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- Hey there. My name's David Costabile.

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I play Wags on the television
show Billions on Showtime.

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We need to be deliberate
and delicate about this.

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Bonzai artists.

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- Since when do we do delicate?

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- Since now.

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Today, I'm going to the
Old Homestead, one of

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New York City's oldest
steakhouses, and I'm going

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to try some of their
delightful Japanese beef.

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They say it's the best in town.

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I think I might be the judge of that.

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- All right, Dave, let's do it now.

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- The king is bringing me to the dungeon.

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- First thing I want to make
sure is all the fat is off.

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Now remember, you don't
want to go too deep

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because at ninety dollars
a pound, that's the

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most gorgeous meat you can get.

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This is prize Wagyu.

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- So Billions is set in New York City.

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It's set in the world of
high-finance and the law,

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the US Attorney's office.

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An ordinary evening
augurs ordinary returns.

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Let me show you how I like it.

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(sizzling meat)

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- Would you do salt and
pepper just on one side?

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- [chef] One side. One
side's more than enough.

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- So make 'Wags' Wagner is
Damian Lewis' right-hand man,

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who plays Bobby Axelrod as
the head of the hedge fund,

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and I'm his COO.

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I am a foul-mouthed,
drug-addled, libertine

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who's incredibly smart
and incredibly loyal.

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He is like the loyalest
attack dog you've ever met.

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This was a compound fuckup.

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First you misplay the
invitation, then you treat me

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like I'm Courtney Love in '93.

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But also then happy to
enjoy all the excess that is

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available to him in the world.

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All the meat!

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- Don't be shy. You
choose whatever you want,

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and I'll have Valerie
throw it on the grill.

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We have Wagyus--

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- Order up!

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- [waiter] All right.

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- Don't make me wait.

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- [waiter] Yes, sir.

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- Take that beautiful
piece of meat outta here.

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- [Greg] Now we're talking business.

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- Waiters.

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- Wagyu beef has the top pedigree

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and Kobe beef has a top pedigree.

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Only the great restaurants and great chefs

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get their hands on it, right?

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The great steakhouses. And
you need to match the quality.

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So to me, something like
this, the wine I chose,

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the Phelps "Insignia," there's
nothing with better pedigree

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in California than this.

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- Let's get it on the record
right now, the other half

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of the cast who are on the
legal side, they don't get

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to go to the best restaurants.

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They don't get to eat the way
the multi-millionaires do.

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And it's awesome to be a
multi-millionaire on TV.

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It's incredibly fun.

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And you really do get to go
to fantastic restaurants,

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and meet fantastic chefs,
and eat the finest food.

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- Mazel tov.

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- Fantastic. Oh, that is
the perfect temperature.

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It's just really fucking good.

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One of the things I love about the writing

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and what those writers
do is that they play

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with how fast it spins, in
control and out of control.

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And they don't want you to
get ahead of it, I think.

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And I think they do an
excellent job of that.

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And that as a collective
story-telling mode

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I think is really fun.

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It leads to a great sense
of unpredictability,

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so much is at stake and so
many things have come undone

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that there are some visceral responses

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that will be exciting to watch.

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The show continues to
get better every season,

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and that is absolutely true this season.

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And now, with a little soy sauce.

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Even though it's so
marbleized, and so full,

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it doesn't feel fatty on your tongue.

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And with the soy, it
really highlights the char.

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Sometimes being an
actor is so fucking fun.

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This is so fucking fun. (laughs)

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