WEBVTT - #95 A Giant Scam & The Boujee Man 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:07.720 Start uf dot Up, start Up, Brooklyn Boy, start up, 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:17.120 Brooklyn Buys Data. They're making noise data dot up episode. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.239 This is the Brooklyn Boys podcast with the ban scary 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.920 you can say that. Yeah, all right, you want, well, 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.040 let's say both of them. I'm getting to a point 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.320 where it does it really matter? I guess no, no, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.840 of course not, it doesn't whatever. Uh. By the way, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.920 thanks for all the love on the text messaging every day. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.319 Oh my god, it's especially with here we go. Look 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.879 at this. We got startup startups right now. Eric Cooke 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.880 three one five, Hey guys, d D D sending love 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.760 from Syracuse. Why did d D D? No triple D 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.560 triple D. It's lodge breasts right there right Yeah, well wait, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.960 wait a minute, that guy Fierti Diner's Drive Ins and 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.600 Dives triple D. That's maybe him, Guy Fiertti looking and 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:10.360 by the way, it's pronounced Fiertti where the ours like Fierti, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:16.720 but it's not fierieris Fieriii. Have we told the story 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.559 about Guy Fierti? How we we helped uh, we helped 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.360 launch that guy's career. Yeah, and he he remembers it too, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:28.200 which is cool. So uh. Two thousand six maybe seven. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.000 It was the old studio, so I know how to 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.360 be around that time Food Network. He was a finalist, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.920 he was right, so that they emailed me. At the time, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.600 I was booking guests and bits for the show, and 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.480 they emailed me and they said, hey, would you be 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.080 interested having the four finalists on the first season of 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:49.600 Next Food Network Star? Right? Okay? So I said, well, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.080 I don't know if anyone would want to hear these 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.120 unknown people be interviewed, But how about, since it's our 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.240 favorite food, if all four of these so called chefs 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.160 make chicken palm, which our favorite food on the show, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.080 make uh their version of chicken palm, and they will 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.240 judge it and we'll pick the winner of the show, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.840 like who we predict will be the winner. And so 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.160 they're like, yeah, that's great. Fine, So four people came 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.639 in whoever, you go back and watch the table, but 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.120 I forgot who. There was some woman from Arizona who 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.680 had never made chicken palm or heard chicken palm. So 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.519 she made this like Southwestern like it was a chicken 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.120 breast with like a piece of cheese, a dollop of sauce, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.480 and like a like a basil leaf. Gotta be honest, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.520 nothing special. It wasn't palm, it wasn't even melted. It 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.760 was like, I don't I know the ingredients, so I'll 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.160 just make something with those ingredients and then uh, I mean, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.119 let's just go right to it. The best one there. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.000 So we're like, oh, the guy with the crazy hair, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.320 his is the best. He he's gonna win. And we 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.640 we thought he was gonna win. We predict you're gonna 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.120 win based on chicken parme alone. And he won the watch, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.200 and he won the contest and now he's a big store. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.240 Now he wins the Food Network, and so he knows 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.880 that because he came up here the last time. He's like, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:58.799 I know, you guys were behind me the whole time 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.120 from the beginning. Some people think guy Fierti is basic, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.040 and sometimes he could be the laughing stock in the 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.640 Chef of the Chef world. But when it comes to 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.640 ratings wise and cleaning up and making money, that guy 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.000 is has fistfuls of cash. That guy, you know why, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.440 because he appeals to the common man and woman. He 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:24.440 appeals to Middle America. That expression always bothered me. No 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.119 common people, no no offense to people live in middle. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.760 But there are common men on the non middle parts. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.200 That's true. That's us right, we're common men. Well you're 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.680 not your boogie not you a born common man? You're 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:43.360 shut up. I'm still I'm still common, common like the rapper. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.560 Common is common. My parents still live in an attached 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:53.160 raw brick. How your parents are as common as they come. You, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.160 on the other hand, not common, dude. I was born 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.880 into a blue collar family. My father worked for Edison, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.920 the electric company. Okay, you you should be a politician, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.320 because what you do is you take uh, the third 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.400 cousin of the question and talk about it. It's like, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.680 I don't want to give examples because I get political. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.080 But if you ask a politician like, oh, there's a 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.600 band aid crisis in your in your town, how come 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.919 there's no money for band aids. We've got the finest 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.440 ambulances in in any state in the area, I defy you. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.360 What that the cleanest ambulances. We've got sponges the hospitals. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.799 Why don't you have any band aids? That's a great question. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:36.040 Our nurses are the most capable. I'm saying is I 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.240 know you are not a common You know where I 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.360 came from and I'll never forget my roots, okay, okay, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.240 forget my roote, yeah, okay. And then you go and 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.680 you buy ninety dollar tided shirts and you dress Brooklyn industrial. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.160 No common man dresses with a what a what a 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.800 John Varvado's jacket. I'm still common. You think about it. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.400 If you look at the food chain and the way 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.640 that people are making money in America. If I look 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.320 at what I eat and when you eat, I know 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.440 you go to eat, you are not common. I can't 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.520 afford what's behind people's wat went to t G I fridays. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.520 I can't live. I live in an apartment. I don't live. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.279 I can live in a doorman apartment where with a 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.000 circular driveway and a revolving door, and your your mailman 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.719 you have doorman rather tells you Mr Jones, you have 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.480 a package at the front door, and then you get 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.479 mad when the Chinese food guy won't come up to 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.599 your penthouse apartment. No, all I'm saying is this, Yeah, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.200 I don't know all you're saying. By the way in 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.480 the house on the hill, and I don't do people 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.360 have gated given gated communities they live. You know, you 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.599 want to talk about money. I'm talking about money. No, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.479 I'm talking about your persona. You want to be the 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.440 guy in the gated community, you want to be the 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.719 house on the hill. Listen, I just want my roof 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.760 to stop. Just scary from the block. Okay, if the 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.320 block was on Rodeo Drive, if that was the block. No, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.719 don't be fooled by the rocks that I go. Okay, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.840 that I'm still scary from the blow. That is a 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.120 great That is a great comparison because Jennifer Lopez hasn't 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.760 been Jenny from the Block since she was twelve. She 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.280 doesn't know to block, she doesn't go to the lock. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.279 She remember that commercial for Fiat she did go watch 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.160 the commercial where she's driving on her old neighborhood. She's 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.159 never in that car. She was she filmed in Los Angeles, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.880 that's a fact. And the car drove around the Bronx. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.920 She's not in the car in the club. When she's 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.239 up in this club. She hasn't been to a club 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.560 in thirty years. Remember, we had to listen. I'm not 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.440 passion j Loo. I like her very much, but we 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.720 had her on the show and Elvis asked, when was 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.159 the last time you had a buzzer cheesecake factory and 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.279 waited for a table. Was she had no clue? But 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.599 I do because I'm still scary from the block. Okay, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.280 when was the last time you went to a restaurant 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.560 that had a buzzer? Uh? When was the okay, hold 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.360 on versus, when was the last time you went to 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:40.760 a place you had to drop your name? Tell me 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.880 who you are going to waiting? Let's give the maitre 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.039 d well. Okay, are you more likely to go to 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.880 a restaurant with a matre d or a hostess who's 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.800 in high school? I'm more likely to go to Defaris 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.240 Pizza in Brooklyn right now? No, it's as if this 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.560 recording it's back open again. Can we talk about there? 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.680 You go to Defaris Pizza because it's the number one 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.120 ranked pizza, because I want good pizza. But that doesn't 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.839 mean listen. I go to diners, drive ins, and dives 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.800 and you don't go to dives. Yes, I know if 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.960 it's good. If Guy Fieri went there, I'd go. Okay, Okay, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.760 let's get back to Guy Fieri. Them'm not don't want 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.800 you yet. It was just a whole circular conversation. You 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.080 watch guy Fiertti. It used to be if you watched 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.600 the first season, second season, third season, he would go 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.600 to these places and like you you, if you lived 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.920 in that state, you knew it, you knew that place. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.640 They would know there's a whole book about this, the website. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.160 They would go to the place that had the most unique, unbelievable. Right, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.560 but there's not twelve seasons worth of those places in America. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.160 And I know, don't tweet me. I know some of 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.800 them are driving, some of them are dives, and some 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.800 of them are dying. Right, Okay. Sometimes he just goes, hey, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.960 let's go to that place. I hear the meat loaf 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.360 is good. Oh, look at the meat loaf, and they 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.360 make it like it's the greatest meat loaf. Show us 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.720 how you make the meat. So are you trying to 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.440 say that that is a thirty Yeah, it's a thirty 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.560 pluck thirty thirty uh meat and thirty chicken whatever it 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.360 is via WHOA. So you're saying that I'm not getting 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.000 top notch places anymore on Triple D. I'm saying that 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.000 they go to diners where they'll make a big deal 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.520 about the musica, which is a it's called musaka. I've 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.200 heard it both ways. Mousaka really yeah, it's like Mufasa 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.320 from The Lion King. I've been to Greek restaurants. It's 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.600 not rarely restaurants that refer to it as musica. It's 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.960 not musica. Let's you know what. Maybe in the Latino 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.920 station you're listening to more musica in the morning. Wow, 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.520 that was scary Jones. Yes it was me because that's 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.800 pronounced the same way. That's musica. I'm listening to musica 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:41.599 and lamanniana. How is pronounced? It's not it's mousaka. You 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.600 don't want to listen to me. I've heard it both 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.480 Ways'll make me get the brodiest wrongal jingle I will get. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.000 We'll listen to two different videos. You're listening to some musica. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:57.840 Hold on music, hold on, hold on, God, I know 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:03.040 wasting our time. Thanks for clicking this channel. So now 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.000 when I will talk about how pronounced this word, let's 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:14.760 start osaka. Huh hold on, huh hold on. That's one. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.160 Let's see if this one is because I've heard it 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:30.840 pronounced in an Israeli restaurant. That's a different Okay, different words, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:42.080 different Greek foods. Look, let maybe here a while. Go 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:47.080 to the whole you shrank pipe dots, Peter, he saying 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.160 skinna copia. It's kinna spanna copy dot. Not what he 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.960 hold on? Hold on seeing that's fata put it up 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:05.560 in a microphone. I don't think this guy's I don't 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:12.720 like this guy Russell. I don't think that's okay. What's 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.520 he doing? Go back to the other guy? He said, Musaka. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.400 I heard hold on, hold on? How to say hold on? 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:25.079 I heard him. Oh, I've heard it. I'm saying, I'm 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.080 not saying it's right a word box. We already went 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:35.880 to this guy's seriously hold on Musaka. Yeah, keep going. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:46.800 Thank you. If you've heard it pronounced musica in Israeli restaurants, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:52.960 i've heard it called. Well, they're wrong anyway about gay 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:59.839 Fierti enough enough, put the phone down. This place calls 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:04.160 it musaka, musaka and musaki okay, okay, I got my 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.240 gallery opened. Okay, so my gun. That's something that's what 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.719 you like? You're anyway, I'm not bougie. The point is 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.280 about guy Fietti and I. He'll never admit it. We 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.160 I know places he's been to where they add stuff 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.760 to the menu to make it look like they solved 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.720 that stuff. I don't want it. I'm living I'm living 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.920 a line now, Okay. I thought I really thought that 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.199 everything was there was was was the real deal. Now 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.880 you're he's been disingenuous. I don't know. Look, I just 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.559 know what I was. I was told about a certain 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.000 diner that we used to go to near where we 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.000 used to work. Oh, I know. Okay, So if you work, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.360 if you listen, if you watch the five first five seasons, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.360 then maybe you're getting I just feel like they're out 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.160 of the really cool places and they're like, hey, do 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.880 you have like a burger or something? So, yeah, we 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.280 we like to put we like to put dog food 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.400 on a burger. So great the dog burger. Yeah, so's 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:55.800 your blend. The meats in that dog food is hugely popular, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.040 wildly successful. I like him very much. And you know what, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.040 you invited me to his house and invited you it 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.199 was He's it. Next time you're in Cali, come out. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.080 I got a giant TV. But he's got a pizza. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.640 Nice guy, and you know what, he's laughing all the 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.840 way to the bank. So nobody should make fun of him. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.040 Because we know a lot of the Food Networks. Food 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.160 is very basically lost, and uh, you know what. They 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.440 all like him, but they like him, but he's the goofball. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.440 He's the goofball of the chef crowd. You know. The 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:27.040 only famous person that I know, like legitimately, no, not 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.960 from working at the radio station, is one of the 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.040 iron chefs, one of the Food Networks, jeffs Carrian. I 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.880 used to I was his right hand guy when we 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.400 were gonna I don't know I've told the story on this. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.320 I'm not gonna tell you again if I've already told it, 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.920 but uh, we together we're trying to open up a 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.400 coffee division. I did talk about it because he stole 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.839 Gapuccino from me. Um. We were gonna put up a 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.120 coffee division an Old Navy, and I had come up 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.320 with the name Gappuccino because Old Navy is owned by 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.320 the Gap Gap Bink, and Cold Navy was the name 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:59.760 of the cold drinks that we were going to make, 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.920 the Old Navy line of drinks. Yeah, but that never 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.400 happened anyway, all right, Jeffreys, which is why you're still 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.000 sitting here. That's correct, because that would have been a 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.720 small fortune for you. I've been Uh, yeah, I've had 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.760 some good ideas. You've had some close calls. I've had 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.839 some ideas that were stolen from me too. So to 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.839 real Greg Brady, Yeah, I can't remember after ninety five 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.440 episodes if we talked about that and a couple of 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.640 we did, and you didn't talk about the other guy. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:29.040 I'm not doing that. No, maybe close to us, not 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.200 in no one in this room or in the radio show. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.760 I had an idea, Yeah, we talked about on the air. Yes, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.200 we did. And then they took the idea, ripped it. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.000 They did my idea, yea, and they made a lot 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.520 of money. And what did you get? What did you 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.560 get from that great story? Yeah? That's what I got. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.480 You know what he did. It's like kid me. He 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.760 stole a grape soda from you good, We're good. Didn't 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:56.640 steal you out. He stole your idea, goes we're good now, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.640 and then just walked out. And yes, is the difference. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.480 That's what he did. Is the difference. They fucked me 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.959 on the on the on the on the wantons that 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.679 day of the dumplings ever and the cold noodles. I 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.960 did not fuck him prior to giving him that great idea. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.959 I said, it would be a good It would be 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.079 a good idea which I would like in the in 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.800 the world, in the marketplace, would be great if we 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.960 had this. And then all of a sudden he had it. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.160 He had it in the marketplace. Yeah. He we good 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.320 at you and then and then and then we talked 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.760 about on the air and promoted and he made him 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.200 He made a million dollars and maybe more, and then 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.600 he retired. The guy that's live there working on the 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.320 day in his life because of Brod's idea, only partially 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.920 because of my idea. Listen, ship changes in six seconds. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.200 It just does, what are you gonna go? And that's 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.840 all We'll say. I'm not bougie, I'm normal. So we 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.880 talked about for a quick second second. So then I 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.680 have to explain something we put up on Instagram and 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.000 this turned into a news story in the New York 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.640 City Tri state area. The I space they are and 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.280 the reason why we bring it up is because you 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.920 slice is no it's one of our favorite of Pizza's 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.120 reads of all time. And they were in the news. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.000 So you start. A guy started tweeting us the story, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:08.480 and what happened was they were accused of d and 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.440 sixties seven thousand dollars. Now that they owed the other 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.200 government and back they get closed once or twice a 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.480 year for the Board of Health for Vermin and live 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 road inside. Now the pizza place is in the corner 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.760 of a very old building. The place looks like it 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.120 hasn't been touched in a hundred years, which is the 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.920 charm of it too. Right now, what's going on onto 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.720 the floorboards? I don't know. The pizza is always great. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.640 The area where they make the pizzas clean. It's the 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.280 round pizzas good. And if you don't know what Sicilian pizzas, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.280 google it because some people don't sure it's square. It's thick, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.400 crusted square to and that's where they make that. To me, 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:50.000 uh is where they excel. And what happened with Defarah 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.040 is because they owe a hundred sixty seven thousand dollars 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.120 in backtracks is to the government allegedly, um the government 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.120 shut them down in the middle of lunch the other 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.200 day and seized the restaurant or pizzeria, closed it up 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.040 and took it away. And now as of today they're 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.720 open again. So De Farah is back again. They live 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.400 to see another day. I love it. Um, but you 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.920 know what, Uh, you can't make the mistake of getting 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.040 around because it's good, but that you go there, don't 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.160 do it. There's always you know, there's places in your 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.440 life that, uh, you don't want to get the second 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:27.960 best thing. You don't want to go there and go, Oh, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.080 they're known for the shrimp. Oh I got the steak. Well, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.880 I'll say this. There's a place out of Chicago called 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.000 a Cheval. Yeah, and it's a burger joint. Okay, sounds bougie. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.160 It sounds bougie. And by the way, they opened one 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.800 in New York City here and it's literally four blocks 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.040 three blocks away, Brodie, we should go there for lunch 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.520 one day. It's a diving spot. Doesn't count as a steak. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.800 They're known, they're known for They're known for their burger 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.760 Asheval burger. But I was reading a restaurant review on 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.840 a Cheval and they said, you know what what you 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:03.120 really need to do is to order the fried Bologny sandwich. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:08.080 And I'm like, get the fuck here. The place is 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:12.080 known for its burger and they're instagrammable burgers. So what 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.719 do I do, Brodie? I go there? I do that too. Yeah, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.760 you go. Then you went to ashval right because they're 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:23.400 knowing for my girlfriend. Un boogie brunch. There's nothing boogie 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:28.960 about ashval Okay, the name these burger you don't go 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.280 to Ashaval, Dude. It looks like a fucking diner, that's 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.600 all it is. Has Guy FIERTI gone there. So you 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.040 walk in and you get the burger, but I spell 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:45.480 ashval ay you oh cheval c h A V A 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.800 L something like that, So it's a French place. But no, Brodie, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.600 it's a fucking burger man. It's just a burger. Is 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:56.240 nothing boogie about it. It just says like you're gonna 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.040 be you're gonna feel so stupid, and you finally go. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.840 Then you realize I'm not going that. Go ahead, it's 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.720 just diner. So you walk in and you sit down 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.960 and then I said, you know, at the restaurant reviewer 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.280 they said something about this fried bologney sandwich. I said, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.679 They're like, it's our secret. It's really the best thing 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.239 on the menu. But everybody instagram is the burger. You're 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.639 known for your burger, your that's your legacy. And he's like, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.680 you know what, that's the burger is the second best 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.240 thing on the menu. Order the fried bologne. Trust me, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.480 all right, The bologne is housemade. It's a housemade Bolognay, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.840 nothing will bologni, by the way, go on bologney. It's 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.159 like sucking spam, right, but they make their own and 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.920 then they slice it thin and they put it on 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.120 the grill and it comes out and I gotta say, oh, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.280 it's so fucking good. The bologne is better than the burger. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.720 So there's a rare example of going to a place 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.600 that's known for one thing and getting something else on 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.439 the menu that's being touted as great. But it's like 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.640 a secret weapon at Ashival. The bologney sandwich is better 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.520 than burger. Well, you know where that's the case. Joe's 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:07.160 Stone Crab, because the fried chicken, chicken and Miami. We're 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.440 going out of Miami. Every goes for the stone Crab. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.320 Stone Crab season. The fried chicken is the secret menu 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.840 item that is fucking head and shoulders above the stone crab. Okay, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.680 give me another place like that, The Palm. The Palm 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.359 is a steakhouse. The Palm is a steakhouse, right, and 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.719 it's by the way nationwide at this point, right. So 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.200 it's p a l m like a palm tree. Right, 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.560 but when you know me, chicken palm guy. So I 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.600 went there for steak a couple of times. They have 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.640 giant lobsters, huge lobsters, but I staid the chicken palm 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.440 in the menu. So I I think I was with 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.120 my wife for this the first time, and I said 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.119 him to get a chicken palm. And she says, you 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.440 don't wort a chicken palm in the steakhouse. I'm gonna 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.440 a chicken palm in the steakhouse. It was fantastic chicken pom. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.679 Hold on, you know it is because you've had it 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.919 to stop playing the nut roll. So uh So one 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.480 day Elvis tells me he's going to uh the palm 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.879 for dinner. I gotta get a chicken palm. He's we 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.359 talking about, you know, a chicken palmer and steakhouse. I said, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.240 order the chicken palmer the steakhouse. You'll thank me. It's 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.720 a giant piece of chicken. It could be two pieces 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.920 of chicken cheese together. That's a new way to fuse. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.879 I was thinking of of quality Italian. I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.440 no no no. The palm right, And so he went 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:18.840 to coming the next day and he's like, oh my god, 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.040 you're right. So I went there a couple of times 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.200 and finally I said, hey, chicken palm here is the best. 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.560 Then you have do a lot of people order it, 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.160 he said, smart people order it. He was, you know, 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.080 we used to be an Italian restaurant back in the right, 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.119 I said, really he is. Actually the Italian name of 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:41.200 the restaurant is ill Palma, which is the palm, which 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:46.879 was a Parma il Parma, which is a town in Italy, Parma, Italy, 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.680 and we when but because but when we came to America, 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.000 people didn't back then, you know, immigrants weren't as highly 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.320 regarded as they are now, and so Italians and Irish 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.080 people they weren't embraced. So they still to this day 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.040 make a mean palm. So they change the name to 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.399 the Palm to americanize the name. So if you if 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.000 you go into the palm, order the chicken parm. Right. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:11.840 It's a secret weapon. Right. And if you go to 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.840 the World Trade Center location of the palm, pictures are 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.840 painted on the wall which is not boogy. Yeah, but 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.399 but it's right under the bathroom sign No, it's fine. No, 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.280 that's somebody restrooms this way. Yes, that's correct, but right 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.480 not by the bathroom. No, but it's right by the side, 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.600 by the host stand or as you would call it. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.600