I've been talking like this my whole life. In parking lots, diners, somebody's kitchen at 2am. The only difference now is there's a microphone.Welcome to Three Friends, One Booth. Me, Gene "Gennaro" Esposito, and Johnny Flea -- crammed into a booth at Vito's Pizza in Cherry Hill, NJ, eating chicken parm and saying everything we'd normally say anyway.This is Episode 1. The pilot. And I'll be honest -- we didn't ease into it.We open with my son at University of Tampa. There's a pool. There's a Jumbotron. There are bikinis. He won't go and we think we know why. I FaceTime him and he tells me -- and I'm quoting directly -- "Why would I go to the pool? It's just a bunch of girls getting tan." I nearly blacked out.From there we get into how Gene hit puberty at 18 and the guys have never let him live it down, Johnny driving a 30-foot Winnebago to University of West Virginia to visit his son at college, our old mafia nicknames, Italian grandmothers cooking Sunday gravy at 4am, Johnny's son hitting a deer on the way home from school, and the story of how I got into a parking lot fight when I was 19, got one lucky punch in, lost my shoes running, cut my feet on broken glass, paid a bouncer ten bucks to walk me to my car -- and then hid in the weeds for four hours when it didn't work out.This is us. Twice a month. Subscribe and come hang.Timestamps:0:00 -- My son is at Tampa and won't go to the pool. It's the girlfriend.2:08 -- Welcome to Three Friends One Booth -- we're live at Vito's Pizza in Cherry Hill NJ3:03 -- Gene goes by Janaro now. We discuss.7:18 -- How our old crew got their nicknames -- Johnny Flea, Frankie Head, Anthony Ice9:07 -- Gene hit puberty at 18. The guys find out. It goes how you'd expect.14:00 -- Johnny's son hits a deer coming home from college. Johnny briefly considers lying to insurance.17:52 -- The insurance adjuster's actual advice about deer. Genuinely useful.20:04 -- Gene's company DFX has approximately 30 Instagram pages. He doesn't have the passwords to most of them.22:26 -- Our kids can't afford to move out and honestly the housing market is terrifying25:00 -- Johnny's going to Rome, Florence, and Sorrento this summer. One rule: no chicken parm.27:00 -- Sauce vs. gravy. My Italian grandmother. Johnny's grandmother up at 4am. We go deep.31:14 -- I got in a parking lot fight at 19, landed one punch, lost my shoes, bled on broken glass, and hid in the weeds for four hours. Full story.38:07 -- Dukes Till Dawn, the Shay, staying out till the sun came up with nowhere to be the next day. I miss that.52:10 -- Wrapping up Episode 1. See you next week from the booth.I've been seen or heard on The Howard Stern Show, WTF with Marc Maron, The Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents Joe Matarese (His Own 1/2 Hour Special), The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn and Craig Ferguson, Americas Got Talent, and his three Specials on Youtube The Poster's Wrong, Medicated, and Mullets and Mixtapes. Click here to watch my newest special Mullets and Mixtapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWVYa9ps48 Follow me on Instagram: https://Instagram.com/TheJoematareseFollow Me On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoematareseFollow Me On Facebook: https://Facebook.com/TheJoematareseTo Book Me For An Event Go To: https://Joematarese.com/contact To See Where I'm Performing: https://Joematarese.com
