December 11, 2024 • 31 mins
It wouldn't be a cringy romance novel without...a SHOPPING MONTAGE! Alessandro's first order of business, as the new savior of Dillard Investments, is to force his assistant into a 5 hour fashion makeover against her will. Later, he takes her to a charity ball and introduces her to everyone there even though she's been working with those people for many years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A sexy day with Daddy. I mean, read this team
Mamma's book clubs. Grab your busy listen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey guys, hi, Hello there we are back with the
second episode of The Italian's Unexpected Baby with comedians Victorial
Leonardi and Alex Chambers.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The Italian's Unexpected Baby a story of Catholicism.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
She doesn't even get pregnant, just the fact that Alessandra's
just a joint baby.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, yeah, he's the Unexpected Baby.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I like that. That's the title that makes a lot
more sense.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Tylet see Victoria, do you want to give a quick
quick overview of what we talked about in the.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Last Alessander a costa. He's an Italian self made billionaire,
which they don't say how, which means it was probably crypto.
He escaped the dark streets of Rome, which means he
was in a place where they didn't fix the lights.
Assuming this is why I'm not just staying that the
Colisseum no More is a ship and he said he
(01:10):
would look. The well is broken four hundred years, they're
not fixed. What's the matter? Obelix runs into the side,
it collapses. What So they're allegedly in Rome allegedly because
if you ever find the cover art for this book,
it looks like somebody said, what does an Italian city
look like? And then bah boom so because the've got
a touch of Venice, that touch of Florence and a
bit of rome in there. So yeah, anyway, yeah, it's
(01:35):
HiT's maloney. Alisanda Costa buys this company called Investments, Yeah,
Dillard Investments now Dilid Investments. They invest in Dylland's and
so he buys this company. Basically we figured out on
a whim to date the executive assistant, whose name is Mia,
which is Italian for mine. Sorry, no, Mio is mine? Sorry,
(01:59):
Mia is uh. I think it's probably the feminine of that. Yeah, yeah, his,
there we go. His he just saw she must be mine,
and so his first words were to her work, I
need you, and then gave us some shit to do.
So he clearly doesn't know how to speak to people.
And he's by himself the whole time, because billionaires don't
(02:20):
travel with an entourage, especially when they've just bought an
entire company.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, he's completely by himself. Actually, that's a fair considered.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That he's just an internet con man who made his
money off crypto.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, no one's ever considered that myself.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I made a billionaire who's a penis guides every choice
he make. I had the bad childhood, which means I
can be a donkey to every human being on earth.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
He buys all his companies by check, and he doesn't.
It takes for two weeks to balance, but I find
that habits.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's gone. Yeah, he's freaking gone.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He uses his penis like a compass needle, disappointing him
and was dressed.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
There is somebody I would like to buy.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is there anything you want to add to the summary?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Alex, I think he's got to cover it, but it's
he's like abused exactly as system for doing her job properly. Yeah,
he's giving her like tasks to do and it's been horrible.
Like the first thing he did when they walked in
was like, wh where is me James? So he automatically
knew her name, which was kind of freaking like, you know,
like showing report. He's literally walked in. He's like, I
just want to talk to this woman.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
This woman was specifically he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Even know what the company does. He just owns that.
It's just a case of like, Okay, I just wanted
to talk to you. So, like, I mean, that is
like next level creepy. Like and if you if you
see a girl, you kind of just go and be like, hey,
like how are you? I think you're nice? We want
to go and get a coffee chat. They want to
go get a coffee? Why where she works? And it's like,
you can't.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
There's a charity event. That's that evening. Go to charity
event and welcome says hello, I'm Alessandro. I'm new in town.
With that nextent alone, she's going to be interested. Sorry,
that's just this, that's just and then just to talk
to her, and it's just so, so what do you do?
It's just I I buy companies and I flipped them
like houses. But when I flipped them, all the other
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employees they fly out.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And done the same thing. He would have gone into
the gallop ball. I got on the stage and just
been like, where's me, James.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
James, I want to give to her charity.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, it is a charity event hosted by the company. Yeah,
so Mia was good. She usually goes to these events,
but more as like an employee, because that's what she is,
is an employee and her previous boss was super respectful
of that employer employee line. And Alessandro is like, I
never been to this event, so you got to be there.
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And she's like, right, that's what I always do.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And I was going anyway.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I was going.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Anyways as I always do. And he's like, no, no, no,
you need to go as my date. And she's like,
I don't know if that's appropriate, and he's like, I
don't fucking care.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Like why do I feel? Like you ever seen Dodgeball
when Goldman is trying to go out with the lady
from the bank. Yeah, I can't date my clients. And
he's like, oh, that's cool. I bought the bank and
I fired you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That is kind of what he does. And she she
even says like the way he ordered her to attend
the gala felt quote possessive, as if he were staking
his claim on her, branding her with his words makes
you think.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, me, I would. I would be on your leg.
But I need to see and be seen in public
with you.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I need you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, And he's like telling her about like all this
stuff because normally she goes to these events, and she
just wears like something formal but simple, and he's like, no,
you gotta be like fucking bellow the ball right now.
You know you, I don't care about your your actual
I care a little bit about like your actual work abilities,
but I want you to look sexy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is he paying for the outfit that you suppose?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Of course? Oh my god, there's always a shopping montage
in these all right.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I want just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, it's it's that scene like the montage members sisters
trying to dress. He's just sitting there, spoke together like.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
These books do that and not even like the books,
but there's movies where they'll have this like really possessive
European man and then and then he ordered a woman
like I'm gonna I'm gonna buy you a fucking Chanel outfit,
whether you look at or not.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I can actually picture the song being like when you
work for a company, but you all by me that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Italians do, Vittorio.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Uh not any Italians.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you ever even never taken your wife out on
like a forced shopping spree like bitch, I will buy
you address.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Basically considering a work in comedy, and you know what
my day job is I don't think Brown's would Brown
Thomas would allow me in the store. There's seven entrances
at the side.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's just it's just it's just the just the thing
of like Alessandro and the Pennies.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, I mean that's the montage, would be driving down
El Street and that's it. That's I'll show you where
Pennies is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Anything in the sales section, babe is yours?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah? Me giving her the hottest Harry Potter theme ship.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yes, and you really going to be money left will
come the Vincent's.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, baby, you go happy meal on me.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I love that. It's like, you're gonna come to this
God with me tonight. It's the one I go to
every year. Yes, but you're going to wear what I
want you to wear. This oversteps every boundary search year.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And then he gets mad at her because then she
like eventually complies and she's like, okay, but let me.
I just got to figure out the logistics of this
in my mind because I had this other plan, but
now you're throwing this other thing. I got to figure
out how I'm getting home and yeah, yeah, and he gets.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Mad at her.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He's like, how the fuck do you not like just
immediately know what.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
How are you? How are you thinking but not thinking
when I want you to not thinking thinking?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, you and the worst exacular system ever.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Here.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You not know what I'm about to say?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, that it's it's that it's a psychic jackass syndrome.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then, so when he actually sees like what she was
originally planning on wearing, which was again just like a
very plain but acceptable black dress, and he's pissed. He
says to her, here's a quote. Did you want to
be mistaken for one of the serving staff? And then
he then he continues, your dress is dreadful, like something
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a junior secretary would wear it to the office Christmas party.
And she's like, I did wear this to the office
Christmas party, so.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Ma.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
That's like install wars ensus where they're breaking into the
detentionary says, this is not going to work. Why did
you say so before? I did say so before?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, could you imagine like any job you worked and
were like to see He also said, no, you can't
wear that to the party, oh my.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Especially if it's if it's like a perfectly acceptable dress,
and he's just like, no, it does You're not hot enough.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
But even then at the end of the day, it's like,
what do you do in town? I want to wear
it this party in the eighties?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Could you get away with saying this ship out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Not for long, but not even like if you're in
a relationship, what I expect him what to say that.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's been an hour. He's known her for an hour
at this point, and he's just like, your dress sucks,
it's not hot enough.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Is everybody else in the office like just working away?
They else, tis, what are we supposed to do? Yeah,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So he's like they're having this conversation in his office
so no one else can like hear this, and imagine
everyone else is like, yeah, what the fuck are we
supposed to do? If you d just got here? And
he's just like looks like he's, you know, verbally abusing Mia.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
What all these fires locked the door and swallowed the gate,
was off.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The key, We heard the clink, we saw we heard
the key bounce off your.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So then he like tells her, he's like, right, I'm
going to hire a personal assistant to dress you and
do your makeup. And she's like she's obviously offected by
everything because she's a normal person.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Assistant assistant.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Okay, yeah, you already assistant to the assistant.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You are not allowed to bring me coffee. You bring
me through.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It is like the fucking It's like The Office with
dunder Mifflin where there's an episode where Dwight has an
assistant where Jim as hired as the assistant and then
he tells Jim, you need an assistant. So the assistant
to the assistant regional manager.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
That's what he's.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's pretty much office boy. That's yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, if her job is like as this is, like,
you know, dress and do like me his makeup. Doesn't
she finish work at like seven thirty am? He works
for like half an hour?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That's you know what that if it's nice work if
you can get it. But that depends on whether kind.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He pays, like a full salary for like half an
hour's work every day.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
This is you. You are exactly the kind of woman
I would date.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I that you don't make up like the joker. You
never said what I had to look like, Alissid.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But depending on which joker, if you show up as
Jared Lita Joker, that would be terrifying, but this is
the thing you can't do. He's legits when he was
awesome and that it's second and we.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Could be like in the sims where marriage gets a makeup.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But he so he doesn't understand why Mia is offended
by literally everything he's done. He's like, oh my god,
most women are just like WOU would love this. He
just assumes all women only care about makeup and shoes
and that's it. So he's like, yeah, I'm gonna buy
you all this ship. I don't know why you're offended,
and she's like, because you just insulted my personal style.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Dude, listen to ye.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Actually really spoken.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He hasn't yet.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't think he spoken to a woman.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And he's so he's like, I don't care. I'm gonna
you're gonna have to spend the rest of the afternoon
getting ready as though you're Cinderella and whatever. And here's
a quote. He did not like her protestations. He was
used to being obeyed instantly, and Mia James seemed not
to have realized.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
She's not a She works for you, and she do
her job for her. Best to do in her actual life.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is if they go to her to his freaking apartment
or whatever. It's just gonna be rows and rows of
real dolls all along the freaking walls. They're not very talkative,
but they've got their uses.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
He's going to be like Norman Bage, like his is
going to be still from the rocking chair.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, fuck with a six doll.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm surprised he's Italian and not American because I think
a lot of American bosses have the attitude of like,
I control your work and personal life, and he's.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Act I feel like he's going to be like that
uh Diamer series. Like she goes back to his like,
I told you you can dress yourself on the wedding gown,
then we can go.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's kind of so he's getting more annoyed Slash
turned on by her rebelliousness.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I like it when they fight back, said every cereal.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, that's exactly it. He likes it when they fight
back companies.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Women, Why is it? Why is you keep leaving companies?
Oh there's about a hundred cases against me.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
When he looks at her and it's turned on, he
hears the sound of a shovel, like narth, keep it,
keep it talking.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Turns out Alessandro Costa is actually the Italian for Vince McMahon.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's a good docu. That's a good docu, sries. So
we find out more about his past. We find out
that his mother was poor and she turned to various
bad relationships to survive. Then here's a quote, Alessandro would
never ever be like his mother, whose sorry life had
been tossed on the waves of other people's whims, her
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poverty and powerlessness, making her constantly vulnerable, searching for love
and meaning and shabby, shallow relationships. Like, dude hates his mom.
Dude fucking hates I'm picking up a vibe.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, she's were what I told her to wear.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, my mom's.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Overall. I never speak to her again.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So he's like, I don't want to be like my mom,
who was who was poor and because people took advantage
of her unstable position. So instead, I'm going to be
just like the dudes yeah that I hated seeing her
with and I'm going to take advantage of I'm going
to abuse my power.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Of the question. These books are written in the sense
that he's supposed to be the protagonistism he's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Supposed to be. We what like the male protagonist. Yeah,
we're rooting for him.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Allegedly.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It seems to be the big trope I've seen so fine,
anything that's even remotely y. I know this isn't Ya,
but the main character that you cannot like. If you
like the main character, there is actually something wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I kind of like Mia. I mean not because I
think she has like way more batonomy. Yeah, I feel
bad for her. I definitely feel more bad for her
than anything.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I mean, actually, no, I think about it. This is
the first time there's been a female character in one
of the stories you've covered that's actually just a person.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
She's just a normal human being to do her job.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, And she's reacting in the same way anyone would,
where it's like, I'm just here to do yeah, to
be an assistant. What do you mean I have to
wear a ball gown.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I came in to check my email and now suddenly
we're at a ball I mean, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Very much so. In his internal monologue, we also find
out that he, in his own mind, is fully aware
that what he's asking me to do is ridiculous. He's like, Okay, Alessandro,
I know that I you know, I should not have
asked her to like change her dress because it was
perfectly acceptable what she had, but I wanted to see
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her in something nicer. So like, he admits to himself
that he's being manipulative and he doesn't care.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
So he's self aware.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He's self aware.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Okay, that's even worse.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
He's self aware of his manipulativeness. Yeah, and if.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You wanted to, like, just like you want to grow
sometime gone a few dates, nice to lady, be nice
to somebody.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's the thing of they're compelled to kill. They're perfectly
aware of what they're doing is wrong, but they can't
stop themselves. So let me get this right. You have
a compulsion to be a jackass.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, and he doesn't. He doesn't care to stop it.
And I mean the guy in the first book was
also like this, where he was like in the first book,
it was Molly and Salvio, and Salvio would like give
her the silent treatment and she's like, hey, you're giving
me the silent treatment and we're married, and he'd sit
there and be like, oh my god, you're just being
an emotional woman. But then in the back of his mind,
as the reader, we could see that he was like, yeah,
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I know she has a point, but I don't want.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
To deal with her. I don't want her to know.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So so this guy is like, oh god, I'm being
a bit rude.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And again.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
He's like he got he goes, he goes like golf
on her, like he said to work. So on the
back of his voice is the thing go, that's a
bit made nasty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So we even Yeah, he was supposed to be rooting
for him, even though he's a self aware psychopath. Yeah,
Mia spends the whole afternoon getting ready instead of doing
her job.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Could you much her work made? Like what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
The bar as he wants for to get changed all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So yeah, the boss is like locking me in the
office and we've.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Got on your reports on our desks.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Now, cou'd be so fucking weird though, going into the Yeah,
going at the office and seeing one of like the
conference rooms locked up, and then your your fucking co
worker is there getting the Cinderella treatment. And while she's
like crying.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, coming in like sing, she's started like one of
the interns into a horse and carriage And it's.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Like, I thought we helped people with their taxes?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Why is she like me? His reports like, I was like, sorry, guys,
you gonna have to work, shoe lunch and stay late
well stressed.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
After Mia is done, the stylist doesn't ask for me
is approval. The stylist goes to Costa and it's like,
I gotta get your signature of approval because you're the
man who ordered this. And so he looks at her
and he's stunned, and he's thinking that she looks like
a Norse goddess, right, you mean a horse goddess. So
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but then of course you can't let her know like
how great she is. So he's just like it's acceptable.
But in his mind he's like, what a fucking babe, Right.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
She looks great? But I'm not telling her.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Of course, not just my raging heart on.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I'm just pictured, like you know, it's the end of
the wark, like it's everyone's sitting there. They're all I go,
like twice the amount of work. They're absolutely shattered bags
on the coffee. The veins are having the smoke, and
Mike comes out looking like a Disney princess. Gone, what
a day?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh God, how do they walk?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I will have my damn.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
She won't be walking for much longer.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, too much.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So Mia, this this part pisses me off a little
little bit. Mia is like thinking to herself about this
whole situation. We see her point of view, and she's like, Okay, yeah,
he's being like really fucking rude, and I'm annoyed by it.
But I'm also kind of turned on by his autrad
just weird, little tingly feeling I have. I'm just summon.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
She's like one of an absolute pig, one of the sofa.
He looks in the mirror. I'm Cinderetta.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Yeah that is.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, he bought me a car, so I better put out.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So I'm not gonna. I've got my rights and my
I'm gonna one day my prince will come right.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's like they both so what we see from both
Mia and Alessandro is that, Okay, they both grew up
with mothers who were, you know, financially or emotionally abused
by men, and then they sa all their mothers suffer
and then they themselves were poor because of it. And
so they're both like looking at this and me as like, okay,
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I'm never going to get into a relationship like that,
and then he is kind of the opposite. He's like,
I am going to be the man in those relationships
and do that to other women.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So he's in the back of his mind and said, god,
I'm being quite a dick, and she's thinking, oh, I
want some dick.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, I don't know the fact that they're vout like
secret this one. It's like, but don't tell them.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Other people are watching this, going, oh, for God's.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Sake, Like they're in the office, like and everybody's been
super awkward, Like there's Jerry in accounts, just shing across
the office, just kids, just kid.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Oh god, yeah, okay, Yeah, she's noduled up and.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Up and she's enjoying it, but she doesn't want to
enjoy it. Oh the forbidden fruit. And so they go
to the they go to the ball right, and Alessandro,
Oh my god, guess what he's being like super flirty
with her, and she's so surprised.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Like, what.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Aking is it actually being flirty or is it that
way that does backhanded compliment things?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Again, No, he's being very flirty. He's like touching her
lower back and whispering in her ear and being like,
you look the gorgeous Yeah, and just like, oh you
don't you don't know what she is. I mean for her,
I'd be like, this is kind of like sex work,
though sex work is still work.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
The date Cinderella.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, I mean she's blonde and she's just got a
blue dress and everything.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Sing that song that you like so much. I don't
like the song. Sing this song and like you like
this song.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
At the end of it, he just it's me. I'm
the Prince.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yes, in case you did not know, I bought the
horse special. You like horse, don't you? You on that
hockey team.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He's introducing her. Here's the thing, so she's been at
this event before.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
For years.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
He's introducing her as his companion and his date. He's
the new one there. He's she's there like.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
You know, like hello, Bob easy, definitely ten years, this
is Maya.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, but he's like, this is my date Maya. And
everyone's kind of confused.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
They're like, my date, this is my date.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, he's He's like, he's one who's like I need
you to come because I don't know anybody there. But
then he shows up and he's acting like he's the
one who's been there for a decade and not her.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
This dude is like, just read a book on self confidence, but.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
This is Maya. We know her. No, no, no, this
is dressed may You don't know this.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
This is slutted up.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Last time you saw her, she was so fucking ugly.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
But one of the lines in the book you probably.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Didn't recognize her because she's actually wearing lipstick for once
in her goddamn life.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Bitch, this is called Mayah, or as we like to say,
Maya Stun's form made an effort.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Can you imagine how like awkward and horrible that is
for her to be? Like, you know, I just want
to be seen as a professional, and all these these
are all professionals I've worked with for years and years.
And then he's suddenly there and he's not like, oh, yeah,
you know Maya the personal assistant that you all know.
He's like, no, this is my date. And they're just
like what And it makes her feel so embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Probably looking at him gone, but who are you?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, there's at least one middle manager is high fived
and going right, finally see Maya.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But then he straight up tells her because she's she
confronts him about this, Like, dude, the fuck. And he
just straight up says, you're a beautiful woman, and I
want to show you off and I want you to
be on my arm, and I want people to think
that you're mine. He just tells her point blank.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
You literally, but she knows everyone. It's like going to
the world Christmas party. Yeah, and you're like, obviously she's
how you opening the cold. She's well known by everyone.
It's like, hey, they see her like for forty hours
a week. And then it's like, okay, pretend you don't
know anyone.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Imagine if because we've been to like some comedian Christmas parties,
Imagine if all of us went to like a comedian
Christmas party and let's say, Alex, you brought someone with
you and it happened to be like the boss knows.
There's like your boss at your job or something, and
then she was introducing you to everyone else, said this
is my date, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Like, hello, there is good to see you all again.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
The comedians would actually roll with it and just act
like they don't know you.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Oh yeah, actually anyway, yeah, okay, it's not just when
it comes to book and shows.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Yeah, common we could get dating or stuff. Oh my god,
you can wear the dress though, Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
That could be or me a baby. Oh god, it's
a musical.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I forgot.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
It gets a little worse, of course.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'm sure this was this was the good stuff, This
was the nice him being appropriate. So now so she
tells him straight up like dude, I'm not your date,
I'm your assistant, and this is weird, and he just
gives he hands her more champagne and he's like, you
are my date. Just keep drinking, and then he like
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gets more feely with her, put his hands on her
hips and stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, she's making her drink more.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, he's making her drink more, touching her hips, touching her.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, she might want to get that stuff you put
in your drink to see if it's been roofied, because
oh yeah, I think it's. It's just full to the
brim with.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Again all the lines like all, look, here's the new CEO.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
He's doing this. He's not even ashamed of this. I'm
sure everyone can fucking see this as well.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Like fret boy, the CEO, what's this charity we're donating to?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Again, it's all I believe it's a women's health service.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Jesus mental health because because they've been fucking accosted by
parent Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Lords, hell, I can't believe. She's like, I don't want
to do is He's just kind of tanking her rope.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So then she gets more confrontational with him, and she's
just like, let me, let me ask you something. Okay,
you've you've got a reputation for coming in taking over
companies and firing ninety percent of the people. Do you
And she straight up says, here's a quote, do you
enjoy ruining other people's lives?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So I'm like, good for you, good for fucking yeah,
I'm on my sord with this. And then he like
evades her question. He's just like, ah, you know, business
is business.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
A picture like that ten episode? Do you enjoy ruining
people's lives? More drink?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, I believe that questions will be a medical matter,
ec medical man.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But then he basically, oh, oh yeah, I forgot okay sorry.
The back of the description, it says that he's from
the streets of Rome, having escaped the streets of Rome
Alessandro Costa blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
The streets iron No, he's actually from fucking Naples.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That would explain why it's such a scrubby bust.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
That's what. That's what, That's what he wanted. The streets
he was looking for, the cold he gave.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Basically, they had the jacket printed first and then somebody
they said, don't write and don't write in Naples. Rome
is people who know it is Naples. No one has
any idea.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
They've never heard of Naples because being from Naples is
a big part of his personality, just like it was
in the last book. The Salvio from the last book
was also from Naples.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Have you been to Naples?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Do you have relatives from Naples?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No, I mean not that I can remember. I mean
all of my family comes from Lazio, the province of Lazio,
and is like basically Rome area. That's yeah, I mean Naples.
The most I know about it was from Spike Milligan's
War Memoirs from the Second World War. And yeah, Naples
is not as I suppose cosmopolitan as Rome is. I
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mean that it's the capital city and like one of
the centers of fashion. Milan is as well, so it's
it's a different vibe, it's different people. So I don't know.
I mean, it could be that thing of you know,
if people who live in people live in the south
of Dublin, and that's supposedly looking down on people in
the north of Dublin. I think it might be something
like that. Laus, if you live in Dublin and somebody's
from Cork in the room, then you'd automatically deduct one
(28:36):
hundred like Q points from them or something like that.
It's that sort of it's regional racism, I suppose. So
with this business, I'm like, I'm going wait a minute,
all of them from Naples. Yeah, so this is where
the story came from. Somebody had a bad experience with
the guy from Naples, and I'm just going to fuck everybody.
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All my villains are going to.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Be from Naples, but they consider them to be sexy,
good guys. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, okay, so they're from Naples. My mistake. They had
one good pizza from from Naples and they were like, okay,
all of them are awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I don't get.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It anyway that the Naples boys are out in the.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Pre Naples boys are on the pre another so he
he continues to evade her questions of like why are
you such a dick in business, but instead what he
does is he then he pulls the whole woe is
Me card because he's like, he tells her like, I
grew up in a slum, I came you know, I
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worked my way to the top and YadA yah. And
then then he says like, look, I take over companies
and I fire everybody because I'm actually saving the companies.
The companies that I take over are actually doing really shit,
and I only fire lazy people. The people are that
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he are lazy. Is when he's going into the.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Office, make car change your clothes.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, She's like, I want to work, and he's like, no,
you got to spend five hours getting ready so I
could sexually harass you later. Oh no. So when they
start dancing, Costa is getting real horny, even more so
than he's been.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Oh God for the whole day, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
And he can tell, quote from the look in her
eyes quote.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Helped me.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Twice, if the is an enemy in the room.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
He can tell that she wants him.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
To go.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Away.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
So he's like, let's get out of here, and she's like, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
You sure.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Let the door on the way out.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
So, guys, that's the end of episode two.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
We were just getting, we're just getting.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I mean he's already like I don't know, I mean,
he's already put his hands on her without permission. So
he's already done a little bit of the essay.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
But so okay, even just as the rest of the
staff that we're working on there right later, losers, there's
there's there's ten people who work in the company's like
by far ninety percent of the staff. Like that's or nine.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
The war.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
This is one shrump shows up, right, She's only one
of those and get fired.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, so we're going to uh, he didn't even.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Come in with like an idea to pick on ey
Meaty Maya James. That's yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Going to find out what the steamy sex in the
next in the next episode. So again, thanks for listening,
and also another shout out to anony My Patron subscribers. Yeah, okay, okay,
we'll see you guys soon.
A sexy day with Daddy. I mean, read this team
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey guys, hi, Hello there we are back with the
second episode of The Italian's Unexpected Baby with comedians Victorial
Leonardi and Alex Chambers.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The Italian's Unexpected Baby a story of Catholicism.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
She doesn't even get pregnant, just the fact that Alessandra's
just a joint baby.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, yeah, he's the Unexpected Baby.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I like that. That's the title that makes a lot
more sense.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Tylet see Victoria, do you want to give a quick
quick overview of what we talked about in the.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Last Alessander a costa. He's an Italian self made billionaire,
which they don't say how, which means it was probably crypto.
He escaped the dark streets of Rome, which means he
was in a place where they didn't fix the lights.
Assuming this is why I'm not just staying that the
Colisseum no More is a ship and he said he
(01:10):
would look. The well is broken four hundred years, they're
not fixed. What's the matter? Obelix runs into the side,
it collapses. What So they're allegedly in Rome allegedly because
if you ever find the cover art for this book,
it looks like somebody said, what does an Italian city
look like? And then bah boom so because the've got
a touch of Venice, that touch of Florence and a
bit of rome in there. So yeah, anyway, yeah, it's
(01:35):
HiT's maloney. Alisanda Costa buys this company called Investments, Yeah,
Dillard Investments now Dilid Investments. They invest in Dylland's and
so he buys this company. Basically we figured out on
a whim to date the executive assistant, whose name is Mia,
which is Italian for mine. Sorry, no, Mio is mine? Sorry,
(01:59):
Mia is uh. I think it's probably the feminine of that. Yeah, yeah, his,
there we go. His he just saw she must be mine,
and so his first words were to her work, I
need you, and then gave us some shit to do.
So he clearly doesn't know how to speak to people.
And he's by himself the whole time, because billionaires don't
(02:20):
travel with an entourage, especially when they've just bought an
entire company.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, he's completely by himself. Actually, that's a fair considered.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That he's just an internet con man who made his
money off crypto.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, no one's ever considered that myself.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I made a billionaire who's a penis guides every choice
he make. I had the bad childhood, which means I
can be a donkey to every human being on earth.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
He buys all his companies by check, and he doesn't.
It takes for two weeks to balance, but I find
that habits.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's gone. Yeah, he's freaking gone.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He uses his penis like a compass needle, disappointing him
and was dressed.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
There is somebody I would like to buy.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is there anything you want to add to the summary?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Alex, I think he's got to cover it, but it's
he's like abused exactly as system for doing her job properly. Yeah,
he's giving her like tasks to do and it's been horrible.
Like the first thing he did when they walked in
was like, wh where is me James? So he automatically
knew her name, which was kind of freaking like, you know,
like showing report. He's literally walked in. He's like, I
just want to talk to this woman.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
This woman was specifically he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Even know what the company does. He just owns that.
It's just a case of like, Okay, I just wanted
to talk to you. So, like, I mean, that is
like next level creepy. Like and if you if you
see a girl, you kind of just go and be like, hey,
like how are you? I think you're nice? We want
to go and get a coffee chat. They want to
go get a coffee? Why where she works? And it's like,
you can't.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
There's a charity event. That's that evening. Go to charity
event and welcome says hello, I'm Alessandro. I'm new in town.
With that nextent alone, she's going to be interested. Sorry,
that's just this, that's just and then just to talk
to her, and it's just so, so what do you do?
It's just I I buy companies and I flipped them
like houses. But when I flipped them, all the other
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employees they fly out.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And done the same thing. He would have gone into
the gallop ball. I got on the stage and just
been like, where's me, James.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
James, I want to give to her charity.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, it is a charity event hosted by the company. Yeah,
so Mia was good. She usually goes to these events,
but more as like an employee, because that's what she is,
is an employee and her previous boss was super respectful
of that employer employee line. And Alessandro is like, I
never been to this event, so you got to be there.
(04:32):
And she's like, right, that's what I always do.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And I was going anyway.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I was going.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Anyways as I always do. And he's like, no, no, no,
you need to go as my date. And she's like,
I don't know if that's appropriate, and he's like, I
don't fucking care.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Like why do I feel? Like you ever seen Dodgeball
when Goldman is trying to go out with the lady
from the bank. Yeah, I can't date my clients. And
he's like, oh, that's cool. I bought the bank and
I fired you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That is kind of what he does. And she she
even says like the way he ordered her to attend
the gala felt quote possessive, as if he were staking
his claim on her, branding her with his words makes
you think.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, me, I would. I would be on your leg.
But I need to see and be seen in public
with you.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I need you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, And he's like telling her about like all this
stuff because normally she goes to these events, and she
just wears like something formal but simple, and he's like, no,
you gotta be like fucking bellow the ball right now.
You know you, I don't care about your your actual
I care a little bit about like your actual work abilities,
but I want you to look sexy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is he paying for the outfit that you suppose?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Of course? Oh my god, there's always a shopping montage
in these all right.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I want just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, it's it's that scene like the montage members sisters
trying to dress. He's just sitting there, spoke together like.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
These books do that and not even like the books,
but there's movies where they'll have this like really possessive
European man and then and then he ordered a woman
like I'm gonna I'm gonna buy you a fucking Chanel outfit,
whether you look at or not.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I can actually picture the song being like when you
work for a company, but you all by me that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Italians do, Vittorio.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Uh not any Italians.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you ever even never taken your wife out on
like a forced shopping spree like bitch, I will buy
you address.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Basically considering a work in comedy, and you know what
my day job is I don't think Brown's would Brown
Thomas would allow me in the store. There's seven entrances
at the side.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's just it's just it's just the just the thing
of like Alessandro and the Pennies.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, I mean that's the montage, would be driving down
El Street and that's it. That's I'll show you where
Pennies is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Anything in the sales section, babe is yours?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah? Me giving her the hottest Harry Potter theme ship.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yes, and you really going to be money left will
come the Vincent's.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, baby, you go happy meal on me.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I love that. It's like, you're gonna come to this
God with me tonight. It's the one I go to
every year. Yes, but you're going to wear what I
want you to wear. This oversteps every boundary search year.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And then he gets mad at her because then she
like eventually complies and she's like, okay, but let me.
I just got to figure out the logistics of this
in my mind because I had this other plan, but
now you're throwing this other thing. I got to figure
out how I'm getting home and yeah, yeah, and he gets.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Mad at her.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He's like, how the fuck do you not like just
immediately know what.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
How are you? How are you thinking but not thinking
when I want you to not thinking thinking?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, you and the worst exacular system ever.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Here.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You not know what I'm about to say?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, that it's it's that it's a psychic jackass syndrome.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Then, so when he actually sees like what she was
originally planning on wearing, which was again just like a
very plain but acceptable black dress, and he's pissed. He
says to her, here's a quote. Did you want to
be mistaken for one of the serving staff? And then
he then he continues, your dress is dreadful, like something
(08:23):
a junior secretary would wear it to the office Christmas party.
And she's like, I did wear this to the office
Christmas party, so.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Ma.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
That's like install wars ensus where they're breaking into the
detentionary says, this is not going to work. Why did
you say so before? I did say so before?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, could you imagine like any job you worked and
were like to see He also said, no, you can't
wear that to the party, oh my.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Especially if it's if it's like a perfectly acceptable dress,
and he's just like, no, it does You're not hot enough.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
But even then at the end of the day, it's like,
what do you do in town? I want to wear
it this party in the eighties?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Could you get away with saying this ship out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Not for long, but not even like if you're in
a relationship, what I expect him what to say that.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's been an hour. He's known her for an hour
at this point, and he's just like, your dress sucks,
it's not hot enough.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Is everybody else in the office like just working away?
They else, tis, what are we supposed to do? Yeah,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So he's like they're having this conversation in his office
so no one else can like hear this, and imagine
everyone else is like, yeah, what the fuck are we
supposed to do? If you d just got here? And
he's just like looks like he's, you know, verbally abusing Mia.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
What all these fires locked the door and swallowed the gate,
was off.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The key, We heard the clink, we saw we heard
the key bounce off your.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So then he like tells her, he's like, right, I'm
going to hire a personal assistant to dress you and
do your makeup. And she's like she's obviously offected by
everything because she's a normal person.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Assistant assistant.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Okay, yeah, you already assistant to the assistant.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You are not allowed to bring me coffee. You bring
me through.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It is like the fucking It's like The Office with
dunder Mifflin where there's an episode where Dwight has an
assistant where Jim as hired as the assistant and then
he tells Jim, you need an assistant. So the assistant
to the assistant regional manager.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
That's what he's.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's pretty much office boy. That's yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, if her job is like as this is, like,
you know, dress and do like me his makeup. Doesn't
she finish work at like seven thirty am? He works
for like half an hour?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That's you know what that if it's nice work if
you can get it. But that depends on whether kind.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He pays, like a full salary for like half an
hour's work every day.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
This is you. You are exactly the kind of woman
I would date.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I that you don't make up like the joker. You
never said what I had to look like, Alissid.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But depending on which joker, if you show up as
Jared Lita Joker, that would be terrifying, but this is
the thing you can't do. He's legits when he was
awesome and that it's second and we.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Could be like in the sims where marriage gets a makeup.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But he so he doesn't understand why Mia is offended
by literally everything he's done. He's like, oh my god,
most women are just like WOU would love this. He
just assumes all women only care about makeup and shoes
and that's it. So he's like, yeah, I'm gonna buy
you all this ship. I don't know why you're offended,
and she's like, because you just insulted my personal style.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Dude, listen to ye.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Actually really spoken.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He hasn't yet.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't think he spoken to a woman.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And he's so he's like, I don't care. I'm gonna
you're gonna have to spend the rest of the afternoon
getting ready as though you're Cinderella and whatever. And here's
a quote. He did not like her protestations. He was
used to being obeyed instantly, and Mia James seemed not
to have realized.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
She's not a She works for you, and she do
her job for her. Best to do in her actual life.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Is if they go to her to his freaking apartment
or whatever. It's just gonna be rows and rows of
real dolls all along the freaking walls. They're not very talkative,
but they've got their uses.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
He's going to be like Norman Bage, like his is
going to be still from the rocking chair.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, fuck with a six doll.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm surprised he's Italian and not American because I think
a lot of American bosses have the attitude of like,
I control your work and personal life, and he's.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Act I feel like he's going to be like that
uh Diamer series. Like she goes back to his like,
I told you you can dress yourself on the wedding gown,
then we can go.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's kind of so he's getting more annoyed Slash
turned on by her rebelliousness.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I like it when they fight back, said every cereal.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, that's exactly it. He likes it when they fight
back companies.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Women, Why is it? Why is you keep leaving companies?
Oh there's about a hundred cases against me.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
When he looks at her and it's turned on, he
hears the sound of a shovel, like narth, keep it,
keep it talking.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Turns out Alessandro Costa is actually the Italian for Vince McMahon.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's a good docu. That's a good docu, sries. So
we find out more about his past. We find out
that his mother was poor and she turned to various
bad relationships to survive. Then here's a quote, Alessandro would
never ever be like his mother, whose sorry life had
been tossed on the waves of other people's whims, her
(13:35):
poverty and powerlessness, making her constantly vulnerable, searching for love
and meaning and shabby, shallow relationships. Like, dude hates his mom.
Dude fucking hates I'm picking up a vibe.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, she's were what I told her to wear.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, my mom's.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Overall. I never speak to her again.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So he's like, I don't want to be like my mom,
who was who was poor and because people took advantage
of her unstable position. So instead, I'm going to be
just like the dudes yeah that I hated seeing her
with and I'm going to take advantage of I'm going
to abuse my power.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Of the question. These books are written in the sense
that he's supposed to be the protagonistism he's.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Supposed to be. We what like the male protagonist. Yeah,
we're rooting for him.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Allegedly.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It seems to be the big trope I've seen so fine,
anything that's even remotely y. I know this isn't Ya,
but the main character that you cannot like. If you
like the main character, there is actually something wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I kind of like Mia. I mean not because I
think she has like way more batonomy. Yeah, I feel
bad for her. I definitely feel more bad for her
than anything.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I mean, actually, no, I think about it. This is
the first time there's been a female character in one
of the stories you've covered that's actually just a person.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
She's just a normal human being to do her job.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, And she's reacting in the same way anyone would,
where it's like, I'm just here to do yeah, to
be an assistant. What do you mean I have to
wear a ball gown.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I came in to check my email and now suddenly
we're at a ball I mean, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Very much so. In his internal monologue, we also find
out that he, in his own mind, is fully aware
that what he's asking me to do is ridiculous. He's like, Okay, Alessandro,
I know that I you know, I should not have
asked her to like change her dress because it was
perfectly acceptable what she had, but I wanted to see
(15:29):
her in something nicer. So like, he admits to himself
that he's being manipulative and he doesn't care.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
So he's self aware.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He's self aware.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Okay, that's even worse.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
He's self aware of his manipulativeness. Yeah, and if.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You wanted to, like, just like you want to grow
sometime gone a few dates, nice to lady, be nice
to somebody.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's the thing of they're compelled to kill. They're perfectly
aware of what they're doing is wrong, but they can't
stop themselves. So let me get this right. You have
a compulsion to be a jackass.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, and he doesn't. He doesn't care to stop it.
And I mean the guy in the first book was
also like this, where he was like in the first book,
it was Molly and Salvio, and Salvio would like give
her the silent treatment and she's like, hey, you're giving
me the silent treatment and we're married, and he'd sit
there and be like, oh my god, you're just being
an emotional woman. But then in the back of his mind,
as the reader, we could see that he was like, yeah,
(16:22):
I know she has a point, but I don't want.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
To deal with her. I don't want her to know.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So so this guy is like, oh god, I'm being
a bit rude.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And again.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
He's like he got he goes, he goes like golf
on her, like he said to work. So on the
back of his voice is the thing go, that's a
bit made nasty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So we even Yeah, he was supposed to be rooting
for him, even though he's a self aware psychopath. Yeah,
Mia spends the whole afternoon getting ready instead of doing
her job.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Could you much her work made? Like what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
The bar as he wants for to get changed all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So yeah, the boss is like locking me in the
office and we've.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Got on your reports on our desks.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Now, cou'd be so fucking weird though, going into the Yeah,
going at the office and seeing one of like the
conference rooms locked up, and then your your fucking co
worker is there getting the Cinderella treatment. And while she's
like crying.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, coming in like sing, she's started like one of
the interns into a horse and carriage And it's.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Like, I thought we helped people with their taxes?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Why is she like me? His reports like, I was like, sorry, guys,
you gonna have to work, shoe lunch and stay late
well stressed.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
After Mia is done, the stylist doesn't ask for me
is approval. The stylist goes to Costa and it's like,
I gotta get your signature of approval because you're the
man who ordered this. And so he looks at her
and he's stunned, and he's thinking that she looks like
a Norse goddess, right, you mean a horse goddess. So
(18:06):
but then of course you can't let her know like
how great she is. So he's just like it's acceptable.
But in his mind he's like, what a fucking babe, Right.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
She looks great? But I'm not telling her.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Of course, not just my raging heart on.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I'm just pictured, like you know, it's the end of
the wark, like it's everyone's sitting there. They're all I go,
like twice the amount of work. They're absolutely shattered bags
on the coffee. The veins are having the smoke, and
Mike comes out looking like a Disney princess. Gone, what
a day?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh God, how do they walk?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I will have my damn.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
She won't be walking for much longer.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, too much.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So Mia, this this part pisses me off a little
little bit. Mia is like thinking to herself about this
whole situation. We see her point of view, and she's like, Okay, yeah,
he's being like really fucking rude, and I'm annoyed by it.
But I'm also kind of turned on by his autrad
just weird, little tingly feeling I have. I'm just summon.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
She's like one of an absolute pig, one of the sofa.
He looks in the mirror. I'm Cinderetta.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Yeah that is.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, he bought me a car, so I better put out.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So I'm not gonna. I've got my rights and my
I'm gonna one day my prince will come right.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's like they both so what we see from both
Mia and Alessandro is that, Okay, they both grew up
with mothers who were, you know, financially or emotionally abused
by men, and then they sa all their mothers suffer
and then they themselves were poor because of it. And
so they're both like looking at this and me as like, okay,
(20:06):
I'm never going to get into a relationship like that,
and then he is kind of the opposite. He's like,
I am going to be the man in those relationships
and do that to other women.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So he's in the back of his mind and said, god,
I'm being quite a dick, and she's thinking, oh, I
want some dick.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, I don't know the fact that they're vout like
secret this one. It's like, but don't tell them.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Other people are watching this, going, oh, for God's.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Sake, Like they're in the office, like and everybody's been
super awkward, Like there's Jerry in accounts, just shing across
the office, just kids, just kid.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Oh god, yeah, okay, Yeah, she's noduled up and.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Up and she's enjoying it, but she doesn't want to
enjoy it. Oh the forbidden fruit. And so they go
to the they go to the ball right, and Alessandro,
Oh my god, guess what he's being like super flirty
with her, and she's so surprised.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Like, what.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Aking is it actually being flirty or is it that
way that does backhanded compliment things?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Again, No, he's being very flirty. He's like touching her
lower back and whispering in her ear and being like,
you look the gorgeous Yeah, and just like, oh you
don't you don't know what she is. I mean for her,
I'd be like, this is kind of like sex work,
though sex work is still work.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
The date Cinderella.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, I mean she's blonde and she's just got a
blue dress and everything.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Sing that song that you like so much. I don't
like the song. Sing this song and like you like
this song.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
At the end of it, he just it's me. I'm
the Prince.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yes, in case you did not know, I bought the
horse special. You like horse, don't you? You on that
hockey team.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He's introducing her. Here's the thing, so she's been at
this event before.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
For years.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
He's introducing her as his companion and his date. He's
the new one there. He's she's there like.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
You know, like hello, Bob easy, definitely ten years, this
is Maya.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, but he's like, this is my date Maya. And
everyone's kind of confused.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
They're like, my date, this is my date.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, he's He's like, he's one who's like I need
you to come because I don't know anybody there. But
then he shows up and he's acting like he's the
one who's been there for a decade and not her.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
This dude is like, just read a book on self confidence, but.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
This is Maya. We know her. No, no, no, this
is dressed may You don't know this.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
This is slutted up.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Last time you saw her, she was so fucking ugly.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
But one of the lines in the book you probably.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Didn't recognize her because she's actually wearing lipstick for once
in her goddamn life.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Bitch, this is called Mayah, or as we like to say,
Maya Stun's form made an effort.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Can you imagine how like awkward and horrible that is
for her to be? Like, you know, I just want
to be seen as a professional, and all these these
are all professionals I've worked with for years and years.
And then he's suddenly there and he's not like, oh, yeah,
you know Maya the personal assistant that you all know.
He's like, no, this is my date. And they're just
like what And it makes her feel so embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Probably looking at him gone, but who are you?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, there's at least one middle manager is high fived
and going right, finally see Maya.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But then he straight up tells her because she's she
confronts him about this, Like, dude, the fuck. And he
just straight up says, you're a beautiful woman, and I
want to show you off and I want you to
be on my arm, and I want people to think
that you're mine. He just tells her point blank.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
You literally, but she knows everyone. It's like going to
the world Christmas party. Yeah, and you're like, obviously she's
how you opening the cold. She's well known by everyone.
It's like, hey, they see her like for forty hours
a week. And then it's like, okay, pretend you don't
know anyone.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Imagine if because we've been to like some comedian Christmas parties,
Imagine if all of us went to like a comedian
Christmas party and let's say, Alex, you brought someone with
you and it happened to be like the boss knows.
There's like your boss at your job or something, and
then she was introducing you to everyone else, said this
is my date, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Like, hello, there is good to see you all again.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
The comedians would actually roll with it and just act
like they don't know you.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Oh yeah, actually anyway, yeah, okay, it's not just when
it comes to book and shows.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Yeah, common we could get dating or stuff. Oh my god,
you can wear the dress though, Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
That could be or me a baby. Oh god, it's
a musical.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I forgot.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
It gets a little worse, of course.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'm sure this was this was the good stuff, This
was the nice him being appropriate. So now so she
tells him straight up like dude, I'm not your date,
I'm your assistant, and this is weird, and he just
gives he hands her more champagne and he's like, you
are my date. Just keep drinking, and then he like
(25:32):
gets more feely with her, put his hands on her
hips and stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, she's making her drink more.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, he's making her drink more, touching her hips, touching her.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, she might want to get that stuff you put
in your drink to see if it's been roofied, because
oh yeah, I think it's. It's just full to the
brim with.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Again all the lines like all, look, here's the new CEO.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
He's doing this. He's not even ashamed of this. I'm
sure everyone can fucking see this as well.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Like fret boy, the CEO, what's this charity we're donating to?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Again, it's all I believe it's a women's health service.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Jesus mental health because because they've been fucking accosted by
parent Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Lords, hell, I can't believe. She's like, I don't want
to do is He's just kind of tanking her rope.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So then she gets more confrontational with him, and she's
just like, let me, let me ask you something. Okay,
you've you've got a reputation for coming in taking over
companies and firing ninety percent of the people. Do you
And she straight up says, here's a quote, do you
enjoy ruining other people's lives?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So I'm like, good for you, good for fucking yeah,
I'm on my sord with this. And then he like
evades her question. He's just like, ah, you know, business
is business.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
A picture like that ten episode? Do you enjoy ruining
people's lives? More drink?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, I believe that questions will be a medical matter,
ec medical man.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
But then he basically, oh, oh yeah, I forgot okay sorry.
The back of the description, it says that he's from
the streets of Rome, having escaped the streets of Rome
Alessandro Costa blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
The streets iron No, he's actually from fucking Naples.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That would explain why it's such a scrubby bust.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
That's what. That's what, That's what he wanted. The streets
he was looking for, the cold he gave.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Basically, they had the jacket printed first and then somebody
they said, don't write and don't write in Naples. Rome
is people who know it is Naples. No one has
any idea.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
They've never heard of Naples because being from Naples is
a big part of his personality, just like it was
in the last book. The Salvio from the last book
was also from Naples.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Have you been to Naples?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Do you have relatives from Naples?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No, I mean not that I can remember. I mean
all of my family comes from Lazio, the province of Lazio,
and is like basically Rome area. That's yeah, I mean Naples.
The most I know about it was from Spike Milligan's
War Memoirs from the Second World War. And yeah, Naples
is not as I suppose cosmopolitan as Rome is. I
(28:13):
mean that it's the capital city and like one of
the centers of fashion. Milan is as well, so it's
it's a different vibe, it's different people. So I don't know.
I mean, it could be that thing of you know,
if people who live in people live in the south
of Dublin, and that's supposedly looking down on people in
the north of Dublin. I think it might be something
like that. Laus, if you live in Dublin and somebody's
from Cork in the room, then you'd automatically deduct one
(28:36):
hundred like Q points from them or something like that.
It's that sort of it's regional racism, I suppose. So
with this business, I'm like, I'm going wait a minute,
all of them from Naples. Yeah, so this is where
the story came from. Somebody had a bad experience with
the guy from Naples, and I'm just going to fuck everybody.
(28:58):
All my villains are going to.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Be from Naples, but they consider them to be sexy,
good guys. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, okay, so they're from Naples. My mistake. They had
one good pizza from from Naples and they were like, okay,
all of them are awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I don't get.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
It anyway that the Naples boys are out in the.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Pre Naples boys are on the pre another so he
he continues to evade her questions of like why are
you such a dick in business, but instead what he
does is he then he pulls the whole woe is
Me card because he's like, he tells her like, I
grew up in a slum, I came you know, I
(29:38):
worked my way to the top and YadA yah. And
then then he says like, look, I take over companies
and I fire everybody because I'm actually saving the companies.
The companies that I take over are actually doing really shit,
and I only fire lazy people. The people are that
(30:00):
he are lazy. Is when he's going into the.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Office, make car change your clothes.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, She's like, I want to work, and he's like, no,
you got to spend five hours getting ready so I
could sexually harass you later. Oh no. So when they
start dancing, Costa is getting real horny, even more so
than he's been.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Oh God for the whole day, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
And he can tell, quote from the look in her
eyes quote.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Helped me.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Twice, if the is an enemy in the room.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
He can tell that she wants him.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
To go.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Away.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
So he's like, let's get out of here, and she's like, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
You sure.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Let the door on the way out.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
So, guys, that's the end of episode two.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
We were just getting, we're just getting.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I mean he's already like I don't know, I mean,
he's already put his hands on her without permission. So
he's already done a little bit of the essay.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
But so okay, even just as the rest of the
staff that we're working on there right later, losers, there's
there's there's ten people who work in the company's like
by far ninety percent of the staff. Like that's or nine.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
The war.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
This is one shrump shows up, right, She's only one
of those and get fired.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, so we're going to uh, he didn't even.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Come in with like an idea to pick on ey
Meaty Maya James. That's yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Going to find out what the steamy sex in the
next in the next episode. So again, thanks for listening,
and also another shout out to anony My Patron subscribers. Yeah, okay, okay,
we'll see you guys soon.
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