I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

I'm Rico Gagliano, and ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to announce that we have been named two of Food and Wine magazine's Big Thinkers Under 40.

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Here's your icebreaker. Here's a joke you might enjoy. It goes a little something like this.

Guy goes into a doctor's office. He's got hemorrhoids.

He's in agony.

And so the doctor writes him a prescription for suppositories.

The doctor says, take these once a day for a week and then come back and let me know how you are.

So the guy goes and gets a prescription and then a week later goes back to the doctor and he says, Doc, it is worse than ever.

I've taken all of these pills and they haven't done anything.

And the doctor says, hold on a second, you're not swallowing these suppositories, are you?

And the guy goes, no, I'm shoving them up my...

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