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Switching gears, we wade into the glitz and glamor that is the Met Gala, where fashion's zenith meets philanthropy, and the Kardashians reign supreme. Reflecting on my own days allows for a unique perspective on how this event curates not just outfits but cultural narratives. We consider how contemporary icons like Emma Chamberlain and Joe Rogan are pioneering a shift in our consumption of information, favoring platforms that marry entertainment with insight. 'Hot Ones' stands as a testament to this change, challenging our conventional approach to engaging with the world and setting the stage for a discussion on the evolving face of media and influence.
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Now our podcast.
Hello everyone, and welcomeback to A Better Life with
George and Steve.
Tonight you just have me.
George is still in Japan.
He's been there for a few weeks, so we've put our podcast to
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the side.
I know it's been a long time.
I've heard from a lot of you.
When's the next podcast?
That's why you have me alone.
I hope everyone is well.
I hope everyone's had a goodfew weeks.
It's finally made the transitionto spring.
I'm glad it's here.
I'm looking forward to doing alittle traveling.
Over Memorial Day weekend.
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I'm going to go visit my sisterup in Bar Harbor, maine, and I
love it up there.
I'd like to move there, butunfortunately I live here.
So there's a few things I'd liketo talk to you about tonight.
The first thing I'd like tomention to you is about the
newly found heart, if you will,of our New York teams.
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All of a sudden and maybe itisn't really all of a sudden.
I'm just beginning to noticethat the New York Knicks and the
New York Rangers have developed.
New York Rangers have developedthis ability to fight and to
win, and it's not as muchwinning as they have heart.
They leave everything on theice of the court.
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They fight to the end.
Of course, tonight beingMother's Day, happy Mother's Day
, belated Mother's Day to mostpeople by the time you hear this
to everyone out there.
But the Knicks got their buttskicked tonight and pretty much
the first time.
It was a close game.
They lost two.
They're now two and two, butthey're not very deep.
That's the problem with theKnicks they're not very deep.
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They don't have a lot ofplayers coming in off the bench.
I think the other night, whenthey were looking, even when
they won, the Knicks had threeor four points off the bench and
the Pacers had 42.
So the Knicks have been reallyfighting.
They beat the 76ers, they gavethem a real run for their money
and they beat them handedly.
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Every game was close.
Every game was amazing.
New stars have come out of thewoodwork.
Surprising new stars, at leastsurprising to me Jalen Brunson.
He has played better thanalmost anyone you can imagine in
history for these last fewgames in the playoffs.
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We've seen Dante DiVincenzo,we've seen OG Josh Hart, all
these players.
Now they have three playersfrom the National Championship,
villanova Wildcats.
So these players are familiarwith winning, they have it in
their DNA, so to speak.
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So it's been amazing to watchand it's great to see this
resurgence come to the Garden.
This Knick team, all the oldplayers have all been rolled out
, from Patrick Ewing to JohnStarks to Carmelo Anthony.
You see them all there, frazier, sitting on the sideline, the
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great players from the past.
They're all there and they'rerooting their team on.
It's a great thing to see.
Obviously, in my opinion, we'reprobably one great player away,
even though this team could winif their bench was a little
deeper, but I don't thinkthey're going to make the cut
with their bench the way it is.
We have injured players.
It's difficult, I think it'sdifficult to continue to play at
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that high level and wearyourself out.
The other team we need to talkabout is the New York Rangers.
I've always been a great Rangerfan.
I used to have season ticketswhen I was young and it really
is something to watch, watchingthe Rangers fight every play,
every puck, fighting throughkilling off penalties.
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It's been amazing Overtimegames they won.
Recently they won two overtimegames in a row.
In the past three games they'vewon two out of three.
They were a little soft theother night when the Hurricanes
beat them, but they did a greatjob.
The other two overtime games,one double overtime game the
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players have been amazing.
Whether it's everybody, rempe,panarin, they've all just played
amazing and they really havesomething other than talent and
that's heart.
And I have to say that'ssomething I like to see in all
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teams, in all New York teams.
You can't always have the bestplayers, but you can always give
the best effort and it's niceto see these professional
players in today's time whereplayers don't always give it
their all.
We hear these stories, we readthese stories in the newspaper,
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we hear them on the radio, howplayers say they're injured and
no one really believes it, orthey walk off the court or they
don't want to play every night.
This new thing about resting aplayer throughout the season
that's fairly new.
I don't think it would havehappened in Dave Stern's era of
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being the commissioner ofbasketball, but certainly this
new commissioner seems to be alittle softer with the players,
on the other hand.
They're different players today.
They look at things differently.
They really just don't want tocompete all the time.
They look at the regular seasonin a different light than they
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used to.
So that's an issue.
But when we see these playoffs,we're seeing teams fighting
like we haven't in years, in myopinion, across the board.
And then there's LeBron James inLos Angeles.
Lebron has been a great playerfor 20 years.
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Is that possible?
It is possible because we'veall seen it.
People ask him if he's going toretire, if he's ready to give
it up.
I don't believe so.
I think he's going to keepfighting.
I think he wants to take a shotat playing with his son, who's
in the draft this year.
Whether that happens or doesn'thappen, I'm not sure, but it is
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an opportunity for LeBron toplay with his son and to keep
coming to the game.
He's been criticized this year,but I have to say he's certainly
better than almost all theother players out there.
There are other good players,don't get me wrong, but he is at
his age, still playing at a ahigh level, and I give him
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credit for that.
You know the argument right?
The argument is he the bestever to live.
Is he better than jordan?
That this argument's raised inevery bar cigar lounge, on every
water cooler excuse, themetaphor at every work on every
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talk radio station.
Is he the best that ever was?
He played the longest.
He's playing long.
I have a hard time with sayinghe's the best.
I know Jordan is the best Iever saw, but I can't forget
players like Bill Russell, whohas a ring for every finger, who
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played in great teams andplayed a long time.
You can't forget players likeLarry Bird, like Magic Johnson,
like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
There are so many great players, but the eras are different, so
you look at things differently.
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It's hard to compare playersfrom different eras.
It's truly hard to compare.
But LeBron is certainly in thatconversation.
It's hard to deny that Peopledo because they're LeBron haters
and I don't have to say he'snot one of my favorite players,
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but when you watch him he'scertainly something to watch.
Over the years, the players ofthe past we remember the
highlights.
You remember the best.
I remember the Larry Bird gamewhere he could do no wrong.
I remember Larry Bird in thethree-point competitions that
used to, when everyone used tobe involved in the three-point
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competitions that took placeduring the All-Star game and he
would go out there and hit everybasket long before the
popularity of three-point shotstook place.
If you look back at some of thescoring, the game was different
, even when some of the greatgames by Larry Bird, by Magic
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Johnson, by Michael Jordan youlook at how many three-point
shots they actually took, youlook at how many three-point
shots they actually took andit's a totally different game.
It is very hard to compare thepoints, the assists and the
scoring because the game haschanged in such a way.
But anyway, that's enough aboutsports.
I just wanted to bring it upbecause it seems to dominate
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everything going on at themoment in New York.
Everybody's talking about it,everything going on at the
moment in New York.
Everybody's talking about itand it's easy to see why if you
just watch one of the games.
So Mother's Day today isMother's Day.
I of course remember my mother,who was certainly, as everyone
looks it was a pillar in my life.
She said and did amazing things.
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She fought for life, for ourlife, for our educations.
She fought for trying tostretch a penny longer than any
other person I've ever seenstretch a penny.
She did it with a small budgetand probably at least one and
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maybe two children that didn'treally understand how tight the
budget really is, and my sisterand I talk about it sometimes
and wonder how she did it.
My father was there, obviously,but he was out there working.
She was the day-to-day person.
She was the one that dealt withall the difficulties and was
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always there to answer thequestions.
And I wasn't easy, to be honest, I was certainly not easy, but
this is a day.
I remember my mother and weremember all mothers.
We all don't have wives, we alldon't have girlfriends, but we
all have mothers.
So happy mother's day toeveryone out there.
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It may be belated when youfinally hear this.
I'd like to talk briefly aboutthe met gala, which takes place,
as some of you may know, thefirst monday in may.
I don't know how anyone getsinvited to the met gala.
I don't know why anyone goes tothe Met Gala Other.
It's the center of the fashionuniverse, pretty much ran by
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Vogue.
It helps raise money for theexhibition that goes on there
regarding fashion.
I remember many years ago, whenI was a shoe salesman or a
buyer or a manager of different,various shoe stores and
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companies, there was a gentlemanwho always used to call me and
he was one of the directors ofthe Museum of Fashion, which I
think now has been incorporatedinto the Met and he would come
in and look at our entire lineof shoes and ask questions and
then pick certain shoes that hewould buy to put into the
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collection.
It was interesting because Iwas always amazed on what he
collected and what he wanted.
Originally I thought he wasbuying them for himself, but
then I realized they couldn'tfit him.
The Met Gala it's funny.
There's a theme and people weardresses that you cannot wear
anywhere else.
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They're made into the theme andit's almost like a costume ball
.
It's pretty amazing.
Some of the things are sostrange that you really can't
even walk up the steps.
People have to be carried.
Now, I don't know how thatmakes any sense, but it's
certainly interesting to watch.
I saw so many dresses that wereabsolutely amazing and beautiful
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and so many that just made mescratch my head, and I have an
appreciation for fashion, beingin the fashion business for a
long time before I'm in mypresent career, whatever that
may be at this time.
But I always find itinteresting who goes to these
things.
You always see the hot personof the moment, the person that's
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I don't want to say gettingtheir 15 minutes, but are new to
the pinnacle of notoriety.
They are now famous.
I remember the first Cardassianexperience there, and now
they're staples.
Everybody waits to see theCardassian sisters' dresses and
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they range all different kindsof things.
And now the gentlemen have gotinto the act sisters' dresses,
and they range all differentkinds of things.
And now the gentlemen have gotinto the act with it too.
They are all wearing all kindsof different things.
It's funny, it's amazing, it'snice to look at.
If you've ever seen thedocumentary the first Monday in
May, it's entirely about the MetGala, and if you're interested,
it's definitely something tolook into.
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And I think Vogue is doing agood job with realizing the
changing movement in America,and that is it's no longer
networks, it's no longertelevision networks that control
the information or setting thepace for the Americana of our
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existence at the present time.
It's now these trendsetters,these people that have podcasts
not mine, of course these peoplelike Joe Rogan, people that are
super popular that havepodcasts, that have different
trendsetters.
Matter of fact, vogue usedwhat's her name?
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Chamberlain.
I can't think of her name offthe top of my head, emma
Chamberlain, to be like the hostand interview people.
Now, I love Emma Chamberlain.
She is a huge sensation onYouTube and other places.
She has a podcast and she isthe most regular person you
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could possibly imagine.
She travels all over the world,she goes around, she talks
about them.
She does pretty much onlybetter, obviously, than what
George and I do.
We experience things and wetalk about it, but she's at a
level like you can't evenimagine In a couple of hours.
She has over a milliondownloads on her YouTube.
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They're really just amazing andshe's known everywhere and she
seems like such a regular personand now those people generate
millions of dollars when they dothese things.
She's become a fashion icon.
She's a beautiful young girl,no question about it, but she
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has this following.
That's amazing.
I think she does the Gucci adsI don't know if it's Gucci or
Louis Vuitton and now she's thehost for Vogue on the first
Monday in May for the Met Gala.
It's really amazing to see howthese things are all changing,
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how the power of controlling thedialogue of our lives has
shifted from television stationsor radio stations who
controlled who they put on andwhat they said to individuals
like Chamberlain, individualslike Joe Rogan, all different
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sides of the gambit.
People have their own interviewshows and stars.
Go look at the Hot Wings show.
That could be some of the bestinterviews you ever watched.
And for those of you thataren't familiar, I think the
group is called the First weFeast and they do Hot Ones and
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this guy's done it for 15, 20years already, where he has 10
wings that progress from hot toridiculously super hot and
during that time period he asksquestions and he's very well
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informed.
And there is an episode thatgoes by where the guest doesn't
say boy, you really did yourresearch and he really has.
And he asks great questions and, due to the heat of the wings,
everybody's off guard.
They're not guarded.
Sometimes they're cursing himbecause their mouth is on fire
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and they're drinking water andmilk and sometimes ice cream.
Once in a blue moon they walkoff and say listen, I'm not
doing this anymore, I'm out ofhere.
But rarely, very rarely, we'veseen everyone from Dua Lipa to
Lupa to Chef Ramsay to MikeTyson all different people and
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you're amazed on.
Some people can eat hot foodand some people you cannot, and
everyone promoting somethinggoes on it.
Why?
Because he has millions ofwatchers and millions of people
get to see you and what you'repromoting.
It's really a changingenvironment.
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What's come important to us.
Even me, the first thing I turnon isn't the news.
I don't watch the news anymore.
It's too orchestrated.
It doesn't matter if you'refrom the left or you're right.
There's no independentjournalism really anymore.
There may be some on some ofthe public broadcast, but I
can't watch somebody go on andon there's stations out there
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that just spend their entire daybashing the other
representative of the party theydon't agree with.
They spend their whole daydoing that.
When the United States SupremeCourt allowed the Pentagon
Papers to be released to thenewspapers after a challenge by
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the Nixon White House and by theSolicitor General, who at that
time was William Rundquist, wholater became the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court A littleside note is he went to law
school with Centreda O'Connorand they both ended up on the
court and it's prettyinteresting.
But anyway, the quote andforgive me if I beat it up, but
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the quote is we must let trueinformation, we must let
information flow to the peopleof America.
Why?
Because it's only an informedelectorate who can vote and make
decisions on how the country issupposed to be run.
How are we supposed to do thatwhen we're not informed?
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How are we supposed to do thatwhen we're not being told the
facts to make our own decision,rather a jaded view of whatever
your affiliation is.
It's bizarre to me what hashappened.
It's impossible to watch thenews.
And I'm not saying I have anaffiliation for one party over
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the other.
My affiliation is with thetruth.
And granted, there is spin.
People spin what happened.
At the end of the day, thereneeds to be some truth.
As many a day I go out into theworld and I see something and I
wonder is what this person'stelling me about different
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people who are in power in thiscountry True, or are they making
it up?
Are they slantening it?
How are you supposed to know?
I don't know.
I just sure hope they're notdoing it on purpose.
And that feeds back to theproblem with social media.
Social media isn't alwaystruthful.
So there's that truth People.
That's because they don't watchthe news anymore, they watch
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social media.
I do it too.
I watch YouTube.
I watch YouTube.
I watch people on YouTube and Ihear about my hobbies or my
interests, whether it's cooking,whether it's movies, whether
it's antiques.
I'm interested and I'd like tolearn the truth about so many
things and for some reason we'reat a point in America certainly
a turning point where truth hasbecome difficult to find.
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I'm always reminded by GeorgeOrwell's 1984 about the ministry
of truth and how they go backin the book and they change the
past and they eliminate whatthey don't want to be true and
they delete it.
And and they eliminate whatthey don't want to be true and
they delete it.
And that's okay that theydelete it for us, because we
remember it, we're firsthandviewers of what happened.
When they delete things thatare current, but future
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generations won't know the truthbecause it's been parceled and
propped up and bastardized in away that no longer reflects what
actually happened.
It is at best unfortunate, butanyway it is important.
And the reason I bring it up isbecause it's the changing way
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that we are getting ourinformation.
We now look to these people onthe internet that we actually
have some belief in.
Years ago, when they would takepolls on who's the most admired
man in America, you would getnames from newsmen Walter
Cronkite.
It was a long period of time.
Walter Cronkite was the mostpopular man in America, the
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person that people believed in.
When something happened in theworld, you looked to Walter
Cronkite to tell you whether itwas moon missions, whether it
was explosions, whether it waswar and, back then, whether it
was assassinations.
You looked to him because webelieved in him.
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Who do we believe in today?
Who is that person that we relyon out there giving us truth?
I'd love to know what you think.
Please let us know who youthink is telling you the truth,
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if anyone.
But anyway, let me get off that.
On a lighter note, I did areview of a restaurant that I've
been to a few times inMimarinik and I've mentioned it
to you before.
Nona Corolla is an Italianrestaurant and bar in Mimarinik.
It's 211 Mimarinik Avenue,mimarinik, and it's been open
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for a little while and over timeit's just gotten progressively
better.
It has two outsides to the seat, one in the front, one in the
back.
They have beautiful tables,they're professional waiters.
I have a few favorites.
They have a great menu and Iwould say my first favorite is
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they have a seafood appetizerwhich is a half a lobster, some
crab meat and beautiful giantshrimp, and it is so good, it's
so large that sometimes I haveit as a main course and then
maybe just have a pasta for anappetizer.
Or the other day I had theirburrata, which was amazing, too
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Nice burrata appetizer, whichhad a whole burrata on it with
red peppers, tomatoes, and theplate was lined with prosciutto
and together they were just anice combination of a nice
burrata.
What I've been, and not the lasttime, but the time before I was
there they had been kind enoughto give us a sampler of some of
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their pastas.
They have it and this is whatwe had this time.
The person I was with orderedit and I was lucky.
It was so large of an orderthat I had a couple and I had
the burrata ravioli Homemaderavioli made with stuff with
burrata in a light cream sauceJust fantastic.
They have ravioli with wildmushrooms, cherry tomatoes in a
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brandy cognac sauce as a pastaand it just is so fresh, so well
made and the sauce complementsso well.
As far as other things, if youlike chicken parm, their chicken
parm is amazing, but let's nottalk about that.
I don't eat veal but I knowpeople swear by their veals.
I've had chicken scarparello,which is very good.
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It's all white chicken breast,no bone, but we won't hold that
against them.
It's still very good.
I really like the New Yorkstrip.
It comes with roasted tomatoesand sauteed mushrooms and they
just load the mushrooms over thesteak and it's cooked perfectly
and just has a great taste.
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If I have a business dinner, ifI'm going out with someone
special and I want to haveclassic Italian food that I know
is consistently great food,consistently good, that the
waiter's serviced, that youdon't forget about you, that
they always make sure your drinkis full, that they have great
hot cappuccino with some dessertlike biscotti.
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Have a cappuccino with abiscotti after a nice meal is a
wonderful thing.
So I suggest that you all goout there and try Nona Corolla.
It is so good You're going tobe happy you did.
They're open all the time.
It's a big place, it's alwayshave room, they're caring, they
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remember you, they try hard.
I tell you Nona Corolla.
I'll give you the address onemore time.
It's 211 Mimarinick Ave inMimarinick, right on the main
street in town, on the corner ofEast Prospect, and if it's a
guy's night out, please go downthe street and go into Josh's
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Doc James Cigar Lounge and gohave a cigar after your meal.
You'll be happy you did.
I think that's it.
I think I've done enough.
I hope you all had a greatMother's Day.
I hope you're going to have agood week.
I hope you're thinking aboutwhere you want to go on vacation
.
Vacations have gotten soridiculous.
It costs just as much to go toFlorida as to go to Europe.
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It's ridiculous.
Thank God I have family thatlive in Maine that I get to
visit them that way.
But I look forward to a nicesummer.
It seems like the weather'sgoing to be great.
I know that after some of themajor storms in Maine, some of
the coastlines got beat up.
First time in history they gothit by such strong storms.
I hope George is back for ournext episode.
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I appreciate everybodylistening.
I hope you all had a goodMother's Day.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
I will be back to you all sosoon.
Hello everyone.
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Now our podcast.
Hello everyone, and welcomeback to A Better Life with
George and Steve.
Tonight you just have me.
George is still in Japan.
He's been there for a few weeks, so we've put our podcast to
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the side.
I know it's been a long time.
I've heard from a lot of you.
When's the next podcast?
That's why you have me alone.
I hope everyone is well.
I hope everyone's had a goodfew weeks.
It's finally made the transitionto spring.
I'm glad it's here.
I'm looking forward to doing alittle traveling.
Over Memorial Day weekend.
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I'm going to go visit my sisterup in Bar Harbor, maine, and I
love it up there.
I'd like to move there, butunfortunately I live here.
So there's a few things I'd liketo talk to you about tonight.
The first thing I'd like tomention to you is about the
newly found heart, if you will,of our New York teams.
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All of a sudden and maybe itisn't really all of a sudden.
I'm just beginning to noticethat the New York Knicks and the
New York Rangers have developed.
New York Rangers have developedthis ability to fight and to
win, and it's not as muchwinning as they have heart.
They leave everything on theice of the court.
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They fight to the end.
Of course, tonight beingMother's Day, happy Mother's Day
, belated Mother's Day to mostpeople by the time you hear this
to everyone out there.
But the Knicks got their buttskicked tonight and pretty much
the first time.
It was a close game.
They lost two.
They're now two and two, butthey're not very deep.
That's the problem with theKnicks they're not very deep.
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They don't have a lot ofplayers coming in off the bench.
I think the other night, whenthey were looking, even when
they won, the Knicks had threeor four points off the bench and
the Pacers had 42.
So the Knicks have been reallyfighting.
They beat the 76ers, they gavethem a real run for their money
and they beat them handedly.
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Every game was close.
Every game was amazing.
New stars have come out of thewoodwork.
Surprising new stars, at leastsurprising to me Jalen Brunson.
He has played better thanalmost anyone you can imagine in
history for these last fewgames in the playoffs.
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We've seen Dante DiVincenzo,we've seen OG Josh Hart, all
these players.
Now they have three playersfrom the National Championship,
villanova Wildcats.
So these players are familiarwith winning, they have it in
their DNA, so to speak.
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So it's been amazing to watchand it's great to see this
resurgence come to the Garden.
This Knick team, all the oldplayers have all been rolled out
, from Patrick Ewing to JohnStarks to Carmelo Anthony.
You see them all there, frazier, sitting on the sideline, the
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great players from the past.
They're all there and they'rerooting their team on.
It's a great thing to see.
Obviously, in my opinion, we'reprobably one great player away,
even though this team could winif their bench was a little
deeper, but I don't thinkthey're going to make the cut
with their bench the way it is.
We have injured players.
It's difficult, I think it'sdifficult to continue to play at
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that high level and wearyourself out.
The other team we need to talkabout is the New York Rangers.
I've always been a great Rangerfan.
I used to have season ticketswhen I was young and it really
is something to watch, watchingthe Rangers fight every play,
every puck, fighting throughkilling off penalties.
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It's been amazing Overtimegames they won.
Recently they won two overtimegames in a row.
In the past three games they'vewon two out of three.
They were a little soft theother night when the Hurricanes
beat them, but they did a greatjob.
The other two overtime games,one double overtime game the
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players have been amazing.
Whether it's everybody, rempe,panarin, they've all just played
amazing and they really havesomething other than talent and
that's heart.
And I have to say that'ssomething I like to see in all
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teams, in all New York teams.
You can't always have the bestplayers, but you can always give
the best effort and it's niceto see these professional
players in today's time whereplayers don't always give it
their all.
We hear these stories, we readthese stories in the newspaper,
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we hear them on the radio, howplayers say they're injured and
no one really believes it, orthey walk off the court or they
don't want to play every night.
This new thing about resting aplayer throughout the season
that's fairly new.
I don't think it would havehappened in Dave Stern's era of
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being the commissioner ofbasketball, but certainly this
new commissioner seems to be alittle softer with the players,
on the other hand.
They're different players today.
They look at things differently.
They really just don't want tocompete all the time.
They look at the regular seasonin a different light than they
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used to.
So that's an issue.
But when we see these playoffs,we're seeing teams fighting
like we haven't in years, in myopinion, across the board.
And then there's LeBron James inLos Angeles.
Lebron has been a great playerfor 20 years.
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Is that possible?
It is possible because we'veall seen it.
People ask him if he's going toretire, if he's ready to give
it up.
I don't believe so.
I think he's going to keepfighting.
I think he wants to take a shotat playing with his son, who's
in the draft this year.
Whether that happens or doesn'thappen, I'm not sure, but it is
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an opportunity for LeBron toplay with his son and to keep
coming to the game.
He's been criticized this year,but I have to say he's certainly
better than almost all theother players out there.
There are other good players,don't get me wrong, but he is at
his age, still playing at a ahigh level, and I give him
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credit for that.
You know the argument right?
The argument is he the bestever to live.
Is he better than jordan?
That this argument's raised inevery bar cigar lounge, on every
water cooler excuse, themetaphor at every work on every
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talk radio station.
Is he the best that ever was?
He played the longest.
He's playing long.
I have a hard time with sayinghe's the best.
I know Jordan is the best Iever saw, but I can't forget
players like Bill Russell, whohas a ring for every finger, who
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played in great teams andplayed a long time.
You can't forget players likeLarry Bird, like Magic Johnson,
like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
There are so many great players, but the eras are different, so
you look at things differently.
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It's hard to compare playersfrom different eras.
It's truly hard to compare.
But LeBron is certainly in thatconversation.
It's hard to deny that Peopledo because they're LeBron haters
and I don't have to say he'snot one of my favorite players,
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but when you watch him he'scertainly something to watch.
Over the years, the players ofthe past we remember the
highlights.
You remember the best.
I remember the Larry Bird gamewhere he could do no wrong.
I remember Larry Bird in thethree-point competitions that
used to, when everyone used tobe involved in the three-point
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competitions that took placeduring the All-Star game and he
would go out there and hit everybasket long before the
popularity of three-point shotstook place.
If you look back at some of thescoring, the game was different
, even when some of the greatgames by Larry Bird, by Magic
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Johnson, by Michael Jordan youlook at how many three-point
shots they actually took, youlook at how many three-point
shots they actually took andit's a totally different game.
It is very hard to compare thepoints, the assists and the
scoring because the game haschanged in such a way.
But anyway, that's enough aboutsports.
I just wanted to bring it upbecause it seems to dominate
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everything going on at themoment in New York.
Everybody's talking about it,everything going on at the
moment in New York.
Everybody's talking about itand it's easy to see why if you
just watch one of the games.
So Mother's Day today isMother's Day.
I of course remember my mother,who was certainly, as everyone
looks it was a pillar in my life.
She said and did amazing things.
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She fought for life, for ourlife, for our educations.
She fought for trying tostretch a penny longer than any
other person I've ever seenstretch a penny.
She did it with a small budgetand probably at least one and
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maybe two children that didn'treally understand how tight the
budget really is, and my sisterand I talk about it sometimes
and wonder how she did it.
My father was there, obviously,but he was out there working.
She was the day-to-day person.
She was the one that dealt withall the difficulties and was
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always there to answer thequestions.
And I wasn't easy, to be honest, I was certainly not easy, but
this is a day.
I remember my mother and weremember all mothers.
We all don't have wives, we alldon't have girlfriends, but we
all have mothers.
So happy mother's day toeveryone out there.
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It may be belated when youfinally hear this.
I'd like to talk briefly aboutthe met gala, which takes place,
as some of you may know, thefirst monday in may.
I don't know how anyone getsinvited to the met gala.
I don't know why anyone goes tothe Met Gala Other.
It's the center of the fashionuniverse, pretty much ran by
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Vogue.
It helps raise money for theexhibition that goes on there
regarding fashion.
I remember many years ago, whenI was a shoe salesman or a
buyer or a manager of different,various shoe stores and
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companies, there was a gentlemanwho always used to call me and
he was one of the directors ofthe Museum of Fashion, which I
think now has been incorporatedinto the Met and he would come
in and look at our entire lineof shoes and ask questions and
then pick certain shoes that hewould buy to put into the
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collection.
It was interesting because Iwas always amazed on what he
collected and what he wanted.
Originally I thought he wasbuying them for himself, but
then I realized they couldn'tfit him.
The Met Gala it's funny.
There's a theme and people weardresses that you cannot wear
anywhere else.
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They're made into the theme andit's almost like a costume ball
.
It's pretty amazing.
Some of the things are sostrange that you really can't
even walk up the steps.
People have to be carried.
Now, I don't know how thatmakes any sense, but it's
certainly interesting to watch.
I saw so many dresses that wereabsolutely amazing and beautiful
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and so many that just made mescratch my head, and I have an
appreciation for fashion, beingin the fashion business for a
long time before I'm in mypresent career, whatever that
may be at this time.
But I always find itinteresting who goes to these
things.
You always see the hot personof the moment, the person that's
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I don't want to say gettingtheir 15 minutes, but are new to
the pinnacle of notoriety.
They are now famous.
I remember the first Cardassianexperience there, and now
they're staples.
Everybody waits to see theCardassian sisters' dresses and
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they range all different kindsof things.
And now the gentlemen have gotinto the act sisters' dresses,
and they range all differentkinds of things.
And now the gentlemen have gotinto the act with it too.
They are all wearing all kindsof different things.
It's funny, it's amazing, it'snice to look at.
If you've ever seen thedocumentary the first Monday in
May, it's entirely about the MetGala, and if you're interested,
it's definitely something tolook into.
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And I think Vogue is doing agood job with realizing the
changing movement in America,and that is it's no longer
networks, it's no longertelevision networks that control
the information or setting thepace for the Americana of our
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existence at the present time.
It's now these trendsetters,these people that have podcasts
not mine, of course these peoplelike Joe Rogan, people that are
super popular that havepodcasts, that have different
trendsetters.
Matter of fact, vogue usedwhat's her name?
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Chamberlain.
I can't think of her name offthe top of my head, emma
Chamberlain, to be like the hostand interview people.
Now, I love Emma Chamberlain.
She is a huge sensation onYouTube and other places.
She has a podcast and she isthe most regular person you
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could possibly imagine.
She travels all over the world,she goes around, she talks
about them.
She does pretty much onlybetter, obviously, than what
George and I do.
We experience things and wetalk about it, but she's at a
level like you can't evenimagine In a couple of hours.
She has over a milliondownloads on her YouTube.
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They're really just amazing andshe's known everywhere and she
seems like such a regular personand now those people generate
millions of dollars when they dothese things.
She's become a fashion icon.
She's a beautiful young girl,no question about it, but she
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has this following.
That's amazing.
I think she does the Gucci adsI don't know if it's Gucci or
Louis Vuitton and now she's thehost for Vogue on the first
Monday in May for the Met Gala.
It's really amazing to see howthese things are all changing,
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how the power of controlling thedialogue of our lives has
shifted from television stationsor radio stations who
controlled who they put on andwhat they said to individuals
like Chamberlain, individualslike Joe Rogan, all different
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sides of the gambit.
People have their own interviewshows and stars.
Go look at the Hot Wings show.
That could be some of the bestinterviews you ever watched.
And for those of you thataren't familiar, I think the
group is called the First weFeast and they do Hot Ones and
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this guy's done it for 15, 20years already, where he has 10
wings that progress from hot toridiculously super hot and
during that time period he asksquestions and he's very well
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informed.
And there is an episode thatgoes by where the guest doesn't
say boy, you really did yourresearch and he really has.
And he asks great questions and, due to the heat of the wings,
everybody's off guard.
They're not guarded.
Sometimes they're cursing himbecause their mouth is on fire
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and they're drinking water andmilk and sometimes ice cream.
Once in a blue moon they walkoff and say listen, I'm not
doing this anymore, I'm out ofhere.
But rarely, very rarely, we'veseen everyone from Dua Lipa to
Lupa to Chef Ramsay to MikeTyson all different people and
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you're amazed on.
Some people can eat hot foodand some people you cannot, and
everyone promoting somethinggoes on it.
Why?
Because he has millions ofwatchers and millions of people
get to see you and what you'repromoting.
It's really a changingenvironment.
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What's come important to us.
Even me, the first thing I turnon isn't the news.
I don't watch the news anymore.
It's too orchestrated.
It doesn't matter if you'refrom the left or you're right.
There's no independentjournalism really anymore.
There may be some on some ofthe public broadcast, but I
can't watch somebody go on andon there's stations out there
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that just spend their entire daybashing the other
representative of the party theydon't agree with.
They spend their whole daydoing that.
When the United States SupremeCourt allowed the Pentagon
Papers to be released to thenewspapers after a challenge by
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the Nixon White House and by theSolicitor General, who at that
time was William Rundquist, wholater became the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court A littleside note is he went to law
school with Centreda O'Connorand they both ended up on the
court and it's prettyinteresting.
But anyway, the quote andforgive me if I beat it up, but
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the quote is we must let trueinformation, we must let
information flow to the peopleof America.
Why?
Because it's only an informedelectorate who can vote and make
decisions on how the country issupposed to be run.
How are we supposed to do thatwhen we're not informed?
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How are we supposed to do thatwhen we're not being told the
facts to make our own decision,rather a jaded view of whatever
your affiliation is.
It's bizarre to me what hashappened.
It's impossible to watch thenews.
And I'm not saying I have anaffiliation for one party over
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the other.
My affiliation is with thetruth.
And granted, there is spin.
People spin what happened.
At the end of the day, thereneeds to be some truth.
As many a day I go out into theworld and I see something and I
wonder is what this person'stelling me about different
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people who are in power in thiscountry True, or are they making
it up?
Are they slantening it?
How are you supposed to know?
I don't know.
I just sure hope they're notdoing it on purpose.
And that feeds back to theproblem with social media.
Social media isn't alwaystruthful.
So there's that truth People.
That's because they don't watchthe news anymore, they watch
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social media.
I do it too.
I watch YouTube.
I watch YouTube.
I watch people on YouTube and Ihear about my hobbies or my
interests, whether it's cooking,whether it's movies, whether
it's antiques.
I'm interested and I'd like tolearn the truth about so many
things and for some reason we'reat a point in America certainly
a turning point where truth hasbecome difficult to find.
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I'm always reminded by GeorgeOrwell's 1984 about the ministry
of truth and how they go backin the book and they change the
past and they eliminate whatthey don't want to be true and
they delete it.
And and they eliminate whatthey don't want to be true and
they delete it.
And that's okay that theydelete it for us, because we
remember it, we're firsthandviewers of what happened.
When they delete things thatare current, but future
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generations won't know the truthbecause it's been parceled and
propped up and bastardized in away that no longer reflects what
actually happened.
It is at best unfortunate, butanyway it is important.
And the reason I bring it up isbecause it's the changing way
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that we are getting ourinformation.
We now look to these people onthe internet that we actually
have some belief in.
Years ago, when they would takepolls on who's the most admired
man in America, you would getnames from newsmen Walter
Cronkite.
It was a long period of time.
Walter Cronkite was the mostpopular man in America, the
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person that people believed in.
When something happened in theworld, you looked to Walter
Cronkite to tell you whether itwas moon missions, whether it
was explosions, whether it waswar and, back then, whether it
was assassinations.
You looked to him because webelieved in him.
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Who do we believe in today?
Who is that person that we relyon out there giving us truth?
I'd love to know what you think.
Please let us know who youthink is telling you the truth,
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if anyone.
But anyway, let me get off that.
On a lighter note, I did areview of a restaurant that I've
been to a few times inMimarinik and I've mentioned it
to you before.
Nona Corolla is an Italianrestaurant and bar in Mimarinik.
It's 211 Mimarinik Avenue,mimarinik, and it's been open
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for a little while and over timeit's just gotten progressively
better.
It has two outsides to the seat, one in the front, one in the
back.
They have beautiful tables,they're professional waiters.
I have a few favorites.
They have a great menu and Iwould say my first favorite is
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they have a seafood appetizerwhich is a half a lobster, some
crab meat and beautiful giantshrimp, and it is so good, it's
so large that sometimes I haveit as a main course and then
maybe just have a pasta for anappetizer.
Or the other day I had theirburrata, which was amazing, too
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Nice burrata appetizer, whichhad a whole burrata on it with
red peppers, tomatoes, and theplate was lined with prosciutto
and together they were just anice combination of a nice
burrata.
What I've been, and not the lasttime, but the time before I was
there they had been kind enoughto give us a sampler of some of
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their pastas.
They have it and this is whatwe had this time.
The person I was with orderedit and I was lucky.
It was so large of an orderthat I had a couple and I had
the burrata ravioli Homemaderavioli made with stuff with
burrata in a light cream sauceJust fantastic.
They have ravioli with wildmushrooms, cherry tomatoes in a
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brandy cognac sauce as a pastaand it just is so fresh, so well
made and the sauce complementsso well.
As far as other things, if youlike chicken parm, their chicken
parm is amazing, but let's nottalk about that.
I don't eat veal but I knowpeople swear by their veals.
I've had chicken scarparello,which is very good.
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It's all white chicken breast,no bone, but we won't hold that
against them.
It's still very good.
I really like the New Yorkstrip.
It comes with roasted tomatoesand sauteed mushrooms and they
just load the mushrooms over thesteak and it's cooked perfectly
and just has a great taste.
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If I have a business dinner, ifI'm going out with someone
special and I want to haveclassic Italian food that I know
is consistently great food,consistently good, that the
waiter's serviced, that youdon't forget about you, that
they always make sure your drinkis full, that they have great
hot cappuccino with some dessertlike biscotti.
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Have a cappuccino with abiscotti after a nice meal is a
wonderful thing.
So I suggest that you all goout there and try Nona Corolla.
It is so good You're going tobe happy you did.
They're open all the time.
It's a big place, it's alwayshave room, they're caring, they
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remember you, they try hard.
I tell you Nona Corolla.
I'll give you the address onemore time.
It's 211 Mimarinick Ave inMimarinick, right on the main
street in town, on the corner ofEast Prospect, and if it's a
guy's night out, please go downthe street and go into Josh's
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Doc James Cigar Lounge and gohave a cigar after your meal.
You'll be happy you did.
I think that's it.
I think I've done enough.
I hope you all had a greatMother's Day.
I hope you're going to have agood week.
I hope you're thinking aboutwhere you want to go on vacation
.
Vacations have gotten soridiculous.
It costs just as much to go toFlorida as to go to Europe.
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It's ridiculous.
Thank God I have family thatlive in Maine that I get to
visit them that way.
But I look forward to a nicesummer.
It seems like the weather'sgoing to be great.
I know that after some of themajor storms in Maine, some of
the coastlines got beat up.
First time in history they gothit by such strong storms.
I hope George is back for ournext episode.
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I appreciate everybodylistening.
I hope you all had a goodMother's Day.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
I will be back to you all sosoon.
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