1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Verie Show is on the air. I'm gonna tell yall something, 3 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: but don't make me regret saying this. You know where 4 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: I got my uh my wings from last night? You 5 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: k who I think has the best wings in town. 6 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: I love Big City Wings. Yes, I do love Big 7 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: City Wings. That's not what I'm thinking of. In fact, 8 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. For a party of guys on 9 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: short notice, I don't know that there's anything better. Poor 10 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: Sam over at Big City Wings. I'd call him at 11 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: four o'clock on a Saturday. Hey, I got fifty gas 12 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: coming over? Can I get wings and stuff for fifty gas? Sure? 13 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: What day today? Oh, Michael, tell me? Wait, wait, tell 14 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: me you're not Yeah, five o'clock. But that's just when 15 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 1: they get here, Sam, it'll be a little later than that. 16 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: When do you get into there? I like it bout 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: five point thirty. It's just perfect, right. You don't have 18 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: to like you can't order burgers for everybody because you 19 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: don't know how people want their burgers, ken or steaks. 20 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: You don't know how they're gonna although I have anyway, 21 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: I love them. Big City Wings fantastic longtime show sponsor. 22 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: They're not a sponsor today, longtime show sponsors, big fan 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: of what they do, big supporters to camp Hope. If 24 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: you eat at Big City Wings, thank them for that, 25 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: Thank them for being longtime sponsors of the microgression. But 26 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: there's a little quirk. My favorite. If I have one 27 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: wing to eat before I eat, it's a flat, not 28 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: a drumstick. I all American grill. And I asked Matt 29 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: one time, I said, there's something about you. I eat 30 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: my wings naked. By the way. I also don't put 31 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: any sauce on. I don't. I don't want, I don't. 32 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: I don't like all that because that stuffs to vinegary. 33 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: I don't need to hear how you eat it. It's 34 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: fine you like to put all the Crockett does that 35 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: he likes. He'll order, he'll order from Big City Wings 36 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: and he'll get, you know, ten different kinds of wings, 37 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: and hey, dad, you want to know it because I 38 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 1: can't ever get it off my hands. And I don't 39 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: that the flavor overpowers me. But the Big City Wings, 40 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: I mean the federal American grill flat, which means like 41 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: the wing, not the drum. He does it in a 42 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: rice flour, and it's just a different taste it. You 43 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: know what, it reminds me of tens Ley's chicken. Tensley's chicken. 44 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: And it's the only thing I've ever had that that 45 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: reminds me that. And Matt said, Michael saw that big 46 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: of deal. I just use I just use a rice flower. Matt, 47 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: do you understand it's my favorite wing in down Do 48 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: you understand that? So anyway, I got wings from him 49 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: and a pazooki, which is that that that's what Crockett 50 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: likes to big chocolate chip cookie. And my mom my 51 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: mom my mom. I call my wife mom to the kids. 52 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: Some of you had this, and sometimes then she becomes mom, 53 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: which is so weird because now my mom's not here. 54 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: It's like, but we're not old enough yet where I 55 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: referred to my wife as mama. Do you want to 56 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: talk to the kids. I don't do that because that 57 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: you got to be at least sixty. I've got five 58 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: more years before that old. But anyway, she had salmon 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: and veggies because that's the kind of food she eats, 60 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: and she does so happily. H oh, I don't know. Anyway, 61 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: I got an email from Jana GM al with my boo. 62 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: She said same. I guess because we were talking about Patronello. 63 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: She didn't tell me which Patronello. I think it's David. 64 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: Is it David? You know the one that had to 65 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: one on West Timer, you know the one the Greeks 66 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: owned that building, called us called us owned the building. 67 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: It was a two story, it's kind of a brown 68 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: and they were on the corner. I used to go 69 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: there all the time. 70 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 2: Uh. 71 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: Here's what my boo, Jenna Jim always says. Was my 72 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: Sammy Petronella was my dad's best friend. Ate. There are 73 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: many of my birthdays. Body Petronella is my age, Sammy. Say. 74 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: That's the other thing about the Attias. They all have 75 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: great nicknames. Maybe Bodie's his name. Sammy had a garden 76 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: on his property. It was originally his home. He raised 77 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: Kakutsa's on the property, an Italian squash which he would 78 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: give to those who anyone who wanted one. He had 79 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: a Saint Thomas room and a Saint Agnes room. Oh 80 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: those Saint Thomas people, you know, all those Italian families, 81 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: they all went to Saint Thomas, all of them. He 82 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: had David Attic's paintings on the walls. David Addicts called 83 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: me one day to eat at the restaurant with him 84 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: one night, saying, you fly and I'll buy it was fun. 85 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: My dad and his Saint Thomas buddies ate there every 86 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: Wednesday until Sammy's close. He died a few years ago. 87 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: You know, there's also a Patronella's of some sort over 88 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: near the police Officers Union and that old in that 89 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: old neighborhood there between Washington and Allen Parkway on about 90 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: east of Houston Avenue, west of what's that called right there. 91 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: You know what I'm ting about. If you come out 92 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: of downtown, you get on Allan Parkway, yeah it's Texas. 93 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: But let's get to No No Memorial, Yeah, Memorial. So 94 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: when you get to Memorial, there's the police officers Union 95 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: and the police officer the whole empire, police officer, a 96 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: police officer in this They got their credit union, they 97 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: got their headquarters and the whole thing. Right there. Don't 98 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: get on Memorial Parkway, turn to the right and just 99 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: start snaking through. They got the old brick streets in 100 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: that area. There is there was a Patronella's or something 101 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: like that is in an old house that was there 102 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: forever it might still be there. Some of those places 103 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: that if you know it, you know it, and you 104 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: know it's the only reason that place would ever close 105 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: is the people that went there died off because it's 106 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: one of those places that people went for years and 107 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: years and years. Anyway, that's what we're gonna do. We're 108 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 1: gonna get all the Italians we can find and go 109 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: to Mandola's. I'll even bring Pastor Inny because he's in 110 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: the Italian American Hall of Fame Sports Hall of Fame. 111 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if he's in the whole Hall of Fame, 112 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: but he's in the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. 113 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: He's also in the Louisiana Hall of Fame. That feels 114 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: kind of sketchy. He never did anything in Louisiana. You 115 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: know what he told me the other day. I never 116 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: knew this. Of all the stories, sometimes he'll get a 117 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: little loose lip and you hear a story you've never 118 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: heard before. He had left the Oilers and went to 119 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: the Raiders. Al Davis didn't pay him. He had to sue. 120 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: Al Davis took him ten years to get paid, and 121 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: he didn't get interest on it, and he tells it 122 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: broke him, and then he lost money on the racing deal. 123 00:06:54,320 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: He opened a restaurant in Steamboat, a not steamboat, one 124 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: of the might be Steamboat in Colorado. But anyway, during 125 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: that time he went to the Eagles and played for 126 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: Dick Vermeil, and then I think he went to the 127 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: Rams also. Anyway, he said that when Bum was in 128 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: New Orleans, he called bum or somebody was running interference 129 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: and told uh Bum that Pastorini wanted to come play 130 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: for the Saints, and Bam said, I got Archie Manning, 131 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: and I got uh somebody else I can't remember. I 132 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: got Archie Manning and maybe a stabler. He had two quarterbacks, 133 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: and he said, I can't afford a third quarterback. I 134 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: just don't have the budget for it. In Pastorini, I 135 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: can't afford your contract. And pastorin and said he told him, 136 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: I'm a free agent. I can play for whatever I want. 137 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: I'll play for I'll play for whatever you can pay me. 138 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: I just want to come back and play for you, coach, 139 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: And Bum didn't, and he was bummed out. And I thought, huh, 140 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: that's a story, and nobody knows. And then Chance, no kid, 141 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: Chance started crying. He goes, this is so emotional to 142 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: learn these stories of my Like, dude, you did the 143 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: ten foot Winnie song? How are you literally crying? 144 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 3: Like? 145 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in a moment. This is a moment. 146 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: He's not about to die. 147 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 3: Chance not been going on down there. 148 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: Probably we've got a call from Trump and Tom. Not sure. 149 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: I haven't listened to it yet. But here we go 150 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: or not, we're having difficulty, we're experiencing. Oh, here we are. 151 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 2: Hey, Michaels, Tom again, Hey listen, I just heard you 152 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 2: talking about that Ted Cruise commercial. I love Ted Cruise, 153 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 2: It's best senator all the time. And you were talking 154 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 2: spot on Spanish and I told seldom told a few 155 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 2: people this, but I actually speak really good Spanish Iblo 156 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 2: Espaniel all day, all day. For example, on oj miro 157 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 2: L Super Bowl between Seawk Seahawks and Patrioto's excusa sn 158 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 2: go mucho a burrito. And I did not just say 159 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: that it was a burrito game. 160 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: I said a burrito that means boring. Uh, I flee 161 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: a burrito as hell. 162 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: No save porte total de Loove's commercials son stupid o 163 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 2: e tota ai artifice elo intelligencio. He uh no riquerdo 164 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: King Ghano like I think the Seahawks won. But being 165 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 2: how I spent so much time in Texas, I speak 166 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 2: basically perfect Spanish, as you could clearly tell. So I 167 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 2: would love it if you did a whole segment in 168 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 2: Spanish sometimes because a lot of us out here at 169 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: Gringo's awesome restaurant. Side note, would love to Michael Verr's 170 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 2: show uh in Espanola, man, come on, bring it. Dald 171 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 2: Trump's best president ever. The best president ever is Donald 172 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 2: Trump seven second place dal truck forty five, third place 173 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: on the George Washington, fourth place, Raw Reagan, and then 174 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 2: in fifth place. Everybody else is basically tied except for 175 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 2: I like, for some reason, Calvin Coolidge. He's high. 176 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm all this too. That's all I got. Go Dald Trump. Hello. 177 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: True story. Chance started crying the other day in the 178 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: presence of Dan Pastrini. We went to there's a steakhouse 179 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: that you can smoke cigars and have a little private room. 180 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 1: And we're sitting there and you can't ask Pastorini in 181 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: direct question because you'll always have some smart ass answer 182 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: and you won't answer it because he's been asked too 183 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: many questions over twenty years. But if you're real clever, 184 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: you can guide him to where you want to get him. 185 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: And occasionally something will come out you've never heard before, 186 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: like I didn't know he tried to go play for 187 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: bum and got his You know, guys, feelings hurt that 188 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: Bum didn't didn't bring him in and still doesn't know 189 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: why that happened. You know, I love these old stories. 190 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: Joseph Montobano says, I always enjoy when you listen. When 191 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: you mentioned a Mandola family on air, I'm a Mandola 192 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: myself through my mother Joanna and my grandfather Roy. You 193 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: mentioned Mandola's Delhi on Leland, across from the old Rainbow Bakery. 194 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: I worked there in high school and college in the eighties. 195 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: Frank a Mandola and my mother are first cousins. Frank 196 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: and now his son Joseph are the owners and just 197 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: celebrated fifty years with the Delhi. I saw a picture 198 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: of the two of them at the Mandol's Delhi and 199 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: the son has this exhausted look that restaurant tours have. 200 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: I mean just looks bedraggled. He just looks like a 201 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: guy that and a lot of restaurant owners that are 202 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: kind of very charismatic, very hands on restaurant owners. They 203 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: just look exhausted all the time. And then his dad, 204 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: Frank Mandola, he's in the picture. He looks like that 205 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: grumpy old guy that has been running a restaurant. There 206 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: is nothing new to him. He just got through, you know. 207 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: The Houston avocado delivery guy just arrived and three of 208 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: the tomatoes wrong. He had to yell at him and 209 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: the guy was like, sorry, that's all I have. And 210 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: he had to pick up and call the guy's boss. 211 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: And somebody else was booking a party and they moved 212 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: the date and he's trying to accommodate him, but he 213 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: can't and he's mad at them. And that's man, that 214 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: is what it is like to be around restaurant owners 215 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: like that. Frank A. Mandola and my mother our first cousins. 216 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: Frank and his son Joseph were the owners who just 217 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: celebrated fifty years with the Delhi. Johnny Stirensky was married. 218 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: He'sld about josephine'es now. Johnny Steerensky, that's who just passed, 219 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: was married to Joe Francis Streensky. She was a Mandola. Oh, 220 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know that. And her mother, Francis Corona, and 221 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: Rosie Carraba's mother Grace were sisters. I think I got 222 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,239 Speaker 1: that right. This is him sentence. As you know, Petronella's 223 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: was run by Sammy Patronella, a big Sammy and his son, 224 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: Sammy Junior. Sammy Junior and I have been friends for 225 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: fifty five years. Joseph P. Montubano, Attorney at law. Humhm, 226 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: I couldn't. I'm trying to get Rosie Caraba on and 227 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: she's not answering her cell phone. So I called Johnny 228 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: and he's gonna have her call in and keep your 229 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: keep your phone on you ramon. He's gonna have her what. No, 230 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: she's not gonna bring food. She's been off for too much. 231 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: You've been to the new Corrabas here on uh, Boss, 232 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: you seen Wheezy's room. That's Johnny's sister. Yeah, they did. 233 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: You know when you walk in, you got the bar 234 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: right there, and then the dining room's over to the left. 235 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: Then you got three I think it's three boots to 236 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: the right. You got that bar. There's always jam. That's 237 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: one of the best bars in town. And the reason 238 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: is that's not a bar for bar people. That's a 239 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: bar for old Houston. It's like a rodeo crowd, and 240 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: you go in there any given day. You go into 241 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: the bar at the I'm sure it's true on Kirby too. 242 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: You go into the bar on Kirby. I've been on 243 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: Boss and sitting around that bar is a net worth 244 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: of a billion dollars, literally a billion dollars. Anyway over 245 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: to the right, they had that little room that was 246 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 1: like the party with that that's now called Wheezies. That's 247 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: in the honor of Johnny's sister coordinating accessor Josephin's gonna 248 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: be our guest coming up. We all have our opinions 249 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: about the halftime show yesterday, and that's fine, but can 250 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: you imagine maybe an older couple huddled around the television 251 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: having some snacks watching the same Super Bowl they've been 252 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: watching for sixty years, and all of a sudden they 253 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: get bad Bunny in Spanish. 254 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 4: Honey in the halftime shows about to begin, and I 255 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 4: heard they're gonna have the Easter Bunny on Grand Heage. 256 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: You're gonna love it, junk. I'm jumping all yo. 257 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 4: Well in the Julio of Gracious is going on? Did 258 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 4: I sit on that darn remote again? It sounds like 259 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 4: that telemodo channel? All them pretty girl? 260 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: What is he saying? He's done a lot of pointing, 261 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: but I don't understand. 262 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 4: Give me one of them interactive deals him in my 263 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 4: phone don't seem to be working. 264 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: It means I put harder. Tell you, I think it's 265 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: making it even more. 266 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 4: Spanish, honey, put it back on. 267 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: Matt Locke PASTORNI goes to bed every night watching Perry 268 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: Mason said. You can't be in a bad mood, you know, 269 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: because there's nothing political about that. You got Mama Rosie 270 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: on theline. Mama Rosie, how are you? 271 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 3: I'm doing I'm good. You know. 272 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: Johnny was worried you wouldn't be able to do the interview. 273 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: I'd have to kind of coach you along, I said, Johnny, 274 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: have you talked to her. She's got her wits about 275 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: her better than you, or I don't like me. Oh 276 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: that's not true. He loves you. You know what he 277 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: told me the other day. He said, you'll never pay 278 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: for another meal in Corrobas because all the nice things 279 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: you say about my mother. I said, if that's the case, 280 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: then your mother won't have a job anymore. I'm good 281 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: paying my bills, but thank you. He's a good kid. 282 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 3: Well, please come have lunch with me one day. 283 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna do you know I don't eat lunch. 284 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: That's the problem. Every day I come in, you've just left, 285 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: and I tell Steven told her to wait one more 286 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: minute because I miss you just by a minute. 287 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 3: Well, let me know when you're coming. I'll stay there. 288 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: Let's see how well you remember me. I know you 289 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: always send my Italian cream cake out. Who's my favorite waiter? 290 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: George? 291 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: No, Salvador, I do like Gerord. I like Salvador's my 292 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: number one, my number two's baby sal my number. I 293 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: don't know if I have Hey, I have a question 294 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: for you, Mama Rosi. Yeah, so you told me this 295 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: once before. I can't keep the story straight. I don't 296 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: know if you if you remember the the Giamalva's. But 297 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: their daughter Jenny is a listener, and she and I 298 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: were emailing back and forth, and I was reading it 299 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: and I was explaining your family tree because of the 300 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: Mandolas Italian delial and Johnny had told me I think 301 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: he worked there at some point. It was the whole 302 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: story behind that? How are you related to them? You're 303 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: a Mandola, aren't you? 304 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 3: Yeah? I was Amanda i Ela, and our grandparents were 305 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 3: brothers and sisters. My grandfather and their grandfather were brothers. 306 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: Okay. Now, so Frank, who's who's there now? Joseph's dad? 307 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: He is your cousin? 308 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 3: Yes? 309 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: Okay, wow, okay? All right? And and how were you 310 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: related to Vincent that was Nino's Vincent was your brother? Okay? 311 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: And then what about Tony that had Tony Mandela's Golf 312 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: Coast Kitchen? 313 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 3: That was my brother, and Damien was my brother. 314 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: And Damien was your brother? Okay? And that's Damien of Damien's, yes, okay. 315 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: And then how are you related to the but Terras 316 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: like Bubba but Tera and those guys? 317 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 3: Our grandparents was ken? 318 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: Okay? 319 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 3: We're cousins, yes? 320 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: Is there anybody else your kin too? 321 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 4: That I know? 322 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: Oh? 323 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 3: I can't think kind of so many people unknown? Any thinks. 324 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: You got the Mandolas? 325 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 3: Let's see. That's about it. A bunch of Mandelas. 326 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: And have you been to this new MEA's that Johnny 327 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: is doing? What this new restaurant that Johnny is doing, 328 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: the MIA's Place or whatever that's popping up everywhere. Yes, 329 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: pretty good. Huh, Yes, that's your granddaughter. 330 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 3: Yes. 331 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: Do you ever just stop and think how much of 332 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: this town is named after your family's It could be good, 333 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: it could be bad to well, you know who was 334 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: it that told me? Oh? Chris Pappas told a story 335 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,719 Speaker 1: he was being inducted to the Hall of Fame, and 336 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: he said that they opened the Strawberry Patch. You remember 337 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: the Strawberry Patch restaurants. Yes, and he said his daddy 338 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: told him that you need to put your name on it, 339 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: because if you with your name on it, you will 340 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: make sure that the quality is always good. And he said, 341 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: we did, and we have. And I thought that made 342 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: a lot of sense. You know, when you're you. When 343 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: I come into to Carabas, I don't think of that 344 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: as Johnny's restaurant. I think of that as Mamma Rosie's restaurant, 345 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: Johnny's Restaurants on Kirby. And I think to myself, if 346 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: you know, you walk in there and your name is 347 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: is on it, and then you're sitting right there inside 348 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: as you always are. Man, you got it. It's gotta 349 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: be good. 350 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 3: Yes, well, you know he named it. He put out 351 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 3: sign Rosie because people weren't and they were going to 352 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:32,959 Speaker 3: and we're going to Rosie today. 353 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, he's such a good son. I 354 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: give him a lot of grief, but he's such a 355 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: good son. He is so protective of you and so 356 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: loving towards you. Everybody should be that way. 357 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 3: Yes, I wish you would come out lunch, and I'm. 358 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: Gonna do it. She tells me this every time, but 359 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: she says it in a very accusing tone. Mama, Rosie, 360 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna make people fuss at me talking like that. Hey, 361 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: aren't you related to Josephine? Isn't she a Mandola? That's 362 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: the one I thinking of. Remember Josephine's restaurant in downtown. 363 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was my cousin. 364 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, Francis Joe, I think. Yeah. So John Strinsky passed. 365 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that he just passed away. Yes, yes, 366 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: And so I got a message from a fellow named 367 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: Scott Arthur, who used to be on the radio years ago, 368 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: and he said John Steensky's family and and Josephine wanted 369 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: you to know that John passed. And he was a 370 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: listener to the show and a fan, and they knew 371 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: how much you loved. 372 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 3: Wife. Her daddy and her mother and my daddy were 373 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 3: brother and sisters. 374 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: Oh wow, so her mother, what was her mother's name? 375 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: Do you remember her name? 376 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 3: Where are you, Francis? 377 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: You haven't had to think about this for a long time? 378 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: And what was your dad's name? 379 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 3: Tony? 380 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 1: So Tony Mendola had Tony Mandola, that had Tony Mendola's 381 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: Golf Coast Kitchen, which was fantastic, and then Vincent who 382 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: had Nino's and Vincent's, and then you who led to 383 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 1: Johnny Caraba. That's an impressive coaching tree. 384 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 3: Well, see, we were very smart. I do was cook. 385 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,719 Speaker 1: Man. I used to wear Mama ROSI. I used to 386 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: wear that Tony Mendolah's Golf Coast Kitchen out. He used 387 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: to be there on West Gray where Charles Clark is now, 388 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: who I think is just fantastic with his restaurant restaurant team. 389 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: And then he moved around the corner to wall and 390 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: my wife and I used to get that was that 391 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: was really really good seafood. There's not enough good seafood. 392 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: You get good seafood restaurants in Galveston, but really good seafood. 393 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: Who special. 394 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 3: Yes. Have you ever gone to Sea Rose? 395 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 1: Yes? Oh yeah yeah. Are you related to them too? 396 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 3: Yes? Selo's grandmother and my daddy were brother and sister. 397 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna tell people my. 398 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,959 Speaker 1: Name is Baronelli and then I'm part of y'all's family. 399 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: Okay, do you. 400 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: Think I can. I'm gonna tell them to St. 401 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 3: Thomas. Hey, you went to Saint Thomas. 402 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: No, but I'm gonna tell him I did. 403 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 3: Okay, when you're gonna come have lunch with me, I'm. 404 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: Gonna come, Mama Rosie, I'm coming. I'm coming. I'll swing 405 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: back today. I can't eat because I don't need to 406 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: leave him. I'm come out to day because I owe 407 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: you a hug. And I'm glad you're doing well and 408 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: I love you, love you, love you, Thank you for calling, sweetheart. 409 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: You're two kinds. 410 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 3: And you know what you won't believe this is? You 411 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 3: know what I'm doing today? What I meet my school 412 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: friends for lunch. We're going to Grace's. 413 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: I'm coming over there, Holly Patronella. That's why I couldn't 414 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: think of it's a shine like you've had too much wine. 415 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: That's some older Paully's on Western across from the school. 416 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 1: You had to be careful because if you ended up 417 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: at the school at about three oh five, you'd be 418 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: If you walked in at three oh five, you could order. 419 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: If you walked in at three oh six, there were 420 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: twenty kids in front of you, and you weren't yeah, 421 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 1: because they they were, you know, seniors in high school. 422 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: They were they were unconcerned with you, and they would 423 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: take all the time in the world. Josephine, what an 424 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: honor to have you on the show. 425 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Thank you so much. An artist speak 426 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 5: to you. I loved to listening to you. 427 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: Well, You're very sweet. I'm sorry to hear about the 428 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: passing of John. 429 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 5: Thank you so much. 430 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: I got a nice message from Scott Arthur and he 431 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: said John wanted me to know. I guess he was 432 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: in ill health, and that you wanted me to know, 433 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 1: and and that y'all knew what a big fan I 434 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: was of Josephine's. That was our date night, as you 435 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: would recall, that was some fan. Fantastic food, was Josephine. 436 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: There's a lot of good memories passed at your place. 437 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I'm you're coming here real well. 438 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 5: I I haven't a right time here. 439 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to try to speak right into the microphone. 440 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm mumble, can you hear me? Now, Josephine, there 441 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: we go? Is that better? I just spoke to Mama 442 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: Rosie Caraba, and she's related to you somehow. How is that? 443 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, her father and my mother are brother and sister. 444 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: Yes. And your mother's name was Francis Mendola, Francis, that's 445 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: she did to that actually, and then her father was Tony. 446 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 5: My my my grandfather was Vincent Mendolah right, Rosie's Rosie's 447 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 5: dad was Tony. 448 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Where'd you go to high school? Josephine? 449 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 5: I went where academy town? 450 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 2: Oh? 451 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right? And then when did you and 452 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: then what did you do after high school? How long 453 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: before you all opened Josephine's. 454 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 5: Well, Johnny and I married. I didn't go to college. 455 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 5: He was in college when I met him, So I 456 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 5: was nineteen when we married. And then and then we 457 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 5: were along with our life. 458 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 3: And then store. 459 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we had a store, uh downtown well lor sad. 460 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 5: We did a lot of different things. We had the 461 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 5: driving glocer in Pasadena. Johnny could do just to match anything. 462 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 5: So we've been the sports a lot, couched his kids. 463 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 2: Do we go. 464 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: That's a life well lived. That's a life well lived. 465 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: You know. I was talking to Mama Rosie about how 466 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: many Mandolas and the whole Mandola family and the influence 467 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: that that family has had on this community. So many 468 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: fond memories, you know, date night and weddings and anniversaries 469 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: and birthdays celebrated. I mean, it really is amazing to 470 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: think what that generation, what your generation did in the 471 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: city of Houston for decades. 472 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, you're just such a sure Okay, yeah, okay. People 473 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 5: are calling in. 474 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I know. You know what they do while 475 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: I'm talking about you. They get excited, so they call you, 476 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: not realizing that that's distracting you from the phone call. 477 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: It's the craziest thing they do that, Josephine. This happens 478 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: all the time. I'll be talking to someone and they're 479 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: on the phone, and people will hear that I'm talking 480 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: about and they go, oh, I'm going to call that 481 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: person and he's talking about while they're in the middle 482 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: of a conversation, and so their phone keeps going off. Well, Josephine, 483 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: I have a favor to ask of you. We're going 484 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: to go over and try that Mandola's Italian Deli as 485 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: a group, and I wanted to bring some of the 486 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: old Italian families from town with me. Would you join 487 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: us for that and be my date? 488 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 5: I sure will, Okay? 489 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: Could we hold hands the whole time? 490 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:11,919 Speaker 5: I think Johnny will go with that. 491 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, nothing nothing crazy about it, but just just 492 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: so you could be that day, you know how like 493 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: when a guy would go off to war and he'd 494 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: ask his best bud, you know, you take my girl 495 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: to the to the dance, so I know she's she's safe. 496 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: I'll just make sure you're safe, and I won't anybody 497 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: else get. 498 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: On you. 499 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 5: Exactly. I'll be very happy. 500 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 3: To do that. 501 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: How is your health? Are you able to get out 502 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: and about? 503 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,479 Speaker 5: I'm all right, yeah, I can't walk along. 504 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: I have a cane, okay. 505 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 5: And then if it's any distance, I have a wheelchair. Okay, 506 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 5: my grandkids and my kids and scoot me around. All right, 507 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 5: I'm all right. Otherwise you feel let's see every day 508 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 5: to John since rest March. I think it's in that way. 509 00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: How long were y'all married? 510 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 5: Sixty five years? 511 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: Oh? My goodness, I know that that. So let's see, 512 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: fifty is golden, right, yeah, what is sixty? Do you remember? 513 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 5: I had no idea, never thought it would go that long? 514 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: Can you imagine? 515 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 5: Johnny said, I didn't know I could for that long? 516 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: Right, But you know that was done. Then you know, 517 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: people got married and they stayed married, and there's something 518 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: there's something about that, you know. I don't. I don't 519 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: know that people look at marriage today as a lifelong 520 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: commitment the way they did. I've only got thirty six 521 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: years and I thought we were doing something. 522 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 5: Well, that's wonderful. Keep it up. 523 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: Where did Johnny go? Where did Johnny go to high school? 524 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 5: He went to Saint Thomas. 525 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: Of course he did, of course he did. And how 526 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: did y'all meet? 527 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 5: We met at a wedding, he said, he saw me 528 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 5: across the crowded room. 529 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: I bet you were a looker. 530 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 5: Well, he said, so, huh do. 531 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: You miss running Josephine's Oh. 532 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 5: Bless sure, plea, sure you're you're. 533 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: I think it was the Spaghettian meatballs I used to 534 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: get there, But you're you had some dishes that were 535 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: I considered kind of old school that they don't really 536 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: make like that anymore. It felt like I was eating 537 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: a dish it was one hundred years old. It was 538 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: so much tradition passed down. I had to be in 539 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: an extra hungry mood when I would come by there 540 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: because I would always overeat. Oh I just loved it 541 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: in your breads. You're just delicious. I miss it so much, 542 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: so many good memories from your recipes. 543 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much. That's still so good. Well 544 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 5: favor the penny with meatballs. 545 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,959 Speaker 1: Oh yes, well, I don't think there's a bad pasta 546 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: with meatballs. I really don't. Josephine, you are a sweetheart. 547 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you on. Thank you for 548 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: sending that nice note. Our prayers are with you. Oh 549 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: on John's passing. But be grateful for sixty five years. 550 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: That's something to be proud of. It really is. That 551 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: is that is something to be proud of. 552 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I'm so unhappy that you did 553 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 5: this for him, because he as soon as he got 554 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 5: in his card, that's what he couldn't like it. 555 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: Well, then we're dedicating today's show to John Starinsky. It's 556 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: appropriate that we would close with the conversation with his 557 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: wife of sixty five years. How wonderful is that? Thank you, sweetheart. 558 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: I love stuff like that, I really do. I enjoy 559 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,479 Speaker 1: that so much. It's a different time. She just has 560 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: a different set of values. I love that that's in America. 561 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 3: I love