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Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[02:13] How you doing, pal? Good to see you.

Speaker 1:
[02:15] I'm doing great. I'm happy to have you on. Obviously a big fan of the show. I listen to Talking Sopranos. And from what I understand, you wrote another book, huh? Willie Boy Eats World?

Speaker 2:
[02:25] Willie Boy Eats the World. My first children's book. And it's about my dog, Willie Boy. He's seven years old, constant companion of mine. And he loves to eat. If you go to my Instagram, you'll see a lot of videos of me and him eating together. He's gotten over 100 million views on a lot of his videos. And he takes me around New York City, most diverse city in the world. Most diverse food shows me that there's more to life than just Italian food.

Speaker 1:
[03:04] There you go. And you can get it on Amazon, right?

Speaker 2:
[03:08] It's on Amazon. Yeah, the book is doing great. I got some great quotes. Aaron Judge gave me a quote. Clyde Frazier, Jose Andres, Bernadette Peters. Really good book. Really well illustrated. You know, colorful. Good message. It's a good book. A lot of fun.

Speaker 1:
[03:28] I love it. Go check that out. Buy Steve's book. Like I said, it's on Amazon. Steve, who would have ever thought when you were working at the RIV, all those guys you worked with over there, you think they would have ever thought you'd write a book, let alone multiple of them?

Speaker 2:
[03:41] No. All of that, nobody would have ever thought any of that. People say, well, must be a dream. It was no dream. It was so far-fetched, it could have never happened. I didn't have a dream, to be honest. I just rolled along with it. To say I was going to make a living as an actor, I had no aspirations. Then to get on any show is hard, and then to get on that show, it's like hitting the lottery twice, man.

Speaker 1:
[04:12] For sure.

Speaker 2:
[04:13] I'm on one of the greatest shows in TV history, and obviously because of that, all these other opportunities opened up, and I kind of ran with it. This is my eighth book. I had one. I turned into a movie, a young adult book called Nicky Deuce for Nickelodeon. And that's it. This one's just fun, man. No pressure. This is for me, my wife, just fun. We don't monetize the Instagram. It makes people happy. We get thousands of comments. We love the dog. He's got a hell of a personality. And that's the story.

Speaker 1:
[04:52] That's great. And, you know, I've got Sopranos questions, obviously, but I'm a Vegas guy. I really enjoy Las Vegas, Steve. So I'm very curious about the RIV. And, you know, as a Chicago guy, Dennis Rodman was legendary for running around Vegas. Do you have a Rodman story in Vegas or if not him?

Speaker 2:
[05:10] No, I have a Rodman story. I had a show called Casino Cinema on Spike TV years ago. And it was with Beth Stern, Howard Stern's wife. And he was a guest and he was a jag off. Like you say in Chicago, a jag off. In New York, it's a jerk off. In Chicago, he's a jag off. And he was very difficult and gave Beth a hard time. And he was just acting like an asshole. I've heard the Vegas stories, the Hard Rock, blah, blah, blah. He drinks to drink, walked out. Another restaurant, hotel I used to stay in Burbank, the Amarano Hotel. He ordered Louie the 13th, you know, which is like a hundred and something dollars a shot at the time, whatever it is. And he ordered a drink, a little bar. Guy gave him a drink, he banged it down and walked out.

Speaker 1:
[06:11] Oh no, can't do that.

Speaker 2:
[06:12] So, I mean, a good player, but you know, everyone knows what he is. I mean, a good ball player, but a jack-off.

Speaker 1:
[06:21] So and The Riv was legendary for letting movies and shows film there and whatnot. I know they filmed Casino, which you had a role in. What was your best story from working there with something that they filmed there?

Speaker 2:
[06:34] You know, yeah, they were one of the few hotels that let you, you know. Now they do a lot more, but back then they would not let you on the casino floor and film. It was a big deal. One, union-wise, two, they didn't want people, obviously, a gambling and I don't want to, you know, maybe guys are with their mistresses, with their girlfriends. What are you filming? That's what you come to Vegas for. You know, the guy's filming in the casino and, you know, some guys with a hooker shooting craps, you know, and his wife sees it. So the RIV was open to that. They kind of got screwed by casino because they didn't use the name Riviera. They called it the Tangiers, right? And they never gave the Riviera credit in the credits. At the end of the movie. And I know that was a whole big deal at the time. They shot the other movie there. They shot...

Speaker 1:
[07:37] I know the last one was Jason Bourne, right? Well, right before they demolished it.

Speaker 2:
[07:40] Yeah, yeah. That's when it was demolished with Matt Damon. But they let, what's his name? Mike Myers, Austin Powers, one of those are there. They also did one with Elvis. I think David Arquette, maybe. They did that. I mean, they've done so much. I had filmed some stuff there. They let me do some stuff. They were very open to that. Listen, everyone came to the RIV. At one time, Sinatra was there in the late 80s. He had bounced around from the Sands to Caesars to the Desert Inn. Riviera was one of the last places he played. I must have seen him 25 times. Liza Minnelli, the RIV was kind of open to a lot of stuff. The Beach Boys, I mean, this is the late 80s. The early years, they were one of the top hotels. Then as the years went on, they built these big monstrosities. They couldn't compete with that.

Speaker 1:
[08:38] Do you miss that old school Vegas feel?

Speaker 2:
[08:41] Yeah, I do. I had been in Vegas in a while. I was there. I went to the Sphere, which is pretty amazing, to the opening of The Wizard of Oz, last August or September. Yeah, it's changed a real lot. Listen, when I moved there, there was 350,000 people there. It was a small town. You say you knew everyone, you didn't know everyone, but you knew a lot of people. That doesn't exist. It's a big city, two, three million people. You know, it really grew, really spread out now. It used to be all kind of congested, combined. Everybody kind of went to the same places. It's only a couple of... A lot of guys from Chicago owned Jubilation. You know, that was owned by Paul Anker. He was the front man, but Doug Buffon was one of the partners there and guys that owned Faces and Tavern on Rush. They were all partners in there. So there was a lot of people from Chicago live in Vegas.

Speaker 1:
[09:54] Well, yeah, that's, you know, that character, Spilatro, he was a Chicago...

Speaker 2:
[09:59] He was a good friend of mine, Tony.

Speaker 1:
[10:00] Oh, no kidding.

Speaker 2:
[10:01] Tony, quite well, yeah. And he was a good guy to me always. I know what he did, but I guess from what I've seen and read, but to me, he was always a nice guy. I knew him quite well. I knew his brothers. I knew Herbie Blitzstein quite well. Matter of fact, I worked at door. His son got married at Jubilation. My job, they told me, was to keep the FBI out. I don't know how I was gonna do that, but I had a clipboard. And yeah, it was John Spilaccio and Michael, I don't think I knew, but I knew Tony quite well. They owned the, and there was Vinny Spilaccio. They owned a fast food restaurant called-

Speaker 1:
[10:46] Patsy's?

Speaker 2:
[10:47] No, the Food Factory.

Speaker 1:
[10:49] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[10:50] And I would go in there and eat before I went to work. So I used to see Tony. Tony would come around different places I worked, always sent the $20 bill, always tipped me. There was Arthur Nasser was his attorney, and he was a good guy. He was a Chicago guy. Yeah. So I knew quite a bit of him. Yeah. I didn't know the De Niro character, but I knew the Tony that Pesci played.

Speaker 1:
[11:18] And was that typically the case with the mob guys? They were all nice guys and didn't walk in like they owned the joint?

Speaker 2:
[11:23] No, no, no, no, not at all. It was a gentleman. You know, he wasn't allowed by that time. He was in the black book. He couldn't go in a casino. So he was never at the Riviera that I was aware of. You know, they would get arrested if you went in a casino, but he was in the clubs and the bars. And then there was a tiny restaurant. I think he's the Chicago guy, Joe Pig. He owned Villa Diest, which became Pierrot's. Tony was always in there. And a bunch of his guys, I knew Frank Collada. He was around before, you know, he got in trouble. I knew Frank and Herbie was a good guy, Chicago guy. He was Tony's like right hand man. I like Herbie a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[12:10] Yeah. Oh, that's good. And then to get into Sopranos here, Steve, when you're sitting around and maybe memories pop up, what seems to be the one scene that comes to your mind the most that you think about that you were in?

Speaker 2:
[12:25] Well, of course, the fight scene with Tony, but I liked a lot of those scenes where I liked working with Uncle Junior a lot, especially at the beginning. Cause even though I had acted in quite a few things, I was still kind of green and he was a big help to me. Dominic Chianese, who I just had lunch with a couple of weeks ago. He's 95 years old. I liked when all the guys were together, the back of the Bata Bing and those big dinners where you had 20 guys. It was like hanging out in the corner with your friends. One of the funniest scenes when the guy Finn comes and says, he saw Vito and we're in the back of the Bata Bing. That was a funny scene. Yeah, that was funny. There was a Paulie Walnuts was horrified. He was pitching, he was catching, not pitching.

Speaker 1:
[13:29] What scene would you say if you get stopped on the street, it gets brought up the most to you?

Speaker 2:
[13:35] The fight scene. Of course, even though I wasn't in it, the finale. Everybody wants to know about the finale, but mostly that kind of stuff. Of course, Pine Barrens, a lot of people's favorite episode. That was good. We were out. We shot that, we didn't shoot that in the Pine Barrens. We shot that because there was a politician. Pine Barrens is in New Jersey, this big forest like area. There was a politician there, this dirt bag named James Trefinger. And he wouldn't give us the permits to shoot there. So we shot up near West Point. And about a year later, he said the Sopranos made New Jersey look bad, made Italians look bad. He just hated the show. About a year later, he was arrested for obstruction of justice, wire fraud. He went to jail for two years. And that's a true story. So we shot upstate New York.

Speaker 1:
[14:39] Classic. Call it rules for thee, not for me.

Speaker 2:
[14:42] Typical. Typical politician, right?

Speaker 1:
[14:45] For sure. And what would you say, because obviously the Pine Barrens episode is classic, you shone up in the hunting gear after, and that's kind of an iconic costume that you have. What do you have from the show that you would consider as your most prized possession? Obviously, I see a bunch of pictures behind you, but is there a prop or what would you say that you have?

Speaker 2:
[15:05] I have the Choo Choo hat.

Speaker 1:
[15:07] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[15:08] I have that from the trains. I have the fat suit that I wore in season three. I wore a fat suit season two and three, and then I got fat enough on my own, I guess. They let me take it off. Season three, I owned that fat suit. I have that. What else do I have? There was a dildo from that scene that I, that's how I got to make Jim laugh by crawling it around, and I had the dildo for about 20 years, but I don't know where it's at. But I had that rubber dildo about three foot long. I had that for years.

Speaker 1:
[15:53] So if anyone finds that, it's like, no, you got the wrong idea. It was from the show.

Speaker 2:
[15:57] That's exactly right. You don't travel with that, but that was just a prop from the show.

Speaker 1:
[16:02] That's cool. So the Choo Choo hat is still exists in your house.

Speaker 2:
[16:06] Oh yeah. I got it somewhere. I don't have it here. I have it somewhere. I got the Choo Choo hat. I think my wife has it, and I do have some clothes. I have some clothes in storage that they killed me in. I do have some of that stuff.

Speaker 1:
[16:22] That's awesome that you kept on to it. That's great.

Speaker 2:
[16:27] Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[16:29] Obviously, you did a lot of scenes with Janice, Ada Turturro, and I watch the show later. I'm 35, so I watched it. I was a little young when the show came out. As the years have gone by, her character Janice is brought up as being a character people didn't like. Was that felt in real time? Was she aware at the time that nobody liked Janice?

Speaker 2:
[16:54] I don't know. I always say I think Janice was probably, if not the most evil character on the show, one of them. She was a manipulator, she was a murderer. She was, yeah. No, people didn't like Janice. I don't know if she was aware of it. I don't know if you could play it that way. She's a great actress. She's nothing like Janice. She's very sweet, very nice, and did a great job. She got nominated for an Emmy for that. I don't know, but people really disliked Janice. Well, she was kind of like Livia, you know?

Speaker 1:
[17:31] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[17:31] Like a mother. And when Nancy Marshawn passed away, believe it or not, when she got on that bus, Aida Totoro, she was gone from the show. She was gone. And then when Livia, Nancy Marshawn passed away, they brought her back to kind of fill that gap. But she was gone.

Speaker 1:
[17:57] That's interesting. I don't think I realized that.

Speaker 2:
[18:00] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[18:00] To kind of fill that role. Yeah, because as you go on, like, I don't know if you saw Breaking Bad, but I know a lot of people don't like Skylar White, Walter White's wife, you know? And that's, they kind of get lumped together as being two of the most like hateable TV characters ever. Really? Yeah. Oh yeah. So I just wondered in real time if that was like, oh, another season, here comes Janice, you know, people aren't going to like this character.

Speaker 2:
[18:23] I don't know. I don't think they didn't like the character. I don't think they like what she stood for. I think it was different.

Speaker 1:
[18:30] Yes, yes. That's what I mean.

Speaker 2:
[18:31] I don't know Breaking Bad. I watched some of them. It wasn't a wonderfully acted show, but not for me. I didn't, you know, I watched a few seasons. I don't know, you know, I did, you know, listen, she stole the woman's leg, the Russian girl's leg, which I found hilarious. She manipulated the guy. She went out with the religious guy. You know, the whole hotball thing. You know, I mean, she was always the victim. She manipulated Bobby into marrying her. You know, I mean, she was a screwball, a complete cook.

Speaker 1:
[19:11] Yeah, no, she definitely was. Who do you think was the most underrated character in The Sopranos? Like, obviously, the Paulies and the Tonys get a lot of the love. Who did you think was underrated?

Speaker 2:
[19:24] You know, I think... I'll tell you who, a character. After, you know, I watched the show so much, and I kind of studied it when I was doing the podcast. And the character that I really liked was Silvio. I like Silvio a lot. I think Silvio was really smart. I think even though he was a murderer, of course, he had some kind of moral compass. I like Silvio. I don't think I can give advice. You know, they tested at one point, and Charmaine Bucco, Artie Bucco's wife, the restaurant owner, she, they said she had the most morals of anyone on the show. She didn't like the mob, she didn't like Tony and all that stuff. Thought she was an underrated character. I think Fioria was an underrated character. It was very good. You know, when I went back to watch it, you know, like I said, you know, watched it, I used to watch it on Sunday like everyone else, but I went back, I had to really study it because fans know more than I did, and I watched it three times, and I got to tell you, Fioria was a really, really good character. I believed every moment of him being a scary guy, but yet being, you know, somewhat gentle guy. I thought he was an underrated character.

Speaker 1:
[20:52] I like that. I like that answer. Obviously, I know that the background of Nancy Marshawn's character, Tony's mom, if she didn't pass away, I believe there was a storyline where she may have testified against him, but is there another storyline from back in the day that you remember that was a rumor that you would have found interesting if they went through with it?

Speaker 2:
[21:12] Well, there was so many, you know, she got me on the spot. You know, there was so many things that they would toss around. You know, Michael knew a lot of that because Michael Imperioli was in the writer's room. You know, I know at one point they talked about a spinoff with me and Bobby and Janice, a sitcom. I know David threw that out there. They had always throw stuff around who was going to get killed, who wasn't going to get killed, you know, and I wasn't really privy to that much stuff, you know, to be honest. But I haven't heard that many stories like that, you know.

Speaker 1:
[21:54] Because that one interesting one I remember hearing was, are you familiar with the comedian Joey Diaz?

Speaker 2:
[22:00] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[22:01] Yeah, I remember he said once in an interview or on his podcast that he was supposed to play Big Pussy's brother. And I don't know, stuff like that. I always thought, oh, I wonder where that would have went, you know?

Speaker 2:
[22:12] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know, you know, he knows. I don't know, maybe you audition for it. I have no idea, but that never came about. But I think they threw a lot of things out there that sometimes went away. I do know that there were some people that got recast, you know, like, you know, the rapper Fabulous, you know, you know what that is?

Speaker 1:
[22:41] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[22:41] So I did a scene with him. And then about a month later, they called me back to re-shoot the scene. And it was with the rapper, with Treach, Treach, from Naughty by Nature. There was some of that. There was a Broadway guy. They dubbed his voice. Remember the FBI agent, the girl Lola, right? Her real name is Lola. Well, there was another FBI agent. Before that, and she didn't come back for, I think, the third or fourth season. So they actually reshot all of those scenes. So unless you videotaped it, she doesn't exist. Wow. It was the actress. It was the actress that was in, oh man, I can't, I'm not savvy enough. You know the actress that was in Waterboy?

Speaker 1:
[23:39] Okay, yes.

Speaker 2:
[23:41] Farrouza Balk. She played the original FBI agent. I think maybe for one episode, maybe two, then they re-cast her or she didn't come back. She doesn't exist.

Speaker 1:
[23:54] Okay, yeah, that's a good one. Is there, you got to, you're going on tour, right, with Michael Sooner? Did you, did that happen already?

Speaker 2:
[24:01] Well, we did, we went on tour. We're in the UK. We did 14 shows, 10 cities. We did 27,000 people. We did theaters all over the UK, starting in Belfast. We sold out the London Palladium three times. It was a tour by Live Nation.

Speaker 1:
[24:20] Did you find it interesting? Did they interpret it different at all out there, or was there any thing that surprised you like that with the international fans?

Speaker 2:
[24:30] I'll be honest. They asked a lot of the same, we do a Q&A at some point, a lot of the same questions, very knowledgeable, like the fans here. We did Chicago a few years ago, very knowledgeable. No, they didn't interpret it any, I think exactly the same. It's a very small show, they asked a very small questions. They were very excited. I don't know if anyone's ever been there. Michael had been there, but not doing a show or anything. We did 200 people afterwards, meet and greet. Very polite, very nice. And it was a very successful, very nice trip.

Speaker 1:
[25:17] What was your biggest takeaway from talking Sopranos in general? Going down memory lane and seeing how everyone reacted to it?

Speaker 2:
[25:27] We didn't know what the hell we were doing. So the first four or five episodes, I talk over Michael a lot. Not knowing, kind of like, you know, like you're doing radio, you got seven minutes and you got... So we kind of figured out, let it breathe and just have a conversation. We're good friends. We tried to make it a little more interesting than just The Sopranos by talking about food and restaurants and trips and books and music. And mostly, it was very successful. We won a Webby Award. Some people didn't like that, I guess. They just wanted, you know, All Sopranos, we wanted to fuck off a little, till we make it a little interesting. I thought it was pretty funny. And, you know, Michael and me, we're good friends, but opposite, you know, opposite in a lot of ways. So, you know, I don't think one person, we listen to the same music when we put it out there. But it was a lot of fun. And I learned that we learned a lot from, we had 69 guests. We learned a lot from the guests, who read for who and who did what. Did you know Jerry Stiller was the original Hesh?

Speaker 1:
[26:48] No, I did not.

Speaker 2:
[26:49] There you go. So Jerry Stiller got cast as Hesh. And he was supposed to start on a Monday, the pilot, and he gets a commercial that paid a lot more money. So he took the commercial and that weekend before the pilot, they scrambled and they found Jerry Adler, who played Hesh and who was just wonderful in the role.

Speaker 1:
[27:15] What a big sliding doors moment, imagine that.

Speaker 2:
[27:17] So there was a lot of that stuff with, listen, the music budget started out almost nothing, and it wound up half a million dollars an episode by the end. So we found out from a lot of cast members, producers, things that we didn't know anything about, and that was cool. That's awesome. And David Chase did it three times.

Speaker 1:
[27:41] Yeah, I listened to one of those, it was great.

Speaker 2:
[27:44] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[27:44] He was awesome. Two more questions, Steve, if you don't mind. I know you're big on Celebrity Row over there for the Knicks games. What's the process like for that, and what do you think when all the bandwagon fans come out of the woodwork?

Speaker 2:
[27:58] Oh yeah, there's a lot of them. They come out. I've been a diehard fan, first of all, since I'm a kid, but for the last 26 years, when I came back from New York, from Vegas, I'm a diehard fan. What do I think about front runners? Well, that's what they are. Some people, where were they when the Knicks weren't very good?

Speaker 1:
[28:23] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[28:24] I was there the whole time, as was John McEnroe and Chris Rock and Matthew Modine and a handful of others. Ben Stiller has been around for a while. He's a real fan. Tracy Morgan is a real fan. And then you got some people who just want to get there up on the scoreboard. I was there the other night. I think the Knicks will win this in five and move on.

Speaker 1:
[28:55] And then my last question is, is Sopranos the greatest TV show ever?

Speaker 2:
[29:01] Certainly one of them. I mean, that's very subjective, but it certainly changed TV in that way. You know, the anti-hero. I don't think... I think without The Sopranos, you don't have Breaking Bad and you don't have a lot of shows, you know? I don't know about the best, but certainly one of them.

Speaker 1:
[29:22] If it's not, what gives them a good run for its money? What's your favorite?

Speaker 2:
[29:27] I guess a lot of people like The Wire.

Speaker 1:
[29:30] Wire's great.

Speaker 2:
[29:31] They're like a lot of people, Game of Thrones. A lot of people like Breaking Bad. So there's those, you know.

Speaker 1:
[29:41] You don't have one that you like?

Speaker 2:
[29:44] You know, I kind of watch... You know what I watch? First of all, I didn't watch TV for years. Since COVID, I've watched more TV than I ever watched the whole 60-something years that I was alive before that. I like these limited series. I like Slow Horses. You know, there was a Task. I love that. I'm watching The Night Manager. I love that. I liked, what was it? Black Rabbit. I like those limited seven, eight episode series. That's what I kind of like. I like this. John Hamm's got a good one. Friends and Neighbors.

Speaker 1:
[30:22] I like that one too.

Speaker 2:
[30:23] That's kind of like what I like. Those limited series. I don't go in for the long haul. I mean, of course, I like Veep a lot. I've always been a Seinfeld fan. Veep was a great series. Fun.

Speaker 1:
[30:39] Did you see Dopesick?

Speaker 2:
[30:41] What is it?

Speaker 1:
[30:42] Did you see Dopesick on Hulu?

Speaker 2:
[30:46] What do you say? Say it again.

Speaker 1:
[30:47] Dopesick?

Speaker 2:
[30:48] No.

Speaker 1:
[30:49] You should check that out. It's a limited one. That's why I'm writing it. Yeah, it's pretty good.

Speaker 2:
[30:53] You know, those are the kind of shows I just look at the limited series. Sometimes then I'll lose interest or something will happen and I'd lose interest, you know? I'm watching this Rooster, Steve Carell show. Kind of interesting. You know, I like Dirty Rock. That was funny.

Speaker 1:
[31:12] Yeah. Those are good ones. I also have to thank you for giving me the term from listening to Talking Sopranos. I'm half Italian, but I, like you, I have a Wonder Bread WAP phase. I've been using that one a lot since you, since I heard you say that.

Speaker 2:
[31:26] You know, the thing is people would make comments. They would go crazy. Here we are trying to be entertaining on the podcast. You're going through every scene of every episode, and then people are like, I don't know. I don't know what they expect. It's really hard. What you do is really hard. They have no idea to do a podcast is hard. That's why we did it and we got out, you know? It's not easy, man. It's not easy.

Speaker 1:
[31:52] Yeah, you like the limited series. Limited podcast runs as well.

Speaker 2:
[31:55] There you go. That's exactly what people wanted us to continue. So we got nothing else to talk about.

Speaker 1:
[32:02] Steve, thanks so much for jumping on, man. Willie Boy Eats World. It's on Amazon. And anything else you want to get out there?

Speaker 2:
[32:09] No. Willie Boy Eats the World. Look for us. Go to my Instagram. Steve Schirripa Official. All the info is there. And we'll be around. We're doing signings everywhere.

Speaker 1:
[32:22] Awesome. Well, if you're ever in Chicago, come by the office. We've got a great studio here. We'd love to have you.

Speaker 2:
[32:27] Sounds good, my friend. Nice talking to you.

Speaker 1:
[32:28] All right. Thanks, Steve. Appreciate you.

Speaker 2:
[32:31] Okay, buddy.

Speaker 1:
[32:31] All right. That's it, everyone. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. We'll be back on Tuesday.