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Janey Todd/Rich Chat
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JT:
Richie, c'mon...alright...I'll shut it off. There, you're not being recorded, don't worry about it. [I shut my tape recorder off and turn it right back on again while he pretends not to notice that I did this and I pretend not to notice him noticing. So you started in Staten Island when you were a kid, or where? What was your first restaurant?
RC: Staten Island around 74, 75. Showing my age.
JT: Like I would care. What was the name of it?
RC: Enrico's.
JT: Enrico's...so...what?
RC:
Don't put that [stuff] in there, that's stupid.
JT: Alright, [scratch] that then.
RC: No, but you could say that I was always in the restaurant busines. I spent eighteen years in
Manhattan...
JT: Ok. Really, wow.
RC: In all the big four star restaurants...
JT:Oh yeah, doing what?
RC: Chef, executive chef.
JT:
Really, wow, no wonder you're so good.
RC: Eighteen years in NYC, owned several restaurants, graduate of the CIA...[oh my God, he works for the government too]
JT:
Oh [boy], my little heart is palpitating...[I'm trying real hard to be a wise guy but I'm really dangerously impressed.] Ok, so you came down here when you were a kid, did you go disco dancing and ll the stuff?
RC: Naw! I just hung out.
JT: Where did you get the name from?
RC: Hooligans?
JT:Yeah.
RC: I just wanted to make a spoof on the name.
JT:
A goof! A spoof! Are you a Hooligan?
RC: No, I'm not a hooligan.
JT: What is a hooligan, actually?
RC:
[jd answers for him in a voice that sounds like Darth Vadar] It is a mischiever.
RC: But we're mischievous in a good way.
JT: Yeah, I know. [really, I have my doubts...]
RC:
Well, like I said, we named it Hooligans just to goof on everybody, like "what, do you think we're famous?"
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