BONUS POD: Ari Talks to Chef Carbone About Cooking, Pasta, NY Pizza, Plus Old School Music with Ish From Joe Budden Pod

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this podcast extra, Chef Mario Carbone joins Ari Melber for a conversation about restaurants, cooking and his path from shucking shrimp to building the Carbone empire. Then Ari hosts Ish from The Joe Budden Podcast for an extended discussion on rap today, Jay-Z, Jay Electronica, Lyor Cohen, haters, the impact of streaming, music that plays best outside and even the “Verizon Man.” These new interviews are a Beat bonus from our podcast series “The B-Side.” Real talk and Ari’s extended conversations off air.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ari Melville from MS Now.
0:02.0	This is the B-side where I go a little deeper and we're off there. But in the studio, I have the one and only chef Mario Carbone. Nice to see you. Thank you, Patton. You know, I don't flex a lot, but I will say some people are trying to get a reservation at Carbone. We got Carbone in the studio. I come to you. Exactly. We got a table for two. I want to ask you a couple fun things and then go a little deeper about your journey. But let's start simple. Favorite pasta shape. Pretty good, Tony, come on. Okay. Favorite comfort food, whether it's your restaurant or any kind? A bowl of cereal. Okay. Yeah. Which type are you eating?
0:38.4	I usually go cereal salad, so I mix.
0:40.8	Serial salad, okay.
0:41.8	Yeah, I make a mix.
0:42.8	Okay.
0:43.9	I try to blend kind of a healthy thing.
0:46.5	Okay.
0:46.8	With a maybe nostalgic, not so healthy thing.
0:49.5	I'm a big fan of Cocoa Pebbles.
0:52.1	Sure.
0:53.2	Because y'all want the chocolate milk at the end?
0:55.1	It gets chocolate, yeah.
0:56.2	And then with that, I'll kind of put in like a kashi kind of thing just to make myself feel
1:00.8	better about it.
1:01.4	This might be very simple for you.
1:03.1	Yeah.
1:03.4	But my go-to in the dorm was they had the froyo, and then I would put the cinnamon toast crunch in there.
1:11.5	And by the end, you've got cinnamon ice cream.
1:13.4	That's how Ronnie came up with Kit Treats.
1:15.7	Yeah?
1:16.0	Yeah.
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