Oh boy, Mac. As we enter October of twenty twenty three, we
also enter our eighth year of podcasting. Wow, how about that? Yeah,
September of twenty fifteen, right is when we started. October of twenty
fifteen. I believe I thought it was the end of either way. We're
right on, we're right around, fucking Maddie. Yeah, you might be
right. It might be of twenty fifteen. Wow. Eight. So that
is that's almost a quarter of our lives we've been doing. I'd rather not
think of it that way. That is sad, that's sad for us right
there. But we have made it so far. In the eight years,
I went from single having a job to being single and having a job.
In the eight years you went from single to having a kid, getting married.
You did a lot of things I didn't do. I didn't do much
of anything. Also, what I love in the eight years, one of
the things that I truly appreciate is that whenever there is new involving Alf,
Ninja, Turtles, Shrek, I'm sent it. I'm always sent it by
people. Do you think now, let's not necessarily critique ourselves going back to
twenty fifteen and how terrible of a podcast we were those first few months,
first two years, even do you think this podcast has turned you into even
more Goo? And do you think I have become even more Mac? From
the beginning we have we gone down further those paths, like we had some
minor character traits that made its who we were, and I think this podcast
has both made us better and worse in those regards. I feel like,
once the record button is on, I'm a completely different person. Whereas you
on the camera and off you're the zac same. I'm pretty much the same
here as I am in real life. You do, you do turn it
up a little bit as as Goo as opposed to Brian. But I mean
that's that's the life. People are wildly disappointed every time they meet me in
real life, and I don't have any of the same end underwhelmed. Yeah,
I'm quiet. I keep to myself. Yeah, you're just hey,
Yeah, that's me on Yeah, just three King of Queen Middle Street entertaining
time. And I'm Mac. And like you know, when the moon's in
the sky like a big pizza pie, that's a macky Oh I want to
take that one back. Let's start over again. Yeah, try again,
try again with that one when the Max in the sky like a big pizza
pie. That's a good that's it's not good though, that's like five percent
better. Yeah. Today we are doing an episode eight years in the making.
When we started thirty four years in the making. Over here, my
man Goo said to himself, you know what I would really want to do.
This is eight percent of the reason why I'm starting this podcast, one
of the eight and a half percent, sorry, one of the twelve reasons
why I'm starting this podcast. I want to rank Italian stuff for the masses.
That's what I want. I want everyone, because first off, in
honor of me going back to Rome, in honor of me going back to
the motherland, what better way to do so than to just rank Italian stuff
tier I'm sorry, tier Italian stuff. True, good point. We're tearing
stuff, tearing tier tier, teering for in honor of a tierber and Goo
not to pull h what's the word I'm looking for the curtain back? That
is exactly the phrase. Look at that after eight years we can finish each
other's sandwiches. It's nice. Yeah, podcast, over are you Italian?
I am roughly seventy Okay, I think of about twenty percent Italian. Maybe
I was going to ask you because if you weren't try not to be racist.
I'm I'm I'm a wee bit Italian. I am predominantly Irish. I'm
like fifty two percent Irish or some bullshit. So what are you gotta do?
You get your best? I'll tell you at the Northeast is all a
mismash of Irish and Italians. Everyone's a little bit of everything, dude.
Growing up, Yes, what was your favorite aspect about being Italian? Did
you? Was it the little little horn necklace? What was it that really
that you took pride in as an Italian? I guess it's the family aspect.
Okay, Yeah, you know what, I got a little bit in
my family. I got it a lot in my step family on my father's
side, a Newton family, the Lake family. They grew up. We
used to do Sunday dinners there and that that's when I was younger, really
growing up and learning like that, that Sunday dinner aspect. You know,
there's there's a lot of families that do that, but I feel like that
gets credited to the Italian So I also love that very much. But for
me, it's gotta be pizza now, Pizza and Italy everything here, Pizza
for everybody. Pizza's like, all right, this is my favorite thing about
being Italian, or my favorite Italian thing. It is so between the two
of us were almost one hundred percent Italian. We almost get one full one.
Yeah, we've almost got a full Italian over here. And what we're
doing today is we're gonna tear Italian stuff. This tier was created by the
tiermaster general, the other Billy d who fifty percent Italian? Is he?
No? He's like mostly Greek. That makes more sense, I believe Billy.
The Greek is his thing. And the tears that will be looking at
today. At the top in red is Mama Midia that described that is that's
just the best Italian things. That's the best Okay, that's a spicy meat
to ball. Oh that really gets you going. But it might not be
the best schoozy like a metsa metstuff, not like the mama used to make.
Okay, all right, sure sure? And then finally, is this
even Italian? All right? Okay? I like that. That's gonna be
my favorite category. And methinks that's how we'll be speaking this whole episode two.
How many items here are we gonna go through in tier over fifty and
it's both people properties, its people properties, food, really, anything that
could be linked to Italy or being Italian. There's a pretty good chance.
Now we're only I don't know, four minutes into this podcast. This is
shaping up to be the worst podcast in the eight years, and from acting
go, that's how we wanted to commemorate it. Very fitting. Also,
finally we found a reason why we both have mustaches today. Yeah, I've
been growing mine out four rome because I was told they won't let me in
without it. Mine has also been months and months of hard work, so
let's get to it. Also, we both get three vitos and two stamps.
All right, three vitos, two stamps, and a staple, and
we each have a staple remover. Got it? Okay? The first one
up here that we are tearing is the twenty nineteen classic Little Italy starring Hayden
Christiansen. Now, yes, this is really tough for me to tear good
because I have not seen the film, but I have seen and heard your
recreation and reading of this movie. Neither main actor in this movie is Italian.
So that's the number one. It is Hayden Christiansen and it is Emma
Roberts. Yep. Their families are in a rivalry because both of them own
pizza shops. Yet they used to have the same pizza shop, but then
they got into a fight not to spoil anything because they didn't know what to
name the shop. All right, I'm gonna go, is this even Italian?
Yeah, because Hayden Christensen's got really small nipples in it. They show
his nipples. Oh yeah, he's topless. He's a real hunkingness. His
nipples are on screen long enough for you to take note of how small they
are. And I said that guy's not Italian. No Pepperoni nips here,
no ore Emma Roberts's nipples. No, they are not that I would have
pointed it out first. Yeah, I guess I would have known that.
If that was the case, I throw up with the banner up here.
There we go, Italian, right, Italian stuff? Super creative. You
didn't even look up the Italian word for stuff. I believe it is a
stuff. By the way, I know no Italian. I am looking forward
to when in Italy people speaking Italian to me and me just looking puzzled.
Oh for what it's worth, And I don't think the listener really cares.
But I almost minored in Italian in college. I'm I'm pretty good at understanding
Italian when it's spoken to me, and I can write it okay, if
I have a dictionary nearby. I have a really hard time speaking back because
I gotta translate in my head and then say it, and I can't really
write it without the aid of a dictionary. I would assume that my response
to everyone speaking Italian to me is gonna be how often do you think of
the Roman Empire? We'll see how much they like that. The next thing
being tiered, The next Italian thing being tiered? Here is Danilo got Dati,
Daniloti, Scoozy, Scoozy. He couldn't even play for the Celtics.
Is he ad Fiba? How about this next one? Here? Another Italian
thing, and that is Mike Piazza. Mike Piazza has gotta go above Galli.
He's a spicy meat. Mike Piazza is a spicy meatball Dodgers mets.
He was the coach of Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic. Yeah,
I don't know if I'd go full Mamma Mia, though because not can he
speak Italian? I don't know. He never won a World Series. He
didn't win the World Baseball Classic. Leah let our I was on that first
Italian World Baseball Plaza team, and he was only on it because he had
Italian grandparents. And Mike Piazza I believe is the exact same. Yeah,
most likely, but also his name sounds like pizza, very true, so
credit there. Piazza is like a square though goo like several ware a plaza.
Three hundred batting average seasons. He had two hundred hits as a catcher,
over four hundred buns. He's a hall of family. It's a spicy
meatball. Some people would argue he's the greatest hitting catcher of all time,
but then some would argue, is he a real catcher? Faked? He
faked it for a few years, more of a DH. He's Jeff Kent.
He is better than Jeff Kent, but he's Jeff Kent was also really
good. He won an MVP. That's not what we're talking about here.
Jeff Kent is not Italian and undeserved. His teammate was better than him the
year he won the MVP. Hey Mac, how about the next one on
here? Is that? That's go look at that? Well, considering by
your own admission, you don't even speak a time, we can't. We
can't put you above piazza. I would describe myself as a spicy meat ball
though. Yeah, but you definitely are Italian. You do a lot of
Italian things. You personally are not like your mamma used to make it.
But I think you might be even more Italian than you used to be though.
I would put myself below piazza, but possibly top of scuze, top
of schoozy, bottom of spicy meatball. I think that's where you lie.
Okay, I'll accept myself there. I'm gonna stamp myself as a spicy meatball,
all right, let's stamp god. The next Italian thing here is maybe
one of my favorite sandwiches, and that is an Italian HOGI oh goo,
not like mamma used to make it. What you know? What? You
know? What you know? What? Don't you do? Question? Don't
do? Question? I have and I don't. I don't have any experience
in Italian cuisine because I've never been to Italy, actual real live Italian quisine.
Do they even make that sandwich in Italy? They have all the coal
cuts there. Yeah, I don't know if they slap them all together with
the fixings like we have over do I doubt they do, honestly for me.
The American version of this, so the version we're talking about too much
going on in the Italian subject. Everything in there I love too much going
on. I love scoozy. I would say spicy meatball because it's spicy,
it has hots on it. You don't have to get it spicy, though,
but you do. If you don't, you're a whimp. I just
don't. I think the sandwich is overrated, and I don't think they even
eat it in Italy, so I don't know. I'm also convinced that whoever
was in this room prior to me was eating an Italian sandwich. It's it's
here above Gallinaria for now, but it's below you. So I am more
Italian than an Italian sandwich. I'm the equator of being Italian. Now.
Apparently the next thing I pay for Italian things is the movie Life is Beautiful.
As it's pronounced or said, an Italian Mamma Mia is stamping it there,
Okay, we're stamping in Mamma Midia. It was a Best Picture winner
number one, Roberto Bernini one Best Actor number two. It is one of
my three or four favorite movies of all time. It is one of the
most emotionally moving movies of all time. There's no doubt in my mind this
belongs to Mama Maya. Here we have another Mama Mia movie, and that
is Good Fellas. You know it's a Mama Mea property when the Italian people
take it on as a personality. The only thing I would say, though,
is the premise of the movie. Although it's mob base, it's about
two irishmen trying to or two half. Yeah. But the sauce scene,
the sau scene in prison, all right, puts it over the top.
Good point, and it's for sure Mama Mia a Bronx tale. Bronx sales
kind of underrated if we're talking about Italian American Italian films here. I really
really like this movie, but it's gotta be below good Fellas, right,
would you put it in a spicy meatball or just top tie or below good
Fellas? Oh, that's a good question. I don't think it's on the
level of those other two movies, but it is. Yeah, let's send
spicy meatball. It's a spicy meatball. How about this next one? Here?
The Italian stallion Rocky Balboa. Shish is there? I should hop on
Italian people read it? Here? Is there a prevailing thought about Sylvester Stallone
in the Rocky movies as an Italian? So I wasn't around in the seventies,
but I would assume that he did as much for the Italians as Christopher
Columbus. I don't know how to rank Rocky here. I gotta be honest.
He's the most famous athlete from Philadelphia. Okay, he's Italian. Eddie
Murphy had that joke about when Italians would leave the theaters and they'd want to
fight people. They don't really spend a ton of time on the Italian heritage
in the film. That's because he's so poor and he has to raise his
turtles. It's below you. I think you're more more Italian than Rocky Balboa.
That's so nice of you, man. Yeah, okay, spicy meat
ball, all right, fair enough. Then we have Tone Danza. Tony
Danza is fucking super Italian. Oh yeah, he's more than piazza. Is
he a Mamma Mia though he might be a Mama Mia, he might be
the that might be the aquitia for Mamma Mia Italians right there, I'm okay
with that Danza and the Mamma MIA's here, okay. The next one I
pay is one of my favorite things, and that is Italian memes. You
go and kick sometimes of just looking up Italian memes. They're the funniest things
to me in the world. It's quite good. So the things the memes
are referencing are very Italian, But are the memes themselves very at I'm always
curious are these made by Italian people, like let's share this laugh? Or
is it someone poking fun of Italian people? I can't tell. I can
never tell. Like last year I was at an event and they gave out
yellow fedoras and then I called them Italian hardhats. I took a photo and
I sent it around. That's a meme, uzzy. I don't care where
you put it in Scuzzy because it's it's honestly quite confusing. Another i'd say
fake Italian that played one on television and Italian tough if you will, And
that is Arthur Fawnzarelli author Fonzarelli Goo, not like Mamma used to make him.
Oh, that's a spicy meatball take. Although he's more Italian than Rocky
Balboa? Right, No, I think Rocky's more Italian than him. That's
a good question. That's a good poll question. Who's more Italian the character
of Rocky Balboa, Fawnsie or Rocky. No? But you know what,
though, Fawnzi might be because Fawnzi always talks about having a big family,
an Italian family. Let's let's flip these two. Let's move Rocky to not
like mamma used to make him, and Fawnsi up to spicy meatball. I
don't know if I like that, but we'll go with it for now.
We'll revisit it. Next up is the phrase when in Rome? When in
Rome is I feel like non an Italian phrase, But you can't help but
think of it Italians when you say yea one in Rome? So where would
you put it? Below the memes? Below the memes? Okay, but
it's not like Mama used to make it. Well, the saying might be
getting The saying was probably a lot cooler one hundred years ago. You know,
I am also going to bother the ship out of my wife and say
that a hundred times a day. Oh so maybe it's better when you're actually
in Rome. I hadn't considered that, all right, I like that.
I like that. And then speaking of one in Rome, the Alson Twins
movie, one in Rome, I think we're gonna have to go ahead and
put this with a little Italy there. Speaking of being in Rome, how
about the Lizzie McGuire movie. The best of the non Italian Italian movies by
a mile. And Lizzie's a real spicy meatball. Let's put her on the
spicy meatballs? Would you put her above Arthur Fonzarelli, He stamped the Lizzie
McGuire movie, and that's a nicely meet the bow. But is she?
But is that movie more Italian than me could be? Because there's a second
Lizzie MacGuire in there, so it's double the fun. But doesn't she kiss
Gordo? Yeah, that's true, that is true. Don't bring that up.
I'm sorry about that. I'm always upset about that. How about Canoli's.
Canoli's my favorite Italian dessert, So for me, it's a Mamma mia.
So I'll give you, Mamma Mia, I will give you based off
the reputation. But if I am picking an Italian pastry, I'm not taking
a canoli. What's your go to lobster tail? I mean, the lobster
tail is really good. It's a sense with the same thing. But yeah,
I almost feel like there's sometimes not every time. A perfect lobster tail
is also dynamite. I feel like the lobster tails have a tendencies. A
not so good one might have too much cream in it, whereas the cannoli,
it's the same amount every time, but as the cannoli too much of
like a torus snack it. Yeah, it's got a lot of tourist appeal
for sure, but it's also very diverse, sort of get whatever you want
as a canoli? What's your too plain just plain canoa? I like the
chocolate chipped ones. I know you would look at you the telecanoly quite good
pasta and meatballs, where I would say, Mamma Mia, I could eat
pasta and meatballs all day, every day. I've been eating it my whole
life. I can eat it for the rest of my life. I'll never
get sick of it. Yeah, you might be right. It might be
the number one number one. Number one is pasta meatballs. This is something
like we mentioned earlier Sunday dinners. My grandmother would make pasta and meatballs,
chicken cutlets, and roast beef every single Sunday. And if you asked why
you're getting a spoon, I wouldn't spoon very Italian. You know what good
comparison This next thing we're about to talk about pizza pie. Yeah, I
prefer over uh, pasta meatballs. But I could eat pizza every day for
the rest of my life. I think I could. I think I could
eat pizza every day because pizza many varieties, I know. But pasta meatballs
you don't gonna deal. It's a lot of bread. As much as I
love, I can eat bread all day every day too. Is Pokasha on
this. Pokasha is on this. Okay, don't worry. Fokasha is on
it. So you would go pizza over pasta meatballs, and Mamma Mia,
no, I'll go pasta meatballs over pizza. But they're both delicious because you're
also not eating pizza really on Sunday dinner. No, And it's almost always
a treat when your family would make pizza. Yeah, very true. So
that's a Mamma Mia. Pizza pie is a Mamma Mia. How about meatballs
sandwiches, a food that I fucking love. Had one today because I was
thinking about it all day. I texted you this morning and asked if we
should be eating meatball sandwich as while we're doing this podcast, and you welcomed
me to eat one. But I thought that might be a bad look.
Though. I love meatball subs, but for sure below those other two food
I'm gonna put it in, Mamma Mia. I'm gonna put it below pasta
and meatballs, below pizza pie, below life is beautiful, and below Goodfellas.
But in front of Tony Danza. Put Canoli's ahead of meatball sub Oh
okay, Well that's based off reputation alone. I'm not a big Canoli guy.
I like Kevin Tony Tony Danza as the line of demarcation for Mamma Mia.
Though. How about the leaning tower of pizza and anytime that you take
a photo with it, you can put your hand up like you're holding it.
No, I would take the big cock photo where you're leaning and you
make it look like a cock. Coming out of your pants like du Bigelow
European Jiggielow. A leading tower of pizza is so iconic, so Italian.
I think every state has a pizza place with some like mock, some fake
leading tower of pizza. So this is for sure, Mom, I mean
put it above Tony Danza, the Colosseum. I mean you gotta put it
above the leaning tower of pizza, right, But how high does it go
in Mama Mia, I would put it maybe above meatball sandwiches, So that's
separation between the two buildings. But also I feel like, if you said
to me right now, goo, would you rather look at the Colosseum or
eat a really good meatball sub? I might take the meatball sub. But
that speaking of someone who has seen the Colosseum already, someone who has not
me. I would even put it above Canolis. Okay, well, I'll
let you do that because I don't love Cannolis, but also I love meatball
subs. When do we break up those movies at some point? Well,
I'm about to put one movie above both of those movies, because this really
was This was our black panther at the time. Hear me out here,
me out though, Yeah, LaVita Bella is actually an Italian movie. Yeah,
made by Italians, and they speak Italian the whole time. The Godfather
it's an American made movie and they speak English for most of it. I'm
gonna put it above pizza. No, don't do that. I am That's
where the gods it belongs. And this is me telling you straight up.
I think that Goodfellas is better. I know we both agree on that and
that so hold on, hold on, explain the justification there. Why are
you just plopping it there? The importance to being Italian? The Godfather is
here. This is one of those classic things, and I can't attend I'm
getting into arguments about the Godfather on the Internet or in real life. But
that was because it was first, right, That's why it gets. It's
love so much. I just sell it's just better. It's our black panther.
So you're separate. It doesn't. I don't know why you put it
where you put it, but it is Mama Mia. The next one up
here is a television show that reinvigorated what the Godfather gave us, and that
is the Sopranos. More Mama Mia than the Godfather. I'm gonna put it
right below The Godfather. But I think the other two movies should be above
both of these, right, But I think these two four Italian people,
this is where it's at. You should group the four together. I don't
like Pizza Pie being I want Pizza Pie to separate him. I don't like
that. I don't I'm playing this under protest. How about this next one
here, and that is Gobbagoul. Gobbagoule is so Italian that you're not even
at least for me. I mean, I'm sure I ate a little bit,
but as an American, you don't really dip into capacola until you're like
a teen or an adult, when you when you finally like, oh wait
a second, I'll come. I wasn't offered this meat when I was a
young ling. Also, just a heads up, when you're eating salami,
go for the dry hard. I love a nice, spicy, salty Italian
meat. This is Mamama for sure, Mama Mia. I put it right
above the leaning Tower of Pisa. I probably put it above the meat ball
sub too. Wow. Okay, all right, I'm in for that.
I'm fine for that. How about Tera Massioux. I do like Tiara Massiou.
But how many, like really pale white Irish women love making a terror
messoux. I feel like I have no idea. I've never dampened for that
dampens Well, you don't have enough Irish family members, I guess really dampens
a Tiara Massou. I think I'm gonna put it scoozy top of schoozy.
All right, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. I will
say the tera messou at Eataly is delicious. The best Tara Messioux is Mama
Mia, But I don't. I feel like the inconsistency of Tira Massiou is
what ruins it. Mac. How about gelato? So gelato is different than
ice cream but not really. But because they still to this day go out
of their way to specify that there's a gelatto and then there's also ice cream,
I feel like that makes it Mamma Mia. Also, what makes it
so great is that they emphasize the hazel nuts so much, and I love
hazel nut. I like I could just I'm not a big ice cream eater
these days, I feel like it fucks with my tummy goo. Yeah,
that's a different podcast for a different day, though, but that's that's Mamma
Mia. Yeah. One day. Actually, it was just last week.
My wife and I were at the Eataly food Fest, the block party if
you went Rag and they had a gelato stand and they only had one flavor
out, and my wife said, oh, they only have plain gelato here,
and I'm like, oh, what is plain gelato? And she goes,
vanilla. Vanilla is a flavor. Vanilla is a flavor. Yeah,
that's true. Well, I feel like what makes what makes this different makes
us great. Like if you would pick chocolate ice cream over vanilla ice cream,
I would pick vanilla ice cream over chocolate. No, I vanilla.
I'm a vanilla boy. Oh I feel like he would have been a chocolate
guy. I love the flavor of any but there are some bad vanillas.
Oh yeah, no, no, yeah, there are the best vanilla ice
cream, in my opinion, and my humble opinion, is better than the
best chocolate ice cream. I'm in with you. I love vanilla ice cream.
Don't sleep on vanilla ice I think there is a lot of bad vanilla
ice creams, though the next one up here is one of our best,
and that is Mario. Not like Mamma used to make him. Oh,
I would say, scoozy, you put him above Rocky. I would put
him above Rocky. I'd put him above Danilo Gnanati, but below the Italian
sam. Okay, all right, I can get on board with that.
I think of all the Italian catchphrases this little guy gave us, it's a
me, the Japanese catchphrase that's not Japanese that was debunked. Really, yeah,
just google as as I saw. I googled that a medium like,
Oh, this guy's lying. What's he actually saying? I know we talked
about this, and he's saying it's a me, that's all he's saying.
He really is saying that. Yes, alright for me, Mac. How
about this next one here, and that is season two of White Lotus.
I haven't seen it, so I'm gonna have to defer to you on this
one. I will say schoozy. Actually, no, it's a spicy meatball.
They have a lot of a lot of Italian stuff in there, the
Italian hookers. All right, are you gonna try those out while you're I'm
not gonna do that. No, they have Jennifer Coolidge. It's not really
Italian. I suppose, no, not Italian at all. No, but
it's a good season of television, better than season one, better than season
did I finish either season? Oh? You know what's top right here,
the top of the Mama Mia is this next one, and that is Nona,
That is Grandma. No, no, there is nothing better than an
Italian grandma, although maybe it's better. Yeah, because you're eating her spaghetti
and meatballs. So I guess goes above spaghetti and meatballs. Yeah, you
know what Italian noda. Yeah, it's a pyramid scheme. None's on the
top of the pyramid, even if motherfuckers aren't even Italian talking about Nona.
So yeah, no, no, no, no goes number one. Yeah,
it's next to my favorite one. Billy added it. I did not
ask for this, and that is the movie House of Gucci, specifically Jared
Letto playing Gucci. I feel like it's gonna fit in that bottom tear with
those two movies. Uh, I might, I might put it not like
Mama used to make it. His Italian accent in that movie is unbelievable.
All right, I'm okay, it's so bad. Respect me. Now.
Of those three movies at the bottom there, yes, which would you rather
watch? Right, because Little Italy and House of Gucci are House of Gucci
is half good because Driver and Gaga are good in the movie. It also
falls apart by the end. But Letto is terrible and Paccino is really over
the top. But Little Italy is set in Little Italy Toronto. Give me
that one, all right, good enough? Facasha bread, I love,
I love, I love Facasha brush Ficca, it's gotta go. That's a
spicy meatball, though I don't I would say it's above Gabba gul oh.
I don't know about that though, because to me, I in my this
is in my brain, in my brain, now hear me out. I
envisioned Italians sitting by the Mediterranean picking on on spicy Deli meats more so than
the whole bread and oil thing. I love Facasha. I love the flat,
delicious crunch to it. I'll put it top of a spicy meat ball,
but that might get moved. Okay, all right, okay, okay,
okay. This next one here is Galileo Galilei. It's Galileo Galilei.
He's more tieing than Tony Danzer, that's for fucking sure. But are you
a store about that? That's why. How high are you gonna put him
in? Mama Mia? He's gotta go above Danza's all right, we'll put
him above Danza. Galileo is is in the Mama Miya, but just sneaking
into the Mamma. He's below Gelato, though may arguably the most important Italian
in human history, just squeaks by Tony dan more important than Da Vinci.
Ah, yes, yes he is. Where would you put Da Vinci?
Still it's a one two. Maybe it's a one two above Tony Danza,
above Tony Why are you attacking Tony Danza right now? Da Vinci, of
course an inventor and an artiste. But Galileo Galilei made world universe altering discoveries,
which to me supersedes the accompliments accomplishments of Da Vinci. How about talking
with your hands. Oh, that's gonna go. That might be after pizza.
Oh I was gonna say, above the Godfather, below spaghetti and meatballs.
Okay, I was close to that. I mean that's and I can't
help I do it constantly. It's one of the truest things ever truth the
Italians in the hands? Yeah, how about Donnie Brasco. Mm I don't
think it belongs in Mamma Mia m Spicy meatball. Yeah, but maybe below
the Lizzie McGuire movie, but above White Lotus, but above white Lotus.
Yeah, all right? The Specify season two, Season two. I don't
think season one took place in Italy, did it? No, it was
in a tropical land, I believe. Okay, there you go. This
next one. I have no idea what this is. Let me read it
real quick. Okay, yep. It's a sweatshirt that says, oh maron
oh so Italian curses. Maybe swears right, Maybe I don't know what Billy
is going for here, so it swears spicies. Maybe we'll just put it
in spicy. Or maybe maybe it's wearing clothing that has swearing on it.
That might be what it is. Actually. I don't think Italians are known
for that though. If you've been to the North End lately, just struns
everywhere. So regardless of what it is, if it's either just swearing in
general or wearing swears on your clothes, it's a spicy meat ball. Spicy
meatball either Joe Pesci U Joe Pesci, He's gotta go above Tony Danza.
Huh, he's absolutely above Tony Dance. He's above Galileo too. You think
he's above Galileo. I think he might be. He might be above Goodfellas.
So all right, we're gonna have this is gonna be the conversation coming
up. Put him above Goodfellas, put them actually right behind the Godfather.
He goes above the Sopranos took and then we're gonna have a Puccino conversation in
a few here. Oh, I have him way above Peccino, But Puccino's
in the movie ahead of Pesci doesn't matter. I think that matters. Think
about all of their work. Well, Paccino, you could argue, had
like the best ten year run of any actor ever. Think about all their
Italian work, Saint Anthony's Feast. Uh, this thing is such bullshit.
I hate this personally. Where do you want to put this? Is that?
Because when you go, every other stand is the exact, same,
exact same. There's a fucking fifteen thousand people in an area that can fit
too. You can't breathe. It's fucking overpriced. I like rice balls,
but get off my ass with the rice balls, you know what? Not
like Mamma used to make it Santy Athley's feast. I'll put it above House
of Gucci though, yeah, above House of Gucci, but below Rocky.
This next one, I don't know what this is either. One second,
lean in there putting onions and sauce. Oh like the art of maybe just
making sauce. I don't know what this is. It could be making sauce.
Maybe it's making sauce. If it's making sauce, it's Mamma Mia.
But I don't know what this one is. Yeah, it's gonna be Mamma
Mia. I guess it's above for Cocha. It's above Tony Danza, but
it might be below Divice. I'll put it above Tony Danza with once again,
I think it's making sauce. If it's making sauce, I mean nothing
more Italian than by the way, it's it's sauce and not gravy. We
can agree, Yeah, absolutely, I've never called the gravy. You know
what I call gravy gravy. I call gravy gravy. Yeah, I agree.
Wearing track suits, I actually don't think very Italian pop. I feel
like most European countries, it's a very track suit area all Europe. But
also I think of run DMC when I think of track suits, I think
of Greece too. Yeah, so not that Italian at all? It is
this even Italian? Top of the is this? Wow? Wow? You're
calling out Billy for that one. This next one is a mistake that I
made a couple of weeks ago, and that is pincuccio. What is it
called? Actually, I'm not even sure anymore. I think it's pincushion.
No, this is this is pincusio. Oh this what we actually talked.
Yeah, uh, scoozy, scoozy? Can you can you read the word
pincushion coushio, pin cushio, the olive garden? Oh? Is this even
Italian? Yeah, there's a lot of people in this country that fucking love
the olive garden. I am not one of them. Mac. Is this
next person al Capone? It might be it might be al Capone. Let's
operate under the assumption that that is al Capone. We're really bad at this
by them. Al Capone's an Americans, so he can't be that Italian.
But also it's like Godfather like stuff, So al Capone's more Italian than Tony
Danza, but definitely less No, he's not. I would say he's less
than the Lessie McGuire movie. Oh so you're thinking spicy meat ball spa,
but you're saying al Capone is less Italian than Tony Danza. Yeah, Tony
Danz is one of our best. All right, let's put al Capone above
Ficaccia, then above Facasha. Okay, I'll put him above Facasha. Oh,
here we go, a nice play of Italian meat. So this like
a charcuterie board type situation or an antipasto. Oh, an antipasto, I
do like an antipasta that is very Italian. Below the Colosseum but above Cannoli's.
No, put it below Cannoli's but above the government. No, no,
you know what, fuck you, that's where this is going. You
don't. You don't decide where all the Italian stuff goes. Next time was
one of my favorites, and that is the Italian twis a mozzarella stick.
I fucking love a mozzarella stick. But it doesn't belong in the top two.
No, is it's not really Italian. It's yeah, fried cheese above
above the olive garden, though, it's above the olive garden, and I
would say that it's just below sant Anthony's feast. I might prefer mozzarella stick
over sant Anthony's feasts. They have them there, that's true, all right,
solid point, solid point. Riding a gondola, It honestly scares me
to ride a gondola. Yeah, I've never done. I don't know if
I ever will, but it is a very Italian thing. But being on
a small boat, I feel like you're gonna tip over and die. Make
that the separation between Galileo and Da Vinci. Mama Mia riding a gondola.
I have a gondola red in my arm. Actually, yeah, then we
have al Paccino. Alfaccino is in the movie The Godfather, which you have
fourth on Mama Mia and Joe Peshi right behind that. Yes, well,
I agree that Peshi should be that high. If you're gonna put the Godfather
that high, I feel like he's supposed to put Peccino over Peschi. I
will put him right behind the Sopranos above pizza, above pizza. I don't
feel good about that though, But so you think, what is a better
Italian thing? Put Pacito behind good Fellas. Put Paccino behind good Fellas.
I'm fine with that, Okay, all right, Oh it's too much bad.
There's too much of a bad taste in my mouth from from Pacino over
the years to put him as high as PESHI the North End in Boston,
so I you love. This is different to me than Saint Anthony's Feast.
But going into the North End, I quite like. Yes, I also
like. And this might just be a mean thing and often because I make
my make up my own parking spot, the game that is finding a parking
spot in the North End. It is more of a Boston thing than anything,
but I love that aspect of it. It almost makes it more rewarding
when you find a spot or when you make up your own spot. So
I don't know if it's Mama Mia, though that's a spicy meat ball,
I would say it spicy mat ball now it definitely I would say has my
favorite pizza place has I don't know if I would say my favorite pasta,
but I would say it that we never we've never really argued about that.
But you like Umberto over Pizzaio Regina, And what's the one Santapio's. Yeah,
I don't love Santarpios though. I like Santapios, but I don't love
it. I don't think I love Umberto either, But I love Regina.
I love Humberto. I love the pizza there. I love the dough there.
I love the cal zones there. I think it has a better atmosphere
too. No, No, I love how Adam Bartos. It's cash only.
You need to order your food and get the h out of their order.
Your food waitresses might yell at you, which is way more Italian.
Don't step out of line, or the two guys that run the two cash
registers will also yell at you. Both is very Italian. Yeah, that
is true. That's true, and then also very good Italian sandwich is maybe
one of my favorite Italian sandwiches too. Yeah. But if you're got so
that's the other thing, Like when I go to Regina or if I go
to burn I'm only getting the pizza. No, I'm saying, like,
h maybe I'm going there, Maybe I'm going to Ambertos, or maybe I'm
going to mon North End. Yeah. Yeah, oh, here here's the
other debate. Ye, Mike's are modern. I believe I'm a modern family,
I'm a Mike's guy, but I think Bova is better than both.
I'll also toss this out there, they're the exact same. No, Mike's
is better, Bova is better than both. I think everything tastes the exact
same. Well, then, I don't even know why we're talking about food
North End. I'm saying those paste replaced its not everything. In general.
Everything tastes like great blob to me. No north End, uh No,
don't put him above capone. I put him above Ficsha. Though Bronx tail
is basically a north End tail, so put it right next to a Bronx
tail, all right. Pinocchio not Pincushio, no different. I don't know.
I don't give a funk where you put Pinocchio. What do you think
about that? Not even Italian? I would put Geppetto as being Mamma Mia,
but that's not an option here, Okay. I like I'm picking up
what you're putting down there. I like that Roman gladiators, question mark.
You gotta put them right next to the coliseum, right goest in the hand,
Mama Mia. This might just be the Roman Empire in general, I
suppose, But but I suppose alpaccino greater than both of those. That's Pellegrino
San Pellegrino water there. Yes, I've never tried it. I also don't
picture like sparkling water being in a I like still water. I prefer tap
water. Give me dirty tapwater over this, Yeah, I agree. So
I don't know where the fuck scoozy. I guess below pincuccio, for sure,
below pincuccio. Then we go to a latte. Is that what it
is? Or a cappuccino. It's an espresso. No, that looks like
a cappuccino. Yeah, espresso smaller cup or maybe that's an especial. Yeah,
spicy meatball on this. I don't think i'd say scoozy. I don't.
I like this plain black coffee. Yeah. But when I'm talking about
you, we're talking about how Italian is this? I'm Italian. It says
it right here in spicy Meatball, I'm Italian. Put it below the swearing
shirt, but above white load of season two. I want to know what
that is. By the way, is it wearing swears on shirts? Next?
Up here is my wife? Oh your wife data, Jean Antonelli.
I mean, if you if you saw her on print, you'd say,
oh, that's an Italian woman. And if you're like this, that's usually
what happens to her. She goes to events and like, oh, why
wasn't picturing you looking like this? The double tick like that, you're clearly
not. Yeah, although she's got an Italian son now, which helps her
argument. She also tells people that she's Italian by injection, Oh oh,
oh, I think she. I think you're in trouble if you put her
in anything other than is this even Italian top above the olive garden? Her
above the olive guard. We can give her that, okay, Mac.
This next one is something that played at every family event for a decade.
Okay. That is mob Hits Volume one system. Mary. We gotta get
up. We need the sheets to make the tabe. I was gonna say
scoozy still until you started singing. You kind of won me over. Is
it spicy? That's a spicy meatball, That's a spy it's above Mike Piazza,
all right, just just barely beat it out, Mike Piazza. This
was at every driveway party that I went to for a solid ten years.
Yeah, yeah, talking about the no longer acceptable colloquial addiction for it a
wife beater. No, I was saying mob hits, but we'll talk about
that you had moved on to. I'll also say this, I've never felt
more seen than in the wedding scene of Easy Money, the Rodney Dangerfield movie.
At the end of the wedding of his daughter. They were all in
his like nine by nine backyard. Dude, Even if you're not a time
everyone has an Italian uncle with a stained wife beater that they were way too
often. That's a spicy meat to ball. That is a spicy meat ball.
I'd put it above Arthur Fawnza Relli, but below me, okay,
just below just below me, all right, but just above Fawnzi. Danny
DeVito Dan DeVito as one of the most Italian last names ever, and I've
never once categorized him as an Italian. I felt like I started doing that
more when he was pumping lemon Cello. But I also don't think of him
as an Italian. Yeah, I don't either, so not like Mamma used
to make I guess. But he's also more likable than ever, and he's
also very spicy. He is pretty spicy, actually, that's a good point.
Is he spicier than Fawnzi. I think he's spicier than Fonzie, but
not as spicy as a wife beater? All right, good enough? Good
enough? Wine? Wine is very Italian, that's true. Well, there's
red wine. And then is this this first one champagne? Maybe no,
Champagne is French. Champagne's France. Yeah, And then the last thing there
is that the black licorice flavored one. What's that one called? This is
La Marcia perspecco, prospecco, proecco, prosecco. There we go. That's
how Italian I am. Guys, it's pretty Italian. I don't know if
it's Mamma Mia level Italian though below Ficacca, below facasca red wine, I
would put that's Mama Mia. That is Mama Mia. I put it just
above Tony Danza. Maybe. Yeah, it's a big part of the culture.
It's not as much as Galileo sneaking, No sneaking ahead of the meatball
sub? What? Yeah, for sure is that what you pair with your
meatball sub? Every time? Where's the meatball sub? There? It is?
It's just a couple up. Yeah, geez, Louise. This is
all over the place now. And then finally lemon Cello, which is something
that I started drinking because of Dana DeVito, and I don't like it.
I I well, first of all, it's all it's always made incredibly strong,
Yes, But what I like about it is it's like a prohibition error
type feeling. It's always made in someone's backyard or basement. Yeah, and
there's always a little bit of a sketchy aspect going on. So I don't
know if that makes it Italian, but that's the thing that I like about
it. Oh you know what's super Italian. It's not even on here.
Is homemade wine? Well, that kind of goes with red wine. I
think it's built in maybe. Okay, So if we're gonna do that,
then that is where does where's the red wine? If we're gonna say the
red wine is homemade wine, I'm putting it above Pacino but below Good Fellas.
Okay, I'm okay with that. So maybe the lemon Shella fits right
in there. Lemon sell I'll put that in its old spot right above a
sub all right, but below Gabba gul Yeah, I'm fine with that.
That works for me. Wow, we just did the unthinkable. We really
did all right, So just very quickly, let's just do the tops and
bottoms here. Actually, do you have anything that you want to move?
Uh? Shit, let me let me take a quick gander. Here.
It's a mess. It's a mess. I really like Danza at the end
of the Mamma Mia tier. Here's a good book end. You also have
a stamp to you is I used both of my stamps. I used one
of my stamps on myself. Yeah, I didn't you see you get one
left. I don't think I'm gonna move anything, though. I am gonna
put an Italian sub into spicy Meatball, and I'm gonna stamp it there.
Oh yeah, put it. I'll even let you put it above White Lodus
season two. There, White Lodus season two is a good book end for
the spicy meatball. Yeah, I agree, I agree. You know what,
move pincushio up above White Lodus season two. Pincushio is a good move.
I'm gonna leave it there. I'm not gonna move it. And the
way you described how you're gonna use one in Rome, I feel like you
want to that's a little spicy to me. Put that right up next to
Pincushio. All right, so those are your moves. I'm gonna leave.
I'm gonna move mob hits to above the north end, actually above Feksha,
mob hits just behind. For anyone, for anyone out there who's had mob
hits at their family events. You know what I'm talking about. It you
get it. So I guess I'll to the very quickly. The not even
Italians is Pinocchio, one in Rome starring the Alson Twins, Little Italy starring
hating Christians, and and Emma Roberts wearing tracksuits, the Olive Garden, and
my wife, my wife, and then finally at the top, the Mama
me is that number one is grandma's nonas Nona. I called mine grandma,
though I called my great grandmother Nona. My great grandmother was also Nonah.
Yes, there's a lot of nana's too, But that's show that way that
we're in an era where our great grandmothers and great great grandmothers and fathers were
like the first ones over from Italy, and that's why they were the known
as nanas. All that that's type of pasta and meatballs. Talking with your
hands, the Godfather Joe Peschi, the Sopranos, Pizza Pie, life is
beautiful, Goodfellas, red wine specifically homemade Alpaccino, the Colosseum, the Roman
Empire, Antipasta, I just bout Roman Empire in general. Okay, Antipastos,
Canoli's, Actually I have another one, de Vito. I'm moving Canolis
down below, Meatball subs, eat shit, Gabba gul lemon Cello, meat
ball subs. Then Canoli's the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Gelato's Galileo, Gondolas,
Da Vinci making sauce. Billy help us up with whatever this is.
And then finally Tony Danza up just made the cut above al Capone. So
guys, let us know, let's get into MAXA and MAXA could be anything.
It could be a boat, and Max sense I'm just well, I'm
about to do something real quick. Since I just invited you into my culture,
Let's bring up your culture, and that is pumpkin spiced foods and beverages.
Who can you please tear these? When I find the presentation mode,
You've scrilled by it four times already. All right, Max, So here
we have at the top goats, followed by basic Mac. Then I'll try
anything once. Okay, then it could be good, and then finally get
that corn out of my face. All right, So, right off the
bat, categories three and four are essentially the same thing. Well, no,
it could be good means i'll try it once. No, no,
whatever. First one up here is pumpkin flavored oreos. They're okay, They're
not as good as they maybe should be or ought to be, so I
guess I'll try anything once. Then we go to pumpkin gushers. Get that
corn out of my face. I don't need. I don't need juicy,
sugary forms of pumpkin flavor. Pumpkin flavored beer, total basic mac thing.
Now. I do like a nice pumpy beer, but a lot of them
are really really average. Now, the best ones are great, but there's
a lot of average tasting pumpkin beers. Pumpkin flavored sauce. Sauce sauce like
a like a like like one that you would put on a pasta. Oh
no, get that corn out of my face. Pumpkin flavored spam, Get
that corn on my face. Pumpkin flavored kail chips. Uh, kail chips
are very good. I don't think pumpkin flavor is gonna make them any better,
but maybe it could be. It could be good. It could be
good. Pumpkin flavored couplet noodles, Get that corn out of my face.
Pumpkin flavored milanos, see that. That's and I'll try anything once. I
don't think they're gonna be good, but I'll try it. Pumpkin flavored ice
cream. Is that a thing or is it someone photoshop that I would like
to try that. That's an optimistic I'll try. I put it at the
top of the try. Okay, I'll try anything once. Pumpkin flavored hummus.
Oh, I do like hummus. That might work well with pumpkin flavor.
I'll try anything once. Put that above the oreos. Pumpkin flavored bread
like a cinnamon bread, if you will. Okay, that's pretty good.
That's where the pumpkin flavor really plays up. I feel like it is in
the breads and obviously coffee. Put that in goat status goat, oh boy.
Pumpkin flavored cookies. This is the third instance of pumpkin flavored cookies.
I put that. Put that at the bottom of the I'll try anything once.
I think those are cookies. I don't know. Pumpkin flavored it pringles,
ah, I don't know why. That just made me feel gross.
What do we have there? Put it? Put it above spam, but
below the pumpkin sauce. Pumpkin flavored cheerios that might be good, but cheeros
pretty basic. Put it. Put it behind the beer, basic mac,
basic mac. Pumpkin flavored twinkies could be good, could top of it,
could be good, could be good. Pumpkin flavored pancakes. I'm not a
pan cake guy at all. I don't even want to eat a flapjack ever
again, So get that corn out of my face. Above gushers, Yeah,
but put it, put it above the gushers though, above the gushers.
Pumpkin flavored cold brew, Yeah, that's goat. That's that's the one
that I that I eat most, although I do like a nice pumpkin doughnut.
Pumpkin flavored coffee is one of my favorite things on This is specific to
cold brew though, so you know, none of the that go with it.
I just I just do uh cold brew with pumpkin flavor. And that's
like I don't get any cream or sugar. Okay, pumpkin flavored cupcakes similar
to the Twinkies. It could it could be good, but I don't really
desire it. Pumpkin flavored muffins, Yeah, that goes up into the goat
status there too. Those are gonna be pretty fucking good. Pumpkin flavored coffee,
So this is with all of the swirls and the cream and the sugar
like a like A. Yeah, that's not as good. It's almost worse
than the beers. It's a little too much. Sometimes put it below the
beer. That's too basic. Pumpkin flavored frozen drink question mark, that's the
same thing we just talked about. Put those next to each other. Pumpkin
flavored doughnuts. Those are fucking delicious, probably just below the coffee, but
above the other two treats. Pumpkin flavored protein pancakes seeds. At least you
have a reason for eating the pancakes and that in that regard, But I
don't want to eat pancakes at all. I'll put it above the other pancakes.
Yeah, that's fine. And then finally, pumpkin juice. This sounds
fucking gross. This is actually probably pumpkin flavored something, but that sounds fucking
disgusting. It sounds worse than the pumpkin sauce and the pumpkin gushers. You
know what, I like pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are great. Yeah,
they're great, for sure. That's why I was thinking. That's sort of
what I was thinking behind the kale chips is the saltiness of like a pumpkin
seed mixed with the although kale's pretty salty anyway, So I don't I don't
know, but there's a lot of bad pumpkin trends, for sure. But
I am a goddamn fucking simp for pumpkin coffee, and like pumpkin baked goods.
They're fucking delicious. So is this your mount rushmore of pumpkin flavored things?
Yeah, although I guess maybe because so the muffins and the bread are
sort of one and the same, so maybe you could you could, you
could bump beer up over over the one of those two baked goods. But
I'm telling you, I I still don't know why it's not year round.
It doesn't. Those flavors don't go away. But I love I love pumpkins.
Well, I love several pumplicin things, not all pumpkin things. All
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