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A star from THE SOPRANOS joins the show! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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done himself wonderfully on The Sopranos.
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We are now talking to well known actor Robert Funaro.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Eugene himself.
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Rob, what's up, buddy? All right, baby, how you doing
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Jabba of the mouth? Arrow Jabba of the mouth.
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That's interesting, I've never heard that before.
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No typical Preakness, no typical horses.
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The horses, nobody's talking. We have a betting guy that made
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that $80,000 or something like that.
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I farted. With that, everybody talks about
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the horses. You gotta talk.
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About horses you. Gotta talk about horses, you
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know? They're this big, you know?
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I have to be liking the freakness.
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So you liking the freak? I made a few dollars on the
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Derby myself. All right.
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I had some trotters that ran at Yonkers.
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Huh. I had some trotters that ran at
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Yonkers. Oh yeah, I had some.
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I had some horses that ran at Belmont and Aqueduct that one
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time some years back during the California Chrome time.
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Oh yeah. Speedy likes horses, right?
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Speedy. I know, but our friend, our
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friend Chaz does. He's made made a lot of money on
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that. You made what?
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Our friend Chaz has made a lot of money.
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On that, I'm talking about you. You love horses.
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I said no, but I said our friend Chaz.
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Does Have you ever thought about letting a horse ride you?
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Yes or no? No.
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Why not? Because it's a lot bigger than
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me. Got it going on.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have the one and only Robert Funaro
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and Rob. You know, it's interesting.
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I, I know you're a sports fan, but we're going to stay away
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from sports right now. We're going to talk about some.
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Sports. I like horse racing.
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You like all right, You like horse racing.
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He likes horse racing, all right.
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But we're we'll we'll get into some horse racing a little bit
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later. I want to talk about.
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Nickname for you is big. Horse, Big horse.
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I like that that that would be a good Italian name.
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You can go call me Errol, the big horse Marts.
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I like that. Call me big horse.
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All right. So obviously you played Eugene
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and The Sopranos. I, you know, I, I got a chance
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to watch the first season. So I know who you played.
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I know a little bit about what you you, you who you played on
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the show. What was it like working on one
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of the greatest shows in American history?
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It was, it was really, you don't really appreciate the these
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things until you you don't have them any longer until, until
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you, you die. But it it was a great
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experience. And Jim Gandolfini, who was a
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friend, he set the tone, a man of great humility and a good
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friend who sent the elevator down, so to say, as Jack Lemmon
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would say for his other friend is that actor or colleague, so
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to say. So by him setting the tone, it
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was just like a family and no one.
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There were no personalities, people yelling at each other.
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No, I won't do that, do this. Everyone fell in line because of
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James. What what?
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He set the tone of humility and grace, so to say.
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And and he was very generous man also.
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So I owe a lot to him. So any, any guest stars that are
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on that show, probably a lot of them that you had a connection
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with either on the set or even outside of it, good stories with
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them. Yeah, I mean, we had
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connections, connections with Maureen Van Zandt and and Vinnie
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Vincent Pastela, Big Pussy and Maureen.
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We we did some plays together. We had a, we had a theatre
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company called, well, it was once Renegade Theatre Company
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and we did some plays by Louis Larusso, some Italian good, some
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some great Italian playwrights. We did lamppost reunion with
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Frank Pellegrino from Rail. So there's some great
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relationship. Everyone kind of fell in for the
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their friends. And so they, they were my good
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friends and, and we did plays together.
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So that was cool, you know, besides everything else.
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I got to know Lorraine pretty well through Mitchell Modell
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because they live by each other and you know, it was always just
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interesting like her, her character and like her
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personality and and how it was she and she was always like it
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was really hard to play because I was so loud and in this, this
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had to be a different role. Was there somebody when you were
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working together that you just felt like you clicked with them
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better than certain other people?
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Because a lot of people have that like I work with a certain
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catcher because it, you know, does this was was there somebody
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that you worked with or it was just like it was natural and you
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could just either ad Lib and go off script and but it.
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One thing he couldn't do job was is was go off script because
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they had the the first a DS they were there and the script
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supervisors. You had to go by every single
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word on this TV show and and you couldn't add Lib like I did with
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Marty Scorsese for the Irishman and Vinyl and stuff like that.
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There are other directors, especially in film.
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You can you want to get that reality.
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It's a different kind of experience, but in TV the
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writers have a little bit few more rights and they really were
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very, very, very strict about it.
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But if you're asking who I love to work with, well, it was
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always James, especially on the big episode that I had to
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members only where I had some sort of trajectory.
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My my storyline of, of, you know, inheriting money from
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Victor Borg is agent. My aunt was married to Victor
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Borg is agent. I mean, where did they get this
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stuff, you know? But anyway, it was a great
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script and work with James and it was great to work with him.
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And, and we didn't really, you know, we were scheduled to work
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early on in the episode, our big scene and he kept on delaying it
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and delaying it. I think he really wanted me to
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get it kind of get the running in into the marathon, so to say,
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get my second win. And when I had my second win, we
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did a great scene together. So, you know, it was great to
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work with him. Speedy's got a lot of second
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wins, by the way, You're going to get to know Speedy a little
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bit. You know, he, he definitely
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doesn't shut up and he drives every winds.
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He's like a big windbag. We are now talking to well known
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actor Robert Funaro played Eugene on The Sopranos.
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You know, there was a guy on the show that really stuck, stood
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out to me because I'm a big Bruce Springsteen fan.
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Steven Van Zandt, very well known guitarist.
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He's been around for a very, very long time.
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What was it like working with Steven?
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I've heard he's been, you know, over the years.
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He's a very unique individual, very funny, very outgoing.
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What was it like working with somebody like Steven?
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Stevie, a great person and another man of great humility
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when he was there to act, not to, you know, talk about Bruce
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and stuff. And it was great to know
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Maureen, who played his wife on the show because we did plays
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together and I got to see all the concerts, went to see Bruce.
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That was a little perk that I loved.
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And not because, because we were friends and he always came to
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all our shows, all our Off Broadway shows, off of Broadway
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shows, off Broadway shows, he would always come to them and
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and give us his support, even actually funded some of them.
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So he's a great guy. And as I said, you know, it's
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all business. It's all acting when he's
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acting. And the one great thing about
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him, you can ask him any trivia Rock'n'roll trivia question.
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And man, damn, he's right there. I'll have the answer for you.
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You know what I mean? I've I've heard he's a big, he's
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a big sport sports fan, he's a big Yankee fan.
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So I've also. He likes to play the horses,
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too, yeah. Who?
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Who doesn't like playing the horses?
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Except Speedy. Speedy likes horses.
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Riding him instead of watching if.
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There was a horse riding me. I would not be here right now,
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I'd be in the hospital. Yeah, you'd be in the hospital.
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Well, no. He'd be dead.
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He'd be dead. What is this hospital the size?
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Or what is this horse the size of an elephant?
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Hey, have you screamed their their manhood dog?
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I don't know anything about horses, manhoods, Java I.
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No comment. You made the right decision, I
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thought. I thought, I thought error will
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be the one to ever think about that.
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I'm surprised that it was Java this time.
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Do you want to jerk me off? God, no niffin soundboard
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edition intelligence method that is not looking good for your
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'cause right now. All right, moving off, of
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course, moving off of horses alter lives.
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I know you like. Use the answer on the grounds
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that might incriminate. Oh my God, what is this now?
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That's an upside down horse, yeah.
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Who's riding him? That's it.
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All right. I have a suspect.
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I believe he's in his car right now.
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I wonder if he has some involvement in this because he
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went horses. Horses like saddles.
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They're not far behind the leashes.
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A lot of hot ladies. So Rob, before this gets too
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further out of hand, any any of your roles that maybe we're not
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as popular as something like The Sopranos or The Irishman that
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you had a particularly favorite role that you liked getting
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involved with? And why would that be?
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Oh OK, I did like working on. Well, the Irishman was really a
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fun. Love that movie.
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But it was the second thing off of I did Vinyl where I played
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Tony with Bobby Carnevale and I got a chance to work with Bobby
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Carnevale. But it was the first time I ever
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worked with Robert De Niro and that was a it was great.
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I had a great scene with him and when I walked off the set, I
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said, jeez, I was just with Max Katie.
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I just was hanging out with taxi driver.
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I was hanging out with all those guys, man.
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And it was it was really a great feeling to work with Bobby De
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Niro and I knew some people that he knew.
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So I was able to strike up a conversation because he's a very
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quiet guy and to kind of break the ice, so to say, because I
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played it one of his friend and I kind of introduced him to as
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as a as the Irishman. I introduced him to Frank
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Sheeran. I introduced him to Skinny
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Razor. So that was a great experience.
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Also, you know, I played in with Jessica Biel in who's beautiful
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in the center and that was a great role too.
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Although I went in as Ron Tana and they changed the name to
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Tinetti, but I was still happy to be the to be the
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father-in-law. So not a non typical wise guy
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kind of manner, a working class kind of guy, almost like De Niro
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when he played in Bronx Tale. So those roles are kind of red
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letter days for guys because you get typecast a lot.
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I would have been Jessica Sinner, OK?
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I would have been like, Jessica, come over here, baby.
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Give me a kiss. All right on the cheek.
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Right over here, man. Give me a nice meal.
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She ran the series. I wouldn't have been.
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I would have been on the call for the calls me for the next
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day. Listen, she gave me a kiss.
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I might have to be in the backroom if you know what I
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mean. I'll tell you, yeah, certain
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people you work with, you know, and she was one of them that you
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like. When you look at her, you say,
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holy shit. Angie Harmon, also from Law and
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Order. It's like you like you like a
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deer caught in the headlights. It's the beauty is just like so
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fucking beautiful, you know what I mean?
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It's like, whoa, you know? Beautiful, beautiful.
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Yeah, there there's some you see and you, you probably come
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across this too and in, in all your years doing it.
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But there's some that are actually beautiful.
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Like more beautiful in person than you actually see them on
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screen. Yeah, me.
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Well, I I wouldn't go that far. Let's not.
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Push it. Hey, wait a second.
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You never met me in person. How do you know?
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How the hell do you know I'm a beautiful guy?
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Wait, a look at this wonderful smile.
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Of of 5 foot 10 1/2. That's right.
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They said yes, 510 1/2, a little bit over 1/2, but we'll say 1/2.
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OK, I'm just, I'm trying to help you here.
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Go ahead. I'm sorry.
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Robert, when you were younger, like, was this always your
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passion or did somehow somebody push you in that direction?
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Or was this you just fell into it?
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There was no pushing for me. I, I mean, my uncle was a
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priest, he was a Monsignor. He raised money for Catholic
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Charities by putting on plays. He started really humbly in, in
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Howard Beach. And then he he, he, he related
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was he was later elevated to Brooklyn Catholic Charities and
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he raised a lot of money by doing musical.
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So the family would always go to to see his plays.
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And then he would take us to see plays.
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One of the most memorable plays was the chorus line.
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And when I went to see that, I was hooked.
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It's just that was a great show. Michael Bennett.
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The whole idea of, of just wanted you just to, to, to, to
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do it from there I was hooked. And, and then then of course, I
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did one year with Pace University college as I wanted
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to be a businessman and I failed that miserably.
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I wrote a poem for my final don't quit.
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And then I went home and I, and I, as I was talking to my mom
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and she said, why don't you do something you like to do?
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And it was a trauma program. So I fell into that.
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Although I didn't graduate trauma the, the program, I did
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start it. So to say I'm more or less
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working towards a professional professional on a professional
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level. We are talking to well, we are
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talking a well known actor, Robert Funaro.
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Let's get into your book, OK, Because you know, Nathan, Nathan
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was telling me that you wrote a book.
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I hopefully I was in it. Even though you don't know me,
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maybe you you put a little passage about some guy that I
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might meet in the future named Errol.
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I mean, tell us a little bit about your book.
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How long did it take you to write it?
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Obviously and obvious. You know, I seen you do a lot of
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book signings. How long has this book been out
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and and how's it doing right now on Amazon?
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Well, it's doing really well. It's doing really well.
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I mean, it opened up opening night was like in February and
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we, and we saw quite a few, we saw we sold out on the on
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Paisancon. You know, The thing is COVID
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happened. We started cook, I started
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cooking and I started doing this thing with my hand, all the food
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and stuff, and I put him on Instagram.
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So, you know, my manager was really adept.
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Andrew Jedlica. He he he suggested I do this
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cookbook and I said another act that Stanley Tucci get a little
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cookbook. It's just stupid, you know, and,
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and I said, you know, what the hell am I doing?
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I'm really not really working. It's like very little work.
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We had the COVID then the strike and I said, you know what, I'll
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do it. But you know what I'll do?
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I'll tell you what I'll I'll book ended with like 8 pull 8
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episodes. I did like 2425, I'm not sure.
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And I'll pull 8 episodes that I really enjoyed and I'll talk
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about my experience of getting on the show, my relationship to
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James Gambolofini. We did Streetcar Named Desire
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prior eight years in the 80s, We did that.
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We toured Scandinavia for three months.
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Later on he came back to America.
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I was working. So it's all in a book.
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I'll talk about how I got on the show, what happened to me, how I
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landed a particular role. You have to read the book to to
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and then I was it didn't happen that role.
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And then I was given Eugene and for actors also.
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And then, of course, twofold being for actors and secondly,
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also to to carry on the legacy of so many great recipes.
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I'm sure you have them. Everyone has it.
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You wish you had a rest of that recipe that grabbed that
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meatloaf recipe. So at least these are down and
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and so later on, when I'm when I'm pushing up daisies, they can
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pick up a book and say that was that was Rob, Uncle Rob or great
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Grandpa Rob. And let's let's do a let's do a
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Sunday sauce. You know, Mama Fanara Sunday
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sauce. You know what I'm saying?
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That's. Not what I know about the sauce,
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man. You got to stay away from Speedy
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sauce. I mean, that could be really
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dangerous, as we all know. Now you don't want, you don't
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want me cooking Italian food. You're in New York.
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It's really simple. There's step by step
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instructions. It's really, you know, it's
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this, it's about 125 pages. It's not like it's not it's,
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it's not Hemingway. You might need Speedy's recipe,
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if you know what I mean. A little.
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You wouldn't want that. Caesar sauce.
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You would not want. That a little squirt.
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You can burn. You can burn that recipe.
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Salad dressing, Robert, you can. Robert, you can.
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Next, next recipe. If you ever do one of those
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recipe shows, you could just take my recipe and burn it
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first, then cook I'll in front, I'll in front of your viewers,
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because I I would be. Fart Fish said a good thing.
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We should, we should. We should get Robert's book,
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pick out a recipe and then have Speedy film and then post it.
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If you want a blooper reel, you could do that, Robert.
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You do not want to see this guy. Everybody says, listen, I I've
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been said, I've been told many, many times that hey, you don't
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cook. But when I do cook, I'm actually
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pretty good. When you watch this guy cook,
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he'll mess up tuna fish, he'll mess up macaroni and cheese.
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You do not want him to touch a pot, a hot pan or anything.
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He'll screw it up. So stay away from my food,
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speedy, especially with those juices, if you know what I mean.
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By the way, we are talking a well known actor, Robert Funaro.
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You know, Rob, you were talking about the Preakness and it's
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coming out right up and I know we're going to have Chaz on the
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show. Is he coming on tonight?
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Johnny is coming on. I'm not sure about Chaz.
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Well, the Preakness, this guy, I don't know if you've listened to
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a show and if you haven't, you should because Chaz, he had the
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trifecta not once, but twice back-to-back years.
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This guy is as good a pick picker when it comes to horses.
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It's absolutely amazing. But I have been, you know,
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skewing through the different horses that are going to be in
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in the Preakness. And one horse that really sticks
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out to me, the name is American Promise.
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Now you're a horse fan. Tell us a little bit about
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American Promise. He it's 50.
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It's 15 to 1 to win the Preakness.
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Well, you know, he's a Dwayne. Lucas is always a dangerous
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trainer, by the way, I I did have the exact straight coal and
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and win money on the on on sovereignty.
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So I got a pretty good I've got a pretty good return on
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investments for the Kentucky Derby.
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But I'm not going to, I'm not going to say that the, the, you
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know, America promises that you're going to get a price the
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horses. I, I like another horse, a
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couple of horses. I do like journalists to win the
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race. I think he deserves, he deserves
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his props and I'd love to see him win.
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And I think he's the best trained horse in the field.
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But I also like this other horse by Todd Pletcher who came in
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second to Sovereignty for 2nd place at River Thames.
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So my choice is journalism over River Thames and I'm, and you
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know, you got to make a choice and you can't play them all.
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And those are the two that I, those are the two that I like
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based on River Thames performance.
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And he skipped the Derby. So Todd Pletcher, who was a very
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good trainer, he never won the race, but I think he, he, he
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might come close to winning at this time.
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But I do believe that journalism is the best horse.
21:02
It's going to be raining. What do you, what do you look
21:05
into a horse that makes you think that this particular horse
21:08
is going to win that race? I mean, certain fields are a
21:12
little bit longer, so you need a obviously a longer stride.
21:16
There's some horses that are better and smaller, you know,
21:19
smaller. Races A small example
21:21
Sovereignty ran in the Florida Derby, but you're looking for an
21:24
angle. So now his jockey where I'm in
21:27
the Florida, he was Manny Franco.
21:28
Now Franco wasn't his regular jockey.
21:31
He was Junior Alvarado who was fine, but 60,000 foot whip of
21:34
the made time. But that's bullshit anyway
21:36
because anyway, moving on. So Franco, if you watch that
21:41
race close, you see he starts getting up on sovereignty really
21:44
late. Now he was beaten, he was
21:46
defeated, but he starts moving him really because he didn't
21:49
really know the horse like Junior did.
21:51
So Junior being hurt, he's coming back and he almost won
21:55
that race. He was come back.
21:56
So you got to say to yourself, geez, another eighth of a mile
21:59
and you look at his breeding, look who he's from into mischief
22:02
is is is genealogy, so to say his genes.
22:05
So he's got it inside himself to do that distance.
22:08
Now you look him come up and you say to yourself, well, he
22:11
doesn't really need to win the race to get into the Derby.
22:14
A lot of these three-year olds, they have to train and they
22:16
learn as they go along. So you say to yourself, he's a
22:20
perfect candidate to close on a a speedy race, which is a race
22:25
that the horses go out really quickly, which they did in the
22:28
Kentucky Derby. 46, you know, 59, you know, I mean, so you,
22:36
you're looking for that now. But the jockey angle was my
22:38
biggest, biggest factor because I I knew that, you know, Franco
22:43
started late on him and I knew that junior who was back on him.
22:46
He was recovered that he really was going to do do his best to
22:50
to get him going on the in the right stage.
22:53
And, and I knew that he can and journalism.
22:55
He almost got beat by Baeza. He was very vulnerable and in
22:59
that respect, but he's a great horse.
23:01
He's always been almost beat. So with another eighth of a
23:06
mile, maybe he can sovereignty did it.
23:10
So that's what you're looking for.
23:11
Now in this particular race, you, you know, you got to think
23:13
that journalism could do two things.
23:16
He could run fast and he can rate.
23:17
So he's, it's only 8 horse fields, a short field.
23:20
He's going to go out and he's going to and he's and he's going
23:22
to be with the winners up, He's going to be with the horse up
23:24
top. Is he in shape?
23:25
He's in perfect shape. River Thames ran against great
23:29
horses and he came second and third.
23:31
So if you want a little bit of an exact the price, you go with
23:35
that. So that's that's my that's my
23:37
strategy. Look for always look for an
23:39
angle error. It could be in in the jeans like
23:41
some horses have wet track, they have it on the wet track
23:44
performance. They they have a gene out in
23:46
their genes. They're great Wet, Wet runners
23:49
you. Know, do you think, do you think
23:51
a sloppy track affects the horses as as far as the
23:54
genealogy of it? Because I wanted to get in that
23:56
because a sloppy track changes your strategy on how whether you
24:00
know you come early, you come late, you go on the inside, or
24:03
you try to come on the outside. Absolutely it it definitely does
24:06
a lot of like one one horse that's a great a a great breeder
24:11
of sire is called flatter. Whenever you see a a sloppy race
24:16
and you see that the breeding on one horse is flattered, no
24:18
matter what the price is always bet that horse.
24:21
Usually sometimes I I would say a good a good number of times
24:24
you'll you'll be you'll you'll win.
24:26
You're looking for wet track form.
24:28
Not all horses. Now I think that if the track
24:30
was dry, I think journalism would have put up a better
24:32
fight. I'm not so sure he would have
24:34
lost. It was a given given that field,
24:36
because he's a great horse. He really is.
24:38
He's at a, he's at AI believe he's out of Curlin and that's a
24:41
pretty good horse. Before we let you go, because I
24:44
know you're a busy guy, tell us a little bit about some of the
24:48
things that you're going to be coming doing in the next couple
24:51
of months and coming up where some of the fans could see you
24:54
or get your autograph or meet you in person.
24:58
Well, you can go to Instagram and you can friend me and you
25:01
can find out what, what what I'm doing.
25:04
You'd also purchase my book through Instagram on Amazon
25:07
Prime by hitting the link. I'm on there.
25:11
There's a Kindle copy, a soft cover, a hardcover.
25:16
I prefer the hardcover. It's the the pitch is a little
25:18
bit more glossier. That's a little shinier.
25:21
I'm doing Barnes and another Barnes and Noble in Massapequa
25:24
June 14th at between 1:00 and 3:00.
25:27
So I'll I'll be up there in Long Island and my old family
25:30
stomping ground. Long Island.
25:33
Cafe Michelangelo we're doing a cigar event.
25:35
I do I do represent the cigar company called Omerta and a
25:38
coffee company called Omerta. Meet Jason Sarbone and Dan
25:41
Gamaldi. We promote this cigar and coffee
25:45
company. So we're doing something in at
25:47
Cafe Michelangelo in in Philadelphia.
25:49
Coming up with it's on, you know, it's on, as I said on
25:52
Amazon, I also have an independent film called Critical
25:55
Acclaim the Movie, and that's on Amazon too.
25:57
That's a pretty cool, cool film about a film director that gets
26:00
a bad review and he gets kind of goes berserk.
26:03
So what else is new? When when you're actually
26:05
directing in a movie, you should invite us to be, you know, play
26:08
a part. I mean, Java could play the guy
26:10
that I killed in the movie. I mean, that would be great.
26:13
I'd be the the mafia killer. I'd be that person that you're
26:17
hiring to go and. Kill him.
26:18
You want to clip him? Yeah, I want.
26:19
To clip him, I want to flip them or beat them with, you know, a
26:22
baseball bat. I'd rather, instead of using a
26:24
gun, I'd rather use a weapon. You know, I want to watch the
26:28
guy bleed out, You know, I know killing somebody.
26:31
Films that we saw, like weapons like that were, well, you know,
26:35
you got to go to the golf or the Sunny Corleone.
26:38
That beaten was beautiful. How about that was a beautiful
26:40
beaten. Yeah, how about, how about
26:42
cutting the horses? It's going to be.
26:43
One of the top five Beatens ever, right?
26:45
Yeah, I like. I like the.
26:47
Name. Can you name 1?
26:48
Can you name 1 Joe Burke? Can you name one Speedy Speedy
26:51
that you that you remember that one not?
26:52
Better than that one. Yeah.
26:57
Last summer I'm. About to set off and it just
26:59
rolls down the on the ground. Oh Last Samurai well, you know
27:03
yeah, that's that's some good ones there the samurai films,
27:06
Zaitochi and Matusi and Mafun, there's some great the samurai
27:10
films that but that that's all clean cut.
27:13
It's not really getting torturing them.
27:15
You know, I tell you one film and I know you got to go.
27:19
We got to go. We got to end this one film
27:22
Casino when Frank Vincent and he takes show Pesci and his brother
27:30
to those weeds, you know, and they have the two brothers and
27:34
they're going to kill him and they start hitting with the
27:37
baseball bat and he makes the other brother watch and that's
27:40
one of the most brutal scenes and realistic scenes that ever
27:44
in any film. I believe that really.
27:47
You say to yourself, she's wow. It's like you like you're
27:49
affected by it. You feel feel hurt but and
27:54
that's just Scorsese and and what he does.
27:57
I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a mafia.
27:59
Movie I remember. That scene I remember.
28:01
That. Scene First of all, I'm a big
28:02
mafia movie fan. OK, so I watch every mafia
28:06
movie. I got a mafia movie you probably
28:08
never seen. You ready?
28:11
10th and Wolf? Have you ever seen that movie?
28:14
What's that? 10th and Wolf, that's what it's
28:16
called. No, I.
28:18
Never seen that. You see, I can teach somebody
28:21
something. Go check it out.
28:23
It's in 2006. The movie came out.
28:27
Giovanni. I always pronounce his name
28:30
wrong. So Giovanni Ribisi, he was in
28:33
the movie. It is a great, great movie.
28:37
Dennis Hopper was in it. Val Kilmer was in it.
28:39
It is a great, great movie. It's called 10th.
28:42
I want to check it out, Wolf. So it's actually a good movie.
28:45
So if you never seen it, go out there and go rent it, go watch
28:49
it. I I think it's on prime.
28:50
I'm not sure, but you could definitely find it.
28:52
Take them off. Thank you.
28:54
You know, I'm, I'm trying to help you here, Rob.
28:56
I mean, I I mean look at Speedy. I'm not above now.
28:58
I am not above now. I think Speedy, look at, look at
29:02
Speedy. He's he looks like Rob.
29:04
Rob, Doesn't Speedy look like your long lost son?
29:06
I mean, look at him. Look at him.
29:08
I mean, Speedy, take the hat off.
29:09
Take the hat off. Jesus, you cut the beard.
29:12
Take that off. Look at that.
29:13
Yeah, look at that. Look at that, can you make a
29:16
close up of them? Close up, Speedy.
29:19
Well, there you go. Look at that.
29:20
That sexy man I. Think so.
29:22
Yeah, I think we could be. We definitely could be my son.
29:24
We could even be brothers. Brothers, I mean, Speedy, What
29:27
do you think? Would you like Rob to be your
29:29
long lost brother, Sir? Proof.
29:32
Proof. All right, Who do you think
29:34
you'd get a girl quicker? You were Rob.
29:35
Rob easily. Why?
29:36
Why couldn't you get a girl quicker than Rob?
29:38
Because I'm awkward. I don't know about that, man,
29:40
because you see anybody here? Hey honey, come on, bring me the
29:48
sausage of Baptist. Where she Speaking of sausage, I
29:51
mean, Speedy is a very, very good at, you know, proposing,
29:57
you know, really nice sausage. You just eat speedy.
29:59
Tell them what kind of sausages you I don't know.
30:01
I, I, I think we're dealing with somebody that does recipes on
30:04
Instagram. It's much more of an enthusiast
30:06
what kind of sausages than me, I think.
30:08
I think you've met your match here.
30:10
Well, tell them a little bit about the sausage you like.
30:12
Do you like them amateur compared?
30:14
Hold on. Hold on, I'm asking you a
30:15
question. Do you like them dark?
30:16
I like them spicy. I den dark or amateur compared
30:19
to. Darker white.
30:21
You like it darker? Yes.
30:22
Darker. Yes.
30:23
How long do you like it? I don't know.
30:25
How about thick? Do you like it thicker?
30:27
God, enough with the size, it doesn't matter.
30:29
The size doesn't matter. You heard that, Rob, Size
30:32
doesn't matter, especially when it.
30:33
Goes Rob when you, when you, when you do your.
30:35
Italian sausage the Shiva deals so to.
30:39
Say when you're doing your recipes, does flavor matter more
30:42
or size? The truth is in the taste.
30:47
That's it. Because truth is in the taste.
30:49
It's in the taste, speedy, but you know it.
30:51
Taste, not size. Well, size is pretty good too,
30:54
you know, taste. Got to ask the ladies that you
30:57
know. What do you think, Speedy?
30:58
I'm not that that'd be weird anyways.
31:08
Yeah, my bank heist. I'll just let you know some.
31:11
Victim of his hypothetical Rob movie after Jabba kills.
31:13
Him Rob, just so you know, this guy, he he would rather steal
31:18
sausages than actual money. This guy is a sausage fan.
31:23
I mean, he's all about the sausage.
31:24
So if you ever get a chance, if you can, take him to one of
31:28
those Italian restaurants and enjoy a sausage with him.
31:31
Or sausage. But is he?
31:32
Is he spicy or regular? Speedy it doesn't matter because
31:36
I'm not stealing anything. I was at an Italian restaurant
31:41
with Rob. I would not want to be
31:42
committing theft. That's, well, it depends on who
31:44
you're stealing. From it doesn't matter who I'm
31:46
stealing. From nice Scarpiello with the
31:48
sausages, Nice chicken Scarpiello comes with the
31:51
sausage and the chicken and swap is really nice.
31:54
Yeah, it does sound good. Speedy, you just got to grab.
31:56
Making me hungry. Speedy, you just got to grab the
31:58
end, right? I don't care what I'm grabbing.
32:01
I'm not stealing anything. I'm not stealing anything.
32:05
Well, somebody's got to steal it, right?
32:07
Yeah. And those people can be
32:08
arrested. Robbie's a thief.
32:14
No, I said those people. But you just said they.
32:16
Can be those those people meeting other people, not you,
32:20
not me? I don't know.
32:26
I'm not licking anyone. There you go, I'm.
32:28
Definitely not licking anyone either.
32:29
He mind. You guys, I know you probably
32:31
talked about the Knicks. What do you think of the the
32:33
story with them? You think they're going to pull
32:35
it out? Or game six, Game 6, I think
32:38
they'll pull it out. Madison Square Garden in front
32:41
of their fans. I, I, I do believe that going
32:44
home is definitely good and fitting for the Knicks to win
32:48
game number six. I didn't think they were winning
32:50
game five. I thought obviously after Jason
32:53
Tatum going down and the fans all over social media taking
32:56
shots at the team that they didn't show up at in, in the
33:00
fourth quarter in game #4I I thought that they were going to
33:03
come out strong. And the Knicks, for some reason
33:06
in this series, when they lose, they lose bad.
33:08
And I expected as soon as the Knicks fell behind it in, in
33:13
game five, I knew they were going to lose the game by big.
33:15
So I expect the Knicks to keep to, to hopefully start the game
33:19
strong in game number six in front of their fans in Madison
33:22
Square Garden because they don't want to go to Boston in game #7
33:26
when they have the momentum. But.
33:28
Rob, I was there for you, the Houston, the Rockets when John
33:31
Stark shot that shot against it and they would have taken why
33:34
did. You have to do that.
33:35
I I liked you. I liked you until you mentioned
33:39
1990. Four, I saw it on the.
33:40
Floor and you. Had to do this.
33:42
I was. I was heartbroken.
33:43
I was heartbroken. I want.
33:45
To finish it out, you know what I mean?
33:46
They didn't have to go back and they lost in Houston.
33:48
So it was like, you know. Thank you.
33:50
Thank you very much. I.
33:51
Want, I want the I want the Nixon 6 so everybody can go to
33:54
my restaurant that's right down the street.
33:56
I agree. What's your restaurant?
33:58
American Whiskey. All right, yeah, definitely go
34:02
check it out. He's got good sausage over
34:04
there. He got good sausage.
34:05
Over there. What street?
34:07
35th. All right, all right.
34:10
You know if you're going South from the garden, that Mustang
34:13
Sally's. That's on the.
34:14
Corner, just take a right, right there and we're in the middle of
34:17
the block. Check it out.
34:19
It's right around. The corner the game, but yeah.
34:22
It's right around the corner. I'm just curious.
34:25
It seems like a lot of people chaotic outside the garden.
34:28
I never, I mean I used to work at the garden.
34:30
I mean that seems like. A lot they they closed down 7th
34:32
Ave. after the game the other day.
34:34
They close it down. Wow, it's crazy.
34:37
Just so you know. New York is crowded, huh?
34:39
Just so you know, American whiskey is right around the
34:42
corner from the Sausage Palace. So if you if you, you want
34:45
yourself a sausage. It used to be right next to the
34:49
best rub and tug and. Giuliani got in there and he
34:54
cleaned it up. Well, Robert Kraft, anybody
35:02
wants some Kraft macaroni and cheese?
35:04
Anyways, thank you, Rob for joining us.
35:06
We really. Appreciate it.
35:07
Thank you, Jober and Speedy. Thank you very much.
35:10
It's been a great pleasure to be on your show.
35:12
Yes, you're eloquent. You're you're you're erudite.
35:16
There we go. And you're you're meaningful.
35:18
And and the sausage, it's interesting.
35:21
It is. It's very interesting.
35:22
I think it's the first time any of us have been called erudite.
35:25
Where? You go.
35:27
Yeah, well, what's wrong with that?
35:28
I like that. Oh.
35:29
I love this. Pulled it out my ass.
35:34
Rob Sophisticated. Make me want to make sausage and
35:39
Peppers now. As long as she's using dude
35:40
wipes and taking care of my tooth hole I'm good.
35:46
Anyways, that's our soundboard. But we love you, Rob.
35:49
We really do. Keep up the good work.
35:50
Let's get you on the show, man. You're going to be a Master P
35:53
Quote. I, I maybe me and Speedy will
35:55
come down there and hang out with you.
35:58
Let's hang out. Let's hang out.
35:59
We'll eat some sausages together.
36:01
Speedy can share his sausage with you.
36:03
There's got to be a place to unless I bring some good
36:05
sausage. With you.
36:06
There you go You you have a good sausage, Speedy will share it
36:09
with you, Right Speedy? I'd rather I'd rather throw mom.
36:12
No comment on that. Rob, don't worry, Rob, don't
36:18
worry if that ever ends. Up happening.
36:22
Rob, if that ever, ever ends up happening, I'll throw the
36:24
sausage at him. You know what's so funny, Robin,
36:26
by the way, I want you to tell everybody who they should go
36:29
with one more time before we let you go.
36:31
Speedy, when he's trying to, you know, add something, he will cut
36:36
anybody off just to get it out there.
36:38
He will do anything it would. And when he, he doesn't want to
36:42
speak, he'll, he'll just sit there like he's got to stick up
36:45
his ass or a sausage up his ass. So that's, that's Speedy, ladies
36:48
and gentlemen. But tell the fans who they
36:51
should bid on at the Preakness. I I say journalism over River
36:56
Thames and a little bit of reverse reverses a little bit as
36:59
a savor. There you go.
37:01
That's my pick. All right, our bonus.
37:02
Let's parlay with Robert. There you go, and and and by the
37:05
way. I got to go back off now.
37:08
So, you know, somebody's got to go whack off.
37:10
It's probably NIF, but anyways, thank.
37:12
You guys. Thank you, Rob.
37:13
We really love you. Thank you so much, Robert.
37:16
Love you too. Robert Funaro, first time on our
37:18
show. Very good, great personality.
37:21
Enjoy sausages and stay away from Speedy.
37:24
OK, stay the hell away from Speedy.
37:26
All right, That's all I'm going to say about that.
37:29
I, I thought I thought he was cool.
37:30
I he got a chance to know how crazy we are and we had a little
37:33
fun with him. So I thought it was great.
37:36
He's got a good, a really good sense of humor for sure.
37:39
Oh, it was. Great.
37:39
Somebody's going to have to have a good sense of humor.
37:42
I mean, Speedy don't. That's what he did.
37:44
Make me hungry though, I'm not going to lie.
37:46
Yeah, especially the saucer. I.
37:46
Just had a little snack and I was like, damn, now I'm hungry.
37:49
It's funny. You have to alternate your pizza
37:50
orders and. Peppers and pasta tonight for
37:53
dinner. Oh well, you did.
37:54
Yeah. I love sausage and Peppers.
37:58
Not too late to order it on your 10 pizzas, John, I'm.
38:01
Only a quarter Italian so I don't really know exactly what
38:03
I'm doing, but I do a bunch of cool stuff.
38:05
Oh I I have no idea. Like I had a.
38:08
Bloody bacon in there, actually. Whoa, That's that's I was, I was
38:12
going ham. I put like cheese.
38:13
Baking in your sausage. No bacon.
38:17
It's like a mix. And I threw like green beans in
38:19
there. And I mean like a whole like
38:20
kind of like a Italian cheesy stir fry kind of idea.
38:25
And you're getting speedy, a little wet, you know it's
38:28
getting. Wet.
38:28
I didn't cover it in Alfredo sauce so you can't have it.
38:31
Errol. I'll screw you.
38:32
All right, fish, You're really starting.
38:35
To. I almost did though.
38:36
I thought it might go well with it, but I decided I think.
38:38
It. Rusted.
38:43
Did you go? Did you go onions too?
38:45
Yeah, of course you have to. Onions smell my ass.
38:50
Well I just want sausages and Peppers and people will be like
38:53
no onion. I'm like onions give so much
38:55
flavor and when they're I don't like raw onions which is weird
38:58
but I like cooked onions. I'm the same way.
39:00
You start with the cooked onions at the beginning of the cook
39:02
like that's where you start. Yeah, Yum Yum the.
39:05
OG start. Point Yeah, until they get
39:08
translucent. That's what makes them Yum Yum.
39:11
I know. I need a gin and tonic.
39:13
What the hell is that? Where did that come drop?
39:19
Did we get nothing to smoke from?
39:21
Like smoke weed or something. Simpsons commitment.
39:25
I was just going to say we have 711.
39:29
Breaking news Goody has no Woody.
39:35
And you know he when he. When all this stuff started
39:39
happening, he refused to do that voice over.
39:44
Again, that's true. Yes, it is.
39:46
It's true. There's no lie to that.
39:48
Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, we call this Let's Parlay.
40:00
Time for let's parlay it's been a lot of yelling on this show,
40:05
ladies and gentlemen, and one guy that doesn't like to yell he
40:09
likes to hang out is he he's got to be in his car he's got to be
40:12
somewhere unless he's like you're a little box what's going
40:16
on over there you're a little box over there where is.
40:18
Going, I have this dining room table like that just doesn't.
40:21
It doesn't lie. It's on, but you wouldn't know
40:23
it was on. So you're trying to keep it for
40:26
like a night? You're celebrating something
40:27
once. It's got his Easter decorations
40:29
up still. What's that?
40:30
Oh yeah. Who found the eggs?
40:33
Speedy. Speedy, did you find your eggs?
40:36
Did I find eggs? Yeah, eggs.
40:38
No, I didn't find any. Eggs.
40:39
You don't go egg hunting. I did as a kid.
40:42
I. Haven't done it in a while.
40:42
I mean, have you ever been smacked in the ass while you
40:45
were looking for eggs? No, never done that, No.
40:48
So you didn't have somebody like No with you behind you.
40:51
How about absolutely, you know, ducking and trying to look for
40:53
eggs in accidentally his face or it's face went in your ass.
40:57
How about that? Never.
40:58
No. OK, I I mean you had your dog
41:00
lick your ass so. Again by accident.
41:02
And it was. Not, I mean, nobody admits that
41:04
they had a dog lick their ass, OK, except Speedy.
41:06
So ladies and gentlemen, Speedy is one in a million.
41:09
Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know how this game works,
41:13
it's very simple. We have Reno Johnny.
41:15
He's going to give you his top 41 after the other and he's
41:18
going to give you his picks and you can keep tabs or even make
41:22
bets on his picks. So it's 4123 and his fourth will
41:27
be his parlay. Are you ready, Reno, Johnny.
41:31
Yeah, we're ready. We're ready.
41:33
Let's go. We're going to start with the
41:36
NBA, We're going to start and we're going to fade.
41:39
The New York Knickerbockers catch a 2 1/2 from the Celtics.
41:44
And I know if you're trying to bet this game, you know, Jason
41:48
Tandem's out. We understand that.
41:50
But if you look at the Celtics this year without Jason Tatum,
41:54
including the playoff game, but they just won by 20.
41:56
They're tended to, they've done really well without Jason Tatum.
42:00
I was really worried about how they were going to respond.
42:03
Jaylen Brown, to me, he's kind of been a guy haven't really
42:05
been high on. He really responded well.
42:07
He became a leader. He he, he's, he really believed.
42:11
And look at him play. I think he believes they can win
42:12
this series. I look at this, this Knicks
42:14
team, they've been down by 20 points in all the one game they
42:18
should have lost the 1st 2. They came back to miraculous
42:20
fashion. But the the Knicks have not been
42:23
the better team. It's it's a weird thing to say
42:25
team that was a three one. They have not been the better
42:28
team. And you look at this red too,
42:30
it's almost begging for nick money, right?
42:33
You don't have the best player on the court.
42:35
Knicks are only -2 1/2 on their homecourt where they won game 4
42:39
by dominant fashion. They won games one and two on
42:41
the road. The spread just doesn't make a
42:44
lot of sense. I'm going to take the plus 2 1/2
42:46
sprinkle on the money line. I'm going to take the the
42:48
Celtics to win that game outright, but I'll have to point
42:51
to my back pocket. They've just been the better
42:53
team with or without Jason Tatum.
42:54
To me, I don't know if he's really it's going to sound weird
42:59
talent wise, he's great. I'm not sure he's makes their
43:03
team better that makes any sense.
43:05
So I like the Celtics to win that game and get this pushes to
43:08
a Game 7 and the New York Knicks deal with the New York Knicks
43:11
too. They.
43:13
You're a hater. You're an absolute hater.
43:16
I I knew you were going to go that route.
43:18
So, OK, give us your number 2. You know what it it?
43:21
I don't really. I hate both.
43:22
Teams. No.
43:23
You're a Nick hater. You're a Nick hater.
43:25
Anybody that listens to Reno Johnny at any point.
43:29
Reno Johnny's been on this show for years.
43:32
He hates the New York Knicks. He hates the Yankees.
43:35
He hates any New York team. He hates them.
43:38
No So. I'm cool with the Mets.
43:39
No, you're cool with the Mets. That's right.
43:41
Yeah, you're cool with the Mets because they're not in the same
43:44
division as the Baltimore Orioles.
43:46
Who apps absolutely sucked, by the way, And I was right about
43:48
them. They suck.
43:50
I told you. I told.
43:52
You we're going to head to hockey and we're going to take
43:57
the Florida Panthers -1.5 on the fuck right.
43:59
This is a team that, look, they've also dominated this
44:02
series. If you take away period one in
44:04
game one and period 2IN Game 2, they've been the better team
44:08
start to finish all game, all series long.
44:12
This Florida Panthers team kind of they they let some games get
44:15
away from them games 1:00 and 2:00, but they finally turned it
44:19
on. They tied it up to 2.
44:21
They got they they went up 6. Nothing on the road when the
44:25
game 61. Now they're back on the home
44:28
ice. They have a chance here to close
44:30
it out. I don't think it's going to be
44:31
closed. They've been the better team all
44:32
series long. They put in more shots all
44:34
series long and Burbosky's put up 58 straight saves.
44:37
I'm not sure they're going to score many goals.
44:39
Give me the Florida Panthers to win this and Toronto also does
44:43
what they do in the playoffs and that is lose.
44:45
Toronto loses. I want to stay it off.
44:47
Any Canadian hockey fans out there when it was the last time
44:51
I ever won a World Cup? I'm just going to win Panic
44:54
Cups. Y'all fail in the playoffs.
44:56
Florida Panthers get to the next round in dominant fashion.
45:00
Toronto, go back, go eat your Maple syrup.
45:02
Get out of the playoffs. It's a baseball.
45:05
I like baseball. What are you?
45:06
I like my pancakes. The last time, the last time in
45:08
a full season a Canadian team went to the Cup was.
45:10
Back somebody had all the. Protests after that, but so the
45:14
only other one was that short season with the Canadians, but
45:16
that was a fluke. So Vancouver was the last one in
45:18
11, and the last one to win was 93.
45:24
They, they just don't, you know, when you look at they just don't
45:27
win. And it's kind of a weird thing.
45:29
Hockey, hockey's the birth place, you know, in Canada, they
45:32
just don't win. They haven't done well.
45:34
So we're going to fade them. And if you look at the Series 2,
45:36
Florida's been the better team. They just lost game 1:00 and
45:39
2:00, but they really have been the better team all series.
45:41
Long Who's the last Canadian team to win a Stanley Cup?
45:45
Canadians. Yes, that's correct. 93 Beat the
45:49
Kings. Long time ago, baby.
45:51
Yeah, long time ago. All right, give us your #3.
45:54
And we're going to go to baseball, we're going to go to
45:56
the team that has been absolutely terrible, and we're
46:02
going to fade them. We're going to take the
46:03
Washington Nationals. I'm an Orioles fan.
46:05
Everybody knows I'm an Orioles fan.
46:07
They suck to. One thing about they're
46:09
terrible, but the one thing about the Orioles as I look at a
46:11
team that going into the offseason had two glaring
46:15
issues, starting pitching which we didn't address, and one thing
46:19
that nobody really understands is our bullpen needed a massive
46:23
overhaul. Our bullpen by metrics, by
46:26
metrics we were over performing all standard metrics.
46:30
If you look at the Oreos bullpen, they were consistently
46:32
top ten in the last two years, but their metrics indicator
46:36
regression was going to come and just never did.
46:38
Dean Kramer for the last four years has been a good solid
46:41
pitcher and every year progression was going to hit and
46:45
it just never did. So we have two glaring issues
46:48
and the Orioles did absolutely nothing to fix those issues.
46:51
We don't have a bad line if we can hit.
46:53
We have a bunch of guys hitting 250 plus some some home run
46:56
power. We just don't have any pitching
46:57
to support it. I actually like this National,
47:00
so many they match up pretty well.
47:02
You don't know what national team you're going to get.
47:03
I have the bad luck with the nationals.
47:05
Sometimes I feel like I bet on them and I get I get the the
47:08
three years ago nationals team after they won this, after they
47:10
won the World Series, they were terrible, but sometimes they can
47:13
hit. They got a little pop in the top
47:15
half a lineup. And I actually like Mackenzie
47:16
Gore. Mackenzie Gore is one of those
47:18
acquisitions they got in the Juan Soto deal that was kind of
47:21
a young up and come pitcher with San Diego at the time.
47:23
He's one of their guys in in this.
47:25
And if you look at pitching from the metric standpoint, nationals
47:29
way better. It's -110 odds again, you know
47:33
me on the National, this could be the time they, they, they bat
47:36
like the Yankees. So we're going to take them to,
47:39
to, to win the game against my beloved Orioles.
47:42
And then the other game we're going to go last game of the
47:44
day. Give me the Reds getting plus
47:46
money at home. I actually like this pitching
47:49
match up a lot. Brady Singer got from the
47:50
Royals. They they acquired him from the
47:52
Royals in the offseason. He's been a real solid pitcher
47:55
for them. He's got a solid ERA.
47:57
His fifth is actually what's indicating some positive
47:59
regression to me. Guardians really don't know how
48:03
to read them. They're a team that I just
48:04
cannot get a hold on. I just like this plus money
48:07
slide plus money at home. So I'm going to take the Reds at
48:12
plus money, parlay that with the Orioles, going to be my 2
48:16
teamer, and then everything else you can kind of do whatever you
48:18
want. My picks.
48:19
That's kind of how I'm going to play my picks.
48:21
And you never mentioned anything about the Yankees and the Mets,
48:23
and thank God you didn't, because I don't want to get so
48:25
angry at you. Then I have to just like hit the
48:27
mute. He just wants a site for his bet
48:30
for Kyrie Irving to be trade for the Lakers.
48:32
I want to do a whopping. I want to do a.
48:35
Whopping. I actually don't think Kyrie
48:37
Irving will go to the Lakers. I think you.
48:38
Got to put your tongue on something.
48:40
I think people don't. I think people underestimate
48:44
LeBron didn't get along with Kyrie to be honest.
48:47
I think I think Kyrie at the time he was young guy.
48:50
But look, he LeBron doesn't win that title without Kyrie A. 100%
48:54
So Kyrie hasn't played, Kyrie hasn't been the same player
48:58
without LeBron. I mean, they worked very, very
49:00
well together. They did as a team, as teams.
49:03
I. Disagree with that.
49:04
I think Kyrie Irving is a baller no matter where he goes.
49:06
He can put up points, he can dish the.
49:07
Rock, let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question.
49:09
When was the last time Kyrie Irving won?
49:13
OK, yeah, when you when you put him with.
49:14
That's all. That's what you're playing the
49:16
game for. You're playing a win.
49:18
Right. And I get that, I get that, but
49:20
I don't I don't think it was he needed, it could have been
49:22
another big time. It didn't have to be LeBron,
49:25
right? He wasn't the best player in
49:27
that series. It was Kyrie Irving.
49:28
But you look at all of Lebron's championships, really, who did
49:31
he, who did he, who did he really be in his championships?
49:35
Who did he beat? He did.
49:37
Who, who? How did he win?
49:39
He beat the Spurs, didn't he? Didn't He beat the Spurs?
49:41
At 3:00. Two beat the Spurs, Tim dunking
49:45
Kawhi Leonard, yet all those great players managed Ginobili.
49:49
If, if, if Ray Allen doesn't hit that three, he's one and three
49:53
in Miami. OK.
49:55
And he actually stepped out too, by the way.
49:58
And then 2020, great, he had a COVID, the COVID year.
50:01
Who Who? Who hits the big shot last?
50:03
Season. The fact.
50:07
Is I can pinpoint. I can pinpoint a big Michael
50:10
Jordan shot in the finals. First of all, you can't compare
50:13
LeBron James to Michael Jordan. You can't compare Kobe Bryant to
50:17
Michael Jordan. You can't compare any of those
50:19
guys to Michael Jordan. That's why he's the greatest.
50:23
No, you can't. Who?
50:26
Kobe is not Michael Jordan. Stop this, stop this.
50:29
Go home, stay home. Hide under the covers.
50:32
Are you lost? Are you lost?
50:35
He is a close nothing. He is a close nothing.
50:38
Shaquille O'Neal was the best. Shaquille O'Neal was the best
50:42
player on that roster for three years when they won back-to-back
50:45
to back championships. Go look at he was.
50:48
I hear that. I'm sorry, but the numbers
50:51
actually tell me Kobe Bryant had better numbers than.
50:52
Shaq, that's not true. He had more, he had more points
50:56
per game. He played more minutes per game.
50:58
He he did better in that series. Shaq just £300.
51:02
What do you Shaq? First of all, Shaq played 38
51:05
minutes a game, OK? And he knows a £300 monster, the
51:09
Diesel, and he won the MVP back-to-back to back times.
51:13
And if you look at the finals and remember the Finals, there's
51:15
only two players in finals history to score 40 and have
51:19
almost 20 rebounds in the in back in in back-to-back finals
51:23
games in a series, and that was LeBron James and Shaquille
51:26
O'Neal. You can look that up too.
51:28
I could sell that too. You can roll it up you.
51:31
Can sell whatever you you can sell whatever.
51:32
Hey, listen, I'll roll up a Dutch for you and you can smoke
51:34
it and get messed up on it. How's that?
51:37
You can do that whatever you want.
51:38
I'll, I'll. Yeah, I'll roll it for you.
51:40
I'll lick it and then you can stick it as I always say.
51:44
I will say who has more toddlers right now?
51:46
Is it Kobe right over shaft? Yeah, yes, yeah.
51:50
But one. And that's because he played
51:52
with a hell of a team. I mean, his teams were pretty
51:55
damn good when he won it over there with the Lakers.
51:57
And by the way, when Shaq left, when Shaq left for two years,
52:01
did Kobe ever win? Did Kobe ever win?
52:04
Did Kobe ever win? What was the did he?
52:08
I just don't believe that the Laker teams are that good.
52:10
I don't hear you. I don't hear.
52:13
You Let's see, what was he, 09? Yeah.
52:15
Did he win? OK, that Pau Gasol, I give you
52:18
that Pau Gasol. That's part of the big reason
52:20
why they want Phil Jackson obviously comes in and coaches
52:23
that team. But I'm looking at you're going
52:25
to tell me that this is their team.
52:27
Lamar Odom who good role player Sasa shot Sasha Luke Walton Meta
52:33
World. Where do you rate Kobe Bryant of
52:36
the greatest Lakers of all time? Where do you hold on Jordan?
52:40
Where do you where do you rate Kobe Bryant of greatest Lakers?
52:44
Before we let you go, I want to hear it.
52:47
Where do you put? Where do you put Kobe?
52:49
He in my in my. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
52:52
Give me where you would put Kobe Bryant in the greatest Lakers of
52:55
all time. OK well let me this is how I
52:58
answer my question. In my opinion and the only
53:01
reason I'm going to put him up top is because I never really
53:04
saw magic and like players before him so I can't put match
53:08
I never saw Magic. So like, for me, Kobe is the
53:11
greatest Laker of all time because I, but I never, I, I
53:14
will admittedly say I never really saw Magic Johnson play.
53:17
That's beyond my time. You forget a Kareem of duel
53:19
Jabbar. He was pretty damn good.
53:22
I never saw him play. It doesn't matter if you've seen
53:24
a play you you know what he did? How about Jerry West?
53:29
Was he bad? Was he a bad player?
53:31
But. It's it's also like when you're
53:33
looking at Grace players, I look at what's Will Chamberlain like.
53:37
Will Chamberlain was great for sure.
53:39
As a player I thought he was fantastic, but when you're a
53:43
foot and a half older, I mean taller than anybody else, I
53:47
would I'd put up 100 too. Like it's, it's, it's, it's kind
53:51
of different. I don't think it's any
53:52
different. And I'm taking and I'm taking
53:56
Shaq over Kobe Bryant, so I'm taking Shaq.
54:00
But that wouldn't, that wouldn't, that wouldn't even
54:01
make. Sense why?
54:02
Why does it make sense? I take LeBron James over Kobe
54:05
Bryant too, but not not on the Lakers.
54:07
Not on the Lakers. I have, I have Kobe because
54:10
Lebron's only won one title. So I'm going to give Kobe
54:13
because he was there. So I I'm going to but best
54:16
players of all time playing for the Lakers, I'm taking LeBron
54:19
over Kobe. Greatest player Greatest
54:23
players. Weed.
54:24
Weed is legal in New York though, right?
54:27
Oh yeah, we have a caller that loves to smoke weed.
54:29
Yeah, I, I, I figured man, I, I. I'm not smoking.
54:33
You're going to tell me. You're going to tell me Lebron's
54:36
not better than Kobe Bryant. No.
54:38
You're goodbye. I I know look, look, I think for
54:42
me, no, I think for me that's not fair to say because you're I
54:45
look at a player that's a killer, that's a killer instinct
54:49
come on and then. Game.
54:50
Are you? Are you serious?
54:52
Are you serious? Stop.
54:55
LeBron James doesn't take big shots.
54:56
Stop. How you heard he took it for?
54:58
Him. Did Kobe go eight years in a row
55:01
to a Finals? Did Kobe Bryant ever go eight
55:04
years in a row to the Finals? Can I?
55:07
Did he? Can I?
55:08
Yes or no? You know what?
55:09
Yes or no? He played it.
55:11
He played the East. Oh stop this, Oh stop this.
55:16
He played with Shaquille O'Neal and Phil Jackson as his head
55:20
coach. In the West, and that was in
55:24
2020. Who coached LeBron James?
55:26
Who coached Give me? Give me the greatest coaches.
55:28
You remember that, coach LeBron James?
55:31
LeBron, LeBron don't need a coach, right?
55:33
He and Kobe and Kobe had Phil Jackson, a guy that won how many
55:38
championships? Come on.
55:40
Because Kobe's a likable guy. He got along.
55:42
With He was a likable person, huh?
55:44
He was like, why don't you ask Shaq if he was a likable person?
55:48
The thing is, fucking LeBron James would have would have had
55:51
Phil Jackson fired that. That's what I do know.
55:54
I think as soon as there's a little bump in the road, here
55:58
comes Kobe. We need help.
55:59
We need help. It's the coach's fault how many
56:01
coaches he goes to because. If LeBron James was with the
56:05
Knicks and when he went to the Knicks, he would have came out
56:08
of retirement to coach LeBron James, and that's a fact, OK?
56:12
That's the only reason why Phil Jackson never coached the
56:14
Knicks, because there was nobody to coach on that roster besides
56:17
Carmelo Anthony, who he couldn't stand.
56:20
OK, so those are the facts, buddy.
56:22
And you can take that and Jack it right up, pop it in that
56:26
mouth videos it's. Nice to tell you this is that
56:28
Kobe Bryant can work with his coaches and LeBron James the.
56:32
Only reason why coaches can work with Kobe because he was a hard
56:36
ass worker. That's it.
56:38
They loved his his effort on on pushing himself to the limit.
56:42
But guess what LeBron James is the same way.
56:45
LeBron James is in the gym in the morning, 5:00 in the morning
56:48
working out and doing his thing. Why do you think LeBron James is
56:51
40 something years old and still putting up the numbers he's
56:53
putting up? Why do you think it's magical?
56:57
You think it's a magic? It's a magic show because.
56:59
He's abracadabra. 2 years the last two years.
57:02
You can't sit there and tell me last two years that LeBron James
57:04
actually gave a shit about winning.
57:07
He didn't give shit about when he was.
57:08
No, no, he did not. He's STAB padded and he played
57:11
in the NBA so he can play with his son.
57:13
That doesn't deserve being in the NBA.
57:14
That's the only. Person.
57:15
He's in my hand right here. Because he does not need to.
57:17
Be see this you know. He doesn't.
57:18
He does not care about women. If I can get this jammed up of
57:22
Kobe Bryant's ass and started talking like you do to him, I
57:27
mean, I'd be a rock star. Give me a break.
57:30
You're in love with this guy, and I love Kobe as a.
57:33
Person you're down 31 laughing LeBron.
57:37
That's that's that's when you know LeBron James, he doesn't
57:39
really care about winning right now.
57:41
I don't fault. Him, I never said first of all.
57:44
He's probably going to own the Vegas team when they go to
57:47
Vegas. Yeah, he probably, he's probably
57:48
going to be the owner. He owns the NBA, but he.
57:50
Doesn't care about winning, he. Owns the NBA LeBron James
57:53
Association. I keep telling you this.
57:56
He owns the league. He owns everything he owns.
57:58
Everything. He owns the league, buddy.
58:02
He owns everything. It is LJA.
58:05
It should just be changed. And you know, you know, the logo
58:08
should be it should be. It should transfer from Jerry
58:11
West to LeBron James. That's it.
58:13
Because that's what it. Is exactly, exactly, exactly.
58:18
There you go. You can sell it, you can bench
58:21
it, and you can tie it up real good and state it and, you know,
58:25
stick it up, straight up. Speedy's Candy S What do you
58:27
think about that? My ass had candy, why would you
58:30
want to stick anything up? Anyways, Reno, Johnny, we love
58:33
you. Keep arguing, keep loving Kobe
58:35
and may he rest in peace. I'm not taking shots at him as a
58:38
as a person. I just think a lot of Kobe fans
58:41
overrate him as one of the top five greatest.
58:44
I disagree. Five times you overrated.
58:48
Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.
58:50
That's crazy work. Well, good, good.
58:52
I am crazy. That's why I'm.
58:54
I am who I am. So thank you, Reno.
58:56
We love you, please, whatever. I know I love you, I love y'all,
59:00
I love y'all, but just the Kobe. Slander.
59:02
Listen, take, take those eggs and stick it straight up.
59:05
Speedy's candy. Yes.
59:06
All right, let's go. What's we gotta go?
59:08
He's five and one in the finals. Who?
59:11
Who? Kobe's five and one in the
59:12
Finals. Yes, his only loss was the
59:14
Celtics the year before. Yeah, it's.
59:16
Crazy. He also had Shaquille O'Neal and
59:18
Phil Jackson. Yeah.
59:20
Crazy. Yeah, you get stopped.
59:23
Dwyane Wade, Bosch, Kyrie, one of the greatest shooters of all
59:27
time in Ray Allen, LeBron James purposely stacked his teams.
59:31
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's LJI.
59:34
We love you. Thank you.
59:35
You know, Johnny, have him every single week.
59:38
He's saluting. I'm going to salute his shorts.
59:42
He's out of his damn mind. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
59:45
that's been a lot. It's been a long one.
59:47
OK, Thank you to Jabba for joining us.
59:49
I want to apologize if all you Nick Goody fans are out there
59:52
and wanted Nick to join us. Unfortunately, Nick was busy.
59:56
I'm sure he'll be back on Monday.
59:57
So I want to apologize. Yes, it was a great, great show.
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And yes, we're all ready to go on Blue Wire.
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So we'll be uploading on Blue Wire starting tonight I would
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say. So shout out to Blue Wire.
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Press release house. So that's right with the press
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release house. So everyone go check out the
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press release is out great. Thanks, Nathan.
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You're awesome. Yes.
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Yum Yum. As we all know, I farted.
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Your farts probably stink like crap, but hopefully you didn't
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eat too much bacon. Anyways, thank you to our very
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special guest, Mr. Funaro, Robert Funaro.
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He was fantastic. Thank you.
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Nothing for landing that one. He was actually really, really
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good and we had a lot of fun with him.
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And he'll probably never forget this interview, that's for damn
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sure. So thank you to Robert, thank
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you obviously to all the fans on all our social medias, from
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Twitter to Instagram or X, whatever the hell you call it,
1:00:47
Tick tock and Spotify, Spotify video, you know, Apple podcast,
1:00:52
YouTube. We really appreciate you guys
1:00:55
for for all the support that you guys give us throughout the week
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and and and checking out our stuff.
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We really do appreciate it. Check out one O 3.9 the weekend
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crunch every single Saturdays at 7:00 PM.
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Again, we have a great show. It's been on for almost five
1:01:10
years now and it's kicking ass all over Long Island.
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So thank you to all the fans that TuneIn and check out and go
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to our website, www.worldwidesportsradio.com.
1:01:20
Do we have anything on Monday? Not yet, Speedy, take your hands
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out of your pants. Speedy's mom.
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And make sure that you call your mom.
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We want to get her on the show. What do you think?
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Not happening. What?
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She's a great. Not happening.
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She's a great guest. I mean, I'll have Jabba
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interview her. I'll.
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I'll stay away. OK.
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So maybe Jabba will, you know, do some interesting things.
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You just made my nipples hard. As long as she's using dude
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wipes and taking care of my 2 hole I'm good.
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So she'll be, you know, taking care of her 2 hole.
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What do you think? Not happy.
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Pulled it out of my ass. All right, that's it for our
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show. We will be back on Monday with
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new guests and new content. Enjoy Friday's game.
1:02:04
Hopefully the Knicks end the suffering of the Celtics and
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suffering for us as fans. I don't want to see them go to a
1:02:11
Game 7 and I watch out. Pacers, OK, watch them out
1:02:16
anyways, and the Nuggets 3/3 as we expected, it's going 7, so
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we'll see what happens over the weekend.
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That would be Saturday for the Nuggets and the OKC Thunder.
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So. So there's two more series left,
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one of them that's three to two and the other one's three to
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three. So we'll see what happens over
1:02:35
the weekend. That's it.
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Good night. So long farewell.
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They'll come. A day of life, as we all know.
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Speedy goodbye. Yum Yum.
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I need a genuine tonic.