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Speaker 1: When you close your eyes. I know this is our

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Speaker 1: dream job. But if you didn't do this, what would

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Speaker 1: your dream job be? Siciny, You've asked me this before,

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Speaker 1: and I feel it as if it would be something

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Speaker 2: Believe it or not, I enjoy making a range by

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Speaker 2: a flower shop. I would love to own a flowershop

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Speaker 2: or like a little breakfast shop. I enjoy cooking breakfast

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Speaker 2: like that's my good.

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Speaker 1: Ghost to you don't want that schedule, bro, I know

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Speaker 1: you want this. You don't want that schedule.

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Speaker 2: I'm so used to it. Though, this is the dream job.

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Speaker 2: This is the dream exactly. We don't want to talk

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 1: Luca Luca, Luca, Luca Servodia.

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Speaker 2: You do have my other dream job, you know that, bro?

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Speaker 3: Eating sandwiches?

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Speaker 2: No, just being You're a food journalist, right.

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Speaker 3: Well kind of yeah, you could call me a citizen

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Speaker 3: food journalist. I have an Instagram and I have a

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Speaker 3: food podcast, so yeah, you could call me a food.

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Speaker 1: Journalists like you could call me a radio journalist. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not right so the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing though you've done this is I'm fascinated

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Speaker 1: by I follow what you're doing. You did one hundred

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Speaker 1: pizzas in LA. You did one hundred tuck areas. You

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Speaker 1: just did a hundred sandwiches last year, which you're going

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Speaker 1: to report on the best, the best, the best sandwiches.

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Speaker 1: And then now you've embarked on one hundred noodle spots

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Speaker 1: to find the best noodles in LA.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, one hundred epic noodle dishes all over Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Luca, how do you pay for your life?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, noodles, tacos, sandwiches do not the

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Speaker 3: most expensive foods out there, so you know what I

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Speaker 3: get by.

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Speaker 2: But do you have sponsors that help you?

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. This is all about going out supporting

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Speaker 3: small businesses and and you know what, if you're paying

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Speaker 3: for the food, sometimes you feel like you have to

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Speaker 3: give a positive review. And I'd just like to go

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Speaker 3: out there, try new things and give my honest take

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Speaker 3: on whether I like something or not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So here is Luca.

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Speaker 1: He's a pseudo food journalist and he's tested and tasted

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Speaker 1: a hundred different sandwiches around Los Angeles, come up with

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Speaker 1: the best ones. We're interested in the top three, and

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Speaker 1: look at here's how want to do this Because people

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Speaker 1: are listening and driving and doing a lot of different things.

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Speaker 2: Give me the.

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Speaker 1: Neighborhood, give me the street, then tell me about the sandwich.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, okay, so let's start with the bronze medal for

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Speaker 3: this one. We're heading over to Silver Lake on Sunset Boulevard.

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Speaker 3: There is a it's right at the intersection of Silver

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Speaker 3: Lake Boulevard as well, and it is this beautiful little

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Speaker 3: Italian deadly called Chichi's Gastronomia. Now this is a hole

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Speaker 3: in the wall and they specialize in Ligurian focaccia. The

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Speaker 3: owners are from the region of Italy where they make ficacia,

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Speaker 3: that is what they do. The sandwich I tried is

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Speaker 3: called the porpittin sugo, which literally just means meatballs in sauce.

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Speaker 3: And it's this beautiful little round golden ficaca with these

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Speaker 3: tiny meatballs and red sauce. You can add barata and

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Speaker 3: arugula and it is the perfect sandwich. And that is

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Speaker 3: my number three.

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Speaker 2: Luca.

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Speaker 1: Just your voice, it's cadence and description is doing things

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Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, I wanted to know, all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: They haven't made a way. They haven't made a way

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Speaker 3: to like transfer smells and taste this medium yet, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I'm working on.

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Speaker 2: It all right. So in the name of that place

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Speaker 3: Che Cheese Gastronomia. That's che Che's ce c I.

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Speaker 2: That's number.

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Speaker 1: That was number three, right, sounds like number one hundred

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Speaker 1: best sandwiches in Los Angeles, number two, number.

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Speaker 3: Two, the Silver Metal. We're going over to Lincoln Heights

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Speaker 3: in East Los Angeles, just north of downtown Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: and we are getting the Sloppy Moo at Moo's Craft Barbecue.

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Speaker 3: This is an awesome craft barbecue joint that was started

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Speaker 3: barbecue that's influenced by the flavors by like Chicano flavors.

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Speaker 3: And the Sloppy Moo is their brisket which is out

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Speaker 3: It's complimented by pickles, some pickled onions on this buttery

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Speaker 3: brioche fun. It is out of this world.

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Speaker 1: That made me hungry and salty and thirsty. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: that sounded like all those things will happen to me

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Speaker 2: Can you finish that sandwich or do you have to

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Speaker 2: share it?

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Speaker 3: I mean, for me, I can eat, I can take

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Speaker 3: it down in one go, but you know you could

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Speaker 3: definitely I would recommend going there, maybe getting that, trying

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Speaker 3: all of the other meats as well, you know, making

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Speaker 3: yourself a nice little barbecue ladder.

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Speaker 1: Wow, all right, now, guys, can I get a little

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Speaker 1: build up for the the number one sandwich in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles based on the one hundred taste test that Luca Servodia,

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Speaker 1: a pseudo food journalist did here and just came back

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Speaker 1: with his research.

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Speaker 2: What's number one?

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Speaker 3: The gold medal? It's a classic, it's an icon. We're

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Speaker 3: heading over to Westlake MacArthur Park. It's Langers Deli and

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Speaker 3: it is the number nineteen. Now, funny story about this one.

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Speaker 3: This was my favorite sandwich before I even embarked on

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Speaker 3: this journey, so I had a feeling this was going

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Speaker 3: far and wide, and I did not find a better

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Speaker 3: sandwich than this, The number nineteen It is their iconic

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Speaker 3: double baked rye, which is so soft on the top

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Speaker 3: but has this beautiful crunch on the exterior with that

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Speaker 3: signature rye flavor. It's got their coleslaw, their Russian dressing,

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Speaker 3: it's got Swiss cheese, and of course the best pastrami

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Speaker 3: in all of Los Angeles. It's a classic. But you

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Speaker 3: know what, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Speaker 1: Wow, the sandwiches, these rating sandwiches, these sound amazing.

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Speaker 2: So we've got those are the top three.

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Speaker 1: And if people want to see all of what you've

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Speaker 1: done and go to the La Countdown and at La

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Speaker 1: Food Pod on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's correct, and the La Food Podcast comes out

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Speaker 3: every Friday and we talk about food and all kinds

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Speaker 3: of things. So yeah, that's the best places to find me.

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Speaker 1: You do have a dream job of mine in retirement

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Speaker 1: and I will meet you then.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Ryan, You're welcome on the Sandwich Journey anytime.

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Speaker 2: Take care.

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Speaker 1: Bro The sound great for like all the games right

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Speaker 1: now right, all the playoff games and the big game

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Speaker 1: coming up gamer. Yeah, well hey listen unplugged into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You got the big game coming up and I am

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Speaker 1: all about the snacks for the big game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah,