E66 The VIP Café Show with Joey Mamounis - Finding Your Unique Angle: Connecting People and Products

Joey Mamounis, Director of Sales for Prima Kachina Group, shares his journey from a mass media communications background to becoming a marketing expert who finds unique sales angles for businesses across Youngstown.

• Background in mass media communications and journalism from YSU
• Working with Prima Group, overseeing Bar Prima downtown and assisting with Prima Events at the Apollo Center
• Successfully marketed a CBD cannabis drinkable product to over 100 accounts across the region
• Growing up as the grandson of Joey Naples shaped his resilience and drive
• Planning to expand Youngstown Coffee Company distribution to Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh
• Values customers who truly listen and commit to the marketing process
• Credits his 7th/8th grade teacher Mike Kerensky as a significant mentor

Visit Prima Cucina Italiana at 4500 Mahoning Avenue—"We're white tablecloth, but we're not pretentious. Come and have Italian like you've never had anywhere else."

Transcript

Welcome to the VIP Cafe Show

Speaker 1 0:06

Hey, hey, hey. It's the VIP Cafe Show coming to you from the Havana house in Boardman, ohio, home of the greatest cigars, the greatest wine and absolutely, incredibly scrumptious coffee.

Speaker 2 0:21

Yes, I could step in, and we thank Gino for letting us do our podcast here.

Speaker 1 0:24

It's awesome.

Speaker 2 0:25

Yeah.

Speaker 1 0:25

I have my co host. I'm Greg Smith. My co-host here is Debbie.

Speaker 2 0:30

Larson.

Speaker 1 0:33

Yes, the famous Debbie Larson.

Speaker 2 0:36

Oh said with Greg's announcer voice. It could never be replicated.

Speaker 1 0:40

Yeah, so what you been up to these days, debbie?

Speaker 2 0:46

oh my goodness. Well, I was just at the half marathon yesterday yeah, I started in boardman with 13, I did not run it. Oh, I noticed, I said ah I like watching them too much. Much easier on the knees but it was amazing to see how many people were running it who had gone from like a couch to 5K program or zero to 5K or the program, and none of them were like, okay, this is it. They were all like we're doing another one.

Speaker 1 1:13

It's like a different world.

Speaker 2 1:14

I'm not in that world, but it's a different world.

Speaker 1 1:16

That doesn't happen to a person. It sounds like marketing to me. Speaking of marketing, you have somebody you want to introduce, don't you?

Meet Joey Mimonis: Director of Sales

Speaker 2 1:23

Yes, I do. I want to introduce to you Joey Mimonis, who is Director of Sales for the Prima Kachina Group, which entails a restaurant in Austintown, an amazing upscale event center in downtown Youngstown and there's a whole lot more. Joey is involved in so much of Youngstown. I can't wait to see what comes up in this conversation, because I'm excited. I know Joey and I know you guys are going to definitely find out something in this conversation, so welcome, joey.

Speaker 3 1:51

How are we doing? Debbie, happy to be here. I'm Greg.

Speaker 1 1:53

How are you doing the first question off the bat?

Speaker 2 1:55

we always ask is how tall are you?

Speaker 1 1:57

Yeah, oh boy, there we go. Hey, Greg's not From the back of your feet all the way up to the top.

Speaker 3 2:07

He's not a little shorty either.

Speaker 2 2:10

Oh, my goodness we got to give people a picture of who they're listening to I'm 6'4".

Speaker 3 2:14

Okay, yep, yep, 300, plus Big fella, yep, a big boy.

Speaker 2 2:18

And you played football, right, obviously.

Speaker 3 2:20

Definitely yeah. Football, wrestling, basketball, Anything where I could use my size to my advantage.

Speaker 2 2:25

There you go, now that we got that out of the way.

Speaker 1 2:29

Tell us you're into marketing. What, during your lifetime, got you into where you're at today?

Speaker 3 2:41

What happened when you went and said I want to help people find solutions to their problems. Storytelling, finding the unique angle on certain things, has always been a strong suit, I think, for me. My education I did two years at akron and finished up at youngstown state was in mass media communications journalism so who in your family, though?

Speaker 1 2:57

was there somebody who watched on tv? Was there some of your family that you went?

Speaker 3 3:00

oh, I'd like to do something like that I feel like we, I feel like in my age group we were in like the sweet spot of all the different convergence of media.

Speaker 3 3:10

I think it was just more of a natural gravitation of sorts, with that Always been in and around different kinds of media, loved arts, the world of arts and entertainment. Growing up, watched a lot of TV. Like most kids in my millennial ish age, we were raised with by our televisions. In a lot of regards we've had the first america online instant messaging, all these oh, my goodness, you've got mail.

Speaker 2 3:37

What was it? What was your show? What was?

Speaker 3 3:38

my family also had a what was the show of your childhood.

Speaker 2 3:44

Just put it down to one.

Speaker 3 3:46

Let's go with Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will Smith, before the Slap.

Speaker 2 3:51

Okay, before the Slap Okay, All right. So you had nobody in media in your family. You had no you just your personality is obviously. It seems like it's a match for what you do, but you had nobody. You just what made you decide to do?

From Journalism to Marketing Career

Speaker 3 4:04

that in college my family had a vending company around here back in the day called Youngstown. You had music too, and we had jukeboxes and stuff like that amongst other things. But it was, like I said, a natural gravitation. It was one of the first things that I landed on and circled back around to. When you go to college, most people don't finish their degree with what they started with, so I just always teetered around that I got a minor in business administration and minor in professional writing and editing too. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 4:38

I was thinking I was going to go to law school with it, in addition to being on the football team.

Speaker 3 4:43

No, I never played football in college.

Speaker 2 4:45

No just high school.

Speaker 1 4:46

Really.

Speaker 3 4:47

Intramural flag football.

Speaker 2 4:48

Yeah. On a side note, did you guys know that Youngstown has a football team? Indeed? Yeah, youngstown. What are they called? Patricians? Yeah, for people. Anybody over the age of 18 can play.

Speaker 3 5:00

If anybody wants to go out there.

Speaker 2 5:02

Get beat up a little bit.

Speaker 1 5:03

Get beat up a little bit get beat up a little bit, see if the medical system really works.

Speaker 3 5:06

Yeah, greg, I'm glad you said it. That was what I was, I know.

Speaker 2 5:09

I went out to watch one of the practices and I was impressed. I could have sat there and watched them for hours.

Speaker 3 5:17

It was impressive. I hope their compensation plan could go along with all the it's a nonprofit group.

Speaker 2 5:22

So it's not, but apparently Youngstown used to have a football team. I'm getting off track here, but we're coming back to you, Joey, but Youngstown used to have a football team.

Speaker 1 5:30

Yeah, my grandfather played for them. What yeah, Greg? No way. He also played for Canton. And he played with Thorpe. No way, Jim Thorpe.

Speaker 2 5:38

They were telling me about and some of those teams they used to play went on to become the beginning of the NFL Yep, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 5:45

That's incredible.

Speaker 2 5:46

Your grandfather used to play.

Speaker 1 5:47

Yep.

Speaker 2 5:48

Oh, what a rich history.

Speaker 3 5:50

Jim Thorpe. There's a mural of him on the side of a building in downtown Canton. I vaguely know the history there.

Speaker 2 5:55

Wow, okay, so then you graduate. What year did you graduate?

Speaker 3 5:59

High school or college, college, 2011. Okay, and you went to Canfield. I went to Canfield Local guy yeah, okay, okay, alright your family was entrepreneurs.

Speaker 1 6:11

Do you know Brad Smith, roman or Skyler?

Speaker 3 6:14

Canfield, canfield, channing, you mean.

Speaker 1 6:16

Canfield High.

Speaker 3 6:16

School Canfield High School Brad Smith. It's not ringing a bell.

Speaker 1 6:20

Or how about Roman Roman Smith, roman.

Speaker 3 6:23

Smith. I've heard of the name, but it's not.

Speaker 1 6:27

They were all in there when you were Okay, Skyler, I think came later.

Speaker 3 6:30

I graduated high school class of 04.

Speaker 1 6:33

Okay, so I had.

Speaker 3 6:35

Leo Cerise, Tim Dewberry, Mike Terjanica that era of the Canfield Cards guy, Okay.

Speaker 2 6:43

Okay, what did you? So? You've always stuck around Youngstown.

Speaker 3 6:47

then, after you graduated, Aside from two years out at Akron. Okay, and then visiting all my friends at Ohio State and all the other colleges that we went to.

Speaker 2 6:56

So, basically, with your skills though it's something that you could do anywhere what made you decide to stick here? And you have a big heart, you obviously. I don't think people could hang out with you very long without seeing that your heart is for connecting people and you're very like a kind but fun guy, right. So why didn't you ever go? Why did you stay in Youngstown?

Speaker 3 7:18

I've got a lot of family here and I've got elderly parents and grandparents that I help out with Strong sense of family. Strong sense of family and I just I had a network here that I could pull on. I think and what's the term or the phrase? They say Grow where you're planted.

Speaker 2 7:34

Yes, Bloom where you're planted. I think, yeah, grow where you're planted. Bloom where you're planted.

Speaker 3 7:39

I think that's it, and I could pull on different things around here and help people out help myself out.

Speaker 2 7:45

So then, how long have you been with the Prima Group? How did you end up there?

Speaker 3 7:49

Just about the last year. I've always been a customer of theirs downtown, but as far as like working with them just over the last year, okay, all right. So what we'll be doing is I'll be running bar prima downtown when we get it open and assisting with prima events, which is the preferred caterer of the apollo center downtown got it okay.

Speaker 2 8:14

So, greg, have you been down to the apollo event center yet? No, okay, so it's a swanky little place across the street from the cavelli center. Okay, and he redid this whole building. It's over 100 years old. There's a whole story, and like all the things that he.

Speaker 2 8:28

Yes, old soap gallery, but it's a really nice, nice place. And then they have he's converting. I don't know if I'm supposed to be saying this, but if you're listening you get the inside scoop there's he's kind of converting some of the basement area now to be like where brides could get ready so it's like a whole room in the basement that's great.

Speaker 3 8:50

All right, it's so cool. Yes, it's such an eye for style, but anyway as well as an extra kitchen to help prep the food.

Speaker 2 8:55

So it's really with the people in mind. It's not just like a boring hall, like he's really doing it. It's a really nice place, the prima. For people who don't know what prima is, can you give a little bit of history and tell where it's at now? It's where the upstairs used to be in Austintown, which a lot of people know that location.

Speaker 3 9:12

Yeah, 4500 Mahoning Avenue, prima Cucina Italiana started in downtown Youngstown. The chef owner, my partner, josh Santangelo.

Speaker 2 9:23

Okay, and around that time endured all of these different economic setbacks?

Speaker 3 9:34

Yes, that was.

Speaker 1 9:37

Constraints, challenges, apocalypse of economics.

Speaker 3 9:38

downtown it did look like the apocalypse down there sometimes, but we're Youngstowners, we fight back. We've got grit and we make things work. We turn a bad story into a make things work. Come on, we turn a bad story into a triumphant story.

Speaker 2 9:48

Absolutely.

Prima Group and Local Venues

Speaker 3 9:53

I think I just saw the clip I just shared on Facebook. Today it was the anniversary of Pavlik beating.

Speaker 2 9:57

Jermaine Taylor for a middleweight title.

Speaker 3 9:58

You were there.

Speaker 2 10:00

No way.

Speaker 3 10:01

Got knocked down in the first round, picked himself up off the mat and knocked the guy out.

Speaker 1 10:05

Straight beautiful, it was amazing.

Speaker 3 10:07

An unforgettable moment in local sports history.

Speaker 1 10:10

I ran into Vince Vaughn when I was there too.

Speaker 3 10:12

He was there, Wow no way Did you get a picture? Kelly was on Joe Rogan. Kelly was. That was a guy that everybody gravitated to.

Speaker 2 10:20

Wait, Kelly Padwick was on Joe Rogan when.

Speaker 3 10:23

A couple of years ago. No way, yeah, look it up.

Speaker 2 10:25

Oh, I'll have to definitely look that up.

Speaker 3 10:27

I mean, he's a legend, right? Oh yeah, kelly's a friend of mine. He's a great guy.

Speaker 2 10:31

Uh-huh, yeah. And what's he doing now? He's doing something for helping a lot of kids.

Speaker 1 10:34

Oh yeah, We'll have to have him.

Speaker 3 10:39

Yeah absolutely Okay at the Maronite Center not too long ago.

Speaker 2 10:42

Okay, promotion group Go ahead, I know you had something great.

Speaker 1 10:45

Tell me about the marketing wing of your activities. Tell me what you like to do and how you can help people.

Speaker 3 10:51

I think you could identify the unique sales angle for just about anybody and anything. I learn about a product or a service, I could find a unique way to sell it to customers.

Speaker 2 11:03

And you enjoy that process.

Speaker 3 11:05

I do. I have a knack for getting people together. I have a knack for getting people together with things. I've had a lot of crazy work in my past and a lot of it has been customer-facing just out in front of people.

Speaker 1 11:18

But yeah, tell us a success story. I want to hear one.

Speaker 3 11:22

Most recently. You want to hear something crazy. You want to hear a really odd thing I had myself involved in. They used to sell it here, tony Bellotto and Gino Bellotto, the owners here at Havana House. I had the opportunity of being involved in this CBD cannabis drinkable product and I was the first salesperson in the company. Okay, really it was a startup from out in Colorado. Yeah.

Speaker 2 11:50

It was called.

Speaker 3 11:50

Lifted, supreme Lifted, if you've seen it around town.

Speaker 2 11:54

Okay.

Speaker 3 11:54

Got to. If you would have told me I was going to be involved in a cannabis drinkable product, I would have told you you were crazy. I've worked in the digital marketing sphere. I've worked in I interned back in the day and at WFMJ, and I still help out every high school football season. I do work with Dana Ballish and all the staff there just like a hobby, but yeah, I got involved in that and spread it around to a hundred or so accounts until it fizzled out. It was from here to Cleveland over to Pittsburgh, yeah just on the road.

Speaker 1 12:27

Why the fizzle?

Speaker 3 12:30

I don't think there was really a long-term sales and marketing plan that they were able to invest in as a private company.

Speaker 1 12:39

Grab and go.

Speaker 3 12:40

Yeah, it was just something their parent company that oversaw everything. They were too diversified that they couldn't see the forest for the trees, that they actually had something here that was commercially available, like to be successful and no, really no real commitment to it wasn't their only option.

Speaker 2 13:02

It wasn't their only thing.

Speaker 3 13:04

What made it specifically unique in the space was that there's a lot of CBD and different THC drinkables that are out in the market right now. I can't believe we're talking about this, but the fella that invented it was able to make the CBD THC completely water soluble. So, through the molecular formulation of it was able to attach the CBD and THC to a water-soluble molecule. So the delivery system and the bioavailability of it.

Speaker 2 13:40

Really.

Speaker 3 13:42

It would react to your body as if you were taking a shot of alcohol, like it goes straight to your bloodstream.

Speaker 2 13:48

Did it make people feel like they were high? Who was it for?

Speaker 3 13:51

You could. Who was goes straight to your bloodstream.

Speaker 2 13:52

Wow, did it make people feel like they were high.

Speaker 3 13:53

Who was it for? Who was it marketed to? I think that was one of the things I was trying to parse out in my time with them was was the customer. Yeah, we were learning a lot just on the fly. For what I was, for what I was originally tasked into doing. I was wearing a lot of hats tasked into doing I was wearing a lot of hats sales distribution, live event promotion, social media marketing, and we just they decided to go in a different way.

Speaker 1 14:20

And I'm grateful, the opportunity that I had. Kind of like the Green Hornet, you shoot a couple of seasons and people go. Nah. Can you imagine what they'd sell for now?

Speaker 3 14:28

Oh man, a little more, bruce Lee stuff With issue two passing in Ohio also, there's so many more choices for people Got it.

Speaker 1 14:39

There's a lot of Clorox as a choice.

Speaker 2 14:41

And you can buy bleach or you can buy Clorox and pay twice as much. Yeah, exactly, it's just a chemical. So what has been your biggest challenge in your life up until now? You're still pretty young, but marketing is not easy, dealing with people anytime you're like. Obviously Prima has dealt with a little bit of that stuff downtown, but what about, joey? What's been the biggest hurdle that you've gotten over in your life?

Speaker 3 15:05

Oh boy, we're still. He doesn't go over hurdles.

Speaker 1 15:08

He goes through them.

Speaker 2 15:10

I know, right, your side, you're like move all the way.

Marketing Cannabis Drinks: A Success Story

Speaker 3 15:13

There's only one way to take on adversity.

Speaker 2 15:17

You just meet it head on.

Speaker 3 15:18

Yeah, there's a lot of different hurdles. I would say in everybody's life, Be generous with your scars.

Speaker 1 15:26

What's something that can be vulnerable so people can see you as a human?

Speaker 3 15:36

What's happened to you in your life. You've gotten over. That's really shaped. You shoot, and even from day one. I don't know if you guys know this about me. It's crazy. I don't really often talk about it, but here I am being vulnerable. My grandfather I'm the grandson of joey naples way, so that all happened all that old Youngstown back when I was seven, eight years old, all the history that you see out in the news Wow, and I could look at it now as an adult from the newsworthiness angle and journalism of it all. But living through that with my family growing up, how did it affect your family?

Speaker 3 16:12

Oh, my goodness, Incredibly. I don't know if I would be in the different positions that I'm in now if I didn't have what he laid out for us growing up Wow. But there's a lot of struggles that came with that too. It's a crazy side of the tracks, wow, something that came with that too. It's a crazy side of the tracks. Wow, something that's pretty.

Speaker 2 16:33

Absolutely. What was he like as a father, grandfather?

Speaker 3 16:42

For the small amount of time that I got to know him in my life, just like a regular grandpa, just about as gentle as it could be. I don't think he ever yelled at me one time while he was alive. Really, yeah, absolutely, and I love him. Not a not ashamed of. Yeah, and it's my namesake. That's why my mom named me joey, no way so there's a story I gotta tell you.

Speaker 2 17:03

You might not never have heard of, but I've heard a lot.

Speaker 2 17:06

I met this guy and he used to talk. He told me that when he was a kid he used to. He said in the neighborhood he grew up in, you had to be in a little gang, a little neighborhood gang. So they had a little gang and he said they would be hanging out on a Saturday and a car would come flying up and Joey Naples would throw out a bag and they knew, okay, hide the bag, and the next thing, you know the police, whoo, whoo, whoo whoo. And they knew, okay, hide the bag, and the next thing, you know the police. And then later on that day Joey would come back and buy them all ice cream and they'd give them the bag. It was a different world. It was such a different world.

Speaker 3 17:41

It was a different Youngstown back then and he was the third brother in his family that was from that life.

Speaker 2 17:46

Really.

Speaker 3 17:47

From that world. Thank God, I don't have to live in it.

Speaker 1 17:50

I just remember one thing we're all human and we wouldn't have won World War II if it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the mob. Yeah, really, we would not have won World War II.

Speaker 3 17:58

Yeah, the Longshoremen, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 18:01

Oh, yeah, One thing more they were American.

Speaker 2 18:05

Come on. Oh, I did not know. Hey, we're all human.

Speaker 1 18:08

Yeah, we're all human.

Speaker 3 18:09

Yeah, there's yeah.

Speaker 2 18:12

Yeah, it's a little known fact. Was it your dad's dad or your mom's dad?

Speaker 3 18:16

Mom's dad.

Speaker 2 18:17

Mom's dad okay.

Family Legacy: Growing Up as Naples' Grandson

Speaker 3 18:29

There's a long story that goes along with that too, but I'll save that for another day. There you go. Yeah, there you go. So how do you think it shaped you? Pretty, pretty completely. I've been the man of my house since I was about eight years old. We moved from Youngstown after that happened and moved to Canfield to grow up there and be raised there. I was for 20, 30 some years out there and mom and dad got divorced. My dad's since passed Love. My dad Developed a great relationship with him before he passed away, but he wasn't always around growing up and yeah, just I had the most amazing upbringing out in Canfield.

Speaker 3 18:58

Just the whole community out there just was fabulous to me and my mom and my grandma, just the unique situation that we had, our family unit and yeah, it shaped me a lot.

Speaker 1 19:11

Some good, some bad, I guess Not too much throws you off the track no, I'm not scared. Yeah.

Speaker 3 19:17

I'm not afraid of nothing. I hear you.

Speaker 2 19:20

I am not afraid of nothing.

Speaker 3 19:21

There, you go, that's spoken like a true Youngstown Yinzer. I think we're like Pittsburgh Junior over here the way some of us talk.

Speaker 2 19:32

Yeah, I'm sure you ate good. I just have to add that in. I'm thinking you lived with your mom and your grandma. Oh, my goodness, do you see me?

Speaker 3 19:41

Yeah, with that ethnic background. Oh, my goodness, you see me With that ethnic background.

Speaker 2 19:50

Oh my God, I'm Heinz, 57 of Youngstown, like you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 3 19:52

What nationality was your dad? My dad's? Greek, greek, lebanese.

Speaker 1 19:55

And yeah, my last name's Mamonas Okay.

Speaker 3 19:57

And that's what is that? Lebanese Greek, greek, it's Mamonas.

Speaker 2 20:00

Okay, and that's what is that?

Speaker 3 20:01

Lebanese, greek, greek that's Greek, okay. And the Italian. From my mom's side we had Irish and Romanian. From my mom's side, too, we had just crazy.

Speaker 1 20:11

So what's your ideal avatar as far as a customer goes? If somebody wants to hire you and work with you, where do you go? If I could drop, like my primo customer, what would their needs be? My, my primo customer? What would their needs be? How would they like to work and how do?

Speaker 3 20:28

you like to work with them, somebody who's understanding of what they're getting into and that listens?

Speaker 1 20:33

Yeah.

Speaker 3 20:35

Somebody that truly listens and is committed to the path, with you in the process. I think that's always important in getting into anything. There's a lot of people that just want to. It's all. It's not all dollars and cents out here and I don't do anything that I'm not committed to, that I don't have the heart for. If my heart's not in it, then this doesn't. If your heart's not in it, your brain doesn't matter, they're connected.

Speaker 1 21:00

Yep, absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 2 21:01

So basically, somebody could hire you to help. It's not in it your brain, doesn't? They're connected. Yep, absolutely, absolutely. So, basically, somebody could hire you to help with the marketing plan, with the social media and that type of thing, yeah, I could put a team together.

Speaker 3 21:12

I could get people to help for that, but it's you really like increasing sales?

Speaker 1 21:17

yeah, the angle you find it's the angle I find.

Speaker 3 21:20

So another fun fact and I wanted to bring this up in in today's podcast too is I've known Tony since high school Bellotto here oh, nice okay and we had been talking for quite some time just him coming into Prima and just rekindling our long friendship and, yeah, through sales and whatnot, and I'm going to be partnering up with him to grow the distribution of Youngstown Coffee Company here.

Speaker 3 21:48

Nice so we're looking forward to taking what we've already got going and he's got a great facility out there in Warren where he roasts the beans and just expanding the reach hopefully to Cleveland, columbusus, pittsburgh and so how does somebody get a hold of you if they want to talk to you about a project?

Speaker 1 22:10

how do you, how do they reach out to you?

Speaker 3 22:12

come find me? Come find me on? Probably social media is a good one, I gotta specific, you might have to spell your name yeah, you might have to spell my name out, find it but I'm not hard to find. I'm usually out at Prima during most of the days. I'm on Facebook. I'm on Instagram, okay.

Speaker 2 22:31

So can you spell your last name for everybody if they want to find you.

Speaker 3 22:34

M-A-M-O-U-N-I-S Mamonis there you go, it's all Greek to me.

Speaker 2 22:42

It's true. I love it. I love it. That's good. Okay, so real quick, can you shout out a mentor in your life, somebody who has spoken into your life, who's taken the time to really hone your gifts or show you the way? Wow.

Speaker 1 22:57

Here's what Mr Rogers says Smiling you into smiling. Laugh you into laughing, believing you into believing in yourself.

Speaker 3 23:05

There's been so many, but one that comes to mind for me. I'll take it all the way back to Canfield as a young, just impressionable kid with a crazy situation going on at home my 7th, 8th grade teacher, mike Kerensky. He does tax services now too, but I think he's still teaching at Canfield schools. History teacher got me into wrestling out there and we've always stayed really close throughout the years and he's he was. He always asks me how you doing, how, how's everything going?

Speaker 2 23:39

he's he was always interested in Joeyey the person I love that deeper than because, obviously for those of you who are listening, joey, he has a ready smile, he's quick to smile, he's he wants to connect and stuff. So I really appreciate you allowing us to see joey, the person today you ready yeah, rapid fire oh boy wait, greg, you're supposed to say that. You say it so much better.

Speaker 1 24:05

It's time for you want me to do it again? Yes, all right, we'll do it again. I'll cut it.

Speaker 2 24:10

Or that could be a blooper, you know. All right, I have no idea what's going on now.

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Speaker 1 24:14

You know what it's time for, Debbie? What Rapid Fire wasn't that better.

Speaker 2 24:22

All right, north or south for vacation. South, I don't think we've gotten to north yet.

Speaker 3 24:29

You know how he said that.

Speaker 2 24:31

He squeezed that one out. Sunshine, come on.

Speaker 3 24:32

We've got some sunshine going on today. We need more here we go here we go.

Speaker 2 24:36

Would you rather have a big plate of pasta, spaghetti or grape leaves and olives?

Speaker 3 24:45

You're conflicting the two.

Speaker 1 24:47

It's like healthy or not healthy. I'd be saying who's cooking?

Speaker 2 24:50

I know it depends.

Speaker 3 24:52

I can't make a choice on that. I love them both so much. Oh, okay, all right, all right Pepsi or Coke Coke.

Speaker 2 24:59

Favorite book that you have read or are reading.

Speaker 3 25:04

Shark Never Sleeps by Drew Rosenhaus.

Speaker 2 25:07

Have you heard of him? No, me neither.

Speaker 3 25:09

You know who Drew Rosenhaus is? No, he's the super agent to all the NFL players. Oh, this is Show me the money guy yeah he's the one that they made the movie Jerry Maguire off of.

Speaker 2 25:22

No way. Oh, okay, so favorite sports team football team.

Speaker 3 25:27

Pittsburgh Steelers there you go, there you go oh.

Speaker 2 25:30

I knew that I should have known that Will Howard baby Will. Howard.

Speaker 1 25:33

Howard.

Speaker 2 25:35

Howard, okay, favorite genre of music.

Speaker 3 25:38

Boy hip hop 100%.

Speaker 2 25:40

Oh yeah, you're a hip hop guy. Hip-hop, 100%. Oh yeah, you're a hip-hop guy. Oh yeah, no, frank Sinatra. Oh yeah, frank Sinatra.

Speaker 1 25:44

Every Italian, everybody that grows up adjacent to an Italian family or in Youngstown as a whole.

Speaker 3 25:52

I think old blue eyes is a part of that.

Speaker 2 25:54

Francis Albert Sinatra. Okay, beach, are you going to the beach, or the mountains? The beach, the beach. Okay, so beach. Are you going to the beach?

Speaker 1 26:04

or the mountains, the beach, the beach. Okay, so that goes with the south thing, yeah, yeah, all right.

Rapid Fire Questions with Joey

Speaker 3 26:06

Growing up we had a place in florida too, so I've always loved the south. I root for the miami hurricanes too, for uh college football growing up, going to south florida oh, you were just born in 2003. Yeah, there is, that was tough.

Speaker 2 26:21

Here we go One of those fancy Tesla cars or a Lambo.

Speaker 1 26:27

A Lamborghini.

Speaker 2 26:28

A Lamborghini, 100% Lamborghini, okay.

Speaker 3 26:33

Fuel injection.

Speaker 1 26:34

Fish, guts or steak. That's what you just said.

Speaker 3 26:38

Listen, I don't know how to do that.

Speaker 2 26:41

I like Teslas.

Speaker 1 26:41

A Lamborghini, come on.

Speaker 2 26:44

Yeah, but you've got to really squash down to get in a Lamborghini. You've got to squash down to get in anything.

Speaker 3 26:50

Have you ever driven in a Tesla before? No, that's an interesting drive, ooh okay. It slows itself down. When you take your foot off the accelerator, it crawls. It's a weird kind of.

Speaker 1 27:02

It recharges its battery.

Speaker 3 27:03

I've also driven in a Fiat 500 before.

Speaker 2 27:06

So get the visual of my big ass in one of those. Oh man See, I had a dream that I was driving a sports car, and so that's the only thing. But I was like. It was like scared me the power of it. I'd like tap on the pedal and like you could, know. So I feel like I've ridden it one, but I've never yeah, I'll be suv and up from here on out probably for the rest of my life.

Speaker 3 27:29

So I don't look like mr, I'll tell you what I'm?

Speaker 1 27:31

just a plug for gm, but those new suburbans are sweet, they really are oh my gosh, they really did a good number, yeah what?

Speaker 2 27:39

what makes them so great?

Speaker 1 27:40

like just they just they're honestly like the. They're better than the original Cadillac Escalades. They really are. Really, really, really nice.

Speaker 3 27:47

There's trucks nowadays GMC Sierras and Dodge Rams. You can get some of the options on these trucks nowadays that are incredible. It's like driving in an Escalade or something like that.

Speaker 1 28:01

All right, one more time, plug yourself, and then we're going to sign out.

Speaker 3 28:06

All righty, come and see us at Prima Cucina Italiana, 4500 Mahoning Avenue. You can come in dirty work boots, it doesn't matter. We're white tablecloth, but we're not pretentious. Oh, I like that. Come and have Italian like you've never had anywhere else.

Speaker 1 28:21

All right, Thank you, I appreciate you being here. Thank you.