Salarolo. How are we doing? An incredible human. I am so excited to have you on this week. I'm excited to be here.

Francesco's cousin. Yes. Oh my god. Welcome to Let's Talk.

I legit. You ready? I'm ready. You're just looking like, oh, we get deep. We too get deep. I'm ready.

I'm crying. You had a rough last kind of year or two. Yes. You had two losses. Your mother and then Francesco.

I really want to start with your mother. I know that there are so many people that lost a parent.

I think that if there's anyone at this point in their healing, can speak from a true place of transparency and a little bit more of clarity,

can help people along. I would love to have you do so. I wanted to start off by just getting to know your mother and I wanted everybody to kind of get to know her too.

How would you describe Rosalie? A pain in the ass now. She was, she loved hard. If she liked you, she loved you. If she didn't, she didn't. I love that.

She was very Italian in that way. But if you were in her corner, she had you for life. She also had a lot of people in her corner. She was a popular woman.

I know. She knew how to accumulate and curate friends. She didn't have time for the bullshit. There's a lot of people bring bullshit into your life.

She knew how to keep that away and to keep those good people in. What do you think? Everybody loved the most about her.

That's interesting. I think she just had a presence about her. She walked into a room and knew she walked into a room. She had a way of being inclusive. She never made anyone feel like an outsider. She didn't care if she knew you for 20 years or for two minutes.

If you were in her house and her home, she wanted you to feel comfortable. I think that's what people remember most about her.

What was your relationship with her growing up? Are you guys really close?

Her and I were very similar in a lot of ways. I think that's why we used to argue a lot. We're both opinionated.

I love it. But we were very close. She did a laugh for us. She took the role of mom and wife very seriously.

I think that those were her two favorite roles. Maybe a little too much for the mother. She was self-proclaimed telecopter mom.

Was she very involved in your life? Almost like two and a half. What are you doing? Where are you at? Almost like two and a half.

It's like, ma, please. I don't know if you're going to have time for a story. I don't know. Please. We got nothing but time.

She was a self-proclaimed telecopter mom. There was one time I was like, I think it was a freshman or maybe middle school.

I was staying after school for something my phone died. I didn't think it was that big of a deal. She knew where I was.

I came home. My brother's like, you need to call mom right away. She's out there looking for you.

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