The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - JOSH SCHERER IS FEELING EXISTENTIAL (Ft. Josh Scherer) ｜ Episode 236

00:00:00.000 one of my fundamental worldviews is if a food exists it's because somebody found it delicious 0.97

00:00:07.340 you know what i mean and that's such a beautiful way of looking at it testicles are delicious 0.98

00:00:13.060 like it's not weird i don't know like beef testicles 0.98

00:00:16.820 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your 0.93

00:00:27.480 fave everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have the iconic the legendary

00:00:32.980 the mythical kitchen chef himself josh i care about you i want to hear you talk about yourself

00:00:40.760 oh my gosh thank you so much josh that means the world to me yeah please i am so happy to have you

00:00:45.460 it's been a long time coming i think it has been i am stoked to be here um some days i barely want

00:00:51.920 any coverage at all. I just want my skin to look like my skin just a little more even. And that's

00:00:58.240 when I've been reaching for the Merit Minimalist Stick. It's a foundation and concealer stick in

00:01:04.020 one so it's super easy to throw on when I'm running errands, grabbing coffee, or meeting up with

00:01:09.160 friends. And it gives me that really natural skin-like finish without feeling heavy. But when

00:01:14.580 I'm filming, going to an event, or I just want a full glam moment, I need a concealer that's

00:01:19.560 actually going to show up. The Hourglass Vanish Concealer is one I always reach for because it

00:01:24.620 gives me that full coverage airbrushed finish. I also know I'm not the only person who struggled

00:01:29.840 to find the right foundation or concealer shade and it can be so frustrating trying to guess what

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00:01:59.860 or full glam sephora can help you find your match crazy that i'm following the rock yeah i'm

00:02:07.180 somewhere in his wake yeah which is crazy dude i listened to that episode what an incredible

00:02:11.860 freaking episode thank you how stoked were you on that oh my god i was so fired up it was like

00:02:16.700 i feel like we've been two passing passing ships for a while like i've met him a few times obviously

00:02:21.980 he's the rock and famous so who cares about me in regards to him but like getting to meet and

00:02:27.000 do it on this show specifically in hawaii was crazy how big is he how bigger is traps in real

00:02:32.040 life like did you ever get to just like grab him oh yeah hell yeah hell yeah and my paws all over

00:02:37.540 him um but yeah no i it was he's he's a big dude but honestly i feel like you're honestly a lot

00:02:43.280 taller than i think people assume thank you for saying that i do i really appreciate that josh is

00:02:48.520 a big dude and i mean that in not a derogatory sense i mean in a very awesome sense i only take

00:02:52.840 it in an awesome sense i the way that i judge people's bodies are like strictly on how good

00:02:58.020 they would be at throwing heavy objects period you know yeah that's it like hell yeah you know

00:03:02.420 if i see somebody that's real thin like they could never their their acl which would snap

00:03:07.140 trying to plant to throw a javelin yeah both meniscus gone a hundred percent yeah i i agree

00:03:11.980 And I made a lot of, like, fitness jokes with The Rock, too, because I was like, well, we have, like, same size lats.

00:03:17.180 Like, they're about the same, you and I.

00:03:18.920 I think you said with no bra from behind, we look the same.

00:03:25.320 I think that's the term that you use.

00:03:26.580 Me laughing at my own joke.

00:03:28.820 Me enjoying my own joke.

00:03:30.280 Hell, yeah.

00:03:30.740 I was like, do you get that?

00:03:31.880 I feel like top was from the back.

00:03:33.280 We're about the same.

00:03:34.160 Like, if he had hair, like, the version of him in Maui, who knows?

00:03:37.780 You know what I mean?

00:03:38.280 i i really do think though like you standing next to him i think he would look smaller than you'd

00:03:43.280 think hell yeah but honestly i i wasn't catching him though at like a baywatch time in his life

00:03:47.980 like when he was on baywatch he was probably way bigger dude that was not every everyone on that

00:03:52.240 baywatch shoot have you ever heard zach effron like talk about how much that ruined his life

00:03:55.840 he's just like yes i have i didn't eat a sandwich for six months yeah and he was like it's the worst

00:04:01.180 and i was trying to keep up with the rock which why was i trying to do that he was like i was 0.84

00:04:04.000 fainting on set because i was so it's fucking insane it's like but speaking of people like 0.76

00:04:10.060 zach efron i want to say i have to like i love your last meals series like you have been talking 0.83

00:04:16.820 to crazy famous people obviously um but i just have to commend you on that series i think it's

00:04:22.040 incredible and i think you're a wonderful host and i do not say that lightly because i do not

00:04:26.120 say that to every podcast host or show host there's a lot of there's there's so many podcast

00:04:31.380 slow south yeah there's quite a few of us now really are yeah we're all out here swimming in

00:04:35.760 the same water yeah but i do say quite often like when i talk about my experience with you as well

00:04:41.960 when i was on mythical kitchen and you made me a sunday roast which i say to this day is the best

00:04:47.760 like uk food i've ever had is the one that you served oh hell yeah yeah it was not from when i

00:04:52.000 was actually in the uk believe it or not we're pretty good at cooking is the thing like that's

00:04:56.280 the other thing about mythical kitchen that i don't know if people realize like we're really

00:05:00.120 good at it like actually delicious and i took it home and my fiance loved it oh hell yeah yeah and

00:05:05.780 so i just have to say i really enjoyed like how you interview and the way that you interview i

00:05:11.760 think it's really beautiful and amazing and i'll say it i think you should have been in vanity fair

00:05:15.800 dude listen both of us going there's there's you don't do it for the accolades right no like you

00:05:25.360 can't like you have to do it for the actual process yeah and the love of the game 100%

00:05:29.140 and like even uh not to keep bringing the rock into this but like you know I I loved when he

00:05:34.720 was asking you questions about acting was he was like do you enjoy the process yeah totally because

00:05:38.920 that's the only thing all the other shit can fade away but it's the actual process um right but that 0.53

00:05:44.880 said it was it was a little bit of an omission yeah I thought I thought so too I agree and I 0.77

00:05:50.600 and I really do like I believe you should have been in there for many reasons but one of them

00:05:54.940 being that i feel like you do what i love about interviewing which is you connect right like so

00:06:00.260 you you're able to connect to them in a way that and you know this too because you've spent so much

00:06:04.460 time with like a lot of high a-list talent that's what they like to say that's all they like to

00:06:09.280 describe the most famous people in the world is like a-list talent um they get very afraid to like

00:06:14.280 open up in interviews and they get very afraid to like show their real versions of themselves

00:06:18.920 for reasons that i'm sure are very valid like i'm sure it's come back to bite them in some way or

00:06:22.360 another but my question to you about that is like how do you prepare in that sense like do you do

00:06:28.080 any sort of preparation before you do your interviews like do you try to find ways to

00:06:31.600 connect them and like outside of what they're typically used to being asked like what's your

00:06:35.080 process look like 100 it's it's funny if anybody ever asked me and i know sean evans has the same

00:06:39.900 answer yeah like um how long do you spend researching a guest it's like as long as i

00:06:44.740 take from the minute that we book the guest to the minute that they show up i'm literally like i'll

00:06:49.560 be in the gym on the day of the interview like scraping bottom of the barrel still just double 1.00

00:06:55.860 checking yeah hillary duff um she once she was an awesome interview oh yeah like you know she 1.00

00:07:02.200 she had nothing to promote for 10 years she didn't do an album for 10 years and um randomly i found

00:07:08.380 this crazy natural birthing podcast that she uh you're thorough in your research quite and i

00:07:15.960 listened to six hours after before every child and after every child she did an hour-long podcast

00:07:21.180 with this natural birthing doctor damn all about it and I listened to six hours of Hilary Duff talk

00:07:26.040 about her natural birthing process none of that made the interview but like what you're what I'm

00:07:30.420 almost listening for is like how people react to certain lines of questioning yeah and you sort of

00:07:35.860 internalize that are there sensitivities that people have are there questions that they really

00:07:39.740 wish people were asking them yeah you're sort of reading between the lines and if you listen to

00:07:45.000 someone speak for such a long time you you really internalize it and that's what um what i do i was

00:07:51.200 just talking to to britney do you know britney broski yeah i think i think i'm familiar with

00:07:54.720 her yes i think it's yeah i think it's like like scouse like broski but uh she was she made a

00:08:04.000 comment she was like she was like yeah you don't have any notes yeah just go off rip and you know

00:08:09.360 she's got her whole sheet on royal court but for me I'm like I write everything down and then I

00:08:16.860 don't look at it because I'm trying to internalize it and then react in the moment. Yeah and you want

00:08:21.100 it to be organic and feel organic and I feel like that's another reason why I wanted to ask too

00:08:26.620 because I feel like there's a lot of thoughtfulness put into your conversations and I don't even just

00:08:30.640 mean in research because I know you're extremely well researched obviously having been interviewed

00:08:34.340 by you I know you do your research for real for real which is a wonderful thing but it's more so

00:08:38.660 too like what you were saying about listening like there's a lot of in intentional listening

00:08:42.940 going on so it's almost like kind of letting them steer it but like open getting them to open up I

00:08:48.240 think it's like the trust factor and I feel like you're very thoughtful about in your line of

00:08:52.640 questioning and how you talk to them and like I've also told people too like when I interview I feel

00:08:57.620 like the whole point is like when it's long form you kind of want to see them talk in a way that

00:09:02.140 maybe you haven't seen before and then a lot of times they really enjoy when you like engage them

00:09:07.480 in a very normal way like I sometimes people ask me like how do you not get nervous and I'm like

00:09:11.800 well if you just treat them like everybody else then it will be fine most oftentimes they're

00:09:16.180 awesome like if you're if you're awesome they're awesome have you ever met anyone because I fully

00:09:20.880 agree with that and there's an element of like earning that trust and exactly it's like patience

00:09:25.660 yeah but like have you ever had any encounters you're like oh you don't want to be treated like

00:09:30.000 a normal person yes of course i have yes and those are the ones that kind of freak me out

00:09:37.080 yeah me too when you're like oh you're not giving me anything huh no no personality whatsoever

00:09:42.000 i've i've joked about that with other hosts before where we've talked about like

00:09:45.620 sometimes it's one of those where you're like okay um what else can i pull what else can i do

00:09:52.620 like i feel like i'm i'm tap dancing for my life like trying to get them to open up a little bit

00:09:57.400 it's really give me something it's really valuable when you are doing that but you have a bowl of

00:10:02.400 spaghetti in front of you which is the good thing about my show because i've everything i do is food

00:10:06.500 so things are going poorly i can just be like yeah man that spaghetti's good yum but like no but

00:10:13.760 most of the especially like top top a list which of course anybody who's actually in that a list

00:10:18.600 would never refer to themselves as a list no that's true yeah absolutely you know we had tom 0.73

00:10:23.480 hanks is like our sixth guest ever which was fucking crazy fucking none of us like we thought 0.89

00:10:28.460 we were getting pranked we thought like a tom hanks impersonator was gonna show up you're like 0.98

00:10:31.980 someone's pranking me i'm gonna get punked until he showed up in our green room he drove himself

00:10:36.980 to set in a prius he showed up 15 minutes early to his call time of course tom hanks drives a

00:10:41.700 prius literally a good person of course like he beat his he showed up with just like one publicist

00:10:47.580 yeah um it was just there and he was asking all of our cam ops about their families and where

00:10:52.540 they're from so cool and then you know we'll have somebody else who might be say a more emerging

00:10:57.900 star they show up with a team of 14 people and they're not making eye contact and they're an

00:11:03.640 hour late yeah i i've had people i've said that before i'm like shockingly like the rudest people

00:11:09.420 i've met there's not many thankfully but like the rudest people i have met have been people

00:11:12.920 you would not think like you're like there's no way you're acting that way and a lot of times

00:11:17.320 they're like young like you said or they're um like reality stars like a lot of times if they're

00:11:22.880 in the reality world like it's always people that you would never think would act that way and then

00:11:27.320 people that you would assume oh they might act that way they don't yeah which is very shocking

00:11:31.340 i think it's because it comes from a place of insecurity yeah totally if you're treating like

00:11:35.520 right i think it's probably because they're really insecure probably yeah yeah but like yeah tom hanks

00:11:40.740 says nothing to prove nothing to prove to anyone he doesn't have to prove anything to himself he

00:11:44.920 has no ego yeah but if it's somebody who is already not comfortable with your own station

00:11:50.420 in terms of celebrity in terms of status or whatever exactly yeah that's when you're like 0.99

00:11:54.540 how do i recapture control what do you mean to mythical kitchen fuck you yeah i'm gonna be mean 0.97

00:11:59.160 to mythical kitchen i'm sure you've dealt with many people yeah i'm gonna bully mythical chef 0.98

00:12:04.580 josh that's what i'm gonna do and you're so nice like that's like another you're so nice

00:12:10.980 so it would be extra mean to be mean to you but just to kind of backpedal like how did last meals

00:12:16.460 come about like the inception of it like was it something you'd been working towards something

00:12:20.520 you were hoping to do or was it kind of just like born of just random creativity i'd say more born

00:12:25.740 of random creativity it's funny i am i have just way too much adhd to like plan anything you know

00:12:31.960 what i mean i i always um i also have way too much adhd to not put energy into something right

00:12:37.300 So for me, I've all sort of just thrown creative energy in some sort of direction.

00:12:41.360 Yeah.

00:12:41.760 Right.

00:12:41.940 I was a writer and a journalist.

00:12:43.480 We've talked about this yet.

00:12:44.340 Yes, we have.

00:12:44.560 We're coming from the journalism world.

00:12:46.160 Yeah.

00:12:46.700 We're both coming from a Southern California shot put to journalism.

00:12:50.560 Yeah, there's a real pipeline.

00:12:51.660 To these seats right here.

00:12:52.280 It's just the two of us in it.

00:12:53.400 But yeah, it's a real pipeline.

00:12:54.480 I know.

00:12:55.660 But, you know, I was mostly just doing like standard cooking-ish videos from the kitchen.

00:13:01.260 I'd written my first cookbook.

00:13:02.600 I was writing for magazines.

00:13:04.320 That world just kind of tanked overnight.

00:13:07.300 the written word uh so to speak and so i was just doing these cooking videos for mythical kitchen

00:13:12.120 uh in red and link having a blast um but mostly just doing kind of like silly stuff yeah um how

00:13:18.460 do we make a 300 wagyu burrito we still do that it's still fun as shit yeah but i just had this

00:13:24.900 idea to like make my own last meal yeah and it was just meant to be a one-off episode you know

00:13:29.180 something fun we can put out there give me an excuse to make a cranius out of burrito yeah on

00:13:33.340 there and as I was doing it I just couldn't stop talking about the idea of like grief and mortality

00:13:38.920 and existentialism and you know I lost both my parents at a relatively young age my dad when I

00:13:44.160 was 19 and my mom I'd been estranged from her since I was 14 she passed when I was 24 and all

00:13:49.680 these like feelings started coming up yeah when I was cooking my last meal stupid things I didn't

00:13:55.200 think about like I was making a shrimp cocktail and as I was really thinking about why I was

00:14:00.560 making shrimp cocktails like i don't even eat shrimp cocktail that much i don't even know if

00:14:03.800 i like it that much yeah why is it on my last meal right and i realized that it was like my dad's

00:14:09.380 version of what success looked like oh it was like if you could like you're getting chills

00:14:14.660 that's crazy him telling me a story of like you know when he was at the peak of his career which

00:14:20.580 never was very particularly high he was like you know i went to um what is it called like the the

00:14:26.080 rusty pelican in malibu and got a shrimp cocktail you know and i had it's like the pinnacle of like

00:14:31.620 you know like success yeah yeah and i thought our uh audience would hate it and then instead we got

00:14:37.260 a ton of praise for it and people were like we would love to see other people talk about 0.95

00:14:40.800 food this way yeah that's really oh shit call tom hanks get tom hanks on the phone he's gonna 0.86

00:14:48.100 love this oh wow that's so cool that that's how that came up like when you were making your meal 0.93

00:14:54.700 like what what were things that like made you kind of want to be like i think i want to ask

00:14:58.840 other people about it was it purely inspired by viewers or was it kind of like you know food is

00:15:03.520 such a universal language maybe people can speak to me through food like and feel more comfortable

00:15:07.680 doing so yeah no 100 i i was so shocked at my own thoughts and feelings that came up that i was like

00:15:14.480 that is so surely other people will have this yeah you know and we've seen um you know i think

00:15:19.700 everybody has a connection with food whether they think they do or not yeah we've had some guests

00:15:24.900 that immediately got the prompt and they were excited about it yeah and then like you know

00:15:29.640 we've had some other people that kind of their publicist throws them out here yeah uh matthew

00:15:33.560 lillard was one very cool big lillard head yeah um but he came on and he was literally like

00:15:39.160 yeah i'm sorry man this is my little impression i'm sorry man i just don't think i really have

00:15:44.440 like an emotional connection with food you know and then one of the things he had on there was

00:15:49.000 his dad's steak and eggs and we as soon as the steak and eggs at the table he starts crying oh

00:15:54.380 my gosh before he even took a bite getting chills again i know but like this is also a guy who 10

00:15:59.040 minutes before was like i don't really have an emotional connection it's just food yeah it's

00:16:02.580 never just food it's always uh a metaphor a time in your life a point that you can go back to it

00:16:07.520 yeah and my thing is always like food is just the lens that i kind of view the whole world through

00:16:13.100 yeah so to me like to tell the story of food is to tell the history of the entire world

00:16:16.940 Okay, Anthony Bourdain.

00:16:18.380 You better talk to me, Anthony Bourdain.

00:16:21.440 Honestly, that would probably be your like,

00:16:23.680 oh my God, I'm going to manifest that for you, Josh.

00:16:26.060 Josh, I'm going to manifest that for you,

00:16:27.400 that you're the next Anthony Bourdain.

00:16:28.860 Oh my God, that'd be so beautiful.

00:16:30.700 I think that's-

00:16:31.360 I'm tremendously flattered by it.

00:16:32.820 Even the sentence, the next Anthony Bourdain

00:16:34.780 is like, it's so impossible.

00:16:36.940 He was truly so singular.

00:16:38.560 No, that is true.

00:16:39.700 But I do think you remind me a lot of him

00:16:41.880 because obviously the magic in him

00:16:43.380 is not just obviously the food,

00:16:44.740 it's the way he's able to connect to people,

00:16:46.360 which is what I was already telling you oh my god okay I'm manifesting for you we had a um a great

00:16:51.500 experience I've gotten to have a couple people that knew Bourdain really closely on the show

00:16:54.600 and one of them is my single favorite musician of all time Serge Tonkin oh no way hell yeah

00:17:00.140 dude he's like a thousand year old immortal tree like he's just so wise and gentle and then you

00:17:06.060 hear him you know sing and scream and it's incredible he's fucking awesome and radio

00:17:09.360 videos one of my favorite songs of all time so period that's so cool um but yeah he has a coffee

00:17:15.380 shot that's like three miles from here oh no way he makes armenian coffee has his paintings on the

00:17:20.380 wall very cool you'll just like show up and see him like sweeping the floor oh my god he's he's

00:17:25.900 rad but he took bourdain around armenia yeah his home country and he's done a lot of work to

00:17:30.780 you know advocate for armenian genocide recognition yeah and uh he straight up sent

00:17:35.420 bourdain a cold email and he was like hey i don't know if you know who i am but i have a band called 0.71

00:17:39.600 system of a down bourdain was like dude a fucking course i know who you are huge fan uh and then 0.93

00:17:44.880 serge was straight up like if you come to armenia and shoot you're never going to be led into like 0.97

00:17:49.360 turkey or azerbaijan or a bunch of these other countries right and bourdain said something i 0.96

00:17:54.760 think serge still has his email that's like i'm tired of these like petty small dick dictators

00:17:58.760 trying to right demand what we do say that um but i was talking to serge all about this and this is

00:18:04.120 off camera but i was telling him that you know bourdain was always my north star in terms of

00:18:08.500 i want to see with my career absolutely and serge said if he's your north star then i think you're

00:18:12.700 well on your way and i almost yes oh josh that's so sweet we're getting chills again 0.98

00:18:18.820 jobs we have i know it's fucking amazing there's rules yeah i talk about my dick size but it's the 0.97

00:18:24.120 same hey we're having the same cultural impact you and i no i think that's incredible and i 0.98

00:18:31.300 and that's why i just said that out of my own thinking because it's true and i'm and i am

00:18:35.980 manifesting that for you uh very very intensely because I do think that you are incredible in

00:18:40.640 that and I think you're definitely I agree with my good friend our good friend Serge Tankian

00:18:44.340 that you are well on your way um what's what was your favorite meal to make so far like and on last

00:18:49.640 meals like what was like a cool like whether it was the coolest or the most like emotionally

00:18:54.000 connective like which one was your favorite there's some dishes that just like stick out as like

00:18:58.800 I don't know just like the most delicious things I've ever had and things that I've never

00:19:03.020 heard of or eat before we had like we had um the actor solo maridueña on the show yeah period

00:19:08.040 yes and all that um but you know his family i think they're from df from mexico city yeah and

00:19:14.520 he had this like it's like called like a torta de chilaquil okay so it's just like a torta with

00:19:19.500 chilaquiles and like milanesa and all this stuffed in there and it served you know in like a plastic

00:19:24.160 bag that you wrap up and all kinds of schemes but we like researched like every single thing about

00:19:29.800 this one stand that he was talking about in mexico city yeah and we made it and it's just like my

00:19:35.620 ideal food and he took a bite and he was like this is exactly how it tastes no way and there's

00:19:42.320 so many cool just like food moments like yeah absolutely and you get to try something new well

00:19:49.060 you're always trying new things is there anything what's like the weirdest thing you've ever tried

00:19:52.860 food wise god we just tried you tried a million and one yeah any amount of animal 0.95

00:19:58.740 penis and organ and like we've really there's so many you name it i've eaten it literally yeah

00:20:04.460 and i think it's really cool like uh to me none of it's weird though yeah that's true one of my

00:20:11.100 fundamental worldviews is if a food exists it's because somebody found it delicious 0.91

00:20:15.920 you know what i mean and that's such a beautiful way of looking at it testicles are delicious 0.82

00:20:21.640 like it's not weird i don't know like beef testicles legitimately they have this like very 0.89

00:20:27.540 pure beefy flavor almost like uh this kind of like clean irony flavor like a new york strip

00:20:34.240 loin it's like incredible interesting i don't know i just never found any of it weird that's

00:20:39.120 a beautiful thing though and that's i that's what i think another reason why you're able to like

00:20:43.160 connect so easily because the way you look at things like you said looking at the world through

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00:22:26.960 for what's been like the most emotional moment on the show so far other than matthew lillard crying

00:22:32.440 obviously because that is very emotional and intense yeah but like one that kind of sticks

00:22:36.280 out to you there there have been a couple that like really have framed the way that i think

00:22:42.140 about death in a lot of ways and you know we see a lot of a lot of themes with a lot of people um

00:22:48.560 you know a lot of people say i'm like you know i don't know if i believe in a capital g god but i

00:22:51.940 believe in the universe or whatever yeah totally but what's been really cool is seeing people's

00:22:55.720 like very specific viewpoints like we had rain wilson on he's a member of the bahia faith

00:23:01.560 so he's you know he's straight up he's the first guy to just go i know exactly what happens when

00:23:06.500 you die and he just said it it was like you know your soul goes here and i was like that's rad

00:23:10.900 but we had kelly roland on the show yeah and kelly roland she's very much a christian woman

00:23:15.500 which you know i'm jewish i can't empathize with a lot of beliefs but she i guess she did a netflix

00:23:21.880 movie where she died and her like seven-year-old kid was watching the movie and he started crying

00:23:26.200 he goes mommy i don't want you yeah yeah it was just the movie yeah but then of course he goes

00:23:30.900 like well what happens when you die and she kind of in the moment she's like i just have this rush

00:23:35.800 of inspiration and she said um when you die it's you see a beautiful light and you get hugged by

00:23:43.380 all the people you get the warmest hug by all the people that you've ever loved oh my gosh yeah

00:23:49.540 like the hopefulness that is such a beautiful way of looking at it too yeah and it is it also i feel

00:23:55.800 like and you can i would love to know your thoughts too i feel like sometimes obviously

00:23:59.940 topics like death are like very taboo and they're very hard to talk about for obvious reasons but i

00:24:06.380 feel like sometimes when you do talk them through and talk about your existential beliefs like

00:24:10.980 whether it's in the universe or god or whatever um sometimes it makes it less scary like the more

00:24:15.840 you talk about it and the more you come to terms with it it you feel less afraid and i don't know

00:24:21.100 do you feel the same way too now that you've been doing this like constantly with a lot of people

00:24:24.900 of different faiths and different backgrounds like has it made you feel less afraid of like death

00:24:29.740 100 yeah and that was a big big motivation in doing it yeah i bet honest um you know i i used

00:24:35.980 to have especially after my dad passed away when i was you know 19 and that's such a weirdly

00:24:40.540 vulnerable point in your life where you're like a legal adult but you're not a real adult emotionally

00:24:45.600 you're not a real adult no yeah uh and so i was you know living in an apartment with some roommates

00:24:50.860 and i just remember laying in bed at night and for the first time not just intellectualizing death

00:24:57.680 but like really think it really feeling the idea of what non-existence could be i think i was a

00:25:03.700 little stoned at the time too which did not like i could not smoke pot anymore it's 50 50 dice roll

00:25:07.880 it could be awesome or horrifying right um but and sometimes you get both of the same coachella

00:25:13.600 and then your wife's like you shouldn't do that anymore and i was like and you're like you're

00:25:16.880 probably right sometimes you're locked in your own body at green day and it is not a good time

00:25:20.960 but i remember like laying in bed and just fully feeling the idea of non-existence and i went just

00:25:27.340 catatonic had a full panic attack yeah was paralyzed and like crying yeah and there's times

00:25:32.900 when i've like reached that point again weirdly and this sucks um shavasana and yoga after like

00:25:39.100 a hard yoga class oh my god yeah it's literally called corpse pose yeah and you guys got anxiety

00:25:44.040 looking at the ceiling yeah uh and since then like being able to actually talk about it all the time

00:25:50.640 i now have these like mantras that i can go back to like kelly roland saying yeah death might be

00:25:57.040 a warm embrace from all the people you've ever known who the hell am I to say that it's not

00:26:01.180 exactly yeah I think that's why too sometimes when I find it really fascinating when people

00:26:06.580 talk about their beliefs in a way that's not obviously combative like everyone can kind of

00:26:10.780 talk about what they believe in and spiritually or religiously and I feel like whatever it means

00:26:16.780 to them I think is a beautiful thing like which is why I feel like it's important to hear other

00:26:21.360 people's perspectives because it can help you even if you don't believe in the exact same thing like

00:26:26.780 that does give me a lot of peace of mind it reminds me actually like i'm writing a fiction

00:26:30.900 book right now no romanticity hell yeah and i in my research i've been doing i've been trying to

00:26:37.500 watch pieces of media based in other cultures like in other languages because what i was telling my

00:26:44.660 my friend the other day was like i find that in other cultures the way that they express

00:26:48.740 love and intimacy in their media is very different from western media and like there's no sex or

00:26:54.640 anything like that in like for example like korean dramas or like chinese dramas they don't

00:26:58.560 depict sex but like they do have a lot of love and intimacy and how they depict that i think is

00:27:03.340 really beautiful because it's cultural but also when they're time period pieces uh the way they

00:27:08.760 talk about death like the way they talk about grief um like how they talk about their ancestors

00:27:13.520 they're they're very superstitious like i find all of that to be so beautiful and i think about how

00:27:18.620 like the way that they used to process death back in the day versus now is very different

00:27:22.500 and i think that's why i find that to be amazing it's like a very connective thing to talk about

00:27:28.240 i think the afterlife what that looks like to us everybody has a tradition right and but i think

00:27:34.600 like um right now at least for me like i didn't grow up i grew up like jewish and you know kind

00:27:40.080 of we like you know sit shiva when somebody dies but like shiva was traditionally i think sorry 0.64

00:27:46.060 jews i think it was something like a week and you got to do a lot of things you got to tear your 0.85

00:27:49.440 clothing you can't look in mirrors there's all these rules yeah our version of shiva was like

00:27:54.760 four hours we like go to a deli and we talk about the person and you wear like a pin with a ribbon

00:28:00.360 on it you cut the ribbon off and that's a symbol but we've kind of like you know shortened a lot

00:28:03.980 of these cultural traditions right but i think there's so much that you can like learn from

00:28:08.820 those things yeah like why they did it that way yeah yeah that kind of thing even if it's just

00:28:12.580 like holding space and time right to think about something i think it's really important did you

00:28:16.960 grow up with like any faith tradition or like cultural traditions around death ancestors yeah

00:28:22.280 like cultural yes especially um surrounding death so like for us like i actually just did this

00:28:29.400 last year i believe um yeah it was last year um when someone passes it depends on their rank in

00:28:35.640 the family because obviously like if you're a chief like like if you're a chief in someone

00:28:39.460 culture and forgive me i'm shorthand summarizing it if you're someone but essentially like your

00:28:44.500 your funeral could last up to a week because there's just a lot of processes that go we go

00:28:49.120 through uh but we do this thing called like mailofa which is like a love gift that's what it

00:28:53.680 translates to so essentially it's always money but it can be food or fine mats as well either way but

00:29:00.620 we go to the house of the widow and then we present them with this mailofa and like express our

00:29:07.000 condolences all of that stuff but first the widow like obviously will like express gratitude for us

00:29:11.620 being there we pray and then we give them our mail lofa and there's a whole exchange in that

00:29:16.340 where we have to you have to do this whole thing where you're like no please no you take it oh

00:29:21.060 funny no please you take it like you have to do that back and forth for a while and then do you

00:29:25.420 have like a term for that like the for that cultural exchange i'm sure there is a term i

00:29:29.160 actually don't know what it is if there is but it is like a process of like no you take it no

00:29:33.000 in farsi there's a term taro okay like there's a lot of persian jews i grew up but yeah it's like 0.63

00:29:38.380 no no no it's humbleness yeah it's like a humbleness thing i already snuck the car to the 1.00

00:29:42.580 way exactly and it's like they offer us a gift so they give us uh we got like we got i think it was

00:29:50.040 like canned fish what i forget mackerel we get mackerel and canned from samua and corned beef

00:29:54.420 and so they give us those that in return like thank you so much for coming and grieving with

00:29:59.060 me and that kind of thing and i remember when i was explaining this whole process to like one of

00:30:04.700 my friends who's obviously not someone she was like wow that's so interesting because another

00:30:09.040 part of the process is like the immediate family of the widow like essentially comes to the house

00:30:14.000 and cooks every meal and cleans and welcomes all the guests to the house because you can have guests

00:30:18.720 coming in and out of your house for days and so and leaving gifts leaving money that kind of thing

00:30:22.800 and so when I was explaining it to her I was telling her like the cultural significance of

00:30:27.200 it is that you're not supposed to grieve alone like that's like the whole point the point is that

00:30:31.100 the grief is for the village to share so like back in Samoa they would come and sit on your lawn

00:30:35.720 until you were done grieving kind of thing and it's just support like that's really what it's

00:30:39.900 supposed to be is like no one should have to go through the grieving process alone which I think

00:30:44.500 is really beautiful and obviously when you're a child and you go to those and you're like oh

00:30:48.300 yeah I'm like oh play game boy I was like let's eat we've been sitting here forever but it's now

00:30:55.280 that I'm older like I can recognize obviously the importance of it the

00:31:00.440 cultural significance of it and I think it's it is a very beautiful thing and

00:31:03.400 it's the way that they would process death and grief and and it was kind of

00:31:07.520 like you your whole job essentially is to just grieve and receive the guests and

00:31:13.440 that's pretty much it and your family supposed to take care of everything else

00:31:16.040 like making sure the house is clean making sure foods made and everybody's

00:31:19.460 fed and all that kind of stuff so it's very beautiful I would say I think a lot

00:31:23.240 of times I think Samoan funerals are actually fascinating and sometimes when I'm telling my

00:31:27.020 friends I'm like yeah maybe I'll take you to one I've been to a lot of funerals because I have a

00:31:31.640 huge family and you grew up with Samoan people you've told me yeah yeah I grew up with a fair

00:31:35.140 amount of Samoan yeah and I was like because you especially because I also played the big boy

00:31:38.400 sports and that's proof that's proof for all of you at home that Josh is a big boy 1.00

00:31:43.380 because he was playing with the Samoan dudes and they're always big my ass kicked 0.98

00:31:47.000 but i i truly think that like just to kind of wrap on this idea of death i think it's very 0.97

00:31:54.500 powerful what you're doing um tackling these very difficult topics especially talking about

00:31:59.720 your own grief is like such a vulnerable act and it's such a brave and courageous thing to do

00:32:03.900 especially on the internet because people are crazy um but i think you're incredible and i

00:32:09.000 think your show is amazing um and i do have more questions about the show obviously um can i come

00:32:14.600 on it what hell yeah dude okay I'm just getting it on the record come on just getting it on the

00:32:19.740 record for you I'm just getting ahead of it um who was one of your funnest guests that you've

00:32:24.660 had on the show that was my real question yes dude uh uh speaking of big boys yeah uh Jason

00:32:29.320 Kelsey so yeah speaking of big boys yeah what's funny is Jason I mean he's he's a big boy but

00:32:35.860 he's also like historically like undersized for his position that's very true it was the first

00:32:41.020 it was the first time that we'd gotten comments that were like okay now Josh looks small and he's

00:32:46.460 not even like Jason Kelsey's only only like you know he probably played like 6'3 290 but yeah

00:32:51.060 for a position where people like 6'6 340 yeah yeah he was like the small quick guy yeah he came on

00:32:57.160 and you know we I had to to bribe a friend who lives in Philly to like drive around the city he

00:33:04.040 was a dentist it was actually one of our camera operators brothers he was a dentist and I think

00:33:09.080 He, like, lied and told his patients that a family emergency happened.

00:33:13.100 Sorry, Pat.

00:33:14.680 That a family emergency happened, and instead he took the day off,

00:33:17.380 and he drove around Philly with a cooler full of dry ice,

00:33:20.120 went to D'Alessandro's Cheesesteaks,

00:33:22.460 Swiacky's Meats to get their sausage,

00:33:25.120 and then Stock's Pound Cake because none of them would, like, ship.

00:33:27.980 I even called the old Polish couple that owns Swiacky's Meats.

00:33:32.260 I was like, hey, I'm a producer of the show.

00:33:33.500 I host this thing, and Jason Kelsey.

00:33:35.400 And they're like, oh, yeah, we love Kelsey, right?

00:33:37.840 and i was like awesome so like could you just right a couple pounds of sausage and thing we'll

00:33:42.400 pay for it right ship it to this address like yeah no we don't know how to do that yeah we love

00:33:47.740 kelsey i start up remember going like do you have like a younger relative or employee anyone i can

00:33:53.720 talk to anyone at all i gotta go cut the meat they're like okay thanks for calling bye 0.99

00:33:59.900 go birds go birds yeah but yeah we like shipped it all out and then man you do not fucking play 0.95

00:34:06.660 about those meals you're like no i am getting the ogs in some of that part of that's earning 0.97

00:34:11.980 the trust hell yeah this is a family recipe this is like we're we're going to the nines yeah hell

00:34:17.980 yeah i got to tell jason that the reason we won the super bowl or no the reason yeah we won the

00:34:23.520 super bowl god 2017 was because of my lucky eagles hat that i was wearing and you're welcome by the

00:34:28.940 way yeah and then he like very earnestly goes like you know what man like all the things that

00:34:34.640 every single fan is doing like that that energy is what we feed off of so like i don't doubt that

00:34:39.560 you're and i was just like you don't have to even say that anyways we end up going to a go to a bar

00:34:44.360 he's like thank you and i appreciate your service josh thank you thank you so much uh i watched him

00:34:49.400 drink a punch bowl meant for six people at a bar afterwards it was awesome no for real he's like

00:34:54.880 the real life paul bunyan and i've i've only i've i've hung out with kylie uh via facetime or

00:34:59.800 whatever because i was on her podcast so another another large person yes a big girl six foot tall

00:35:06.000 hell yeah that's why i i find that to be uh beautiful and representative of me i was like

00:35:13.140 you're my representation i love large people me too there's there's something that i can't josh

00:35:18.320 we have to do something about it everybody in this industry is this big and it's humiliating

00:35:22.540 for them i remember watching the discourse of uh people talking about uh you you and pili's

00:35:28.620 uh heights together and people being like he's five nine she's like just scale everything like

00:35:35.980 just you gotta add like four or five more inches like a creative player in a video game yeah for 0.87

00:35:40.480 real you guys fucking wish if he's five nine i'm five feet what are you talking about i know i tell 0.95

00:35:46.860 people all the time and i think that's why like the first time i ever stood next to the rock 0.99

00:35:50.900 i remember a lot of people were like you know what's funny is like i know you say you're big

00:35:56.040 But like, now I believe you because he looks normal size.

00:35:59.440 And I was like, okay, relax, first of all.

00:36:01.300 And I was like, but Josh is also very tall and taller than me.

00:36:04.580 So write that down, first of all.

00:36:06.840 But I am, now that you've met so many A-list talent, you know, especially, like, everybody is so tiny.

00:36:12.280 I'm trying to think who the large people that have surprised me are.

00:36:15.040 Because there's been a couple.

00:36:16.140 Really?

00:36:16.660 Yeah, I'm trying to think.

00:36:18.440 Nick DiGiovanni, the chef.

00:36:19.980 Oh, yeah.

00:36:20.720 He's 6'3".

00:36:21.400 No, that's true.

00:36:22.040 He is tall.

00:36:22.700 I have met him.

00:36:23.400 That's true.

00:36:23.860 He is very tall.

00:36:24.900 Ben Schwartz, tall guy.

00:36:25.600 no way really he's a hooper too oh no way down on the court yeah yeah what the hell it's a fun

00:36:32.040 wait look up this there's a video of Ben Schwartz just like messing around on the New York Knicks

00:36:36.700 court like two years ago yeah and he's just pulling out a little like and one move soon

00:36:40.760 I think he makes like eight jump shots in a row the hell yeah yeah Ben Schwartz can ball that's

00:36:45.720 like honestly probably one of my favorite things about interviews and that was my next question

00:36:50.760 for you was like what's like one of your favorite things to not necessarily something specific to

00:36:56.560 find out about someone or like what's one of your favorite moments in interviews like if you

00:36:59.740 get them to like tell you something interesting or whatever like what would you say is your

00:37:03.580 favorite part my favorite moment is is finding the thing that used to mean a lot to somebody

00:37:09.860 because I think that's the thing that gets lost with a lot of celebrities is people kind of assume

00:37:14.980 they like came out of the womb famous or came out of the womb only wanting to be an actor right and

00:37:21.400 like you know I high school sports meant so much to me at the time yeah the time and I'm you know

00:37:27.320 you can probably identify with this that's like the most important thing in the world yeah that's

00:37:30.240 like all I knew yeah and that was my thing you're 15 and yeah it's do or die if you don't win that

00:37:35.460 JV soccer game right I mean yeah like finding out people's you know you can there's so many online days

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00:38:37.080 uh you know i remember finding out elizabeth olsen she was she went to campbell hall which

00:38:48.400 is like a really good sports school drew holiday all the holiday brothers went there yeah tons

00:38:54.420 big big legacy she went to campbell hall and she was the starting either setter or libero on the

00:39:00.900 no way on volleyball as a freshman no way she put up like i think 37 assists in like their opening 0.78

00:39:08.140 freshman year game against like malibu high who'd just come off a state championship you're crazy

00:39:13.760 and so i'm like reading an la time i know i'm reading la times article from 2002 and finding

00:39:19.180 that it's just like freshman lizzie olsen at 37 assists crazy i was like at the time that must

00:39:24.520 have been the most important thing in the world to her yeah because that's sick as hell hell yeah

00:39:29.340 and so like getting to bring stuff up like that and seeing them get like transported back yeah

00:39:33.560 and feel excited and seen I think that's like yeah I think that's the beautiful thing that's

00:39:37.640 obvious to me in your interviews and that's why I really enjoy you as a host is because

00:39:41.100 you make people feel seen and that's like it's very hard to do sometimes especially for people

00:39:46.060 like Elizabeth Olsen for example who have been revered and been famous for a long time and

00:39:51.320 they've been rewarded like and they're sitting at this very high echelon like reaching that point

00:39:57.080 to them and that's funny hearing you say that too because that's also one of my favorite things to

00:40:00.480 find out about them like find out something that maybe they have never really talked about that

00:40:05.220 they really enjoy like whether it's like a hobby or like just kind of a side thing they find

00:40:10.300 interesting like even like one time I had when I had Bob the drag queen on the second time uh we

00:40:16.640 were talking about I forget what what it was we were talking about but he ended up telling me that

00:40:20.580 he loves space like and he loves to learn about space and like black holes was his first exposure

00:40:26.760 to space and that's where he learned about how black holes work and and then we talked about

00:40:30.860 space for like 30 minutes and i was like i was just asking him a lot of questions because i'm

00:40:34.580 just so curious but i i think that's always so fun and i think you bring that out in people and

00:40:38.880 that's a beautiful thing who are you gunning for on mythical kitchen i'm sure you already have a

00:40:43.420 bunch that you haven't been able to announce yet but like who are you like who would be like your

00:40:47.240 if not anthony bourdain if if he was alive obviously it would be him but if there was

00:40:51.920 another north star for you to get on the show who would you love to have you know there's one

00:40:56.520 celebrity that every time you hear a story about him you're just like he seems like the best most

00:41:02.180 interesting guy in the world it's keanu reeves that's such a good one that is a great one imagine

00:41:07.560 how good he'd be on that show he would love you he's so earnest yeah he's so interesting yeah

00:41:14.160 it's so funny because he he hardly does any press yeah as himself but he occasionally does press

00:41:20.480 as dog starred you know dog star no it's his band so like i'll see you know keanu reeves you know

00:41:27.100 you'll kind of look up like well do they do any podcasts do they do anything similar right we do

00:41:30.780 how retainable is this and there's like no interviews with just keanu except for on like

00:41:34.920 some random you know like rock podcast right and it'll just be like dog star featuring keanu reeves

00:41:43.160 on whatever podcast has 9 000 views and it's just keanu like in the back being like yes i remember

00:41:48.980 watching robert trujillo pay play bass and i was like man i love this technique he's weirdo and

00:41:54.620 yeah we're playing like you know 500 cap room tomorrow you guys should come out and i'm like

00:41:59.380 that's awesome that would be incredible oh my god i think he would adore you and i bet his last meal

00:42:05.140 would be so interesting or even like robert pattinson like robert pattinson's free he's just

00:42:10.440 talking about yeah freak freak weirdo not derogatory no he's just strange yeah he's just

00:42:16.440 strange as hell come on the show i think he would love you too i love them they're the best they are 0.88

00:42:22.120 the best like woody harrelson too yeah he's just a weird ass he's vegan we made uh we had anthony

00:42:28.400 padilla from smosh and he yeah love him he's vegan and he's been vegan for a while his entire last 0.96

00:42:34.860 meal that was like taco bell pizza like all this stuff he said fuck it yeah at the end but we made

00:42:40.880 everything vegan for him oh that's so sweet it was honestly like you know we made a perfect beef 0.93

00:42:45.860 wellington for gordon ramsay like we've made yeah a5 log you and procured sea creatures for for you 0.92

00:42:51.920 know some of the world's best chefs yeah making all of anthony's shit vegan was so hard that was 0.92

00:42:56.660 like infinitely harder literally yeah than trying to cook the perfect steak 100 100 that is yeah

00:43:03.580 oh god i don't know honestly i feel like i i'm super open to a lot of people but i would love

00:43:11.840 like zendaya yeah or her and tom holland at the same time would be crazy yeah but you've had tom

00:43:17.860 holland have you had tom holland he's he's another one that yeah that you're working on you could

00:43:21.980 easily get him he's an alcoholic bureau yes have you tried oh i haven't tried it i'm in my 30s now

00:43:27.900 i can't hang anymore i'm weak i'm soft i had to i had to leave the house twice last week which

00:43:34.240 is hard it's a lot you know i had to like go to like you know support a friend yeah music show

00:43:39.020 going out at night oh jesus christ yeah so but anyways non-alcoholic beer you have a bureau in

00:43:43.560 your hand it smells like you're having fun it tastes like you're having fun interesting

00:43:47.680 you get to drive home and you can just yeah you get to drive home yeah you get to go home when

00:43:52.160 you want to go home interrupted you're so me because i've been talking about that a lot i'm 0.89

00:43:57.380 like once i got past fucking i don't even know like 25 it started like declining steadily my 0.86

00:44:03.700 ability to drink and so now like that's why i'm a big weed fan because like i don't regret it in 0.88

00:44:08.820 the morning and i don't want to like die because i'm so nauseous and sick yeah so but now like when

00:44:13.640 i do drink i'm like i feel like i'm gonna be hung over for days i'm like i'm never gonna recover

00:44:18.620 it's a commitment for four days yeah it's so it's so painful i can't even go out on a saturday

00:44:23.180 anymore i'm like it's friday or bus because friday night then it's like okay you're hung over

00:44:27.880 saturday sunday you're still a little bit worse but you can still like right do your laundry and

00:44:33.660 go shopping and get things set up for monday i know can't even go out on a saturday

00:44:37.120 i know i'm real struck about i'm real strict about that time 30 p.m and then yeah i'm real

00:44:43.080 strict about like my nighttime routine like i'm just so old like and even like i just did my

00:44:47.920 joint bachelor bachelorette uh with my man we went to vegas with our bridal party and it was

00:44:53.320 really fun and i highly recommend if you guys want to do a joint one because we just went on

00:44:57.320 vacation together and that was fun but i was like telling my friends i was like i i yeah we'll go

00:45:02.280 out and they're like you're gonna go out and drink and i was like yes i will drink i'll have

00:45:07.160 some drinks then because i just never drink because i'm like i can't i can't i don't have

00:45:11.240 time for that i'm at the age where even when i eat stuff my stomach hurts past a certain time

00:45:16.000 i can't can't eat you can't eat late i can't eat late anymore they don't believe us josh they think

00:45:20.840 that's not going to happen to them but it will past 8 p.m you'll wake up sweating and that happens

00:45:26.040 now i wake up sick and i have and i have acid reflux and i have to sit with a pillow behind 0.99

00:45:30.380 my neck korean barbecue is the worst for them oh my god that's so true it's my favorite thing to do 0.99

00:45:34.880 but if there's something it's actually i i remember looked at looking this up like meat 1.00

00:45:38.500 sweats are a real phenomenon because your body takes so much more energy to process protein

00:45:44.080 yes than it does like any other mac macronutrient yes so literally your body's just there trying to

00:45:49.600 like grind and dissolve you know and then it's got to get through all the soju and the beer that's

00:45:56.440 in there that's so funny you say that because like i love korean barbecue like so does my man

00:46:00.900 but he literally tells me like sometimes i'm like what about korean barbecue like and he's like i

00:46:05.080 just then i'm gonna be up all night like my stomach's gonna hurt i'm like damn that's a good

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00:49:06.540 the US for a limited time. I actually just recently tried Hot Pop for the first time.

00:49:10.940 oh hell yeah that's fun went to heidi lao yeah okay the most city mall yeah yeah so the century

00:49:15.960 city mall yes and i did take amanda my producer and it was the most stressful meal of my entire

00:49:20.820 life but it was delicious why did you get the dancing noodles no we did i couldn't handle the

00:49:25.340 dancing noodle that's how stressed out i was i mean it's the most overstimulating experience

00:49:29.360 but it's delicious so for people that don't know the dancing noodle um right if you're unfamiliar

00:49:35.160 you're familiar

00:49:36.180 someone comes out

00:49:38.100 I think one time

00:49:39.000 they were on

00:49:39.420 rollerblades

00:49:40.240 and they have

00:49:41.520 like a boombox

00:49:42.380 and just

00:49:43.280 somehow like

00:49:44.180 they could have

00:49:45.160 better sound quality

00:49:45.880 if they wanted to

00:49:46.420 this is a big

00:49:47.180 chain from Shanghai

00:49:48.300 right

00:49:48.840 no it is the

00:49:49.920 tiniest boombox

00:49:51.120 speakers

00:49:51.580 they're just like

00:49:52.520 and then the guy

00:49:54.620 takes hand pulled

00:49:56.000 noodles and starts

00:49:56.740 stretching dough

00:49:57.600 and whipping it

00:49:58.600 around

00:49:58.880 I have multiple

00:50:00.120 times seen the

00:50:01.020 noodle break

00:50:01.740 and it just hit

00:50:02.420 a diner in the face

00:50:03.640 and then they're

00:50:04.500 like what are you

00:50:04.960 it's a dancing noodle what do you want like hello yeah this is extra yeah you literally throw it in

00:50:09.360 your soup when it's after he's been gripping it then he throws it in your suit that's for you to

00:50:14.620 enjoy i know we watched uh the first time we saw the dancing noodle amanda got really scared she

00:50:19.120 was like what is going on because they're blasting music and then they have that little jbl and you

00:50:24.160 pick the song and then yeah you pick the song you picked i we didn't pick a song but the table next

00:50:29.080 to us picked a trey song song which i thought was an interesting choice yeah and they played that

00:50:33.420 And then he's just real nonchalant with it.

00:50:35.220 Like he's just like dancing to the noodle and then he just throws it in there.

00:50:39.280 And then she was like, what the hell was that?

00:50:41.400 And I was like, it's the dancing noodle.

00:50:42.880 It's a whole thing.

00:50:43.460 I can't get into that right now.

00:50:44.480 You ever see like the people spinning signs,

00:50:46.320 like a new Quiznos subs opens or spinning a sign.

00:50:49.020 Some of them are kind of just wagging it.

00:50:50.780 And then there's other dudes that are throwing it behind their back.

00:50:52.840 Exactly.

00:50:53.400 Same with the dancing noodle.

00:50:54.360 You'd never know what you're going to get.

00:50:55.640 Yeah.

00:50:55.960 It's real.

00:50:56.280 It depends on them.

00:50:56.920 It could be a straight face guy kind of body rocking and just pulling noodles.

00:51:00.020 Or it could be a full on breakdancing.

00:51:01.400 Yeah, it's a full-on, like, show, dog and pony show.

00:51:04.960 The first time I went to Heidi L. Hot Pot, you choose your soup base.

00:51:08.060 Yes, yes.

00:51:08.840 They're a big group, so we got four soup bases.

00:51:10.780 And I wanted the original Sichuan spicy hot pot.

00:51:14.660 Hell yeah.

00:51:15.120 Love spicy foods.

00:51:16.180 Me too.

00:51:16.760 I had smoked a fair amount of weed before going.

00:51:19.160 Hell yeah, me too.

00:51:20.160 Because I think it's even better if you're smoking before, like, cream barbecue.

00:51:23.780 It's great.

00:51:24.140 I agree.

00:51:25.500 But I think hot pot's even better.

00:51:27.380 Josh, you're so me.

00:51:28.560 Josh, you're so me.

00:51:29.320 The liquid makes it go down easy.

00:51:30.900 Yes.

00:51:31.400 Yes, I agree.

00:51:32.380 That said, when I'm stoned, all I want to do is sweat into spicy soup.

00:51:36.620 But I sort of lack, like a dog, a corgi, if you just put a pile of food in front of it, it'll eat itself to death.

00:51:41.560 Right.

00:51:42.140 That's me.

00:51:42.860 And so I was just going so hard on the spicy Sichuan hot pot. 1.00

00:51:47.700 Shit. 1.00

00:51:48.040 The liquid had fully dissolved. 0.99

00:51:49.760 It was just oil and chilies at the end of it.

00:51:51.980 And I'm dipping tofu and greens and beef.

00:51:55.960 and the next day i was like i think me and my wife were like supposed to go

00:52:00.480 do some sort of errand yeah i was like whatever it was you didn't make it i was

00:52:04.160 like i'm stuck in the house today yeah i'm glued to that

00:52:07.040 toilet mama that's what i'm doing the toilet the air conditioning's on

00:52:09.620 i was just like moaning for a while and so now i'm like

00:52:14.660 it's not even a roll she's put on me i put it on myself i'm like i'm not allowed

00:52:17.600 to get it if i can't be responsible if i can't be responsible

00:52:20.420 with the spicy szechuan hot pot i don't deserve unfortunately i have to temper

00:52:24.080 myself that is literally how my man is too like my man's like if i'm not regulated like i'll just

00:52:29.520 go insane like he like there are certain treats that he has where he goes like they do something

00:52:34.280 weird to me that's what he always says to me he's like i can't i can't eat it they do something

00:52:37.440 weird like a gremlin it's like real prey drive like it's just like immediately i have to eat

00:52:42.980 all of these well i normally like i i can't keep snacks in the house yeah until like my wife just

00:52:48.000 has like a normal relationship with food you know which is so foreign to me because i'm like no if

00:52:53.080 there's like girl scout cookies the box is gone i can't i can't have one to be satisfied one what

00:52:57.960 are you nuts i've had to like learn to and i really have actually made a fair amount of strides in

00:53:02.120 that yeah living with her because she she was like a dessert every night household yeah which 0.96

00:53:06.820 is crazy they eat one little slice of coffee cake and a little cream you know yeah what do you oh

00:53:10.820 must be nice i know literally oh you can have one that sounds stable that's incredible yeah

00:53:16.380 me it was like we didn't know when the next no hell no treat was gonna be in the house hell 0.96

00:53:21.040 yeah that's a big boy certified you and me both bitch i literally the same that's how my man is 0.98

00:53:25.740 too especially with things like cadbury eggs like those are his favorite what's your favorite like 0.99

00:53:30.500 like shitty treat like that like what's your favorite candy or chip uh easy answer peeps 1.00

00:53:35.380 it's beeps peeps oh peeps damn that's real shit yeah it's real shit yeah that's disgusting 1.00

00:53:42.080 i don't like there's something about just like stay almost actually peeps josh you live a peep 1.00

00:53:48.060 air dry for like a day and a half just outside in the wind you're out here you're out here eating 0.78

00:53:53.580 peeps like that i used to eat peeps at track meets in between throws josh you're nuts i remember

00:54:00.840 being like orange county championships like you know not to brag but like literally in the lead

00:54:05.800 you know just like 56 feet and i'm sitting there watching my competitors eating like the blue

00:54:11.040 bunny rabbit yeah you're you're housing peeps in between sets well because you know keeping up the 1.00

00:54:15.640 glycogen stores you're crazy dude you if i tell you what if i saw my opponent eating a fucking 1.00

00:54:20.940 peep and he beat me i'm gonna be mad if i saw you shoving a peep in your mouth and you beat me okay 1.00

00:54:25.420 but it was literally it was like me shoving peeps in my mouth ma'atua brown from like downy high

00:54:30.880 school uh playing a ukulele on the side and just like murking all these i think we had the exact

00:54:37.880 doing push-ups we had the exact same high school experience if you can believe it josh

00:54:41.420 you would have been like at the same track that's true you're what you're centennial no i went to 0.99

00:54:46.340 corona you went to corona i should have gone to centennial um that is where all the samuan people

00:54:50.040 went so that's a good guess so it's a great guess no that was actually kind of strange that like me

00:54:56.200 and my sister and billy actually went to corona and didn't go to centennial uh because all the

00:55:01.260 samuan people went there who else was in your league like do you remember like who you competed

00:55:03.860 against i guess like damien upland it was like modern day was a big one that we were always

00:55:09.200 against um orange lutheran was another one obviously everyone in in corona which was like

00:55:14.580 norco centennial santiago all those people roosevelt i think they were big in track too

00:55:20.340 roosevelt was great roosevelt yeah yeah big in track yeah same uh but speaking of track i have

00:55:25.640 some fun facts about you they may not be as fun as yours but you'll tell us if they're fun

00:55:29.800 okay this first one it says speaking of throwing that you competed in the hammer throw for ucla's

00:55:35.780 track and field team hell yeah that's fucking crazy awesome and you're eating peeps in between

00:55:40.920 it that's crazy hammer throw i'll tell you what it was cuter in high school because like you know 0.92

00:55:46.200 in high school i was like you advance any level in sport yeah and suddenly you're just like a

00:55:52.080 smaller fish it's yes exactly so by the time i got to college you know i never got that much better

00:55:56.400 i was very happy to make it there you know i was the guy that would get like third place in the 0.99

00:56:00.880 meets hey consistent 100 yeah i was happy with that hell yeah you couldn't do the cute shit 0.98

00:56:05.660 anymore when you get like third place at a meet you can't be less leniency for you yeah especially 0.96

00:56:11.120 when like the two dudes that beat you were like actual like olympians you know no longer funny

00:56:16.360 that you're eating that was more like a throw and then go yeah i gotta go back to back to the lab

00:56:21.060 visualize did you like throwing more did you play football only so i played football uh freshman

00:56:28.560 year of high school i loved the sport i love the sport to this day there was something about the

00:56:34.680 culture that i hated yeah and so many so many of my teammates and i do you know the school of

00:56:41.640 vista marietta yeah so one of my my best friends uh emil is just hanging out with him this week

00:56:46.300 um he he and i were training partners at uc santa barbara but they're on shot put and discus

00:56:51.320 um but he was like you know five eight filipino nose tackle that's three offers but he had a

00:56:57.480 coach there named coli candel shout out to coach candel who he just speaks so highly of and he's

00:57:02.260 like he was a tremendous mentor he was incredible he didn't play the typical weird like the politics

00:57:09.120 of it yeah and i just didn't have that i i really disliked the coach that i had yeah you know a

00:57:16.080 bunch of 14 year olds on steroids yeah it's just a really bad vibes that's terrible because it

00:57:21.340 killed your experience too with the sport especially if you love the sport yeah which is 0.99

00:57:25.380 like uh it can be a hit or miss when you have really shit coaches too and they control so much 0.97

00:57:31.800 too it's not even just the sport it's like your workouts and your schooling and all of that like 0.96

00:57:36.620 they affect all of it and even like in terms of your future like uh this coach would withhold

00:57:40.560 letters from people yeah that's actually happened a lot that happened to my dad when my dad was

00:57:44.780 playing football yeah dude why does that happen i don't know a college would send you a letter

00:57:51.120 saying hey we're interested in coming to our college yeah and your coach just wouldn't show 0.94

00:57:54.860 it to you yeah because i have no idea what the fuck it is to be honest i feel like it's like 0.89

00:57:59.040 i low-key think it's like sabotaging kind of deal because they're jealous maybe because they didn't 0.68

00:58:04.360 have that so that's that's always my assumption and it's like an ego thing yeah um or if you're

00:58:09.620 in college which is when it happened to my dad when my dad was at the jc um that happened to my

00:58:14.360 dad there and that was i think to keep him from transferring because it was like they wanted to 0.99

00:58:18.160 keep him there which then you're just burning years of eligibility yeah which is a fucking 0.99

00:58:22.180 dog shit too and that's also why my dad didn't go to a bigger school because my dad started playing 0.99

00:58:26.900 in college like my dad had never played football until he went to junior college so and he still 0.99

00:58:32.600 got drafted clock it but my dad we joke about this all the time after after jc western texas

00:58:38.040 a&m oh shoot yeah so i was like that school's not even called that anymore is it no it's not

00:58:42.120 is it utep now yeah i forget it's called um western texas a&m they changed the name of it but it's

00:58:47.020 like i forget the name of it now but you're right um but that was like that that was one of the

00:58:51.540 schools where like uh last chance you did you watch last chance you on netflix that was one of

00:58:56.160 them were like it was exactly like that that's the school my dad went to um and even from there

00:59:01.820 my dad got drafted seventh round but right before mr irrelevant oh your dad is the second yeah

00:59:07.860 second to last the runner-up to mr irrelevant that's so sick and my mom was joking because

00:59:13.000 my mom was like loki i wish you got picked last because then you get all this fun stuff

00:59:15.680 which i think they're coming out actually with a movie or something about mr irrelevant like or

00:59:21.740 like the origins of Mr. Irrelevant they totally are yeah I was like um only Josh and I would care

00:59:26.480 about that if you like sports like if you like football then that's fun that's a fun fact there's

00:59:30.600 a couple good there's Mr. Irrelevant coming out and this is another one about like this I think

00:59:34.600 like Shane Gillis is in it but it's about this like football game I think during World War II

00:59:39.740 that was like played on Guadalcanal or some oh okay okay World War II football movie interesting

00:59:46.780 oh the only kind of shit that we like oh you love a sports movie what's your favorite sports 0.73

00:59:51.720 movie uh okay uh speaking of keanu reeves the replacements i don't know if this is a good one 0.99

00:59:56.600 though no that's a fun one love the replacements yeah um i can quote quote so many lines from it

01:00:02.000 um just he's wiry he's wiry he's not he's not skinny he's wiry um coach carter that's a great

01:00:10.280 one i would have so i would have quit football freshman year yeah and then i lost like 50 60

01:00:15.680 pounds in the summer damn because the football coaches after i quit said you know i don't know

01:00:20.780 if you know this but you're just going to get really fat and get diabetes if you quit so 0.96

01:00:24.180 what the hell that's an insane yeah i was gonna say i'm 14 by the way thanks for that thanks for

01:00:30.560 those words of wisdom appreciate you so i played basketball and i remember like just seeing coach

01:00:35.260 carter with like my entire you know junior basketball team yeah and it's still just like

01:00:44.740 that's such a good one one drive by the safari inn on uh i'm like olive in burbank no no no

01:00:50.320 Anybody know what I'm talking about?

01:00:51.300 No.

01:00:52.280 What is it?

01:00:53.040 It's this like crappy motel, but they have this iconic sign that says Safari Inn.

01:00:57.420 Oh, yeah.

01:00:57.740 And there's a scene in Coach Carter that's shot there.

01:01:00.020 Oh.

01:01:00.380 And I remember driving by the Safari Inn going like, that's the motel that Channing Tatum

01:01:05.980 breaks out of to sneak out to the house party after they win the Palm Springs Cup.

01:01:10.320 I was going to say, is it when they sneak out to go to the party?

01:01:12.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:01:13.280 They're supposed to be like Palm Springs for a tournament.

01:01:16.540 That's so funny.

01:01:17.400 One of my favorite sports movies is Rudy.

01:01:20.320 yeah that's one of the best ones to me because i'm like it's just all of the will and all of

01:01:25.020 the drive none of the talent none of the talent it's fucking awesome i was like the fact that

01:01:28.980 he's just like no worries i'll show up anyways fucking awesome it was like one of the best ones 0.93

01:01:34.140 and i'm i joke about that all the time i'm like you when i make fun of awful men and they love 0.92

01:01:38.780 football i'm always like you're not remember the titans you're rudy okay everyone needs to remember

01:01:45.340 that okay go on to more fun facts we'll go through them um first one says you have a tattoo of a

01:01:51.900 spork on your arm i sure do that is and is that your favorite utensil it's i think it's because

01:01:57.540 there are too many white guys with yin yang tattoos but they mean the same thing you know 0.53

01:02:00.540 what i mean it's just duality it's you gotta have the fork and the spoon you said this is my

01:02:05.120 culturally sensitive yin and yang tattoo although i will say though um i was playing basketball at

01:02:10.400 like a 24 hour fitness and a guy points my tattoo and goes like,

01:02:14.000 where'd you serve?

01:02:15.440 And I was like,

01:02:16.500 huh?

01:02:17.640 And he was,

01:02:18.680 the mythical kitchen,

01:02:19.520 sir.

01:02:19.880 I thought he was messing with me.

01:02:21.480 I was like,

01:02:22.040 I don't know what punchline to follow this with,

01:02:25.240 but turns out,

01:02:26.260 I think he was an army ranger.

01:02:28.120 And he's like,

01:02:28.660 we all got,

01:02:29.400 um,

01:02:29.960 titanium like sports to like eat our MREs with in the field.

01:02:34.260 And,

01:02:34.820 and I know some like,

01:02:35.800 they think you're walking around impersonating a ranger.

01:02:40.400 I was like, dude, I don't think this is Stolen Valor.

01:02:42.620 Hey, this is not Stolen Valor.

01:02:43.760 I'm the chef and I love Taco Bell.

01:02:44.640 I'm so sorry.

01:02:44.800 Yeah, sporks are just a thing.

01:02:46.300 Sporks are just a thing.

01:02:47.160 I think I'm going to fill out this entire arm, though,

01:02:48.540 with the history of the design of the spoon.

01:02:53.480 Peeps and that, you're weird.

01:02:54.880 I know.

01:02:55.160 I really am.

01:02:55.340 I'm just kidding.

01:02:56.120 I'm filling out the salad on this arm. 0.98

01:02:58.280 No, it's fucking awesome. 0.98

01:02:59.760 I think that's wonderful. 0.98

01:03:00.780 There's enough men taking tribal tattoos from other cultures. 0.99

01:03:03.960 I'd rather you do that. 0.84

01:03:05.400 My tribal tattoo's tomatoes. 0.84

01:03:08.200 Yeah, that's your culture.

01:03:09.860 it really is okay next one says in college you ran a food blog called culinary bro down

01:03:17.020 that's how it all started that is the birth of now mythical kitchen josh it really is and that

01:03:23.700 was that was when you said you love to write too about like food did you write about the same kind

01:03:27.280 of thing like how your perspective on food and how you see the world through it is that what you were 0.60

01:03:31.200 kind of doing a little bit but it was always um it was more like i mean shit a lot of stuff i still

01:03:35.860 you know I was more like humor forward yeah it was very much almost this kind of like absurdist

01:03:40.420 comedy blog yeah make recipes and I I started it just wanting to see what it became have an outlet

01:03:47.660 and then also kind of use it to prove to other people like hey look I know I know how to photograph

01:03:51.780 food I know how to write recipes I know how to write cool stuff yeah but I remember like a lot

01:03:56.340 of it was trying to figure out my place in the world and that's related to sports food masculinity

01:04:02.860 all this and i remember at the time um the paleo diet was big yeah and i just thought like i remember 0.98

01:04:08.900 talking to a gym bro about it and he's like yeah like now men are becoming such pussies we need to 0.99

01:04:13.840 like go back to eating how our paleolithic ancestors did okay and you know not eat fucking 0.99

01:04:20.000 rice and i don't know yeah that'll fix it and i was just like this is coming from such a weird 0.93

01:04:25.200 place yeah um and then of course fast forward 10 years now and we are in a much weirder place

01:04:29.920 right but i wrote this piece about the veloci diet where i was like why stop at eating what 0.98

01:04:36.440 paleolithic man ate you know who was much more virile and aggressive and had a bigger dick than

01:04:42.220 paleolithic man velociraptor yeah yeah you should be eating exactly the real apex predator it really

01:04:48.780 and i wrote this entire like farcical piece about this just pure stream of consciousness right uh

01:04:54.640 and like i ended up winning like an award for best writing from sever magazine period and so i was

01:05:00.500 just writing all about that kind of stuff yeah you're so me that's why i said you're you're a

01:05:06.400 lot like me i was doing i was doing something similar in college when i was like pursuing

01:05:10.260 sports journalism specifically um because like you were saying i i what i really loved about sports

01:05:15.940 like obviously i loved enjoyed watching sports and i grew up playing sports and my family everyone's

01:05:19.940 an athlete so it was just kind of a natural world for me to exist in but I really loved off the

01:05:25.760 field stuff like I really loved to follow them and see what they were like off the field and with

01:05:30.020 their families and like who they loved and like what they loved and like things that they enjoyed

01:05:35.060 that were not sports and I followed a lot of Polynesian guys especially like Tongan guys

01:05:39.180 Samoan guys like Vigian guys Hawaiian guys and a lot of them I found were very moved to play football

01:05:45.720 solely because they thought it could pay bills like in the end and so they just so happen to be 1.00

01:05:50.780 athletic and agile enough to make it to the NFL but they don't necessarily want to be there yeah

01:05:55.660 like if they could choose a lot of times they would choose something else and that was the part

01:05:59.020 I found extra fascinating which is why when I was on your show I talked about how like

01:06:02.440 my senior capstone thesis was about to a tongue of my law and like that was like when his first

01:06:06.300 year went Alabama and I followed him and I did like a three month long thing following his family

01:06:11.220 and his parents and I got to know them went to church with them and I like hung out with them

01:06:15.760 in their apartment and I like learned a lot about them and talked to them and I wrote a lot in the

01:06:20.560 story about how like a huge part of this transition for him was learning how to not be anonymous

01:06:25.300 anymore and that was like really difficult for him and but he really wants to take care of his

01:06:29.140 family and he feels like he owes this to his family and all of that so that whole part I

01:06:33.480 thought was really interesting which is why I feel such a kismet connection to you Josh because I

01:06:37.800 feel like you see it the same way like that kind of i would honestly say journalism like that is

01:06:43.000 it's it's ingrained in us i'm telling you but i feel like like these these things like i think

01:06:48.380 food and sports i i could have gone into sports or gone into food yeah i could have either gone

01:06:53.440 into food professionally and left sports as a hobby yeah gone into sports professionally and

01:06:56.600 left food as a hobby but i knew it was always going to be one of those things but for me both

01:07:00.180 of them are the same in the sense that you're telling much bigger stories about the world

01:07:06.000 yeah through this specific lens and i think you can do the same with music whatever you gravitate

01:07:10.920 towards yeah but to me it's it's all just trying to make sense of this silly thing we call life

01:07:15.560 yeah bouncing the ball and tackling people yeah and making a souffle they're all metaphors right

01:07:21.320 yeah just small things that you you know period tell larger stories and i'm hoping vanity fair

01:07:27.440 heard that i hope you heard that from him yeah when's the last time you bought a magazine

01:07:33.280 i don't know no no i mean no i want to be on the mag i want to be obviously i want to be there

01:07:37.500 obviously i don't know i mean fine i used to work for magazines yeah i could do it okay last fun

01:07:44.200 fact uh do you remember what dish you posted a picture of for the first ever instagram post

01:07:50.380 oh my god on november 25th 2013 unless i deleted it because i think in the caption i it was i think

01:07:56.840 it was so cringy was it was it like a roasted piece of trout with kumquats yeah you were right 0.99

01:08:04.000 that's still up i have to delete that the caption is something like what's up bitch

01:08:08.220 something so it's like so bad dinner mode me and dinner i remember i remember making that that was

01:08:15.720 before i had a smartphone and i i was borrowing friends phones to log into an instagram to take

01:08:23.920 pictures and then i would log out such a boomer thing to do before boomers dude i didn't have a

01:08:28.680 laptop till i was like 25 like i was i rolled i was in college on a desktop you're and i'm not

01:08:34.220 even that old like i'm not young anymore but i'm not like not that old 90s it was like 2013

01:08:39.600 you're a real simple guy i appreciate that about you yeah it literally says that it was a trout

01:08:47.500 with roasted kumquats and asparagus yeah look at you asparagus and green beans yeah it says

01:08:53.080 asparagus on here but look he's fact checking you he goes that's so funny because i would never put

01:08:59.720 asparagus with that so it's probably no no i totally would i totally would i think it's

01:09:03.020 green beans oh funny i think it's green beans with slivered almonds

01:09:09.000 hey sounds delicious not to put you on blast over it

01:09:13.740 every time every time someone doesn't like the facts i'm like and count that against amanda

01:09:20.240 it was bad too yeah brown butter roasted kumquats not good never made them again

01:09:23.560 hey they're bad so don't try them like it needs the acid because going back i would have either

01:09:28.860 pickled or can't eat the kumquats and look at you that's gross you should and say tbt that's that's

01:09:35.620 an old school like caption we used to use all the time throwback thursdays that really was yeah we

01:09:40.720 used to do that all the time we're so old man crush monday yeah man and woman crush wednesday

01:09:44.640 yeah and there was never it would also have to be like ironic it can never be something yeah it

01:09:48.740 Couldn't be for real.

01:09:49.820 It would have to be, like, something silly.

01:09:51.720 Like, I would take a picture of my burrito, and I would be like, man, crush Monday.

01:09:54.780 Or I'd take a picture of, like, my buddy, like, you know, like, passed out on the toilet or something.

01:09:57.980 Yeah.

01:10:00.100 We sound like dinosaurs to them.

01:10:02.120 I know.

01:10:02.560 On TikTok especially, I'm, like, 100,000 years old.

01:10:05.500 I have some old videos on Instagram that are good.

01:10:07.440 I have some old, like, lifting videos on there.

01:10:09.140 Oh, T.

01:10:09.840 I think I have a video of me hang cleaning, like, 350 pounds.

01:10:12.980 And you said, guess what?

01:10:13.700 I'm leaving that one up.

01:10:14.440 I'm leaving that one.

01:10:15.440 Oh, that one stays up.

01:10:16.980 Technique? 0.99

01:10:17.740 Garbage. 0.75

01:10:18.140 but i was ripping it yeah that's me when i pulled 225 for the first time i literally

01:10:22.900 my my man like recorded it for me because i pulled it and then i was like oh my god i'm so excited

01:10:28.900 like my first time doing that and then he was like the form wasn't great though because i didn't get 0.92

01:10:32.920 you to the last rep and i was like i don't give a fuck i'm posting it i don't fucking care i don't 0.82

01:10:36.840 like the technique police yeah technique police for real i know my man um he the most he's ever 0.95

01:10:42.420 deadlifted is 600 hell yeah and so he only pulled it once and he recorded it and he literally told

01:10:47.180 me when he was working towards it because he was getting big during it because he was lifting very

01:10:50.660 heavy college or after college no this was like a couple years ago oh really yeah this was like a

01:10:54.300 few years ago um he was only pulling it because one of our best friends is a power lifter and he

01:10:59.760 was at like five something for a while and he was working towards six and my man is so competitive

01:11:04.480 that he was like oh i'm only doing it so i can pull before him and i was like are you serious

01:11:09.060 he goes as soon as i pull it i'm done and i'm gonna cut oh and i was like okay yes he pulled

01:11:14.160 it once and then started cutting immediately and then his our buddy he pulled it like a maybe a 0.78

01:11:19.140 week later yeah but he was like what the fuck ever i was like that kind of stuff is fun and 0.66

01:11:24.540 only you would understand that so i appreciate you being here so i can only only only 20 like 0.84

01:11:29.140 in my 20s understand it because now i'm just like it's not worth it for your bet your rotator

01:11:33.980 your rotator cuffs gonna go sooner no literally now you can't play no literally now my man's like

01:11:39.800 i'm not lifting that heavy anymore there's no need anymore i did it and he's like and the video

01:11:44.360 is up so there's proof yeah yeah god i should have taken more videos well you know what josh

01:11:49.120 i appreciate you coming you're a hoot and a holler let me tell you and on a serious note i really

01:11:55.320 genuinely believe you are like the next like for real anthony bourdain and i really like see such

01:12:02.160 a bright future with you obviously but i'm just so excited that you're someone who's like prominent

01:12:06.860 in the interview space uh because it's rough out there let me tell you i do genuinely believe like

01:12:13.180 as a host too i always believe there's more than enough room for us because i really do think that

01:12:17.260 everyone brings something so unique and you have such a unique way of connecting to people through

01:12:21.860 food and humor right but but also especially food and the way that you're able to kind of

01:12:28.000 broach these very difficult topics of like spirituality religion death grief um through

01:12:33.600 these very humorous mediums is so important especially now I feel like the world is so

01:12:38.880 tumultuous for obvious reasons it's burning around us and it's terrible but a lot of times

01:12:43.480 these escapes are important and then you're someone who's able to like still talk about

01:12:47.540 things that matter and that are important in a way that's digestible and fun for like young people so

01:12:53.520 I'm glad that young people have you they need people like you in the world and I'm glad you

01:12:58.040 came and hang out with me for today I mean likewise and couldn't agree more like there's

01:13:01.660 not only room for everybody but like the rising tide yeah boats and i'm so glad there's you know

01:13:07.000 you and i have had a lot of similar experiences yeah obviously we've had a ton of different

01:13:10.240 experiences right that lend us to interacting with the world our viewers yes in different ways

01:13:15.020 and i'm really glad that people have you as well and i thank you i appreciate you and me and josh

01:13:19.620 go to the same gym fun fact we see each other all the time see me on the elliptical

01:13:23.400 hey it saves the knees that's that's 30 listen cardio is important thank you so much for joining

01:13:30.980 us on this week's episode of the comment section thank you so much to my amazing guest mythical

01:13:35.780 chef josh for i don't know the one or two people that logged on today and don't know where to find

01:13:40.860 you where can everyone find you you can find me over at the mythical kitchen channel on youtube

01:13:44.920 we also have a podcast called a hot dog is a sandwich i think i'm called like mythical chef

01:13:49.040 josh on most social media you can just google it i'm out there good luck not running into josh

01:13:55.120 on the internet find me on the elliptical working out thank you so much for coming and joining me

01:14:03.240 i adore you i think you're amazing please tell your beautiful wife i said hello and thank you

01:14:07.240 so much for joining us on this episode don't forget new episodes of the comment section drop

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01:14:18.340 joining and i'll see you next week bye

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The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - August 26, 2026

JOSH SCHERER IS FEELING EXISTENTIAL (Ft. Josh Scherer) ｜ Episode 236

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