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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are now Angelo what I call her?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ye? Yeah, what's good? It's way up. I'm Angela, yee
maya morning you in New York this week?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What are we doing? My brother Herbie getting married? Our congratulations?
And how long were they together before they eternity?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Like years?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, all right, we're good, yeah, congratulations Herbie. Right, all right,
Well we're gonna get this show started today. We got
Mario Carbone joining us. Maybe you get him a reservation
at Carbone after this all why not? You know, people
were selling reservations to Carbone and they get a ton
of money. But we'll talk about all of that later.
Mario Carbone, one of the owners of Carbone, is going
to be joining us today. It's also Carbone Beach coming
(00:50):
up this weekend, and it's Wealth Wednesday, so we'll discuss
everything that he has going on business wise. How we
got to have one of the hottest restaurants in the world.
Really all right, but let's get the show started with
some love and positivity. Let's shine a light eight hundred
two nine two fifty fifty. Call us up and let
us know who you want to shine a light on.
It's way up, a shine a.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Machine turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those
who are doing greatness.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Shine a light on it, shine a light on It's
time to shine a light on what's up this way
up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee mainos here. Yeah, yesterday,
you shine a light on your daughter. Yea, right, my
little baby, your little baby. Today, I want to shine
a light on somebody who I ran into on Friday.
She was getting honored by the Mayor and small Businesses
(01:36):
here in New York City, and that would be Michelle
Gatsden Williams. Now, she's a DEI executive And when I
first met her, it was about her book Climb, and
then I'm in her book Driven by Intention in her book, yes,
that's also out right now. But she's the managing director
and global head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Black Rock,
So she's responsible for further strengthening and accelerating the companies
(02:00):
efforts to foster an inclusive culture. But she has more
than twenty five years of experience as an advocate for
equality within corporate America. She's been doing this work, which
is actually how I first met her. But shout out
to her, you know, what black Rock is. It's the
world's largest asset manager with ten trillion dollars in assets
under management. Okay, we're talking about money trillions. That's the
(02:23):
only talk I want to talk about, bron all right,
Well we shine a light on you, Michelle Gatsdon Williams. Now,
who do you guys want to show some love to?
Eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty Chef Mark?
How are you?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm good about yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What's your secret? No, it's not a secrets. Shining a light?
Tell us a secret?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Okay, go ahead, may not, but I want to shine
the light my beautiful virtus Queen Michelle Power.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
For all that she does for our family. Also on
the media drive for Miss Kisha Lee, the owner of
Melanie's Excellence Medical Transportation.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
She's the business boss that I see and I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Walk second to none. I may no, I ain't got
no secrets, man.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, yeah, you can't shine a lot on your wife
and this good man. Shout out to your wife, man,
shot and shout out to you brother.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Thank you man.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Y'all stay way up because I'm gonna be way up.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Blessing I love he gave us ten drops just now
for the show that we can do. Thank you all
right now, all right, well that was shining a light.
Thank you guys for calling. You can always leave a
message eight hundred and two nineteen fifty one fifty and
shine a light that way. It's also made first. So
make sure y'all pay them bills. Okay, I got to
remind myself too. It's way up. Bills ain't gonna pay themselves.
(03:39):
This is a judgment. Freeze on. Tell us a secret?
What's up this way? You put Angela Yee, I'm Angela Yee.
Maynos in the building and it's time for you guys
to tell us a secret. Anonymous Carling, what's your secret?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The secret that I'm gonna tell you that I a
shank the shape breakfast early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh my god, listen, yeah, Sham, I know it's your voice.
I know this is not knowing that it's not anymous.
What's up, brother?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
How you feeling?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I can't call it?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Baby?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know I love you to let him no listen.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
We yeah, we were off that we here.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, this is my god. Oh, this is this is
my god. Sham, big Shaman sham. So hold on, what
was this shank talking old jail war stories? Now? What
made you decide to give Mano a shank? He gotta go,
man No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, this is not Yeah, this is not the hot
line for old man O war stories for real.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Gosh, I didn't know that that was gonna happen. All right,
Well that was crying.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Is he a legend?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I guess he's.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We couldn't have expected that, though. That's a distinct voice.
I knew it was him, all right, sham shank whatever,
sham shank redection reduction. Oh my god, all right, let's
do another one, hanging out him his color? How are you?
You want to share a secret with me? And may
(05:17):
know he's not gonna judge you.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, so, my egg, I caught him cheating. He was
caxting somebody who was personally my friend. So I act
like I didn't know, and I played.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It off and I did something, and he found out
and broke up with me, and I cried all the
way to my other boo house, to your other bull's house. Yeah,
well she found him cheating first, so she cheated back.
Did that help?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It helped, because now he want me back.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He knows law.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
But I cried all the way to my other boo house.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You told him you knew about his what he was doing, Yeah,
after he left me. So do you want him back? No, oh,
you don't want him.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
You were seven and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Okay, little feet, so you're trying to say the feet
means other little thing?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Alright, Johanne, A good day.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Thank thank you for sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
God bless you. All right. Well that was tell us
a secret eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty. If
you couldn't get through, we are always on deck. We're here.
Your secrets we outside, baby. Yeah, it's way up.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Whether it's relationship for career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You should know. This is as what's happens way up.
But Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee and I'm here with
my cohort. May know he is an advice giver. Yes,
and we're ready for asking you. Look at you, you
so ready. I'll give the greatest advice. All right. Well,
Shane is on the line, so we're going to see
about that. What's up? Shane?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Hi, Angela, glad to get through this to you guys.
See y'all every day. I'm in an interracial relationship. I'm
a white guy. My girlfriend is a black girl. Whatever
to death. We've been dating before over about a year
and a half. Now the ring is on the way woo.
My question is we get stare at a lot. It
(06:58):
really bothers my girlfriend, okay, to the point where we
don't go out to bar places like that because she
just gets really worked up, doesn't want anyone to like confront.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm a product of an interracial relationship myself. I can
feel your pain because other people's prejudices and biases can
really affect your situation. And I hate the fact that
it bothers her to the point where she doesn't even
want to go out anymore. I want to say this,
you cannot control how other people react to you, but
what you can control is how you react to their reactions.
(07:33):
But I never want to give anybody the power to
make me feel uncomfortable or awkward. If anything, I'm gonna
make you feel uncomfortable with that. Yeah, stand on your business.
If that's the choice that you made, and that's decision
you went back, you went black, never going back.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You should just stand on that, and it don't matter
if they stare at, give them something to stare at.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, and be like, hey, can I help you? Or
take a picture? The last longer. All of those little
lines that you can say to people who are ignorant
embarrass them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But yeah, we love each other a lot, so I
want us to be happy as possible and public.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Don't let people have the power to make you feel
like I can't go out anymore. I'm not doing this.
Y'all Gotta have each other's back. You gotta laugh at
these ignorant people. They probably be by themselves too.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I do give a little jealous when people come up
to me or and be like my girlfriend, Oh you
are so beautiful and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I'm like, you should be proud of that.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you should be. You should be proud of that.
You should.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I am proud of it. But you know, I would
like to compliment he to myself.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
She's clearly better looking than you. Now I'm kidding, but listen,
that all is a testament to who you are. That
you were able to bag her and that she's in
love with you.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Listen, be proud and just deal with how you react
to people's reactions. You know it's coming so you get
ready for it and just make sure you go out
and have a good time. People hate that own it.
People hate that happiness. If they want to hate, give
them something to hate on.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh yeah, all right, well thank you for calling.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And okay, may no even said it like a we guard.
All right, Well that was ask ye eight hundred two
ninety two fifty one fifty. If you couldn't get through,
we will still take your question via voicemail. And when
we come back, the owner of the world famous Carbone
it used to have a Michelin star. They don't have
a Michelin star. Nomore, No, no, Nomore. You know what
(09:23):
we're gonna ask him. We're gonna ask him, you know
when we come back, and Carbone Beach is happening this weekend.
It's like a four day event in Miami, four night
event in Miami for the Formula one race. But it
is an amazing ticket to be able to get into.
Mario Carbone is going to be joining us. It's way
up kind of dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my wealth.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Dog getting you straight financially, mentally and physically, This is
Wealth Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What's up is Way Up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
And this is very exciting because we have the very famous,
well known chef Mario Carbone here with us today. We've
all heard of Carbone. I love the fact that you
as an entrepreneur. Some people might think as a chef
that this is something that was like a restaurant that
was passed down from generation to generation, but this is
(10:09):
something that you really built from the ground up, from scratch,
and you were kind of letting this direction without knowing
what did you think young Mario Carbone would be doing.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I thought I was going to play for the New
York Mets, all right. At around eight or nine, I
realized that was probably out of the cards. And I
think the next thing I knew I had love for
was food. I didn't know what that meant yet, but
I knew I had love for it. So I took
that and I started, you know, odd jobs in the
kitchen with my grandparents as a little baby, like cleaning
(10:40):
peas and doing things like that. And I parlayd that
into working like after high school, Like after school in
high school, local restaurants on weekends just to make a
little bit of money. And I found love for like
the professional commercial restaurant. And I didn't love school, Like
traditional school just wasn't for me. So I was heading
(11:00):
towards graduation with high school. I decided, you know what,
I'd rather take a chance on this unknown thing that
I have a lot of passion for and I don't
know where it's going to take me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Mario Carbone, the owner of Carbone, is here. When you
talked about the add job that you had working in restaurants,
I know you worked at like a crab shack, yeah,
and seafood restaurants and things like that. Were you at
all ever like cooking the food or just pre prepping
or sweeping up? Like what were those add jobs? It
took a while till they let me cook anything.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I was probably fourteen fifteen sixteen when I started working
in kitchens in the neighborhood. And the first few jobs
are like the introduction to the salad station, or I
worked on a raw bar. I had no idea how
to do that, really small tasks, a lot of prep work,
learning how to use a knife, really, you know, the.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
First time, but This is all a great education though
without you even realizing it, because I think when running
a business, even knowing how to do all the things
that it takes is important because some people invest in
businesses or open a business and they don't know all
the ins and outs of it. So how can you
train staff to do things that you don't know how
to do?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
How can you ask them want to do something that
you don't know how to do yourself?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Right? All right? So then you did, however, after school
go to culinary school?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Did?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay? And what made you think that that was the
next move to do because you already didn't like traditional schooling.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
To be honest with you, back then, I think it
was really that there was a degree involved, so that
felt like there was a level of legitimacy there. Okay,
but I don't think that's necessary. I think that you
can go to the University of choose your great restaurant,
knock on the back door, tell them I'll start at
the bottom and I'll work my way through in lieu
(12:41):
of going to a major school.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
All Right, we got Mario Carbone. Call us up if
you want to get a reservation. I'm just kidding. It's
damn near impossible, but you can get on that list
eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. Maybe leave
him a message. We got more with Mario Carbone and
we come back. I had a dream of wealthy and
I don't mind sharing my wealth dog.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is Wealth
Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What's up? Is Way Up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and Mario Carbone is here for a Wealth Wednesday
talking about how he got his business started, because you know,
the restaurant business is one of the hardest businesses to
get into, but we're going to get into it with him. Now,
we want to talk about movies like I see all
these culinary movies now like the menu. Don do you
watch movies like wat okay? Is it really like that?
(13:26):
Because I see how strict it is like with the
food preparation, and they make it seem like the restaurant
owners are like the top head chefs of everything are
so rigid. Well, have you come across that in your experience?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yes, I mean I would say in the in the
fine dining world, it's a very militant environment, the consistency
of your work. It has to be nearly identical every day.
So there's somebody above you who's got a very keen
eye on your work all day long.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Are you like that? Have you ever been like that
in any way? As a Are there some level of Okay,
I have to be militant with my staff as i'm
training when you were first starting and training your staff.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, I think that there's absolutely a level of precision
that we demand. I'd like to believe that we do
it in a very humane way. Okay, So finding that balance,
and I think that my generation is doing a great
job of that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I also feel like for you, there's a lot of
things and details that you have when it comes to
your restaurants. You have forty restaurants now, is that correct?
Forty forty. Mario Carbone, the owner of Carbone, is here
and to have Carbone Beach. Yeah, that's about to happen.
So let's talk about what Carbone Beach is.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So it's in its third year now, so as well
as the actual race. So the first year, when the
Formula One race was coming to Miami, we sort of decided, well,
this is going to be the biggest week of the
year in Miami, we need to do more than what
we're doing. So we had this plan to build this
giant structure on the actual sand of Aami beach, and
(15:00):
we wanted to do a over the top sort of extravaganza.
But Dinner and a Show turned way up where there's
giant ice sculptures full of like you know, seafood delights
and caviar stations, and there's musical performances happening everywhere. There's
like fifty chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
The pictures right now, Okay, go ahead, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So it's just it's taking the idea of Carbone, the
idea of the restaurant, and amplifying it to the max
for this weekend that is the max of Miami.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Now. I also want to talk about Michelin Stars, because
Carbone did get a Michelin Star. I think it was
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Twenty thirteen, we got a Michelin Star. Two years ago
they took it away. I could go down a rabbit
hole with you on Michelin. That is the opinion of one,
but I honestly think that this day and age, the
power of the food critic is really in the hands
of the person through social media. Right, Never before have
(16:02):
food critics mattered less.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
All right, well, Mario Carbone, thank you so much, and
again for a Carbone beachyp Is it going to be
possible for people to still use their MX.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It's absolutely possible, Okay, but we would love to have
you Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's going to be special.
We're some great surprise guests coming out performing for us.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, I can't even imagine what that's like because I've
seen the list of who's performed in the past, so
very great. Well, thank you so much for coming through.
We're going to continue to follow you. I'm sure I'll
see you at the restaurants one day. Mario Carbone, thank
you so much, my pleasure. You can watch the full
interview on my YouTube channel. Way up with you and
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way up with Angela Ye, what's up? His way up
(17:04):
with angela Ye, I'm Angela yee. And Meno's in the building. Listen.
I just got an unexpected check today. I like those,
So I got a couple of checks in here too, though.
Just pop right up.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I like when that happened. It makes you feel like
you did something good. Blessed, blessing. Even though it's money
you earn it. Sometimes it just possible and it comes.
It's really good because I'm not gonna lie. I just
had like an old tax bill I didn't know about
from my business corporation tax and I was like, what
with the penalties? And I was like, man, sometimes you
spend some money and then it ends up coming back
(17:38):
to you. So that's a great feeling. That's why you
gotta be a multitasker and a multi hyphen It different things.
But don't forget you guys. You have the last word.
And ladies, Mano is available and he is looking to
get married one day and settled down. Don't be afraid
to shoot your shot.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Hey, Angelina, this is your boy du Aka Fresh.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I love your show.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I just want to the light on to you know,
my beautiful wife Lena. She's amazing, she's a rock star.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We have two beautiful girls.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know, without her, none of this would be possible.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And you know we were able to secure a house.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
So I just want to shout out a light on
to my beautiful wife Lena. Thank you, and of course
my girls as well too.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hi, my name is Queen. I'm calling there from Atlanta, Georgia.
Door dashing right now. I want to shine the light
out on myself because I've been struggling where homeless. I'm
staying in a room, so I do that all day
long just to make sure I can't keep a roof
over my kids heads. So yeah, I'm shouting the lights
out on myself. Had to blessay y'all.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Home about the triber you tapped in and way up
with Angela.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Ye, what I wanting now
You are now Angelo what I call her?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ye? Yeah, what's good? It's way up. I'm Angela, yee
maya morning you in New York this week?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What are we doing? My brother Herbie getting married? Our congratulations?
And how long were they together before they eternity?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Like years?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, all right, we're good, yeah, congratulations Herbie. Right, all right,
Well we're gonna get this show started today. We got
Mario Carbone joining us. Maybe you get him a reservation
at Carbone after this all why not? You know, people
were selling reservations to Carbone and they get a ton
of money. But we'll talk about all of that later.
Mario Carbone, one of the owners of Carbone, is going
to be joining us today. It's also Carbone Beach coming
(00:50):
up this weekend, and it's Wealth Wednesday, so we'll discuss
everything that he has going on business wise. How we
got to have one of the hottest restaurants in the world.
Really all right, but let's get the show started with
some love and positivity. Let's shine a light eight hundred
two nine two fifty fifty. Call us up and let
us know who you want to shine a light on.
It's way up, a shine a.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Machine turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those
who are doing greatness.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Shine a light on it, shine a light on It's
time to shine a light on what's up this way
up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee mainos here. Yeah, yesterday,
you shine a light on your daughter. Yea, right, my
little baby, your little baby. Today, I want to shine
a light on somebody who I ran into on Friday.
She was getting honored by the Mayor and small Businesses
(01:36):
here in New York City, and that would be Michelle
Gatsden Williams. Now, she's a DEI executive And when I
first met her, it was about her book Climb, and
then I'm in her book Driven by Intention in her book, yes,
that's also out right now. But she's the managing director
and global head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Black Rock,
So she's responsible for further strengthening and accelerating the companies
(02:00):
efforts to foster an inclusive culture. But she has more
than twenty five years of experience as an advocate for
equality within corporate America. She's been doing this work, which
is actually how I first met her. But shout out
to her, you know, what black Rock is. It's the
world's largest asset manager with ten trillion dollars in assets
under management. Okay, we're talking about money trillions. That's the
(02:23):
only talk I want to talk about, bron all right,
Well we shine a light on you, Michelle Gatsdon Williams. Now,
who do you guys want to show some love to?
Eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty Chef Mark?
How are you?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm good about yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What's your secret? No, it's not a secrets. Shining a light?
Tell us a secret?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Okay, go ahead, may not, but I want to shine
the light my beautiful virtus Queen Michelle Power.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
For all that she does for our family. Also on
the media drive for Miss Kisha Lee, the owner of
Melanie's Excellence Medical Transportation.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
She's the business boss that I see and I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Walk second to none. I may no, I ain't got
no secrets, man.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, yeah, you can't shine a lot on your wife
and this good man. Shout out to your wife, man,
shot and shout out to you brother.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Thank you man.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Y'all stay way up because I'm gonna be way up.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Blessing I love he gave us ten drops just now
for the show that we can do. Thank you all
right now, all right, well that was shining a light.
Thank you guys for calling. You can always leave a
message eight hundred and two nineteen fifty one fifty and
shine a light that way. It's also made first. So
make sure y'all pay them bills. Okay, I got to
remind myself too. It's way up. Bills ain't gonna pay themselves.
(03:39):
This is a judgment. Freeze on. Tell us a secret?
What's up this way? You put Angela Yee, I'm Angela Yee.
Maynos in the building and it's time for you guys
to tell us a secret. Anonymous Carling, what's your secret?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The secret that I'm gonna tell you that I a
shank the shape breakfast early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh my god, listen, yeah, Sham, I know it's your voice.
I know this is not knowing that it's not anymous.
What's up, brother?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
How you feeling?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I can't call it?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Baby?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know I love you to let him no listen.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
We yeah, we were off that we here.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, this is my god. Oh, this is this is
my god. Sham, big Shaman sham. So hold on, what
was this shank talking old jail war stories? Now? What
made you decide to give Mano a shank? He gotta go,
man No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, this is not Yeah, this is not the hot
line for old man O war stories for real.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Gosh, I didn't know that that was gonna happen. All right,
Well that was crying.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Is he a legend?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I guess he's.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We couldn't have expected that, though. That's a distinct voice.
I knew it was him, all right, sham shank whatever,
sham shank redection reduction. Oh my god, all right, let's
do another one, hanging out him his color? How are you?
You want to share a secret with me? And may
(05:17):
know he's not gonna judge you.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, so, my egg, I caught him cheating. He was
caxting somebody who was personally my friend. So I act
like I didn't know, and I played.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It off and I did something, and he found out
and broke up with me, and I cried all the
way to my other boo house, to your other bull's house. Yeah,
well she found him cheating first, so she cheated back.
Did that help?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It helped, because now he want me back.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He knows law.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
But I cried all the way to my other boo house.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You told him you knew about his what he was doing, Yeah,
after he left me. So do you want him back? No, oh,
you don't want him.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
You were seven and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Okay, little feet, so you're trying to say the feet
means other little thing?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Alright, Johanne, A good day.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Thank thank you for sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
God bless you. All right. Well that was tell us
a secret eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty. If
you couldn't get through, we are always on deck. We're here.
Your secrets we outside, baby. Yeah, it's way up.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Whether it's relationship for career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You should know. This is as what's happens way up.
But Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee and I'm here with
my cohort. May know he is an advice giver. Yes,
and we're ready for asking you. Look at you, you
so ready. I'll give the greatest advice. All right. Well,
Shane is on the line, so we're going to see
about that. What's up? Shane?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Hi, Angela, glad to get through this to you guys.
See y'all every day. I'm in an interracial relationship. I'm
a white guy. My girlfriend is a black girl. Whatever
to death. We've been dating before over about a year
and a half. Now the ring is on the way woo.
My question is we get stare at a lot. It
(06:58):
really bothers my girlfriend, okay, to the point where we
don't go out to bar places like that because she
just gets really worked up, doesn't want anyone to like confront.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm a product of an interracial relationship myself. I can
feel your pain because other people's prejudices and biases can
really affect your situation. And I hate the fact that
it bothers her to the point where she doesn't even
want to go out anymore. I want to say this,
you cannot control how other people react to you, but
what you can control is how you react to their reactions.
(07:33):
But I never want to give anybody the power to
make me feel uncomfortable or awkward. If anything, I'm gonna
make you feel uncomfortable with that. Yeah, stand on your business.
If that's the choice that you made, and that's decision
you went back, you went black, never going back.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You should just stand on that, and it don't matter
if they stare at, give them something to stare at.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, and be like, hey, can I help you? Or
take a picture? The last longer. All of those little
lines that you can say to people who are ignorant
embarrass them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But yeah, we love each other a lot, so I
want us to be happy as possible and public.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Don't let people have the power to make you feel
like I can't go out anymore. I'm not doing this.
Y'all Gotta have each other's back. You gotta laugh at
these ignorant people. They probably be by themselves too.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I do give a little jealous when people come up
to me or and be like my girlfriend, Oh you
are so beautiful and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I'm like, you should be proud of that.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you should be. You should be proud of that.
You should.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I am proud of it. But you know, I would
like to compliment he to myself.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
She's clearly better looking than you. Now I'm kidding, but listen,
that all is a testament to who you are. That
you were able to bag her and that she's in
love with you.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Listen, be proud and just deal with how you react
to people's reactions. You know it's coming so you get
ready for it and just make sure you go out
and have a good time. People hate that own it.
People hate that happiness. If they want to hate, give
them something to hate on.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh yeah, all right, well thank you for calling.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And okay, may no even said it like a we guard.
All right, Well that was ask ye eight hundred two
ninety two fifty one fifty. If you couldn't get through,
we will still take your question via voicemail. And when
we come back, the owner of the world famous Carbone
it used to have a Michelin star. They don't have
a Michelin star. Nomore, No, no, Nomore. You know what
(09:23):
we're gonna ask him. We're gonna ask him, you know
when we come back, and Carbone Beach is happening this weekend.
It's like a four day event in Miami, four night
event in Miami for the Formula one race. But it
is an amazing ticket to be able to get into.
Mario Carbone is going to be joining us. It's way
up kind of dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my wealth.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Dog getting you straight financially, mentally and physically, This is
Wealth Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What's up is Way Up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
And this is very exciting because we have the very famous,
well known chef Mario Carbone here with us today. We've
all heard of Carbone. I love the fact that you
as an entrepreneur. Some people might think as a chef
that this is something that was like a restaurant that
was passed down from generation to generation, but this is
(10:09):
something that you really built from the ground up, from scratch,
and you were kind of letting this direction without knowing
what did you think young Mario Carbone would be doing.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I thought I was going to play for the New
York Mets, all right. At around eight or nine, I
realized that was probably out of the cards. And I
think the next thing I knew I had love for
was food. I didn't know what that meant yet, but
I knew I had love for it. So I took
that and I started, you know, odd jobs in the
kitchen with my grandparents as a little baby, like cleaning
(10:40):
peas and doing things like that. And I parlayd that
into working like after high school, Like after school in
high school, local restaurants on weekends just to make a
little bit of money. And I found love for like
the professional commercial restaurant. And I didn't love school, Like
traditional school just wasn't for me. So I was heading
(11:00):
towards graduation with high school. I decided, you know what,
I'd rather take a chance on this unknown thing that
I have a lot of passion for and I don't
know where it's going to take me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Mario Carbone, the owner of Carbone, is here. When you
talked about the add job that you had working in restaurants,
I know you worked at like a crab shack, yeah,
and seafood restaurants and things like that. Were you at
all ever like cooking the food or just pre prepping
or sweeping up? Like what were those add jobs? It
took a while till they let me cook anything.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I was probably fourteen fifteen sixteen when I started working
in kitchens in the neighborhood. And the first few jobs
are like the introduction to the salad station, or I
worked on a raw bar. I had no idea how
to do that, really small tasks, a lot of prep work,
learning how to use a knife, really, you know, the.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
First time, but This is all a great education though
without you even realizing it, because I think when running
a business, even knowing how to do all the things
that it takes is important because some people invest in
businesses or open a business and they don't know all
the ins and outs of it. So how can you
train staff to do things that you don't know how
to do?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
How can you ask them want to do something that
you don't know how to do yourself?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Right? All right? So then you did, however, after school
go to culinary school?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Did?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay? And what made you think that that was the
next move to do because you already didn't like traditional schooling.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
To be honest with you, back then, I think it
was really that there was a degree involved, so that
felt like there was a level of legitimacy there. Okay,
but I don't think that's necessary. I think that you
can go to the University of choose your great restaurant,
knock on the back door, tell them I'll start at
the bottom and I'll work my way through in lieu
(12:41):
of going to a major school.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
All Right, we got Mario Carbone. Call us up if
you want to get a reservation. I'm just kidding. It's
damn near impossible, but you can get on that list
eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. Maybe leave
him a message. We got more with Mario Carbone and
we come back. I had a dream of wealthy and
I don't mind sharing my wealth dog.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is Wealth
Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What's up? Is Way Up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and Mario Carbone is here for a Wealth Wednesday
talking about how he got his business started, because you know,
the restaurant business is one of the hardest businesses to
get into, but we're going to get into it with him. Now,
we want to talk about movies like I see all
these culinary movies now like the menu. Don do you
watch movies like wat okay? Is it really like that?
(13:26):
Because I see how strict it is like with the
food preparation, and they make it seem like the restaurant
owners are like the top head chefs of everything are
so rigid. Well, have you come across that in your experience?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yes, I mean I would say in the in the
fine dining world, it's a very militant environment, the consistency
of your work. It has to be nearly identical every day.
So there's somebody above you who's got a very keen
eye on your work all day long.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Are you like that? Have you ever been like that
in any way? As a Are there some level of Okay,
I have to be militant with my staff as i'm
training when you were first starting and training your staff.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, I think that there's absolutely a level of precision
that we demand. I'd like to believe that we do
it in a very humane way. Okay, So finding that balance,
and I think that my generation is doing a great
job of that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I also feel like for you, there's a lot of
things and details that you have when it comes to
your restaurants. You have forty restaurants now, is that correct?
Forty forty. Mario Carbone, the owner of Carbone, is here
and to have Carbone Beach. Yeah, that's about to happen.
So let's talk about what Carbone Beach is.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So it's in its third year now, so as well
as the actual race. So the first year, when the
Formula One race was coming to Miami, we sort of decided, well,
this is going to be the biggest week of the
year in Miami, we need to do more than what
we're doing. So we had this plan to build this
giant structure on the actual sand of Aami beach, and
(15:00):
we wanted to do a over the top sort of extravaganza.
But Dinner and a Show turned way up where there's
giant ice sculptures full of like you know, seafood delights
and caviar stations, and there's musical performances happening everywhere. There's
like fifty chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
The pictures right now, Okay, go ahead, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So it's just it's taking the idea of Carbone, the
idea of the restaurant, and amplifying it to the max
for this weekend that is the max of Miami.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Now. I also want to talk about Michelin Stars, because
Carbone did get a Michelin Star. I think it was
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Twenty thirteen, we got a Michelin Star. Two years ago
they took it away. I could go down a rabbit
hole with you on Michelin. That is the opinion of one,
but I honestly think that this day and age, the
power of the food critic is really in the hands
of the person through social media. Right, Never before have
(16:02):
food critics mattered less.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
All right, well, Mario Carbone, thank you so much, and
again for a Carbone beachyp Is it going to be
possible for people to still use their MX.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It's absolutely possible, Okay, but we would love to have
you Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's going to be special.
We're some great surprise guests coming out performing for us.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, I can't even imagine what that's like because I've
seen the list of who's performed in the past, so
very great. Well, thank you so much for coming through.
We're going to continue to follow you. I'm sure I'll
see you at the restaurants one day. Mario Carbone, thank
you so much, my pleasure. You can watch the full
interview on my YouTube channel. Way up with you and
when we come back, you guys have the last word.
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(17:04):
with angela Ye, I'm Angela yee. And Meno's in the building. Listen.
I just got an unexpected check today. I like those,
So I got a couple of checks in here too, though.
Just pop right up.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I like when that happened. It makes you feel like
you did something good. Blessed, blessing. Even though it's money
you earn it. Sometimes it just possible and it comes.
It's really good because I'm not gonna lie. I just
had like an old tax bill I didn't know about
from my business corporation tax and I was like, what
with the penalties? And I was like, man, sometimes you
spend some money and then it ends up coming back
(17:38):
to you. So that's a great feeling. That's why you
gotta be a multitasker and a multi hyphen It different things.
But don't forget you guys. You have the last word.
And ladies, Mano is available and he is looking to
get married one day and settled down. Don't be afraid
to shoot your shot.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Hey, Angelina, this is your boy du Aka Fresh.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I love your show.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I just want to the light on to you know,
my beautiful wife Lena. She's amazing, she's a rock star.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We have two beautiful girls.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know, without her, none of this would be possible.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And you know we were able to secure a house.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
So I just want to shout out a light on
to my beautiful wife Lena. Thank you, and of course
my girls as well too.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Hi, my name is Queen. I'm calling there from Atlanta, Georgia.
Door dashing right now. I want to shine the light
out on myself because I've been struggling where homeless. I'm
staying in a room, so I do that all day
long just to make sure I can't keep a roof
over my kids heads. So yeah, I'm shouting the lights
out on myself. Had to blessay y'all.
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