anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
anthony: right. baron ambrosia: you know, you could really just come here, eat, drink wine, women, song, and just indulge. anthony: this is pretty much the center of the pork universe as i ve ever seen it in new york. i don t know any place porkier than what i m looking at. anthony: this is exactly the kind of thing i thought we d lost in new york, that one after the other faded away in the neighborhoods i lived in. and all along, all along it was there, right underfoot a gusher of porky goodness. baron ambrosia: i mean, there s a thing there s a great line, which is, uh, they say in france, switzerland, c est le bronx. which is, you know, what do you think, this is the bronx? and, you know, this idea of just, you know, music s really loud or someone s making a mess. to me, i take that as a point of pride. to be the bronx the bronx is where the music is loud. i mean, it s, the bronx is where the men are tough, the women are sexy, and the food is spicy. if those
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chicharrón with the skin just chopped up. anthony: so, skin baron ambrosia: skin, fat. anthony: skin and fat? baron ambrosia: yeah. it s almost like a little meat candy bar. anthony: it s amazing. it s amazing. baron ambrosia: morcilla. anthony: morcilla for sure. baron ambrosia: it s always morcilla. anthony: and then what else do we need? some, uh, plátano? baron ambrosia: yeah. anthony: puerto rico, i missed you. baron ambrosia: the bronx, to me, became a place where i could really engage my bacchanalian sensibility. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: you know, you could really just come here, eat, drink wine, women, song, and just indulge. anthony: this is pretty much the center of the pork universe as i ve ever seen it in new york. i don t know any place porkier than what i m looking at. anthony: this is exactly the kind of thing i thought we d lost in new york, that one after the other faded away in the neighborhoods i lived in. and all along, all
baron ambrosia: right. anthony: what s that, the shank there? baron ambrosia: yeah, they re cutting meat off the shoulder. we re got to get that in there. anthony: oh yeah. it s it s amazing. it s amazing. baron ambrosia: big piece of chicharrón with the skin just chopped up. anthony: so, skin baron ambrosia: skin, fat. anthony: skin and fat? baron ambrosia: yeah. it s almost like a little meat candy bar. anthony: it s amazing. it s amazing. baron ambrosia: morcilla. anthony: morcilla for sure. baron ambrosia: it s always morcilla. anthony: and then what else do we need? some, uh, plátano? baron ambrosia: yeah. anthony: puerto rico, i missed you. baron ambrosia: the bronx, to me, became a place where i could really engage my bacchanalian sensibility. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: you know, you could really just come here, eat, drink wine, women, song, and just indulge. anthony: this is pretty much the center of the pork universe as i ve e