The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #102 | DAVID CHASE | UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: September 29, 2021

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on Sirius. It must have been the station for bad music because they put on a fucking Yoko Ono song. And let me tell you something. I told Mike the only proper response was the fucking crash, the fucking car.

guys it was brutal brutal brutal brutal i don't know about you guys but oh my god she was going and i'm like driving trying to figure it out you know like when you freeze up and you can't press it it's like getting like you ever get your your finger stuck in something and you freeze up for like three minutes you don't know what to do you pull away and it hurts more you put i couldn't even figure out the radio i'm like get this fucking yoko ono off my fucking thing listen i don't I don't have Asians. I just hate Yoko. I don't want people to say, well, you're making fun of, no, it's just Yoko. I ate Chinese food yesterday. You know me, Doug. I got to eat my shit every fucking week. I got a Chinese restaurant down the corner. I'm there twice a week. If you think I'm fucking with shit, tremendous. I get the three-flavored shrimp. Holy shit with black bean sauce on some fucking rice. I only eat a half a cup of rice. My points plus the spice up your fucking diabetes. Oh, they're fucking tremendous. I've always liked Chinese food. I think that's the happiest I'm about is that I have Chinese food at my disposal. And if this restaurant down the block is closed, walking distance, the one fucking closer to my house is even better than this one.

They have different things that are good than I like. I like the pork fried rice over here. I like the egg drop soup. I like three-flavored shrimp. The other place has tremendous shrimp egg food young. I mean, fucking old school shrimp egg food young. You put some sauce on that. motherfucker, it's all protein.

It's shrimp and egg. You can't fucking lose. Your dick gets fucking harder than arithmetic, Jack. But I'm good. I had a good weekend. I had a good Monday, a good fucking Tuesday. Acupuncture, I'm back. I'm back with the act.

And you could tell. That was the last of my many fucking things I hadn't done from L.A. I'm back steady. That was my fourth thing, my fourth session. I also went to Jiu-Too last week, and I'm going to join the class. I'm going to take another private or two and then maybe start going to the class because I'm out of fucking breathing shape.

I mean, I'm in shape. I've been lifting weights and jumping up and down and all that shit. But I'm not in jujitsu shape, but I'm happy I went. Thank you guys for encouraging me to go. A bunch of people were like, when are you going back to Jiu-Jitsu?

And I felt kind of fucking shitty about it, but I just had fucking knee surgery. You know, I can't be jumping up and fucking down right now. So I wanted it to get settled. I'm still having a hard time riding the bike around the neighborhood but I ride the stationary bike and you know

I'm okay for now I'm deadlifting, I'm squatting you know so I just can't kneel you know so I can't get fucking blow jobs that sucks but what are gonna fucking do how come chicks that get blow jobs don't get fucked up knees just fucking guys

I can't kneel on them I had to put a brace and a fucking knee pad and the right knee hurt but you know what the more I go the more I'll get used to it and whatnot fucking bet against the Jets. Listen, I don't have any betting knowledge for you guys.

I'm dumb when it comes to that. I don't know who's pitching. I don't know the quarterback or the team. I got to ask Jimmy and his son. His son gives me the bet because kids know about what's going on. So if I'm going to bet a football team or something, I'll ask his kid.

This week I didn't know who to bet. So I just bet against fucking the Jets because listen, they're terrible. Number one, I mean, that got awful. The starting quarterback went down. And number two, They were playing Denver in Denver on the Lord's Day. Everybody knows that's an automatic and shit.

Four o'clock game, shit. That's when Denver fucking thrives on a Lord's Day on a Sunday. Nice. The sun was out. No snow. Boom! It was like 17, nothing at the half. I was happy.

I only bet fucking 25 bucks. But hey, bitches, 25 bucks is 25 bucks where I come from. What did you want on Sunday? That's what I'm talking about. I'm just trying to have a good time here today. That's it. It's all about having a good time. smiling, having some fun.

I was telling the people on the Patreon podcast that Sunday I went over to my friend's house and I had some fucking, at the Puma's house, Jody Puma is one of the best fucking cooks ever. My neighbor, holy shit. She made a Bolanez sauce

that make your asshole go like this. You ever have your asshole just rattled like this? You ever been driving and your asshole just goes, weepwop, weepwap. This Bolanaz was so fucking good and she made a loaf of fucking garlic bread. I had so many fucking garlic clothes on it. I almost lost my mind.

When I bit into the first thing, like breadcrumbs didn't fall off. It was fucking garlic things just went all over. But I love garlic because that's when I do my best work, you understand me? So I had the three pieces of garlic bread. I had my little bolognaz. I relaxed a little while. And I went over to Jimmy's to watch the Raiders against Miami. You know that Jimmy Florentine's a big Miami fan.

So when the dolphins play, I go over there and I support them. I'm not a fan anybody. Listen, I'm a fan of the team. I go to a game with a hat with a minus 10 on it. I don't have a favorite fucking team. I just, you know, I don't know what I'm doing with football, so I'll go talk to them. But Sunday, I went over there after I ate the fucking garlic,

and there was a bunch of guys over there, you know, hanging out, having a good time saying shit. And one of the guys started farting. Like, he was blowing these wet farts. And I'm like, what the fuck? You know, and I didn't smell him. I couldn't smell them at all. I was like five, six feet away from the dude.

So at one point I'm sitting there. I go, ooh, I got a fart. You know, I didn't know what was going to come out of my ass. I didn't know the garlic had processed that fast. I blew a fart, guys. That was so fucking bad. And then, about eight minutes later, I blew another one. That was so bad.

Everybody was watching a game with their fucking nose covered. That means I fucking won. People going, what the fuck is that? I farted on the couch. I got up like half hour later to go pee. I peed. I came back to the couch. And when I sat down, the fart had gotten into the couch.

And it came right back out at me. Like you could resmell it again. People were like, you farted again. I'm like, no. The fart went into the couch. And when I sat down, it blew the air out. And here's the beauty. I went into the bathroom a half hour later,

and the bathroom still smelled like fucking garlic. From me just walking in there after I fart, it was a tremendous fart. Listen, those garlic farts, they go into your fucking clothes. That's when you know. you did a good fucking job. You understand me?

They were like, what the fuck's going on? I saw Jimmy at the gym yesterday. He was like, dog, those are some great fucking farts. He goes, I went down there two hours later to get something, and I could still smell the residue from it. Garlic farts are always the fucking best. Listen, I love it. I love them because nobody knows they're coming out.

They were silent, but deadly, just how I fucking like them. This is a big week for me. You guys know what's going on this week. It's a big week for fucking New Jersey. I'm really proud of this week. Friday, the many Saints anewa comes out. We've been talking about it for two years. I promise you'll never hear about it fucking again after today,

unless you guys bring it up, ask me a question or whatever. I'm very proud of this fucking movie for certain fucking reasons. You know, I never thought I would ever get to work with David Chase. And that had me a little bum, not like, I'm a little, no, I just, it was just like, you know, I'll never get to work with David Chase, you know. In 1998, I came back here, 99, I came back here to get in with Global. Global is like an entertainment group that booked a bunch of rooms and shit. I came in to get with Global. I came to get with, I wanted to talk to some agents.

I wanted to talk to a couple of different films. Like, I wanted to do something with Law and Order. Anyway, so what you usually usually. do is you tape a set you um you know put your reel on there like what movies you've been in and that's your fucking demo reel you know when people say to you do you have a demo reel i could finally say yes i didn't have anything on that this time in 98 i think i had like a few college films and maybe uh i didn't i never got the pilot from bronx county so i just had all these college films and my stand up you know and you come and you drop them off and you're

an envelope with a headshot and a resume and a bio and hope they call you, you know. So my buddy owned a tape duplication thing. So I went to him early in the day and we duplicated a bunch of tapes. And then afternoon I went out into the city to drop off tapes, you know. One of the places that my manager, I had a manager at the time, great guy, he called me up and he's like, hey, I got you this audition for the Sopranos going there and drop off the fucking tape. Well, I got busy dropping off the other tapes at Law & Order. and all these other shows, I forget. And I never made it to the Sopranos.

And I go, you know what? Who gives a fuck? I'm not a singer anyway. You know, I can't fucking sing. I thought the show was a singing show. And then in 99 or 2000, I went to do the Toyota Comedy Festival. And it was a 10 o'clock show, and I went up on stage. And the next thing, you know, fucking one of the girls that worked for the casting director,

was there and she asked me as georgina warkin senior and i go no and she goes well you're going to see it tomorrow at 11 o'clock in the morning that's how fast it was i was just getting off the stage of midnight and she's like you're going to see her tomorrow at 11 o'clock in the morning i go okay so i got at 11 o'clock in the morning i was supposed to be in buffalo i let her know the truth and i'm waiting on the street and all the lady comes up to me she's like do me a favor go upstairs and leave a card with your name on it you'd be perfect for my show are you an actor and i go i'm a stand up and I am perfect for your show I'm your 11 o'clock and she goes you're Joey and I never forget we walked in we were talking I was nervous I was uh you know when you get nervous and you go for an

audition you're gawky you say shit that you don't want to say so I always check myself not to get fucking nervous or something but I remember on the elevator I said to her can I ask you a question are you really Christopher Walken's wife and she goes yep and I'm like holy shit. I go, can I tell you something? I go, and this was, I took a chance saying this. I go, I think his best movie is at close range. And she just looked at me. And she's like, you're right.

Everybody thinks this to Dia Hunter, but I lean towards a close range. You're right. And we started talking, and that helped our relationship a little bit. I went in, I read, I put it on tape, and she told me, she goes, listen, go back to acting class, you know, tighten up your shit, and I'll keep in touch of you. And we did. I kept in touch with over the years. How are you doing, Georgian?

I booked this. But then Opportunity Knox, I booked a short film called the Mezos for Fox. It didn't pay, but it was a great script. I got to play a gay mobster, and it was of good quality. So I took that tape, and I sent it to Georgian. And she called me within like a year and asked me to audition for Pussy's brother.

I was working on Spider-Man too. I put the audition on tape I booked it but there was an issue somebody said I said something to somebody so they fired me before I could ever shoot was I bummed I was a little bummed but by that time I had already gotten acting chops and I know that when you go to an audition

just prepare yourself, do the best you can and when you walk in fucking kick ass when you walk out you won't have any doubts I was already I had already had that mind set, you know, so when I didn't get it, I didn't get it. That's nothing you could do. God didn't want me to have it.

And then two years ago, somebody let me know that they were doing a prequel. I auditioned. And it was funny. I still remember packing my bag for New York and going, this is a great opportunity for me. Everything happens for a reason in life. I got to do this movie. I got to work with David Chase before I end my career. So me getting fired in 2000 was like a godsend.

I wasn't really ready. I wasn't ready to shoot at that high level. And I knew that. At least I was honest with myself and I knew that. I wasn't ready in 2000, but I was ready like a motherfucker in 2019. So when I got the call to do this at first, I was a little apprehensive.

I had some doubts You know, that's David Chase I don't want to fuck up in front of David Chase But you know what One of my dear friends Tom Popper talked me into it And here we are today September 29th I got a movie under my belt

I got a great character And I did great I've seen the movie three times already And again, because of Kathleen Narducci I did great I did great I belong there Huh?

Yeah, I watched myself. I looked at my timing. Everything was great. I knew I was a gentleman on the set. I knew I did everything I was supposed to do. And I got to be honest with you. I'm going to pat myself on the back for you guys. I'm very proud of myself and I'm very proud that you guys finally woke me up out of my fucking slumber. And I'm looking at myself a little differently now. Yeah, I'm proud of me too. I'm proud of all you motherfuckers. And now without further ado, Mr. David, motherfucking chase. How are you, David? It's a masterpiece. Oh, come on. Well, how are you? I'm good.

Good, good. Were you there on Wednesday night? No. I was there. I was there. Do I see you? No. I was 10 feet from here, and they told me to turn around and walk inside.

So I didn't know what was going on. They said, go in. So me, Nick Valalanga, walked in. And then you guys went and took a picture. And I was like, what did you make us go in for? Yeah, the whole, yeah. It's been typical of this movie that little details and things are screwed up. But it was great.

It was there that I was happy to be there on your big night. Our big night. Our big night. They loved it. But it was really your big night, brother. This is all about you. I have a couple questions. Then I'll let you be.

I know that you've been getting beat up the last three years. weeks. No, I'm getting beat up. Yeah, I'm getting tired. Yeah, you get doing interviews. Yeah, it gets old. So I understand. I wanted to ask you a few questions. It's not about the many saints. It's just generalization and I'll let you go. Number one, how much do you love New Jersey? Well, my number one answer would have to be, I don't live there. That's why you love it? I could if I, my memories of New Jersey are extremely positive, extremely positive. And I could live there very easily. Right now we're living in California because of various illnesses in the family and stuff. But I mean, Essex County, I really loved it a lot.

It was a great place to grow up, let's put it that way. Yes, I was. Eight miles from New York City and you hit the age of 18 where the drinking age was 18 and you drive in in New York City. And sometimes we would just go, come out of the tunnel, go around the corner. There was a Puerto Rican deli by a huge bunch of sixpacks. Keep the car running. Get back in the car. Get back in the tunnel and go back to Jersey and take the beer back there and have a party.

But also we did a lot of drinking in the city. And the kids used to get killed on the way back. It was a great time, really. You know, people always say to me these stories that you tell cannot be true about you growing up. And they're all true. I mean, they're all, I had a great childhood as a kid, even though I didn't have parents. You know, New Jersey filled the void. Italians filled the void for me.

Yeah, yeah. And I never forgot it while I should. was shooting the movie, I got so caught up in the whole jersey thing than I actually moved back. Yeah, I thought you were in Philadelphia, though, too, weren't you? No, I was in L.A. I was in L.A. when I shot the movie.

But I got a bunch of cookies from you from Philadelphia. Yes, those are great cookies because a friend of mine is from Philly, and he sends me those cookies, so I figured you liked those Italian cookies. They were great. They are great. No, I mean, it was a long time,

and it was kind of country where I lived. It was small town of America like you'd see in the movies. Kind of country. When I lived there, some people had, no, there are no more cows, but people had horses. And you could buy corn and tomatoes at the local stand. What was I say to you? Now, by me, I live in South Jersey. It's beautiful.

but it's very equestrian. I had no idea that New Jersey was the number one state for horses. My wife from Tennessee, and she's excited. I'm sure you've read about it. Springsteen's daughter won some Olympic prize. Yes. Equestrian, yeah. She went to the Olympics or something.

So, yeah, it's very equestrian. A lot of trees. I mean, I grew up in North Jersey, in North Bergen, where it's a concrete jungle. Yeah. And then to come down here where it's, you know, just it's beautiful.

Trees, deer, my daughter saw a bear a couple weeks ago. I mean, it has just been a... Nobody called me yesterday, they they were in the Sopranos neighborhood and they saw a bear across the street through the window, a little

young bear. That place were the... Did you ever... No, we never shot at the Soprano house? No. No. Well, that place was, that's where I grew up right there in that town. And it's now a development of kind of like big houses.

That was a swim club that my wife's family belonged to called Wildwood Swim Club. He's in the middle of the woods. And all the patio furniture, everything was like Appalachian style, you know. You could have been in upstate New York. And the pool was huge. And there was nothing around it, but, you know, it was. trees and you know they had a soda fountain

there where you could buy stuff. It's all gone, it's all houses now. That's too bad. What are you going to do? Question number two I had for you was these characters that you had in the show, the TV show. Yeah.

Where did you come up with these names and these characters? I mean you know, from little from big pussy to they were just so, they stood alone these characters, the same kind of characters I grew up with in Jersey. You know, it's the same kind of character. You didn't really stand alone. There was a lot of them. But let's see. I mean, Tony,

the name Soprano came from a kid I went to high school with, who was also the cousin of my father's business partner, an adult version. His name was Soprano. Pussy, I, I was told that by a detective who worked for, what do we call them in the state police in Jersey? Troopers. Troopers, yeah. He was a detective who worked for the troopers. And I've read about them since. Their name was, what the hell was their name?

But anyway, they were brothers. It was John. He was big pussy. And then there was his brother. little pussy. And they got the name because they were a cat burglar, they'd sneak into people's houses and steal.

So that's where they got that name. I mean, it was before people, I think it was before people knew that pussy was not had not been made in polite word, you know. Now, while you were writing on Hill Street Blues and all that stuff. I never wrote on those. Oh, you never wrote on it.

How long did you have this vision in your head of this show. Oh, not long. I was writing those other shows and I switched, my deal ran out wherever it was universal. And my whole career was based on I would get a TV development deal.

So in other words, for two years, your salary was paid and you could do anything you want to. you were supposed to be developing TV shows. So I would have to do that at the same time as I was trying to write movies, which they didn't care about at all. But if I had made one of those movies, which is every day, they would have owned it.

But so I was going back and forth on those deals for a long time. And they were really to help get me into it. to the movie business, but it never worked. It never worked. But I wrote a lot of those things. Rockford Files, Police Woman, Colchak, The Nightstalker. I forget them all.

These are all the shows I watched as a kid. Really? The Nightstalker, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Nightstalker was, did you get scared? Yes. I know. To us, making the show, it wasn't scary at all. And Darren McAvon became kind of an asshole.

And he wanted to run the whole show. And my friend Paul, who was the producer, who had brought me along, that was like my second job, argued with him. And he was replaced. He was replaced and gotten rid of it. Sort of the same time.

It was mutual. And they brought in this new guy. I stayed the whole season. And it was just, you know, it was, and it got sillier and sillier and sillier. That this one guy would go out and search these monsters every week. It was really ridiculous. It was just, the original movie had been great. He was a crime reporter in Las Vegas, and showgirls were being murdered in Vegas.

And nobody thought it was a vampire. And he began to think that it was, there was reading. And it was, it was a vampire. And so after that, they did another one, another movie. I don't know what it was about it. And then they did the show with a monster a week. We had to make up monsters. We didn't have enough.

It was fun. I'll tell you. Darren was a pain in the ass, but it was fun. And we had a big art, you know, it was a seven-day show. It was an hour show. We used to shoot in seven days. Holy shit. And a lot of it had to be,

it was supposed to be at night. And night shooting, as you know, is very costly and more difficult. And they wanted, so the new producer came in and he said, now listen, who says that a vampire

can't go out in the daytime? Because they wanted to shoot in the daytime. And I said, you know, I was just a guest it. No, that's not what vampires do. Well, I know. That's what they say.

But who says there can't be a special vampire that goes out in the daytime? And I wanted to write a book called Vampire Logic, which would explain everything from the vampire's point of view. But I never did. But we used to have these fights all the time. It was really cheap. And so it wasn't, to me, it was never scary. although I was a scared of cat kid I loved Monster stories

I'd like them to an extent I really liked them one of the guys who worked on the show was a guy named Michael Kozl who later co-created Hill Street Blues and he was very funny I mean we just we had

you know we were brought up guys in our 20s making fun of that stuff while we were doing it It was great. David, last night, while we were doing the screening, I thought about something that somebody had said they had a, somebody was asking a question.

And he said that he thought it was one of the funniest shows he had ever seen. Now, you and I both know that when you wrote the show, when you look at the listings, it says a drama. I know. It's a drama. I know. How did you make this show so effing funny? because I laugh my ass off and it's tough to make me laugh. So do I.

I watch the old ones. I think, God, this is funny. Hilarious. It had to be that way. It's just, I think everybody who was on the show had a talent for delivering, that kind of thing. Jim was good at it.

Jim understood it. He had some failings at doing comedy, but I don't know. They just seemed funny to me. I mean, that was done like sort of, the years kind of the end of the mob, you know. They're getting put in jail a lot. You know, drugs had really put a dent in them because selling and doing drugs

because there was those new rules. I forget what they were called, but the older wise guys, if they stole some money, they could do five years in jail. That wasn't, you know, a problem. I mean, it's a problem, but they could do it. but the new rules were drug offense, federal prison, 35 years. And those guys couldn't take it and still do it right out their friends. And that's how we all started to fall apart.

Because, I mean, I always say this to people. I think the, when you did the whatever for Christopher from Maltesante, when he was doing drugs, the intervention. I think that is one of the funniest things that ever hit TV. That's my personal opinion Not because you're in the room I'm telling you this that I have Thought of this over and over

That is my favorite all-time scene On the Sopranos All that intervention When he calls his mother a whore And all that I'm dying a laughter I'm dying Fuck you, Sylvia You fuck all the whores over there

And his wife And just it was And then all of a sudden They're fighting and they're kicking each other It was an intervention Right. It was supposed to be an intervention. You know, even though you're a drama writer,

I got to tell you, I learned from you watching the show as a comic. Well, you know, but the thing is, I was supposed to be a drama writer. Those shows are called by the TV Academy. Those show, our shows are called dramas. And from the beginning, from the Nistalker,

there was a lot of humor in. I don't know if you've got, have you gone back and looked at it. There's a lot of stupid, silly humor, cartoonish. So I got some of my chops there. The Rockford Files had a lot of humoring, smarter or witty,

not so goofy, but had a lot of humor. So I was really, by the time I arrived at Sopranos, that's what I knew how to do, was to write action or drama shows or whatever kind of. the show and also put a lot of humor in it.

And I always felt that, you know, in my real life, I used to see funny things happen at the worst time. We've all seen it. You know, and I couldn't get enough of it. I loved doing it. You know, it seems like you have comedic influences, and I would have to say, because I love them also, it would be, your writing is in the Bob Newhart.

realm I love Bob Newhart that dude has always made me laugh his deadpan delivery but when I see you're writing the type of non jokes that you write because they're non-jokes

that and I laugh my ass off even in this movie last night there was a couple things that a couple lines couple things that you did that were just brilliant you know

the Italian girl when she says, motherfucker, I almost died. Oh, yeah, right, right.

Even those little things, like I would never, as a comic, think that was funny, you hit the fucking nail with the head of this. It's situation, you know?

It's situation comedy, really. It's, it's interpersonal comedy. I mean, it's a stand-up comic, you're only talking yourself, right?

Right. You've got to come up with ways, and you get ways to say, well, this guy told me, whatever, but, you know,

comedy and drama on a stage, or it's all about conflict. It's all about one person believing one thing, the other person believing another, and they argue, and they fight. Whether it's a pleasant fight,

a bad fight, it's always funny for some reason. And you hit it on when, like simple things, like even when, in the series, when the kids, when Tony went out, to see what Janice and his father were doing

and there was a card game, you know? The card game breaks up, and all of a sudden you show a clown getting arrested. How fucking funny is that? Right, right. A clown is getting arrested. What did a clown do? What could a clown possibly do to get arrested?

The clown was actually a guy who made his living doing clown work at birthday parties, and he was obviously a degenerative gambler, and he was down there, you know, Ernie. He probably was saying, you know what? Oh my God,

it's almost 2 o'clock. I got to get out of it. Look at it. One more head. Yeah. No, it's a, it was, your comedy is great. Before the Sopranos,

before the first episode hit, did you think it would ever become what it did? No, not at all. In fact, I used to tell my wife, we got picked up for 13 episodes, So we made the pilots of that left 12 to do. I used to tell her, I'd say, this thing's never going to go anywhere. I said, there's all the mob people have had it.

It's just, it's tired. But I guess what we did was different enough. It was real, it was real kind of like, you know what caffalum means, right? It was like kind of cavern company. It wasn't, they weren't, wasn't, um, the corleonese were tied. and all like, you know, somber shit. It was, I mean, believe me, that was great. It was kind of low life,

lower middle class, working class. I think a lot of people related to that. I think people could say, oh, my cousin Eddie is like that. Oh, my cousin Frankie's. They say he's involved in that. No, I loved every bit of it. I sucked it all in.

I was in New York dropping off tape. and my agent called and said drop off a tape at Georgine Walkin's office for the Sopranos and I was like, I can't fucking sing and I didn't drop it off. I never dropped it off and I'm in Cleveland. I don't know, a year later and this show comes on

and I'm blown the hell away. I caught it from the last half hour and I went home and I asked my friends, have you seen this Soprano show? I was supposed to read for it. Right. and it blew my goddamn mind. Well, it's great having you.

You were a great presence on that show. One of my favorite things is you talking to Joe DiMaggio. I love that. And, you know, he did have the guys who ran Newark, the Boreiardo family, they had a big mansion, Ritchie Boreano. They were the New Jersey, crew of the Genevese family, I believe.

And he had a big mansion up in Livingston. And that was all true. And George Raft used to hang out there and DiMaggio. So that was all based on truth. So, see, and whenever it's based on real stuff, it helps, I think. Well, I knew that you had to base this on something, something that you saw growing up. in your everyday life and you really captured.

I mean, stuff that I would forget, all the Catholicism, you know, the wakes. I've been here a year. I've been to three fucking wakes. For 23 years, for 30 years, I didn't go to a wake. I've been here a year. I've been to three wakes already. You know, I got invited.

I got involved with a lot of them through the show because people, you know, it was a large group of people. People would die. Or their relative would die. Tony Serrico's mother died. We had to go to the wake. And his brother, who was a priest, gave, I don't know what you'd have called, a eulogy or something.

And he said, we must believe, must understand that I was inside that body for nine months. Jesus. David, I want to thank you. That's what I mean. It's crazy. It really is crazy. No, but I knew that you had written this off your experiences growing up. My best friend owns a funeral, Paula, David.

Who does? My best friend. Oh, really? Until today, we grew up together. You know how many bodies I went to pick up with them? Really? Oh, my God. How many joints I dipped them formaldehyde, you know.

Oh, my God, you have no idea. You know, we would just, so when you would have all the wakes, and I was like, this guy has hit. New Jersey on the head. You just had everything on the head. Yeah, well, I was a kid. I was interested in. You know, you're interested in weights and stuff like that.

Spooky stuff. What goes on back there? I used to like thinking about it. My father told me when he was young, he was working with my grandfather on a funeral home in Pittsburgh, I believe. And he fell asleep down in the room between. the bodies and he woke up and the body sat up because you know the gas inside the body makes it

move and he completely freaked out and you know I just love those kind of stories I've been his friend for 45 years and he still hasn't told me what they do in the embalming room really because they have to take it off in the movie it says that Tony is trying to sneak into where they do the bodies he's trying they snuck in to see what they did to the bodies. I was laughing when he said that. David, I want to thank you for everything. I want to thank you for what you did for New Jersey. I want to thank you for the best show of all time.

Oh, well. Thank you for putting me in a great movie. I hope we can do some more. Yeah, me too. I hope we can do something else. Me too. Is Nicole around? What?

She has, yeah. Want me to call it? Yeah. Nicole. Did you come in here? Joey wants to talk to you. I'm not actually going to be on this podcast. She doesn't want to be on the podcast.

She doesn't want to be. Yes, come on. I want to say hi to you, but. I want to say hi to you, and I want to thank David and you. And I want to tell David that you're the best producer ever. You kept us together like glue. You were great to work with. We had some great nights together.

It took me six months to get over the experience. I was heartbroken. It was great. I didn't care about the long night. I love all that stuff. So, and I'm really proud to be in this project. This is a great project. Great.

So I want to thank the book. You brought a lot to it. Oh, you were great, David. I learned a lot on this. So thank you and thank you for, uh, reigniting my love for New Jersey and making me move back here. All right. It's been great.

Yes. I'm here. I love you guys. How to go last night in L.A. Very good. Good. It's a different ride. Yes.

But it weren't well. He got to hang out with Frankie Valley, though. Yes, Frankie came. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, he lives in calabasas. That's right. Yeah. How's he doing?

He looks great. He's kind of 80, 17, and 85? 85. Yeah, I don't know. I think so. Maybe. Yeah. And he looks about 65.

Doesn't it? Yeah, no, he really didn't. He looked great. And he's. Still touring. I have a beautiful suit on. Yeah. Good.

But I love you guys. Good luck on Friday. Thank you. Good luck to you. We're going to kill it. And I'll talk to you guys soon. Thank you very much for coming on today. Okay.

Stay black. Love you. Bye bye. Bye-bye. All right, you bad motherfuckers. I hope you enjoyed my little Te-Tate with David Chase. Listen, guys, he had been beat up for the last two weeks. He's been doing press.

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