35:06
on. There you go, buddy. I actually I just I was cleaning
35:13
out my room and I found a sign Giants jersey and I was like,
35:16
oh shit, I won this at a at a stag and I couldn't remember
35:20
who it was. I opened it up and it was Evan Ingram and I'm
35:22
like, what a fucking disappointment this was. He's actually found a little niche
35:29
in Jacksonville. Though he's playing well, I mean they're not playing well as
35:32
a team, but he's had some touchdown it. So, actually, I
35:35
have your pizza box here. I wanted to kind of actually, why don't
35:37
you show it in your em a little tight to the camera so you can
35:39
see. I could see how you got the square pie going, Yeah,
35:43
this is this is actually gonna be like our catering case, so we're gonna
35:47
put multiple things in here. The pizza is not gonna be this thick or
35:52
this size. But yeah, the actual design of the box and the logo
35:58
and everything is is the same across all the boxes. Nice. Nice and
36:01
it's into you are on Instagram. We are Poppa doze ct at Papa do
36:07
ct and Facebook as well, and you already have a website website yep,
36:10
Papa doct dot com. The phone ums two three three eight zero two six
36:15
eight zero. I like, how you have to like this is how sad
36:17
this world is today. You have to like the right curb side on it.
36:21
You have to. It's fucking so stupid. I know, it's just
36:23
like come on, you find it. I mean, uh, you work
36:30
up in Branford on Saturdays. What's it like up the coast? A lot
36:32
of people still wearing masks. There is a little you got. You got
36:36
a few people that come in with masks, mostly old people, very old
36:43
people who shouldn't be there anyway because they're miserable as soon as they walk through
36:47
the door. We get so many old people at stone Bridge. I mean
36:52
it's so funny. Like I have these really good regulars every Friday. They're
36:55
the sweetest old couple and they always just they'd have one martini each. They
37:00
don't order till it's finished. Then they order, and you know they tip
37:04
me twenty percent. But we have such great conversations, like they're just you
37:09
know, they noticed the same ship you and I would notice, you know
37:14
where a lot of the elderly are like like you said, you know,
37:17
like they're miserable, cranky. Yeah, it's just it's it's just insane,
37:24
like just stay just stay home, just stay home. Right. We get
37:28
people all the time that call into Lou Dolls, the other place that I
37:31
work out, and they'll they'll now if you're looking, let me interrupt you
37:35
right there. If you're single when you live in the North Haven area,
37:39
I suggest going to lu Dolls. Yeah, it's great spot. There was
37:43
a little cougar y uh there when we stopped in after golf that day.
37:49
It's been like that for years though. They used to do uh, ladies'
37:52
nights over there. Yeah, and it would it would just be all single
37:58
thirty to fifty year old woman just pilot and they're slamming ten dollars cous politans
38:01
all night. But yeah, no, we have people that literally will call
38:07
in and be like, yeah, I want to make a reservation for you
38:09
know, Saturday at seven, but uh is there somewhere like private we can
38:14
go so we're not like around you know, people close to us, and
38:17
you're just like, it's Saturday. Did you want the restaurant you were going
38:22
to get out to be dead? Right? Like? Is that like what
38:23
it's like when they sit in the bar and stone Bridge, You're like,
38:27
look, I had a couple of the other night and like, you know,
38:29
it's right before Christmas. There's all these self made up. The pub
38:35
crawls they're doing, like we have no control over, like a sweater pub
38:38
crawl coming through of ten people. But they're all, you know, drinking
38:43
and gathering and they're sitting in the bar, and like, will you ask
38:45
the fucking sit in the bar that's where you asked to sit, Like,
38:50
dude, Like, what do you expect? It's a bar, yeah,
38:53
you know outside it can't be swearing all night. You're gonna hear a lot
38:55
of swear words too from fucking customers that I can't control. And it's just
39:00
so annoying, It's like and then they're like, it's just so loud in
39:04
here. I'm like, you specifically requested this booth in the bar. I
39:08
don't know what to tell you. You want to move? Move, I
39:10
ain't fucking waiting on you no more. I'm I'm day to be right off
39:13
to the next person. No, it's it's why people like that. I
39:17
don't I don't know, but they're they're around and they're never gonna change,
39:22
and we're never gonna adapt, So it's just gonna keep happening. I know,
39:28
what are you gonna do? So I was reading today, you know
39:31
the l g what is it? L G t B p q no l
39:38
g T l G b t t Q yeah, I A I A yeah
39:45
yeah. They added that on What's Up. I don't fucking know. There's
39:49
like thirty six sexual sexual things. So a new one came out today or
39:52
it didn't come out today. It's called it's called abro sexuality, and and
40:00
somebody wrote an op ed and like the New York Times or something like,
40:04
they identify as abro sexual a b r O like a bro sexual. Oh
40:08
okay, but it just means you fluctuate and change your sexuality, like you
40:16
could be gay one day straight the next. Uh. I don't even know
40:22
what the other ones are. Just like I'm reading this, I'm like,
40:25
when will it stop? When will it stop? It's not going to I
40:31
just you know, I just don't get it. Every I mean, everything
40:37
is just changed. And I'm young, so I can only imagine for someone
40:40
that's older than me. You know, I'm not taking any shots at you,
40:44
but that's just seen so many stuff change over over time. Oh god,
40:47
it's fucking how stuff used to be. I mean when I was when
40:51
I was a kid, you know, in early teens or even like a
40:53
younger. You know, a girl that you know is a tomboy. You
40:58
know, like a girl that like like a guy or played sports was just
41:01
a tomboy. It wasn't. And now they're pushing you if you're a tombo
41:05
now to fucking have like sexual fucking organs changed. It's like, dude,
41:10
did you know what the fuck you were at thirteen? At eight? Like
41:17
I was actually attracted to girls at an early age, I believe, so
41:21
yeah, no, no, no, no. What I'm saying is like,
41:24
do you think your mind is fully developed as far as if you're eleven
41:30
years old and you identify as a girl but you're a boy, and you'd
41:37
go get your penis chopped off. I'm going to be very shocked if they
41:39
don't put some sort of age restriction on this stuff in the next can't get
41:45
a tattoo before you're eighteen, can't drink before you're twenty one, can't smoke,
41:52
but we'll whack that thing right. No, it's it's I still say
41:59
it's pop relation control. How do they not? I don't know how.
42:02
I feel like they have to do something. They have to have to put
42:07
some sort of age restriction. But it's going to be state to state it
42:10
won't be a federal thing, and then the kids will drive to Vermont to
42:15
get their leaners trapped off. I don't know, it's just like you're eighteen,
42:20
do what you want, Yeah, you know, graduate high school,
42:22
take all the classes that they don't really teach your shit in anyway. There's
42:27
no real life being taught in school anymore. I just personally hate like the
42:31
blast that, like the platform that it gets put on, and like how
42:37
severe it is. Like if you want to go and do that, you
42:39
know, go ahead, go do it, but there's no need to,
42:44
you know, make it bigger than what it really needs to be. If
42:46
you understand what I'm saying, you know what I mean, Like it's almost
42:50
like it's an agenda. It's yeah, and it's you know, you'll you
42:54
know, I always harp back to Braden, who's you know, won't ever
43:00
stopped looking at his phone if he's not on his Xbox, and he just
43:02
like video after video after video, and then you know, they sneak the
43:06
one in like he'll show me some of this shit and he'll or he'll send
43:08
it to me. Where are you finding this stuff? It's just like disturbing,
43:13
like I don't know, it's fucking crazy, like like parents like with
43:19
their kids saying, oh, they're so happy that she found herself at age
43:23
seven and she's really a boy, Like, who the fuck goes anything at
43:27
eighty seven? Well, people feed into it, though, Oh people feed
43:32
into it right into it. So that's what's really you know, fueling the
43:37
fire here is is everyone else? You know, the social media thing,
43:42
you know what I mean? Yeah, everything people feed into it. People
43:45
will watch it, post it, read it. You know. Any publicity
43:49
is good publicity. So if you're taking the time to then combat them as
43:53
your main agenda, then you're you're helping them, right because you're just you're
43:58
just spreading more of it, you know what I mean. And I feel
44:01
like if everyone just you know, stayed in their own lane and not pushed,
44:08
not try to, you know, make your lane wider, I feel
44:10
like it would be a lot a lot better. Let whatever people want to
44:15
do over there, and then you do what you want to do and the
44:16
other guy does what he's he wants to do, and I feel like it'll
44:20
it'll be a lot I look at it like, uh, like Jehovah's Witness
44:24
right, Like, don't fucking walk up to my door. I don't understand,
44:29
right, Like, this is kind of the same concept. I will,
44:32
I will seek you out, no problem, but don't come to me
44:37
and don't flaunt it. Don't. But it's accepted now. Oh no,
44:40
no, it's accepted now cause we let it accept We let it be accepted,
44:45
right, And if we didn't, we were deemed you know, misogynistic
44:50
or or gracious or whatever you want to call us or not us anybody that
44:55
went against the grain of thinking that's normal. And nothing's normal. I mean,
45:01
be what you want to be. But again, don't push it.
45:06
I have people that come up to my house once a week trying to sell
45:10
solar panels and stuff like that, you know what I mean. And it's
45:15
like, where's all this coming from? There? People just feels comfortable enough
45:19
to just walk right up to your door, just go a house to house.
45:22
But like I said, I can't even do that myself. Like I
45:24
had a buddy that reached out to me like a year and a half ago,
45:28
saying, hey, I think you'd be good in the solar Now you
45:30
brought that up, you know, we're hiring and blah blah, blah and
45:34
link me up with his boss and through text message, he's like, when
45:37
are you free to talk? I'm like Saturday round one. So the guy
45:40
calls me and he's doing a spiel for about thirty seconds, and I just
45:45
said, excuse me, I don't want to interrupt you, sir. Is
45:47
this a door to door salesman job? He's like, yes, I go
45:52
not interested, thank you for your time. Click. I can't do that
45:55
shit. You feel like I feel like I'm intruding on someone's one private prop.
46:00
Yeah. Like I owned a house down in Oorlean Street. I end
46:02
up putting a no soliciting sign out because like, I'm just fucking doing my
46:06
daily I'm cleaning dishes in the fucking and there's a knock on my door and
46:09
somebody like you said for solar, or you have the perfect roof for solar.
46:14
Really it's yeah, it's on top of my house and the sunshines on
46:16
it. I get that. You know, I'm not knocking solar, but
46:21
I'm just I can't. I could never do that. Yeah, You're like,
46:23
you're you're interrupting someone's day. Like if we're sitting down and we see
46:28
a commercial and it's for Solar, or you see like some testimonials or your
46:32
friend says, oh my god, my UI bill was only seventeen dollars this
46:36
month. All right, I'll call Solar, I reach out to them.
46:39
I'll set up an appointment. They can come and look and give me a
46:43
price quote and all that. Like that's how it all. If I want
46:45
to stop celebrating all my holidays and birthdays, I'll reach out to the jokes
46:50
like I could not imagine being home and fucking you come knocking on my door
46:54
saying, do you like Square pizza? Bro? I'm like, well,
47:00
fuck, you're a big dude. Yeah, I'll buy whatever you want.
47:02
Yeah, just walk around all the town was I think about think about like
47:06
the pizza thing was like Solar, like like you just had to knock on
47:09
people's doors. Like I'm I'm okay with you throwing your menu in a coupon
47:15
in my mailbox or even mail it. Don't go in my mailbox, right
47:19
right, just yeah, just mail it like or or put your ad in
47:22
one of the you know, the the weeklies. You know. That's why.
47:25
That's how I discovered Pasqual's pizza. I've never tried it yet, but
47:29
I was like, oh, that's not the Pasqual I know. No,
47:32
No, they have they have a so I know, uh, a food
47:37
rep guy who has his own line and his name is also Passual, So
47:42
he has his own line of olive oil, sauce, stuff like that,
47:45
and all of it is is Pasqual foods on all really. Yeah. And
47:51
actually when uh, when my family was in the restaurant business, they used
47:53
to carry that oil and used to put it on the table. My friends
47:58
would come in and I was a kid into like the elementary school or middle
48:01
school and be like, I saw your your olive oil on the table.
48:06
All right, So I had I don't know, fuck. What is his
48:08
name? Frank Frank Zapski. He's the pizza Gavon. He's the one that
48:15
runs the New Haven Pizza School out of uh some restaurant in new Haven front
48:21
door, you know the old Uh you too young? Oh wait, no,
48:24
I saw next Door. It's called next Door. Dave Portnoy reviewed it,
48:29
Yes, yeah, I saw. Uh. So he ran to the
48:30
Peace School out of there. So when I had him on, he you
48:34
know the Holy Trinity of pizza, you know modern Sally's peppies. What's what's
48:38
your top five it doesn't even have to be in Connecticut. What's your top
48:43
five pizzas you've ever had? Uh? So, if we're going like New
48:51
Haven style, I think Sally's is the best, then I want to go
48:57
modern Zoo parties, Roseland and and I love the parties. I've been to
49:05
Roselands to a very good pizza five. So you didn't say peppies, I
49:09
don't think. No, I'm not a huge peppies fan. I uh,
49:13
I will only get peppies in New Haven now, like I won't even like,
49:16
I won't even go on my way to get it. But if I
49:19
were, if I was forced to get peppies, it's only New Haven only
49:22
you know who's got a really good pay. It fucked me at the casino
49:24
so many times. No, it's so like literally like I'm like, fuck
49:29
these this fucking corporate shit now. And Sally's is the same way now too,
49:32
Like I mean Sally's and New Haven is definitely number one, but like
49:36
they're they're they're becoming Yeah, well they sold out, the family sold and
49:39
now it's fucking corporate. It's just so much money in front of their faces.
49:43
It's hard to I know, I don't blame them. Hey, you
49:45
worked. These guys work their asses off six days a week for fucking fifty
49:50
years. Take the money and run, bro I have no problem with that.
49:52
Yeah, I think number five I would put uh. I probably put
49:55
New Even Pizza place and in Milford, very very good pizza. It's so
50:00
verely underrated, I think. So, Yeah, I don't put bar on
50:04
the list. I don't put Peppies on the list. But outside of you
50:07
know, Connecticut, uh, Italy, in Vegas, uh, inside MGM,
50:14
they have Mario's Place. No, so they have like it's a whole
50:17
Italian market, so they have like they do have one new he might own
50:27
the whole. I think he owns the name. Okay, so there's different
50:30
contractors because he's yeah, he got in trouble. So I had I had
50:39
like a not poly Toan style pie over there. And again it was Neapolitan,
50:46
but you lose not Plitan. Is that the same thing? It's it's
50:51
pretty much the same thing, but it was it was a craft pizza,
50:54
but it was so good. Yeah, that was really the only other pizza
50:58
that's really I'm trying to think, like like you say, like outside of
51:01
New York's, I mean a New Haven style. I don't really ever go
51:05
to New York, so I can't really I'm kind of the same. Yeah,
51:07
Like I don't really know because when I go to New York, I
51:09
don't I don't think pizza, Like I don't want to go to New York.
51:13
And if I'm going to New York and go to New York for a
51:15
reason and it's never pizza, yeah, you know, it's never anything good.
51:21
I fucking hate that city so much. Uh, you know, like
51:28
like somebody a friend at my posted a few months back, like there's no
51:31
good Greek style pizza, and that's just false. There's some good I've had
51:37
some good again, Like I said, it's a mindset going in, Like
51:40
if you're expecting as a party's pizza everywhere you go, you're gonna be disappointed
51:45
one hundred. But if you look at it is something different. Like I
51:49
actually liked East Shore okay, but I also like their wings, so I
51:53
would get pizza and wings from there. That makes sense. Pizza is not
51:58
the best in the world at all, but it's fucking not Dominoes either.
52:00
It's not Papa John's. You know, it's fucking good. You know,
52:04
it still has good flavor. It's it's a different, different type of pizza.
52:07
You know. The thing is like, are you basing it off of
52:10
straight cheese or are you basing it off of their toppings or especially pies,
52:15
et cetera, et cetera. I basically I always get a sausage in pepperoni.
52:19
That's my go to. Okay, uh, if this is this is
52:22
what rates like, Sally's down or they have the slice sausage, I believe
52:29
I like the crumbled. Well that's what I was gonna say. If we're
52:31
going toppings on pizza, I'm going modern over Sally's. I just got a
52:36
Domino's notification. Fucking listen at the pizza talk all right. I ordered Dominoes
52:45
one night in Boston, all fucked up. I saw I downloaded the app.
52:47
I guess I didn't turn off my notifications again. But they were the
52:52
only place open at fucking eleven at night after a Ruin's game. You know
52:54
that's a big key. If Papa Doz was in fucking Boston open till two
53:00
am, I would order that. But they haven't expanded that far out yet,
53:04
not yet. Uh Yeah, so it crumbled and I really like it's
53:09
called like the cup and charred pepperoni. That's kind of my favorite, but
53:15
it's hard to find around here. Uh. I just I just like pepperon
53:20
to be like a little thicker than that favorite. It's just mess. Yeah,
53:25
totally great. Yeah, I'd rather actually be smaller in size, but
53:30
yeah cup. Yeah, and it has the cup and the oil kind of
53:32
sits in the cup. Doesn't get all over the pizza exactly, you know.
53:37
But yeah, I'm sausage and pepperoni. I mean I'll eat a cheese
53:40
pizza obviously, but like I need toppings on it. Yeah. No vegetables
53:45
though, kick that ship to the corner, unless it's like a you know,
53:47
like I'll do broccoli on like a chicken white pie or something like that.
53:51
But I don't like mushrooms. Onions are fine, like a bacon onion
53:55
pizza, I do. I like. I like bacon onion, but keep
53:59
black all is off of it. Yeah, keep mushrooms. Definitely keep mushrooms.
54:05
Like you see me walking in, just like, lock up the mushroom
54:07
cabinet if I don't want to. I don't want mushrooms looking at my pizza.
54:10
I don't like. I don't like. I like onions on pizza.
54:15
I like certain kind of like I like hot cherry peppers on on on pies,
54:19
like sausage and hot cherry pepper pies. That's a nice pie. Yeah.
54:24
What kind of sausage you're gonna have. We're gonna have crumbled sausage.
54:29
Nice yep, nice Italian sweet yep yep. I think that's the way to
54:32
do. Yeah, you know, definitely gonna jazz it up a little bit,
54:36
you know, spices, you know, garlic and stuff like that,
54:39
like a hot oil. That's like all the rage. We're gonna have hot
54:45
honey. Oh, we're gonna have hot truffle making it yourself, yes,
54:50
yeh yep. What spice is it up? Clover and chili? Okay,
54:54
yeah, clover and chili. Sometimes you can throw long hots you can get
55:00
do you just throw it right in the get the oil or whatever in the
55:02
honey. Yeah, so well you would have let it sit at the oil
55:07
to the honey. That's how I actual spicy oil to them, gotcha,
55:10
Yes, because if you is not really going to absorb anything, Yeah,
55:14
you can't really heat it up with them, you know, I'm sure you
55:16
could. This is just how I do it. Yeah, I make hot
55:20
oil and then I added to the honey and mix it in because it also
55:22
makes it so the consistency smooths out a little bit. Yeah, makes it
55:25
better to put it on so before Papa does becomes a chain. If you
55:29
if you're drunk in Boston, they're all the chains are open. What's the
55:32
chain you would go to? Dominoes? Dominoes, Dominoes. Yeah, I've
55:37
Actually they're garlic sauce. Like, dude, there's do you ever have their
55:44
cinnamon twin? I will fucking like, I'll do like four extracides of garlic
55:47
sauce. Yeah, and then I'll wake up with the worst heartburn in the
55:50
world. But like it's like when you're drunk, it's so good. Yeah,
55:53
I mean it's like you got to get every slice in it though,
55:55
because the pizza is so bad. Yeah. No, I've actually, I've
56:00
I've in the past couple of months, I've actually ordered from all of them
56:04
just to see the times and the little research exactly right, you know,
56:08
And so I know for a fact that Domino's is definitely the best one out
56:13
of all of them. So what'd you do? Well, there's no is
56:15
there Papa John's there used to be mild. Yeah, where's the one now?
56:20
I ordered it on Uber. I'm pretty sure it's a New Haven.
56:22
Okay, I'm one hundred percent sure it's a New Haven. What else is
56:24
there? Pizza Hut, there's pizza. There's pizza huts are closing down really
56:28
fast. Little Caesars is a little Caesar's kind of taken over Pizza Hut.
56:31
I feel like, in terms of like really shitty cheap pizza, there's like
56:37
fast food pizza, and then there's like really shit cheap fast food pizza,
56:40
and that's like little seasons. I love Pizza Hut growing up. Yeah,
56:44
I just you know, because it was like almost like it was pizza.
56:45
There was a night out with pizza, but there was one in West Haven
56:49
for a long time. Yeah. Yeah about the highway, Yeah yeah,
56:52
still looks they still have the Pizza Hut roof on there. But I like
56:57
deep dish, like I used did. I worked for the Marriott and Maria
57:00
had the conveyor belt pizza oven for Pizza Hut. Yeah, so fucking I
57:05
was a bartender there. So when fucking room service closes at eleven, everyone
57:07
goes home. We're back there firing up the fucking conveyor belt, and well
57:10
there used to be the Chicago Oh no Chicago, Yeah, yep, on
57:15
the post road in Milford, Houns to the Mexican Place. Yeah, yeah
57:19
they there wasn't bad. I didn't think it was get fucking I think it
57:22
was like a Chicago classic. It was uh, it was uh sausage.
57:25
It was like a sausage pizza. But they they had that sauce with the
57:30
chunky tomatoes, remember that, ye, And I'd have to order without the
57:32
chunky tomatoes, where I don't I just give you sauce. I don't even
57:35
fucking chunks of tomatoes on my pizza. Yeah yeah, who knows. Who
57:38
knows? Was good? Then they started getting real nasty, Like I remember
57:44
the last time I went there, there was like burnt vegetables and stuff on
57:50
the bottom of the crust from them like not cleaning the pants, like stuck
57:53
inside the crust. And then like we were like, yeah, we're never
57:55
going back here. Everything was horrible, And then literally like six months later
57:59
it was close. Yeah that does makes sense. They had this appetizer there.
58:02
It was like it was like a personal pizza and it was just mashed
58:06
potatoes on top. Oh it was like the best app ever. Yeah,
58:08
like it was so good. That's a good call. But I haven't I
58:12
haven't thought about them yet because they're not in Milford anymore. So I mean,
58:15
I'm sure there's still something exists around. They didn't go like they didn't
58:19
go like the way of like Bennegan's and just disappear. Right, there's definitely
58:22
still well, like ninety nine closed down, but they're still all. My
58:25
mom goes there all the time. Yeah, her and her husband. They
58:28
love that. They been Sprayfield mass But yeah, we're going to get our
58:31
turkey tips. Okay, I love you have fun. But uh yeah,
58:37
so dominant. So why was Domino's the best? Like flavored accuracy? I
58:45
looked at me so I looked at it from like a whole business standpoint when
58:49
I got it. So I looked at it not just off of the quality
58:52
and the taste of the pizza. I looked at it in terms of their
58:57
sides, their packaging. Yeah, like I looked at like the durability of
59:02
the box too. Oh that box is solid. Yeah, yeah, it's
59:06
just well too, by the way, Yeah, yeah we did a cheap
59:08
box. No it's not No, not a cheap box. Yeah, so
59:13
like, and I also like the convenience of the app. If you make
59:16
things too complicated, people, I don't give a shit, how good you.
59:20
I was bombed and I figured out exactly what I wanted. So if
59:22
you make things too complicated, if you give people too many choices, then
59:28
it becomes like a huge deal. Like with with with Papa John's. I'm
59:31
sitting there. It took me like fucking ten minutes, fifteen minutes to like
59:36
order the ship because there's just like every time you click on something, it's
59:38
like five or like dropped out box pop of stuff downs was super easy.
59:44
I think the pizza was the best. I think their packaging was the best,
59:46
and their sauces and their desserts were the best too. There's cinnamon sticks
59:52
where they're just so good. Really yeah, I never I don't get dessert
59:57
ever. Really, I wouldn't think they get it from Dominoes, but I
1:00:01
might have to try a little. You know what Dominoes really falls actually,
1:00:06
I think all the places do is their wings, all right, So if
1:00:12
I've ordered from Dominoes, obviously just more than once, you know, but
1:00:16
like you order their wings and like you just do like buffalo. You almost
1:00:20
have to get like two sides of buffalo sauce too, because they don't talk,
1:00:22
they don't toss them. It's it's like they fucking sprinkle it over.
1:00:24
It's like, come on. And then they're tiny. They're breaded too,
1:00:29
I'm assuming. No, they're not actually not a Dominoes. No, they're
1:00:31
not breaded. Maybe the other maybe Papa John's my bread theirs. Okay,
1:00:37
I don't like bread and wings. I don't. It's not my go to.
1:00:40
But not back to the East Shore Pizza. They have bread and wings
1:00:44
there and they're big and they're juicy and they're tender. The crispy. Uh
1:00:49
oh yeah enough, I mean they're super crispy. But you eat it there,
1:00:52
you got it to go. They have one table in that place there.
1:00:58
It's across from the Amal bread. Breaded wings are just a disaster as
1:01:00
soon as they hit the box. Yeah, I mean, so if they
1:01:04
hold up, then that's pretty that's pretty impressive. They're they're good there,
1:01:07
but uh yeah, we're going jumbo jumbo style wings. Nice, you know,
1:01:14
I wings are I feel it's like such an easy thing to make,
1:01:19
but I feel it's fucked up all the time. Yeah, well they're expensive,
1:01:24
so no wings are yeah, well that's that's people people try to cut
1:01:29
you know, unsuccessful businesses try to cut corners. So just raising the prices
1:01:32
along with everybody else. Yeah, they are trying to create a better profit
1:01:37
margin. A lot of people don't want to do the prep work, so
1:01:40
they'll buy them frozen. Most wings that are frozen are breaded because they have
1:01:45
to flash fry them pretty much. So there's there's also that so people for
1:01:50
people who don't want to do that, and then stupidity, you know,
1:01:54
not not keeping up with your inventory and not checking on stuff older wings,
1:02:00
you know, right, stuff like that. Just just not being having the
1:02:06
owner not present in the place is a large part of why places fails,
1:02:09
because your staff is it's not their job to pay your bills and give a
1:02:14
shit about your place and worry about every little cost, you know what I
1:02:17
mean, that's your job. So if you don't have the things in place
1:02:21
to do that, then yeah, maybe you do start buying frozen bread.
1:02:24
And that was fascinating, you know, these chains like like Domino is,
1:02:28
like it's the consistency of shitty pizza every place you get it from. It's
1:02:35
like like it's you can get it from Milford, you can get it in
1:02:37
Boston. It's the same. It's going to be the same. Ye And
1:02:40
because it's it's it's just conveyor belt, every store gets the same exact ingredients
1:02:46
every other store measured. Yeah, so their cheese, all their cheese is
1:02:51
diced. Yeah, so they're they're they're not just they're not handing, they're
1:02:54
not doing measuring cop one cup, two cups, right, you know,
1:03:00
straight on it. So everything is done due to his science. And yeah,
1:03:05
but if they just like, like I maybe you're maybe you're the guy
1:03:09
maybe ten years from now, we're sitting down and you got twenty stores and
1:03:15
you're all throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island or something. And I just feel like
1:03:22
if they spent just a little extra on better quality ingredients, I know,
1:03:29
but like there really is no good chain pizza place. No, there just
1:03:35
isn't. Like Papa John's is worse than Fuckingma Pizza. Hut's worse than all
1:03:39
that, yep, and whatever, and who knows, Well that's not really
1:03:43
fat. They're they're they're actually a restaurant restaurant, but like nothing good.
1:03:47
Maybe you're maybe you're the one that's the that's the goal. Yeah, you
1:03:52
know, I mean, obviously I know this could be your Papa John moment.
1:03:55
Yeah, where I'm sitting here talking to you, just say anything racist
1:04:01
when you get canceled or forced to sell your own business. But yeah,
1:04:09
no, we're definitely you know, I'm not looking too far ahead because you
1:04:13
know, we have you always have a vision, but you got to stay
1:04:15
focused on task at hand, exactly right. But I am building this one
1:04:19
location with plans, you know, to then have more as a cookie cutter,
1:04:27
you know, but it's going to be you know, is our pizza
1:04:30
going to stand up against Sally's pizza cheese pizza? You put my pizza and
1:04:34
salad cheese pizza next to each other. No, it's not, it's not.
1:04:39
It's not meant for that, you know what I mean, We're meant
1:04:42
for This is how I like to call it. I don't know if this
1:04:45
is the right way to call it, but this is what I stick with.
1:04:47
I say, we want to be Dominoes on steroids. We want to
1:04:50
make everything easy for you, you know, convenient, easy, late night,
1:04:57
really good tasting stuff with with quality. But you're not gonna cut corners.
1:05:00
I'm not gonna cut corners. You know, we're using we're using great
1:05:03
products doing definitely a little bit different of a concept, but you know,
1:05:11
I think it's gonna be really good. So, I mean, i want
1:05:14
to be driving up to Boston one day and I'm my way up the fucking
1:05:16
Papa Doos, fucking eighteen wheelers, fucking driving by them, driving by I
1:05:21
promise I'll get you a lot more than your shirt. And your college is
1:05:27
actually that's a nice college shirt. That's a that's a good one. And
1:05:30
but you'll be wearing uh Travis Matthews college shirts. And I'll be drunk in
1:05:36
Boston as usual at age six, the's watching the Bruins game. No,
1:05:41
actually, one last thing before we go, we'll wrap this up. But
1:05:44
can you order online? Will you? Will you have the feature to order
1:05:46
online? Yeah? Yeah, we're not gonna have an app. Ye're not
1:05:49
gonna have an app yet? I mean sure down the road absolutely yeah.
1:05:54
I'm so expensive, very yeah. Yeah, So typing popados into Google right
1:05:58
now and go in there's r online butt in the first thing. You could
1:06:01
then choose to pick it up or deliver it right and uh, it's it's
1:06:05
it's gonna be simple. We're gonna make it, and all the pictures are
1:06:09
gonna be there too, so you're gonna be able to look at whatever everything
1:06:11
looks like. Have you thought about like bikini delivery people girls and bikinis?
1:06:15
Yeah, let's get camping on, Drew. I'm glad I didn't see me.
1:06:21
It's like the like the topless maids, you know, but society doesn't
1:06:27
want that anymore. No, they want to cut the boobs off, but
1:06:30
I don't know. Uh, pass well, best of luck to you,
1:06:33
buddy. I'm glad we were able to do this before you got open.
1:06:36
I also wanted to just say, real quick, I'm sorry for knocking you
1:06:40
another Fantasy football playoffs, Oh my god. I didn't want to bring that
1:06:44
up. I didn't put it in my notes on I figured that. I
1:06:45
uh, I mean, I fucking I was favored to win your favorite one
1:06:51
until Hill went down, Yes, and so I lost Hill, and then
1:06:55
I had, like this my own fault, but I had like I had
1:06:58
Najie Harris and iron Mouth on Pitt and I don't know, they scored like
1:07:01
six points combined, and then who is my quarterback? Like it was supposed
1:07:08
to be well, I'll pick it up right now. My quarterback was I
1:07:12
think CJ. Stroud right then I picked him up off Waivers, but then
1:07:15
he got hurt, so I had to put in You put in Browning,
1:07:16
Russell, you put in Jake Browning. I did it. Actually, he
1:07:19
had a pretty good game. He did. He had like eleven points.
1:07:23
Well that's my savvy going into the hit eleven points going into the fourth quarter.
1:07:27
I'm like, oh, I got Jerry's toast. And then all of
1:07:29
a sudden, this dude starts going off. He ends up with twenty four.
1:07:32
He ended up being a thirty or points. Uh yeah, this is
1:07:36
the league where so I had uh more from Chicago. Yeah, and I
1:07:43
probably wouldn't even faced you in that playoff round had I played him when he
1:07:46
scored fifty points on that Thursday night game like in Week five, I mean,
1:07:51
not a bad team. No, Actually, I'm sorry. I had
1:07:54
Ferguson was at my tight end. The Hill was out, Stroud was out,
1:07:58
Watson was out, Mark Andrews was out. Yeah, no, Robinson
1:08:01
Jr. Was out. Sorry I got smoked this week. So oh my
1:08:06
my team's across the board this week. My phone was blowing up fucking Saturday,
1:08:12
Sunday, Monday. But I was out of the playoffs in every league,
1:08:15
and I'm like, always happens that way. But you're actually you're playing
1:08:19
for third though you're still playing for money, right, there's money and third.
1:08:23
Yeah, I think it's your money back, probably the fifty dollars buying
1:08:25
back or something like that. Yeah, there usually is. I'll tell Drew
1:08:29
to the other Drew from Eli's if you wouldn't. Yes, I don't like,
1:08:32
not play your tea. I'm looking at it. Look at it.
1:08:35
There's still money up for grabs there. So, like I said, Papa
1:08:40
dos CT dot com at Papa Doo's CT on Instagram and Facebook, Uh,
1:08:46
what's your meal prep? Uh meal plus prep, meal plus prep dot com
1:08:50
or right out of the sites down because we're doing the transitions. So if
1:08:54
they just go to my personal Instagram all these and they can call the menus
1:09:00
squalb and the menu's out every Tuesday. Yeah, so uh, I can't
1:09:03
wait till the restaurant open and have some. Uh. I think I just
1:09:08
might get my personal pizza sampler there you go, try four different ones.
1:09:13
That sounds pretty good. I don't even smoke weed. That sounds good.
1:09:15
Ship all right, buddy, Thanks for having me on anytime, my friend.
1:09:19
And uh, you know, when when you get real big, don't
1:09:21
forget about me. Yeah, don't be going on some fucking you know Joe
1:09:26
Rogan ship. You gotta come back on day drinking with dog. Absolutely all
1:09:29
right, brother, Thanks so much, pal. You take care