Okay.

Boom, and we're live with Joey Diaz and TJ English.

Joey turned me on to you a long time ago, Mr English.

He gave me a copy of the Westies, right?

What year was that?

98, 99.

A long time ago, he gave me that book.

Yeah.

It's fantastic, really fascinating stuff.

Yeah. First book I published.

Was it really?

The Westies. Yeah, 1990. How did you guys find out of each other?

He wrote a book, a friend of mine turned me on to a book

named Havana nocturn that was a small book of fascinating read and I was just

blown away by him and I went to a party one night and there was a literary agent there and I go, do you

fucking guys read a van an attorney?

They go, we optioned it.

And I was like, that's fucking in.

That's going to be a great book.

It just, uh, it broke down the the how Fidel took over it from

three different cities how it was going down in three different categories and then I heard that he was writing a book about West New York in Union City Cubans where I grew up.

And I emailed him and I told him who I was, that my mother had a bar, and I grew up in that shit and he hit me back and we became friends he came to a show and

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