The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #740 - Nick Turturro
Episode Date: December 3, 2019Nick 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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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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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?
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.
You said no?
No.
Was he excited?
Really excited.
Did he see it?
I don't know.
I haven't spoken to him.
Okay.
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
guys at the back.
After the ninth.
Yeah, you got to.
Have you seen fingers?
Yes.
That's Lenny Kytel.
Harvey Kitell?
Harvey Kitell.
Yes.
Tremendous.
It's been 20 years.
Michael V.
Gazzo.
This has been 20.
I got a six-year-old.
Yeah.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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