Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware - S11 Ep 14: Benny Blanco

Episode Date: April 14, 2021

We welcome back one of my favourite people in the world, Benny Blanco to TM. Mum didn't get to be in the episode we recorded in LA years ago so it felt only right to chat to Benny again! He talks about his new album Friends Keep Secrets 2, working with Gracie Abrams, his 2 cooking shows about eating (hence why Ben and I get on so well) and being the king of slow cooked meat. We manage to finish off his last supper meal (last time I think the devils lettuce may have interfered with that) and you all get to hear his greatest hit yet, the ambient pioneering sound of Benny weeing whilst talking to us on zoom. Enjoy! X Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I am feeling pooped and my mum has just come to the rescue by feeding me dinner. Yeah and now I feel slightly better. That's what I do darling. Who's that? Who are you waving at? Why are you waving at them? People wave at me so I wave back. What must I do? Oh my god you're like the Manchester United team when they win the treble and they're on the open top bus. People see that tree and they're so... It makes me majestic because the tree's so majestic. Oh my God, this is so weird that you're waving to strangers from your office.

They're not, they live on the road, you fool. Oh, is it like real camionery? Everyone waves and they're... That's amazing. And also slightly odd, but I bet you that's why I'm like Sam... My husband says, you literally would talk to anybody. You would make friends with anybody. It's in the blood. It's genetic, darling.

Waving like with a queen wave on a Wednesday evening at 5.55 to literal strangers. I mean, I think it might have been the lady who framed my picture. So you should know. I'm not completely convinced. Anyway, so today we have a returning customer a great friend of mine and it's okay to do this return because well it's always okay to have any of the people that we love to come back but because mum wasn't actually at that episode because where was I well I was in LA that's why yeah but I think I was there at the

same time no mum you wouldn't have missed it are you kidding oh oh please no way no one knew about zoom then yeah I wasn't zooming before this year yeah but Sam was my co-host so I was I was in LA staying with Benny because he's really sweet and like puts up my whole family because my sister doesn't because she says she's got white walls on a white sofa she's not having toddlers in that house um so Benny has everybody there it's a full house the whole time whether that's friends coming through cashmere cat the producer being there like any everybody's there plus the two dogs Larry David and Dis disco possibly the greatest names for dogs ever and he'd have my family i mean there was only one baby then so i don't know if things will change now

that i've got three mums even stayed there but i mean benny is kind of one of the best cooks i know and and he's extended family really now i've spent uh sada nights with him and his family friends in long island when i've been recording with him in New York. We stayed at his house in New York when he wasn't there. Yeah, we did the New York special there. I mean, basically, Benny is our Airbnb and we love him dearly. And he also writes a bit of a banger. And I've written with him.

So I met Benny through Two Inch Punch, who's another producer called Ben Ash, who I love. And Ben Ash was making music with benny and he said look you've got to come over we're making this thing it's called benzel you've got to come over but anyway so met up with benny the first thing benny talks about is poop or farting that's like his speciality he's very puerile um but we love him and we made music and we kept making music he made my second record with ben ash a lot of it we worked together on the third record together and now he's on his second album called friends keep secrets and i'm gonna have to ask him why if i'm one of his bestest friends why have i not been invited onto either of these records but he does have a wicked

new song out with gracie abrams who is brilliant and And he also has, I mean, this is the thing. I think this is why Benny and I got on so well because we both love food so much. We loved making music together, but actually I wanted to kill him most of the time in the studio. And we just ate a lot together. And he loves his family as well.

And he loves his family. He's a nice Jewish boy. So he's now got two shows that are about eating. One's called Benny and Matty Eat Out America. And then he's got a new one called Stupid Fucking Cooking Show. Sounds about right for Benny to do that. But he's such a good cook. He also orders in very well.

He orders in great. You enjoyed that, didn't you, Mum? Yeah, I loved it. So yeah, Benny Blanco coming up round two avec maman oh period see eating Benny Blanco, welcome back to Table Manners. Feels like I never left. Well, now we have mum. No, no, no, I'm listening.

Video off. No, I'm listening. I just turned. Give me one second. See, that's what you could have. Oh, go on. I put it on fucking silent. I put my phone on silent so I could talk to you.

You guys are so fucking neurotic. What did you just have for breakfast in your bowl babe oh oh that wasn't breakfast that was a snack i had some sauteed mushrooms and like some carrots and daikon i made a little japanese thing wait how long have you been up what time is it there now it's 11 i've been up since i didn't sleep well last night I got my shot I think I I only got a few hours of sleep like I kept waking up and like and I would be like where am I and then I'd fall back asleep and then I'd wake up an hour later I I think I went I think I woke up at 5 a.m. oh wow I'm like every night I don't sleep well really what what's what's going on with you? Why can't you sleep well?

Wait till you get older. You don't sleep as well as you always did. Yeah, you got to make a little pee-pee all the time, huh? Oh, that's me all the time. Or your hip hurts or your back hurts or your knee hurts. The anxiety comes in. No, I'm never anxious. You're never anxious.

You're never anxious. You couldn't even get the sentence out anxious what's anxious wait so you're not anxious and only your daughter's anxious i'm not she's not anxious anymore oh i'm flying high these days hey for everyone listening these are two fucking bold-faced liars how much do i annoy you benny? In the studio, 100% of the time. Outside of the studio, you're a joy to be with. I love it. And really, where we really bond is over... Food.

Yeah, well, yeah. Family and food, but food is, I think, where me and you are peas in a pod. Yeah, of course. Why not? Why won't we be? I don't even want to work with you. I just want to eat food. Just want to eat you hey me too I hate you I hate you so last time I was with you I was

staying with you because you are the host with the most you always put me and my family up even my mom you put all of us up and we love and actually the place where you're we're speaking from is the house that we always go to and where you are I'll just paint the picture you're in the place where you're we're speaking from is the house that we always go to and where you are i'll just paint the picture you're in the studio where you do all your music and it's just the an upstairs room in your in your house and that's where you've done all the hits really i don't live here anymore yeah where do you live i live down the street you don't i do what are you doing for pay sack benny i'm cooking for some people i'm actually cooking a meal I have a lunch that I have to cook I have to prepare a huge lunch before and then I have to we're all

everyone's doing uh everyone's you know taking turns doing cooking all this stuff I got on brisket duty because you are like the king of uh slow cooked meat now I hear so on your on your egg on your green egg just tell me what you do with your brisket and I'll make one on Friday okay there's some secrets you know it's actually marinated in dr pepper first I know it sounds crazy yeah no then it's like you know a mixture between you know we got all the familiar things we got onions and carrots and potato and we got some coffee grinds and some like chili sauce you know it's like the hind stuff and every jewish aunt makes the exact same brisket you throw it in the thing and you make it and it tastes delicious every time you do coca-cola so maybe you should

do dr pepper yeah same thing brown brown sugar yeah yeah all the shit and how where are you gonna cook it are you gonna cook it on grill? Because you are mad into your outdoor cooking. He's going to slow cook it, darling. Yeah, but you can slow cook on a green egg. Yeah, yeah, but it's Jewish. It's Jewish style. I wouldn't do it. Like, my mom won't.

It has to be, like, my mom likes really traditional. So it's, like, she's not going to want, like, any. Like, she doesn't like. Like, I was, like, one year, I was like, oh, let me do one, like, on the barbecue. No, she doesn't want. My mom wants, like like the kugel's got to be the same. Everything's got to be the same. I'll make a kugel. Are you making kugel?

I will make kugel actually. I'm kind of thinking, because we were going to do like chicken and apricots, like chicken supreme and apricots. Oh yeah, that's what mom, that's what mom usually does. Yeah, so we were going to do that. She calls chicken Marabella. That's what she calls it. Yeah, but the thing is once you've had the chopped liver and the chicken soup with...

Jesse's son calls them mac balls. You don't even want anything. It's a lot of chicken. Every Jew has the exact same... Okay, you want to know what we're having? We're having chicken noodle soup. We're having chopped liver. We're having haroset.

We're having the Seder plate. We're having brisket. And then, oh, we're doing, someone's making Brussels sprouts. Like roasted or something. Yeah, yeah, like roasted. And then I'm actually doing some latkes because I love latkes. And I'm doing this, like, my friend, he has this cookbook. Did you see that guy that I posted about the other day, the Jay Cohen guy?

Jew-ish. Yeah. I actually watched after, I started following him after day, the Jay Cohen guy. Jew-ish. Yeah. I actually watched after, I started following him after you posted and I started watching. He's cute. He seems great. And he was doing a talk about,

what was he doing a talk about? Yeah, he just got a New York Times bestseller. Wow, that muzzle talk. What's he called? I'm gonna follow him. He's got a book called Jew-ish. Yeah. Okay, so then what are you doing for PUD?

We're doing like dipped chocolate matzas with like apricots and like you know like matzah brittle you know like do you guys have that ever you're gonna like do it like a fondue no no no kind of chocolate fondue you're gonna do it before no yeah you do it and then you let it dry and then we'll do ones with like pistachio i like it with pistachios all the you know all the shit we can't do that much crazy stuff because like for the Jewish meals, mom likes it a very specific way. Like everything has to be,

it's the same kugels every year, the same this, the same that. She does, and Jer doesn't like raisins in the kugel, so we don't put raisins in. And then- Jer is your big brother who we love. Yeah, he's my big, you know, he's getting skinnier. I saw, I follow him on Instagram.

He's doing great. So your family, you, like me, you know, he's getting skinnier. I saw, I follow him on Instagram. He's doing great. So your family, you, like me, we're very close to our family. In fact, I've spent a Seder with you, with your family friends in Long Island, didn't I? With your dad's really good friend. And like, there's something very, I don't, it's very familiar. Like when we, when we're together, I always see your family because one family member is always there.

But actually they were, you're east coast aren't you so and you've managed to get all your family to move to los angeles he's like megan trainer not by choice not by choice they've all moved over yeah yeah it wasn't by choice i mean you and jeremy your big brother were like the new york kings and knew every food spot do you love la now i love it for where i am in my life like i want to like sit back i want to go for a little walk around like a lake i want to like get the best produce in the world i want to like for me in my life i want to go to all these little there's so many you know you go to thai town you get the best thai the world. I want to like for me in my life, I want to go to all these little there's so many, you know, you go to Thai town, you get the best Thai food, you go to you go to Boyle Heights, you go to East Los, you're getting the best Mexican cooked in some guy's

backyard. And it's amazing. So during lockdown, have you had stuff delivered? Or were shops open? I didn't go to a grocery for six months. I was really strict. I still am so strict. No one comes inside my house unless you've been tested. The whole thing. I take it seriously. So, yeah, you lived in New York.

You're from Virginia. And we haven't heard much about Sandy's cooking, your mum. No, we don't need to. There's not a lot to say. Do we need to talk about that? We don't need, there's not much to say. You want to, my mum, I'll tell you one thing. You know your mum will listen to this

and she'll be really upset if you don't say something nice about one dish. She knows, she knows. My mum can make my favourite kugel in the world and i'm trying what does she put in your favorite kugel she does a sweet one it's really good oh you like sweet i like both does she she makes it with like noodles like loxian yeah noodles and there's like i think there's like uh and i cottage cheese, but for some reason it's in it and it tastes so good. And it's like, there's like vanilla and like,

you know, it tastes like the fucking kugel. And then she makes a good kugel. That might be the end. I like potato kugel. Yeah, she does a potato kugel too. Great one. Yeah, because it's like latkes, but you don't fry them. Yeah, that might be the end of, but you don't fry them. Yeah.

That might be the end of her. I'm trying to think. So she's a cocoa queen. So what were you growing up on? Like, what were you and your brother eating at the dinner table after school? Well, me and my brother weren't living in the same house together for very long. And then it was just me and my mom. so we were making uh my mom worked really late so we didn't like like it was there wasn't many like we weren't having dinner every day together so

like my mom was on the first wave of like all the like uh you know like trader joe's yeah like mom was on and and before whole foods that there was a thing called uh fresh fields and then they bought all the or whole foods bought all the fresh fields my mom was like on the first thing like we weren't allowed to have soda we weren't my mom if it's up to my mom my mom literally every night eats eggs for dinner that's what she likes to eat like she's like and she's like you can have almonds like an egg no one ever wanted to come to my house because the food was terrible. But then why did you become, you know, New York? You showed me so many spots to eat. Okay, I'll tell you how it happened.

So me and my friend Julian, we used to get high every day after school, okay? And we'd make these little creations. We'd make like these like mile high paninisinis and we put rice vinegar in them and lemon and we'd we were making We were making these huge things and no one else gave a shit and we got really into eating food And then my mom was always into she was very into like, you know where we grew up There were all you know, there were so many different types of foods because it was like a melting pot So it's like we're very into you know I was eating a lot of Indian food growing up a lot of middle eastern food a lot of lebanese food persian food

ethiopian you know so so i was getting my feet wet and then once i moved to new york and started having like i remember i'll tell you one thing i never had sushi until i went to sushi park in l.a i had never even, I never tasted sushi. Guys, for anyone listening, Sushi Park is like the Mecca. It's like LeBron James of, it's like David Beckham for you Brits. It's like David, it's so cute. It's so, you want to just, you just want to kiss its bum. I've been there with you. It's fantastic. I've written about it in the book, actually. No, no, it's crazy i never had sushi so i'm like okay i'm like i'm like i guess i'll try it who took you there which music exec

or producer i can't remember the first time i went there though and i remember eating it and i was like oh my god this is amazing because i never really had fish like that i didn't eat fish i wasn't yeah so so i remember i had it and i was like this is amazing and i went back to new york and i was like i'm getting sushi and i just got sushi and just like whatever i just saw a thing that said like sushi and it was like a cheap like corner spot and i had it and it was fucking terrible and i was like okay so you can you have to have like good you know for me it's like sushi is the type of meal you really have to it's like certain things you're like okay you gotta spend money for that you can't like you can't like cut the corners and be like oh i'm gonna get the two dollar sushi at the gas station

like it's like there's a lot of things you can like eat very cheaply and i you know i'm like the biggest fan of like the hole in the walls and supporting the small businesses and like those are my favorite there's nothing better than like discovering a place and taking all your friends and saying no you've never had food like this this is the greatest that's your favorite thing to do it's the best thing in the world everyone's favorite thing it's like discovering new music food is is otherworldly it's sexual it's it's it's it's uh it it you you can close your eyes and it takes you to another place it's it up memories. It's the best thing in the world. It's battling my top three at all times.

Yeah, that's why I, that's been my love of my life and that's been my problem. You and me both. Same here, sister. So what was your favorite growing up from mom? Oh my God, Benny. I've got stuff to talk to you about.

What are you talking, this is the shit that people care about. I'm breaking down the wall. You, I don't, i'm not the point we're not talking about you're not talking to me like one of your other people you already know it you already know everything about okay so so my favorite thing of mums well i loved it when bsc was about what's that she decided to start a mad cow disease okay and she started making bolognese with lamb that was a great highlight in my life did you like short-lived loved it it was so much oilier and thicker and delicious that was fantastic yeah i do it with lamb neck oh so it's more like a ragu like it's kind of

yeah ragu oh nice so okay what else did i love of yours mom lasagna I mean lasagna yes but I think every child loves that yeah my fave chopped and fried fish chopped and fried she likes chicken done with vermouth and yeah onions and mustard chicken thighs done with vermouth onion and mustard like whole grain mustard and I loved it and my sister hated it but I remember very much and I don't know about you but like the 90s was casseroles. It was like chicken tonight. Do you remember when everyone got into chicken tonight? I never used chicken tonight ever in my life.

You always used healthy. Like you did it home cooked. I mean, the one thing that mum didn't cook that I did really love was boil in the bag cod and parsley. Did you ever have that? Ew, no. I guess it's kind of like sous-vaying a cod.

But that's like that, but mum was always doing healthy, not healthy, but it was tasty. I loved your quiche. Oh, oh my God, a quiche. And her trifle is the best. Remember when we all ate food

at your mum's house and we, oh, Ottolenghi can. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. Tell the listeners about that because tell her how i slaved and planned and guess whose dish he liked the most i don't know i don't know whose dish he liked the most was you benny could have been could have been mine

could have been mine you i did we set that all up for you because you are like one of the biggest otolenghi fans oh my god and he was so he was he's so lovely dude his restaurant the one we went to last time rovi rovi that is one of the best meals you know in in the uk you guys have the fucking best food i'll tell you you guys are up there with some of my favorite food i don't like english food but all the other food you guys have is fucking amazing but that's because like you didn't come to the uk for bloody ages because you wouldn't get on a flight we still don't get on a flight but like i think i remember when i was in new york i was like this is so exciting all the food here momofuku when you were taking us there like all of the spots that we go to um cafe mogado i mean like really like just really great loved it and then you were like yeah i remember when i was in the

uk shit food shit food and you all love a roast and you hate roasts yeah i don't like unless someone's doing it at home okay but then when you came back this time you had like a whole itinerary of places to go and you had a really great time you fell in love with black axe man gal oh yeah that place is great i love roti king is one of my favorites regency club in wembley yeah trishna is amazing have you been to trishna no i haven't is that indian yeah it's the people who own jim khan it's their fish restaurant oh it's so good it's so delicate there's so there's you guys have the best oh my god bagel bake's like my favorite thing in the world but i think a new york bagel

is better than bagel bake no no but bagel bake has no the thing that makes it is the mustard where's bagel bake um brick lane it's like a hundred years old you've never been there yeah of course i didn't notice brick lane there's the two next to each other yeah and it's the one it's the salt beef with uh with the uh mustard yeah i'll just bring you some of that mustard over next time oh my god bring me mustard which mustard does he like the english mustard yeah but it's a but it's a special one it tastes better than the other one but um i mean how do you think that la.A. compares to New York for food? They're so different. Restaurant-wide.

So it's like this. Here's the thing. Mexican food, better in Los Angeles. Thai food, better in Los Angeles. Sushi, pretty much better in Los Angeles. Ethiopian, better in Los Angeles. Okay. Jamaican food, better in Los Angeles. Ethiopian better in Los Angeles. Okay. Jamaican food better in New

York. Anything that has to do with a sandwich pizza bread bagel better in New York, no matter what. I don't care. There's a lot of places that are really good. They're just not the same. It's not the same. No sandwich, no hoagie. Like they don't know how to do it the right way. And the thing about the thing about New York and LA that's a little different is you got to really travel in LA so if you want like if you want to have like some you know I go to these places they're like in a guy's backyard and and but it's an hour to get there and it's an hour back you know so it's a lot of travel but but the UK is like that with certain things too because like some of my favorite, because everything is, you know, I don't like the boring shit, I don't want fucking American food, or like English food, I want the shit that

like you take, like we're so, like people are so boring, I want the shit when you taste it, you're like, ah, like it's just like wakes you up, like it's, it's the best Korean food, the best Thai food, you know, so many other cultures bring such a important, not only spice, but like a zest for life. And like, I love going into these restaurants and talking to the people and seeing where they're from and becoming friends with them. And it's just like, I don't know, it's a whole little thing. But, okay, so is that part of the reason why you did Benny and Matty Eat Out America? Was that just so you could have these experiences all over the country and just have that fun?

Honestly, Matty just DM'd me one day, and he was my friend, and he was like, hey, we should make a cooking show because this name's funny. It's called Matty and Benny Eat Out America. And then I was like, all right, and then we made a cooking show. I don't think too deep about many things that I do. But then where's it on? No, it's on YouTube, isn't it?

It's on YouTube. And you're doing a second series, right? Yeah, we actually have another show coming out. It's not, we're doing a second one of those, but we have another show coming out in like a few days. It's called Stupid Fucking Cooking Show. Sounds about right. So what's the difference between that show and this Eating Out America?

We're, you know, we're cooking food. It's all the same shit, though. It's just like your show. It's like nobody gives a shit. They just want to see us kibitz and talk about life and eat some fun foods. So do you think you'll do a cookbook? Yeah, I really want to do it. You know, we've been trying to figure out a cookbook for a long time tell me about this new song out with this gracie abrams okay so quick little little background. One time, my friend comes to me and she says, Hey, my kid's friend really,

really wants to be in the music business. And he really wants to intern for you. And I was like, I'm not really getting any interns. And they were like, Come on, please. So this kid comes to my to my doorstep. His name is Blake. And he he comes remember blake mom he was like the most polite person super sweet offering drinks started when he was 16 okay worked for me for years and then four years into it he said hey i have to play you my music my therapist said he'll kill me if i don't play you my music i'm too scared to and i said i didn't even know you made music so he made music and he played it for me and he was good he was was, he was, he was at the beginning and I, and he was like, you know, I saw something in him because he's got the, he's got, you know, music really isn't about like what you're

doing. Like if you're making the song, it's really about like, are you a good hang in the room? Can you make everyone feel comfortable? Can you get the best bit of music out of someone? So I knew he had, he had that in him. He could do it if he wanted to so i signed him you know he made songs for a year or so then all of a sudden he has the biggest song in the world and now he's like one of the biggest producers in the world he's massive yeah he's huge

and he's still called blake yes he's still yeah no no he changed his name he's a producer asshole so now his name is just so he's a producer so yeah and a songwriter producing he did this he did that song why you always in a mood talking around anything brand new so there's a number one everywhere in the world yeah and he's the loveliest 24k golden oh i've heard of them. Oh, have you? Oh, oh, oh. But this whole time, since he was a kid, since he was 16, he had a girlfriend. And her name was Gracie. And I've seen her from the beginning. Beautiful. Yeah, I was like, don't ever break up with her, man.

She's the best you can get. She is beautiful and she's very charismatic and sharp and bright. No, she's great. They're the best couple. He's the sweetest kid in the world. And basically I saw her grow up and I saw her release her first song and then her second song. And so it's just so cool to just, you know, make music with your friends and get to do, you know, it's a song about, you know, unlearning all the past, you know, baggage we carry from our other relationships and just like trying to move forward in a positive way and not try to bring those, you know, that old baggage into a new relationship. But who else is on the who else is on the album?

Just so I can get a bit jealous. Come on, hit me. Justin Bieber, Juice WRLD. Oh, yeah. Six Dogs. Oh, yeah. Okay. Vance Joy, Marshmello. You know, since we last chatted. uh justin bieber juice world oh yeah um six dogs oh yeah okay vance joy marshmallow you know since we last chatted you need to know his last supper you know i know well apparently we didn't ever get your last supper last time so this is something that has been unfinished so we need to ask you

what your last supper is which is a starter starter, a main, a dessert, and a drink of choice. Definitely like a delicious lox and bagel. There's got to be like the best lox and bagel. Where would you say that is? Would you still say that's Russ and Daughter's? No, no, no. It's a combination because like the bagel, I love Barney Greengrass bagels, my favorite. Okay, I don't know.

Russ and Daughter has really good lox and stuff. And then, like, you know, I like to pickle my own. Like, I got a whole little thing. But it would probably start with lox and bagel. And I'd have two lox and bagel. I have two different types that I like. I like one that's just sesame bagel toasted, scallion cream cheese with lox tomato onion yeah dill capers lemon and a little smidge

of olive oil lovely then my other one is sesame bagel sesame bagel with salmon tartar and regular regular uh cream cheese and then i put wasabi roe on top and also caviar and a little bit of lemon that's another one how are you going to eat lunch where there's a will away okay lunch lunch is like and then for breakfast i mean also i'm having like latkes i'm going all out i'm having like the best glass of orange juice i'm having an egg cream i'm having an egg cream with it what's an egg cream it's kind of like a little you never had those it's kind of like a it's like seltzer water mixed with like chocolate milk it's really it's a jewish thing oh yeah no i'm not sure about that no it's delicious really yeah okay then i mean everything else is a toss-up i'm probably having like sushi's gotta be in there but like also sodas like mexican

food somehow and and and fucking indian and fried chicken and pizza and italian i just want to have a buffet give me a buffet of all my favorite shit and then for my dessert so you're the only person who's ever said yeah sensible actually very clever i want a buffet and i want you want a celebration a bar mitzvah table. You want to go back for this? Of all your favorite things. Yes, that's what I want. I've decided. I've changed it.

That's what I want. And then for dessert, I don't, you know, I'm not a huge, I don't really care about, I had a, I had a Tres Leches cake that was so good the other day.

Something must be talking about that. Something must be going on in Los Angeles at the moment because my sister was talking about a Tres Leches. Tres Leches donut. I love donuts about a Trey Lett chain donut. I love donuts. Apple fritters, my favorite donut.

Oh, that sounds good. The old school one. This is very funny, Benny, but I've just had a message from my producer and she was saying, we need to ask Benny about the breakfast. And she said, last time we only got around to as far as breakfast.

And your breakfast, what was this? Three years ago, maybe was russ and daughter's bagel with scallion cream cheese pastrami onions capers dill tomato sesame bagel scoop out the sides insides yeah yeah do you still want to scoop out the insides yeah yeah so you can fit more stuff in it yeah my my order's always really good idea my order's always the same it's i i the same. I know all my favorite places, and I'll eat them till I fucking die. Karaoke song. Karaoke song, Benny. I know you like to rap. What's your karaoke song?

Do you ever sing karaoke? No, he raps. That's what he used to do when he was little. He'd rap at everybody. You want to know what I do, guys? Okay, I'm going to play my karaoke song. Oh. What is it?

She doesn't even know it. It's my song. Wildest Moments, you're such a... You're such a schmuck. You didn't even know what song it was? I did. I didn't. But no, but come on, you do rap too.

So which rap song would you do? I don't know what I would pick. I always like, I read the book and I'm always the last one to do it. And I'm like, fuck. And then I'm like scrambling to try to find the song. And then I do a song that I don't even know that well. That's what always happens to me.

Or a song that's way too out of my range where like, I think I can do it. And then when I get there, I'm already at the top of my range in the verse. Lastly, Benny, do you think you've got good table manners i've been working on i've been working myself you know you want to know you want to know you want to know what elsie taught me she taught me uh not to chew with my mouth open i always did and she taught me uh and then that's your lovely ex-girlfriend who we love who told you elsie elsie i think i have

i think i have really good uh like i provide the night for people so it's like the night's happening and it's like i don't i don't really eat places where you have to have great table manners i want to like everyone sit on the couch everyone sit on a table everyone do you don't actually have a dining table that's no no no no no no no we got we got we got full dining table we got the whole shebang oh my goodness we got we have three oh my good well in your in the place where you're at now making up for lost time now we have three dining tables because we literally would just stand around the kitchen island i still do eat on the floor and stuff i just like it i don't know why um Benny, thank you very much for doing Table Manners

for the second time. It's lovely to see you. I'm so happy to see you, Benny. Oh, thank you, guys. Benny Blanco, can't wait to be fed by you very soon when we get to come to see you in LA.

Please, God, let us be able to next year in LA. So when we have Passover and you say next year in Jerusalem, we're going to say next year in LA. Hey when we have Passover and you say next year in Jerusalem, we're going to say next year in LA. Hey, that's what we're going to say, honey. so that was it guys um round two with Benny Blanco. An absolute delight. I love him. I don't think we, I mean, that's definitely not a kosher version of table manners,

but you know, you, he does describe food very, very well. So if you want to, well, everyone knows about Benny Blanco. He's a food enthusiast.

He really is. And he's a bloody good cook. Yep. Now I think we've changed our whole PASAC meal, mum. Yeah. Well, I'm going to do the chopped liver and the chicken soup.

Yeah. But would you like me to do a brisket? I mean, only if it's not... I like the idea of putting some coffee granules in there. No, I don't. So, yeah, go and check out Friends Keep Secrets 2, Benny and Matty Eat Out America, and Stupid Fucking cooking show.

I mean, or please, if nobody's watched Dave, go and watch that because it's so good and Benny is very good in it. Yeah, he's a star, our little Benny, and we love him very much. Thank you. you need your head you need your head plugs in remember babes what you need your ear plugs in earphones in i know i'm just peeing oh my god benny this is going. This is going on. This is going on. This is definitely disgusting. What would you do?

You wouldn't pee? I think I would have said, give me a second. I'm just going to go and wee. Well, what do you mean? I'm talking to you. I know you. I would have taken my earphones off. Well, now all our 100,000 listeners on day one are going to listen to your little Willie

do a little pee-pee. There you go. Hey, that's why I'm here. Okay. Okay. I'm going to press. Has he washed his hands? Yes, I did wash my hands. I'm a quick peer, a quick washer. I got a whole system

down. I've been doing this for years. Okay. It was either going to be poo or wee, wasn't it? Do you know what I mean? It was going to be something. Alright, you ready? I have my thing recording. Are we supposed to do like a clap? Are we supposed to do like a clap

to show the beginning of my art? Did you say you've got the clap? Did he say he's got the clap? Have you got the clap? What? No, no. I said we were supposed to do it. Oh yeah, I get it. Oh, I forgot.

You're the comedian over here. Fame changed you, huh? comedian over here. Fame changed you, huh? The music you've heard on Table Manners is by Peter Duffy and Pete Fraser. Table Manners is produced

by Alice Williams.