Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 156 - Food Network Guys with Lauren Walker

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

This week on Guys we had Lauren Walker from the Batting Around podcast to talk about Food Network Guys. It mostly abour Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri which is what most of the food network is anyway. Is Guy a chef? Is his garlic restaurant good? Who is Bobby Flay dating? Seriously this episode is really fun and goofy so enjoy it.  There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashowand I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201  

Welcome to guys, the podcast about guys. I'm Brian. My co-host, Chris, has been chopped. Hi, Chris. Okay, well, now I do know what that means because we're doing the intro again. The whole sort of crux of it was that I didn't know what that meant, but now we've done the intro a second time. Just to peek behind the curtain, we had a technical thing.

And so now I do know chopped is something. It's a food network show in America. I'm not a big, we have all the stuff in Canada. We literally have the food network. You don't have the same. Canada chopped. I'm Googling it. We have the same exact television shows as you, but I'm not a big, I've never been a food network person. So I don't really know, I know Iron Chef.

Oh, they do have chopped up there, chopped Canada. Anyway, let's get our guest on the show. We have Lauren Walker. Hi, Lauren. Hey, guys. How's it going? Great. It's not going too bad.

Are you, are you a, would you call yourself a foodie? Do you watch the food network ever? I, I worry. I might be a kind of food network guy of old that might not be the kind of food network guy we're making fun of now, but remembers the very early days of Food Network and has been disillusioned by it over the years as it has become less and less about good cooking and more and more about competition. Listen, I don't even know any. I just know from our show that we will be covering people who are disillusioned at the direction of the thing that we're talking. talking about. That's a big part of guys for sure. Well, I didn't say this either, Lauren. I was the most Food Network guy in the world pandemic time. Like, oh, totally. Yeah. For the first like two

years of the pandemic, the only thing I watched was the food network. I didn't, I don't think it lasted two years, did it? Anyway, I didn't start going. Yeah, let's not, but I didn't start going out again for two years. Yeah, I get it. So basically the whole pandemic, you were, I mean, that makes, for it. Me and Katie and my daughter were just, Gwen, I don't know why I said Katie and my daughter. I sit watch chopped all day and diners drive-ins and dives. That one was good for the pandemic because you'd be like, I wish I was at a diner drive-in or dive. I do know that one. I know that show because there's a lot of restaurants around Vancouver that have been featured on that. I think that's Guy Fierry. That is, that is Guy Fierry. I think Guy Fierry likes Vancouver and likes the food

because there's like, I think he's done a lot of episodes here. So that's the only reason I know that one. is like it'll have a big sign in the window, featured on diners, drive-ins and when they're dives. I think he likes pretty much everywhere. I think he's been to all 50 states in every single province. Anywhere there's like an English-speaking territory in North America, he's definitely driven through a few times and been like, this diner has incredible French fries.

I'm not trying to be like, I'm not a big like, oh, Vancouver Rocks. It's so great. I just think that, I think that it's just based on the amount of restaurants that have been featured. it feels like he's been here. We've got like five here. He's, yeah, we've got like, we've got like seven or eight. We've got like seven or eight, maybe even ten. I definitely do meet the foodie standard. Vancouver is on the rate, the radar of like the foodies, you know. Oh, don't tell them that. No, we have good food. There's no doubt about it. I mean, one of the main reasons why. They dip their wings and mayonnaise up there. That's not true.

In Vancouver. Somebody tricked, somebody tricked them into doing that. No, the, the, I think that, um, the reason that we have such good food is a, pretty simple is that we have an it's an extremely multicultural city and so you have people making food like authentic food from all over the world you can get all kinds of that food so yeah we're we're we're pretty spoiled in Vancouver we have like it's funny here the places that are guy fierry places are like uh there's a place called momo gar which is nepalese food okay and they're like these dumplings it's right over by my house i eat it sometimes and uh then there's a place called loops that is just it's like when you get foreign food but it's Chicago it's like if you were like

I'm going to get either Chinese food or Chicago food you would go to loops and he went there Chow Main or some deep dish pizza well I don't do the pizza but they do the they do all the other stuff they did I have to say it like this and don't make fun yeros yeah we don't say gyro because I grew up with Greek people. Theo would have kicked my shit in. I mean, we would say hero. Heroes. Very regional.

Yeah. I would have got my shit kicked in by one of the Greeks across the street. I told you he's got Greek tattooed across his stomach. You know? So he's pretty serious about being Greek. But yeah, I like one of my favorite recipes in the world is a Bobby Flay recipe. So I am also like into that. I mean, I know Bobby Flay from Sal Governaille.

Remember that. Anyways, on Howard Stern, he told them that his thing made him horny. His burger made him horny. Well, his fucking steak sauce is banging. Like, if you make his steak sauce, I make it when I have steak, it's the best thing I've ever. It's so good. I would put it on a 5 Wagyu. See, that's a food guy talking.

Yeah, that would be very offensive to a number. of foodies. That's a, yeah, it is funny when you go to... That's a faux pa in a lot of the foodie circles. I went to a nice sushi restaurant fairly recently. It's actually a place that I went with past guest Jesse Farrar. He took me there. They're like, let's dip it in mayonnaise.

No, dipping their salmon and mayonnaise up there. No, this was a, it was a salmon osi, which is like, you know, the pressed sushi or whatever. And they, the guy, like, brought it. And he said, we strongly recommend you don't use soy sauce. for this and he was like he kind of looked at me and he did you use it me he no you knew you wanted to though I wanted to so bad I know I wanted to so bad because I was like oh this you don't be good on this some fucking soy sauce but the guy kept he was looking over at me there wasn't very many people

in the restaurant and he was like keeping his eye on me so I couldn't do it the grief I get and it's funny uh I've been kind of obsessed with wings since I got back from Vancouver this last time because Gabris was eating wings a lot and he I heard him I rarely ever ate wings before and then I heard him say oh I'm going to get some wings all flats with blue cheese and I was like I like all drums yeah I like drums I like

all drums with ranch yeah I'm not a ranch guy I like this for hot wings for me that what makes a good hot wing is lean meat I don't like those big fat ones and unbredded and crispy. I want them like a little bit overdone.

That's actually how I like my chicken wing. And which is Cactus Club is a Vancouver local place. Yeah, you went there. I had wings there. Those are my favorite wings that you can get. Yeah. Well, let's take a look here. I went to R slash food network.

A lot of stuff's going to come from there today. This guy goes, I'm curious about Bobby and Guy. I hope y'all don't take this the wrong way. I'm just genuinely curious and thought it might be fun. Seems like the running gag is that you never. see Bobby and Guy on the same show. I imagine it to be like the

DC and Marvel universe. Do you think that's a gag that they're running? I think this guy thinks. This guy seems to think that like. Like it's a running gag that they've like that they've never been on the same show. That seems like a lot of networks are running a lot of gags then.

I guess they just don't like each other very much. Yeah, that's how I would feel. I would feel like yeah, they can't. Both big personalities. Maybe that's kind of what this guy is doing. He's going to, he's going to start. Well, he thinks it's kind of like the DC and Marvel universes. He goes, if this is truly the case, which food network personality, chefs, judges, hosts, etc.

are only in Flavortown universe and which are only in Flaytown universe. Now, our lapsed food networkness is going to make this a little harder for me and Lauren. But Flavortown has Troy Johnson, Krista Lutki, and Brit Racino. No, I don't know who they are. And Fletown has Esther Choi, Michael Simon, I know him, Cleveland guy, and Michael Jenkins. So that was his thing. And then this guy goes, I'm game for the showboat game show antics of, uh, oh, I, these are so guy Fieri. But I much, they, they, these food network guys make everything an acronym.

Everything. It's impossible to read what they're talking about. So every once in a while, you'll see me get confused. because they're acronyming things, which is crazy. You got to be such a guy to put TOC in. And then everybody's like, oh, tournament and champions. You know what I mean? See, I thought teacher on call.

TOC was teacher on call when I was younger. See, that's how, that's what I mean is like, you have to be in that shit. And that's kind of probably what they're trying to do. They don't want people like us to be involved in it. Yeah. No, I think it's also an outgrowth of like reality TV culture. where there's multiple series in different locations and you need a lot of acronyms to be able to figure out,

like if you're talking about Real Housewives, Salt Lake City versus Dallas versus New Mexico versus Ontario. Yeah. It's funny this episode. God, that would be cool if it was a Canadian one. Hey, my husband Gord, you know, didn't get me the, the toque I was asking for. Sorry, we've been doing, we did Canadian guys recently.

We've been on some CanCon on the podcast, trying to do more Canadian contact. I think there'd be like enough wags up there you could do like a pretty compelling series. Oh, that's totally true. If we're talking about, yeah, if we're talking about hockey, yeah, we're talking. Now, Lauren, just out of curiosity, have you ever been to Canada? I got to go for like one day across the falls into Toronto. And I had a weird food thing.

Someone tricked me to there. And I saw someone eating popcorn with ketchup on it. And for a couple years, I thought that was a Canadian thing. But no, that was just one weird guy. Oh, man, that sucks. someone does that to us, you know what I mean? Like acts all weird like that in public and then people see and they're like, oh, I guess that's all weird Canadians act.

And especially the ketchup. The ketchup thing is a really easy one to believe because we got the ketchup chips. And the manis and wings. The chips, which are great. Yeah. They're great. Yeah, they're great. And the mayonnaise and wings.

And the mayonnaise and wings. I've literally never heard of that in my life. I've only heard of that. 40 years, never heard of that one. Well, my name is like mayonnaise with three other things at it. It's not that much better. I don't like hearing that. When you say that, it makes me, like, nervous the next time I eat ranch.

Like, people will say that seriously. I love ranch. I hate mayonnaise. And people will be like, people will be like, uh, you know, ranch is basically mayonnaise. And I'm like, stop saying that because it'll make me only be able to taste mayonnaise. It happened to me a few times, man. Like, people will say like, oh, this is. Oh, my wife.

Here's the thing. When my wife and I first started dating, she would make mashed potatoes, right? famous for her mashed potatoes. Unfortunately has lost her way a bit with that, but we don't need to talk about that. Why would you say something? Because I do it. I've had to take it over. You take on the mashed potato duties.

I do the match, she would admit she's lost her way too. Well, she lost her way or has a full-time job. Well, she would just admit that she's having trouble getting back to where she was when they weren't like gummy and stuff. That's what she said. So you are talking about the, you are actually insulting the quality of your wife's mashed potatoes.

You're not just saying that she was too. She was over stirring them. It was getting gummy probably. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So early on, I was like, these are the best mashed potatoes. And I can't believe how good your mashed potatoes are. And everybody was like, bring your mashed potatoes to the, to the thing.

And like everybody and everyone was like, I got got to get my hands on these mashed potatoes. And I would eat them. And then they were like, one time I saw her making them. and she put some sour cream in them and I was like, oh, these are fucking gross. Well, that's how you make them good.

Yeah. The sour cream is how you make them good. That's why, like, it's famous, like a baked potato with sour cream on it or whatever, right? You're just kind of recreating that taste that people, that people tend to love and that you love. I love butter. Yeah, yeah.

Well, butter's in there too, definitely. Yeah, you definitely, most, I do both when I make my mashed potatoes for sure. Now, I also do want to,

I do want to clarify that, now this i don't want to slag off you know her mashed potatoes but you guys when you were eating them at the time when you were dating you guys would have been really fucked up all the time right okay so high like so fucking on all sorts of things got all sorts of things going on like mashed potatoes i would i would just think of as being like a hit with people who are so fucked up right because it's like but her family loved them too

It's something to your mouth. It's hard to choke on them. And, like, they just, they're just all mushy. And it's a conveyance for, like, butterfat and cheese and milk. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. This guy goes, I'm game for the showboat game show annex of Guy Fierry, but I much prefer

and have mad respect for Bobby Flee. Bobby Flee's clearly the real deal. Yeah, I can, listen, he's having fun over there, but the man I respect is Bobby Flee. He's a pro. He's a professional. I don't know Bobby Flee enough to. Like, again, I only know him from that weird thing where Sal the intern was on Howard Stern and told him that weird thing. I've never seen a show.

I don't even know what he looks like. I watched beat Bobby Flay a lot. My wife doesn't like him because he has people. And listen, I get this. She thinks he's a piece of shit because he has people on his show. And then he goes against that they like each make. So this person will be like, this is my signature dish, right? Yeah.

And he'll be like, okay, let's have a contest where I'll make your. signature dish and you make your signature dish. And then we'll have judges, judge it. He always wins. That's the premise of the show is that you have to make the same thing as him and then judges. This does seem unfair. He makes what you're making and they're usually not a professional chef with decades

of experience. They're usually just some guy or some woman who like a family recipe that he's going to flex on. And then also he knows the judges too. He's like he would be paying. He would be paying the judges. They would rely. on him for their income, for their food and shelter and everything. So it does seem a little unfair to the person coming in.

But I guess that's, does anyone ever beat him? I guess is that kind of the thing? But it's people beat him, but it's incredibly rare. Like they'll do like, because they do like 50 episodes of season, it seems like. And he'll win all of them except for like maybe one or two. Like it is like I don't, I'm sure his win loss record is out there somewhere and it's insane. It's like a boxing. It's like a World Heavyweight Champion boxer type thing.

He, now, but I wonder if he's sort of then, is he, is he sort of like a star maker then, too? Like if you beat Bobby Flee, are you, could you then become a professional chef? So is he sort of seeing himself as a bit of a Johnny Carson kind of. A little bit. That's interesting comp because I think it's more an intro into the Food Network universe of characters than it is like into professional cooking. Okay. Like a lot of reality shows, the goal is.

to cycle you back into the reality show of system. So you could still make a living. You could presumably turn it into your career if you beat Bobby Flee. Like it could be, it could kick start your career. If you're willing to play ball. And guess what, Lauren, I'm always willing to play ball.

This guy goes, Guy is all circus. Bobby is Broadway. I'm sorry. People are the hardest I've laughed. I really love the way. way these guys talk. These guys talked so much funnier than like a lot.

Like we did cable news guys. Those guys talked pretty funny. But these guys are like. Oh, that's what a good. That was that really got me. That really got me. This guy goes, I don't know. Beat Bobby Flee is too circusy for me.

Everyone seems very phony on that show. Yeah. It's reality TV, right? And I guess there is always going to be that where it feels a little bit phony. But do you get the sense? You guys watch the show. You get the sense like this is, it's real.

Like, I mean, as real as it could be, I guess. It's been like a complaint with a lot of like food cooking shows for a long time that it's all made in the editing room. That's good for Food Network and like Bravo, like all the villains are like narratively edited to look worse than they are. I see. That's been a complaint of like food network and just like cooking shows like since the beginning. So that's probably a big factor. But Bobby is kind of a prick. Like we'll read some stuff about Bobby.

be later on. But he does not come on. He comes off like arrogant. That's part of the personality. It's like a Skip Bayless kind of thing. Yeah. Guy Fieri comes off as like the nicest guy in the fucking world. Yeah, he's like an every man. He comes across his very working class. Everyman kind of guy. Well, he went to my daughter's, my daughter, my sister's restaurant that she worked at. He didn't like review it, but he went, because it was in a hotel, he stayed in that hotel. And she said he came down at night when when he was done working and they were all done working. He got everybody fucking drunk, like all the people at the bar. He was just buying drinks and going crazy. And I guess he was like going behind a bar and making drinks for

people. He's a party boy. I guess it sounds like he's a party boy. It sounded fun as hell. Like, I'll say. And like, I think he seems fun. I think he seems annoying. And Flay wouldn't do that. You don't think? No. No chance. Like, Flay would not, like, Flay would show up. You'd have his meal and then he'd leave probably. Like it would just be... And of course he's going to... I'm thinking about it, though, of course he's going to come off

as arrogant, right? Because he's beating these non-profession... He's a professional chef. He's like, it's like, you know, it would be like a basketball. Like, I guess there was that. What was it called? Oh, pros versus Joe's?

No, it wasn't pros versus Joe's. It was, this was a thing that... Great show. That the white mamba, the basketball player, I forget what is... What his actual name is red-headed guy, but he would take on guys who would like trash talk and then they would come play them in one-on-one and he would just fucking destroy

them and like that's what that's what i that's what i'm thinking about this it's just like this professional accomplished chef is like hey i'm going to like belittle you and let you know how how badly you make your signature dish and how much easier i can do a better job like the whole premise of it is arrogant well here we go we're about to get to a good central argument of the food network guy i think you're both going to find this very funny never been a big fan of bobby flay most of his shows are just i'm so amazing so these chefs have to try and beat me i love guy because his main focus is showcasing other people and letting them shine guy responds because he's not a chef no hate just my opinion is guy not a chef he yes chef isn't like a chef isn't like a fucking honor

like a ph d chef is if he's if he's not a chef is if you run a restaurant, you're a chef. And my understanding is he did have food, like, industry experience before he became a full-time TV host. Yeah. This is also all culturally downstream of Guy Fieri having, like, a cultural glow-up outside of, like, food network circles and, like, the broader culture. Yeah.

Like, there was a nadier on him at, like, the time, like, this big New York Times take-down review came out. And since then, there's been, like, a reevaluation of guy as, like, the sweetheart of the network who's, like, more popular broadly. We're in like a post, yeah, Guy Fieri blow-up moment. My sister's a chef and she was in culinary school and I happened to know a guy who owned a restaurant at the time. And he was like, just quit culinary school and come work here. Like she didn't get a degree in chef.

You know what I mean? She was just like I didn't want because a lot of what they'll teach it at least at the place she went to. it was like a lot of what they teach is like serving food to scale it wasn't like making something beautiful or that tastes really good it was more about like making enough mashed potatoes for like a whole nursing home i think a lot of yeah yeah a lot of a lot of cooks like chefs at a restaurant like i know i have friends who became chefs and they were line cooks and then they worked their way up became like a sous chef and then you know that's they learned on the job and that's the best way you can do it obviously especially at one restaurant if you're like

working your way up at that restaurant, you're going to learn everything there is to know about it. But yeah, it makes sense. It's not like an education thing necessarily. It's more of an experience thing. Here we go. Now, this, you are going to love you. I'm going to read through a few posts here. How's he not a chef?

Exceptional cook, but not a chef. No culinary degree. You don't need a culinary degree to be a chef. Matter of opinion, that's all. Agree to disagree. I love that. I love this thing you said that is a fact is a matter of opinion. And so let's just, let's agree to disagree.

And this guy goes, how is the literal definition of a word and opinion? Like, this is the definition of chef, a professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant or hotel with the literal definition of chef. Please explain how he is not a chef. So that ended it? That was it. But I mean, because the other guy had already agreed to disagree. I mean, the agree to disagree guy always wins. Yeah.

Yeah. Definitionally. Yeah. Yeah. He's the guy who's, yeah, he's taking the moral high ground. And so you guys can squawk about it. He's going to go and live his life now, actually. All right, here we go.

I'm going to read this. Chris is going to groan. It's going to be very funny. I've said this before and I'll say it again. Food network competitions are more WWE than they are cooking show. And pro wrestling, at least in the old days, when you had two big draws, you wouldn't have them fight each other. not without a lot of buildup.

If you do it, it needs to be worth it because it'll make one of them look less good. Bobby and Guy are two major names in food entertainment. Bobby's literally first big victory on Iron Chef is similar to John Cena's ruthless aggression. And through Guy's shows, they build stars from introductions on Triple D and Guy's grocery games associated with territory shows like Grudge Match and up to tournament of champions. They just don't have much to gain by putting their two big stars against each other and guy doesn't really commit much anymore. Oh, he said John Sina.

What did he say about John Sina? The John Sina, ruthless aggression era. The, the, so that's a, that is a guy who I, you can, you can talk to him about anything. You can bring up literally any subject in the world and he will say, well, yeah, that's kind of similar to wrestling in this way. Like, that guy's a real wrestling guy like he was talking about. Some like real serious shit. He was like flexing that like, hey, I know about real wrestling stuff. And I think wrestling comp started in Food Network competition shows approximately five minutes

after Emeril went off the air. Yeah. Oh, Emerald. Whatever happened. I loved him. Bam. He passed away. He's the original Food Network guy.

He's still around. He's still like a guy got a presence in New Orleans. It's just like a local guy. He's friends with him? You got you going to know who's friends with him? Man cow? Yep. Oh, wow.

How did I guess? Who won't an only man cow muller? That's actually, I can't believe I guess that. No, he goes to his restaurant all the time. That makes sense. He probably goes in and everybody's really happy when he comes in. Oh, look, it's Man Cow our favorite customer who's always so nice. This guy goes, sorry, when did Emerald go off that?

Because obviously Emerald, he was like, he was like, he was like, the guy. He was like the only guy for a long time. He's the John Sina, if you will. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was always doing like an actual cooking show. He didn't really do a lot of reality stuff. And he just kind of like retired to have a private life as like a rich guy in a great culinary city and it's like running his restaurants down there.

Hanging out with the cow. With the hang out of that. Yeah. It's always fun hanging out with him probably. I'm telling you. Oh man. The stories he'll tell afterwards will certainly make it seem like it was fun. I feel like I've, so Bobby Flay won Iron Chef.

is that what they said Bobby Flay won Iron Chef really early That was how he became sort of Okay so I got to This here's a new thread This guy goes Guy Fieri legitimacy I mean I've seen Guy cook on guys grocery games So hard to say

I heard he's actually a decent cook That being said All of his restaurants suck Is he a good chef No hate towards Guy Honestly I've learned how to cook watching Triple D What one How

That is kind of weird and they go to a bunch of different places that do different things. And they don't do a lot of the, or do they? Do they show you how to cook the food? I think you learned how to like open a can of nacho sauce. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I learned I did, I'll say this. I used to make rub for like a pork shoulder or something. And I used like way too much brown sugar and not enough paprika because I couldn't, I just couldn't imagine like you would put as much paprika and. And then I saw a barbecue guy. You didn't believe the recipe. It wasn't a recipe. I was making it myself.

I was making this thing myself. I got you. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. And I watched an episode of the barbecue guy and I saw him like dump so much paprika in that it turned the rub to almost a brown and red color. And I did that. It like changed everything and it was great.

You know what I mean? So I did learn something. That was like you like actually helped you in your life. It did. This is also something you could have solved by going to like all recipes.com. True. True. I just,

I wanted to make my own thing. Sure. You know? So this guy goes, but you know what's a good. I would, sorry, but I will say a good thing.

I appreciate that. And it would be nice if you use that same attitude towards Lego as well, by the way. And you did an MOC every now and then. But that's beside the point. I, I think that it's good though to get the basic idea of what a recipe is. And then you like do a variation of that.

You don't just go in completely blind. I'm going to make a rub. Like, okay, do I, should I use like a joker in it? A few times. Yeah, like you were just going off of things that you saw in a cabinet. Okay. Yeah, I mean, that's very freestyle cooking. And I do appreciate that.

I mean, you're going to get a lot of really bad dishes that way. Oh, I did. You will get some good, unique ones, I would have asked you. I did. This guy goes, why do you think all his restaurants suck? we had one where I work but it was in a cursed location and people kept stealing the silverware

and napkins so it closed I was sad it did I never had a bad meal there the wings are awesome the sandwiches were great the menu wasn't too big the only thing that wasn't my favorite but not unpalatable was the Caesar dressing it's just a little bit too anchovy forward for me but it wasn't bad guy that eats a Guy Fieri's restaurant calls something an chobie

I love just the idea of like yeah I'm talking about a bar Caesar salad and saying it's a bit too anchovy forward. The working class foodie. I love this guy, man. I love this guy. But it was in a cursed location and people kept stealing the silverware and napkins. Like, that's probably why it closed. The ghosts did.

It was cursed to Ben onto. Yeah, no, I think it was like in a bad location. They're saying like a bad part of town or something where there's a lot of crime. But I don't know, man. Stealing silverware seems like. I knew a guy that used. to do that that used to work at a restaurant and he would steal a couple pieces of silverware after work so he could get coke no no no no not this he was a fine dining oh okay it's like custom

silverware maybe with like the gf initials embedded in them or something yeah the the the i i do if it's a fine dining and they're using actual silverware like he would steal like a knife and a fork and then use it by coke after work yeah that's who is that yes a guy this guy i've talked about it in the past but Yeah, he used to, he's just a guy that I hung out with for a period of time in my 30s and 40s. Oh, he wasn't. This was old. 30s. This guy was really late 30s.

This is not such a cute story. When he tells his teenage stories of doing drugs and stuff, it's like, oh, man, that's so funny before you grew up. But then, yeah, that's not so cute. This guy's a 40-year-old man stealing silverware from his job to pay for his drug addiction. That's very sad. Why do I imagine his restaurants being like teens? GGI Fridays and then he gets a reply because he's not a chef. He's a cook.

He can't cook high-end food, only fat guy food, which, listen, that's all I can cook. Fat guy food is my favorite description of how I eat. You couldn't pay me to eat at his restaurants. Not that I've seen one. They must suck that much. That's a weird. That they're not even around, he's saying. They're not even around.

I haven't seen one, so they must suck. This guy goes, I thought his restaurant. would be like TGI Fridays. Like they maybe have good ribs, experiment and make a unique Cajian pasta. Their pasta sucks. Burgers are, man. I don't know.

And this guy goes, wait, you're comparing it to TGI Fridays and think TGI Fridays is better? This is one of my favorite replies. Yeah. TGI's ribs steak pasta is on another stratosphere. You think anything Guy Fieri makes is better? Than the TGIF.

ribs? Are you kidding? Rips? Are you kidding me? Stratus. It's the, they're the, some of the best you can buy. That is a guy that's been to like eight restaurants. Buddy, have you had the fucking blooming onion at, like, it?

Just blows the doors off of the, the roadhouse steak. I mean, yeah, these guys, I do love these guys. I love having that, like, attitude that like, that like sort of foody attitude, but eating it. He's really low-ed places. Yeah, it's so funny, man. This guy goes, have you ever actually had, have you ever actually had food at one of his restaurants? Yes, 100%. The food at Guy Fieri's restaurant was better than anything I've ever had at a Friday's.

And the guy replies and goes, sorry, I have self-respect. The burger my friend had was raw and sucked. I wouldn't try that shit. Oh, because he's never actually been. He's never been. His brother, his friend or whatever had a burger that was not cooked well done. which does throw people off a lot, right? They're like when you're a lot of people do not like to have any red on a burger and I understand

people are going to send anything back that's not like cooked all the way through. Yeah. I love this little exchange here. This person goes his restaurant in Santa Rosa is pretty good. I like the garlic fries, but I think he's more known for his personality on the network than his cooking and then his reply is like Johnny garlics? I think that closed 10 years ago. I'm a big fan of the garlic fries at Johnny Garlix.

Naming his restaurant Johnny Garlix is so good. I love Guy Fierry. They are, they're right. That person nailed it, right? It's like, obviously it's his personality. He's like, he has a super engaged. personality tons of charisma and he's like a character with the hair and everything yeah here's another good story i grew up in sonoma and tex wasabi was terrible in my opinion the only thing people

went there for were the fact they served drinks to miners johnny garlic was better but only because there was garlic on everything but it's not better by johnny garlics he's just got garlic on it psycho mode on that one. He's like, well, let's open a place called Johnny Garlic. We'll fucking pour garlic over him. I'm more curious about someone who goes there expecting like a really ginger forward meal. Yeah, yeah.

No, this is garlic forward. Thank you. Yeah, there's a bit too much garlic in the Caesar salad was a little garlicky. I'm not going to lie, it's a little garlic forward at Johnny Garlix. I love the line that the garlic forward. the garlic fries at Johnny Garlix were really good. Like these are great. And it's because they had the garlic on them.

So yeah, the garlic is what, well, anyone who's ever been to see a Seattle Mariner's baseball game knows all about the garlic fries there. And let me tell you, they are pretty good. And they do make,

I don't even know if they still have them. I think they got rid of them because they make the whole stadium smell of garlic. Yeah. Like it's crazy. You literally walked into the stadium. I remember and it would just, when it was called Safeco then. But yeah, it would be like just all you could smell is garlic.

But yeah, garlic fries are pretty good. They're pretty good. They're pretty good. That's weirdly a thing the Giants fans also think they're known for. Oh, really? Mariners and Giants fans are both like we're the garlic fry stadium. I've never been to San Fran only a really long time ago and I don't remember. So I have a, I only thing I remember about that was going to see the Oakland Athletics play.

And then the kissing band had jumped on the field and kissed Jose Canseco as we all. And you were like, I wish they would kiss me. I mean, probably I thought, I don't know, I was pretty young. but she had like huge boobs right like yeah that's huge so it was like i think even as a young kid i was like well that's pretty cool yeah you know like i even it was like i wasn't even it wasn't a sexual thing i just thought wow that ladies got big balloon boobs or whatever and it was funny to me uh this guy goes uh went to guys taco dive a few months back with a friend and both of us thought the food was a step above most places and was worthy of the name best quack i've ever had and the tacos were the bomb dot com

oh oh hey do you have that guy's contact information. I'd like to hang out with them. Well, he just talks the same way I do. I just don't meet a lot of people who use bomb.bom.com anymore. I went, we went to chicken guy in Disney Springs last year. And while the food was good, the place was a mess.

You can see the workers in the back. He's just got all kind of restaurants, though. Like, what's going on? Everyone's referring. I went to his taco place, his garlic place, his chicken place. He's just like, Got all these different, like, you forgot you missed Tex Wasabi. I wonder, he's, so he's got nothing to do with these things, right?

These are things that have slapped his name on there, like that they're franchised off of his name or whatever. Like, he's not or, like, I would think so. Like usually in that kind of situation, like, if you're like a celebrity chef, you're going to brand everything the same way, like, you're going to do like, they're all called frontier or a grill, whatever city they're in. Yeah. But he's like really mixing up the concepts.

Yeah, he doesn't seem to really care about that kind of stuff. He just seems to be like, yeah, it seems like he just wants to have a bunch of different food restaurants, but I wonder if he's making the menu. Like if he has anything to do with the menu. I think he has a chef, an executive chef, make the menu and then he's like, more garlic or like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, what's going on with this dish over here? I'm noticing there's not very much garlic on it. Can we have a long meeting about this?

I think some of the stuff he's cooked on his shows is also percolated into the restaurants because like the famous thing at the New York restaurant that got trash really hard in the media was the trash can nachos, which is like a signature fee anything. I see. That's a lot of people complaining about it on the subreddit too. Like it's just junk. It's like soggy. Like it fucks everything up because it's maybe the worst possible way.

You're telling me the trash can nachos. You're telling me these trash can nachos are at high quality. It's just how nachos thrive on a plate. Yeah, of course. A long plate. Yeah, I would think I would never. You get dumped them in a bucket. I would never order any kind of food that's called trash cad food.

I know. I went to this restaurant one time. It's known as the not the way you want it. Like it's like a worst case scenario of how you're getting your food is trash cat. It's funny you bring that up. I went to the, there was a restaurant in my neighborhood for a period of time. And I went to it. And they, it was called.

rude dog bar and grill and they served your food in a dog bowl. Huh. Don't care for that. I'm not eating here. I didn't eat. I was like, I'm not eating. I'll get something on the way home.

I'm not eating out of a dog bowl. I'm a man, not a dog. Yeah, that's a terrible, like, idea. Like,

that's just a really bad, where they're just like, yeah, like it's kind of like a cool sort of thing, but they didn't really think of it that people obviously. Kids be served on a frisbee, by the way. Sorry?

Kids meals were served on a frisbee That's kind of That damn frisbee for a long time That's cool I hate it I was so mad I was just like Is all this in a dog bowl

And you know One of the One of the workers Stealing a frisbee And selling it for a very small A amount of Coke We went to chicken guy In Disney Springs last year

And while the food was good The place was a mess You could see the workers In the back slipping On the greasy floors We kept saying It's like a guy Like a comedy movie

Like a silent film? Yeah like a Leslie Dielsen movie And people are just slit Like it's just a crazy scene back there I wonder if they actually did see someone slip Well it says they kept slipping around And we kept saying if guy walked in here right now He'd be pissed

They kept slipping around They're ice skating back there Guys just back there Back there move. I got a few reviews of some food network shows that I think, oh, let's do this real quick while we're still on Guy. I went to our slash diners, drive-ins and dives. And this guy says, and hold on to your hats, everybody. The brewery I work for is abusing guy's name. In season 29, episode 5 of Triple D, pretzels, pork, and paella, Guy visits flyway brewing and

tries one of their very good-looking homemade pretzels. Since then, they've undemocratically switched to using frozen pretzels. The exact same brand that you get cheap at Walmart, yet charging the same price. Here's the real kicker. On our new menu, there's a little promotion for the pretzels that says be like guy. Try our pretzels featured in season 29, episode five. What the fuck? The frozen pretzels literally tastes like Wonderbread.

How is this legal? And what are we going to do about it? How is it legal? So yeah, well, I mean, if it, yeah, I guess contact a lawyer first thing first. To just like figure out the legalities and everything like that. Well, this first guy goes, contact the showrunners at guyfieri.com. They might like to know. Okay.

Yeah, they would probably. Contact them. It's very easy to find showrunners and find their contact information. Yeah. And I'll tell you that is somebody who I'm not going to say why, but somebody who has tried very hard to find showrunners contact information to contact them. It's pretty much impossible. I'm not going to lie.

This guy goes message sent and then he gets a reply, like, please keep us posted. I want to know what happens. They should not be allowed to abuse his name like that. And the guy goes, unfortunately, it's been more than a month since I sent a message and I've heard nothing. And then the last guy goes, damn, I'd be so mad at this. Triple D gets people in the door to try that awesome thing they saw on TV straight to jail. So.

Yeah. Let's look at some reviews. This is Triple D on IMDB. Over in Britain, we're brainwashed into assuming Americans eat nothing. junk food, but triple D with Guy Fierry is excellent and shows us all the unknown gems, which are good, wholesome, carefully prepared American independent food. Everything's freshly prepared and such care taken by the people who make the meals. And what meals?

I have never seen a burger made from minced sirloin steak and all their own secret recipes, fresh produce too. I sit here in Britain, writing this comment, realizing just how much the public in the UK are ripped off. on triple d servings are generous and seem excellent value for the money keep on making a series guy it makes my mouth water watching you try the different dishes i'm very envious of your job i was thinking of a holiday in the u s a usual sort of thing disney etc but i'd love to travel and eat at some of the places you have visited guy during your great series that's really sweet and wholesome i do love the idea of this nice britt i i in my opinion that's the fartologist who's writing that like

It's a guy who looks exactly like the fartologist, this old, sweet British man, looks like Benjamin Franklin. And he's just like, love to come and check out some of the places you went to, Guy. I think that would be absolutely wonderful. But yeah, he,

yeah, I mean, British, I guess the British are known to have bad food, right? I know, but so are the food he's talking about. But I mean, it's good. It's fat guy food. It's better than English food,

I think is what he's saying. He's just like, hey, listen, this is like crap. we're told that they're eating crap, but now I'm watching this show, and like this diner is using all these fresh ingredients and stuff like that. It seems like it's better than our food here, which I think,

I don't know. I've never been to England. I've never been to England before, but the way they talk about it, the way British people themselves talk about it, it seems like it's very bland. And there's like only a few, there's very few things that they eat.

Is that accurate? British listeners, please write in, write in to Brian's email. I'll give it to you guys on Instagram and you can write to Brian about whether or not that opinion is correct. Get rid.

This is a chopped review. Get rid of the new judge. I've always enjoyed the show. Some judges are more to my taste than others. However, Martha Stewart is a dreadful edition. Her comments are vague, banal, and unworthy when compared to the comments of the other judges. There does not appear to be any real understanding

of the nuances of cooking. Martha Stewart, like the famous one? Yeah. from like the from the jail really slumming it up on chopped it is weird to be like she should be the host of chop but isn't she but she went to jail for a long time for insider trade yeah so i think that probably she said she loved it but that affected her career probably right where she's just like now she's got to she could only be like a chopped judge no no she bounced back in a big way uh she had like this huge collab with snoop about because they're both they're both like pot celebrities now oh that's cool snoop dog and every time i hear about snoop i got a many that a fake Snoop Dog was at the Formula One racing and tricked everyone who was getting photos taken with all the drivers. I just saw the video online and it really I love it so much. But so she she bounced back fully. So when was she a judge on chopped now?

So she is now currently. But you're saying that she's too big. You guys are saying she's too big. Yes. I think she should be a host of. I mean, listen, I don't think she's good either. But I'm saying that like she's so famous that it's. weird for her to be a judge.

I think she should be at the target to Food Network's Walmart, which is Bravo Network. Yes. Oh, yes. Because she's got, she's so much more than cooking. She's so much more than food, right? Where Bravo is going to be covering more of that stuff. But I just, to me, I'm just a regular

citizen. You guys are like food people. You watch a food network and stuff. So to me, Martha Stewart fell off. Like, she used to be when I was younger, she was so fucking famous. She was the most famous. Then she went to jail and she kind of fell off a little bit. She went to jail and I thought she was cooler. Me too, but I'm saying she fell off as far as like she was no longer in the public eye to me. I never heard about or anything

like that. This is great. You two are going to love this review of CHOPP. Nine out of 10. Great reality TV. In a world of fake reality television shows, the simple idea, by the way, not thinking that a lot of chopped is also. Can you guys tell me what CHOP is? I apologize, but for being so ignorant, but what, what's the premise of chopped? It's a one hour show and you get like these boxes of mystery ingredients and have to do a series of courses based up with the ingredients in the box. I got you.

And you got like 30 minutes or whatever. So you could like you have everyone has the same ingredients, but then they make like different courses. So you like here's like a pineapple. ingredient in each box. Yeah. Here's a pineapple and then you got to make it with a pineapple. For me, if I was there, I'd just turn it upside down and be like, eh?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I would say to the. judges too. You know what that means? You go, huh? Yeah. You turn to pineapple upside down. You serve it to a lot of plate. And then when they look at it, I'm like, you didn't do anything. And he said, oh, didn't I?

May I introduce you to my wife? I like the idea of it being upside down and just going, yeah, what does this mean? Do you anybody? Anybody? This means anything to anybody? Voted off of me. I used to joke with my wife all the time when we were watching it. Like, me. and Katie and Gwen will watch Chopped.

And I'd be like, oh, like, they would get like some ingredient. And I'd be like, hmm, I'd just throw some seasoning on the ingredient. Just put it on a plate and see what happens. Like, it would be very funny to me. So this person goes, being a bit of a foodie myself, I really enjoy the mystery basket approach of secret ingredients. I find this show much more, quote, real than say Iron Chef America. The strict time limit and need to produce all four plates single-hand.

makes for more intense buzzer beater endings to each round. The quick personal stories of each competitor in the beginning of the program set up each episode to give the viewer a sense of their expertise. Now, I want you two to know. I also read several reviews that were like, we're sick of these sob stories and that like when somebody's like I was cured, I, like I saw so many people being like, all you got to do is go on there and say, you know, you had cancer and you beat it. And now you're a chef.

It was your dream to be out chopped. And you're just going to win. you know what I mean that's a lot of people well I think that I think that the judge or whatever they might look into the claim as well a little bit

like the producers of the show and stuff like that like if you I don't know that I don't know that yeah people are pretty cynical in that way I feel like watching TV and it does make sense a little bit because you're like

all this stuff is nonsense and that type of stuff you know what I mean like there's all these manufactured kind of but it does feel like yeah some people have cancer sure it's a real pretty I agree

but I think the people are just mad that it's like well if this person survived cancer but their food's not as good should they be winning yeah and I don't I don't know that it does like and you know what but again it is reality TV so it is it's not you know

this is not something that is like a competition that has some sort of governing body or whatever you know this is just reality TV yeah this is a failure to understand how non-linear editing works and like yes One of these chefs like survived cancer.

One of them is like parents died in a tragic accident. One of them is a recovering addict. Yes. And whoever wins gets the narrative. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. That's it. They don't mention the cancer. Like they might throw the cancer in like, she had cancer once, but whatever. You know what I mean? If they didn't want them to think that is my guess. The recent episode of accepting suggestions from social media sites was also a fantastic idea

that I enjoyed as well. Oh yeah, I used to love that on my favorite show points. What was that point? What was the show, Point? Chris Hardwick. At midnight. At midnight.

That was the coolest part, man. The way that you would be able to do a hashtag and then you could be on TV. Like, God, I would do. I did every hashtag for at midnight. I never got on what. Yeah. That's crazy because you are funny, but you are funny in the wrong way where you probably said something. Yeah.

Oh, no. I'm joking now. I never did that hashtag. Oh, I was going to say. Yeah, because if you did it at the time, you're funny in a way where it would just be like, this guy's being a fucking smart ass, you know? My only suggestion, you, this is my favorite thing that people do when we talk about TV. My only suggestion to improve the show might be to add a fan of the show to guest judge

alongside the professional judges from time to time. I'd also like to see less sob stories during the cooking portion of the show and focus more on the techniques and commentary from the judges. Also, for those strange mystery basket ingredients, I'd like to hear more from the judges about what they know about it and how they might integrate the ingredient if they were competing. Overall, one of my top shows to watch each and every week. Now, I have to tell you, we've done a few TV show things. And I haven't done a reality show guys episode, but I'm going to. This hipped me to the fact that I could do that.

I never even consider it. And every time they're like, you know what they should do? on this show is they should have a fan come on and give the fans perspective of this. Like it's always like the big because they're like I'm fucking, it's going to be. What they should do is have a fan on this show that maybe reviews things on IMDB that could help. This one is a Chris special. This guy, this is his big moment.

As a fan of Guy's Triple D series and a dedicated home cook, I thought I'd give his supermarket at Bay series a look and I enjoyed it. The 2013 episode I caught had one man and two women converging on the Flavortown store for a chance to cook in the aisles and win a cool $10,000. Taped around New Year's

but as shewing goals like losing weight, this segment was fun to watch as the contestants brimming with can do creativity grappled with assigned categories of cooking. For example, I just like to step in here. I work for a publisher and I noticed your writing on this forum.

I was wondering if I could offer you a job, a three book deal, please. These are my favorite kind of writer review type people who are, well, they're kind of like, they're doing an audition a little bit for anybody who could be reading it, just to showcase that, you know, I'm making a point,

but the point mostly is my pros, you know. There's a talent scout. reading the comments The thing about the public forum is that that's not crazy to think that like some of the most famous Lauren Michaels could read it. Anybody could read it.

That's the crazy thing about a public forum. So you are sort of auditioning for everybody. He goes, choosing from among mandatory or band ingredients that race the clock to create and entrees that tantalized on a plate. I like the guy got the contestants backstories. the day job salesman had personally visited dozens of triple D stops,

while one of the ladies wished to evolve from food blogger to professional chef. The viewer roots for such intrepid souls. Eventually the guy won with a snazzy version of a pork belly bomb me, and I definitely wanted a bite. Who says that pushing a shopping card has to be a bore? This show could inspire anyone who's got to eat. That last part, I... This show could inspire anyone who's got to eat.

Okay. Yeah, it could, wait a second. Everybody's got to eat. See, that's why this is a type of writing that gets you thinking that makes you reflect on your relationship to the world, you know? Like, wait, aren't we all kind of? I actually worry it comes off like chat GPT writing. I don't think it is, but I think we're at the point culturally where like bad writing is dismissed as coming from a chat bot. And this is just someone who writes like that.

Oh, yeah. No, you're definitely, you're right. This is someone because we encounter them so often. on guys and a lot of them are from before chat gpte you know the posts are from before and there is a little bit of a difference but you're right what chap be jat gbt has sort of managed to write in this insufferable way that everybody hates so much yeah that style they've and now we're like it's chat we shouldn't be letting humans off the hook for their bad writing you know what i mean because now you're like that's chat gbt every time and you're like no some people just write weird

and bad. Yeah. It's just missing the magic of a bad writer. Yeah. It's one of the few downsides of artificial intelligence. We found a guy, Lauren, and you were on the Yelp guys episode, so you'll like this. We found a guy from Michigan that reviews things in this way. But like he's reviewing like chain restaurants.

Yeah. And like auto body shot. Like he reviews everything he does. Yeah. So you'll see a. view for an auto body shop, for a plumber, for anything. And he writes with this flowery language and it drives Chris fucking crazy. But I love it. Yeah. This is from a site we've never been to on this show. Wow. New site, new source. Common sense media. What is that? That sounds like something

bad. You know what I mean? One of those ones for all the words sound good, but some reason put together, you're like, oh, this sounds bad. Vaguely like Christian movie reviews. kind of coded. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it comes up when you search a movie or something on Google, you get the rotten tomato score, the IMDB score and the common sense media score. And the common sense media score you want to go to if you have a child, you're trying to shield them from everything in the world.

So you go there and like that, oh, this has like, and it'll tell you what it has in it. Like, oh, this one has positive role models. This one has drug use. This one, like, you know what I mean? This one promotes the transgender agenda. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

And I'm thinking some of those ones mentioned come up more than others. Yeah. I feel so it's a Christian group though? Is it a religious? It is. And it's parents and kids, by the way. So parents do reviews and so do kids. So is it for children's movies?

No, it's for every movie. I'm about to read parent reviews of diners, drive-ins, and dives. So this guy goes American food only I'd like one episode I love this now you think American food only You're thinking right This guy like fucking He's mad that they put like internet

Or like that he wants It's only American food right Like the guy never leaves America And looks at things You'd be wrong about that He goes I'd like one episode With plain old meat and potatoes restaurants Just one.

No Italian, German, or Spanish. This guy is so racist, he hates Italian food. You gotta go back to like 1910s to find that kind of racism in the U.S. German. I don't want to eat his German stuff. Yeah, this guy might be super elderly, right? It's like, you know, talk about German, like, I don't even know German food. I don't even know.

It's not really that. Like, what the fucks is a spitzel? I'm not into that. Yeah. Yeah. Like it feels like this. Germans. Yeah.

Yeah. Are you kidding me? We're going to eat the food. Oh, yeah. I didn't lay in a foxhole for, you know, 10 long nights. So I could be eating's brat worst. You know.

Yeah. I love this. There's another detail to this. He says no Italian, no German. And then capital letters, Spanish. Yeah. It's like,

oh, that guy. He doesn't want Spanish, but he means Mexican food. Yeah. I think he means... He did not see tapas on any menu on that at that show. Yeah, I think he means Mexican food. He saw an an enne on a menu and freaked out.

Yeah, and you're going to be able to tell he's an elderly man by the last sentence of this review that is truly weird. He goes, I realize old-time American food is a European derivative, but I'm tired of having to eat an Italian beef with a heavy taste of salsa or spaghetti with salsa in the sauce. My zip is 6-0-087. So he thinks there's salsa and the spaghetti sauce. Because it's too spicy? What's going on here? I don't know. Why does it?

He's got to mean red pepper, right? Like just sort of little sprinkling of the red pepper in there. Red pepper, I guess he means. He's a salsa. It's because it's spicy. They, he thinks it's salt. He thinks it's salsa because he thinks salsa is universally spicy. Like red spice, red spicy is salsa to him.

red spicy as salsa. This is how a lot of Americans ate for, like, if you, there's a great documentary by Lesbent called Garlic as Good as Ten Mothers. It's set in like the mid-70s. You should try this garlic restaurant. But like the whole conceded of the movie is like, it's in California and like it's a bunch of people who are like,

I am a white person, but I eat garlic and that's crazy. Yes. Like that it's like some foreign like, yes. I gotcha. Like you're singing songs about. about how much they love garlic and as a white guy that's weird. Yeah. I mean, growing up, when I was growing up, like Indian food and sushi were like just

watch an episode of fucking friends, man. They're like, I had Indian food last night. And I didn't try Indian food until I was like 40 because I had, they were just like, they made it seem like it was diarrhea food. You know what I mean? And then I tried it. And I was like, this is the best shit in the fucking war. world and Indian food, listen, Indian food is very good and it also is like there's a

American, like an American that has could find it to be like chili. It's kind of like that. It's like really fucking good. And like it doesn't, it wouldn't alienate an American power. Yeah. It's not. You know what I mean? It's not you can eat tons of pretty mild Indian food. Yeah. It's hard even adapted to the palate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. or like sushi was the other big one. I had sushi today. What? Yeah, I think I was lucky, as I said before, like growing up in Vancouver, it was always, you know, we had dim sum like Chinese food, like dim sum.

That was the place we went every Sunday as a family to like carted dim sum. We'd have sushi and Indian food all the time. And I like, those are my, I want to say those are like when I'm ordering foods, those are the two things that I'm going to have are Indian food or sushi. I literally ate war su guy every time I had Chinese food until like way later in life Like still recently I'm like whoa these noodles fucking ripped dude I never had noodles I love the idea of like being like whole guy

Holy shit man these Chinese people can cook man like this That's like what happened with Indian and sushi with me too Like it's like known as I mean Chinese food and you know it's known to be so good. I know, but that's, that was growing. Like, growing up in, like, where you grow up, was there Chinese food and was it, like, thought of as being good food? Yeah, but it was like in a, it was probably like chop suey was probably like the more like mid-century American, Chinese American food. Well, the thing, Worsu guy is basically chicken with gravy on it.

Okay. It's like fried chicken with gravy on it. And I loved it. You know what I mean? You put the rights on it. you eat it and it's like but it isn't like the same as when you get noodles at a place where half of the menu is written in Mandarin you know what I mean. And pulling those things behind the counter.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I had some in Toronto when when we did the Toronto show. Yeah. Karen Geyer and Jesse Hawkin took me to the place that's considered the best handpooled noodles in Toronto. It was just fucking crazy how good it was.

Yeah. And like, like I said, I just figured out that those noodles are good because I was such a fucking, like, just everybody tells you, when everybody tells you something's bad, you know what I mean? From the day you grow up, like my parents were just like, we don't like Indian food. Like, I talked about this with my brother recently. I love him. Okay. I want to say this. This is always good.

It's always good when he says this before. I do. He's great. I mean, he went to wrestling with me recently. We had a really good time. He went to his place for Thanksgiving. Yeah, he went to Miami, which I'm going to where when this comes out, I already have been there. I'm in Miami. And my brother goes, I'm like, how is the fucking Cuban food, dude? And he said, we had it once and we didn't like it. He goes, I don't think Cuban foods for me. And I just was like, like, listen i was like that's the craziest thing i've heard somebody say like i tried this thing one time and i don't think it's for me yeah maybe if it's one dish and even then it'd be like you want to maybe try it from somewhere but i guess there's certain things like that where i've not an entire type of food because i would probably want to try a few different dishes but like there are some things where i've eaten it one time and i'm like i don't like this and i'm never going to like it i'm not going to

You know, a different, a better version of this is not going to be something I like. So I guess I can kind of see what he's coming from two of them. I just don't think there's a tight extremes are usually like balut or like thousand year eggs. Yes. Not like, yeah, not like, yeah, again, and not when you're, presumably he wasn't able to eat all of the dishes. No, he had one dish in Miami and he was like, this is where the good Cuban food is. Yeah. And it might have been a bad place, too.

I don't know, right? Or a bad day at a good reviewed place. I've been to. Yeah, a guy is like having a really stressful day or whatever at home with his like family and shit and he's not cooking to his highest level that day. This person says two stars, very unsanitary. I've been watching this show since day one and no one wears gloves. Everyone has on rings, long nails, hair on their arms, etc.

Shave my arms. I think the idea of... You obviously wear arm nets. You got to put your arm net. Guy eats out of every pan with food and juice running out of his mouth. This is so disgusting and an embarrassment in American cuisine. Now, because he's eating them all nasty.

Like he goes, and it's like, Yeah, but he drips it on a plate. He's not dripping into the food that people are eating. You know what I mean? Yeah, he's not like grabbing out of the hot bar with like his hands.

Yeah. And I also have to say this. Something that makes me nuts. And I'm a gross guy. I get it. But this idea that hands shouldn't touch your food is fucking crazy, man. That's like how it's made. Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, they wash their hands, but like you're going to touch it with your hands some of the food too. I would honestly rather than be doing it with their hands than the gloves. Yeah, the gloves seems way nastier to me because they're going to get that gloves taste on it, right? Well, not even the glove taste, but you touch everything with those gloves. You're like drama rants with his chicken. Yeah, and you're not washing the gloves in the same rigorous way that you're washing. washing your hands. Yeah, that's true. The hands are way better. I prefer it. Maybe this is just like a food inspector trying in his off time trying to generate some like a cultural, uh, like

justification for his job. This guy's like the new like food. He's like Larry the cable guy health inspector. He's like the next level up. You see that movie? Have you seen that movie? No, but I know a guy that was in one of Larry cable. Wittless protection. I know a guy that was in it. Really? Who. His name was Chauncey. He was my old landlord's son. And he would, how did he get in the movie? I don't know. Was he an extra or was he like a speaking? Yeah, he was an extra.

Oh, he wasn't a speaking girl. He would call, he would get drunk and then come over to my house while we were all hanging out. And he'd be like, you guys want to come over and watch me in Whitless protection. And we go over there. And we watch his scene where he shakes Larry the cable guy's hand. Oh, that's pretty sick. He got a handshake with Larry. So he wasn't really an extra.

You're kind of making, you're kind of underselling it. That's not an extra. And he was on screen for like 20 seconds. And he shook the leads. Yeah, 20 seconds. This I'm saying it's not an extra. This is like a non-speaking role, but it's not an extra. He's not getting in the union or anything, but he's getting some screen time.

Yeah, he's getting a bit of screen time. And he's like, that's worth showing your friends, definitely. If I shook Larry the cable guys in and I had it on video, I would show you so often, Brian. I thought so many times, Chris, you have no idea how many times this guy would get drunk and knock on my door. and I'd go over there. He would just get drunk and go looking for people to show the scene too. I mean, not looking. I mean, if we were hanging out at my house, he would get drunk.

And like, if there were like three or four people hanging out on a porch or something like that, he'd get drunk and he'd come over and be like, you know, I'm at Willis protection. And then you guys would say, yeah, we do know that, right? We know that, but he was like, you want to watch it? And we'd be like, sure. So you brought up so organically, we have to. Like, did you want to watch it? No.

But you were just like you felt bad for him or something? Well, his job was so weird. Like, I don't, I don't know if he had like a job that paid money. You know what I mean? The volunteer. Well, he's told us that his job was to go around with a microphone and record like rivers. And then send them to Hollywood so that they can play river sounds. Well, they do need river sounds.

I know. He's like the blowout guy. Yeah, he's like, he's like John Travolta. Yeah. That's a, that's a very cool job. Savage engineers is a great job. That's a cool job. So like, you're just going to like cool places and recording it and then he said it.

No, he's doing it all over Columbus. He didn't really go anywhere else. But you don't need to. You can find pretty much everything you need. Like, I don't know if you're familiar with Foley, but you don't need to find. That's what he did. That's kind of what his job was. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It is a real job.

And most of it, and they do it. They definitely go. boat and use things like that, right? They find something like the creek or whatever might not be a creek. It might be used in place of something else. That's what that's, that's the genius of the Foley artist. Well,

and I think like at the time, the fact that he was in witless protection made me think like, this guy's fucking legit, dude. He was linked to Hollywood. He's the most Hollywood guy I ever met in my entire life. Truly, he's in a literal Hollywood movie that you could rent at the video store. Yeah, yeah. And when you're a kid, that is like, there was, like, 36.

There was a kid name. I know you were. I fucking swear I was 30. I was like in my 30. What the hell? What? Why would you go watch it over and over again? You're a grown man.

I'm trying to be nice. He's my landlord's son. Oh, man. I told you about. Chauncey before when I did the 6666 part. Yeah, yeah, he mowed 666 in my lawn. He was a big pentagram in the backyard. Yeah, he was a Satanist.

Johnson. He wasn't a Satanist, but he was helping us be satanic. Yeah, he was pretty cool. I was just going to say I did, I went to school, elementary school and a little bit of high school, although I think he left, but a kid named Reese who was in fucking air bud, golden receiver. Oh, wow. speaking role in it so it was just like that was like the coolest shit you could ever imagine in

you're right yeah i mean i told you about the buster bunny guy that didn't even do anything and i i thought he was like the coolest fucking guy in the world you know what i mean so i was dating my sister he said i'm buster bunny on animaniacs but i'm not allowed to do the voice outside of the studio or they can fire me and sue me so he it's insane the amount of people that you hung out with that were just always lying to you. I didn't hang out with this guy. I met him like four times. And he,

yeah, but he was my sister's boyfriend. You have these, so many of those characters around you that were just like lying about stuff. What was the guy? There was one you just told the other day, like a guy who lied about something like crazy.

You know, I mean, these guys lie about every, oh, the guy that lied about Buster Douglas. He, he said his friends, three of his friends broke into,

Buster Douglas's car and they stole $250 and the ring that he got for fighting for beating Mike Tyson. Yeah, they got, but they've they got the Buster Douglas ring that he got for beating Mike Tyson. That's a great belt for them. Yeah, that's a crazy lie. I mean, maybe there is a ring and yeah, that's a crazy lie. I believed it until I went and told my other friends and they were like, it's a belt you, you don't get a ring. What? And why is the ring in the car? Why is there a ring in $250 in his car. Why would he leave the ring in his car? Yeah.

That's what I'm saying. That's what people had to tell me. Like that's the same thing with the Buster Bunny guy. They were like, this guy's full of shit. And I was like, oh, he could be lying. This guy could be telling me fibs. In a way, I'm jealous. No one's ever put that much trust in me to lie to my face that blatantly as far as I know.

You don't know that. Yeah. You've been, well, you just like big time lies. You got to be around like a sort of special. group of people. Yeah, I was going to say, Brian, like, I think the difference, too, is that, like, Brian was around a lot of huge unskilled liars. They were like, they lied so much where they're so bad that it was very easy to figure out their lie. And we were all so stupid. Yeah. Like, everybody was stupid, but like, like huffing gas and doing drugs. And huff and gas. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, the Buster Bunny guy,

he blows my mind to this day that I even believed him for two minutes. But he was probably a cool figure, right he was kind of like a cool guy no oh he was a dork until you know what i mean like my my my sister's boyfriend he's like this cool guy like hey kid like what's going on you want to toss the ball around yeah a buster bunny you know like but you're saying he was a dork i thought he was a dork until the buster bunny stuff happened then i was like oh this guy's fucking cool he's buster bunny you know christina perrez bobby flay what happened i just watched a beat bobby flay episode where christina Perez was a judge. I was like, wow, this lady's attractive. And then I found out that Bobby and her used to date. Man, how does Bobby keep messing up with all these hot relationships? He doesn't

strike me as a douchebag when he's on TV. He seems positive or the very least measured whenever he speaks. Can't believe he messed up a relationship with such a haughty. Yeah, I can't believe somebody who's physically attractive. This guy, this is a real, kind of like teenage mindset. Like you let that 10 go. Are you kidding me? Oh, whoa. She was, you know, like she could just be like,

it'd be like the worst relationship in the world. Like, you kidding me? You lost that girl? She was a smoke show. But, but yeah, I mean, I guess who knows? I don't know. But again, he seems to be an arrogant guy based on what he's, the way he's doing his thing.

And I think, you know, probably a bit high on himself and maybe a bit difficult to be in a relationship with, depending. Luckily, this person replies and goes, Bobby Flae is the George Clooney of the Food Network. He gets the beautiful women but doesn't want commitment. He'll go in a few years, but if they start talking marriage, he's done.

But eventually someone got George to put a ring on it, so maybe Bobby will eventually find the one to make him leave the Bachelor life behind. But Food Network is, like gray's anatomy a lot of people are hooking up or have hooked up behind the scenes so he's basically he's created this whole kind of thing like he's just completely invented all of it right and it's just like they're all like kind of like hooking up and stuff like a restaurant and then bobby flay is like shutting these ladies down they're kind of they're saying hey why when are we going to put a ring

on this and he's saying all right that's enough like because i imagine he hasn't said anything publicly about that, I doubt. Absolutely not. No, this has to be purely perisocial. Yeah. This person goes, he's in a relationship now with Brooke Williamson, who's also a chef. They seem to enjoy each other's humor and have a lot in common. Plus, she's beautiful.

They've been friends for years, too. And then a guy replies and goes, her legs, though. Okay. Old guy, the oldest guy thing to say. Nice legs. Did anybody. James legs. Maybe you see your gams?

Oldest man thing to ever say. I mean, listen, I'm not big on commenting on people's looks anyway. You know what I mean? Because I just, I don't, anybody who's been online and has pictures of them out there will sometimes have a guy tell you you look like somebody. Yeah. And you're like, oh, that hurt. Like Steve Bouchemy. They told me I look like Steve Bouchemi.

I don't even look like Steve Bouchemy No, that's not accurate at all. That's that one's just that's somebody being silly, I think. That made me feel bad. But I think Steve Bouchemy looks like a great guy. I think Steve Bouchemie is like noted to be like kind of have an ugly face, but it is an endearingly ugly face. Yeah, well, no, he's like famously a bunch of women's like ugly wood. Yeah, totally.

Because he still has an appeal to him for sure, you know. And also you don't look anything like him, Brian. and I think you're more attractive than him. I'll say that. I'll say that. And I'm bisexual. I can say that. I'm trisexual.

I'm try anything. I'm bisexual, so I can actually tell that you're good looking. I'll buy anything. Yeah, I'm bisexual. I'll buy anything once. Bobby doesn't go with corn flakes. He appreciates the variety pack. Says this guy.

That's appalling. It is. Hey, Brian, I'm bisexual. I bought a bunch of motorbodies. I have three of them. I also have a Sibian, but I threw it in a track. I mean, Sibian's shit. Lauren, I don't know if you know about those types of things.

But there's a thing called the Sibian that's like kind of was known made popular by Howard Stern. Howard Stern getting a lot of mentions on this episode by me. But yeah, the motor bunny is the one you want to go with. It's much better and you can tell it's better because it sounds like a ride on lawn more when you turn it on. Our favorite sex couple, Tom and Bunny, are like, they're sponsored by Motor Bunny. So we're like very much Motor Bunny podcast, yeah. This guy, I'm convinced Bobby and Katie Lee have hooked up too. I think Giata and him had a fling for years and she dumped him.

It's why they did the Italy show together. Harry Hatcher throws herself at him during her episode of Beat Bobby Flee. I can't wait to watch him and Brooke Flame out and then she'll just sue him for harassment, et cetera. She's a gold digger too. They're all with him. Why else hook up? Bobby wants her,

Brooke wants her own show. So this person, very misogynist. The person hates women. It very much does not like women. Let's go to cooking with the tasting spoon. What's that? when did cooking shows stop caring about chefs taste food with a spoon and cooking with it?

I've seen it more and more without anyone caring. Back in the day, it was always a big deal on chop. Now, I'm going to say this. These are people, I believe they're talking about regular cooking shows where somebody's cooking food and they taste the food with the spoon and then put the spoon down. They don't stir with the spoon they taste. And even if they do, if they're not cooking at a restaurant, who gives a shit? I get my wife's drool all over me in my mouth. I think this may be like the chefification of like cooking where home cooks are adopting the chef technique of using one spoon per taste as like a food sanitary versus like the wooden spoon, grandma's wooden spoon, tasting, stirring it in because it's just for your family, who cares?

Yep, absolutely, Lauren. I mean, listen, I again am not super worried as much about germs as maybe a lot of the people that, watch these shows. But also, like, it's like, they, they probably throw the food in a trash when they're done. You know what I mean? I can't imagine anybody's eating that food. I think they eat it. I think they eat it. They feed it to the crew. The crew eats it. And the crew has to eat it. They better eat it and they better like it. Here's another weird one. I brought this up to my husband too. Also, the amount of chef sweating into the food is gross. Yeah, that would be, if you notice that, that would be gross. I've never seen that. I don't want. I don't.

watch a lot of them. Well, I have watched a lot. I've never seen somebody sweat into the food. You don't see like a like a drop of sweat come off of their head into their pasta sauce. It's got to be editing. It's got to be like a shot of someone sweating cut to a pot of a bowl of pasta. And it's just relying on the kutoshav effect of people not realizing what's happening. Absolutely. You're exactly right. And making the inference. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I I, I, I, again, I don't care if you sweat in my food. Like, well, you're cooking. I do. Who gives a crap. I care a little bit. I guess if I didn't know about it, it wouldn't bother me.

I'm not a big... Of course. That's the way you have to live your life. I do live my life that way. And Brian, we're the same way too. Like, I don't care if I get a lot. There's some hair in my food. I'll pick it out and just eat it.

I don't give a shit, honestly. There's a bug in my food. I'll pick it out and just eat it. I really don't care. There's a very few things. Like, you know, I suppose if there was a piece of shit in my food, I would stop eating it. I think I would draw the line of bug. But even then, I'm kind of like,

Maybe I would take the bug out. It depends on how big the bug is, man. Like just a little, one of those little tiny little bugs or whatever, who gives the shit? I had this happen at a bar. It's the only time I've ever been, like, sent like a drink back. And I was only really mad about the getting like a fly in my cocktail because I didn't get comp for the cocktail. It was a terrible bar. They still charged me for it with the fly in it.

Yeah. That's, listen. That was too far. I'm not judging anyone who sends food back with a fly in it or whatever. I would pick out the fly probably. It depends. but I'm not really grossed up by that stuff at all. And I'll, like, drop food on the floor and then eat it and stuff like that.

I'm not a big anti-germs person. Later, there's a fly in my suit. That's classic. That's a classic. That's a classic joke. I've seen some baker sweating profusely on the holiday baking shows, and it freaks me out. What the fuck are you supposed to do? Have you ever cooked food in a kitchen that has five ovens in it?

Like, I'm sorry. It's fucking hot. There's nothing they can do. Like, do they get boat? Is it Botox that makes people stop sweating? What? Headband. They could just wear a headband or something.

Sure, but these people, again, hairy arms they're complaining about all this stuff that's just human stuff, you know? I mean, swimmers can wax their arms. I don't know why a chef couldn't. I don't know why a chef couldn't become completely hairless in order to prepare my food. I don't know why that's crazy to say. And skinless. He needs to wear gloves that go all the way.

way up his arm to his shoulder. Yeah. And also he needs to wear some kind of a suit like the green men suit, you know, those like full spandex suit covering their entire nude body and then the body underneath can't have any hair. I don't know why that's crazy to say. Just like full harketing, shaved head, black and white. Yeah. Yeah. I think this is pretty much the way everybody thinks. This stuff, this person, this person horrible. This stuff's why I'm so thankful to be a good cook. I can make basically anything we've ever had in a restaurant the idea of my food being tainted with someone's blood or saliva makes me gag i'll

happily stay home that's you're the crazy one like you're the listen you're not getting blood and saliva in your food i'm sorry and if you did you wouldn't know you wouldn't know somebody spit in your food yeah yeah i mean i mean that's good apparently but that is but it is some people are feel differently about it and i respect that at least she's saying i mean she sounds a little bit arrogant as well about her ability to cook. I'd like to see her go up against fucking Bobby Flay and cook even a single one of her dishes and see if she can beat him. But like at least she is saying, hey, I just don't go out to restaurants.

I don't go there and complain. I just don't go. I cook all of this. Well, she is saying she goes. Yeah, she says she can cook everything that she has a restaurant. Yeah, yeah. I hungry. Okay, so finally I just wanted to do this before we get out of here.

I went to Google. I searched Guy Fierry's Tritoria. which is an Italian restaurant in Columbus, Ohio at Sioda Downs, the racino that we talk about all the time. Oh, like the casino that people complain about.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, one of the casinos that people complain about, but it has horse races too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just got rid of the horse racing in Vancouver, actually at Hastings race. Illegal. I think it's cruel to the horses or whatever is the reason.

But I don't know. I don't, and people, So woke up there. Yeah, we've become woke for horses up here pretty hard, to be honest. We started loving them. One star. They have no margarita glasses for margaritas, just tall glasses. The dish I order was supposed to be spicy.

It wasn't. And should have thrown some garlic in there. Like, that would help. I ordered the spicy chicken, Alfreda, because they were out of lasagna. And it was not spicy. They were out of egg plant. That sounds like such an insane order to me that it even exists. Like spicy chicken Alfredo just sounds weird.

Like I guess the chicken itself is spicy. That's the idea. Because I'm just thinking of spicing up Alfredo sauce just seems really strange to me, you know, a white sauce. Do they do black and chicken in Canada? Like that's like a peon. Yeah, they'll do a black. I guess. But yeah.

I wonder, I just wouldn't, that's probably why it wasn't that spicy, right? Because it's probably just the chicken that's like a little bit spicy with regular Alfredo sauce. And this person was expecting like some real proper heat. They were out of eggplant and lasagna on Mother's Day. That's inexcusable. And shows a lack of poor management. Now, he did mess up. A lack of poor management.

Got you. Got you. It sounds like you like their management. If I was the guy that answers. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, thanks so much for the huge compliment about our management.

I really appreciate it. There's so many people, this is in a casino, and there's so many people complaining because it's loud in there. Yeah. But anyway, he goes, you have a special day and you're out of, you have a special day and you're out of one of your signature dishes. Well, wait a second. Is there a chance? What time did you get there on Mother's Day? They don't say.

They just don't say that. That's much more of a chance of running out of something on the busiest day of the year or whatever, right? They were out of the dishes I like on my special day. I love adults with special days. That's inexcusable and shows a lot. Oh, he goes, service was slow and a server lacked cohesion. Wait, you said service was slow on Mother's Day. Yeah.

The busiest day of the, okay. One of them. Yeah, service was slow and the server lacked cohesion on how to time appetizer, salads, and the meal. That's a training issue and needs to be addressed with all the servers. Then when the drink was brought out, it didn't look like anything. I don't know what that means. Was it water? It didn't look like anything.

They came out like, like it was like a magician like came out. It was just like, here's your drink. And they looked and there's like nothing there. And then they went, whew. And then a drink was there. Like I've never heard that phrase in my life. Like I have no idea what they're talking. about it didn't look like anything i guess they wanted it to be maybe like have a like fancy

stuff on it or something you know a garnish or whatever or like a blue cock yeah like a blue curassow thing or whatever yeah that's all i can think of i really makes me think it's water and they're like what's this clear stuff you brought out here you know it doesn't look like anything this doesn't look like anything this is supposed to be a lemon a pop no this is a seven up sir this is what it looks like out of the can He goes, then when the drink was brought, oh, it wasn't appealing and looked like an amateur made it. Overall, it's an overpriced hole in the wall.

And you went out, you could have went to Brio, which is another chain, by the way. Oh, it's like, it's like not very good either. No, it's gross. And other Italian eateries in Columbus hadn't been more satisfied. I won't be going back. And neither will the mothers who were with me. Total disappointment. He brought a whole group of mothers.

So this guy, I didn't realize this guy. like a Mother's Day enthusiast. He's, this is different. He goes and finds mothers to bring them out for Mother's Day. So he now he's like, loading up the van. Loading up his mother's van with all of the mothers to go over. Mother's Day van. It's the Mother's Day shuttle.

It's time to go to Johnny Garlicks for the Mother's Day shuttle. We are creating the most selfless human on earth if he's finding mothers with, who's like, have lost their families. That's what I'm, that's what I'm picturing now. And honestly, I just started thinking that. at the exact same time as you learn. I stopped laughing and I started getting emotional. Because I started thinking about this fucking selfless guy

who literally travels around his city at a bus and picks up mothers who have lost their children and takes them out for his sweet mother's day price. And then Guy Fierry's restaurant fucking ruined it. And then Guy Fierre's restaurant ruins that fucking, maybe one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. I hate Guy Fierry. I hate a fucking bastard this guy is.

Our party of six. This is another one. Our party of six was the third table to be seated after they open. I was reluctant to go due to the pricing but decided to give it a try. My husband and I are fans of Triple D. The garlic bread was just okay but extremely overpriced $12 for four pieces. You should try the garlic bread of Johnny garlics. They just call it bread there.

Yeah. That's right. He goes $12 for four pieces. Our food took about an hour. The lasagna was bland and some of the noodles were dried or hard. It was very generous portion size. It's sad to say that Fazzoli's lasagna tastes better than that. Fizzoli's fast food restaurant.

Oh, so that's a huge slam. Yeah, they also have great breadsticks and they're unlimited. The canoli dessert was the best part. Salad and bread should be included with the meal, especially at those prices. I will stick with the olive garden for future Italian meals. I love the referenced restaurants here. I know. We have not heard one single good restaurant reference, I don't think, which is pretty wild.

On a foodie type of episode, we haven't heard one halfway decent restaurant. Maybe that says something about TV. Finally, here's our last. Food Network in particular. Yeah. Yeah. Finally, here's our last review of Guy Fieri's Tritoria and we'll get out of here. stars

had the Pappy Van Winkle bourbon flight we haven't heard Pappy in a while Brian and I used to claim that it was the only thing we drank and we brushed our teeth with it and stuff it was the thing we would always talk about but we haven't in a while

I put steak sauce in my pappy Bobby Flay you mean you don't put pappy in the steak sauce you pour a sauce into your drink and then drink Yeah. It's like an icy. It's thick.

Oh, I got it. It's like a slushy. It's kind of like Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he goes food very impressed. So he has a Peppy Van Winkle Bourbon flight was very impressed. Food was delicious and fantastic service from Kyle. To be honest with you, I don't believe that review at all because after you've had some

Pappy Van Winkle, you're on a fucking cloud nine floating around. You're just like everything seems great to you. this is the best food I've ever had. Oh my God. It's service incredible. But that's crazy. Guy Fierry has a place that has Pappy Van Winkle.

Pappy flight. That offers a flight, like four or five riders. That's actually really crazy because Pappy Van Winkle is like genuinely, you know, it's the highest price kind of. You're only finding it at like sort of. This is a bar. This is like a bar. No, this is a restaurant and a casino. That's crazy.

Because I look for it around Vancouver. I was trying to find it. And you only find it at like high. end whiskey bars or like a really high end kind of restaurant or something like that. So that's pretty sweet. Well, you got a guy for a casino like pumping it up. Yeah. I think it's guy, but it might be. Because I like to think it's guy. I like to say this casino, this casino is not like a luxury. I wouldn't call it like a luxury because it's only slot machines. I mean, it's a horse racetrack. And everybody there looks like they're kind of on hard.

times but i took my daughter there yeah and me and my wife are just sitting there watching a horse and i having a good time you know everything's going well my daughter's like i i never been around these kind of people and i was like this is who i grew up with this is i'm just hanging out with the people i knew growing up oh there's a porn o's sean over there there's a fucking theo over there you know it just but it doesn't it's not high end so it has to be guy and guy's rich you can't forget the guy is rich and he's a party boy right so he drinks heavy we know that and he's rich and i think guys who are drinking heavy and they're rich those are the kind of guys who are hitting papy up yeah well that was fun Lauren thanks for coming on the show uh would you like to plug anything thank you yeah uh my

podcast is got batting around um more importantly i like to plug if we're talking food network stars do you guys know re drummond is uh like the the pioneer woman is like the the osage county murders family. No, I love her pot roast recipe. She's got some good recipes. I'm just saying all of her money is like blood money from stealing from Native Americans.

That's crazy. That's crazy. Killers of the Flower Moon. Yeah, that's her family. It's killers of the flower moon. She's killers of the flower moon? Oh, I'm not kidding. This is totally serious.

I make her recipes. I don't buy any of her stuff, but her pot roast is fantastic. But, damn, I had no idea. Check out their Lauren's podcast. obviously we've had all of them on. We had them all on at the same time.

It's a great and funny sports podcast, one of the only ones. And also, just before you go, what about the Toronto Blue Jays. Oh my goodness. What a heartbreaking experience for me personally and my family. I feel for you. See you guys later.

See some of a seven-year deal. Okay, we won't. Oh, yeah. No, you're right. They did some good off-season business, I think,

honestly. And I don't know what's going on with Boe, but okay, I hope the Dodgers are better next year. All right. The Doctors is one. They're my favorite. team.

They already are better too. They just scooped the Mets closer. Anyway. Thank you. Good. That's the kind of team I like. A team that wants to win. See y'all next week.

Bye. Bye.