March 11, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 21 "Tommy!". Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor, Writer, Producer and Comedian, Tom Daddario. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening, and welcome to teetime. Everybody, listen time, that's
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right. It's to be here withyou tonight. As you can hear,
I have a little laryngitis, butI'm gonna get through it. I'm gonna
talk about my weekend real quick andget to my guests. All right.
So for some special birthday announcements.First, we have my beautiful friend Anita
Mccaar, who has known me sinceI'm four years old. There she is
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ninety three years old, doesn't lookad day over seventy five. Love her
to death. Beautiful Anita Mccaar,my beautiful neighbor from Bayside. And on
March eighth was my dad's birthday.And dad turns eighty nine and look at
him. Does he look great forfreaking eighty nine. I love my Daddy's
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in Florida. I can't wait tosee him next month. And lastly,
I have my beautiful, beautiful friendCal who his birthday was on the ninth.
Yes, a happy birthday to Cal. I hope it was very memorable
birthday this year. Okay, Soa couple of quick announcements. Just want
everyone to know that this past Fridaynight I did Murdered by the Mob in
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Manhattan and at the Iron Bar inthe City, and we do it downstairs
in the secret room. It's likespeakeasy. So our next show is October
twenty third. Go to Murder byThemob dot com. Check out the schedule.
That's where you go for tickets andcome see me. It's like going
to an Italian wedding. Someone getswhacked. You gotta figure it out.
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You're sending your dance, You drink, and you have a a last Okay.
So that was Friday night. Saturday, I was hanging out with a
friends, had a great time.Sunday of course is laundry. We only
need clean underwear. And it wasthe Oscars. I had a date with
Oscar and congratulations to all the winnersand you know Oppenheimer, A big,
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big night for Oppenheimer. I alsowant to tell you that I'm in a
sitcom call Me and My Nuts,and we are going to be premiering that
on April tenth at the Atrium Theaterin Staten Island at seven point thirty.
So please I'll put that up onmy tee time Facebook page where you could
find out more information about tickets.I hope you could come see it and
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laugh. We viewed it and forforty minutes, people were laughing the whole
time. So I can't wait withshowing episodes one and two on April tenth.
All right, now, let meget to my guests, because I'm
so excited he's here. He's anactor, he's a writer, he's a
producer, he's a comedian, andhe's my friend. And we got to
work together, and I'll to workwith him again. Tom de Dario's in
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the house. Hello, So goodto finally be on your show. So
excited. I don't know how manypeople are guilty of buying socks and underwear
when you run out of laundry.I've done that before. I've done it
like four times. I am solazy with them with laundry that I'm too
lazy to bring it to the peoplethat do it. That's how the I
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won't even drop it off. That'sterrible funny, that's great. What was
I one? I want to getto know you. There are some things
that you know. I know aboutyou, A lot of things I know
about you, and there's some thingsI don't know about you, Like right
now, I know you live ina Storia. Yes, but where did
you actually grow up? I grewup in a story, he did,
So you have left? Well,I left. I got married, you
know, moved to Long Island.Yeah, exactly, moved to Long Island,
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got a fence, and then gotdivorced. She took the whole fence,
and then I left, took thehouse and the fence, the offence,
the house. Sorry, yeah,but it was you know, so
I have to ask you. Youknow, you are a man of many
talents. Oh okay, you knowyou do comedy, you do theater,
You've done films, you've done television. So what I want to know is
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is that after high school did yougo study for the arts or did you
want to pursue a different career andthen ended up in the arts. It's
an interesting thing with like what wedo. You don't know where you're going
to end up. You know.When I got out of high school,
I knew all the words to allthe songs. Yeah, so the band
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that I knew locally, they askedme to sing for them. Oh and
now I didn't know if I wantedto be a singer, but it was
very interesting, Like I went out. It was the first gig we did.
I went out to Long Island,New York. It was a girl's
birthday party. After the party,I went home. Four days later I
got a photo of her lying ona chase lounge okay, in a in
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a bikini really, and I waslike, I think I want to be
a singer. Wait a second,we have a couple of picks of you
back in the day. Is that? Oh my god, that would you
look like that? Then it lookhow dangerous? Isn't that dangerous looking?
Tell you that's a nice tick.I'm like going it. I can't say
I'm not. That's look at you. That looks like freaking Duran Duran right
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there. It's ridiculous. I hadlike a feather earring too, It's ridiculous.
I love it. It was eitherthe feather feather or a long cross
or a long right long hanging crossfringes on the jacket. Yeah yeah,
So how long were you with theband? That was about ten years,
you know, And then started acting, then started to studying, saying did
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you play an instrument? I wasjust saying, yeah, just front man,
you know. I was okay,I mean I was good enough that
you know, girls will like sendingme a picture of them laying in a
chair. So I was like,oh, I'm good enough to look like
the microphone. You know what I'msaying. It was it was a lot
of fun. Well, one wascalled Hellgate. The other was called Galaxy.
Really original name for a band,right, Galaxy. We should have
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just covers mostly. Yeah, wedid some originals, but a lot of
covers. You know. We playedthat. We played in a lot of
places, and we had a lotof fun a Long Island, all over
Long Island, Queens, a fewtimes in Manhattan. It was pretty cool.
You know. It was fun.It was fun. It was a
lot of fun. It was ablessed Wow, you studied, you studied,
right, I studied at HB Studios. Yeah. Did you go to
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Saint John's University? Also, Ididn't. I went to Queensboro Borough Community
because I was at Queensboro. Yeah. I was like, I was one
of those people that was like ata two year school for six years and
I'm like, I'm like almost fivethings. Like I'm not quite anything,
but I'm almost a lot of things. It's just it's just amazing. So
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you go to HBAN. You wantto parlay this on stage rocker into a
actor. Well, yes, Imean I love acting acting so much on
on We were talking about it earlierthat acting so much fun. But then
stand up is also great because youcan go and say whatever you want.
You're sort of unbridled. Yes youknow, Yeah, so you studied for
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twelve years, yes, training becomingan actor some TV that he's done.
You did something Michael and Michael haveissues. That was a blast. I
played the dad. It was aComedy Central. You didn't know I knew
it. Oh okay, I'm sorry. Did you want to wait for you
to say it? Like, don'ttake my line? No? It was
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a lot of fun. The differencethat I have to tell you, the
difference between comedy and acting, right, is that you go to a comedy
show. You walk in and it'spacked, it's sold out, it's not
a place to sit, and theowner of the place will look at you
and say there's nowhere for you toit, and then you'll have to like
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wait in your car for the show. But acting, it's a whole other
level of respect. It's so interesting. I showed up all intimidated on a
Comedy Central set. They had likewires going into this house and I went
over to this guy. There's aguy on the lawn, like you know,
and I went over to him andI was like, hey, hi,
because I was freaked out, youknow what I mean. And I
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was like, I'm Tom Dario andhe was like, I got Tom Todari
and I was like and like fourpeople came out and they grabbed all my
stuff and started walking away with it. And I was like, oh,
okay, you know, it wasjust crazy. It was crazy, so
all of a sudden, it's drasticdifference, a whole other world, drastic
difference between there's no place for youto sit right and I got crazy.
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We did something, well, youdid the Dave Chappelle Show did also Comedy
Central. Played a prison guard Idid. I got to meet Charlie Murphy,
which was a blessed Charlie Murphy wasa gentleman, what another nice guy.
He made me feel so comfortable andit was really cool. And it
was so weird because I showed upand like originally I had all these great
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like lines because they sent me thesides and I'm like, yeah, oh
all this stuff. And I wentthere and they handed it to me,
and it was because they handed tome and there's a big black X on
the whole page. So I'm like, was this just to rub it in
my face? Like why did whydid you hand this? Ja? Yeah?
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Like here learned your nothing rightly.That's pretty much what they were doing.
Like I took it from them andI was like, there's nothing on
it. Yeah, did you saydid you make a mistake? It's all
reacted like it's like a like aCIA paperwork. It was. It was
gone. And then so they theyloved me anyway, and they had me
do something where I had to takethe bed, like I had to take
the guy and throw him in acell. It was it was this scene
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when in the Chappelle Show where theyarrest like a white person differently than a
person of color, like the waythey treat them. So I had to
throw this guy into a cell andI threw him in the cell and then
they took all that and then thatwas all like also that ended up on
the cutting room floor along with thelines and it's just show business. Yeah,
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we talked about we I mean,I love it and it was such
an amazing experience. And I gota check two weeks ago for Yeah,
for point oh two of a penny. You gotta be kidding. I swear
I got I kept. I wishI could have brought it here, but
it's not worth transporting it because it'sonly a point two of a scent.
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That's crazy. Yeah, So it'sabout the film, Yeah that you did.
You did in twenty twelve, youdid night Bird and you played Mike.
Mike in Nightbird, it was aguy from New Orleans, a bank
examiner. The movie never really gotmade, like and then they released it
as New York Murders. And it'sone of those movies you know it is,
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I mean not if anyone is alsoyou know, it does film.
You're in the movie, you're allexcited and it comes out and you're like,
no, I was all over it. It's good scenes, it's good,
it's really good scenes. But themovie itself is just it's not even
ironically bad, you know how,like like Clerks. When it first came
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out, it was like ironically bad, this is just bad bad. It
wasn't ironic, and it's just likeI watched it. It was exciting to
like hit play on a movie that'son Amazon, know what I mean.
And then it was next to likeanother cool movie. But I mean,
that's all the thing is. Unlessyou get the entire script, really,
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you really don't know. And mostof the time, most of the time
depending on what you're doing, andyou just right they well I had,
I had just my sides for themost part, and I didn't know a
lot of the a lot of thescript. But there were great monologues I
had, like really, I mean, I'll probably use some of the footage,
you know, for like reel orsomething, you know. But they
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they just had a hard time release. And then and then somebody told me
the movies out and I'm like,oh wow. And then I searched it
on Amazon. They told me thatit was called they changed the name to
New York Murders, which you knowthey do that do They do that quite
a bit. They'll change You didsomething of Mice and Men? You played
George? I did. I playedGeorge in a production of Mice and Men.
That was fun. I mean,you know, if Mice and Men
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is a classic, it's a classicstory, you know. And uh,
I mean, I don't know howI played the big dumb guy when I'm
pretty much a little dumb guy,you know. I don't know how the
hell they you know what, Ihave a castings casting right? You put
in another mic All in the Family. Oh my god, that was so
weird. I did, and wedid. I did that for Saint John's
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University. They had done a productionof All in the Family, and I
played Mike, and I remember itwas a weird story. I played across
from a guy who could not rememberhis lines. And you know how like
distracting it could be when somebody elseis like bad and the dudes across from
me and I'm trying to focus onwhat I'm doing, and I hear them
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feeding him his lines, like Ican hear them going like a lunger going.
I'm sitting there, like, mygod, I've been trying my best
to like stay in and you can't. You can't. It's so hot,
you can't. And you know,it's not as easy as people think,
you know, they think like youknow, people will say stuff like,
you know, if you do whatI mean, I'm sure you're gonna mention
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it. But a movie that Iwas in, you know, like Pancakes
and Syrup, if you don't mindme bringing up Pancakes and Syrup, which
just Rob and I shot that youknow, a couple over the last couple
of years, and it's very difficult. Like you, people will say like,
oh, you probably just you know, you probably just think about your
mom, your relationship with your mom. Right, and then but then when
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there's like lights and the camera andthen the sound guy is like you know,
twenty seven, and he's hitting youwith the mic whenever they yell cut,
he's like hitting you in the head. So it's like it's a lot
around you. It's a lot youhave. You have a great, a
great thing that you say about acting, You say, what acting is,
Acting is what it's called. Butwhat you're not supposed to do? Am
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I saying, oh no, wellkind of, you know. But acting
is one of the very few thingsthat we do where you're not supposed to
do what it's called, right,Like if you're a swimmer in a swim,
right, you're a whatever, you'rea carpenter, carpenter, you're a
plumber, you plumb, there's thingsyou do, right, But if you're
an actor, you're not supposed toact. You're supposed to be be And
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acting is reacting exactly reacting. You'rereacting. And one of the aspects of
comedy that I mean, I'm sorry. Acting that's more important is listening,
like really, yes, Like listeningis more important than actually saying words.
Because the interesting thing about it iswhen you're listening, then if you're listening
to me, so then you're goingto respond organically because you're listening. When
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you're not listening and you're just waitingto say you're live, yeah, it's
it's it's vapid and it's and youknow. And also another thing about acting,
it's interesting that people in life,people don't want to cry. You
don't want to cry. I don'twant to know who wants to cry unless
joy yes and even still right,but nobody, nobody wants to cry.
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So when you see an actor who'spushing like so emotional, it's just comes
off to me as disingenuous because youdon't know what either has to be there
or it's not. That's something youwrite. So the idea is holding back
that emotion, you know, becauseyou ever talking to someone and you're you're
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talking about someone you care about andyou're getting like emotional, right yeah,
and you're trying because you want you'retalking to a person you don't want to
like allow that to happen. Soyou're kind of trying to kind of hold
it back. But if you're justlike it just it comes off as is
contrived, you know. So that'swhy acting is an interesting thing that acting
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is not. Really you should bebe that, be unhappy, be sad,
be happy, be angry. Actingangry and acting said, it doesn't
come off crest. So when youstudy, did you do method? Did
you do that? Yes? Butyou know that's another thing about it is
like I think acting is just pullingwhat works for you. You know,
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if you pull from here, youpull from here. If it works for
you to act as though, liketo reflect as though you're talking to your
close friend right now. I'm notsaying we're not friends, but I mean
like real childhood, then that maywork for you. But if it may
work just to talk to Tom aboutsomething that you're going through, So I
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think that's a big you know,that's a lot of a lot. Well,
I want to keep talking to Tom, but we have to take my
first break, so stay right there. We'll be back after this, So
go away. Thank you. WonderWoman was everything to little girls especially that
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looked like me. She stands forbeing a voice for people that need a
voice. My organization renovates homes forpeople with disabilities, and when I come
home a self care routine makes mefeel my best. I'm very proud of
the difference that we're making. It. To see that impact in my community
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inspires me to work even harder foreveryone around me. All right, is
everybody having a good time tonight orlot? That's what I thought. I
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don't want to call that down thiswell. Hi there, Teresa, It's
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John Yorke from General Hospital. Iam just checking in because apparently you have
a great talk show called Tea Timeon Strong Island TV. I want you
to have continued great success and havea lot of fun. It sounds like
you're having a lot of fun,and that's pretty much the key to everything,
isn't it. So continued success.I'm proud of you. Have a
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great day, Casa by. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tea Time.
I'm so glad you're joining me tonight. I hope you can hear me
a little better now. I wantto talk. I'm with Tom Dadario,
comedian, producer, writer, actorand a friend and uh we talked a
little about TV and film and comedyCentral the Dave Chappelle Show and how he
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started actually in music. There's beautifullong locks and uh, and I want
to talk about theater and you toCalifornia, Sweet God was with the Saint
Jeans Players. Was say, thatwas a lot of fun we did.
I did a lot of plays withthem. It's great experience. You get
into community theater. It's beautiful,it's amazing experience. Yeah, it's just
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it's it's well done. You couldreally get good roles, craft and practice,
practice, and then try to expandon different roles exactly. Yeah,
I played the stage manager and yeah, and one of them. You also
did All All the Way Home,which was with the Long Island Acting Company.
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Oh right, yes, yeah,and you did Murder at the Village,
Murder at the Vicarage, Vicarage,Vicarage. Yes, tell me about
those. Those were both with thesame company. Yeah. They were.
They were fun, they were greatproductions. They were out here, they
were great, you know, theywere excellent actors in it. And uh,
you know, sometimes you have somepeople that it's not their thing,
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you know what I mean, Likethey're they're sort of affiliated with the theater
and they're just like part of itor whatever, and they won't feed you
a line. You know, it'slive, you're on stage, well,
you know, you can't stand up. Very different from TV and film,
very very like another animal. Absolutely, you can't decide you're not going to
do the line they have to.One woman was she was She was the
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inspector. And you know how likeit says inspector and then your line.
Yeah, she read inspector. No, I s pear to god, she
went inspector and then everybody, thisis live and everybody because she had it
like in a book, a bookthat she had, Yeah, because she
was an inspector, so she hadlike a thing she knows exactly. Yeah,
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and she literally said inspector and everybodywas like, wait, I mean,
was she at rehearsals. No,yeah, but everybody was like,
wait, she's the inspector. Wow. That was very funny, but she
was. She was. What afaux that is? You did Green Lawn
cemetery tours in Brooklyn, Brooklyn,that was crazy. Glynn Repertory Boss tweed
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boss tweet. Yeah. I hadto do this long monologue and it was
a rainy day and I had tocome out from behind a tombstone like a
creeper and like, do this wholemonologue about about that guy who was kind
of cool. Actually Rob, Robcividadis they got me that part? Like
he couldn't do it. It waswhen Rob and I like barely knew each
other, and he had he hadtold me, you know, asked me
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if I wanted to do it,and I contacted the woman and I did
it. I was, well,well, you're mentioning him. How did
you actually meet? Rob? AndI met through comedy, but he had
been married to someone who was anactress, and we met at HB Studios.
And then when Rob started doing standup, we were down at like
the Village Lantern or something. It'sit's a place in Manhattan where comics do
you knewer comics especially, so wewent, we met, we ran into
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each other, and he was like, hey, I started doing stand up
and it was cool because I toldhim like, hey, when you feel
like you're kind of getting to apoint where you're you know, you're feeling
good about yourself yourself on stage,because feeling good about yourself is never going
to happen because we're comedians, Soyou might feel good about yourself on stage.
And then he contacted me because hewas kind of, you know,
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doing some good work, and Itrusted him and then we started working together
more and more, which was good. And then he did for Whom the
Southern Southern Whom, the Southern BellYeah, with the now Players. Yeah
was that. God, this islike a memory. It's like, this
is your life, this is mylife. This is it. Yeah,
it's it's like a it's a wonderfullovers and other strangers. Yes, which
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was the top four acting company.So you all over the place. I
kind of yeah, I guess Igotta I got a round. Yeah I
heard that about Yeah, yeah,yeah, okay, So how and when
did you get into stand up?Because that's a whole other animal, a
whole other animal. And you knowwhat made you decide to get into stand
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up? Probably masochistic tendencies, Ithink, because you know it's it's we
all love to get on stage andcrazy business. I feel like you're naked
standing there you are, thank youfor that. There you are there.
I am Macartham Comedy Club. Yes, yeah, and it was it's been,
it's I mean, it's been.There's another one you did. You
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also did the Funny Born in Ohio, yes, left actor in Vegas,
Yesta enjoy z exactly comedy, comedyseller as well a lot of fun,
a lot of fun places, alot of great theaters. And you know,
and that was in I started innineteen ninety seven, so I was
a little okay sosk twenty six years. Yeah, that math that fast.
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I love how you did that.How do I know that? How do
you? My daughter was born?She was born right, So you just
remember you're doing exactly. Have toknow how you always have to know how
old your daughter is. Of course, who cares how long I've been doing
so twenty six years? And wherewas your very first show? That's a
good question. My very first showwas at Gotham Comedy Club in New York
City. Ten Alexandro was the likeprofessional show. I don't mean to do
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this like he's not a professional.Sorry if you see this, not professional
professional And he did, he did. He was the I was the host.
I ate you hosted eight I ateit right, you hate hosting?
No, I just ate it.It was awful. Well it was your
wait a second, so your firsttime, first time and they made you
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host and they made me host.No, no, no, no,
you're supposed to do like five,no idea what they were thinking. Wow,
they had me host, and Ididn't even want to watch me any
longer. Like I mean, afterI was up, like I that's nothing.
Nothing, that's like being thrown intothe lions den. Absolutely, because
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my first show was at New Yorkand I did like a solid six just
my first time, right, youknow what I mean. But to have
to host your first time up,yeah, I had no idea what I
was doing, insane, no ideawhat I was doing. Yeah, they
thought for some reason it was itwas funny to throw me to the wolves.
I have not but you know,but but it was kind of cool.
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I mean, you know, listen, you you probably learn more like
when you talk to comics. Right, First of all, the stories about
you doing well, nobody gives adamn about. Nobody wants to hear about
you killing. They want to hearabout the guy who got up and yelled
at you, and then the womanwho walked out in the time when you
got fired. It is they wantto hear that. They don't. Nobody
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wants to hear about how you didso great well. I never got fired,
Tom, have you? Yes,I got fired. I can't talk
I can't talk about some of it. I mean, we have you.
You don't have to talk about youdon't have to talk about why. You
just talk about how you said ajoke and yeah, corporate didn't like corporate
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probably wasn't there. Corporate That nowI can do Now I could do that,
because that's sarcasm when you do that, Like it's like if somebody goes
like, oh, you're so handsome, he's so cute, it's so cute.
That's like that means you're not atall. So it was like cor
Yeah, corporate was there, andI didn't see I didn't wait, wait,
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was that your first time there?Or were you there before? No?
No, I hadn't been there manytimes. Okay, So it's just
that they really couldn't give you apass on just that one joke that you've
been there, Like I could seeif it was like your first time there,
went off the rails. But hello, I mean to be a a
reoccurring comedian. Yeah, I mean, it's not like it's like your first
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rodeo there. So I wouldn't theyjust say, hey, listen, Tom,
you've been here a few times.Let's cut that joke out yeah,
it's a favorite. Don't do thething. I ended up like back like
I was like on fire. LaterI got I don't know if that's fire
possible. We hired, re hired, thank you. See that's why she
has this thing because of that.Yeah, yeah, re hired. And
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it was because you know, theyjust kind of like it's like they just
it's almost like a like go inthe corner. How long was your sabbatical?
Maybe that's my symbatical. That's hilarious. It was like nine eight or
nine months, all right, sothat's not that bad. Under a year,
yeah, less than a year.And then they were like, you
know, come on back. Andthen I'm like, did you tell them
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I want to raise my god?No. But but then you go back
and you're thinking, like what nowwhat do I you know, what what
can I talk about? Because youknow you got it, you just you
know, you don't can't talk aboutThere's a lot, I mean there's a
lot listen. You know. Look, I'm all for uh, you know,
people not being over overtly offensive.I get it. It's very hard
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listen. As comics, it's veryhard to censor us because obviously when we
write material, we're writing it froma place of love, from a place
of funny, and that's what we'retrying to do for your pain. We
do not we do not want toinsult anybody, take anyone off. It
comes from a place of comedy,and some people are sense and of these
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days and it keeps us a littlegagged and tied which out mind sometimes.
But we're talking about this right now. Yeah, it's kind of frustrating,
isn't it. Yes, it canbe. I mean even making the movie,
when Rob and I made the movie, we there. When you're doing
it, you're thinking, oh,yeah, what can I what could what
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can happen with this? They?What are they gonna? What are people
gonna say about this? Yeah,you start to second guess yourself. I
love your stand up. I loveyour stand up. And one of my
favorite bits that you do is thewhen the credit card companies call and you
have your your son, Oh myfake son, your fake son answer the
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phone. You know what. Iwas dying, you know, I'm like
sorry, losing my voice and Iwas dying watching that. It's so genius.
Can you can you just do it? Really? U? I could
just tell them something from it,you know, bits but like it's because
I'm talking about how I answered thephone as my imaginary son, and then
I'm saying, like, you cantell them anything you want because you're like
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a little kid going like daddy's busy, he's doing some gardening. Ah,
he's burying the guy from American Expresslike that always gets that, always gets
a let. It's vulnerable, youknow, like who doesn't like it?
But it's great, it's a greatBit's yeah, it's fun. It's just
funny because we're constantly getting those calls, right, we're getting those calls constantly,
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you know, And I think alot of a lot of stand up
is just it's an interesting thing thatwe do. Often we don't think something's
going to be funny because we peopledon't relate, right, We'll think,
like people don't relate, but wethink we don't realize that the circus we
have going on in our head isalso the same circus that other people have
going on in theirs, and webelieve that what we think might be funny.
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I'll think they don't. You know. I did a joke about like
how I have subtitle anxiety, LikeI love that bit too, And I
love that bit too because I havethat same anxiety, the same thing I
do. But when I first thoughtof the bit, I thought it nobody's
gonna relate to, Like it's justhard, you know. But then when
you do it, people respond andyou're like, oh, I guess.
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But that's the thing with comedy isyou write a joke and then you get
on stage. In your mind youknow it's funny, and then until you
get on stage and actually deliver thewine and hear that laughter, and you're
going, oh, Okay, thatwent over, I'm gonna keep it.
And then sometimes you'll do a jokeand you're like, crickets, I guess
(32:27):
I gotta give rid of that one. Or sometimes you do a joke and
two different shows and you get twodifferent reactions to different reactions. And then
also you'll do it. You'll doa joke and you're like, I know
this is funny, Like you knowthat the joke is good. Yes,
you know that there's funny and theresomewhere and it's like mining for like a
diamond, you know, you gotto want to find it. And then
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sometimes it's like they're like kids.To me, jokes are like kids.
Yeah, sometimes they go out onthe world and they kind of screw up
and you're like and other times you'relike you nurture them and you might become
a doctor. And then another jokeis like you just got to throw it
away. You should throw away kids. No, no, never, no,
no, all right, So tellme about this instant Twitter face talk
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thing. Instance. That was somethingthat I did, like in a video
where it's like whatever you're on inthe Twitter face talk, like we should
I mean that should be. Weshould just we should just have one one
social media, have Twitter face talkwhere we can just go on and everybody
just goes on it and just leteverybody get in and just do the thing.
(33:31):
Because there's just so many I mean, how many places can you you
know how many times friends of minesend me a message and I'm like where
did you? Would you message me? And he's like, oh, was
it Instagram? Because I looked atinsta who is it? Where is it?
And it's like, oh no,I texted you and I'm like,
yeah, but I didn't see it. Oh no, sorry, it was
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it was like, uh, youknow, what is it? What is
Facebook's messenger? Facebook Messenger? Andhe's like, no, no, it's
a messenger. And I'm like Igo, look there, it's not there
Instagram message. It could be anywhere, it could be anywhere. It's in
the universe right now, it's ridiculous. Yeah, Oh my gosh, this
is so funny. All right,so listen, I'm gonna take my second
break. Oh there's so much moreto talk about with Tom, including the
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everybody, welcome back to Tea Time. I still have a little voice
in me. I'm with Tom TomSadario, actor and now I found out
singer, producer, writer, comedianand uh, you know he's done TV
and film and stand up and standup Twenty six years is a long time.
(36:39):
That is a pretty long time.Twenty six years. Yeah, but
is it? Do you count pandemicyears, like I never knew. I
don't know. Did you do anyshows during the pandemic? Virtually? Well
virtually no, then virtually and thenlike I did, like like I did
one, and I was horrified.Listen to me, I wouldn't do one.
I just I couldn't. I did. I did one. And We're
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standing in my kitchen in front ofa microphone that wasn't plugged into anything.
I was like, hey, anybodydating and like my cats sitting there like
it's just it was just it wasit was crazy, so crazy thing.
So what did you do to keepsaying during the pandemic? Oh? I
mean I did a lot of writing. Rob and I were working on the
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film. We worked on Pancakes andSyrups and Syrup. We have a picture
of Rob and you. Thank youso much for that pic. Spent a
lot of time in that car.Yes, yeah, yes, you mean
you or you? Because I don'twant to start rumors. No, we
won't start anything yet, not yet. But Pancakes and Syrup is was a
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baby that you and Rob started manymany years and many years ago, like
ten more than that, really,probably fourteen. But it was we we
shelved it, you know how itis. Yeah, you're working and you're
working on something. You you putit aside, you go back, I
can grab it again, you startworking on it again. Yeah, there
were times when when we, youknow, we decided like, let's start
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working on it again, you know. And I'll tell you Rob. Rob
was always great. Rob's a veryorganized dude. He was great. I
had Rob on my show a fewweeks ago. You could always go back
and look at that show as well. Yes, and that was Rob was
always good. Like Rob was like, I'm a little more flighty, Like
I'm a little bit such a ifif I had hair, it would absolutely
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be blonde. And I was blondeand no offense to blondes. But I
uh, I like Rob, like, I'm sort of like, hey,
let's write a script, right maybenext week. Rob's idea. Really,
he always wanted to do this.He always wanted to write it, started
talking about it, you know.But then it was kind of cool because
Rob was like, look, ifwe're going to do this, we got
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to do it. Like do it. You had like an appointment every week
exactly. You have to set uplike a strict specific time that you're going
to work on it, or youwon't do it right, like every Tuesday
from six to nine, right,Yes, It's crazy, how of all
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the days and all the times youwere exactly right? I know I should
play you should. So you're talkingmonths and yeah yeas and years and rights
writing it and writing it and thenyou give it to someone and they destroy
the script and tear it to shreds. And then you pick up all the
pieces and you're like, oh dowe even have a script? And you
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put that together and then you littleby little you grind it down and grind
it down, and you trust people, you know, you really, egos
need to be set aside, leftat the door. If you go into
doing a project like this with anego that's inflated and out of control,
you are you know. That's thesign that they put on the door when
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they first recorded We Are the Worldwith Michael Jackson. And then all they
said egos left at the door.Oh okay, and yeah, I'm with
those those people. That's a roomfull of egos big time. They're huge,
you know. Yeah, So Ithink it's a big part of it.
Rob was great when it came tolike Rob ended up directing yes,
right, and and editing and editing. Yeah, so you you co wrote,
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you co wrote and co producing startingit, Yes, because you know
as well as I do. Andwe talked about this in this industry,
this is an industry that we love, but it doesn't love you back.
And you were big on saying ifyou want to do something, produce it
and do it yourself. Yes,because the thing is, you're not if
somebody is not going to We're not. We're not we're not an everyday name,
(40:37):
We're not in demand. So whatdo we do? Make it yourself?
Make it yourself. If somebody,if you want to be in it,
make a movie. You want tobe in a movie, make a
movie. Yeah. And it wasI mean, it was an arduous flavor
of love. It's I tell peopleall the time. I'm like, I
don't know what I was thinking.So now, as a newly indie filmmaker,
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Right, what was the hardest partabout making this film? That's an
interesting, very interesting question. Ithink, No, it's a great it's
a great job. I think thehardest part of making the film was navigating
like locations and actors, like becauseyou have so many, you had a
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big cast, you had over fiftypeople, Right, what were we thinking
when we made a road movie.A road movie, that's a lot of
locations. It's a lot of locations, and then it's a lot of people.
Like you meet someone and then youdon't meet them again, right,
so you need to drive by.It was like a drive by meeting.
So now you did a lot offilming on Long Island, yes, and
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then we filmed in Astoria, Yes, with other places that you did film
as well. Manhattan filmed that BrokeWay Comedy Comedy Club, which you know,
which was great. Al Martin hadon the show did I did?
I interviewed him, We talked abouthis book. Wow, you should?
You should? You got to putit back you know what, you know
(42:04):
what you gave me a great ideafor my April show that I need.
It's a good idea to do thatcould put it back up, you know,
and he was very kind, verygenerous about doing it there and you
know other places. You know,it's very difficult. I mean, you
know there were times when they hada show coming in and like I'm running
up and down the stairs and I'mtrying to figure out it was meant to
be filmed there. It was meantto be film there and it was there
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and an Astoria and out here andthen you were great, ally, thank
you, Yeah, so much fun. This was great. I was I
actually auditioned for the mom who walksin with Jerry Fareddi. Originally you guys
want me in that, and thenRob said no, no, no,
no, we want you to readfor something else. And I was like,
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okay, so pancakes and syrup,Yes, this is the baby again.
I think I guess Rob had thatname happen. Yeah, it was
kind of like a placeholder. Wekind of did. We weren't really exactly
like it was kind of like wegot to name this. It's the very
first scene was filmed at a diner. Y. Yeah, and sometimes you
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order pancakes. Yes, yes,it was well it was cold Pancake Palooza
the place. So we named thepancakes and see, so that fit.
But it was kind of like it'slike having a three year old that it
doesn't have a name yet. Youmean, like we're writing the script for
years and we're like, hey,did you see the kid? You know,
so we were like, we gotto name this, you know what
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I mean. So we gave it, you know, we gave it and
Actually it's turned out that it's actuallycatchy, like it is catchy and like
memorable. Yes, it's like itand weird things that you just think of
breakfast and you just go there.Well, who doesn't like pancakes and syrup?
Everybody likes pancakes and syrup. Andthere's not even a lot of pancakes
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in it. Are there any pancakes? There are pancakes in it, but
it's the beginning is when anyone getto eat the pancakes. You know,
I think I made a lot ofpancakes. I got to tell you I
made a lot of pancakes, youknow, because I did. We all
did props. You did what Imean, you got yeah, I mean,
you do what you gotta do,but we were actually you and I
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mean I loved it. Was agreat scene, great scene. But before
we before we continue with pancakes andZyrup, I do want to back up
because you and I before Pancakes andZyru, did a sitcom pilot called Everybody
Loves Charlie. Now I don't havea pick of us on set, but
that was actually filmed in Brooklyn,Yes, and so it's based on my
(44:37):
friend Charlie Santoro who works for theS Network, and Josh william Josh Williams
great directed. And I didn't knowyou were going to be there, I
know, and you didn't know Iwas going to be there. And I
played the secretary and you played playeda doctor. Yes, a doctor which
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who gives uh prostate Yes, yes, proctologist that's okay to say proctologist.
Proctologists, right, And he comesin and he's supposed to give Charlie his
exam and Charlie preferred a different doctor. He wanted a woman, a woman
somewhat reluctant to have me do it, right because I might have been a
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little flamboyant. Yeah. So,but it was a great scene. You
were friend. There's a lot ofso much fun. It's so much fun.
I mean, you know, it'slike it's so happy. Please,
I mean it's like being a child, Like you just run around like a
child. It's great. And whenyou work with your friends, it's the
ultimate. I love that ultimate.It really is. So but bring us
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back to pancake and syrup now.So, Yeah, so I did audition
for you guys. We had acouple of zooms, you know, zoom
audition, right, zoom audition andyou're like, yeah, we want to
give you another part. And Iwas like, okay, so should we
play this? I was scene first, whatever you have, whatever you have.
This is Tom and I in ourscene together of I'm such a pancakes
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and sorry, you know, Tom, I had such a great time with
you last night. I really reallyhope we can do it again soon.
(46:30):
Listen, megane Sophia, What myname is Sophia? Oh oh it's close
to mege No, it's really notclose. Whatever. Wait, Nicole,
wait, how long are you goingto be? Tom? Really? Hey,
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you're back? Can you get out? What get out? What's going
on? Tom? What are youdoing? Where are you going? Do
you hello? You can't leave mehere by myself all alone. You're not
by yourself all alone. Look,there's people everywhere, really everywhere. You'll
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be fine. You gotta be kiddingme, you really really? You second,
you ate short for Richard? Ifyou're wondering, that was so much?
Is it wrong to laugh at yourown movie? I mean no,
it was so much fun to filmat the bar in Astoria. Yes,
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that was the sweet great spot,great sports bar. And the story queens
and uh and and the scene outsidewas right here in front of beautiful paradise.
Yes, and oh wait, leavethat pick, leave that pick,
leave that pick, put that pickback, thank you, all right,
leave that there. I love thatpick because that just totally describes our character.
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So basically, I want more ofTom. Look at my face.
I want him. I can't getenough him. And his face is like,
I'm so friggin with you. I'mjust done with you. I love
it. I was like that,just thank you. Oh my god,
that just descrives that count. Ohmy god. It was a lot of
fun. It was a lot offun shooting it here. It was you
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know, Bobby's great and it wasjust you had another scene. We had
another scene inside being interviewed for aradio show. Right, I was on
the radio, and you know,comedians like an interesting thing that we did.
Comedians do not like doing radio,notoriously, right and on the road.
They do radio at like six inthe morning, right, And no
comedian wants to be up, likenobody wants to be funny, Like sometimes
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we don't want to be funny atnine o'clock at night, right right,
right, let alone being funny atsix am. We don't want to do
that. So it was a wholething. I don't want to give away
too much because it's okay. Youknow, it's not like Oppenheimer. We
know what happened at the end,right, yes, oh my god,
not yet. This is still amystery that is so funny. So listen,
(49:07):
we really only have five minutes leftalready. Let's show the trailer.
Okay, Oh that would be cool. Yeah, put that up. Let's
a little bit. What do youthink? This looks nice? Where should
we sit? I don't know,stool? Maybe know what you want to
(49:28):
eat? You know what? Cancan give me a minute, I'll be
right back. What's that man?I've been having a bed day for the
past couple of weeks. Maybe weshould just talk about this tomorrow. I
can't. I'm leaving town. Igot this road thing, road thing.
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Yeah, I have a string ofgigs and then I'm heading out to l
A. You know what, that'sperfect, man, I am going.
You said it yourself, right.People don't always get to do what they
want to do. I have myown to worry about. What problems do
you have? Oh? I don'tknow, bookers, managers, agents,
(50:15):
club owners, annoying passengers, luxuryproblems, man luxury problems. What is
a luxury problem. You get todo the thing you want to do.
You're living the life you want tolive. Man bookers, agents, managers,
(50:36):
luxury problems. Are you gonna makethe show tonight? I gotta get
to a meeting, meaning aa,I had a lot of time sober.
Basically, if I go to getback to it, I'm done. Thanks
for coming in. Maybe she turnedthe light on and gonna look at this
guy. Oh, my son ishere. I haven't seen him since he
(51:04):
moved to Friends Friends where my grandchas. You're not my father. We're always
about You're happy? Have you evereven met my happiness? This is getting
us nowhere. I can't even understandwhat you're saying. We have diversity here,
we have a Puerto Rican family.Did you write a screenplay? Are
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you trying to make a movie.No, I'm ambitious, I'm not delusional.
What the I love it? Ilove it. I love it.
I can't wait for the premiere.I'd love how I do it like I
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talk now and like you. It'shard to even pick something because of the
older cursing in the movie. That'sright, Rob, No, Rob,
Rob did a great job. Ohhe pulled those out. Oh, I
said to him, if you yeah, that's great, he said, if
you want me to show the trailers? No cursing. Most of the time
when I'm talking, I'm like,it's oh, it's yeah, he has
(52:22):
a lot of cussins. Yeah,but what are you going to do?
We had a you know, twoguys from Queens. We had a quick
pick of you and Joe Piscopo andthis was I think back in twenty thirteen.
That was a nine to eleven tributeI think, and I know John
Therochio was there. I think that'sis that a Gotham or is that at
Governor's That was actually background, Ithink that was a Gotham. Yeah,
(52:45):
that was in a city getting Yeah, how nice job. He was such
a he was so nice. Hereally was trying to get him on the
job. Yeah. And he cameover to me and he was like he
wanted to get my intro right,which is really cool. Nice, Yeah,
very very cool, very very sweet. Yeah, good guy. He
was a good guy. So listen, God, we have like a minute.
(53:06):
How crazy this this went so fast? I know, I know.
Quick tell everybody how they find you, how they follow you? Okay,
great, thank you. Pancakes andSyrup is a Pancakesinsyrup dot net. My
TikTok, everything is Tom Dedario.It's d A D D A R I
O and it's on the screen rightthere. So my Facebook and also I
have YouTube dot com, slash TomDario Live and Instagram and all that.
(53:31):
So so everything's under my name.Yes, that's right, tomddario dot com
and Tommy Comic dot com. Thankyou. So she's so great. Great,
listen. I want to thank everyonefor watching the show. Shout out
to Anne Love the interview team.Great show as always, Thank you and
I love you so much. AndI want to give a shout out to
Zoe and Bruno and Greg and MichaelNewton who's watching in Florida, another loyal
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listener and viewer watcher. Listen,I'm gonna keep doing this as long as
your people want me to keep doingit. Thank you so much for doing
this. And we'll make an announcementwhen the preview is when people could see
it. Yes, well, we'regonna be doing film festivals, so look
for it to be somewhere in yourarea and a film festival we'll be doing
viewing and it'll be put up onthe website, right, eventually, yeah,
(54:21):
we're gonna be doing that on theweb. We'll do all that stuff
on the website and then eventually,you know, streaming. So yeah,
it'll be I love you very exciting. I love you to listen everyone.
Thank you for watching tea time again. Thank you for your love support.
Remember, tell everyone you love youlove them, and I'll see you next
week. Chew everybody. The townname in part of name six
Good evening, and welcome to teetime. Everybody, listen time, that's
(01:26):
right. It's to be here withyou tonight. As you can hear,
I have a little laryngitis, butI'm gonna get through it. I'm gonna
talk about my weekend real quick andget to my guests. All right.
So for some special birthday announcements.First, we have my beautiful friend Anita
Mccaar, who has known me sinceI'm four years old. There she is
(01:49):
ninety three years old, doesn't lookad day over seventy five. Love her
to death. Beautiful Anita Mccaar,my beautiful neighbor from Bayside. And on
March eighth was my dad's birthday.And dad turns eighty nine and look at
him. Does he look great forfreaking eighty nine. I love my Daddy's
(02:12):
in Florida. I can't wait tosee him next month. And lastly,
I have my beautiful, beautiful friendCal who his birthday was on the ninth.
Yes, a happy birthday to Cal. I hope it was very memorable
birthday this year. Okay, Soa couple of quick announcements. Just want
everyone to know that this past Fridaynight I did Murdered by the Mob in
(02:38):
Manhattan and at the Iron Bar inthe City, and we do it downstairs
in the secret room. It's likespeakeasy. So our next show is October
twenty third. Go to Murder byThemob dot com. Check out the schedule.
That's where you go for tickets andcome see me. It's like going
to an Italian wedding. Someone getswhacked. You gotta figure it out.
(03:00):
You're sending your dance, You drink, and you have a a last Okay.
So that was Friday night. Saturday, I was hanging out with a
friends, had a great time.Sunday of course is laundry. We only
need clean underwear. And it wasthe Oscars. I had a date with
Oscar and congratulations to all the winnersand you know Oppenheimer, A big,
(03:20):
big night for Oppenheimer. I alsowant to tell you that I'm in a
sitcom call Me and My Nuts,and we are going to be premiering that
on April tenth at the Atrium Theaterin Staten Island at seven point thirty.
So please I'll put that up onmy tee time Facebook page where you could
find out more information about tickets.I hope you could come see it and
(03:43):
laugh. We viewed it and forforty minutes, people were laughing the whole
time. So I can't wait withshowing episodes one and two on April tenth.
All right, now, let meget to my guests, because I'm
so excited he's here. He's anactor, he's a writer, he's a
producer, he's a comedian, andhe's my friend. And we got to
work together, and I'll to workwith him again. Tom de Dario's in
(04:04):
the house. Hello, So goodto finally be on your show. So
excited. I don't know how manypeople are guilty of buying socks and underwear
when you run out of laundry.I've done that before. I've done it
like four times. I am solazy with them with laundry that I'm too
lazy to bring it to the peoplethat do it. That's how the I
(04:28):
won't even drop it off. That'sterrible funny, that's great. What was
I one? I want to getto know you. There are some things
that you know. I know aboutyou, A lot of things I know
about you, and there's some thingsI don't know about you, Like right
now, I know you live ina Storia. Yes, but where did
you actually grow up? I grewup in a story, he did,
So you have left? Well,I left. I got married, you
know, moved to Long Island.Yeah, exactly, moved to Long Island,
(04:51):
got a fence, and then gotdivorced. She took the whole fence,
and then I left, took thehouse and the fence, the offence,
the house. Sorry, yeah,but it was you know, so
I have to ask you. Youknow, you are a man of many
talents. Oh okay, you knowyou do comedy, you do theater,
You've done films, you've done television. So what I want to know is
(05:12):
is that after high school did yougo study for the arts or did you
want to pursue a different career andthen ended up in the arts. It's
an interesting thing with like what wedo. You don't know where you're going
to end up. You know.When I got out of high school,
I knew all the words to allthe songs. Yeah, so the band
(05:34):
that I knew locally, they askedme to sing for them. Oh and
now I didn't know if I wantedto be a singer, but it was
very interesting, Like I went out. It was the first gig we did.
I went out to Long Island,New York. It was a girl's
birthday party. After the party,I went home. Four days later I
got a photo of her lying ona chase lounge okay, in a in
(06:00):
a bikini really, and I waslike, I think I want to be
a singer. Wait a second,we have a couple of picks of you
back in the day. Is that? Oh my god, that would you
look like that? Then it lookhow dangerous? Isn't that dangerous looking?
Tell you that's a nice tick.I'm like going it. I can't say
I'm not. That's look at you. That looks like freaking Duran Duran right
(06:25):
there. It's ridiculous. I hadlike a feather earring too, It's ridiculous.
I love it. It was eitherthe feather feather or a long cross
or a long right long hanging crossfringes on the jacket. Yeah yeah,
So how long were you with theband? That was about ten years,
you know, And then started acting, then started to studying, saying did
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you play an instrument? I wasjust saying, yeah, just front man,
you know. I was okay,I mean I was good enough that
you know, girls will like sendingme a picture of them laying in a
chair. So I was like,oh, I'm good enough to look like
the microphone. You know what I'msaying. It was it was a lot
of fun. Well, one wascalled Hellgate. The other was called Galaxy.
Really original name for a band,right, Galaxy. We should have
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just covers mostly. Yeah, wedid some originals, but a lot of
covers. You know. We playedthat. We played in a lot of
places, and we had a lotof fun a Long Island, all over
Long Island, Queens, a fewtimes in Manhattan. It was pretty cool.
You know. It was fun.It was fun. It was a
lot of fun. It was ablessed Wow, you studied, you studied,
right, I studied at HB Studios. Yeah. Did you go to
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Saint John's University? Also, Ididn't. I went to Queensboro Borough Community
because I was at Queensboro. Yeah. I was like, I was one
of those people that was like ata two year school for six years and
I'm like, I'm like almost fivethings. Like I'm not quite anything,
but I'm almost a lot of things. It's just it's just amazing. So
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you go to HBAN. You wantto parlay this on stage rocker into a
actor. Well, yes, Imean I love acting acting so much on
on We were talking about it earlierthat acting so much fun. But then
stand up is also great because youcan go and say whatever you want.
You're sort of unbridled. Yes youknow, Yeah, so you studied for
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twelve years, yes, training becomingan actor some TV that he's done.
You did something Michael and Michael haveissues. That was a blast. I
played the dad. It was aComedy Central. You didn't know I knew
it. Oh okay, I'm sorry. Did you want to wait for you
to say it? Like, don'ttake my line? No? It was
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a lot of fun. The differencethat I have to tell you, the
difference between comedy and acting, right, is that you go to a comedy
show. You walk in and it'spacked, it's sold out, it's not
a place to sit, and theowner of the place will look at you
and say there's nowhere for you toit, and then you'll have to like
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wait in your car for the show. But acting, it's a whole other
level of respect. It's so interesting. I showed up all intimidated on a
Comedy Central set. They had likewires going into this house and I went
over to this guy. There's aguy on the lawn, like you know,
and I went over to him andI was like, hey, hi,
because I was freaked out, youknow what I mean. And I
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was like, I'm Tom Dario andhe was like, I got Tom Todari
and I was like and like fourpeople came out and they grabbed all my
stuff and started walking away with it. And I was like, oh,
okay, you know, it wasjust crazy. It was crazy, so
all of a sudden, it's drasticdifference, a whole other world, drastic
difference between there's no place for youto sit right and I got crazy.
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We did something, well, youdid the Dave Chappelle Show did also Comedy
Central. Played a prison guard Idid. I got to meet Charlie Murphy,
which was a blessed Charlie Murphy wasa gentleman, what another nice guy.
He made me feel so comfortable andit was really cool. And it
was so weird because I showed upand like originally I had all these great
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like lines because they sent me thesides and I'm like, yeah, oh
all this stuff. And I wentthere and they handed it to me,
and it was because they handed tome and there's a big black X on
the whole page. So I'm like, was this just to rub it in
my face? Like why did whydid you hand this? Ja? Yeah?
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Like here learned your nothing rightly.That's pretty much what they were doing.
Like I took it from them andI was like, there's nothing on
it. Yeah, did you saydid you make a mistake? It's all
reacted like it's like a like aCIA paperwork. It was. It was
gone. And then so they theyloved me anyway, and they had me
do something where I had to takethe bed, like I had to take
the guy and throw him in acell. It was it was this scene
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when in the Chappelle Show where theyarrest like a white person differently than a
person of color, like the waythey treat them. So I had to
throw this guy into a cell andI threw him in the cell and then
they took all that and then thatwas all like also that ended up on
the cutting room floor along with thelines and it's just show business. Yeah,
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we talked about we I mean,I love it and it was such
an amazing experience. And I gota check two weeks ago for Yeah,
for point oh two of a penny. You gotta be kidding. I swear
I got I kept. I wishI could have brought it here, but
it's not worth transporting it because it'sonly a point two of a scent.
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That's crazy. Yeah, So it'sabout the film, Yeah that you did.
You did in twenty twelve, youdid night Bird and you played Mike.
Mike in Nightbird, it was aguy from New Orleans, a bank
examiner. The movie never really gotmade, like and then they released it
as New York Murders. And it'sone of those movies you know it is,
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I mean not if anyone is alsoyou know, it does film.
You're in the movie, you're allexcited and it comes out and you're like,
no, I was all over it. It's good scenes, it's good,
it's really good scenes. But themovie itself is just it's not even
ironically bad, you know how,like like Clerks. When it first came
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out, it was like ironically bad, this is just bad bad. It
wasn't ironic, and it's just likeI watched it. It was exciting to
like hit play on a movie that'son Amazon, know what I mean.
And then it was next to likeanother cool movie. But I mean,
that's all the thing is. Unlessyou get the entire script, really,
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you really don't know. And mostof the time, most of the time
depending on what you're doing, andyou just right they well I had,
I had just my sides for themost part, and I didn't know a
lot of the a lot of thescript. But there were great monologues I
had, like really, I mean, I'll probably use some of the footage,
you know, for like reel orsomething, you know. But they
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they just had a hard time release. And then and then somebody told me
the movies out and I'm like,oh wow. And then I searched it
on Amazon. They told me thatit was called they changed the name to
New York Murders, which you knowthey do that do They do that quite
a bit. They'll change You didsomething of Mice and Men? You played
George? I did. I playedGeorge in a production of Mice and Men.
That was fun. I mean,you know, if Mice and Men
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is a classic, it's a classicstory, you know. And uh,
I mean, I don't know howI played the big dumb guy when I'm
pretty much a little dumb guy,you know. I don't know how the
hell they you know what, Ihave a castings casting right? You put
in another mic All in the Family. Oh my god, that was so
weird. I did, and wedid. I did that for Saint John's
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University. They had done a productionof All in the Family, and I
played Mike, and I remember itwas a weird story. I played across
from a guy who could not rememberhis lines. And you know how like
distracting it could be when somebody elseis like bad and the dudes across from
me and I'm trying to focus onwhat I'm doing, and I hear them
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feeding him his lines, like Ican hear them going like a lunger going.
I'm sitting there, like, mygod, I've been trying my best
to like stay in and you can't. You can't. It's so hot,
you can't. And you know,it's not as easy as people think,
you know, they think like youknow, people will say stuff like,
you know, if you do whatI mean, I'm sure you're gonna mention
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it. But a movie that Iwas in, you know, like Pancakes
and Syrup, if you don't mindme bringing up Pancakes and Syrup, which
just Rob and I shot that youknow, a couple over the last couple
of years, and it's very difficult. Like you, people will say like,
oh, you probably just you know, you probably just think about your
mom, your relationship with your mom. Right, and then but then when
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there's like lights and the camera andthen the sound guy is like you know,
twenty seven, and he's hitting youwith the mic whenever they yell cut,
he's like hitting you in the head. So it's like it's a lot
around you. It's a lot youhave. You have a great, a
great thing that you say about acting, You say, what acting is,
Acting is what it's called. Butwhat you're not supposed to do? Am
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I saying, oh no, wellkind of, you know. But acting
is one of the very few thingsthat we do where you're not supposed to
do what it's called, right,Like if you're a swimmer in a swim,
right, you're a whatever, you'rea carpenter, carpenter, you're a
plumber, you plumb, there's thingsyou do, right, But if you're
an actor, you're not supposed toact. You're supposed to be be And
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acting is reacting exactly reacting. You'rereacting. And one of the aspects of
comedy that I mean, I'm sorry. Acting that's more important is listening,
like really, yes, Like listeningis more important than actually saying words.
Because the interesting thing about it iswhen you're listening, then if you're listening
to me, so then you're goingto respond organically because you're listening. When
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you're not listening and you're just waitingto say you're live, yeah, it's
it's it's vapid and it's and youknow. And also another thing about acting,
it's interesting that people in life,people don't want to cry. You
don't want to cry. I don'twant to know who wants to cry unless
joy yes and even still right,but nobody, nobody wants to cry.
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So when you see an actor who'spushing like so emotional, it's just comes
off to me as disingenuous because youdon't know what either has to be there
or it's not. That's something youwrite. So the idea is holding back
that emotion, you know, becauseyou ever talking to someone and you're you're
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talking about someone you care about andyou're getting like emotional, right yeah,
and you're trying because you want you'retalking to a person you don't want to
like allow that to happen. Soyou're kind of trying to kind of hold
it back. But if you're justlike it just it comes off as is
contrived, you know. So that'swhy acting is an interesting thing that acting
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is not. Really you should bebe that, be unhappy, be sad,
be happy, be angry. Actingangry and acting said, it doesn't
come off crest. So when youstudy, did you do method? Did
you do that? Yes? Butyou know that's another thing about it is
like I think acting is just pullingwhat works for you. You know,
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if you pull from here, youpull from here. If it works for
you to act as though, liketo reflect as though you're talking to your
close friend right now. I'm notsaying we're not friends, but I mean
like real childhood, then that maywork for you. But if it may
work just to talk to Tom aboutsomething that you're going through, So I
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think that's a big you know,that's a lot of a lot. Well,
I want to keep talking to Tom, but we have to take my
first break, so stay right there. We'll be back after this, So
go away. Thank you. WonderWoman was everything to little girls especially that
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looked like me. She stands forbeing a voice for people that need a
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(18:33):
inspires me to work even harder foreveryone around me. All right, is
everybody having a good time tonight orlot? That's what I thought. I
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don't want to call that down thiswell. Hi there, Teresa, It's
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John Yorke from General Hospital. Iam just checking in because apparently you have
a great talk show called Tea Timeon Strong Island TV. I want you
to have continued great success and havea lot of fun. It sounds like
you're having a lot of fun,and that's pretty much the key to everything,
isn't it. So continued success.I'm proud of you. Have a
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great day, Casa by. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tea Time.
I'm so glad you're joining me tonight. I hope you can hear me
a little better now. I wantto talk. I'm with Tom Dadario,
comedian, producer, writer, actorand a friend and uh we talked a
little about TV and film and comedyCentral the Dave Chappelle Show and how he
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started actually in music. There's beautifullong locks and uh, and I want
to talk about theater and you toCalifornia, Sweet God was with the Saint
Jeans Players. Was say, thatwas a lot of fun we did.
I did a lot of plays withthem. It's great experience. You get
into community theater. It's beautiful,it's amazing experience. Yeah, it's just
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it's it's well done. You couldreally get good roles, craft and practice,
practice, and then try to expandon different roles exactly. Yeah,
I played the stage manager and yeah, and one of them. You also
did All All the Way Home,which was with the Long Island Acting Company.
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Oh right, yes, yeah,and you did Murder at the Village,
Murder at the Vicarage, Vicarage,Vicarage. Yes, tell me about
those. Those were both with thesame company. Yeah. They were.
They were fun, they were greatproductions. They were out here, they
were great, you know, theywere excellent actors in it. And uh,
you know, sometimes you have somepeople that it's not their thing,
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you know what I mean, Likethey're they're sort of affiliated with the theater
and they're just like part of itor whatever, and they won't feed you
a line. You know, it'slive, you're on stage, well,
you know, you can't stand up. Very different from TV and film,
very very like another animal. Absolutely, you can't decide you're not going to
do the line they have to.One woman was she was She was the
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inspector. And you know how likeit says inspector and then your line.
Yeah, she read inspector. No, I s pear to god, she
went inspector and then everybody, thisis live and everybody because she had it
like in a book, a bookthat she had, Yeah, because she
was an inspector, so she hadlike a thing she knows exactly. Yeah,
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and she literally said inspector and everybodywas like, wait, I mean,
was she at rehearsals. No,yeah, but everybody was like,
wait, she's the inspector. Wow. That was very funny, but she
was. She was. What afaux that is? You did Green Lawn
cemetery tours in Brooklyn, Brooklyn,that was crazy. Glynn Repertory Boss tweed
(22:42):
boss tweet. Yeah. I hadto do this long monologue and it was
a rainy day and I had tocome out from behind a tombstone like a
creeper and like, do this wholemonologue about about that guy who was kind
of cool. Actually Rob, Robcividadis they got me that part? Like
he couldn't do it. It waswhen Rob and I like barely knew each
other, and he had he hadtold me, you know, asked me
(23:03):
if I wanted to do it,and I contacted the woman and I did
it. I was, well,well, you're mentioning him. How did
you actually meet? Rob? AndI met through comedy, but he had
been married to someone who was anactress, and we met at HB Studios.
And then when Rob started doing standup, we were down at like
the Village Lantern or something. It'sit's a place in Manhattan where comics do
you knewer comics especially, so wewent, we met, we ran into
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each other, and he was like, hey, I started doing stand up
and it was cool because I toldhim like, hey, when you feel
like you're kind of getting to apoint where you're you know, you're feeling
good about yourself yourself on stage,because feeling good about yourself is never going
to happen because we're comedians, Soyou might feel good about yourself on stage.
And then he contacted me because hewas kind of, you know,
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doing some good work, and Itrusted him and then we started working together
more and more, which was good. And then he did for Whom the
Southern Southern Whom, the Southern BellYeah, with the now Players. Yeah
was that. God, this islike a memory. It's like, this
is your life, this is mylife. This is it. Yeah,
it's it's like a it's a wonderfullovers and other strangers. Yes, which
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was the top four acting company.So you all over the place. I
kind of yeah, I guess Igotta I got a round. Yeah I
heard that about Yeah, yeah,yeah, okay, So how and when
did you get into stand up?Because that's a whole other animal, a
whole other animal. And you knowwhat made you decide to get into stand
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up? Probably masochistic tendencies, Ithink, because you know it's it's we
all love to get on stage andcrazy business. I feel like you're naked
standing there you are, thank youfor that. There you are there.
I am Macartham Comedy Club. Yes, yeah, and it was it's been,
it's I mean, it's been.There's another one you did. You
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also did the Funny Born in Ohio, yes, left actor in Vegas,
Yesta enjoy z exactly comedy, comedyseller as well a lot of fun,
a lot of fun places, alot of great theaters. And you know,
and that was in I started innineteen ninety seven, so I was
a little okay sosk twenty six years. Yeah, that math that fast.
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I love how you did that.How do I know that? How do
you? My daughter was born?She was born right, So you just
remember you're doing exactly. Have toknow how you always have to know how
old your daughter is. Of course, who cares how long I've been doing
so twenty six years? And wherewas your very first show? That's a
good question. My very first showwas at Gotham Comedy Club in New York
City. Ten Alexandro was the likeprofessional show. I don't mean to do
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this like he's not a professional.Sorry if you see this, not professional
professional And he did, he did. He was the I was the host.
I ate you hosted eight I ateit right, you hate hosting?
No, I just ate it.It was awful. Well it was your
wait a second, so your firsttime, first time and they made you
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host and they made me host.No, no, no, no,
you're supposed to do like five,no idea what they were thinking. Wow,
they had me host, and Ididn't even want to watch me any
longer. Like I mean, afterI was up, like I that's nothing.
Nothing, that's like being thrown intothe lions den. Absolutely, because
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my first show was at New Yorkand I did like a solid six just
my first time, right, youknow what I mean. But to have
to host your first time up,yeah, I had no idea what I
was doing, insane, no ideawhat I was doing. Yeah, they
thought for some reason it was itwas funny to throw me to the wolves.
I have not but you know,but but it was kind of cool.
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I mean, you know, listen, you you probably learn more like
when you talk to comics. Right, First of all, the stories about
you doing well, nobody gives adamn about. Nobody wants to hear about
you killing. They want to hearabout the guy who got up and yelled
at you, and then the womanwho walked out in the time when you
got fired. It is they wantto hear that. They don't. Nobody
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wants to hear about how you didso great well. I never got fired,
Tom, have you? Yes,I got fired. I can't talk
I can't talk about some of it. I mean, we have you.
You don't have to talk about youdon't have to talk about why. You
just talk about how you said ajoke and yeah, corporate didn't like corporate
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probably wasn't there. Corporate That nowI can do Now I could do that,
because that's sarcasm when you do that, Like it's like if somebody goes
like, oh, you're so handsome, he's so cute, it's so cute.
That's like that means you're not atall. So it was like cor
Yeah, corporate was there, andI didn't see I didn't wait, wait,
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was that your first time there?Or were you there before? No?
No, I hadn't been there manytimes. Okay, So it's just
that they really couldn't give you apass on just that one joke that you've
been there, Like I could seeif it was like your first time there,
went off the rails. But hello, I mean to be a a
reoccurring comedian. Yeah, I mean, it's not like it's like your first
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rodeo there. So I wouldn't theyjust say, hey, listen, Tom,
you've been here a few times.Let's cut that joke out yeah,
it's a favorite. Don't do thething. I ended up like back like
I was like on fire. LaterI got I don't know if that's fire
possible. We hired, re hired, thank you. See that's why she
has this thing because of that.Yeah, yeah, re hired. And
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it was because you know, theyjust kind of like it's like they just
it's almost like a like go inthe corner. How long was your sabbatical?
Maybe that's my symbatical. That's hilarious. It was like nine eight or
nine months, all right, sothat's not that bad. Under a year,
yeah, less than a year.And then they were like, you
know, come on back. Andthen I'm like, did you tell them
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I want to raise my god?No. But but then you go back
and you're thinking, like what nowwhat do I you know, what what
can I talk about? Because youknow you got it, you just you
know, you don't can't talk aboutThere's a lot, I mean there's a
lot listen. You know. Look, I'm all for uh, you know,
people not being over overtly offensive.I get it. It's very hard
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listen. As comics, it's veryhard to censor us because obviously when we
write material, we're writing it froma place of love, from a place
of funny, and that's what we'retrying to do for your pain. We
do not we do not want toinsult anybody, take anyone off. It
comes from a place of comedy,and some people are sense and of these
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days and it keeps us a littlegagged and tied which out mind sometimes.
But we're talking about this right now. Yeah, it's kind of frustrating,
isn't it. Yes, it canbe. I mean even making the movie,
when Rob and I made the movie, we there. When you're doing
it, you're thinking, oh,yeah, what can I what could what
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can happen with this? They?What are they gonna? What are people
gonna say about this? Yeah,you start to second guess yourself. I
love your stand up. I loveyour stand up. And one of my
favorite bits that you do is thewhen the credit card companies call and you
have your your son, Oh myfake son, your fake son answer the
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phone. You know what. Iwas dying, you know, I'm like
sorry, losing my voice and Iwas dying watching that. It's so genius.
Can you can you just do it? Really? U? I could
just tell them something from it,you know, bits but like it's because
I'm talking about how I answered thephone as my imaginary son, and then
I'm saying, like, you cantell them anything you want because you're like
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a little kid going like daddy's busy, he's doing some gardening. Ah,
he's burying the guy from American Expresslike that always gets that, always gets
a let. It's vulnerable, youknow, like who doesn't like it?
But it's great, it's a greatBit's yeah, it's fun. It's just
funny because we're constantly getting those calls, right, we're getting those calls constantly,
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you know, And I think alot of a lot of stand up
is just it's an interesting thing thatwe do. Often we don't think something's
going to be funny because we peopledon't relate, right, We'll think,
like people don't relate, but wethink we don't realize that the circus we
have going on in our head isalso the same circus that other people have
going on in theirs, and webelieve that what we think might be funny.
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I'll think they don't. You know. I did a joke about like
how I have subtitle anxiety, LikeI love that bit too, And I
love that bit too because I havethat same anxiety, the same thing I
do. But when I first thoughtof the bit, I thought it nobody's
gonna relate to, Like it's justhard, you know. But then when
you do it, people respond andyou're like, oh, I guess.
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But that's the thing with comedy isyou write a joke and then you get
on stage. In your mind youknow it's funny, and then until you
get on stage and actually deliver thewine and hear that laughter, and you're
going, oh, Okay, thatwent over, I'm gonna keep it.
And then sometimes you'll do a jokeand you're like, crickets, I guess
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I gotta give rid of that one. Or sometimes you do a joke and
two different shows and you get twodifferent reactions to different reactions. And then
also you'll do it. You'll doa joke and you're like, I know
this is funny, Like you knowthat the joke is good. Yes,
you know that there's funny and theresomewhere and it's like mining for like a
diamond, you know, you gotto want to find it. And then
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sometimes it's like they're like kids.To me, jokes are like kids.
Yeah, sometimes they go out onthe world and they kind of screw up
and you're like and other times you'relike you nurture them and you might become
a doctor. And then another jokeis like you just got to throw it
away. You should throw away kids. No, no, never, no,
no, all right, So tellme about this instant Twitter face talk
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thing. Instance. That was somethingthat I did, like in a video
where it's like whatever you're on inthe Twitter face talk, like we should
I mean that should be. Weshould just we should just have one one
social media, have Twitter face talkwhere we can just go on and everybody
just goes on it and just leteverybody get in and just do the thing.
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Because there's just so many I mean, how many places can you you
know how many times friends of minesend me a message and I'm like where
did you? Would you message me? And he's like, oh, was
it Instagram? Because I looked atinsta who is it? Where is it?
And it's like, oh no,I texted you and I'm like,
yeah, but I didn't see it. Oh no, sorry, it was
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it was like, uh, youknow, what is it? What is
Facebook's messenger? Facebook Messenger? Andhe's like, no, no, it's
a messenger. And I'm like Igo, look there, it's not there
Instagram message. It could be anywhere, it could be anywhere. It's in
the universe right now, it's ridiculous. Yeah, Oh my gosh, this
is so funny. All right,so listen, I'm gonna take my second
break. Oh there's so much moreto talk about with Tom, including the
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movie that he and I did,a sitcom that he and I did,
So don't go away, We'll beback after this. One woman was everything
to little girls, especially that lookedlike me. She stands for being a
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voice for people that need a voice. My organization renovates homes for people with
disabilities, and when I come homea self care routine makes me feel my
best. I'm very proud of thedifference that we're making it. To see
that impact in my community inspires meto work even harder for everyone around me.
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We'll see you there the way yousay my name. Yeah, Hey,
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everybody, welcome back to Tea Time. I still have a little voice
in me. I'm with Tom TomSadario, actor and now I found out
singer, producer, writer, comedianand uh, you know he's done TV
and film and stand up and standup Twenty six years is a long time.
(36:39):
That is a pretty long time.Twenty six years. Yeah, but
is it? Do you count pandemicyears, like I never knew. I
don't know. Did you do anyshows during the pandemic? Virtually? Well
virtually no, then virtually and thenlike I did, like like I did
one, and I was horrified.Listen to me, I wouldn't do one.
I just I couldn't. I did. I did one. And We're
(37:01):
standing in my kitchen in front ofa microphone that wasn't plugged into anything.
I was like, hey, anybodydating and like my cats sitting there like
it's just it was just it wasit was crazy, so crazy thing.
So what did you do to keepsaying during the pandemic? Oh? I
mean I did a lot of writing. Rob and I were working on the
(37:22):
film. We worked on Pancakes andSyrups and Syrup. We have a picture
of Rob and you. Thank youso much for that pic. Spent a
lot of time in that car.Yes, yeah, yes, you mean
you or you? Because I don'twant to start rumors. No, we
won't start anything yet, not yet. But Pancakes and Syrup is was a
(37:42):
baby that you and Rob started manymany years and many years ago, like
ten more than that, really,probably fourteen. But it was we we
shelved it, you know how itis. Yeah, you're working and you're
working on something. You you putit aside, you go back, I
can grab it again, you startworking on it again. Yeah, there
were times when when we, youknow, we decided like, let's start
(38:06):
working on it again, you know. And I'll tell you Rob. Rob
was always great. Rob's a veryorganized dude. He was great. I
had Rob on my show a fewweeks ago. You could always go back
and look at that show as well. Yes, and that was Rob was
always good. Like Rob was like, I'm a little more flighty, Like
I'm a little bit such a ifif I had hair, it would absolutely
(38:28):
be blonde. And I was blondeand no offense to blondes. But I
uh, I like Rob, like, I'm sort of like, hey,
let's write a script, right maybenext week. Rob's idea. Really,
he always wanted to do this.He always wanted to write it, started
talking about it, you know.But then it was kind of cool because
Rob was like, look, ifwe're going to do this, we got
(38:50):
to do it. Like do it. You had like an appointment every week
exactly. You have to set uplike a strict specific time that you're going
to work on it, or youwon't do it right, like every Tuesday
from six to nine, right,Yes, It's crazy, how of all
(39:10):
the days and all the times youwere exactly right? I know I should
play you should. So you're talkingmonths and yeah yeas and years and rights
writing it and writing it and thenyou give it to someone and they destroy
the script and tear it to shreds. And then you pick up all the
pieces and you're like, oh dowe even have a script? And you
(39:31):
put that together and then you littleby little you grind it down and grind
it down, and you trust people, you know, you really, egos
need to be set aside, leftat the door. If you go into
doing a project like this with anego that's inflated and out of control,
you are you know. That's thesign that they put on the door when
(39:51):
they first recorded We Are the Worldwith Michael Jackson. And then all they
said egos left at the door.Oh okay, and yeah, I'm with
those those people. That's a roomfull of egos big time. They're huge,
you know. Yeah, So Ithink it's a big part of it.
Rob was great when it came tolike Rob ended up directing yes,
right, and and editing and editing. Yeah, so you you co wrote,
(40:15):
you co wrote and co producing startingit, Yes, because you know
as well as I do. Andwe talked about this in this industry,
this is an industry that we love, but it doesn't love you back.
And you were big on saying ifyou want to do something, produce it
and do it yourself. Yes,because the thing is, you're not if
somebody is not going to We're not. We're not we're not an everyday name,
(40:37):
We're not in demand. So whatdo we do? Make it yourself?
Make it yourself. If somebody,if you want to be in it,
make a movie. You want tobe in a movie, make a
movie. Yeah. And it wasI mean, it was an arduous flavor
of love. It's I tell peopleall the time. I'm like, I
don't know what I was thinking.So now, as a newly indie filmmaker,
(41:00):
Right, what was the hardest partabout making this film? That's an
interesting, very interesting question. Ithink, No, it's a great it's
a great job. I think thehardest part of making the film was navigating
like locations and actors, like becauseyou have so many, you had a
(41:21):
big cast, you had over fiftypeople, Right, what were we thinking
when we made a road movie.A road movie, that's a lot of
locations. It's a lot of locations, and then it's a lot of people.
Like you meet someone and then youdon't meet them again, right,
so you need to drive by.It was like a drive by meeting.
So now you did a lot offilming on Long Island, yes, and
(41:42):
then we filmed in Astoria, Yes, with other places that you did film
as well. Manhattan filmed that BrokeWay Comedy Comedy Club, which you know,
which was great. Al Martin hadon the show did I did?
I interviewed him, We talked abouthis book. Wow, you should?
You should? You got to putit back you know what, you know
(42:04):
what you gave me a great ideafor my April show that I need.
It's a good idea to do thatcould put it back up, you know,
and he was very kind, verygenerous about doing it there and you
know other places. You know,it's very difficult. I mean, you
know there were times when they hada show coming in and like I'm running
up and down the stairs and I'mtrying to figure out it was meant to
be filmed there. It was meantto be film there and it was there
(42:28):
and an Astoria and out here andthen you were great, ally, thank
you, Yeah, so much fun. This was great. I was I
actually auditioned for the mom who walksin with Jerry Fareddi. Originally you guys
want me in that, and thenRob said no, no, no,
no, we want you to readfor something else. And I was like,
(42:50):
okay, so pancakes and syrup,Yes, this is the baby again.
I think I guess Rob had thatname happen. Yeah, it was
kind of like a placeholder. Wekind of did. We weren't really exactly
like it was kind of like wegot to name this. It's the very
first scene was filmed at a diner. Y. Yeah, and sometimes you
(43:10):
order pancakes. Yes, yes,it was well it was cold Pancake Palooza
the place. So we named thepancakes and see, so that fit.
But it was kind of like it'slike having a three year old that it
doesn't have a name yet. Youmean, like we're writing the script for
years and we're like, hey,did you see the kid? You know,
so we were like, we gotto name this, you know what
(43:31):
I mean. So we gave it, you know, we gave it and
Actually it's turned out that it's actuallycatchy, like it is catchy and like
memorable. Yes, it's like itand weird things that you just think of
breakfast and you just go there.Well, who doesn't like pancakes and syrup?
Everybody likes pancakes and syrup. Andthere's not even a lot of pancakes
(43:52):
in it. Are there any pancakes? There are pancakes in it, but
it's the beginning is when anyone getto eat the pancakes. You know,
I think I made a lot ofpancakes. I got to tell you I
made a lot of pancakes, youknow, because I did. We all
did props. You did what Imean, you got yeah, I mean,
you do what you gotta do,but we were actually you and I
(44:12):
mean I loved it. Was agreat scene, great scene. But before
we before we continue with pancakes andZyrup, I do want to back up
because you and I before Pancakes andZyru, did a sitcom pilot called Everybody
Loves Charlie. Now I don't havea pick of us on set, but
that was actually filmed in Brooklyn,Yes, and so it's based on my
(44:37):
friend Charlie Santoro who works for theS Network, and Josh william Josh Williams
great directed. And I didn't knowyou were going to be there, I
know, and you didn't know Iwas going to be there. And I
played the secretary and you played playeda doctor. Yes, a doctor which
(44:57):
who gives uh prostate Yes, yes, proctologist that's okay to say proctologist.
Proctologists, right, And he comesin and he's supposed to give Charlie his
exam and Charlie preferred a different doctor. He wanted a woman, a woman
somewhat reluctant to have me do it, right because I might have been a
(45:19):
little flamboyant. Yeah. So,but it was a great scene. You
were friend. There's a lot ofso much fun. It's so much fun.
I mean, you know, it'slike it's so happy. Please,
I mean it's like being a child, Like you just run around like a
child. It's great. And whenyou work with your friends, it's the
ultimate. I love that ultimate.It really is. So but bring us
(45:40):
back to pancake and syrup now.So, Yeah, so I did audition
for you guys. We had acouple of zooms, you know, zoom
audition, right, zoom audition andyou're like, yeah, we want to
give you another part. And Iwas like, okay, so should we
play this? I was scene first, whatever you have, whatever you have.
This is Tom and I in ourscene together of I'm such a pancakes
(46:07):
and sorry, you know, Tom, I had such a great time with
you last night. I really reallyhope we can do it again soon.
(46:30):
Listen, megane Sophia, What myname is Sophia? Oh oh it's close
to mege No, it's really notclose. Whatever. Wait, Nicole,
wait, how long are you goingto be? Tom? Really? Hey,
(46:51):
you're back? Can you get out? What get out? What's going
on? Tom? What are youdoing? Where are you going? Do
you hello? You can't leave mehere by myself all alone. You're not
by yourself all alone. Look,there's people everywhere, really everywhere. You'll
(47:12):
be fine. You gotta be kiddingme, you really really? You second,
you ate short for Richard? Ifyou're wondering, that was so much?
Is it wrong to laugh at yourown movie? I mean no,
it was so much fun to filmat the bar in Astoria. Yes,
(47:34):
that was the sweet great spot,great sports bar. And the story queens
and uh and and the scene outsidewas right here in front of beautiful paradise.
Yes, and oh wait, leavethat pick, leave that pick,
leave that pick, put that pickback, thank you, all right,
leave that there. I love thatpick because that just totally describes our character.
(48:00):
So basically, I want more ofTom. Look at my face.
I want him. I can't getenough him. And his face is like,
I'm so friggin with you. I'mjust done with you. I love
it. I was like that,just thank you. Oh my god,
that just descrives that count. Ohmy god. It was a lot of
fun. It was a lot offun shooting it here. It was you
(48:22):
know, Bobby's great and it wasjust you had another scene. We had
another scene inside being interviewed for aradio show. Right, I was on
the radio, and you know,comedians like an interesting thing that we did.
Comedians do not like doing radio,notoriously, right and on the road.
They do radio at like six inthe morning, right, And no
comedian wants to be up, likenobody wants to be funny, Like sometimes
(48:45):
we don't want to be funny atnine o'clock at night, right right,
right, let alone being funny atsix am. We don't want to do
that. So it was a wholething. I don't want to give away
too much because it's okay. Youknow, it's not like Oppenheimer. We
know what happened at the end,right, yes, oh my god,
not yet. This is still amystery that is so funny. So listen,
(49:07):
we really only have five minutes leftalready. Let's show the trailer.
Okay, Oh that would be cool. Yeah, put that up. Let's
a little bit. What do youthink? This looks nice? Where should
we sit? I don't know,stool? Maybe know what you want to
(49:28):
eat? You know what? Cancan give me a minute, I'll be
right back. What's that man?I've been having a bed day for the
past couple of weeks. Maybe weshould just talk about this tomorrow. I
can't. I'm leaving town. Igot this road thing, road thing.
(49:50):
Yeah, I have a string ofgigs and then I'm heading out to l
A. You know what, that'sperfect, man, I am going.
You said it yourself, right.People don't always get to do what they
want to do. I have myown to worry about. What problems do
you have? Oh? I don'tknow, bookers, managers, agents,
(50:15):
club owners, annoying passengers, luxuryproblems, man luxury problems. What is
a luxury problem. You get todo the thing you want to do.
You're living the life you want tolive. Man bookers, agents, managers,
(50:36):
luxury problems. Are you gonna makethe show tonight? I gotta get
to a meeting, meaning aa,I had a lot of time sober.
Basically, if I go to getback to it, I'm done. Thanks
for coming in. Maybe she turnedthe light on and gonna look at this
guy. Oh, my son ishere. I haven't seen him since he
(51:04):
moved to Friends Friends where my grandchas. You're not my father. We're always
about You're happy? Have you evereven met my happiness? This is getting
us nowhere. I can't even understandwhat you're saying. We have diversity here,
we have a Puerto Rican family.Did you write a screenplay? Are
(51:37):
you trying to make a movie.No, I'm ambitious, I'm not delusional.
What the I love it? Ilove it. I love it.
I can't wait for the premiere.I'd love how I do it like I
(51:58):
talk now and like you. It'shard to even pick something because of the
older cursing in the movie. That'sright, Rob, No, Rob,
Rob did a great job. Ohhe pulled those out. Oh, I
said to him, if you yeah, that's great, he said, if
you want me to show the trailers? No cursing. Most of the time
when I'm talking, I'm like,it's oh, it's yeah, he has
(52:22):
a lot of cussins. Yeah,but what are you going to do?
We had a you know, twoguys from Queens. We had a quick
pick of you and Joe Piscopo andthis was I think back in twenty thirteen.
That was a nine to eleven tributeI think, and I know John
Therochio was there. I think that'sis that a Gotham or is that at
Governor's That was actually background, Ithink that was a Gotham. Yeah,
(52:45):
that was in a city getting Yeah, how nice job. He was such
a he was so nice. Hereally was trying to get him on the
job. Yeah. And he cameover to me and he was like he
wanted to get my intro right,which is really cool. Nice, Yeah,
very very cool, very very sweet. Yeah, good guy. He
was a good guy. So listen, God, we have like a minute.
(53:06):
How crazy this this went so fast? I know, I know.
Quick tell everybody how they find you, how they follow you? Okay,
great, thank you. Pancakes andSyrup is a Pancakesinsyrup dot net. My
TikTok, everything is Tom Dedario.It's d A D D A R I
O and it's on the screen rightthere. So my Facebook and also I
have YouTube dot com, slash TomDario Live and Instagram and all that.
(53:31):
So so everything's under my name.Yes, that's right, tomddario dot com
and Tommy Comic dot com. Thankyou. So she's so great. Great,
listen. I want to thank everyonefor watching the show. Shout out
to Anne Love the interview team.Great show as always, Thank you and
I love you so much. AndI want to give a shout out to
Zoe and Bruno and Greg and MichaelNewton who's watching in Florida, another loyal
(53:57):
listener and viewer watcher. Listen,I'm gonna keep doing this as long as
your people want me to keep doingit. Thank you so much for doing
this. And we'll make an announcementwhen the preview is when people could see
it. Yes, well, we'regonna be doing film festivals, so look
for it to be somewhere in yourarea and a film festival we'll be doing
viewing and it'll be put up onthe website, right, eventually, yeah,
(54:21):
we're gonna be doing that on theweb. We'll do all that stuff
on the website and then eventually,you know, streaming. So yeah,
it'll be I love you very exciting. I love you to listen everyone.
Thank you for watching tea time again. Thank you for your love support.
Remember, tell everyone you love youlove them, and I'll see you next
week. Chew everybody. The townname in part of name six
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