History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - 180 - Chazz Palminteri is WILD!

Episode Date: December 9, 2020

The boys visit Chazz Palminteri and record an episode at his house!! This episode is the history of Chazz Palminteri! The guys are enjoying the best coffee in the world made by Chazz's wife and the best stories of Chazz's life. Chazz shares growing up in the Bronx, New York, working as a bouncer and actor. He shares about how he started the movie A Bronx Tale. He remembers telling his father telling him, "the saddest thing is wasted talent" and made sure to make the movie on his own.He tells Chris and Yannis about meeting Robert De Niro for the first time and how he was the reason A Bronx Tale happened the way Chazz saw it. The guys are later joined by Chazz's son, Dante. Dante is a very talented singer songwriter that joins in on the Hyena fun and tells his stories in the Bronx. The boys talk about making movies, television shows, especially the one that Chris and Chazz made together. One of Chris' many pilots featured Chazz as his father! Check it out on Chris' YouTube! Overall a hilarious awesome episode!REMINDER BABES: Even though Trump did not follow through with his promise to build a wall, Chris and Yannis did. It’s a Bay Ridge Boys wall and you can find it at patreon.com/bayridgeboys. CHECK IT OUT CUZOUR SPONSOR 🚨Brought to you by Tim Dillon's Belly Hair in support of Touch a Life, a charity. Located in Ghana, Africa, Touch a Life rescues children from child slavery and gives them a safe place to heal, grow up with an education, and grow as humans. 👉Please visit their website at www.touchalifekids.org, and consider a donation.Want more Hyena content? Check out www.patreon.com/bayridgeboys where things get really WILD!Get an order of Five CBD Gummies for the price of shipping, go to GetFiveTHC.com! Ships to all 50 states!Follow us!: 🙆🏼‍♂️🐕🙆🏻‍♂️🙆🏼‍♂️Chris Distefano on Instagram, Twitter, website🙆🏻‍♂️Yannis Pappas on Instagram, Twitter, website🐕History Hyenas on Instagram, Twitter, website🎥 Mike Lavin our producer on InstagramSubscribe to the poddy woddy on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, and HH Clips

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I'm Chris DiStefano, Giannis Pompas, with us Chaz Pimentieri. How you doing guys? What's up Bubbas? I don't have a mic. I got a... But you do got a back-to-blue t-shirt on. I got a back-to-blue t-shirt on. Pimpy, Pimp said that I need to take off the jacket. It's making too much noise. I said, well, if I take off the jacket,

I got a controversial t-shirt on. But the truth of the situation is this, is I do back-to-blue. Gotta back-to-blue, man. Gotta back-to-blue. Absolutely. Yeah, we were talking before how strange it is that if you have an American flag up now for some reason that's racist or wrong. You go to any other country, they got their flags up everywhere and there's no problem. Well, it's wrong in some people's eyes, but not everyone. Not everybody.

It's the freaking Russians. The Russians have caused subversion and they've divided us from within. Russians have caused subversion and they've divided us from within. And they've taught our kids now since college, since the last 20, 30 years, that the American flag is something wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with the American flag. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

No, there's people who died for that flag. People died for that flag and that flag should fly. Not us, though. You and I would not do well in the Army. We would not do well in the Army. And we also have used the flag to wrap ourselves in because at first we thought that's the way you defended against coronavirus. Yeah. We said if the Chinese flu is not going to get through our red, white, and blue veins.

No, it's just not going to happen. That's what we said. So here we are with Chaz Palminteri. I got a question. Sure. By the way, this episode is the history of Chaz Palminteri. Yeah, we're talking about Chaz Palminteri now. Today, the episode is the history of Chaz Palminteri, and it's a sick one.

So now you live in this beautiful home on beautiful land. Right. Beautiful family. You grew up in the Bronx. I grew up in the Bronx, yeah. A five floor walk up. So there's a certain advantage to growing up in the Bronx being a street kid. Yeah. Right? Because you get street smart. Do you

worry, do you sometimes just take your son to the Bronx and just drop him off in the middle of the night and say just survive just to toughen him up? You know, it's funny. I took my son. I always take my kids to the Bronx. Since they were little kids. I kept telling them this is where daddy grew up.

I actually took him to the apartment. I said, yeah. And my son was like 12 or 13. And I brought him up to the apartment. And it was open because they were renting it. And he walked in and he said, you live here, Dad? Everybody?

I go, yeah, all five of us. One bathroom, five people, you know, two rooms. And it was, but you know what? It was great growing up there. But the street sense in me from growing up there, it gave me a lot. It gave me to appreciate all this and it gave me to like, when I deal with these people from Bedford here,

when they want to sell me something for a lot of money. We call them zaggots. Yeah. Yeah. I say, no, no, no, no. I say, here's the deal. I grew up in the Bronx. I'm not paying that.

Right. Exactly. I'm not paying it. Don't tell me. Now, did you buy this house in all cash? What do you mean? I love that expression, all cash. Like, I took something out of my fucking pocket.

I said, yeah. I don't know. You're a chapsy guy. No, no. something out of my fucking pocket. I said, yeah. Well, I don't know. You're a chapsy man. No, no. There's two things Italians love. Italians love, they love, they appreciate a good sauce, and they just like having a little scratch in their pocket. You got to have cash.

Yeah, cash. Let me tell you something. I can make whatever. I can make a million dollars on a movie. Yeah. The thing that pisses me off, give me my per diem. Yeah, that's what it is. I want the cash. That's what it is. I want that $2 per diem yeah i want the cash it's what it is i want that two thousand a week in an envelope yeah what it is yeah and then and then yeah it's

called lettuce and then also lettuce and then we're also with the italians you know it's always got to be two questions for the wife and i'm your beautiful wife passed the test the first question is always is can you make a sauce and then the second question is have you ever hooked up with a democrat yeah that would be so she so she could make a great sauce so then the second question is, have you ever hooked up with a Democrat? Yeah, that would be a question. So she could make a great sauce, so she could never be with a Democrat? That is the new Mrs. Pometary. Do you think we could benefit from sort of like having a dictator now?

No. At least the Russians can't. No, a dictator is not a good one. But then the Russians wouldn't be able to meddle in our elections if we get a dictator. I know, that's a good point. Yeah, that's what Alcázar Cortez might be a good dictator. She might be good. And the mob used to run things good. Yes.

They did bad things. They used to extort. My granddaddy had a diner, but it wasn't really extortion back then. It was more like protection money, right? Because the cops couldn't get there sometimes. Right. So you paid the... See, the thing about the mob is at certain things They were really You really could use them

Right And other things It was not good So it was kind of like It was a double edged sword With those guys You know what I'm saying I mean if you really

Were in a jam And somebody was going to hurt you And you went to them And they said Who's going to hurt you Really what No no okay I'll talk to them

Then they saw the guy And they said look That's my friend Now his problem Is my problem Which is now your problem Right And that's it Nobody would bother you So and problem which is now your problem right and that's it

nobody would bother you so and growing up with them it was great because i was able to write about them right well then i want to ask you when was do you remember not the first day of the movie not the first day of the of the play when was the first moment you put pen to paper and started to begin to write a bronx tale and did you like friends in the neighborhood call you a certain name because you were a writer because you were right yeah because yeah were you know when i was younger yeah when i was 17 18 if i would write i was i used to write poetry a little short stories they said what are you what are you what are you what is this the zagat survey what are you what are you a little wet behind your ears yeah

what are you what are you a little wet behind your ears yeah what i mean yeah it's tough to be an artist in the bronx though well if you look at bronx till colloge was my real name you could see i was a very i was a sensitive guy you know a sensitive guy i kind of broke the mold i was i used to write i i i dated black girls you know i dated a fellow with a black girl so yeah i was like a guy who was like a rebel. Yeah. I was like a guy who was like a rebel. Right, right. That's the way I was. I was attracted to black women.

I used to like to write poetry. Yeah. So basically, I mean, so when you say when was the first time, I'll tell you exactly. Oh, yeah.

And I'll try to make it short. No, please. What do you mean? Go with long form, whatever you want. Well, I was, you know, I ran out of money. I was getting broke.

I was broke. And I said, look, I need a job. What am I going, you know, I ran out of money. I was getting broke. I was broke. And I said, look, I need a job. What am I going to do? So I used to box and bounce. So I got a job at this nice club called 2020 in Beverly Hills. Okay. A real risky place. All the stars would go there.

And I would work the outside, you know, the VIP list and pick the people to come in. Right? Right. So one night, I was there three months. I was using that money to supplement my unemployment and then finally uh one day uh this guy walks in a little guy five foot forward a squeak we call him squeeze little big glasses yeah and he walks in he goes let me in i'm late i'm late i said oh whoa take it easy man i should just take it easy he goes do you

know who i am now as a bouncer when you say easy. He goes, do you know who I am? Now, as a bouncer, when you say those words to a man, do you know who I am, that means, yeah, you're the guy who's not fucking getting in. That's it. And that's what I said to him. I said, yeah, you're the guy who's not getting in. He said, you will be fired in 15 minutes.

I said, yeah, fuck you, stand on line. That's what I told him. 15 minutes later, the owner comes out, and I hear the owner yell, Swifty! And who was it? Swifty Lazar. Now, for those of you who don't know who Swifty Lazar is out there, he was the biggest agent in the world.

In the world! His clients were Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor. I mean, this was the hugest client, guy. I got fired in 15 minutes, just like you said yeah just like you said driving back in my eyes with the 50 my swifty is I got and I got fired swiftly I'm driving back at my 1972 Honda Civic this is 1988 and I'm driving back, and I said, what the fuck am I going to do? So I get to my apartment in North Hollywood, and I said, wow, I'm living in this dump. I got a dump car.

What am I going to do? I said, should I go back? I got no job. Then I looked on my refrigerator, and there was a sign that said, the saddest thing in life is wasted talent, that my gave me it's a card that i have and it's a card that my father wrote that uh we'll talk about later in fact it's like i made that line that's my father's line saddest thing in life is wasted yeah so i said you know what fuck it if they won't give me a part i'll write one myself yeah i got back into that shit car went to thrifty drugstore on Ventura Boulevard got five tabs of yellow paper

Yeah, I came back home and I said I'm gonna write a show a one-man show I'm gonna play all the parts this way. They gotta notice me. Right? I said, well, you know what? Fuck it. I said I'll write about the killing. I remember this killing that I saw when I was nine years old For real for real. Yeah. Oh for real. Oh, for real, yeah. So I just wrote about that. It was like seven minutes long. So I took that, and I went to my, after I wrote it, that was, I got fired on a Saturday.

I wrote that, and on a Monday, I would go to my. Because Sunday, you can't work. As an Italian, Sunday's for sauce, that's it, no matter what's going on in your life. Sunday, you don't work. It's for sauce. For sauce. Yes. That's what it is.

Sunday sauce. Yeah, you have to have sauce so I what I did was on Monday I went to my theater workshop and I performed the one-man show the the seven minutes and everybody was like holy shit so I said wow and I would tape it I would tape everything and then during the week I would write another 10 minutes then perform that Then people would get make comments and I I would listen to it at so I would cut out three minutes four minutes And then put the two minutes I like from the first part to the four minutes I like from the second part and I did that for almost a year So I worked on it. It worked out with a live audience So I really got it. So at the end of a year I had this 90 minute

fucking so I really got it so at the end of the year I had this 90 minute fucking proven powerhouse show it's like when you guys do come you know yeah you do you go out places you take this piece that piece you put it together yeah you know all right I can do my special now this shit works yeah that's the way it was with me but I'm not a stand-up comic I'm an actor so I had 90 minutes of this show I played 18 parts so I said what am I gonna do I got no money. I'm an actor. So I had 90 minutes of this show where I played 18 parts. So I said, what am I going to do? I got no money. So I called my friend Peter Gation up in New York, who on the limelight, I used to work for him. I was his bodyguard at one time. But finally he sent me a check for like, I think it was $35,000.

So I said, at that time, I said, I'll use this money to produce the show. What do I do? So I get a little theater, 60 seats, I produce the show, I perform it, BAM! My fucking life was like, whoa! It was like crowds were coming, oh my God, you guys see this? Sold out every night.

Sold out. I mean, it was only a 100 seat theater. What theater was it? What was the original theater? West Coast Ensemble. Sold out every night. Sold out, and I'm like, holy shit. I mean, it was only a 100-seat theater. What theater was it? What was the original theater? West Coast Ensemble. Wow. Sold out. Every night sold out. And I'm like, holy shit. So now I got to move into a bigger theater.

The crowds were getting crazy. So I moved into the theater where I used to, Theater West, was 300 seats. Bam, sold out every night. Pacino came to see it. Jack Nicholson came to see it. Everybody was coming to see it Everybody wanted to play they wanted to make a movie everybody wanted to play Sonny and Every director was coming to see it all the big directors all over the foot

It was like a phenomenon the only time this ever happened before was Rocky They said Rocky when everybody wanted it all of a sudden I get a phone call now I got no money in the bank, Chris. I got $200 in the bank, Giannis. All of a sudden, I get a call from the studio. $250,000. I said, $250,000? I don't know how they got my home phone number one.

I was like shocked. I got no agent. I got no manager. I got nothing. I said, $250,000? I said, yeah, but I want to play Sonny, and I want to write the screenplay. They said, no, no, no, no. We just want to buy the story from you.

We're going to write it. I said, I can't. No, I'll get back to you tomorrow. And I hung up the phone, and I spoke to my parents, and they said, no, if you want to do this, you stick with it. But I wanted to help them out, because they needed money. I didn't do it. Wow.

They called me back. Right? Right? I didn't call them back. I'm still doing the show. Fucking crowds, lines around the corner. People running across the street. It was crazy, I'm telling you. All of a sudden, two weeks later, they called me back again. You never call us back.

We're going to offer you $500,000. I said, I play Sonny. I write the screenplay. No. They said, you're going to turn this down? I said, yes. Okay. Click. They hang up on me. Fuck it. I keep doing it, right? I keep doing it. Finally, I get an agent. So I was seeing ICM, William Morris, and CAA at the time were trying to get me to sign with them finally I was on my way to

William Morris for a meeting and all of a sudden my car overheated because it had a little hole in the radiator so it would overheat I had to put water in and I forgot to put water in so the thing overheated and I couldn't go in so I got back we didn't have cell phones

I got back to my apartment I called him up go yeah so I got I got back we didn't have cell phones I got back to my apartment I called him up I said listen I'm sorry but uh I can't get there to meet he goes why the hell did we must why are you signing with someone else I said no no my car just broke stay right there I'll get right back to you I said what the fuck is that about right you were hot you were hot yeah yeah you were hot you didn't know it 15 minutes later did you shut up knock on the door yeah you guys it's hanukkah a little spanish guy you trust bob with her i go yeah come with me i said what the fuck is that come with me i go down i go in but i go i go into the parking lot right and there's somebody's call who's is

it the agent is that swifty lazar that's swifty lazar yeah oh he's dead he just wrote from the dead i should thank him but thank you thank you swifty you saved my family you made you made me a star so finally what i did was i look and i see this 1989 cadillac el dorado black with tan tan interior. The guy goes, here. William Morris said, this is your car now. They don't want you to be late for the meeting. I said, what? I said, what the fuck?

So I call him up. I go, Lee Cohen and Fred Westheimer. I call him up. I said, guys, what's with the car? I can't afford it. They said, no, no, no. We leased it two years. You can have it.

We leased it for you for two years. years I said but I didn't decide to sign with you they said doesn't matter whoever you sign with that's our gift yeah I was like what the fuck yeah and I say this story for actors before Bronx Hill they didn't even know who I was right right okay so now I end up signing with them they were so great right and they said we got a big meeting another studio wants it i sit down at the meeting they take me to this place i walk in wait sorry did you so did you sign with william mars with lefty was he it was lefty gavaris swifty was swifty swifty was that william morris no no he was he was like a an agent he was like a prime agent with william

morris but he wasn't he wasn't with him right he was his own agency right got it swiftly he wasn't involved he wasn't involved he just was the one that got you fired that set this in motion set this whole thing in motion he had his own thing but he dealt a lot with william morris but meanwhile i what happens is right I go sit down at the table the guy goes like this this is the table there's a piece of paper he goes Chaz this is how the meeting starts Chaz if you sign that paper tomorrow you'll have a check for 1 million dollars Wow and I said is there a bathroom here so he said that's what I said to him He goes yeah The executive bathroom

Is right there Here's the key I walked into the bathroom I looked I was like Where's that card Can somebody give me that Can I get up and get that card

No alright Go ahead get the card I can get that Yeah go ahead get the card You see the card over there Whoa get the card It looks like he's Fucking painting your house

The saddest thing in life Is when he sits down See it Right on the table There's a bunch of cards there. And then when you're finished, can you paint the trim? Yeah. And then when you're walking back, make sure you get your loaf in the camera.

You see that card there? You're looking around. And then when you get back, in that shirt, can you get a Somali? You don't see a card there? No, no, it's a card. That's a fucking letter. I can't fucking read card there? Yeah. No, no, it's a card. The saddest thing in life is waste. That's a letter.

You can't fucking read. Damn, this coffee is good. This is the best fucking coffee I've ever had in my life. Gianna, thank you. He's got it. He's got it. Bang. Here we go. Look at this. Look at everybody. Yeah, this is a card. It wasn't this big. It was just smaller than this. Saddest thing in life

is waste of talent. Actually, not for nothing, but if you want to go to chasbarthory.net, I sell this ondest thing in life is wasted talent actually i not for nothing but i said if you want to go to chad's poetry my dot net i sell this on my thing yeah because it's the original card i bought one i bought one and it's a little jasmine bought me one it's a lucky card anybody give it to they end up making it anyway yeah okay i got one anyway all right this was on my refrigerator i looked at that you know and i at it because I had it in my pocket. Excuse me. I had the little one in my pocket.

I took it out. I looked at it, and I went, fuck it. Put it back in my pocket. I walked outside, and I said to them, I said, if I play Sonny and I write this screenplay, I'll sign the check. And the guy put his head down, the head of the studio, put his head down. He said, Chaz, this movie will never get made. I said, you're right with you, but it'll get made. And he said, how do you know it's will never get made i said you're right with you but it'll get made and he said how do you know what's going to get made chas what makes you so

certain and i said because it's too good and sooner or later somebody will make it a week later i'm doing the show i get up stage a guy runs over to me stage manager says robert de niro is in your dressing room just saw the show he wants to talk to you I said Bob De Niro my dressing room he said yeah so I go in the dressing room and there's Bob you know sitting there he's like yeah show what a show great show man he goes best one-man show ever saw I saw it was like that he goes look Chaz and I and I said I know Bob I know he goes look I really want to do I said Bob this is how crazy I was I said, I know Bob, I know you. He goes, look I really want to do. I said, Bob, this is how crazy I was. I said, Bob, you know, I got to play Sonny and I got to write. He goes, I know, I know. He goes, let me tell you what I feel. He goes, if you sell this, they're going to come to me anyway.

So listen to me. He goes, you should play Sonny, you'll be great. And you should write the screenplay because it'll be honest. It'll be real. He goes, I'll play your father and I'll direct it. And if you shake my hands, that's the way it'll be. I shook his hand and that's what happened. And then you guys went out to meet some black girls. And we went out to meet some black girls. Because if there's two Italians that like black girls, it's you and Bob De Niro.

Yeah. Actually, Bob and I went to the Cotton Club together. We had fun. Yeah. And then Swift, did you ever see Swifty Lazar after you made it? Do you know I never saw him after that again? Never saw him again? He died right after that.

Oh, he died, well, yeah. He died, I don't know when he died, but I never really, I wanted to thank him because he was the thing that made it happen. Yeah, I would have taken the, yeah. Let me ask you this about that story. What do you think the moral of that story is? Because for me, the through line was you just stuck to your gut.

Like you just had something in your gut. Yeah. And you didn't compromise that feeling of what you felt was right. That you turned down a million dollars coming from the Bronx, growing up in a one room. A million dollars? That's crazy. Chris would not have done that.

I would not have done that. Chris would take a true TV show for $7,000 In the hopes of a Mountain Dew sponsorship I'm doing that right now I'll sell this podcast for $30,000 You know what's funny What's funny is that And I know what you're saying to me I think about it today and I hear that a lot from people

And I go I don't know what possessed me to do it It was almost like divine intervention it was like God was just on my shoulder everything that could go right went right yeah it's like one of those things that my wife said it's a good thing I was because I wasn't married she said it's good thing I wasn't with you yeah you would have sold the fucking you would have taken it to 50 what what but during the course of that, you must have been at least making some money

selling the tickets to the show, though. Oh, Peanuts. It wasn't much. It wasn't much. Because the tickets were $25. You had to pay for the, you know, the $35,000 that I got paid for the publicist and paid some of the rent,

but I had to make money to live. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think that as an art like an artist a writer whatever some of your best work comes from the lowest moments in life because that for some reason that's where the inspiration you're absolutely correct yeah yeah well you know what you know and even when i'm writing when i write i'm writing a new play now for broadway and the stuff that you really feel that you even, like again,

I never supposed to be, I do a one man show but I play characters, I'm not a comic. Right. And I always say the stuff that you really are afraid to say are the things you should say.

Right. Because that's where the goal is. Sure. And you know who told me that? Arthur Miller. Wow. The great playwright. Yeah.

I did a workshop with him Bridge View from the Bridge and he knew I was a writer and I spoke to him about writing and he told me that when you're writing and the things that you're afraid to edit that's what you should leave in

that's where the goal is leave all the zaggits in no edits no edits at all that's what you should leave in. Yeah. That's where the goal is. That's what it is. Leave all the zaggits in. Yeah, leave everything. No edits. No edits at all. The Richard Gere part, keep it. No. No, that's it.

So wait. Okay, so Bronx Tale. So De Niro says, then what happens after that? So you got the handshake deal with De Niro. Then what? Then I made a deal. I sold the script. I got, you know, I made a deal, I sold the script, I got,

you know, I made a... Made money? I ended up making a million and a half dollars. Hell yeah. Which was great. It was really funny because there was a girl there, I got to tell this story. Is it right if I tell? Yeah. Tell every story you want. That's what we're here for. Okay, there was a girl there, I used to get $127 a week for unemployment. And I used to go to this bank. It was the bank that got, remember the bank that got shot? Ridgewood Savings? Banco Popular? Yeah.

No, it was the bank that when the guys came with the automatic weapons on Ventura Boulevard. I don't know. Oh, you guys are too young. Oh, what, like the dog day afternoon thing? Yeah, I know. The guys came with the guns. No. Well, anyway, I would go there and I would give this woman a check. She was really pretty, really knockout.

And I would give her a check for $127 a week on employment. And I kind of flirt with her a little bit. Mavro? Mavro? Black? Black girl? No, Spanish girl. Spanish girl.

The best. Chrissy just perked up. Yeah, it's what it is. Spanish girl. Yeah. But she gave me the heisman yeah you know who's this older guy i'm 38 years old making 127 a week i ain't getting nowhere yeah yeah i'm not getting nowhere with her and every week i go by hey how you doing you know you have a good weekend

yeah yeah it was good yeah yeah nothing yeah nothing so now i'm home i'm in my house with my my friend my friend dayton kelly oh my god i can't believe i'm going to tell you these stories man i mean it's okay if i tell you this is what we're here for this is what we're here for and then you don't like we ended up yeah i don't have any stories with bobby yeah i mean yeah i mean his yeah you you your lowest moment of your life you know know, you turn it into Bronx. He turned his lowest moment, he has a trans character named Marisa that he does on the internet. That's it. I got no stories. That's it.

My wife was mean to me last night, so I started calling her Hillary Clinton. That's my nickname. What a nasty, nasty woman. So I'm sitting there, and all of a sudden, the doorbell rings, and I open up the door. Now I'm living in a better place. Right. I got a nice apartment on Laurel Canyon. And I get,

all of a sudden, the guy says, you Charles Bronte? I go, yeah. He gives me a fucking envelope. I go, oh, well, thank you. Now, Bronx Tale's not happening yet.

We just made a deal months ago, right? Nobody knows about Bronx Tale. Nobody knows nothing about Bronx Tale, right? So my friend is sitting right on there, something like that. In fact, that's the fucking, it was, what do you call that? An ottoman. Nobody knows nothing about Bronx. Right? So my friend is sitting right on there something like that

In fact, that's the fucking it was what do you call that an ottoman an ottoman? Yeah But I know it's not a man. Okay, and we're doing a fucking scene We're working on a scene for the theater and I get this envelope and I go I'm standing up and I get the envelope And I'm looking at it and I go What what I go I go to I don't figure I go Dayton I said I got a check we bought you send me a check for $50,000 you know $50,000 like course and he goes $50,000 and I'm standing up now I was standing up so he stands up right with me right so I'm standing I could stand up right I me, right? So I'm standing up. I can stand up, right? Stand up. Do whatever you want.

I'm standing up like this. So he stands up, and we're like, and he looks over my shoulder, and he goes like this. One, two. I see him counting the zeros. And he goes, Chaz, that's 500,000. And I go like this. You missed a zero.

I was just so nervous when I saw it. I thought it was 50. It was 500. And we were like this. We sat down. He sat down over there. I sat down here just like we are right now. And nobody said a word for three minutes at least.

Not a word. And all of a sudden, fucking tears start rolling down my face. And I start fucking weeping i don't know i think it was like all the built-up course it's a release it's the emotional release all the hard work the whole grind yeah you can pay off your gambling debt now yeah yeah what are you doing yeah you know like guys right you're writing in your room right i know you you were guys right so i get the fucking thing and And I said, holy shit. Fuck me.

Right? So then I go back the next day. And who do I see? The girl. There it is. I got to give her the check. Yeah. Right?

Because I got to open up an account. Right? She's there again. I go, hey, you look pretty today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hand the check over.

That's nice. Holy shit. Does that say $500,000? Somebody got a job. She goes like this. Hold on one second. And she goes. Started making empanadas for you.

Right? And all of a sudden, he comes out. The guy, like the manager with the suit, opens up. Mr. Palminteri, step in here. Will you get him some coffee? He told me to get me coffee. Right? All different.

Yeah. Totally different. Right. Good to see you. Every time she would see me, how are you? Yeah. Oh, my. It was like, I said, nah, nah.

Nah, you know. Yeah. Nah, I'm not giving in to this one. No. As as she was beautiful. Nah. Yeah not doing she would have passed the door test Nah, she wouldn't have passed the door. Where's the door test come from? That's one of the most famous things in movie. You know what people go with Chaz you wrote the die I said no, I didn't write it. I could be honest with you It was just something that we talked about we were, that if a girl opens the door for you, and I'm just the first one to put it in a movie, and I made it famous,

but it was something that we always said. If a girl doesn't open up the door, and if it's raining, really, you've got to dump her right away. That night, you've got to dump her. Now with cars with automatic, with the buttons, I guess there's no door test anymore. They've just got to press a button.

She's got to at least press the button. She's got to at least press the button. And go like that. She's got to show some kind of like selfish bitch. She's got to do something. Now, Dante. I mean, Dante's in the room now. Dante Palmitari just walked in. He's a singer.

He's got music following him on the Instagram. He's a gorgeous kid. Gorgeous kid. Dante Palmitari on the gram. On the gram. Now, you're his father, you're Italian, what kind of girl do you want Dante to come home with? Are you hoping Italian?

Yeah. She don't have to be Italian. No, she really doesn't. In fact, he has a beautiful girlfriend. His girlfriend, Chloe, is actually six feet tall, blue eyes. Gorgeous. Black hair, gorgeous. Well, he's gorgeous.

He's a good-looking kid. Good-looking kid. Tall, drink water. Dante, come and say hello quickly. Gorgeous. Well, he's gorgeous. He's a good-looking kid. Good-looking kid. Tall drink of water. Dante, come and say hello quickly. Come on, Dante. Get in here. What are you doing over here? I mean, this guy's standing over there in the sweatsuit.

Now, here it is. Yeah, Dante's got the sweatsuit on. There it is, guys. This is my son. This is the son. This is Dante. I'm very proud of my son. He went to Berklee College, Berklee School of Music in Boston.

Graduated. And I'm very proud of him. That's what it is. That's awesome, man. Did you just graduate just now? Well, I'm graduating. I took some years off, and then I moved to the city, and then I went back, and now I'm graduating in May, actually. But he has to graduate online now.

Right, right, right. Yeah, but we're doing, like, virtual graduation. So you went to college, though. You went to college in recent times. Do you feel that the Russians kind of infiltrated your school and were trying to teach? Did you have teachers really posing as American? Speaking Russian.

Right, but they were speaking Russian on their off time and they were trying to tell you that America was a bad place. Did you see that? Catch me in Borscht. Yeah, catch me, that's right. Oh, yeah. What kind of music do you do?

I do like singer-songwriter, pop-rock kind of stuff. Nice. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, I'm influenced by like a lot of different artists. Yeah. You know, R&B. John Mayer. Yeah, yeah, But I mean, I'm influenced by like a lot of different artists. Yeah. You know, R&B. John Mayer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

People like D'Angelo and John Mayer and 1975 and all different. And I'm not saying because he's my son, but he's got a great recording studio.

And if you go to Chaz, if you go to DantePalmetto.com, right? Yeah, yeah. Website, Dante Palmetto. No, his songs are fantastic. I've listened to many of his songs. And the Gram.

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Today. I mean, I smell the barbicide on this kid. It was down to here Yeah It looked awesome And also when you Opened the door for me

I saw you did one of those Because you were still used to But then you forgot That it's not there I keep doing this Yeah Now let me ask you And this was

Wait Chris This was in his room When he was a little boy Right Since when he was born This was in his room And my daughter's Gabriella's

I knew he had a tattoo of it I was going to say You got a tattoo of it There it is. Saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Bang, that's what happens. And the drive that he has, I gave him this car when he was a little boy. And my daughter, she goes to University of Michigan.

They only took 10 people. Oh, 25 people. 25, and she was one of them. So they didn't waste their talent, and I'm very excited. That's it. Beautiful. That's the most important thing in life. Don't waste your talent.

Don't waste your talent. Now, Giannis, what's the point to be in America if you don't go for what you're talented? You've got to go for it. You've got to go for it. Now, Giannis is trying to get in on Italian things. Giannis is saying. My wife is half Sicilian. Giannis' wife is half Sicilian.

Giannis is full Greek, and Giannis' wife is half Sicilian. Giannis is saying because his wife is half Sicilian, that entitles him to a gommade. I always tell her, I say, hey, it's your culture. It's your culture. Let me tell you something. The Italians in Italy, the priest tells the girl, the day of their getting married, you know he's going to have a gommade. You know he's going to have a gumare.

You know he's going to have a gumare. So just whatever you do, don't let it bother you. It's going to be okay. Yeah, the freaking priest have gumare. The priest tells her. I try to tell my wife all the time. I say, look, I'm getting a gumare for you. It's your culture.

It's not my culture. You're Sicilian. I'm doing it to respect your culture. Have a gumare. I'm going to get a gumare. It's not my culture. You're Sicilian. I'm doing it to respect your culture. Have a good morning. I gotta get a good morning. It's what it is, cuz. Wow. Cuz, this coffee is fucking good.

I don't know what. Does my wife make the best coffee? This is actually one of the best cups of coffee I've ever had. I'm telling you, she mixes the beans. She's like a scientist. This coffee is so good that it almost makes me want to become a Democrat. Yeah. Because if a Democrat's making this coffee, that's what I want.

Yeah, but he's a kid who's in the arts. I mean, you know, we're all gay. The truth of the situation is this. It's to the guys in the neighborhood. We're all a little gay because we fucking got microphones and we do skits. Yeah, which is if you invite your friends to do your skit, they're going to suspect that you're a gay man. Yeah, no.

The truth is, though, if you try to get onto this property it's got a sniper tower i mean guys don't make no mistake you try to come to this property there's a heated sniper tower and you'll get one between the eyes so if you try to bring a sign up here yeah if you yeah if you try to march up here anything that comes up the hill is getting shot it's what coy, human, you're getting shot. You got a gun? You got a gun? I got a gun. He was the most anti-gun guy of all time, Yanni, and then he moved up in this area. He's got a gun.

Really? Yeah. Just, you know. He's got a baby? Yeah, I got to defend my property. Now, if somebody came onto your property, though, Yannis, could you load the gun? Shoot first, ask questions later. But could you even, you think you could even load it?

No, I don't think I could load it. No. I've only taken it to the shooting range once. I got to learn how to shoot that thing. I mean, it's what it is. Yeah. Because you don't go outside the house unless you got on Air Maxes. So would you put your Air Max sneakers on first?

I would put the Air Maxes on first and then I would get the gun. Because if your house is on fire, would you save your wife and Air Maxes? I'd grab the Air Maxes before my wife. Yeah. You'd take the Air Maxes? Yeah. Yeah. You'd grab the baby and the Air Maxes.

I'd grab the baby and a pair of, and I'd be out the door. Because you'd put air maxes on your baby's hands and feet and run out. That's what we were doing. Chaz, I got to ask you, what was it like working with Woody Allen? Woody Allen was great. Great. Well, he doesn't talk to you. Right.

You know, if he talks to you, that's not a good sign. If he's shooting the movie and he starts to talk to you a lot, that means you're going to get fired probably. Really? Yeah, because if he starts telling you, no, no, don't do that, do this. And I went to him. I said, Woody, what about it? He goes, no, no, no, just do what you want, Chaz.

Do whatever you want. Interesting. And so he let me improv and let me do a lot. Me and, he let a lot of us improv. Some people he didn't let improv. Right. Interesting. Now, I heard the rumor that he only gives actors the scene that they're in.

You don't get the full script. In the beginning he did that. But when I did the movie, he gave me the whole movie that they're in. You don't get the full script. In the beginning, he did that. But when I did the movie, he gave me the whole movie. He did? Yeah, he gave me the whole movie. But I couldn't make anybody read it. Right. You have to sign something that you can't let it out.

Do you have the original script that you, because you hand wrote Bronx Tale on yellow legal paper. Do you have that? on yellow legal paper. Do you have that? I have the original first little computer that I bought when I started. After I put it from paper to computer. That I have. I got to look for the...

But I have every script that I ever did, every movie I ever did. You have the script. I have a sign by the cast, hermetically sealed. Except for Chris's pilot. You fucking do that in the fireplace. That's in a urinal on Ventura Boulevard. No, I didn't sign up.

But if it would have went to series, you would have signed it. If it would have went to series, I would have signed it. We would have gotten it. God, what a fucking... Chaz and Annie Potts, and they didn't pick it up. They put on their other bullshit show. And it lasted how long, Chris? Every show that that dickhead picked up on CBS,

they all got canceled after the first season. So maybe we lucked out. Yeah. You know what? You're right. Maybe we did. So it didn't do well in the theaters at first. Bronx Tale.

Bronx Tale. It did okay. It did okay. What was the reaction from like... The reviews were incredible. Reviews were incredible? Incredible. So Bobby was happy.

He directed it. Yes. Was that one of his first... His first. That was his first movie directed, right? His first movie directed, yes. Wow. Yes. And Bobby was happy. He directed it. Yes. Was that one of his first? His first. That was his first movie directed, right? First movie directed, yes. Wow. And so he was happy with the film.

Very happy. And then it took off on VHS after that. Huge. Well, Bob always told me, to really know a great movie, it's time. Time will tell you if it's a great movie. Yeah. It's like The Honeymooners. The Honeymooners.

Exactly. It's a change of genre, but same principle. I mean, The Honeymooners didn't do well. It's okay, yeah. It didn't do well. It's okay, yeah. It didn't do well, and then it was a two-season, and then it became like cult hit. A lot of movies like that. Raging Bull, the same way.

Yeah. The same way. And Usual Suspects. That's like probably one of the best movies of all time. That was a fun movie to make. That was probably. Have you seen it? Of course, yeah.

Of course you've seen it, yeah. Yeah. Did you guys know? Do you know when you're doing a movie this is a hit or not? You don't know? No. You just thought you were doing a regular Do you know when you're doing a movie this is a hit or not? You don't know? No. You just thought you were doing a regular movie?

Like when you were doing Chris's sitcom, were you like, this is fire? And then you watched it and you're like, Jesus Christ. Let me tell you something. I did a movie. I did a movie with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan. And I read it and I liked it. I said, gee, and these guys were funny. They're very funny guys. Night at the Roxbury.

Night at the Roxbury. Yeah. And that movie fucking is just, is huge everywhere. People see me on the street, they go, hey, did you grab my ass?

They're always there. And that movie, and you don't know, when I was making it, I thought it would be just a bullshit fun movie. Right. But that movie holds up, man.

Yeah. But didn't you say Usual Suspects, you told me you actually filmed all those scenes 10 days before the movie even started. Well, what happened was

I was in a room with Kevin Spacey, just him and I. How'd that go? What really what? Everyone keep their hands to themselves. I knew what I was doing. I shot the movie with Kevin. You're just a little out of his age range. And then I finished and then I left and I was in.

Then they actually started the movie right after that. You know what? Those are actually... Don't send Dante in there. Those are legit, actually some of the most intense scenes, I think, in movie history. With usual suspects? When he's in there with Virgil, when your character's in there with Virgil, and you're grilling him, and you're grilling him. Yeah.

And then, of course, there's the famous drop the coffee cup. Yeah. It comes around. Yeah, that was... Well, the director, Brian Singer, really did the coffee cup. Yeah. Comes around. Yeah, that was, well, the director, you know, Brian Singer really did a great job. Yeah. Yeah. And the Baldwin kid really took a turn after that movie.

He went full right wing. Steven? Yeah. Steven Baldwin. Yeah. Do you think Steven Baldwin and Alec Baldwin don't get along? I don't think they get along. No.

Yeah. I think that, I don't know what they do at Thanksgiving, but it's not, they don't agree on politics. I know that doesn't happen. What can you do? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, but it's not. They don't agree on politics. I know that doesn't happen. What can you do? Yeah. I mean, look, but you know what? We shouldn't let politics break brothers and sisters up. That's wrong. I think that's

wrong. Yeah, but they're, you know, they're not. What are they? Baldwins or Wasps, right? No, they're from Long Island. From Long Island. No, they're from Syracuse. I think the Baldwins were from Long Island. I think they grew up in Syracuse. No, they grew up in Long Island. They did? They grew up at the same time as Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, Long Island. I think that maybe their mother was from Syracuse. Mother lives in Syracuse, I think they grew up in Syracuse. No, they grew up in Long Island. They did? They grew up in the same town as Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, Long Island.

I think that maybe their mother was from... Mother lives in Syracuse, I think. I don't know. Now she does, maybe. Yeah, maybe she does now, which is a weird move to go from Long Island to Syracuse. Outside of Bronx Tale Unusual Suspects, what was your favorite movie to make?

My favorite movie to make? Yeah. It doesn't even have to be that it did that well. Just your personal... Bullets Over Broadway was fun to make. Yeah? And also Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. I really love that movie.

Oh, that's a classic. You ever seen Guide to Recognizing Your Saints? A lot of people have never seen that. To me, that's one of my... I think... It's a heavy one. Probably some of my best work was in that one. Yeah, check that out.

The movie is terrific, too. Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. Yeah, that was made, what, like in the 2000s, right? 2004. Yeah. By Dito Montiel. There was a kid. We went to see it because there was actually a kid.

His name's Peter Tambakis. He's a small kid. He was in the movie, Guys Recognizing Your Saints. But he's one of those kids. He looks like he's like 10 years old, but he was really in his 20s. And he was on the college basketball team, SUNY Purchase, that we used to play all the time. Right. So like they were like our main rivals.

And I remember like he didn't show up for a couple of games, but he was a really good player. And they were like, oh, he's in the movie. And I was like, well, fuck our main rivals and I remember like, he didn't show up for a couple of games but he was a really good player and they were like, oh, he's in the movie and I was like, what fucking movie? And it was like, guys are recognizing you. So then you see this kid

and you're like, holy shit. And then he messaged me a couple of years ago to get on my podcast and I said, no. Greek kid, he's a Greek kid.

No, I would, Peter Tambakis, if you hear this, I would love to have you on my podcast. Fucking neighborhood guys are all like, what fucking movie?

You know, like our friends, they come over to me they go hey chas guys in my neighborhood they go hey chad is this uh this movie thing it pays good money yeah i go yeah it's pretty good he goes hmm maybe i should do that yeah like like it's not easy or i bet you have i bet you have guys in the neighborhood when they're watching bronx tale the play they'll come in like yo can i get 80 tickets like they have ridiculous amounts of tickets let me tell you something when i knew when i knew when i knew that they were going to make a big

announcement in the press that i got this million and a half dollars for the script of brock steel right 30 years ago i said holy they're gonna tell people jesus christ right i was really worried i said this is not good i said all my friends and neighbors said, this is not good. I said, all my friends and neighbors are going to see this. This is not fucking good. So what I did was I called up each one of my friends, and I asked them to borrow money. I said, look, you know how I'm not doing that great. I'm still trying to wait for this deal with De Niro.

I hope it's going to happen. So I said, can you lend me two grand? Chaz, I can't. I said, you should. It's not a good time. I said, all right, I can't. I can't. I said, you should. It's not a good time. I said, all right, I get it. Boom. Great.

Dialed another fucking guy. Called them all up. Called about six or seven of my friends up. Said, look, yeah. I said, I need 5,000. Chaz, I'm married. I got three kids. What am I going to give you 5,000?

I'll pay. I know things are going to work out for you but i can't do it like they all said chad we couldn't do it right hung up the phone next day bam yeah two days later charge hey you you turn me down yeah now you want money from me you smart i love it dude it's cutting it's a beautiful now that that's where the street comes in handy smart yeah yeah and that's what we're worried dante doesn't have a little bit of that we were Hot Egg is a beautiful thing. Now that is where the street comes in handy. Smart. Yeah. And that's what we're worried Dante doesn't have a little bit of that. We were asking him if he drives you to the Bronx and just drops you off and says survive.

Did I show you the apartment where I grew up? Oh, yeah. No. He takes me back there all the time. Yeah. I've seen those guys. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

You guys grew up a little different. We did. But we would go there all the time. Yeah. I don't know. We go there a don't know we learned a lot of stuff I like to take a lot of pictures of the city I remember I was in the Bronx and I had my film camera I think I told you about this

I took a picture of the street and there were two guys sitting outside and I saw one of them go who's that guy over there I took that out of the film I just put it in the that out of the film. I just put it in the trash can, and they both sat down. And I walked away. Yeah.

What's the best Italian restaurant in the Bronx? In the neighborhood? Well, they're all good restaurants there. I go to Roberto's. I go to Zero Atanova. Enzo's is good. Pasquale Rigoletto. You know what? You can't get a beer and meal at any of those restaurants.

I got to go to your restaurant. I was going to say the best food in New York is Chaz Palminteri. And the name of the restaurant is Chaz Palminteri. Not Chaz Palminteri, you fucking zaggits. That's right. I got one on 30 West 46th Street between 5th and 6th. Fantastic. That's fantastic.

And it's open. And we're opening up a new one in White Plains, New York, right up here in White Plains. 264 Main Street in White Plains. And we're making cold fire oven pizza in the one up here, which is going to be fantastic. Now, Chris went and ate at your restaurant. Many times. And you guys went to the Soho House. And then a guy tried to start shit with Chris.

Remember that night? What happened? When you went to the Soho house and that wasp kid. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that was at, where were we? Serafino.

Not Serafino. What's the place that we went? Me, you. Where do we go downtown? What's it called? Where do we go when we sat down? And we went upstairs catch was that no not catch in new york um what's the name of the place cipriani cipriani's yeah

and there was some fucking waspy piece of shit kid just talking so much shit to me and it was me and you yeah yeah yeah the fucking and then we had bobby the driver there and who else was there maybe uh was sandy blue eyes there no he was there? Bobby? Maybe. Was Sandy there? Was Sandy Blue Eyes there? No, he wasn't. No, I don't think Sandy Blue Eyes was there. Maybe Sonny. No, Sonny wasn't there.

No, Sonny would have smacked him. Sonny would have smacked him. Yeah, Sonny would have smacked him right away. Yeah. I love how Italians always give a nickname, and sometimes that nickname, or oftentimes that nickname is the person's worst quality, right? Yeah. Oh, always.

Every time it's the worst quality. Yeah. My favorite was my friend, Jesse, his father grew up in Bensonhurst and they said there was a kid that didn't come out of his house

before five o'clock so they called him Sammy the Mole. Yeah. They called him the Mole. Sammy the Mole. Yeah. No, the best thing I ever saw

was I was at Chaz's restaurant was sitting down eating Chaz's got on a black, you know, Chaz's look, the black turtleneck, fucking black jacket, sitting down, he gets sauce on his turtleneck,

one of the waiters comes over, brings him another turtleneck. They just had another turtleneck. We had another black turtleneck. Comes in with a fresh turtleneck. If you were to rank cuisines, is Italian number one and it's not even close? Not even close. Italian's always number one.

As a matter of fact, Chaz, is it a little disrespectful if somebody says something other than Italian cuisine? Even though I know you support all different races, but if they say with food Italian, it's a little disrespectful. Well, why is pizza the biggest selling thing in the world? Not because the Chinese made it. Yeah, absolutely.

But they did make the virus. Yeah, but they did make spaghetti, the Chinese. If the Chinese keep trying to claim credit on spaghetti at somebody with Marco Polo, and I want to say, fuck you. Italians made spaghetti. Well, what happened was they did make the noodle, and then Marco Polo brought it over. But it's like Marco Polo made it famous.

Exactly. It's like without Marco Polo. He's the marketer. He's like the Saul of Tarsus of pasta. Without Paul, you wouldn't know about Jesus. Yeah. And so without Marco Polo, you wouldn't even know. I mean, the Chinese, they didn't do much with noodle.

They threw some sesame fucking oil on it. That's nothing. That's it. The Italians took a tomato and they made art. They made art out of food. Because the reason why that reference went overhand is because you want some Old Testament shit. And we're New Testament Italians. We're not the Jews that love the Old Testament.

We got the new shit. Well, he's Greek, right? He's a Greek, so he fucking loves it. And he's an FCA hitter. He's fully charged. Here's the deal. When you're Greek, there's a 0% chance you got touched, though, which is good. I was an altar boy, and I think I remember everything.

Right, right. Yeah. Let me tell you something. I have friends who are Greek, and I love them. They're great guys. But one thing. But they're a little inbred. If you want to...

A little inbred. I'll tell you one thing. Greeks marry Greeks. That's what it is. But you thing. But they're a little inbred. If you want to. A little inbred. I'll tell you one thing. Greeks marry Greeks. But you didn't, right? I married a half Greek, half Sicilian. She had to be some Greek. She had to have a little in there. Does she speak Greek? No, but her mother's fluent. Fluent Greek. Yeah. Yeah. Greeks are fascinating people because Greeks hate everybody equally. Yeah. Like my mother-in-law, my wife's mother, who's full Greek, married Cecilia and her father. Right. When her parents... It's also politically independent. Right. It's also politically independent. Yeah.

So when her Greek parents found out she was dating an Italian, she didn't speak to her for two years. Greeks... It's what it is. If you marry an Italian, they go like... They call them criminals. Right hate everybody hate everybody yeah but do I always said my friend owned the restaurant yeah and I always said big surprise Greek guy yeah if you want to get somebody and make them talk like somebody from like a foreign country and you want to break them down you don't

have to put them in a box or torture them. Just make them be a busboy in a Greek restaurant. It's true. You guys beat the shit out of them. Yeah, yeah. Not only that, as you say things like, you're off tomorrow? Come over and paint my house. Yeah. Am I right? It's true.

It's true. Greeks, there's like a sick... It's because they don't want to deal with their wives. It's like an indentured servant. They don't go home, yeah. Yeah. Your dad used to sleep in his office, he said. My dad told me... My granddad had a diner, a big surprise, right?

And I think my dad said he met his dad like seven times. He used to sleep at the restaurant. He would just live there. Live there, yeah. Yeah. Now, Chaz, you know what's interesting about you? And I think because a lot of people watch your show, you didn't really get your career until you were close to 40 years old.

That's right. A lot of people nowadays feel like if they haven't made it by 30 that they're done. I think you and Morgan Freeman are the only people I mean, you're big success stories. Morgan Freeman didn't make it until he was 50. Chaz didn't make it until he was 40. Rodney Dangerfield. 50s.

How old was Steve Carell? He was 40. He was 40 with The Office? Well, yeah. He was in his late 30s or 40s. Wow. I didn't know that. So by the time you did Bronx Hill, you hadn't even met your wife yet.

No. That's crazy. No. You went Italian too when you got married. Of course. What? Yeah, when you got married, you chose Italian. I just happened to choose it.

She happened to be Italian. That's the question. That's why he said what? He said what? What are you fucking serious? What else am I going to do? I didn't think. No, I was dating this other woman who she was black and we were you know it's funny if

you would have married her your kid would probably be dressed the same though that's true yeah italian kids and black kids they got similar tastes italians and blacks steal culture from each other left and right they both culturally they love fucking jewelry We wanted to dance like them and they wanted to dress like us. That's what it is. That's what it is. That was the whole thing right there. The only key difference really is, is exact same except when it comes down to a magician. When a magician reveals the trick, you guys will stay in the room

and the blacks run out. That's the only difference. Yeah. Yeah, they sprint out. Black TV, yeah, they just, they can't handle magic. It's what it is. They just love it. Yeah, they love it and they sprint out. Black TV, yeah, they just, they can't handle magic. It's what it is. They just love it. Yeah, they love it and they run out. That's the only difference.

Other than that, yeah, Italians and blacks, and that's why Bronx Tale to me was, I, listen, people always talk about Bronx Tale and Goodfellas, both iconic movies. I love Goodfellas. Bronx Tale to me was always number one though because it really shined that New York story and it really showed that the black and Italian community are very, very, very, very, very similar. And I just loved it because I was like, wow, that to me always, especially putting that in the 90s,

took balls, but it was true and honest, and that's why everybody loved it. When I'm out with Chaz, I would say as many black people come up to him and just maybe more love the movie. They love Italian culture. So it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing.

One of my favorite stories is Paul Verzi. He's a comedian, very funny comedian, our good friend Paul Verzi. He's Italian. His father is from the movie. They love Italian culture. So it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. One of my favorite stories is Paul Verzi. He's a comedian, very funny comedian, our good friend Paul Verzi. He's Italian. His father is from the Bronx. Right. And he said his father, I think maybe grew up in your neighborhood. Yeah. Yeah.

So his father said some stuff that's not so great about black people. But then he says, but you know what? I got to tell you, these rappers, they know their jewelry. I'll tell you that. they know their jewelry you know i'll tell you that they know their jewelry yeah i would say to my son doctor remember these big rappers would say to me we want to put some of bronx still yeah and i would say do you know this guy yeah at dinner he goes do you know someone named dre i was like, who? Yeah. He goes, Dre. Doctor. I was like, Dr. Dre? Yeah. He goes, yeah, Dr. Dre.

You know him? I'm like, yeah. I know him. Yeah, I know who he is, yeah. So does everyone else in the world. Yeah. He's like, oh, he wants to use a thing from a- The Pack Anderson?

Anderson, yeah. And he's like, yeah, him and this other guy, Anderson Pack. Right. Are you shitting me? Yeah. Yeah, so it's- I would always, they would call me say can we use he was like there was a point where some of the movie yeah he was on the phone with dr dre emailing him and just had no idea yeah yeah and yeah they used the bronx tale in the song winner's circle by anderson pack you hear incredible sample yeah

it's probably been in about at least 30 video black videos yeah yeah and then chad's got the most fascinating life too i remember one time i called him like just to see like hey you want to if you're in the city you want to come by my show he's like i would but i'm in saudi arabia performing for a prince i was like oh all right i guess when you get back he goes yeah when i get back that's right you called me when i was there he was in saudi arabia funny about over there they have, they have buku bucks. They have so much money. If they like you, they'll bring you over.

Oh, yeah. They'll be like, hey, have a cup of coffee with me. Here's a million dollars. He said he flew, what, United Arab Emirates. It was like a fucking apartment. It was like an apartment. My wife and I had our own bathroom, a shower. We flew in Emirates.

It was like one of the greatest flights I've ever had in my whole life. And what were you doing? Performing? I wasn't really, actually, I wasn't performing. He just wanted me to come to his birthday party. That's what it is. That's what it is, man. You got money, it's what it is.

And he wanted me to come there. It was his birthday. There were some people there to meet. And he said, I have some people. They love your movies and they want to meet you. I said, great. And so he offered me a nice money. Yeah, a little incentive. A little per diem.

As my daughter Gabriella would say, some fazoos. And I went there, and we had a great time. Yeah, I mean, it's beautiful. No, it's a beautiful life. So, Chaz, you've done all these movies. You're a big movie star. I guess that the next thing, of course, is a podcast or TikTok. Yeah, I'm sorry.

You're starting a podcast. tick tock yeah i'm sorry you're starting to podcast yeah i am doing it i'm gonna imagine if his son do tick tock dances yeah i was hoping you were gonna say tick tock and we could say it at the same time well actually i'm on tick tock i just got on he got me on that's right again get his ticket he got me on and uh he's on tick tock what's the tick tock what's the name just all chad's commentary no but what's the at name at chad's commentary everything is chad's commentary on tix but i'm gonna do i'm gonna do my own i'm What's the TikTok? What's the name? All Chaz Palminteri. No, but what's the at name? At Chaz Palminteri? Everything is Chaz Palminteri. Chaz Palminteri on TikTok.

But I'm going to do my own podcast on my YouTube channel. And I'm going to be, a part of it, one part of it will be, I'm going to break down a Bronx tale, show some of the movie, show some of the one-man show. Because I have all the one-man show on film. The first one I ever did I have them all on film so I'm gonna actually do a little piece of that and show how it became a one-man show to the movie and then talk about how what's real what happened where I exaggerated or what when it really

happened wow that's I'm excited but that's what I'm saying because like when you know I've gotten to know Chad so well over the years and like the stories that he just tells at the dinner table, I'm like, this is the part. People need to see it, because even your life, even your life when you're telling us about Swifty Lazar, your life is a movie inside of a movie. Like the Swifty Lazar telling you to go F yourself, and then you coming back and writing a hit movie is a movie. Is a movie, yeah. You know what I mean?

That's a movie without a Bronx tale. Right, yeah. It's such an amazing story. You know, the only other example I can think of's a movie without a Bronx tale. Such an amazing story. The only other example I can think of that the movie got made that way was Nia Vardalos with My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She had a one-woman show. And then Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson saw it.

They made it for $4 million. Jimmy Giannopoulos turned it down at Fox. Everyone turned it down. It's the biggest independent comedy ever made ever cost four and a half million dollars and made 400 million dollars and she was doing it as a one woman show as a one woman it only happened three times in the history of movies where uh somebody wrote something and then it happened rocky bronx tale 25 years later my big fat greek

wedding 20 years later greeks and italians yeah because we gotta write a movie i mean what are we doing here we gotta write a movie with dante palmatari because if you don't think dante and chad's are going to be in the sketch we're doing next you've got to never pick up these kids dante's got to show up in the sketch let's do it all right yeah well thank you so much thank Chaz. Thank you. Appreciate it. And thank you, Dante. Oh, no, thanks for having me on. This is cool.

Thanks for having us here. Thank you for having us on. Thank you, Gianna, for the coffee. Thank you. The coffee's fantastic. Of course, as always, historyathenis.com, christycomedy.com. We've got dates coming up,

all socially distanced outside. Patreon.com slash Bay Ridge Boys. Check it out. Yeah, and check out Chaz Bahamateri's new YouTube channel and new podcast coming out soon. Yes, yes. And if you want to get this card, and I always say it because my dad wrote this,

the saddest thing in life is a waste of talent. And you can get this card on my channel, ChazPalminteri.net. ChazPalminteri.net. Go get that stuff. GiannisPapasComedy.com. His date's coming up. And that's it.

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