Cosmo Lombino (The Queen of Melrose)
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Yeah. And you think he's proportions? He's got to have a piece on him. Probably, yeah.
Yes. Like an aircraft carrier. You can land an aircraft on that thing. Call me at 737.
So I think I don't know. It could make, do you think it can just make the, like a total twist at the end? Like maybe it wasn't her fault. Do you think like, I mean, I know they have receipt after receipt after receipt, everybody turned against them, right?
You know, and I hear that she's really difficult and I hear that she, you know, everything she did has receipts and you know, she was insecure about her baby weight from everything that went on. But do you think there's a slight chance that Diddy will get off? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? There's a slight chance that she's got that little ace in the hole.
You know what I mean? Something he did that will implicate the fuck out of him. Do you think that? Because it's like, wouldn't that be a twist and a turn?
When? Tonight? Last night?
Oh, I didn't hear that one, though. But I know they're on the outs right now, for sure.
I'm having a moment. Tell me about that. It's kind of longer than a moment. It's been like a year and a half now. It's like constant podcast and lap dances and all the things. No, it's been really good. It's been really good. I started on Soft White Underbelly. That's when I went on. And basically my sponsee, because I'm in the program. Me too. Oh, okay. How long do you have?
We will. We are. We're all going to Kansas. That's it. Yes. I love it. For lunch. Yes. I need a sandwich. It's delicious.
No. I mean, they, you know, all these cuisines they're trying and it's like, it's pretty good though. It's not bad, but New York just has more like authentically good food. Yes. Like you could literally have a dirty water hot dog on the corner and it's so tasty, you know? So tasty. So I don't think it compares to New York, no. I love a hot dog. Especially the Italian food.
What do you put on your hot dog, Queen? Well, when I go to Pink's, because they named a hot dog after me, Queen of Melrose, one day. It was like National Hot Dog Day. And basically, I went there and they said, we're going to do a Queen of Melrose hot dog. I was honored. It was crazy. So basically, I like a kielbasa. Oh. Who doesn't? Hey. Hey now. Delicious. Yeah.
I like the kielbasa one. It's spicy. It's so delicious. And it's literally like this big. Like you can have it the next day too for lunch, you know? Like Brian Kelly big. But smaller kielbasa's are good too, right? We gotta meet this. I don't discriminate. As long as it works, we're fine.
so basically on the what they put on it is like the bacon or like all the good things for you like all the healthy fabulous yeah bacon a little chili a little sauerkraut a little mustard but it's really because you ever order something spicy and it's not spicy i love spicy do you guys like spicy yeah yeah so anything that'll clean the sinuses that's what i like and other things yes yeah Yes.
But I like the New York dog. They're the only one in LA that has the New York dog. So it's basically the hot dog with the sauerkraut and the mustard and the red onions. Love that. Yes.
No, I wish I could take that valor, but no, that's not the case, darling. But they are new and they're sky blue. Yeah. Yes. And they're supposed to be the lightest of the American spirits. So I'm a Marlboro. As you can see, I sound like an obscene phone call. But I'm a Marlboro smoker all my life. Reds? It was reds and then I went to Marlboro lights. Of course.
Which I think is stronger than the reds. It's weird because when you smoke those.
The ultralights. Oh my God.
It was oxygen. Oh my God, yeah.
I hate myself. Oh, what? So yeah, the Newports, it was like, I would go like to Queensbridge and hang out with those guys and they were smoking the Newports, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but it was Marlboro Reds for us, yeah. So when did you quit though?
And I crave another one.
What? Just turned. Double digits. Here we are. Daddy. Thank you. Oh my God. Congratulations. We're in its status at Harlem. Harlem. Harlem. It was Harlem. So I grew up in Spanish Harlem, you know, and it was Spanish and Italian. So it's like where they made the Godfather. Okay. So they used my grandmother's apartment to make the Godfather. Okay. They rented, they gave us $75.
We'll have a movie night and I bet you the next day you'll be buying a pack of cigarettes. Yeah. I promise you. I wish I was that cool. I promise. Are you 27 straight?
When I first wake up, I have a cup of coffee and a cigarette. I still have that.
I think I learned on the stoop in New York. Now I have a beautiful house in Burbank and I have Huskies and all the things. I live in the Rancho District. So when you wake up, there's people riding horses, literally. So I feel like I'm not even in LA. And I had to move from Melrose. I had a condo around the corner. And I moved because somebody tried to break in my house, in my condo.
So I said, it's time to get out of Hollywood. And my friend's like, try Burbank. And I'm like, I will never move to Burbank ever.
But when I tell you, it's beautiful. Like I live in the horse district. You don't even feel like you're in LA and I'm out there smoking a cigarette like this. And she's smoking with her robe on. Yes. And there's all these cowboys and Burbank people. And then there's the queen in the middle like this. Hello, Wyatt Earp. Yeah. No, you know what?
So I switched to American Spirit not too long ago because I heard that they actually, because Marlboro has arsenic and all those things. And you hear the tales for years, but you're still smoking. Literally, my mother, God forgive her, she had COPD. So basically, and my father. And I seen her with the oxygen tank, and it was me and my sister going, oh my God.
Like, if you don't quit after that, it was frightening. Like, she was, like, breathing, like, through a straw, you know, a cocktail straw.
Exactly. Or you'll never get laid again. Never, never. I think that's what it is. I love it. You're alone. No, they do come in from Europe and stuff, and there's all these cigarettes, and there's like death and blood, and yeah, it's a thing. But I switched to American Spirit.
So at my gas station, right before I come to work, I fill up my car, and the guy there is like a scientist, literally knows a little bit about everything, but he works in a gas station, whatever, okay. So anyhow, he's telling me about the American Spirits. Hmm. I hope we don't get in trouble with the cigarette people that come to my house in Burbank.
While I'm like this.
Yeah. He said those little rings around the cigarette, if you look at the cigarette, those are still poisonous. He goes, that's why, he goes, if you want, roll your own cigarettes. They don't have these poisonous rings on them. Yeah, so it's still horrible.
You gotta have a cigarette. My store smells like Ash Wednesday.
I remember the check and it was like two weeks and like they were filming in her apartment. Also, my older brother, you know, did you see the scene in The Godfather with Sonny where he's beating the shit out of his sister's husband? Classic, yes. Yes, classic scene. Okay. So my brother was under the Johnny pump for two weeks. Okay. So he got pneumonia right after he got his check.
Oh, you are a nice Irish girl. I am.
I'm a little Irish. I'm a little Irish, too. Italian and Irish. Yeah, the best of all of it, baby.
I feel like an auntie. I feel like an auntie. Oh, my God. They're gorgeous. Oh, my God. Oh, you got to come to my store with the stroller and bring the wife in and everything. Yes, get the kids ready for Burning Man. A little fashion.
Oh, so tell me about Ozempic, please. Because I went on Ozempic and I had to get rushed to the hospital. Really? I want to hear more.
Every side effect that they say would happen to you happened to me. Who gave it to you? My doctor.
No, they put me on the lowest dose. It's so weird. Okay, so maybe you need to try. I can eat a roast pork and wake up and shit it out. A fucking shot of Ozempic, I can't handle. What's going on over here?
Right, right. You can't snort it anymore once you turn into a pickle. But anyway, that's another thing. Oh, man.
So, just congratulate me, guys. Tell us. I just got Zepbound today. So I want to go back. Beautiful. Yeah, but in the refrigerator in the store, because I live in the store, basically. And I'm going to try a shot. So hopefully I'm praying. Guys, do a little prayer for the queen. I'm praying. That she doesn't get a yeast infection.
So do you guys see the total difference? Oh, yeah. He looks like a different person.
Now I'm just like fat. No, I love food. That's another addiction. I had to go to food. There's so many addictions, darling. There's so many.
Frick, if I could have been shooting up... No, but God bless you for doing it. I'm telling you because, you know what, the old-fashioned way I think is the best way, you know?
And you look great, and you have good arms, and you're working out, and I would buy you a soda.
You got it. Let's go.
So that's how I remember Harlem growing up with the mafia. My father was in the mob. He wasn't in the mob. He was like hanging out with the mob. You know what I mean? It was like a thing. Mob adjacent. Mob adjacent. Mob adjacent. Yes.
So A, he's probably got a really big bank account.
These are things that we need to know. It's erect.
Yeah. Maybe he's not a shower. I've seen. I've witnessed it. Yes. Yes. So is that the case, you think?
Persian fella? Yeah.
Aren't they all? So good. Yeah. So basically there's a way where you could actually put filler, like where they put in your face, they put that in your dick. So you could actually make it fatter and like a little longer. Plus the penis implant, it'll grow like an inch and a half, you know? Whoa.
they haven't put one on chas bono yet they haven't did that yet they're still working on that sure with the girls but and he says the nba is his biggest client no wow because they're like big guys and some of the big guys are very small you know so it's like they yeah so he that's what he said nba you know yeah speaking of the nba sorry ben what were you gonna say
He was leaking. No good. There's nothing safe anymore. That's it.
I was thinking about going into it, but I'm glad. I was going to go into it, but I'm glad you did. We're vibing.
For sure. I'm around the corner.
Yeah, so Shaquille O'Neal. I did the clothing for Deontay Wilder, the heavyweight champion of the world a few years ago.
Five of them. Wow. So the last one we made had laser beams coming out. He wanted something really menacing when he fought Fury. So that was in the MGM. We did a dress rehearsal. He's supposed to come out real menacing. So I delivered him the costume. He tried it on. Because remember, he blamed me for losing the fight.
He said the costume was too heavy.
So that was on the front page of every magazine. But what I loved on the cover of New York Times, it said the outfit won.
And Deontay lost, and it was voted the best ring walk outfit in boxing history.
I was like, wow. So anyway, but anyway, this is what got out. This was the rumor that got out. So, so I'm like, Deontay threw me under the bus. Like we're so cool, you know? But anyway, the night of the fight, I went to go deliver the outfit the day before. He tried it on. He loved the outfit. So the next day I'm in the locker room and I felt tension. And I'm like, Deontay wasn't Deontay.
I'm a fan. She did her homework. Yes. Okay, Josh Peck. Guilty. I'm not mad at you, boo-boo. Yeah. So anyway, grew up in Harlem, you know, and then we moved to Queens. My grandmother became a Jehovah's Witness to vow Catholic. Yes. Okay. True story. They come to the house. They never left. Okay. So now you can't be gay. No birthday. No this. No that. I'm eight years old.
So basically Fury got in his head. I knew it. So I'm like, Deontay, if you're going to wear this outfit, you better kick his fucking ass. So he goes, I will Cosmo, I will. So anyway, it's time. It was Black History Month too. So it was all this hype. So he's walking out with the ring wall. He goes, where's Cosmo? Cosmo! So anyway, it was just a group of us, his wife.
We were having the best time making clothes. You know, we became best friends. So as soon as we go outside and the MGM, first of all, they were supposed to close the lights. So you were supposed to see the laser beams. That didn't happen. So everything was just like kind of weird energy that day from Deontay not being himself, for doing the walk, all that stuff.
I was good with the outfit, the price of the outfit, baby. She was good.
Oh, we were talking about...
This is better. So, okay. No, I'm going somewhere with this. I'm ready. You know, I'm like, I'm notorious about my memes. I'll go on and on and talk about the curtains and the bedspread. So anyway, so we go out and Gianni loses the fight in front of me. I was mortified. You know, the next day it's the headlines. The outfit was too heavy. So I'm like, Deontay threw me under the bus.
Long story short, he calls me up. He goes, I would never do that to you, Kaz. He goes, you're going to be with me to the end, you know? And I'm like, I think this was the end. But anyway, so he apologized. It was just all like propaganda. It was all propaganda. So he meets Shaq in a nightclub in Hollywood. And Shaq goes, who made that fucking outfit for you?
He's like Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Shaq. It's like a little combo. Mixed chat. So then all of a sudden FaceTime calls me and my partner Donato because me and Donato made the outfit. It was a beautiful outfit. Google it. It's gorgeous. And he goes, Deontay passed me your number in a club. This is Shaq. And I'm like, oh shit, Shaq.
So anyway, he goes, I'm doing a gig in Atlanta and I want you to come by and I want you to make me an outfit. He goes, I'm a DJ. So I knew he was a DJ, but I thought it was like R&B soul. I didn't know it was EDM and little glow stick girls going shock, shock, shock. I didn't know this, okay? I thought it was like more like soul train, baby. I was ready. You know what I mean?
So anyway, long story short, he flies me to Atlanta. No, I meet him on Jimmy Kimmel. Okay. So he goes, I'm in Jimmy Kimmel. You want to take my measurements? And I'm like, do I want to take Shaq's measurements? Okay. I fucking ran to Jimmy Kimmel and he was there. And actually we took his measurements, you know, and we made this thing for him. He flew me to Atlanta. And I saw his fabulous DJ.
Oh my God. Then we hung out with him after. So he goes, how come you don't have your own show? He goes, you are, he goes, why? So I says, I don't know. You got any connections? He goes, yeah, I own a network. So the next day we come, I come back and this cameraman in my store and he's like, we're going to film you for a week. We're going to make a scissor reel. You're going to have your own show.
So I'm like, oh My God, another pinch me moment. You know, I'm sober. You know what I mean? These are the gifts, you know, you know about the, right. I mean, look what's going on. It's happening.
I'm like, what the fuck is going on? They've thrown all my Barbie dolls. Okay. I'm like, what the fuck? Trauma. Traumatized. So my mother, my father's in the mob. His mother is a Jehovah's Witness. So he's telling, he's in the Bronx gambling and whatever, doing his thing. And he's telling my mother, take the kids to the Kingdom Hall.
So anyway, filmed the sizzle reel and yeah, he goes, okay, we're going to, you know, go over the sizzle reel. I still have the sizzle reel. And what happened was two weeks later, COVID.
telling you we're all gonna die you know what i mean like literally they're shoveling people in the fucking parking lot of the hospital it was like devastating so that went on the shelf yeah but that was my thing with shack wow yes
So meanwhile, my mother's trying to do the right thing because my grandmother's the matriarch of the family. And then cut to two years later, my mother's like, fuck this kids, let's go. So it was back to like Christmas.
I just want to do something like that. I have a little Karen that lives next to me and girl, it's like, I want to, you know, take care of it the New York way, but the queen don't want to go to jail again. She cries when she leaves. But so what I was recommended to do is to go over to her and befriend her, like just go knock on her door. You know, would you like to go for a cup of coffee?
No birthdays, no holidays. Can't be this. You can't be that. Basically, no blood transfusions like that. Yeah. It's like the ends. What a list of rules. I don't know how Michael Jackson's in it. I'm telling you. And Prince, too, right? I wonder where the blood transfusions came from. I don't know.
You know, contrary action of what we would do from New York. Right.
Would you like a cigarette, a drink, and a line of coke? Yes. In my mind, we're having that party, but it doesn't work anymore. In my mind, we're getting it. Yeah. We're getting it. So I would just try to talk to her. That would be like try to befriend her. That's the advice I got from my sponsor.
Queen? Bitch, you sound desperate. And nobody wants desperation, girl, honestly. But I hope for the best. I hope for the best. I don't think this guy, if he didn't pop it yet, hopefully he pops it. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck.
Oh, my God. It's brutal. It's tough. Brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal. Especially when you're Catholic and you have all these things growing up.
You just do it. But it sounds like it was already, like, in the bag. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you guys stood together. You had the family dynamic. You know what I mean? Yeah. It was cool. You just needed a little, like, push. Yes. You know, a little, like, do it already. I'll be here, you know? But with her, we don't know if she has that same dynamic.
You know, maybe he's just, like, peeing around the bush. I don't know. So good luck to her. Good luck. Yeah.
And then you're not allowed to have them. But it didn't work. So my grandmother stood Jehovah. And then my uncle Junior, my father's brother, worked in the Palm restaurant out here. So those days it was like Johnny Carson. It was Merv Griffith. It was always like I Dream of Jeannie. It was all the, you know, it was just like the hangout to get steak and lobster. I think they just closed the Palm.
I wanted to do a little makeover to show you what I do in the store at Melrose for 30 years. Now it's tis the season, it's Coachella and Burning Man. So we want to show you a little something, try on a little something. Cool.
So Queen of Melrose is the platform. And then also Cosmo's Glam Squad and Cosmo and Donato. Queen of Melrose, all platforms. And then I also just came out with some music. It's on Spotify. And it's, did you hear my song? I must have. That's going to be another day. It's fabulous. Yeah. So we have, yeah, help me with this.
Okay, did you hear her or should I repeat that?
Melrose and Fuller, and the other one is Melrose by the Starbucks. What street is that over there? I just got it.
Curson, Curson. Love it. You know the neighborhood.
Okay. So Cosmo and Donato's on Curson. Okay. Cosmo's Glam Squad. It's been there for 25 years. It's on Fuller. That's the rock and roll store. Okay. And then we have queenofmelrose.com where you could order jewelry. We make everything by hand. You could order all the Queen of Melrose merch. So we have all of that on. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we've been trying to figure out this TikTok thing because people are getting rich, okay? Do it. It's crazy. Yeah, get paid. So we, after work, we've been on TikTok and actually been selling glasses and selling merchandise like crazy. So it does work if you work it. Yeah. So basically, you can find us on TikTok, Queen of Melrose.
We have a lot going on.
All Queen of Melrose, yes.
I think there's one down.
First season of Cops. The queen is going to Las Palmas and Santa Monica Boulevard. The unemployment agency over there. And they have like a little park there where they sold all the drugs to everybody. So the queen's there and she's like, you know, getting her little, you know, prescription. And then all of a sudden, my friend go, cops.
And I turn around, there's like a big fuzzy microphone and lights and cameras and action. And they're like, you're on cops. So there I was like a deer in the headlight. Okay. And they're like, do you have a warrant? Do you have this? Do you have that? And I said, I was my twin brother, Joseph. I didn't say I was Cosmo because I had a warrant. Long story short, sign this release, please.
So the release was to show my face on Cops. So a few weeks later, they're in New York, all my customers, everybody's like, Cosmo's on Cops? I had Cosmo in my living room. So they just kept on playing that same episode literally 30 years ago. Yeah. And they still play it. Yeah. So you could Google the Queen on cops.
Yes. Maybe you guys got a connection. You could talk to somebody. I can't even get residuals, Cosmo. It's not looking good for us.
A what are you nuts? Okay, so let's see. What are you nuts? Okay. Something happens every day. So in my store, you know, you're going to come in and we're going to give you a makeover. And basically, you know, you want to shop and, you know, fine, you know, we'll dress you up. We'll put one outfit on you, maybe two outfits, or we'll take a picture. The queen will do the right thing.
She'll take a picture, a fan picture. But what's happening lately, people are like, I want to try on more. And And more and more. And then before you know it, the fucking dressing room is up to here. And then they want to walk out without, you know, not even buying a t-shirt or a hat. Okay. This is true story. So I'm like, what are you fucking nuts? Kmart's on third. And Ross is right there too.
You know what I mean? So I'm going to lock the door. You're going to clean your mess. And so, you know, it just gets, it's like, what are you fucking nuts? Have a little shopping etiquette. You know what I'm saying? Yes. One outfit cute. The queen will take your picture. She'll give you a lap dance. The second outfit, she'll show you where the glory hole is in the dressing room.
But come on now, you know, don't keep on going. Just say, listen, we're going to stop right now. Don't have the queen overwork my staff, period.
Thank you, guys. This was amazing. Thank you. This was a pleasure. Thank you.
It's over. Game over.
It really was. It was the 80s in New York. It was the 80s in LA. So basically, I was 17 years old and we moved to Queens. My grandmother had a house in Queens. So my father was kind of implicated in that Goodfellas Lufthansa thing where FBI agents were following me to school. They were in my backyard and they were trying to implicate him, you know, indict him.
But he literally had nothing to do with it, but he was hanging out with all the guys. So basically court case, court case, court case. And like, I'm going to lose my father. My mother's like one day we're riding around in a Lincoln. The next day she's on food stamps. And it was just the life. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Got you here. You know, it was just like, wow.
Nice to finally meet you, boo-boo.
You know what I mean? It's like growing up. It was like literally a Martin Scorsese thing.
Or should I say boo-boolicious?
Where were you guys from? Forest Hills? Yeah, Forest Hills. So you guys were the uppity enchilada. Yeah, Forest Hills. You guys were the bougie crowd.
Oh, Key Foods was the best. They had a great diner. Key Foods. What's the diner? Oh, my God. Then it was Pathmark.
Yes, yes, yes. It's in Bayside, no?
Yeah, they have the best food.
Agreed? The best tuna? The best food, period. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys are making me hungry. Can we order a pizza?
I'm having a conundrum.
That was Eugenia's cousin. Oh my God, you guys. I feel like, wow, this is great. This is great. Give me a hug. Air hug. I need a hug.
No, I was, you know, I have a few very strong relationships throughout my career. Yes, yes, yes.
Today we're single. I'm seeing somebody, okay, for like seven years. Met him in the gym. I was on Herbalife. I was really, I was really skinty like 10 years ago. That was legal speed, right? And I had long hair and I would walk around my gym in Burbank.
with two fake asses so they were calling me cosmo kardashian okay so this guy comes up to me literally like six foot seven okay he goes i don't know what you are but i like it you know so here i am in the gym all freaked out and that's it so basically just keeping it open and fun you know yeah i had a few tight like i still have the rings these are i was gonna get married twice
But, you know, in gay years, you know, it's not the same. You know what I mean? And it's like, so I just keep it open. You know what I mean? And I literally let him do what he wants to do. I'm like, you want to do whatever eight years later. And then I do what I want to do. But, you know, if you love somebody, you know, there's that old saying, if you love something, you'll set it free.
Blame the hairdresser.
But it always comes back, you know? Because I see there's no institution of marriage anymore anymore. Like, really not. Like, especially when you're a celebrity. Like, look at JLo. How many times? Come on now. You know what I mean? Too many. You can't stay married.
Halle Berry. It's like, oh, she was on Oprah. How do you cheat on Halle Berry?
It was in six months. It was done. You know what I mean? So being that they have, like, you know, the social media and hot trannies, I'm sorry, but I don't think we have a chance.
You know, hopefully his girlfriend was a good sport, honestly, because you know why? People get jelly no matter how gorgeous you are. And she is absolutely strikingly gorgeous, his girlfriend.
Oh, my God. And Halle Berry looks good, but she's getting a little up there, honey. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, but still, she still gets free drinks, I'm sure.
She killed it. She killed it.
Because he's a Jewish kid. Agreed, agreed. Is he a piece? He's handsome, right? So he comes to my store. He used to come in my store with these hot, beautiful, it might've been the same girl. He was dating her. This was like a few years ago and she's in there and she's trying on clothes and like, she's like absolutely gorgeous. Could be the same girl when he was, he's been with her for a while.
I don't know. So she goes, well, I have all these clothes and she goes, I'm like, well, are you going to buy them? Yeah. Do you want to report the credit card stolen? Because my primary purpose is to sell a shmata, you know what I mean? To sell a dress. I was raised by Israelis, by the way. Remember when Melrose was all Israeli?
Well, those were my bosses when I walked in when I was 21 and coked out. And I just couldn't stop selling.
Now I understand it. I could feel it. It's the queens. It's the key foods. It's the Israelis.
You got to know Bulbul. You know Bulbul. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so they raised me, basically, how to do business, basically, you know? And now they're all in Israel, you know? And they gave me, for Christmas, they would, like, buy me a brand new car. You know, because if you're hustling for an Israeli, they're with you, like, neck and neck. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean?
So, and I was partying, and we had to open the store at 11 o'clock, but they would let me sleep till 2.
And they would come to my house at 2 o'clock and wake me up because that was my party years on Melrose before I got my own store. And they were like, we're going to bring you falafel. Open the windows. We're going to give you some water. You're going to come to work. It's already 2 o'clock, Cosmo. And I would just sell my cunts off. I would just sell.
And you know, if you're selling and making money with an Israeli, the best partner in the world. So they sent me to Israel and basically they bought me brand new cars, you know, very, very, we're still family. We're still family, yeah.
Oh my God. Tel Aviv. And like, it was just, and the clubs there, like they don't have a clue here that how they do it out there is how they do it. And then they have that park, that famous park where it's like all the like closet cases or like the married men, you know, I never left. I was there for a week.