WEBVTT - A-Rod Interview / Cooking with Jon & Vinny 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:19.120 Oh ROMBERGNY podcast. Hey mama, I am so excited for 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:25.520 today's guest. Ah, what an extraordinary get for the podcast 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.440 for the Ron Burgundy Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, coming to 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:36.800 our studio today in studio. Major League ball player Alex Rodriguez. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.760 You know him as a rod. He played twenty two 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.319 seasons in the Major League Baseball for teams such as 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.760 the Seattle Mariners, the Texas Rangers, and maybe you've heard 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.160 of this team before, Carolina, the New York Yankees, of course, yeah. Yeah. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.120 And when I asked him, he was so excited to 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.240 be on our podcast, it was beautiful. It was kind 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.480 of a beautiful thing he was. He was laughing out 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.600 of disbelief, you know, just like a young child. And 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.559 I think he was in in some sort of dream state. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.280 And I told him, no, I'm not kidding, I want you. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.760 But he was just so ecstatic. I mean, he wasn't 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.679 calming down. No, SERI manic. I mean you could. You 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.720 could have gone through a talent booker to book camp. Nope, nope. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.520 I ran into him at a Gelson's and we spoke 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:36.360 in person. We've spoken, we speak because we speak, Yeah, yeah, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.560 we speak. A Rod and I a few times a week. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.200 I know. He's uh, well, he has more time now 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.560 that he's not in the big leagues right now he's retired. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.760 He's more of a commentator. So we speak. We speak 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.440 a couple of times a week, and he actually he 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.720 actually comes to me for advice sometimes, but he comes 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.200 to you. Yes, but I won't give it. But so 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.200 he's your friend, but you won't give him advice. No, No, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.280 I'm too scared too, I'm too scared. I mean, it's 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.960 a rod. What if my advice is wrong? Listen to me, Caroline. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:13.800 Even when your friends desperately need your guidance, when they're 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.800 banging down your door at dawn needing someone to talk 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.440 to you, don't give it to them. Don't give him advice. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.680 It's a setup. I don't know about that. I mean, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.840 I know it is. What if they just want to 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.840 get another opinion from someone who's close. Nope, Nope, nope, nope. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.680 They're tricking you. They're trying to trick you. They are 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.720 just setting you up for you to tell them things 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.480 like you know, like yes, Roger, I think you should 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.760 invest your savings in a button factory, because you're right, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.480 nobody makes cool buttons anymore. And yes, they're in so 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:52.040 many pieces of clothing. And then flash forward to three 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:57.080 years later. You know, now you find Roger in a 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.400 tunnel under the four or five and he's just walks 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.480 around with a cardboard sign that says, fuck you. Oh God, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.480 you ruin my life. I mean, the button industry is thickle, Carolina. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.240 It is fickle. Sometimes it doesn't pay out. But if 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.919 you strike while the iron is hot, you might buy 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.120 yourself a farm. That's the allure of the of the 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.200 button industry. It doesn't see that glamorous or dramatic. It's 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:29.399 not glamorous. It's hard work. The button game. They chew 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.480 you up and spit you out. How many buttons startups 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:40.680 have you heard in the last couple of years? Hundreds? Right, hundreds. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.240 That's why when I watched CNNBC, I'm always looking for 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.160 the new button factory stocks and there there's always a 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.600 new one every day. Anyway, or we all set up 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.360 for a rod. He should be here soon. I can't 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.240 believe it. Are Does my suit look okay? Oh my god? Yeah, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.720 you were great. I'm excited too, Thank you, thank you? 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.200 And do you look good? Um? Yeah? I think I 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:11.560 look fine. Okay, are you sure? Yes, I'm sure. Do 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.400 you want to go check. There's a bathroom down the 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.240 hall and has a mirror in it. Oh no, I'm fine. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.800 One Carolina. Do you know who a Rod is? Have 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.440 you seen a picture of him? He's not your average 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.039 sloppy Joe. This man's got glass. I know what he 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.839 looks like. I still think I look fine. And you've 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:32.719 seen his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez. You've watched the wedding planner. Yes, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.080 she's very beautiful. I'm sure he's seen women who aren't 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.240 as pretty as Jennifer Lopez. He won't freak out if 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:43.120 I just look fine. He might. He might, and then 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.000 I'll freak out. Okay, if it means so much, I'll 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.200 just don't put my hair up one second. Thank you. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.000 I appreciate that. Oh my god, what is that on 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.960 your forehead? This it's oh my god, this is my birthmark. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.440 I was It's just a small birth I was boring 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.480 with it. I I like it. I think it's get 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:07.800 symptoms stomach, you know. No, I like it too. Can 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.480 I just see you again with your hair over it? 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.800 Should we have someone in the crew, Can anyone run 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.719 down to save on drugs and pick up some rouge 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.240 for Carolina's cheeks, maybe a hair brush. You know what, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.720 You're being incredibly insulting. Oh my god, oh my god, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.599 what is it okay to our listeners out there. I 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.560 do not want to alarm you, but there is a 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.120 bee in the studio today, and I'm not trying to 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.760 cry wolf. If you are listening with your children, please 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.240 take your remote and turn the machine I'm speaking from 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.919 off now to find the machine where my voice is 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.640 coming from and turn it off. Tell the crew to 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.080 go home. They should be with their families. And just 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.000 open that window behind. We have to move really very slowly. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.919 Five arm, it's on your arm. Don't move, it's on 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:11.000 your arm. Got a bottle? You get this roun breathe? 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:19.200 I need you to breathe. O Carolina, it's not moving. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.479 Are you packing packing? What I mean? Do you have 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.640 a pistol on? You? Take out your revolver? A gun? 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.360 I don't have a gun. You ron, You hate guns. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.599 I hate bees. Look, just take this magazine here, you 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.839 go here, take this. I am no mood to read 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.880 the Vogue profile on Amy Adams. I'm saving it for later. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.560 Hit with it, that it hit the bee with it. Carolina. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.760 If I don't make it, you're being incredibly dramatic. Will 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:51.080 you still a rod? What's up? From me? What's up? Yes? 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.440 Just say Ron couldn't make it, but wanted to say. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.360 What's app It's It's how athletes talk to each other. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.599 You know what you're going to be Okay? Oh my god? 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.240 Wait sorry, Ron, Oh my god, it's on the back 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.760 of your head. Just don't move, just don't turn. You 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.440 know what this year sucked, Dick. A rod is late, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.880 my producer isn't packing, and the bee is nursing on 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.520 my scalp. I'll tell you if I if I wasn't 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.559 getting my podcast check today. We don't get paid today. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.680 What do you mean? What do you mean? What do 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.200 you mean? Get just one second? Yes, we get paid 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.680 every two weeks on Friday. So this Friday we're not 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.560 getting paid, but next Friday we are. We need to 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.880 cut to commercial. I need to talk to my producers. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.280 Can we get the suits in here? Let's go, Let's 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:45.760 go to commercial. All right, and we're back Ron Burgundy 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.880 podcast And I'm having a hard time over here. I 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.440 just I just heard my actual salary um, and some 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.640 of my outgoing checks might bounce. So I've got to 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.320 call my landlord and the guy I bought those huffer 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.560 fish from for my aquarium. Is is the b still 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:10.880 on me? Yeah? Sorry, it's still just it's boeing, boeing, boeing. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.000 That's the sound of my checks bouncing. Maybe they'll offer 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.120 us more once we get this. A Rod interview in 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.160 the bag right? Maybe where is he? Um? You know 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.800 what I think he's He must be running away. I 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.560 just texted his publicist to see you. Okay, have an 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:31.640 e t A. Let's some in that case, Let's let's 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.080 run over my questions for him. I'm gonna let's run 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.400 over those. Grab those. Um. The first one just says 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.199 A Rod, I need help with rent anyway you could 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.720 throw me a bone. That was That was an off 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.200 air question. Having that many money preps. It's the other 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:56.359 pile of note cards those questions. Yes, that's for a 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.480 fair questions and airs. Okay, okay, um, this is the 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:05.320 on air. Um. No, I'm not ignoring you. I'm not 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.360 having money. I'm not having abnormal money problems. I mean 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.240 everyone has money problems. He isn't know people, you know 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:12.840 A lot of people will make sure they put them 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.360 away in their savings for, you know, a rainy day. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.559 I'm average. I carry eight, eight to ten credit cards. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.280 I rotate them constantly. I'd say right in the middle 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.160 of well, how many do you have? I have one 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.400 credit card. I pay the bills like a debit card. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.040 How do you do it? You know, I just remember 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.160 the date every month. That's no fun. You don't get 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.240 to rotate them and show them off. Oh I don't 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.679 think if I need to show off my master Card, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:48.160 Visa Merry Express Regular, Platinum, Regular, diners Club, American Airlines 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:57.760 purple Platinum, I'm not familiar. Southwest Airlines, Visa Rose Colored. Okay, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.520 so those are just some of them. Okay, so what 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.120 my next question? My next on air question? Don't read 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.760 the off fair questions. Fair questions are private. I understand 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.640 Rod and I on the air question. Hey a Rod, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.840 what's it like to play baseball in front of a 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.160 bunch of people? Really? This is that was your question? 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.040 I thought that'd be a good place to start. You 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:22.240 don't have to start every question with saying a Rod, Um, Okay, well, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.880 this one's all right. I guess I just think in 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.960 the future. I think we should go with more hard 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:32.240 hitting questions. Oh you mean like this? Oh, now for 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.560 our listeners, I did not hit Carolina. Okay, I tried 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:41.520 to swap the b No, I did not. Well, Um, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.480 while we still have telescope. Onto the next on air question, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.480 Hey a Rod, when the bat hits the ball and 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.800 it goes crack, you must really love that. I cannot 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.640 wait to hear his answer to that one. I bet 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.000 I'll just say yes. Oh, I don't know. That could 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.800 be an interesting answer. I mean we could dive deep 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.800 into that one. We actually should leave ten minutes for 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.200 that question so we don't go over Yes, what is 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.840 that like? You know, the crack of the bat. Yeah, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.800 the ball goes flying. Okay, I'll market as in a 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.679 post wine really love it? Oh my god, please keep 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:24.840 going fuck fuck so sorry. The be just flew right 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.360 by my face. The door is open, it'll fly out 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.600 on its own sound. No not this guy, no, no, no, no, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.200 I've imprinted on him. He knows only one of us 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.760 is leaving the room. I don't think bees are that intelligent. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:41.800 Or next question, okay, um, hey a Rod, does Jlo 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.200 have a sister or a mom? I could meet. You 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.480 know what, that can be moved to the off air questions. Okay, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.120 I mean I put that in the off air stick. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.720 I don't think you should save your sister or mom. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.480 You know it makes you sound, it sounds it seems inappropriate. Okay. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.920 Next on air question is, hey, a Rod, do you 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.559 get tired from running so fast during games? And that 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.040 is where we get in. That's where we get the scoop. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.600 These just sound like very generic questions. I just do 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.360 you see the pattern I've done. I've done some just 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.160 easy what are called softball questions. Then get him in 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.920 a great mood, and then I hit him where it counts. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.000 I of course he probably gets tired from running so 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.800 fast during baseball games. Athletes are probably always tired after 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.000 a game. See that would be fascinating to hear out 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.760 of his mouth, not so much out of yours, but 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.440 from from a Rod. My man. All right, I guess 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.600 we can explore that and see if there. Look, I'm 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:43.559 gonna be honest. I wrote these last night, right as 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.840 I was falling asleep, and I was in what I 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.400 call the in between world, the in between world. Yes, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.360 when when you're in between being awake and falling asleep 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.880 and all the dream thoughts start coming in. You know, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.319 you know what. I don't need to explain myself to you. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.600 It's called the in between world, okay, and it comforts me. Okay, Um, anyway, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.199 let's Oh my god, look I think a rod is 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.600 pulling up parking spot. Are you serious? Oh I'm so, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:22.240 I'm are you okay? Oh my god, I think he's coming. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:27.120 Someone's getting out of the car. All right, I swallowed it. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.160 I swallowed that thing the b. Oh no, you didn't. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.440 It's right there on the chair right next year. Well, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.800 then I swallowed another b. Maybe you just swallowed your 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.199 own spit or something. Oh wait, look outside? Wait? Is 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.800 that is that a rod? Right there? I don't is it? 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.599 I don't think so. I think, I honestly think in 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.439 the Captain's head, I think that might be our p 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:58.280 a in a corn dog. It's Leonard. For our listeners, Um, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.040 that is not a rod. It's a share our very 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.360 um sweet p a Leonard, who was bringing us lunch. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.800 I hate Leonard. N he's going to listen to this 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.959 later today. Well I don't like him. Hate his grubby, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.400 sweaty little fingers and his glasses are always fogged up. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.800 What is with that? You know? I think he just 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:23.600 breathes heavy and fast. A rod is not coming, is he? Well? Okay, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.720 to be honest, his publicist just texted yes and said 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.000 he wasn't booked. So I don't know if you guys, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.040 if there was a misunderstanding or but he doesn't even 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.720 know about our podcast. Well, that's certainly not true. I mean, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.000 I actually met up with him, as I was saying, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.520 I'm met him at a Gilson's and we purchased a 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.800 few few items together and then we we drove on 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:53.600 a tandem bicycle uh down to the park where we 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.400 ordered smoothies by the lake, and we were sitting there, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.560 and we were sitting with all the presidents of the 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.360 United States. Some were deceased, some were living. We're having 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:10.320 a wonderful conversation. Then the smoothies turn to cherry wine 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:17.760 and it turns into a bacchanal celebration with the presidents 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:23.800 and just telling wonderful stories and letting the wine feed 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.880 our expression. And next you know, people were taking their 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.520 clothes off and it got wild. I think that there 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:40.680 and there were paparazzi and Alexander the Great ah, oh, 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.280 I see now I was in the in between place, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.680 so you I think, Um, what happened? You booked a 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.880 rod in your head right before falling asleep? Yes, yes, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.080 you have to understand. The in between place can feel 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.720 very real. I can. Yeah, sometimes you can be in 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.680 the sort of refuge state. You know what? Though, maybe 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.440 here you will still show up. Is there a chance 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.360 of that? I don't think, So let's give him five 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:11.000 more minutes. Luckily we have recorded this week a cooking 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:16.360 segment with John and Vinnie, successful restauranturs. Please stick with 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.680 us while we learn how to make a tomato sauce. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:30.960 We have with us now two fabulous chefs, John and Vinny. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.600 John and Vinny, welcome to the show. Guys, Thank you 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.520 so much for joining us. Thanks for having us for 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.880 you know what. I just know you guys as John 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:42.040 and Vinny. John, what's your last name? Chuck Shook? And 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.840 Vinny do Tolo? Do tolo? So you're not brothers? No, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.080 we are because I kept referring to you guys as 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.440 the Dotto brothers. That's but Vinny, you probably have a 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.120 do you have siblings? That's actually John that you're talking to. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.680 Oh but no, Cassie. Look, you've done this to me before, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.240 and because I have a doppelganger as well. In fact, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.720 my neighbor ted it looks very similar to me. I'm 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:13.119 having an issue with my neighbor. What's going on? I 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.320 don't want to get into it. I don't want to 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.879 waste your time. Um, he's just he's being a jerk. 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.240 What do you do? He just he's called the police 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.680 on me like eighteen times about what parties. Things like that. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.119 You spell in his lawn with fire ship face. Yeah, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.480 that was intense. I would scare anybody. I had to 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.200 send a message. It was a shot across the bow. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.720 I want to do that to my neighbor. Sometimes I 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.280 wouldn't recommend it. When they call about my music, what 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.360 sort of music is it? Believe it or not, it'll 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.199 be like Miles Davis. They'll call me, oh and they 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:51.040 get they get hyped up over Miles Davis, Saturday's Saturday's neighborhood. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:57.840 That seems a little next. I understand getting I right 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.760 over Charlie Parker, but not to Miles Davis. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.120 that makes sense. Guys. Let me start by asking where 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.760 in Italy are you from? We're actually not from Italy. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.199 I'm actually from Rome. John doesn't know that I'm not 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:14.080 even Italian. What what what's your ethnic makeup? What's your background? 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.600 I mean I am a mutton basically kind of. But um, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.200 I guess many many ancestors ago Russian. I've been talking 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.640 about doing that kind of DNA test. You ever done 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.879 that where you swabbed the inside of your butt cheeks? 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.879 Do you know what it's your I've I've done the 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.119 DNA test a handful of times, and I've swabbed the 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.840 inside of my butt cheeks and then I get no 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.280 read out that just comes back fecal matter. Yeah. But 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.040 so you guys grew up here in the state you're 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.800 you're American. Yeah, we're both from Florida, Okay, Carolina. She 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.520 loves Florida. I love for the state of high cuisine. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.560 She goes to Disney World at least once a month. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.600 Once a month. I mean, it is the happiest place 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.119 on that right. It gets me like a little bit 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.040 of relief. I go alone. I don't want anyone bring 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.439 me down. What's your favorite ride? It's a small world, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:14.040 probably because I think it's true. It is. Yet you 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.440 ever been roun I refused to go on It's a 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.080 Small World because I find those little people creepy. Ron 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.720 screamed at them the whole time we went through that ride. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.040 I'm just a teacup guy again and again and again 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:31.960 because I don't I don't get dizzy. No, because I 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.040 know I know how to spot like a ballerina, you 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.359 just pick a I get on one of those with 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.399 my kids, I'm like, quit spinning it. I'm holding on 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.560 for dear life. Yeah, if you have to build up 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.639 the stamina, you really do. Yeah. The fish, the fish 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.119 and chips at the Epcot Center worth having, Yeah, they're good. Okay, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.520 they're good. Been trying to get a free ride down there. Yeah, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.040 well we'll talk about it. Wasn't it? Uh? The food 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.159 critic who just passed away, Jonathan Gold, said that some 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.080 music party had the best corn dogs. Was it not 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.080 Sperry for It or Disneyland? It wasn't Disney. I've never 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.879 had a corner. Someone was saying. He praised the corn 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:13.200 dogs there. Hm, but I'll eat as far as I'm concerned. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:20.600 Bad corn dog is an oxymoron, it doesn't exist. Nope, 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.120 I'll still eat it. And we cooked way too long 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:29.280 I'll double upright. So guys, you you met in Florida 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:34.439 somehow you you both were with chefs. Oh, in culinary school. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:41.160 And culinary school is uh school? Or you study food? Okay, okay, good, good, 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.200 that's what I thought it was. No, I just I'm 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:49.119 I'm too afraid to admit. I thought it was shoe cobblers. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.480 I thought, if you want to be a cobbler, I 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.000 thought you went to coliner school. But now I know 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.200 it's cooking school. Are you making fun of our height? 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.920 So you no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.000 why you think I'm referring to is like the Keebler 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.400 elves or something? No, no, no, not at all. You're 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.920 not a little Cobblers, even though there'd be a keeperould 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.480 be a neat nickname from your next restaurant, a little Cobbler, 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:16.280 Little Cobblers Baker, the little Cobbler's Bakery, and you serve 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.000 nothing but cobbler. But you have to hire real elves 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:27.400 to run. It only open on Christmas Day, one day year, 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.080 but you have to pay for the property year round. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.360 But it's worth it. We don't know how Christmas I mean, 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.879 people would flock to it. It's pretty much like honey 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.880 baked tam right, yes, yes, you're there once a year. 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:43.199 I used to think that honey baked Ham was the 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.880 honey bank. I thought it was a bank, But it's 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:51.520 honey baked Ham. I was always misreading that anyway, delightful 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:56.080 little antidotes here. So you guys teamed up. And how 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.000 many restaurants do you have? Now? So we we chaff 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:01.840 at four places and then we uh partner with a 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.040 handful of other chefs here in l A and together 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.040 we have nine restaurants. And what type of food? Everything 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:11.960 from Italian, Middle Eastern, French? Wild game? Um, not really, 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:13.720 it's hard to get wild game actually out here in 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.359 the West Coast. Have you ever cooked a camel? No? 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.120 I'ld like to. It would be a challenge, right, big time. 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.480 It's a big animal. Which hump would you take? Front back? 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:32.960 Front front? Hop it tender tender meat exactly, That's what 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.240 I think. That'd be a good challenge, hump. It would 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:41.800 be a good challenge. Um. The policy no shoes, no shirt, 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.320 no problem is that? Is that what you guys lived 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.840 by only in Florida. In Florida, but here here it's 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.000 strict health code violation seeing that sign. Have you have 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.440 you guys ever gotten a B or a C restaurants? 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.280 Be honest, we take it very seriously. You take it 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:08.480 down though, if you wouldn't put a plant in front 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:13.359 of yes, yes, I mean anything below would be is 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:15.520 really dangerous to eat at. I would just let you 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:17.960 know what, what is the lowest grade that they let 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.800 you still operate? See, so you're not going to see 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.920 a restaurant with a D rating, no clo you're close. Yeah, 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:33.639 you're gonna see a man in orange in prison. So 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:38.080 you're going to take us through one of your recipes today, 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.240 I understand. What were you thinking that we would talk 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:43.760 about just making a basic red sauce? Wait, what's a 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:46.679 hold on? I'm jumping around here because I'm excited to 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:50.639 talk to a show. What's a ragou? Usually consists of 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:57.040 a slow cooked meat, but typically I mean now, it's 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:00.600 usually used and basically it's like a be a mixture 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:02.920 of things that could be like a mixture of ingredients 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.800 like mushroom and asparagus. Ragou. People would say, we worked 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:09.560 we worked at a restaurant in Florida where they used 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:11.800 to call these, you know, ragu or they'd call it 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:19.600 a hash, but it wasn't really so false advertising. Okay, 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:24.199 So no Pomadora sauce is a red sauce is red sauce, 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:27.919 and you guys probably make a lot of it, a 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:31.800 lot of it. Are there be honest with me? Are 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.800 there nights where you guys just pour a bunch of 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:38.479 cans of shift Boyardi into the bat and say let 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.680 it ride? There's days where I'd like to, but you don't. 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.120 But I don't. See you're a better man than I would, 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.560 because I would get lazy. I go. They can't tell 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:52.040 the difference, can't tell the difference. So a pomadoro describe 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:55.439 to me, take us through the process basic red sauce. 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:57.720 Basically the way that we make ours. Since we take 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:02.280 cold pan with cold olive oil, slice garlic and crushed chili. 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:05.920 We bring it up and then a cold pan, cold pan. Yeah, 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:09.119 because we're trying to use the so you keep the 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:12.440 pan in the So basically we take the pan out 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:16.280 of refrigerator, the refrigerator, well maybe not the refrigerator, but 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:20.520 but okay, got it out of your cabinet wherever you're 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:22.800