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I don’t know what that is. To your ma, Maria. She was like my mother, only nice. Yeah. Solo. Solo. Mm. I don’t know what tomorrow’s supposed to look like, Bruno, you know? Give it time. Gets better with time. Next Sunday, dinner. That wasn’t a question. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
This is my Nona’s, but it is a homemade pasta. It’s got pork cheek, pecorino cheese, and vine ripened San Marzano tomatoes for the pomodoro sauce. Well, I’m impressed. Since when are you so into cooking? I don’t know. Lately, I’ve just been going through all my Ma and Nona’s dishes, the ones that I remember, and just making them kind of one by one. Just, Joe, before we eat, there is something Bruno and I want to talk to you about.
She’s very worried. I hear about it 50 times a day. Look, since your mother’s gone, I’m just a little worried about your future. I mean, you took care of her for so long, and it was beautiful. But now it’s time for you to take care of you. What does that even mean? Maybe you could chime in. All right, fine. We’re not kids anymore, right? You need a plan. Take your mother’s insurance. I don’t even want to talk about that, all right? I had to lose her to even get the money, and I just, it’s not how I want to spend my night talking about the money. I know, Joe, but the way to honor her is to spend it. Find something that makes you really happy, or something that makes you feel her. Or take care of your debt. $200,000 goes a long way.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s buying some new clothes or some furniture. I don’t know. Maybe a hobby. Like, I have a friend who just took up (a hobby) flamenco dancing. Oh, you stop it with the flamenco dancing. He’s not going flamenco dancing. What about volleyball? You like volleyball? Yes, I mean, I don’t know. You mean to play the volleyball? Look, I don’t care what you do, but you got to try something new. Because if you keep doing the same thing over and over, the same thing is going to keep happening. I don’t want you sitting in that damn chair when you’re 60. Capisce? Capisce?
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Yeah, I’m not talking about a restaurant to eat. I’m talking about a restaurant to buy. Huh? A restaurant to buy? Yeah. In Staten Island? What? Yeah. What the hell are you talking about? How the hell would you buy a restaurant? With the money that my mom left me. What are you, crazy? I don’t know. Maybe I am. But look it, I really do. I want to open an Italian restaurant. And I want to name it Inateca Maria. I want to name it after my mom. You don’t know the first thing about opening a restaurant. What is there to know about opening a restaurant? You make food, people eat the food, people are happy. Guys, I’m not getting any younger, okay? And I’m running out of time to figure this out, all right? This is what I want. I don’t know how to explain it, but this is what I need. Okay, listen. I’m really excited for you guys to see this place. It’s pretty amazing, okay? All right.
Take a look. This bar here, I mean, look how cool that is. Look at this floor. You just have this checkerboard, totally authentic. It’s not try-hard. It just feels terrific. Now, I’m probably going to take these booths and just clean them out. I don’t need them in here. You spent how much on this place? It was $175,000 for the down payment. I’m going to have a mortgage, obviously Staten Island. I’m not gonna quit my job at the MTA. I’m gonna keep it in order to pay all the bills. And then I have a solid five months of money before I even have to sell one plate of food. Okay, guys, please, honestly, can you just try, just try to keep an open mind? Because if I don’t have you two, then I honestly don’t have anybody, okay? Now just walk the place with me and share my vision. Can you do that?
You know, I really do want the place to be about more than just serving someone dinner. I really, really want this place to feel like family. Okay, but Joe, your Ma and your Nona, they’re not around. So who are you gonna get to come down and cook like them? Nonas. Other real-life Italian grandmothers, that’s who. I want them to make the dishes that they were passed on from their family, and I want to share it with everybody. I love it. What? I do. Real-life grandmas. Joe, it’s a wonderful idea. I mean, come on, who wouldn’t want their grandmothers cooking? All right, I can kind of see the appeal, I guess. Come on, it’s a great idea. You love this idea, Bruno. No, I don’t love it. You love it, because if you didn’t love it, then you’d have nothing but a cold, dead heart inside your body. Yeah, Bruno, stop having a cold, dead heart. A job like this would take months.
Okay, the walls, the floor, the tile, the electric. Don’t get me started on the plumbing in the Ansel system, okay? Who are you going to get to do that work for you? What, are you going to hire a Nona for that too? No, I’m actually really fortunate because my best friend happens to be a contractor, so I’m fortunate. Oh, no. No. No. Yes, I am. No. No.
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