Chazz Palminteri: The Original Bronx Tale

Chazz Palminteri: The Original Bronx Tale

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10 to 2. And years later

1:03

he got

1:07

shot in

1:10

the leg

1:14

and

1:16

they

1:18

called

1:20

him

1:22

20 after.

1:26

And I love actors who

1:29

realize maybe the phone isn't

1:31

ringing early on. And so

1:33

they take their future into

1:36

their own hands and they

1:38

create their own destiny.

1:40

And no one, no one has

1:43

ever done it like Chaz

1:45

did when he created

1:47

Bronx Tale. So welcome

1:49

my buddy Chaz. Chaz,

1:54

I was gonna wear my Dodgers

1:56

world champion hat today. But I

1:58

didn't want to start us off

2:01

on an adversarial foot. Right. No,

2:03

that's all right. I don't. You

2:05

know, listen, you guys were a

2:07

better team. What can I say?

2:09

You know, you had a great

2:11

team, man. Great team. I saw

2:13

you there at the new Yankee

2:15

Stadium. I have so many thoughts.

2:17

Let's talk Yankees for a while.

2:19

Sure. Yeah. Before we get into

2:21

all the other good stuff. Okay,

2:24

first of all, I'd never been

2:26

to the new, it's not new

2:28

anymore. Yeah. But I hadn't been

2:30

to the new, New, New, New,

2:32

New, You're not going to like

2:34

hearing this. I don't love it.

2:36

Yeah. Well, the old, yeah, I

2:38

mean, I've heard that before, but

2:40

I love it. I actually love

2:42

it, but people who haven't been

2:44

there don't like it. But, you

2:46

know, believe me, I went to

2:48

the old Yankee Stadium. Yeah, same.

2:51

And that was okay. You know,

2:53

so I love the way it

2:55

is. I love the going, you

2:57

know, you know, or see all

2:59

the pictures and you know, I

3:01

just love it. That is amazing.

3:03

Yeah, I mean, it's amazing. The

3:05

way they've done the history, the

3:07

pictures, the memorabilia, that they definitely

3:09

crushed that horse for sure. Whatever,

3:11

maybe it's not that cup of

3:13

tea, but whatever, I don't know.

3:15

I don't see that. You're going

3:17

to be even more angry when

3:20

I tell you this. Do you

3:22

know where else I had never

3:24

been and I walked in and

3:26

loved it? What's that? Is the

3:28

Metz Stadium. Yeah. I thought that

3:30

that now because she was a

3:32

shithole she was one of the

3:34

great Awful places where planet Earth

3:36

yeah, and and this new What

3:38

do they call it? What do

3:40

they call it? What city field

3:42

any field? Yeah Amazing amazing. Yeah,

3:44

I was there. I mean, I'm

3:47

I mean, I'm a fairly Yankee

3:49

stadium, but it's nice And I

3:51

know this is the one too,

3:53

the hits just keep on coming.

3:55

Do you think Juan Soto is

3:57

going to enjoy city field more

3:59

than he did the Yankees? No,

4:01

no, I think he's going to

4:03

miss that short porch. I think

4:05

he's going to miss a judge

4:07

being behind him. I say right

4:09

now, and I'll say it to

4:11

everybody, Ron Soto does not have

4:14

the ear that he had with

4:16

the Yankees, his first year with

4:18

the Mets. That's my opinion, you

4:20

know. Oh, I would take that

4:22

bet. I agree with you. One,

4:24

one hundred percent, one hundred percent.

4:26

Were you in, did you go

4:28

to every game of the World

4:30

Series? Yes. Yes. What were you

4:32

feeling during the now infamous fifth

4:34

inning? It's like it's a game

4:36

of inches and I go, if

4:38

judge catches the ball, if he

4:41

goes to first, if, you know,

4:43

it's one of those in it

4:45

and you just say, how could

4:47

this happen? And, you know, it's

4:49

baseball. As they say, it's baseball,

4:51

you just got to let it

4:53

go, man. If you wanted me

4:55

to be a diehard Yankee fan,

4:57

I thought we should have went

4:59

back to Dodger Stadium up three

5:01

to. Well 100% you should have.

5:03

Did you in that famous for

5:05

those of you who don't fall

5:07

baseball as closely as we do

5:10

it's it's it's a fifth inning

5:12

collapse that's that yeah, which is

5:14

historic I feel it's it's a

5:16

little bit like seasickness on a

5:18

crowded boat. Yeah. Once somebody starts

5:20

throwing up it can easily spread

5:22

and when judge made that error

5:24

that literally he makes that catch

5:26

five. 500 times in a row,

5:28

you can make that match. And

5:30

you could just kind of feel

5:32

it in the stadium. You could

5:34

feel it. Right, you can feel

5:37

it. You cannot, the number one

5:39

thing, and especially in baseball, but

5:41

the number one thing in the

5:43

World Series in a playoff game,

5:45

you cannot give a great team

5:47

four or five outs. You cannot.

5:49

You cannot survive that. You can

5:51

never survive that. And that's what

5:53

we did. We gave them four

5:55

or five outs and you can't

5:57

do that. Not to a great

5:59

team like that. No, can't do

6:01

it. No. I don't understand. I'm

6:04

a huge Garrett Cole fan. I

6:06

just don't understand that. That play

6:08

at first was really the one.

6:10

That was, which was the, that

6:12

was. He just one blank, you

6:14

know, it went blank. I don't

6:16

know, it's just, look, who knows,

6:18

Rob, you know, I don't know

6:20

how that happens, but just wasn't

6:22

all year. Well, get ready, pal,

6:24

because. I would love to see

6:26

a rematch, but these are new

6:28

Dodgers. Holy smokes. Yeah, I mean

6:31

you guys got, it's a joke.

6:33

Exciting. You guys, you have so

6:35

much depth that it's scary. I

6:37

don't know. It's like the old

6:39

days of Steinbrenner. I mean, George

6:41

Steinbrenner would have done exactly the

6:43

same thing. Probably, but you know

6:45

what, it still doesn't mean, you

6:47

can have the best team to

6:49

spend the most money, you know,

6:51

if you've you've done it's a

6:53

few years, you know, you know,

6:55

You know baseball is a funny

6:57

thing. It's a funny thing man.

7:00

So you mentioned that maybe Garrett

7:02

Cole blacked out and that anybody

7:04

can do it. Have you ever

7:06

been on stage and just gone

7:08

blank? Because I have. Oh yeah.

7:10

You just go blank. On like

7:12

a play? A movie? Yeah, like

7:14

a play. If you were doing

7:16

your Bronx tale, one man show

7:18

or or any time you're on

7:20

stage, you ever just have a

7:22

moment where all of that. Yeah,

7:24

then you just take a breath

7:27

and you come back. But I've

7:29

done that on stage and on

7:31

Broadway and yeah, that's how. It's

7:33

like you're really, it's really maybe

7:35

a second and a half until

7:37

you get it back, but it

7:39

seems like an hour. Eternity. Doesn't

7:41

it seem like an hour? Oh

7:43

my God, scariest thing in the

7:45

world. It really is. But the

7:47

main thing is just take a

7:49

breath. See, once you start panicking,

7:51

then forget it. Then you're done.

7:54

But if you just relax for

7:56

a second and take a breath,

7:58

have I done it with the

8:00

One Man Show? I cut a

8:02

few times. But I know it's

8:04

so well. I just take a

8:06

breath and then I follow then

8:08

I go back. That's all. Okay.

8:10

All right How about how about

8:12

this is devil's advocate some I

8:14

think Knowing it's so well Can

8:16

kind of set you up for

8:18

it because you know what this

8:21

is like it gets in your

8:23

there's there's levels of knowing it

8:25

it gets what that shows in

8:27

your DNA. Yeah, you've been you've

8:29

been doing an iteration of a

8:31

Bronx tale since 19 what 1988?

8:33

And you can think about other

8:35

things while you're doing it. Yes,

8:37

and you have to be careful.

8:39

That's what I'm saying, right? The

8:41

only thing that really messed me

8:43

up once was when I wasn't

8:45

doing the show that I went

8:47

on Broadway to do the musical.

8:50

And when I was doing the

8:52

musical, I just played Sunny, of

8:54

course. I sang Sunny songs and

8:56

I played Sunny. That's it. As

8:58

soon as I finished a musical,

9:00

I went back on the tour

9:02

and did the one-man show. And

9:04

the first night that I went

9:06

back, Rob, I did Sonny's line

9:08

and I waited for somebody to

9:10

talk back to me. But not

9:12

realizing is that I have to

9:14

talk back, I play Lorenzo. And

9:17

I just stood there and I

9:19

went, oh, and then I said,

9:21

holy shit, scare the damn hell

9:23

out of me, you know? Just

9:25

scare the hell out of me,

9:27

but I was okay with it.

9:29

It's kind of fun escaping from

9:31

that. Like I remember the great

9:33

escapes. I went blank on Saturday

9:35

Night Live. Right. At the end

9:37

of a sketch where I had

9:39

the line that set up the

9:41

joke that ended the sketch and

9:44

I went blank and now there's

9:46

no joke and there's no end

9:48

to this sketch. Oh God. Yeah.

9:50

On Saturday Night Live. Right. I

9:52

ended up. Adlebing, and we got

9:54

out of it was Phil Hartman.

9:56

I looked over at Phil. His

9:58

eyes were like... authors. But you

10:00

always remember those and you kind

10:02

of come away with those moments

10:04

as an actor going, this is

10:06

kind of why we do it.

10:08

It's the tightrope and you fall

10:11

off the type rope and you

10:13

grab it with one hand. You

10:15

don't fall to your death and

10:17

that's the fun of it. Yeah,

10:19

I mean that just goes to

10:21

show you that, look, you've done

10:23

movies what would... with a lot

10:25

of great big stars. Everybody goes

10:27

up on that line when you're

10:29

doing everybody. Nobody just says it

10:31

straight out. Yeah, we all go

10:33

up on our lines. The idea

10:35

is you just, you know, once

10:37

you know that, you're fine. You

10:40

know, once you know that, you

10:42

know, look, I know I'm good.

10:44

I'm not gonna be bad. If

10:46

I can't get my lines, I'll

10:48

get them and then we'll be

10:50

fine. That's all. I don't know.

10:52

Yeah. I mean, he saw the,

10:54

he saw Brunk's tail off Broadway,

10:56

right? When, let me ask you,

10:58

when you say off, when you

11:00

did Brunk's tail famously in the

11:02

80s and you blew up on

11:04

the scene, how big was that

11:07

theater? Like how off Broadway was

11:09

it? From not mistaken, it was

11:11

99 seats. And you play 18

11:13

characters. Right, by my counting. Yes,

11:15

no, that's 18, yes. And it

11:17

just, from day one, from day...

11:19

One, I've gotten standing ovations every

11:21

time I did it. It's a,

11:23

it's a very, it's a feat.

11:25

No one's ever done it before.

11:27

You know what I'm, I don't

11:29

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11:31

except for this. It's one of

11:34

those things. I just had this

11:36

idea that an actor could do

11:38

the script that he wrote, do

11:40

the whole movie on stage by

11:42

himself. And I did it. And

11:44

I worked on it for a

11:46

year, and for some reason if

11:48

you look at it. I don't

11:50

know if you ever saw the

11:52

one man show, but to see

11:54

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11:56

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11:58

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12:07

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okay what can I do with

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as a woman. I wrote it

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15:46

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16:06

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16:08

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16:10

and, well, I was with a

16:12

comedy group, and I said, I

16:14

want to do my whole range.

16:16

And I just wrote something for

16:19

myself, and it just exploded, man.

16:21

I mean, think about it. I'm

16:23

the only guy in history ever

16:25

to write the one man's show

16:27

started, write the major movie started,

16:30

write the musical started, then write

16:32

a movie of the one man's

16:34

show and film it started. So

16:36

I was going to ask you,

16:38

does it feel like it was

16:41

like a shot from God, a

16:43

shot from the creative heavens? Yeah,

16:45

absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. It clearly was.

16:47

No question. I still feel it.

16:49

When I go on stage. When

16:52

I walk on stage, I feel

16:54

like there's a lightning lightning is

16:56

like this light that's coming down

16:58

hitting me on top of the

17:00

head. And when I get off

17:02

stage, I don't even remember what

17:05

I'm doing. Because I literally morph

17:07

into the father, the son, the

17:09

little nine-year-old boy. If you see

17:11

it, you'll be... I'm dying to

17:13

see this new version, the taped

17:16

version. Did you I'm just I'm

17:18

curious because I? I always find

17:20

that it's very difficult to capture

17:22

with cameras this the Experience of

17:24

the stage. Yes, because because it's

17:27

it's a proscenium no matter how

17:29

you? It's still a proscenium now

17:31

that you're dealing with. Yes, I

17:33

know what you're saying right when

17:35

you see this it's not well

17:38

I was gonna ask you how

17:40

did you what did you do

17:42

to accommodate? to shoot it like

17:44

a movie. To shoot it exactly.

17:46

I said, this is not a

17:48

comedy special. This is not a

17:51

guy on stage just talking. That's

17:53

why I used five cameras and

17:55

that's why I. did reshoots and

17:57

that's why I did two days

17:59

I did a live performance and

18:02

then I did two days of

18:04

no no audience because I wanted

18:06

to shoot it like a movie

18:08

back and forth you know headshot

18:10

back and forth you know wide

18:13

shot then cut in so it's

18:15

not it's a movie and people

18:17

look at it and go I

18:19

don't understand this how does this

18:21

You know, it's like some I

18:24

don't read reviews but from what

18:26

some people told me the producers

18:28

said to call it like a

18:30

how does it's a magic trick

18:32

I am definitely and I can

18:34

I can get it on Amazon

18:37

Amazon Google and Apple Google When

18:39

you were first writing it it's

18:41

you in the neighborhood and the

18:43

neighborhood has got you know gangsters

18:45

in it and everything else were

18:48

you ever afraid to Dramatize that

18:50

like did how did how did

18:52

how did the guys how did

18:54

the how did the boys feel

18:56

about it? Well the only thing

18:59

that the only pushback I got

19:01

from the boys was when I

19:03

first did it and when I

19:05

did it at When I was

19:07

about to come to New York

19:10

and I was doing it in

19:12

LA and it was really a

19:14

big hit in LA out of

19:16

small theater like 99 same as

19:18

the when I was going to

19:20

I got a call from them,

19:23

from one of them, you know.

19:25

And he said to me, we

19:27

heard what you're doing in LA.

19:29

We hear it's been very successful.

19:31

And we're happy for you. You're

19:34

a kid from the neighborhood. All

19:36

we ask is that you changed

19:38

the names. And I said, absolutely

19:40

no problem. So I did. That

19:42

was it. Did you ever, so

19:45

initially, when you did it? Yes.

19:47

You had the actual names and

19:49

then you get the call and

19:51

change them. Had a lot of

19:53

the real... names in it, yes.

19:56

Amazing. So I had to take,

19:58

I changed all the names. Except

20:00

for Eddie mush, because that was

20:02

Eddie mush. You know, and he

20:04

said, no, no, I want my

20:06

name in there. So. Why are

20:09

those names so great? Eddie mush.

20:11

Why are they so, they're just,

20:13

nobody does names. Like, yeah, just

20:15

honest, you know, because everything he

20:17

touched turned to mush. You know,

20:20

I mean, you know, he was

20:22

such a loser. I mean he

20:24

lost every bet he ever made

20:26

this guy. The joke in the

20:28

show is he would go to

20:31

the racetrack and the teller will

20:33

give him his tickets already ripped

20:35

up. You know, I mean, it's

20:37

like, you know, it just, in

20:39

fact, nobody, you know, bookmaker stopped

20:42

taking his bet because everybody would

20:44

wait to see who he bet

20:46

and then they go the other

20:48

way. And everybody was winning. So

20:50

the bookmaker said, Eddie mush, I

20:52

can't take your bets anymore. And

20:55

that was, you know, imagine it?

20:57

He truly was the mush, the

20:59

original mush. The original mush that

21:01

people have used that name now

21:03

in the vernacular of us. Oh,

21:06

they do for sure. I thought

21:08

it was in the, I thought

21:10

that, so he, there was no,

21:12

like, oh, he's the mush, like

21:14

I know that's a part of

21:17

betting. Everybody knows, the mush is

21:19

the idiot. Yeah. No, yeah, they

21:21

know, that's related to him. Wow.

21:23

I been mush. That's from him.

21:25

That's from him. That's from him.

21:28

You know, I mean, oh my

21:30

God, they go, oh, he's in

21:32

Eddie mush. Eddie mush when he

21:34

died, Rob. And it is hard

21:36

to say this because people go,

21:39

Charles, you're exaggerating. I'm saying when

21:41

he died, we all were there.

21:43

He died of colon cancer years

21:45

later after the movie. We were

21:47

all over there when they brought

21:49

the coffin out with everybody holding

21:52

it. The hearse had a flat

21:54

tire. You have to

21:56

be kidding. No, I had a

21:58

flat tire, so they couldn't. So

22:01

thank God the funeral Paula was

22:03

very close by, so they just

22:05

sent for another hearse, and everybody

22:07

was looking up at the sky

22:10

going, hey, we know, yeah, they

22:12

already. And so they actually had

22:14

to change their name, and on

22:16

his tombstone, St. Raymond Cemetery, it

22:19

says, Eddie Mush Montanero, it says

22:21

the year he died, and it

22:23

says the original Bronx tale. Yeah.

22:26

Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. So, and

22:28

I was sweet. What do you

22:30

have an all-time favorite nickname from

22:32

the neighborhood? I mean, I'm sure

22:35

you put them all in the

22:37

show, but do you have one

22:39

that's your all-time favorite nickname? The

22:41

all-time favorite was Jimmy Ten to

22:44

Two. And I couldn't put him

22:46

in because Bob thought it was

22:48

just too much. Jimmy Ten to

22:51

Two was my... He was like

22:53

muscle bound, you know, and years

22:55

later he got shot in the

22:57

leg and they called him 20

23:00

after. You know, these are characters,

23:02

man. They really are. What are

23:04

you attributed to? Why, it's as

23:06

part of that culture as anything

23:09

else, that kind of... Well, because

23:11

everybody had similar names, Jimmy, Frankie,

23:13

Tony, Vito. So if veto is

23:15

the veto veto veto veto eggs,

23:18

he was an egg salesman Right

23:20

Sally fish, Sally fish, he was

23:22

that you know, and that came

23:25

from that and then it came

23:27

from if you had See back

23:29

then it was there was no

23:31

Shaming if you were fat that

23:34

we call them fat Ricky If

23:36

you had a big nose, we'd

23:38

go Joey big nose. His son

23:40

was Joey little nose, you know

23:43

That was it. You know, if

23:45

you had any kind of incident

23:47

that happened to you, there was

23:50

Joey Mile away. They called him

23:52

Joe. away because somebody broke into

23:54

a second floor and the second

23:56

floor and the cops put all

23:59

over there and he said and

24:01

Joey was a known thief and

24:03

he said Joey get over here

24:05

and he goes no no no

24:08

I'm not me I was a

24:10

mile away I was a mile

24:12

away and he kept saying I

24:15

was a mile away I was

24:17

never here and we never and

24:19

we were kids and we kept

24:21

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24:24

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Brunk's Tale aside, what is your

27:48

favorite movie about the world? Because

27:50

I will tell you, my two

27:53

favorite movies of all time, both

27:55

are mob movies. Yeah. And I'm

27:57

sure you know what they are,

27:59

but what are your favorites? My

28:01

favorite movie of all time is

28:03

on the waterfront with Marlon Brando.

28:05

Oh, wow. Yeah. Just saw a

28:07

clip of that today. Just saw

28:10

a clip today. Yeah, one of

28:12

the greatest movies of all time.

28:14

In fact, I know it's Montes-Gusase's

28:16

favorite movie and a lot of

28:18

people's favorite movie. That's perfectly shot,

28:20

directed, acted, and, you know, great

28:22

movie. I need to see it.

28:24

I need to see it again.

28:26

Mine is good, fellows. Oh, great

28:29

movie. Great movie. It's my favorite

28:31

movie of all time. And... And

28:33

Godfathers one and two. So it's

28:35

like my three favorite movies, I

28:37

feel bad, because my three favorite

28:39

movies are in that, that one

28:41

genre. But it is what it

28:43

is. Those are the three best.

28:46

I'm sorry. To me, yeah, Godfather

28:48

one and two is, I like

28:50

Shurshank Redemption to me, to me,

28:52

that's up there too. I mean,

28:54

great movies, man. You pick great

28:56

movies. You pick great movies. You

28:58

pick great movies. You're in another

29:00

great one, usual suspects. That's one

29:02

of my favorite usual suspects and

29:05

bullets over Broadway. Oh man. What's

29:07

it like to work with Woody?

29:09

What kind of direction does he

29:11

give? He doesn't give direction. In

29:13

fact, if he talks to you

29:15

too much, that's not a good

29:17

sign. You hope that he doesn't

29:19

speak to you, because if he

29:22

starts speaking to you a lot,

29:24

you could be replaced by the

29:26

next day. You're going to be

29:28

replaced soon. So, uh, I'm getting

29:30

whacked by Woody. Yeah, I learned

29:32

that right away, that you really

29:34

don't talk to him. You really

29:36

don't talk to him, because if

29:38

you do, if you do, that's

29:41

not a good sign. So, he

29:43

picks people that are, like, like,

29:45

are the part, you know, you

29:47

know, they... He just knew I

29:49

was a writer and I knew

29:51

that world and he just thought

29:53

I would be perfect for it

29:55

and he was right, you know.

29:58

That's a great one. Yeah, but

30:00

that's... And I got to recognizing

30:02

his saints, that's another one of

30:04

my favorite. You know, with Ditto,

30:06

with Sean Pan, Meg Ryan and

30:08

Kevin Spacey. To me, that would,

30:10

no, I'm sorry, that was Hurley

30:12

Burley. And then a guy to

30:14

recognizing his saints, that was with...

30:17

Robert Downey Jr. and Diane Wies,

30:19

so yeah, so I just I've

30:21

been very fortunate I've been a

30:23

lot of great movies, you know

30:25

What did you do Hurley Burley

30:27

on stage? No, I didn't do

30:29

it on stage. I did the

30:31

movie did the movie Yeah, I

30:34

was too young to do it

30:36

on stage, but I ended up

30:38

doing the movie which was great

30:40

It's funny. I wonder if it's

30:42

still this way with actors because

30:44

when I was coming up there

30:46

I was in LA actor, I

30:48

lived in LA, I would go

30:50

to New York, but I wasn't

30:53

in New York, I wasn't in

30:55

New York actor, I wasn't, I'd

30:57

never had the opportunity to do

30:59

theater, but you're always aware of

31:01

what was going on, and there

31:03

were just these legendary, legendary productions

31:05

that you would hear about as

31:07

an actor on the West Coast,

31:10

and Hurley Burley was certainly one

31:12

of them. Yeah, yeah, I started

31:14

in doing theater, and that's all

31:16

I did for years, and I

31:18

loved it. And to me it's

31:20

a great training ground and I

31:22

still go back obviously I'm still

31:24

doing the show in theater. I

31:26

do it in all these big

31:29

theaters all over the United States

31:31

and I love doing it. I

31:33

love being on stage. How many

31:35

dates a year do you do

31:37

on the tour? and how often

31:39

do you do tour it? I

31:41

would say 3540. Wow, amazing. Yeah,

31:43

and I do that, and I

31:46

do that. Well, when I'm doing

31:48

the TV series, Godfather Home, then

31:50

I space out weeks there and

31:52

I don't do the show, which

31:54

is nice, you know. Is it

31:56

the kind of thing where you

31:58

get your Godfather of Harlem schedule

32:00

and you go, oh, I'm light

32:02

in this episode? Yeah. Let's see

32:05

if I can, can I, can

32:07

I, can I do a show

32:09

up in Seattle? Well, I tell

32:11

them in advance that these days

32:13

are rough in me and they,

32:15

they work it out, they work

32:17

it out somehow, so it's great.

32:19

You know, I'm not carrying the

32:21

series, as far as Whittaker is,

32:24

so, but they work it out

32:26

with me. It's amazing, and you're

32:28

still in New York. Yeah, you're

32:30

in, you're, you're upstate New York,

32:32

New York, aren't you? Yeah, I

32:34

live in Westchester, Westchester County, Westchester

32:36

County, yes, yes, yes, up, up,

32:38

upstate, upstate, upstate, up, yes, up,

32:41

upstate, up, upstate, upstate, upstate, upstate,

32:43

upstate, It's Westchester is very similar.

32:45

It's very similar. Yeah, Santa Barbara

32:47

is I mean if you're gonna

32:49

live somewhere in California Santa Barbara's

32:51

the place to live That's what

32:53

I say if I ever move

32:55

out of Santa Barbara. I'm moving

32:57

out of California And if I

33:00

do that I'm coming to I'm

33:02

coming to like the Hudson River

33:04

Valley somewhere up like I mean,

33:06

yeah, I mean I heard this

33:08

you got to tell me if

33:10

this is true. This has been

33:12

a legendary story Okay Rob lo

33:14

bought a house in Santa Barbara

33:17

many years ago and his wife

33:19

is such a great decorator that

33:21

she decorated this house that they

33:23

bought for not a lot of

33:25

money which whatever I don't know

33:27

and now it's worth 50 million

33:29

dollars I go I got I

33:31

got I got to tell you

33:33

that's a hell of an investment

33:36

man. True story that's and we've

33:38

done and we've done it one

33:40

to we've done it twice we've

33:42

broken real estate records wow up

33:44

here so we're not it's absolutely

33:46

true but they're not but we're

33:48

not house flippers oh like we're

33:50

not doing it we're right we

33:53

just build a dream house and

33:55

then for whatever reason like the

33:57

kids go to college and it's

33:59

too big or whatever and and

34:01

and and it's funny you say

34:03

that because as we speak my

34:05

wife is picking out trees for

34:07

the yard of the one we're

34:09

building now wow so I'm at

34:12

that stressful inflection point you know

34:14

what I mean where you're like

34:16

oh god what have I done

34:18

I always say that when I

34:20

hate building no I hate it

34:22

my wife loves it I hate

34:24

it You know, because it's always

34:26

40-50% more than you thought. Always.

34:29

Always. Always. Always. And you have

34:31

to say, and you always say

34:33

that same expression. Might as well.

34:35

Might as well. You know, the

34:37

bill. This is this. This one

34:39

is, you've got to come. This

34:41

one is an unbelievable. This is

34:43

a property that was one of

34:45

the original farms in Montecito, and

34:48

it was settled in 1877. This

34:50

is why I bought it when

34:52

there's a huge. Stone Pine with

34:54

a split at the top where

34:56

lightning hit it in 1911 Wow,

34:58

and I was like that kind

35:00

of history. You don't really get

35:02

in California so much. No, I'm

35:05

California Right. Wow. Oh, that's great.

35:07

Yeah, no, you're like that's so

35:09

much. It's true. I heard that

35:11

story for years and I went

35:13

man Robbo's wife must be some

35:15

decorator man. I tell you that

35:17

she she's She's got great taste

35:19

and she's done it for other

35:21

other folks as well. I wish

35:24

she'd do it professionally. She has

35:26

a jewelry business, Cheryl Lowe designs,

35:28

which is amazing, but I'm like,

35:30

honey, what about just doing houses?

35:32

And she's been, you know, she's,

35:34

I like jewelry. She's the best.

35:36

Yeah, you gotta do what they

35:38

want. Yeah, yeah. She has, this

35:41

is great. I love talking to

35:43

you, man. Yeah, same here. Let's,

35:45

yeah. Yes, and if I come

35:47

out to my, you know, Montecito,

35:49

I'll, you know, definitely get in

35:51

touch with you. I like to

35:53

say hi, take you to lunch

35:55

or some dinner, whatever. I would

35:57

love it. It's been way too

36:00

long. Always a pleasure. Good luck,

36:02

Bronx Tale One Man show. Everybody

36:04

go out, check it out, check

36:06

out the master, doing this thing.

36:08

And it's a clinic. I'll be

36:10

out in LA. I'm going to

36:12

be out to California doing a

36:14

show. So when I do, I'll

36:17

let you all love you to

36:19

come and see it. Oh, fantastic.

36:21

I love it. It's a date.

36:23

Thanks, brother. God bless. I'm glad

36:25

I didn't wear my dodger hat

36:27

though. Because he is a quasi-gangster.

36:29

I mean, he knows gangsters. You

36:31

know, I think we know, the

36:33

guy knows gangsters. And, you know,

36:36

I don't want to get whacked.

36:38

So, that's why a lot of

36:40

long hair and no hat today.

36:42

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36:44

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