A Very Merry Christmas with Joe Gambino and Mario Bosco

EPISODE 297. There’s no better way to spend the holidays than with Big Joe and Mario Bosco. This Christmas episode, the crew sit down together to give some gifts, share some laughs, share their thoughts on Italian Christmas Eve and Christmas Day foods, Christmas family traditions, stories, movies, and music. We hope you and your loved ones have a very Merry Christmas.

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What’s up Big Joe Gambino here wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year from our family to Yours What’s up guys this is the growing up Italian team and we just want to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year listen Sabino I don’t know about you but all I want for Christmas is for you to subscribe to our YouTube channel over 90% of our viewers aren’t subscribed we

Appreciate any and all support so be the first to know when we’re dropping a new episode M me or I messag them somebody B they B me already like six times because somebody already somebody said I told them not to curse no so I don’t curse I

Don’t curse somebody wrote hey Mario did you stuff your mother on Thanksgiving and remember is dead so it’s like so I turned him around I’m trying not to Yo the fact you guys are all 11 is so sorry I’m sorry was no but no but the thing is like he

He called me at the wrong time and he said that and I turned around can we get serious for this podcast come on so I I blasted at him man TI T you say can you say it they said uh I said to him listen bro my mother’s dead so there’s no way

For me to stuff up oh but he said he said he said like something like are you yeah I said that that’s why he got I said that’s if I said that IO you like my mother’s you can’t say that on Tik Tok live all right let’s go I can’t say

That word now all right I’m G to put my phone down ma ma’am forgot your purse yeah ma’am for yeah put one down I didn’t put no boom boom milk on Boom milk why you cleaning your mouth like you just suck the Bro excuse me excuse me I’m sorry

Sorry sorry they used they used to it all they used to it I’m sorry fair warning fair warning man you kidding me with my mom over here there this uh all balls in the air what the hell are you talking all right Joe start it up before

This kid gets crazy are you tell me give me a queue so guys how you like the new setup I love it I think it’s great but I got to ask you a question why am I always sat in the corner behind James gandini Tony supran shut up brocco well

Now now you’re with the real Sony soprano the real life one how’s that I I I don’t know about that but list Bo on the street is Big joke and beo he’s like you know who who he’s like you know what you know would you say in front of him

Or no he’s standing right here what are you going to say he’s like what what is this the Mory show yeah Mar I’m GNA be nice to you for a couple reasons one because it’s Christmas time yes it’s the holiday SE because you’re older than me

And I respect my elders but you know that’s nice little you’re not that much older than me so you know I’m going to try to be keep my cool with you listen I I know that that horn you could clean your teeth with what are you saying all

Right listen before we start yes fig it’s only right yes Merry Christmas to you both yes so me and I didn’t get you a gift this episode it’s all right but next time here you go guys Rocco you’re the best I mean he always brings a

Gift look at that should we have them open on the spot we open it now all right thank you you should to go first we open at the same time let Mario go first you go AG age before Beauty that’s right I’m sure this fits you more than it fits it’s

Me a look how cool thank you very much I know you like Super Mario you saw the shirt I had last time so I like let me go buy Mario the Super Mario sh a that’s really nice you know what size that that could fit my son yes it probably could

It’s a lodge you could have F your son three years ago too my son’s 10 years old about right all right Joe is your you like it Mario yes I love it thank you very much all right let’s open let see what we got we get him a wallet the

Typical Italian gift if this if this is a wallet W because it’s very very flat you know let’s see let’s see I it I it oh what is this a gift card oh what is that the Olive Garden $500 what the [ __ ] am I going to

Buy at the Olive C for $5 the bread stick bread sticks free bread sticks after you eat super free I don’t even think I have a b to the olive car 500 but thank you hey it’s the thought that counts yeah from the Bott of my heart

You know can I save this raap Pap I might regift this gift hey you know you know what I’m going to do we’ll give you a patona that Mario gave us we’ll do the the complete C gifting stuff yeah you know that’s I’ll put my stuff over here

For later for you get a Pon and you get a Pon and you get a bon that’s a since you guys just open gifts when do you think as Italian Americans is the best time to open the gifts I’d say uh Christmas Eve after church right after

You come out of church you go home you have sa comp yes sausage with potato you’re not supposed to have sausage on Christmas Eve no me technically it’s Christmas dayr MN midnight to come home from that’s a hack right there for those of you that don’t know 1201 chicken collets

Yeah chicken cullets or sa whatever you and then we open our gifts after that or Christmas Day either don’t want but we I’ll do it after coming home from Midnight Miss I feel like it’s officially Christmas what about you Joe when I was a kid Christmas Eve was

Always big you know we open the gifts at midnight you know sometimes the kids were pain the ass including myself my cousins and everything so we us just open the gifts like at 10:00 we didn’t even wait for midnight yeah we open the gifts then they had the champagne

Midnight everybody goes to bed and then the next morning open up even more gifts so that’s that was my Christmas I feel like for me there’s nothing like waking up as a kid especially to gifts under the tree and ready to open them up that’s like the kid that’s like when

There’s kids involved now now it’s definitely like you guys said you know midnight a little past midnight well for I guess for an adult is different I got to tell you this funny story that were talking about this when I was a kid I was a little spoil you

Know as my brother and I uh lived upstairs we had a three family house three sisters my mother on the top floor my aunt on the bottom and then my other aunt on the on on the first floor the walk in so there three sisters in one house so my cousin Stephanie downstairs

She would uh she would come upstairs and see all my gifts around the tree and didn’t fit always around the tree it went around the tree and on the sofa like a big circle like toys of R Us came into my living room so she would go

Downstairs and tell my aunt M was was was I was I bed this year she goes no said see why would you bed you know Joseph got a lot of gifts a lot more than I did you know and I would feel bad you know that I got more gifts than her

Because I was really spoiled I was I was a bad kid she was nice you know so I think she was you and your brother me and my brother yeah you’re the baby I’m the first I’m the oldest I’m the oldest I’m the oldest grandson we’re we’re 13

Of us grandchildren God bless God bless and I was a spoiled one comes with a lot of responsibility too it it did it did they all they all looked up to me and then looked down to me you know because you know I was a pain in the ass what

About some Favorite Christmas Memories yeah I think those were the best the80s right the tree the family Christmas 30 40 people behind the table like today not like well we don’t like you know back then it was more how old are you I’m 50 why don’t you still have

It because my my mother and father are pasted and you know don’t have the big family and people have moved away see my family we try to keep tradition we try anyway you know there are people that go their way here and there that they travel but around the holidays we try to

Um bring it all together all together you know some people [ __ ] it up easier said than done some cousins [ __ ] it up but you know what you got to forgive and forget and uh and deal with it yeah I don’t know how you forgive and forget anybody cuz maybe they’re scared of me

Well there’s an old in saying my n used to say it’s inan it’s called no I like that the opposite right OPP I said it the opposite way so let’s let’s edit that used to say this so you forgive and forget that’s what it basically means and I I try I

Try to do that sometimes it’s hard but around this holiday seasons I try to do that you know the Italian idioms especially Arend meaning the old sayings they’re old true oh yeah absolutely my father taught me so many my n said so many and like the older I get the more I

Realize how factual all those are oh absolutely that’s a great one you know what I mean that’s right that’s right or you know what I mean the old chicken makes good sauce good soup it won’t get more darker than midnight that’s right that’s really uh one thing

I want to talk about was being that it’s you know Christmas Eve the only chance to learn the Maloo prayer at least from our region going bring that up our region in Italy is uh right at midnight so by midnight you can’t have it written

Down so you can’t say it out loud yes so once it strikes midnight you can’t teach but I think that’s just our family how it works right or our region or our town that’s how I know my our family does it yeah yeah before midnight you gotta like

Delete the little note on your iPhone of How It’s said I remember my mom wrote it down for me the Maloo prayer I couldn’t memorize it midnight struck and I was like well I gota wait till next year now and I still don’t know how to do the

Prayer I mean I gotta be honest with you guys I mean you know you guys are our first generation like I am um I don’t know what town exactly you guys are from where what time you guys are from sasano and Sans s it’s in it’s in Salerno

Provo hours it’s about close to me I’m I’m like Pani but I never heard of a prayer yeah me cilian I never heard of that like well Sicilians do like oil and crazy stuff oh they they’re just totally backwards they’re like sorcery over there I I never I never heard any of

That I’ve heard you go to midnight mes for good wishes like Sala Beno BST I never heard of anything noio yeah I mean some families don’t even believe in it you know and that’s fine too I believe in it that it’s you know the where we

Were raced like back in the day the old my old day and she would wear garlic around her neck just to walk you trying to keep away vampires or something yeah like something like that Buffy the vampires what about what’s what are you guys eating on Christmas Eve we try to

Do the traditional Seven Fishes you know you really follow that though like are you seeing used to when my Mon Mon me was alive we used to actually do actually seven fishes the Y you know the we still do the E everything you know now who doesn’t like fish who doesn’t

Want this who doesn’t want that so we we Sim it down to maybe you know three or four dishes I still I still is there any meat though um I’m not really supposed to say but we do cheat certain people don’t eat fish you see a couple chicken

Cullets flying out what are you supposed to eat pasta so they chicken CS fish I don’t eat fish I don’t like fish I I Christmas Eve is not even bakala bakala no but I don’t like I don’t like wait wait wait thinking of the same bakala yeah yeah I

Get you no no I mean the actual bakala yeah I get you the you don’t like fish no not that kind the stinky one yeah no I don’t eat any fish at all yeah but you said bakai you’re is you don’t eat shrimp no no shrimps no Lobster you try

It recently I I don’t like it I don’t like lobster I don’t like shrimp clams are Regan clams I could I could cut it up and have one of those somebody tricked me when I was a kid at Christmas Eve and they gave me Fred camar no they

Like it’s onion rings onion rings M and I ate it and I’m like but this is too gummy like is this onion rotten that’s what happened with me and and I tell you the truth after I learned I don’t like the smell I don’t like the taste when I

Was a kid we’d have fish in the house like every couple of nights my mother would make a bed [ __ ] but once my dad died I lost the taste to it you know Bish is something else well B is in Italian could be any fish you at okay

It’s because us Italians don’t know how to say our private parts and we called it does Mar your nose’s I know what it is what does it mean what does it mean it’s like a can I say it yeah say whatever you want sister TW right and we think Mario doesn’t know

Huh it’s a Christmas Eve episode and this is our we’re talking and speaking of Christmas Eve I got to get this I bought this for you I hope it fits if you bought you bought me a hat I bought you a hat nice thank you you show are

You going to put it on just hand it hand maybe I’ll put it on a little later I don’t see I don’t like the we hats messes up my hair but this is very nice of you this is yeah it’s Christmas I wouldn’t wear this outside but you know

I mean f what you put my daugh in D you might catch one I don’t know who’s going to be throw it but uh Mario I heard you got something else for us uh which one mar Mario did bring pastries nice kinds of goodies from V Alba how

Much are you at least paying for this uh no V donated grown up a time well they gifted us okay about don’t shake down people in My Name by the way I if Mar ask you for anything and it says it’s for me I didn’t say it was for you I

Said don’t I said I’m cuz if I get if I get a bill from somebody spk they did the right thing though they’re good people I’m very curious what you got I’m excited I’m I’m curious what you got too but Mar I got to say this I mean I know

I know you got no I I got to interrupt you here I hope I don’t offend anybody cuz listen I love Vata and and I love their people there but um you know this this podcast is right around the corner from fortunado and I don’t see one

Fortunado box here you know I I don’t know about that I mean you could have made the pit stop no well these were in my neighborhood you should have called me he’s one of my best friends I would have brought one of you I have nothing against for tornado’s pastry shop God

Bless them okay you got one what that corner is a mess I want to see your bedroom Mario oh forget making a mess over here all I died already and what you get when you go to the Dollar Tree you go to the Dollar Tree you I got to wear this yeah they

Still Dollar Tree or no yeah do25 do25 tree he if you look on the like the 99 Cent Stores if you look on a 99 cent store or dollar stores Mar you you’re biying electricity you’re biting the wire it might it might shock you yeah put this on you want me

To put this around my neck yeah you serious yeah yeah for the Christmas spirit I I’ll give it a whirl I give it a whirl what it it’s a it’s a all in the holiday season I’m following you around with a garbage bag after this hey you’re making

You’re making a mess over here if my mother was here forget about it sh kill you don’t bull it don’t bull at it all right these are dead SK oh no Works Rocco you want to Rocko thank you thank you what about one for pick you got one or no that one’s

For you no it’s for Little P oh there go she dropping light bulbs biting wires I don’t know about this there’s no place like all right one question let away baby let’s go we’re talking about the holidays leave the lights on or shut them off Li Pig get in the frame over

Here get in the frame over here get over here yeah we’re all here um how how extensive is your shopping list for Christmas time well I’ll tell you it gets gets crazy yeah you know I mean because you know you got to take care of everybody I don’t really have to take

Care of but you know I have of course I have a son you know then I got his mother and then I got my mother my parents my brother my cousins and then I have my God my Gods son my god daughter what do you draw the line what do I draw

The L is not really a line there really isn’t a line you get like business associates gifts like no little bottle of wine you know once in yeah once in a while you know I mean my boss takes care of all that stuff you know my boss

Boss Tik Tok you know they uh they they Tik Tok takes care Tik tok’s not my ti but um yeah I mean I draw I draw the line not really you know sometimes sometimes has there ever been like an awkward situation where somebody got you

A gift and you didn’t get them a gift yes yeah it it was a few times oh I left home don’t worry about it just just for an example like over here I didn’t expect to get gifts I didn’t bring you guys anything but my presents yeah but

That’s what we wanted your presents is our present all right you know what I mean I’m glad to hear that rock Mar what about you how’s your you have no like gifts just I know I have I have a lot of uh people on my list I have like a lot

Of lot like all comedy clubs that I get them bottles of wine or get them they were 10 I’ll get them Bott of PCO like I like some of the club Owners like they’re really good people I can’t get them like cheap stuff I got to get at

Least um you know decent bottle of Rob mandavi or you know Maro if I ask your the clubs you work for if you bring bottles of wine I going say you bring it yeah absolutely I’m going to call them yes absolutely I always do every holiday

You e the wine if you know that they don’t drink like this one Club they don’t drink I get him a nice box of GD Diva I’ll go to Macy’s I’ll save 30% his friends and family with and I’ll get him a full of chocolate box of chocolates

Listen you have to give it the holidays it’s it’s like I I hate to interrupt your m but you know you bring in these comedy clubs nice bottles of wine expensive liquor and stuff you come to Growing Up Italians I brought the who have big big followings and they not

Just the average uh podcast over here and you bought them lights and some pastries was better and two Pon P that was nice and and a portridge in a peir tree who gave you the patones uh V that’s amazing you literally shook them down for I shook them down one two

Three four box was four yes I said I’m going to grown up a time I wonder why they gave you four boxes because they know I was it was just for you they would have gave you one though all right I got a good one for you guys right now

That we’re just on this topic let’s say you go out somewhere right right you bring pastries per se so let’s say you bring 12 soell 16 canoli whatever at the end of the night you see 10 canoli left and six for you though do you take that

Box home no never never no somebody else has to take it home it’s boo I do have I do have family members that do that [ __ ] I have I know people I’ve seen people take like one canola go I got to go back to the house because I forgot the canoli

That I left and I’m like I get secondhand embarrassed how much of metagon were there oh yeah super metagon it’s like that’s like Ultra metagon I have Sicilian family members they came to my house to b a dozen Dunkin Donuts when they live around that corner from V

Okay they come see my mother they bring a dozen donuts my mother says you know I’ll eat them you know I’m not a big fan but I’ll eat they go if you don’t eat the all and we take home we got the kids are coming over it’s like you brought them to me

And you’re taking them back like are you really that like G phone you know that’s gonish to me it’s like are you look like a guy that has like an Tim’s box in a house ready to go at all times no I love entman but I don’t I I I just know

What’s your favorite entiments the uh the the devil’s food with the white marshmallowy cream with the crumbs on the top or the uh yeah I love Tim good prob but Tim is good for the house you having a cup of coffee a cup of tea you want to have AB

Something but you Italian coffee American coffee Italian but you know if I’m home I have brown the day Brown well differ explain to people you know I got to tell you I worked in a card place back in the day and I used to make card

Play cards yeah and they let you inside yes and and I was the espresso boy and when I made espresso an espresso boy yeah so now what are you espresso man no I was a I was a espresso boy like I made all the espressos I made the CES okay

Okay and we never have one guy ask me for a Meto Amico espresso and I want to say to these idiots Mama luks out there who decided to pour hot water into an espresso what you might as well have Sanka right I mean so for for those of

You that don’t know what’s we’re talking about right now A Medico is a shave Espress with warm water yes in Italy that’s what it is so and it and it’s made long as if it’s like an American coffee it’s called a Medico well then why not just buy a can

Of folders and make yourself an americ maybe you don’t have room for two machines like this you just make the hot water and cuz sometimes the shot is too strong for people you got a big kitchen Mario no I don’t have big kitchen but I have a

Little Mr Coffee off to the side or C cck or whatever the hell they call it and then I have an espresso machine but it doesn’t matter at the end of the day it’s like I’m not going to get P how wood and then I give ET out espresso

It’s like giving it a bed so wait real quick before we move on to Christmas I feel we do need to rate the Christmas Eve Foods yeah like from one to five and I’m gonna say a random one you guys got to put it somewhere not knowing what’s next oh okay so there’s

Five of them you’re going to there’s five of them and you got one to five yeah and you and you don’t know what’s next we got we got to agree or just well Joe Joe and Mario got to agree okay okay okay we we’ll take turns stuff all right

All right all right go ahead go ahead you go first all right so we’ll start with truthfully I would say that’s dessert right yeah yeah you guys don’t confuse us dessert or food which one you talking or dessert is food yeah it is food but you said the five best foods for

Christmas you want to do um like all right so we’ll start with desserts then desserts all right truthfully truthfully I would I would rate that three I would rate that it’s a fun it’s a fun dessert I mean it’s not the biggest like to bring it like it’s not like canol

Because everybody’s putting their fingers in I’d say three three you got you got to agree with each other by the way be agree all right Fon Fon I would put it as two even because it’s it’s just like you could either do breakfast with it before you

Go to the family house you could bring it as your cheat like you could regift it you don’t want to bring it pastries so you regift OB like I we did to Joe okay yeah I agree number two so right now we have three is through F two Pon

Pandora Pandora it’s the same family as panon except it’s plain a lot of people do argue which one’s better I prefer P better than Pon so you giving that number one yeah I I would put that as Joe what you think where you guys might have to arm

Wrestle first arm wrestle that’s not a fa I mean I I’d say it’s in the same family and I I would say it it’s either one because it’s in the same family I would say it’s a little more richer maybe it might be in the same family but

I wouldn’t put that as number one I I would put that I would put that in the same category as to but I guess he can’t do that so I’ll put it a four okay now we got one and five he has no choice cuz he picked the first all right yeah

Pinoli cookies uh one one number one did the best not even a thought all right not even so this this next one has to be five five fig cookies I have a box right there give five I’m not too crazy about figs a lot of people so that’s where I would put all

Right so we got one p pinoli two panon three stui four Pandora five fig cookies anything you would done done differently I think it sounds about right what do you think Mario no I think it’s right I think it’s good you went from one Pandora to four it’s going to

Let us I want B to F because like Joe said it’s in the same family as a bon you you could do both like I know people they take like the 26th they make Christmas breakfast the day after the Christmas after yeah French toast with French toast but I got to interrupt one

Second you that is a Christmas uh breakfast by the way yeah it is but you guys men all these desserts right you guys are not you guys don’t do the Zepp can I be honest with you it’s going to go right into Italian foods bakala

Bakala uh I like bakas he’s not a he’s not a fish guy so no but I could help you I I say bakala you could you could do as if like you’re you’re deciding for your family I would say I I like I like a lot we’re doing one to five thing

Right yeah Bala I would put a four I would put a four and by the way the reason why I said bakala instantly is because where you said that story about the onion ring and Kamar when I was a kid I thought I was eating a zeppy and I

Ate bakala and I literally almost gagged you imagine that but you know what’s funny in in my town I don’t know about your guys town we used to make fried Zepp and put buide zeppy is that oh you do that too so maybe it’s a thing yeah it’s a known

Thing that’s how I started use that that um that that uh Beast yeah the batter the batter okay all right next one yes lasagna a Christmas Eve then well everybody do past on Christmas Eve before they do fish just apply are you going to name any of the past or

That say tell me I I would I would I would rate that number too I love lasagna yeah lasagna it’s not my favorite pasta I’m not going to tell you my favorite pasta is alno but uh Las is good you just say you I’m not going to

Say what it is I didn’t say which pasta al for I like yeah exactly can’t beiti no uh I would say exactly what you said cuz it’s remember what I said two for Las and four for all right e five I’m not crazy about it we have five already

Four you don’t have five four pay ATT okay so we got five four and two Rock what’s next seafood salad I like I like seafood salad I would say that would be one probably yeah I’m not a sefood e but I would say that’s a perfect appetizer ask a question if

You’re not a sefood e why you putting in number one for because it’s no because because you want to make the crowd happy no no no no it’s because it’s like it’s the perfect it’s like bringing a dozen pastries it’s the perfect thing salad to pastries no I’m comparing as a gift

Style like if you were bringing it to a family member you go like to Feria you’d order a nice platter of seafood salad yeah but Mary you’re putting pastries in the seafood I’m not putting P I’m giving you the suggestion like how I would bring a box of pastries I did promise

I’m going to be nice to you right it’s Christmas all right so chill out you have the the last one or no kamati I was put that as number one not seafood salad well we missed one we missed number three that’s right put the seafood salad at three you can’t do that

Now we we can’t switch that that would be the one thing he would switch if he could so Kat is three so let’s let’s go back here all right first a seafood salad okay second lasagna right fried kamati at three yeah four was bakala and

Five is all right now can I ask your a question do you think Fred kamat is overrated or under it’s made if it’s made right it’s amazing made fresh and not in a pizzeria to be a to take home that you could play uh big difference big difference out or it’s made right

There in front of you high big difference right you know Mario I I’ve been seeing a lot of places now when you order Kama they bring different dipping sauces a Wasabi Mayo that’s crazy I saw I saw that too that’s crazy what’s up with that just leave it marada who wants

Like Chipotle mayo on there or lemon I mean I like I squeeze the lemon and then the sauce actually what were you sauce I like both I like both but I like lemon yeah lemon and sauce you no I don’t need any of that sauce straight up no I don’t

Need col that’s right that’s right so M I got a question for you why do we invite you uh you know speaking of it’s more than Christmas than seven fishes also I heard you say honey balls that bother me a little bit but we’ll let that slide

Honey balls is a a term for stru that a lot of these and a metagon they don’t know they call them honey balls they what makes a good honey ball that’s literally what I was getting into well honey the balls they the pastry balls the dough they rolled up wow okay then

They do a hot honey with Maple they put some cinnamon in there they put some little nutmeg video right sounds like a sex video no no no no they mix it up and then they take they pour it over this it’s like like a honey liquidy honey and

They pour it all over the the these bowls so it makes the they fild them in a Christmas tree I have them go go go go go take one out gohe let’s show people how you’re supposed to eat these things should we get should we get one

Each here I’ll hold it for you and Joe it’s the honey and the bowl that makes sense there’s a fork right there these are Big strul you know yes little pick passes to rock thank you AR beautiful do you like having a crowd while you’re uh doing the Pod Mario do

You feel like Invincible I’m I’m good with anything we do I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get a cherry you guys got [ __ ] cherries I didn’t a cherry on here oh don’t curse it’s not I’ll tell you what makes a good honey ball Mario yeah this is the right answer

It’s got to be crunchy on the outside so well fried but on the inside nice and soft it’s got to have the honey on top and definitely the sprinkles and that my friend is what makes a good honey ball not the honey and the bowl so you like these sters yeah these

Are great that’s exactly what I said go czy love these bows making Mario’s a dirty hamster Mario get out of here who’s going to sweep This Joy when we leave Mario is that’s for sure I would give him the broom right now had want a little clip I want a

Little clip like after the P you see Maro cleaning up around here me there you go Joe that was Mak it seem like it was me see the thing like me and Joe we’re big guys we know how to eat stuff and not like lose any

Of it right see like look look yeah there you go all right that was too risky to go with the fork this is nice right yeah very good nice you don’t have to hold a microphone you can actually eat mhm yeah we changed the microphones too remember youed to have to hold it

Yeah that was a pain in ass guys get some stule there yeah baby you should in enjoy yourself and if you go we mustach Chola cookies they’re like the cookies of early December and then the Fig cookies and then there’s a fig re what’s this Mario Lucky

Charms yeah he actually left like the like Lucky Charms all right this going to make a making the mess over here all right they’re magically delicious yeah yeah you know what now my hands are all sticky I want to this microphone this way put it down we’re very excited to

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Three locations in New Jersey a couple let’s talk about New York City this time of year okay what do you think about it I think it’s fantastic I mean listen all what’s going on in the city and everything else I mean I see the traffic is insane traffic

Is bananas that’s besides the point that’s uh that’s um everywhere you go but you know during the holidays and and Christmas no place like home very very beautiful I mean there’s not a place like Rockefeller senta Christmas tree there’s no place like that well even every Hotel you actually go to

Rockefeller Center this time year um I didn’t go this year but I I tried to go I used to I used to work in a Diamond District I was there every day you know but um it’s nice it’s nice to see the tree lit up people you know ice skating stuff

The church say the cathedral is beautiful you know yes I think what’s the must SE things in New York this time here Rockefeller roeller obviously the tree radio cities Radio City Rockets yeah definitely Rockets you used should be rocket right man yes and daah Heights Brooklyn what really yeah you don’t know

My steps can you show us a couple oh yeah you know I could give you a Little Footsteps and if you like I could show you the back whoa who who so I am a raet speechless um I I think D Heights for Brooklyn is most decorated houses even doph you go down

By Court Street area there’s a lot of them decorated but D Heights I beg the differ I mean d Heights is nice but I see some houses in Long Island and I see some houses in the in the story where I’m from white stone White Stone Howard Beach you know Beach basically whatever

The Scuttle is yeah exactly wherever the mafia lives there is no Mafia watch you’re supposed to say that word okay I got enough [ __ ] people watching me because of my name now you mention that name all right so what are the best Christmas movies let I’m gonna name a Christmas

Movie and you guys got to place it one through five not knowing what comes next you like doing this confusing [ __ ] was having a time in life let’s do it home Alone Home Alone I love Home Alone one or two cuz they I mean we could call all

Of them all of them well one and two not three and four one and two are the classic one with M cin who just received a star in Hollywood ball you look like him a little bit I do I used to be his standing on too you forgot don’t say I was

His standing on home alone too you do drugs back then in the ’90s no I was a kid I was a he was a kid I was a k what’s a what’s a stand a standon means is that he’ll step out of hold on hold

On Mario here put this on put this on you’re going to wreck my hair no put it on why yeah you’re trying to give me the C for the [ __ ] get out of here I was his standing good okay I was just standing on home alone too okay in the city Radio

City we filmed Rockefeller Cinder we filmed the Plaza Hotel we filmed yeah you’re just naming the [ __ ] movie listen no listen bro and Donald Trump used to cross me like this and give me one of these like smile he would never say hello story work there you bro so you met Joe

Peshi too yes I did I met Joe peshi on the supera when we did the movie The supera with um we did the movie you were in the movie The Super I was in the movie The Super with Vincent Ginia who played his father and Ruben what part

Did you play so I love that movie what scene did you stand I know you standing for Joe pesi I’m not standing for Joe pesi I was only like an extra in the neighborhood but I was I worked a lot I worked you were you were an extra in

That neighborhood in that neighborhood so if you were an extra neighborh why you how are you standing to mol kulen what do you mean it’s a different thing standing and background and is all in the same category said you were his standing standing that means you know

What that means like Okay so let’s say low pick or you would stand in for Joe for set the lights so they set the lights the director get the for me he got no hair don’t matter just I think that’s the point he’s trying to make is

That it doesn’t matter you don’t don’t matter you don’t look you don’t have to look the kid you just have to be the side so they could angle the camera camera and the lights once that you step out and moli Cen steps in and it was a

Fantastic job we worked on that in New York City probably CU then they went into the studio so we worked probably about two and so where you guys put in put in that on the it was a really good one but it doesn’t beat what I have in

Mind so um I would put it in two oh I’ll say two uh no well let them do it but mcoi culen was five foot he’s 5 fo six well he was a kid he wasn’t 5 foot 6 in the 90 Bak sh he wasn’t 5 foot6 how

How old were you then Mario I’m 411 now so maybe I was 48 you know kids size you know yeah yeah I stood in a lot of movies for standings what are you laughing it’s not it’s gonna go so viral okay why does it keep fooling PA over

There all right rock you want to do the next movie you want me to do uh yeah yeah I got it all right next one elf I would say between one that’s a newer one I would put it at um three or four that’s my love three or four what

Do you think I would agree with that well let’s let’s call it a four four great acting we will but we’ve done the New York thing home alone and a few other movies so I’d say four the Grinch Grinch is a great movie I’d say three

I’ll put it as three did you working that one to no you weren’t a standard for the Grinch no was not what about what about the best Christmas movie ever What It’s a Wonderful Life directed by an Italian I mean are you serious Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life yes Mario you

Weren’t even born when that movie was made 1930s I was not born but it’s a classic it’s on my phone when I got it’s on my phone he was a standing for that one no I was not a standing for that he was a stand in the balls for that one no

I all right so go ahead what’s the next one the Christmas story where you put that well I would say five what do you think yeah I’ll put it a five because to me it’s not a number one like to me number one would be a classic like um cuz you’re also

Missing uh National l pool Christmas vacation where he burns that’s another that’s a great movie chubby Chase chubby Chase last one Scrooge well scro has been made by so many different K Kelsey Grandma did it um who else did uh Bill M Bill Murphy Billy

Murphy did it Jim Carri he was act like the voice over and one yeah he did it I mean it’s got to be your one right no I don’t want to put that at one I mean if you the last one no I mean I’m talking about classic Christmas movie like I’m

Talking about a milk dir4 Tre that takes the story from Thanksgiving to Christmas um It’s a Wonderful Life that’s my Mario there were over 250 probably more 300 Christmas mes made they given us five to pick from but this were Classic this is why it’s blind ranking but I wouldn’t I

Would rank if I would put National lampon as one that’s my but he didn’t give us National lampon he gave us Scrooge Scrooge I wouldn’t put it at one well it has to that’s what I’m trying to tell so then it has to be one then why we arguing over this

[ __ ] oh don’t get feisty over there right all right yeah best Christmas song All I Want For Christmas Is You All I want for Christmas this year is growing up Italian to make me famous no I would put that as that’s like not even sincere that’s like something a spoiled kid would ask

For you’re going to get cold St I could for well if you come with this hat maybe uh if I wi K luck it’s Christmas what i you got to catch me I’ll catch you I drive I don’t have to run I’m I love what people say yeah you got to catch me

First Joe I have a car it goes fast me I’m good with the all All I Want For Christmas Mar carry one to five where do you put it it’s more popular as for commercials now for a lot of things CU Macy’s is using i’ put it at two what do you think

Two or three I put it I put that two I’ll put that two yeah I’ll agree with M okay next one good Dominic the donkey it’s an Italian classic so I don’t know I’ll put that as one I love the yeah that’s exactly that’s what I was I know

A lot of [ __ ] donkeys you know a funny thing about that song that song in particular when we were growing up Rocco’s dad his name is Dominic so whenever like everybody would tease it like oh like Dominic CH it’s Dominic the donkey I got to tell you a funny story

Real real real fast about that song I used to prank people with a block number to play that song the people I couldn’t stand I don’t know if they knew it was me but I would play I would call them over and over and over now they know

It’s you now they know it’s now they know F what are they going to do about it it was like 20 years ago I used to prank over and over chity ch ch and I would hear you [ __ ] all right the next one last Christmas that’s my

Favorite Christmas I gave you my heart the very next day I gave it story my life to tears I’ll give it to someone special I’m going to give it to I’m going to give it to you Mario we got to put a three I mean we already used one

And two already definitely three definitely three I would put a two but right I got one special one that I hold on where can you take it easy take it easy have yourself a very Merry Christmas Frank arra oh four four see they’re asking the [ __ ] questions backwards backwards backwards

That should have no offense to sonra my uncle’s a very big sonra fan sonra he’ll still he’ll still reach up to K you yeah all right he’s right there he’s right there I know the next one the next one F Le Navidad well he has a story for that

That one’s actually really good Joe has a story so I have a story I got to meet Jose Fel my St are short my stories are short you know your little K why you laughing little pick little pck this is I met J Feliciano yo give me the cap

Again give me the cap go I have a picture with Jose Feliciano at San Jero he was there with his guitar not this year this is gone back like four five years before the pandemic s Jano s Jano man man I man manot I was at the

San feast and they said there’s a celebrity there playing and he’s playing with his guitar and somebody go somebody I went cuz man’s blind I don’t know I go who is he and he go J and I was like oh wow now we chapter n in my book

I’m a star oh you got a book too yes you don’t know my book I’m an auor from hopeless to Hollywood we talked about it in the first episode Hollywood I must have been snoozing I can promise you after we record those pods I never went back to

Them never from hopeless to Hollywood I like that how how do you like how do you guys like doing the show because you guys know each other but our biggest request is having you two on together a lot of people wanted me to see yeah cuz we’re lookalike right yeah like the

Movie twins are you guys related by any chance Sil so Jose Feliciano took a picture of me and I asked him he he has to finish that story he’s not going to stop until he finishes that story so let’s take a break and hear the story

You asked him if he could use you as his guitar no I asked him if he could play me I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and he played for me keep I wna wish you a merry Christmas I wna wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New

Year from the bottom of my heart I [ __ ] it up but I got to meet him great guy people call me cap they call me anything you want you can put a pony on my head you can put the table on my did anybody ever throw tomatoes at you when you were

Performing never nobody ever brought them nobody they never did cuz I’m very funny so that one goes at five obviously because that’s the last one all right but you also missed the best Christmas song ever in Italy okay do you know the Italian Christmas songs Italian Christmas time but then I

Would put F5 like I wouldn’t put that at one finish I would put one I would put to Shan oh yeah that’s a good sing that One you know it’s funny about that song when my son was born I used to sing that song to put him to sleep all year round Christmas all year round he loved that song n you always saying that I was in a choir not going

To lie when I was 11 years old and they made me yeah fun fact was Mar there no no he was actually yeah he was the the he aishan he was like Joe peshi Jose Feliciano I want you know I’m I’m getting into movies now I wonder if you could be my

Standing no you would probably need another CH like you know oh I like how you said it right away before he even finished you probably I want to please first of all there’s three cameras in this room Witnesses you really think you’re going to do something wa till we go

Downstairs all right I got to go one for you too all right we always know about the 12 Days of Christmas right let’s do the 12 days of an Italian American Christmas all right so from 12: down to 1 okay we’re going to figure it out

Together on the 12th day of Christmas do you know who wrote that song do the Italian version you know this in the time version the 12 gave to me I love that car on the second no but I want a different one I want a different one to Sergio teis

And five pinky ring let’s start from 12 though let’s do it together we’re going to revolutionize the song Now 12 what we all got to sing it together can is that what he says 12 can we’re we’re going to copy the canoli yeah why I’m going to follow you guys cuz I don’t

Really remember the song too well but all 12 canoli of Christmas to me 11 what uh t-shirts wife wife beers no no call wife do that what do you think they call 11 chestnuts 11 chestnuts 11 roasted chestnuts I’m going to write this down hold on all right let’s go this is going

To get good now go go for 10 we’re about to go record in the studio after 10 Christmas gifts 10 something specific 10 stly balls 10 honey ball yeah what was 12 12 canol and a Mario in a [ __ ] tree 11 upside down 11 upside down 11

What was 11 again roasted chestnuts 10 honey balls 10 honey balls nine how you doing nine how you doing I like that no offense to Mo that’s your line taking that well it’s not that wasn’t Mo’s line the guys that wrote the song com Joey blls was the ones that did the

How you doing song and they created it in the ’90s cuz they were for the Yankees and the that’s actually true that’s actually a true story I actually uh so little mo I love you bro but you didn’t create that he never says he created it though yeah but he he made it

A little more popping I will give him that a little more popular I think he made it really popular eight eight chicken cutlets eight chicken C no that’s not eight that’s five uh seven rock where you get chicken cols from no no you’re wrong yes chicken color you don’t like that what about

You’re making it up or you or it’s the original song no no I’m making it up you’re making it up we’re going to sing it together we’re making and I know what number one will Be all right seven seven is seven lotto tickets okay six garlic cloves six cloves of garlic three fist by what’s the Five Five clementino CD I can’t be why not it’s got to be something it’s got to be the what are Italian Americans known for well they’re known for serger te

Pinky Wings they’re known for food they’re known for song we got to make a different version right I’m just saying like they’re known for five tracksuits five five Tommy deitos that’s true four maybe four or three golden tracksuits Dano Dano you did well that’s real no I standing for

Him but I met him in Los Angeles [ __ ] at a premier party for [ __ ] did I ask all right I got five golden tracksuits what about fig ring or or fake cookies or cookies four mustard four hand gestures four hand gestures one two three three three hand gestes

Three cuz the thing always goes like this three SC your face yeah much three three hand gestures no I did four hand gestures no four scff and F no no I don’t want no violence in this one all right it’s a Christmas video ago I got it three scapadel scapadel scapadel two everybody’s

Wearing [ __ ] s what about two bow ties three bow ties three bow ties That We’re bow ties how many bow ties do you own I have proba 150 and one no the Sun the G and on pod we should also all right guys so what’s been new we guys we

Haven’t had you on a show in a while let’s start with Joe CU you’ve been talking all time [ __ ] tested he is that pinky ring real Santa everything I wear is real did Santa drop that in your bag oh no Santa Dro in my bag I’m about

To drop you in a bag though if you interrupt me one more time what were you saying what’s new with you what’s new with me I don’t know Mario’s agava me you know you know but it’s been a while when was the last time I was on this

Thing few months ago yeah got to be like six months see one other guys I understand that it’s all right we’re singing that at the end of the podcast I sent you guys the the lyrics he said the lyrics not the whole thing though we

Just go down go down you can’t go one two no we’ll go from 12 12 all right let’s see what Joe what Joe’s up to because I haven’t seen him in he just told you not much six months later no but he didn’t explain because now he’s

[ __ ] viral everybody wants a piece of this guy everybody I’m still the average job I’m still humble but no I’m doing a few moving few commercials here and there no big deal no B deal go Jo let’s give Joe round appla I want to say I want to say this

About Joe and Mario you two have been probably one of the two of the most like loyal people to us especially so we hold you very near and dear to our hearts honestly getting serious for a moment very thankful for you both always riding with GUI and always representing so

Thank you to both of you for real thank you it’s in our blood I think that I that you know I mean I I hustled you guys until I got blocked Mar’s not Loyal by the way yes I am will leave at the drop of us of a honeyball he’s out here

No I I mean how could I not be loyal this guy put a picture of me on the internet anybody knows this guy please let me know I mean he can’t get more I met him in a store last summer okay and I called him a fat [ __ ] with 25 pieces

Of pizza how he didn’t slap and hang me saw and then he’s like and he cuz he said to me I’ll get in touch with you through Instagram everybody that says I get in touch you through Instagram means you means like so I’m like no no hand me

The phone number we could talk with the phone number and I tell you and I say this with all jokes are s he changed he and New York Nico grown up a time New York Nico was a big Bo another another AC is in my book very nice guy Chang

Changed my whole uh career you know all right so the Tik Tok live things was viral for a second before you got banned I didn’t get banned for life I just got banned for a few days but what did you what happened why’ you get banned I got banned because somebody wrote something

Really nasty about my mom you know my mom passed away three years ago and you know it’s was the wrong time was right after Thanksgiving and you know it’s like I’m thinking about what I’m going to do for growing up a time when I’m wearing and this guy’s writing me hey

Did you stuff your mother for Thanksgiving and like I like go to [ __ ] hell just to let you know why the [ __ ] you laughing for brother it’s because he’s laughing cuz and I replied back to the guy like no you my mother’s dead you know you should

Have more respect as say that either and I I I and I soon as I called him then this other guy came on about Alabama I got a warning from and they called B Alabama you’re like tripling down that word cut that Tina Turner something with

Tina Turner and it goes on from from Alabama and I’m like oh cool love Alabama Tina turn I’m a big fan her song not she from Alabama yeah not Bush whatever it’s called the song got to a g and I’m like and right after that bam they jammed me I’m like these mothers

How long how long nine days this week last time it was two days time before just keep your act together you know be a nice person I’m listen you were making some scuttles too now you’re I’m making no I’m still making SKS I got pay coming in on Wednesday I’m making money making

It’s like 150 200 a week and it’s still yeah adds up you make how much a week like 200 on lives I went live the other day on Nico’s page and Niko’s got a hefty amount of followers and he was like getting like a couple hundred you

Know uh a couple hundred follow viewers of it and I get a lot of followers like from this Tik Tok live the money’s fantastic no doubt about I’m not going to lie but the followers like I went from 20,000 to 276 in a matter of like three months

How many follows you have on Tik Tok 276 I just how many follows you have on Instagram 194 Joe smokes you I think well yeah because Joe’s got different I mean Joe has his own type of way of doing things I have my type of way of doing I I wish

Joe the very very best Joe started as a goof with 55 followers two years ago yeah listen I started out 10 years ago on Instagram when nothing I when I met him I had 3,200 on Instagram and I have 194 and Tik Tok I had like 900 what do

You press you giving the people a headache with the [ __ ] numbers now 27 all right what’s what’s your goal with like social media well I hope to build an audience up where I could possibly get them to come see me live and have have an audience come me I’ll do a show

Wh I could build like an have you new material yeah I always WR a new material you have a new joke for us I always have new jokes for you guys oh let’s hear it I’m ready is this a new one or is this new one better not be son the hitop I

Want to hear ma’am ma’am you forgot your purse this is not so I have a few new ones uh let’s see uh do you shortest one okay no pun in time okay so every year right you guys retiring did your parents measure you guys when you were growing up in the

House before taking you to a carnival or Disneyland you yeah little pick and shaking his head yes so they would measure me they would measure me with the zucchini growing out of the the gold off of the Bell Parkway and every year I would pray oh St Anthony St Anthony let

Me be taller than the cuta this year that’s a funny joke that works very well oh that there’s no fun that’s the joke that’s the joke so how many cuta were you a lot um a lot I used to take my uncle’s gutas and play baseball and then my father would slap me

Down last year for Christmas okay my aunt asked me Mario what do you want for Chistmas this a Miss I said my um I said Z I want an iPad Pro she gave me an etra sketch you want you want people to come pay that was a joke yes oh you tell this

Story that’s good that’s good oh I got one did you guys have more the marrier honestly okay did you guys did you guys have a great I know Halloween is in the past by two months but but you know Jo looks like a a decent China man that loves to eat you

Know that CH decent man let me rewind that Joe Joe don’t don’t do this on stage bro Joe is a I can see Tomato’s flying man F Joe is a big gentleman he’s a great gentleman and let me tell you something I could see him doing this

Like okay so do you buy any doing stand up no no no candy do you buy candy for Halloween of course so did you ever go go to the table and see it there you know it’s fit to give out tomorrow morning but you you don’t want to touch

It but you go by the end of the night the movies on TV and you touch the candy you ate the candy I ate the candy so what happened to get now the next morning these little bastards ring my bell ding ding Trick and Treat Trick and

Treat I had nothing to give these little s [ __ ] I ran to the refrigerator and I got a tray full of condiments and I filled them up Duck Sauce soy sauce sweet and sour Ranch a Buffon that’s what they got l p the only one laughing I don’t know

Why I gave them condiments instead of candy that’s the joke that’s the joke if you got to explain the joke it don’t hit let’s let’s try to help Mar with one joke let’s try to help him with one joke before we leave we got you got any ideas Joe maybe a

Funny I I got some old jokes but you probably heard the only one I can think of I don’t do other people’s material by the way oh you’re not use it you need an Italian Crow for this one though yeah Sabino knows this one very well if I got

A gizzard I got a giz giz what we got we got two gizzards no Joe you know I heard the joke with Joe from Mario’s me mar with his nephew you got a Kad no no not Kad we got a giz it each giz it each all right I heard it

Already Joe you like that one I got more of a chuckle than you did I got chuckle L pick left on my [ __ ] was a lot funnier than you Mar unfortunately I’m sorry well the head like that it looks like the guy that he gave me on the T-shirt I

SP just like it the other one was going to wear t-shirt I don’t I wear t-shirts is there anything else you guys want to say before we say goodbye to all of our beautiful people at all yeah don’t forget don’t think I forgot the song uh

I say um where’s my phone because he’s gonna send us sitting on my it’s below no it’s below the chair I highly doubt I’m sitting right by the Cherry marmalade over there [ __ ] over here be schoolat wait go ahead anything else you guys uh want to say like Sabino said I

Would like to thank each and everyone personally and for always being with us right Joe what do you laughing Thanksgiving what do you think not thanks must say Thanksgiving I’m thinking them we’re not going to see them till next year you know yeah and I I’m very grateful to be on this pod

Three times um they only had you on three times yes I’ve been on how many years what do you mean what many years many I did one last November there January then I did one in May and now I’m doing this for the holiday count oh it’s probably just yeah but you don’t

Get my numbers o what’s that mean I don’t get your numbers what does that mean my numbers are 3 million Clips each clip three chicken color 34 million I guess show us the stats I guess you [ __ ] blind because I the clips too but you got to

Put into like a account here that half of the views are you no no you keep checking the numbers no it’s not half a million by Mario BOS that actually works you could click check you guys just go like this I didn’t know but you you don’t that doesn’t count that they they

Know one when you open it it’s you alone well that’s why we have you back you know our number’s been a little low lately so yeah so I’m here to fix it yeah when in doubt go Mario when in doubt go ho ho all right guys I I we got

To say bye on that note Joe anything you want to say before we go I do on a serious note I want to wish everybody again Merry Christmas definitely and um I want to tell everybody you know enjoy your families it’s the best time of the year that’s what happy and healthy New

Year right right and um we’ll see you next year Merry Christmas everybody yeah I know sh sa’s trying to get out of it let’s go sing the song we need Joe’s phone back all right ready my phone 12 days Christmas wait a minute 12

Cani B fast all right here we go I got to open the phone can you bring up the music instrumentally so we could no no it’s fine you want an instrumental well there is an instrumental version it might be copyrighted so it’s not even worth it yeah all right ready all right

Here you go on the 12th day Christmas roasted n how you doing eight chicken C seven L ticket six cles of garc five golden trackit four Christ