Speaker 1: This is too much chocolate.
Speaker 2: You're only two of them, men. I'm anticipating we can
Speaker 2: take a break at any point.
Speaker 1: Cosha Cosh Show. Well, hey there, welcome to Tosh Show. Eddie,
Speaker 1: Hey buddy, it's Easter. Oh yeah, you know what that means.
Speaker 1: A Lincoln logs in me sock drawer.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what it means, Lincoln logs.
Speaker 1: In Lincoln logs in me sock drawer. Now, for those
Speaker 1: of you that don't get that reference, well little Bill
Speaker 1: Hicks for you. Anyway. Easter, man, I love Easter, probably
Speaker 1: one of my favorite rabbit centric holidays. Huh is it rabbits?
Speaker 1: HER's it chickens?
Speaker 3: Wait what bunnies?
Speaker 1: Bunnies? Rabbits and bunnies the same thing for.
Speaker 3: Bunny, but I don't know. Chickens. Bunnies don't lay eggs.
Speaker 3: Bunny will either do rabbits.
Speaker 1: Guys, he's confusing.
Speaker 3: It's a confusing as the story of Christ.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, okay, anyway, I love Easter. I
Speaker 1: love the Easter egg hunt. That's my favorite. We do
Speaker 1: it every day at our house.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: Well, we have a chicken coop. I basically just tell
Speaker 1: my kids go get the eggs. They're not really hidden.
Speaker 1: Although my son doesn't like to remove the hens or
Speaker 1: reach underneath them to grab the eggs. I might just
Speaker 1: just shoot them away, shoe them away. They bite, I'm like,
Speaker 1: they don't really bite. They peck. Well, they peck a
Speaker 1: little bit. That's how they but you just get it
Speaker 1: if you go quick, they won't. They don't peck me.
Speaker 1: I put my hands underneath. There are root around. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not an egg. Hello. By the way, just got
Speaker 1: a new chicken. All right, Okay, now you guys heard
Speaker 1: the tragic story of Black Betty. Okay, Black Betty has
Speaker 1: been replaced uh by white pet wow. Mm hmm. She's
Speaker 1: she's a silky now. She was in a flock of
Speaker 1: my neighbor's farm, and she's a beauty silky, just a beauty.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't have silkis. I have showgirls, but they're in
Speaker 1: the same family. I had two white showgirls and and
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, I think my silky would do good
Speaker 1: with you because we had two silkies. But my dog
Speaker 1: killed one of them. And I'm like, oh's tragic. Carl
Speaker 1: never never messes. He's not even aggressive toward the chickens.
Speaker 1: But anyway, She's like, can I give you my one silky?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well sure, Uh, you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: if my flock will take her in, because sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: just peck them to death and kill him if if
Speaker 1: the other chickens don't like him. But Mike, bring her
Speaker 1: on over. Let's see how she does. And uh it's
Speaker 1: she seems to fit in great.
Speaker 3: So far, so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, they're doing they're all they're all great great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm basically just living this house where people
Speaker 1: just are dropping animals off. The other day, let me
Speaker 1: try to drop a rabbit off. I said, no, it
Speaker 1: was the cutest little thing in where I go. No,
Speaker 1: I got wild rabbits everywhere. I don't need more. By
Speaker 1: the way, rabbits, Uh, they are a big reason that
Speaker 1: Carl gets ticks from from time to time.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rabbits carry ticks and uh you know, and and
Speaker 1: when Carl gets a tick, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: We usually we usually find it get rid of it.
Speaker 1: But it's so uh concerning because if you get bit
Speaker 1: by a tick, and you can get lime disease. But
Speaker 1: here's what you might not know now, I don't want
Speaker 1: you to look it up because it's probably not true.
Speaker 3: Okay, but in the computer.
Speaker 1: Don't look it up. Don't look it up. Okay. I
Speaker 1: heard to get lime disease. To get lime disease from
Speaker 1: a tick, it needs to be on you for like
Speaker 1: forty eight hours to like two weeks or something. Ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, if you don't know you have a
Speaker 1: tick on you for that long, you deserve lime disease. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now that could be wrong. Why don't you look at
Speaker 1: it up and see if I'm if I'm in the ballpark,
Speaker 1: because I'm curious. Now, I certainly don't want anybody in
Speaker 1: my family to get lime disease. But I also think
Speaker 1: if if it ticks on you for two weeks, thank
Speaker 1: you thirty six to forty eight. So my information wasn't
Speaker 1: completely wrong. The two weeks thing whatever, thirty six hours
Speaker 1: to four it might as well be a month.
Speaker 3: If it's on there for two days.
Speaker 1: Come on, if you don't know that something's burrowed into
Speaker 1: your body and eating you for thirty six hours, I mean,
Speaker 1: then you've got you've got some problems. Thirty person, you're
Speaker 1: a filthy animal anyway, I don't want to get to do.
Speaker 1: By the way, she brings this, uh, this bird over
Speaker 1: and uh, I said, what's her name? You know, got it?
Speaker 1: I was gonna probably rename her anyway. She says, Oh,
Speaker 1: we didn't name her chicken. I'm like, oh, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so now her name is Peggy.
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking, like, what if you had a chicken farm,
Speaker 4: thousands of chickens. You think they name every one of them?
Speaker 1: You better? I know they do avert Tyson. It says
Speaker 1: it on the packaging.
Speaker 3: I did hear that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can see the names of the chicken that
Speaker 1: are the on the Tyson packaging. I think they put
Speaker 1: that on there. You know. It's like it's like that
Speaker 1: when you get those lovees, those beanie babies or whatever.
Speaker 1: It a little backstory on the tag. You're gonna love
Speaker 1: this chicken. Lucy. She was quite the extrovert. Okay, Well, anyway, Peggy,
Speaker 1: want to welcome her to the family. And I hope
Speaker 1: a hawk doesn't get you. Speaking of east Ready Cadbury,
Speaker 1: are they still in business, because I would go on
Speaker 1: record as saying Cadberry creamed eggs are the single grossest
Speaker 1: piece of candy in the history of the world. God,
Speaker 1: you ever had one?
Speaker 3: Only in an omelet?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting, Eddie's doing Cadberry creamed egg omelets. Sounds good.
Speaker 1: What do you do? You put a little sponge in there.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we go with either go that or a jelly
Speaker 4: bean and cheese burrita.
Speaker 1: You ever had a Cadbury cream dig for real?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You have?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is awful.
Speaker 1: There's no way that's good. The best way to Cadbury
Speaker 1: cream dig, I would say, is just a poort on
Speaker 1: your back and slap yourself in the ass.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You feel like you're a part of a production
Speaker 3: and you're the star.
Speaker 1: There is no chance that that's an enjoyable experience. Now,
Speaker 1: Cadbury is disgusting. I hope they go out of business. Ah,
Speaker 1: unless they're a sponsored to this show, then by all means,
Speaker 1: they did have the cute commercial that. The only thing
Speaker 1: I like about Cadbury is their annual commercial. Where don't
Speaker 1: they have something bark bark?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I hope. I just hope before Easter that our president
Speaker 1: gets the price of Cadbury creamed eggs under control. Amen,
Speaker 1: that's why you got elected. Ran on it because of
Speaker 1: Jesus and the price of Cadbury cream eggs. All right,
Speaker 1: enough of this talk. I don't believe in the Easter Bunny,
Speaker 1: but I do believe in today's guest. Enjoy mm.
Speaker 3: Casha.
Speaker 1: My guest today is the second generation Chocolate Tear with
Speaker 1: over thirty years of experience. He and his brother are
Speaker 1: the Chocolate Kings of Beverly Hills. Please welcome son number
Speaker 1: one of and Son's Chocolate Tear. Phil. My first question
Speaker 1: that asked.
Speaker 2: Every guest, Okay, do you believe in ghosts? Oh? I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Check now why am I interviewing you Phil instead of
Speaker 1: your brother Mark? Was Was there any debate of who
Speaker 1: should be in the hot seat here?
Speaker 2: I'm son number one? Oh, therefore I get the priority.
Speaker 1: How much older are you than your brother?
Speaker 2: Three years older?
Speaker 1: That's a good difference. Did you enjoy him as a kid, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you have a good relationship. Yeah, we were always
Speaker 1: friends because my brother's just two years younger than me,
Speaker 1: and I have such fond memories of growing up. And
Speaker 1: then I talked to my younger brother now is a adult. No,
Speaker 1: I hated you.
Speaker 2: Do you think he hasn't surprised me with that yet?
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess I tortured him a little more than
Speaker 1: I realized. But now that we're older, we're good friends.
Speaker 1: Is working with your brothers had a good idea?
Speaker 2: Yeah for us, it works.
Speaker 1: Well. How long you guys been working together?
Speaker 2: Well, this project's been now five or six years, okay.
Speaker 2: And previously we always did sort of you know, other
Speaker 2: stuff on the side together.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: He helped out my mom over the years. So this
Speaker 2: is just the two of us. It was an easy,
Speaker 2: you know, pairing.
Speaker 1: You grew up in Los Angeles. Your parents were in
Speaker 1: a successful chocolate business in Beverly Hills, selling premier chocolate.
Speaker 1: This is why other parts of the country hate us
Speaker 1: here in California. You you're aware of that, right. What
Speaker 1: was childhood like for you?
Speaker 2: It was wonderful, wonderful, very lucky. Lived in La grew
Speaker 2: up in Westwood around the corner from where the shop was,
Speaker 2: and had a great younger brother. Parents still together. So
Speaker 2: growing up, did you eat tons of candy on the chocolate?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: You did?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you have a sweet tooth? I do? Yeah? Dessert
Speaker 1: at every meal every day? Yes? How you did it?
Speaker 1: I have it. Do you consider chocolate candy? No, you don't. No,
Speaker 1: I think I'm with you. I don't ever want candy.
Speaker 1: I always want chocolate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some chocolate's candy and some chocolate's chocolate too.
Speaker 1: Anyway, how did why did they decide a chocolate shop?
Speaker 2: Well, my mom, she's originally from Brazil. When she came
Speaker 2: to the United States, she figured out pretty clearly the
Speaker 2: chocolate really wasn't that great, and so for her, European
Speaker 2: chocolate was something that was special and enjoyable, and she
Speaker 2: was able to connect with the manufacturer and start bringing
Speaker 2: in here so that there was European chocolate here in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. And then same thing with coffee, you know,
Speaker 2: fifteen years later, I think she realized that, well, she
Speaker 2: realized kind of right away the coffee here isn't also
Speaker 2: that great. Why don't do coffee too, And so she
Speaker 2: opened up a cafe, you know, to make local local
Speaker 2: espressos and brewed coffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's impressive. I mean, I don't ever think
Speaker 1: I can eyeball a problem and fix it with what
Speaker 1: do we need more of them?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Beats me. Obviously you grew up. We helped around it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we grew up. We helped her out all the time,
Speaker 2: Holidays when we opened the cafe, helped her with that,
Speaker 2: opened the website for her in two thousand and three
Speaker 2: as the sort of first e commerce, you know, version
Speaker 2: of the website.
Speaker 1: What made you decide to take over the family business.
Speaker 2: Well, my mom had always suggested it and offered it
Speaker 2: over the years, and my brother and I didn't live
Speaker 2: in la And then when we kind of came back
Speaker 2: here later, she had one last offer and we decided, Hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, now, now's a good time. We're both here,
Speaker 2: We're both started moving onto new new types of careers,
Speaker 2: and it was a good It was a good time.
Speaker 1: Were you negotiating with her? Were you playing hardball?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Is she happy with the direction that you guys have
Speaker 1: taken the business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's very pumped. She's excited.
Speaker 1: Explain, before you took out, you and your brother took
Speaker 1: over the business, it wasn't you weren't making your own
Speaker 1: chocolates for you?
Speaker 2: No, we were not.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and now, yeah.
Speaker 2: My mom for many, many years imported Swiss chocolate. She
Speaker 2: had a relationship with a wonderful Swiss manu factor, And
Speaker 2: when we took over, we realized that it'd sort of
Speaker 2: become a little out of date sort of boring and
Speaker 2: you know, traditional, and it was time to kind of
Speaker 2: re imagine it. So at that point we decided, well
Speaker 2: we should probably be making our own product as well,
Speaker 2: and so we brought on a chef, built out a
Speaker 2: kitchen and really started making the products, you know, the
Speaker 2: way we wanted to do it.
Speaker 1: What does Anne's sons specialize in.
Speaker 2: Well, we've been doing this for a long time. Originally
Speaker 2: my mom started, and then when we took over, it
Speaker 2: really was making it more modern, making it more relevant,
Speaker 2: using ingredients ethically sourced cacao, local, local dairy to elevate
Speaker 2: the product, to make it special, and doing you know,
Speaker 2: thinking about the packaging, making it an experience. So as
Speaker 2: a gift, it's a special occasion.
Speaker 1: Now your chocolates are made, i mean to sound cliche,
Speaker 1: the finest ingredients in the world, and your chef that
Speaker 1: you hired, Chef Sandy from the French Laundry, which is arguably,
Speaker 1: or not even arguably the fanciest restaurant in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of them.
Speaker 1: I think people say it is the top. At least
Speaker 1: at one point it was the top, right, all right,
Speaker 1: she's the pastry chef. That was the change the executive
Speaker 1: pastry chef. Yeah, executive Patriry number yard you how'd you
Speaker 1: get her to quit that dump and then come run
Speaker 1: your world?
Speaker 2: She wanted a change of pace, a change of lifestyle.
Speaker 2: She was living in Los Angeles at the time, and
Speaker 2: you know we connected.
Speaker 1: Is she happy with that decision? So far?
Speaker 2: Yes, so far, so good.
Speaker 1: So does the chocolate change if she's not there? It does?
Speaker 2: I mean she makes decisions about everything we do, about
Speaker 2: the ingredients, about the process, about the freshness, about the design.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're always thinking of new products.
Speaker 1: So do you know the recipes?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: You don't, I'll be fucked. Oh yeah, Could she give
Speaker 1: me a recipe for one of your chocolates and I
Speaker 1: could recreate it? Or is there no way it would happen?
Speaker 2: I don't think you get close.
Speaker 1: I bet I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I don't think you get close.
Speaker 1: I believe I enjoy I enjoy baking in the challenge,
Speaker 1: but I bet there's no way I get close to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, we have you know, machines and you know a
Speaker 2: bunch of equipment that help you do this process. You
Speaker 2: couldn't do it at home. You could come to the kitchen.
Speaker 2: You can play with us and see if it works.
Speaker 1: I would enjoy that more than a ride along with
Speaker 1: a cop if you if you were to give me
Speaker 1: the two options, right, I mean, unless I got to
Speaker 1: pick the area that I was going to do a
Speaker 1: ride on with some some areas are a little more
Speaker 1: interesting than ours.
Speaker 2: She's great, she'd show you a good time.
Speaker 1: You guys take a lot of pride in your packaging. Yeah, true, true,
Speaker 1: I mean that was is that your world? Is that
Speaker 1: what you specialized in? Like, okay, let's make this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you have any direct competition here in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: for high end chocolate?
Speaker 2: No? Not in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You have to go to you have to go to Belgium.
Speaker 2: You gotta get on a plane. Yes, i'd say so.
Speaker 1: Does your chocolate ever end up there?
Speaker 2: People definitely take it with them when they go back.
Speaker 2: If they're visiting Los Angeles and they want to take
Speaker 2: something home.
Speaker 1: You ever have experts from over there taste it and
Speaker 1: say yeah, job, well done, Yeah that's yeah. Or do
Speaker 1: they still stick their nose up because it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're America and so.
Speaker 2: No, we get a lot of positive feedback all the time.
Speaker 1: Wine in God's name. Do we say the word bon
Speaker 1: bonds in dumb old America.
Speaker 2: It's a generic term that we use, you know, to
Speaker 2: talk about a piece of chocolate.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: So some people say truffles, some people say bonbon some
Speaker 2: people say praleens. Bon bonn is just a way to
Speaker 2: sort of talk about a confection.
Speaker 1: Who produces the best chocolate, the Swiss, the Belgians, or
Speaker 1: the fine Christian folks at Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Well, they make chocolate candy. That's their thing.
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know that they're Christian. I
Speaker 1: just guess that was just a shot in the dark.
Speaker 1: I performed at their theater and they had they had
Speaker 1: some kind of rules. Do you remember that, Eddie, They
Speaker 1: had some rules. I just remember it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: be careful what you say. I'm like, what, be careful
Speaker 1: what I say? Get out of here. That old town's
Speaker 1: kind of weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Hershey, Pennsylvania. No?
Speaker 2: No, But I just heard an ad. It was yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was with my kid and we were driving the
Speaker 2: car and there's a Hershey added for Am and Joy
Speaker 2: and they're listening to Ingredient and they said, you know, almonds,
Speaker 2: coconut and chocolate candy. And I said, oh, that's because
Speaker 2: they can't say chocolate. They can say chocolate candy because
Speaker 2: it's not necessarily fully a chocolate product.
Speaker 1: So this is you know what you're doing to me
Speaker 1: right now? You're giving me the whole Like pringles can't
Speaker 1: say potato chip, right, they have to say crisp. You
Speaker 1: who can't say chocolate milk? They have to say chocolate drink. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. You guys do a hot chocolate and chocolate
Speaker 1: milk and it's incredible.
Speaker 2: My kids love it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't. I don't think I can drink chocolate milk,
Speaker 1: but I can drink a hot chocolate.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's why I like to be in Europe so much.
Speaker 1: No one looks down on you for drinking hot chocolate.
Speaker 1: They're here if I order hot chocolate there. Do you
Speaker 1: want that lukewarm for your son? I'm like, it's for me.
Speaker 1: You ever fuck with fudge?
Speaker 2: No, we don't do that. No.
Speaker 1: Do you like fudge?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: I don't like fudge either. I've never liked fudge. People
Speaker 1: always give me fudge too, am Like, I don't want this.
Speaker 1: My brother in law just bought me fudge. I told
Speaker 1: him I don't like it, and he's like, oh, you'll
Speaker 1: like this. I might, oh, because they know I have
Speaker 1: a sweet tooth, and so they think like, oh, I'll
Speaker 1: just give you some fudge. I I don't want fudge.
Speaker 1: But then they get mad at me because I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: just take it. I'm like, I'm not going to take it.
Speaker 2: You give it back. Where you get on fondue, I
Speaker 2: like fun do yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: I despise it.
Speaker 2: Really, I have to do it.
Speaker 1: I have to participate my wife. My wife likes it
Speaker 1: so so like once, I don't know, every six months
Speaker 1: we have a fond night at the house.
Speaker 2: Which part don't you like about the fondue?
Speaker 1: The whole process of this is a shitty meal that
Speaker 1: I'm just dipping things into cheese and then it's like okay,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna dip stuff into chocolate. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: it's I'm consuming way too much is probably the problem.
Speaker 1: Where do you stand on marshmallows and chocolate?
Speaker 2: They're good. We make marshmallows, you make in house marshmallows
Speaker 2: and they taste great. I'm down with it.
Speaker 1: What about uh? The somemore? Yeah, I despise it.
Speaker 2: So, really, you have something for you that's a s'more today?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, but it's not a somemore. The idea of
Speaker 1: making smores is awful because it doesn't work. The chocolate
Speaker 1: never melts, right, right, you're just basically just playing with
Speaker 1: fire and breathing smoke all night. It can't be good
Speaker 1: for you. At what percentage is cocow no longer enjoyable
Speaker 1: and just medicine for diabetics? What's your max cacow where
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, that's enough personally? Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I would say maybe eighty percent.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can go a little darker and I can
Speaker 1: go a little more, but that's in my wheelhouse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How old is your mother? And is she proof that
Speaker 1: you can eat sweets every day and live a long,
Speaker 1: healthy life.
Speaker 2: Yes, she is. She was born in nineteen forty six,
Speaker 2: so she can't do that. She's in there late seventies
Speaker 2: and she's healthy and happy and ate a lot of chocolate.
Speaker 1: You sell a gorgeous box of four pieces of chocolate
Speaker 1: on your website for twenty dollars, defend yourself.
Speaker 2: Each piece is made here in lah by a talented team.
Speaker 2: Each piece is fresh made, you know, with fresh ingredients,
Speaker 2: high quality cacao, and the packaging is just as special.
Speaker 1: So what does it cost that much?
Speaker 2: Everything, the ingredient, the labor, the packaging.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're appreciating. I talked to a guy, a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, who runs a restaurant business, and he
Speaker 1: just screams at me about how impossible it is to
Speaker 1: make a hamburger to make a profit. He's like, if
Speaker 1: I don't charge twenty dollars, I make a dollar. I'm like, anyway,
Speaker 1: I get that it's expensive. Do people just come in
Speaker 1: just to eat?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the time? Okay, without a box just out
Speaker 2: of the case.
Speaker 1: Is that cheaper?
Speaker 2: It is a little cheaper.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's good to know. It is. The Great Depression
Speaker 1: ended in nineteen forty one. So can you explain why
Speaker 1: raisinets are still around?
Speaker 2: No? Are they still around? I don't know if they are.
Speaker 1: I think they are. They are, they are, all right?
Speaker 1: Do you like old candies?
Speaker 2: I like milk duds. I do milk dud.
Speaker 1: That'll rip your teeth out. My father in law eats
Speaker 1: candy that doesn't that. I don't understand. What is he like?
Speaker 1: I don't know what cp he answers his phone, but
Speaker 1: he's he's I mean, it's confusing the king and said,
Speaker 1: I'll eat.
Speaker 2: Like old candy, old style.
Speaker 1: Yes, let me just let me just see if he
Speaker 1: answers real fast. Hey, hey, tell me five of the
Speaker 1: gross candies that you like to eat.
Speaker 5: Let's see, boy, I like circus peanuts. I'm gonna say
Speaker 5: any kind of jelly beans, but especially jelly belly. I
Speaker 5: like gum drops. I like hot tamalies. Those are really good.
Speaker 5: And I like nekchos. How's that fiveas?
Speaker 1: That is ridiculous? Do you like any chocolates?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: Mechas, I thought they went out of business. So the
Speaker 2: store them the bottom in bulk and keeps them.
Speaker 1: They're not fresh. You care about freshness of chocolate?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 1: How long from when you make chocolate should someone consume it?
Speaker 2: We tell them to eat it within ten days.
Speaker 1: That's easy, easy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: What about? What about in your shop? How long until
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that chocolate's past its prime? We keep
Speaker 1: it there for a week and then where does it go?
Speaker 2: It usually sells, So we have a system where it's
Speaker 2: selling within you know what we bring from the catching,
Speaker 2: from the kitchen to the store selling.
Speaker 1: I could never understand that business that. It's so hard
Speaker 1: to figure out that kind of stuff. It's a nightmare.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have some Kirkland signature chocolate in here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that can't be fresh either, right, I doubt it?
Speaker 2: No, six months, one year.
Speaker 1: One year? Okay? Ooh what am I looking at here?
Speaker 2: All right? So this is our twenty four piece chocolate box,
Speaker 2: popular size, and.
Speaker 1: In that box so that how it opens from the sides.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have both a line of modern style and
Speaker 2: robe chocolates and then a little more traditional European style
Speaker 2: classic in roadbomb bons.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Yeah, I see a fancy box like that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll get a pair of Italian shoes and they
Speaker 1: come in a shoe box. It's so much fancier than
Speaker 1: a normal shoebox, which is what we're dealing with here.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a fancy box. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: when I'm finished with the chocolate, I mean, you're stuck
Speaker 1: with the box, am am I? Or am I just
Speaker 1: getting rid of it? What am I supposed to do
Speaker 1: with the box? Is my question?
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people keep them. We do a
Speaker 2: lot of artist collaborations. We use artist artwork and people
Speaker 2: keep them.
Speaker 1: And am I supposed to shelf it, display it? This
Speaker 1: is a box we do. This is let me see
Speaker 1: this one. This is now this you could put on.
Speaker 1: I could curate this on my daughter's shelf in her room.
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: But that was an artist here in La. He's a muralist.
Speaker 2: His name is Bumblebee loves You.
Speaker 1: And his name's not Bumblebee loves you.
Speaker 2: It is I have to I call him Bumblebee for short.
Speaker 1: But yes, well right, but his his birth name is
Speaker 1: not Bumblebee loved But he did the He did.
Speaker 2: A mural that in Palisades at one of the schools
Speaker 2: that burned down.
Speaker 1: The elementary school. Yeah and yeah, I got you. And
Speaker 1: so we worked with him to create a box with
Speaker 1: the artwork. And so you know, this is not the
Speaker 1: one that burned down. But you did do one of.
Speaker 2: Me did that one and sold out and going to
Speaker 2: the second version. No, we don't have any.
Speaker 1: You didn't keep one for yourself.
Speaker 2: I might have one somewhere.
Speaker 1: Look at that.
Speaker 2: But you know, when we said, hey, let's go at
Speaker 2: it again, he said, all right, let's find it. You know,
Speaker 2: another artwork. This is a school in Rosemead, California.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful box. By the way, do you have
Speaker 1: to pay him to do this or was this something
Speaker 1: that he wanted to do with you guys.
Speaker 2: He wanted to do it, We don't, we both. His
Speaker 2: fee was donated to the schools we took passed, the
Speaker 2: Pasadena School District and the Los Angeles School District, and
Speaker 2: we also donated a portion of the proceeds.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, because I'm like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now I'm buying art. I mean, the chocolate in and
Speaker 1: of itself is art, but now you're putting art on
Speaker 1: top of it. I just want to get my fix.
Speaker 1: This is a twelve piece by the way. Yeah, best
Speaker 1: enjoyed within ten days. Store in a cool, dry place.
Speaker 1: What do you think about refrigeration? No, we suggest you
Speaker 1: don't know. Uh huh. Yeah. You were horrified when we
Speaker 1: received chocolates of yours from a guest, a guest of mine,
Speaker 1: well on the show This Watch Expert. He gave us chocolates,
Speaker 1: and you guys were worried those things were a bit
Speaker 1: too old. I think you opened them in March I
Speaker 1: opened them in March, and that way, we made him
Speaker 1: in December. That's that's okay, that's well, pass it is
Speaker 1: that why he gave them to me.
Speaker 2: That's interesting, that's funny he didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like you think the watch guy would
Speaker 1: have brought me a watch, right, just gave me old chocolate.
Speaker 1: Well I thought it was nice anyway. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see what Let's see what you brought kill.
Speaker 2: We even have a tasting menu for you.
Speaker 1: Look at this, guys, this is unbelievable. H we got
Speaker 1: the sixty four percent dark chocolate, the PB and Jay.
Speaker 1: You say pecan or pecan?
Speaker 2: I say Pecanah, what about you?
Speaker 1: I try not to bring it up. What? What the
Speaker 1: fuck is this?
Speaker 2: This is a pod?
Speaker 1: I love it. This is way do you go to school?
Speaker 1: You go to your kids schools and give speeches.
Speaker 2: Ever they come to the factory, to the factory.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yeah, you kind of win coolest dad job.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this is so we're a chocolate tear right as
Speaker 2: opposed to a chocolate maker. Chocolate maker somebody who takes
Speaker 2: uh you know, works with the pood right or the
Speaker 2: beans that are inside, and they turn that into a
Speaker 2: chocolate product, okay, and a chocolate tear then takes the
Speaker 2: chocolate product and other ingredients so fruit nuts, you know,
Speaker 2: marshmallows and puts them all together to create a bonbon,
Speaker 2: to create a confection.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so that's this is just to liven up
Speaker 2: the space. This is just to show you. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is a cacaw tree that was not going to give
Speaker 2: us something we can eat, but just to you know,
Speaker 2: give a little little juju for the room.
Speaker 1: Will it? Ever? What kind of climate do I need
Speaker 1: for this?
Speaker 2: More tropical?
Speaker 1: I'm not good with plants, man, I just replaced them constantly,
Speaker 1: that's my thing, all right. So what are we looking
Speaker 1: at here? Okay?
Speaker 2: So we have got dark chocolate to start off four,
Speaker 2: going with something that I think you'll like right away.
Speaker 1: That's a safe bed. Do you want me to Should
Speaker 1: I try one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Grab it?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: This one? Yeah? And what is this? This is just
Speaker 1: what's inside of this?
Speaker 2: It's a ganash. So it's just the chocolate, dairy and
Speaker 2: butter and butter. It's sixty four percent from Madagascar.
Speaker 1: Like the whole thing. That's delicious.
Speaker 2: I like how fast that went down though? That was
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's delicious.
Speaker 2: The next one is peeb and jay. We use a
Speaker 2: farmer's market strawberries, create a jam and add another layer
Speaker 2: of peanut pray lean for a real sort of peb
Speaker 2: and J flavor.
Speaker 1: Which direction do I need to bite into it to
Speaker 1: get all of it?
Speaker 2: It's all inside?
Speaker 1: Oh, I know. I didn't know if it was like
Speaker 1: jelly on this side versus peanut butter.
Speaker 2: Now, no, it's top to bottom. You can take a bite.
Speaker 2: You'll see it when you write.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I mean that's fun Too.
Speaker 2: Much milk chocolate for you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's delicious.
Speaker 2: That's one a chef's favorites.
Speaker 1: There's too much chocolate.
Speaker 2: You're only two two of them in.
Speaker 1: I'm anticipating.
Speaker 2: We can take a break. It ain't point.
Speaker 1: That's funny. We can take a break, all right, all right?
Speaker 2: So the next one is a pecan pray leane and
Speaker 2: toasted rice. That's this one right here.
Speaker 1: You guys mess with rice Krispy treats. No, at home,
Speaker 1: we do. My wife makes them does. Yeah, you put
Speaker 1: chocolate in it?
Speaker 2: No, but like a salted butter, which is really good.
Speaker 1: You guys are living good. Like by the way, this
Speaker 1: is great too.
Speaker 2: Oh good?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: The next one's back to fruit and back to milk chocolate,
Speaker 2: all right, Lemon meringue, macadamia.
Speaker 1: This is there's a chance I like this. I would,
Speaker 1: I was my favorite piece. I would be shocked if
Speaker 1: I enjoy this really. Oh yeah, I would. There's just
Speaker 1: no way that I would ever ever see this and
Speaker 1: go oh lemon ring chocolate. Sure.
Speaker 2: So there's three things going on there. There's that lemon
Speaker 2: lemon pad if we right, so like a nice citrus flavor,
Speaker 2: macadamia prey lean, and then a crunchy meringue. So it's
Speaker 2: got a great texture to it.
Speaker 1: That's really good. I mean it's confusing a little bit
Speaker 1: with the lemon, but I'm sure I like it. Are
Speaker 1: these harder to make than the other ones? Because they're
Speaker 1: no pretty inflame?
Speaker 2: They're all hard. They're all kind of equally hard to make.
Speaker 1: I mean I can imagine, right, but they are like
Speaker 1: little pieces of art right now. So these are painted
Speaker 1: with cocoa butter. The team, you know, prepares all the
Speaker 1: different layers that are going to go inside all the
Speaker 1: different ingredients, and they use a sort of a cavity
Speaker 1: mold to prepare the final chocolate, whereas the other ones
Speaker 1: you had are more traditional chocolate curtain and a road
Speaker 1: piece that goes through a chocolate curtain machine. Okay, by
Speaker 1: the way, I just say ten dollars worth of chocolate.
Speaker 1: He did because when I was a kid, I would
Speaker 1: go to the store with a quarter maybe fifty cents,
Speaker 1: and I would get something snow caps. You don't like those.
Speaker 2: As a kid, I didn't like you didn't like snow No,
Speaker 2: it's you.
Speaker 1: You've been bougie since day one. That is pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, where are we at now?
Speaker 2: Salty caramel. This is our first mold apiece.
Speaker 1: This would be my second pick if I was just
Speaker 1: to read the menu of what I would want, and
Speaker 1: we'll look at the bottom of that too. That is
Speaker 1: just so pretty. Mm hmm. That's what you like? You
Speaker 1: like that one?
Speaker 4: Hm?
Speaker 2: So it's a local butter milk and dark chocolate gnash
Speaker 2: and then a small sort of salt after you know,
Speaker 2: it's sort of the end.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's good starting, it's start. Eve get hot in here.
Speaker 2: Now you take your check it out?
Speaker 1: No, I can't. I gotta keep it on for continuity purposes.
Speaker 1: All right, what do we got left here.
Speaker 2: So s'mores is next. But it's all made for you.
Speaker 2: This is just you get to enjoy without any doing
Speaker 2: of the work, doing any of the work. So a
Speaker 2: layer of vanilla marshmallow?
Speaker 1: Is that what that? This is supposed to represent? The
Speaker 1: three circles?
Speaker 2: A little bit? Eh, layer layer gram cracker, housemade Graham cracker,
Speaker 2: and a milk chocolate shell.
Speaker 1: We did it. We found my least favorite. I don't
Speaker 1: like marshmallows as soon as they taste them, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just such a it's a consistency thing.
Speaker 3: Clown food.
Speaker 1: It's clown food.
Speaker 2: I say, this one is punk, this one is fruit.
Speaker 2: This one said you want it off the menu, you
Speaker 2: can make a substitute coffee.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, no, I don't want coffee. I don't call it.
Speaker 1: You're now you're really in my wheelhouse of things I
Speaker 1: don't like, But I like tasting things that I think
Speaker 1: I would would be furious about.
Speaker 2: Okay, what is it? Passion fruit, fashion fruit, orange, guava.
Speaker 2: So three fruit flavors?
Speaker 1: Oh wow?
Speaker 2: Got a pat off we at the top and a
Speaker 2: ganash at the bottom.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna say that that's just that's as
Speaker 1: good as that world can get and that's that's really
Speaker 1: it is good. I get why people would say that
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, it's just not my pre for chocolate.
Speaker 1: But that's overwhelming. Yeah, I mean I feel like I
Speaker 1: just there's so much citrus in my mouth. What are
Speaker 1: we up to? We're up to a yeah, close to
Speaker 1: a seventeen to fifty. I gotta get the twenty bucks.
Speaker 2: Here you are?
Speaker 1: This is okay Huntington tea. Yeah, what is this?
Speaker 2: So it's a black tea that we use from the
Speaker 2: Huntington Gardens in San Marino with a milk chocolate ghanash.
Speaker 2: It's got a very sort of jasmine herbal dark tea flavor,
Speaker 2: black tea flavor, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like tea. I don't like coffee.
Speaker 2: M I think you're gonna say you like it.
Speaker 1: That's way too much chocolate to consume. If you didn't
Speaker 1: tell me what that was, I think I was anticipating
Speaker 1: not liking it. And it's good.
Speaker 2: Oh good m h.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's that. I have no idea what I was tasting,
Speaker 1: but it felt it wasn't recognizable. If I would just again,
Speaker 1: I don't have the most sophisticated that is amazing. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this. This alone is the prettiest thing everything.
Speaker 1: So do you do you do all this? You pick
Speaker 1: the fonts? Yes, you do. Yeah, well that's what I
Speaker 1: care about. All right? Good? Why are you laughing at that?
Speaker 1: It's just like, gets pretty the fonts are People don't
Speaker 1: so many times my wife watched me do this stair day,
Speaker 1: I'm in a store and I said to the lady,
Speaker 1: I said, I go, do you own this place? And
Speaker 1: she said no, And I go, WHOA, Can I just
Speaker 1: give you my two cents? Your storefront window, you're closed
Speaker 1: a majority of the time, and they don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of space, but their storefront window everything is facing inward,
Speaker 1: so when you're outside of the closed store, you're seeing
Speaker 1: the back of everything on this window. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? I go, please just just turn that around.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I'll pass the note around and then anyway,
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, do you need anything? I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I do anything.
Speaker 2: What do they sell?
Speaker 1: You know, nick knacks, cute stuff whatever? Like you know,
Speaker 1: there's cards, there's blah blah blah. It's you know, a
Speaker 1: California store where you you buy a coffee table, book
Speaker 1: for eighty five bucks. But I was just like, your window,
Speaker 1: it's not pretty on the outside, and that's that matters.
Speaker 1: What are people going to do when they come on
Speaker 1: the inside. I'm like, well, at that point they're inside,
Speaker 1: mission accomplished. I just don't want people to fail. That's
Speaker 1: my point.
Speaker 2: We have great windows. Stuff's facing outside.
Speaker 1: No, my point was the little things matter. You're you're
Speaker 1: you know, everything looks good, everything's pretty. Thank you. Everybody's
Speaker 1: on the show gets a gift. Yeah. Oh, it's just
Speaker 1: stuff that I find around my house. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this person might like this. Now, do you uh you
Speaker 1: ever uh make your own pizza?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, yes, what's gonna be?
Speaker 1: I got you sweet this peel. For some reason, I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: this is in the wheelhouse of a chocolate tear. But
Speaker 1: I also this metal peel. I'm not good at using
Speaker 1: it because when it heats up the dough kind of
Speaker 1: it's I can't slide it off. You have to put
Speaker 1: meal on it. That's not my thing. Anyway, this peal
Speaker 1: doesn't work with me. I have to use a wood peel.
Speaker 2: You'll love that, all right, we should try this in
Speaker 2: the kitchen for sure.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's a nice peal for you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to put that on the floor. That'll
Speaker 1: scratch my desk all up it probably don't lean it
Speaker 1: against the wall. You might need to lay that flat.
Speaker 1: That thing is huge.
Speaker 2: Is a monster.
Speaker 1: Rank Jean Wilder, Johnny Depp, and Timothy Shallow may your
Speaker 1: Wonka's rank your Wonka's.
Speaker 2: Jeane's number one. I'll do Johnny Depp number two and
Speaker 2: Timothy number three.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I want to see how different rs are
Speaker 1: mine number one, Timothy Shallomey really two? Gene?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fuck Johnny? Alright, Timothy shallum is a monster. This kid
Speaker 1: can act. I know. Out of the three of those people,
Speaker 1: by far the best actor. Come at me. Anybody disagree
Speaker 1: this guy's getting nominated for Oscars? You think Johnny's been
Speaker 1: nominated for an Oscar. I don't know that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess he hasn't. And I know Gene was never nominated
Speaker 1: for an Oscar him, don't, don't. I'm an employee. Theft
Speaker 1: Is that a problem?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Not that, not that I know of it.
Speaker 1: I bring it up because my wife she worked at
Speaker 1: it at Chocolate Place when she was a kid, and
Speaker 1: it was next to a movie theater and all her
Speaker 1: friends would come in and she would give them, like
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of the places where you'd
Speaker 1: weigh stuff and she'd like, whatever, it was employee theft,
Speaker 1: All right, it's what she was doing. She was giving
Speaker 1: her friends forgetting. But Marissa used to come in and
Speaker 1: she was mean to my wife as a kid in
Speaker 1: school when my wife was fourteen years old, and my
Speaker 1: wife would and Marissa would like, hey, here's my candy.
Speaker 1: I wanted for free, and my wife would charge her. Oh,
Speaker 1: and that made Marissa furious. I'm told I've heard this
Speaker 1: story three hundred times. But anyway, then one day the
Speaker 1: business just closed up. She goes, I show up to
Speaker 1: work and it was closed and there was no and
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, because you'd been fucking stealing from them
Speaker 1: for way too long. You said that your company has
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty employees depending on the season. Yeah, My
Speaker 1: question is when is chocolate's busy season?
Speaker 2: From October Halloween time, all the way through Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: All the way through Mother's Day. Yeah, I'm not buying
Speaker 1: my mom chocolate her Mother's Day?
Speaker 2: What do you get her?
Speaker 1: Usually send her flowers and then she you know, what
Speaker 1: she does with them. When I send her flowers, she
Speaker 1: splits them in half. She's that they're too big for
Speaker 1: my place, and then she just gives the other half
Speaker 1: to my sister.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: Do people want to chocolate for for uh? For Christmas? Yeah?
Speaker 1: End of the year.
Speaker 2: Christmas is the busiest, our busiest time of the year.
Speaker 1: Valentine are still giving away chocolate for Valentine's d Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you guys force that on people?
Speaker 2: Probably a little bit with our emails, Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: Wait do you get it? Do you get a discount
Speaker 1: if you get on the email list?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Good, good for you. That always bothers me. Good time
Speaker 1: I see a thing, Oh, first time buyer, just give
Speaker 1: us your email. We'll give you an extra ten percent
Speaker 1: off of My God, I'd rather not have ten percent
Speaker 1: right than have to unsubscribe down the road four times.
Speaker 1: By the way, what do you do at Halloween at
Speaker 1: your house? What are you given out? Are you giving
Speaker 1: out your fancy chocolates?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Have you ever?
Speaker 2: Just to friends?
Speaker 1: I mean that would be amazing. Because my manager, Christy Smith,
Speaker 1: she loves to brag or give three hundred full saized
Speaker 1: bars out this year and I'm like, who cares, it's
Speaker 1: shitty chocolate. Now, if you were giving out fancy chocolate,
Speaker 1: that would be incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd be very popular on the block.
Speaker 1: You're always in like the fancy gift bags and stuff
Speaker 1: for like the Oscars things like that.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't do many of those, but I don't know. Okay, No,
Speaker 2: they usually want it, you know, for free.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the problem I find with show business in general,
Speaker 1: is a lot of people really just cheap. They just
Speaker 1: want handouts. Because I'm being honest about it, it always
Speaker 1: like when I first was in show business and had
Speaker 1: a bit of success, I was so excited to get them,
Speaker 1: And now I don't want handles. I'd rather pay to
Speaker 1: not be annoyed, yeah, or to be like, hey, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll give this to you, but can we have you
Speaker 1: post on your social media accounts? And I don't do it.
Speaker 1: I can't do that anyway.
Speaker 2: Right, And they ask us to pay too. We have
Speaker 2: to pay to be in. So not only is it freebie,
Speaker 2: but it's also paid up to participate.
Speaker 1: That is interesting, you is hear that? All right? Is
Speaker 1: it the goal of every chocolate teer to get in
Speaker 1: a Kiosk in the airport.
Speaker 2: Yes, that would be We love that. You're not you're serious?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah?
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: We have people who always come to our shop buy
Speaker 2: chocolate and take it home. And yesterday there was a
Speaker 2: family from India. They bought you know, six or seven
Speaker 2: boxes and they took it with them to the airport.
Speaker 1: We need to get you a duty free spot. And
Speaker 1: at LAX we're always duty free. By the way, there's
Speaker 1: no tax, no.
Speaker 2: Tax, no, so we're duty free all the time anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 2: We should put that on front of the in front
Speaker 2: of the shop duty free chocolates.
Speaker 1: How many years has this sword been here?
Speaker 2: Originally? We opened in nineteen eighty three eighty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good run. Yeah, would you guys signed?
Speaker 1: You guys buy the building your mom fib You guys
Speaker 1: have forty year lease.
Speaker 2: No, we've We've renewed many times.
Speaker 1: Do they try to kick you out ever?
Speaker 2: No, We're like, no, they won't to day. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: have a corner a corner location. It's a wonderful spot.
Speaker 1: Where exactly is it.
Speaker 2: We're in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: But you can order this online.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, okay, we ship nationwide. We have friends, family,
Speaker 2: community all over.
Speaker 1: The only time I'm in Beverly Hills where your shop
Speaker 1: is is for my n T M fertility doctor. What other?
Speaker 1: All of them are just right there.
Speaker 2: The dentists.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's nice. My dentist is there too? Your dentist there, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's my dentist. Is the other woman in the practice?
Speaker 2: Is my identity?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: You went to the younger woman I got. I got
Speaker 1: Larry still on top of his game. He's older, but
Speaker 1: man's up. You see him. He's a professor at U
Speaker 1: c l A. Oh, he's the best. I remember once
Speaker 1: when I was when I first started going there, I
Speaker 1: was like a young kid fresh off the bus, and
Speaker 1: he's like, so what do you doing. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: do comedy And then like he's like, I got I
Speaker 1: got less moonvez in the chair over there. Let's see
Speaker 1: if we can get him to give you a show.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's see if you pull
Speaker 1: this off, Doc.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: It didn't work, by the way, he has any weird
Speaker 1: you guys go in any of these uh freaky Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills sex party? Do you ever get invited to those?
Speaker 1: With the chocolate? I'm here about these things never once
Speaker 1: been invited. I've never once seen one, but I but
Speaker 1: I know they exist.
Speaker 2: We should be there. The chocolate should definitely be That's
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Tell me when you hear about it,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: Although it be funny to bring your chocolate to that party,
Speaker 1: I just thought maybe you guys would be invited because
Speaker 1: of the you know the nature of it as well.
Speaker 2: It goes well, it pairs nicely, that's good.
Speaker 1: Well, so I appreciate you guys coming by all the
Speaker 1: all the best, and thank you very much for the chocolate.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you all right, pleasure.
Speaker 1: Casha. I want to thank Phil and the fine chocolate
Speaker 1: tears at anne Son's. I would like to point out
Speaker 1: that his brother Mark was here and when Phil was
Speaker 1: giving out chocolates after we finished the interview to the
Speaker 1: crew here, there were some leftover chocolates and Mark took
Speaker 1: them home. They weren't in a package or anything. They
Speaker 1: were they were the ones that we didn't plate. They're
Speaker 1: still probably fifteen or so pieces, and the crew just
Speaker 1: watched them put those away and leave with them. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm gonna be honest with you, weird disappointed.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the courage to say anything in the moment,
Speaker 1: but as soon as he walked out, we're all like,
Speaker 1: can you believe that he took that? He took all
Speaker 1: the leftovers? Hot gossip? That was That was the big talk.
Speaker 1: But I want to thank Phil ann Mark. They do.
Speaker 1: They do a wonderful job. We got the tossshowstore dot
Speaker 1: com guys, get your merch new stuff coming soon, Eddie's tour,
Speaker 1: Daniel Tosh's tour. Check us out, man. I am excited
Speaker 1: to get to the Midwest, my roots, get back to
Speaker 1: my roots. What do you think, Carl? Hit up those
Speaker 1: fine people on Madison, Wisconsin. Go over to Milwaukee on
Speaker 1: our Harley Davidson. Huh. Head over to Minneapolis St.
Speaker 2: Paul.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Twin Cities. Go go stop into Target. Ah,
Speaker 1: they love the Target there in Minneapol. Maybe go to
Speaker 1: the Mall of America with my boy. Let him ride
Speaker 1: the roller coaster at the Nickelodeon Amusement Park. That's there.
Speaker 1: I really know these markets, don't I Omaha, guess what
Speaker 1: we're doing in Omaha College World Series. Father in law
Speaker 1: is gonna come with us, he said, Daniel, that's a
Speaker 1: bucket list item for me. I really want to thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, whatever, it's great. We're gonna we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to the College World Series Kansas City. You know we're
Speaker 1: doing in Kansas City. Right, We're just gonna eat so
Speaker 1: much barbecue. We'll let people tell us where to eat
Speaker 1: and then we'll ignore that and uh just have some
Speaker 1: grub hub ship us some Nashville barbecue.
Speaker 2: Fight words.
Speaker 1: What's that? Those are fighting words? Now? I we'll get
Speaker 1: some good barbecue there in Kansas City, and then in
Speaker 1: Chicago we'll get some of that lasagna pizza and put
Speaker 1: a pickle spear on our on our hot dog and
Speaker 1: just be like, well, it was fun knowing you have
Speaker 1: some alort. You're ready for the free plug. Let's hit
Speaker 1: the music all like that little scatting, a little scatting
Speaker 1: for the free plug. It's hard to find a good
Speaker 1: scat playlist. It always changes. All right, let's do this
Speaker 1: free plug. I'm positive I'm gonna like this one. This
Speaker 1: free plug is gonna intrigue the ladies and the gentlemen. Women.
Speaker 1: Get your summer body ready because it's almost bikini contest
Speaker 1: season at Flora Bama. The most famous beach bar in
Speaker 1: the country. They have a bikini contest throughout the summer
Speaker 1: beginning April twenty six. The top three winners from each
Speaker 1: contest are then eligible to compete in the Labor Day
Speaker 1: Bikini Contest Finale for a chance to win five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: All contestants must be signed up, registered, and on site
Speaker 1: no later than two pm on the day of the
Speaker 1: contest to compete. All contestants must be twenty one or
Speaker 1: older to register. You know, I don't think you should
Speaker 1: put a men age. I think you should put a
Speaker 1: max age. You know it should. Yeah, Oh, you think
Speaker 1: to twenty one?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's some there's some eighteen year olds that really look
Speaker 1: great in a bathing suit. You're gonna say that they
Speaker 1: can't just because they can't partake in the alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 1: That seems that seems silly. Anyway, bring your ID when
Speaker 1: you come for the contest. All winners must fill out
Speaker 1: a W nine to receive their prize money. Oh man,
Speaker 1: this is where Trump's gonna crack down on some of
Speaker 1: the illegals that are entering these bikini contests and cleaning up.
Speaker 1: That's what we don't want. We don't want these illegals
Speaker 1: with their smoking hot bods to come in and start
Speaker 1: winning all our local bikini contests. This is a Floriabama.
Speaker 1: It's located you guessed it on the border of Florida
Speaker 1: and Alabama. Now have you ever been there to this bar?
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 1: I think I think I have. I think I've been there.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I wonder if it's actually on the border,
Speaker 1: like where you can do that thing, will step over
Speaker 1: a line, go back and forth. Don't forget to stop
Speaker 1: by the Oyster bar while you're there and also enjoy
Speaker 1: some live music. It couldn't be a better time. What
Speaker 1: when's the last time you went to a bikini contest, Eddie?
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever been to a bikini contest,
Speaker 4: real serious, Absolutely.
Speaker 1: You've never been to a bikini You've never been at
Speaker 1: a place where bikini contest is broke out.
Speaker 3: I mean broke out.
Speaker 4: No, maybe they've had them there before, but I have
Speaker 4: not ever been to one.
Speaker 1: I've definitely. You know, that's got to be just the
Speaker 1: Florida like there's just always bikini contests at like the
Speaker 1: beach Wet and Wild used to have.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. Sure.
Speaker 1: I think my sister entered one once.
Speaker 3: She do good, she did what she plays.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I know that I was embarrassed
Speaker 1: because she was doing a French accent and acting like
Speaker 1: she didn't speak English. Yeah, that's that's my family, always
Speaker 1: always going for the joke. Well whatever, yeah went and
Speaker 1: well they used to do. Uh, they used to do
Speaker 1: like a night series and in the summer. Or this
Speaker 1: isn't a free plug for them. It's a free plug
Speaker 1: for a bikini contest at the Flora Bama Bar. So
Speaker 1: get in there and uh you know, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: be respectful. And I hope the judging criteria isn't just like,
Speaker 1: oh this this girl was with some augmentations, should win. No,
Speaker 1: you know, give some flapjack older brought a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all we're asking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I wonder if you have to wear a
Speaker 1: two piece in a bikini a contest. Yes, you think
Speaker 1: because a lot of girls, I know, for a while
Speaker 1: in those bikini kinds were wearing those slingshot bathing suits.
Speaker 1: Remember that that borat war that's called the slingshot. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's just like covers your your huha, and it's
Speaker 1: like just a thin little shirt, but that's technically a
Speaker 1: one piece. That is not that is not a two pie,
Speaker 1: that is not a bikini anyway. Uh, well, I'll be there,
Speaker 1: I'll be there, I'll be I'll be there for the
Speaker 1: whole season. Yeah, well, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I see who wins the
Speaker 1: final grand prize of five thousand dollars. Nothing validates Bikini
Speaker 1: Season more than a third place finish at the Flora
Speaker 1: Bama Bar. See you next week.