How are you practicing your Italian?

Mostly just saying Forza Italia a lot, which just means let's go Italy.

So that's kind of my main thing.

I'm incorporating a few chowls and prego and gratsy into my vocab right now.

So basically just the main things, that's how I'm trying to work on it.

Because I feel like you can kind of BS your way through it.

If you can just say hello, thank you, you're welcome.

So that's kind of what I'm working on.

Hey, everybody and welcome to episode number 171 of the Chris Rose rotation,

a production of John Boy Media.

I am super excited because this guy is like a ball of fire when he rolls out of bed.

I don't know from personal experience, but this is what I hear. From the Kansas City

Royals, the one and only Vinnie Pascretino. Vinnie, it is good to see you. Happy holidays. How are you,

man? I'm great. Thanks for having me on. Happy holidays to you guys. Happy to be here for the viewers who are watching or listening.

I just want to let you guys know that I was severely late to this interview. So any

niceness that they bring to me is not warranted. Just to let everybody know. But listen, this,

you're not the first guy to have this happen because when I reached out to you and yes,

everybody, I slid into his DM somewhere along the line.

But in part because you, let's just tell the story and come clean here. You ran into Jake's

story Ali somewhere. What happened? Okay. So the backstory of this is there is a bar in Lower East Side Manhattan called the Jim Saloon. I have a buddy who lives

on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Last year, a group of 10 friends of mine, I'm a massive

Jets fan. We went to the Jets Eagles game right after Thanksgiving last year. So I spent the weekend

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