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That refrigerator wasn't fucking closed
like it should be.

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I'm turning the steam table on.

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When there's too much ice, no dice.

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And it leaks 'cause
the drain system doesn't work.

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No.

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No.

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No.

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Yes.

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I'm going over my list
that I made for today.

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I already defrosted that refrigerator.

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It needs to be defrosted twice a day,
every fucking day.

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I cooked the lamb...

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This refrigerator
has never been grounded properly.

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We're not sure why.

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I would be getting shocked, constant shock,
high electricity going through my body.

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This rack, which just barely holds on,

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if I don't put the coconut underneath, the
weight of all the other shit just snaps it off.

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You see, there's not enough clearance

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between the shelf and the container

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to get the container
in and out over that little lump.

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The whole place is like that.

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If you don't do what you're supposed to do

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you get punished right away.

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Something horrible happens, you know?

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Which causes you to do penance, you know?

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In this particular instance
I'd be on my hands and knees

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not just cleaning up
the shit on the fucking floor...

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but having to fiddle the shelf back
onto its hinges and shit like that.

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You know, it's the way
you solve things around your house.

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It's not like you have a servant
and a handyman coming.

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You do what the fuck
you can do when you can do it.

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I like candy ass, you know?

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Things that are human scale,

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human expressions of ingenuity and reality.

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The kind of stuff that everybody
has on their sitcoms on television,

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but who they don't want...

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They don't want that
to happen in their fucking life

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because it's not safe; it's not right.

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I mean, that's not really a right way
to run a refrigerator the way I do it.

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The bread man used to steal from us.

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And this is the other thing my kids do wrong,
they always set it at different numbers,

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whereas my wife always
sets it at the same number, it's easy.

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So, just so that there'll be no problem
with the bread man stealing anything.

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That feels like a sweet potato, no?

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I took a drill

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and I reamed out the burners
so they deliver twice as much gas.

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I almost do better with assholes.

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It's a very adversarial
relationship, a restaurant,

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with new customers. With old customers,

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it's really intimate and family-like.

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But all new customers,
"cause I've been here like 32 years,

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they have to prove it to me

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that they're okay to feed.

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Three soft-boiled eggs,
shreds, and black toast.

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This is kind of like feeling
somebody's pussy up,

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you know? You...

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You get to put this thing in your hand
that has, like... This, like, you know?

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You know what I mean?
This, like, viscous feel to it.

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It's not bad at all.

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Hmm?

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And then when you cook it,

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it cooks different too.
It's much friendlier than cooking eggs.

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Pick up!

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Everybody is seven years old.

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This is a mature person.

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Has a job, a family,
he's gonna die someday,

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and he's gonna go to Wall Street

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and slaughter the Third
World Nations today.

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And he's having chocolate chip pancakes
for fucking breakfast.

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Good for him, huh?

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Hi, Jose.

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Well, the relationship
with my dad and Jose

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is kind of different than he's had
with any other employees,

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because Jose is like,
kind of like part of the family.

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Now, Jose and I,

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on the level of what we do for each other,

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we're like a perfect team.

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Because despite our great emotional
and intellectual and language differences,

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we both most like to do the kitchen dance.

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He accommodates me
because I'm a fat, old, nasty Jew,

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just like some white guy who has
a Latin partner and does the samba,

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and have nothing else in common.

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And when we dance together,
we're really good partners.

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- Okay, rye bread?
- Yeah.

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Kenny and I
are very opposite in this way.

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He is much more pessimistic than I am.
I'm optimistic; I'm more of a fatalist,

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and I feel that I'm a lucky person.

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Things work out for me, you know?

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Knock on wood, I have
five... Wait a minute.

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Yeah.

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Five healthy children who love each other.

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That's the thing that I feel best about.

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I love coming in the morning,

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early, 9:00, 10:00 in the morning,

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sitting in this bench with my dad or my mom
and, like, getting the paper.

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And when it's not that busy,

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I'll cook someone some food
and come sit back down.

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It just feels, you know, really nice.

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And I think, I guess as a customer,
it'd probably be the same thing.

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It's a neighborhood thing,
it's a family thing.

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It's not just the greatest restaurant

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where he cooks one of 900 dishes from scratch
in a couple minutes and it's unbelievable.

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It's my kitchen, you know?

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I'm four doors down the street,
and I fall into my kitchen.

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Coming to this place, I feel like me.

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It's the only restaurant
I can go into, and walk in...

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Whatever lousy mood I'm in,
it changes immediately.

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And I tell Kenny, "I'd
like some ebelskivers"

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and Kenny says,
"Fuck that, I'm done with the grill,

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I ain't making you skivers.

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You want skivers, have 'em for dessert,
you got to have lunch first."

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He says, "Kym, you want the skivers,
come back here, show me your tits."

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Most worthwhile flash I've ever done.

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- Never got sued...
- Knock on wood.

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I don't have any.

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But that... that's it; We didn't have
any... You know, we didn't kill anybody.

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Well, a couple of people
have threatened to kill Kenny!

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But that's only because I am who I am,
not because of anything I did.

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I always would order
this Patsy's cashew chicken

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and scallions and lemon juice and cashews.

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And I said, "Something tastes different
here, but I can't figure out what it is."

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And then I hear this voice whispering,
"Noah, Noah!" That's my name.

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And... and Kenny's over at the counter

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with a handful of... of cashews.

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He said he forgot to put the cashews in,

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so he just, like,
gave me this handful of cashews

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and put it in the... in the food.

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And it was really nice 'cause I knew
that there was something missing,

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but I didn't know what it was.

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And he was here before... Larry!

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You worked here before Charlie was born
as well as after or just after?

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Worked the counter;
I was manager at the time.

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You know, like,
stock boy, manager, whatever.

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So I've been in that store ever since.

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His life around completely

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to being an honest, productive citizen
and a good father, from being a turd.

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An absolute fucking turd.

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When I left,
Kenny gave me a 10% discount for life.

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There was this kid that
came in here every day...

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Macaroni and cheese,

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or he would have pancakes.

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And one day, he says,
"I can't decide what to have,"

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So I said, "Don't worry, Matthew,

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I'm going to decide for you."

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Macaroni and cheese pancake.

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Egg and cheese pancake.

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Barbecued chicken pancakes.

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Uh, chocolate chip pancakes.

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Post-modern pancakes.

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Basically, you make some pancakes

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and then you chop them up, and then you
throw them in pancake batter again.

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Giant glazed apple nut pancake.

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The thing that's cool
about it is how we glaze it.

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Watch, you'll see in a minute.

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I don't make much money on this bread.

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They got me.

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These people from North Carolina,

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who aren't city slickers,

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they know value when they see it.

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You got to kill flies all the time; there's
flies continually in the neighborhood.

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There are certain flies,
like you said, bred to be high fliers.

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That's how they survive in the restaurant,
because they're high fliers.

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All the ones that are low, we Kill.

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You know, it's very existential,
killing flies. You kill 'em one at a time,

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and that's it, they're dead! You know?

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It's almost like, uh...
National politics in Afghanistan, you know?

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Once you kill those cocksuckers,
they're finished.

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But they can breed
people that you can't catch.

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And that's almost
what happened with Third-World people.

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Over the years we've bred people
who are impervious to bourgeoisie demands

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and they're willing to die to kill us.

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They bred to a point
where I can't kill the high fliers,

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so I got a device that does.

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And that's what we're absolutely
engaged in now in this country,

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is trying to come up with
a defense that kills the high fliers,

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the people that are willing to sacrifice their
life to destroy our malignant life form here.

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You know, I wish them luck...

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Because no matter what they do,

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their next enemy is gonna be from within.

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That's the eventual outcome
of all fly-killing and whatnots like that.

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Once you get rid of the external enemy,

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you have to deal with yourself.

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So that even if you solve all the outside
evils, you are.. you're left with your own.

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You know? The evil your parents did to you and
the evil that all parents do to all people.

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Anyway, I like killing flies.

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The village has been gentrified,
but there's been holdouts

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trying to keep it a neighborhood.

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And the...

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Neighborhood people are losing.

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Yo.

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Yes.

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I haven't moved any place. I'm right here.

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This place at $6500 a month,
which goes to, like,

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almost $9000 at the end of five years...

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What I have here, the relaxed, gradual,

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integrated nature of my existence

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- in which my customers drift in...
- What?

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And are serviced
and inter-react with each other,

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in this place at $6500 a month,

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I have to bust my fucking hump.

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There's a whole lot before that,
but the end of it is,

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is that when the new landlord
took over the building

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after we made a feeble attempt to buy it...

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If I hadn't lost all my money in the market
I would've bought it.

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I think it would have been a mistake.

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But anyway, the new landlord
summons us to his office...

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Proceeds to offer me a one-year lease.

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After 32 years in business, a one-year
lease, which is, like, really stupid.

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It's not an offer at all, it's an insult.

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"If I, uh... Say no
and you rent it out to a new tenant,

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are you gonna get more rent
than you've just asked me for?"

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He said, "No."

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I said, "Well, are you gonna
offer them a one-year lease?"

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He says, "No, but I..."

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He says, "I have you over the barrel.
You can't do anything.

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You have to take it
because you can't relocate."

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So, he says, "Try it for a year;
see if we like each other."

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And I said, "You know, I mean,
you know, from... from the evidence,

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I... I don't think I'm
ever gonna like you."

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He said, "That's the best deal
you're gonna get."

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At that point, I realized that, uh,

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you know, I was fucked.

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That a lot of the things that we've created

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because of our... Piecing.

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The strength, it's almost like building
something with ants or with big blocks.

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That this... The sub-strengths

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which help in the depth
and the impact of the product

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are going to disappear
in a couple of weeks.

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I mean, he doesn't go out, you know?

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They don't, like, go to their
friends' houses. They used to.

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All of my dad's friends just come to him.

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So if the restaurant's not there,

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it's not like he lost his job, or his
business, it's like he lost his life.

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I go through mood swings
on a really primal level.

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You know, if you look at
a personality development

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as a line of soldiers marching forward,

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there were ranks breaking way back.

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A lot of the soldiers were
marching forward into the battle of life,

239
00:15:10,936 --> 00:15:13,688
but there were a lot of guys just, like,
found a hole and crawled in;

240
00:15:13,772 --> 00:15:15,232
they didn't go no place.

241
00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:17,108
The only thing that's good about me

242
00:15:17,192 --> 00:15:21,112
is that the troops
keep marching forward to new battles,

243
00:15:21,196 --> 00:15:23,240
and they don't dig in and say,

244
00:15:23,323 --> 00:15:26,827
"This is it for us, we're done fighting,

245
00:15:26,910 --> 00:15:28,912
we're now gonna relax and coast along,

246
00:15:28,995 --> 00:15:32,833
and play poker and clean our rifles
for the rest of our fucking life."

247
00:15:35,377 --> 00:15:40,131
But, you know,
life with one leg is just a limp.

248
00:15:42,425 --> 00:15:46,429
I don't think I'd be a regular here
if I, uh, wasn't his son.

249
00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:48,908
I don't think I'd have the balls
to come in here day after day.

250
00:15:48,932 --> 00:15:50,809
It was somewhere in '86,

251
00:15:50,892 --> 00:15:53,353
I came in and I just wanted
to have a cup of coffee,

252
00:15:53,436 --> 00:15:55,230
so of course I got thrown out the door.

253
00:15:55,313 --> 00:15:56,916
But I wanted coffee, and I got shouted at.

254
00:15:56,940 --> 00:16:00,151
But I came back with four friends
and we got thrown out the door.

255
00:16:00,235 --> 00:16:01,736
I had the honor of being kicked out.

256
00:16:01,820 --> 00:16:02,821
I think everybody should.

257
00:16:02,904 --> 00:16:04,239
He started shouting at her,

258
00:16:04,322 --> 00:16:06,908
and my wife and I are sort of
hiding behind our menus,

259
00:16:06,992 --> 00:16:08,678
hoping that the whole thing
would blow over.

260
00:16:08,702 --> 00:16:10,829
"No fuckin' way!"

261
00:16:10,912 --> 00:16:11,973
Then Kenny says, "Fuck you!"

262
00:16:11,997 --> 00:16:13,957
You know, "Fuck off,"
What... you know, "Go away."

263
00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,501
And I was afraid I was about
to be banned from the restaurant.

264
00:16:16,585 --> 00:16:18,479
From where I'm sitting,
that's all part of the fun.

265
00:16:18,503 --> 00:16:20,130
I don't feel sorry for them,

266
00:16:20,213 --> 00:16:21,882
I'm just kind of like, "Ah, Dad!"

267
00:16:21,965 --> 00:16:23,842
And the people we eschew strongest

268
00:16:23,925 --> 00:16:27,971
who believe that they come into the
restaurant and you're supposed to do something

269
00:16:28,054 --> 00:16:31,641
other than open up,
be open for 32 years, cook the food...

270
00:16:31,725 --> 00:16:32,809
I reject that, totally.

271
00:16:32,893 --> 00:16:35,729
I do more than they do,
and they can go fuck themselves.

272
00:16:35,812 --> 00:16:39,232
There was a guy there who I kicked out
five years ago, who owned the place.

273
00:16:39,316 --> 00:16:41,526
He came in with a group of six

274
00:16:41,610 --> 00:16:44,005
and I kicked him out, and he says,
"There's no one else in the restaurant!"

275
00:16:44,029 --> 00:16:46,239
I says, "No, no, you're in the restaurant.

276
00:16:46,323 --> 00:16:49,492
When you go, then there'll be
nobody else in the restaurant.”

277
00:16:49,576 --> 00:16:51,304
Well, I said,
"Everybody who's a regular customer

278
00:16:51,328 --> 00:16:53,246
knows you don't come
in with more than four."

279
00:16:53,330 --> 00:16:56,333
I said, "The fact you didn't know
means you weren't a regular customer.

280
00:16:56,416 --> 00:16:57,959
Who the fuck needs you?"

281
00:16:58,043 --> 00:17:00,629
I said, "I should have to explain to you
why we have the rule?

282
00:17:00,712 --> 00:17:02,756
Do I have to explain to you

283
00:17:02,839 --> 00:17:06,176
how when you make a rule
you have to try hard to enforce it?"

284
00:17:06,259 --> 00:17:07,844
At the end, right before I left,

285
00:17:07,928 --> 00:17:10,680
I walked over and
I gave him a great, big kiss on the lips...

286
00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,068
No more, huh?

287
00:17:23,151 --> 00:17:24,277
Yes, yes, yes, more!

288
00:17:26,404 --> 00:17:27,822
Turkey in here, Jose.

289
00:17:27,906 --> 00:17:29,199
Table over there...

290
00:17:29,282 --> 00:17:30,659
Pick up!

291
00:17:37,791 --> 00:17:39,560
You know, J.J.'s right,
you don't need me for that.

292
00:17:39,584 --> 00:17:43,546
Turkey Sloppy Joe salad.

293
00:17:49,302 --> 00:17:50,943
Yeah, this is coming from the same place.

294
00:17:54,557 --> 00:17:55,475
Pick up!

295
00:17:55,558 --> 00:17:56,685
This oil's done.

296
00:18:02,273 --> 00:18:02,983
Evie!

297
00:18:03,066 --> 00:18:03,733
Yeah?

298
00:18:03,817 --> 00:18:05,235
The "fakusas" are for John?

299
00:18:05,318 --> 00:18:06,611
Yeah.

300
00:18:06,695 --> 00:18:08,295
Now hold on, you put the dairy in there?

301
00:18:08,363 --> 00:18:09,364
Si.

302
00:18:12,659 --> 00:18:15,495
Egg burrito... scrambled, well done.

303
00:18:20,834 --> 00:18:23,336
You know, if you're on television,
they'll segue away,

304
00:18:23,420 --> 00:18:26,381
and come back 10 minutes later
after this is sautéed,

305
00:18:26,464 --> 00:18:28,383
but I don't go for that shit.

306
00:18:28,466 --> 00:18:29,592
I'm not waiting.

307
00:18:29,676 --> 00:18:31,845
So I put a little bit
of stock in, cover it,

308
00:18:31,928 --> 00:18:35,265
and in just a few seconds,
it'll totally fucking cook.

309
00:18:35,348 --> 00:18:38,059
He always gives me nice,
wholesome flavor...

310
00:18:38,143 --> 00:18:41,438
Flavored, excellently cooked
large portions of food.

311
00:18:41,521 --> 00:18:44,232
And I always tell him,
"No mushrooms in anything,

312
00:18:44,315 --> 00:18:45,942
from the coffee on down."

313
00:18:46,026 --> 00:18:48,820
I think this is the
corned beef and cabbage, um, latkes?

314
00:18:48,903 --> 00:18:49,612
You think?

315
00:18:49,696 --> 00:18:50,363
I think.

316
00:18:50,447 --> 00:18:51,716
The blisters on my sisters.

317
00:18:51,740 --> 00:18:54,534
- And what is it?
- Um, I'm not sure.

318
00:18:56,286 --> 00:18:59,080
Chocolate orange French toast.

319
00:18:59,164 --> 00:19:01,976
You know, there are a lot of things
on our menu, if you put it together,

320
00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,793
you can go someplace I've never been.

321
00:19:03,877 --> 00:19:06,671
I took a banana boat
and I put bananas in it,

322
00:19:06,755 --> 00:19:14,471
and then I took an ice cream scoop
and I made pulled pork and Cole slaw in...

323
00:19:14,554 --> 00:19:19,768
Like, an ice cream, uh, sundae.
And we called it a barbecue banana split.

324
00:19:19,851 --> 00:19:22,437
It's almost like putting your dick
in the wrong hole, you know?

325
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:23,813
There's, like, a thrill to it.

326
00:19:23,897 --> 00:19:27,817
There's a friction that occurs when
you put an ingredient in an improper dish.

327
00:19:27,901 --> 00:19:30,278
That's the basis of all fusion cooking,

328
00:19:30,361 --> 00:19:31,988
is that there's a sexual friction

329
00:19:32,072 --> 00:19:35,325
that's caused by putting
the wrong food in the wrong place.

330
00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:37,410
And sometimes it works.

331
00:19:37,494 --> 00:19:38,953
But not always.

332
00:19:55,428 --> 00:19:58,723
Uh-oh, uh-oh! Uh-oh!

333
00:19:58,807 --> 00:20:00,725
Uh-oh, that has cheese!

334
00:20:00,809 --> 00:20:03,978
Tell him it has cheese.
See if it comes back.

335
00:20:04,062 --> 00:20:07,440
This is, uh, quinoa cilantro soup.

336
00:20:07,524 --> 00:20:08,709
Chicken dumpling soup.

337
00:20:08,733 --> 00:20:10,318
Sweet potato vegetable soup.

338
00:20:10,401 --> 00:20:12,904
Russian cabbage soup with beef.

339
00:20:12,987 --> 00:20:15,406
Chicken,
tortilla, and avocado soup.

340
00:20:15,490 --> 00:20:17,492
Senegalese shrimp soup.

341
00:20:17,575 --> 00:20:19,285
Cuban black bean soup.

342
00:20:21,788 --> 00:20:24,707
This is the favorite
thing of mine that I make.

343
00:20:24,791 --> 00:20:27,210
I don't have... You know...

344
00:20:27,293 --> 00:20:29,462
Whatever my cooking abilities are,

345
00:20:29,546 --> 00:20:31,798
my eating abilities are really basic.

346
00:20:33,216 --> 00:20:34,551
I just love fucking chili.

347
00:20:34,634 --> 00:20:39,764
The basis of it
is that the deep meat flavor

348
00:20:39,848 --> 00:20:43,643
comes from adding a little bit of coffee.

349
00:20:43,726 --> 00:20:48,148
I've had some of this chili every day for
the past 30 years and I really work on it.

350
00:20:48,231 --> 00:20:50,942
It's Kenny who
just gets better and better doing it.

351
00:20:51,901 --> 00:20:53,278
What was wrong with this soup?

352
00:20:54,237 --> 00:20:55,989
And I check on all the food too.

353
00:20:56,072 --> 00:20:57,866
If anything's left over...

354
00:20:57,949 --> 00:21:01,202
Hmm, why?
And we'll taste it to make sure

355
00:21:01,286 --> 00:21:02,912
that there's nothing wrong with it.

356
00:21:15,466 --> 00:21:17,147
Hey, Kenny, what's up with the candy?

357
00:21:20,263 --> 00:21:21,931
People take candy.

358
00:21:22,015 --> 00:21:25,268
Are you... This is, like, a documentary...

359
00:21:25,351 --> 00:21:27,520
Small question for a big answer?

360
00:21:27,604 --> 00:21:28,521
Go fuck yourself.

361
00:21:28,605 --> 00:21:30,916
Talk about how you fell
in love with me when we came here,

362
00:21:30,940 --> 00:21:34,152
and we made a special day
'cause I moved to California that...

363
00:21:34,235 --> 00:21:36,487
To come here to Shopsin's,
"cause we know it's shutting.

364
00:21:36,571 --> 00:21:37,780
Are you still a couple?

365
00:21:37,864 --> 00:21:38,531
No.

366
00:21:38,615 --> 00:21:40,450
We were a couple 10 years ago.

367
00:21:40,533 --> 00:21:43,828
Sadly, I guess to admit this,
but while I loved you dearly,

368
00:21:43,912 --> 00:21:46,706
I... I think it was the
wild mushroom cream.

369
00:21:46,789 --> 00:21:47,999
Ha ha!

370
00:21:49,626 --> 00:21:52,212
So these are on e-Bay for $5.

371
00:21:52,295 --> 00:21:54,130
This is like a $200 item.

372
00:21:54,214 --> 00:21:56,883
It's also my tribute to the trade towers.

373
00:21:56,966 --> 00:21:58,551
What time is it?

374
00:21:58,635 --> 00:22:02,222
Two o'clock? That's all it
is, is two o'clock? That sucks.

375
00:22:02,305 --> 00:22:03,473
I could close this joint up

376
00:22:03,556 --> 00:22:06,935
and get 500 square feet
on Bleecker Street and sell burritos,

377
00:22:07,018 --> 00:22:08,561
and make more money than I make now.

378
00:22:08,645 --> 00:22:11,356
All of the things that
you do right in this business,

379
00:22:11,439 --> 00:22:13,733
don't do right because
you're a wonderful person.

380
00:22:13,816 --> 00:22:16,819
You do right because
you have no fucking choice.

381
00:22:16,903 --> 00:22:18,422
And of course,
I don't always do everything right.

382
00:22:18,446 --> 00:22:21,199
A lot of times, I fuck it up totally.

383
00:22:21,282 --> 00:22:23,534
Burn this one, or under cook that one.

384
00:22:23,618 --> 00:22:25,554
I've seen food come back
and I look at it and I say,

385
00:22:25,578 --> 00:22:28,790
"Whoa, what a fucking
asshole you are, you are.

386
00:22:28,873 --> 00:22:30,583
How could you do something like that?"

387
00:22:30,667 --> 00:22:33,753
We had entered into
a bad relationship with an exterminator.

388
00:22:33,836 --> 00:22:36,714
Somebody found a roach
in one of the soups about eight years ago.

389
00:22:41,177 --> 00:22:44,806
It certainly doesn't mean anything
in the history of the earth, you know?

390
00:22:44,889 --> 00:22:48,726
But in your relationship with that person,

391
00:22:48,810 --> 00:22:51,938
it's just you, them, and the soup.

392
00:22:52,021 --> 00:22:56,359
Yeah, it's just like a huge event
of incompetence on your part,

393
00:22:56,442 --> 00:23:01,739
of, uh... unhappiness,
when in fact they come to your place

394
00:23:01,823 --> 00:23:04,575
rather than McDonald's or the supermarket

395
00:23:04,659 --> 00:23:06,911
to get something other than good food,
they get...

396
00:23:06,995 --> 00:23:12,292
They want to get some satisfaction,
and this woman didn't get anything.

397
00:23:12,375 --> 00:23:14,877
Essentially, she got nothing but abuse.

398
00:23:14,961 --> 00:23:17,588
No, no, it's a horrendous
event for both parties.

399
00:23:19,173 --> 00:23:21,843
So, yeah. That's happened here.

400
00:23:23,011 --> 00:23:25,638
It's okay to do stupid things.

401
00:23:25,722 --> 00:23:29,851
It's not okay to do stupid things
when you notice them.

402
00:23:29,934 --> 00:23:32,395
Not that we have high standards,

403
00:23:32,478 --> 00:23:34,605
but then...

404
00:23:34,689 --> 00:23:36,190
They're gonna put it in their mouth.

405
00:23:39,152 --> 00:23:40,737
Mmm!

406
00:23:40,820 --> 00:23:42,947
Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!

407
00:23:43,031 --> 00:23:45,241
Oh, so we have
a little taco-fried steak here.

408
00:23:45,325 --> 00:23:48,411
A hot turkey sandwich
with sausage stuffing

409
00:23:48,494 --> 00:23:51,497
on black bread with cranberry relish.

410
00:23:51,581 --> 00:23:55,251
"Chicken salad, turkey bacon and coleslaw.

411
00:23:55,335 --> 00:23:56,669
The "Edmonton."

412
00:23:56,753 --> 00:24:03,051
"Cilantro,
pistachio, curry, grilled chicken.

413
00:24:03,134 --> 00:24:05,762
Portobello mushrooms
with gnocchi and cashews.

414
00:24:05,845 --> 00:24:08,431
Okra chowder and date nut rice.

415
00:24:08,514 --> 00:24:09,807
Egg burrito cheese melt.

416
00:24:10,641 --> 00:24:12,477
My food is loaded with butter.

417
00:24:13,853 --> 00:24:15,229
Sorry, it's just a dead fly.

418
00:24:15,313 --> 00:24:17,440
You know, and I wonder sometimes

419
00:24:17,523 --> 00:24:20,526
about the morality of my profession,

420
00:24:20,610 --> 00:24:25,823
as to whether or not what I'm doing is...
is essentially wrong.

421
00:24:25,907 --> 00:24:30,495
Not the service part,
not the sentiment part, but that...

422
00:24:30,578 --> 00:24:32,914
that I'm an enabler.

423
00:24:32,997 --> 00:24:37,126
But the reason I justify it is that I ride
a motorcycle, which is equally stupid.

424
00:24:37,210 --> 00:24:41,464
That if you want to eat pancakes
with sugared fruit on top,

425
00:24:41,547 --> 00:24:44,717
and you get a good deal
of pleasure from doing that,

426
00:24:44,801 --> 00:24:46,928
you have the right to pursue that pleasure,

427
00:24:47,011 --> 00:24:49,430
just like the guy who
sells me the motorcycle.

428
00:24:49,514 --> 00:24:53,142
It's not really my place to judge these
people. That's what freedom is all about.

429
00:24:59,816 --> 00:25:02,026
Where is it? Is it not here?

430
00:25:02,110 --> 00:25:05,279
Now it's the end of
the shift and I'm tired.

431
00:25:05,363 --> 00:25:07,657
All the food blends together in my head.

432
00:25:08,157 --> 00:25:09,492
It doesn't matter.

433
00:25:09,575 --> 00:25:13,037
I'm sorry, it's nothing to do with you guys,
it has to do with... We can't handle it.

434
00:25:13,121 --> 00:25:14,330
This is the end of it.

435
00:25:14,414 --> 00:25:17,291
- Okay, it's just too much for him.
- We know it is.

436
00:25:17,375 --> 00:25:20,837
He's my father; I'm not gonna
burden him with this on Father's Day.

437
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:21,921
Okay? I'm sorry.

438
00:25:22,004 --> 00:25:24,674
It's kind of like
the rules of the place in general,

439
00:25:24,757 --> 00:25:26,843
like, you either know them or you don't.

440
00:25:26,926 --> 00:25:28,847
Like, a friend brings you in,
you know the rules,

441
00:25:28,886 --> 00:25:30,096
because they tell you,

442
00:25:30,179 --> 00:25:33,224
and if you walk in off the street,
you know, you're in for a surprise.

443
00:25:35,810 --> 00:25:37,687
Okay, so, should
I read the whole thing?

444
00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:39,021
Yes, please.

445
00:25:39,105 --> 00:25:41,566
You could put a chair at the end

446
00:25:41,649 --> 00:25:44,485
or push the tables
together, but don't bother.

447
00:25:44,569 --> 00:25:48,030
This banged-up little restaurant
where you would expect no rules at all

448
00:25:48,114 --> 00:25:51,200
has a firm policy against
seating parties of five.

449
00:25:51,284 --> 00:25:52,761
And you know you are a party of five."

450
00:25:54,036 --> 00:25:56,205
"It doesn't matter if one
of you offers to leave

451
00:25:56,289 --> 00:26:00,251
or if you said... If you say you can split
into a party of three and a party of two..."

452
00:26:00,334 --> 00:26:02,044
That's what we said!

453
00:26:02,128 --> 00:26:04,422
"Or if the five of you
come back tomorrow

454
00:26:04,505 --> 00:26:06,257
in Richard Nis... Richard Nixon masks

455
00:26:06,340 --> 00:26:09,177
and try to pretend
that you don't know each other,

456
00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:11,929
it won't work, you're a party of five.

457
00:26:12,013 --> 00:26:13,890
Even if you're a beloved regular,

458
00:26:13,973 --> 00:26:15,558
even if the place is empty,

459
00:26:15,641 --> 00:26:17,810
even if you bring logic to bear,

460
00:26:17,894 --> 00:26:22,773
even if you're a tackle for the Chicago
Bears, it won't work, you're a party of five.

461
00:26:22,857 --> 00:26:25,443
You'll always be a party of five.

462
00:26:25,526 --> 00:26:29,739
100 blocks from here, 100 years from now,
you'll still be a party of five."

463
00:26:29,822 --> 00:26:30,823
Oh my God!

464
00:26:30,907 --> 00:26:32,825
We... That's what happened to us!

465
00:26:32,909 --> 00:26:34,535
I can't believe it!

466
00:26:34,619 --> 00:26:36,287
A poem about us.

467
00:26:36,370 --> 00:26:37,931
Could you come in if you were six?

468
00:26:37,955 --> 00:26:39,957
Shopsin's does not do take-out.

469
00:26:40,041 --> 00:26:44,420
In fact, you might get your head bitten off
if you ask for them to do something.

470
00:26:44,504 --> 00:26:47,423
But, they... they fed me, you know?

471
00:26:47,507 --> 00:26:51,135
I mean, I was really, really ill,
and they would do...

472
00:26:51,219 --> 00:26:54,096
You know, they would
put stuff together in containers

473
00:26:54,180 --> 00:26:56,974
and friends would come over and pick it up
and bring it over.

474
00:26:57,058 --> 00:26:59,101
And I don't know, that's just...

475
00:26:59,185 --> 00:27:01,604
It sounds all sentimental and everything
but you don't...

476
00:27:01,687 --> 00:27:04,774
You don't forget gestures
like that because...

477
00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:09,737
It makes you feel like you really are home.

478
00:27:34,595 --> 00:27:39,976
Somebody who truly tries
to create something beautiful and lovely,

479
00:27:40,059 --> 00:27:44,146
and people who create things to neutralize

480
00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:47,692
the venom that they produce
every night in their dreams,

481
00:27:47,775 --> 00:27:50,903
and I'm definitely the second type.

482
00:27:50,987 --> 00:27:54,824
That I cook to neutralize some type of...

483
00:27:54,907 --> 00:27:57,868
Freudian-mother-breast-related problem

484
00:27:57,952 --> 00:28:01,497
that resurges in me
just like old faithful, all the time.

485
00:28:01,581 --> 00:28:03,958
And I can't...

486
00:28:04,041 --> 00:28:05,459
And I can't get rid of it.

487
00:28:05,543 --> 00:28:07,044
It's in there. It's in there...

488
00:28:07,128 --> 00:28:10,298
It's mixed in worse than
aids could be mixed in.

489
00:28:12,216 --> 00:28:17,013
I used to think that the only way for
change was through Freudian analysis,

490
00:28:17,096 --> 00:28:19,015
that there is no hope other than that.

491
00:28:19,098 --> 00:28:22,184
I went, like, 14 years, 5 days a week.

492
00:28:22,268 --> 00:28:26,772
It takes you back to the point in your life
where you stop developing normally,

493
00:28:26,856 --> 00:28:33,154
and it uses the psychiatrist
as a good parent,

494
00:28:33,237 --> 00:28:36,365
and you just grow up all over again
in a short period of time.

495
00:28:36,449 --> 00:28:40,369
But there may be other ways, I'm not...
That's not my field of expertise.

496
00:28:40,453 --> 00:28:43,873
I know it's really
hard... It's really hard.

497
00:28:43,956 --> 00:28:46,500
It's like trying to find something
that you haven't lost.

498
00:28:55,051 --> 00:28:57,136
The guy that eats here,
who was gonna be my lawyer

499
00:28:57,219 --> 00:29:00,681
to help me try and do something
with this place, and this landlord says,

500
00:29:00,765 --> 00:29:04,352
"You know, I have a space in my place
that might be good for you."

501
00:29:04,435 --> 00:29:05,936
And I said, "Sure."

502
00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:10,566
"Cause to me, that's like...
That's like the golden tone,

503
00:29:10,650 --> 00:29:14,195
is when somebody I know

504
00:29:14,278 --> 00:29:19,241
who's already been involved with me
for some other serendipitous reason,

505
00:29:19,325 --> 00:29:22,036
suggests that we deepen our relationship.

506
00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:26,415
A lot of what I do in my job is merely
helping wealthy people get wealthier.

507
00:29:26,499 --> 00:29:28,477
I didn't have the courage
to step in the front door

508
00:29:28,501 --> 00:29:32,254
because of their
reputation in the neighborhood.

509
00:29:32,338 --> 00:29:36,967
If you look straight down there
over the top of that post office truck,

510
00:29:37,051 --> 00:29:40,638
you'll see a bulbous, green awning.

511
00:29:40,721 --> 00:29:41,847
That's it.

512
00:29:43,265 --> 00:29:46,894
It actually seemed like
a perfect suggestion to bring Kenny here,

513
00:29:46,977 --> 00:29:48,604
because it's only two blocks away.

514
00:29:48,688 --> 00:29:52,358
And he's been kind of
my advocate in this all.

515
00:29:52,441 --> 00:29:54,777
When my brother and stepbrother

516
00:29:54,860 --> 00:29:59,115
wandered by the restaurant and saw
Kenny asleep in the front window,

517
00:29:59,198 --> 00:30:03,077
um, my stepbrother turned to my brother
and said, "You're kidding, right?"

518
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,790
Richard decided that the best way... In
fact, the only way to accurately determine

519
00:30:07,873 --> 00:30:11,794
whether or not
Kenny's food was of a caliber that...

520
00:30:11,877 --> 00:30:15,881
Richard felt was appropriate
for a restaurant in our building,

521
00:30:15,965 --> 00:30:18,467
was to try it out incognito.

522
00:30:18,551 --> 00:30:22,388
And so Richard dressed up
in a beret and a pair of sunglasses

523
00:30:22,471 --> 00:30:25,307
and had a lunch, and somewhat begrudgingly

524
00:30:25,391 --> 00:30:27,476
reported to my brother
that the food was excellent

525
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,229
and that the service
was courteous and friendly.

526
00:30:30,312 --> 00:30:32,898
Um, and to Richard's credit,

527
00:30:32,982 --> 00:30:37,361
when it looked like Kenny was going
to lose at the last board meeting,

528
00:30:37,445 --> 00:30:38,529
it was Richard who said,

529
00:30:38,612 --> 00:30:41,240
"You know, I think that maybe
we should give this guy a chance."

530
00:30:41,323 --> 00:30:46,162
So, the other place... You know, Mark,
for all the bullshit with his brother,

531
00:30:46,245 --> 00:30:48,164
they're all decent people

532
00:30:48,247 --> 00:30:52,460
who treat other human beings with respect,
even people that don't deserve it,

533
00:30:52,543 --> 00:30:56,005
which is the big demarcation point,
I think, in human behavior.

534
00:30:56,088 --> 00:30:59,300
If you treat people with respect
who don't deserve it,

535
00:30:59,383 --> 00:31:02,261
it's a mark of high civilization.

536
00:31:02,344 --> 00:31:06,682
Because you never know who's only
temporarily deserving of bad behavior,

537
00:31:06,766 --> 00:31:12,855
so you try to treat everybody with a
morality that makes you a good person,

538
00:31:12,938 --> 00:31:15,691
not whether or not
they deserve to be treated well.

539
00:31:15,775 --> 00:31:19,695
And I feel really
much more comfortable with those people.

540
00:31:19,779 --> 00:31:21,989
Shut the fuck up, Sam!

541
00:31:22,615 --> 00:31:23,925
I didn't want to leave the neighborhood.

542
00:31:23,949 --> 00:31:25,594
The right thing to do
was what my daughter Melinda said,

543
00:31:25,618 --> 00:31:27,888
and that's to go out to Brooklyn
and buy a building on Smith Street,

544
00:31:27,912 --> 00:31:29,789
'cause that's all the money I had left.

545
00:31:29,872 --> 00:31:32,708
Or not to lose my money in the
stock market, and buy this building

546
00:31:32,792 --> 00:31:35,377
and stay here forever,
in my own fucking museum.

547
00:31:37,254 --> 00:31:40,424
And we found out
six weeks before I was due

548
00:31:40,508 --> 00:31:42,843
that we were having twins,
and I called Kenny

549
00:31:42,927 --> 00:31:47,681
and for the only time
I can remember in my whole life,

550
00:31:47,765 --> 00:31:50,351
Kenny was speechless.

551
00:31:50,434 --> 00:31:51,477
I don't know how I did it.

552
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,729
I would be able to nurse them standing up.

553
00:31:53,813 --> 00:31:55,689
Two of them at the same time.

554
00:31:55,773 --> 00:31:58,734
I'd be packing groceries, you know...

555
00:31:58,818 --> 00:32:01,737
And then we would
just ship them off with a customer

556
00:32:01,821 --> 00:32:03,364
when it got too crazy.

557
00:32:05,866 --> 00:32:08,744
He loves doing the brunch on Sunday.

558
00:32:08,828 --> 00:32:10,454
And for me, it's a nice break.

559
00:32:10,538 --> 00:32:12,331
Let them run it, and...

560
00:32:12,414 --> 00:32:16,335
it's okay if the restaurant has a
life without me for a day a week.

561
00:32:21,131 --> 00:32:23,759
You know, I like cooking,
I like cooking for people,

562
00:32:23,843 --> 00:32:25,570
but I don't know if
I'd like it for the rest of my life.

563
00:32:25,594 --> 00:32:26,679
Are you good at it?

564
00:32:26,762 --> 00:32:28,681
Yeah, I'm good at it. It's in my blood.

565
00:32:28,764 --> 00:32:32,810
Ah, we've been
friends for over 35 years.

566
00:32:32,893 --> 00:32:34,812
I was the best man at his wedding.

567
00:32:34,895 --> 00:32:38,315
Oh, I think definitely, definitely,
they're chips off the old block.

568
00:32:40,109 --> 00:32:42,778
You're putting
too much thought, just do it!

569
00:32:42,862 --> 00:32:45,239
Now what do I do?

570
00:32:45,322 --> 00:32:46,240
Okay?

571
00:32:46,323 --> 00:32:48,284
Ow! Not okay! Fuck.

572
00:32:50,369 --> 00:32:52,580
I'm really glad you
helped me out there, Mara.

573
00:32:53,664 --> 00:32:55,124
That was a lot of fun.

574
00:32:55,207 --> 00:32:57,126
- And I burnt my fingers.
- Good.

575
00:32:57,209 --> 00:33:01,463
Notice how everybody deserted me
and left it for me to clean everything up?

576
00:33:01,547 --> 00:33:04,258
That's the difference between
being a parent and an employer.

577
00:33:04,925 --> 00:33:05,843
What do you do in the summer?

578
00:33:05,926 --> 00:33:07,595
Work with... for this motherfucker.

579
00:33:08,971 --> 00:33:11,491
I mean, he's got some really
fucking weird, half-baked philosophies.

580
00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:13,285
Like, has he ever given you
the whole thing, like,

581
00:33:13,309 --> 00:33:16,389
he thinks until your kids are 18, you
should be able to kill them if you want?

582
00:33:16,979 --> 00:33:19,189
There are in this city,

583
00:33:19,273 --> 00:33:23,986
a large number of people whose hobby
is not going out and getting fist-fucked,

584
00:33:24,069 --> 00:33:28,490
and is not going out
and collecting porcelain dolls.

585
00:33:28,574 --> 00:33:31,327
Their hobby is going out
and going to restaurants.

586
00:33:32,286 --> 00:33:35,164
A lot of people don't understand
that in most kitchens,

587
00:33:35,247 --> 00:33:37,416
everything that's ordered...

588
00:33:37,499 --> 00:33:38,792
gets cooked by somebody.

589
00:33:38,876 --> 00:33:41,086
You ask your mama
for a peanut butter sandwich,

590
00:33:41,170 --> 00:33:43,047
your mama takes some fucking bread,

591
00:33:43,130 --> 00:33:45,650
takes some fucking peanut butter
and makes you a fucking sandwich.

592
00:33:45,674 --> 00:33:48,469
It's the same thing that
happens in this place,

593
00:33:48,552 --> 00:33:49,803
except I'm not your mama.

594
00:33:51,013 --> 00:33:53,557
My family always orders
pain-in-the-ass shit.

595
00:33:55,184 --> 00:33:56,477
I think it's a way to get even.

596
00:34:09,490 --> 00:34:11,075
Most like my dad?

597
00:34:13,285 --> 00:34:14,286
None of us.

598
00:34:14,370 --> 00:34:16,538
None of us. None of us at all.

599
00:34:16,622 --> 00:34:19,166
Us all combined probably are like Kenny.

600
00:34:19,249 --> 00:34:20,668
I think I think more like he does,

601
00:34:20,751 --> 00:34:22,604
and so I know what
he's gonna say before he says it,

602
00:34:22,628 --> 00:34:25,631
and I kind of... I counter his mind.

603
00:34:25,714 --> 00:34:26,632
I'm not like my dad.

604
00:34:26,715 --> 00:34:27,841
I'm like my mom.

605
00:34:30,177 --> 00:34:32,262
I do everything that
my dad hates about her.

606
00:34:33,889 --> 00:34:34,807
I have all those attributes.

607
00:34:34,890 --> 00:34:37,226
- Like what?
- Um, I'm lazy,

608
00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:40,413
I know how to have fun, which he doesn't like
'cause Kenny does not know how to have fun.

609
00:34:40,437 --> 00:34:43,774
That's his biggest problem in the world.
He doesn't know how to relax.

610
00:34:43,857 --> 00:34:45,585
He doesn't know how to relax...

611
00:34:45,609 --> 00:34:47,003
- He doesn't know how to have fun!
- He has fun!

612
00:34:47,027 --> 00:34:49,571
He says, "Zach,
I know one of your best attributes

613
00:34:49,655 --> 00:34:52,215
is that you can sit there
and have fun for the rest of your life.

614
00:34:52,241 --> 00:34:54,201
I cannot do it, I need to work."

615
00:34:54,284 --> 00:34:55,536
He has fun working!

616
00:34:55,619 --> 00:34:56,638
He can have fun working,

617
00:34:56,662 --> 00:35:01,000
but he doesn't completely let himself go
like me or mom do it.

618
00:35:03,168 --> 00:35:05,045
God, now you're gonna make me feel bad,

619
00:35:05,129 --> 00:35:06,929
'cause you have, like,
the camera in my face.

620
00:35:07,006 --> 00:35:10,009
It's all right, it's not like
anyone needs to know about you.

621
00:35:10,092 --> 00:35:12,594
I know, it's like looking
into a mirror of your soul,

622
00:35:12,678 --> 00:35:15,431
'cause it's the...

623
00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:20,310
What we gotta do is get my dad stoned.

624
00:35:20,394 --> 00:35:21,997
That's what I've been
saying for, like, 15 years.

625
00:35:22,021 --> 00:35:23,731
God, it's been so long. I love that.

626
00:35:23,814 --> 00:35:26,859
And he was talking about
how they used to... take a glass of Coke...

627
00:35:26,942 --> 00:35:29,820
Like half Coke, half, like,
fucking rubbing alcohol,

628
00:35:29,903 --> 00:35:31,798
and they'd fucking
just chug the thing and like...

629
00:35:31,822 --> 00:35:32,882
He told me when I was a little kid

630
00:35:32,906 --> 00:35:35,147
he used to put grease on,
like, these really steep hills,

631
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:36,845
and him and his friends
used to go hide in the bushes

632
00:35:36,869 --> 00:35:40,622
and watch cars slide down, like, for real.

633
00:35:40,706 --> 00:35:42,750
Fucking crazy bastard.
And he screams at me!

634
00:35:42,833 --> 00:35:48,505
Bottom line, I got to have one $700-a-week
employee to clean up all the time.

635
00:35:48,589 --> 00:35:51,008
That means I have to make 700 hamburgers.

636
00:35:51,091 --> 00:35:54,845
That means I have
to have 700 customers, extra.

637
00:35:54,928 --> 00:35:59,141
And to have to do more business,
either I'm gonna be in the kitchen more,

638
00:35:59,224 --> 00:36:01,351
or the food that goes out
is gonna be less good.

639
00:36:06,231 --> 00:36:07,483
Okay...

640
00:36:08,567 --> 00:36:10,319
And we have a few questions too.

641
00:36:13,989 --> 00:36:15,532
This is too small for me!

642
00:36:21,622 --> 00:36:23,040
I think that's smart.

643
00:36:23,123 --> 00:36:24,541
That... that's a mission.

644
00:36:24,625 --> 00:36:26,335
We'll do that together.

645
00:36:26,418 --> 00:36:30,172
But when you have the 20 tables,
the waiter, they knows what table it is.

646
00:36:30,255 --> 00:36:31,715
Okay, I was just curious.

647
00:36:31,799 --> 00:36:32,591
Dad!

648
00:36:32,674 --> 00:36:33,592
Yes.

649
00:36:33,675 --> 00:36:35,010
The handles on these fridges...

650
00:36:35,094 --> 00:36:37,179
But it looks like it stays closed.

651
00:36:37,262 --> 00:36:38,430
Yeah, stay closed.

652
00:36:38,514 --> 00:36:40,516
And we have it for five years, like this.

653
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:41,517
I believe you.

654
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:42,684
You know what I mean?

655
00:36:42,768 --> 00:36:45,229
And you're not buying the business from us,

656
00:36:45,312 --> 00:36:47,815
- you know, we're giving you for free.
- I understand.

657
00:36:47,898 --> 00:36:51,110
So don't ask too much...
For a little thing, please.

658
00:36:51,193 --> 00:36:54,863
We are sick already, then.
Let... Let us go, just finally.

659
00:36:54,947 --> 00:36:56,365
You know what I mean?

660
00:36:57,449 --> 00:36:59,201
The detail thing, you know...

661
00:36:59,284 --> 00:37:02,287
You weren't feeling that way
when you went from 30,000 to 50,000.

662
00:37:02,371 --> 00:37:04,873
Stop it! Look, look...
The two of you, please?

663
00:37:04,957 --> 00:37:06,677
You know something?
I'll tell you something!

664
00:37:06,708 --> 00:37:07,501
Tell me something.

665
00:37:07,584 --> 00:37:09,461
- We... We... We have a deal...
- Samir. Samir.

666
00:37:09,545 --> 00:37:13,465
And we have some people offer us
300,000 fucking thousand dollars.

667
00:37:13,549 --> 00:37:16,051
- 300 fucking thousand dollars in this place.
- Samir.

668
00:37:16,135 --> 00:37:20,722
You know, two weeks ago
before that happened, someone...

669
00:37:20,806 --> 00:37:22,182
- Just please, don't...
- Okay.

670
00:37:22,266 --> 00:37:24,309
We are giving you everything,

671
00:37:24,393 --> 00:37:25,227
and we wish you good luck.

672
00:37:25,310 --> 00:37:27,247
- Samir? Samir? Samir? Samir?
- Kenny. Kenny. Kenny. Kenny.

673
00:37:27,271 --> 00:37:29,064
Samir? You're right, I'm wrong.

674
00:37:29,148 --> 00:37:31,441
I apologize. I'm sorry.

675
00:37:31,525 --> 00:37:33,711
- You're absolutely right. I'll stop...
- We going out with nothing!

676
00:37:33,735 --> 00:37:36,613
We have kids and family.
Since when I talked to your wife...

677
00:37:36,697 --> 00:37:38,907
- I'll stop acting like an asshole,
-All right.

678
00:37:38,991 --> 00:37:40,409
I'm sorry. Okay?

679
00:37:40,492 --> 00:37:42,536
- Okay, you accept my apology?
- All right.

680
00:37:42,619 --> 00:37:44,788
I'm very sorry.
Okay, let's go to the basement.

681
00:37:45,164 --> 00:37:48,292
Air conditioner, exhaust system,
walk-in boxes... That's a walk-in box.

682
00:37:48,375 --> 00:37:50,961
Steel shelving, tables, chairs,

683
00:37:51,044 --> 00:37:52,880
dishes, glasses, cutlery.

684
00:37:52,963 --> 00:37:57,301
I'm giving him a chance to object. If he
wants to object, but he's not objecting.

685
00:37:57,384 --> 00:37:58,969
See you tomorrow, Samir.

686
00:37:59,052 --> 00:38:01,555
And I'm sorry if I upset you.
I didn't mean to.

687
00:38:01,638 --> 00:38:02,973
I didn't mean to upset you.

688
00:38:03,056 --> 00:38:04,224
It was not my intention.

689
00:38:04,308 --> 00:38:05,726
Yeah, nothing new to us.

690
00:38:08,478 --> 00:38:13,108
But I have this strong feeling that this
awareness of myself and my position in things...

691
00:38:13,192 --> 00:38:16,320
Some guy gave me
a huge amount of money

692
00:38:16,403 --> 00:38:19,781
to help me in the move 'cause I'm broke
from my stupidity in the stock market,

693
00:38:19,865 --> 00:38:22,534
and three other people
have offered me money.

694
00:38:22,618 --> 00:38:26,038
And all of a sudden,
I feel like a cross between...

695
00:38:26,121 --> 00:38:28,457
an endangered species
and a closet intellectual.

696
00:38:29,291 --> 00:38:30,584
Come talk to me about it.

697
00:38:31,376 --> 00:38:33,629
Start the proceedings against...

698
00:38:33,712 --> 00:38:35,214
He could.

699
00:38:35,297 --> 00:38:37,275
If they have a lawyer
who's really smart, they'll get a year.

700
00:38:37,299 --> 00:38:39,277
- What do we do during that year?
- I don't mind...

701
00:38:39,301 --> 00:38:41,261
There's just nothing we can do about it.

702
00:38:41,345 --> 00:38:42,971
It's beyond our ability to do anything.

703
00:38:43,055 --> 00:38:44,455
It's just the first time, I mean...

704
00:38:44,514 --> 00:38:46,475
And you should do...
You know, you're too young,

705
00:38:46,558 --> 00:38:48,977
but you should put
yourself in their position.

706
00:38:49,061 --> 00:38:51,855
They took that space 18 years ago.

707
00:38:51,939 --> 00:38:54,983
Eighteen years ago, that
was two crappy stores.

708
00:38:55,067 --> 00:38:58,820
The bathrooms, the floors, the ceiling...

709
00:38:58,904 --> 00:39:00,239
They don't want to leave.

710
00:39:03,909 --> 00:39:05,494
Now you're angry at me?

711
00:39:05,577 --> 00:39:08,330
The first time I saw it,
I was just stricken by that.

712
00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:11,500
I'm not saying anything,
I'm just telling you how I feel,

713
00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:13,710
and you're like,
you got angry at me last night...

714
00:39:13,794 --> 00:39:15,313
I got angry last night because you were...

715
00:39:15,337 --> 00:39:18,215
Then you weren't angry enough
not to bring it up now.

716
00:39:22,928 --> 00:39:26,056
I have to cook with her today.
I've got to be nice to her.

717
00:39:26,139 --> 00:39:29,434
She gets... When she gets mean...

718
00:39:29,518 --> 00:39:32,813
When she gets mean,
she's no fun to cook with.

719
00:39:32,896 --> 00:39:35,524
And you know, she's a
very sweet, lovely girl,

720
00:39:35,607 --> 00:39:38,360
but when she cooks, she's vicious.

721
00:39:38,443 --> 00:39:41,571
Now she's telling you,
"He hasn't shut up for two days.

722
00:39:41,655 --> 00:39:44,783
He's running
his fucking mouth like he's stoned."

723
00:39:44,866 --> 00:39:46,076
That's what she's saying.

724
00:39:46,743 --> 00:39:48,554
He'll have to deal
with stuff he doesn't want to deal with.

725
00:39:48,578 --> 00:39:52,249
Whether growth is forced upon you or...

726
00:39:52,332 --> 00:39:53,917
or you dive into it.

727
00:39:54,001 --> 00:39:59,548
You know, it's something that helps you...

728
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,098
Uh, mature, maybe, a little bit,
into a more graceful life.

729
00:40:10,183 --> 00:40:13,270
It's gonna take forever
to fix that place up.

730
00:40:13,353 --> 00:40:14,521
Forever.

731
00:40:14,604 --> 00:40:16,749
Mara said it to me so much,
I yelled at her last night.

732
00:40:16,773 --> 00:40:18,734
She keeps saying
that we're getting ripped off,

733
00:40:18,817 --> 00:40:20,902
that everything they have is old,

734
00:40:20,986 --> 00:40:22,988
moldy, non-working.

735
00:40:23,071 --> 00:40:23,780
They have a fucking...

736
00:40:23,864 --> 00:40:25,365
And not suited to us!

737
00:40:25,449 --> 00:40:26,950
And not suited to us.

738
00:40:30,912 --> 00:40:32,372
You ever see "Woman in the Dunes?"

739
00:40:32,456 --> 00:40:39,463
It's about a guy, through some circumstance,
finds himself in this deep pit with a woman.

740
00:40:41,298 --> 00:40:44,051
And he's not sure how
he got there, exactly.

741
00:40:44,134 --> 00:40:45,927
And the woman is loving.

742
00:40:47,971 --> 00:40:50,223
You know, and they have sex.

743
00:40:50,307 --> 00:40:52,434
And he has to get up every morning

744
00:40:52,517 --> 00:40:55,270
and he has to dig sand out,

745
00:40:55,354 --> 00:40:59,107
put it in a bucket, pull the string,

746
00:40:59,191 --> 00:41:03,612
and the bucket goes up
and automatically dumps the sand out.

747
00:41:05,030 --> 00:41:08,575
If he doesn't do that,
they get buried in sand.

748
00:41:08,658 --> 00:41:11,161
And sometimes,
without the spiritual part of my life,

749
00:41:11,244 --> 00:41:13,330
it feels like that, you know?

750
00:41:13,413 --> 00:41:15,957
I guess it feels that
way to everybody, right?

751
00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:19,753
You know, although I don't really mind
digging sand, to tell you the truth.

752
00:41:24,424 --> 00:41:29,763
He calls me up yesterday... last night.

753
00:41:29,846 --> 00:41:34,101
And at one o'clock today, I'm supposed to
go... I have a certified check for $50,000.

754
00:41:34,184 --> 00:41:37,145
That's it. Then I go to the Magic Carpet,
it's my place.

755
00:41:37,229 --> 00:41:40,774
He tells me that there's a place
on Hudson Street, a store.

756
00:41:40,857 --> 00:41:43,402
This is a business, you know?

757
00:41:43,485 --> 00:41:48,240
I don't have the option
to overlook a lease possibility.

758
00:41:48,323 --> 00:41:50,742
And it's so nice, you know,
that somebody wanted,

759
00:41:50,826 --> 00:41:53,829
you know, somebody that we thought
really didn't like us all that much,

760
00:41:53,912 --> 00:41:55,997
that shouldn't come in that often,

761
00:41:56,081 --> 00:41:59,876
to know that she was
touched by our position.

762
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,587
Things like this have been just
happening from all over the place,

763
00:42:02,671 --> 00:42:06,967
and that's been so good for our souls.

764
00:42:09,136 --> 00:42:13,223
So she's now offering me this premises,
which really isn't a restaurant,

765
00:42:13,306 --> 00:42:14,641
right around the corner,

766
00:42:14,724 --> 00:42:16,518
supposedly at a better rent.

767
00:42:16,601 --> 00:42:21,106
I have to decide
really quick if it's better.

768
00:42:21,898 --> 00:42:25,098
Eve, if you keep taking breakfast orders,
we're never gonna go to the restaurant.

769
00:42:26,528 --> 00:42:27,988
Maybe I'll send Jose over.

770
00:42:41,460 --> 00:42:43,086
I think he loved it.

771
00:42:43,170 --> 00:42:46,798
I think the problem is that
we were already too far into that deal.

772
00:42:46,882 --> 00:42:47,942
What do you think we should do?

773
00:42:47,966 --> 00:42:48,884
I don't know.

774
00:42:48,967 --> 00:42:52,512
Well, give me an answer.
I have to decide at 1:15 today what to do.

775
00:42:52,596 --> 00:42:56,141
It's not a matter of...
it being an intellectual exercise.

776
00:42:56,224 --> 00:42:57,058
This is... We're in reality.

777
00:42:57,142 --> 00:43:01,271
On the 30th of this month,
I have to be out of this fucking space.

778
00:43:01,354 --> 00:43:04,733
- How much work is it?
- How much work is it?

779
00:43:04,816 --> 00:43:08,153
There's nothing. It is raw space.

780
00:43:08,236 --> 00:43:12,240
There's no walls, there's no floors,
and it'll take time.

781
00:43:12,324 --> 00:43:13,867
We don't have time.

782
00:43:15,494 --> 00:43:17,787
You really want to go
for the big shot, huh?

783
00:43:17,871 --> 00:43:20,040
Yeah, that's what...
Remember, we talked about it,

784
00:43:20,123 --> 00:43:23,418
that you were gonna move forward, and...

785
00:43:23,502 --> 00:43:25,462
Blah blah blah? Remember that?

786
00:43:25,545 --> 00:43:27,589
- Yeah, but you know I'm a whore.
- I know.

787
00:44:16,638 --> 00:44:18,765
This is another part of what I do.

788
00:44:18,848 --> 00:44:22,644
I have additions, I have corrections
and I constantly edit the list.

789
00:44:29,234 --> 00:44:33,154
This is in the great tradition
of all good kitchens,

790
00:44:33,238 --> 00:44:34,573
this type of shopping.

791
00:44:34,656 --> 00:44:37,033
It's just the level of which I do it

792
00:44:37,117 --> 00:44:42,664
is appropriate for the level of my
creativity and of my station in life.

793
00:44:42,747 --> 00:44:44,541
I know who I am, I know what I do.

794
00:44:44,624 --> 00:44:47,460
Normal cooking for normal people.

795
00:44:47,544 --> 00:44:49,796
You see any arrows on these bags?

796
00:44:49,879 --> 00:44:51,464
I opened it right up.

797
00:44:51,548 --> 00:44:53,150
A lot of people,
if there's not an arrow on the bag,

798
00:44:53,174 --> 00:44:54,759
they're in a lot of fucking trouble.

799
00:44:54,843 --> 00:44:57,483
You never know when you're gonna need
to open a plastic bag either.

800
00:44:59,222 --> 00:45:01,516
Nothing that you see here

801
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,476
will exist by next week.

802
00:45:07,814 --> 00:45:10,108
It's a different place,
it's different people.

803
00:45:11,651 --> 00:45:12,736
It's nice.

804
00:45:22,037 --> 00:45:26,041
Is the... national vegetable apparatus

805
00:45:26,124 --> 00:45:28,918
more humane than
the national beef apparatus?

806
00:45:29,002 --> 00:45:33,214
The harvest of those lovely organic
vegetables that your wife eats,

807
00:45:33,298 --> 00:45:36,676
there's some fucking Brown person

808
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,055
getting his skin ripped off his body
while he picks it.

809
00:45:40,138 --> 00:45:42,974
Dying at 35 instead of 68,

810
00:45:43,058 --> 00:45:46,770
because they're...
malnourished and overworked,

811
00:45:46,853 --> 00:45:51,733
living in a place with disease and vermin,

812
00:45:51,816 --> 00:45:57,489
and being paid money
in a... plantation system

813
00:45:57,572 --> 00:46:00,075
which always finds a way,
just like our government does,

814
00:46:00,158 --> 00:46:02,577
to take back almost
all the money they give you.

815
00:46:02,661 --> 00:46:05,872
Because if you end up with a lot of money
at the end of the growing season,

816
00:46:05,955 --> 00:46:07,600
you won't go back.
You'll go somewhere else.

817
00:46:07,624 --> 00:46:10,919
You'll buy a fucking pair of shoes
and get a job in the post office.

818
00:46:11,002 --> 00:46:14,422
Now in the new restaurant,
if I do do the shopping,

819
00:46:14,506 --> 00:46:18,760
this big change in my life is I'm gonna
have to go right on Clarkson Street

820
00:46:18,843 --> 00:46:21,971
instead of going right on Morton Street,

821
00:46:22,055 --> 00:46:25,016
which is okay for me
because the Morton Street people

822
00:46:25,100 --> 00:46:27,727
are not as nice as they think they are.

823
00:46:32,148 --> 00:46:36,069
This guy's supposed to meet somebody
here for breakfast and we're closed?

824
00:46:36,152 --> 00:46:37,404
What do you think?

825
00:46:37,487 --> 00:46:38,655
He doesn't look happy.

826
00:46:40,198 --> 00:46:43,118
Then we're gonna open the gate up
and he's gonna feel good for a second,

827
00:46:43,201 --> 00:46:44,703
then he's gonna feel bad again.

828
00:46:50,875 --> 00:46:52,752
So you guys, shoot
him, to see if I'm right?

829
00:46:52,836 --> 00:46:53,837
Yeah.

830
00:47:01,136 --> 00:47:02,595
This is Shopsin's?

831
00:47:05,682 --> 00:47:08,143
There was a moment there
where you had a glimmer of hope?

832
00:47:08,226 --> 00:47:10,103
Well, yeah, about... a second.

833
00:47:10,186 --> 00:47:12,480
Despite the fact that
you read the paper and everything?

834
00:47:12,564 --> 00:47:13,982
No, I didn't read anything.

835
00:47:14,065 --> 00:47:15,567
Oh, there, it says right on the gate.

836
00:47:15,650 --> 00:47:16,651
Where?

837
00:47:20,739 --> 00:47:22,824
Oh, okay, so it's a trick.

838
00:47:22,907 --> 00:47:26,578
What new address do you want the...
Our new restaurant to have?

839
00:47:26,661 --> 00:47:30,415
28 Bedford Street or 54 Carmine?

840
00:47:30,498 --> 00:47:32,333
I'm tempted for Carmine.

841
00:47:32,417 --> 00:47:34,294
I think it makes more
sense to have Carmine...

842
00:47:34,377 --> 00:47:35,896
And it's a nicer name, to have a new...

843
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,149
"Cause otherwise you're gonna be
explaining, "The entrance is on Carmine..."

844
00:47:38,173 --> 00:47:41,050
Carmine is a hard syllable.
I think it might be a new image for us.

845
00:47:41,134 --> 00:47:42,134
Yeah.

846
00:47:42,886 --> 00:47:46,848
The last time
in a segment to your life

847
00:47:46,931 --> 00:47:50,769
is less difficult to accept
than the last time in your life.

848
00:47:50,852 --> 00:47:53,188
And this is the thing
where I come out all right...

849
00:47:53,271 --> 00:47:55,440
Because for all of the things
that have gone wrong,

850
00:47:55,523 --> 00:47:57,358
it's an opportunity for regret.

851
00:47:58,735 --> 00:48:01,029
You never know...
Regrets are like children.

852
00:48:01,112 --> 00:48:02,590
You don't really know
if you really want to have them

853
00:48:02,614 --> 00:48:05,283
till it's too late to do anything about it.

854
00:48:05,366 --> 00:48:09,287
And... I don't have that many regrets.

855
00:48:09,370 --> 00:48:13,416
And yet despite my real affection for
this place, the bond that I'm gonna miss

856
00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:15,919
is the bond of enforced confinement.

857
00:48:16,002 --> 00:48:21,132
I would hate very much to go from one
physical dependency on environment

858
00:48:21,216 --> 00:48:22,842
to another one.

859
00:48:22,926 --> 00:48:24,761
But to float free,

860
00:48:24,844 --> 00:48:29,599
it's not so easy for somebody who's been
dependent on environment for his stability.

861
00:48:29,682 --> 00:48:32,560
I don't really want to go out
and plow the fields with everybody else,

862
00:48:32,644 --> 00:48:37,440
but I'm not really interested in living in
Iowa in the mountains someplace either.

863
00:48:37,524 --> 00:48:38,775
So, we'll see what happens.

864
00:48:42,070 --> 00:48:44,364
I'm happy that everyone's here.
It's like a family affair.

865
00:48:44,447 --> 00:48:46,407
Shopsin's.

866
00:48:48,576 --> 00:48:51,329
Uh, this is our last day,
so it's kind of floating free,

867
00:48:51,412 --> 00:48:53,373
I can't tell you a thing,
except we're open now.

868
00:48:53,456 --> 00:48:55,208
It should be fun
if it doesn't get too busy.

869
00:49:05,552 --> 00:49:07,053
How you doing?

870
00:49:07,136 --> 00:49:08,388
Hi again.

871
00:49:10,139 --> 00:49:13,601
Years in the business have taught me
that if you cook too fast, they leave,

872
00:49:13,685 --> 00:49:14,936
then you have to cook again.

873
00:49:23,069 --> 00:49:26,656
When I was really young,
I was as heavy as I am now,

874
00:49:26,739 --> 00:49:30,118
and I lived at 38 Morton Street
next to a woman who was really crazy.

875
00:49:30,201 --> 00:49:31,911
I mean, every time I came home,

876
00:49:31,995 --> 00:49:35,915
"You fat, Jew bastard."

877
00:49:35,999 --> 00:49:38,209
Every night, for years!

878
00:49:38,293 --> 00:49:41,504
And then I went on, like, a diet
and I lost a lot of weight,

879
00:49:41,588 --> 00:49:43,631
and one night I came home,

880
00:49:43,715 --> 00:49:46,593
and she says, "You Jew bastard."

881
00:49:46,676 --> 00:49:50,471
And I went there... I said,
"Holy shit, she complimented me."

882
00:49:50,555 --> 00:49:53,099
And I turned around and I said,
"Thanks, Betty!"

883
00:49:54,058 --> 00:49:57,645
We were sitting and eating,
and they had a bris here.

884
00:49:57,729 --> 00:50:02,191
And the... Mohel,

885
00:50:02,275 --> 00:50:06,863
cutter of the weenie, came and, uh...

886
00:50:06,946 --> 00:50:11,659
He wasn't extremely thrilled about the
place because there was a big 20-pound ham

887
00:50:11,743 --> 00:50:13,119
cooking up on the counter.

888
00:50:13,202 --> 00:50:14,683
And I think he disliked Kenny so much

889
00:50:14,746 --> 00:50:19,334
he said something nasty to him
about the weenie

890
00:50:19,417 --> 00:50:21,169
that he'd just worked on,

891
00:50:21,252 --> 00:50:24,213
and Kenny went charging after the guy
and was screaming at him.

892
00:50:24,297 --> 00:50:26,716
Everybody all day was absolutely persuaded

893
00:50:26,799 --> 00:50:29,510
that Zach's foreskin
ended up in one of the dishes...

894
00:50:29,594 --> 00:50:31,095
Or perhaps in several.

895
00:50:31,179 --> 00:50:35,516
Perhaps the new place
will open up some things for Kenny

896
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,019
in terms of the kind of cooking he can do.

897
00:50:38,102 --> 00:50:40,063
It's whatever he wants to do.

898
00:50:40,146 --> 00:50:43,900
It's... I know that it will be
an interesting experience for me...

899
00:50:43,983 --> 00:50:47,862
And he's walking around behind me
and this is terrifying me,

900
00:50:47,946 --> 00:50:51,366
because I don't know what he's doing
and he's so unpredictable!

901
00:50:51,449 --> 00:50:53,129
I haven't been over to look at that place.

902
00:50:53,201 --> 00:50:57,205
I guess it looks suspiciously
like a restaurant though.

903
00:50:57,288 --> 00:51:00,124
I haven't seen the new place,
don't know nothing about it.

904
00:51:00,208 --> 00:51:03,211
This place has something in it
that no other place has.

905
00:51:03,294 --> 00:51:05,046
What do you think that is?

906
00:51:05,129 --> 00:51:06,172
Chutzpah.

907
00:51:06,255 --> 00:51:10,343
The vibes are great.
It's just a great place to sit and eat

908
00:51:10,426 --> 00:51:12,321
and you never know
what's gonna come out of his mouth.

909
00:51:12,345 --> 00:51:13,513
What?

910
00:51:13,596 --> 00:51:16,724
Chocolate orange French toast
with maple glaze and a side of bacon!

911
00:51:20,436 --> 00:51:21,437
Yeah?

912
00:51:26,567 --> 00:51:27,694
But don't come.

913
00:51:28,653 --> 00:51:31,364
This is our last day,
we're not taking any new customers.

914
00:51:31,447 --> 00:51:32,907
It's all finished for the day.

915
00:51:33,908 --> 00:51:35,368
Yes. Thank you.

916
00:51:36,077 --> 00:51:37,578
Asshole.

917
00:51:37,662 --> 00:51:39,706
If he ever changes, I'll kill him.

918
00:51:39,789 --> 00:51:46,212
I hope it's a psychological reaction to
being kicked out of here, is that I'm... Out.

919
00:51:46,295 --> 00:51:47,815
I don't feel like cooking here anymore.

920
00:51:47,839 --> 00:51:50,341
You know, and she is, uh, taking command.

921
00:51:51,634 --> 00:51:55,221
If it wasn't for her organizing things,
I wouldn't be even in the ballpark here.

922
00:51:57,974 --> 00:52:02,311
- ♪ Some other enchanted evening... ♪
- I'm just putting... Just save a slice!

923
00:52:02,395 --> 00:52:06,357
- ♪ You may meet a stranger ♪
- As long as...

924
00:52:06,441 --> 00:52:10,445
♪ You may meet a stranger ♪

925
00:52:10,528 --> 00:52:11,946
Not much stranger.

926
00:52:12,030 --> 00:52:16,534
♪ Not much stranger,
across a crowded baguette ♪

927
00:52:24,208 --> 00:52:26,169
I mean, the guy's been closing here

928
00:52:26,252 --> 00:52:27,795
over the past few weeks.

929
00:52:27,879 --> 00:52:29,255
He's still creating dishes.

930
00:52:29,338 --> 00:52:34,218
Ken once recently described this place
as being like the rings on a tree,

931
00:52:34,302 --> 00:52:37,972
where he can look around
and see things that are from last week.

932
00:52:38,056 --> 00:52:41,225
And he can look around
and see things that are... 15 years ago.

933
00:52:41,309 --> 00:52:43,603
I'm happy there's going to be a new place.

934
00:52:43,686 --> 00:52:48,816
I'm sure it will be as uniquely Shopsin's
as this was, in just... in another way.

935
00:52:48,900 --> 00:52:49,960
John, do you want a Pellegrino?

936
00:52:49,984 --> 00:52:51,611
Uh, please, hon. Thank you.

937
00:52:55,573 --> 00:52:56,741
They know what I want.

938
00:52:56,824 --> 00:52:58,117
See the cup?

939
00:52:58,201 --> 00:53:01,954
That's some...
After I do this, it drips sometimes.

940
00:53:02,038 --> 00:53:06,000
So that, after it dripped
and we cleaned it up a lot of times,

941
00:53:06,084 --> 00:53:08,086
the solution to the drip...

942
00:53:10,922 --> 00:53:12,507
Was this.

943
00:53:12,590 --> 00:53:14,068
And the problem with leaving this place

944
00:53:14,092 --> 00:53:18,846
is that the whole place
is loaded with my solutions.

945
00:53:24,435 --> 00:53:27,021
Kenny would give everything away.

946
00:53:27,105 --> 00:53:32,360
Money's not that important, it's the...
End result of doing a good job.

947
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,413
You know, some people play a role

948
00:53:44,497 --> 00:53:48,084
in helping people feel better,

949
00:53:48,167 --> 00:53:51,254
and sometimes they do it
just by being themselves.

950
00:53:57,885 --> 00:54:00,388
You know, the store
brought us everything, you know?

951
00:54:00,471 --> 00:54:05,852
It fed us, it gave us
intellectual stimulation.

952
00:54:05,935 --> 00:54:08,146
Um... it opened so many doors to us.

953
00:54:08,229 --> 00:54:12,233
Whenever you needed to know anything, there
was a customer who was just the person.

954
00:54:13,651 --> 00:54:16,529
What do you think about the change,
moving over to the new place?

955
00:54:16,612 --> 00:54:18,114
I don't fucking like it.

956
00:54:38,509 --> 00:54:40,028
You know, my son,
when he was really young,

957
00:54:40,052 --> 00:54:42,930
and the first time
he actually took a shit in the toilet...

958
00:54:43,014 --> 00:54:45,141
Flushed the toilet, his
shit's swirling around,

959
00:54:45,224 --> 00:54:48,352
and he looks at it and he says,
"Have a nice trip."

960
00:54:49,812 --> 00:54:53,191
Meaning that that wasn't shit to him:
That was part of him

961
00:54:53,274 --> 00:54:56,402
that's going away on a journey.

962
00:54:56,485 --> 00:55:00,531
And this is, you know, I'm saying
"Have a nice trip" to my store.

963
00:55:35,274 --> 00:55:38,361
Okay, I just lost my fucking
piece of paper. Son of a bitch.

964
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,073
I had a piece of paper
with a list of things to do

965
00:55:42,156 --> 00:55:44,742
and I lost the piece of paper.

966
00:55:44,825 --> 00:55:45,910
What an asshole.

967
00:55:48,162 --> 00:55:49,330
Mom?

968
00:55:49,413 --> 00:55:51,499
Can you wake up Zach
and have him come over now?

969
00:55:51,582 --> 00:55:53,292
I'm sweating in the fucking kitchen

970
00:55:53,376 --> 00:55:56,420
working my balls off so I can pay you!

971
00:55:56,504 --> 00:55:57,797
Scumbag.

972
00:56:03,386 --> 00:56:06,073
Talk to Evie about all that shit,
I don't want to be bothered with it,

973
00:56:06,097 --> 00:56:07,848
fucking douche bag.

974
00:56:07,932 --> 00:56:09,433
What's Zach doing?

975
00:56:09,517 --> 00:56:10,893
Sleep.

976
00:56:10,977 --> 00:56:12,228
He's not waking up.

977
00:56:13,271 --> 00:56:14,355
You know...

978
00:56:18,150 --> 00:56:21,779
I can't wait till he fucking goes to college.
I won't have to deal with his shit anymore.

979
00:56:23,364 --> 00:56:24,991
A fucking jerk.

980
00:56:31,998 --> 00:56:33,708
Are you closed?

981
00:56:33,791 --> 00:56:34,709
Yes.

982
00:56:34,792 --> 00:56:35,918
Till when?

983
00:56:36,002 --> 00:56:37,378
Forever.

984
00:56:37,461 --> 00:56:38,754
It's open next month.

985
00:56:39,297 --> 00:56:40,315
It's open next month?

986
00:56:40,339 --> 00:56:43,968
Forever! Tell him forever. It's forever.
This place is never gonna be open.

987
00:56:44,051 --> 00:56:46,637
Don't be nice to people.

988
00:56:46,721 --> 00:56:47,805
It's a big mistake.

989
00:56:59,650 --> 00:57:01,986
I'm gonna go over to the house
and physically assault him.

990
00:57:06,991 --> 00:57:08,492
Good you're not gonna be there.

991
00:57:10,995 --> 00:57:12,705
- I missed it.
- Yeah.

992
00:57:14,415 --> 00:57:15,809
I thought it was going to be this week.

993
00:57:17,668 --> 00:57:18,919
We move fast, Ron.

994
00:57:19,003 --> 00:57:20,046
There it is.

995
00:57:21,297 --> 00:57:23,549
So Mara doesn't know
where you hook the phone up.

996
00:57:24,759 --> 00:57:28,637
When you contracted, did you contract to have
the phone service done into the building?

997
00:57:28,721 --> 00:57:29,847
Yes.

998
00:57:29,930 --> 00:57:32,516
Where? You don't know.

999
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,101
Who do you think might know?

1000
00:57:34,185 --> 00:57:35,865
Who knows? Nobody?
You don't know anything?

1001
00:57:35,936 --> 00:57:37,438
You haven't a clue, is that right?

1002
00:57:37,521 --> 00:57:38,606
I don't know.

1003
00:57:38,689 --> 00:57:40,733
Cool. That's really cool.

1004
00:57:40,816 --> 00:57:42,360
I have to run over there now.

1005
00:57:42,443 --> 00:57:44,737
I want all the artwork and everything
loaded into the van.

1006
00:57:44,820 --> 00:57:46,697
See if you can do it
without fucking things up.

1007
00:57:49,116 --> 00:57:51,660
Oh, this is Kenny,
and this is how he reacts to things,

1008
00:57:51,744 --> 00:57:53,954
and I just don't pay any attention to him.

1009
00:57:55,206 --> 00:57:59,001
If I had got upset about everything he did
and every name he called me,

1010
00:57:59,085 --> 00:58:01,796
you know, I would be in big trouble.

1011
00:58:01,879 --> 00:58:04,507
I've developed techniques,
and I just leave.

1012
00:58:04,590 --> 00:58:09,637
You know, go outside for a few minutes, or
I go in the bathroom, or just... you know.

1013
00:58:12,390 --> 00:58:13,516
Got it on?

1014
00:58:14,558 --> 00:58:15,935
I don't understand, Zach.

1015
00:58:16,018 --> 00:58:17,520
I put in an hour, and then I go...

1016
00:58:17,603 --> 00:58:18,729
What does your ticket say?

1017
00:58:18,813 --> 00:58:21,732
I told you to buy the soda,
I told you to put the parking in there.

1018
00:58:21,816 --> 00:58:25,319
I did, and then fucking I go over and
put in another fucking 50 cents in there

1019
00:58:25,403 --> 00:58:27,113
and fucking there's a ticket.

1020
00:58:27,196 --> 00:58:29,117
I'm telling you,
the guy must have sat and waited

1021
00:58:29,198 --> 00:58:31,119
for the exact second
the shit ran out, 'cause...

1022
00:58:31,158 --> 00:58:33,327
Well, why didn't you keep the meter going?

1023
00:58:33,411 --> 00:58:35,496
"Cause I was fucking working!

1024
00:58:35,579 --> 00:58:38,517
- You don't get it? You really don't get it?
- I get it. I get it, I get it.

1025
00:58:38,541 --> 00:58:40,459
You really don't get it, do you, Zach?

1026
00:58:40,543 --> 00:58:42,294
This is, like, un-fucking-believable.

1027
00:58:42,378 --> 00:58:45,131
I ask you to do a fucking job
and you don't do it.

1028
00:58:45,214 --> 00:58:47,133
It's really simple, isn't it?

1029
00:58:47,216 --> 00:58:48,426
What's to get?

1030
00:59:00,271 --> 00:59:04,024
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
You don't think it's unbelievable?

1031
00:59:04,108 --> 00:59:06,652
You stole the fucking extra money, right?

1032
00:59:06,735 --> 00:59:08,672
- You took the extra...
- It's in my fucking pocket!

1033
00:59:08,696 --> 00:59:10,281
You took the extra money,

1034
00:59:10,364 --> 00:59:12,199
you bought an ice cream with it,

1035
00:59:12,283 --> 00:59:13,969
but you didn't do
what you were supposed to do!

1036
00:59:13,993 --> 00:59:16,328
- I did fucking do that, but I...
- Are you telling me

1037
00:59:16,412 --> 00:59:17,913
that you got that meter going?

1038
00:59:17,997 --> 00:59:19,331
And that, that meter maid is...

1039
00:59:19,415 --> 00:59:21,601
Are you telling me you did
what you were supposed to do?

1040
00:59:21,625 --> 00:59:23,502
I guess I...

1041
00:59:23,586 --> 00:59:24,837
You're right. I fucked up.

1042
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,649
What would it have cost you to go out there
and put another two quarters in?

1043
00:59:27,673 --> 00:59:28,549
Nothing.

1044
00:59:28,632 --> 00:59:30,259
- Then why?
- I don't know.

1045
00:59:30,342 --> 00:59:32,261
Well, try to think about it, Zach!

1046
00:59:32,344 --> 00:59:34,781
I don't know, I was busy working,
I was moving chairs and shit...

1047
00:59:34,805 --> 00:59:39,560
You were busy doing
something that didn't have a deadline,

1048
00:59:39,643 --> 00:59:41,729
and you gave up something that did.

1049
00:59:41,812 --> 00:59:42,855
Sorry.

1050
00:59:45,357 --> 00:59:46,984
The thing is, he's so good at arguing,

1051
00:59:47,067 --> 00:59:49,945
that quite often,
he'll win arguments where he's wrong.

1052
00:59:50,029 --> 00:59:53,091
They, like, can't imagine ever telling their
dad, you know, telling their dad to fuck off.

1053
00:59:53,115 --> 00:59:54,134
He'll yell at us, we'll yell at him.

1054
00:59:54,158 --> 00:59:57,119
And it's... just the way it is.

1055
00:59:58,579 --> 01:00:02,917
And I'm hoping in the new place,
where he's in the kitchen,

1056
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:04,585
that there's gonna be less of that.

1057
01:00:04,668 --> 01:00:07,296
You know, you're getting
on my fucking nerves now!

1058
01:00:07,379 --> 01:00:11,175
I can't do anything
until the kitchen works.

1059
01:00:11,258 --> 01:00:14,845
But first I have to get out of here,
otherwise they're gonna lock all my shit up,

1060
01:00:14,929 --> 01:00:16,138
and I'm gonna look stupid.

1061
01:00:24,813 --> 01:00:26,190
I'm looking for Shopsin's.

1062
01:00:27,983 --> 01:00:29,944
"It's hard to recommend Shopsin's,

1063
01:00:30,027 --> 01:00:32,613
but it's even harder to leave it out.

1064
01:00:32,696 --> 01:00:36,617
The temperament of chef/owner Kenny Shopsin
makes dining a risk.

1065
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:39,620
If he doesn't like your attitude,
he won't hesitate to throw you out.

1066
01:00:39,703 --> 01:00:41,664
A shame, considering
you'd be missing a selection

1067
01:00:41,747 --> 01:00:44,625
of more than 200 soups
and hundreds of entrees,

1068
01:00:44,708 --> 01:00:46,001
each prepared a la minute.

1069
01:00:46,085 --> 01:00:47,753
One of the best meals is breakfast.

1070
01:00:47,836 --> 01:00:50,005
Offerings include
homemade pumpkin pancakes,

1071
01:00:50,089 --> 01:00:51,465
corn and cornmeal waffles

1072
01:00:51,549 --> 01:00:53,634
that will keep you feeling full
for the entire day.

1073
01:00:53,717 --> 01:00:55,695
The coffee is good,
but you have to get it yourself.

1074
01:00:55,719 --> 01:00:57,640
If you don't like it, you
know what you can do."

1075
01:01:03,394 --> 01:01:05,437
On Friday night, um...

1076
01:01:05,521 --> 01:01:08,857
I had dinner with a few friends,
and we were the last people out and...

1077
01:01:08,941 --> 01:01:10,568
Got talking to Eve, and she said,

1078
01:01:10,651 --> 01:01:14,321
"If you have nothing better to do
on Monday or Tuesday, come on by."

1079
01:01:14,405 --> 01:01:16,115
They're loyal Shopsin customers as well,

1080
01:01:16,198 --> 01:01:18,826
so it was like one phone call,
and they were like, "Hell yeah!"

1081
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,012
Oooh!

1082
01:01:41,307 --> 01:01:43,142
Dad, what do you want to take next?

1083
01:01:49,940 --> 01:01:51,066
Jesus...

1084
01:01:57,072 --> 01:01:58,616
This stove is six stoves.

1085
01:01:58,699 --> 01:02:00,909
40% of the stove from Sloppy Louie's,

1086
01:02:00,993 --> 01:02:04,038
and the 60% spare parts...
Every burner is different.

1087
01:02:04,121 --> 01:02:06,290
It has no legs;
all the oven racks are different;

1088
01:02:06,373 --> 01:02:08,083
each oven has a different burner in it;

1089
01:02:08,167 --> 01:02:10,169
the pilots haven't worked for 15 years.

1090
01:02:19,970 --> 01:02:21,597
This one looks like a whore's ass.

1091
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,808
Scratches and bumps, a little bit bowed,

1092
01:02:24,892 --> 01:02:27,645
and if you pour something on it,
it always goes to the left.

1093
01:02:27,728 --> 01:02:29,730
If that flame goes on accidentally

1094
01:02:29,813 --> 01:02:32,399
and the oil heats up
too much, it'll explode.

1095
01:02:54,838 --> 01:02:56,256
Just push it down the hole.

1096
01:03:03,847 --> 01:03:06,100
Take it with me.

1097
01:03:06,183 --> 01:03:08,602
You know, maybe they'll
use it as a cheap headstone.

1098
01:03:31,625 --> 01:03:34,461
You know, this place is put together

1099
01:03:34,545 --> 01:03:36,547
like somebody who wants
to have a jigsaw puzzle

1100
01:03:36,630 --> 01:03:39,007
and he assembles it one piece at a time.

1101
01:03:39,091 --> 01:03:41,468
He cuts them all.

1102
01:03:45,556 --> 01:03:46,991
I'm moving to a different neighborhood,

1103
01:03:47,015 --> 01:03:49,852
and I felt there in the first three
or four days that I was there,

1104
01:03:49,935 --> 01:03:52,896
a good deal of hostility, anger.

1105
01:03:52,980 --> 01:03:57,568
Anger that I was the cause
of the Magic Carpet's demise.

1106
01:03:57,651 --> 01:04:00,070
Anger that, uh...

1107
01:04:00,154 --> 01:04:01,697
I'm the harbinger of change,

1108
01:04:01,780 --> 01:04:05,141
and I guess for most of the older people
there it means that they're closer to death.

1109
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,245
And then I felt that
if I did something that was too cocky,

1110
01:04:08,328 --> 01:04:09,955
to put up an awning with no sign...

1111
01:04:11,165 --> 01:04:14,334
Cocky, anonymous, exclusive.

1112
01:04:14,418 --> 01:04:18,172
I decided that it was an unfriendly act
to go in there with my own style,

1113
01:04:18,255 --> 01:04:23,552
and that I should moderate
my style to include words

1114
01:04:23,635 --> 01:04:26,013
and something that people
could relate to and understand

1115
01:04:26,096 --> 01:04:29,141
so that I wouldn't
be a stranger in a strange land.

1116
01:04:36,899 --> 01:04:40,277
You know, it's like...
It's like it's not there

1117
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,197
and you just float around the city
like you're in a dream.

1118
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,074
You're attacked by the sights,
the sounds and the smells.

1119
01:04:46,158 --> 01:04:47,868
Every neighborhood smells different.

1120
01:04:47,951 --> 01:04:51,371
Crusty, the crusty...
Probably Bruno over there.

1121
01:04:51,455 --> 01:04:54,708
Nice brown crust on the bread
with maybe sesame seeds.

1122
01:04:56,794 --> 01:04:59,046
Kenny says he's about a week away.

1123
01:05:09,848 --> 01:05:10,933
Jose!

1124
01:05:12,976 --> 01:05:14,269
I need Jose.

1125
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,032
I've been kind of crippled,

1126
01:05:27,115 --> 01:05:29,409
emotionally and physically, too.

1127
01:05:29,493 --> 01:05:33,997
I've been very enervated all the time
by the burden of mental things.

1128
01:05:34,081 --> 01:05:39,002
It's left some room
for her to assert her capabilities

1129
01:05:39,086 --> 01:05:44,091
as opposed to constantly
being whacked around by my, uh...

1130
01:05:44,174 --> 01:05:47,928
Effusive expression of competence.

1131
01:05:48,011 --> 01:05:50,889
I'm ready.
Yeah, yeah, it didn't take long.

1132
01:05:50,973 --> 01:05:54,327
I mean, it was really nice having a little
bit of space in my life, which I never have,

1133
01:05:54,351 --> 01:05:56,204
"cause I'm generally
just running, running, running,

1134
01:05:56,228 --> 01:05:57,938
rushing in everything that I have to do.

1135
01:06:09,116 --> 01:06:12,077
One, two, three cheeses. What else?

1136
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,246
And on top of that...

1137
01:06:14,329 --> 01:06:17,332
Peppers, mushrooms, bok choy.

1138
01:06:17,416 --> 01:06:19,710
We need lemons and limes up too, Jose!

1139
01:06:31,763 --> 01:06:34,808
Okay, what else, Jose?
What else do we put in this fucking place?

1140
01:06:34,892 --> 01:06:40,856
I'll probably have my same customers and
an occasional personal drop-in, but I'm...

1141
01:06:42,149 --> 01:06:46,820
Cheap... Per product.

1142
01:06:46,904 --> 01:06:49,323
In other words,
the hamburger is big and the meat is fresh,

1143
01:06:49,406 --> 01:06:52,409
but I'm expensive, uh, openers.

1144
01:06:52,492 --> 01:06:54,095
You know, like when you're in a poker game,

1145
01:06:54,119 --> 01:06:57,039
where you can't play the game
unless you have jacks or better?

1146
01:06:58,415 --> 01:07:00,792
The entry price here is high.

1147
01:07:00,876 --> 01:07:04,004
I don't...
I don't have a 99 cent special.

1148
01:07:04,087 --> 01:07:06,173
There's not much
you can get for 6 bucks either.

1149
01:07:07,382 --> 01:07:10,510
Once you get over the entry price

1150
01:07:10,594 --> 01:07:13,805
you get your money's worth,
but you have to be willing to...

1151
01:07:13,889 --> 01:07:17,184
That's the way I did it years ago.
See, I didn't want to have a...

1152
01:07:17,267 --> 01:07:19,853
An adversarial relationship
with my customers.

1153
01:07:19,937 --> 01:07:23,023
I wanted them to be at a point
where they could give me enough money

1154
01:07:23,106 --> 01:07:27,444
that I don't have to worry
whether they get 2 ounces or 10 ounces,

1155
01:07:27,527 --> 01:07:30,030
or whether I put in
macadamia nuts or I put in peanuts.

1156
01:07:54,763 --> 01:07:55,764
It's growth!

1157
01:07:55,847 --> 01:07:59,935
You know, I'm very happy
that at this stage in our life...

1158
01:08:00,018 --> 01:08:03,146
It's exciting doing something new.

1159
01:08:03,230 --> 01:08:06,566
I went over just the egg dishes,
so if somebody orders eggs,

1160
01:08:06,650 --> 01:08:08,276
I think I can do it.

1161
01:08:11,989 --> 01:08:15,242
I called and left a message,
and the eggs should come tomorrow.

1162
01:08:19,162 --> 01:08:21,373
If they don't, they don't.
I'll use the regular.

1163
01:08:24,167 --> 01:08:25,419
I think.

1164
01:08:29,381 --> 01:08:31,776
I'm just... I'm always amazed
that he gets up every morning

1165
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,594
and he doesn't complain,
and, like, he's on his feet all day long,

1166
01:08:34,678 --> 01:08:39,099
he's cooking and he's lifting, like,
huge pots with, like, chicken and turkey,

1167
01:08:39,182 --> 01:08:41,810
and he doesn't take any vacations.

1168
01:08:41,893 --> 01:08:44,354
Always, constantly, every day.

1169
01:08:44,438 --> 01:08:45,856
And like, just every day.

1170
01:09:26,104 --> 01:09:27,564
It's a serious problem.

1171
01:09:29,441 --> 01:09:33,945
Not being able to find the ingredients
for my own fucking food.

1172
01:09:39,326 --> 01:09:41,995
I don't know where the hot sauce is.

1173
01:09:42,079 --> 01:09:43,872
Where do you think the salsa is?

1174
01:09:46,750 --> 01:09:48,710
Now I can't find the garlic either.

1175
01:09:48,794 --> 01:09:50,087
I'm about to get angry.

1176
01:09:54,007 --> 01:09:55,842
They're gonna be in.

1177
01:09:55,926 --> 01:09:57,761
They're gonna be, uh, wanting food.

1178
01:10:01,932 --> 01:10:03,725
Bingo.

1179
01:10:03,809 --> 01:10:05,244
You can tell that I haven't
been working for a while.

1180
01:10:05,268 --> 01:10:07,437
I still have a little hair on my arm.

1181
01:10:07,521 --> 01:10:09,957
It's usually when you do this,
you just get distracted for a second,

1182
01:10:09,981 --> 01:10:12,651
and when it comes out,
it looks like this: "Boom!"

1183
01:10:14,444 --> 01:10:17,114
It gets into a subject
that really has not much to do with me

1184
01:10:17,197 --> 01:10:19,199
but has to do with humanity.

1185
01:10:19,282 --> 01:10:22,869
A great lack in America.

1186
01:10:22,953 --> 01:10:29,042
The great... belief that was our floor.

1187
01:10:29,126 --> 01:10:33,296
Once we lost our Christian background,
or whatever the fuck we had,

1188
01:10:33,380 --> 01:10:36,216
we never intellectually, as a country,

1189
01:10:36,299 --> 01:10:38,510
tried to figure out what
the meaning of life is.

1190
01:10:40,387 --> 01:10:41,763
You know, we still don't.

1191
01:10:41,847 --> 01:10:44,474
All these issues about terrorism,

1192
01:10:44,558 --> 01:10:49,104
race, "in education," and school prayer,

1193
01:10:49,187 --> 01:10:52,524
they'd be a lot simpler if we had
a meaning of life going for us.

1194
01:10:54,192 --> 01:10:57,279
Not that that's easy to achieve,

1195
01:10:57,362 --> 01:11:01,741
but nobody seems to be looking.

1196
01:11:01,825 --> 01:11:04,244
Am I, with my busy work,

1197
01:11:04,327 --> 01:11:11,334
seeking to inject meaning into my life...

1198
01:11:11,418 --> 01:11:13,044
Where the fuck is the marinara sauce?

1199
01:11:13,128 --> 01:11:16,423
The way that I choose to function

1200
01:11:16,506 --> 01:11:20,135
is to pick a arbitrary stupid goal,

1201
01:11:20,218 --> 01:11:22,095
become totally involved in it,

1202
01:11:22,179 --> 01:11:24,306
and pursue it with vigor,

1203
01:11:24,389 --> 01:11:27,475
and what happens to you in that pursuit

1204
01:11:27,559 --> 01:11:28,476
is your life.

1205
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,354
Understand they're stupid,
but not stupid to pursue,

1206
01:11:31,438 --> 01:11:35,108
because it's the only way
you can inject meaning into your life.

1207
01:11:35,192 --> 01:11:38,778
Otherwise you're left with
this great "Why bother?"

1208
01:12:01,259 --> 01:12:02,778
No, it wasn't supposed to start yesterday,

1209
01:12:02,802 --> 01:12:06,514
I wasn't open yesterday,
it's supposed to start today!

1210
01:12:06,598 --> 01:12:09,100
So you don't have any extra baguettes?

1211
01:12:09,184 --> 01:12:11,436
Make sure I get
a dozen baguettes tomorrow, please?

1212
01:12:12,896 --> 01:12:14,481
Yeah, and call that fucking asshole up

1213
01:12:14,564 --> 01:12:17,901
and tell him he's an asshole,
"cause I don't have the patience.

1214
01:12:17,984 --> 01:12:19,903
Bye, Victor. Bye.

1215
01:12:29,621 --> 01:12:31,957
Oh, much better!

1216
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:33,500
Yeah, this one much better.

1217
01:12:33,583 --> 01:12:34,918
I like being here.

1218
01:12:35,001 --> 01:12:37,212
I like the floor, I like everything.

1219
01:12:37,295 --> 01:12:38,546
Mucho clean, it's nice.

1220
01:12:39,673 --> 01:12:41,716
So I don't expect that much new business,

1221
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:42,800
but I may be wrong.

1222
01:12:42,842 --> 01:12:44,803
Where the fuck are the shrimp, Jose?

1223
01:12:44,886 --> 01:12:46,721
What is it? What you want?

1224
01:12:58,566 --> 01:13:00,568
Pear walnut soup.

1225
01:13:04,698 --> 01:13:08,576
He happened to be very fortunate that
he was forced to make the right decision.

1226
01:13:09,411 --> 01:13:12,122
You can tell I'm important.
I got a double order of chorizo.

1227
01:13:12,789 --> 01:13:16,418
"The customer isn't always right"
is one of my favorites.

1228
01:13:16,501 --> 01:13:17,627
Um...

1229
01:13:18,670 --> 01:13:21,840
Lunch special,
two beef tacos with potato curry.

1230
01:13:21,923 --> 01:13:23,717
At some point when it's really busy

1231
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,761
and Jose, we're totally immersed
for an hour, two hours,

1232
01:13:26,845 --> 01:13:31,057
totally zoned out, totally involved
in the details of what we're doing,

1233
01:13:31,141 --> 01:13:33,518
totally gone...

1234
01:13:33,601 --> 01:13:35,562
That's when it becomes peaceful.

1235
01:13:35,645 --> 01:13:38,189
That's what makes it
a seductive thing to do.

1236
01:13:38,273 --> 01:13:41,860
You feel cleansed afterwards.
Better than a good night's sleep.

1237
01:13:42,610 --> 01:13:43,695
It's all in his head,

1238
01:13:43,778 --> 01:13:49,075
whatever he has in there
that is his idea for that dish.

1239
01:13:49,159 --> 01:13:53,038
And that's something that
should make that restaurant work

1240
01:13:53,121 --> 01:13:54,205
wherever it is.

1241
01:13:54,622 --> 01:13:55,915
Turkey lamb is gone.

1242
01:13:55,999 --> 01:13:56,916
Nice!

1243
01:14:01,504 --> 01:14:03,089
It makes me so fucking happy.

1244
01:14:03,173 --> 01:14:04,090
Yeah...

1245
01:14:04,174 --> 01:14:05,592
Some of them go twice, you know.

1246
01:14:05,675 --> 01:14:07,385
This is special chicharron.

1247
01:14:07,469 --> 01:14:09,229
In other words, they get to be

1248
01:14:11,348 --> 01:14:12,724
and they go there to get a shock,

1249
01:14:12,807 --> 01:14:14,869
and they fly away and they come back
and they get another shock.

1250
01:14:14,893 --> 01:14:16,770
Coraje de perra, chop chop.

1251
01:14:33,078 --> 01:14:34,597
We got stoned to go to the movies,

1252
01:14:34,621 --> 01:14:37,433
and the movie was over and people were
eating and fucking themselves to death.

1253
01:14:37,457 --> 01:14:39,417
And all we wanted to do was eat and fuck.

1254
01:14:39,501 --> 01:14:42,629
And since we were out,
we decided we would eat.

1255
01:14:42,712 --> 01:14:47,217
And the very first restaurant we came to,
we swore we'd eat in.

1256
01:14:47,300 --> 01:14:51,137
Very first McDonald's to open in Manhattan.

1257
01:14:51,221 --> 01:14:55,350
Three large, athletic black males

1258
01:14:55,433 --> 01:14:59,104
with sawed-off shotguns come in,
screaming at the manager...

1259
01:14:59,187 --> 01:15:01,898
telling him to open the safe.

1260
01:15:01,981 --> 01:15:06,152
There's a third guy just standing
in the center with a shotgun

1261
01:15:06,236 --> 01:15:07,904
turning around, watching everybody.

1262
01:15:07,987 --> 01:15:12,033
All this is going on, and your mother,

1263
01:15:12,117 --> 01:15:15,537
who had gotten French fries
and was interrupted by the robbers,

1264
01:15:15,620 --> 01:15:20,500
got up, went to the counter to get ketchup,

1265
01:15:20,583 --> 01:15:23,044
and then came back
and sat and ate her French fries.

1266
01:15:25,922 --> 01:15:28,508
You know, we never
made a lot of money, but...

1267
01:15:28,591 --> 01:15:30,677
we got tickets to the...
You know, whatever.

1268
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:34,931
Like, my Rolling Stones tickets,
you know... To me, music.

1269
01:15:35,014 --> 01:15:38,184
There's the Rolling Stones
and there's everybody else.

1270
01:15:38,268 --> 01:15:41,938
And every time the Rolling Stones
came to town, I would try to get tickets,

1271
01:15:42,021 --> 01:15:47,110
and at the very last minute,
someone would come through with...

1272
01:15:47,193 --> 01:15:49,946
primo seats. Yeah.

1273
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:05,420
This is like, another one
of my half-baked philosophies:

1274
01:16:06,671 --> 01:16:13,470
The first duty of everybody in life
is to realize that they're a piece of shit.

1275
01:16:13,553 --> 01:16:16,055
They're selfish, they're self-centered,

1276
01:16:16,139 --> 01:16:18,057
they're not very good.

1277
01:16:18,141 --> 01:16:23,313
And that you're willing to sacrifice
20,000 people in another country

1278
01:16:23,396 --> 01:16:28,610
just so that you can, uh, go to, uh...
a Wings concert.

1279
01:16:28,693 --> 01:16:30,487
You'll sacrifice the lives

1280
01:16:30,570 --> 01:16:33,865
of 100,000 Chinese, uh, female babies

1281
01:16:33,948 --> 01:16:38,244
just so that you can rent this fucking
camera and do your stupid art project.

1282
01:16:38,328 --> 01:16:39,412
No problem!

1283
01:16:39,496 --> 01:16:41,748
You're a piece of shit.

1284
01:16:41,831 --> 01:16:45,919
Once you realize you're a piece of shit,
it's not so hard to take.

1285
01:16:46,002 --> 01:16:50,298
Because then you don't have this feeling

1286
01:16:50,381 --> 01:16:53,593
that you're a good person all the time.

1287
01:16:53,676 --> 01:16:55,178
And let me tell you something.

1288
01:16:55,261 --> 01:16:56,947
Feeling that you're
a good person all the time

1289
01:16:56,971 --> 01:16:59,265
is like having a brand-new car
with no scratches on it.

1290
01:16:59,349 --> 01:17:01,434
It's a real responsibility

1291
01:17:01,518 --> 01:17:04,437
which is almost impossible to live up to.

1292
01:17:04,521 --> 01:17:06,022
Being a piece of shit

1293
01:17:06,105 --> 01:17:10,193
and then occasionally
doing something that's good and true,

1294
01:17:10,276 --> 01:17:12,904
it's a much easier place to be.

1295
01:17:12,987 --> 01:17:14,447
I think that's really important

1296
01:17:14,531 --> 01:17:17,033
and I always tried
to raise my kids to understand

1297
01:17:17,116 --> 01:17:19,827
that they're not that terrific

1298
01:17:19,911 --> 01:17:25,625
and that not being that terrific, that's okay,
"cause most people who say they are terrific...

1299
01:17:25,708 --> 01:17:28,545
Bill Clinton, Cardinal Egan...

1300
01:17:28,628 --> 01:17:30,046
Anybody you want to talk about.

1301
01:17:30,129 --> 01:17:31,256
They're not so terrific.

1302
01:17:31,339 --> 01:17:32,966
Martha Stewart!

1303
01:17:33,049 --> 01:17:35,301
They're not so fucking terrific either,
and there's no...

1304
01:17:35,385 --> 01:17:37,887
nothing wrong with
being not so terrific, you know?

1305
01:17:37,971 --> 01:17:40,098
In fact, it's what the
whole ball game is about.

1306
01:17:40,181 --> 01:17:43,268
It's about being not so
terrific and accepting it.

1307
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:07,150
[ ♪♪♪ ]

1308
01:19:12,363 --> 01:19:14,449
[ birds chirping ]

1309
01:19:38,598 --> 01:19:40,642
[ rumbling motorcycle engine ]

1310
01:20:29,691 --> 01:20:37,691
[ ♪♪♪ ]

1311
01:20:47,750 --> 01:20:50,837
That refrigerator wasn't fucking closed
like it should be.

1312
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,131
I'm turning the steam table on.

1313
01:20:55,633 --> 01:20:58,928
When there's too much ice, no dice.

1314
01:20:59,012 --> 01:21:01,889
And it leaks 'cause
the drain system doesn't work.

1315
01:21:02,890 --> 01:21:03,933
No.

1316
01:21:05,852 --> 01:21:06,936
No.

1317
01:21:07,979 --> 01:21:08,980
No.

1318
01:21:11,649 --> 01:21:12,775
Yes.

1319
01:21:14,027 --> 01:21:16,612
I'm going over my list
that I made for today.

1320
01:21:16,696 --> 01:21:18,531
I already defrosted that refrigerator.

1321
01:21:18,614 --> 01:21:21,326
It needs to be defrosted twice a day,
every fucking day.

1322
01:21:21,409 --> 01:21:22,410
I cooked the lamb...

1323
01:21:22,493 --> 01:21:23,745
[ rattling ]

1324
01:21:23,828 --> 01:21:25,913
This refrigerator
has never been grounded properly.

1325
01:21:25,997 --> 01:21:27,040
We're not sure why.

1326
01:21:27,123 --> 01:21:32,086
I would be getting shocked, constant shock,
high electricity going through my body.

1327
01:21:32,170 --> 01:21:35,340
This rack, which just barely holds on,

1328
01:21:35,423 --> 01:21:41,262
if I don't put the coconut underneath, the
weight of all the other shit just snaps it off.

1329
01:21:41,346 --> 01:21:43,306
You see, there's not enough clearance

1330
01:21:43,389 --> 01:21:45,016
between the shelf and the container

1331
01:21:45,099 --> 01:21:48,269
to get the container
in and out over that little lump.

1332
01:21:48,353 --> 01:21:49,520
The whole place is like that.

1333
01:21:49,604 --> 01:21:51,981
If you don't do what you're supposed to do

1334
01:21:52,065 --> 01:21:54,525
you get punished right away.

1335
01:21:54,609 --> 01:21:57,153
Something horrible happens, you know?

1336
01:21:57,236 --> 01:21:58,946
Which causes you to do penance, you know?

1337
01:21:59,030 --> 01:22:01,783
In this particular instance
I'd be on my hands and knees

1338
01:22:01,866 --> 01:22:06,079
not just cleaning up
the shit on the fucking floor...

1339
01:22:07,538 --> 01:22:11,125
but having to fiddle the shelf back
onto its hinges and shit like that.

1340
01:22:12,877 --> 01:22:15,254
You know, it's the way
you solve things around your house.

1341
01:22:15,338 --> 01:22:18,132
It's not like you have a servant
and a handyman coming.

1342
01:22:18,216 --> 01:22:20,216
You do what the fuck
you can do when you can do it.

1343
01:22:21,386 --> 01:22:23,221
I like candy ass, you know?

1344
01:22:23,304 --> 01:22:24,680
Things that are human scale,

1345
01:22:24,764 --> 01:22:29,644
human expressions of ingenuity and reality.

1346
01:22:29,727 --> 01:22:32,897
The kind of stuff that everybody
has on their sitcoms on television,

1347
01:22:32,980 --> 01:22:34,023
but who they don't want...

1348
01:22:34,107 --> 01:22:36,001
They don't want that
to happen in their fucking life

1349
01:22:36,025 --> 01:22:38,319
because it's not safe; it's not right.

1350
01:22:38,403 --> 01:22:41,531
I mean, that's not really a right way
to run a refrigerator the way I do it.

1351
01:22:43,074 --> 01:22:44,117
[ clattering ]

1352
01:22:45,243 --> 01:22:47,578
The bread man used to steal from us.

1353
01:22:47,662 --> 01:22:50,557
And this is the other thing my kids do wrong,
they always set it at different numbers,

1354
01:22:50,581 --> 01:22:53,501
whereas my wife always
sets it at the same number, it's easy.

1355
01:22:53,584 --> 01:22:56,712
So, just so that there'll be no problem
with the bread man stealing anything.

1356
01:22:59,757 --> 01:23:01,592
That feels like a sweet potato, no?

1357
01:23:10,435 --> 01:23:12,520
I took a drill

1358
01:23:12,603 --> 01:23:16,315
and I reamed out the burners
so they deliver twice as much gas.

1359
01:23:18,526 --> 01:23:20,862
I almost do better with assholes.

1360
01:23:20,945 --> 01:23:24,031
It's a very adversarial
relationship, a restaurant,

1361
01:23:24,115 --> 01:23:26,576
with new customers. With old customers,

1362
01:23:28,244 --> 01:23:30,413
it's really intimate and family-like.

1363
01:23:30,496 --> 01:23:33,624
But all new customers,
"cause I've been here like 32 years,

1364
01:23:33,708 --> 01:23:35,710
they have to prove it to me

1365
01:23:35,793 --> 01:23:37,295
that they're okay to feed.

1366
01:23:46,554 --> 01:23:52,185
[ ♪♪♪ ]

1367
01:23:53,853 --> 01:23:58,316
[ ♪♪♪ ]

1368
01:23:58,399 --> 01:24:02,778
Three soft-boiled eggs,
shreds, and black toast.

1369
01:24:09,535 --> 01:24:11,913
This is kind of like feeling
somebody's pussy up,

1370
01:24:11,996 --> 01:24:13,539
you know? You...

1371
01:24:13,623 --> 01:24:18,252
You get to put this thing in your hand
that has, like... This, like, you know?

1372
01:24:18,336 --> 01:24:20,755
You know what I mean?
This, like, viscous feel to it.

1373
01:24:20,838 --> 01:24:22,131
It's not bad at all.

1374
01:24:23,799 --> 01:24:25,092
Hmm?

1375
01:24:25,176 --> 01:24:26,719
And then when you cook it,

1376
01:24:27,970 --> 01:24:30,932
it cooks different too.
It's much friendlier than cooking eggs.

1377
01:24:32,975 --> 01:24:34,352
[ bell ringing ]

1378
01:24:34,435 --> 01:24:35,478
Pick up!

1379
01:24:35,561 --> 01:24:37,021
Everybody is seven years old.

1380
01:24:37,104 --> 01:24:39,440
This is a mature person.

1381
01:24:39,524 --> 01:24:42,693
Has a job, a family,
he's gonna die someday,

1382
01:24:42,777 --> 01:24:44,237
and he's gonna go to Wall Street

1383
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,781
and slaughter the Third
World Nations today.

1384
01:24:49,700 --> 01:24:53,371
And he's having chocolate chip pancakes
for fucking breakfast.

1385
01:24:53,454 --> 01:24:54,580
Good for him, huh?

1386
01:24:56,207 --> 01:24:57,875
Hi, Jose.

1387
01:24:57,959 --> 01:24:59,770
Man: Well, the relationship
with my dad and Jose

1388
01:24:59,794 --> 01:25:02,022
is kind of different than he's had
with any other employees,

1389
01:25:02,046 --> 01:25:04,298
because Jose is like,
kind of like part of the family.

1390
01:25:07,426 --> 01:25:08,803
Kenny: Now, Jose and I,

1391
01:25:08,886 --> 01:25:12,056
on the level of what we do for each other,

1392
01:25:12,139 --> 01:25:14,225
we're like a perfect team.

1393
01:25:14,308 --> 01:25:19,313
Because despite our great emotional
and intellectual and language differences,

1394
01:25:19,397 --> 01:25:22,108
we both most like to do the kitchen dance.

1395
01:25:22,191 --> 01:25:25,319
He accommodates me
because I'm a fat, old, nasty Jew,

1396
01:25:25,403 --> 01:25:29,657
just like some white guy who has
a Latin partner and does the samba,

1397
01:25:29,740 --> 01:25:31,492
and have nothing else in common.

1398
01:25:31,576 --> 01:25:34,996
And when we dance together,
we're really good partners.

1399
01:25:35,079 --> 01:25:37,164
Okay, rye bread?
Woman: Yeah.

1400
01:25:37,248 --> 01:25:38,934
Eve: Kenny and I
are very opposite in this way.

1401
01:25:38,958 --> 01:25:44,297
He is much more pessimistic than I am.
I'm optimistic; I'm more of a fatalist,

1402
01:25:44,380 --> 01:25:46,382
and I feel that I'm a lucky person.

1403
01:25:46,465 --> 01:25:48,426
Things work out for me, you know?

1404
01:25:48,509 --> 01:25:51,220
Knock on wood, I have
five... Wait a minute.

1405
01:25:51,304 --> 01:25:52,471
[ knocking ]
Yeah.

1406
01:25:52,555 --> 01:25:56,017
Five healthy children who love each other.

1407
01:25:56,100 --> 01:25:57,893
That's the thing that I feel best about.

1408
01:25:58,519 --> 01:26:01,522
I love coming in the morning,

1409
01:26:01,606 --> 01:26:03,691
early, 9:00, 10:00 in the morning,

1410
01:26:03,774 --> 01:26:08,112
sitting in this bench with my dad or my mom
and, like, getting the paper.

1411
01:26:08,195 --> 01:26:09,113
And when it's not that busy,

1412
01:26:09,196 --> 01:26:13,284
I'll cook someone some food
and come sit back down.

1413
01:26:13,367 --> 01:26:16,704
It just feels, you know, really nice.

1414
01:26:16,787 --> 01:26:19,874
And I think, I guess as a customer,
it'd probably be the same thing.

1415
01:26:21,959 --> 01:26:24,337
Man: It's a neighborhood thing,
it's a family thing.

1416
01:26:24,420 --> 01:26:26,547
It's not just the greatest restaurant

1417
01:26:26,631 --> 01:26:33,596
where he cooks one of 900 dishes from scratch
in a couple minutes and it's unbelievable.

1418
01:26:34,555 --> 01:26:36,432
It's my kitchen, you know?

1419
01:26:36,515 --> 01:26:39,602
I'm four doors down the street,
and I fall into my kitchen.

1420
01:26:40,061 --> 01:26:42,188
Coming to this place, I feel like me.

1421
01:26:43,481 --> 01:26:47,234
It's the only restaurant
I can go into, and walk in...

1422
01:26:47,318 --> 01:26:50,321
Whatever lousy mood I'm in,
it changes immediately.

1423
01:26:50,404 --> 01:26:53,115
And I tell Kenny, "I'd
like some ebelskivers"

1424
01:26:53,199 --> 01:26:56,202
and Kenny says,
"Fuck that, I'm done with the grill,

1425
01:26:56,285 --> 01:26:57,411
I ain't making you skivers.

1426
01:26:57,495 --> 01:27:00,182
You want skivers, have 'em for dessert,
you got to have lunch first."

1427
01:27:00,206 --> 01:27:04,543
He says, "Kym, you want the skivers,
come back here, show me your tits."

1428
01:27:04,627 --> 01:27:06,504
Most worthwhile flash I've ever done.

1429
01:27:06,587 --> 01:27:09,840
Never got sued...
Eve: Knock on wood.

1430
01:27:09,924 --> 01:27:11,050
I don't have any.

1431
01:27:11,133 --> 01:27:14,428
But that... that's it; We didn't have
any... You know, we didn't kill anybody.

1432
01:27:14,512 --> 01:27:16,823
Eve: Well, a couple of people
have threatened to kill Kenny!

1433
01:27:16,847 --> 01:27:20,101
But that's only because I am who I am,
not because of anything I did.

1434
01:27:20,184 --> 01:27:22,978
I always would order
this Patsy's cashew chicken

1435
01:27:23,062 --> 01:27:27,191
and scallions and lemon juice and cashews.

1436
01:27:27,274 --> 01:27:30,253
And I said, "Something tastes different
here, but I can't figure out what it is."

1437
01:27:30,277 --> 01:27:34,490
And then I hear this voice whispering,
"Noah, Noah!" That's my name.

1438
01:27:34,573 --> 01:27:37,368
And... and Kenny's over at the counter

1439
01:27:37,451 --> 01:27:40,663
with a handful of... of cashews.

1440
01:27:40,746 --> 01:27:42,998
He said he forgot to put the cashews in,

1441
01:27:43,082 --> 01:27:45,459
so he just, like,
gave me this handful of cashews

1442
01:27:45,543 --> 01:27:46,687
and put it in the... in the food.

1443
01:27:46,711 --> 01:27:49,022
And it was really nice 'cause I knew
that there was something missing,

1444
01:27:49,046 --> 01:27:50,423
but I didn't know what it was.

1445
01:27:51,590 --> 01:27:54,719
And he was here before... Larry!

1446
01:27:54,802 --> 01:27:58,639
You worked here before Charlie was born
as well as after or just after?

1447
01:27:58,723 --> 01:28:01,058
Charlie: Worked the counter;
I was manager at the time.

1448
01:28:01,142 --> 01:28:03,352
You know, like,
stock boy, manager, whatever.

1449
01:28:03,436 --> 01:28:05,479
So I've been in that store ever since.

1450
01:28:05,563 --> 01:28:09,066
His life around completely

1451
01:28:09,150 --> 01:28:13,988
to being an honest, productive citizen
and a good father, from being a turd.

1452
01:28:14,071 --> 01:28:15,948
An absolute fucking turd.

1453
01:28:16,031 --> 01:28:18,659
When I left,
Kenny gave me a 10% discount for life.

1454
01:28:18,743 --> 01:28:21,245
There was this kid that
came in here every day...

1455
01:28:21,328 --> 01:28:22,580
Macaroni and cheese,

1456
01:28:23,664 --> 01:28:26,083
or he would have pancakes.

1457
01:28:26,167 --> 01:28:28,586
And one day, he says,
"I can't decide what to have,"

1458
01:28:28,669 --> 01:28:31,672
So I said, "Don't worry, Matthew,

1459
01:28:31,756 --> 01:28:33,674
I'm going to decide for you."

1460
01:28:33,758 --> 01:28:35,509
Macaroni and cheese pancake.

1461
01:28:35,593 --> 01:28:36,844
Woman: Egg and cheese pancake.

1462
01:28:36,927 --> 01:28:38,554
Barbecued chicken pancakes.

1463
01:28:38,637 --> 01:28:39,906
Man: Uh, chocolate chip pancakes.

1464
01:28:39,930 --> 01:28:41,182
Danny: Post-modern pancakes.

1465
01:28:41,265 --> 01:28:42,933
Basically, you make some pancakes

1466
01:28:43,017 --> 01:28:46,187
and then you chop them up, and then you
throw them in pancake batter again.

1467
01:28:46,270 --> 01:28:48,189
Kenny: Giant glazed apple nut pancake.

1468
01:28:48,272 --> 01:28:51,609
The thing that's cool
about it is how we glaze it.

1469
01:28:51,692 --> 01:28:52,985
Watch, you'll see in a minute.

1470
01:29:05,164 --> 01:29:06,957
I don't make much money on this bread.

1471
01:29:07,041 --> 01:29:08,334
They got me.

1472
01:29:08,417 --> 01:29:10,211
These people from North Carolina,

1473
01:29:10,294 --> 01:29:11,796
who aren't city slickers,

1474
01:29:11,879 --> 01:29:13,380
they know value when they see it.

1475
01:29:20,429 --> 01:29:21,263
[ sizzling ]

1476
01:29:21,347 --> 01:29:24,892
You got to kill flies all the time; there's
flies continually in the neighborhood.

1477
01:29:24,975 --> 01:29:27,770
There are certain flies,
like you said, bred to be high fliers.

1478
01:29:27,853 --> 01:29:30,165
That's how they survive in the restaurant,
because they're high fliers.

1479
01:29:30,189 --> 01:29:31,982
All the ones that are low, we Kill.

1480
01:29:32,066 --> 01:29:35,486
You know, it's very existential,
killing flies. You kill 'em one at a time,

1481
01:29:35,569 --> 01:29:37,196
and that's it, they're dead! You know?

1482
01:29:37,279 --> 01:29:41,200
It's almost like, uh...
National politics in Afghanistan, you know?

1483
01:29:41,283 --> 01:29:43,220
Once you kill those cocksuckers,
they're finished.

1484
01:29:43,244 --> 01:29:47,248
But they can breed
people that you can't catch.

1485
01:29:47,331 --> 01:29:50,417
And that's almost
what happened with Third-World people.

1486
01:29:50,501 --> 01:29:57,550
Over the years we've bred people
who are impervious to bourgeoisie demands

1487
01:29:57,633 --> 01:29:59,593
and they're willing to die to kill us.

1488
01:29:59,677 --> 01:30:02,555
They bred to a point
where I can't kill the high fliers,

1489
01:30:02,638 --> 01:30:03,764
so I got a device that does.

1490
01:30:03,848 --> 01:30:06,475
And that's what we're absolutely
engaged in now in this country,

1491
01:30:06,559 --> 01:30:10,521
is trying to come up with
a defense that kills the high fliers,

1492
01:30:10,604 --> 01:30:14,567
the people that are willing to sacrifice their
life to destroy our malignant life form here.

1493
01:30:14,650 --> 01:30:15,860
[ snorting ]

1494
01:30:15,943 --> 01:30:17,528
You know, I wish them luck...

1495
01:30:17,611 --> 01:30:18,611
[ chuckling ]

1496
01:30:18,654 --> 01:30:20,447
Because no matter what they do,

1497
01:30:20,531 --> 01:30:22,783
their next enemy is gonna be from within.

1498
01:30:22,867 --> 01:30:28,163
That's the eventual outcome
of all fly-killing and whatnots like that.

1499
01:30:28,247 --> 01:30:30,124
Once you get rid of the external enemy,

1500
01:30:30,207 --> 01:30:31,792
you have to deal with yourself.

1501
01:30:31,876 --> 01:30:35,796
So that even if you solve all the outside
evils, you are.. you're left with your own.

1502
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:41,468
You know? The evil your parents did to you and
the evil that all parents do to all people.

1503
01:30:43,345 --> 01:30:45,264
Anyway, I like killing flies.

1504
01:30:52,146 --> 01:30:54,106
[ air horn blaring ]

1505
01:30:54,189 --> 01:30:56,150
[ traffic din ]

1506
01:30:56,233 --> 01:30:58,944
[ mixed chatter ]

1507
01:30:59,028 --> 01:31:02,907
Charlie: The village has been gentrified,
but there's been holdouts

1508
01:31:02,990 --> 01:31:04,825
trying to keep it a neighborhood.

1509
01:31:04,909 --> 01:31:07,620
And the...

1510
01:31:10,205 --> 01:31:11,665
Neighborhood people are losing.

1511
01:31:11,749 --> 01:31:13,042
[ telephone rings ]
Yo.

1512
01:31:14,043 --> 01:31:15,753
Yes.

1513
01:31:15,836 --> 01:31:18,005
I haven't moved any place. I'm right here.

1514
01:31:18,088 --> 01:31:21,467
This place at $6500 a month,
which goes to, like,

1515
01:31:21,550 --> 01:31:26,013
almost $9000 at the end of five years...

1516
01:31:26,096 --> 01:31:30,351
What I have here, the relaxed, gradual,

1517
01:31:30,434 --> 01:31:33,687
integrated nature of my existence

1518
01:31:33,771 --> 01:31:36,774
- in which my customers drift in...
- What?

1519
01:31:36,857 --> 01:31:40,903
And are serviced
and inter-react with each other,

1520
01:31:40,986 --> 01:31:44,031
in this place at $6500 a month,

1521
01:31:44,114 --> 01:31:45,783
I have to bust my fucking hump.

1522
01:31:47,201 --> 01:31:49,620
There's a whole lot before that,
but the end of it is,

1523
01:31:49,703 --> 01:31:51,514
is that when the new landlord
took over the building

1524
01:31:51,538 --> 01:31:54,917
after we made a feeble attempt to buy it...

1525
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:58,087
If I hadn't lost all my money in the market
I would've bought it.

1526
01:31:58,170 --> 01:31:59,439
I think it would have been a mistake.

1527
01:31:59,463 --> 01:32:03,258
But anyway, the new landlord
summons us to his office...

1528
01:32:05,970 --> 01:32:08,931
Proceeds to offer me a one-year lease.

1529
01:32:09,014 --> 01:32:13,268
After 32 years in business, a one-year
lease, which is, like, really stupid.

1530
01:32:13,352 --> 01:32:15,104
It's not an offer at all, it's an insult.

1531
01:32:15,187 --> 01:32:20,567
"If I, uh... Say no
and you rent it out to a new tenant,

1532
01:32:20,651 --> 01:32:23,487
are you gonna get more rent
than you've just asked me for?"

1533
01:32:23,570 --> 01:32:24,446
He said, "No."

1534
01:32:24,530 --> 01:32:26,675
I said, "Well, are you gonna
offer them a one-year lease?"

1535
01:32:26,699 --> 01:32:28,409
He says, "No, but I..."

1536
01:32:28,492 --> 01:32:32,246
He says, "I have you over the barrel.
You can't do anything.

1537
01:32:32,329 --> 01:32:35,040
You have to take it
because you can't relocate."

1538
01:32:39,336 --> 01:32:42,297
So, he says, "Try it for a year;
see if we like each other."

1539
01:32:42,381 --> 01:32:45,175
And I said, "You know, I mean,
you know, from... from the evidence,

1540
01:32:45,259 --> 01:32:47,594
I... I don't think I'm
ever gonna like you."

1541
01:32:47,678 --> 01:32:49,447
He said, "That's the best deal
you're gonna get."

1542
01:32:49,471 --> 01:32:52,975
At that point, I realized that, uh,

1543
01:32:53,058 --> 01:32:54,351
you know, I was fucked.

1544
01:32:56,228 --> 01:32:58,856
That a lot of the things that we've created

1545
01:32:58,939 --> 01:33:04,611
because of our... Piecing.

1546
01:33:04,695 --> 01:33:08,657
The strength, it's almost like building
something with ants or with big blocks.

1547
01:33:08,741 --> 01:33:10,993
That this... The sub-strengths

1548
01:33:11,076 --> 01:33:18,042
which help in the depth
and the impact of the product

1549
01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:19,886
are going to disappear
in a couple of weeks.

1550
01:33:23,047 --> 01:33:25,466
I mean, he doesn't go out, you know?

1551
01:33:25,549 --> 01:33:28,260
They don't, like, go to their
friends' houses. They used to.

1552
01:33:28,343 --> 01:33:29,984
All of my dad's friends just come to him.

1553
01:33:30,012 --> 01:33:31,472
So if the restaurant's not there,

1554
01:33:31,555 --> 01:33:35,267
it's not like he lost his job, or his
business, it's like he lost his life.

1555
01:33:38,604 --> 01:33:43,776
Kenny: I go through mood swings
on a really primal level.

1556
01:33:43,859 --> 01:33:45,754
You know, if you look at
a personality development

1557
01:33:45,778 --> 01:33:50,824
as a line of soldiers marching forward,

1558
01:33:50,908 --> 01:33:53,077
there were ranks breaking way back.

1559
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:56,121
A lot of the soldiers were
marching forward into the battle of life,

1560
01:33:56,205 --> 01:33:58,957
but there were a lot of guys just, like,
found a hole and crawled in;

1561
01:33:59,041 --> 01:34:00,501
they didn't go no place.

1562
01:34:00,584 --> 01:34:02,377
The only thing that's good about me

1563
01:34:02,461 --> 01:34:06,381
is that the troops
keep marching forward to new battles,

1564
01:34:06,465 --> 01:34:08,509
and they don't dig in and say,

1565
01:34:08,592 --> 01:34:12,096
"This is it for us, we're done fighting,

1566
01:34:12,179 --> 01:34:14,181
we're now gonna relax and coast along,

1567
01:34:14,264 --> 01:34:18,102
and play poker and clean our rifles
for the rest of our fucking life."

1568
01:34:20,646 --> 01:34:25,400
But, you know,
life with one leg is just a limp.

1569
01:34:27,694 --> 01:34:31,698
Danny: I don't think I'd be a regular here
if I, uh, wasn't his son.

1570
01:34:31,782 --> 01:34:34,177
I don't think I'd have the balls
to come in here day after day.

1571
01:34:34,201 --> 01:34:36,078
It was somewhere in '86,

1572
01:34:36,161 --> 01:34:38,622
I came in and I just wanted
to have a cup of coffee,

1573
01:34:38,705 --> 01:34:40,499
so of course I got thrown out the door.

1574
01:34:40,582 --> 01:34:42,185
But I wanted coffee, and I got shouted at.

1575
01:34:42,209 --> 01:34:45,420
But I came back with four friends
and we got thrown out the door.

1576
01:34:45,504 --> 01:34:47,005
I had the honor of being kicked out.

1577
01:34:47,089 --> 01:34:48,090
I think everybody should.

1578
01:34:48,173 --> 01:34:49,508
He started shouting at her,

1579
01:34:49,591 --> 01:34:52,177
and my wife and I are sort of
hiding behind our menus,

1580
01:34:52,261 --> 01:34:53,947
hoping that the whole thing
would blow over.

1581
01:34:53,971 --> 01:34:56,098
"No fuckin' way!"

1582
01:34:56,181 --> 01:34:57,242
Then Kenny says, "Fuck you!"

1583
01:34:57,266 --> 01:34:59,226
You know, "Fuck off,"
What... you know, "Go away."

1584
01:34:59,309 --> 01:35:01,770
And I was afraid I was about
to be banned from the restaurant.

1585
01:35:01,854 --> 01:35:03,748
From where I'm sitting,
that's all part of the fun.

1586
01:35:03,772 --> 01:35:05,399
I don't feel sorry for them,

1587
01:35:05,482 --> 01:35:07,151
I'm just kind of like, "Ah, Dad!"

1588
01:35:07,234 --> 01:35:09,111
And the people we eschew strongest

1589
01:35:09,194 --> 01:35:13,240
who believe that they come into the
restaurant and you're supposed to do something

1590
01:35:13,323 --> 01:35:16,910
other than open up,
be open for 32 years, cook the food...

1591
01:35:16,994 --> 01:35:18,078
I reject that, totally.

1592
01:35:18,162 --> 01:35:20,998
I do more than they do,
and they can go fuck themselves.

1593
01:35:21,081 --> 01:35:24,501
There was a guy there who I kicked out
five years ago, who owned the place.

1594
01:35:24,585 --> 01:35:26,795
He came in with a group of six

1595
01:35:26,879 --> 01:35:29,274
and I kicked him out, and he says,
"There's no one else in the restaurant!"

1596
01:35:29,298 --> 01:35:31,508
I says, "No, no, you're in the restaurant.

1597
01:35:31,592 --> 01:35:34,761
When you go, then there'll be
nobody else in the restaurant.”

1598
01:35:34,845 --> 01:35:36,573
Well, I said,
"Everybody who's a regular customer

1599
01:35:36,597 --> 01:35:38,515
knows you don't come
in with more than four."

1600
01:35:38,599 --> 01:35:41,602
I said, "The fact you didn't know
means you weren't a regular customer.

1601
01:35:41,685 --> 01:35:43,228
Who the fuck needs you?"

1602
01:35:43,312 --> 01:35:45,898
I said, "I should have to explain to you
why we have the rule?

1603
01:35:45,981 --> 01:35:48,025
Do I have to explain to you

1604
01:35:48,108 --> 01:35:51,445
how when you make a rule
you have to try hard to enforce it?"

1605
01:35:51,528 --> 01:35:53,113
At the end, right before I left,

1606
01:35:53,197 --> 01:35:55,949
I walked over and
I gave him a great, big kiss on the lips...

1607
01:35:56,033 --> 01:35:57,242
[ kiss ]

1608
01:35:57,326 --> 01:35:58,368
[ chuckling ]

1609
01:36:01,788 --> 01:36:03,373
[ bell ringing ]

1610
01:36:07,669 --> 01:36:08,337
No more, huh?

1611
01:36:08,420 --> 01:36:09,546
Yes, yes, yes, more!

1612
01:36:11,673 --> 01:36:13,091
Turkey in here, Jose.

1613
01:36:13,175 --> 01:36:14,468
Jose: Table over there...

1614
01:36:14,551 --> 01:36:15,928
Pick up!
[ whistling ]

1615
01:36:20,891 --> 01:36:21,892
[ bell ringing ]

1616
01:36:23,060 --> 01:36:24,829
Man: You know, J.J.'s right,
you don't need me for that.

1617
01:36:24,853 --> 01:36:28,815
Eve: is having the lunch special:
Turkey Sloppy Joe salad.

1618
01:36:28,899 --> 01:36:29,900
[ pan clattering ]

1619
01:36:31,151 --> 01:36:32,694
[ bell ringing ]

1620
01:36:34,571 --> 01:36:36,212
Yeah, this is coming from the same place.

1621
01:36:36,823 --> 01:36:38,242
[ mixed shouts ]

1622
01:36:39,826 --> 01:36:40,744
Pick up!

1623
01:36:40,827 --> 01:36:41,954
Kenny: This oil's done.

1624
01:36:47,542 --> 01:36:48,252
Evie!

1625
01:36:48,335 --> 01:36:49,002
Eve: Yeah?

1626
01:36:49,086 --> 01:36:50,504
The "fakusas" are for John?

1627
01:36:50,587 --> 01:36:51,880
Eve: Yeah.

1628
01:36:51,964 --> 01:36:53,564
Now hold on, you put the dairy in there?

1629
01:36:53,632 --> 01:36:54,633
Jose: Si.

1630
01:36:57,928 --> 01:37:00,764
Woman: Egg burrito... scrambled, well done.

1631
01:37:06,103 --> 01:37:08,605
You know, if you're on television,
they'll segue away,

1632
01:37:08,689 --> 01:37:11,650
and come back 10 minutes later
after this is sautéed,

1633
01:37:11,733 --> 01:37:13,652
but I don't go for that shit.

1634
01:37:13,735 --> 01:37:14,861
I'm not waiting.

1635
01:37:14,945 --> 01:37:17,114
So I put a little bit
of stock in, cover it,

1636
01:37:17,197 --> 01:37:20,534
and in just a few seconds,
it'll totally fucking cook.

1637
01:37:20,617 --> 01:37:23,328
He always gives me nice,
wholesome flavor...

1638
01:37:23,412 --> 01:37:26,707
Flavored, excellently cooked
large portions of food.

1639
01:37:26,790 --> 01:37:29,501
And I always tell him,
"No mushrooms in anything,

1640
01:37:29,584 --> 01:37:31,211
from the coffee on down."

1641
01:37:31,295 --> 01:37:34,089
Woman: I think this is the
corned beef and cabbage, um, latkes?

1642
01:37:34,172 --> 01:37:34,881
Kenny: You think?

1643
01:37:34,965 --> 01:37:35,632
Woman: I think.

1644
01:37:35,716 --> 01:37:36,985
Man 1: The blisters on my sisters.

1645
01:37:37,009 --> 01:37:39,803
Man 2: And what is it?
- Um, I'm not sure.

1646
01:37:41,555 --> 01:37:44,349
Chocolate orange French toast.

1647
01:37:44,433 --> 01:37:47,245
You know, there are a lot of things
on our menu, if you put it together,

1648
01:37:47,269 --> 01:37:49,062
you can go someplace I've never been.

1649
01:37:49,146 --> 01:37:51,940
I took a banana boat
and I put bananas in it,

1650
01:37:52,024 --> 01:37:59,740
and then I took an ice cream scoop
and I made pulled pork and Cole slaw in...

1651
01:37:59,823 --> 01:38:05,037
Like, an ice cream, uh, sundae.
And we called it a barbecue banana split.

1652
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:07,706
It's almost like putting your dick
in the wrong hole, you know?

1653
01:38:07,789 --> 01:38:09,082
There's, like, a thrill to it.

1654
01:38:09,166 --> 01:38:13,086
There's a friction that occurs when
you put an ingredient in an improper dish.

1655
01:38:13,170 --> 01:38:15,547
That's the basis of all fusion cooking,

1656
01:38:15,630 --> 01:38:17,257
is that there's a sexual friction

1657
01:38:17,341 --> 01:38:20,594
that's caused by putting
the wrong food in the wrong place.

1658
01:38:20,677 --> 01:38:22,679
And sometimes it works.

1659
01:38:22,763 --> 01:38:24,222
But not always.

1660
01:38:24,306 --> 01:38:25,223
[ laughing ]

1661
01:38:25,307 --> 01:38:33,307
[ ♪♪♪ ]

1662
01:38:38,403 --> 01:38:40,614
[ buzzing ]

1663
01:38:40,697 --> 01:38:43,992
Kenny: Uh-oh, uh-oh! Uh-oh!

1664
01:38:44,076 --> 01:38:45,994
Uh-oh, that has cheese!

1665
01:38:46,078 --> 01:38:49,247
Tell him it has cheese.
See if it comes back.

1666
01:38:49,331 --> 01:38:52,709
Man: This is, uh, quinoa cilantro soup.

1667
01:38:52,793 --> 01:38:53,978
Woman 1: Chicken dumpling soup.

1668
01:38:54,002 --> 01:38:55,587
Woman 2: Sweet potato vegetable soup.

1669
01:38:55,670 --> 01:38:58,173
Woman 3: Russian cabbage soup with beef.

1670
01:38:58,256 --> 01:39:00,675
Woman 4: Chicken,
tortilla, and avocado soup.

1671
01:39:00,759 --> 01:39:02,761
Woman 5: Senegalese shrimp soup.

1672
01:39:02,844 --> 01:39:04,554
Man: Cuban black bean soup.

1673
01:39:07,057 --> 01:39:09,976
This is the favorite
thing of mine that I make.

1674
01:39:10,060 --> 01:39:12,479
I don't have... You know...

1675
01:39:12,562 --> 01:39:14,731
Whatever my cooking abilities are,

1676
01:39:14,815 --> 01:39:17,067
my eating abilities are really basic.

1677
01:39:18,485 --> 01:39:19,820
I just love fucking chili.

1678
01:39:19,903 --> 01:39:25,033
The basis of it
is that the deep meat flavor

1679
01:39:25,117 --> 01:39:28,912
comes from adding a little bit of coffee.

1680
01:39:28,995 --> 01:39:33,417
I've had some of this chili every day for
the past 30 years and I really work on it.

1681
01:39:33,500 --> 01:39:36,211
Eve: It's Kenny who
just gets better and better doing it.

1682
01:39:37,170 --> 01:39:38,547
What was wrong with this soup?

1683
01:39:39,506 --> 01:39:41,258
And I check on all the food too.

1684
01:39:41,341 --> 01:39:43,135
If anything's left over...

1685
01:39:43,218 --> 01:39:46,471
Hmm, why?
And we'll taste it to make sure

1686
01:39:46,555 --> 01:39:48,181
that there's nothing wrong with it.

1687
01:39:48,265 --> 01:39:56,265
[ ♪♪♪ ]

1688
01:40:00,735 --> 01:40:02,416
Man: Hey, Kenny, what's up with the candy?

1689
01:40:05,532 --> 01:40:07,200
People take candy.

1690
01:40:07,284 --> 01:40:10,537
Are you... This is, like, a documentary...

1691
01:40:10,620 --> 01:40:12,789
Small question for a big answer?

1692
01:40:12,873 --> 01:40:13,790
Go fuck yourself.

1693
01:40:13,874 --> 01:40:16,185
Woman: Talk about how you fell
in love with me when we came here,

1694
01:40:16,209 --> 01:40:19,421
and we made a special day
'cause I moved to California that...

1695
01:40:19,504 --> 01:40:21,756
To come here to Shopsin's,
"cause we know it's shutting.

1696
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:23,049
Man: Are you still a couple?

1697
01:40:23,133 --> 01:40:23,800
No.

1698
01:40:23,884 --> 01:40:25,719
We were a couple 10 years ago.

1699
01:40:25,802 --> 01:40:29,097
Sadly, I guess to admit this,
but while I loved you dearly,

1700
01:40:29,181 --> 01:40:31,975
I... I think it was the
wild mushroom cream.

1701
01:40:32,058 --> 01:40:33,268
Woman: Ha ha!

1702
01:40:34,895 --> 01:40:37,481
Kenny: So these are on e-Bay for $5.

1703
01:40:37,564 --> 01:40:39,399
This is like a $200 item.

1704
01:40:39,483 --> 01:40:42,152
It's also my tribute to the trade towers.

1705
01:40:42,235 --> 01:40:43,820
What time is it?

1706
01:40:43,904 --> 01:40:47,491
Two o'clock? That's all it
is, is two o'clock? That sucks.

1707
01:40:47,574 --> 01:40:48,742
I could close this joint up

1708
01:40:48,825 --> 01:40:52,204
and get 500 square feet
on Bleecker Street and sell burritos,

1709
01:40:52,287 --> 01:40:53,830
and make more money than I make now.

1710
01:40:53,914 --> 01:40:56,625
All of the things that
you do right in this business,

1711
01:40:56,708 --> 01:40:59,002
don't do right because
you're a wonderful person.

1712
01:40:59,085 --> 01:41:02,088
You do right because
you have no fucking choice.

1713
01:41:02,172 --> 01:41:03,691
And of course,
I don't always do everything right.

1714
01:41:03,715 --> 01:41:06,468
A lot of times, I fuck it up totally.

1715
01:41:06,551 --> 01:41:08,803
Burn this one, or under cook that one.

1716
01:41:08,887 --> 01:41:10,823
I've seen food come back
and I look at it and I say,

1717
01:41:10,847 --> 01:41:14,059
"Whoa, what a fucking
asshole you are, you are.

1718
01:41:14,142 --> 01:41:15,852
How could you do something like that?"

1719
01:41:15,936 --> 01:41:19,022
We had entered into
a bad relationship with an exterminator.

1720
01:41:19,105 --> 01:41:21,983
Somebody found a roach
in one of the soups about eight years ago.

1721
01:41:26,446 --> 01:41:30,075
It certainly doesn't mean anything
in the history of the earth, you know?

1722
01:41:30,158 --> 01:41:33,995
But in your relationship with that person,

1723
01:41:34,079 --> 01:41:37,207
it's just you, them, and the soup.

1724
01:41:37,290 --> 01:41:41,628
Yeah, it's just like a huge event
of incompetence on your part,

1725
01:41:41,711 --> 01:41:47,008
of, uh... unhappiness,
when in fact they come to your place

1726
01:41:47,092 --> 01:41:49,844
rather than McDonald's or the supermarket

1727
01:41:49,928 --> 01:41:52,180
to get something other than good food,
they get...

1728
01:41:52,264 --> 01:41:57,561
They want to get some satisfaction,
and this woman didn't get anything.

1729
01:41:57,644 --> 01:42:00,146
Essentially, she got nothing but abuse.

1730
01:42:00,230 --> 01:42:02,857
No, no, it's a horrendous
event for both parties.

1731
01:42:04,442 --> 01:42:07,112
So, yeah. That's happened here.

1732
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:10,907
It's okay to do stupid things.

1733
01:42:10,991 --> 01:42:15,120
It's not okay to do stupid things
when you notice them.

1734
01:42:15,203 --> 01:42:17,664
Not that we have high standards,

1735
01:42:17,747 --> 01:42:19,874
but then...

1736
01:42:19,958 --> 01:42:21,459
They're gonna put it in their mouth.

1737
01:42:24,421 --> 01:42:26,006
Mmm!

1738
01:42:26,089 --> 01:42:28,216
Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!

1739
01:42:28,300 --> 01:42:30,510
Man 1: Oh, so we have
a little taco-fried steak here.

1740
01:42:30,594 --> 01:42:33,680
Man 2: A hot turkey sandwich
with sausage stuffing

1741
01:42:33,763 --> 01:42:36,766
on black bread with cranberry relish.

1742
01:42:36,850 --> 01:42:40,520
Man 3: The "Minda:"
Chicken salad, turkey bacon and coleslaw.

1743
01:42:40,604 --> 01:42:41,938
Man 4: The "Edmonton."

1744
01:42:42,022 --> 01:42:48,320
Man 5: "Thai Cobb:" Cilantro,
pistachio, curry, grilled chicken.

1745
01:42:48,403 --> 01:42:51,031
Man 6: Portobello mushrooms
with gnocchi and cashews.

1746
01:42:51,114 --> 01:42:53,700
Man 7: Okra chowder and date nut rice.

1747
01:42:53,783 --> 01:42:55,076
Man 8: Egg burrito cheese melt.

1748
01:42:55,910 --> 01:42:57,746
My food is loaded with butter.

1749
01:42:59,122 --> 01:43:00,498
Sorry, it's just a dead fly.

1750
01:43:00,582 --> 01:43:02,709
You know, and I wonder sometimes

1751
01:43:02,792 --> 01:43:05,795
about the morality of my profession,

1752
01:43:05,879 --> 01:43:11,092
as to whether or not what I'm doing is...
is essentially wrong.

1753
01:43:11,176 --> 01:43:15,764
Not the service part,
not the sentiment part, but that...

1754
01:43:15,847 --> 01:43:18,183
that I'm an enabler.

1755
01:43:18,266 --> 01:43:22,395
But the reason I justify it is that I ride
a motorcycle, which is equally stupid.

1756
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:26,733
That if you want to eat pancakes
with sugared fruit on top,

1757
01:43:26,816 --> 01:43:29,986
and you get a good deal
of pleasure from doing that,

1758
01:43:30,070 --> 01:43:32,197
you have the right to pursue that pleasure,

1759
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:34,699
just like the guy who
sells me the motorcycle.

1760
01:43:34,783 --> 01:43:38,411
It's not really my place to judge these
people. That's what freedom is all about.

1761
01:43:45,085 --> 01:43:47,295
Where is it? Is it not here?

1762
01:43:47,379 --> 01:43:50,548
Now it's the end of
the shift and I'm tired.

1763
01:43:50,632 --> 01:43:52,926
All the food blends together in my head.

1764
01:43:53,426 --> 01:43:54,761
Woman: It doesn't matter.

1765
01:43:54,844 --> 01:43:58,306
I'm sorry, it's nothing to do with you guys,
it has to do with... We can't handle it.

1766
01:43:58,390 --> 01:43:59,599
Woman: This is the end of it.

1767
01:43:59,683 --> 01:44:02,560
- Okay, it's just too much for him.
- We know it is.

1768
01:44:02,644 --> 01:44:06,106
He's my father; I'm not gonna
burden him with this on Father's Day.

1769
01:44:06,189 --> 01:44:07,190
Okay? I'm sorry.

1770
01:44:07,273 --> 01:44:09,943
Danny: It's kind of like
the rules of the place in general,

1771
01:44:10,026 --> 01:44:12,112
like, you either know them or you don't.

1772
01:44:12,195 --> 01:44:14,116
Like, a friend brings you in,
you know the rules,

1773
01:44:14,155 --> 01:44:15,365
because they tell you,

1774
01:44:15,448 --> 01:44:18,493
and if you walk in off the street,
you know, you're in for a surprise.

1775
01:44:21,079 --> 01:44:22,956
Man: Okay, so, should
I read the whole thing?

1776
01:44:23,039 --> 01:44:24,290
Man 2: Yes, please.

1777
01:44:24,374 --> 01:44:26,835
"Party of five:
You could put a chair at the end

1778
01:44:26,918 --> 01:44:29,754
or push the tables
together, but don't bother.

1779
01:44:29,838 --> 01:44:33,299
This banged-up little restaurant
where you would expect no rules at all

1780
01:44:33,383 --> 01:44:36,469
has a firm policy against
seating parties of five.

1781
01:44:36,553 --> 01:44:38,030
And you know you are a party of five."

1782
01:44:38,054 --> 01:44:39,222
[ laughter ]

1783
01:44:39,305 --> 01:44:41,474
"It doesn't matter if one
of you offers to leave

1784
01:44:41,558 --> 01:44:45,520
or if you said... If you say you can split
into a party of three and a party of two..."

1785
01:44:45,603 --> 01:44:47,313
That's what we said!

1786
01:44:47,397 --> 01:44:49,691
"Or if the five of you
come back tomorrow

1787
01:44:49,774 --> 01:44:51,526
in Richard Nis... Richard Nixon masks

1788
01:44:51,609 --> 01:44:54,446
and try to pretend
that you don't know each other,

1789
01:44:54,529 --> 01:44:57,198
it won't work, you're a party of five.

1790
01:44:57,282 --> 01:44:59,159
Even if you're a beloved regular,

1791
01:44:59,242 --> 01:45:00,827
even if the place is empty,

1792
01:45:00,910 --> 01:45:03,079
even if you bring logic to bear,

1793
01:45:03,163 --> 01:45:08,042
even if you're a tackle for the Chicago
Bears, it won't work, you're a party of five.

1794
01:45:08,126 --> 01:45:10,712
You'll always be a party of five.

1795
01:45:10,795 --> 01:45:15,008
100 blocks from here, 100 years from now,
you'll still be a party of five."

1796
01:45:15,091 --> 01:45:16,092
Oh my God!

1797
01:45:16,176 --> 01:45:18,094
We... That's what happened to us!

1798
01:45:18,178 --> 01:45:19,804
I can't believe it!

1799
01:45:19,888 --> 01:45:21,556
A poem about us.

1800
01:45:21,639 --> 01:45:23,200
Woman: Could you come in if you were six?

1801
01:45:23,224 --> 01:45:25,226
Shopsin's does not do take-out.

1802
01:45:25,310 --> 01:45:29,689
In fact, you might get your head bitten off
if you ask for them to do something.

1803
01:45:29,773 --> 01:45:32,692
But, they... they fed me, you know?

1804
01:45:32,776 --> 01:45:36,404
I mean, I was really, really ill,
and they would do...

1805
01:45:36,488 --> 01:45:39,365
You know, they would
put stuff together in containers

1806
01:45:39,449 --> 01:45:42,243
and friends would come over and pick it up
and bring it over.

1807
01:45:42,327 --> 01:45:44,370
And I don't know, that's just...

1808
01:45:44,454 --> 01:45:46,873
It sounds all sentimental and everything
but you don't...

1809
01:45:46,956 --> 01:45:50,043
You don't forget gestures
like that because...

1810
01:45:51,461 --> 01:45:55,006
It makes you feel like you really are home.

1811
01:46:02,597 --> 01:46:04,599
[ birds singing ]

1812
01:46:19,864 --> 01:46:25,245
Kenny: Somebody who truly tries
to create something beautiful and lovely,

1813
01:46:25,328 --> 01:46:29,415
and people who create things to neutralize

1814
01:46:29,499 --> 01:46:32,961
the venom that they produce
every night in their dreams,

1815
01:46:33,044 --> 01:46:36,172
and I'm definitely the second type.

1816
01:46:36,256 --> 01:46:40,093
That I cook to neutralize some type of...

1817
01:46:40,176 --> 01:46:43,137
Freudian-mother-breast-related problem

1818
01:46:43,221 --> 01:46:46,766
that resurges in me
just like old faithful, all the time.

1819
01:46:46,850 --> 01:46:49,227
And I can't...

1820
01:46:49,310 --> 01:46:50,728
And I can't get rid of it.

1821
01:46:50,812 --> 01:46:52,313
It's in there. It's in there...

1822
01:46:52,397 --> 01:46:55,567
It's mixed in worse than
aids could be mixed in.

1823
01:46:57,485 --> 01:47:02,282
I used to think that the only way for
change was through Freudian analysis,

1824
01:47:02,365 --> 01:47:04,284
that there is no hope other than that.

1825
01:47:04,367 --> 01:47:07,453
I went, like, 14 years, 5 days a week.

1826
01:47:07,537 --> 01:47:12,041
It takes you back to the point in your life
where you stop developing normally,

1827
01:47:12,125 --> 01:47:18,423
and it uses the psychiatrist
as a good parent,

1828
01:47:18,506 --> 01:47:21,634
and you just grow up all over again
in a short period of time.

1829
01:47:21,718 --> 01:47:25,638
But there may be other ways, I'm not...
That's not my field of expertise.

1830
01:47:25,722 --> 01:47:29,142
I know it's really
hard... It's really hard.

1831
01:47:29,225 --> 01:47:31,769
It's like trying to find something
that you haven't lost.

1832
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,405
The guy that eats here,
who was gonna be my lawyer

1833
01:47:42,488 --> 01:47:45,950
to help me try and do something
with this place, and this landlord says,

1834
01:47:46,034 --> 01:47:49,621
"You know, I have a space in my place
that might be good for you."

1835
01:47:49,704 --> 01:47:51,205
And I said, "Sure."

1836
01:47:51,289 --> 01:47:55,835
"Cause to me, that's like...
That's like the golden tone,

1837
01:47:55,919 --> 01:47:59,464
is when somebody I know

1838
01:47:59,547 --> 01:48:04,510
who's already been involved with me
for some other serendipitous reason,

1839
01:48:04,594 --> 01:48:07,305
suggests that we deepen our relationship.

1840
01:48:07,388 --> 01:48:11,684
A lot of what I do in my job is merely
helping wealthy people get wealthier.

1841
01:48:11,768 --> 01:48:13,746
I didn't have the courage
to step in the front door

1842
01:48:13,770 --> 01:48:17,523
because of their
reputation in the neighborhood.

1843
01:48:17,607 --> 01:48:22,236
Kenny: If you look straight down there
over the top of that post office truck,

1844
01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:25,907
you'll see a bulbous, green awning.

1845
01:48:25,990 --> 01:48:27,116
That's it.

1846
01:48:28,534 --> 01:48:32,163
Man: It actually seemed like
a perfect suggestion to bring Kenny here,

1847
01:48:32,246 --> 01:48:33,873
because it's only two blocks away.

1848
01:48:33,957 --> 01:48:37,627
And he's been kind of
my advocate in this all.

1849
01:48:37,710 --> 01:48:40,046
When my brother and stepbrother

1850
01:48:40,129 --> 01:48:44,384
wandered by the restaurant and saw
Kenny asleep in the front window,

1851
01:48:44,467 --> 01:48:48,346
um, my stepbrother turned to my brother
and said, "You're kidding, right?"

1852
01:48:48,429 --> 01:48:53,059
Richard decided that the best way... In
fact, the only way to accurately determine

1853
01:48:53,142 --> 01:48:57,063
whether or not
Kenny's food was of a caliber that...

1854
01:48:57,146 --> 01:49:01,150
Richard felt was appropriate
for a restaurant in our building,

1855
01:49:01,234 --> 01:49:03,736
was to try it out incognito.

1856
01:49:03,820 --> 01:49:07,657
And so Richard dressed up
in a beret and a pair of sunglasses

1857
01:49:07,740 --> 01:49:10,576
and had a lunch, and somewhat begrudgingly

1858
01:49:10,660 --> 01:49:12,745
reported to my brother
that the food was excellent

1859
01:49:12,829 --> 01:49:15,498
and that the service
was courteous and friendly.

1860
01:49:15,581 --> 01:49:18,167
Um, and to Richard's credit,

1861
01:49:18,251 --> 01:49:22,630
when it looked like Kenny was going
to lose at the last board meeting,

1862
01:49:22,714 --> 01:49:23,798
it was Richard who said,

1863
01:49:23,881 --> 01:49:26,509
"You know, I think that maybe
we should give this guy a chance."

1864
01:49:26,592 --> 01:49:31,431
So, the other place... You know, Mark,
for all the bullshit with his brother,

1865
01:49:31,514 --> 01:49:33,433
they're all decent people

1866
01:49:33,516 --> 01:49:37,729
who treat other human beings with respect,
even people that don't deserve it,

1867
01:49:37,812 --> 01:49:41,274
which is the big demarcation point,
I think, in human behavior.

1868
01:49:41,357 --> 01:49:44,569
If you treat people with respect
who don't deserve it,

1869
01:49:44,652 --> 01:49:47,530
it's a mark of high civilization.

1870
01:49:47,613 --> 01:49:51,951
Because you never know who's only
temporarily deserving of bad behavior,

1871
01:49:52,035 --> 01:49:58,124
so you try to treat everybody with a
morality that makes you a good person,

1872
01:49:58,207 --> 01:50:00,960
not whether or not
they deserve to be treated well.

1873
01:50:01,044 --> 01:50:04,964
And I feel really
much more comfortable with those people.

1874
01:50:05,048 --> 01:50:07,258
[ bell ringing ]
Shut the fuck up, Sam!

1875
01:50:07,884 --> 01:50:09,194
I didn't want to leave the neighborhood.

1876
01:50:09,218 --> 01:50:10,863
The right thing to do
was what my daughter Melinda said,

1877
01:50:10,887 --> 01:50:13,157
and that's to go out to Brooklyn
and buy a building on Smith Street,

1878
01:50:13,181 --> 01:50:15,058
'cause that's all the money I had left.

1879
01:50:15,141 --> 01:50:17,977
Or not to lose my money in the
stock market, and buy this building

1880
01:50:18,061 --> 01:50:20,646
and stay here forever,
in my own fucking museum.

1881
01:50:22,523 --> 01:50:25,693
Eve: And we found out
six weeks before I was due

1882
01:50:25,777 --> 01:50:28,112
that we were having twins,
and I called Kenny

1883
01:50:28,196 --> 01:50:32,950
and for the only time
I can remember in my whole life,

1884
01:50:33,034 --> 01:50:35,620
Kenny was speechless.

1885
01:50:35,703 --> 01:50:36,746
I don't know how I did it.

1886
01:50:36,829 --> 01:50:38,998
I would be able to nurse them standing up.

1887
01:50:39,082 --> 01:50:40,958
Two of them at the same time.

1888
01:50:41,042 --> 01:50:44,003
I'd be packing groceries, you know...

1889
01:50:44,087 --> 01:50:47,006
And then we would
just ship them off with a customer

1890
01:50:47,090 --> 01:50:48,633
when it got too crazy.

1891
01:50:51,135 --> 01:50:54,013
Eve: He loves doing the brunch on Sunday.

1892
01:50:54,097 --> 01:50:55,723
And for me, it's a nice break.

1893
01:50:55,807 --> 01:50:57,600
Let them run it, and...

1894
01:50:57,683 --> 01:51:01,604
it's okay if the restaurant has a
life without me for a day a week.

1895
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:09,028
Zach: You know, I like cooking,
I like cooking for people,

1896
01:51:09,112 --> 01:51:10,839
but I don't know if
I'd like it for the rest of my life.

1897
01:51:10,863 --> 01:51:11,948
Man: Are you good at it?

1898
01:51:12,031 --> 01:51:13,950
Yeah, I'm good at it. It's in my blood.

1899
01:51:14,033 --> 01:51:18,079
Man: Ah, we've been
friends for over 35 years.

1900
01:51:18,162 --> 01:51:20,081
I was the best man at his wedding.

1901
01:51:20,164 --> 01:51:23,584
Oh, I think definitely, definitely,
they're chips off the old block.

1902
01:51:25,378 --> 01:51:28,047
Woman: You're putting
too much thought, just do it!

1903
01:51:28,131 --> 01:51:30,508
Kenny: Now what do I do?

1904
01:51:30,591 --> 01:51:31,509
Okay?

1905
01:51:31,592 --> 01:51:33,553
Ow! Not okay! Fuck.

1906
01:51:33,636 --> 01:51:34,720
[ clatter ]

1907
01:51:35,638 --> 01:51:37,849
I'm really glad you
helped me out there, Mara.

1908
01:51:38,933 --> 01:51:40,393
That was a lot of fun.

1909
01:51:40,476 --> 01:51:42,395
- And I burnt my fingers.
- Good.

1910
01:51:42,478 --> 01:51:46,732
Notice how everybody deserted me
and left it for me to clean everything up?

1911
01:51:46,816 --> 01:51:49,527
That's the difference between
being a parent and an employer.

1912
01:51:50,194 --> 01:51:51,112
Man: What do you do in the summer?

1913
01:51:51,195 --> 01:51:52,864
Work with... for this motherfucker.

1914
01:51:54,240 --> 01:51:56,760
Man: I mean, he's got some really
fucking weird, half-baked philosophies.

1915
01:51:56,784 --> 01:51:58,554
Like, has he ever given you
the whole thing, like,

1916
01:51:58,578 --> 01:52:01,658
he thinks until your kids are 18, you
should be able to kill them if you want?

1917
01:52:02,248 --> 01:52:04,458
Kenny: There are in this city,

1918
01:52:04,542 --> 01:52:09,255
a large number of people whose hobby
is not going out and getting fist-fucked,

1919
01:52:09,338 --> 01:52:13,759
and is not going out
and collecting porcelain dolls.

1920
01:52:13,843 --> 01:52:16,596
Their hobby is going out
and going to restaurants.

1921
01:52:17,555 --> 01:52:20,433
A lot of people don't understand
that in most kitchens,

1922
01:52:20,516 --> 01:52:22,685
everything that's ordered...

1923
01:52:22,768 --> 01:52:24,061
gets cooked by somebody.

1924
01:52:24,145 --> 01:52:26,355
You ask your mama
for a peanut butter sandwich,

1925
01:52:26,439 --> 01:52:28,316
your mama takes some fucking bread,

1926
01:52:28,399 --> 01:52:30,919
takes some fucking peanut butter
and makes you a fucking sandwich.

1927
01:52:30,943 --> 01:52:33,738
It's the same thing that
happens in this place,

1928
01:52:33,821 --> 01:52:35,072
except I'm not your mama.

1929
01:52:36,282 --> 01:52:38,826
My family always orders
pain-in-the-ass shit.

1930
01:52:40,453 --> 01:52:41,746
I think it's a way to get even.

1931
01:52:42,705 --> 01:52:44,665
[ engine revving ]

1932
01:52:54,759 --> 01:52:56,344
Most like my dad?

1933
01:52:58,554 --> 01:52:59,555
None of us.

1934
01:52:59,639 --> 01:53:01,807
None of us. None of us at all.

1935
01:53:01,891 --> 01:53:04,435
Us all combined probably are like Kenny.

1936
01:53:04,518 --> 01:53:05,937
I think I think more like he does,

1937
01:53:06,020 --> 01:53:07,873
and so I know what
he's gonna say before he says it,

1938
01:53:07,897 --> 01:53:10,900
and I kind of... I counter his mind.

1939
01:53:10,983 --> 01:53:11,901
I'm not like my dad.

1940
01:53:11,984 --> 01:53:13,110
I'm like my mom.

1941
01:53:15,446 --> 01:53:17,531
I do everything that
my dad hates about her.

1942
01:53:19,158 --> 01:53:20,076
I have all those attributes.

1943
01:53:20,159 --> 01:53:22,495
Man: Like what?
- Um, I'm lazy,

1944
01:53:22,578 --> 01:53:25,682
I know how to have fun, which he doesn't like
'cause Kenny does not know how to have fun.

1945
01:53:25,706 --> 01:53:29,043
That's his biggest problem in the world.
He doesn't know how to relax.

1946
01:53:29,126 --> 01:53:30,854
Man: He doesn't know how to relax...
[ indistinct ]

1947
01:53:30,878 --> 01:53:32,272
Zach: He doesn't know how to have fun!
- He has fun!

1948
01:53:32,296 --> 01:53:34,840
He says, "Zach,
I know one of your best attributes

1949
01:53:34,924 --> 01:53:37,484
is that you can sit there
and have fun for the rest of your life.

1950
01:53:37,510 --> 01:53:39,470
I cannot do it, I need to work."

1951
01:53:39,553 --> 01:53:40,805
Man: He has fun working!

1952
01:53:40,888 --> 01:53:41,907
Zach: He can have fun working,

1953
01:53:41,931 --> 01:53:46,269
but he doesn't completely let himself go
like me or mom do it.

1954
01:53:48,437 --> 01:53:50,314
God, now you're gonna make me feel bad,

1955
01:53:50,398 --> 01:53:52,198
'cause you have, like,
the camera in my face.

1956
01:53:52,275 --> 01:53:55,278
Man: It's all right, it's not like
anyone needs to know about you.

1957
01:53:55,361 --> 01:53:57,863
I know, it's like looking
into a mirror of your soul,

1958
01:53:57,947 --> 01:54:00,700
'cause it's the...
[ laughter ]

1959
01:54:01,867 --> 01:54:03,536
[ mocking comments ]

1960
01:54:03,619 --> 01:54:05,579
Man: What we gotta do is get my dad stoned.

1961
01:54:05,663 --> 01:54:07,266
That's what I've been
saying for, like, 15 years.

1962
01:54:07,290 --> 01:54:09,000
God, it's been so long. I love that.

1963
01:54:09,083 --> 01:54:12,128
Man: And he was talking about
how they used to... take a glass of Coke...

1964
01:54:12,211 --> 01:54:15,089
Like half Coke, half, like,
fucking rubbing alcohol,

1965
01:54:15,172 --> 01:54:17,067
and they'd fucking
just chug the thing and like...

1966
01:54:17,091 --> 01:54:18,151
He told me when I was a little kid

1967
01:54:18,175 --> 01:54:20,416
he used to put grease on,
like, these really steep hills,

1968
01:54:20,469 --> 01:54:22,114
and him and his friends
used to go hide in the bushes

1969
01:54:22,138 --> 01:54:25,891
and watch cars slide down, like, for real.

1970
01:54:25,975 --> 01:54:28,019
Fucking crazy bastard.
And he screams at me!

1971
01:54:28,102 --> 01:54:33,774
Bottom line, I got to have one $700-a-week
employee to clean up all the time.

1972
01:54:33,858 --> 01:54:36,277
That means I have to make 700 hamburgers.

1973
01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:40,114
That means I have
to have 700 customers, extra.

1974
01:54:40,197 --> 01:54:44,410
And to have to do more business,
either I'm gonna be in the kitchen more,

1975
01:54:44,493 --> 01:54:46,620
or the food that goes out
is gonna be less good.

1976
01:54:51,500 --> 01:54:52,752
Okay...

1977
01:54:53,836 --> 01:54:55,588
And we have a few questions too.

1978
01:54:59,258 --> 01:55:00,801
This is too small for me!

1979
01:55:03,304 --> 01:55:05,306
[ mixed chatter ]

1980
01:55:06,891 --> 01:55:08,309
I think that's smart.

1981
01:55:08,392 --> 01:55:09,810
That... that's a mission.

1982
01:55:09,894 --> 01:55:11,604
We'll do that together.

1983
01:55:11,687 --> 01:55:15,441
But when you have the 20 tables,
the waiter, they knows what table it is.

1984
01:55:15,524 --> 01:55:16,984
Okay, I was just curious.

1985
01:55:17,068 --> 01:55:17,860
Woman: Dad!

1986
01:55:17,943 --> 01:55:18,861
Yes.

1987
01:55:18,944 --> 01:55:20,279
The handles on these fridges...

1988
01:55:20,363 --> 01:55:22,448
But it looks like it stays closed.

1989
01:55:22,531 --> 01:55:23,699
Man: Yeah, stay closed.

1990
01:55:23,783 --> 01:55:25,785
And we have it for five years, like this.

1991
01:55:25,868 --> 01:55:26,786
I believe you.

1992
01:55:26,869 --> 01:55:27,953
You know what I mean?

1993
01:55:28,037 --> 01:55:30,498
And you're not buying the business from us,

1994
01:55:30,581 --> 01:55:33,084
- you know, we're giving you for free.
- I understand.

1995
01:55:33,167 --> 01:55:36,379
So don't ask too much...
For a little thing, please.

1996
01:55:36,462 --> 01:55:40,132
We are sick already, then.
Let... Let us go, just finally.

1997
01:55:40,216 --> 01:55:41,634
You know what I mean?

1998
01:55:42,718 --> 01:55:44,470
The detail thing, you know...

1999
01:55:44,553 --> 01:55:47,556
You weren't feeling that way
when you went from 30,000 to 50,000.

2000
01:55:47,640 --> 01:55:50,142
Man: Stop it! Look, look...
The two of you, please?

2001
01:55:50,226 --> 01:55:51,946
You know something?
I'll tell you something!

2002
01:55:51,977 --> 01:55:52,770
Tell me something.

2003
01:55:52,853 --> 01:55:54,730
- We... We... We have a deal...
- Samir. Samir.

2004
01:55:54,814 --> 01:55:58,734
And we have some people offer us
300,000 fucking thousand dollars.

2005
01:55:58,818 --> 01:56:01,320
- 300 fucking thousand dollars in this place.
- Samir.

2006
01:56:01,404 --> 01:56:05,991
You know, two weeks ago
before that happened, someone...

2007
01:56:06,075 --> 01:56:07,451
- Just please, don't...
- Okay.

2008
01:56:07,535 --> 01:56:09,578
We are giving you everything,

2009
01:56:09,662 --> 01:56:10,496
and we wish you good luck.

2010
01:56:10,579 --> 01:56:12,516
- Samir? Samir? Samir? Samir?
- Kenny. Kenny. Kenny. Kenny.

2011
01:56:12,540 --> 01:56:14,333
Samir? You're right, I'm wrong.

2012
01:56:14,417 --> 01:56:16,710
I apologize. I'm sorry.

2013
01:56:16,794 --> 01:56:18,980
- You're absolutely right. I'll stop...
- We going out with nothing!

2014
01:56:19,004 --> 01:56:21,882
We have kids and family.
Since when I talked to your wife...

2015
01:56:21,966 --> 01:56:24,176
- I'll stop acting like an asshole,
-All right.

2016
01:56:24,260 --> 01:56:25,678
I'm sorry. Okay?

2017
01:56:25,761 --> 01:56:27,805
- Okay, you accept my apology?
- All right.

2018
01:56:27,888 --> 01:56:30,057
I'm very sorry.
Okay, let's go to the basement.

2019
01:56:30,433 --> 01:56:33,561
Air conditioner, exhaust system,
walk-in boxes... That's a walk-in box.

2020
01:56:33,644 --> 01:56:36,230
Steel shelving, tables, chairs,

2021
01:56:36,313 --> 01:56:38,149
dishes, glasses, cutlery.

2022
01:56:38,232 --> 01:56:42,570
I'm giving him a chance to object. If he
wants to object, but he's not objecting.

2023
01:56:42,653 --> 01:56:44,238
See you tomorrow, Samir.

2024
01:56:44,321 --> 01:56:46,824
And I'm sorry if I upset you.
I didn't mean to.

2025
01:56:46,907 --> 01:56:48,242
I didn't mean to upset you.

2026
01:56:48,325 --> 01:56:49,493
It was not my intention.

2027
01:56:49,577 --> 01:56:50,995
Samir: Yeah, nothing new to us.

2028
01:56:53,747 --> 01:56:58,377
But I have this strong feeling that this
awareness of myself and my position in things...

2029
01:56:58,461 --> 01:57:01,589
Because one: Some guy gave me
a huge amount of money

2030
01:57:01,672 --> 01:57:05,050
to help me in the move 'cause I'm broke
from my stupidity in the stock market,

2031
01:57:05,134 --> 01:57:07,803
and three other people
have offered me money.

2032
01:57:07,887 --> 01:57:11,307
And all of a sudden,
I feel like a cross between...

2033
01:57:11,390 --> 01:57:13,726
an endangered species
and a closet intellectual.

2034
01:57:14,560 --> 01:57:15,853
Come talk to me about it.

2035
01:57:16,645 --> 01:57:18,898
[ indistinct ]
Start the proceedings against...

2036
01:57:18,981 --> 01:57:20,483
He could.

2037
01:57:20,566 --> 01:57:22,544
If they have a lawyer
who's really smart, they'll get a year.

2038
01:57:22,568 --> 01:57:24,546
- What do we do during that year?
- I don't mind...

2039
01:57:24,570 --> 01:57:26,530
There's just nothing we can do about it.

2040
01:57:26,614 --> 01:57:28,240
It's beyond our ability to do anything.

2041
01:57:28,324 --> 01:57:29,724
It's just the first time, I mean...

2042
01:57:29,783 --> 01:57:31,744
And you should do...
You know, you're too young,

2043
01:57:31,827 --> 01:57:34,246
but you should put
yourself in their position.

2044
01:57:34,330 --> 01:57:37,124
They took that space 18 years ago.

2045
01:57:37,208 --> 01:57:40,252
Eighteen years ago, that
was two crappy stores.

2046
01:57:40,336 --> 01:57:44,089
Absolutely everything in there:
The bathrooms, the floors, the ceiling...

2047
01:57:44,173 --> 01:57:45,508
They don't want to leave.

2048
01:57:49,178 --> 01:57:50,763
Now you're angry at me?

2049
01:57:50,846 --> 01:57:53,599
The first time I saw it,
I was just stricken by that.

2050
01:57:53,682 --> 01:57:56,769
I'm not saying anything,
I'm just telling you how I feel,

2051
01:57:56,852 --> 01:57:58,979
and you're like,
you got angry at me last night...

2052
01:57:59,063 --> 01:58:00,582
I got angry last night because you were...

2053
01:58:00,606 --> 01:58:03,484
Then you weren't angry enough
not to bring it up now.

2054
01:58:08,197 --> 01:58:11,325
I have to cook with her today.
I've got to be nice to her.

2055
01:58:11,408 --> 01:58:14,703
She gets... When she gets mean...

2056
01:58:14,787 --> 01:58:18,082
When she gets mean,
she's no fun to cook with.

2057
01:58:18,165 --> 01:58:20,793
And you know, she's a
very sweet, lovely girl,

2058
01:58:20,876 --> 01:58:23,629
but when she cooks, she's vicious.

2059
01:58:23,712 --> 01:58:26,840
Now she's telling you,
"He hasn't shut up for two days.

2060
01:58:26,924 --> 01:58:30,052
He's running
his fucking mouth like he's stoned."

2061
01:58:30,135 --> 01:58:31,345
That's what she's saying.

2062
01:58:32,012 --> 01:58:33,823
Charlie: He'll have to deal
with stuff he doesn't want to deal with.

2063
01:58:33,847 --> 01:58:37,518
Whether growth is forced upon you or...

2064
01:58:37,601 --> 01:58:39,186
or you dive into it.

2065
01:58:39,270 --> 01:58:44,817
You know, it's something that helps you...

2066
01:58:49,029 --> 01:58:53,367
Uh, mature, maybe, a little bit,
into a more graceful life.

2067
01:58:55,452 --> 01:58:58,539
It's gonna take forever
to fix that place up.

2068
01:58:58,622 --> 01:58:59,790
Forever.

2069
01:58:59,873 --> 01:59:02,018
Mara said it to me so much,
I yelled at her last night.

2070
01:59:02,042 --> 01:59:04,003
She keeps saying
that we're getting ripped off,

2071
01:59:04,086 --> 01:59:06,171
that everything they have is old,

2072
01:59:06,255 --> 01:59:08,257
moldy, non-working.

2073
01:59:08,340 --> 01:59:09,049
They have a fucking...

2074
01:59:09,133 --> 01:59:10,634
Mara: And not suited to us!

2075
01:59:10,718 --> 01:59:12,219
And not suited to us.

2076
01:59:16,181 --> 01:59:17,641
You ever see "Woman in the Dunes?"

2077
01:59:17,725 --> 01:59:24,732
It's about a guy, through some circumstance,
finds himself in this deep pit with a woman.

2078
01:59:26,567 --> 01:59:29,320
And he's not sure how
he got there, exactly.

2079
01:59:29,403 --> 01:59:31,196
And the woman is loving.

2080
01:59:33,240 --> 01:59:35,492
You know, and they have sex.

2081
01:59:35,576 --> 01:59:37,703
And he has to get up every morning

2082
01:59:37,786 --> 01:59:40,539
and he has to dig sand out,

2083
01:59:40,623 --> 01:59:44,376
put it in a bucket, pull the string,

2084
01:59:44,460 --> 01:59:48,881
and the bucket goes up
and automatically dumps the sand out.

2085
01:59:50,299 --> 01:59:53,844
If he doesn't do that,
they get buried in sand.

2086
01:59:53,927 --> 01:59:56,430
And sometimes,
without the spiritual part of my life,

2087
01:59:56,513 --> 01:59:58,599
it feels like that, you know?

2088
01:59:58,682 --> 02:00:01,226
I guess it feels that
way to everybody, right?

2089
02:00:01,310 --> 02:00:05,022
You know, although I don't really mind
digging sand, to tell you the truth.

2090
02:00:06,857 --> 02:00:09,610
[ sigh ]

2091
02:00:09,693 --> 02:00:15,032
He calls me up yesterday... last night.

2092
02:00:15,115 --> 02:00:19,370
And at one o'clock today, I'm supposed to
go... I have a certified check for $50,000.

2093
02:00:19,453 --> 02:00:22,414
That's it. Then I go to the Magic Carpet,
it's my place.

2094
02:00:22,498 --> 02:00:26,043
He tells me that there's a place
on Hudson Street, a store.

2095
02:00:26,126 --> 02:00:28,671
This is a business, you know?

2096
02:00:28,754 --> 02:00:33,509
I don't have the option
to overlook a lease possibility.

2097
02:00:33,592 --> 02:00:36,011
And it's so nice, you know,
that somebody wanted,

2098
02:00:36,095 --> 02:00:39,098
you know, somebody that we thought
really didn't like us all that much,

2099
02:00:39,181 --> 02:00:41,266
that shouldn't come in that often,

2100
02:00:41,350 --> 02:00:45,145
to know that she was
touched by our position.

2101
02:00:45,229 --> 02:00:47,856
Things like this have been just
happening from all over the place,

2102
02:00:47,940 --> 02:00:52,236
and that's been so good for our souls.

2103
02:00:54,405 --> 02:00:58,492
So she's now offering me this premises,
which really isn't a restaurant,

2104
02:00:58,575 --> 02:00:59,910
right around the corner,

2105
02:00:59,993 --> 02:01:01,787
supposedly at a better rent.

2106
02:01:01,870 --> 02:01:06,375
I have to decide
really quick if it's better.

2107
02:01:07,167 --> 02:01:10,367
Eve, if you keep taking breakfast orders,
we're never gonna go to the restaurant.

2108
02:01:11,797 --> 02:01:13,257
Maybe I'll send Jose over.

2109
02:01:17,219 --> 02:01:25,219
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2110
02:01:26,729 --> 02:01:28,355
I think he loved it.

2111
02:01:28,439 --> 02:01:32,067
I think the problem is that
we were already too far into that deal.

2112
02:01:32,151 --> 02:01:33,211
What do you think we should do?

2113
02:01:33,235 --> 02:01:34,153
Mara: I don't know.

2114
02:01:34,236 --> 02:01:37,781
Well, give me an answer.
I have to decide at 1:15 today what to do.

2115
02:01:37,865 --> 02:01:41,410
It's not a matter of...
it being an intellectual exercise.

2116
02:01:41,493 --> 02:01:42,327
This is... We're in reality.

2117
02:01:42,411 --> 02:01:46,540
On the 30th of this month,
I have to be out of this fucking space.

2118
02:01:46,623 --> 02:01:50,002
- How much work is it?
- How much work is it?

2119
02:01:50,085 --> 02:01:53,422
There's nothing. It is raw space.

2120
02:01:53,505 --> 02:01:57,509
There's no walls, there's no floors,
and it'll take time.

2121
02:01:57,593 --> 02:01:59,136
We don't have time.

2122
02:02:00,763 --> 02:02:03,056
You really want to go
for the big shot, huh?

2123
02:02:03,140 --> 02:02:05,309
Yeah, that's what...
Remember, we talked about it,

2124
02:02:05,392 --> 02:02:08,687
that you were gonna move forward, and...

2125
02:02:08,771 --> 02:02:10,731
Blah blah blah? Remember that?

2126
02:02:10,814 --> 02:02:12,858
- Yeah, but you know I'm a whore.
- I know.

2127
02:02:14,735 --> 02:02:19,990
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2128
02:02:24,787 --> 02:02:29,792
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2129
02:03:01,907 --> 02:03:04,034
This is another part of what I do.

2130
02:03:04,117 --> 02:03:07,913
I have additions, I have corrections
and I constantly edit the list.

2131
02:03:14,503 --> 02:03:18,423
This is in the great tradition
of all good kitchens,

2132
02:03:18,507 --> 02:03:19,842
this type of shopping.

2133
02:03:19,925 --> 02:03:22,302
It's just the level of which I do it

2134
02:03:22,386 --> 02:03:27,933
is appropriate for the level of my
creativity and of my station in life.

2135
02:03:28,016 --> 02:03:29,810
I know who I am, I know what I do.

2136
02:03:29,893 --> 02:03:32,729
Normal cooking for normal people.

2137
02:03:32,813 --> 02:03:35,065
You see any arrows on these bags?

2138
02:03:35,148 --> 02:03:36,733
I opened it right up.

2139
02:03:36,817 --> 02:03:38,419
A lot of people,
if there's not an arrow on the bag,

2140
02:03:38,443 --> 02:03:40,028
they're in a lot of fucking trouble.

2141
02:03:40,112 --> 02:03:42,752
You never know when you're gonna need
to open a plastic bag either.

2142
02:03:44,491 --> 02:03:46,785
Nothing that you see here

2143
02:03:46,869 --> 02:03:48,745
will exist by next week.

2144
02:03:53,083 --> 02:03:55,377
It's a different place,
it's different people.

2145
02:03:56,920 --> 02:03:58,005
It's nice.

2146
02:04:07,306 --> 02:04:11,310
Is the... national vegetable apparatus

2147
02:04:11,393 --> 02:04:14,187
more humane than
the national beef apparatus?

2148
02:04:14,271 --> 02:04:18,483
The harvest of those lovely organic
vegetables that your wife eats,

2149
02:04:18,567 --> 02:04:21,945
there's some fucking Brown person

2150
02:04:22,029 --> 02:04:25,324
getting his skin ripped off his body
while he picks it.

2151
02:04:25,407 --> 02:04:28,243
Dying at 35 instead of 68,

2152
02:04:28,327 --> 02:04:32,039
because they're...
malnourished and overworked,

2153
02:04:32,122 --> 02:04:37,002
living in a place with disease and vermin,

2154
02:04:37,085 --> 02:04:42,758
and being paid money
in a... plantation system

2155
02:04:42,841 --> 02:04:45,344
which always finds a way,
just like our government does,

2156
02:04:45,427 --> 02:04:47,846
to take back almost
all the money they give you.

2157
02:04:47,930 --> 02:04:51,141
Because if you end up with a lot of money
at the end of the growing season,

2158
02:04:51,224 --> 02:04:52,869
you won't go back.
You'll go somewhere else.

2159
02:04:52,893 --> 02:04:56,188
You'll buy a fucking pair of shoes
and get a job in the post office.

2160
02:04:56,271 --> 02:04:59,691
Now in the new restaurant,
if I do do the shopping,

2161
02:04:59,775 --> 02:05:04,029
this big change in my life is I'm gonna
have to go right on Clarkson Street

2162
02:05:04,112 --> 02:05:07,240
instead of going right on Morton Street,

2163
02:05:07,324 --> 02:05:10,285
which is okay for me
because the Morton Street people

2164
02:05:10,369 --> 02:05:12,996
are not as nice as they think they are.

2165
02:05:17,417 --> 02:05:21,338
This guy's supposed to meet somebody
here for breakfast and we're closed?

2166
02:05:21,421 --> 02:05:22,673
What do you think?

2167
02:05:22,756 --> 02:05:23,924
He doesn't look happy.

2168
02:05:25,467 --> 02:05:28,387
Then we're gonna open the gate up
and he's gonna feel good for a second,

2169
02:05:28,470 --> 02:05:29,972
then he's gonna feel bad again.

2170
02:05:36,144 --> 02:05:38,021
So you guys, shoot
him, to see if I'm right?

2171
02:05:38,105 --> 02:05:39,106
Man: Yeah.

2172
02:05:46,405 --> 02:05:47,864
This is Shopsin's?

2173
02:05:50,951 --> 02:05:53,412
There was a moment there
where you had a glimmer of hope?

2174
02:05:53,495 --> 02:05:55,372
Well, yeah, about... a second.

2175
02:05:55,455 --> 02:05:57,749
Despite the fact that
you read the paper and everything?

2176
02:05:57,833 --> 02:05:59,251
No, I didn't read anything.

2177
02:05:59,334 --> 02:06:00,836
Oh, there, it says right on the gate.

2178
02:06:00,919 --> 02:06:01,920
Where?

2179
02:06:06,008 --> 02:06:08,093
Oh, okay, so it's a trick.

2180
02:06:08,176 --> 02:06:11,847
What new address do you want the...
Our new restaurant to have?

2181
02:06:11,930 --> 02:06:15,684
28 Bedford Street or 54 Carmine?

2182
02:06:15,767 --> 02:06:17,602
I'm tempted for Carmine.

2183
02:06:17,686 --> 02:06:19,563
I think it makes more
sense to have Carmine...

2184
02:06:19,646 --> 02:06:21,165
And it's a nicer name, to have a new...

2185
02:06:21,189 --> 02:06:23,418
"Cause otherwise you're gonna be
explaining, "The entrance is on Carmine..."

2186
02:06:23,442 --> 02:06:26,319
Carmine is a hard syllable.
I think it might be a new image for us.

2187
02:06:26,403 --> 02:06:27,403
Yeah.

2188
02:06:28,155 --> 02:06:32,117
Kenny: The last time
in a segment to your life

2189
02:06:32,200 --> 02:06:36,038
is less difficult to accept
than the last time in your life.

2190
02:06:36,121 --> 02:06:38,457
And this is the thing
where I come out all right...

2191
02:06:38,540 --> 02:06:40,709
Because for all of the things
that have gone wrong,

2192
02:06:40,792 --> 02:06:42,627
it's an opportunity for regret.

2193
02:06:44,004 --> 02:06:46,298
You never know...
Regrets are like children.

2194
02:06:46,381 --> 02:06:47,859
You don't really know
if you really want to have them

2195
02:06:47,883 --> 02:06:50,552
till it's too late to do anything about it.

2196
02:06:50,635 --> 02:06:54,556
And... I don't have that many regrets.

2197
02:06:54,639 --> 02:06:58,685
And yet despite my real affection for
this place, the bond that I'm gonna miss

2198
02:06:58,769 --> 02:07:01,188
is the bond of enforced confinement.

2199
02:07:01,271 --> 02:07:06,401
I would hate very much to go from one
physical dependency on environment

2200
02:07:06,485 --> 02:07:08,111
to another one.

2201
02:07:08,195 --> 02:07:10,030
But to float free,

2202
02:07:10,113 --> 02:07:14,868
it's not so easy for somebody who's been
dependent on environment for his stability.

2203
02:07:14,951 --> 02:07:17,829
I don't really want to go out
and plow the fields with everybody else,

2204
02:07:17,913 --> 02:07:22,709
but I'm not really interested in living in
Iowa in the mountains someplace either.

2205
02:07:22,793 --> 02:07:24,044
So, we'll see what happens.

2206
02:07:27,339 --> 02:07:29,633
I'm happy that everyone's here.
It's like a family affair.

2207
02:07:29,716 --> 02:07:31,676
[ telephone rings ]
Shopsin's.

2208
02:07:33,845 --> 02:07:36,598
Uh, this is our last day,
so it's kind of floating free,

2209
02:07:36,681 --> 02:07:38,642
I can't tell you a thing,
except we're open now.

2210
02:07:38,725 --> 02:07:40,477
It should be fun
if it doesn't get too busy.

2211
02:07:40,560 --> 02:07:42,521
[ mixed chatter ]

2212
02:07:44,397 --> 02:07:45,857
[ applause ]

2213
02:07:50,821 --> 02:07:52,322
How you doing?

2214
02:07:52,405 --> 02:07:53,657
Hi again.

2215
02:07:55,408 --> 02:07:58,870
Years in the business have taught me
that if you cook too fast, they leave,

2216
02:07:58,954 --> 02:08:00,205
then you have to cook again.

2217
02:08:00,288 --> 02:08:02,290
[ mixed chatter ]

2218
02:08:08,338 --> 02:08:11,925
When I was really young,
I was as heavy as I am now,

2219
02:08:12,008 --> 02:08:15,387
and I lived at 38 Morton Street
next to a woman who was really crazy.

2220
02:08:15,470 --> 02:08:17,180
I mean, every time I came home,

2221
02:08:17,264 --> 02:08:21,184
[ mimicking neighbor ]
"You fat, Jew bastard."

2222
02:08:21,268 --> 02:08:23,478
Every night, for years!

2223
02:08:23,562 --> 02:08:26,773
And then I went on, like, a diet
and I lost a lot of weight,

2224
02:08:26,857 --> 02:08:28,900
and one night I came home,

2225
02:08:28,984 --> 02:08:31,862
and she says, "You Jew bastard."

2226
02:08:31,945 --> 02:08:35,740
And I went there... I said,
"Holy shit, she complimented me."

2227
02:08:35,824 --> 02:08:38,368
And I turned around and I said,
"Thanks, Betty!"

2228
02:08:39,327 --> 02:08:42,914
We were sitting and eating,
and they had a bris here.

2229
02:08:42,998 --> 02:08:47,460
And the... Mohel,

2230
02:08:47,544 --> 02:08:52,132
cutter of the weenie, came and, uh...

2231
02:08:52,215 --> 02:08:56,928
He wasn't extremely thrilled about the
place because there was a big 20-pound ham

2232
02:08:57,012 --> 02:08:58,388
cooking up on the counter.

2233
02:08:58,471 --> 02:08:59,952
And I think he disliked Kenny so much

2234
02:09:00,015 --> 02:09:04,603
he said something nasty to him
about the weenie

2235
02:09:04,686 --> 02:09:06,438
that he'd just worked on,

2236
02:09:06,521 --> 02:09:09,482
and Kenny went charging after the guy
and was screaming at him.

2237
02:09:09,566 --> 02:09:11,985
Everybody all day was absolutely persuaded

2238
02:09:12,068 --> 02:09:14,779
that Zach's foreskin
ended up in one of the dishes...

2239
02:09:14,863 --> 02:09:16,364
Or perhaps in several.

2240
02:09:16,448 --> 02:09:20,785
Perhaps the new place
will open up some things for Kenny

2241
02:09:20,869 --> 02:09:23,288
in terms of the kind of cooking he can do.

2242
02:09:23,371 --> 02:09:25,332
It's whatever he wants to do.

2243
02:09:25,415 --> 02:09:29,169
It's... I know that it will be
an interesting experience for me...

2244
02:09:29,252 --> 02:09:33,131
And he's walking around behind me
and this is terrifying me,

2245
02:09:33,215 --> 02:09:36,635
because I don't know what he's doing
and he's so unpredictable!

2246
02:09:36,718 --> 02:09:38,398
I haven't been over to look at that place.

2247
02:09:38,470 --> 02:09:42,474
I guess it looks suspiciously
like a restaurant though.

2248
02:09:42,557 --> 02:09:45,393
I haven't seen the new place,
don't know nothing about it.

2249
02:09:45,477 --> 02:09:48,480
This place has something in it
that no other place has.

2250
02:09:48,563 --> 02:09:50,315
Man: What do you think that is?

2251
02:09:50,398 --> 02:09:51,441
Chutzpah.

2252
02:09:51,524 --> 02:09:55,612
The vibes are great.
It's just a great place to sit and eat

2253
02:09:55,695 --> 02:09:57,590
and you never know
what's gonna come out of his mouth.

2254
02:09:57,614 --> 02:09:58,782
What?

2255
02:09:58,865 --> 02:10:01,993
Mara: Chocolate orange French toast
with maple glaze and a side of bacon!

2256
02:10:02,077 --> 02:10:03,453
[ telephone rings ]

2257
02:10:05,705 --> 02:10:06,706
Yeah?

2258
02:10:11,836 --> 02:10:12,963
But don't come.

2259
02:10:13,922 --> 02:10:16,633
This is our last day,
we're not taking any new customers.

2260
02:10:16,716 --> 02:10:18,176
It's all finished for the day.

2261
02:10:19,177 --> 02:10:20,637
Yes. Thank you.

2262
02:10:21,346 --> 02:10:22,847
Asshole.

2263
02:10:22,931 --> 02:10:24,975
Man: If he ever changes, I'll kill him.

2264
02:10:25,058 --> 02:10:31,481
I hope it's a psychological reaction to
being kicked out of here, is that I'm... Out.

2265
02:10:31,564 --> 02:10:33,084
I don't feel like cooking here anymore.

2266
02:10:33,108 --> 02:10:35,610
You know, and she is, uh, taking command.

2267
02:10:36,903 --> 02:10:40,490
If it wasn't for her organizing things,
I wouldn't be even in the ballpark here.

2268
02:10:43,243 --> 02:10:47,580
Man: ♪ Some other enchanted evening... ♪
Mara: I'm just putting... Just save a slice!

2269
02:10:47,664 --> 02:10:51,626
♪ You may meet a stranger ♪
Mara: As long as...

2270
02:10:51,710 --> 02:10:55,714
♪ You may meet a stranger ♪

2271
02:10:55,797 --> 02:10:57,215
Kenny: Not much stranger.

2272
02:10:57,299 --> 02:11:01,803
♪ Not much stranger,
across a crowded baguette ♪

2273
02:11:03,847 --> 02:11:05,932
[ applause ]

2274
02:11:09,477 --> 02:11:11,438
I mean, the guy's been closing here

2275
02:11:11,521 --> 02:11:13,064
over the past few weeks.

2276
02:11:13,148 --> 02:11:14,524
He's still creating dishes.

2277
02:11:14,607 --> 02:11:19,487
Ken once recently described this place
as being like the rings on a tree,

2278
02:11:19,571 --> 02:11:23,241
where he can look around
and see things that are from last week.

2279
02:11:23,325 --> 02:11:26,494
And he can look around
and see things that are... 15 years ago.

2280
02:11:26,578 --> 02:11:28,872
I'm happy there's going to be a new place.

2281
02:11:28,955 --> 02:11:34,085
I'm sure it will be as uniquely Shopsin's
as this was, in just... in another way.

2282
02:11:34,169 --> 02:11:35,229
Woman: John, do you want a Pellegrino?

2283
02:11:35,253 --> 02:11:36,880
Uh, please, hon. Thank you.

2284
02:11:39,049 --> 02:11:40,759
[ chuckling ]

2285
02:11:40,842 --> 02:11:42,010
They know what I want.

2286
02:11:42,093 --> 02:11:43,386
Kenny: See the cup?

2287
02:11:43,470 --> 02:11:47,223
That's some...
After I do this, it drips sometimes.

2288
02:11:47,307 --> 02:11:51,269
So that, after it dripped
and we cleaned it up a lot of times,

2289
02:11:51,353 --> 02:11:53,355
the solution to the drip...

2290
02:11:56,191 --> 02:11:57,776
Was this.

2291
02:11:57,859 --> 02:11:59,337
And the problem with leaving this place

2292
02:11:59,361 --> 02:12:04,115
is that the whole place
is loaded with my solutions.

2293
02:12:09,704 --> 02:12:12,290
Man: Kenny would give everything away.

2294
02:12:12,374 --> 02:12:17,629
Money's not that important, it's the...
End result of doing a good job.

2295
02:12:17,712 --> 02:12:19,714
[ mixed chatter ]

2296
02:12:26,429 --> 02:12:29,682
You know, some people play a role

2297
02:12:29,766 --> 02:12:33,353
in helping people feel better,

2298
02:12:33,436 --> 02:12:36,523
and sometimes they do it
just by being themselves.

2299
02:12:43,154 --> 02:12:45,657
Eve: You know, the store
brought us everything, you know?

2300
02:12:45,740 --> 02:12:51,121
It fed us, it gave us
intellectual stimulation.

2301
02:12:51,204 --> 02:12:53,415
Um... it opened so many doors to us.

2302
02:12:53,498 --> 02:12:57,502
Whenever you needed to know anything, there
was a customer who was just the person.

2303
02:12:58,920 --> 02:13:01,798
Man: What do you think about the change,
moving over to the new place?

2304
02:13:01,881 --> 02:13:03,383
I don't fucking like it.

2305
02:13:23,778 --> 02:13:25,297
Kenny: You know, my son,
when he was really young,

2306
02:13:25,321 --> 02:13:28,199
and the first time
he actually took a shit in the toilet...

2307
02:13:28,283 --> 02:13:30,410
Flushed the toilet, his
shit's swirling around,

2308
02:13:30,493 --> 02:13:33,621
and he looks at it and he says,
"Have a nice trip."

2309
02:13:35,081 --> 02:13:38,460
Meaning that that wasn't shit to him:
That was part of him

2310
02:13:38,543 --> 02:13:41,671
that's going away on a journey.

2311
02:13:41,754 --> 02:13:45,800
And this is, you know, I'm saying
"Have a nice trip" to my store.

2312
02:13:51,306 --> 02:13:53,808
[ mixed Spanish and English ]

2313
02:14:20,543 --> 02:14:23,630
Okay, I just lost my fucking
piece of paper. Son of a bitch.

2314
02:14:24,589 --> 02:14:27,342
I had a piece of paper
with a list of things to do

2315
02:14:27,425 --> 02:14:30,011
and I lost the piece of paper.

2316
02:14:30,094 --> 02:14:31,179
What an asshole.

2317
02:14:33,431 --> 02:14:34,599
Mom?

2318
02:14:34,682 --> 02:14:36,768
Can you wake up Zach
and have him come over now?

2319
02:14:36,851 --> 02:14:38,561
I'm sweating in the fucking kitchen

2320
02:14:38,645 --> 02:14:41,689
working my balls off so I can pay you!
[ indistinct ]

2321
02:14:41,773 --> 02:14:43,066
Scumbag.

2322
02:14:48,655 --> 02:14:51,342
Talk to Evie about all that shit,
I don't want to be bothered with it,

2323
02:14:51,366 --> 02:14:53,117
fucking douche bag.

2324
02:14:53,201 --> 02:14:54,702
What's Zach doing?

2325
02:14:54,786 --> 02:14:56,162
Sleep.

2326
02:14:56,246 --> 02:14:57,497
He's not waking up.

2327
02:14:58,540 --> 02:14:59,624
You know...

2328
02:15:00,542 --> 02:15:02,377
[ telephone beeping ]

2329
02:15:03,419 --> 02:15:07,048
I can't wait till he fucking goes to college.
I won't have to deal with his shit anymore.

2330
02:15:08,633 --> 02:15:10,260
A fucking jerk.

2331
02:15:17,267 --> 02:15:18,977
Man 1: Are you closed?

2332
02:15:19,060 --> 02:15:19,978
Yes.

2333
02:15:20,061 --> 02:15:21,187
Till when?

2334
02:15:21,271 --> 02:15:22,647
Forever.

2335
02:15:22,730 --> 02:15:24,023
Man 2: It's open next month.

2336
02:15:24,566 --> 02:15:25,584
Man 1:
It's open next month?

2337
02:15:25,608 --> 02:15:29,237
Forever! Tell him forever. It's forever.
This place is never gonna be open.

2338
02:15:29,320 --> 02:15:31,906
Don't be nice to people.

2339
02:15:31,990 --> 02:15:33,074
It's a big mistake.

2340
02:15:44,919 --> 02:15:47,255
I'm gonna go over to the house
and physically assault him.

2341
02:15:52,260 --> 02:15:53,761
Good you're not gonna be there.

2342
02:15:56,264 --> 02:15:57,974
- I missed it.
- Yeah.

2343
02:15:59,684 --> 02:16:01,078
I thought it was going to be this week.

2344
02:16:01,102 --> 02:16:02,854
[ chuckle ]

2345
02:16:02,937 --> 02:16:04,188
Eve: We move fast, Ron.

2346
02:16:04,272 --> 02:16:05,315
There it is.

2347
02:16:06,566 --> 02:16:08,818
Kenny: So Mara doesn't know
where you hook the phone up.

2348
02:16:10,028 --> 02:16:13,906
When you contracted, did you contract to have
the phone service done into the building?

2349
02:16:13,990 --> 02:16:15,116
Eve: Yes.

2350
02:16:15,199 --> 02:16:17,785
Kenny: Where? You don't know.

2351
02:16:17,869 --> 02:16:19,370
Who do you think might know?

2352
02:16:19,454 --> 02:16:21,134
Who knows? Nobody?
You don't know anything?

2353
02:16:21,205 --> 02:16:22,707
You haven't a clue, is that right?

2354
02:16:22,790 --> 02:16:23,875
Eve: I don't know.

2355
02:16:23,958 --> 02:16:26,002
Kenny: Cool. That's really cool.

2356
02:16:26,085 --> 02:16:27,629
I have to run over there now.

2357
02:16:27,712 --> 02:16:30,006
I want all the artwork and everything
loaded into the van.

2358
02:16:30,089 --> 02:16:31,966
See if you can do it
without fucking things up.

2359
02:16:34,385 --> 02:16:36,929
Eve: Oh, this is Kenny,
and this is how he reacts to things,

2360
02:16:37,013 --> 02:16:39,223
and I just don't pay any attention to him.

2361
02:16:40,475 --> 02:16:44,270
If I had got upset about everything he did
and every name he called me,

2362
02:16:44,354 --> 02:16:47,065
you know, I would be in big trouble.

2363
02:16:47,148 --> 02:16:49,776
I've developed techniques,
and I just leave.

2364
02:16:49,859 --> 02:16:54,906
You know, go outside for a few minutes, or
I go in the bathroom, or just... you know.

2365
02:16:57,659 --> 02:16:58,785
Zach: Got it on?

2366
02:16:59,827 --> 02:17:01,204
I don't understand, Zach.

2367
02:17:01,287 --> 02:17:02,789
I put in an hour, and then I go...

2368
02:17:02,872 --> 02:17:03,998
What does your ticket say?

2369
02:17:04,082 --> 02:17:07,001
I told you to buy the soda,
I told you to put the parking in there.

2370
02:17:07,085 --> 02:17:10,588
I did, and then fucking I go over and
put in another fucking 50 cents in there

2371
02:17:10,672 --> 02:17:12,382
and fucking there's a ticket.

2372
02:17:12,465 --> 02:17:14,386
I'm telling you,
the guy must have sat and waited

2373
02:17:14,467 --> 02:17:16,388
for the exact second
the shit ran out, 'cause...

2374
02:17:16,427 --> 02:17:18,596
Well, why didn't you keep the meter going?

2375
02:17:18,680 --> 02:17:20,765
"Cause I was fucking working!

2376
02:17:20,848 --> 02:17:23,786
- You don't get it? You really don't get it?
- I get it. I get it, I get it.

2377
02:17:23,810 --> 02:17:25,728
You really don't get it, do you, Zach?

2378
02:17:25,812 --> 02:17:27,563
This is, like, un-fucking-believable.

2379
02:17:27,647 --> 02:17:30,400
I ask you to do a fucking job
and you don't do it.

2380
02:17:30,483 --> 02:17:32,402
It's really simple, isn't it?

2381
02:17:32,485 --> 02:17:33,695
What's to get?

2382
02:17:45,540 --> 02:17:49,293
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
You don't think it's unbelievable?

2383
02:17:49,377 --> 02:17:51,921
You stole the fucking extra money, right?

2384
02:17:52,004 --> 02:17:53,941
- You took the extra...
- It's in my fucking pocket!

2385
02:17:53,965 --> 02:17:55,550
You took the extra money,

2386
02:17:55,633 --> 02:17:57,468
you bought an ice cream with it,

2387
02:17:57,552 --> 02:17:59,238
but you didn't do
what you were supposed to do!

2388
02:17:59,262 --> 02:18:01,597
- I did fucking do that, but I...
- Are you telling me

2389
02:18:01,681 --> 02:18:03,182
that you got that meter going?

2390
02:18:03,266 --> 02:18:04,600
And that, that meter maid is...

2391
02:18:04,684 --> 02:18:06,870
Are you telling me you did
what you were supposed to do?

2392
02:18:06,894 --> 02:18:08,771
I guess I...
[ muttering ]

2393
02:18:08,855 --> 02:18:10,106
You're right. I fucked up.

2394
02:18:10,189 --> 02:18:12,918
What would it have cost you to go out there
and put another two quarters in?

2395
02:18:12,942 --> 02:18:13,818
Nothing.

2396
02:18:13,901 --> 02:18:15,528
- Then why?
- I don't know.

2397
02:18:15,611 --> 02:18:17,530
Well, try to think about it, Zach!

2398
02:18:17,613 --> 02:18:20,050
I don't know, I was busy working,
I was moving chairs and shit...

2399
02:18:20,074 --> 02:18:24,829
You were busy doing
something that didn't have a deadline,

2400
02:18:24,912 --> 02:18:26,998
and you gave up something that did.

2401
02:18:27,081 --> 02:18:28,124
Sorry.

2402
02:18:30,626 --> 02:18:32,253
The thing is, he's so good at arguing,

2403
02:18:32,336 --> 02:18:35,214
that quite often,
he'll win arguments where he's wrong.

2404
02:18:35,298 --> 02:18:38,360
They, like, can't imagine ever telling their
dad, you know, telling their dad to fuck off.

2405
02:18:38,384 --> 02:18:39,403
He'll yell at us, we'll yell at him.

2406
02:18:39,427 --> 02:18:42,388
And it's... just the way it is.

2407
02:18:43,848 --> 02:18:48,186
And I'm hoping in the new place,
where he's in the kitchen,

2408
02:18:48,269 --> 02:18:49,854
that there's gonna be less of that.

2409
02:18:49,937 --> 02:18:52,565
You know, you're getting
on my fucking nerves now!

2410
02:18:52,648 --> 02:18:56,444
I can't do anything
until the kitchen works.

2411
02:18:56,527 --> 02:19:00,114
But first I have to get out of here,
otherwise they're gonna lock all my shit up,

2412
02:19:00,198 --> 02:19:01,407
and I'm gonna look stupid.

2413
02:19:10,082 --> 02:19:11,459
Man: I'm looking for Shopsin's.

2414
02:19:13,252 --> 02:19:15,213
[ reading ]
"It's hard to recommend Shopsin's,

2415
02:19:15,296 --> 02:19:17,882
but it's even harder to leave it out.

2416
02:19:17,965 --> 02:19:21,886
The temperament of chef/owner Kenny Shopsin
makes dining a risk.

2417
02:19:21,969 --> 02:19:24,889
If he doesn't like your attitude,
he won't hesitate to throw you out.

2418
02:19:24,972 --> 02:19:26,933
A shame, considering
you'd be missing a selection

2419
02:19:27,016 --> 02:19:29,894
of more than 200 soups
and hundreds of entrees,

2420
02:19:29,977 --> 02:19:31,270
each prepared a la minute.

2421
02:19:31,354 --> 02:19:33,022
One of the best meals is breakfast.

2422
02:19:33,105 --> 02:19:35,274
Offerings include
homemade pumpkin pancakes,

2423
02:19:35,358 --> 02:19:36,734
corn and cornmeal waffles

2424
02:19:36,818 --> 02:19:38,903
that will keep you feeling full
for the entire day.

2425
02:19:38,986 --> 02:19:40,964
The coffee is good,
but you have to get it yourself.

2426
02:19:40,988 --> 02:19:42,909
If you don't like it, you
know what you can do."

2427
02:19:48,663 --> 02:19:50,706
On Friday night, um...

2428
02:19:50,790 --> 02:19:54,126
I had dinner with a few friends,
and we were the last people out and...

2429
02:19:54,210 --> 02:19:55,837
Got talking to Eve, and she said,

2430
02:19:55,920 --> 02:19:59,590
"If you have nothing better to do
on Monday or Tuesday, come on by."

2431
02:19:59,674 --> 02:20:01,384
They're loyal Shopsin customers as well,

2432
02:20:01,467 --> 02:20:04,095
so it was like one phone call,
and they were like, "Hell yeah!"

2433
02:20:04,178 --> 02:20:10,184
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2434
02:20:14,188 --> 02:20:20,111
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2435
02:20:21,153 --> 02:20:21,946
[ splashing ]

2436
02:20:22,029 --> 02:20:23,281
Various: Oooh!

2437
02:20:23,364 --> 02:20:24,532
[ applause ]

2438
02:20:26,576 --> 02:20:28,411
Mara: Dad, what do you want to take next?

2439
02:20:35,209 --> 02:20:36,335
Jesus...

2440
02:20:42,341 --> 02:20:43,885
Kenny: This stove is six stoves.

2441
02:20:43,968 --> 02:20:46,178
40% of the stove from Sloppy Louie's,

2442
02:20:46,262 --> 02:20:49,307
and the 60% spare parts...
Every burner is different.

2443
02:20:49,390 --> 02:20:51,559
It has no legs;
all the oven racks are different;

2444
02:20:51,642 --> 02:20:53,352
each oven has a different burner in it;

2445
02:20:53,436 --> 02:20:55,438
the pilots haven't worked for 15 years.

2446
02:21:05,239 --> 02:21:06,866
This one looks like a whore's ass.

2447
02:21:06,949 --> 02:21:10,077
Scratches and bumps, a little bit bowed,

2448
02:21:10,161 --> 02:21:12,914
and if you pour something on it,
it always goes to the left.

2449
02:21:12,997 --> 02:21:14,999
If that flame goes on accidentally

2450
02:21:15,082 --> 02:21:17,668
and the oil heats up
too much, it'll explode.

2451
02:21:17,752 --> 02:21:19,754
[ rattling ]

2452
02:21:40,107 --> 02:21:41,525
Just push it down the hole.

2453
02:21:49,116 --> 02:21:51,369
[ alarm beeping ]
Kenny: Take it with me.

2454
02:21:51,452 --> 02:21:53,871
You know, maybe they'll
use it as a cheap headstone.

2455
02:22:16,894 --> 02:22:19,730
You know, this place is put together

2456
02:22:19,814 --> 02:22:21,816
like somebody who wants
to have a jigsaw puzzle

2457
02:22:21,899 --> 02:22:24,276
and he assembles it one piece at a time.

2458
02:22:24,360 --> 02:22:26,737
But the pieces aren't pre-cut:
He cuts them all.

2459
02:22:30,825 --> 02:22:32,260
I'm moving to a different neighborhood,

2460
02:22:32,284 --> 02:22:35,121
and I felt there in the first three
or four days that I was there,

2461
02:22:35,204 --> 02:22:38,165
a good deal of hostility, anger.

2462
02:22:38,249 --> 02:22:42,837
Anger that I was the cause
of the Magic Carpet's demise.

2463
02:22:42,920 --> 02:22:45,339
Anger that, uh...

2464
02:22:45,423 --> 02:22:46,966
I'm the harbinger of change,

2465
02:22:47,049 --> 02:22:50,410
and I guess for most of the older people
there it means that they're closer to death.

2466
02:22:50,469 --> 02:22:53,514
And then I felt that
if I did something that was too cocky,

2467
02:22:53,597 --> 02:22:55,224
to put up an awning with no sign...

2468
02:22:56,434 --> 02:22:59,603
Cocky, anonymous, exclusive.

2469
02:22:59,687 --> 02:23:03,441
I decided that it was an unfriendly act
to go in there with my own style,

2470
02:23:03,524 --> 02:23:08,821
and that I should moderate
my style to include words

2471
02:23:08,904 --> 02:23:11,282
and something that people
could relate to and understand

2472
02:23:11,365 --> 02:23:14,410
so that I wouldn't
be a stranger in a strange land.

2473
02:23:22,168 --> 02:23:25,546
You know, it's like...
It's like it's not there

2474
02:23:25,629 --> 02:23:28,466
and you just float around the city
like you're in a dream.

2475
02:23:28,549 --> 02:23:31,343
You're attacked by the sights,
the sounds and the smells.

2476
02:23:31,427 --> 02:23:33,137
Every neighborhood smells different.

2477
02:23:33,220 --> 02:23:36,640
Crusty, the crusty...
Probably Bruno over there.

2478
02:23:36,724 --> 02:23:39,977
Nice brown crust on the bread
with maybe sesame seeds.

2479
02:23:42,063 --> 02:23:44,315
Eve: Kenny says he's about a week away.

2480
02:23:55,117 --> 02:23:56,202
Jose!

2481
02:23:58,245 --> 02:23:59,538
I need Jose.

2482
02:24:10,549 --> 02:24:12,301
I've been kind of crippled,

2483
02:24:12,384 --> 02:24:14,678
emotionally and physically, too.

2484
02:24:14,762 --> 02:24:19,266
I've been very enervated all the time
by the burden of mental things.

2485
02:24:19,350 --> 02:24:24,271
It's left some room
for her to assert her capabilities

2486
02:24:24,355 --> 02:24:29,360
as opposed to constantly
being whacked around by my, uh...

2487
02:24:29,443 --> 02:24:33,197
Effusive expression of competence.

2488
02:24:33,280 --> 02:24:36,158
I'm ready.
Yeah, yeah, it didn't take long.

2489
02:24:36,242 --> 02:24:39,596
I mean, it was really nice having a little
bit of space in my life, which I never have,

2490
02:24:39,620 --> 02:24:41,473
"cause I'm generally
just running, running, running,

2491
02:24:41,497 --> 02:24:43,207
rushing in everything that I have to do.

2492
02:24:47,628 --> 02:24:49,672
[ mixed chatter ]

2493
02:24:54,385 --> 02:24:57,346
One, two, three cheeses. What else?

2494
02:24:57,429 --> 02:24:59,515
And on top of that...

2495
02:24:59,598 --> 02:25:02,601
Peppers, mushrooms, bok choy.

2496
02:25:02,685 --> 02:25:04,979
We need lemons and limes up too, Jose!

2497
02:25:09,900 --> 02:25:11,193
[ indistinct ]

2498
02:25:17,032 --> 02:25:20,077
Okay, what else, Jose?
What else do we put in this fucking place?

2499
02:25:20,161 --> 02:25:26,125
I'll probably have my same customers and
an occasional personal drop-in, but I'm...

2500
02:25:27,418 --> 02:25:32,089
Cheap... Per product.

2501
02:25:32,173 --> 02:25:34,592
In other words,
the hamburger is big and the meat is fresh,

2502
02:25:34,675 --> 02:25:37,678
but I'm expensive, uh, openers.

2503
02:25:37,761 --> 02:25:39,364
You know, like when you're in a poker game,

2504
02:25:39,388 --> 02:25:42,308
where you can't play the game
unless you have jacks or better?

2505
02:25:43,684 --> 02:25:46,061
The entry price here is high.

2506
02:25:46,145 --> 02:25:49,273
I don't...
I don't have a 99 cent special.

2507
02:25:49,356 --> 02:25:51,442
There's not much
you can get for 6 bucks either.

2508
02:25:52,651 --> 02:25:55,779
Once you get over the entry price

2509
02:25:55,863 --> 02:25:59,074
you get your money's worth,
but you have to be willing to...

2510
02:25:59,158 --> 02:26:02,453
That's the way I did it years ago.
See, I didn't want to have a...

2511
02:26:02,536 --> 02:26:05,122
An adversarial relationship
with my customers.

2512
02:26:05,206 --> 02:26:08,292
I wanted them to be at a point
where they could give me enough money

2513
02:26:08,375 --> 02:26:12,713
that I don't have to worry
whether they get 2 ounces or 10 ounces,

2514
02:26:12,796 --> 02:26:15,299
or whether I put in
macadamia nuts or I put in peanuts.

2515
02:26:16,258 --> 02:26:24,258
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2516
02:26:26,310 --> 02:26:31,315
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2517
02:26:40,032 --> 02:26:41,033
Eve: It's growth!

2518
02:26:41,116 --> 02:26:45,204
You know, I'm very happy
that at this stage in our life...

2519
02:26:45,287 --> 02:26:48,415
It's exciting doing something new.

2520
02:26:48,499 --> 02:26:51,835
I went over just the egg dishes,
so if somebody orders eggs,

2521
02:26:51,919 --> 02:26:53,545
I think I can do it.

2522
02:26:57,258 --> 02:27:00,511
I called and left a message,
and the eggs should come tomorrow.

2523
02:27:04,431 --> 02:27:06,642
If they don't, they don't.
I'll use the regular.

2524
02:27:09,436 --> 02:27:10,688
I think.

2525
02:27:14,650 --> 02:27:17,045
Danny: I'm just... I'm always amazed
that he gets up every morning

2526
02:27:17,069 --> 02:27:19,863
and he doesn't complain,
and, like, he's on his feet all day long,

2527
02:27:19,947 --> 02:27:24,368
he's cooking and he's lifting, like,
huge pots with, like, chicken and turkey,

2528
02:27:24,451 --> 02:27:27,079
and he doesn't take any vacations.

2529
02:27:27,162 --> 02:27:29,623
Always, constantly, every day.

2530
02:27:29,707 --> 02:27:31,125
And like, just every day.

2531
02:28:11,373 --> 02:28:12,833
It's a serious problem.

2532
02:28:14,710 --> 02:28:19,214
Not being able to find the ingredients
for my own fucking food.

2533
02:28:21,759 --> 02:28:22,801
[ door slamming ]

2534
02:28:24,595 --> 02:28:27,264
I don't know where the hot sauce is.

2535
02:28:27,348 --> 02:28:29,141
Where do you think the salsa is?

2536
02:28:32,019 --> 02:28:33,979
Now I can't find the garlic either.

2537
02:28:34,063 --> 02:28:35,356
I'm about to get angry.

2538
02:28:39,276 --> 02:28:41,111
They're gonna be in.

2539
02:28:41,195 --> 02:28:43,030
They're gonna be, uh, wanting food.

2540
02:28:47,201 --> 02:28:48,994
Bingo.

2541
02:28:49,078 --> 02:28:50,513
You can tell that I haven't
been working for a while.

2542
02:28:50,537 --> 02:28:52,706
I still have a little hair on my arm.

2543
02:28:52,790 --> 02:28:55,226
It's usually when you do this,
you just get distracted for a second,

2544
02:28:55,250 --> 02:28:57,920
and when it comes out,
it looks like this: "Boom!"

2545
02:28:59,713 --> 02:29:02,383
It gets into a subject
that really has not much to do with me

2546
02:29:02,466 --> 02:29:04,468
but has to do with humanity.

2547
02:29:04,551 --> 02:29:08,138
A great lack in America.

2548
02:29:08,222 --> 02:29:14,311
The great... belief that was our floor.

2549
02:29:14,395 --> 02:29:18,565
Once we lost our Christian background,
or whatever the fuck we had,

2550
02:29:18,649 --> 02:29:21,485
we never intellectually, as a country,

2551
02:29:21,568 --> 02:29:23,779
tried to figure out what
the meaning of life is.

2552
02:29:23,862 --> 02:29:25,572
[ water running ]

2553
02:29:25,656 --> 02:29:27,032
You know, we still don't.

2554
02:29:27,116 --> 02:29:29,743
All these issues about terrorism,

2555
02:29:29,827 --> 02:29:34,373
race, "in education," and school prayer,

2556
02:29:34,456 --> 02:29:37,793
they'd be a lot simpler if we had
a meaning of life going for us.

2557
02:29:39,461 --> 02:29:42,548
Not that that's easy to achieve,

2558
02:29:42,631 --> 02:29:47,010
but nobody seems to be looking.

2559
02:29:47,094 --> 02:29:49,513
Am I, with my busy work,

2560
02:29:49,596 --> 02:29:56,603
seeking to inject meaning into my life...

2561
02:29:56,687 --> 02:29:58,313
Where the fuck is the marinara sauce?

2562
02:29:58,397 --> 02:30:01,692
The way that I choose to function

2563
02:30:01,775 --> 02:30:05,404
is to pick a arbitrary stupid goal,

2564
02:30:05,487 --> 02:30:07,364
become totally involved in it,

2565
02:30:07,448 --> 02:30:09,575
and pursue it with vigor,

2566
02:30:09,658 --> 02:30:12,744
and what happens to you in that pursuit

2567
02:30:12,828 --> 02:30:13,745
is your life.

2568
02:30:13,829 --> 02:30:16,623
Understand they're stupid,
but not stupid to pursue,

2569
02:30:16,707 --> 02:30:20,377
because it's the only way
you can inject meaning into your life.

2570
02:30:20,461 --> 02:30:24,047
Otherwise you're left with
this great "Why bother?"

2571
02:30:24,673 --> 02:30:32,673
[ ♪♪♪ ]

2572
02:30:35,934 --> 02:30:37,853
[ sizzling ]

2573
02:30:46,528 --> 02:30:48,047
No, it wasn't supposed to start yesterday,

2574
02:30:48,071 --> 02:30:51,783
I wasn't open yesterday,
it's supposed to start today!

2575
02:30:51,867 --> 02:30:54,369
So you don't have any extra baguettes?

2576
02:30:54,453 --> 02:30:56,705
Make sure I get
a dozen baguettes tomorrow, please?

2577
02:30:58,165 --> 02:30:59,750
Yeah, and call that fucking asshole up

2578
02:30:59,833 --> 02:31:03,170
and tell him he's an asshole,
"cause I don't have the patience.

2579
02:31:03,253 --> 02:31:05,172
Bye, Victor. Bye.

2580
02:31:14,890 --> 02:31:17,226
Oh, much better!

2581
02:31:17,309 --> 02:31:18,769
Yeah, this one much better.

2582
02:31:18,852 --> 02:31:20,187
I like being here.

2583
02:31:20,270 --> 02:31:22,481
I like the floor, I like everything.

2584
02:31:22,564 --> 02:31:23,815
Mucho clean, it's nice.

2585
02:31:24,942 --> 02:31:26,985
So I don't expect that much new business,

2586
02:31:27,069 --> 02:31:28,069
but I may be wrong.

2587
02:31:28,111 --> 02:31:30,072
Where the fuck are the shrimp, Jose?

2588
02:31:30,155 --> 02:31:31,990
What is it? What you want?

2589
02:31:32,074 --> 02:31:34,076
[ mixed chatter ]

2590
02:31:36,828 --> 02:31:37,996
[ bell ringing ]

2591
02:31:39,581 --> 02:31:40,666
[ microwave beeping ]

2592
02:31:43,835 --> 02:31:45,837
Pear walnut soup.
[ bell ringing ]

2593
02:31:45,921 --> 02:31:47,422
[ buzzing ]

2594
02:31:49,967 --> 02:31:53,845
He happened to be very fortunate that
he was forced to make the right decision.

2595
02:31:54,680 --> 02:31:57,391
You can tell I'm important.
I got a double order of chorizo.

2596
02:31:58,058 --> 02:32:01,687
"The customer isn't always right"
is one of my favorites.

2597
02:32:01,770 --> 02:32:02,896
Um...

2598
02:32:03,939 --> 02:32:07,109
Lunch special,
two beef tacos with potato curry.

2599
02:32:07,192 --> 02:32:08,986
Kenny:
At some point when it's really busy

2600
02:32:09,069 --> 02:32:12,030
and Jose, we're totally immersed
for an hour, two hours,

2601
02:32:12,114 --> 02:32:16,326
totally zoned out, totally involved
in the details of what we're doing,

2602
02:32:16,410 --> 02:32:18,787
totally gone...

2603
02:32:18,870 --> 02:32:20,831
That's when it becomes peaceful.

2604
02:32:20,914 --> 02:32:23,458
That's what makes it
a seductive thing to do.

2605
02:32:23,542 --> 02:32:27,129
You feel cleansed afterwards.
Better than a good night's sleep.

2606
02:32:27,879 --> 02:32:28,964
Man: It's all in his head,

2607
02:32:29,047 --> 02:32:34,344
whatever he has in there
that is his idea for that dish.

2608
02:32:34,428 --> 02:32:38,307
And that's something that
should make that restaurant work

2609
02:32:38,390 --> 02:32:39,474
wherever it is.

2610
02:32:39,891 --> 02:32:41,184
Turkey lamb is gone.
[ buzzing ]

2611
02:32:41,268 --> 02:32:42,185
Nice!

2612
02:32:42,269 --> 02:32:44,271
[ chuckling ]

2613
02:32:46,773 --> 02:32:48,358
It makes me so fucking happy.

2614
02:32:48,442 --> 02:32:49,359
Yeah...

2615
02:32:49,443 --> 02:32:50,861
Some of them go twice, you know.

2616
02:32:50,944 --> 02:32:52,654
This is special chicharron.
[ buzzing ]

2617
02:32:52,738 --> 02:32:54,498
In other words, they get to be
[ indistinct ]

2618
02:32:56,617 --> 02:32:57,993
and they go there to get a shock,

2619
02:32:58,076 --> 02:33:00,138
and they fly away and they come back
and they get another shock.

2620
02:33:00,162 --> 02:33:02,039
Coraje de perra, chop chop.

2621
02:33:18,347 --> 02:33:19,866
Kenny: We got stoned to go to the movies,

2622
02:33:19,890 --> 02:33:22,702
and the movie was over and people were
eating and fucking themselves to death.

2623
02:33:22,726 --> 02:33:24,686
And all we wanted to do was eat and fuck.

2624
02:33:24,770 --> 02:33:27,898
And since we were out,
we decided we would eat.

2625
02:33:27,981 --> 02:33:32,486
And the very first restaurant we came to,
we swore we'd eat in.

2626
02:33:32,569 --> 02:33:36,406
Very first McDonald's to open in Manhattan.

2627
02:33:36,490 --> 02:33:40,619
Three large, athletic black males

2628
02:33:40,702 --> 02:33:44,373
with sawed-off shotguns come in,
screaming at the manager...

2629
02:33:44,456 --> 02:33:47,167
[ indistinct ]
telling him to open the safe.

2630
02:33:47,250 --> 02:33:51,421
There's a third guy just standing
in the center with a shotgun

2631
02:33:51,505 --> 02:33:53,173
turning around, watching everybody.

2632
02:33:53,256 --> 02:33:57,302
All this is going on, and your mother,

2633
02:33:57,386 --> 02:34:00,806
who had gotten French fries
and was interrupted by the robbers,

2634
02:34:00,889 --> 02:34:05,769
got up, went to the counter to get ketchup,

2635
02:34:05,852 --> 02:34:08,313
and then came back
and sat and ate her French fries.

2636
02:34:11,191 --> 02:34:13,777
Eve: You know, we never
made a lot of money, but...

2637
02:34:13,860 --> 02:34:15,946
we got tickets to the...
You know, whatever.

2638
02:34:16,029 --> 02:34:20,200
Like, my Rolling Stones tickets,
you know... To me, music.

2639
02:34:20,283 --> 02:34:23,453
There's the Rolling Stones
and there's everybody else.

2640
02:34:23,537 --> 02:34:27,207
And every time the Rolling Stones
came to town, I would try to get tickets,

2641
02:34:27,290 --> 02:34:32,379
and at the very last minute,
someone would come through with...

2642
02:34:32,462 --> 02:34:35,215
primo seats. Yeah.

2643
02:34:47,269 --> 02:34:50,689
Kenny: This is like, another one
of my half-baked philosophies:

2644
02:34:51,940 --> 02:34:58,739
The first duty of everybody in life
is to realize that they're a piece of shit.

2645
02:34:58,822 --> 02:35:01,324
They're selfish, they're self-centered,

2646
02:35:01,408 --> 02:35:03,326
they're not very good.

2647
02:35:03,410 --> 02:35:08,582
And that you're willing to sacrifice
20,000 people in another country

2648
02:35:08,665 --> 02:35:13,879
just so that you can, uh, go to, uh...
a Wings concert.

2649
02:35:13,962 --> 02:35:15,756
You'll sacrifice the lives

2650
02:35:15,839 --> 02:35:19,134
of 100,000 Chinese, uh, female babies

2651
02:35:19,217 --> 02:35:23,513
just so that you can rent this fucking
camera and do your stupid art project.

2652
02:35:23,597 --> 02:35:24,681
No problem!

2653
02:35:24,765 --> 02:35:27,017
You're a piece of shit.

2654
02:35:27,100 --> 02:35:31,188
Once you realize you're a piece of shit,
it's not so hard to take.

2655
02:35:31,271 --> 02:35:35,567
Because then you don't have this feeling

2656
02:35:35,650 --> 02:35:38,862
that you're a good person all the time.

2657
02:35:38,945 --> 02:35:40,447
And let me tell you something.

2658
02:35:40,530 --> 02:35:42,216
Feeling that you're
a good person all the time

2659
02:35:42,240 --> 02:35:44,534
is like having a brand-new car
with no scratches on it.

2660
02:35:44,618 --> 02:35:46,703
It's a real responsibility

2661
02:35:46,787 --> 02:35:49,706
which is almost impossible to live up to.

2662
02:35:49,790 --> 02:35:51,291
Being a piece of shit

2663
02:35:51,374 --> 02:35:55,462
and then occasionally
doing something that's good and true,

2664
02:35:55,545 --> 02:35:58,173
it's a much easier place to be.

2665
02:35:58,256 --> 02:35:59,716
I think that's really important

2666
02:35:59,800 --> 02:36:02,302
and I always tried
to raise my kids to understand

2667
02:36:02,385 --> 02:36:05,096
that they're not that terrific

2668
02:36:05,180 --> 02:36:10,894
and that not being that terrific, that's okay,
"cause most people who say they are terrific...

2669
02:36:10,977 --> 02:36:13,814
Bill Clinton, Cardinal Egan...

2670
02:36:13,897 --> 02:36:15,315
Anybody you want to talk about.

2671
02:36:15,398 --> 02:36:16,525
They're not so terrific.

2672
02:36:16,608 --> 02:36:18,235
Martha Stewart!

2673
02:36:18,318 --> 02:36:20,570
They're not so fucking terrific either,
and there's no...

2674
02:36:20,654 --> 02:36:23,156
nothing wrong with
being not so terrific, you know?

2675
02:36:23,240 --> 02:36:25,367
In fact, it's what the
whole ball game is about.

2676
02:36:25,450 --> 02:36:28,537
It's about being not so
terrific and accepting it.