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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview.

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Speaker 2: Johnny is here. We have so much to talk about,

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Speaker 2: you know, Gumba. I'll just let you know. Our friend

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Speaker 2: Felipe is visiting from Italy. I don't know how to

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Speaker 2: turn his mind part of Italy. Well hold on, hold on, yeah,

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Speaker 2: hold on, we got to push a button. Hold on,

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Speaker 2: hold on. This is the worst. Did the Italians make

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Speaker 2: this born? It's all there, we are.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, guys, good morning, welcome, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: It's so nice to be here. I'm from the North.

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Speaker 3: I was born in a city that you probably don't know,

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Speaker 3: which is called Genova. Is that near luc It's I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty close to Toscana, to Tuscany, but yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: in the north. But now I live in Milan, that

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Speaker 3: you know, And you dress like you're from Milan, don't

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Speaker 3: you think so? It's so funny, how you know, Gumba,

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Speaker 3: Johnny is an Italian American. Scary as an Italian American.

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Speaker 3: They think they're Italian.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Philippa likes to come to town once a

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Speaker 2: year to remind them they're not Italian. We've got lots

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Speaker 2: to talk about about your trip to New York.

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Speaker 4: And everything.

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Speaker 2: So Gumba Johnny, we was in radio here for us

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Speaker 2: for many years. Now he's he's a comedian. He's on

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Speaker 2: the road, he's doing shows, and we're gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 2: Now we're about to do a segment called ask a Comedian. Excellent,

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Speaker 2: all right, I got music, I get my own if

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Speaker 2: ever you wanted to, if ever you've wanted to ask

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Speaker 2: a comedian a question about their craft, about what motivates them,

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Speaker 2: About how much you get paid textas now at fifty five.

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Speaker 4: One, How about my social Security number? We need?

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Speaker 2: And uh so Filippa likes to come in and just

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Speaker 2: kind of hang out with us. But this is your segment,

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Speaker 2: not Filippo's. Pretend he's not.

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Speaker 4: Your English is pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Thanks man. I really appreciate that. You were expecting like

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Speaker 3: a strong Italian accent, like ay everybody something like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of what we want. Yeah, yeah, exactly delivery

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Speaker 2: it'd be nice.

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Speaker 3: Whenever I speak to American people are pretty disappointed because

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Speaker 3: this is not the English, not expecting.

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Speaker 4: But comedy clubs and Italy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but unfortunately they're not cool as they are here

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Speaker 3: in the States. No, why not, because you know, here.

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Speaker 3: I feel here in the States, if you are like

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Speaker 3: a stand up comedian, you can become like you're the

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Speaker 3: main character. You can host like the Academy Awards or

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Speaker 3: the Grammys. In Italy, if you're like a stand up comedian,

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Speaker 3: you're like the weird guy. It's much more like a niche.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what you are, Like a jester.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you we like comedy like this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like you go into the piazza, you tell

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Speaker 4: the joke, people throw coins.

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Speaker 2: At That's how it works.

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Speaker 4: It's not like that here, kid, I tell you.

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Speaker 2: Johnny is doing a show Avenue Performing Arts Center Saturday,

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Speaker 2: September fourteenth, that's Saturday, this Saturday.

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Speaker 4: At eight o'clock. I'm gonna be there. I have a

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Speaker 4: great line up to uh Laura High uh and Ethan

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Speaker 4: Corgano and it's hosted by Mike Scaley and I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: be obviously the head. And it's an Avenue, New Jersey,

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Speaker 4: which is a beautiful theater. By the way.

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Speaker 2: You know who it manages telling her who manages Anthony Wilkinson,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony Anthony from Staten Island, Island.

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Speaker 4: You know what they call Staten Island like the New

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Speaker 4: York City its last Italy. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: See, this is why Italians can't be comedians. They screw

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Speaker 2: up the punchline.

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Speaker 4: It takes him so long to get the joke. I

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Speaker 4: mean there is there's no I mean there's a language

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course not really, not with Felipo.

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Speaker 4: Well, you don't know what's going on in his head.

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Speaker 3: Just stays so focused understanding, even if you're saying like

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Speaker 3: a simple thing like how are you to be.

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Speaker 4: Like, yes, all right, if you know, like if you

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Speaker 4: were speaking Italian to me, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not way with English. I can't even speak English.

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Speaker 2: So also, you're gonna play Palm Each Kennel Club in

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Speaker 2: Palm Beach, Florida, September twenty eighth.

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Speaker 4: The day before my birthday. That's my birthday show. And

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Speaker 4: the Pompeach Kettle Club in pomp Beach is a great venue.

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Speaker 4: I performed there before. I love it. The people are fantastic,

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Speaker 4: and you'd be shocked how many New Yorkers they're in

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Speaker 4: that area.

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Speaker 1: That I retire there.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's so funny to go into Florida and

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Speaker 4: I performed there and people you know, wait, to talk

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Speaker 4: to you after the show, and they go, I grew

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Speaker 4: up with you. I used to listen to you on

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Speaker 4: the radio.

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Speaker 2: They're all there, Yeah, it all ran.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give those dates and places again in a

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Speaker 2: few minutes. So you had a Danielle story.

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Speaker 4: My Danielle story is a little embarrassing to the both

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Speaker 4: of us. Okay, So Danielle and I, as you know,

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Speaker 4: we're friend well you know, we're friends. We love each other,

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Speaker 4: and we said, let's get together with our spouses, you know,

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Speaker 4: Sheldon and my wife Danielle. So we arranged this date.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's very hard to schedule anything with us

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Speaker 4: because she has children and she's very busy. So we

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Speaker 4: get a date and we decide to go to Houston's

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Speaker 4: in Paramus. Yeah, okay, I love houston right, we love

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Speaker 4: it too. It's one of our favorite restaurants. So we

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Speaker 4: get a beautiful table and the place is packed. That's

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Speaker 4: not it's not empty at all. There's not one seat available.

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Speaker 4: We're in the on the left, in the corner. Halfway

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Speaker 4: through the dinner, the manager of the restaurant comes to

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Speaker 4: our table. Now keep in mind we're the furthest point

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Speaker 4: if it's possible. We're getting some complaints. You people are

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Speaker 4: too loud? Yeah people, how loud are we? Because we

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Speaker 4: are so far away from everybody.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you're loud and telling the story. Were you

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Speaker 2: this loud?

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Speaker 4: We didn't. We had no idea.

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Speaker 2: The thing that place is loud restaurant. But you're both like,

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Speaker 2: I tell you why it's loud, because a restaurant will

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Speaker 2: become louder as loud, people become more loud. You understand

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Speaker 2: them saying. So with you two, and you just said

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, ganis like, how did.

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Speaker 3: They hear.

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Speaker 1: Aside of the room in the bathroom, you.

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Speaker 2: Guys are loud. Therefore when you speak, the whole room

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Speaker 2: gets loud, and therefore you're the Elvis.

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Speaker 4: I've been in restaurants with bachelor parties. I've never got

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Speaker 4: thrown out. I mean, I'm I'm here with my wife

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Speaker 4: and another couple and and we're they want us to leave.

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Speaker 1: It's fine.

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Speaker 4: Were you drinking?

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Speaker 2: Very very Italian?

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Speaker 3: Very Italian?

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Speaker 2: So what part of Italy? This is Sicily? Right here?

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Speaker 3: This is probably the south?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my last name is Siciliana.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people from Sicilia very loud. So the reason why

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Speaker 2: they complained is you were the cause of the volume in.

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Speaker 1: The room, I think than me.

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Speaker 4: I thought they were coming over to like offer us

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Speaker 4: a free desert something like that. Would we'd love to

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Speaker 4: see one hundred we'd like to buy you?

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Speaker 2: Then what they would do, David, offer you a dessert

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Speaker 2: to go?

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Speaker 1: That's one restaurant I'm taking him to next.

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Speaker 2: Almah, you can be very loud.

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Speaker 1: I think we could be loud there.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: The people who own there are from Naples, they're from Napolis.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be loud. Okay, So what was the they

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Speaker 2: walked away after asking you to shut up? Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: you must you must have giggled a little.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: It was like, oh my gosh, we.

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Speaker 2: Did you look around to try to figure out who

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Speaker 2: to shut up?

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Speaker 1: No, we didn't get quiet. We continued our conversation.

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Speaker 2: So let's hear Houston to what town is in a premise?

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Speaker 1: Right, Parmise or Hackensack Eside?

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Speaker 4: What's that mall? All right?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: So whoever manages Houston's at Riverside Square Mall in Hackensack? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you had you had two of the loudest, wonderful Italians

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Speaker 2: in your restaurant and you shut them down.

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Speaker 4: Wow, you can't. You know. It's like I just look

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Speaker 4: at Danielson times when we're talking and I'm like, wow,

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Speaker 4: you just can't get rid of the Bronx forever. We're

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Speaker 4: talking hard we're hardcore Bronx to the end. And Daniel,

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Speaker 4: where we grew up in the same neighborhood. I don't

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Speaker 4: know if you're doing that. There was a loud neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: Should we do? Ask a comedian, where's I hate this music?

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Speaker 4: I hate that?

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Speaker 2: Ask a comedian do they want to flip? Flip? You

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Speaker 2: have to ask you whenever you're ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: I guess from Italy has a question?

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: That's what.

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Speaker 3: What's funny that I spent three weeks here in the

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Speaker 4: All right, this is true.

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Speaker 3: So my question is, how do you deal with when

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Speaker 3: crowd is other comedians that are not so how can

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Speaker 3: I say they don't want to laugh? How do you

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Speaker 3: deal with that like a tough audience.

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Speaker 4: Having a little trouble with your English. Can you bring

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Speaker 4: that back in Italian's right?

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Speaker 3: Though you know scripted, I cannot say I'm only teasing.

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Speaker 2: Standing up for me, standing up in front of comedians

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Speaker 2: are just normal people who want to laugh. That's frightening.

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Speaker 2: It's frightening.

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Speaker 4: Then you do it, yes and no, okay, I mean

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Speaker 4: it comes with experience, all right. So when you start,

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Speaker 4: obviously you're a young comedian and you've experienced, you know,

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Speaker 4: and maybe four thousand. Once you go through all those

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Speaker 4: cycles and you have all those experiences with the small crowds,

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Speaker 4: the medium crowds, the large crowds, you come out and

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Speaker 4: you become one thing that nobody could teach you as

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Speaker 4: a comedian is seasoning. So in other words, over a

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Speaker 4: period of time, you'll experience every situation, every type of crowd.

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Speaker 4: So when you come out, you'll get a sense of

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Speaker 4: what the audience is like and the audio it's decides

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Speaker 4: very quickly whether they like you or not. But if

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Speaker 4: they if they're not feeling you, and I've been there,

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Speaker 4: you have to you have to feel the vibration of

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Speaker 4: the audience and look for the underbelly, and and and

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Speaker 4: and make them like you, wow, you'll understand what I'm

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Speaker 4: saying and you can. And and also if you're feeling

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Speaker 4: uncomfortable and it's really overwhelming, address it.

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Speaker 2: Really you should show your vulnerability.

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Speaker 4: We'll show your vulnerability.

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Speaker 2: You total audience, you fighting me.

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Speaker 4: Well yeah, all right, Look, I'll.

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Speaker 3: Give you give.

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Speaker 2: You a line that wait, four people. To me, four

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Speaker 2: thousand people is easier to entertain than four people.

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Speaker 4: What's your name? Little girl? There? You go?

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Speaker 5: Always says if you steal from him, you've stolen twice.

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Speaker 4: You know. You know who said that to Scott Shannon

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Speaker 4: I feel like I straddle the fence. I try, and

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Speaker 4: I make a committing living standing on the fence. All right.

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Speaker 1: If you fall on that fence, your bulls are gonna hurt.

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Speaker 1: Just saying that was very nice, Thank.

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Speaker 5: You, very nice.

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Speaker 4: Can I have the music please?

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Speaker 2: I'm not really satisfied with this ask a comedians I

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Speaker 4: Come on, No, why not?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm done with you. You're funnier than me. I

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Speaker 3: You Philippo, but you can call me phil.

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Speaker 2: Phil But I don't think you're You're not. You're on

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Speaker 3: But it's frightening and it's crazy because it's trying to

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Speaker 3: because you think you've got you've got great jokes, but

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Speaker 4: How long? How long did your visa? How long will

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Speaker 4: you be here for? No, I'm leaving today, so when

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Speaker 3: I would love to be back very soon.

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Speaker 3: Actually, my dream is to move to New York, so

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Speaker 2: Come host this show whenever you want, like like starting

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Speaker 2: in one out music.

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Speaker 4: Please hold on.

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Speaker 2: We have people calling in. Hello, Okay, is that you

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Speaker 2: okay from Beautiful Day and Ohio listening to your Channel

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Speaker 2: nine nine. I'm hoping. So what is your question for

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Speaker 6: I just wanted to know when people come up and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: Tell me be funny. Yeah, you gotta go to kus

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Speaker 4: Well that you know that does happen a lot. And

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Speaker 2: Okay, they do that to us, they do the laugh.

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Speaker 1: To me, do the laugh. Say that to you say

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm even deeply more deeply insulted. Oh you do

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What's today's forecast? I don't know what the weather is.

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Speaker 2: do that too, chamremians? Do you do you ask comedians

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Speaker 2: do you do for today?

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Speaker 6: I do love them?

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Speaker 2: What do you do for him?

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Speaker 6: Nurse? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Then can you come in and shave my ball?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I didn't have a music Please.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: a great day. Okay, but I know that nurses are

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Speaker 2: much more important than ball shaving. I know it's not

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Speaker 4: I can't wait till you go to the emergency room

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Speaker 4: the next time.

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Speaker 2: No. No, nurses and teachers, we got them, I said, Look,

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Speaker 2: Goomba Johnny is going to be at Avenel Performing Arts

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Speaker 2: Center this Saturday. For tickets and all the info, head

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Speaker 2: see him at Palm Beach Kennel Club in Palm Beach, Florida,

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Speaker 2: which is such an interesting concept of a venue. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: it's an old dog track exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It comedy club.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, it's an old dog track. It's owned by

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Speaker 4: the Runey's and the Pittsburgh Steelers. So they closed the

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Speaker 1: No old dogs are gonna show.

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Speaker 4: No, but the dog track is still there.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna take my snalogies.

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Speaker 1: It's funny.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. We love you, Johnny, I love you man,

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Speaker 4: I love all you guys, even uh, Filipo, even the

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Speaker 4: real Italian.

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Speaker 3: The only nice today.

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Speaker 1: That's nice.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it is nice. You got a new best friend? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Do you have Instagram in Italy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? You know what, just arrived.

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Speaker 2: We have water, we do just like we do.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you could turn it into wine.

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Speaker 2: Is that funny?

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Speaker 4: It's like a Jesus jokes.

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Speaker 2: Good Bye, Johnny, thank you, thank you. Elvis Duran in

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Speaker 2: the Morning Show