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Speaker 1: Flakey Biscuit is a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. All right, welcome to Flakey Biscuit. Were each

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Speaker 1: episode we are cooking up delicious morsels of nostalgia. I

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Speaker 1: hope we like to make meals and recipes that have

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Speaker 1: comforted and guided our guests to success. Each episode, I'm

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Speaker 1: creating a recipe from scratch, as you all already know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes successfully, sometimes not so successfully. But I hope that

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Speaker 1: you guys make these recipes along with me at home.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Ford and today very very special and funny

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Speaker 1: guests stand up comedian, actor and fellow podcast host Here Today,

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Speaker 1: Who's told jokes on The Late Show with James Cordon

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Speaker 1: Comedy Central, Amazon, acted in Billy Crystal's Here Today. Was

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Speaker 1: also in Hustlers with Jennifer Lopez. Oh man, I'm one

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Speaker 1: degree away from j Lo. His podcast is called The

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Speaker 1: Downside with Jian Marcos Soresi, where he interviews people about

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Speaker 1: all the downsides to their life and complaining is encouraged

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Speaker 1: and negativity is celebrated. Please welcome the amazing, the spectacular

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Speaker 1: Jan Marco.

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Speaker 2: Hello, you say it so sexily. It's great. No One

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Speaker 2: says it like that, it's a wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Wow, not even your girlfriend. Damn, I need to calm down.

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Speaker 2: She goes, Johnny, Yeah, is that your nickname? Only my dad?

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Speaker 2: And then I let her into that club.

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Speaker 1: No, I'll stick with the gian Marco.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I love Italy. We actually just got engaged in Italy.

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Speaker 1: We took a family trip to.

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Speaker 2: You got engaged, like you proposed.

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Speaker 1: I proposed to her on the Amalfi coast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and did she know it was coming?

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Speaker 1: I think that she probably figured we were going to

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Speaker 1: for it at that moment. I don't think Oh yeah, no.

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Speaker 2: Now was a family there. Did you do it in private?

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Speaker 1: The whole family was there watching from the bluff down

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Speaker 1: onto the beach of the villa.

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Speaker 2: You have to have felt confident that, I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: I did it like a disaster. To be honest, it

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Speaker 1: I've studied it. My brother also speaks lots of languages.

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Speaker 1: My dad used to speak a lot of languages.

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Speaker 2: You speak Itali because I don't speak Italian.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I don't speak Italian anymore than

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Speaker 1: like someone who pretends to speak Italian. I could I

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Speaker 1: I can get around, I can order food. I can

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Speaker 2: That's more than me because Italians come up to me.

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Speaker 2: They hear my name and they're like baba bah, and

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Speaker 2: I have to be like, oh, no, no, I don't

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Speaker 1: Oh damn, So that's real. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I did Rosetta stone twice, so you learn how to

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Speaker 2: say egg. But the only thing I remember is rosetta rosetta.

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Speaker 1: So how do you pronounce what I made for you today?

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Speaker 2: Ooh, you're really at the R.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have a lot of Italian friends.

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Speaker 1: I've worked with Italians, and I've never like, every time

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Speaker 2: Faked the accent for a couple of voiceover jobs in

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Speaker 2: I auditioned for a lot of vo though, and that's

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Speaker 1: Well, when they see your name and they see you

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Speaker 2: Sure, and I say, I'm more Jewish. I'd rather do

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Speaker 2: And my dad raised me before I could understand fractions.

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Speaker 2: I would watch The Godfather. That's my whole like Italian

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Speaker 2: raizy on Instagram some people reach out sometimes, so ray related.

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Speaker 2: There was a street, there was a pasta, Sazi pasta,

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Speaker 2: I have no choice. I'm not even taking a DNA

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Speaker 1: Oh wow. So let's just see how Italian you truly are,

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Speaker 1: because oh my, don't worry. I'm not coming at you.

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Speaker 1: But I would like you to let our listeners know

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Speaker 1: the specifics of what your nostalgic meal is. What did

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Speaker 2: So I had you cook al And again, I don't

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Speaker 2: If it was a Saturday. It was easy. You boil

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Speaker 2: And then he'd put on tomato sauce and he would

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Speaker 2: a secret sarasi sauce. I learned later it was just

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Speaker 1: So was there a specific brand of ravioli? Was made fresh?

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Speaker 2: Was not made fresh? There was nothing made fresh at

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Speaker 1: Name of ben right, yes, the beef, yes Vili.

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Speaker 1: School, damn, because of the Sarrazi secret sauce.

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Speaker 1: They don't know what's going on truly. Yeah, I will

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Speaker 1: say my sister and I who's who's actually right here?

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Speaker 1: We see be Tony quite a bit. I'm not gonna Yeah.

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Speaker 1: some you know what I wos the little the five

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Speaker 1: cheese family pack. Yeah, those are absolutely fire. That was

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Speaker 2: was watching Seinfeld with my father and a very Jewish show.

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Speaker 2: Having a very Italian meal felt like that's who I

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Speaker 2: Chewing them, truly, not enjoying any of the car or

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Speaker 2: I wasn't good at sports, but I could do that.

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Speaker 1: How was your stomach affter? Like what happened to your

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Speaker 2: I think my body was used to it. My body

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Speaker 2: needed ravioli if I didn't get thirty pieces.

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Speaker 1: I will say that that it's a pretty Italian company.

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Speaker 1: So your family's pretty Italian. You guys were eating Buttoni

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Speaker 1: and you know, they just started packaging it up and

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Speaker 1: Records are shallow there. Who knows what you were really

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Speaker 2: And that's part of what my great grandpa, my great

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Speaker 2: grandpa Luigi, my great crab Lugi, my great granma Donkey Kong,

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Speaker 2: We're putting two more in. Ooh, yes, very good, very good. Yes,

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Speaker 2: You took a little nibble off the side. Yes, oh yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: Because it's gonna be hot. It's one of these dishes

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Speaker 1: So what are you tasting? Let me talk to me

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm gonna try. So you got the you

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Speaker 2: Sure, I'm gonna have to ask my dad because I

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Speaker 1: But I will say that it's hotly contested about sugar

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do pizza people get they get angry?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh pizza people. Pizza people are pretty cutthroat

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Speaker 2: And that's a pretty incredible brand that somehow no one

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Speaker 1: Because there's like this debate about is it even pizza

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Speaker 1: I think listen, pizza is a flatbread. That's my hot

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Speaker 1: But pizza is a flat bread. Tomatoes were not Italian,

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Speaker 1: Tomatoes originally were brought to Italy at a certain point

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Speaker 2: Are you saying that white people acted like they invented

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Speaker 1: I am going to do, what does it plead the

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Speaker 1: about my tomato gate.

431
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I never thought of vegetables or

432
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Speaker 2: fruits as as Italian or not. But I don't know,

433
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Speaker 2: what would you say it is?

434
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Speaker 1: What's your guts about tomatoes? Yeah, man, came from the Americas,

435
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: like a lot of things. When colonizers pulled up and

436
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 1: you know, murdered indigenous tribes and did all that kind

437
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 1: of thing that they did, they would go back to

438
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,040
Speaker 1: Europe and like bring things vanilla bean from Mexico or

439
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, any number of things. They just bring it back.

440
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: Me up, look at this dope shit. So but you know,

441
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,159
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different types of tomatoes out there,

442
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Speaker 1: and I think as it stands now, Italians seem to

443
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Speaker 1: have like an affinity to like growing tomatoes on volcanic soil.

444
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: And you know, I do think Italians have the authority

445
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Speaker 1: on pizza because pizza is a distinct type of flatbread

446
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Speaker 1: that they made.

447
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Speaker 2: Sure.

448
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna take that away from them, you heard me.

449
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: But I will say that New York style pizza is

450
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Speaker 1: the best style pizza in the world.

451
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Speaker 2: You know, I'll be honest, I'm very carbs conscious. I

452
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Speaker 2: haven't eaten a lot of New York pizza in my

453
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Speaker 2: in my lifetime.

454
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Speaker 1: Hmm.

455
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Speaker 2: So, like I'll have to ask you, like the best

456
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Speaker 2: place to go, Let's do.

457
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Speaker 1: It there's a couple of places. Man. I am a

458
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Speaker 1: big fan of Scars and Lindustry. Okay, Scars and Industry

459
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: both have really excellent doughmaking techniques and skills. They ferment

460
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Speaker 1: their dough properly. They're two of my favorite slices. You

461
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,639
Speaker 1: can't go wrong, you don't feel heavy after you eat it,

462
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 1: the ingredients are fresh, it's not sponsored. Is just really

463
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Speaker 1: I really love those two slices.

464
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Speaker 2: Do you think once they hear what you've said about

465
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Speaker 2: tomatoes not being Italian they'll even let you into.

466
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Speaker 1: The I doubt they'll ever hear this, but if they did,

467
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Speaker 1: Scar wouldn't give a shit. And the guys at Industry,

468
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Speaker 1: I don't know them really, but I don't think they'd

469
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Speaker 1: carry either. Let me reel us back in. I just

470
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 1: want to do a quick double check. Did this meal

471
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Speaker 1: bring you back to a moment that is special to you?

472
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Speaker 2: Sure it did? It did? Because I truly rarely get

473
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Speaker 2: ravioli since you know, going to college and being like,

474
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Speaker 2: oh I want to be fit. My my girlfriend gets

475
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 2: on my case all the top because she's like, you'll

476
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Speaker 2: eat ramen, but you won't eat this. And I think

477
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 2: because I was like a chubby kid. I associate because

478
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Speaker 2: my dad would let me eat this every single day.

479
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: So I think in my mind there's an association between

480
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Speaker 2: like this and like like this is a big slice

481
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 2: of cake as far as I'm consern so I don't

482
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Speaker 2: have it very often. So having it here absolutely brought

483
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Speaker 2: me back to my dad's kitchen. I open the fridge.

484
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 2: It's empty except for regu, a plastic, plastic container of

485
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 2: this shit. It's very nice, just the texture alone. The

486
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 2: texture alone, you don't get too often, that chewy chewy

487
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: with that real soft center.

488
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Watch out, but Tony. I'm

489
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: about to have a spaghetti shop of my own come

490
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Speaker 1: into Times Square in twenty twenty four.

491
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Speaker 2: I wish there was more because I want to show

492
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Speaker 2: you how many I can swallow. All it was, Yeah, do.

493
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Speaker 1: You have what it takes? Do you think you can

494
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Speaker 1: swallow one of these?

495
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Speaker 2: I mean, sure you're gonna try.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

497
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: It feels like a waste, but I'll do it for

498
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Speaker 2: the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you want to try one without sauce or

500
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: one from my ball? I am, well, holy shit, that

501
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: one's really big, man. There's no way.

502
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Speaker 2: We'll see, don't worry. I'll be off. I'm gonna die.

503
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Speaker 1: That is a big Can you sign a death waiver

504
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: real quick in casey joke? Oh shit, oh shit, No,

505
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: you got to chew a little. You at least shoved

506
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Speaker 1: it all in your mouth, and I will give you

507
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Speaker 1: credit for trying at least to do that. Wow, you

508
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Speaker 1: need some water. You have water? You got beer? Okay, Yeah,

509
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Speaker 1: so we brought you back again for the listeners, shannaland

510
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Speaker 1: dot com. Keep the recipe, make sure you tag us,

511
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Speaker 1: make it. Check out the social content, the video content,

512
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Speaker 1: the recipe, video content, all that kind of thing. Make

513
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Speaker 1: sure you'll peep in the so you know we're pivoting

514
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: here at Flaky Biscuit to talk about. You've got stand ups,

515
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: You've got all this content online, you're in movies, you're

516
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: you know, you're doing the thing. How did this meal

517
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Speaker 1: get you into a period of like acceptance of who

518
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Speaker 1: you are?

519
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Speaker 2: I think my dad's with ravioli and with with like

520
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 2: cup of noodles made me able to survive on the

521
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: same food over and over and over again. And there

522
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 2: are periods of my life when I was a struggling

523
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 2: actor and a struggle stand up comedian, and I'm sure

524
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 2: I will return to those spaces at some point in

525
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Speaker 2: my career where I had to just eat whatever I

526
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Speaker 2: had in front of me, whether it be something boiled

527
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Speaker 2: water or something simple, and so in a weird way,

528
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Speaker 2: it made me kind of a survivor in terms of food.

529
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Speaker 2: My girlfriend, if she sees some of the meals I cook,

530
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Speaker 2: she's like, where's where's the But I go, we don't

531
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Speaker 2: have time for that, we don't have the money for salt.

532
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: Were just eating what was in the can, and so

533
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 2: listen as first was delicious. I loved ravioli. But I

534
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 2: think my dad's cooking style made me go like I

535
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 2: can survive on anything, and I think that made me

536
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Speaker 2: able to do this profession.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, I love that mentality. You know,

538
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: there's only one way in life to succeed, and as

539
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: to like get it done what you got and try

540
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: to keep getting a little more pizza of the pie.

541
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Speaker 2: And I think the smell make kids not like me.

542
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: And you know you need to be unpopular to be

543
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 2: a comedian. You gotta go through that at some point.

544
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 1: That's a real take. Oh yeah, you grew up in

545
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Speaker 1: Potomac marrit You saw my eyes struggle to pronounce Potomac.

546
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: I guess is that a food town? Like what's y'all

547
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 1: eating the crab cakes type thing?

548
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Speaker 2: Just like deeper in Maryland, Like Maryland, there's parts of

549
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: Maryland for crabs, but Potomac is boring, is no culture.

550
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 2: Potomac has zero culture. If we got pizza, it was

551
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 2: ship pizza. If we got if we got Rali, it

552
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 2: was out of the box, almost awful.

553
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Speaker 1: How long did you live in Potomac my whole life? Man?

554
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Speaker 1: You just bro, you just done shit all over where

555
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: you're from.

556
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: Potomac sucks, man. Everyone's getting divorced because they can't even

557
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: enjoy their food. It's a miserable, miserable place. Now.

558
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Speaker 1: I feel like you could take this and get like

559
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: an ambassador role with Potomac and like revive it. Like

560
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: you know, there's Italian towns that pay people to move there.

561
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: You could be the start of a movement where you

562
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: just like get people to go to Potomac and make

563
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: it poppin.

564
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll try. That'll be in my life's gol. It's

565
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: very expensive. It's a lot of it's like the kind

566
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: of rich people who you're like, you shouldn't have money

567
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 2: because you don't even know how to enjoy it. You

568
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: don't enjoy it. You just got money to give it

569
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 2: to your lawyer. You suck my dad and stepdad's to

570
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Speaker 2: live there.

571
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: But oh, man, let me tell you something right now.

572
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: So not only is it there's no food, it's just

573
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Speaker 1: a bunch of rich people, just.

574
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Speaker 2: A bunch of rich people with so much property so

575
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 2: they can isolate themselves from any kind of community or culture.

576
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 2: It's a thirty minute drive. Just get out of the driveway.

577
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: It is terrible place, man, all right, Potomac, so we

578
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: ain't getting no sponsorship deals.

579
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 2: And they'd be lucrative too, so you're really messing out.

580
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 2: Potomac would eat this meal and they'd be like, so

581
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 2: spicy that tomato sauce was kind of spicy. Why didn't

582
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Speaker 2: you tell me?

583
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Speaker 1: I feel like that I could thrive in Potomac. I'd

584
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Speaker 1: be like a foreign entity. They might be in awe

585
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: of me. They'd be like, yo, look at this.

586
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah they love foreign entities.

587
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a

588
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: foreign entity to them. I might I might have to

589
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Speaker 1: do a ravioli shop up in Potomac because but you

590
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: so you went to college in Miami, which is a

591
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: change of definitely definitely in Miami.

592
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 2: For more cocaine in Miami and the Potomac. I'll tell you.

593
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Speaker 1: That, really, I think that thoughts more prescribed medication xanax

594
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: damn zero redeeming qualities like zero. We don't want anyone

595
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Speaker 1: ever to go there. Yeah, besides if you're visiting your.

596
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Speaker 2: Dad, yeah, I don't ever want to go there. Exactly

597
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: to your earlier point.

598
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Speaker 1: Savagery. Today the has really brought something out in Jean Marco.

599
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: We're we're going off the rails.

600
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm back in my childhood.

601
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: You're right, but tell me you better watch out. We're coming.

602
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: How was the Miami experience like? Was that culinarily?

603
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to go back and have more because

604
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: I ate a lot of the cafeteria food. I was

605
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 2: trying to learn how to cook badly. I remember I

606
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: tried cooking chicken once. Thank god I had a girlfriend

607
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: at the time. I didn't have time to cook the

608
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: whole chicken, so I said okay, and I put it

609
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Speaker 2: in the fridge and I was like, I'll cook the

610
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Speaker 2: rest later.

611
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Speaker 1: Well, hold on, you par cooked it.

612
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Speaker 2: What you think is what happened? Yes, I cooked it,

613
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Speaker 2: and I said, oh shit, I don't have enough time.

614
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: It's still really pink in the middle. As I said,

615
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Speaker 2: I know what I'll do. It made sense to me.

616
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: It still makes sense to me. But I put it

617
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Speaker 2: back in the fridge. And then later I went to

618
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Speaker 2: cook it, you know, finish the job. And my girlfriend

619
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Speaker 2: was like, no, no, no, that's not how you do it. Damn,

620
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: that's what I had instead of like glorious Caribbean.

621
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Speaker 1: How long y'all been together? No?

622
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: No, no, that was the last relationship.

623
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Speaker 1: That was my bad. I must have spaced out because

624
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: I was hearing the row chicken and going back.

625
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: Once she took a bite, she said, we're over over real,

626
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: like legit. No, there were other horrible to It wasn't

627
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: just that it was my neediness by oct oh, God,

628
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: the chicken was not as big a problem.

629
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Speaker 1: But I don't think.

630
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Speaker 2: No, but it was a problem for sure. I feel

631
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Speaker 2: like if the chicken had been better, it would have

632
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Speaker 2: made up for all the other flaws I have as

633
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Speaker 2: a human being.

634
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Speaker 1: I can say right now with one hundred percent confidence

635
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Speaker 1: that if you could put a few good meals in

636
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Speaker 1: front of your lady, you might be able to get

637
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Speaker 1: away with some you know what I'm saying, being.

638
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: A piece of shit. That's especially what you're saying. You

639
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: cook a few good meals. You could combine the Anniversary's

640
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Speaker 2: mount Then's stay, birthday, and Christmas soul into one.

641
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're talking about more simple things. We're not

642
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: talking about like overall behavioral flaws like you know, We're

643
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: talking about the more simple things like oh damn, like

644
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Speaker 1: it's your birthday. I just made the reservation, like you

645
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, the little things.

646
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Speaker 2: That's all though, I know, I know that's the best

647
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 2: motivation I've ever had to cook in my entire life.

648
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 2: When I forget the reservation.

649
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, let me tell you right now, because then

650
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: you get to whip up something from the soul and

651
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: on a budget or.

652
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: Whatever opening that can I'll be like, this is from

653
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 2: the soul.

654
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: Baby. What are you doing stand up comedy in Miami?

655
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: When were you like, oh shit, I'm actually funny.

656
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: Well, I went to college for musical theater, which is embarrassing.

657
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 2: It's like having a degree and imagination. And I think

658
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: I realized why I was getting the degree, that I

659
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 2: was wasting my life, and so I started comedy I

660
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 2: did a summer camp in New York after junior year

661
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 2: of college, and I took a class where you know,

662
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 2: it's a scam, you pay money, and the bottom line

663
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: is at the end you have to perform five minutes

664
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 2: in front of people. I think, of all the things

665
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: I've ever done, that was what I was most naturally

666
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: good at. But I didn't do it for a while.

667
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: It's a very different lifestyle. You have to give up

668
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: nights for the rest of your life, and so I

669
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: didn't do it. I moved it to New York. I

670
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: did a lot of theater. I did theater for years.

671
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I've shared the stage with some people who

672
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 2: have gone on to become huge real estate agents. I failed,

673
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: you know. I did a little commercial stuff here and there.

674
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: But then I wrote a play and in the play

675
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: I talked to the audience a bunch and people were like,

676
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: we like that part, the rest not so much. And

677
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: I said, okay, I'll focus on that. And then so,

678
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 2: like eight years ago now, just started doing stand up

679
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: at a garbage comedy club called Lol Garbage where it

680
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: used to be in Times Square, then it moved. The

681
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: owner had a gay bar. He said it was a

682
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: gay bar. I'd never seen it. Once he lost the lease,

683
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: he moved LOL to the gay bar, and I went there,

684
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: and I thought it would be like, oh, gaybar may

685
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: be able to be nicer, higher quality. I don't know

686
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: a gay man alive who had stepped foot in this

687
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: bar that I saw. It was the same decor as

688
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: the comedy club. It's just lol nas X was playing

689
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: on the TV from time to time, and that's what

690
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 2: made it a gay bar. And now it's a comedy club.

691
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: And I stopped working there a couple of months ago.

692
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: I said no more. Now that I'm on the flaky biscuit, I.

693
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: Think, I, oh, man, yeah, can.

694
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: I get moved past this unpaid work you made.

695
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: It's a flaky biscuit. You've made it all the way

696
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: in your career. That's what every single guest has been

697
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: telling us.

698
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 2: So that's that's where I really got my legs. It

699
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: was it was performing for terrible shows, but they were

700
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 2: packed with tourists who had just been scammed, who was

701
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: told Chappelle might show up, and instead of Chappelle, it's me.

702
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: Is that that's legit? What happened?

703
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're sold on like a celebrity stuff if Roseanne,

704
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: if Roseanne passed the club in the sixties, they'd be like,

705
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: she's she could be here tonight. There's a chance. That's

706
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 2: how I learned comedy.

707
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Nice. We watched shelf Life last night and it was

708
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: to be honest, the funniest thing that happened in shelf

709
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: Life was the two old men that you said were

710
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: on the Titanic or something that that killed me. I

711
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: was absolutely dead. But something that was really interesting to

712
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: me that I wanted to ask you about. You made

713
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: a disclaimer about being Jewish before making a Jewish joke.

714
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 2: Sure, what was your question?

715
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: How was that played like in your comedic life? I mean,

716
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, the first thing you said to me was like,

717
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't really speak Italian and you know this,

718
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: and they're like, I feel like my work evolves as

719
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: I evolved, And I'm like, is that do you find

720
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: that to happen as well?

721
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think again. I was raised with this perception

722
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 2: of being like very Italian, and my mom didn't practice

723
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 2: much of Judaism. Her parents told her she could either

724
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 2: have Abot Mitzvah or sweet sixteen when she was twelve,

725
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 2: and she was like, oh wait, for the Sweet sixteen

726
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 2: and that was kind of like the end. So we

727
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: went to temple once a year, all that stuff. And

728
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: then I think, like becoming a comedian, there's a Jewish

729
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: heritage in comedy and a look at the comedians that

730
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: I like, like Seinfeld of course many years ago, Woody

731
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 2: Allen at the time. Things have changed, but I think

732
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: like that's part of the embracing of the Jewishness. My

733
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 2: girlfriend is grew up in New Orleans in a Kabad community.

734
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: Oh so she's she's no longer practicing, but it's a

735
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: big part of her life. So being with her has

736
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 2: made me feel closer to like my Judaism and understanding it.

737
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 2: And then I also think there's a weird strain because

738
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 2: there's been feels like more anti Semitism recently. There's something

739
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 2: about when when a group of people hate you for

740
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 2: who you are, that does make, at least for me,

741
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: make me kind of identify with it more or understand

742
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: it more, or feel unified in a sad way with

743
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 2: my people. I was in I was in Houston. This

744
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 2: happened three times now, I said. I was on stage,

745
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 2: I said I'm Jewish, and that's all I said. And

746
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 2: someone in the audience went yuh, and I was like,

747
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 2: joke's on you. That's Hebrew for a great job. That

748
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 2: was a joke. That's okay, Yeah, you thought it was

749
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 2: really You're gonna go up for Jews all the time,

750
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 2: and you're like, yuh, saying.

751
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: A great job.

752
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: No, no, no, That's why I had to tell you.

753
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 2: I think, like all all that stuff has just made

754
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: me think about it more, Like I have a bit

755
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 2: now of like you know, people say to I've had

756
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 2: people say to my face this, say the Jews run Hollywood,

757
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, then how about a thank you? Okay,

758
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 2: we're doing pretty well. I would think if you ever

759
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 2: seen a Christian movie, they're terrible. Oh well, let me

760
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,479
Speaker 2: guess the main character is Jesus Christ. Wow, he died,

761
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: I wonderful, come back to life again, your fucking hack.

762
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 2: So it's a weird thing where it's like obviously gives

763
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 2: you a lot of comedic mileage, you know, like when

764
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 2: you're able to talk about culture, everyone has some knowledge

765
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 2: of that culture that you can then play off of.

766
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 2: And that's it's made me identify with it more. And

767
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: I have more Jewish jokes and I have Italian jokes

768
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: because I think I just have more experiences related to

769
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: my Judaism now than I do.

770
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: It's a time right now where there is suffering within

771
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: your community, and there are people will get inspired even

772
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: if you're making jokes, but they're inspired by your willingness

773
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: to kind of stand up and talk about these things

774
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: that have happened. Right Like, it's you know, getting called

775
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: names to your face is shitty. We all know what

776
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: that feels like, and it's not great. So but when

777
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: you're able to kind of overcome that and thrive in

778
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: your profession and inspire people while doing so, I think

779
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: I think that's the most important takeaway that at least

780
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: keeps me going. Obviously seems to be keep you going.

781
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:00,479
Speaker 1: Full seat my head.

782
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I'm no fan of religion in general. There's

783
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 2: certain aspects of Judaism I do not do not enjoy.

784
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 2: But I think it's also as you get older, it's

785
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 2: like you want some community in your life, and it

786
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: can feel it could just feel nice to like know

787
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 2: that if I, you know, if I run to a

788
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 2: stranger and they happen to be Jewish, there's some interesting

789
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: things to talk about, and it's something that my girlfriend

790
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 2: just really had from her about upbringing that I admire.

791
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 2: And then we go to temple and I go, I

792
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 2: don't admire this anymore. I'm Italian again.

793
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: Let's go watch The Godfather one, two, or three.

794
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 2: Oh, it's gotta be It's gotta be one. But then

795
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: Sonny getting shot in that second one, that's a really

796
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 2: visceral scene in my mind. There's so much dread too,

797
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: is when he like that guy gets stuck in the

798
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: the revolving door. They kill like all the mob bosses.

799
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: So that was good to Yeah.

800
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: Great. I saw three when I was so young that

801
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was bad, I guess, And I

802
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 2: haven't seen it again as an.

803
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: Adult because everyone says it's so bad.

804
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

805
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: I think I've seen it maybe one or two times.

806
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 2: And a director put his daughter in it, and like,

807
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 2: you know, that's always going to rub people through.

808
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, and al Pacino was pretty good though.

809
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what he was. That's when he was

810
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 2: starting to get a little too al Pacino. We've for people, Oh,

811
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: like Jesus Christ, let's get some colors here, let's get

812
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 2: some soft tones.

813
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: Look, thanks for you know, opening up and sharing about

814
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 1: your culture. Your heritage and how that kind of it's

815
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 1: tough to talk about. I get put into positions where

816
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm Afro Honduran, or

817
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: like what does that mean? Where's Honduras? Is it in Mexico?

818
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: Why are you black? What do you speak spanis? Why

819
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: do you speak English so good? And you know the

820
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: whole My sister and I I was about to act

821
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: dealt with that kind of thing.

822
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 2: Why do you speak English so good? I've been waiting

823
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: to ask that. I didn't want to like interrupt the flow.

824
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was kind of saving that explanation. I had

825
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: to help you understand where Honduras was first America. I

826
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: had to teach you about colonization and how ingredients had

827
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: then take it away and all that kind of thing.

828
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: Then I was gonna explain.

829
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 2: You should you should have a show where you bring

830
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: on guests and you have like food that's important to

831
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: their culture. Then you explain to them how they actually

832
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 2: stole that share someone else's culture.

833
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: It would be dope, it would be dope.

834
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 2: And then you make them do the dishes. After he said,

835
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 2: that's what you get for stealing us?

836
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: Oh, John Marco hungry for more Flaky Biscuit. They tuned,

837
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: welcome back to Flaky Biscuit. You blessed us with this

838
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,919
Speaker 1: beautiful Jeff Global impression. When and how do you think

839
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: the shift from being that guy doing that impression to

840
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: kind of being one of the funniest comedians in New York?

841
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: Like when did that happen? When did you feel like, oh,

842
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm like crushing it And it's not just because of

843
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: this one thing.

844
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: Just be clear. I think my my PR person told

845
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: you to say the funniest comedian in New York, not

846
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 2: one of the funniest comedians.

847
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: And let me rephrase that. Let me rephrase that on

848
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: to being considered the hands down, absolute funniest comedians in

849
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 1: New York right now, Thank you, thank.

850
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: You very much. It was a thought I think once

851
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 2: I did it in that Billy Crystal movie. M I said, Okay,

852
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: it can't go much better than this, Like anything after

853
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 2: that is going to be a disappointment. What am I

854
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 2: gonna get asked to do like a Jeff goldbum impression

855
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 2: on like a cooking podcast. So I decided, like I'm

856
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 2: gonna retire that for good. And you know it's hard.

857
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 2: I think with comedy first of all, I'm not a

858
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 2: great impression. It's I can do like two. And I

859
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 2: think like, if you lean on impressions too much, you're

860
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 2: not finding the really funny thing because they're partially just

861
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 2: laughing at the voice you're doing. So I said, at

862
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 2: least on stage, I was like, nah, put it to bed.

863
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: Interesting, So you kind of made a choice to not

864
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: let it define you as a comedian before.

865
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 2: It bled into me though. I did that impression for

866
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 2: so long that when I talk, it changed the way

867
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 2: that I pause and go in and out. And so

868
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: they're like, if you listen to me on stage, you

869
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 2: can see little flavors of Jeff Goldblum. I feel it

870
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 2: right now that came through. I can you know, I

871
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: open every set with you know, real subtle So yeah,

872
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: if you listen to me, you can. I think if

873
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 2: you are familiar with John Mulaney, Anthony Jesslinic or Jeff Goldblum,

874
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: you can hear notes from all three.

875
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: Got some heavy inspiration though, and it's it's interesting to

876
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: hear you kind of break that down and how it's

877
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: maybe molded you.

878
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 2: No, I think, so, I mean I have to be

879
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: careful how much I listened to any of those those guys,

880
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: because it just starts happening naturally. But I like, I

881
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 2: like the idea that you want to you want to

882
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 2: borrow from people in the right way.

883
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: Listen. I like impressions as well.

884
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: You guys.

885
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: I got a couple I got They just looked at

886
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: each other because they hear it all the time, and

887
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: it's all I've got. Well, all this talk about racism, Uh,

888
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: it's something very special. I might be hispanic. Well, actually

889
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: I'm not what.

890
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 2: That's the best Donald Trump I've ever seen in my

891
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 2: entire life. That was really good at that incredible.

892
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: That's all I got.

893
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 2: That was very good. Yeah, yeah, let's see.

894
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 1: You got to give you some breathing room on this one.

895
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: All right. Okay, so we're talking about songs. Huh, we're

896
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: talking about ravial. Isn't that what you told me the

897
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: other day? Huh. We have something called the Flaky Game

898
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: that we're going to get into before we move on

899
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: into the close of our beautiful show. But I do

900
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 1: want to know, and I'm sure my listeners are curious,

901
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: what's next for you? What is on? What is in

902
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: the pipeline that you can talk about?

903
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 2: Yeah? I could talk about all of it. I'm touring.

904
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 2: I'm just on the road pretty much every weekend, going

905
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 2: around America. Gonna be in Canada just for laps this year.

906
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 2: I'll be in London in November. So I'm just expanding

907
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 2: going around. My podcast is called The Downside, and then

908
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 2: I'll film a special this year and I'll probably go

909
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: on YouTube. All right, is that's what we do these days?

910
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: Moving into the flaky game, as I promised, the longest

911
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: ravioli measured so far was blank and was achieved by

912
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: Amway Russia in Saint Petersburg on August third, twenty thirteen.

913
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: I was literally reading about this yesterday.

914
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: So essentially, how long was the longest ravioli that was

915
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: made in Russia?

916
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: Okay, let me think.

917
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm supposed to give you three options?

918
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you?

919
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: Okay, good? This man, this man was straight up like,

920
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: all right, well fuck it. Let me try to introduce

921
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: option one, six hundred feet, Option two thirty five point

922
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: five feet, Option three ninety six feet and one inch

923
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: thirty five point five and wrong. Why did you pick that?

924
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 1: You were very confident.

925
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 2: Because ninety six is that's too much of.

926
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: A ninety swallow? That sae no no, you couldn't. Ninety

927
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: six feet and one inch is our longest ever ravioli.

928
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: It was filled with chicken and onion. Were they making parochis?

929
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: Was that a ravioli?

930
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 2: But did they put it on like a football field

931
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 2: or was it on a plate.

932
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: I've seen these things where like Domino's will make like

933
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: the biggest pizza in the world, and it's literally just

934
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of pizzas next to each other, and then

935
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: they like dump sauce on it with mops. Oh God,

936
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: I don't know there are in the world right now. No,

937
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: they donate it, great donation.

938
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 2: Hey, you want the pizza scrubbed with the mop? It's

939
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 2: been sitting out ten hours from a photo shooting.

940
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: A football field. All right, a couple more questions for you.

941
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: The most ravioli made in two minutes is blank and

942
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: this was accomplished by Gino da Campo on the set

943
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: of Let's Do Lunch with Gino and Mel talk about

944
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: random all right, So in two minutes, how many ravioli

945
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: were made? Was it thirty three? Was it one thousand?

946
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: Was it nine and eighty two?

947
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 2: In two minutes and two minutes? It's going to be

948
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 2: the small number thirty five, thirty three, thirty thirty three.

949
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: I love it that that honestly.

950
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 2: Pretty easy one? Was it thirty or nine billions?

951
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: All right? I just got a couple more for you.

952
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 1: Jewish cuisine has a similar dish called blank, a pocket

953
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: of meat or other filling covered by egg pasta. Is

954
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: it a kniche or is it a kreplac?

955
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: I feel like it's not a kniche, so a couplac.

956
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 1: A Jewish ravioli is a corplac, I guess, so, well,

957
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: there we go.

958
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 2: I'm glad. My girlfriend would be mad if I didn't

959
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 2: get that one.

960
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: So you've never had it before? No, definitely, Well you

961
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: have some homework. Yeah, even flaky biscuit was a homework.

962
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: I want to see you get on Instagram, make some croplaque,

963
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: and I want to see it. Last one is true

964
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: or false. The largest raviolo. See how I used a

965
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: singular version because it's just one.

966
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't even know that ravioli is plural.

967
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: The largest raviola ways so true or false seventy nine

968
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: point five pounds and was made by the tet Talagen

969
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:36,760
Speaker 1: Company in Central Malta on May fourth, twenty thirteen.

970
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of it was twenty twelve or

971
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen. I mean that's big. That's that's a little

972
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 2: lighter than may. That's a big Ravioli.

973
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. And can I also say that the

974
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: three they're all in twenty so in twenty thirteen something

975
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: in the world must have been happening where people were

976
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: trying to like break the record with Ravioli because all

977
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: three of these true or false? Though one hundred and

978
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: seven five pounds. What's your take, It's.

979
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 2: Gotta be true. It's absolutely true.

980
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have an expert. All right. This has been phenomenal.

981
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: We love to end our episodes talking about, you know,

982
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: the things that you like to do to help improve

983
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: our communities and let our listeners know about something that

984
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 1: you hold near and dear to your heart. I believe

985
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: the Jewish Queer Youth Organization is something that you believe in.

986
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: So I would love for you to tell me and

987
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: my listeners what can we do to support this cause

988
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: and why is it important to you?

989
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 2: I'll start with why is it important to me? I

990
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 2: think this has always been like one of my hang

991
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 2: ups with all religion is lgbt Q rights and just

992
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 2: the way it's viewed. And when I went on my

993
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: birthright trip, the rabbi who was a tour guide, he

994
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 2: did this game. He was like, we're going to all

995
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 2: play a game called stump the Rabbi. You can ask

996
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: me anything you want. He wanted, like, what do you

997
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 2: call Jewish RAVIOLI thought it'd be fun. Yeah, And I

998
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: asked how Toews feel about homosexuality? Right out the gate?

999
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 2: You went right out the gate? I said, I'm gonna

1000
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 2: stump him. I'm gonna win this game. And he gave

1001
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,760
Speaker 2: some bullshit answer about like, oh, life is hard. If

1002
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 2: someone said they were gay, I'd give them a hug

1003
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 2: and I'd say life is hard. And I was like, okay,

1004
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 2: follow up question, What the fuck what did you just say?

1005
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 2: And I think we live in a time where we're

1006
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: all trying to in the liberal side of things, the

1007
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: left side of things, be more accepting and welcoming, and

1008
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: there's always this conflict with like religious freedom and then

1009
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 2: certain religious beliefs that are antithetical to gave people existing

1010
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 2: you're living a fulfilled life. I don't know how you

1011
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 2: square away the issue. And it's easy for me because

1012
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 2: I wasn't raised in this Jewish tradition. But if you

1013
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 2: are raised in a Hasidic family, more orthodox gsing a

1014
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 2: big part of your life, it's got to be a struggle.

1015
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 2: It's got to be a real struggle, whether you just

1016
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 2: support LGBTQ rights or you are a member of the community.

1017
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 2: And so as I closer to the Jewish world, I

1018
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 2: just think like resources that help help people psychologically square

1019
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 2: away these two worlds, even if they sometimes feel it conflict,

1020
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 2: but also makes it more accepted and hopefully, I think

1021
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 2: hopefully in the long run, brings more and more of

1022
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 2: Judaism to a place where it's you can be open

1023
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 2: about being kay and you're accepted and it's not even

1024
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 2: considered like a light sin or whatever that it's just fine.

1025
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 2: So this just an organization that that my my girlfriend

1026
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 2: has been telling me about that. I mean a big

1027
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 2: part is just resources for queer Jewish youth to just

1028
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: feel like they have a home.

1029
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that. And you know,

1030
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: is this something that's based in New York or is

1031
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: this or their volunteer opportunities are their you know, donation opportunities.

1032
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 2: There's definitely donation opportunities and I'm sure there's volunteer opportunities.

1033
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 2: I believe it's started in New York, but I think

1034
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 2: it's all around, and it's it's growing.

1035
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a really important one. Honestly, I think

1036
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: the more people I talk to and the more you

1037
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: go on the news or whatever, I mean, the more

1038
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: this issue has taken center stage because there's a lot

1039
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 1: of communities right now that are struggling with going about

1040
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: things the right way. There's black and brown communities like this.

1041
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: There's you know, I hate to say, but I mean

1042
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: Hispanic communities, you know in Latin America, where maybe being

1043
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: queer is not something you want to tell your family.

1044
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's you want to be proud to

1045
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: be Hispanic and proud to be all this kind of thing.

1046
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: But then if you you know, say that you're gay

1047
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: or queer or whatever it is that how you identify,

1048
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: there's going to be backlash, and then it becomes terrifying

1049
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: for them, and then they just never talk about it.

1050
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: You are, you know.

1051
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 2: And also I despise the like it's okay to be gay.

1052
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 2: It's not right, but it's okay like it to me.

1053
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 2: The people who spouse that will quickly latch onto the

1054
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 2: hateful person if they think gay people have existed forever. Yeah,

1055
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 2: they're responsible for as much of humanity's progress as anything else.

1056
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 2: And Yeah, I think what's been shocking is because when

1057
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 2: I was in middle school, that was high school, college,

1058
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 2: when gay marriage was legalized, I always assumed the world

1059
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 2: would become more progressive, especially in that sense, and there's

1060
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 2: been this like horrifying rebound where suddenly we're talking about

1061
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 2: drag queens as an issue, and people are like talking

1062
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 2: about trans rights in this negative way, and it's like,

1063
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's become everyone's main target and

1064
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 2: it's strange.

1065
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: It's quite strange.

1066
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 2: It's being exploited by the people who just want the votes,

1067
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 2: and it's such a hateful, horrible rebound. That's shocking to me.

1068
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 2: I'm just shocked to see like things move backwards. And

1069
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: that's that's partly because of the privilege as a straight

1070
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 2: man to not to not recognize that these movements don't

1071
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 2: just move propel themselves forward forever.

1072
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, this particular issue, I feel like it is prominent,

1073
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,479
Speaker 1: it's prevalent because we it's up to us to stand

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Speaker 1: how wrong the atrocities are that are happening. This is

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Speaker 2: So, tomatoes are gay. We all know it.

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Speaker 1: You heard it here first on Flake You biscuit tomatoes

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Speaker 1: are gay, and you love tomatoes, so join the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world. Thank you, Jan Marco. This has been

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Speaker 2: That's it. Oh, pray go.

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Speaker 1: Thank y'all for listening. Fam. If you want to make

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Speaker 1: my version of you Tony Ravioli for yourself, which I

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Speaker 1: know you do, find that recipe on shannaland dot com.

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Speaker 1: And you know my doe game is vicious, so come

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Speaker 1: tag Gian Marico at Gion, Marco Soreesi and post your photos,

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Speaker 1: because I think Jim Modica like jokes pretty funny. Skuy,

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Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out jqy Jewish Queer Youth

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Speaker 1: all the links I mentioned in the show notes for

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Speaker 1: this episode. So if you like Flakey Biscuit, you know

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Speaker 1: subscribe like all of that. Lakey Biscuit is executive produced

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Speaker 1: Gabrielle Collins, our creative producers Bridget Kenna, and our editor

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Speaker 1: and producers Nicholas harder By. Crucial recipes from Flaky Biscuit

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