Episode #173: Feeney Talks with Alex P. Taylor

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #173 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Alex P. Taylor.

It was great to talk with my good #friend, Alex. 

Alex is The Nacho King of Connecticut. He is the author of the book, Totally Nachragerous! 


We talked about:
Coracora Happy Hour (minute 1)
Mass Appeal in Chicopee (minute 2)
“Halloworth” Day (minute 4)
Alex visited Feeney’s classroom (minute 6)
Being the keynote speaker at Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce (minute 11)
Photo of Alex’s new nacho tattoo (minute 14)
Nacho analogy for cursive writing (minute 18)
The history of nachos  (minute 20)
3 Keys to being The Nacho King (minute 22)
Nacho events: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 25)
Congrats to Bear’s BBQ for winning the nacho competition (minute 29)
The Macho Nachos, Peruvian nachos,  from Coracora  (minute 32)
Holidays and Christmas cards (minute 35)
Totally Nachragerous book release on August 25th (minute 37) 
Being on reality TV shows: Below Deck - season 11 and Hell’s Kitchen - season 23, episode 6  (minute 42)
Alex has songs on Spotify (minute 48)
Alex’s favorite teacher  (minute 50)
Alex brought treats from the restaurant, Tindahan City in Berlin, CT (minute 52)
Closing remarks (minute 56)
Upcoming events (minute 57)

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Creators and Guests

Host

Eric Feeney

After teaching for nearly a decade at his alma mater in Waterbury, in 2014, Eric Feeney began teaching at Wolcott Elementary in West Hartford. Shortly following, Sam Sohn, the father of one of his students, passed away suddenly from a heart attack. He left behind four beautiful children and a loving wife, Nancy Wallace-Sohn. Eric saw first-hand the toll this took on the family as they navigated their way through this unthinkable tragedy. The following year, Rashad Collier Sr., another father of a student in Eric’s class, passed away in Hartford as a result of gun violence. Rashad left behind two fantastic children and a loving wife, Denise Villegas. The impact of these tragedies weighed on Eric and motivated him to build an organization that could provide assistance for similar situations. With that, Friends of Feeney was born. In 2019, Friends of Feeney Inc. became an official 501©(3) nonprofit organization, allowing more funds to be raised and expanding the range of services provided to children and families in need. Today, over a decade since Eric’s idea to build a community organization dedicated to supporting our friends in need, Friends of Feeney has burgeoned into a reputable and recognized organization capable of providing financial and resource support to numerous families and individuals across greater Hartford and beyond. Through this work, an incredible community of children and families has been recognized, who care for and appreciate each other’s kindness.

Producer

David Chmielewski

David started his video career in the early 1990s working on video crews as an independent contractor for such companies as Martha Stewart Living, IBM and Xerox. After graduating Southern Connecticut State University with the degree in Corporate Communications, David continued his video production career and accepted a position at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Within a few years the news and production studios became his charge and David designed, installed and maintained the televisions sets for the various programs at the station. At the end of 2013 David founded DirectLine Media, a video production company that specializes in creating memorable and compelling video content for businesses.

Editor

Stefania Sassano

Stefania's acting journey began as early as the fourth grade, where she took on the role of Scarlett O'Hara in a stage production of Gone With the Wind. This early experience sparked a lifelong passion for the arts. With a background in musical theater fueled by her love of music and singing, Stefania stepped into larger roles, such as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret during her sophomore year at the University of New Haven. This performance earned her a nomination for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival—an honor she would receive again in her junior year.

What is Feeney Talks With Friends?

Eric Feeney talks with #friends! Eric is the founder of the nonprofit organization Friends of Feeney. Their mission is to help children and families who need assistance after heartbreak and tragedy. www.friendsoffeeney.com

All right, all right.

Feeny talks with friends.

Episode 173 with a good friend,
the Nacho King.

Alex. Pete Taylor, how are you doing?

I'm doing great, friend.

How you doing? Great.

Cheers. Cheers. With a chicha?

Yes. Here at CoroCoro.

Tell us more about it.

This is basically purple

corn juice with cinnamon
and just some delicious spices to it.

This is always something that I get

nonalcoholic,
but they do make an alcohol version.

If you order a pisco sour
so you can get the chicha sour.

Oh, it's a sauce sour if you will. Yeah.

So something fun.
I actually do like Corker a lot.

Oh my god. Yeah.

You see we're in a special place.

51 Isham Road, Blueback Square CoroCoro
the place to be.

Thank you to all our friends here
Mike, Kevin and all the staff.

So great. Friendly.

We just had our second friends of Feeny.

Happy hour CoroCoro
a happy happy Feeny Feeny.

So we hope to see everyone June 24th.

It'll be our third one.

And then we're going to take
a little break for the summer.

And then we'll try to revisit
when school starts a little higher.

Yes, yes. You came to the first one.

What'd you think?

I thought it was fun.
I came in on the tail end.

So by that point, you know,

it probably was different
than it was in the beginning.

We had a lot of people.

It was great.

The second one, Anthony's
Abatement, sponsored the food.

So we had empanadas,
wings, fries, drink specials.

Mike put together a fantastic menu.

No nachos. Well, then it's not a party.

True.

Stick around.

You might see nachos today.

Wink, wink.

You might have a surprise for you.

I like surprises when it comes to food.

I'm game.

Thank you.

Yeah. So,
how you been? What you been up to?

So this morning,
I had a really fun nacho cooking

segment on mass appeal and chickpea mass.

It's there station out there.

We did some fun.

Brisket nachos. Delicious.

I left there
and I picked up some new business cards,

which I'm super excited about with a lot
of totally natural branding to it.

And totally not just is obviously the name
of my upcoming cookbook blog plug.

Plug.

Yeah, it's really exciting right now
because we're planning out book

tour dates that happen
after it comes out on August 25th,

and really
putting a lot of fun details together.

I know I can probably mention this one.

We're going to have a pre-party
at the Hartford Yard Goat Stadium.

I just put the book cover
on the jumbotron, and I create a nacho

specifically that night for the game.

So there's a lot of fun things
that are happening.

Do we have a date on that?

Yes, it is, I believe.

Saturday, August 22nd.

If that is a Saturday,
I'm going to be there.

I'm going to be there.
Okay. I hope please come.

Because the more people cheering
and supporting on it means so much.

Yeah for sure.

Oh, this is amazing.

Yeah. The nacho nacho rages not rages.

So it's like outrageous.

The book has a very much 80 theme to it.

So when you think back to the 80s
and you hear totally outrageous,

it is totally naturally
just this time around.

I love it,
I love it, and all the things there.

That brisket sounds amazing.

Whoa.

Had a nice horseradish
crema to it as well.

So blend it in some nice horseradish

and Worcestershire sauce and salt.

Yeah, there's 80 different types
of nachos in your book, or 70, 80,

70 original nacho recipes,
which will range from international

to nacho fusion to dessert nachos to
holiday nachos.

I even have an apt birthday nacho,

which is my very special birthday nacho.

When's your birthday?

October 24th, one week before Halloween,
which makes it the best possible

birthday ever.
I actually have a name for that.

It's called Hollow Wirth Day,
so it's two things that are together.

And every year I have a big costume party.

Nice for my birthday. Very cool,
very cool.

Can't beat it.

Happy birthday, Halloween guy. Oh, yeah.

Big time Halloween.

I have bins in my basement.

Still being a program director at a camp.

Being a third grade teacher bins a lot.

So name and often I probably have it.

Superman soup done have it.

No. Freddy Krueger.

Oh, no, I do.

You have Freddy.

I was not a big horror movie guy. Oh, no.

I got the Bugs Bunny from Space Jam.

Okay, I could dress up as a Yankee.

I could dress up as a nick.
I could dress up as Elvis.

I could dress up as Rowdy Roddy
Piper, macho man, Hulk Hogan.

I was gonna say

yes. Wow, wow.

Oh, I like that.

Nice one. Good Hulk Hogan.

Oh, yeah.

Brother, these 24 inch pythons
run wild on you.

What you gonna do?

Yeah, you look at that notch rage.

I like it.

I mean, that's like,
you know, very at ease to me as well.

Yeah, I think that was a really fun time.

Feeny talks with friends.

Our podcast.

We talked to wonderful people in
the community that are doing great things.

And, Alex, you're doing
great things in the community.

You're a good friend.

You want to talk about your visit
a couple of months ago or last month you

visit, to which one?

Sorry, I'm like,
which visit are we talking about now?

I'm sorry.

When you came to my school.

Oh my God. Sorry. That visit.

See, when you say visit, though, that's
when you're everywhere.

And I'm like,

sorry, I should have been more specific.

I'm sorry.

So it was March 22nd.

You went to woke elementary school
right now? No.

But when you said third graders earlier,
I was actually going to chime in

with that.

But we went into the Halloween direction,
so all good.

What I will say, that visit was so amazing

when I walked in, it was just

this little third grade fan club

coming with cards and excitement
and happiness.

And to me, that is what life is all about
right there. Yep.

And they led me to your classroom,

which then all of a sudden it's amplified
even more. Yep.

And I don't think you were in the room
at the time when I walked in.

No, I was chatting. Yep.

You were down the hall, but.

So I was there and I was like, wow, this.

I just, like, sat
right in the front and started.

It was great.

One of the most amazing things
in in a previous life of mine,

I was a high school,
a large group facilitator,

so I felt very comfortable being
in front of the classroom in that way.

Nice.

But it was obviously no,
it showed cause it was third

graders versus high school students,
and these third graders

were just so sweet and so kind.

And it felt amazing.

That energy. Yeah. That youthful energy.

Yeah, it was great.
You were definitely a celebrity.

They they were like.

They were like, he's coming. He's famous.

The Nacho King. They still talk about it.
It was amazing.

They had me signing their folders,
notebooks,

and I was like, I can't sign that.

Like,
you're gonna get in trouble with your.

A lot of parents knew you.

Oh, good. Knew of you?

Yep. And it was great.

But I love that.

Thank you. And thank you so much
for that experience.

Because, I mean, honestly,
I went through all of the cards

because they each made me a card. Yeah.

And I, I, I still like, look at them
and it's just such a

this like, if you're having a bad day,
look at the cards.

Okay. You still have them.

Yeah. Yeah.

We'll throw a couple of pictures
of some cards up here.

We got a bum, bum, bum.

And here's Ruby boom and Irish boom.

Got the okay to share their photo.
Oh, you did okay. Yeah.

I mean, honestly, this was a
it was such a special day.

Yeah. Thank you.

Good kids.

No, it was great.

It was a great learning experience.

They wrote questions.

You held court.
It was so good. Yeah, I loved it.

And, you know,
we actually got to try cafeteria nachos.

That's right.

I mean, that was a big thing.

Yeah, it was May 14th.

I said I made up a date when I shot it out
there a minute ago, but it was May 14th.

It was nacho day on the calendar.

So I said, hey, Alex,
you got to come. It's nacho day.

And that's the thing.

A lot of their cards

said, you know, thank you so much
for seeing us on Nacho Day. And

this is of course, amazing.

So, you know, I might end up being there
for the last day.

Who knows? Yeah.

Come by celebrity appearance
with some more things.

We got some we're going to do.

Rapid fire question time.

Okay.

Thank you for coming. Last time.

It was a delight.

Do you know what lacrosse is? Yes.

Have you ever played it? Negative. Soccer.

Do you ski?

I was banned from the ski lift.

Do you have any friends at Feeny? Merch?

Yes. Of course. On my refrigerator.

Do you have any?

This is. This is from.

We'll give you these two.

I want you to picture at the end to.

I want you to prank Mr.

Feeny on his podcast and tell him
something like, you're going to retire.

What do you think of that?

Say you're you're going to prank me
and say you're retiring.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, after this book comes out,
I have to retire and not to again.

Yeah.

What's your favorite color?

That is a good question.

I think like a light blue. This person.

Thank you for visiting our school.
I'm from Florida.

My favorite color is blue. Oh.

Can I also say how wild it was that

there was another student
that had my name?

Also my birthday. That was cool.

What a coincidence that thread came up

in terms of
how did we all figure that out?

Yeah, it was pretty amazing.

It was really cool.

And like,
I was like, that's what are the odds?

Yeah.

Same name, same birthday.

Kids still talk about that too.

Yeah, I know, pretty wild
sometimes. You're meant to be in places.

Thanks for coming to class.

I hope you enjoyed your visit
I love nachos.

How many nachos do you eat in a week?

But God, a lot, a lot.

I like your hairstyle.

How long have you been the Nacho King?

I have been the Nacho
King since probably 2021.

I really miss you.

The nachos are getting upgraded.
Please try to see us again.

Oh my God! Really?

They're getting upgraded I guess so.

We really love. We love the Nacho King.

I think you should come again
I think I will.

All right.

And now even these pictures.

This is what I'm talking about.

Like seeing the colors here
that they're doing.

The guacamole, the salsa, all of it.

Like they were so spot on.

Yeah. Isn't that success?

Where's that?

Know what I'm saying?

You said that. My God, yes.

Does it say success, too?

Because I believe in that. I love it.
What is that?

What's your what's your success model
I love that.

Well, I'm actually giving a keynote speech

on Thursday
to the queen of the October promise.

Commerce. About.

Isn't that pretty cool about
the ingredients of success in a business?

And it has a very strong nacho

analogy to it. Oh.

Very cool.

Quinnipiac. 15 minutes. Whoa.

But I'm gonna make it interactive.

So yeah. That's good.

Always work the crowd in. Of course. Yeah.

What do you think? Hey,
let me hear you say.

Just wait.

People will be talking
about this one for a while.

Did they reach out to you?
How does that happen?

Yeah,
I actually was doing a nacho demonstration

at the kitchen company in North Haven,
and one of their representatives

was there and said, hey,
we really like what you did with this.

Would you like to do a keynote speech?

And I said, yeah, absolutely.

Because again,
I for ten years worked in a nonprofit

before I took on food
as a main occupation, let's say.

And I was always up at the front
giving talks and facilitating.

And it's very second nature to me.

I love it.

I was the commencement speaker last night
at the Parent Leadership

Training Institute.

It was in West Hartford, but we had
families from Avon, Farmington all over.

And I went on about 5 to 10 minutes.

Oh, wow.
And I got a lot of compliments. So.

It feels good to be in front
and have everyone's attention on you.

And people come up to you and say,
good job.

I want to get involved with friends.

I love what you're doing.
I love your message.

Can I tell you something fun as well
is that I just recently, as of like

two weeks ago, officiated a wedding
the first time as well.

And I also had a nacho analogy
to love as well.

I'm there and honestly, everyone came up
to me afterwards and said what an amazing,

you know, talk that was.

And I felt really good.

Now at that wedding,
they actually had a tattoo station,

and there was 15
preset tattoos that you could pick from.

So the tattoo artist came up to me.

There was two of them.

And by the way,
both of their names were Alex as well.

So it's like, this gets crazy.

So many Alex's.

But he says, hey,
we really loved what you did.

Are you going to get one of our tattoos?

And I said, the only way I will ever get
another tattoo is if it means something.

So you'd have to, like,
have, like, a tortilla chip.

And he said, I'm sorry,
we don't have that one,

but I will consider
drawing it for you on the spot.

So he came up to me later and he said,
what do you think about this?

It was on his computer screen.

And I said, well, looks like
I'm getting a nacho tattoo right now.

And I did.

Come on.

Where do you want to see her?

We have to show. Show the camera.
This is amazing.

I'm not that big.

Tattoo reveal. Yeah.

Ready? Or maybe.
Do you have a picture of it?

Oh, can you see it?

Oh that's cool.

Right? Yeah.

I'm not like a yoga,
and I can throw it up.

Can you imagine?

Can you share a picture later
if I, if I boom it right here.

Can I boom it.

Can I boom it.

Of course Alex is nacho tattoo boom.

Yeah.

I mean, so this has been a meaningful time
and I think.

Do you have any tattoos?

No. You don't.
I know I'm with you, though.

It's like, what's your other one?

Well, got one when I was I think like 19

and it was a tribal gotcha tattoo
which clearly means nothing.

And it was like something
at the time that it was nothing.

It meant nothing. Right.

And so my entire life,
I walked around with this thing

and I thought, wow, I really didn't
put much thought into this.

And, you know,
that's the talk of, like, a 19 year old.

Yeah, at the time.

And for this one,
it actually meant something.

It commemorated, you know, officiating
a waiting for the first time.

And then also this era of Nacho

that I'm in in their life right now,
which is definitely meaningful.

Yeah, I love it.

I said yes.

Say yes. Yes. The tattoo.

Say yes. You ever got one?

You know, getting up there.

My brother has a sleeve, my sister has
and my mom has, and my wife has one.

And it's like your third graders
thought I was your brother.

You know, he said
you must be a good looking dude, though.

I mean, we're both tall, right?

I mean, you're six two, six, two and a
half, and you're six four, six, four.

They had us back to back. Yeah.

The kids were like, who's taller?

Yeah, yeah, they
they were such a fun group. Oh.

So great.
I'll give you the rest of these later.

Oh, one last one.
Thank you for coming to our school.

I had so much fun.

How heavy is the world's largest? Nacho.

How is it being a mr. Feeny podcast?

Feeny talks with friends,
and I hope you have a good time at Cora.

Cora, this guy's a good listener.
I'll tell you what.

The largest Nacho.

They did have a record set in Kansas
at one point,

but Beavis and Butt-Head
actually broke the record,

so now they hold the world's
largest Nacho record.

There you go.
There you go, Beavis and Butt-Head.

Fire, fire!

All right. Will you be at.

Oh, this is your boy Alex.

Will you be at coracoid tonight?

What's your favorite food?

My God, Cora will say, I love Thai food.

I mean, I love, obviously,
a lot of different.

Oh, this is you right here. Look. Come on.

Is that not,
you know, hold that side to side.

Look over there at the camera.
Look at that.

They did such a good job.
Especially with the chip necklace.

That's like a gold tortilla chips
necklace.

Are you getting me right now?

And I have a chip in my hand.

That's good job, friend.

Good job,
I appreciate that. That's awesome.

And just so very cool.

Even our principal sent this in the mail.

We have we deliver mail.

Thanks for inviting Nacho King,
our Nacho King

friend,
to walk it for our friends to enjoy.

That's from our principal.
He loved the visit too.

That's amazing. That's for you.

Thank you.

And then I also do
thank you cards. Handwritten notes.

I highly suggest everyone
to do a handwritten note.

Actually do that as well.

I do 100%. No lie.

Look at that cursive too.

I'm working on my cursive

Nacho King, thank you so much
for visiting my classroom last month.

My students absolutely loved it.

I also appreciate
you coming on my podcast.

You are a good friend with gratitude.

I appreciate that and I will say to you,
I definitely

am a huge fan of writing handwritten
cards to people.

You may see that again
at some point in your life.

I will.

Very cool to definitely say that's,
you know, and even still, they don't

teach kids how to write cursive anymore
either, right?

It's coming back.

It's coming back. Making a comeback.

Yeah. Okay. I love that yours was spot on.

I'm practicing this year more than you.

You did.

You knew how to do that
handwriting. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I teach it. Okay.

You know, I'm class, but one at a time.

But you got to have flow
and take your time in life.

Always got to have fun.

Give us a nacho analogy
on cursive writing.

Well,

as as we can start off
with always the chip.

So that's your foundation,
which is your back knowledge, right?

Do you you did actually have

kind of cursive knowledge
from a previous life.

Yeah. Yeah yeah.

The cheese.

Now I would say in terms
of how you're looping all the letters,

the other the cheese is binding
as is the cursive.

Very nice I like it,
I like it topping wise.

I think cursive is very presentational.

And is that kind of wow factor experience
that people look for with nachos as well.

So if you're writing a letter in cursive,
that to me is also wow factor.

Thank you. Very well done. Right. Got the

not your wedding nacho keys to success.

Nacho keys the curse of.

That's your next book.

I'm going to tell you this.

No, friend, is that

if you can find something you're
passionate about, something that brings

you joy, then you can likely relate it
to anything in life, I believe.

Excellent point.

And I think nachos became a vehicle
for me to pursue a lot of dreams.

And it opened a lot of doors to me,
and I'm

so grateful to Ignacio Nacho Anaya,

creator of the original Nacho, in 1943,
for bringing this into the world.

And that's not very recent, you know,
that's yeah, that's not too long ago.

If you think about 1923, not very far in
terms of like the grand scheme of history,

and even right now
there, people love nachos.

Yeah, it brings people together.

So who's who's the originator?

Because we did a read aloud
to prep for your visit.

Was it nachos? Nachos.

The guy's name was.

Yeah. Cartoon book.

Yeah. Yeah, I have that book.

I actually know the author of that.

And so his full name is Ignacio, so.

That's right. Ignacio.

Their nickname becomes Nacho. Gotcha.

His last name was in.

He actually created this nacho in Piedras

Negras, Mexico, at a place
called the Victory Club. Yep.

Okay.

Did it for three military wives
that came in.

One of their names was Mammy or Mami.

Mami or Mammy finally.

And they said, hey,

we really want to try something
we've never had in our entire life.

And he went into the kitchen, scrambled
because there was, you know, whatever

kind of ingredients
he had put the three, the chip, the cheese

and the pino together brought him out.

And they loved them.

Oh, yeah.

And so he named them nachos especially.

I love it.

All right.

Little history lesson for you, you know.

Oh, my lifelong learner.

Tell the kids you always want to learn
something new every day.

Yeah, I appreciate it.

Thank you for sharing that, Nacho King.

I can come back
and tell that story as well.

Yep. So we're here at Cora Cora,
soon to be sponsor.

You know, Kevin's on board.

They're going to either golf or sponsor
the golf tournament.

I want to thank Direct Line Media
for making this possible.

Stephanie and Dave,
I want to thank Luna Pizza

float,
41, Parkville Market, people's Bank,

American Credit Financial Union

to the JCC and West Hartford Lock.

The fact that you have just recited
all of these off the top of your head.

That's really good.

Yeah, I think I missed one,
so don't give me too many compliments.

Keating agency insurance.

I should have a list.
I usually do have a list.

Being in Keating, Sally and Bob's.

Oh, that right around the corner.
Love them. Yeah.

And so with West Hartford Lock,
what are three keys

that make you go to your job?

Three keys.

I would say creativity.

That's certainly a key.

Thinking outside of the box, obviously.

I think consistency is always a key.

The more you do something,

the better you're going to get at it.

And then I also think
my last key could be resilient.

Even if someone says no
or many people say no,

you find a different way
to get past the door.

Either it's going through a window,
going around the back side.

However, you can do it because I think
in life there are gatekeepers

and they prevent a lot of people
from getting sometimes places

that they should, maybe rightfully so, be.

And I think it's a point of
just figuring out a way to get around

people sometimes.

And it's sometimes it's not that clear
path of like a to be.

You got to see exactly okay.

And you figure it out.

I'm a big zig zag,
you know, kind of over small things.

I go right to the big thing.

Okay. And that's great for me, you know.

Yeah. It's amazing you're on.
A lot of you are in mass appeal.

You're with Scott and Kara.

You're with Erica? Yeah.

So you're in with everyone.

How'd you.

How do you get to that door? Back door.

Zig zag. Which way?

Oh, I would say I got it because it
not Joe's.

So I was doing local nacho
showcases at first.

And that led to just in general showcases.

So whether all of a sudden
it turned into holiday showcases.

So Mother's Day, pathogen, ally.

So it really opened a lot of doors to me
in that way.

But a really special moment that I had
with Great Day Connecticut was when I had

a conversation with the producer, Kate,
who she's amazing.

I asked her and said,
hey, would you be okay if I tried

to do a natural cooking segment?

And this was years back now, and she said,
give it a shot.

See how it goes.

You know what?

That was kind of getting past
this one thing that I needed to kind of

go with.

And the first time I did it,
it went great.

And then I got asked to do it again
and again.

And suddenly I'm using those recipes
now to write a cookbook.

So life has a funny way that's

amazing of kind of bringing you
where you need to be.

When's your next holiday?

When you reappear on the news.

Nice.

And you
got some red, white and blue nachos.

So I might do a regular local showcase
for that.

So sometimes I'll get goods
from or sweets or burgers

or hot dogs
from Google businesses. Gotcha.

So essentially helping local businesses
as well from those things

you do it typically that happens on Fox
61 a lot now with Erica. Yep.

So we'll do it
a couple of weeks before the holiday.

So it gives people
ideas of what they could get

or support
before the holiday itself is awesome.

So you're a foodie hotspot and travel.

Yeah. Yeah.

We we play a game so.

And you like you said, you got events
every day, visits every day.

Let's talk about your events.

Your first one, your last one.

Your best one.

Your worst one.

It's called first last best worst. Wow.

I needed some prep on this one.

I think there's some like,
how about when you said

before, like the visit, I was like,
oh God, which one?

You know, because there's so
every day is completely different for me.

There is no I mean, you have repetitive
nature to what you do.

Yep. Me,
I am constantly waking up and like,

where am I going to
thank God for Google Calendar?

Because I really have
to stay on top of that.

If not, things could go very wrong.

So if it was a first event,

I will

also say this
to I planned events like my entire life,

and whether it was just for friends
or I was always the one who was throwing

the parties,
I was always the one who was inviting

all the friends over to the either
the apartment at the time or to my house.

Now I just I'm a natural connector

for people and bringing large groups
of people together.

Very natural to me.

So I it must have been a birthday party.

Okay, okay.

Most recent one,

I mean, it would have to be something
to do with nachos.

So what about the Hartford taste?

Was that recent? Oh my gosh.

So actually yeah.

Hartford Taste
I just had that one where I was a judge

for the Nacho Cookoff
and also the MC as well.

And prior to that
it was the taste of Sono in South.

North.

Yeah,
I saw that of those events helped benefit

Connecticut Food Share which is amazing.

Yeah.

So always supporting
supporting Connecticut Food Share.

And I had a great time
at both of those events.

And here's the thing I don't
I don't probably have the worst

that I can say right now, but I,
I think to me, even if it was the worst,

I look at any kind of failure or mistake
always welcome.

It's great
to actually make mistakes and mess up

because it's going to teach you
how to do it the right way.

Yeah,
and I'm never going to beat myself up

over something that was super bad.

You know,

I just think there's so many other things
that we could worry about in life.

And most of the time if something
goes wrong, I just don't engage it.

And no one really knows either.

Yeah. Just go with the flow.

You know?
You made the mistake. Yeah, exactly.

And if you could play,
if you can fake it til you make it,

then you're great.

Like if you're giving
a speech or something and you're like,

missed the line.
No one knows you miss the line.

They know they're not going to know.

They're not gonna know.

They're gonna know.

No, no, no, no they will.

And I don't think in that case they will
because it's really just your reaction.

Right. That can show that. Right.

So either you're proactive
or you're reactive.

Go with proactive.

And how was the Cook-Off?

I saw sono.

So South Norwalk,
that's pretty far away. Yeah.

Oh, actually I was just at Georgetown
Day as well, which was on Sunday.

They had a chilly cookoff.

Honestly, I'm telling you, friend,

every day of my life is food centric
or food adjacent,

and I have to go to the gym

because if I don't, this

this could end off really bad,
you know, and I luckily, you're tall.

I'm tall.

You know, we could probably eat more

than other people can,
and it'll probably blend.

But if, if if I don't go to the gym

for a gap of time, it becomes noticeable.

Agreed.

This is this is a part of this job.

As much as I love this part,
you've got to really stay on top of that.

Good.

No more teacher at us, teacher Marotta.

So bears barbecue
one at the Hartford taste.

Right? Jamie McDonald.

He did such a great job.

There was a rule though
I would that wasn't followed

in terms of only bringing two ingredients
extra based off of he.

He had quite a few,

so I think it was only natural
his Nacho was going to win.

I would also say Puerto
Vallarta had a great nacho as well,

but they limited themselves to
I think next year the rules needs change

so that it's
whatever you want to bring it.

And I think that would probably make it
the add brisket.

Me some sort of meat.

Yeah he did
he you know that's what they're known for.

Smokehouse.

And he did.

It's delicious barbecue sauce on it.

And well my brisket nacho
this morning as well had a nice like smoky

barbecue sauce.

And I've been doing a job now

with this company called Ninth and Prime.

So I do every Monday
I do a meat video for them.

And every week
now I'm cooking a new something.

So I did just cook that 4 pound brisket
to make the nacho.

And the week before that I, I don't I just
prime ribs and oh yeah, meat Mondays.

I saw that post. That's pretty cool.

Where is that ninth out of.

It's based out of Philadelphia
but it's national so it shits everywhere.

Gotcha.

So it's not, you know, anything that
someone couldn't get something from it.

Yeah.

Jamie committing to coming on the podcast
because he went to a

ready to go Ukraine to cook for everyone.

He just.

Did he already come?

No, no, no, he's going to commit.

I haven't followed up.

Okay. He's
a great guy. Cares about the community.

He did something else cooking for.

Did he cook for Yale or everyone?

He's done so many things.

Yeah, he's done somebody.

He was in the military.

So great person
Jamie Bare coming on tattoos as well.

Tat it up. Oh here's my surprise for you.

Introduce my guy Kevin.

Oh wow I can't I just
this is his party's getting better.

All this talk about nachos.

I won't say what Kevin said about
these nachos on the air, but I'll tell you

after.

So we got some Peruvian style nachos.

Right?

So you got your dirty chips,
the little bacon.

These are gonna be chicken base
nachos, parmesan cheese.

But the sauce is what we call it.

Macho sauce.

So macho nacho,
you know, right on, right on.

The bass peppers are the Peruvian yellow
pepper and the Peruvian Ponca pepper.

So they're both blanch.

They were not really after the spice.

We're after the essence of the pepper.

So can I say in my mind, when I heard a
nacho was going to come out,

I was thinking there would be like
an Amarillo sauce on it, like the yellow.

Well, this is there.

So it's the

the sauce that you're seeing is based off
the Amarillo and the pancake pop.

The pepper is like a dehydrated pepper,
like, smoky, semi-sweet note. So

yeah, let's get a pic.

Let's get a selfie.

Hold it up to
I want to ask you a question.

Boone.

We're gonna put that selfie right
there. Kevin. Thank you.

One of my favorite things.

And I'm going to try to say
it. Don't talk. Correct.

All right. Ready?

You keep us alone.

Yeah. Did I say it right?

One. One. One.

Yeah.
You gotta let it roll off the tongue.

You gotta keep that one.

There we go, I did it.

See, you have to try that as well.

Should we try to this right now?

Yeah. Do it.

We need to get the crunch
in the microphone.

Does the chicken. Cheers.

Big chip. I just pulled up.

That was pretty good.
Pluck is hefty. Oh, boy.

What do you think?

Nice crunch.

Nice to meet the whole thing.

Well, it's a big, big bite.

Oh, yeah.

These are good.

I didn't want to get it all over my face.

Yeah. Oh, look at gold silverware.

Come on.

Definitely use the gold right now.

Finish this last chip there because I'm.

On my face.

Other side.

Other side.

Okay. All good.

That's why my guy Dave from director is
like, you can't be eating pizza on camera.

Nobody wants to hear you chewing.

Listen, I knew it was gonna go in my face

every time.

Every time.

Man, those are good.

It was really delicious. Really good.

I mean, I had this out of the way

because I'm going one more,
and then I'm gonna put it away.

I need some bacon.

Bacon and chicken.

Yeah, that was amazing. And bacon.

That was really tasty.

But also to. I highly recommend.

Besides the chicha murata, the pitas.

Where did you ever have that?

Where's that?

What is that? Yeah.

No potatoes with the Amarillo sauce.

Like these yellow.

And it's
one of my favorite things to get here.

So after we're done with Nacho,
we're gonna get.

That was delicious, by the way.

For some reason, I don't think
I had lunch today, and I'm hungry.

Those are going down.

Those are going down.
Those are really good.

Yeah, definitely.

I love all these cards, my friend.

That's a good one. Okay.

Thank you, thank you. Handwritten. No.

I suggest all my listeners
start your day with a cold shower.

And then write a handwritten note
to someone better than an email or a text.

Cursive goes down

to, you know, honestly,
it makes a it's interesting too.

In terms of Christmas cards,
when you think about people

like you send Christmas cards, are you a
I don't know.

Are you a Christmas card center? No,
we haven't been.

We sent once of our, like the Feeney
family, me and the girls and the wife.

I will say this.

I will get Christmas cards,
and I often like to actually

just call the person
to thank them personally.

Because

to me, having that conversation with them

is so much more powerful
than if I wrote them a card back.

But I want to acknowledge
they gave me the card.

But then I also say, hey,
I think we're due for a phone call.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Kind of a cue to I'm going to try that.

We put them around our door frame.

It's part of our Christmas decorations
in the living room.

Yeah.

Got the Christmas tree on one side.

Christmas pictures over here.

It's great to see all these kids grow up.

They grow up so fast.

Well, I mean, yeah,
I have a nephew who just got his license,

and I remember it was literally
probably five seconds ago.

We were taking him to Chuck E cheese,
and he was in, like,

the fake little driving car.

And that's I mean, you as a parent has to

it has to be such a trip to think about

seeing and remembering them as such
little people and how they've grown.

And I you know, I have that my nephew
for that and my niece is for that as well.

But I think it's so interesting to see

and to think that's
how a parent thinks as well.

You know, it's it's crazy.

It's got to be it's got to be a mind game.

I feel I still look the same. Yeah.

I mean in their in their

but they went from kindergarten
the senior year totally different.

And here I am still, you know looking good
like like you never age a day like.

Exactly. I love that it was great.

You know.

Not great at all.

You know, I feel good about it.

I, you know,
I think I love holidays, though.

I'm always the one who

has hosted the holidays for my family,
so they all come to me.

I love putting together just these

meaningful experiences, and
I feel like you're probably the same way.

Yeah. You know.

Oh, we have a graduation party.

Maybe you could write a oh, maybe hint for
a graduation themed nacho.

I'm getting

into this Nacho Coke
collaboration with restaurants.

I've done it a few times already,
but I think that with the book coming up

which actually show and tell time
and tell time, here we go.

I wanted to let you take a quick look
because I just got mailed.

Is this the exclusive?

Yeah, this is my first copy of Not True.

You had it signed from everyone.

Oh, well, that was.

We can't do that.

And now you have pina colada. Yeah.

So this actually has.
This is totally natural.

Yeah.

This has the pictures that were done
by Lisa Nichols of Bread and Me.

She's very popular here
in Connecticut and beyond.

And we had a food stylist. We did this.

All of these photos were done
over the week before Halloween.

So we were at the kitchen company
for seven days straight,

making all of the recipes
for taking all the pictures.

Every chapter opener
also has a picture of me

in kind of like an Aids
inspired outfit as well.

And there's some really fun names.

And I will also say there's an 80
song suggestion for each recipe

so that you have a full party experience
when you are making your nachos.

I like that.

Yeah, so you can play a different song
for every nacho that you make as well.

You don't think, oh, you're doing that?

Yes. Do you see I see that.

Yeah. That's classic right?

I mean, there's even like a chapter.

Is that Breakfast Club
or is that anything?

Say anything?

Yeah. The jukebox. Ask him.

Asking her out.

Boombox. Boombox.

Yeah. Say anything. So many fun.

Just outfits as well of just
trying to find things that were very easy.

You got the beats, not cheats. Beats
not cheats.

You know how to say it the right way.

A lot of people probably won't.

But I think it's really interesting
because there's intros to all the recipes

and there's chapter intros and people

that don't know you or like, don't know me
particularly, are going to get a chance

to know me through
reading these different intros

and these different chapters
that are in the cookbook.

And I highly encourage it,
because I think the book is about

embracing fun
and just kind of being approachable

and accessible
and not overwhelming yourself

too much because, you know,
at the end of the day, nachos are nachos.

But there's so many fun

wow factor things to these
that I think people are going to love it.

Very exciting.

It is your first August 22nd, 25th.

25th. Whoops, whoops.

Available for preorder right now, though,
preorders are very important to authors

because it shows the interest
to the stores that will pick up the book.

So it's a national
release. We'll link the,

the preorder link to the podcast.

Awesome.

So if you're listening, go on by this.

Yeah, go preorder it.

Preorder right to your house on the day
it comes out, and you will have

one of the first copies available when it
when it, you know, releases that day.

And of course, we're working on
lots of fun book tour dates as well.

So if you have your book, bring it to
one of the parties and we'll sign it up.

And, you know, it's
going to be pretty amazing.

I'm really excited for this.

I've lived many fun chapters in my life.

I was in a band once.

I worked with high school kids
once, you know, and this is just, to me,

another fun chapter of life.

You know, once upon a time
I did some reality TV.

There was a lot of different things
that I feel

very grateful for,
very having to experience.

Yeah.

23 bucks in the United States, 18
in Canada, 2295.

He like he likes
big nachos and cannot lie.

And if you like nachos,
this is the book for you.

And if you know someone who likes nachos,
this is highly gifted.

This is a fun, colorful book that would
look great on your coffee table.

It's not like you.

Good point.

I like that
look at how fun and colorful that is.

I'll give you a little bit of behind
the scenes knowledge is that if you look

at the colors of the front again, it

mimics slightly the first MTV logo.

So if you remember the M
that was the yellow, the red with the TV

and the blue on the side.

We wanted to have that 80s
feel to the book,

and I'm from that MTV generation.

So it was very I had a vision board set up
of all the pictures and images of things

that I liked, and that was something
that really resonated with me.

There's so many things
that go into it. It's crazy.

Very cool.

Yeah.

So go out and get your preorder. Yeah.

Totally not.

Totally not my guy.

We're here with the Nacho King.

Alex P Taylor.

Yes. Doing great things.

It is so honored to talk with you.

And he still

takes the time out of his day
to visit third graders and make their day.

That's what it's all about, though,
honestly, it was.

That was such a great day.

And then you mentioned,
come on, let's talk reality TV.

How was season 11?

Season
11 of Below Deck was pretty amazing.

We went to Grenada
and it was my first time ever

leaving the country,
so this is a pretty magical experience

at this point because I get to go back
and watch it like a home video

on Hulu or Peacock, wherever it streams.

And see, the first time we left
or I left the country, which is amazing.

We were on The Saint David,
which was a 250ft Italian superyacht.

We celebrated Christmas and New Year's
Eve on the on the show and on the boat.

Clearly it was so much fun.

We got to visit a.

Authentic chocolate factory

called Triangle
try Island Chocolate Factory.

So they actually made chocolate

for us that we ended off eating
and they put it in our desserts.

We we really had some great meals.

We, they put on the feast of the Seven
Fishes

for us on the boat,
for the Christmas part of the night.

They had a Christmas tree.

And then for New Year's Eve the next night
they lit up, you know, fireworks.

We all got dressed up. It was amazing.

Geez, that's so cool.

Honestly, it's one of those core
experiences that you'll always remember.

And funny enough, after that aired,

I was also a featured
table on Hell's Kitchen.

So we got to sit front row
at the big circle table

and watch all the drama go down.

Season 23, episode six Hell on Wheels,

of what was going on with Gordon Ramsay.

And funny enough, I actually met him
the night before that as well

at a taping of Watch What Happens
Live with Andy Cohen, that we were there

because my friend Barbie,
who was on season 11, was being featured

on the show that day.

He's a lot of a lot of details,
but I'm telling you, life has a funny way

of how you end up places and who you know.

And so you're a reality TV star.

I don't I wouldn't, I would not say that,
but I would say I am a nacho,

a nacho aficionados and nachos
got you there.

Nachos, because I, you know,

we actually also had on the show
they made octopus nacho spawning.

So those were delicious.

And it was very Grenada.

You know, something
I'll always remember for sure.

I may someday go back to it.

I don't know, like I, I think
the possibilities someday again are there.

We'll see. See what happens.

Life has a funny way of.

Yeah,
kind of bringing things into your life.

So preorder the book,
check out Life Under Deck,

life love deck left below
deck, below deck.

Yeah. That's cool. What?

What happened on season 11?

Did you have conflict?

Did you have a problem with the charter?

So I think when you're a charter,
you should probably go

on with the expectation of I'm here
to have fun

because it's not really about your drama,
it's about the drama of the crew.

So we're going on to celebrate something.

And at that point, to me, I just want to
have as much fun as possible.

I don't want to have any conflict
or drama.

Gotcha.

I think, oh, there you have another threat
of the show that is all about that.

I say, if you're ever going
to be a charter guest for Below Deck,

go on and have fun, because the world

doesn't need more jerks like gotcha.

So the drama is in the cooking
and the chefs and the service

drama could happen
between people that work together.

So, you know, rightfully so.

And then also to, you know, if,
if certain people are

in a relationship with each other,
that comes out

like, as could be a problem
or it could be a good thing.

So, yeah, I mean,

I'm sure there's someone hooking up
with someone and reality TV.

Sure. Yeah.

And I think with that said,
we came out from that show

and I think we had a very positive image
when we walked away from it.

I think people were like,
we really we really like how you

were genuinely having a good time
with each other,

because sometimes you'll get people
that are

rude to the staff or mean or

highly demanding, just jerks.

And I never I worked in the hospitality
industry for about 20 plus years,

and I would never do that to somebody
who worked in hospitality, I know.

Did you?
Were you ever a server or bartender?

Yeah, once bartending a wedding.
It was amazing.

I want to I want to go back, I liked it.

I think I think that

it should be mandatory that you serve
or wait tables or bartend

as you grow up, because it really teaches
you how to interact with people correctly

and to read people
and to understand how they feel.

And I, you know, again,
going back to where people could be rude

sometimes I think if you were a server,
you probably want to act like that.

Okay, I like it.

I love

Below deck, below deck.

What else?

Oh. Spotify.

Mamacita.
You know, you know that song I do?

You heard of it?

I actually, when I was talking about
different chapters of my life earlier.

Yeah, I was in a band
and I wrote four albums of original music.

So fun fact is that these songs
are still played at gas stations all over.

So I am also, in fact, a gas station.

Celebrity
people will call me and say, hey, I'm

at where X, Y, Z gas station
your song is playing right now.

And I'm like, yep, gas station
celebrity Nice not get a discount on gas.

A lot of people ask that doesn't happen.

We had a Friends of Fini commercial

running
at a couple gas stations around here.

Was it the AMP radio? Yes. Okay. Yeah.

So AMP picked up the songs and they,
you know, they they go

as far as like math or,
you know, where, you know.

So I feel like it's always fun to hear.

That's awesome. People hear that.
But yeah we had a great time.

And I will just add to the whole music
band piece of my life is that

I would probably have still continued
on doing this,

but it's very difficult and very hard

to navigate band politics sometimes.

So if there's five people in a band,

you're not just dealing
with those five people,

you're also dealing with their boyfriends
or girlfriends or their spouses,

and that becomes a bigger project
to take on.

And as the lead singer and lyricist
for the band, I was very much the leader,

and it was one of the toughest

jobs ever to navigate band politics

could only imagine,
could only imagine you ever in a band?

No, no.

My last guest, Ben, is in a band.

He's going to let me sing.

I'm high as a guy, and I just might.

Yes, I'm gonna sing that.

So I'm going to start practicing. Do it.

I just found out
I got some other news that I auditioned.

Well, I sent in a tape to the Bushnell

where they were asking for people to sing.

Oh, my God, what is the name of the song?

Mama? Ha! Just killed a man.

Yeah, Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody.

Okay, so apparently I will be

part of their visual project
that will be debuting soon

as one of the people
singing parts of the song, so we'll see.

I have not seen this yet, but I've heard
that I am included in it, so get ready.

Nice. Yeah.

Oh, they'll just cut to a bunch of people
singing it.

I think it's gonna be maybe like a harmony
of a lot of people singing pieces.

So we'll see what happens.

But I think that might be fun.

So, you know, I'm a teacher.

Do you have a favorite teacher
that inspired you?

I ask every podcast guest, well,

I think I had a lot of great teachers,
one that

my mom will probably say Mrs.

McCarthy was the teacher for me
because she taught me organization

and she taught me, you know, just kind of
how to stay on time with things.

But I will say one another.

One of my teachers
that I really think about is Mrs.

Scores.

And this was in the New England
school system.

She was just really amazing.

I feel like she was a teacher that
because at the time I think we were in

maybe eighth grade or seventh grade,
and then she followed us

over to high school as well.

So it was like she grew up with us,

and I think she always talked to us
like real people.

And I guess that would be harder
to do with third graders.

But I always felt she understood us
and I thought that was pretty amazing.

So Mrs.

and Mrs.

McCarthy are probably the two
that would stick out the most.

Very nice. Good answer.

Quick answers for you. Yeah. Good point.

If you're if you don't know that
I don't know.

Yeah, yeah. Cool. Yeah.

What about
this is going to be a tough one.

Favorite restaurant

I you know, I'll say this

for food
because I'm out eating all the time.

I want something that is going to be
something I've never had before.

So if I have a favorite restaurant,
it's probably because at the time,

I've never had anything
that I've tried there before,

which is also maybe a tie in right now
to something else that I have,

which I wanted because I went to a place
for the first time today.

It's called Tendon City.

Okay.

In Berlin, Connecticut,
some people say Berlin

funny, like they say Berlin,
but it's Berlin, Connecticut.

How do you say Berlin? Berlin?

How did I say it?

Say it again.

Berlin, Connecticut.

You said it right. But. Berlin. Berlin.

That is when people
are not from certain areas.

So if they say New Britain
and they don't say it quickly like that,

and they might say it like New Britain,
like or or New

Haven also is a giveaway sometimes too.

But anyway, I digress.

You say woke it or woke up right woke it.

I would say well could walk it.

Some people say woke up
wouldn't say it like that.

So all right so listen
tend to city is Filipino okay.

So I have here they're very big on Hubei.

Oh yeah okay.

So these are called ube penny pigs okay.

Are you going to try one.

Of course.

Okay. So it is a toasted.

It's like a yam isn't it.

Yeah okay.

Purple yam and crispy young rice okay.

Now watch watch this.

This is so cool.
Ready to see what this looks like?

It's candy.

Come on.

Candy wrappers. Yam Ubay.

More like it.

Reminds me of peanut butter in a way.

So you'll see, because I actually,
I wanted to I had a Ubay.

Something else.

Oh, it's like powdered ice cream.

That's what I had.

Yeah, I'm just taking it.

It's like powder.

It's like a peanut butter.
Almost like consistency though.

What did you say? It's
almost like the inside of a Butterfinger.

A little bit, a little bit.

No, I also you probably had
something like this before.

This is probably also these I tried

which were are called Pluto psychos.

I want you to try one of these.

It's a coconut milk cookie.

It's a lot a lot lighter here.

Pico seco.

But this is the kind of thing
that makes me happy when I try things.

And I'm going back tomorrow
because they only do this on certain days.

They actually are making something called
a hollow hollow which uses ube ice cream.

So it's this fun,
like almost like ice cream dessert.

They do.

And it's so close to where I live.

This is like pretty light.

It almost like gives me
graham cracker vibes in a way.

Yeah, but I would say I like the Worcester
crackers.

Yeah.

Let me try again.

But it's got it's like you love coconuts.

Yeah. You can taste that
like coconut flavor. Right.

And then I just I want to go do this too,

because I feel like
this is a good way to end it.

You know, this kind of, like, trio
of things that you're trying right now.

My friend had a wedding,
and he wanted to make lychee drinks.

So I went to a dong market and bought
every lychee there.

I love a dong market.

I do a lot of them for Boston.

That's like a really fun spot to that.

Yeah. Is good for you.

You like it? I like that coconut

lychees.

Like a,

I like it, I, you know,

and that's the kind of thing that I love,
though, where you're trying new things.

You're.

I went to Thailand recently as well,
and we got to try.

We flew through Hong Kong
and when I was in Hong Kong, I tried

I picked up a bunch of candies
that I'd never had in my life.

To me, that was so much fun as well,
because it's you're just learning

so much about the different cultures
and what they enjoy.

And it's not, you know,

what we know here in the United States

is so much different
than the rest of the world,

and it's the more
we can expand our horizons and expand

what we know about different cultures
and flavors and tastes.

Which is why a place like Karakorum
so awesome.

You know, it's checks
a lot of boxes of learning,

trying, tasting, drinking

all of these new things
that you may have never had before.

I encourage you go out and explore.

I like it right.

Be a good friend and go and explore
new places that Anthony Bourdain

always said that.

Go to a new restaurant, try new food.

I would just say, taste things
you've never tried before.

Drink things you'd never drink before.

Make nachos. Be happy.

Find the joy in life.

All of the things. I'm
just going to ask you.

Closing remarks.

And you're like, hammered
them, hammered them I did it, crushed it.

That's a wrap. And then.

She's kidding.

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