The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #740 - Nick Turturro

Episode Date: December 3, 2019

Nick Turturro, an actor seen in "Blue Bloods" and host of the "Breaking Bread" podcast, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt live in studio. This podcast is brought to you by:   Behind The... Irishman podcast - Go behind the scenes with host Sebastian Maniscalco and learn about Martin Scorsese's new Netflix movie "The Irishman." http://smarturl.it/behindtheirishman   MyBookie.ag -  Use code promo Church to get a 50% match on your first deposit up to $1,000.   Onnit.com - Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Greetings from Podcastville. The Church of What's Happened now is sponsored by The Behind the Irishman podcast. You heard about the film The Irishman on Netflix. The latest movie of Martin Scorsese starring De Niro, Pacino, Joe Pesci, and my brother, Sebastian, is Crazy Joe Gallo. I loved all the performances.
Starting point is 00:00:21 I liked that crazy guy that played Tony Pro. I mean, I thought the movie was fucking phenomenal. I don't care about the CGI or all these people who gives a freshman's fuck. But I will tell you one thing. Now you can go behind the scenes, behind the Irishman, the official podcast, learn about the real Frank Shearhan
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Starting point is 00:00:59 they use to make the cast look 20 years younger. It's hosted by Sebastian Manascoco, who's part of the church family, and he's great in the movie. This is such an epic movie that they needed his own podcast. So this is the first Netflix podcast dedicated to a single film.
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Starting point is 00:03:34 Tuesday morning, what the fuck am I saying? December 3rd, we're starting a month off my fucking savage. Listen to this shit. You're fucking kidding. My brother Nick Saturo. The Christ Killer. And your uncle Joey Deers, you bad motherfucker. That's a fucking steamer right there.
Starting point is 00:04:18 This is one of the dirtiest albums. You can play this album and get horny. Some people take... This album is as dirty as can be. They got a song on here called The Lemon Song. I almost raped the bitch one night. Really? After I heard it.
Starting point is 00:04:30 When I was 15, I did fucking Angel Dust, and I drank a bunch of beers, and there was this lady in my block that was a milf. Before the milk, this is 1979. Nobody knew what a milk show? She had big tits, and she'd always wear, what do you call those things in the 70s? Leger.
Starting point is 00:04:48 No, no, no. Oh, fishnet? No, no, they wore a, you just pulled it over. your chest. Corset? No. I don't know. You pulled it over your chest
Starting point is 00:04:58 in the 70s and you could just pull it down and show your tits out. Oh, a tube top. Tube top. Whatever the fuck. Yeah, because when you had big tits. Yeah, you would just tuck them in the shirt. You just pull the tube top down
Starting point is 00:05:12 and then you could suck those tities. She had two dogs that were blind, two French poodles that were blind. You have to cross them across the street and they'd shit in the park when we're playing basketball. and she'd have little hot pants. How old was she?
Starting point is 00:05:25 If I was 14, 15, she was 39. Wow. 40. And every time she was over there walking the dog, I'd let the ball go down the hill just so I could walk by her. And look at that ass. She was mint. Titties.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Everything was meant. But her husband, she said, this is how hot she was. Whenever she walked her dog, the husband would go on the balcony to watch and make sure none of us attacked her. Because he knew we were a bunch of banditos. He knew, right? What's that movie?
Starting point is 00:05:53 They're fucking outlawed Josie Wales when they find the blonde behind the fucking thing and they pull it by our legs. That's us when we were 13. Oh, like that? We were looking to fuck somebody. We just didn't know who to fuck, you know what I'm saying? I ran with a crew that was looking to fuck.
Starting point is 00:06:06 We were just looking for the right woman. Like straw dogs. But nobody. Remember that movie? Oh, Jesus. All those fucking guys hanging out on the roof. Holy shit, right? It's a rape scene.
Starting point is 00:06:19 It's a rape scene, but it also turns into like a fucking weird twisted love scene. Then the other guy comes in for a Chusky. The other guy. But there was all these guys hanging out. You remember Dustin? They sent them. We were savages.
Starting point is 00:06:32 Oh, my God. We were ready to go, but nobody knew I was in love with Faye. With Faye? That was her name Faye, and I was going to take her down. And she had two daughters. One daughter I was friends with the other daughter dated and ended up marrying my Gumba. Really?
Starting point is 00:06:45 A tight friend of mine. So after we listened to Led Zepp and two, we had a bunch. We did some angel dust and we drank some beers and everybody said, oh, we're going to go to a party. How did she dress? Was she? Always hot? Always hot?
Starting point is 00:06:58 Short shorts? Short shorts? Always short, short, shorts. It could be fucking ten below. And she'd have a fucking hot pan. So she knew what she was doing. Oh, yeah. Right?
Starting point is 00:07:08 Nipples would always be hard in the winter. Oh, my God. Her face was gorgeous. So one night, I said, tonight's tonight. I'm taking that bitch down. It had been about two years at night when she would walk the dog at 11, the husband was older than her. My husband was like 60.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Oh, she was in for the program. Oh, she was there for the ride. Yeah, she was, that wasn't the girl's father. No. So I went, I got some of my mother's flowers, and I went and hit by the bushes and waited for, to come down with the two French poodles. And when she was going to bend over to put the French poodles down,
Starting point is 00:07:40 I was just going to tackle it and then give her the flowers. Who tackles you and gives you flowers? I'm a class act. Did you give her the flowers? I walked up behind us. I was going to grab her. She turned on and she goes, Coco, what a surprise? I brought these for you.
Starting point is 00:07:55 I had my best cologne on. I brushed my teeth, listerine, everything. I was ready to eat her from the inside out. And I had never even had sex for a woman before. And she's like, what are these for? And I told how I felt, I love you. I want to run away with you. Told her that?
Starting point is 00:08:09 Oh, everything. I told everything I needed to tell. I had tears in my eyes. I got emotional. And she goes, that's so sweet. And they go, can I kiss you? And she told me that if she ever gets divorced, that she'd consider me.
Starting point is 00:08:20 Like she just told because I'm such a jerk off. You're 15, 14. I was a young kid. And then I go, can I kiss you? And she goes, absolutely. And I kissed her in the cheek. And then I looked down. I just started staring at her pussy.
Starting point is 00:08:33 And she goes, what's the problem? And I just started getting red. You know, when you're 14, you get warmed up. You get red and redder. And she goes, what's the matter? And I go, I just want to touch your thigh. And she goes, okay. And I touch like the bottom of a thigh.
Starting point is 00:08:48 And I could just feel blood coming out of my dick. Everything I had came out of me. I had to run home like Stephen Segal. Remember how Stephen used to run all limped up? Like he was a half of retard and above the law. That's how I fucking ran home. All fucked up. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:09:03 I never nobody. And then about four years ago, me and my Gumbab Bobby went out for breakfast. And I go, I would tell you the time, I was going to fucking rape Faye. And he goes, why am I hearing about this now? It was 1979. I was a young kid. I was in love with Faye. He goes, you know, Faye lives with me now.
Starting point is 00:09:20 Really? Yeah, he's married to the daughter. Oh, my God. And I go, how is she looking? He goes, she's 78 years old. You know what? She walks around the house all day, telling me how horny she is. Really? He goes, maybe, and I'm like, what are he fucking? At 70-something? We giggled, and that was it.
Starting point is 00:09:40 And about two weeks later, I got a call one afternoon. It's Bobby, and I answer the phone. I go, what's up, Bobby? He goes, hold on something. He wants to talk to you. And he put Faye on the phone. She's like, how are you doing, sweetheart? Why don't you come visit me? I'm like, ah.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Oh my God. That's incredible. What's up, Nick? All right, brother. How you feel? Nick, you did tremendous over the Yankee playoffs. I'm sorry that it didn't go in your favor. But fucking the senators were, what were the fuck?
Starting point is 00:10:07 They were. The nationals were just too strong for everybody. Yeah. I remember when the New York Post actually put an article and said why the Houston Astros were going to win. They even set people up. You know, everybody had that. Astros to win the World Series. Nobody bet Washington.
Starting point is 00:10:24 I know three Puerto Ricans and a Polish guy that bet Washington, you know. Yeah, but they had a chance. I mean, because they had good pitching. Everybody had a chance. And the postseason, the pitching, I mean, first two games, they fucking waxed. They waxed the Astros. And then they went back to Washington. And it looked like a different series.
Starting point is 00:10:44 They looked like, okay, the Astros are showing their, you know, their pedigree. They won three on the road. You figured. But then I said, if the nationals get it to a seventh game, all bets are off. I just had this funny feeling. It just smelled weird. I'd never seen where, you know, the road team won every game. They run the first two on the road, then they lost the next three at home.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Then they went back. They won that six game. It was weird. I had, you know, I didn't put, I don't bet, but I had a funny feeling that it was a possibility. And even when they had the lead in the seventh game And they got to like three, two They had some mojo going That guy Rendon
Starting point is 00:11:25 They had that kid Soto Who was tremendous It's a fucking baby You see the swing on this guy? Tremendous and then they had Strasbourg Will pitch like a animal And You know, I mean
Starting point is 00:11:40 They just Was their time, good for them You know Those are the old Expos, man Those are actually the Montreal Expos who were the Washington National Good for them. Good for them.
Starting point is 00:11:51 You know what I mean? I was very happy for the city of Washington. Listen, Astros, I mean, the Yankees had a billion chances. They couldn't get the big hit. But after they beat the Yankees,
Starting point is 00:12:00 it was like, that was their big thing. It looked like, you know, like they won the World Series. They did win the World Series once, but I think beating the Yankees, the Yankees took a lot out of them. And the Yankees just didn't,
Starting point is 00:12:12 they just didn't get a big hit when they needed it. You know, they tied that game in the sixth game and unbelievable. In the ninth, I went crazy in the hotel room. Un-fucking believable. And then Chapman throws a meatball. I don't know why he threw that fucking pitch to that Altovae.
Starting point is 00:12:30 Unbelievable. You see somebody made a meme with me yelling at the kids? Yeah. That was funny. That was for me screaming. Because I couldn't believe he threw that fucking pitch. You don't throw an O2 pitch and then he had a silly grin on his face. Like, what, are you fucking kidding me?
Starting point is 00:12:47 you're going to throw that pitch to that guy? Come on, if you're going to get beat, get beat with your best. Don't get beat with a fucking piece of shit pitch, you know? That's what bothered me, because LaMeo, he battled, battle, battled and tied the game. That guy LaMayo, he's a tremendous player. Oh, man. We had fun. We had fun this year.
Starting point is 00:13:09 You had fun, and that's all that fun. That's all that matters. You know, everybody was, you know. And it all worked out. You got back to that he'll shoot Lord Lord SVU, which you were great on. another episode coming up. And I got one more, January 9th. There was the fall finale last Thursday.
Starting point is 00:13:23 And then January 9th will be the second, the finale to that, the beginning of the next season. Good, good show. 21 years. What a run they got, man. That's a well-oiled machine over there. That's a well-oil machine. The only one left, right? I guess, man, I was talking to iced tea.
Starting point is 00:13:38 He was like, he goes, man, Nick, I came on for four episodes. I wound up doing 20 years ago, 20 years. That's fucking crazy. I said, you know, how lucky you were? on ice you know you know he goes i know i go man that's a fucking run that's a run he was right there and engelwood new jersey he gets on the ferry yeah cool guy pick him up on the other side and he goes and shoots this motherfucking scene what a fucking life and he goes back that's the way to do it yeah to live in new york that you have to have john letting money yeah you're gonna have you gonna
Starting point is 00:14:10 but that show they treat people yeah they treat people they pay you they put you up i did it years You know, they was fucking freeze. Class out. Freezing out. Yeah. And I did two scenes of Mariska. Mariska's very good. And I did one scene with Ice Cube and, uh,
Starting point is 00:14:28 that Mortadale, Richard Belza. Oh my God, don't get me. I'm on that fucking Mortadale. I don't. I don't know him. You never met him? No, I don't know him. Yes, you do.
Starting point is 00:14:39 I don't know him. Yeah, I met that fucking Mortadale. I met him at the comedy store when he was a gentleman. And then I see him on the same. or whatever, and it's snowing out in New York. We're shooting the scene, and I'm a fat mechanic, and I'm under a car. Which law and order was it? SVU.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Oh, as for you. And Bealser and Ice Cube are supposed to pull me out and go, where were you? What did you see the other night? Uh-huh. You know, and they kept doing it, but the thing kept getting stuck on the ice. Right. So here I see Belzer two years early at the store.
Starting point is 00:15:09 They introduce us. He watches my set, pop, pop, pop, funny, great. And all of a sudden, I go up to him. on the second. I don't know if you remember me. We met like, oh, it's going to be like that. Okay. What did you look at you like a like I was a fucking dunk all of a sudden?
Starting point is 00:15:26 Yeah. Okay. I know what time it is. And then they're trying to pull me out, but they kept getting stuck on an ice cube. And finally he's like, fucking Alpers. To you? Yeah, and I go, I'm trying to get something. He goes, no, don't fucking try. Fucking do. And I go, whoa, for starters,
Starting point is 00:15:42 lighten up, bitch. And ice cube gotten between us. Ice tea. And then they got him of the scene because I said you know this guy's confused right this guy's confused he you don't know that I don't give a fuck about this job I'll punch you in the fucking mouth he doesn't know who he's dealing with yeah with his fucking acne skin and the fucking scarface was he a comedian yeah but he was horrible and scarface he was fucking terrible too he made a living off of being a bad fucking comic that dude with
Starting point is 00:16:06 attitude he got a bad attitude that day took Nick I never forgot it and I looked at him after when I go if you want to throw down I'll smack that fucking acne off your face. I'm leaving. And he left like a cunt that he is. Ten years later, I saw he threw a phone at somebody at Apple and I go, I'm coming there. He lost his mind. Somebody told him he was good. Guy doesn't know how
Starting point is 00:16:26 fucking lucky he is. That guy gets up every day. He's got to kiss the floor, kiss his sandal, throw fucking all right juice in his face. Fucking cock suckers. Anyway, who gives a fuck about these people? You look great. Fuck it. Talk to me. What did you think? We all
Starting point is 00:16:42 waited and waited and waited. What did you think about the Irish? Tremendous. From beginning to end, what did you think? Well, you know, the first time I saw it. When did you see it? I saw it a little after it came out. In the movie theater.
Starting point is 00:16:55 In the movie theater. Where at? I went to see it in Westwood. Okay. It was in the balcony with my wife and, you know, I just, the first time you watch something, you know, you're so excited, you're anticipating seeing all these giants. What is the CGI going to look like? And at the beginning, it was a little weird, you know,
Starting point is 00:17:15 some of the stuff with them getting younger and a little hokey. But after a while, you just kind of surrender and just watch the work, you know. But I thought the movie was a little slow moving, but it didn't bother me at all because the work was so good that I, you know, I wanted to see it again to see if I liked it as much or I liked it less. But the second time, it went faster. A lot went to the same theater. And I even liked it better. I even liked it a lot better.
Starting point is 00:17:44 I think some of the scenes in the movie are fantastic. There's some great, great scenes in the movie. The scene between Joe Pesci and Pacino is an incredible scene. That scene is so good. I mean, Al, he's got so much fire for like a 70-something. It's incredible how good he is still, you know? And Joe, he doesn't have a false moment in the movie. He's like, you watch him and he's just, he's there every second.
Starting point is 00:18:12 of the movie. He's so good. He said, people forget how good Joe Pesci is. I forgot how good he was. Go back and watch Raging Bull and you watch. No, no, don't watch. No, I'm just saying.
Starting point is 00:18:24 Watch lethal weapon. Yeah, but if you watch Raging Bull, he's, you know, Goodfellas, Casinos is more flashy Joe Pesci. If you watch him and as great as De Niro is in Raging Bull, Pesci is as good. I mean, he's just as, he's right.
Starting point is 00:18:42 And that's De Niro and his prime and his fucking prime. Obviously, and they love each other. And you can see that. And then you see that with De Niro and Pacino that they really enjoy being together. You watch those scenes and there's a real love affair between the two of them, which, you know, you never would have known that. You would have thought, well, maybe those guys would be more competitive with each other, but they're not. They're not at all. They compliment each other.
Starting point is 00:19:11 I love the scene when he goes, you know, you can't talk to me like that. You called me a motherfucker. And he goes, no, not you. It doesn't apply to you, you know. It wasn't you. He goes, but I was standing right there. He goes, no, I would never say that to you. It was so sweet, you know, come on.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Come back in. Come on, Frank. That was really, really terrific moment. There's so many great moments in the movie. I mean, you have to overlook. I mean, in the perfect world, they should have made this movie 15 years ago. They really should have made the movie when they were younger.
Starting point is 00:19:47 But it doesn't, you know, there are some people that are not crazy about it. There are some people that I've heard that thought, well, it's the same old thing. And, you know, it was, you know, I didn't believe some of the CGI. There was a couple of things. I think the voiceover I could have done with a little less voiceover. I don't think I need. It's Corsesey style. But that's the style that they do now.
Starting point is 00:20:09 That's what they're doing now. They develop something that works, and it really doesn't bother me that much. I mean, you know, there are some things I don't need explain to me, but you're right. That's the style that they have. What you have to remember one thing again, Nick, you're a student of the 70s. You're very lucky. Like, I'm very lucky. We got to see some of the greatest motion pictures of our time.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Right. 70s, there's not a lot of. Can't beat it. Just 73 alone. Just the talent. just from 71 to 73 between the French connection. French connection. French connection.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah. He was a fourth choice. Gene Echman was a fourth choice. And he ended up winning an Academy Award. Freaking directed that. And he ended up directing the Exorcist. You know, we've seen all this great work. The problem I feel today, which I know I feel today,
Starting point is 00:21:05 I don't want to sound, I never want to sound like two things in my life. A, a typical New Yorker. I've lived here for 22 years, there's no bagels. Get a grip of your life, okay? Mm-hmm, get a grip. And number two, I don't want to sound like the old guy that things were better back then. The problem is we got exposed to something that was so strong.
Starting point is 00:21:25 You know, I anticipated waiting for Goodfellas. I was in a halfway house when Goodfellas came out. And I knew a year before the movie got released that it was coming out. I read the book. I read the fucking book. I saw an interview on 2020, and I read the book. You know, we're living in an age right now in mediocrity. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:45 Movies, you go see a movie, you're excited. It's a four. By the time you get to the car, you've forgotten what that movie is even about. Okay, you've forgotten what it's about. I've been told about movies that were great the last two years that I've watched and said, I know what the fuck people are talking about. Right. They're an okay movie.
Starting point is 00:22:05 This movie would do okay in 1970, but would people go home and talk about it? No, so we have to, when you and I watch a movie, not to mention we grew up, these kids say they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa is. No. They barely know who he was when I was growing up, when I grew up in the 70s. Right. So, you know, there were so many things that went into this movie. You know, you have the internet, which wasn't around when the godfather was around. so they couldn't.
Starting point is 00:22:35 I didn't read any of the reviews. I don't really give a fuck about reviews. What are reviews? My ass with you. That's what they are. The only review I care about is my review. And what I get out of paying, the $10 for the movie deal,
Starting point is 00:22:48 that's the only review I give a fuck. In today's world, I can watch a trailer and tell you if that's the movie. You ever watch a trailer? You get excited and you go, that's the movie. You think you would like to think, but sometimes they're deceiving.
Starting point is 00:23:01 You're going to have a great trailer and not such a great movie. What has happened in today's world is we don't have time for great acting anymore. The kid's in the Hurt Locker, the Hurt Locker won an Academy Award for acting. He's a great guy and he's a good actor. But 20 years ago, they would let him in the fucking door. The guy from the Hurt Locker is a great actor. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:26 What are you talking about, Rennar? Yeah, but he's not an Academy Award actor, not by any means at all. These guys are two or three guys. These guys, they're not of that caliber. We have Lawrence Fishburn, we have Denzel. You got Denzel. We got the fucking Mormon, the Scientologist. Cruz.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Cruz, who does. He's worth every dollar they give him. He's a movie star. I watch every movie he watches. And he's entertaining. We got my man Pitt. We got Leonardo DiCaprio. Those guys.
Starting point is 00:23:56 I did not watch the movie with Quentin Tarantino. They're terrific. And the movie. I refuse to watch that shit. And nobody's going to put Bruce Lee down. to me in a movie, so I even refused to watch it on JetBlue Mint this week. That was the featured movie. I watched
Starting point is 00:24:09 the Irishman. I don't watch that shit. Have you seen the Irishman on the big screen? No. You should. You should see it on the big screen. No, I know I should. I should see it. I'll go see it. I'll go watch it. Because it deserves a look on the big screen. I watch it three times. You watch it three times? I watched it the movie. The night, it came
Starting point is 00:24:27 out until two in the morning. I don't fuck around me. I can respect when this respect as deserved. Okay. I watched it until 2 in the morning. I fell asleep. Obviously, I was tired. I'm on the pain pills and the muscle relaxes for my leg. Right.
Starting point is 00:24:41 And then I watched it on the plane on the way to Miami that night. And then Fort Laudale. And then I watched it in the hotel over the weekend because I really wanted to watch it from a different perspective. I was going to be up. I'm on the East Coast time. When I'm on the road, I'm on East Coast time. So I'm not going to go to bed till three anyway. Now, it's a treat to see these guys.
Starting point is 00:25:03 It's a treat to see how good they are. And even like De Niro's character, you know, you don't always appreciate because he kind of like takes a little bit of a back seat to Joe and Al a little bit. But yet, the more you watch him, the more you could appreciate all the little subtleties, the nuances that Bob does because he just grows on you. The Nero comes on like, he's not as, you know, Al's a little more, you know, he's bigger. He's bigger. He's more grand than Joe.
Starting point is 00:25:32 But Bob is like sort of Bob. is in the you know he has a part that's almost because he's playing a couple of different you know sides in the movie so but he's really really good too i mean you actually stole my heart in this movie joe the last time he acted this good was at the end of brunx tale he played the same character as the end of the brunks tale when he goes into he only has one scene two scenes in bronx tale but the in the brunks tale he was it shows his warm side right in this movie it showed that he was phenomenal I don't care about CGI I don't care
Starting point is 00:26:08 No he's great He was phenomenal He's really great in it The kid that you mentioned I thought I watched it after you mentioned The kid Stephen Graham is tremendous He was great as he's tremendous His face
Starting point is 00:26:19 He's a he's a bonafide Really good actor Now now Really good Let's get to the two scenes he had with Al Yeah Wow he was phenomenal Those are great scenes
Starting point is 00:26:28 He was phenomenal You know His office was in Union City New Jersey. So when I was a kid. Tony Pro? Yeah. The real Tony Pro.
Starting point is 00:26:37 I heard about him. Oh, you did? That's why they always said that he was buried at the Mental Lands. That's why they always said he was buried at the Mental Lands. Because Tony Pro had an officer in Union City, but he also ran out of Bayonne. Whenever you go to White Manor Burger,
Starting point is 00:26:53 there's a picture of Tony Pro. So that's why they always thought he was buried in giant. That was what I wanted to watch the movie for. to see where this motherfucker really ended up. Did you read the original, I paint houses or no? I'm reading it now. That's the book. They just, they named it, you know, the Irishman.
Starting point is 00:27:18 But it's actually called, you know. I paint houses. I never read the I paint houses. I'm reading it now. And I mean, it's pretty much the guy's interviewing the guy and he's telling them all these stories. And, you know, I've heard different things, some people saying they feel like some of it is accurate.
Starting point is 00:27:35 and some of it might not be, but, you know, listen, they told a story from the book, from this guy's perspective. Do you believe it or you don't? It's up to you. I mean, for me, I try to believe the movie. Is the movie believable? And knowing, seeing what the guy spent his life around these guys, it is somewhat believable. It is. I mean, I don't know if he killed Joe Gallo, but Joe Gallo was killed. I remember because I was obsessed with Crazy Joe. I wanted to make a mini series out of him. There was a wild movie in the 70s.
Starting point is 00:28:09 You can't even find it. It wasn't a great movie. What was the name of it? It was called Crazy Joe. Crazy Joe. But it was Dino D. Laurentius used to make these like cheap mafia movies. And he made a movie. And the guy is a great actor, but he was kind of too big to play Joey Gallo. It was Peter Boyle. But if you remember, Channel 9, a million dollar movie, they used to play these movies. He made the movie
Starting point is 00:28:30 Joe, which was that crazy guy who murdered him, and then he made crazy Joe. But Joe was a really good movie. Disturbing. If you remember Joe, they shot all the hippies in that movie. The guy was looking for his daughter, Susan Sarandon. Have you ever seen Joe? No. What's Joe about?
Starting point is 00:28:45 Joe is like a guy who's like an Archie Bunker guy. He hates hippies. He hates this. He hates that. Then he meets this businessman. And he's looking for his daughter. And she's a drug addict. And he's like, you know, we should go find her.
Starting point is 00:28:59 We should go find her. We should shoot all these fucking hippies, all these, you know, love child people. And the businessman likes this guy. He drinks beer. He lives in the, you know, he's like one of these, like, piece of Americana, blue-collar crazy guy was all these nutty ideas. But he actually gets the guy revved up. He's like a businessman. They got shotguns.
Starting point is 00:29:20 I don't want to give it away, you know. And then he goes out and then they, they like start shooting up like all these druggies. Another Crazy Joe movie. No, Crazy Joe was about Crazy Joe Gallo. Okay, and that was made by Dino DeLorentis. Yeah, it wasn't. In the 70s, probably early 70s, the late 60s. Now, wasn't the gang that didn't shoot straight about Joe Gallo?
Starting point is 00:29:41 The gang that couldn't shoot straight, yeah, was supposedly based on, yeah, some of those guys. Yeah, I think it was based on Jimmy Brezlin wrote it. And Jimmy Brezden was the great columnist of New York City, him and Pete Hamel. But that was a book that he wrote. and actually De Niro plays a goofy. I've never seen the movie. I've never seen. I remember the movie.
Starting point is 00:30:03 You can find it. But I know that our boy from Lord of Orr's in it. Jerry Orbach's in it. Now Joey Gallo was hanging out with Jerry Orbach. Right. Joe Gallo started hanging out with all these movie stars. He started hanging out with artists. He thought of himself as an artist too.
Starting point is 00:30:22 He was like a really psychopathic guy. And then he was running around with, you know, all kinds of people. He got out of jail and he was, you know, he went against all these guys. You know, he was, apparently he did the barbershop murders, the Anastasia, when those guys got blown away. There was Gallo and his brothers. And then they sent the black guy to shoot, what's his name? Yeah, they sent the black guy, right. The guy had mental health issues.
Starting point is 00:30:49 They could never trace him back to Joe. Yeah. But it's so funny when they're like, who would have the audacity to shoot something like that. And by myself, I go, Sebastian. And also, the Sebastian walks in the room, and they start laughing. That's a crazy role. I don't know if he knows how crazy that guy was a really psychopathic guy.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Really, you look at him, you look at his eyes. You could see how, like, nutty he was. But the interesting thing was that he thought he was like, you know, he thought he was more of it. He used to paint. I don't know, he had some girlfriend that was like one of these, like, you know, artistic girls. So he was running with that whole crowd.
Starting point is 00:31:26 But then, you know, he just, he or, He stepped on too many toes. I mean, him and his brother. Once you shoot somebody, the boss of the family, and they knew exactly who the fuck it was. They sent, like I said, I remember reading up about the black guy had mental health issues.
Starting point is 00:31:43 He wasn't, they couldn't trace him back to Joe at all. Right. But when Joe went to prison, he hung out with the brothers in prison, so they kind of had an idea, you know. I don't even know if it went down the way it went down in the movie. I don't really. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:31:58 I don't know. I mean, I don't even know. I mean, they had Frank Sheeran shoot Joey Gallo and, you know, I know he got blasted in Umberto's because my dad used to love mafia murders. And he was always like, he got blasted when he got blasted. You know, he loved that. All these guys is always when they were eating food. Some of them notoriously got blasted. I thought, for me, I know somebody got killed at the clam broth house in Hoboken. But then I went home and looked it up. I know that when Bert, Crazy Joe went to the clam broth house and Hoboken with Jerry Orr. Yeah, but he got killed on Mulberry Street. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. No, no, no, no. At first, you know, when I'm watching this movie at first, it's shit that I heard growing up.
Starting point is 00:32:41 Right. It was little things I heard growing up. I never heard of Frank Shearing. I never heard of Frank Shearing. I heard of Tony Pro. Right, Tony Pro I've heard of. Tony Pro was, when I was a kid, my mother's bookmaking operation was on 118th, between third and fourth by La Marquette. Puerto Rican with the trains on top.
Starting point is 00:33:01 Right. So once a week we had to go to, I never went. They called them Los Italiano. Los Italiano's? They would go pay a vig over to Fat Tony. Right. Because Fat Tony was right in East. That's Fat Tony Salerno?
Starting point is 00:33:15 Right, right. And 150th Street was a social club, the Palermo, the Palermo Boys Club or something like that. I remember being a kid and walking across the street. They would say, don't walk on that side, no specs a lot. So I would walk across the street and just walk past, and you could smell like Italian cheese out of deli on the corner. I'm talking about 1970s guys. Yeah. You know, the last time I went over there, last time I was on 118 was 1980.
Starting point is 00:33:43 That's when I used to run with Puerto Ricans running. numbers over there, but I knew the whole area was controlled by Tony. Then Focco got into it. Faco got into it, and that's when the problem started. American gangster. Oh, you're talking about the guy in Holland? Because he wanted black numbers. Right. Because the Guineas had their numbers, the Cubans had La Bolita. That's what it's called, the bolita. So it's numbers. It's a parimuthal. Right. Ginnies play numbers too. Not. Oh, sure. Not as concentrated at the specs because the spix. They used to happen on the paper, right?
Starting point is 00:34:20 Right. Right. I'm on a piece of paper. Not even. You walk into the bodega. You put $6.14, $5.00. Right. You give the guy $5.
Starting point is 00:34:27 He gives you a piece of paper. He keeps a piece of paper and upstairs gets a piece of paper. You're talking about Nikki Barnes. Nicky Barnes. The other one. Yeah. Yeah. I think Nikki Barnes was.
Starting point is 00:34:39 He might have been in jail with Joey Gallo. Yeah. Something, something. Because the first thing that started all that heroin was. the Purple Gang. That's what people don't understand. There's a book called, I got it at the house, Felipe gave to me.
Starting point is 00:34:53 You got to think of New York at that time. At that time. It's wild. New York then in the 70s and Nikki Barnes and the New York we remember and Joey Gallo, I mean, it's a crazy, crazy time. Really? This is way before Gotti.
Starting point is 00:35:09 Yeah, this is way before Goddy. When I was a kid, it was completely different. It was fucking completely. different. Then my mom had a dry cleaning in the Bronx. And that too was close to a social club. I still remember like the kids in the neighborhood going, if you go over there, they give you jobs. Like, pick this paper up or whatever. I never went over there. I was like a scared fucking kid. But it's so weird to show
Starting point is 00:35:37 Fat Tony and how big of a presence he was in it. You know, like I never knew that fucking he got a pardon from Nixon. You know? Oh, at Hoffa? Yeah, because he gave them money. He gave them money. It's so weird how all the Scorsese's movies connect, and I don't mind that. No, not at all.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Tell me, well, if you watch Casino, it was the skim from Vegas, and they talked about the teamsters lending them money in casino. So now you get the other perspective from how Hoffa was cutting those loans out. Right. But they didn't tell you in casino. They didn't tell you that. Right. They just told you, you know, they mentioned the Teamsters, but they never mentioned, you know,
Starting point is 00:36:25 that he was, you know, behind it or part of it. I enjoyed the Irishman. Like, oh, you come. We had Jordan, whatever here two months ago. And he was the guy from, Wolf of Wall Street. And it's weird because when I watched Wolf, Wolf of Wall Street, I enjoyed it.
Starting point is 00:36:43 No, it's enjoyable. But I could tell already it was a Scorsese movie. Yeah. And it was being done a certain way. When I saw this, I enjoyed this movie. Let's get it out of the way right now. If you want to tack me online and say, I'm an idiot. I don't give a fuck when everybody that says,
Starting point is 00:36:57 I enjoyed it. I thought it was a great movie. And the key word here, it was the first time I seen acting in a long fucking time. Acting is becoming a fucking dinosaur over tattoos and little hats and fucking gold earrings. and you got to be gay, or I got a higher diversity. I got a higher black for that role.
Starting point is 00:37:22 It's eating away from acting. That's what I enjoyed about. You know, there's certain movies you watch. It's got a good plot. It's got good whatever. But the acting. The acting is something about the acting. When I watch What's Love Got to Do With It?
Starting point is 00:37:38 And then I watch King of New York. I focus on Lawrence Fishburn. He plays two different types of Moulinian. Still a Moulinian. Two different types of Muleinian. But you can separate them. But you can separate them. I look at that.
Starting point is 00:37:51 It's great to see those type of movies again. You know, when I looked at, what's the baseball movie with Brad Pitt? Moneyball. Love that movie. It's a good movie. I think Brad Pitt should have won the Academy Award for that. I think Brad Pitt is kind of underrated. Really underrated.
Starting point is 00:38:06 He's a better, and he shows it in this. I know you don't want to see the movie, but he's so wonderful in this movie. I heard of you. Leo is great. and Leo is terrific, but Brad almost steals the movie. He actually, like, there's something about him in this movie that you go, I like this dude, man. I really like him.
Starting point is 00:38:25 I've always loved Brad states. Yeah, I mean, he's really good in this movie. Whatever of the fall, whatever that movie he made of the fall, all those movies. He's always been good. I love him. He's always been good. I love him in the ocean's 11 movie. And like I said, he's a better character actor, but because they've made him a movie star,
Starting point is 00:38:42 you sometimes forget he's still a good actor. Sometimes they make a guy a movie star. You know what I mean? Like Tom Cruise, they made him a movie star. But Tom Cruise is a good actor. He's not just a movie. There are some movie stars that can't act.
Starting point is 00:38:56 He can actually act Tom Cruise. And Brad Pitt, too, in my book. You know what I mean? Some guys, they're just kind of stars. You know what was on the other night? You forget how good Brad Pitt is. The movie when he played the NRA, with Harrison Ford was the cop.
Starting point is 00:39:12 in New York, and he got in trouble while they were shooting that Brad Pitt got in trouble for smoke for smoking fucking pot on the set. He kept smoking reefing that and I'm... I don't know if I know that movie. They shot that movie. What's the name of it? It's Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford. He comes from the NRA
Starting point is 00:39:30 to come over here to give messages to people and he comes over here to give messages to people and he stays with Harrison Ford who's an NYPD Blue Cop Right. And then the movie unfolds.
Starting point is 00:39:47 I watched the first 20 minutes. It was starting at midnight. But I was like, look at this. The devil's own? Yes. Okay. The devil's own. I don't know that one.
Starting point is 00:39:56 This is when Brad Pitt was still, you know, fighting for his fucking life. And you could see he's got short hair. He was clean. He was late in Jennifer Aniston. You know, then he was smoking too much to tuts. Jennifer Aniston told him he's got to slow down a little bit. Then Mr. and Mrs. Smith came along.
Starting point is 00:40:14 He went over there. He sucked that little twatts pussy. That fucking Jamelina Joe lost his mind. He had that little monkey. She shut up with three little black kids from the jungle. He says, fuck it. I'm staying there. Yeah, for a little bit.
Starting point is 00:40:28 Poor Jennifer Aniston is still fucking crying. Yeah. $50 million, she's still crying. She's doing her right. She ended up marrying some fucking white Jamoca. Yeah. And now she's a real mama Luke. But all Brett has to do is knock on the door with him.
Starting point is 00:40:42 stick out. She opened the door in a heartbeat. And a fucking heartbeat. And everybody knows it. In fact, he might be there now. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:40:51 No, no. She's still. She's still. He would fuck her world. If Brad showed up and gave a Brad dick now, 20 years later, it would fuck her up forever. But I'll tell you what I also like getting back to the Irishman is the movie, the movie is it gives your time to breathe. Like you said, you can watch the acting.
Starting point is 00:41:08 And the more you see it, the more you could see scenes that, even like the scene, when they're having cereal at the end that's a great scene and he's like you know Pesci's telling him he goes you know we did all we could for this guy because I know how you feel and you know he's a you want to have some coffee
Starting point is 00:41:25 whatever it's just such a beautiful scene you're hungry what he eating they're eating I don't know what they're eating some gonna say total he goes total there's there's great little moments between the two of them sitting there and even like with Alan Bob some of the scenes is like you know I'm worried
Starting point is 00:41:41 I'm really worried about it. And he's like, well, what, they're going to threaten me? You know, Algos? They wouldn't dare. You know, they wouldn't dare. He goes, no, I'm really, you could feel like he's really concerned. You know, but you watch the, there's a beautiful, like, if you really appreciate acting, you have to see the movie a couple of times to really see how rich it is.
Starting point is 00:42:05 There's such greatness between not just the big scenes, but the scenes that are subtle, beautiful scenes. I mean, between Joe and Al and Bob, then it's like Stephen Graham. That's what I like. I like that it gives you a chance to, you got to have an attention span. A lot of people are like,
Starting point is 00:42:23 oh, it's slow, it's slow. It's not slow. It's not slow. You're slow. You're slow because, you know, they all want fast food. And this is a movie that it resonates that stays with you.
Starting point is 00:42:36 And what I also liked was, you know, that you felt like Jimmy Hoffa was not one of those guys. You didn't feel he was a gangster. And a lot of people, well, he was a gangster. I said, not necessarily. He did business with them, but that doesn't make him. You know, he wore white socks and everything, you know, and you just, I like that.
Starting point is 00:42:58 I like that he wasn't just like one of those guys. Well, what I liked the most was the initial call. How are you doing, Frank? Oh, that's great. Things about you. That's tremendous. I hear your pain house. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Phone call. Yeah. The way he went out of his way, this is kind of hickish. He had the little twang there. He goes, I heard you were a brother or mine. Yes. You're a brother of mine.
Starting point is 00:43:19 He goes, I love when he says, how would you like the, do you want to be a part? Do you want to be a part of this history? Yes, I do. And it was just beautiful. It's funny when Pesci goes, I got that kid here. You know, you almost have to laugh.
Starting point is 00:43:36 Hey, you got that kid here. you know what I thought they wasted a little bit because he was good in the one scene I would have liked to see him a little more of Keitel you know he was good in the scene when he goes you know you know about the laundry did you know who that was it goes you know he goes you got a good friend here no you don't know you don't know how good friend you know you know you're a real good friend and the look on Joe Pesci's face is like you know he was his rabbi you know and even with the And, you know, Pacino's like, well, you're with me, so they can't hurt me, you know. It definitely, there's something about when, you know, friendship, getting older, aging with those guys.
Starting point is 00:44:20 That's what was beautiful about the movie. All right. So some of it is, you know, when De Niro throws the guy through the window, that was a little, I mean, I whatever. You know, I'm not going to knock, not like the movie because there's a couple of things that are hokey. Some people want to pick on a lot of shit It's a beautiful movie It's worth three hours of your time It is
Starting point is 00:44:43 It's three and a half All right couldn't Would I knock out a half an hour? Maybe Maybe I could have shortened it a little bit But it's worth Your time It's worth seeing it on the big screen
Starting point is 00:44:55 See it on the big screen Then you're watching on Netflix Like I did That's what you do Go have the experience In a movie theater You know I saw Godfather
Starting point is 00:45:05 one and two, a double feature with my dad. Back to back. How'd you like to sit there for seven hours? It's got to be good. Better than good. Terrific. With me, Nick, I got to be honest with you. I don't have three and a half in the daytime.
Starting point is 00:45:21 No, I understand. So for me, I always knew it was going to be the plane. When I saw it was coming out to 27th, that's where I booked Miami and I took a red eye. Yeah. Because for me, I knew it was going to be the plane. I'm the type of guy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:35 I could sit here all week. Nobody calls. The minute I sit in the movie, all of a sudden, Pacino wants to see me for the biggest role in my life. And now you look at the email and you look at the phone and you put it away, but now as you're watching, you can't think.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Right. I can't go to the movies for three and a half hours. Because I can't think. I can't sit there. I can't sit there. I wish I could anymore. I wish I had the fucking time. Well, this was one I wanted to go.
Starting point is 00:46:01 Yeah, no. I don't really even want to go to the movies. If I'm on the road, Like if I'm on the road and somebody has it on Friday or the matinee, especially now and I don't have to do ADR, I'll go until 11 o'clock. Yeah. I would go to a nice rustic theater, get a nice lunch at a Chinese restaurant. I grow pork fried rice, shripping lobster sauce, smoke two joints and go and sit there and then take an edible because I'm not going nowhere for three and a half hours. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:32 That's what I would do. And that's what I did Friday night. That's the exact guy down the plane. But it's a treat to see it on the big show. No, it is. Because the performances are, these guys are so good. You want to see them. You know, even my brother saw that we went to the New York opening and he liked it a lot.
Starting point is 00:46:49 And he said, I want to see it again. I know as soon as I watched it, the beginning of it, Wednesday night, I stood up to about two. I didn't get up to Sebastian. I know that. I didn't get up to Sebastian. No, you didn't get up to him? But what I had seen, I had liked already. So I was like, perfect.
Starting point is 00:47:07 Now I got some. He had a nice moment with De Niro. Funny. Yeah. You know, it was, I was very happy for him. Trustful him, Tanya, I was very happy for him. I'm sure it was very exciting for him. I had to be.
Starting point is 00:47:19 I mean, you see some of these comedians in the movie. I mean, Ray Romano, he's been doing a little more acting, and they're giving him. Even him. You know, it was great to see him. He's growing, you know. These guys are improving. They're improving. No, Ray Romano was great.
Starting point is 00:47:34 A boy was good, the Cuban. Carnivali Cutting the chickens Of course, Bobby's good, yeah You know Bobby's gonna give the Cuban Cutting the chicken Yeah
Starting point is 00:47:42 Right there That's the letter I would write I like when he's eating the steak Yeah When he's eating the steak He goes, I do I can get you steak Yeah
Starting point is 00:47:52 I like steak Yeah Bobby's very funny He's very funny And you know He was tremendous In boardwalk Have you ever seen him
Starting point is 00:48:00 A boardwalk Yeah he was tremendous I mean Bobby's got a lot of talent He's Cuban and Italian So he's got some Italian in them. I don't know. See, I didn't know a lot of the story beforehand. So something that I kind of wished,
Starting point is 00:48:14 I could see this even more. Like I would like this more, I think, if it was like a short miniseries on Netflix, like four or five hours. You know, Lee, you might not be completely wrong. It probably could have been well served because now when they're doing these six part, these eight parts, like John did the night of.
Starting point is 00:48:33 Yeah. It almost That's a great idea But I don't think these guys Would have went that route Because I know to have those guys It's a lot of time with them Yeah
Starting point is 00:48:45 But it's a little It's not that it's a slow movie It's that Like Seven of these movies back then We're long From movies then And now
Starting point is 00:48:54 If it's anything over 90 minutes People now they get Tired Yeah So if I could have seen Like had a little bit more explanation about Hoffa. Like I thought they did a good job there.
Starting point is 00:49:08 Like he was like the Beatles. He was like Elvis. But like have a little bit more with him and have a little bit maybe more with De Niro's kids. Yeah, because they didn't let them talk much. It was more like... I think it could have been like four or five hours like split up by an hour that I would have...
Starting point is 00:49:23 Here's the problem. Okay. Any good... Another problem we have in today's society of movie making and television is that we don't have good directors. We do not have have good directors. We have people who know how to shoot a camera. Right. Nobody went to directing school. Nobody learned. Nobody studied. The underlying message throughout the movie was what the daughter knew what was going on the whole time.
Starting point is 00:49:52 That was unspoken. That was unspoken. Right. Okay. And wasn't said, but I like that. You did like that. I liked that. Yeah, I didn't mind that. I didn't mind that. I didn't mind that. imagination. Yeah. What we don't have today. If it's not spelled up, I guarantee if I made a four-hour fucking lawyer about Iron Man, all these little motherfuckers wouldn't say there was no paying attention.
Starting point is 00:50:16 If I made a four-hour boy about Iron Man fucking Silver Surfer and all this little white shit they're doing now, nobody would make a complaint. Nobody would have a boo. Right or wrong. Am I like that? Right. No, no.
Starting point is 00:50:26 The Avengers four hours? Yeah. Five hours? Not one person would say boo. Right. You know, we, these are different mentalities. Yeah. This guy's been making, this guy started out making, you know, we, we've seen him in
Starting point is 00:50:39 fucking Mean Street. Yeah. And we've seen him evolve over the years. So it's 40 years of really being a real director. It's an accumulation, a body of work. Right. So it's being a real director. What we have today, you know, you went to see John Wick two or three.
Starting point is 00:50:56 Did you not? No. Okay. Did you see John Wick two? No. Did you see John Wick one? No. Well, if you go to see any John Wick movie, while you're there, you're very entertained.
Starting point is 00:51:06 While you walk back to the car, quiz your wife, and ask what was the movie about? You remember it? You don't remember it. I'm saying? No, you don't remember it. That's the whole thing for me. There's nothing. Does it stay with you?
Starting point is 00:51:19 When I watch a movie today, I walk in, I walk out, and I go home. It's a cute movie. Yeah. I never think about it again. You never think of it again. I never had the urge of putting it on. This movie, I know. I was going to watch it again.
Starting point is 00:51:33 Yeah. After I, like I said, I watched an hour and a half of it. After six out of boost, 22 bong hits, you got to figure eight muscle relaxes and a pain pill because my leg is fucked up. So, but I couldn't really grasp it. So when I knew I was going to watch it again, people, you know, people are going to complain about everything in this world. Me, I don't really give a fuck. I don't read Yelp. I've never given a fuck when anybody else has said, I got three people.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Three or four people. If they tell me to go to a restaurant, I go to that restaurant. If they don't tell me to go to that restaurant, I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, if you don't know what you're looking at, that's a problem. I mean, sometimes you've got to tell somebody
Starting point is 00:52:14 and they still don't get it. And you go like, that was a great scene. And the guy goes, yeah, but they really don't know what they're looking at. They really don't understand what the fuck that is. Sometimes people just don't know. It's just like a baseball game. You can watch it and then you know how to, if you watch it with me,
Starting point is 00:52:37 I can show you how to watch it through my eyes. It's a little different. It's just like watching good acting. You can see it. Well, this is what I got out. And that's why it's such a treat to see those kind of guys that, you know, there's nobody left at the last of the Mohicans. You're never going to see them probably again like this.
Starting point is 00:52:59 Probably not, you know. You know, I mean, Joe is probably going back to playing golf. He's tremendous, but we haven't seen Joe forever. And Al will probably continue to do his thing. And Bob does a little bit of both. But this was really a passion project for Bob to get back to where he came from. Serious acting. Real acting, you know?
Starting point is 00:53:22 No, I'm happy. I'm happy this move. And I've got to be honest for you. Two weeks ago, I was at the improv. I had gotten on stage. I sat down. It was me, Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe, and Rogan asked me if I was excited about the Irish when I told him, no.
Starting point is 00:53:38 You said no? No. Was he excited? Really excited. Did he see it? I don't know. I haven't spoken to him. Okay.
Starting point is 00:53:45 I told him, he's another one. He ain't got no three and a half hours. We ain't got three and a half hours. Three and a half hours is a plane or at night. It's a bit much for people. It's a much. I know he'll watch on a plane or, but he ain't going to know. movie theater. I mean, listen, after he died in the movie,
Starting point is 00:54:04 you could have wrapped it up. You know what I mean? It went on a little bit at the end. But no, because I liked what you said earlier. It watched them grow. That line, when he goes, where are you going? I'm going to church. You'll see. That's a great line. Yeah. You know, to see him all. And then to see them interview him at the end, and they're telling them that nobody's left. like nobody's left from that day what are you hiding from us
Starting point is 00:54:34 right there's nobody left there's nobody left yeah this guy everybody's dead and it's so fat the other thing I liked about this movie is that for the last 30 years if you're a mafia enthusiast or you like those type of movies you've always heard of the five
Starting point is 00:54:52 families the columbos the genovese's the gambinos the bananas and whoever else I don't know I miss the lukees And then you got that other thing over in New Jersey, which is Sam the Plumber or whatever. Years ago, there was a script going around about Water Something Pennsylvania. There was a script going around. Really good script about hijacking and the shit that was going. That's where they were cutting the heroin and bringing it into the city.
Starting point is 00:55:24 And they had their own family up there. Right. You know, and I know where Mike Kessler lives today, the Wolfman, the guy that used to come on the show, there's still dabs of little mafia pockets up there. He tells me that there's somebody that's still alive up there. Really? Really, like 80, 78. He's still alive. He's out of jail.
Starting point is 00:55:45 He told me his name recently. But it's so weird. Like out of Buffalo is the Magadino crime family. You know, that's where Fucco went after he killed Michael, after he killed Michael's wife. in the godfather he went to buffalo that's why if you watch the long-haired version of the godfather he blows up the pizza place oh right you mean uh one of the the grease balls right so yeah the two fuhria not fuhria yeah uh i think paolo and the other yeah the other guy it's really weird to show people that russ whatever his name is mcgee whatever he want to call him he was in charge of a
Starting point is 00:56:24 small Italian family out of Pennsylvania. He worked at fucking Canada dry as a mechanic, and he knew everything about cars and trucks and all that. Well, that's how he knew all that stuff? That's how he knew all that stuff. In real life, he had worked for Ginger Rail. I know this because I listen to the podcast today, the Sebastian podcast.
Starting point is 00:56:44 Oh, they explained that on there? Yeah, that's what they're doing with this podcast. Oh, they're explaining a lot of details. A lot of details to a company, you know, to let you know what the fuck. is going on. That's good to know because, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:57 like Lee said, they kind of skim the surface on some things. Like even Jimmy Hoffa, he was such an interesting guy, but Chino was tremendous in the movie, but would have maybe liked the scene
Starting point is 00:57:08 just a little, you know, know a little more about him because you see the interviews of the real Jimmy Hoffer. He's an interesting dude. Smart guy. Well, now I'm going to revisit.
Starting point is 00:57:19 Go on YouTube. You see these interviews. Now I'm going to revisit Hoffa, movie, the one that came out 20 years ago with Jack Nicholson. Now, Jack is very good in it. Yeah, Jack is very good. Jack does a different.
Starting point is 00:57:31 A different completely. Not as good a movie. DeVito is good. But Jack is great. Yeah, Jack is great. Al is great. But they're different. I don't want to compare.
Starting point is 00:57:43 You know what I mean? Al's got some scenes in the movie that are like, you know, Academy Award scenes. The two scenes with Tony Pro and the scene with Joe Pesci, just, those three scenes knock you to fuck out. If you want to be an actor you watch those scenes, you go, wow.
Starting point is 00:58:00 He's got scenes that are like show stopping scenes. But Jack is tremendous, you know, as Jimmy Hoffa. There's an old movie that Stallone did. Not a bad movie. And it's based on Jimmy Hoffa. It's called Fist.
Starting point is 00:58:14 Fist, yes. And it's very much based on and Slide plays he plays this guy John Colverck. But really, John Kovac was the head of the teamsters. He was really playing Jimmy Hoffa.
Starting point is 00:58:29 Tony Lo Bianco plays a mob guy, young Tony Loebore, who was a good actor. He was in the seven ups, French connection. Tony Lo was like a really good Italian character. He had a great face. The luncheonette. Yeah, the luncheonette. The guy was a really good New York actor. Guys like Ham, Tony Musanti, who was another great actor, who was Toma, the TV show before
Starting point is 00:58:54 Barretta. But Tony Mousanti was in Pope of Greenwich Village. He's the uncle. He's a guy. He kisses him by the gate. He's a great act that guy, Tony Mazzan. But Tony Lowe was good. And Stallone was really good in this movie Fist. It's worth watching. He didn't get like, he got, you know, a lot of people try to knock him, but he was actually, he's really good in that movie. I really love that movie. Fist. Have you ever seen it? It's been 20 years.
Starting point is 00:59:22 It's like two and a half. It's like the Lords of Flatbush. The Lord's Flappish is tremendous. When do I, you know what I'm saying? Like anybody that hasn't seen the Lords of Flatbush, you're missing out. I have been making a list of movies to watch. He's so good in the Lords of Flatbush, it ain't funny. How good he is in the movie.
Starting point is 00:59:41 There is a list that I've been making to watch. You've seen the Lord's Flatb, right? My God, I said in a movie theater. Right, me too. Me too. It's a movie theater. And the beauty of this is that I've been making a list of movies I want to watch. I tell people like movies that
Starting point is 00:59:55 guys at the back. After the ninth. Yeah, you got to. Have you seen fingers? Yes. That's Lenny Kytel. Harvey Kitell? Harvey Kitell.
Starting point is 01:00:04 Yes. Tremendous. It's been 20 years. Michael V. Gazzo. This has been 20. I got a six-year-old. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:10 I know. It's hard. I put the fucking TV on. It's hard. You know, you sit down at the house. You put the fucking movie on. Who's got time to watch a movie anymore? They start saying fucking suck.
Starting point is 01:00:19 She's in the other room. I can't do it. So whatever I watch, I got to watch. Get that little girl. I got a spot. I do comedy at night. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:26 So, you know, the movie thing, it's like we have a friend Rick Ramos who has a tremendous movie podcast. Rick will stay up all fucking night and watch 10 fucking movies. Yeah. Like last night, one of my favorite movies was on. This fucking movie, I can't ever get enough of it, the town. Oh, it's one of my favorite movie. I can watch it almost.
Starting point is 01:00:44 How good was he in that movie? Never better. He was, he's a fucking phenomenal. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. That's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, TNT. It's on HBO right now.
Starting point is 01:00:55 So like, I'll pick it up. I'll pick it up in the middle. The end. I just love the movie. I just can't get it. I love it. I never tire of it.
Starting point is 01:01:04 Love it. Love everybody. It's not only entertaining. It's really good, really tight. Really good. Really tight. I see the chubby guy all the time.
Starting point is 01:01:12 Who's the chubby guy? He eats breakfast that eat. Oh, okay. I go in there with my wife, like on Thursday. Oh, that's a good movie. He's over there. He's over at eating stuff. Now, that's how you drive a fucking car.
Starting point is 01:01:23 No, that's a great fucking movie. How's the podcast coming? It's going great. You're reading. I'm going to come down. You got to come down someday. Maybe if you want to go, we'll do it in the restaurant or something that's closer for you. Everybody wants you to come on.
Starting point is 01:01:35 Yeah, we'll do nice. So they're always like, where's Uncle Joey? Today we're going to order that pizza because I'm hearing that it's better. Well, why don't we do? We'll do something. Let's just do something live from over there. Yeah, live from over there. We'll have the Sicilian or some shit in a couple of weeks.
Starting point is 01:01:49 Let me know. Perfect. We'll do that. No, when I thought about this movie, I wanted to talk about and it was either you or Rick and I go no
Starting point is 01:01:57 once I saw you yelling Wednesday night you said something to wrap a port on Periscope I'm like But they were dropping at midnight Yeah So I waited
Starting point is 01:02:07 At 10 to midnight I go well maybe it's at 9 I saw it twice already Now I may go see it again this week Really? Back in the movie theater Well because my fall in town And I figure
Starting point is 01:02:19 You know I like the guy to see it on the big screen you know what I mean And where is it now? It's at the Lemley There was one here in NoHo And there's one Lemley in Encino So
Starting point is 01:02:29 So it's playing at the Lemley and NoHo? Yeah I think so It is Yeah I hope you get to see it on the big screen Yeah no Like tonight I'm not doing dick Yeah She goes to about 830
Starting point is 01:02:39 If they have a fucking 9 o'clock showing I might as well go Get nice and I Why not? Get nice and stuff Have you seen it on a big screen? Not on the big screen now Bring a fucking
Starting point is 01:02:48 Bring a fucking Don't take the phone with me me, see, that's where I can focus at night. Right. Like, lately, what I do is I love fucking when they go to bed at night. Yeah, that's your time. I'm on the couch at them. As soon as my life goes in that fucking room, I shoot in my office and I start writing.
Starting point is 01:03:06 And I write strike till 11 o'clock to the sun's Anarchy comes on. Then I take a breathe. What are you? Write jokes? Yeah, write jokes. Book. Book. Whatever the fuck I'm watching.
Starting point is 01:03:16 Whatever the fuck I'm doing, I'm writing. Right. So that's, but like I said, three hours is a lot. Now, I want to see after you see it on the big screen just to see your reaction. I mean, I think you're going to like it even more. Because there's always a little bit of a letdown. Yet there are some movies that hold up. It looks beautiful on, you know, on the TV, too.
Starting point is 01:03:38 It does look beautiful. But it's a movie. It's not, you know. I think it would actually be better on the big screen just because I took a break like two hours in. Like you had to check your phone a little bit. You go to the bathroom in the movie theater. You're forced to really pay attention. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:54 And that's what, you know, like on a plane, you have to pay attention. You do. For me, on a plane, there's no phone. There's no gods. That's when I want to watch a movie. I just wait and watch on a play. Really? I get a mint seat.
Starting point is 01:04:06 I sit by myself. I put the earphones on. And I fucking watch and I relax. That's the only way I can do it. Because once I'm in a fight, if I go to a matinee, the phone's going to start right. Yeah. Trust me. I could sit Monday through.
Starting point is 01:04:21 Thursday and I one fucking personal call. I go to this movie up and I went to see Rambo. Meanway throughout the fucking movie you know, the phone starts ringing. I don't care. It's Friday. You can't do nothing to me on a Friday. We're going to do an audition tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:04:37 So I just waited, but daytime movie I grew up in a movie theater. Yeah. You know, when you watch this movie brought me back. Well, because going to the movies was special. We went as a family. When we went, it wasn't a daily occurrence. No.
Starting point is 01:04:52 It was an event. It was like flying. There was a time when flying, you put a suit on. Right. You fucking went out. Big deal. Big deal. Now you fly, you feel like a fucking parolette.
Starting point is 01:05:02 These people wash dirty feet. Yeah. Flip flops. Fucked up hair. They got no class. A fucking dog on the fucking plane. Animals. That dog shit, they have to pull the fucking plane down.
Starting point is 01:05:14 That just happened. Did you hear about that? Oh, no. I know it happens. I'll fucking kill you. I'll fucking kill you on the way home. I'll poison that. fucking dog. I'll make Michael Vick
Starting point is 01:05:23 look like a fucking altar boy. I'll fucking shoot it with a dart. I don't give a fuck. I'll electrocute that fucking dog with my hearing aid. I'll put the hearing aid on him and throw water on that motherfucker. I'll fuck that motherfucker out. What's the name of the podcast? Breaking bread. When does it get
Starting point is 01:05:39 released? It releases usually on Thursday. We're going to have John Sally in this week. Okay, good. He's a good man. We should have the flying Jew first. Get the flying on there. All right. And then we'll bring you have some pizza with you. Number one, the church what's happening now is brought to you by My Booky. We're in the middle
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Starting point is 01:07:19 Tremendous. I didn't care about the length of it. It was the beauty of it and the acting of it and everything else that had to do with it. But like Lee said, that there was parts you didn't know about or you never heard about it. Now you can go behind the scenes with Behind the Irishman, the official podcast.
Starting point is 01:07:36 Learn about the real Frank Sheeran and his deathbed confessions to killing Jimmy Hoffa. Learn what drew De Niro to the book and how he convinced Corsese to make the movie. I guess he approached him like nine years ago. Yeah, more than, yeah. And what it took them to get Joe Pesci out of retirement. And for the film nerds out there,
Starting point is 01:07:58 learn about the aging technology they used to make the cast look 20 years younger. It's hosted by my brother MTV Award, tremendous comic, Sebastian Manascalko, who's part of the church family, and he's great in the movie himself as Joey Gallo. This is such an epic film. It needed its own podcast.
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Starting point is 01:08:40 New episodes come down every Monday. Make sure you listen to today's. It's going to clarify. the movie a lot and help you out. Watch the movie, then go behind the Irishman. I want to thank the Behind the Irishman podcast. I want to thank my boogie dot AG. But most importantly, I want to thank you bad motherfuckers
Starting point is 01:08:58 for always supporting us. Don't forget, I think there's six tickets left for the late show at the town hall at $42, and there's like nine left at $900. If you pay a dollar over fucking 35, you're a jerk off. The second show is going to be good, so it'll be worth $42. but don't pay over fucking that at all for nothing of my shows.
Starting point is 01:09:19 For $9,000, you could get a plane thing, come to L.A., go to the comedy store, and see all of us perform. So I got Calusa Casino December 27th and the San Francisco Performing Arts Theater on the 28th. And without that, that's it, and that's that. I want to thank Nick Petruo for stopping in and covering the Irishman. What's the name of the book? The Irishman. The Irishman. So you paint houses.
Starting point is 01:09:45 But the real title is, you paint houses. You paint houses. So if you're into the movie, if you enjoyed it, thank you very much for listening today. We'll be back Wednesday morning. Tip-top, motherfucking Magoo. Ready to fucking go, right? A little Tony Bennett for you to end of day.
Starting point is 01:10:02 I love you, motherfucker. See you Wednesday morning. Have a great week. Stay black. Kick this fucking me only. I want to be around. Pick up the pieces. When somebody breaks.
Starting point is 01:10:29 your heart some somebody twice as smart as I a somebody who will swear to be true as you used to do with me's company wait and see see how he does it when he breaks your heart A puzzle fits So when I'll discover That revenge is sweet

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