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for some reason this this is profitable uh my guest today stephen monicelli stephen

how you doing oh i'm pretty awful yeah pretty awful yeah Yeah. Yeah. That's the general vibe. Everybody seems to be awful. Did Robert get your last name right? What did he say? I blacked out. I said Monticelli. I mean, it's Monticelli or Monticelli. It just depends on, you know, which side of Ellis Island you're on.

Fair enough. Fair enough. That's right. The right side. I could do like a Monticelli.

Like a little finger gesture. Yeah. Because you're Italian. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Stephen and I can both

say the two slurs that Italians get. Yeah. Anyone can. Anyone can do it. It's always acceptable. It's always fine. I feel very outnumbered today because I don't have a beard and you're both Italian and the blonde hair. I'm not, I, you know, there's, there's, there's, there's some wonderful things about having Italian heritage. But I think when your country invents fascism, everyone gets to make fun of your

accent forever.

Like, that's just a fair rule.

That's just a fair rule.

It hasn't even really been that long.

We need a little more time.

Less than a century, or just a little over a century since it started, I guess.

Stephen, how do you feel about Texas, the state that we both came from and that you still

reside in? Oh, complicated feelings. Very complicated feelings, Robert. Do we have time for that?

I'm not sure. Well, that's what we're going to be talking about all week. Specifically,

we're going to be talking about one of the things Texas is most famous for. I'm not talking about Shiner Bach beer.

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