Mike Salemi. We're alive. What's up, brother? Dude, good to be here. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, man. Cheers. Good to spend a whole day with you. Man. All right. So here's, here's what we're going to do. We're going to start off. I want you to tell everyone who you are, where you're from. What do you do? But before you do that, before you dive into the personal stuff about you, I want you to tell

the story you just told me a few minutes ago about how your parents met.

I want to hear this story.

And the reason I want to hear that story is because I'm, number one, I'm a big story guy,

but I think this is going to help people get to know you better.

And I like get to have more

investment in you and who you are so tell to everyone how your parents met and then we can get

into you because it's a good story well I think I don't even recall the order in which we were

chatting about it a few maybe like 30 minutes ago but I think what brought this up is us you

mentioning your favorite Italian pastry.

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how do you pronounce it? So in singular, if you're talking about one, Sfolia della. Svogia della. And then if you're talking about multiple, which I imagine you're eating if you're eating this pastry, it's Svoyadele, which you were saying, it does. It looks like a lobster tail.

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

So it's like these, I mean, it's just exquisite.

Like, there's so much. Svoie dele, which you were saying, it does. It looks like a lobster tail. Yes, yeah, yeah.

So it's like these, I mean, it's just exquisite. Like, there's so much technical skill that goes. I imagine they, you know, they mass produce it. So, like, they've got some, some efficiency built up. And it's like this multi-layer, flaky, break it apart. You got like regatta cheese inside, little almost like custard, candied fruit inside.

Yes, it's so good.

So that's how we started the conversation.

And funny enough, so both my mom and dad are from Sicily.

Right, right.

Moved it.

My dad, I think, moved to the States when he was 14. I believe my mom, nine. And they grew up in a super small town. The same small town, we're talking like not. So if you look at the, like, Sicily, almost like a triangle, on the side closest to like the toe boot of Italy, you have Siducausa.

Okay.

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