T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 38 “Charlie”

T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 38 “Charlie”. Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor and Singer Charlie Sausa. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com

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Episode Transcript

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Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey everybody, welcome to tea Time.

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I'm so glad you're joining me.It is Monday night, July fifteenth.
I'm going to talk about my weekendand get to month in studio guests
because I'm so excited he's here.Friday didn't do too much. I actually
just studied lines because I'm actually filmingthis coming week Friday and Saturday and Staten
Island movie called Uninvited Guests, directed, written, produced everything by Omar want

(02:00):
More who didn't be in My Nuts. And Saturday night we did Murdered by
the Mob in Manhattan. Murdered bythe Mob. Go to murder by themob
dot com. I play Bunny there. I am in my blonde wig and
it's so much fun. It's likegoing to an Italian wedding. You eat,
you sing, you dance, youdrink, someone gets whacked. You

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gotta figure it out. A lotof audience participation, which is a lot
of fun. It's so cool.We have a great time. Our next
show is on the twenty seventh,So just go to murder by themob dot
com and see all the upcoming showsand to get tickets. Sunday is laundry
day and again studying more lines.So I want to get to my instudio

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guests because, as you know,my show goes really fast. But I'm
excited he's here. Oh that's whatI forgot to issue before the show.
But now you can tell me.He's an actor and he's also a singer.
Charlie. Now say your last namebecause Susa Sousa, Okay, because
I don't call him that. It'ssouth I love it. I was actually,

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but yeah, and he and Imet years ago in acting school and
we became good friends. And welike to hang out. We like to
sing, we like to act.Yeah, we like to carry ok And
I want him. I've been wantinghim on the show for so long time.
But he said, you have toget me in the summer because his

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work hours interfear and we're going toget into that. So I'm just glad
you're here. I'm glad to finallybe here. And we're Queen's people originally
from Corona, then Bayside, andyou're originally rigid Landing in Beach. How
long you been there? I thinkit's twenty I want to say twenty three

(03:43):
years. Wow. Yeah, Igrew. I mean, I was born
in Ridgers, so it's got tobe about twenty three years that I'm in
Howard Beach. Big difference, butit's almost like being in another part of
the world. It's weird because ridis I don't know if you know it,
but it's very yes, I knowthe difference. Yeah, it's very
very closed. You know, youhave four or five family house and for
six six family houses, so yougo outside, all the neighbors are there,
you know, Beach, I loveit. It's a little different,

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though, it's like, you know, it's very different. Yeah, it's
nice. He went to King HighSchool. Yeah. And when you were
in high school, did you participatein any kind of acting or make it?
No? No, So actually thesinging is I'm like karaoke great if
anything, but the acting. Whathappened was my sophomore year they did Greece.

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Who doesn't want to do grease?Right? Yeah? I mean I
think everybody went to their grease stage. I ended up playing Sonny, but
I was given originally Eugene, soI was me. I think I was
one of the younger ones. Everybodyelse is either on their way out,
juniors or seniors. And I wasso shy and nervous that they had planned
to get rid of me, andother people like no, no, no,
give him a chance. He'll comeout of the show. Long story

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short. My teacher friends who directed. His mom was my teacher, and
she came to see the show.His mom was my fifth grade teacher,
and she's crying. He's like,yeah, and I know I did a
good job. She goes, notyou, Chollie, like, he's so
quiet. It's kid in fifth grade. Now he's on stage. So I
started in high school. I waslucky enough to have now actually Christy King

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the full name is christ King Regional, because I think there is another christ
the King somewhere in New York.But they are now known for their theater
program. Kids auditioned to get in. It's not a specialized high school,
obviously from the name is a Catholicschool, but kids auditioned to get into
the theater program. So it andthe teacher said, it's kind of because
of you guys that we were ableto get you, you know, get
this on the map and have anoption in the school, because it really

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wasn't. And then we also hada theater class and a theater club within
high school. So from sophomore tosenior year that's all I really did.
I actually played jam I was oneof the pink leaders. Okay, it's
such a funny. It's such agreat show. It is, and that
sad age especially, you know,it was funny because now that you're an
adult, like, it's always agood show. But if you were to
do it now, you're like,Okay, it is what it is.

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But when you're a teenager, it'slike, oh, this is perfect.
It's a lot of fun. Soobviously you did act in school, and
then what did you want to bewhen you grew up? I mean because
you went to study at lu LUin Brooklyn, yea, and what were
you majoring in? Minor rings?So I decided, you know, by

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the time senior year came around,I knew I liked the acting. But
I also come from a background whereit's like, well, are you really
going to make it? You know, have a plan B So I said,
look, the acting realistically, youcould keep that dream alive and you
can keep it going like I've done, and I have a full time career.
It's also not acting, but I'vekept it alive. I kept going.

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So when I got into college,it was one of those things.
And a lot of people going throughcollege now, you know, I feel
bad for these kids because it's like, this is your first year, I
right decide what you gonna do withthe rest of your life, and it
doesn't work that way. So Ireally didn't know how many kids today,
and I know a few of them, they go to college, they get
their major, and then they comearound they're not even working, no,
no doing what they I've planned ondoing. I've been lucky. So I

(07:01):
went in and I was thinking,for some reason, I was going to
do pharmacy because that family that doespharmacy. But I'm horrible in meth and
I'm like, what am I wouldhave killed somebody. So all of a
sudden, I said, you know, I really need something that I love
to come to school for and thensee what at Lee's career. So I've
always loved English literature, so that'swhat I studied. And I had an

(07:24):
opportunity when I was in school todo a work study where I worked with
kids in my old school that Iwent to Enridgement as a kid, and
it just solidified it, like feelingthat feeling in the classroom, so I
had Yeah, so I'm like,this is it, this is teaching.
And then but always in the backof my mind, I'm like and acting.
You know, we'll see how Icould do both. But I didn't

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end up studying acting until years later. So I did go to Stella Adler
years later because I'm like, ifI like it, I actually stopped.
I took myself out of the actinggame totally because I'm like book, I
loved, I love acting. Ofteaching, Yeah, I'm busy. And
you teach eighth grade English? Well, now this year sixth grade. So
I've taught eighth grade. Then Iwas a dean, and then I've taught

(08:07):
sixth grade. So currently going backin September, I'll be sixth grade again,
but all English. And how longhave you been teaching twenty I'm going
into my twenty fourth year. Wow, and you look thirty four, yeah,
and I feel sixty. Well,thank you for teaching al children.
You're molding the future. You knowI've been looking. I'm in a good
school, good kids. Give ashout out to your school. Frank Stant's

(08:31):
very twenty three. It's a massivethree. Nice and you are a very
cool teacher, you are. Weactually have a picture of you as a
rapper and it should say rapper onthe picture. And I think this was
you could have been yes, Sowhat we did with these mind? Did
you hear me? Rapper picture?Yeah? Thank you very much like DMC.

(08:58):
Yes, so that was I believeI was. So we did a
few different things. I've done thisget up a few times. One of
them that was I think our seniorshow you look great. And then I
did it this year. I didit cool teacher, come on, I
tried. They love it. Thisyear. I did it for the decades
and I did eighties and I broughtin a speaker and I was blasting run
the MC in the hallways and thekids actually stopped and dance. So it's

(09:20):
pretty cool. Great, Yeah,get you know, you have to like
what you do. It's fun whenyou when you get the kids, you
know, when it's relatable, right, and that's what they want to connect,
right. You know, I've beenvery lucky and not just listen.
I know that's a hard sixth eighthgrade, that's those eight stages. Yes,
you know, they don't know whothey are. They want, you

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know, attention, They don't knowhow to get it. I've been very
lucky. I've had I've been invitedto former students weddings, and I I'm
very I'm very like, yeah,I'm okay. You know, I try
not to give myself conflimence. Idon't know what that is, but I
don't give myself compliments. But basically, what I learned is that you just

(10:01):
gotta do what you got to dowith love. And then yeah, some
people, well one of your formerstudents, their mom reached out to me.
Yes, Katrina, Trina is agreat girl, is it, zach
Shaka. Well, that's the waywe would say, you know, it's
funny because different ways in English andItalian. But she reached out to me,
saying, my daughter had it asa teacher. He's so talented.

(10:24):
That's nice. But another great family. This is what I mean, you
know. And I'm saying, likeI hear from the kids when they're graduating,
and then I run into them asadults, right, and that's when
you know you really did something becauseit's an adult. Such an impression,
you know, that's the whole thing, and making such an impression. Yeah,
and it's nice, it's nice.Huge, I know you love teaching.

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Like I said, you've been doingit for so long, so I
want to talk about your acting.First. We're both virgos, and we're
both September babies. His birthdays theSeptember fifth, the day before sex,
so that's another thing we have incommon. But so, yeah, so
you actually started back in ninety eight. You did something called teach me.

(11:09):
Yes, so that was Oh mygod, I forgot that. That was
so when I was in college inhigh school, so that was what my
college is. I did a tonof background work, which if anybody out
there has done background work, it'snice for like the first howe and then
you're like, Okay, how doI get out of this? Yeah?
I mean a lot of waiting fifteendays, a lot of a lot of

(11:31):
just waiting around until they need youand teach me. I'm surprised it even
shows up because it was an indy. It was an indie fight. I
can't even remember. It was anindie and it was one of my college
years and I just did background onit. But then again, you waited
another ten years. Yeah, youhad like a little you know, Well
that's so I got it. Yeah, So I got out of it.

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I really did, and I said, you know what, I'm happy teaching
like what you were doing, andif I were to get back into it,
it'll fall into my lafe, youknow. So I realized I did
love the acting too much to justlet it go totally. So I decided,
if I'm going to do this,I'm going to do it the right
way. So that's when I wentto Stella Adler and I took the whole
slate of everything I felt like Ineeded at the model. Yeah. So

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at the time it was voice scenes, movement, scene study, and then
one of the classes was also liketheir technique is obviously different acting schools,
And I'm so glad i went becauseyou know a lot of people that I
mean, anybody that wants to getinto this. You know, I think
that talent is this much, butyou you are going to go up again.
I tell a lot of my studentsand other people that ask about it,

(12:37):
you are in a big pool ofcompetition, and people that you're competing
with have some kind of training.So it's not enough even like you know,
like people who sing, people whohave yours, right, you have
to have you Yeah, And whenI went back to the acting classes,
I'm like, all right, thisis just for me, you know,

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I want to have something. Soif I start a resume, it shows
people I'm taking this seriously, notlike well, I just feel like doing
it because it's fun. And luckilythat maybe has led to some of the
connections I made now, but italso gives me, you know, some
kind of basis. And it's funnywith acting classes because you learn these techniques
and then and every little listen andI've had many acting teachers throughout the years,

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and everyone teaches different and take awaysomething from each one, right right,
and even like right now I'm readinga book by the respectful acting yes,
yes, and I'm like, okay, so this kind of aligns with
what they said instead of and reallyyou end up like making your own technique,
you know, and then sometimes likeyou do you know, you do

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these additions. It's like that's allout the wind that it's like, okay,
what do I have to do?Because now with the TV it's like
realism, yes, like you justhave to be really just have to be
you know, acting is reacting,yeah, we always say that, and
it's just being authentic, right,just right, and that's the key,
especially well film, but definitely television, definitely networks show. We're gonna get
to your network in a minute.But so you did again two thousand and

(14:05):
eight, you did One Last Beat, which was a short. Yeah,
so One Last Beat. He playedan accomplice. Yes, Oh so that
was yeah. Actually somebody that Iknow, like a family member, who
now I forgot, Well, shedoes in the industry, but she's in
the industry. That was fun.That was real fun. I had to
drive a getaway car and I didthis turn. I was like, oh
my god, I hope I don'tcreations any of the parked cars. So

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that was cool. That was anotherarea and she was again it was a
short, but she's breaking in nowshe I believe she's in the industry,
but I think she kind of changedgears, of which a lot of people
do. Yeah, a lot ofpeople do. And she's I don't think
she's shooting anymore. She might bemore behind the scenes. But that was
twenty fourteen. You did The Cactusand the Hermit Crass, which was also
a short, and you played misterPhones. This is great. So this

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was a kid and I'll call everybodyyounger than me a kid. But his
name is Andrew Ballei. He's fromLong Island. Yes, stud was studying
this. Yeah, and he putme in two of his short films.
One of the nicest people. Hopefullyhe gets to see this, one of
the nicest people ever. And hecalled me for two separate chores and that
was really fun and it was justfun. You know. It's cool because

(15:11):
like a lot of people. Again, the people that try to get into
this get into the student film becausethey don't forget you, you know,
they don't forget you. Get footagefrom them and they call you back like
that was the second one. Ican't Yeah, and then he had another
one that was hysterical that came beforethat. So when I got the call,
I'm like, oh, of courseI'll do. He's such a nice

(15:31):
guy. It's nice when you workwith people like again, like this is
now my third time, is thethird time working with Omar more. We
did me and my Nuts and yeah, we're doing this and then we're going
to do something else. So whenyou work with someone and they know what
you can bring to the table andit's a pleasant experience and you come prepared,

(15:52):
you know, then they're like,I want to work with you again.
And this is this is the thirdtime. Now I'm working with nice
Omar, you know, makes iteasier for them because they already know what
they're getting. Correct, correct,you know, and he's it's it's it's
this is one of the bigger,bigger projects that we're doing together. It's
not a series, it's actually afull length film. So you know,
he's like, you know, yeah, I'm excited we're doing this. We're

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doing this. So I was like, yeah, because I love working with
him. And then Gotham. Okay, so Gotham was your first network show
TV series and you played ince Yes, and we have a video, so
let's take a look at that youon Gotham. Because no problem we have.

(16:34):
I gotta stand up for right.We don't have that kind of cash
on hand. That's your problem.That's a way. We have an obligation
to deliver. The dollmaker doesn't toleratefailure. We need those children. That's
also your problem. Down you go, did that hurt? So it's great.

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I love that actress and I'm like, well, I'm gonna get a
stabed by her and the other guy'srobber Duval's cousin. All he does the
time, So that job was.So it's funny because so, how did
you get that? I got that? My agent called me and he said,
so, if it was summer.It was around July twelfth, I
want to say. I was onsummer vacation and my agent said, oh,
by the way, I just submittedyou for something. If they're interested,

(17:22):
will you be available? Blah blahblah. Day, Yeah, this
is perfect. I'm like, Idon't even have to think about it,
right, so yeah, whatever.I was actually my friend Jocelyn's house,
Jocelyn Marie and I. We werejust hanging out and I'm on the phone.
I'm like, hey, yea,yeah, I just whatever, do
what you gotta do. And I'maround yeah. He calls me back,
He's like, oh, you bookedit now, mind you. This is
my first So I didn't audition forthat. I got it from a headshot,

(17:44):
which is rare. So this isliterally my first look. Yeah.
The first paid job I did wasactually a commercial for a Polish airline,
Lot Airlines. I know, Idon't say it the right way, but
that I got. I don't evenremember how I got that. That was
where my college is, but thisone I got it just on a look
I'm like, okay, so it'sa TV show. I guess I'm not
speaking because there's no I asked myagent for this script because I like,

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you said, you want to goprepare Man? You get Sam. He
sends me the side and it saysince ouch. I said, okay,
so I say one word, youknow. But it was a great experience
because before I booked that, Ihad actually I was a huge fan of
the Adam West three runs. Iloved Batman. I was like Batman,
and there was a lot of pressabout this show coming out, you know,

(18:29):
this prequel to Batman. I know, this sounds pretty cool. Got
Them City, and uh, I'mlike, wow, this is the first
show I get, you know,this new hot show. And I got
it from from the headshot. Wow. Went for the whole experience. Yeah
that costume, Yeah that's it.That's amazing. But even like the costume
department, that whole experience, likethat was my first. And then I
got to the set. I'm inmy own trail. I'm like, okay,
I can get used to this.I can get used to this.

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Hey, listen, we can getused to my first break. So we'll
be back right after this. Don'tgo Away. Wonder Woman was everything to
little girls, especially that looked likeme. She stands for being a voice

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for people that need a voice.My organization renovates homes for people with disabilities,
and when I come home a selfcare routine makes me feel my best.
I'm very proud of the difference thatwe're making. It. To see
that impact in my community inspires meto work even harder for everyone around me.

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All right, is everybody having agood time for a while? That's
what I thought. All right,So we are live Paradise Studios from New
York. Give yourself around some closI'm coming out tonight. Well, Hi

(20:10):
there, Teresa. It's Jihan Yorkefrom General Hospital. I am just checking
in because apparently you have a greattalk show called Tea Time on Strong Island
TV. I want you to havecontinued great success and have a lot of
fun. It sounds like you're havinga lot of fun, and that's pretty
much the key to everything, isn'tit. So continued success I'm proud of

(20:32):
you. Have a great day,Teresa. Bye, Hey everybody, welcome
back to Tea Time. I'm withmy friend Charlie Salsa and he's an actor,
and he also sings the band canhold a Note. And let me
tell you, I'm very very impressed. So listen, we're talking about his
career acting, acting, acting.I just want to say, John York
from General Hospital, he's back onGH. He was battling two forms of

(20:56):
cancer and I'm so happy that he'sback on GH. Charlie, charliech Holly.
Twenty fifteen, you did Difficult People, which was a TV series and
you played Bret Glass. That wasfun. That was so I don't know
if you've been a Billy Eichner.He's yeah, yeah. So that's his
first big thing, Wow with JulieKlausner, and it was this funny scene
where he goes into this like abar with his like all these internet people,

(21:19):
you know, and I'm this guytelling people I have this talk show
with my brothers, and our wholepurpose is like to go to shows and
make fun of them, you know. So it's like a smattering of like
all these funny twenty sixteen a hedid another network TV series called Vinyl Yes,
and you played Moose. What's seethat scene? Shall we excuse me?

(21:56):
We got a call game Thursday thatwas making room Wow. So got
ready you look totally different. Yeah, it's that wig alone is human hair.
It's like you know, you learnedabout it and the only use top
stuff on network. It was itwas amazing. How much fun was that?

(22:17):
Though? That was cool? Iwas where did you film that?
So that was actually Sunset Park Thatwas an actual factory that still makes LPs.
So the whole show, I don'tknow if people familiar with it is
said it's the music industry in thenineteen seventies. So they found this place
that still pressed vinyl records. Wow. But I was excited to do that
because of the two main producers,Scorsese and mc jagger. Yes, like

(22:37):
wow, this is great, andI yes, maybe because I believe scorses
had we actually have a picture withyou, and this is this picture was
before I even booked Vinyl. Iactually met him at a a raging bulevand
really, yeah, is that whatit was? All right? So we'll
show it. We'll show it laterif you can't pull it now. Also,

(22:59):
you did Quality Control, which wasa short play that was interesting.
That was Joelo Bianco, who weboth know, Yes we do. It
was an interesting futuristic kind of likeTwilight Zone. Uh, yeah, kind
of episode like is same feels likethe Twilight Zone twenty eighteen? You did
is it die Land diet Land dietLand, which was a TV series.

(23:25):
You played an Italian film Diarmist.Yes, that was interesting because that's so
that's based on a novel. AndI actually had the I bought the book
and I marked the page that mycharacters. I'm like, I played somebody
who was in a book. Yeah, and it was basically the scene where
these women got together and they werepolishing off of people like Harvey Winstein's O
the World Funny. Now, didyou have to speak Italian? Yes,

(23:45):
so the audition, I'm fluent anItalian Italian and the audition was not that
you got this. I got thescript and it's an Italian director with a
strong Italian accent, right, SoI auditioned with the Italian accent, but
just from my self, because youknow, you try to do what you
could add something, that you couldadd something. Yeah, So what I
did actually and it worked out.I actually on my phone did a translation

(24:08):
of the lines in Italian just tohave it in the back of my mind.
You never know. It's like atthe audition, can you pull it.
So at the audition I just didit straight up English with the Italian
accent. But that that night wewere shooting and the director was talking,
No, I love Italy. Igo there all the time. And then
he says to me, you speakItalians. Yeah, he goes, dude
an Italian like, okay, SoI took out the fun I'm like,

(24:30):
let me just look at the translationbecause you know, like most of the
people I came here, we speakthe Sicilian dialect. I mean speak like
I understand it more than speak andI'm not but like you know, is
different from Southern. So I hadit on my phone. I'm like,
okay, well doing it in Italianthat goes to show like you know what

(24:51):
special studia you have to I wasand then you say you could do you
need to be able to do.You couldn't flip film it in Italy.
You did fluff, which was ashort. Yes, that was so that's
my friends of mine they did thatand that was so much fun, and
there was so the Strader brothers like, oh, they was so much fun
because they just they were the twodirectors that are like, all right,

(25:12):
we'll give you the premise, butyou just kind of go with it.
And then they told me something becauseit was this guy trying to get like
a loan for like his inventions,and they got more and more bizarre.
So the guy who was playing theguy who would give me the loan,
Yeah, one scene, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna make dentures for
babies and he wasn't expecting so justsee his face was like that's what and

(25:34):
they're they're in the whole way,like dying laughing because they don't want to
be heard from the microphone. Butit was great. It's nice because you
go TVs, you know, theyjust want to work with you. They
want to say and it was prettycool. It's like here you go,
free ring. Yeah, he's thepremis, go with it. Twenty nineteen,
you did High Maintenance, which wasa TV series. You played a

(25:55):
dude, some kind of towny.So that became like a cult hit.
That's an HBO show, you goyeah, and it became like a cult
thing. And it's funny because yearslater two people that I work with said,
you know, I saw you wantto a rerun of High Maine.
Don't you love that? That's prettycool. That hardly happens to me because
I'm not big, you know.But it's interesting that that show took on

(26:15):
like a life of its own,old stoner lifestyle. But it's really cool.
But listen to me. Third Networkbooking blue Bloods. That was okay.
Now blue Bloods obviously with the China, you know. Yeah, they're
trying to bring it back. Theydon't want they want it to end.
No, there was an article thatit might be possibly brought back. I
hope so. And you played Derekwho's the super and you were in two

(26:38):
episodes and we actually have both videos. Let's take a look everything. No,
everything's not okay. This my atment. It's stole my necklace. My
name is Derek, I'm the buildingsuper. Whatever, wait till my husband
gets home. I'm sorry about theofficer. You're an officer. Good arrest

(27:00):
that man. Is it possibly youjust misplaced it? No, it was
stolen my out in my safe.I think you're a little confused man,
you know what. I'm sure youjust misplaced it, like ulf as a
Jacko said, do you want usto help you? Look? No,

(27:22):
thank you. You're here Contact shootingrecycled with Vince and here we are.
Wow, it's nice aged two sets. Thank you? Wait a second,
a second? Know what old traditioncouldn't carriage his bride across the threshold of

(27:47):
the new home and it brings goodluck? Am I taking a picture?
Oh? Thank you? So areyou ready? Missus? Jenk o'reagan?
Oh my god. There was alot of how now people don't realize how

(28:14):
long did it actually take to film? I was there for about four or
five hours. Yeah, so it'sI mean, the whole thing is like
I keep telling people, like Iwatch it and you're like, you could
think you're in a building, butthat's all in a set and green point.
It's all fakes and this amazing.The second scene was actually the first
scene. So what's coming out islike making it. There's all these little
things that they like. The whenI open your introductions right the first episode,

(28:37):
I didn't even have a ring first, right the second one, because
I guess I was established. Hopethey bring you back. I was hoping
and then hopefully the show comes backand I go back listen, maybe they'll
they'll, I don't know, showthem in a moving to. So when
I was shooting that day, Iwas a nervous ruck. I'm always a
nervous wreck. And I said tothem, I'm like, I hope this
episode stays in because the darks islike, you gotta speak fast otherwise you

(29:00):
get hid up. Because when weaudition, we had that luxury of kind
of speaking in all but TV worksthis way. Yeah, And they were
like, oh yeah, a lotof the fans didn't like the way we
shot the wedding because this is theseason right after the wedding. Yeah,
and they're like, this will probablymake it in, you know. You
know how I noticed that though GilmoreGirls. Do you know how fast they

(29:21):
they they talked in Gilmore Girls.Well, it's funny you say that because
I have auditioned for those people,and they put that in the script.
In the it is so fast.I'm like, wow, yeah there,
It's like I felt like I wasspeeding, but when you watch it,
it sounds normal. Yes, exactly. It was funny because we had all
these little things like I had totie the flesh to an actual flash,

(29:42):
right, and then the door keptclosing, so we had you can't tell
it from there. We had somebodyholding the door nup, like all these
little things like well, the Doorkno. Twenty twenty So you were on Blue
Blood's twenty nineteen twenty twenty. Yeah, same in the season Yeah, episode
twenty twenty. You did Unbound,which is a movie with our friend Deborah

(30:04):
Tes. Yes, and you playedDetective John mcglow. Yes. How much
fun was that? And I watchedthe trailer and it looks really really it
was fun. It was another oneof those things. So the director and
writer is a guy named Steve Rahm, and he does a lot of his
own Yeah, and another one.It's like, you know, he just
made you so comfortable. You getyour lines, but it's more than you're

(30:26):
more than welcome, right because youset you're gonna walk on too. No,
you don't. You know, you'rehoping. It's chill and it's not
tense, right. I felt likeI'm not gonna say too much, but
like one of them, like oneof the directors, was like making me
even more tense. I'm like,ohh and I just hope I deliver right.
Yeah, you just want to keepit high Town. That was love,

(30:48):
high Town fun. Okay, wedon't obviously have a clip from that,
but that is a TV series thatI love to watch. You played
it in me. Yeah, Ialmost didn't make that cut. So what
happened was when I when they shootagain. Another thing you don't know is
how much you're going to see yourself. Well that's the whole thing is because
you don't know if you're gonna endup on the editing floor. That happens
to me in my last two shows. Hey, that happened to me.

(31:08):
But Autie Pisqually went to do TulsaKing, Ye, I don't know.
Yeah, that happens to me onmy last two shows. You just done
up. But with this one,it's interesting because I wasn't inmate. I
had a whole line and one ofthe stars interacted with me, so it
wasn't I wasn't worried about the scenegetting cut out because it just kind of
made sense to fit. But whathappened was when they shoot, they put

(31:30):
cameras all over and it was atone point, yes, well they just
switching the positions and at one pointI had a camera literally in front of
me, and in my mind,I'm like, this is gonna be awesome.
For the show goes on and yousee my profile, but you hear
my voice, so you hear myvoice before you see my profile. But
they actually cut up, like theguy Amari comes up to me and squeezes

(31:51):
my shoulder and has another line,so it is edited out. But I
did make the way they do it. They honey Zoomers, which was a
TV series you played Johnny d Itwas fun. That was fun. So
that was yeah, that Charles Massineis the writer and that you could probably
still find on YouTube. It wasduring the pandemic. Yes, it was

(32:12):
like a takeoff on the Honeymooners.Yes, I played this like really like
corny character who thought he was likethis, you know, Brooklyn Rapper kind
of guy. The great great people. Yeah, the stars, Johnny Tomorrow,
Oh my god, I just forgetmy friend's name, Joey Joey,
but yeah, he's there, bothdoing a lot of great things. They

(32:34):
just workshopped a musical about Dion andit's looking like it might come to Broadway
and they might be in air JoeyTrabuzzio. Ok, here we go.
Twenty twenty three. You did PowerBook three raising Kane. That's the one
I got cut out. That's theone that's when he got edited out.
It's fine, you you were there. I was there, you got paid.

(32:55):
I got paid and I just gota residual for it. That's what
the union's nice for. But youknow what it was. Yeah, so
it's this like barfly in this divebar. And it was interesting because you
don't know, like it was basicallya line that I personally felt on like
I don't get where this line.Yeah, so I kind of felt like

(33:16):
didn't it was gonna yeah because itkind of sets the tone for the bar.
This is me and this late likemaking fun of this lady, and
you can tell like these two peoplealways come to this dive bar. But
it just didn't serve, right,And then I did the other one that
I loved doing, but I gotGot I was Girls five ever actually,

(33:37):
and then I that they even toldmy agent like, you know, because
of time constraints, his lines notin it. All Right, Well listen,
it is, it is what itis, what it is. Do
you have anything coming up that you'rehopefully you're submitting just the ausition the this
week two three times and you justno, that's kind of nice and frustrating

(34:01):
because he became Yeah, I becameSAG right before I booked got them.
I actually got intough AFTRA and thenthey merged. Yeah, and I took
an advantage of that merge and came. Yeah, a lot of people did
at the time. It was justmade sense because SAG was very hard.

(34:22):
You know, there's a whole worldlike of getting paid SAG dues and before
you did it. Yeah, ithad to be very particular situations to even
get that so and I didn't haveany of those situations, so I kind
of like worked my way in thatway. But it was a perfect time
because got Them was the first bignetwork thing and I had to be SAG
So yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Hey, listen, I'm gonna take

(34:45):
my next break. Don't go awaymore with Charlie after this wonder woman was
everything to little girls, especially thatlooked like me. She stands for being

(35:07):
a voice for people that need avoice. My organization renovates homes for people
with disabilities, and when I comehome a self care routine makes me feel
my best. I'm very proud ofthe difference that we're making and to see
that impact in my community inspires meto work even harder for everyone around me.

(35:31):
Hi, I'm Georgia Rose, founderof Zancuda. You can watch me
on the soul Space podcast every Fridayat noon on Channel twenty for spiritual guidance.
And as you all know, thatis how I first opened into my
own psychic gifts was through the angelicrealm astrology. And so we've got Mars
and the Sun together in Scorpio,which creates a lot of combustion, and

(35:51):
the astrological world we call it Akaziniand taro for the four cups right tied
up. It means we have alot of choices to make and we're not
looking at what's really being divinely givento us. We're too busy in the
busyness of the choices to really seethe divine intervention of divine timing and find
I where the place? Watch theSoul Space podcast. I ain't doing South

(36:23):
the Voice Val today. Why areyou watching me? You should be watching
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Teresa on Facebook Tee Time with Teresakinda Stracy Fowl. We'll see you there
the way you say my name.Hey, everybody, welcome back to tee

(36:45):
to I'm trying to get sal backon my show. Uh he did my
show about five years ago and it'stime. It's time to have him back
on and catch up. So keepmy fingers closed for my birthday month in
September. Let's see. So Charlie'shere ssa, but on Facebook he goes
by Charlie Cicily. Okay, soif you want to look at what he's

(37:07):
doing, go to Charlie Sicily onFacebook and Instagram and Instagram at c sousa
seven. Is it? You havetwo of them? I do? Actually
I do. He has two ofthem. Okay, you're right, I
am right because I put it on, so either one works. Actually,
Charlie Cicely, Yeah, yeah,for some reason I was having We are

(37:30):
both proud Sicilian Americans. You know, I know you are as myself.
I hope to get there one day. You've been to Sicily how many times?
About five times? Italy? Fivetimes? Nice? Nice? I'm
trying to go. Maybe next year. We'll see. I was supposed to
go last year. Then maybe nextyear. Well, we will get into
your traveling because you're a man ofthe world before we do. We have

(37:50):
some picks if you listen to me. I have met a lot of celebrities
in my life, but not asmuch as this man and who he has
met. A couple of them I'vemet, but no, no, no,
so let's throw them up. Let'sgo through them. That was a
great night. We got to Actuallyhis family's from his father's families from my
parents' town. So that was theconnection and the way I gotta tell you

(38:13):
this story. But the way ithappened is like meant to be. It's
a really cool story behind that picture. Do we have next? We're just
gonna go through them, thank you. And I took one of his classes.
That's from his class. I dida three day class with him.
He's a great actor. Great,just took his classes. It's so it's
so worth it. He's such agood teacher. That's when I saw her.

(38:35):
She was amazing. She did theMountain top of She was great.
Yeah. If I don't mention thename Chris Hollo. Now, Chris and
I met years ago in the earlynineties. I was doing a comedy show
at the Comic Strip and he walkedin and he bumped me. All right,
Chris, you can anytime you want. Who do we got next?
We'll just keep going. Colin greatguy. Ye oh my god, it's

(39:01):
I will correct you. And inmy neighborhood. Who's that? Oh,
that's some guy with me. Yeah, George Clooney and Brad Pitt would do
in a movie. Yeah, Iknow, isn't that great? That's actually
I just said the commercial for itand get on TV. Yeah. This
is when I went to the Whalesscreening screening and I got a nice conversation

(39:22):
with Brendan Fraser, who was rightbefore you want what a sweetheart? Right?
Oh man? What a gentleman?Yeah, I caught him on the
street. He was such a gentlemantoo. I try. It's funny because
like sometimes I won't ask for pictures, that's all my Usually for somebody else,
I always ask for pictures. Ido the thing where if somebody else
is asking, or for somebody Ireally need to Who else you got to

(39:42):
have a picture with that Jeremy Piventhat while ago, Yeah, because Jeremy
is young. Yea, my favorites. I had to see her in the
plane. People tell me you remindme of the attitude. She's awesome.

(40:04):
Talking about funny, this guy waslove sterical love, John Love, Matthew
Modine, that's Mulberry Street. Ilove him too, Just ran in.
Michael Rappaport, great actor another film, and I just stopped and said,
Hello, Hi, Michael. Thisguy he's so intense in his movies.
I gotta tell you he and Ihad to tell him he was one of
the nicest people I've ever met.And this is like my second picture with

(40:25):
him. I saw him in onemore than one production and I remember asking
him he gonna come out later,and he actually looked for me at the
end, and he's just a gentleman. He's a great act but just a
nice guy. Michelle Williams that's whenshe was in Cabarets. Yeah, great,
Paul I forgot I had that.Yeah, yeah, the same.

(40:47):
So this I got my my nephewloves who my age. You know,
I grew up with Karate Kid,So this is my nephew loves Cobra Kai.
So I got a sign book formy nephew. Nice. But it's
funny to because I've seen Ralph talkabout his last name Machia. You're just
saying it now, you see hesaid it the right way in Italian because

(41:08):
it's he said, it's not Machiain Italian. The h is a case
out. Yes, its just someonesaid it one day, and it's well
phonetically English. It looks like Macciocorrect. The other day somebody mentioned it,
said, Ralph Makia. I'm like, this is the only other person
I've heard besides me, because I'veheard, well, I've heard, I've
heard him say what else? Yougot anything else? This one? I

(41:31):
was literally I wish so the theaterwas all blue as you can see.
And I went out to him andI said, I'm not going to bother
him, but gentleman, I spoketo him and I said to him,
can I get a picture? Hegoes, It'll be my pleasure? Stood
off. His wife was very nice, and that was the day of the
sag Rally. I have my sagT shirt on. Yeah yeah, oh

(41:52):
oh. One of my favorites Michaellong Ago, and I will send him
this show calls him uncle a becausewhen Al comes to New York, Michael
Longo is his personal bodyguard and hiskids call him uncle Al. Great shot,
great show talk. She is socool. Sean Rivers, this is

(42:15):
you know. She talked about howit's turned there. You know, I
saw a lot of these picks andI was a little envious. I have
to say, it's nice to havethat pick this guy Bobby Okay, Bobby,
Bobby great, I want to takethat great another great actor. I
know you're always leaning in, leaningin? Is that it all right?

(42:35):
Thank you? Yeah? But somegreat picks memory. You know the picture
with him and uncle al Pacino,that's like your you took like two or
three picks with him. Yeah,I've seen another one that was That was
the one that with his eyes closedhe was looking dot right, you know,
that was the one that I framed. Actually, I have scorse and

(42:57):
the one. Yes, I gottaget the Nero one. That's it.
That's my Yeah, that's it.Yeah, yeah, exactly. But it's
great. It's great to like,you know, you know, you see
these people and you love their workand respect their work, and when you
get to actually meet them and tellthem, it's nice. But yeah,
absolutely, if I'm Yeah, Isaw I met Chaz and I was like,

(43:21):
can I can I take a picwith you? He's like yeah,
and Aman DeSante was there and abunch of other people, and I'm like
I'm taking pixel all night. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean if you know,
look they're willing and they say yes, why you have to? You
know, my as my father mywhy Sicilian father always said it never hurts
to ask, right, because alla person could say is no, that's

(43:44):
it. So I'm used to noseas an actor. You have to be
every time, every day we do, we do. And getting back to
your your you know your acting likeyou said, you you know you submit,
submit, submit, You do havean agent? Yes, you know
which is help? Which the key? Yeah? You know that's my next
my next thing on my list todo. But like I mentioned before,

(44:07):
Charlie is an amazing singer. Hereally really are. I mean he you
can blow those let me tell you. And my favorite song he sings is
Tennessee. It's a great, greatsong. And he called me up one
day He's like, what do youdo it? They're doing some kind of
piano karaoke in Limb Was it limbBrook? A rockfael Center was considered rock

(44:34):
Center a wim Brook win Brook.The border was highway and I'm like,
I forgot what the place was called. It was a called a coffee place.
It's called ground Central. There's afew round Central and they do it
like that once an there's something wegot to go back. But it was
so much fun. They have allthese you know books, musical books from
like Broadway show tunes and whatever,and it's very different. With a piano.

(45:00):
It was like yell and cabaretia.Yeah, it was. It was
a lot of fun. It wasthen we went to go eat afterwards,
which was great. But I wassaying before that, you are a man
of the world. You love totravel. I do, and sometimes by
yourself. Yeah, to you,you get on a plane and you don't
care. You got so you've beento like Italy like six times. By

(45:22):
six times, it's probably more actually, yeah, probably you have family there.
Yes, So my father's family basicallystayed. It's my mother's family who
really came here. My father hascousins here, but all his brothers and
one sister lived there and they havekids now the kids are so they're all

(45:42):
in mostly in Palermont Capital because myfather was living there for a long time.
But also we are originally from atown called Blizi gen Ozza, which
I was saying during the pictures.Scorsese's dad is from the same town,
and I just found out because theyposted pictures. There's souses in his family.
Really, yes, so I haveto see if I'm one of those
sauses or if it's another wing ofthe Sasses, but also the design adulta

(46:06):
Domenica Doulta from Delcha, Gabana.My mother actually works for his father because
my mother was a seamstress and thisand he grew She remembers Dominica deltas a
little and never had to go outand worry about heaving pants, not at
all, my grandmother and my mother. Yeah, you gut, that's what
they came to this country there.Yeah, yes, there's a whole workforce.

(46:27):
Amazing, amazing. But you've beenall over Italy, France, Swits,
France. I'm in Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Spain, Portugal,
Switzerland. All right, so adam, all the places you've been to,
and take Italy out of the equation. What was your favorite spot? You
know what? People ask this andI can't answer because every place is slightly
different. So for example, whenI went to Spain, I was in

(46:49):
Barcelona, Madrid. I thought thatwas cool. But listen, I'm in
New York. I love New Yorkand a lot of people aren't feeling that
way lately, but I love NewYork and I felt like Madrid and Barcelona
as beautiful as they were you feelthis vibe soide. So when we did
it a day trip to Montserrat whichis up in the mountains and there's church
there with this this Black Madonna whichis like world famous, it was just

(47:12):
a whole different experience. So forme, the traveling is just seeing different
places, you know, even likeis a city, yeah, so you
know it's you could tell it somuch different city from New York. So
a lot of times it comes intothe festivals, like I'm going to Greece
next month. I'm very excited.I have not traveled travel traveled in about
fifteen years. I was supposed togo away before COVID, and then COVID

(47:36):
came and that went down the tubesand yeah, so I was going to
go to Italy last year. Ihesitated and then it was sold out.
I was supposed to know that's rightnow, like in between plans because I
know you, because he teaches youcould only go away in the summer.
Yeah, I mean, jack upprices, I know. So I am
going to Greece next month. Iam very, very very excited about it.

(48:00):
A lot of people who are Greekand and no Greece are telling me,
like the local fab right, ifyou have a day to yourself,
which we do, to go withthese little little little towns, that's what
it is are and far from wherewe're gonna be, just to see something
different, you know what I'm saying. That's the beauty of Sicily. Sicily
has ridiculous history. So even likewhere my parents grew up, it started

(48:22):
as a Byzantine fortress. The churchmy parents got married and dates back to
the eleven hundreds, you know,so the cobblestones, like you're surrounded by
history from the same town. Theyknew each other when they were young,
and then they both moved though,so my father and mother both moved out
of the town into Balerma, thecapital, as teenagers slash young adults.

(48:44):
I don't remember the exact age.Wow. And then my mother actually came
here with a family and went backmarried my father and then he came.
So that's why his his family reallyjust stayed. Yeah, my father is
my father's father, my grandfather onmy father's side, he's the only one
that came. Over all is thestate. And then all fishermen, yes,
and they're all fishermen, but theystayed. They didn't come when they're

(49:06):
comfortable. You know. Yeah,my father was the only when I made
the truck from his family's wild it'snice to your father. Once he got
here, so he was the cheffor the longest time. He ended up
having a restaurant in Limbrook. Reallyyeah, he worked all over the city.
Did he have it for a veryvery long time? Twenty years?
What was God? I eaten melived. I lived in limb Brook and

(49:29):
then I moved to Wow. Okay, yeah, mer Rome. My father
was the chef owner in Chef DeliciousFood. He could cook, Oh my
god. You know an Italian whichis different from ours. But that's how
I was saying. You know,like you travel and the cool thing is
the culture and the foods. Youknow, you just give the food.
My brother went for a ten yearanniversary and he said, the gelato is

(49:50):
cold, but everything's fresh preservatives.I lose weight in Italy. You eat
like you're go into the chair,but you lose weight. But they're different.
So breakfast is very small, andI like these American dailas kind of
laugh at the American breakfast. Thisis exaggerated. So they have like a
croissan and a coffee. Then lunchis their big meal and then late at
night they'll have pizza or something.But you you get used to that.

(50:15):
And I mean, I know Ido a lot of walking when I'm in
Alia. Yeah yeah, and youdon't like a lot of the Sicilian street
food is fried, but you don'tfeel discussed heavy, like, hey,
don't at all. Yeah. Ijust want to give some shout outs.
Julie, Hi, Julie. Myfriends watching in Australia and we have author
and Joseph Gello and yeah, yeah, thank you, and thank you for

(50:38):
watching. I'm sure Anne is watching, and Michael Norton and all my regulars.
I appreciate it. Listen, weonly have like four minutes left.
I'm not even taking my last breakbecause I don't want to, like Ruin,
I just want to give some shoutouts. But again, France,
Prague, like I said, now, Greece, No, I haven't gotten
there yet. I was just speakingat that and I actually got a quote

(51:01):
and I'm like, it's a littletoo much. Well, I have to
tell you booked. It really havea long time, and the air fare
just went up like another five hundreddollars. It's crazy. Uts, it's
crazy. Now, is there aplace that you haven't been that you want
to go to, so one ofthe few I want to. I definitely
want to hate Grease because it's verysimilar to Italy culture, but it just

(51:21):
looks gorgeous. But also I wasjust looking at Brussels Luxembourg. I'm like,
oh, this is cool. Iwant to try Amsterdam. My niece
and my brother and my sister inlaw right now are in England. So
I went to London as a teenagerand I want to go back. Yeah,
I love that. Okay cool andJulie from Australia. I have family.
I have family in Melbourne. Itwent from Italy to Australia's a lot

(51:43):
of Italians. I joke around,I say big, say good today.
Yeah, there's a lot of oneof my friends, one of my friends
that I met on one of thetours. But that's as an Italian trip.
Like to get there, right,but you probably like to get there
she went, so she said,it's an incredible I can't even Yeah,

(52:04):
you need to spend some weeks rightright, yeah, because it takes two
days yeah to get going and comingand then yeah, but I should put
on my list for a summer.Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well
there the other thing. I know, but I wonder if it's like our
winter weatherwise, we have to haveJulie. I don't know. If it's
mild, then you could do it. You knows, firing minds. Yeah,

(52:25):
I'm gonna have to look that up. Yeah, I don't mind going
if it's even if it's a littlechilly, No, I don't mind.
I don't mind either. But I'mexcited to go away, and we need
to go somewhere together. Yeah.I need a traveling buddy, so do
I. But that's good. Yea, So this September you'll be teaching six

(52:45):
sixth grade again, okay, lA English? All right? Cool.
It's funny because they know about theacting, like they they researched their teachers.
Now they do. They look foreverything. We didn't do that back
then. No, we didn't havea way anyway. But the phone book,
yellow pages. He did you havemister Daviato for science last year?
How was he it? No?Now they look and they find my im

(53:07):
dB. Oh my god, wegot an act. Yeah, it's true.
And it's funny because sometimes they werephase asked, like recently recently,
like towards the end of school.Yeah, I was. I help out
at the end of the day,like you know, making sure everybody gets
home safe. And I'm standing onthe corner and I see this kid like
lingering and looking and lingering like okay, and he comes up. He goes,
is it true you've acted? Andthey just they get a kick it.

(53:29):
But I also tell him like it'sit goes. Look, I'm a
son of the immigrants that has beenon TV, you know, right,
compared to other people's careers as itis what it is. But it's still
big, right, No nine shows, you know, nine big Shore network.
I mean, that's that's huge.If you can't town because that's that's
that's that's right. It's it's upthere, it's up there. Yeah.

(53:50):
But listen, I am just soblessed God put you in my path and
you could come back anytime. It'sfine. Yeah. But I finally got
Charlie off finally, and I'm veryvery happy about that. Listen. Just
want to thank everyone for watching teatime next week tune in, I'm having
I don't usually announce my guests,but is another man that I met years

(54:16):
ago and I've been asking him todo my show, Mark Mandoza, from
Twisted Sister. We'll be on nextMonday, and I'm excited to have him
on. He's a sweetheart and Ilove him too. You know, this
week we lost doctor Ruth, Welost Shannon Darty, we lost Richard Simmons,
Shelley Duvall prayers and condolences go outto their families. They were all

(54:38):
great talents, you know. Anddoctor Ruth ninety three, ninety four years
old. God bless so we shouldall see that right and have great sex
all. We'll do it. Hey, everybody, remember tell everyone you love
you love them, and I'll seeyou next week. Chow. Everybody unbound

(55:08):
without a bounding