Tosh Show - My Yeastie Boy - Evan Fox

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

Daniel breaks bread with Yeastie Boys Bagels founder Evan Fox for a conversation about the logistics of food trucks, his favorite schmear flavors, and baking 50,000 bagels a month.

Hey guys. It's me Daniel. Do me a solid. I don't ask for a lot, but like and subscribe to this podcast. Also, you could rate it. Highly, I would appreciate. Maybe even write a review. Maybe we'll become best friends. Bagels are Polish. Not a question. Just a fun fact I learned on the toilet. They are. That's where they started. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. Tosh Show. Tosh Show for show. Welcome to Tosh Show. I'm your host, comedian Daniel Tosh, and I'm flying solo today, except for the fact that I still have Pete, Dylan, and John here, and Carl.

But no Eddie, so I might as well be solo. Eddie's not here. He's honoring his father at Arlington Cemetery, outside of D.C., doing a desk pop, 21 desk pop. I guess it's not called a desk pop, we're going to call it a cemetery pop. RIP, Mr. Gosling, colonel, sergeant, general Gosling. Commodore. Commodore Gosling. Commodore Gosling.

Well, RIP, he was a good one. Some of you are probably upset now. Oh, no Eddie, no Chetty. You know what I'm saying? You're going to click off this podcast. And I don't blame you. Eddie's the glue. Without Eddie, I'm nothing.

Speaking of which, I don't know how much longer I have. I don't know what I'm talking about the podcast or comedy. I'm talking about on this planet. My ticker, I'm worried about it. I need to go have it checked out. I promised myself I was going to do like a full physical, get the blood work done, everything. But I haven't done it yet. I don't feel good.

I'm getting shortness of breath way too often. Having little mini panic attacks occasionally. Are your balls? They feel great. Doesn't seem to be part of the issue. Hey, look, got your blessings. You know, when Norm MacDonald passed RIP, one of the greats, just so funny all the time. But he didn't tell anyone that he was sick.

And then one day he was just gone. He was like, oh, yeah, he didn't want people to know. That couldn't be further from how my ride's going to end. I am going to bask. in the love that I receive from everyone. Anyone I come across, I'm going to make sure the world knows that I'm dying when it's official.

How are you going to tell them? I mean, just wherever, whatever I meet some of it, oh yeah, I'm dying. I have, you know, I have cancer. I have whatever it is. Ordering a breakfast sandwich? You get your order. Can we get a name for that order?

I might just put dead, dude. That's me. Oh, then I'm not looking forward to it. Death, sure, but the lead-up to death seems like a bit much. Getting my affairs in order. You know, they say never go to bed angry with your spouse. That's not what I do. No, no, no.

I always, if I'm leaving the house for any reason, and we have to say goodbyes, I like to start a little fight. You know? That way, if something tragic were to happen, me while I'm gone, she would have to live the rest of her life knowing she lost our final argument. Mm-hmm. That's a nice little feather in my cap.

I wish Eddie were here today because I've got a bone to pick with him. I was under the impression that I was going to be interviewing my friend, Mike D, of the Beastie Boys. But it turns out I'm interviewing the founder of the Eastie Boys. Now, you can see how that would be confusing. You can see how Eddie might let me believe one thing. I love the Beastie Boys. And I've always loved bagels. So now, you know, I'm torn.

The good news is the guest that Eddie personally booked is bringing us tons of bagels from the Yeasty Boys. Enjoy. My guest today took his at-home bagel rolling hobby and grewed into a fleet of food trucks that Angelino's flock to for their bagels, locks, smear, and other shit. Please welcome the owner and founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels, Evan. I want the subscribers to know that we are recording your interview on Rosh Hashanah,

so Shalom and Tataraba for being here on the beginning of the Holy Sol. I was going to say my mom would, she'd kill me. me about if she knew I was here but uh you know okay we could act like it wasn't yeah like day like day after vibes you my bad first question do you believe in ghosts oh man that's a good that's a good question hard hitting uh you know it's so hard in the traditional sense i don't think so i've never seen a ghost like all these no one has because they're not real but go on fully but what's with all these guys with ghosts i've never seen it right that's the answer i've never seen a ghost i'm glad i can speak freely no i don't believe in ghosts

Oh, good. Jesus. What was it like growing up in the heavily Jewish town of Phoenix? Scottsdale. It's pretty Jewy. It's pretty Jewy over there, I got to say. It's very like Palm Springs-esque. Oh. But there's a pretty big Jewish community, surprisingly. There was a few people growing up. It was like, you know, never met a Jew and thought I was going to hell, told me I don't celebrate Christmas in school. You don't get that in Los Angeles.

No. Yeah, a couple of those. But for the most part, it's, you know, it's not bad. You know, I didn't know a lot of Jewish kids growing up in my little town in Florida as a young kid, but my instinct would never to be you're going to hell. Right. I just always, the different types of people's always... Agreed. It's weird. Fascinating.

Did you enjoy being misted on growing up in Phoenix? Yeah, it's nice. Well, it's not too humid as that was out as... No, I meant just the restaurants that have the fucking Mr. Machines. Oh my God, the misters. By the way, that is totally like exclusively a Scottsdale thing, I think.

Palm Springs as well, but sure. Exactly. It doesn't do much for me. And then it just starts to drip from the thing. Yeah, the dripping's no good. No, dude. You don't want to be dripped on while you're eating. Pass. You're now the third guest we've had on this show who was in a failed punk band and then changed careers.

Tell me, were you leaning more towards Falconer or Helicopter medic before deciding on On bagels. What is a falconer? A guy that fucking flies falcons. That's sick. Yeah, that's the answer.

Found out about it. I'd be no good as a medic. Helicopter medic, forget it. How was the punk band? It was cool, man. We played music, too, you know, obviously you played music. But I toured with other bands like tour managing and being part of that whole thing for a long time.

So I would tour with bands, playing bands. I even did like music marketing, which is I think a lot of the how I sort of learned to promote Yeasty Boys in a way. I'm sure. You know what I mean? Like, once I had this, this product that I believed in, and I, this idea I believed in, it was, it was easy to use my sort of, like, PR channels to pump it. Did you actually like the Beastie Boys music growing up? I did. I love the Beastie Boys growing up. Favorite album. I grew up right when Hello Nasty came out. I was like an eighth grade when that came out, you know? So, I mean, yeah. I'm a Paul's Boutique. Wow, OG.

Yeah, that's who I am. How did you like the documentary on Apple? I've watched it. Mike D. As lives down the street. I haven't met Mike D yet. I've met Ad Rock a couple times. Mike is very nice. Kids are nice.

They all surf with me since they were kids. Bagels are Polish. Polish immigrants, Jews. They brought them to America and then it just became this American Jewish food, you know? How the fuck did you get into the bagel making? So my ex-partner and I, we were just bartending. And I had come back on a trip from New York. And I lived in New York briefly, but came back and I was like, dude,

Like the New York bagel thing, there's bagels on every block. Like, why isn't there any bagels like this in L.A.? Like, there's so many Jews. I grew up on deli. I grew up on bagels. There was just like this old school mentality of like bagel places that were so out of date. And they weren't doing anything like cool or unique or whatever. And I just was like, dude, like, we go.

There's something here. There's totally something here. When you say partner, was this a boyfriend or business relationship? A business relationship at the time. Yeah, that's a good question also. But you, do you start, is it all the story how you started the whole thing? So it was basically out of the apartment, making bagels with my ex-partner at the time. And we were just sending them out to, to different, you know, tastemakers, I remember.

But you were baking at this point. Yeah, we were, we were baking together at this point, absolutely. And how many bagels at the height of the apartment, like it's? Couple dozen tops, dude. This oven I had was like this, like, 1950s apartment oven, convection oven that was like not it. Couple dozen a day? Yes. Man, that's a lot of work.

I was instantly, like, not into it. Yeah. But I loved the final product and the packaged product. That was, like, my thing. What kind of apartment was this? Oh, dude, it was right behind Cantor's Deli on Oakwood and Hayworth. I used to live over Laurel. Oh, yeah, right there, literally right there.

One over. Laurel, Edinburgh, Hayworth. One time, this story sucks. No, I'm ready for it. Talk to me. It's just one block over. It's an apartment complex, and there's a state. staircase that goes up on the others, on the side of it to like, the first level of apartments there.

Yes. Right behind Cantor. Yes. Yes. And there was this kid, young kid, skateboarding, and he was going to jump the whole thing. It was probably 10 to 12 stairs down. And this woman, I'm not going to speculate, but she was Jewish. Yeah, for sure.

She was blocking the bottom of the staircase and wouldn't let him do it. His friends were going to fill. And I was just there. tried to override her. I said, I said, ma'am, I know this is. This is how anti-Semitism starts. The women that stopped the, the, the, the alleys over the stairs. Well, I felt bad about it. I was like, just, I'm like, let him do it. Let him go. Let him go. And she wouldn't. She wouldn't let him go. How long did you go from the apartment until it's like, okay, let's give this a shot and get a truck? One of our first investments, this person knew a guy that used to own Lurr Nightclub,

like in Hollywood, connected to Amiba, like right behind it. They used to do the do over there. They had this massive kitchen they never used. We moved right in there. That was a nightmare. You give it to you for free? It was not free necessarily, but it was like part of this group that we were working with at the time. So yeah, we didn't really pay rent.

But you get this kitchen, you say it was disaster, but it allowed you to do... Dude, our first, our first real catering out of that kitchen was the voice. We got offered the voice. Oh, that's a good show. Dude, we fucking... We bombed that shit. We showed up with burnt... Like, we didn't even serve bagels. We did

bagel dogs, well, it was the only bagel related item we served on that. We showed up with, like, catering trays with like burnt cheeseburgers, bagel dog. Like, it wasn't, it was a horrible thing. And I don't know how we even got that. A friend of mine, I think, maybe worked on the show at some point. And I was like, dude, we got to go back to the drawing table. Like, we can't just be doing catering like that. Like, that is not what we're going to do. So we, over time, sort of tailored our menu and, and figured out what it is we were actually doing. Bagels was always sort of the mainstay. But it wasn't until we did Coachella, which was really sort of our first real, this is what we do, customer-facing menu. We did the locks. We did the game over, which was- Wait, locks in during Coachella. Surprisingly, dude, people, people wanted that. Sure. They woke up in the morning, hungover, trash. They, you know, they want breakfast. So you did well at Coachella.

We did great. Year one. Like out the gate lines were like, holy shit, this is it. What, 2014, where are we at? 2015? Yeah, so 2014, we started doing this thing. out of the apartment, and then 2015, when's Coachella, like, March? So it was, like, a few months after we started.

Have you been to Coachella before you went to work there? That was actually my first time. Okay. I'm not a festival, dude. No, no one should be. That's a horrible, it's not for me, dude. I need back support, nice, cozy shoes. I was not for me.

And it's so hot. I'm schfitting in here. Like, come on. Like, I'm dying out there. How easy is it to get a truck in Los Angeles? It's not so hard, I will say. I'll tell you. So it's hard to keep it up and do well,

but to get an actual truck, there's a few ways. But legally allowed to do it. My recommendation to somebody would be if you have a concept and you want to try it out, rent it from somebody. Because if you rent it from somebody, it's usually their responsibility to have it permitted to have everything in working order. And if you have a permit, just an L.A. County permit,

you can pretty much go anywhere where there's a meter and a bathroom within 100 yards. 100 yards, 100 feet. 100 yards seems a little lot, yeah, 100 feet. So, yeah, so that's fairly easily. But if you want to go to, like, a Manhattan Beach or a Beverly Hills or Santa Monica, you need special permits. Those places just require individual permits? You need to get your own.

You need to get a separate business license. You need to get a separate permit, a health permit. Like Pasadena, for example, they have their own fire marshal. They have their own health department. Like, it's a whole song and dance. How often is the health department coming up? Twice a year. Twice a year.

And it's like they'll just show up on an accident. no plan that that's the goal they want to like you know catch you off go how much does the truck cost depends if you go the rental route or the buying buy buy buying a good for a clean for us for us a beauty 150 to 170 and that's decked out it's got everything you need to go that's decked out everything that's full service we're ready do you remember the first day you got it in drove yes i was the driver was it terrifying dude there's some fucking scary scary shit the brakes went out of on me. I have pictures of this too that the brakes went out. We're like,

okay, this is not good. That was gnarly. That was when I was like, wow, this is like prison work. This is like going to, like it was gnarly. I take it you've never been to prison. I've never been a prison but let me tell you in my head, this is what I imagine. Okay. Going to the lot

in Sun Valley, behind the Burbank airport, this truck lot dude, they need to document this. This is a whole other world. You go in there, you dump your drainage and it's like a whole sewer system, you have to, like, dump your drainage. There's people living, like, literally on that lot, like, the mechanics. They're, like, greaseball dudes that are just, like, literally, they're fully blackened by all of the grease that they have to deal with from fixing these trucks all day.

Eight trucks now? Ten truck. Where are you at? We're almost, nine is almost open. We're almost done being built. We started, I think, on truck six, we started doing our custom trucks. And you wrap them? We wrap them. You always put swear words on them? I mean, you know, that was something we did like uh actually i was making the menu for cochella and i just put bagels locks smear other shit and i thought it was funny and it just stuck so so are you allowed to do that do you ever get grief for that we've surprisingly not enough grief i'm very surprised at how little grief we got yeah more people more love than hate i'm not going to give you grief for it my kids know what words are yeah yeah yeah was it called yeastie boys called from day one from day one

and who came up with the name actually my ex partner did Yeastie boys. What time do you guys pick the trucks up in the morning? The first person is usually there at five because they got to sit in traffic. I mean, like our Venice location. Yeah, there's no traffic 5.5.30. No, there isn't. But it depends.

If you leave too late, you're going to get nailed. No, I know. That's the beauty of certain businesses. When you can avoid traffic entirely, the city is your oyster. I would never open a lunch or dinner truck, not a chance. What's your window for your trucks? So we get there at five. Some drivers get there at 430, actually, now that I think about it.

We make sure everything's legit. They start the truck, let it run for a little bit. They go get whatever they need for the day, aprons, you know, towels, whatever. They're out of the lot by 5.5.30. They get to the stop by 6, 630. We finish prep. We're open by 8. We're done by 2.

Depending on which location you're at, that 2 to whatever, some people get back to the lot by 2.30. Some people get back to the lot by 4, depending on traffic. So that's, yeah, that's the day. That's a day, dude. And it's hot, like it's hot. There's no AC in the trucks. No. I mean, our newer trucks have it.

But even that, the heat coming off of the grill is so hot that even if you had air conditioning, you're, it's trouble. I mean, that's, yeah, it's a, that's a gig. Yeah, it is. What kind of miles per gallon those trucks getting, by the way? Not good. It costs about 150 bucks to fill those things up a week, which actually, you know, isn't too bad if you think about it. Because it goes out every day. I know who we need to get with the Eastie Boys.

We got to get my boy, RJ, Rivian, those Amazon deals that he's making these trucks, boom. That is, I love how you think. There was a company called Canoe, C-A-N-O, they went under. I sort of was talking to them briefly about potentially doing some custom trucks because, dude, that's the next wave for sure. I told him I wanted one of these Amazon trucks, and he says, you have to have some, I don't know what he said, some L-L-L-L-S. see work around. We got to do a Yeasty Boy's kosh rap.

No, I don't want this. I like being the idea guy and helping, but here's what I want in return. Nothing. Come on. Wow, what a munch. That's what we call a mench. That's where I'm at in my life right now.

Wow, what a G. I don't want it. That's brilliant. That's brilliant. I also, because I don't want the responsibility either. Yeah, I don't blame you. Your idea was shitty. I don't blame you.

Do you have still owned the truck that you got the very first truck or no? So we actually ran. rented that truck and I actually still rent it from the owner because it's our OG truck and it's got like retina the artist graffiti on it. It's got all the stickers. It's just got so much history. I love that truck actually. We still rent it and the guy that I rented from became our manager during COVID. He owned a couple trucks and he was like, yo, I don't have work. And now he's he's still our GM and he's also the guy who helps with keeping up maintenance.

Do you personally pick the locations of where these trucks are going? I picked the locations, you know. How often are you rotating it, or do you want it to be, like, pretty consistent so people know? When we had one truck, it was rotation. It was like, what works, what doesn't. Once I sort of gotta lay the land on like, okay, this is a good spot, this is a good spot, this is a good spot, okay, we need more trucks.

So now the model is pull up to a spot, six to eight hour service, and that's where you can find us every day. And you can get delivery, you could get walk up, whatever that looks like. What's delivery? You gotta hire somebody else, like an Uber driver? driver for that? Postmates, door dash, the whole night. They come all the way here? They do. I think the Venice location might hit it. You know what, though? Dude, we were posting up in palisades until shit hit the fan. That was a great spot for us, and I sucks, but because I think that you would have been

able to get that out here. There's so many confusing street signs in L.A. for when you can and can't park. You guys ever get towed? We've gotten towed when, like, the transmission dies last week that happened. Are you feeding meters all day long? How's it work? All day long. We've got to feed the meters. How many meters does it take up? Depends on what neighborhood meeting whoever's on patrol will be a little bit more lenient. But like in Manhattan Beach, always two, always feeding the two. And still we get tickets.

Like it depends. How insane their parking meter guy is. Well, in Manhattan Beach, do they do the chalk on the wheels? They do the chalk on the wheels. How is that legal, by the way? Well, because it says you can only stay there for two hours, so you can't just keep feeding it for eight hours. You have to roll your wheel a quarter turn. Wow, I didn't realize that.

I always think there's got to be a rule against, you know, it's like vandalism, you know. There's got to be some sort of- Putting white chalk on your tire? I'd love to just get these guys in some way. You're not going to get them. I'm not going to get them. It sucks. We pay a lot in tickets to answer your question.

If you hired a disabled driver, can they park in the handicap? And disabled drivers also don't have to pay meters. I literally have never thought about this, and that is brilliant. What is wrong with you, man. And they're great employees because, you know, they work hard. Although, I don't know that food trucks are going to. You have to get somebody with a disability that's not overwhelming. Hire them with the placard.

Like, it's part of the deal. Like, that's a really good idea, dude. That's brilliant. I just found a way to get those meter mates. Wow, that's so good. How many bagels in a day does Yeastie Boys make now? That's a good question. I think our monthly figure was like 50,000.

a month. 50,000 bagels a month. Which is not too crazy, but also, wow, to think about that over the years. Compared to a couple dozen a day out of your apartment. I've always enjoyed fresh bagels. Love it.

Same. But when I'm someplace else, they're like, oh, I can't eat this. I'm like, I can still eat it. I can still eat it too bad. I mean, throw a crappy bagel in front of me. I'll still crush it. Well, crappy bagel versus, like, some other version of a nice bagel.

I'm not somebody that's like, oh, my good, it has to be New York. Right. Is the water, is the pizza dough, is all that? The water thing is a component of it. The bagels in New York, the reason why they're so renowned, I think, is the water there is so soft. It's natural, like, from the Catskills versus here,

it's, we put so much shit in it, the minerals to clean it, and it just, we have really hard water. So, in essence, yes, that is a component, it, but I really think, dude, like with the New York thing, it's a marketing stunt. Like, it's part of it, but it's not all of it. I mean, it won. That's what, you know what I mean?

It won for sure. Even if you go on the subway in New York, there's, there's, it's in the water. It's in the water. It's like a slogan. It's like a New York thing. Yet their tap water tastes disgusting. It is trash. Yeah.

You know, so. You make bagels with Tahoe tap water, I tell you what. It's funny. Oh, it's going to be delicious. Delicious. What's the water that makes you, what is it hard or soft that makes you feel slimy when you're in the shower. That's soft water, which I'm not a fan of either.

That's where I grew up in Florida. Just always feeling slimy. Yeah, I don't get it. Not for me. You kettle boil, then bake? What's your process? Oh, yeah. Put all the ingredients together.

You mix it. You let it sit to kind of rise a little bit for about an hour. Weigh the dough out, cut it, weigh it, weigh it, shape it, goes in the walk-in, 24 to 48-hour process, bring it out, boil it, bake it. Was this the same process from day one? Yes. But it's changed over time, different recipe tweaks. Like the recipe changes with the weather, honestly.

When it gets hot, you got to treat the dough differently, and you got to make sure you're walking. Cooler doesn't, even if it goes, shifts a degree. You're going to have a different bagel outcome. And you can tell how to adjust based on those things? Yeah, but even still we miss sometimes. And you'll get a bagel that's maybe a little more dense or drier. You just figured all this out on your own?

Yeah, but dude, even 11 years. later it's not like a plug in play like you still have to have people watching it you know it's also not like a bagel shop because it gets so hot in our truck so what happens is the bagels they just keep cooking to a degree it depending like in the summer months like do it brutal so you have to adjust your recipe if you don't want it to turn into hard bread by the end of the day it's a whole thing yeah some of your met new items uh have names that are hip hop references so i'm relieved to see that you are in fact jewish uh do you do you like love Fettie Wop and Birdman?

Both, yeah. I mean, at the time when the Chettywop came out, Fettywap was sort of like at the prime. I don't know what happened to that guy. I think he went to jail for a little while. The Chettywap, that's it, that's, the eggs and that that's a good. That's good. That's just the bacon egg and cheese standard. It's nice. That's nice.

Does smoke salmon exist exclusively for eating on bagels? I would say like 90% of all smoked salmon is eaten on a bagel. I've seen them on Benedict's. In Scandinavia, you just eat it. Like, you just straight up eat it with anything. But I'd say, yeah, 90% bagels. I mean, I do smoke salmon once a week.

My daughter eats it. She's two. That's amazing. She just houses it. Poppy seed. Who the, what are they? Not a fan. What are they for?

I don't know. It's our least-ordered bagel, and we bring, like, a couple a day for some old guys that come and want them. Whenever there's leftover bagels at the end of the day, 99% of the time, Poppy. It's heroin addicts, right? That's a good point. That's all I ever think. I think of when I think of Popsies, oh, it's going to, like, so you can mess with your, your drug test or something. I understand plain bagels make sense to me. That's my world.

Egg bagels. I don't, I don't care at all about. That's one of my faves for some reason. I would say sesame and egg are my tops. Sesame and egg? Maybe, it's kind of juie thing, maybe. I just, I don't know what it is. I love them. The sesame. I, I only like sesame just because of Mitch Hedberg. Yeah, amazing. What's the Mitch Hedberg reference? Has anyone ever seen a sesame? Wow, pretty good.

That's all his joke is. That's pretty good. He knows what a seed is. He just wants to know what a sesame is. My question was, and I can understand cinnamon raisin, fine. But the Everything Bagel has just gotten to a point where I'm like, you're just sweeping out your truck all night long. Yeah, it's true. Exactly.

It's literally that, actually. To me, it feels like that. It's like, yeah, when you clean your bar off and it's all the leftover. It's not, who wants that? Everything bagels are perfect for a food truck because you should only be allowed to eat them outside. It's everywhere. You know, schmutz everywhere. Let's talk smears.

Shemirs. Top five. Scalion. Roasted veggie. Plain. Oh, but the scallion has to have a little lemon zest in it. Do you have to add that separate? You add it when you make it.

Yeah, it's part of it. You are your tape of it. It's part of it. I like the veggie. I like, dude, I like an olive cream cheese. I could go with that. I wouldn't be afraid of it. My favorite sweet cream.

I love a strawberry. I love a toasted sesame bagel. with butter and strawberry cream cheese. That is a fire combo, dude. Where do you stand on butter? I'm a big butter guy. As a kid, I remember my mom would butter her bagel and then put cream cheese on top of it.

Smart woman, love her. Smart. Because then you got the little flavor, like, nooks, and it just, like, sits in the little crater in the bagel, the butter. It's so nice. This is getting me all excited. Hungry. Nothing better than a bagel that doesn't actually have a proper hole.

Yeah, love that. That's my favorite. Oh, where it's sealed all the way in. Yeah, love. Like a tight little slainter. Plump. By the way, the amount of smear on a bagel. Please.

I like, I'm not somebody's like, oh, I don't want a lot on. I want a good amount of cream cheese on my bagel. Right. Why? Why are we doing it at such a level that it's, I honestly could scrape off two thirds of it. Dude, I'm the same. I hate it. Like, when you go to New York, they like stack.

But you guys do it too? We do, but like, I. I prefer just like a two and a half ounce. Nothing more. I certainly don't know the ounces, but I just know that it's just a comical what you guys do. It's like this, I'd say, is my like sweet spot. Anymore, which we do, any more is like I have to remove it.

It just feels like it's a huge cost. Yeah, we stack our shit pretty high. What about just putting it, making it purely a, is that cost not effective to do it in the little cup? The little ramekins, as they say. The little ramekins? We do. Like when someone's like,

I want extra cream cheese on the side, we'll pull it out. Philadelphia. Love them. Why is their cream cheese so good? It's so good. I don't know, dude.

When people are like, I make my own cream cheese, no. It's like ketchup, dude. You don't make your own ketchup. It's fucking already Heinz ketchup that is fire.

Yeah. It's like bagels, yes, I understand. You don't want lenders. You don't want a trash bagel. But, dude, Philly is... That's how I felt about ranch dressing. It was like Hidden Valley figured it out.

out. I know. I didn't like other people's ranch dressing, but then John and Vinny's made a better ranch dressing. Fire. And J&V crush. They do everything better. Those guys. Nice soft serve. Oh my God. It's my favorite soft serve in L.A. Maybe ever. The consistency, dude, is so good. How many bagels a week do you eat? Dude, wow, that's changed over the years. When I used to deliver the bagels to the trucks, and we used to do wholesale, and I would deliver them. I would just eat them like pop them like like cheddar bagels they were hot next to me on the on the passenger seat i would just pop them i was at like three to five a day which is gnarly i mean norily how wouldn't you be you can't you can't you turn out like this it's not good when you have a bagel

as the bread it's it's that's a meal it's big now once a week maybe you fuck with english muffins you know i do i do fuck with them the mcdonalds like egg mcmuffin sausage mcuffin with egg like I love that shit but like as a toast with butter like a bagel with butter it's not even close it's no good you know the english muffins i do like the san francisco big sourdough ones that are super thick fire yeah can't really get those those are you can't they're dense yeah i do like those you do gluten-free bagels we do are they actually i mean if you're a gluten-free guy they're great because gluten-free sucks like i've never had anything good gluten-free the texture is just off. It's not good. I had a gluten-free

brownie the other day. I might as well have just been fucking rubbing cocoa powder on my. No, you may as well just have fruit for dessert because that's not going to cut it. Do you do any desserts? Well, we were doing some black and whites for a while but like how good can a black and white cookie really be? The answer is it's not. It's not good. We tried.

We tried. You can't reinvent that wheel. It's not good. We do sweet bagels, but we don't really do desserts. Maybe a cinnamon roll. That's weird. Wow. That's nice. that's nice everybody that's on my show gets a gift okay and it's just stuff from my house wow that I don't want anymore so some some guests do better than others first thing I got is just a sticker for one of your trucks if you want to it's two men doing 69 on each other

a son with a with an assault rifle and the child daughter this is really good you can put this on here's what you do wow this is sick you put this on some a competitor's truck that's been this is going on my truck by the way my son has a book that that I used to read them. It's about food trucks. And I don't know if you ever read it. It's like a little taco truck. Did you ever read this book?

I need this book. I haven't seen it. It's a nice book and it talks about how his spot gets taken in the morning. Yeah. And then he learns to get along with other people. How bad is it with other people in fighting for spots? It's actually, it's not bad. I got to say, and again, this goes back to my sort of, if you're a morning truck, the streets are

empty in the morning. So if you're a lunch dinner truck, that would be fucked up. This is beautiful. I love this so much. I use regular yeast. My wife recently bought me instant yeast. I don't need that. I don't need that.

Thank you. Hey, this, this is a toilet. Now, I could use one of these. This is for the truck. You give this to you. Now, this is so good. This is a good toilet, too. This one is, by the way, you hear it, right?

This was at the house? Yeah. I travel with this. but it's no that's it's never been pooped in okay thank you it has been peed in yes but it's fine cleaned out but yeah this this I bring this with me on road trips and just having it you know my IBS I got the same it lets it lets me drive a little

more relaxed knowing that if things got out of control thank you for this but this this toilet are you sure you're willing to part ways with this I got I got a different and you'll you just throw one of those mixes in the in the bottom there That'll keep it. This is unbelievable. I think that's commercial grade. You might not need a whole.

That's commercial grade, babe. But now, maybe you have somebody a little more uptight and is this the male bathroom or the female. So I got you two, gender. This could be the female one. It's pink. We're going to need this for sure. We got a lot of women on these trucks. I don't understand the whole bathroom issue with some of the trans problems.

Debate. It seems, it's really just where you wash your hands that is the shared space. Right. Anyway. Let's get this off my desk. This the hell out of here. There's your new... You're gonna love this toilet.

You can really hear the... Throw all that on the floor, please. Yeah, please. All of this, just throw it on the floor. You do you have to get it. Here, here's... This I'm excited to give away because this... That's sick.

The tours, they used to put, this is Tosh Tour on Ice, which was a Canadian tour I did. This is amazing. They gave me so many of these skateboards. This is my final one. I have no more skateboard. Are you sure you want to depart? to depart? Oh, I'm so happy to get rid of things. Okay, this is amazing. Yeah, that's good.

This is so sick, putting it in the office. We used to take old decks and that's how we made our menus for Coachella. Feel free to scratch that off and make a menu. This is a collector's item. Thank you for that. Wow. I came empty-handed. No, no, you're not, listen. I tried to bring the bagels, but you're not supposed to bring stuff. Okay. We will be right back. You haven't opened a brick and mortar? We haven't, dude. We did a pop-up at Alfred Coffee in the alley for like a year. It went great.

But, dude, I think... You're always in front of Alfred. Yeah, we're in Alfred. Melrose Place, Alfred, and Studio City, Alfred. You got a little deal with them? Yeah, a little deal with, you know, those guys, for sure. Does Alfred, do they make bagels? They don't make bagels.

Okay. Yeah. To answer your question about the brick and mortar, eventually, I think we'll do a brick and mortar. I don't know. I really want to do like a bagel and coffee dry. through you know where they're giving good deals right now is the new uh cross creek j lucks man we we we've talked a bunch about that my fear was jlux he's he's the best he's the king he's like every

king of lade this guy yeah 100% get jlux on this show i saw i saw ashton kutcher the other day just like at the at the deli and he was wearing the jlux hat with the with the sign oh that seems too i don't know now jlux has jumped the shark he's it's all it's merch it's real estate it's it's everything but that but anyway there are deals we had that cross that that new Plaza they've opened up. Yeah, it's very dope. You know what? You remind him. I'll reach out to him after we, you know, rap. I mean, how hard is, did you figure out all the business aspect of it? Like, knowing what to price things at? I went, I went so hard on the like, collaborations, the marketing, the branding of it that now I had to bring in someone way more savvy than me.

I brought on a CFO, smart dude. Like, Evan, you're bleeding here. Evan, you need to change this to that. What was something that you were overlooking, just like an example? of like, oh, that was a good change. Wow, a few things. I think our delivery. I think the delivery aspect of it was, one, renegotiating our terms with those guys. A lot of money was left on the table there. You just deliver it with DoorDash?

With DoorDash, with postmates, with all those things. Restaurants individually negotiate? Dude, these guys are, I mean, it could be pretty predatory if you don't know what you're doing, honestly. Oh, man, that's a nightmare. Not to talk shit, but it is a nightmare. It's a nightmare, and I'm not, I'm a creative, dude. Like, the business savvy shit, I'm not an Excel wizard. I'm not a data wizard, but this guy I brought on is definitely that part.

And what's the goal? 50 trucks, New York, Miami, I don't know. San Antonio. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Texas was on the list. NorCal. Is there no trucks in NorCal? Dude, Palo Alto and Berkeley and SF, like, I feel like that would be a good move for us.

There's none up there right now. Not really, no. You're only in Los- We're in L.A. County, nine, so we're opening our ninth trucks soon in the Valley, Deep Valley. What about Orange County? No trucks there yet. Do you have to always have it centered here, then they have to go out, or is that? You need a central, each region needs a central hub for sure.

You've got to get one back into Scottsdale. I was going to say that's on the list, too. I think it would do well there. It's just so hot, you know. Well, yeah. The brick and mortar potential model would be good there, though. Oh, your hometown. That's what I'm saying.

Hometown boy made good. You go back there often? My little brothers work there, I live there, my dad still lives there. Like, I'll probably go back for Thanksgiving. Oh. You know. Such a good time of year to be in. You know about the desert.

It's like velvet on your skin, the dryness, and the winter. It's so nice. So nice. I like Phoenix. I've always liked being in Phoenix. It's nice, dude. You know, it's a little... You say Tempe or Tempe?

Tempe. Yeah, Tempe. I always feel like I'm saying it wrong Do you play the improv in Tempe? I used to all the time Then I graduated To much larger venues I've never played a stadium

I play a theater's and stuff I stay in my lane Where do you play there at theater wise There's that one in the round What's that circle one? Oh Gamage Is that it?

Sick That's in Tempe That's a cool Wow good for you Evan thanks for being on the show You too man Thank you for having me My pleasure

I want to thank Evan for being on the show. And if I seem just a just a scotia hangary, it's because Eddie, who is not here, Eddie booked Evan to be on the show. And we were so excited because we all love the yeasty boys bagels. And then Eddie writes, before the beginning of the day, in the morning, he sends us an email.

He says, hey, guys, come in hungry. because he's going to hook us up with bagels. Then I would say 30 minutes in to the interview, Evan casually says, hey, sorry, sorry I couldn't bring any bagels in today. And that was the first that any of us had gotten wind that we were not getting bagels. And you could feel just the air being sucked out of the podcast studio where everyone was like we're gonna fucking kill Eddie yeah because we were all hungry and we were all excited we didn't want to waste I actually took a single bite of a chomp stick and put the rest back

because I didn't want to ruin my appetite for some bagels I thought he drove the truck oh my good I thought the truck would be outside yeah I didn't know what was going to happen I was just excited and then it was just and then Eddie acts like nothing yeah after it's done like oh yeah yeah no he said he was going to but he couldn't and I'm like Eddie you have to take more responsibility because you wrote to us come hungry so now we've been here for hours because you know it's not just the interview we're here before we're doing some prep work etc and then sure enough no bagels should have at least offered to buy lunch. Carl, I was going to share a Chettywop with you. How can you, how do you get so excited to get

in that chair and then you can't keep your eyes open for like two minutes? Now, I'm sure Evan is going to watch this or hear this. It's going to, it's going to get back to him like, hey, they were pretty upset that you didn't bring bagels. And he's going to do us right. And that'll, I'll be honest, when that day comes, I'll be excited and all will be, uh, you know, forgive and forget. But Until that happens. Oh, I don't like the way my wife says bagel. Did I ever say that on the podcast? No, I don't think so.

That's awful. How does she say? Bagel. Like, it doesn't sound like she's saying bagel. Let me see. Yellow. Say bagel. Bagel?

I don't know if that was, that's not how she normally says. it. Boy, hey. All right, let's plug some stuff. Eddie and I are doing tours. I got a new tour coming out in

2026 and I can't come up with a good name for the tour. So if you have any ideas, feel free to write them down in the comment section. And if I use your tour name, you and three friends can have tickets

to any show on the tour of your choosing. That actually sounds like a deal And I just came up with that off the top of my head Yeah, that's good That's not bad All right So check out the tour

You better jump in on my house I believe there's Some offers that have come in But I'll take a backup offer Now Panda My wife's cousin She's starting to date It's happening

She has a couple lined up this week So keep leaving those VMs for me we i uh got a few more today let's hear it hi uh marcus black i'm very uh terrible he just gave up uh the guy just gave up you know what he was probably hoping for that like if you're satisfied with your message press one and our phone setup doesn't have that so he just bailed but i i appreciate that that's how i leave voice messages like i've never spoke before. All right.

So he's out. He's not going to get to date her. Anybody else? Yeah. Holy crap. That's a lot of stuff to remember. I'm 5'9. I weigh 195 pounds.

I'm a fat fucker. And I'm 64 years old. Oh, geez. And you'll have to pay for me to have my vasectomy reverse. Vasectomy. But I'll do it. I'd love to bang your sister-in-law.

That guy's crazy. Listen, it's not my sister-in-law. You want to make my sister-in-law have at her. That's fine. I give you her number. Right now, on air. Let's see what her number is. Just call her. It's 352.

Yeah, a 352 area code. That's Florida. 3-14. All right. See you next week. Ha ha ha ha.