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This was Great, BUT, when you ask the guest questions, let them answer and COMPLETE the stories. 🤫🤫🤫

One of the best if not the best podcast

Prego paisans from Tucson, AZ❤❤❤

Can relate to this on so many levels! Mom is Irish-American and dad is Italian-American. So many similarities and differences at the same time. Have you ever read An Unlikely Union by Paul Moses? It talks about the relationship between the Irish and Italians in NYC.

Long way to drive

Auguri Don Rossi ❤️🇮🇹🇺🇸

From a special educational standpoint no one is bad but all have choices and some make bad decisions and others make good choices / decisions The good stories are never told because of what I call the “yellow journalism” culture Italian Americans are subjected to

Another episode subjected to POBs interruptions and monologues. Why bother having guests?

I was at the Buffalo Festival. Its always a pleasure watching your content. I am getting ready to prepare for the Italian Festival in Rochester, NY on October 6th.

What nasty, ignorant things people say to you says more about them than it does about you. Consider the source. Love you all.

We have a house and are moving to Minturno which is a half hour from Atina and also visit Montecassino not that far either.

Wow I went to college there never went to the festival. Is it on Hertle ave?

My Nonno was the puppeteer for the king in Palermo Sicily in late 1800s.

My Amato Nonno and Nonna came to Buffalo in 1906. From Sicily. They lived on Busti Ave.

As an Italian person that works a lot with American tourism (I work by the Pompeii ruins) I have to say this podcast is so great in order to understand something about the rich history of Italian American. One small note, I feel like this episode was too much about the importance of this two men rather than the actual work they made. By the end of the episode I feel like I knew a lot about those guys but not a lot about Italian American history

O’Boyle?!? Doesn’t sound Italian to me. Check his papers.

It’s sad that Italian American writers never getting noticed . If you don’t search for them in search engines you will never find them . I think because so many go into real estate and law they don’t care about creativity just lots of money . I don’t understand why many do not like to read I find it strange and disturbing.

Great topic today!! Recently you have covered cinema and literature --- is it time for the visual arts? You did mention the painting from the cover of the book. But, as you know there is much more....🤓!

YES!

Oh wow Andrew Tate let himself go.

Sorry to say that unlike other ethnic, racial, religious or sexual orientation groups, Italian-Americans are a lot different. They do not stick together, defend each other or their history and culture, vote as a bloc, protest. Plus many can't pronounce their own names. No one is afraid of us, politicians do not pay attention, and Hollywood has no reservations of negatively portraying us. As proud as I am, I also admit that much of our problem is our own inaction.

Universalism is a great theme!

Queens College has an Italian American Studies department. You should have some of the professors on. Would be cool. They call it the John D. Calandra Institute.

Just shared it with my Italian American husband and stepson!!!

Great Show

Ciao sono siciliano 👋

Everyone made fun of my first and last name in school. I grew up in the south so that should tell you a lot 😂

Welcome to the rat race. We're all hamsters on a wheel. Which is part of what destroyed our culture. A NY minute. Fast food nation.

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Maybe I’m naive but I’m blown away by what she said about the copying and plagiarism of other people’s work 🤯

Another great episode. I always learn so much from your videos. I know what you mean about confused family relations. My father was my second cousin's uncle and cousin at the same time. Same thing about someone dying and another family member stepping in. None of it was direct blood relations but because of marriage. It was so confusing. I thought I could follow the lineage at one time but at my age it's too convoluted to keep up with. By the way, I love watching your videos after a meal while sipping a little grappa and then taking a nap. Like I said I'm old.

Loved listening to this, sound like her family village isn't too far from where my paternal family came from in Vallerotonda.

Must be business owner?

How do you spell the last part of her website name ? Christina ?

There is a bakery on Arthur Ave will make sanguinaccio by special order

Why are there so many people named CAPALDI in Scotland?

Thanks for sharing your very good info👏👏♥️

Turists

We use It . We can live without

I support this fully. When my children are of age to attend, I will be sending them.

This was beautiful, thank you.

We were in Greece and Turkey the last 10 days of June and even places that had air conditioning on you could tell the air conditioning wasn't like it is here in the states where they keep it at Sub-Zero everywhere you go and you need a sweater. The air conditioning was on but definitely kept much warmer than we are used to in the states

totally agree! I read that dual cold/heat pump systems are selling better because of the stigma against the term "air condidtioning". talk about teste dure!

The back and forth about the mob was hilarious. Reminded me of a lot of convos at my family's gatherings back in the day. Also, thanks for clearing up my distain for air conditioning. 😅 Love the show, guys!

Not to belabor this, what makes The Godfather 2 (and The Godfather) such great films, are all the aspects of the story and craft that are not related to the mafia. And when you spend time with these films, you understand that organized crime is not limited to the mafia, rather it manifests in many cultures and many avenues of society especially the legitimate ones. I’m not certain The Godfather (s) lionize the mafia; they lionize the Corleone family. Furthermore, in accordance with Athenian tragedy of the 5th century BC, the heroes who are lionized are ultimately consumed by their choices and their strength.

I think what the man talking about Vito is trying to get at is not just "Mafia concepts." The idea of the Mafia is baked into American cinema as a genre, but in something like The Godfather (and you can even find caricatured versions of this in comedies like Moonstruck which has no Mafia), is the portrayal of the idea of "family" interpolated through a specific ethnic, cultural, American immigrant experience. It's portrayed as a very interpersonal, duty-driven, slightly clannish understanding of how the individuals in a family unit are intertwined into each othera' lives and understand each family as a "unit." It strikes me as such an ethnically coded part of Southern Italian immigrant culture that even the Mafia builds its structure off of these principles. This very specific idea of what family meant drove the narrative arc of the characters in their positive and negative impulses, but their is truth in how the cultural perception is coded. In a positive light, like the man says, it can be an extremely powerful set of values to live by. I think that's why he found the line beautiful.

"The Sopranos" and "Godfather" movies: "Take them out of the context": Exactly. Yet, for some reason, the great majority of Italian Americans can't do this. It is very simple: form and content. D.W. Griffith's civil war epic, "Birth of a Nation" (1915)? Form is brilliant (its craftsmanship). Its content is horrific (it lionizes the Ku Klux Klan). Leni Reifenstahl's 1934 documentary "Triumph of the Will?" Form is brilliant (its craftsmanship). Its content is horrific (it lionizes the Nazis). " The Godfather" and "The Sopranos?" Forms are brilliant (their craftsmanship). The contents are horrific (they lionize "the mafia" as central to Italian American culture, which it was not). Art doesn't always sanctify stereotypes. It is a lesson we need to apply to mob movies.

Northern Italy, yeah! My mother was from a small village ( Costalissoio ) in the mountains of Veneto. She and her family settled in Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken. Such an interesting subject and guests. You guys are such a great fount of knowledge about Italy and Italian America. I love every episode and really enjoy your visits to Italian American communities throughout the country. Thanks for keeping our history alive.

I’m mexican & I love the Italian culture. Great food & people.

Brilliant guests, great conversation, POB on point. Vito Corleone at the end of his life in his garden makes me weep every time. That's what I remember --- (not the violence).