WEBVTT - I Choose … To “Just Try It” with Phil Rosenthal Part 2 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:09.040 You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Hey, everyone, 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.639 welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:17.040 the choices we make. We're back with Phil Rosenthal, host 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.959 of Somebody Feed Phil, and he's about to tempt me 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:27.400 with some amazing restaurant choices. Warning you're about to get hungry. Well, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:32.640 I'm a vegan, so you know it's I'm limited as 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.120 far as like where I can go. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.919 And if you go to New York and LA you're doing. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.320 Well, you're doing okay. Anywhere else be. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:41.080 A happy vegan? 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:42.000 Yeah, for sure? 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.120 Just the Indian food alone, right? 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.280 Oh yeah, did you go to London? 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:48.560 Of course? 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.400 Have you had the Indian food in London? 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:51.159 Amazing? 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:52.000 Amazing? 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.040 But I found a place in New York that I 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.200 think is as good as London. Nothing's as good as India. Yeah, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:00.160 been there? 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:01.240 No, not yet? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.600 Okay, So you can be a very happy vegan in 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.560 India because a lot of people are so. And and 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.160 if you listen, if you like Indian food gets where, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.479 it's really good in India. Same with every other country 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.959 you can think of. But there's a place in New York. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.600 Next time you go. You might want to write this down. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:19.680 It's called Bungalow. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:20.920 Bungalow. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.440 It's on the Lower East Side. Okay, brilliant, brilliant chef. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.120 And that's some of the best Indian food I've ever 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.200 had in New York, London or India. That's the one 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.880 thing I find. Don't be mad at me, people that 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.320 maybe La doesn't have as strong a game. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.840 M Yeah, I've never really like sought out all the 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:47.560 Indian food. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.320 There are great places, there's just not I find as 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.200 many as in New York, London, and of course India. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.800 Is it's what's your favorite kind of food? 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.680 I actually love Indian and I can eat it once 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.200 a week. I think I do really love Italian. I 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.880 love Chinese, I love Japanese, I love barbecue, I love 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.760 Korean barbecue. I love Korean food. I love you know, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.600 I live right in the middle of town, and you 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:13.680 know I love a diner. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.839 Yes, Oh, I want to ask you about the diner. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.040 You are opening a diner. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.680 Yes with Nancy Silverton. You know who she is? 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.440 Incredible? What's it called? And where can people find it? 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.040 Because it'll be on large bumple of art in LA. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.560 Hopefully it's lovely little street. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.480 Lovely hopefully it'll be uh end of the summer. But 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.480 you know, the city's very tough with the inspections and 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:43.679 everything with just yesterday a guy came in. Different guy. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:44.760 It's always a different thing. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:45.560 Was a different guy. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:52.080 We did this, take a look according to the blueprint. Yeah, no, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.040 that's no good. What do you mean The inspector said, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.519 this is exactly right. Yeah, but I didn't. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.320 Why do they have to make things so difficult? 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.280 I don't know, but it's like, you know, have you 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.079 ever worked with a studio where you get a note 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:08.560 from one guy and then you do it, and then 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:13.639 another guy has a different that's like that. Yeah, everyone 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:19.160 wants to be king of their kingdom, so you have 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.320 to deal with that. But it's it's a necessary evil. Anyway. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.320 The Diaerd's going to be fantastic. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:25.920 It's named after your mom and dad. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.720 It is called max Helens Maxon Helens. And they were 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:34.239 always in somebody feed Phill while they were alive. They 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.880 did a little scene with me at the end. I 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.080 would zoom with them just like this from wherever I 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.680 was in the world to tell them about the place 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.360 I was at. And they were always so sweet and funny, 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:54.360 really funny. They never failed, they always delivered. Anyway, this 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.680 is a little tribute to them. My dad loved his 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.560 very soft scrambled eay. It was his favorite thing in life. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.400 So there'll be Max's fluffy eggs on the menu and 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:06.880 Helen's Matsi bol soup. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:08.280 Oh my god, I'm coming. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:08.920 Come on. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.000 You know it's hard to find a good mats of 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:11.480 ball soup. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.560 Well, Nancy Silverton, I have to say, uh, no offense, mom, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.320 but this is a little better. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.120 Oh exciting everybody. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.680 Everything he touches it becomes the best you ever had. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:29.359 So imagine the diner of your dreams, like just nothing fancy, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:35.160 just basic diner. The best waffle you ever had, the 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.600 best pancakes, the best tune of milk, the best pattimel, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.760 the best Oh my god, well Vegan, it's gonna be 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:44.720 a little harder for you, But. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.799 I know I can have a waffle. It's got to excentent, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.800 but I'll try it anyway. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.600 Waffle batter have eggs in it, I. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.360 Think, so, I think so maybe yours. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.440 Well, salads, there's salads. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.280 Well it's coming and that's a exciting. So everybody look 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.480 out for Max and Helen's opening soon hopefully. We talked 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.640 before about how your family seems to play such a 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.000 big role in everything you do, which again is why 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.880 I think everyone loves you. See what I did there, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.960 from everybody loves Raymond to your foundation, to your new 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.200 diner to your new cookbook. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.320 Oh yes, what's happening. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:24.320 You have a new cookbook. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.440 Here's the first one, and that did very well. That 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.600 was a New York Times bestseller. Somebody feed filled the 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.520 book and we thought we'd expand on that. The first 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.039 one was just recipes from the first four seasons of 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.120 the show, but now we have eight scenes of the show, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.719 so my favorite recipes from the rest of the show, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.839 and friends and family recipes. So it's Phil's favorites. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.719 Oh my gosh, your life is so good right now. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:55.080 You just eat and laugh and have fun and travel. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:02.920 These are the values family, friends, food, travel, laughs. That's it. Yeah, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.040 that's life to me. That's that's what makes life good. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.480 M right, m hm. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.080 Did you grow up in a diner? 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.320 Oh yeah, My whole life spent in diners. Yeah, sure, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.120 so New York, New Jersey, that whole area that's diner 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.479 ground zero for dinner. Yeah, so you know, it's where 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.000 we went after high school. This is where every event 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.440 after high school. Let's go to the diner. You have 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.040 a cheeseburger deluxe. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.719 Would you know where I used to go Canters? 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.000 Of course. Well that's a deli and it's a lot deli. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:34.880 It's a lot like. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.680 Uh and it was twenty four it's. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.440 I don't know, I'm too old to go out that 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.000 late now. But when I used to go out and 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.600 like go to dance clubs and stuff, we would always 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.280 end up okay. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.880 And we see guns and roses there, right. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.120 Yeah, it's quite a scene. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.320 It was a scene, but it's wonderful. And I love 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.880 breakfast all day. I think that's great. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.080 You and my husband both yes, yes, Dave loves a 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.080 breakfast burrito. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.760 Me too. We won't have breakfast burritos. That's too new. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.160 So we're going back. Okay, this old school diner. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.600 This is like on the plate. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.120 And the designer of the space said, what do you want? 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.440 I said, listen, I just wanted to look like we 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.640 found one hundred year old diner because Larchmount where it is, 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.960 has that history. What if it looked like this diner's 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.760 always been there for a hundred years and what if 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.400 the menu you kind of reflected, you know, the basic, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.800 just the basics, elevated only by the best possible ingredients, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.640 done by a great chef who knows what they're doing, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.280 which is need. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.760 You got to go back to the classics. You got 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.840 to go back to where you started. I think that's 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:48.240 the key. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.240 Well, it's that comfort food. It's that ratatoy thing if 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.000 you have. If you bite into, you know, grilled chy 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:02.120 sandwich with tomato soup on the side, it'll take you somewhere. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.360 It will take you somewhere. I know where it'll take me, 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.360 but I hope it takes you somewhere. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.720 All are fantastic, but choose your own adventure. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:24.160 Yeah, oh my gosh. Okay, So, like you said, you've 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.840 been married to your wife Monica since nineteen ninety Is 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:28.200 that right? 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:29.080 Exactly right? 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.600 Wow, Okay, that is rare and amazing. Congratulations in this 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.440 day and age. What is your secret sauce for keeping 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.000 that partnership going strong? 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.280 I have a travel show. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:44.640 What does that mean? You're gone a lot? 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.840 The real secret sense of humor? 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.040 I love that. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.280 That's our most undervalue trade as human beings. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.880 I think, well, what about when the jokes are old 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.680 and she's heard them a hundred times. Got to write 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.640 some new jokes, get some new material. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.440 She can always make me laugh. I think I can 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.520 make her laugh, and that there's nothing better than that, 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.920 because now at the end of the day, you're old friends, right, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.480 And I think that the sense of humor thing and 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.800 not just saying that as a platitude. Well, from the 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.800 time your kid, you're attracted to the other kids who 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.520 you laugh with, who, even if their sense of humor 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.240 isn't exactly yours, you appreciate each other's sense of humor, right, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.160 You get each other's and it's how we make friends 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.520 going forward in life. In high school you can remember 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.440 laughing with your friends. In college, of course you have 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:51.640 extra help sometimes making things funny. But then I'll go 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:56.679 so far as to say it's who we choose to marry. Yeah, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.000 if you don't have laughs with the person I don't, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.520 I think it's long for the world. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.560 Yeah, I mean yeah, because I want to laugh, Like 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.079 I don't want to be serious. I'm I'm serious at 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.360 work or i'm you know, I've got a lot of 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.559 my mind. I want somebody that's gonna take my mind 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.960 off of things. Sometimes and give me that just that 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:21.559 feeling of safety and comfort. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:30.640 My parents, you know, they came from they came from Germany. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.760 You know, they were Holocaust survivors. So they had deep, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.720 dark backgrounds, right right, and so they had problems obviously 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.079 that psychologically that that of course, you can't live through 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.560 something like that where it doesn't affect you. And so 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.000 it was volatile. And you know, they had two little 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.960 monsters at home and me and my brother we were 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.400 always fighting. But when we weren't yelling, we were laughing. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.959 And making each other laugh was like the currency of 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.840 the house. That was how you got Oh i'm good, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.720 I'm in good with mom, or I made dad laugh 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.800 or I made my brother laugh. That's everything. That's that's 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:16.080 that's like. And what's better? What's better? Everything's good when 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.240 you're laughing, everything is good. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.600 What if what if there are homes out there that 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.000 are listening right now and they need more laughter in 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.040 their life, they need they want more laughter. How do 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.120 you think they can get it? 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.560 You lighten up. First of all, you watch you don't 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.600 just watch the news. You don't just watch the murder. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.079 That's not going to make you laugh. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.640 Or the murder shows there's murder shows. There's a lot 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.880 of entertainment at what they call entertainment out there that 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:49.760 is the worst of human nature. I mean sometimes I'm 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:54.160 not a prude, but shows where moms sleep with their 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.720 son's friends. What kind of show is this? What the 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:58.600 hell is happening? 0:11:59.040 --> 0:11:59.439 Yeah? 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.720 Show? It sounds like a bad porn site. What are 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.000 you doing? But it's Those shows are a lot more 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.320 popular than somebody feed Phil. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.360 So lighten up, lighten up. Even what you're watching on TV, well, that's. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.960 A very good way if you're not. Everyone has to 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.520 be funny, but you should know at least where to 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:19.640 go to find the funny. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:20.600 Mm hmm. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.839 There's a really fun movie out right now that I 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.040 would tell people to watch that I just watch, which 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.640 was Naked Gut. Oh. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.000 I haven't seen it yet, So. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.800 You got something to look forward to because it's jilly 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.600 and funny and damn if it's not what the doctor 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.400 ordered right now? Yeah, you know, I tell people, yes, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:40.920 you have to be informed. You have to know what's 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.320 going on your you know, our lives, I think depend 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.960 on it. But once in a while, a little somebody 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.240 feed Phil, a little little break. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.160 A little levity, right, yeah, you need a break. That's 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.920 so true. You have this foundation. What's the name of 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:56.480 your foundation? 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:57.720 Somebody Feed the People? 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:02.559 Somebody Feed the People? Perfect? Yes, Why was food injustice 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.319 and supporting restaurant workers something that you wanted to champion? 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.200 Well, it's not just that you go wherever the need is. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.200 And for me, if I'm identified now as the food guy, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.320 then why not have it be centered around food? And 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:24.400 if you go to my website at Phil rosenthalworld dot com. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.800 First of all, you can see everywhere we've been on 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:31.160 the show, including every single restaurant in place that we visit, 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.520 has their website, their phone number. You can make a reservation, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.800 you don't have to take No, it's all there. But 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.440 the other thing that's there the links to all of philanthropy, 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.800 including Somebody Feed the People, which is just an amalgam 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:49.560 of all the food charities that we love to support. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.560 In this episode, I try to find some kind of 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.000 charitable organization in the place we're in that we put 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.560 it on the screen. If this has touched your heart, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.280 maybe you want to give a little something like me, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.880 and then that's a good way so you feel like 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.800 you're helping a little bit, which is better than not 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.439 helping a little bit. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.520 Right, that's so true. I think we can get scared 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.120 that we don't know how to help, or our little 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.320 bit of help is not going to change anything. Use 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.240 so that keeps us from doing anything. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.200 By the way, at the very least, it makes you 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.880 feel better because you did something. When my kids would 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.920 get upset all my life, Oh I hate everything and everybody, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.320 I'd say, go help somebody. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.640 Yeah, it instantly changes things, that's right, when you put yourself. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.640 I mean that for me was having when I had kids. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.880 I was like, oh, this is so good to put 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.000 my love and energy into something else and rather than 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.520 being focused on myself. And I always kind of credit 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.760 becoming a mom and having kids just saving me from 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.680 myself in Hollywood. Yes, and I just think that that's 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.120 the best thing I ever did, so in essence, that 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:03.640 was helping. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.520 We can all be self centered, right yeah, yeah, career 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.640 or career, career, And I'm sure this extends to people 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.760 not in show for sure, but the moment you have 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.760 kids or have to help someone else, already out of 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:24.680 your own head with your own blowney so true. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.160 What will we do without restaurants? I'm my husband, Yeah, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.160 he is in the hospitality industry, owns a bar. He 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.760 owns a bar restaurant. This is his third endeavor. It's 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:43.080 called the Douglas. It's in LA It's right by Dodger Stadium. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:47.000 So it's a great pregame after game place to go. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.880 They have really good food, not just bar greasy food, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.240 but nice bar food. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.240 So have to go. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.400 Yeah, I gotta check it out. Come in. We'll feed you. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:56.480 He will feed you. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:57.360 That's great. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.600 But so I speak for my husband and thanking you 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.720 for spreading the awareness and you know, and the gratitude 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.640 for what is a really hard business and industry. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.600 You don't have to tell me I've invested in many restaurants, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.920 actually because I'm not very bright. Yeah, it's because it's 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.680 one of the arts. Why shouldn't your sense of taste 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.000 be any less important than your sense of smell or sight? 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:29.440 We're hearing right, It's again all connected. And of course 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:30.480 it's an art form. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:36.960 Yeah, it's like you know, cheers, where everybody knows your name. Yes, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.840 I think that's a good feeling too, when you go 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.120 in a restaurant and you just feel welcome and you 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.240 feel like the people there actually care and enjoy what 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:47.640 they do. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.520 I asked Thomas Keller, one of the great chefs of America, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.880 for a little advice about opening the diner. I said, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.720 what's the most important thing? And you know what he said, 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.000 the service, the service, even the food. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:02.520 I mean, it's true. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.480 You have to have that that you're talking about. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.280 Yeah, that atmosphere is so important. Yes, and it has 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.959 to be across the board with all the employees, everybody 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.000 that works there, because there's that one, like, you know, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.600 rotten Apple. Yeah, that one cranky person you can really 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:21.280 mess things up. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:21.800 Yeah. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:27.520 Yeah. What's your relationship with self care? I mean, I 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.000 don't say eating pizza because well unless that's true, but 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.200 that's it. What's something you do just for you? 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:35.800 Work out every day? 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.680 Really? Yeah, I was just I was going to ask 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.399 you follow up to this and ask you how do 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.560 you stay fit when you're always eating and on the road. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.320 Well, that's, first of all, it's necessity. I have to 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:51.879 the way in my clothes. But by and then I 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.240 you know, I guess there's no such thing as a 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.040 free meal. You gotta pay for it somehow. I'm paying 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.639 for it by exercise. Walk first thing in the morning, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.600 I walk up like a mile and a third to Largemont. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.680 I have my coffee with my friends and my dog 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.399 with me. Then I walk back another mile and a 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.280 third home and then the weights, the weights. I gotta 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.240 do it. I have to. And I'll tell you something. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.000 Even with that, it gets harder every year because we 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.600 love muscle. As we get older, we gain weight as 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.800 we get older, and I want to keep eating the 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.840 way I'm used to eating, and I can't even you know, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.760 it's not even, it's not fair because I have to. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.240 I have to actually cut back otherwise you can't. They say, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:40.320 you can't outrun a bad diet, right. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:40.840 It can't. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.680 So your body is maybe twenty percent of your workout. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:51.679 Your workout affects maybe twenty percent of how your physical body. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.320 The diet is like eighty percent. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:55.520 Yeah, it's all about the food. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:56.040 The diet. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.240 I'm that's so hard because there's so many yummy things 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.600 I want to eat nice. Yes, do you work out 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.560 on your own or do you do? You go in 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.600 there and you have the drive to get in there 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:08.560 and pump the iron. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.439 You know. I never worked out a day in my 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.840 life until I was forty. Really, yeah, and then I 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.520 started going to trainers, and over the years, I've picked 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.280 up routines and now I I'm self sufficient. So I 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.320 have a little gym in my house, and of course 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.680 every hotel I go to hazard gym. And before, let's 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.639 say i'm filming the show, before I'm going to shoot 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:34.760 that day, i'd better do some physical activity because if 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.440 you've seen the show, you see me eat a lot. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:39.720 Because I am eating a lot. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.120 It's a hazard of your job, but it's the best. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.159 It's true. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.560 The other secret is I share everything. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.600 Oh that's a good idea, and it's. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.159 Only good if you can share it, because you know, 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.080 I'm eating the most delicious thing in the world, and 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:55.840 I look out at the crew and they're looking at 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.720 me like this, it's not cool, So it's only fun 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.120 to sh air it with them. I love sharing it. Yeah. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.480 The other secret is if you see me eating a 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.920 lot in that scene, it's because that scene is the 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.359 only scene we shot that day, which means that's the 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:13.800 only thing I ate that day. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.080 So you're gonna, yeah, you're in go for it. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:22.679 So I'm getting hungry for the camera. 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.320 I can't even believe how hungry you're making me with 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.879 this interview. I do have one more question, though, but 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.679 I feel like I know the answer, but I think 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.440 it's important to ask this question because we talked about 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.120 meaning and purpose and how we hang in there and 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.840 the hard times. But let's talk about joy because you 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.600 sure have a lot of it, and you sure bring 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.919 a lot of it to a lot of people, and 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.879 that's got to just make you feel really good. But 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:48.879 what is it that brings you joy? 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:58.600 Meeting great nice people like you? Because again that you asked, 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.520 it's the same answer as to what keeps you going 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.080 when in these times because most people are sweet and 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.680 nice's let's forget that. Well, we see the news, right, 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:16.239