WEBVTT - #110 Fisted & Forked 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:08.480 Start up, start Up, Brooklyn buys, start Up, Brooklyn buys, 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:22.919 start dat up. They're making noise data up. Okay, I 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.040 just had spaghetti five for the third time. Coming to 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.639 you from the Land of Cakes and carbs. This is 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.680 the Brooklyn Boys podcast. Who It's holiday season and um 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.760 I've been loading up. Man. You know, the deliveries in 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.560 this studio out of control. It's one after the next, 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.960 every ten minutes. More pies rolling. You know what's gonna 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.320 happen tomorrow. It's I mean mayhem, he would food. We 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.839 have not gotten one summer sausage yet. Well, this is 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.320 the this is my complaint. Why is it that, after 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:59.320 all the cookies and cupcakes and pastries that have made 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.600 their way to the stud video and through you and 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.640 through me, do we have to order art Choke pizza 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.160 on Friday? That's like the big fuck you. I made 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.520 a mistake. We made a huge error. Do we need 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.039 more carbs? Hold on, just call me CARBB. So today 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.720 one of Elvis's friends was it Vinny what's his name? 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.800 Vinny Vinny Vinny Pastries, Vinny Vinny Cakes, Vinny Cakes, v 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.200 I n n Y Cakes, Vinny Cakes on Instagram like 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.760 a mom the guys. He's from our old neighborhood. He's 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.679 he's from ty Heights in Brooklyn's like next next nigh 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.920 good guy. Good guy. He brings up unbelievable assortment of 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.800 like a dozen different cookies, pastries, mostly cookies and then 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.440 filled pastries. Okay, So it was a blueberry crumb cake 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.080 like like it was like a little square like two 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.120 why two? But I said to him, I go, this 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.040 is I'll tell you why this is special. You know, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.040 some kind of sometimes cakes they put the filling, the 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.960 fruit filling right in the middle, a little squirt in 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.200 the middle. He put it like a ribbon throughout throughout, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.480 so like from the sides you could see the blueberry. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.640 It was everywhere. I said, Vinny, blueber everywhere. He goes, Yeah, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.520 that's that's our specialty. And then I started giving him. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.360 I started giving him because I was joking around him. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.000 He was in the like you know, because some Staten 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.880 Island He's like, hey, I'm Vinnie. So I was joking 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.799 around with him, like, you know, he's from a tough 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.440 neighborhood with you know, people who might be in an organization, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.080 let's just say organized at what they do. And so 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.799 I said, you know, he said, what are those called? 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.079 They said? He said, those are called thumb prints. That 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.960 chocolate they called thumb prints. I said, you should call him. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.920 IM going to break your thumb prints because I love that. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.639 I said, And you could call I said, I said, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.440 see that muffin, you can call out it. You didn't 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.799 see muffin. You don't know muffin. He's like, you're good 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.040 at puns. I'm like, you're very small. You know. The 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.160 the thumb prints obviously someone put their thumb in the 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.400 middle to create a little divid and then they poured 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.000 a dollop of chocolate and they baked it in and 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.720 it's so damn good. The best part, you know. I 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.760 And I told him, I said, look, dude, I said, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.640 you're not on the map. And a lot of people 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.240 you know from the borough's Brooklyn Staten Island. It's like, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:01.880 you don't know nothing. You didn't say nothing. You didn't 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.560 know nothing. I'm like, why don't you be that guy? 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.519 It will go viral. You'll be the biggest business known 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.720 to man. I said, get your certificates, whatever you need 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.840 for the Board of Health, but don't have a location ever. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.680 Don't have a brick and mortar. Just keep it on 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.920 Instagram because that's how he has it. Right now, Folks 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.799 like you can't get in touch with it, I said, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.839 I said, I said, how do you if somebody wants 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.040 a book, a wedding or something, or you know, buy 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.840 your pastry. He doesn't want to make money, just just 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.960 I do it for fun. He goes hit me up 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.040 on Instagram dm me. I said, yeah, but you have 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.960 a whole business that you don't really he doesn't have 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.280 any employees, I know, but he can grow his business 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.240 and be the bakery. But it's we're really not baker. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.880 His mother though. His mother mother sent up one thing. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.480 She said, Oh, I want to send it up for them. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.560 I love them. She's not spaghetti pie. You don't know 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.240 what spaghetti pie is. Your life is not what it 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.520 could be. Google it. It's uh, what's basically like, you 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.400 put a little cheese in it to keep the spaghetti together, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.240 maybe a little ham. Some people put peas. I screw 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.240 you on the piece. This guy his mother putting no 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:09.560 peas and anyway, So my point was that you bake 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.360 it like big z D. But it gets to spaghetti crispy, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.160 and then you slice like a like like squaz cut 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.520 like squaz out. It's like noodle pudding. If you're jew 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.440 you know what noodle pudding is. But it's spaghetti. Some 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.919 people put a little sauce on top, sauce on the side. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.000 His mom is so oh, it's so good, Thank you mom, Mom. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.080 Of any cakes, well, he made a thing called chocolate 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.080 syrup cake. He made terms yeah it's no oreo cookie, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.280 term messieux. He didn't even know that. I got, yeah, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.040 we're scary going. So the point was Andrew or that 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.400 was this is Andrew. You know he's a co host 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.919 of the serial podcast. He says we should have pizza 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.920 to martws our last day before vacation. Where do you 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.120 want pizza from? So I gave him a list of 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:51.719 a couple but I was like, you know, you can't 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.039 go wrong without a choke, I said, mom, Mom, Mom 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.040 is two is great? H A bunch of places that 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.719 are you hearing the words? Coming understand that of carbs? 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.120 I know, but autochoke pizza is my is one of 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.920 my favorites. But haven't we had enough carbs? Each slices 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.760 five pounds. But don't forget scary. It's keep this in mind. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.040 It's Friday. It's getaway day for me. I'll bring a 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.440 roll of tinfoil. I'll bring that whole box. Right, almost 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.120 all you're thinking about the leftovers. You're not thinking about 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.920 the winter. I'm like a squirrel, not think. You're not 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.440 thinking squirrel. You're not thinking about what's going on here though. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.159 It's it's carbs on carbs on, carbs on carbs. Can't 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.640 we bring in beef skewers? Can we bring chicken s? 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.000 Give me some protein? Screw the carbs. You want to 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.040 give you some protein? So what do you do? By 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.160 the way, you said squirrel, I want to give a 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.040 shout out um couple. By the way, the guy on Twitter, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.760 fred Freddie Gordon Jr. Freddie Gordon did a video. This 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.200 is another one. I haven't seen this one yet. Is 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.720 that Freddy Fastbender. No, Freddy Gordon. Let me go to 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.360 the one he did yesterday. Okay, is a town called Snowfla. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.480 Oh my god. Okay, I have not caught up this 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.440 more free dessert stories. Let me find Freddy's video from Okay, 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.720 here's Freddy in the snow. We talked about how in 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.920 the Northeast it was gonna be a squall, a squall, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.400 which and Elvis is having you say, squirrel and squall 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.200 and restaurant. So he went out into the into the 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.120 cold and did a video. I hope you can hear. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:28.520 But this is Freddie today yesterday. Oh my god, Oh 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:37.520 my god. It's the snow school, the snow milk. You 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:43.440 gotta get the squirrels away from the school. That guy 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.440 made me left. You missed it? Hold on the very ending? 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:53.040 Is there is the best part? Are you ah? That's 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.920 why I talked over you. I don't know what you're 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.440 talking about. You know that guy was hilarious. Let's see 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:01.960 what I we have not heard this. Let's see what 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:10.160 he recorded today right here? Uh see episode zero. I 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:18.640 listened to order. Got one question for you, Brody, we're good, right. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.240 He's referencing the time Brody stole a candidate did not 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.240 Chinese restaurant after he thought he was even He grabs 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.160 a soda and holds it up and goes, we're good 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.520 as he's walking out. Okay, that guy's a slice for life. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.120 That's not exactly what happened. Go back to listen city 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:38.440 the episode. Anyway, The point is that we've had way 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.880 too many carbs in here as it is, how do 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.520 we end our year and our decade? Here? Have five 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.200 pounds of more carbs and sauce and cheese. There's no protein? 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.520 Is protein? Here's the problem. So we have sausage pizza. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.320 We're launching into two weeks of more eating. You have 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.240 Hanaga coming up. I got Christmas Eve pancakes coming again 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.240 about New Year's Eve, and I'm a god one on 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.800 New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. We got plans 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.560 at one of my favorite steakhouses. Where are you going? 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.400 I'm not telling I can't. I gonna say. I'll tell 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.280 you when it come back. But you're not taking me, 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.400 so that the are you exactly? Because you already getting 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.080 by the way, Nate from from the up Staring Morning Show, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.160 he's been out for with a brain to a brain 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:25.520 aneurysm slash stroke. It's called a sub arachnoid. It's something hemorrhage. Yeah, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:26.960 it sounds like a spider and it sounds like a 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.480 video game. He used to place rachnoid. I said that 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:34.120 he because you can break the bricks. D it was arachnoidid. Yeah, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.719 that was archonoid, was it? No, it's arachnoid. It could 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.840 have been archonid. I think it was. D dude. Let 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:46.560 me say, hold on video game archid. My friend could 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.520 be archonoid. I have a rachnoid on my head for arachnoid. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.040 Do you have a rachnoid phobia? I do not, So 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.520 I said, I have a spider in your head. Anyway. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:09:06.880 My point is, Nate, it's archonoid. That's what I yeah. Anyway, So, uh, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.439 Nate's back. So when he was when he like a 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.400 week before he came back, he called me and we 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.240 were we were bullshitting and catching up on stuff and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.679 you know, talking about health and whatever. And you know, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:17.559 one of the things I'm doing while he's out is 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.920 I'm covering all his work, which is no problem. You know. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.400 I had to do it. I did it before he 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.959 got here. So it was like riding a bike. No. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.040 I mean, I'm not bragging. No, I'm not bragging. My 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.719 point was, I mean we didn't really need him. No, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.679 I never said that, dude, I don't know. No, that's 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:32.839 not what I said. I said, I know how to 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.760 do it. I did it for uh eleven twelve years 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.720 before he was hired, so that I could free myself 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.319 up to other stuff. He's listening. It's his role now, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.439 God bless him, but it's a It can give you 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.839 an aneurysm. That the clerical stuff and the sales and 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.160 the promotions. It's a lot of work. I don't envy 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.320 either one of you. Right, So to thank me, he said, Brody, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.240 I just gonna come back to work. I'm so weak, 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.199 but I I Brody. I miss you guys, all of you. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.320 He says, I'm brody when I come back. I don't 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.720 care about Skier. I'm buying you a steak dinner. He said, yeah, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.920 just like that. Obviously he wasn't fully recovered from my 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.240 guess is he won't remember, and I'm never gonna get 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.640 my my steak dinner from Nadia. But he goes, I'm bian, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.360 I'm so get your scar. He's never gonna. I'm gonna 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:23.439 get your steak dinner, Brodie for steaks. You now, you 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.200 have a lot of extra work these days. I gotta 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.520 like a lot of extra pounds these days. Didn't because 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.920 we're having more pizza tomorrow. We don't eat pizza. I'm sorry, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.719 I can't get off of this. You don't have to 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.640 eat the pizza scared. Oh you know, I'm gonna though, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.720 I'm gonna I know with the Brooklyn boys have pizza. Okay, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.800 So I a an art of Choke pizza place open 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:47.679 in Hoboken. Vodka. I have the vodka, by the way. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.480 Not a sponsor, by the way. I I d m 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.040 the guys who owned Auto Choke because they're friends of us. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:55.840 And I said, you know, we talked about pizza all 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.600 the time. You guys should be would be a great sponsor. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.199 I'm her back, yet you are. They franchise it out now, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.000 so up in a location in Manhattan. And so here's 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.000 what and here's what they do. And I found this 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.840 out because other places around the country do this when 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.120 they franchise their products out. If you've got something that's awesome, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:20.880 you have a central essential commissary. They do this with 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.640 fala falafel from mo Moons, where they force you into 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.800 buying the actual like for instance, with the falafel place, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.120 you have to buy their falafel, their balls, of course, 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.800 their sauce, their secret resci franchise. That's what franchise means. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.120 You got to know. But the thing you can't that 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.680 means that gives them quality control, and all you gotta 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.880 do is pretty much heat it up. And that's what 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.160 they're doing with with with art Choke and Hoboken, because 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.160 they have to get the special They get the sauce 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.160 from a location, they get the crust come from. That's 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.679 why it tastes just as good as the other locations. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.199 I'm not gonna speak for it Choke, but most franchises, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.679 if they pre backage, like if they're getting like the 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.679 buns and the burgers and everything that's like pizza dough 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.839 should not come pre made, I'm saying usually, I'm pretty 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.120 sure that even that is done now if they shipped 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.280 the dough and the flower, Like when I worked at 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.480 Chuck E Cheese, a fine establishment back in the day, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.959 you would get Chucky Cheese flower and then every franchise 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.920 you could buy like your own tomatoes. But you how 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.840 to use their recipe, how to use the Chucky Cheese recipe. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.800 But the thing is, you can't trust them at the local. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.240 But no, no, there was a Chucky Cheese seasoning pack 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.240 like of the regano and the salt pepper pre made. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.640 Nothing's left the chance, nothing even but even a Chucky 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.600 Cheese convey about pizza, which, by the way, we've talked, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.120 we talked about we've talked about this well, conveyer belt pizza. Dude, 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.080 if you go into a play, if you're a favorite place, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.480 god bless you if you like it. But if the 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.240 best pizza place in your town puts the pizza in 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.880 one end of an oven and it goes through on 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.800 a conveyor belt it comes at the other end, it's 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.559 not the best pizza. It's not. No, it's not, And 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.640 it's okay when you hungover in a world of some world, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.040 in a world of so many choices, unless you don't 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.160 have a lot of choices. Well here in our area 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.839 we do, so there's no excuses. I just can't believe 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.880 what I see every day. And I'm not gonna I'm 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.360 not gonna out any specific place, but I'm like, really, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.600 I'm like, we got five the best pizza places within 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.320 any of these places we're thinking of could end up 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:29.160 as a sponsors. But guy, I'm always surprised living in 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.440 Jersey now, Like in North Jersey area, there's a lot 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.920 of Italians who know good pizza. I'm not saying Irish 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.559 don't know pizza pizza, but like do better but like 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.520 I I know a guy. Uh, he's a friend of 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.319 a friend. So he's not like my friend because I 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:43.920 could never be his friend. But he's a friend of 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.920 a friend. He's a Talian guy, and uh, he'll go. Yeah. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.040 I like ordering from that place, the conveyor belt franchise place, Like, 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:53.800 why would you do that when such and such is 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.040 right there? Yeah? I like it. It comes to bread sticks. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.640 It like the salad. I know, you don't want to 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.079 be Okay, you don't know what the pizza to get breadsticks? Right? 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.319 You don't go to a steakhouse because you like the 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.800 sliced tomatoes. Necessarily you go for the steak, right, you know? Oh, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.800 I like I go there at fish place because the 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.200 tatto sauce is really good. No, you go for the good. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.720 If the tatto sauce is good, that's great, But if 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.440 the fish sucks, who goes there? I go for the breadsticks. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.640 You don't go to the pizza place for bread sticks, Okay, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.360 so that shouldn't be why you choose your pizza. You know. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.840 The other thing is, you know, people sometimes will tweet 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.800 me for food advice. I'm coming to the city. Oh, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.280 I have a feeling I know where you're going with 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.400 this because I was writing about this to Ganda and 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:40.000 they're like, so I'm gonna be in there? We could 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.440 December twelfth. Yeah, where should I eat? Where should I go? 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.120 Wh should I eat? But I'm sitting there like, are 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.160 you fucking kidding me? There a two thousand restaurants in 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.920 Manhattan alone. Yeah, no, you know what? Give me parameters? Right? 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.960 What's your price point? What are you gonna be? Are 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.200 you going on a Saturday night? What time of day? 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.640 What you pick a cuisine narrowed down? Give me a 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.040 short of vocation of where you're gonna be in Manhattan 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.640 is huge. And when you say you're coming to New York? 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.240 Are you going to Brooklyn? Are you going to Queens? 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.880 I will glad are you going? I will gladly give you. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.760 But but zone. We had a text message that came 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.400 in Wait, a text message came in late last week. Hey, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.520 I'm going to Florida. What should I do? Florida? Florida 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.440 it's a giant long state. Like are you going to Orlando? 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.360 You're going to Tampa, You're going to Tallahassee? Where are 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.760 you going? Are you gonna go to see? S The 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.520 key even if you're like someone said to me, where 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.720 should I go for palm in New York? Again, I 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.480 don't know where you go and what your price point is? 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:46.160 Are you going alone? Listen? You know I love cam 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.480 mines with their family style, which means you spend twenty 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.120 four dollars for a chicken palm, but it feeds four. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.400 You can go by yourself, you cannot walk. I did, well, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.280 then you take home right, But but you like you 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.360 gotta go with three, four or five people so you 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.680 can all share like four platters. So I got to 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.640 know the parameters. That's the way he haul to help you. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.240 So there's another this this is kind of embarrassing. So 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.840 somebody said into my d M s and said, look, 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.240 I'm visiting my son. My son lives in Jersey City, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:19.120 just moved to Jersey City, right outside Manhattan. So he's 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.080 saying that we're going to go to this place. Blah 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:27.280 blah blah. Now I'm saying, is that good? Is there? 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.720 Is there? Better write it down on a piece of paper. Okay, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.120 let me see where. So there's not Keep in mind, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.360 it's a mother asking me right about the sun because 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.400 the sun's bringing them there. Okay, son just went to 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.560 Jersey City, and she knows that I live in Jersey City. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.280 So she's slewed into my d M s and said, 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:49.440 hey see this place right? Oh oh no, right, I've heard. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.880 So so here's my question. I'm gonna I'm gonna look 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.040 that place up on YELP real quick, hold on, it'll 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.920 it gets okay remarks, but it's not. Listen, it's it's 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.560 it's okay, but it's not. It's not. There's about ten. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.720 So I wrote back to her, I'm like, I don't 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.920 want to insult your son because like it's a mother 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.359 and son, and I don't want the son to be 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.920 pissed at me. So I said, look, I said, if 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.000 I'm gonna be honest, I say, and you know me, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.879 I'm the foodie and you came to me for a reason. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.800 But your son seems to have his heart set on this. Yeah, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.920 I said, it's okay. I mean, if he doesn't love you, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:32.240 it's fine. It's pub grub. You guys have a strained relationship. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.200 I mean, if you like, if you like food that's 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.680 boiled in a bag and just they cut it with 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.080 his scissor and they PLoP it onto the plate. Then 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.680 you're good, but it's not like if you're like a 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.080 place that gives your limited bread sticks. This is the place. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.359 It's not a chain, by the way, But so I said, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.240 I said, here's what I said. She was, oh, she was, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.119 so they are better places. She goes, give me your suggestions, 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.520 and I legitimately listed twelve and I emailed it back 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.400 to her. She was, oh, my god, she was, all 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.880 these places are better than yeah, and I said, yeah, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.600 I said, a lot better. She's, well, you know, good food. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.760 She goes. You know what she was, I'm gonna tell 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.639 I'm gonna take this list. I'm gonna give it to him, 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.280 and I'm gonna tell him to pick one of the 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.760 restaurants that you suggested. Scary, now, I feel like a 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.600 dick because the kid is gonna be like, this could 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.760 be his favorite place, it could be fair anything. He 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.600 could maybe have been waiting for like months to take 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.240 his parents. But he wasn't waiting months for a reservation 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.800 at that place. No, he was. No. In fact, it's 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.600 one of the places that I'm sure that they stand 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.879 out on the sidewalk with a menu and usher you in, 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.600 say we got specials here. So I feel like I 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.600 really feel like I did a bad thing because I 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.920 came between a mother and a son. Because then the 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.639 mother and the mother is gonna be like, this is 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.159 what you're think of me. You're taking me right to 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:59.800 this place. Scary Yeah, scary, Jones said. Trash scary said, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.840 these twelve places are better, right, I mean, if you 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.720 want to eat out of a paper container, God bless you. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.680 So I said, I said, I said to the mother, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.960 I said, I'm so sorry. I'm like, I said, I 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.920 don't mean to intervene. I said, but you did ask 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.119 my opinion, right, and I gotta be honest, that was 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:16.960 my opinion. Right. So now they're gonna try one of 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.680 the twelve restaurants on my list. The kids. The price 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.560 is the price point the same of you your restaurants 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:26.080 in that place. Some of them are I feel like not, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.520 I feel like you're recommending more more dollars signs on Yelp. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.080 She wants, she wanted the best. That's what that's two 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.480 dollar signs, yeah too. Yeah. Maybe I had a couple 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.600 of three dollar signed places for her that maybe one 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.600 four Yeah, yeah, I don't spend. If you're coming to 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.560 Jersey City, I want to show you the best of 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:48.680 Jersey City. I know, I know, but listen, she asked, Okay, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.399 but I didn't you just said you're a foodie. Can 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.680 I can I address something happened at at a holiday party? 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.120 Ms the foodie, because when I think about this, maybe 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.440 you shouldn't be recommending anything to this woman. I'm gonna 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.960 paint the picture so like, forty of us went to 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.359 lunch and by the way, we it was snowflake alert 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.680 with snowflake alert with the picture. We'll get to that 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.480 in a minute. I'm gonna start at the end. We 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.120 had a lot of food. Went to an Italian restaurant 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.240 in the Greenwage. I'm sorry, little literally sat town called 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.720 four Lanes. Old World nineteen fifties looks like nineteen fifty 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.399 they have They haven't fixed a place up, which is 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.360 great because it's classic looking. It looks like any old 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.159 like like an all neighborhood. This is the way the 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.280 places looked back in the day. Great guys run the places. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.320 Derek and his a cousin. All right, I forgive me 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.560 Derek's cousin, I can't remember your name, but both great guys. Anyway, 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.440 After we eat, Derek says, oh, you're not gonna have 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.879 a dessert, and so we're like, oh stuffed, can't I 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.720 can't even. We gotta tie and cheesecake here, you gotta 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.000 have a piece. So Scary goes all tie and cheesecake 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:49.399 because you love it. China cheese. Who doesn't love it? 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.080 Time and cheesecake. It's fluffy, it's well somehow, Well, hold 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:54.960