Fitness Celebrity

A: Who's Augie Noriego?

Y: Oh, it's uh Inga's son, ex-son-in-law. Karen's uh.

A: How come he's in the newspaper?

Y: Because he has Lou Gerian disease for many years.

A: Gerian or Lou Gehrig?

Y: Gehrig.

A: Geh-rig?

Y: Yeah. And he's been sick for, and he does, what he does, Alex, you have to read the article, because, he was a fanatical uh, you know, that's how he makes his money, with the exercise, a fanatic about that.

A: About what? Yoga?

Y: Everything, with the machines. I mean, he was so fanatic, you know. And he made, wasn't he at your graduation that day or only Karen was?

M: Only Karen--no, he was there too.

Y: He was there, Augie was there.

A: He's a fitness celebrity, mom?

M: Yeah.

Y: Oh yeah, he's become multi-millionaire with his enterprise. But where, did you read--

M: He sold his company for $360 million. He sort of invented the life-cycle kind of thing. Life-cycle, you know, the equipment.

Y: Yeah, he started when he, the exercise was not that strong. Now everybody does it, but when he started that it was, you know, kind of new.

M: He's really an entrepreneur kind of guy.

Y: Oh my gosh, but did you see all those, he can't use his hands, he's in wheelchair, and he uses the computer with his feet.

A: Really?

M: Well yeah, he's so loaded though that he can do whatever, you know, whatever it takes--

A: Just because he wants to, he has the money to have a computer he uses with his feet, or?

Y: He can't do it any other way.

A: He can't use his hands?

Y: He can't.

M: No, it's a nerve disease.