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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast, more what you

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hear weekday afternoons on the Drive,
and his decades of experience working at the

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highest end of the service industry at
his family Story Palm restaurant chain, and

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years spent mingling, laughing, and
dancing alongside the world's most famous personalities.

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Bruce Bossi is now hosting the second
season of his podcast Table for Two with

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Bruce Bossi. He's joining us now, Bruce, you always have great stories

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about some of the interactions you've had. Who are some of the people you're

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going to be talking to in season
two? Good morning, Lee, It's

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great to be here. We're talking
to We're pulling up a cheer on table

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for this season with Colin, Joe's, Michael Man, Matt Beaumon. We

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pulled up. We started the season
with Davin and Joey Randolph literally a week

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before she won the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress in The Holdover, So

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that was exciting. Jeff Goldbloom,
which is just a next level, super

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fun lunch. Ellen Barkin coming up
also, which I haven't had lunch with

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yet, but he's coming as Christian
Loubi Tan, the you know, famous

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shoe designer. So we had a
bunch of people lined up and the season

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two has really gotten off to a
good start. Thank you well. And

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you are sitting down and actually having
a meal. Yes, So the whole

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idea was, as you said,
I had this career in rent the restaurant

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business because my great grandfather co founded
a restaurant in nineteen twenty six, so

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like a restaurant and service and hospitality
is in my blood. I've done everything

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from you know, seeing people,
to working in the kitchen, the whole,

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the whole shebang, and to kind
of growing as a career in the

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restaurant business. So it was natural
for me to sort of when I was

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thinking about doing this, have it
around food and the idea of the romance

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of a meal, you know,
the conversation at a table. And so

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every every episode we are having lunch. We are face to face and yeah,

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we have lunch and it's and it's
great because during the course of the

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lunch is people you know, just
they relaxed, They they need themselves.

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But the conversations they might be pitching
something like sam Tella Johnson, she was

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pitching her by that. But yeah, back to Black which Amy. But

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you know, then we start talking
about London, and we start talking about

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her kids, and we start talking
about uh, you know her because she's

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an artist, her and her story
past. So it's kind of it's a

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really cool it's a cool way to
learn about people that you're interested in.

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Well automatically, when you sit down
to have dinner with somebody or share food

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with somebody, they're disarmed and and
and they're less concentrating on oh my god,

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what is he going to ask me? Or what are we going to

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talk about? And you're having something
that's rather normal. Uh, and if

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you're a celebrity out pitching something,
you probably need a little normalcy. Yeah,

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I think so. I think they're
quite like they look everyone who's come

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in is sort of like wow,
like wait, we actually really do eat,

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like yeah, yeah, yeah,
like we eat. And they are

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just armed. It's a good word. They're sort of they they relax into

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it. And also it's just me
and the person and then the sound person

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from iHeart this gentleman named Emil,
who I absolutely think is brilliant. He's

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in the room, but he's off
to the room, so all of a

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sudden it becomes very quiet and very
intimate, and I like it too,

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like it's a first date, and
you know, first dates are important.

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Table for two with Bruce Posse on
the iHeartRadio app. As he just mentioned,

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is this at your restaurant? No, I am no longer with the

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Palm restaurant that the Two Families.
We exited that in twenty twenty, and

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it's at the Tower Bar in Los
Angeles. It's at Via Cororota in the

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West Village in Manhattan. And also
one I did with Colin Joe just in

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season two, I should say,
at the Carlisle Hotel. So I get

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some fun, fancy, cool places. Does the guest pick what they want

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to eat or do you have something
prepared or do they make a pre request

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for whatever it is they're going to
eat. Nope, the server comes up,

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they get the menu, and you
know exactly with Colin, it was

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hysterical because he's like, so I
can eat anything, and I'm like yeah.

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And there was a Cops solid with
lobster and he was like, wait

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a minute, I could order the
Cops salad with lobster, right, And

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He's like, whoa, he had
the Cops salad and help people people don't

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order whatever they want. I'm picking
up the bill. Is there one that

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surprised you most? Like I sawelebrity
that sat down and ordered something and us

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thought, on, huh, I
never took them for being a vegan or

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whatever it might be. Yeah,
who I would say the you know,

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Octavia Spencer, she was funny.
She was you know, we it was

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cold day, so she had like
tomato soup and grilled cheese and that was

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sort of fun because most like do
with salad or what have you. And

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the cop salad I thought was just
brilliant. When we've got you know,

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in season one, we were at
Via Croda, which is just like real

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small but amazing Italian place, and
out of winter, she she ordered,

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you know, she ordered like a
full lunch. And here's a woman who's

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like, you know, always on
the go, doesn't really believe in having

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lunch outside of her desk. You
know, she was thought was a big

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deal. And she had you know, chicken and salad and pasta and so

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everyone it's it's interesting who goes like
light and who goes heavy you know during

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the lunch. But everyone, like
you know, Kate Hudson came in.

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She was starving and we just we're
laughing our butts off. She she had

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like a big salad and you know, an Arnold Palmer and she was just

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it was It's just a lot of
fun. Uh. We're talking to Bruce

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Bosie. Table for two with Bruce
Bosi the podcast on the iHeartRadio app Now

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in season two. What are some
of the topics that come up? Are

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they pretty heavy duty things? Are
you just you just let the conversation flow?

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They can be heavy duty. I
I sort of come into the the

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room prepared knowing about the person.
You know, what they're doing, what

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they're working on, and you know, a skeleton of like their life.

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And then I go, okay,
if I'm gonna have the opportunity to sit

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down with Michael Mann and who you
know is responsible for directing and creating Miami

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Vice and you know, and Ferrari, what do I want to know about

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this guy? And then I let
it and you know, and he's directed

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such, you know, interesting people
over the course of his life, very

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you know, very revered actors.
I go, okay, what do I

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want to know? What would anyone
want to know? And then I just

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go with I go with the conversation. Sometimes it gets heavy, you know,

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if people you know, for instance, you know Alan Barkin last week,

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she talked about when she was on
the set of Sea of Love and

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it was the eighties and she was
doing, you know, a scene that

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required her to be undressed and al
Pacino was he and the director did something

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that was very you know, kind
of in her personal space and somewhat aggressive

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to her during the in between,
and it was she was shocked and then

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she was like, Okay, now
get back to work. And she went

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back to work. So, you
know, people talk about that, they

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talk about the things. I had
lunch with Nicole Ayvant, who's you know,

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her father was just passed away.
Mister Ivant was sort of considered the

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god father of you know, of
music, of black music, and father

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was unfortunately murdered a couple of years
ago in Beverly Hills. And she she

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goes there, you know, we
talk about that, We talk about the

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death of her mom. We talked
about who her mom was, how she

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was raised, and and Sharon Stone, who is on Who's Now you know,

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she's painted, but she talks about
when she had the brain tumor and

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in that whole series and that whole
situation that happened in her life and losing

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custody of her son. And so
it's not you know, it can go

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any which way. It's not heavy, it's not meant to be the idea

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is you know. It's curiosity,
it's kindness. It's literally like you're pulling

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up a chair and having lunch with
us today and you're just gonna discover some

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new stuff about someone that you're interested
in. So pull up your chair and

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here a table for two with Brutes
Bosi the podcast on the iHeartRadio app and

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anywhere you podcasts. We'll be looking
forward to listening to season two, Bruce,

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and thanks for joining us. Thank
you, sir, I'm a great

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day. Thanks for listening to Later
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