Ross: Hi everybody; I’m Ross, the Boss, my co-host today is Dr. Dan Ratner. My guest today, you might know him from the Sopranos. He also has a pal cast called Talking Sopranos, and he’s on Blue Bloods, that premieres its new episodes October 1st. Let’s welcome Steve Schirripa. Steve, welcome to the show.
Steve: Ross, what’s happening pal? How are you?
Ross: So before we talk about the Sopranos, I don’t want to bore you with that or we’ll talk about Blue Bloods and everything else. I want to talk to you about NBA basketball. I know you’re a basketball fan, what’s your take on the Knicks? What’s your take on the series with the Suns and Bucks? What’s going on with you and the NBA?
Steve: Listen, I’m not a tech, I’m a fan, like a watching fan, but I’m not a technical statistical guy. The Knicks, the city really needed the Knicks to do better and they did, they stepped up. We’re still a player or two shy, which hopefully now after showing that they could win in New York and the city is beyond ecstatic. I mean, the ball was set so low, so the city was behind them a thousand percent. So I think that might help bring a couple of players here. So that was really good for the city.
Ross: The rumor is that Damian Lillard might be traded or might sign with you guys. That’s the big rumor. I mean, Dr. Dan talking about it too.
Steve: There are always rumors. What I do like about it though Ross, seriously, we were so bad for so long, no one wanted to come here, it was kind of toxic, but I think it shows with the right coach, the right front office, things are clicking. The garden was fucking packed as soon as it could be, the whole city’s behind them. So I think that’s a good thing to maybe bring some players. I’ve been watching, I never watched so much basketball, then there’s playoffs because I was in California and there was really nothing else on. So I followed the playoffs all the way through. I’d like Phoenix, the one game I went to this year at the garden was against Phoenix. They broke the Knicks nine game winning streak. I think Phoenix is going to win. It’s been great. I like Booker a lot, they got a really good team. Of course, Chris Paul and I think they got a really good team and it’s been a lot of fun watching. I mean, we’re in the middle of fucking July and it’s still basketball. I mean, it’s gone a little long to be honest, but usually I think it ends in June, but I guess uh because covid.
Dr. Dan: Well they got the late start, so it’s going to be a while.
Steve: But it’s god, I look forward to the fall. I look forward to the new season, see what the Knicks can come up with. Thibodeau is a great coach, he’s got them motivated.
Dr. Dan: But you’re a Brooklyn guy, right?
Steve: I’m a Brooklyn guy, but not the Nets. Forget the Nets.
Dr. Dan: Well, I mean, when you were growing up, just like when I was growing up, they were the New Jersey Nets.
Steve: Yes, I went once. I went once years ago when they played the Knicks, I’m not a Net fan. I mean, they’ve got a good team obviously, they spent a lot of money and it’s good for Brooklyn, it’s good for that area, the Barclays Center. I think it’s all positive. I don’t hate the Nets, but I’m not rooting for them.
Ross: Just so you know Steve, Dan’s family had a lot to do with the Barclays Center, they are in real estate development and they actually…
Steve: Oh yes? So thats your father the Ratner?
Ross: It’s my father’s cousin, it is Bruce Ratner.
Steve: Well, he did a great thing for that part of Brooklyn. I mean, that area is all built up. I mean, that was the shit back then. You couldn’t walk down there when I was a kid, you had to be careful.
Dr. Dan: Actually Steve, I’ll tell you a funny story. I moved to Brooklyn in 2004 and they were just starting the Atlantic yards project and there was picketing because some people really didn’t want this and so I had just moved there and I see signs that say, Ratner go home and I was like, I just got here.
Steve: Thought it was you; but you know what, are you related to Michael Ratner? Hank Ratner was the CEO of The Garden.
Dr. Dan: I am related to a Michael Ratner, but not that Michael Ratner.
Ross: So Steve, I don’t know if people know this about you. I do. You played basketball in college at Brooklyn College and you’re actually, I mean, you actually are a really good basketball player. I played with you in Vegas and we played against some big names. I mean, you were living in Vegas, I was there visiting and he took me to your gym and tell us about some of the names you played against and I mean, your skill set and basketball is up there, you’re good.
Steve: Well, it was good. I’m old, that’s a long time ago, but I played in college. I was going to go play in Israel, I’m a half a Jew, you know that and I tried out for the Israeli team when I graduated and they wanted me to work on a kibbutz which didn’t sound great to me so I headed to Vegas. But they wanted me to play and work on a kibbutz and I headed to Vegas instead. There was a place called the sporting house, which was probably the best run and I played everywhere in New York, all over the city. I played in the West Fourth Street and up at Rockies and et cetera, et cetera, all the famous places. Probably the best run that I ever saw was behind the old star dust, which is now resorts that just opened. It was called the Sporting House and everyone was there. I know Greg Anthony from when he was in high school, Larry Johnson worked there when came out of junior college. So all these guys were there. It’s now a strip club, it’s called Sapphires. So it became a strip club.
Ross: I heard about it. I’ve never been there. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Steve: I’m sure you haven’t Ross. I gave you a bunch of singles remember? So it was a great one. I mean, everyone, there were pros there, Rickie Sobers and…
Ross: Steve Kerr was there. I guarded Steve Kerr with you.
Steve: Everybody was there. Matt Othic played with Steve Kerr in college in Arizona. Matt played with the spurs a little bit. Tarkanian was there. All these guys were there. There would be a game at lunch, which wasn’t as good but the governor played in this one and that one, and then there’ll be another game at about 3:30, 4 o’clock and how they would do it was there would be like two teams, you and a LV guy on each team. Then the second tier, third, fourth, fifth, I was always the second guy because they balanced it out. I’ll tell you this though, Greg Anthony, no matter who his other four guys were, they would fucking always win. Greg Anthony would always, always win. There was another guy played at Oklahoma, Alan Holder. I mean there was all kinds of pros and it was really an incredible, incredible, incredible run that I got and I got so much better after I graduated college. I also lived in Hawaii. They got a lot of good basketball players. There’s so many colleges here. You’ll be amazed in Hawaii how many good ball players there are, a ton. So that was good, but I haven’t played in years.
Dr. Dan: But I’m amazed, you were basically the second pick on these teams.
Steve: On these teams I was the second pick. Yes, I could play. There was another guy, Jamie he played in the final four with Wichita . Oh shit, I’m going blank here, but there were a lot of guys from university. What was it? Kerr played at University of Arizona.
Ross: Kerr played Arizona, he was there. I mean, we had…
Steve: The other guy, Sean whatever was there.
Ross: Sean Elliot was there. I mean, when I was there, I played a few times with you. You took me, thank you for doing that. I mean, the talent that was there was unbelievable.
Steve: It’s unbelievable. Gerald Patio played with Cleveland, he was there. Like you said, all these UNL guys, Danny Tarkanian who played for his father, he was a tough funking white guy, tough, took no from nobody. He wasn’t pro material, he didn’t get the accolades, but tough. You know who played? Tyson played.
Ross: Mike Tyson?
Steve: Mike Tyson played, let’s put it this way. Basketball ain’t Mike Tyson’s thing. Tommy Hearns, I played against Tommy Hearns, he could play.
Ross: He’s a good athlete, Detroit kid, six feet, he can play.
Steve: Tommy Hearns, John Hearns, Woody Harrelson came down, thought he was better than he was when he was doing, what’s the movie with Demi Moore?
Dr. Dan: White Men Can’t Jump
Steve: Yes, but he did a movie with Demi Moore in Vegas called Indecent Proposal, while he was doing that he was at the gym every day. Who’s the guy that, hall of Famer center, had a kidney problem and had to retire, tell me his name? Played in the early two thousands.
Ross: Dan, I don’t know.
Dr. Dan: Who would that be?
Ross: I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. But again, it was unbelievable talent, Steve, you and I first met in Vegas and I don’t know if people know this, but you worked in Vegas and you were a tuxedo every day to work and you’re famous for that tuxedo. Tell everybody what you did in Vegas.
Steve: Well, I ran the improv. I worked for the Riviera Hotel. I started out 1986 in May. I remember meeting Bud Freeman, your stepfather, and there’s a bunch of chairs and he said, we’re going to meet in the showroom. I didn’t even know who Bud was and we made a little showroom and for the first six months it sucked, nobody came, 20 people, 30 people. Opening night was Rich Shina, Bobby Slayton, Tommy Sledge and Marty Polio. Those were the four comics. It was four comics every night, three shows a night. Seven nights a week and we did that and then it got very popular, very busy and just about everyone came through there, from Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell to Bill Ma to Richard Belzer and on and on and on, Drew Carey and ta ta ta. Then I took over the other showrooms, Crazy Girls and Lukasz. Then the improv was gone and it became the Riviera Comedy Club and I became the entertainment director where I booked a lot of comics in the big room, Ray Romano for the first time, Drew Carey for the first time, Jeff Dunham for the first time, George Wallace, I could go on and on, Dennis Larry, in the big room. They had played Vegas, but not there. Ray Romano, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, David Spade, George Lopez in the big room.
So we had our handle on comedy and then the other hotels would snatch them up after they’ve been there once. But most guys came back twice for me. I said, please just give me a second, Damon Waynes kept coming back, Pauly Shore, Damon Waynes, DL Hughley, they all came back, most of them except for one guy.
Ross: Who is that one guy?
Steve: David Spade.
Ross: I like David, when he was in Arizona he stayed with me.
Steve: I like David, he’s a friend of mine, but he was the one guy for whatever reason, didn’t come back. He gave me that, okay, I’m taking a shot with you the first time, just give me one more time and then go off and make a lot of money. So Jackie Marlene from the Stern Show. So we did all that and then was fucking around, Bruce Baum asked me to be in one of his sketches. It was called Sunday Night Comics and I did that. Got the acting bug, Carol Barlow was booking the show, put me in a few of these things.
Ross: She still works, I know Carol.
Steve: Ross was a manager at the time. He helped me get into some movie. What movie did you help me?
Ross: I got you. I was working on Denial, I was with Adam Rifkin. I was managing Adam with Brad.
Steve: They changed the name of it at one point.
Ross: They did, but also, do you remember, I used to pick you up at the airport when I was, I think I was either in high school or college and I would take you to Up All Night with Rhonda Shear and anytime comics came in, they met Steve, they always put them in like in their bits.
Steve: No, but I’ve learned from those little shit things.
Ross: Yes, you were so smart doing that. It was unbelievable how any time anybody said, we have this small part, you’ll be yeah, I’ll do it.
Steve: Yes, they were shootings, but you know that’s where you learn how to hit your mark.
Ross: Steve, I use your name all the time as an example how you should make it in Hollywood.
Steve: I mean, how you hit your mark, how you do this, all this stuff, they don’t teach you in acting school. So I did all shit things, didn’t get paid for most of them. The Adam Rifkin thing I got paid and he put me in two other of his movies, one a pretty good part at one point, the Detroit Rock City, I got the poster right there.
Ross: The Rock City with Kiss.
Dr. Dan: Oh, I remember that.
Steve: And I made the poster. I was very proud of that.
Ross: Let me see. That looks great. I’ve seen that poster before.
Steve: With Kevin Corrigan, 1997, Kevin Corrigan, we wanted to work together on Blue Bloods. Kevin Corrigan has done 125 movies. So we started small and doing that shit. Also Ross would pick me up and also another comic, Kip Addotta came and picked me up, he helped me. Jerry Minor helped me, Stanley Omen, but his car was so shitty that I was afraid to go in it. He had no windows, no air condition. But Kip Addotta, I would say Kip, if you pick me up next time you work Vegas, I’ll give you an extra $200. That’s what I would pay him with, whatever he was making. I’ll give you an extra 200, I’ll give you an extra 300 pick me up. But he was good for me, he used to give me pep talk and wait for me for the auditions. So that’s how I started all that and then of course, I .went to New York for a wedding and to audition for the Sopranos and that was that. But that’s how it started out, people think you do these shit things, it taught me how to talk, how not to yell, how to do this, how not to look in the camera. The second thing I ever did was a little cold opening sketch with Lenny Clock, the comedian and you could see, I looked directly into the camera. I have no idea what I’m doing. The second thing I ever did, I go.
Ross: I’m looking at tape on that, Steve, that’s unbelievable. And then also when I was at the Tonight Show one of the first things I did, I don’t know if you know this, I gave your tape to Joe Medeiros the head writer and I said, we’ve got to use this guy as a correspondent or anything, we should use them now because he got this huge role in the Sopranos and he’s going to be huge and he’s great, he’s funny and he’s articulate, he knows all the comedians and you were on their show.
Steve: Yes, I was on the The Tonight Show over 40 times. I was three times as a guest, as a second guest and then I did a ton of bits in the judgmental Bastiat and with Ross, the intern and whole bunch of, there’s a lot of fun.
Ross: It was so much fun Steve, I miss those days.
Steve: I really, really enjoyed those days doing that and then coming out. We did the bits all over the country and then coming back here, back to LA and being on with Jay and that was a lot of fun to me.
Ross: It’s not the same anymore. Can we go back to the Riviera days? I wanted the crowd to know if a comic went over time, let’s say, when they’re on stage in Vegas, and I know you were in charge of that and then Kotel did not like when comics went over time, because they want the audience in the casinos. So tell me the pep talk you would tell a comic if they went over two minutes?
Steve: I would just tell the comic, don’t go over.
Ross: You didn’t say it like that.
Steve: Listen to me. I would tell them what I had to tell them and then of course there’s always fucking smart, Alex. So two things I would do, I had the microphone in the back of the room. I had the microphone, so I would just, as soon as he took a breath, all right, ladies and gentlemen, let’s hear it for Ross Mark, so I would do that. Another comic who I love, Franklin Ajai, someone I absolutely love, one of my favorites, I haven’t talked to him many years. I knocked down his, he was late for the show, went up to his hotel, knocked on the door, he came to the door playing the clarinet naked. So he would not get off the fucking stage and I don’t know why I didn’t use the mic, maybe I didn’t have it at the time and I just got the keys. I went to the front of the room. I dropped the keys on the stage. I said, lock up when you’re done. So there was a lot of that shit. Some comics were late all the time, they were fucking late. The MC, I would say the show starts at eight o’clock, be here at 10 to eight and you always had those ones that make you sweat it and they get this, don’t use them anymore. The guy wants to be a dick, listen, there are a million comics they’re willing to fucking work. They’re willing to work cheaper. You don’t need no problems. I was too busy to be fucking around, you know what I mean? Just do what I asked. I was never a guy, I’ll tell you what, I was never a guy to say, I don’t like that material, don’t do this, don’t do that.
The hotel had certain rules. Don’t be too blue. You know what I mean? Don’t fucking get raunchy, raunchy. You could curse, but don’t get stupid and don’t ever knock the hotel. Timo Rock a comic, I think he passed away, may he rest in peace, went on the air of the morning radio and was talking about how the hotel sucked, how the fucking towel sucked, how it was dirty. I don’t know if he made it up, if it was a bit. My boss called me into the office, said who’s this fucking guy he got in the club. This was Friday like 11:00 AM, I said, he’s working, he’s a good comic, he’s a nice guy. He went, fire him. Why? He’s fucking ripping us to shreds on the radio. He did morning radio and thought that was going to be funny. I talked him into letting him stay, but that was a big no-no and you had guys that just couldn’t help themselves, so they never come back. Don’t be stupid, go in, do your thing, I never bothered you, I didn’t start meddling, hey, I don’t like that material, instead of that word. You remember that guy Paul Messier down in San Diego?
Ross: Yes.
Steve: He used to run that club, he used to tell the comics what was funny.
Ross: I never did that either, Steve. I never did that and as you know I’ve been involved in comedy a long time.
Steve: I know. I never did that. I never said don’t do that, it’s not funny because listen, I’m not a comic. We had rules.
Ross: Steve, I want to talk to you about your award winning graduations on the Webby, Talking Sopranos. Tell the audience what the show is, why they should listen, why is it so funny.
Steve: It’s called Talking Sopranos, it’s me and Michael Imperioli. We started at the beginning of COVID and we do about 200,000 listeners and viewers, it’s on YouTube and anywhere where you get your podcasts. We run down, we have guests from the show, people involved with the show, 98% of the actors we’ve had on so far. We’ve had writers, producers, David Chase, himself, Terry Winter, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, on and on and on and we interview them about their experience with the show and then we do a rundown of the show, scene by scene, episode by episode. Behind the scene, we’ll give you a peek behind the curtain. What went on, what that scene means, what happened. I remember on the set that day, I remember this happened, that happened. This guy, did you know Jerry Stiller was supposed to be Hetch played by Jerry Adler? Jerry Stiller got the role on a Friday and over the weekend, he decided to take a commercial and they were shooting Monday and he did the commercial and he would have been Hetch.
So we’ve had the casting people on and the sound man and the stuntman and now we do a little segment, celebrity superfans. We’ve had Pete Davidson, Alec Baldwin, and Ricky Gervais who’s on this week. So we’re also allowing some fans on, super-fan. We had a contest, we had over 10,000 entries to come and talk to us. So at the end of the year, the show will be over. Right now we’re in a season six episode two or three, we’re up to, and by the end of the year, we’ll finish up and that’ll be the end of it. It’s been a lot of fun. It’s been very successful, way more than we ever thought. And we have a book stemming from that called Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos coming out November 2nd, 500 pages. If you’re a soprano fan, it’s a must have.
Dr. Dan: Steve, I’ve heard the cast is very close to still.
Steve: Yes, very close and you’ll see it. If you go on, you’ll see that we’re all good friends and it’s really like just two or three of us sitting down and having lunch, bullshitting about old times and their experience, a lot of people auditioned for many roles, didn’t get them and there are so many things that I learned and I don’t know and forget, I don’t know everyone. I mean, I know the main characters of course, but there’s a lot of smaller people that I don’t really know.
Ross: Yes, I get it. I mean, Steve, the amazing thing about that show is it’s considered one of the best dramas of all time. It’s always on the top five lists and that Breaking Bad, I mean, it’s one, two all the time. But it hasn’t been on in 14 years, it’s still relevant and there’s a prequel coming out. I’ve been seeing trailers where the prequel, are you in the prequel is there signs of Bobby Baccalieri
Steve: No, none of the actors are in the prequel. It takes place in 1968, so there’s no; I mean, there’s characters, people playing younger versions of Jim’s son, Michael playing a young Tony Soprano. There’s a young Poli Walnuts, a young Silvia, but there’s not no Kerry, none of the actors. That’s part of the reason we did the podcast, there was a lot of podcasts with people that had nothing to do with the show and also a lot of podcasts. There’s a lot of younger people watching it, people that were too young then, that are in their twenties and late teens and late twenties, there’s a lot of Instagram about the costumes and the fashion and the food. There’s all kinds of Soprano shit going on, so it’s very, very popular, the show, it streams numerous places. Back then only 11 million people had HBO, now there’s probably many, many millions more could stream it, it’s all over the world. On the podcast, we here from Israel to Saudi Arabia, it’s very big in England and Australia. It’s a worldwide phenomenon, honestly and that’s part of the reason we did the podcast to get the right story out there. So it’s amazing, 14 years, it ended in 2007, 14 years later it’s as popular, if not more popular.
Dr. Dan: Can you believe that? I mean, when I think about 2007 at the end of the Sopranos doesn’t seem that long ago to me, what’s that like for you?
Steve: Well, listen, I’ve done numerous shows after that, it doesn’t seem that long either I agree, because it’s never gone away. It’s not one of those shows that, all right, hey, you know, whatever. Gilligan’s island, you never saw it again or whatever, you know what I mean? This was a show that’s always been in front of your face, it’s always been up there. People have caught up when they caught up, they binge watch it, we all had a wait every Sunday. There was no DVR then, there was none of that stuff then, so it’s easy access. We hear constantly, I’ve watched it four times, five times, 10 times. Before we did the podcast, I’ve seen it once. I hadn’t seen it since 2007.
Ross: Were you happy with the ending? I have to ask you that.
Steve: Yes, I was happy with the ending. I think Tony Soprano is alive and well and living in New Jersey, that’s my opinion.
Ross: I think he’s in San Diego, but that’s fine, I can say New Jersey, that’s okay.
Steve: That’s fine, I think he is alive and well, that’s what I think. I mean, I’ll tell you this, 14 years later, barely a day goes by that someone doesn’t mention the ending.
Ross: I know that’s why I had…
Steve: I mean, you don’t remember endings of hardly any shows, a few, but not many.
Ross: Not many, your show is iconic, Steve. I mean, your show is iconic and…
Steve: I think 50 years from now, they’ll still be watching the show.
Ross: Of course. Steve, let’s talk about the current show that you’re on, Blue Bloods. Unbelievable, this is your seventh, it’s been on 11 seasons. The new episode premieres…
Steve: This is the 12th.
Ross: 12th coming up, October 1st is the premier. I mean, you work with Tom Selleck, you work at Donnie Walberg, both of them I worked with before. How do you like working on this show? I know you filmed it in your hometown.
Steve: Yes, the show is great, the show is great, couldn’t ask for a better situation. I went in to do one, maybe two episodes and I wound up, I’ve done 91 shows. I couldn’t ask for a better situation. I love shooting around the streets in New York. The cast is great. Tom is great. Donnie, Bridget, who I work with all the time, couldn’t ask for a better partner. I’ve worked with a lot of great actresses, she’s as good as anybody. Will Estes is great. Vanessa, Marissa, it’s a really good cast, a lot of fun. We don’t see each other that much, especially during COVID, but it’s great. We start shooting on the 21st. I look forward to it, I think we’re doing 18 or 20 episodes and shows a big, big hit, 10, 12 million people every Friday night at 10, a tough time slot and so I couldn’t ask for anything better. They’re great writers.
Dr. Dan: All right. But Steve, before you leave, when people see you on social media, they see you a lot of times with your dog. I just want to hear about; we actually have a picture of it. Well, here’s the picture.
Steve: Hold on, you want me to get him?
Dr. Dan: Yes. The famous Willy, hold on.
Ross: Where did he go? So Steve, tell me more about…
Dr. Dan: And that was the end of the interview. He just left to get Willy and never came back. Oh, I see him, I see him in the reflection.
Ross: He’s coming back.
Steve: Hey, say hello to Ross, uncle Ross, uncle Dan, say hello. You’re boring him Ross.
Ross: Will, you’re the star of social media for Steve, do you get sick of wearing costumes and eating hot dogs when Steve’s with you?
Steve: He’s probably going, Steve is pimping me out on the fucking; I’ll tell you what, he’s a hound and I mean, I’m not kidding you, if he sees a camera, he’s scratching your leg. He wants you to get in the picture.
Ross: That’s great, I love photos of you and your dog and they’re great.
Dr. Dan: Adorable.
Steve: He’s a good boy. He’s a really good boy.
Ross: I bought on Amazon Uncle Steve’s pasta sauce.
Steve: I’m out of business. I went out of business.
Ross: You went out of business.
Steve: We’ve been out of business for two years.
Ross: I still have cans of that, that you sent me at my house and they’re still good.
Steve: Yes, the sauce is really good. It was really good. You know what happened Ross, we grew too fast. My partner who’s one of my closest friends is a wealthy guy and he wanted to make a ton of money. He’s got money and he said, we’re going to go for the whole shebang. We were in 3000 stores, we grew too fast. If we would’ve stayed small Amazon mailing, we would’ve made a few bucks. It’s hard to, it’s really hard, it’s a hard business. The sauce was great and no one could deny that, it’s just, he had then felt sick, he was sick and we just bailed. And like I said, if we would have stayed small, we could have made a few bucks out a few. It was fun but in the end we went out of business. So what are you going to do? And another thing, we talked on the podcast at length and I was at your wedding with Billy Vera, are you still married?
Ross: I’m still married. It’s my wife’s birthday today actually
Steve: Tell Kim I say Happy Birthday. Billy Vera and the beater played there, it was a terrific wedding, black tie. My wife was pregnant, what was it, 1995?
Ross: 1991.
Steve: Oh, my first daughter, she was pregnant with my daughter and Milton Berle was there and I was telling Michael, that was the first night Zoe and you guys told me that he had a big cock. I never knew that and he was known for that and that was the first night and I laughed all night long.
Ross: You brought it up. I wanted to do it real quick. I know we’re running out of time, but I want to tell you a Milton Berle story that involves your boss Rick Less from the Riviera and he was married to Pia Zadora, you remember, he was married to Pia and we all went down. I was working with Milton back in the day, I did his wife’s golf tournament. You remember that? And Milton and I, and a few other people, buddy Arnold, his whole group, we all went to long beach Playhouse to see his wife perform as Anne Frank, she was performing Anne Frank in this play. So she’s horrible and Nicholas is there, it’s packed, it’s like all these fucking guys are there with suits on that looked like from the Sopranos, they’re all there and then the Nazis knock on the door, where is Anne Frank and all of a sudden you hear Milton say she’s in the attic because she was so bad they wanted her. The crowd went nuts, The crowd like laughed people were rolling, it’s a serious show, it’s not a comedy.
Steve: Yea Yeah, that’s a funny, funny story.
Ross: I mean, Milton was great and Milton did take me to the bathroom one time and he said, Ross, do you want to have a contest? I’m 23 years old…
Dr. Dan: The answer to that is always no, when you get taken to the bathroom…
Ross: Yes, he wanted a contest, I don’t know what contest he’s talking about. I said, sure, what is it? He says, I’ll show you my cock and you show me yours and I’ll go first. He shows me his cock and no bullshit, his cock goes down to his knee and I thought it was a golf club, I thought it was a joke. I was like looking around like looking where’s the prop guy. And Milton, God rest his soul, he had great stories about Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball. I mean, he banged all these women back in the day.
Steve: All of them, but he also was a, he showed it off. I’ll tell you that.
Ross: Yes, he wasn’t shy, this guy was unbelievable. But I mean, I feel so lucky, I got to spend like four or five months with them every day. I was with him at the Friers club
Steve: It wasn’t for his looks, that’s for sure.
Dr. Dan: Now Steve, we cannot end, we ended about half of our interviews on Milton Berle’s cock, but I’m going to ask you, so you said you’re part Jewish. I’m still blown away by the fact that you chose to not go to a kibbutz and ended up going to Vegas. Like that’s the biggest shift of all time.
Steve: That was a tough decision.
Dr. Dan: But you’re Italian also?
Steve: Yes, I was raised Catholic, I’m Italian. My father was Italian, my mother was raised Jewish. My mother was also more Italian than my father. She was raised basically by Italians, in an Italian neighbourhood. She cooked and cursed and blah, blah, blah.
Dr. Dan: Well, you fit the part then, and it it’s a pleasure having you on here. I’m excited to binge some Blue Bloods, check out the podcast and keep looking at Willy.
Steve: Willy’s the man. I love him to death. He’s really literally like my son. I love him to death. He’s a good boy, good boy. Great talking to you guys.
Ross: Thanks for coming on. Don’t be a stranger.
Steve: Say hello to your family, you know where to find me. Dan, nice talking to you.