"José Andrés"

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Speaker 3 Do you guys know what kind of a talent I am with whistling?

Speaker 2 I know what talent you don't have.

Speaker 1 Now, what's the deal with you and your whistling? This is something that you feel like you're good at.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm waiting for some sort of oral sex joke from you, Will.

Speaker 3 With blow or something like that, no, probably.

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Speaker 1 Can you sing? No.

Speaker 3 No. No, but I make up for my lack of singing with my incredible

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Speaker 1 No? What are you doing?

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Speaker 3 Our next guest,

Speaker 3 our only guest of this week. Sure.
The next guest in the long line of great guests here on Smartlist.

Speaker 3 Gang, who's hungry?

Speaker 2 I'm hungry. I hope you're starving.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Not only for the subject of food, but for charity and altruism.
Because if there's a lineup in heaven, this man is going to skip it.

Speaker 3 This week's guest gives Being Human a good name.

Speaker 3 This man has not only been giving folks some of the best tasting, most inventive food for years, he's also been keeping millions of folks alive by making food available in some of the least fortunate among us.

Speaker 3 After earthquakes and hurricanes, he and his team are there serving millions of meals for citizens and relief workers.

Speaker 3 Among the many places around the world his organization World Central Kitchen has helped, there was Puerto Rico, Haiti,

Speaker 3 Hurricane Harvey in Houston, the fires in California and Australia, the explosion in Beirut.

Speaker 1 It's all off the top of your head.

Speaker 3 And they're currently in India helping with COVID relief. He was named one of Time Magazine's most influential people twice.
Will, you've only been named once.

Speaker 3 He's been awarded Humanitarian of the Year. That's also something you have not been awarded

Speaker 3 by the James Beard Foundation. And he has over 30 restaurants throughout the world receiving Michelin stars.
And he's a New York Times best-selling author. So in other words, his parents are

Speaker 3 really underwhelmed. Folks, please welcome the global treasure, Jose Andres.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.
Wow. All right.
Look at, there he is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's such a, it's such a pleasure to meet you.

Speaker 1 It is such an honor.

Speaker 2 I think you're amazing. And everything that Jason said and everything that I know about you is it's an incredible accomplishment.
Wow.

Speaker 2 It's really cool to meet you. Let's get right to it.
What did you have for breakfast this morning?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, actually,

Speaker 1 in this last year, I went down 78 pounds.

Speaker 1 78 pounds? Oh, my gosh. I'm so glad you didn't say kilos.
I thought that you were going to rock us with the kilos. Yeah.
Well, kilos is less confusing than pounds, let me tell you.

Speaker 1 But if you're going to lose weight, do it in pounds, people. You are going to feel so much more successful.
Yeah. Wow.
I was 290. Now I'm 220, 220-something.

Speaker 2 Is that because you gained it and then lost it, or you just lost it?

Speaker 1 I was overweight. I mean, listen to me.

Speaker 1 When you are a chef and all your life, what you do is you love eating, you love creating, you love testing, because I have to test my restaurants, the cocktails.

Speaker 1 I cannot say no to my chefs and my teams that are working so hard. No, you got to drink.
You got to be rude. Only on the testing, only on the

Speaker 1 more than I have to. And this we with without breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Speaker 1 No, this is why I've always thought, but Jason, I just want to say on that subject, I've always had this theory that most sommeliers are just alcoholics and they found a job in which they can dress it up.

Speaker 1 Right. You know what I mean? But sommeliers do a good work as hard as it is and they

Speaker 1 spit. It's easier to spit wine than it is to spit

Speaker 1 auto-pooze with basil, right? I mean, you are there. What do you do? Where do you throw it? In front of home? I mean, it's, oh, my God.

Speaker 3 Now, can we assume then that you have stopped tasting the food? food and the wine at your restaurants and therefore we can't be sure of the quality uh anymore now that you've been been losing weight.

Speaker 1 Controversial.

Speaker 3 Well, listen, he's saving his life.

Speaker 1 Hold on, and you're the guy that invited me?

Speaker 1 I know. I know.

Speaker 1 What's going on with you, man?

Speaker 3 Who's taking care of quality?

Speaker 1 He's a nice agent undercover.

Speaker 3 Who is handling your quality control if you're not spending as much time tasting your food around the world?

Speaker 1 Well, this is not about I, the person, man. This is about we, the people.
Yeah, Jason. I am only as good as the people I have around me i have a taste

Speaker 1 jose i'm so sorry i'm so smaller taste

Speaker 1 it's very aggressive this morning smaller taste yes and i've been doing fasting i've i've done two 21 day fasting wow which actually you feel very good actually you are not hungry actually your body begins eating the fat that you have everywhere and actually you feel better than ever when you say fasting you mean no food at all just liquids liquids um less than 300 calories a day.

Speaker 1 Wow. Oh, my God.
But this works. I'm telling you, it works.

Speaker 3 Well, tell me about the first couple of days of that.

Speaker 3 Are you still decent to live with? Does your wife, is it angry time? I get very angry when I'm not eating.

Speaker 1 No, I'm cranky. I'm grumpy anyway.
Yeah, me too. With or without

Speaker 1 crumpy today. But what happens is two days after your body just...
takes over,

Speaker 1 begins doing what it's supposed to do. Yeah.
Remember that humans, the homo sapiens thing is something like, it's not a very well given name, okay?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we we we are more astral lupitecus, we are more ancient than that. I've been saying that so our body, when we eat, makes fat to protect us from when we don't have food.

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, we have two types of people in the world: the ones that we have more food than we know what to do with it, and the ones that don't have even enough to feed themselves. Right.

Speaker 1 So, unfortunately, people like me, which I have more food that I can do with it, my body is not very smart and transform everything I eat into what? Into fat.

Speaker 1 Why the body doesn't make the calories into smoke? No, it has to transform it into fat. No, that's not very smart.

Speaker 1 No, it's too bad it didn't make it into cash. That would be great if your body just made that smoke.
Oh my god, that would be great. And then you become like an ATM.

Speaker 1 So Jose, Jose, let me ask you a question.

Speaker 1 So speaking of which, the people who have not enough food to eat and people who have too much food to eat, you know, it seems to me, and this is just, you know, anecdotal at best,

Speaker 1 every time I see in the last few years that there's something going on, whether it's the hurricanes in Puerto Rico or wherever it is, I see you there on the ground providing meals for people.

Speaker 1 That's amazing.

Speaker 1 And it's such an incredible service that you are providing. And you're setting, not only are you helping to feed people, but you're setting an example for all of us of what we can do.

Speaker 1 And it seems to me the only thing you're really doing is you're just doing it. And when did that impetus happen for you? What was that?

Speaker 1 moment that you said, this is where I have to get on the ground and start doing it. Yeah, well, obviously it was many, many, many, many stories through my lifetime that began building, right?

Speaker 1 Like all of us. We are who we are thanks to those people that influence us.
My mom, my dad, they were nurses. I saw empathy in those hospitals.

Speaker 1 The times I went with them to visit nurses, people working in hospitals, they were good people. My father and mother planted that seat in me.
I was in the Spanish Navy.

Speaker 1 I think it's the first time I saw inequality beyond what I ever saw where I grew up in Barcelona. I only read it in books, but when I went to Africa, Latin America, I began seeing big inequality.

Speaker 1 All those things began happening, right? Then I arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1993.

Speaker 1 I joined an organization called DC Central Kitchen, founded by a man called Robert Egger, who told me philanthropy seems about the redemption of the giver.

Speaker 1 When philanthropy should be about the liberation of the receiver, just wear breath with me. I opened my restaurant on 7th Ane.

Speaker 1 1996, they discovered the home and office of clara barton the woman that created the missing soldier's office who took care of all the wounded soldiers during the civil war like my mom she was a nurse amazing what she did okay what happened one day katrina i was in the comfort of my home watching how men and women at the superdome

Speaker 1 which actually everybody had it wrong. Everybody thinks it's a sports venue.
No, wrong, people. Arenas, stadiums are gigantic restaurants that entertain with NBA players or football players.

Speaker 1 It's true. How we left those men and women hungry.
So that moment of inaction

Speaker 1 with everything I learned before planted the seed on me of saying that we have to do better. There's no way we're going to leave anybody hungry.

Speaker 1 I was in Cayman Islands with my friend Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert when the earthquake hit Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people die in Puerto Prince.

Speaker 1 Few days, few weeks later, I got on a plane and I landed in Dominican Republic. I drove to Haiti.
I didn't go there to help. I went there to learn how chefs like me that feed the few,

Speaker 1 how can we be part of feeding the many. That's very much the beginning of what became Wall Central Kitchen.
In this pandemic alone, more than 60 million meals now will respond to fires, hurricanes,

Speaker 1 earthquakes, you name it.

Speaker 2 So Hurricane Katrina was kind of the thing for you, that the thing that you saw, and you were like, I've got to do something. Because it was for me too.

Speaker 2 I remember sitting on the couch watching that happen. I got off my butt.
I flew down there. I helped clean.
I helped do everything, anything I could, with actually a friend of ours, Meredith Walker.

Speaker 1 We flew down there together. Wow.
But I remember that.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And so that was the first thing

Speaker 2 that inspired you to do that.

Speaker 1 But in my inaction, in my not being there,

Speaker 1 on me saying how this happened, and was many chefs and many other people that randomly put a barbecue outside and began cooking. But responses like these, they need to be much more broader.

Speaker 1 They need to be very well organized. Long story short, we cannot leave people behind after one of the most dramatic events in their lives.

Speaker 1 And sometimes I feel like the system is not in place to respond fast and quick. Wall Central Kitchen, now we are fast and and quick.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's incredible. I do have a question though, backing up.
You moved in 93 to DC is what you said, I think. Yep.
What was the first meal you had in America and what was it like?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So I moved Washington DC in 93. But first time I came to America was in 1990 when I was in the Spanish Navy in a beautiful ship, a tall ship, the training ship for the Spanish midshipman.

Speaker 1 Beautiful Juan Sebastian Sebastián del Cano. Unbelievable.
And first American port we toach was Pensacola in beautiful Florida,

Speaker 1 the city of the five flags, as they call it. And the first, first dish I ate

Speaker 1 was a soft shell crop

Speaker 1 in this French restaurant that the owner came and invited me and took me there. And it's the first time ever I had any dish in America was that soft shell crop.
Wow.

Speaker 1 But when you were in the Navy, were you already a chef?

Speaker 1 You were cooking for the captain, right? Actually, I became the chef of the Admiral of Spain.

Speaker 1 And what happens with me is I was very young when I was in the seaport of Barcelona with my dad, and I saw that tall ship. And I told my dad, Daddy, what do I have to do to go in that tall ship?

Speaker 1 And he told me, well, you have to be in the Spanish military. You have to be in the Navy.
And if you are chosen, you'll go to that boat. Great.

Speaker 1 Life, many years later, I am in the Navy. And they decided, because I already was promising young cook, that I was going to cook for the Admiral.

Speaker 1 You had to see me when the Admiral is like, welcome to our home. We are so happy you are here.
And I tell him, well, you may be happy, but I'm not happy. I wanted to go on a boat.

Speaker 1 I'm tired of cooking. I want to see the world.

Speaker 1 So they told me, don't tell this to the admiral. Well, first opportunity I got is the first thing I told him.
Good news. The admiral told me, listen, let's do a deal.

Speaker 1 This boat you want to go on doesn't leave port until six months from today. Why are you going to stay here with me and my family? You know, feed us, cook for us.

Speaker 1 And the day before that ship goes away, I send you. You know, it happens.
He kept his word. I kept mine.
And for me, it was my the adventure of my life.

Speaker 3 And how long were you on that ship?

Speaker 1 That was six months. It was great great because it's the first time I left Europe very much.

Speaker 1 And I went to places like Ivory Coast and Abidjan and Rio Janeiro and Brazil and Fortaleza and Dominican Republic. Mar-a-Lago.
Mar-a-lago.

Speaker 1 I don't remember visiting Mar-a-Lago back in time. I do.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So when you go into these places,

Speaker 3 flying in there with the wings of an angel, as Will loves it when I say,

Speaker 3 I imagine

Speaker 3 it's difficult and complicated to coordinate your efforts along with some of the other federal responses too, like say FEMA or something like that. Is that a smooth thing? Is that a complicated thing?

Speaker 3 Is it a contentious thing?

Speaker 3 I imagine that they appreciate you helping them, but also at times maybe their ego might not want you guys to get in there first or have a bigger impact.

Speaker 1 How does all that work? No, I think the men and women of FEMA, of the National Guard, they are great people. They are people that they give their best.

Speaker 1 Essentially, they are all good people.

Speaker 1 You always have the one or two, but people are good. People have good intentions.
The truth is that very big organizations

Speaker 1 are very slow.

Speaker 1 And as bigger as they get,

Speaker 1 slower they become. And the challenge I was facing was: if you are an organization that claims itself have on their name emergency as one of the words,

Speaker 1 emergency, when it's about food and water, it's very simple to understand. The urgency of now is yesterday.

Speaker 1 You cannot be planning for what you're going to feed them next month. You have to feed them today.

Speaker 1 And so... Will does that.

Speaker 2 He hoards food for like a week because he just planned, right?

Speaker 1 I like to eat. It's rare

Speaker 1 that I'm actually not eating on the podcast right now. It's very rare.
It is very rare. So, I mean, look,

Speaker 1 these are all all great things. And obviously you go in and you do this stuff, but it's kind of almost part of Jason's question, really.

Speaker 1 Not only do you have to deal with all the bureaucracy of these huge agencies that are filled with lots of people who are doing amazing things, but there are regulations and they want you to do it this way or that way and stuff.

Speaker 1 On top of which, you have to organize,

Speaker 1 you know, you have to get all this food down there and prepare it. And the logistics of food and keeping it fresh and all that kind of stuff into areas that are under that are in distress.

Speaker 1 That must be very tough. Okay, I will love to tell you that it's super complicated and super difficult, but let me give you very quick examples.

Speaker 1 In this pandemic alone, right, we put 3,000 restaurants working at once, almost 350,000 meals a day,

Speaker 1 which is not a huge number.

Speaker 1 I mean, World Food Program, the men and women, they do millions of meals a day all around the world. So I'm not saying this for show off.

Speaker 1 It's the contrary. But our 350,000 meals are very specific when hospitals all of the sudden don't have anybody that fits them.
At the beginning of the pandemic, you tell me where?

Speaker 1 Harlem, Oakland, San Antonio, Newark, you name it. We've been there.
We are there. We create the systems, Yabit Center, we create the system to provide meals right outside the Yabit Center.

Speaker 1 Central Park, we did when they opened that field hospital. We were there before even the hospital was open.

Speaker 1 India right now, 17 cities, 65 hospitals, thousands of meals a day. We began, not today when, or last week when we read it on the news, we began like six, seven weeks ago.

Speaker 1 Bahamas, you remember two years ago, hurricane, one of the biggest hurricanes in the history

Speaker 1 of the Caribbean, next to Maria, Dorian, category five. 80,000 people lost their homes.
Very much everybody in the two islands north of the Bahamas, Abaco and Gran Bama.

Speaker 1 Within five days, within four days, we were providing almost 80,000 meals a day

Speaker 1 with six helicopters, two seaplanes. So, you know.
But you see that? So this is my point. So you see this hurricane's coming.
Everybody knew it was going to hit the Bahamas.

Speaker 1 In anticipation of that, do you guys mobilize and say, okay, here's our plan. We know that the Bahamas, we know that there are going to be people who are hungry.
Let's go. Let's be ready.

Speaker 1 We're in Florida. We've got the health.
That's a great question. Obviously, we've been learning.
In the old days, we will be more responsive.

Speaker 1 Even our response, like in Maria, Puerto Rico, we were able to be very quickly in our response. In Bahamas, the team of Wall Central Kitchen was already in place.
We were in NASA.

Speaker 1 and we were in for Lodero. Why? Because you want to be inside and you want to be in the outside.
So depends how bad is inside, you can be giving support from the outside. So yes, we are there.

Speaker 1 Yes, we have a plan, but careful, we don't over plan. I always say that we learned in 2020 that organizations, families, individuals like you, we have a tendency to plan too much.

Speaker 1 When you plan too much, what happens, my friends? That things usually never go as you planned them.

Speaker 1 And if you don't train your teams to embrace complexity and to be good on adaptation, they fell miserably. So our motto is plan less, adapt more, be more about software, not so much about hardware.

Speaker 1 Meaning many organizations for whatever is the response is about the equipment you bring from A to C. What's happening with us?

Speaker 1 I believe that across the planet is hundred millions of people in the food business, millions of farmers, millions of cooks, millions of restaurant owners, millions of food distributors, that when we bring them all together, we can respond to anything.

Speaker 1 One more example, in the middle of the pandemic, Beirut, the big explosion in Lebanon, World Central Kitchen with people of Lebanon.

Speaker 1 In 12 hours, we were delivering close to 20,000 meals a day with the help of 10 restaurants

Speaker 1 around ground zero. I was able to land myself three days later or four days later.

Speaker 1 By the time I landed, the entire system of feeding first responders, firefighters, hospitals, volunteers was already in place.

Speaker 3 But, Jose, this type of effort, even if a world organization like, let's say, NATO or what, if they were to mount this, it would take an infrastructure that would be,

Speaker 3 that you would need multiple countries to run. It would take funding that multiple countries would need to chip in to hit the threshold required.
So how can you, an incredibly accomplished

Speaker 3 philanthropist

Speaker 3 and chef and restaurant owner, how can you grab all of these assets, all of this money, all this infrastructure?

Speaker 3 I imagine it takes a great deal of donations. Can people donate to

Speaker 3 the organization? And is that the only way that it stays afloat? Or are you subsidized by governments as well?

Speaker 1 Now recently we've been talking about

Speaker 1 some countries that they love to work with us. Indonesia, they've done, we've been there in tsunamis, in earthquakes.

Speaker 1 I was myself in Providencia, in this beautiful island in the Caribbean owned by Colombia, which was hit by a very big back-to-back hurricanes last year, Yota and Eta. We did a great response there.

Speaker 1 So it's many governments and even agencies here that they began talking to us. But for us, it's very important to understand that so far we've been really funded by

Speaker 1 people in America and around the world, one dollar at a time, $10 at a time, some people with bigger donations. And how can people do that real quick? Wallcentralkitchen.org.

Speaker 1 There you can learn the work we do, wcck.org.

Speaker 3 Wcck.org.

Speaker 1 Gotcha. Wallcentralkitchen.org.
Both work.

Speaker 1 Gotcha.

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Speaker 3 How are you able to do this and keep your restaurant empire, I say,

Speaker 3 up and going?

Speaker 1 I was thinking the same thing. I mean, do you sleep at all? I mean, I do.

Speaker 1 Listen, I told you, it's not me who makes it happen, right?

Speaker 1 It's not Jose.

Speaker 3 There's some oversight that you are lending at a meeting.

Speaker 1 You said I do. When he said you sleep, you said I do.
But I get the sense you don't get a lot of sleep. Is that true?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, I can take a 30-minute nap here, 20-minute nap there.

Speaker 2 What about a funny gummy?

Speaker 3 Yeah, a little bit of a gummy will get you, but then I'll get you hungry and then you'll blow your fast.

Speaker 1 Never mind. A gummy? What is that? Jason, do you have something you want to tell the group? No, no, no.
Gummy bird? What? Yeah,

Speaker 2 they're medical marijuana gummies.

Speaker 1 Ah, a gummy. That's a gummy.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say one thing. Like, if you go to buy, like I did, chocolate that has gummy marijuana, read the instructions of the tablet of chocolate.

Speaker 1 Don't eat the tablet of chocolate like you want to eat the entire tablet of chocolate, like I did.

Speaker 1 And if it says only eat one square, don't eat the other 24 squares because if it's telling you to eat one square every eight hours and you eat 24 squares in the same hour,

Speaker 1 that chocolate is really having a gummy effect on you.

Speaker 1 Do things get weird for you, Jose. Well, my English improved 10 times.
That's the good thing.

Speaker 1 My accent, I mean,

Speaker 1 all of a sudden, it's like Ron Howard was like, finally, I'm going to give you a movie

Speaker 1 actor opportunity because now I can understand what the fuck you say, Jose.

Speaker 1 So, gummies are good for accents. It's like your tongue gets loose.

Speaker 1 For some reason, my tongue and English doesn't get comfortable. Sound beautiful to me.

Speaker 3 Keeping it on the subject of food and hunger is something that

Speaker 3 baffles you, I'm sure, baffles me a bit too.

Speaker 3 Is there anything that we can do that would be a better management of food waste, like in restaurants, how we might be able to help

Speaker 3 the unhoused or anyone else in society that might be suffering from hunger? How can we take some of

Speaker 3 the food that's being wasted and use it better?

Speaker 1 Listen, people don't want our pity. People want our respect.

Speaker 1 It's plenty of food that we produce in America. It's plenty of food that we produce on planet Earth.
Actually, big problems, they have very simple solutions.

Speaker 1 At heart, what's going on is that many of the issues we face, we have a whole bunch of people overcomplicating things to, I think, keep claiming we need them.

Speaker 1 Sometimes if somebody is not able to accomplish something, success into a problem, those people they should be removed forever.

Speaker 1 If we have the same people running certain issues, let's say United Nations, how many years have we been saying we are going to be ending childhood hunger? Science, I remember 40, 50 years.

Speaker 1 My friends, childhood hunger is something we can all commit to end, bringing all the countries, all the rich countries. But where there is a will, there is a way.

Speaker 1 I don't sense it's really a will more than giving a big speech where everybody claps and after the claps end, everybody goes their home and everybody forgets.

Speaker 1 We need to start making everybody, especially the big leaders and the big organizations, more responsible for their claims and their promises. And if they don't deliver,

Speaker 1 major things have to happen.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I agree. Jose,

Speaker 2 have you ever done a hosted a cooking show or something?

Speaker 1 You'd be amazing.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I never passed the accent.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I've done listen.
That's not true. No, let me tell you.
In Spain during three years, I had a prime time

Speaker 1 show at 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Speaker 1 In the major channel. I mean, I had like 20, 24% share of ratings in Spain alone.
Wow. In America, I had one on PBS

Speaker 1 that was great because I wanted to show Spain. And, you know, when they don't, I got on PBS, which is a great channel.
I love it. That's some great TV.
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Speaker 1 What I really want to know is, and Sean asked you what you had for breakfast this morning.

Speaker 1 What's your guilty pleasure food that you're like, this is not high oat cuisine, this is whatever, but I love it, like Doritos or whatever. Fast food.

Speaker 1 Is there something that you like that you're ashamed of food-wise?

Speaker 3 Just food-wise. Don't start crying, though, Jose.
Do not start crying.

Speaker 1 No, no, I mean,

Speaker 1 I like everything. I mean, I like ketchup on white rice.

Speaker 3 Ketchup on white rice.

Speaker 1 On white rice? Yeah, hey. What are you, English?

Speaker 1 Ketchup, as we used to call it. Ketchup.

Speaker 3 Ketchup on white rice. I've never heard of that.

Speaker 1 I'm going to try that. And with a fry egg, it's to die for.
And if you add a sausage, this is the closest closest thing we have. A rota la cuban.
Now you're becoming a chef.

Speaker 1 Now you're becoming a cooker. No, no, okay, okay.
But you know, I like cabiar.

Speaker 1 My guilty pleasure is cabiar. Those little black balls.

Speaker 3 And yeah, do you like it with the eggs, with the onions, with the, how do you like it?

Speaker 1 No, nothing. Straight up.
A finger. With a finger? So

Speaker 1 no little pancakes? No, this is not. Nah, nah, little pancakes.
He's in the Caspian Sea. He's reaching under the water.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you, my friend, when they give you things like blinis and little pancakes and onions it's because they don't have enough caviar to feed everybody that's it period let me ask you something about ketchup because i love ketchup i grew up uh putting ketchup in a lot of stuff because my mom burnt a lot of the food but uh but but she was great too but uh isn't it true that a lot of american ketchup is just it doesn't have tomatoes in it huh well uh hold on a second number one here we go once again and we're mired in controversy over here on screen yeah you you're trying to get me in trouble with hang listen to me

Speaker 1 Listen to me.

Speaker 1 I believe in longer tables, no higher walls, my friend.

Speaker 1 I didn't say a product name. I know, I know, but let me tell you.
Number one, when you mention ketchup,

Speaker 1 you need to remember that the first early ketchups in America themselves, they were not even based out of tomatoes.

Speaker 1 They were made out of mushrooms. They were made out of oysters.
They were made out of blackberries. Those were the early ketchups.
What are you talking about? This is insane.

Speaker 1 Tomato took over for different reasons. Why? Tomato took cover in a huge way, which I think is a loss to America because it's good to have diversity.
It's a tomato cartoon.

Speaker 1 It's good to have diversity.

Speaker 1 We need diversity, people. Diversity.
More types of ketchup in your life will make it.

Speaker 3 Different color ketchup. You know, they've made it.
It's called mustard.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, that's not ketchup.
That's mustard.

Speaker 1 It's something else.

Speaker 3 But it's a different color.

Speaker 3 He's talking about diversifying the color of ketchup.

Speaker 1 But ketchup came really an influence from Asia mixed with other things. But ketchup should be more diverse.
Cannot only be tomato and cannot only be one brand. It needs to be more diverse.

Speaker 1 What about mayonnaise? Where do you fall on mayonnaise? Because, I mean, boy, I love mayonnaise. I fall right on tomorrow.
I know you do. I like Mayo too.
I am a Mayo boy. I mean, I'm a Mayo boy.

Speaker 3 With fries? I think it's disgusting.

Speaker 1 No, no, what are you talking about? It's disgusting.

Speaker 1 It's olive oil, man. I'm from Spain.
We're the kings of olive oil. Why are you saying it's disgusting?

Speaker 3 Wait, wait, what is what is mayonnaise?

Speaker 1 Actually, hold on a second. Hold on a second.

Speaker 1 Grab mayonnaise between your fingers just mentally think it grab mayonnaise with your fingers and start rotating your fingers what are we grabbing with the beautiful mayo it's a sensation man it's like and like bring it to your lips and put it through your tongue and all of the sudden you have that amazing

Speaker 1 shiny silky texture inside your mouth and the Mayo is telling you baby what you've been all my life

Speaker 1 I'm telling you Mayo. Mayo will change your life if you give Mayo an opportunity, man.
Let Mayo be part of your life. Let your mouth be dripping with mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 Jose, you know, the reason that Jason often, he doesn't like Mayo because he's often in reviews of his acting, they describe him as mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 So he's got a, yeah, I know, I know. Yeah, it's mayonnaise with fries.
Come on, Mayo with fries is

Speaker 1 in Canada.

Speaker 1 Quiet.

Speaker 3 Okay, we're not any mayonnaise on French fries.

Speaker 2 Who cooks for you, Jose?

Speaker 1 Um, well, a lot of people cook for me. My wife cooks for me.
I cook for her. I cook a lot at home.
You asked me what I had today for breakfast. Yeah, I had used a coffee.

Speaker 1 By the way,

Speaker 1 what we call American coffee, but the American coffee I make is simply the best American brewed coffee in the history of mankind. What's the name? Wow.

Speaker 1 No, it doesn't matter because I use different coffees from different parts of the coffee. But it's the way I make it.
It's 25 grams of coffee, 375 grams of the water. water.

Speaker 1 I pour the water slowly in a dripping,

Speaker 1 slowly.

Speaker 1 You can hear the noise of the water hitting the coffee grounds.

Speaker 1 And the coffee is like happy. The aroma is coming out.
And then when it's filtered, I grab the little pitcher with the coffee. I get this amazing glass.

Speaker 1 And I come up like 10, 20, 30 centimeters up in the air. The stream of black coffee drops into the cup and all that foam begins coming up.

Speaker 1 Foam, foam, foam air and then when you bring that coffee to your lips with those bubbles shiny that you can see through like there are thousands of eyes looking at you that coffee will change your mind in ways that in the morning you will feel like re-empowered i agree sean has that same experience when he's in the takeout line at sonic when he's there at the

Speaker 1 I do you know what I do I do French press every morning Avi and so I don't do it on the the pot like you do on the on the stove which is old school but I just do, I pour the hot water on the grounds, just enough to cover the grounds to let the bubbles burst, so it lets a little bit of the sort of the bitterness out.

Speaker 1 The flowering. It's called the flowering.
The flowering. I pour the rest of the water in, let it sit, then I stir it a little bit

Speaker 1 and never boiling water because I don't want to burn those grounds. And then I slowly, after a while, after it's steeped for a while, I push down.
And it's a whole

Speaker 2 NPR or something.

Speaker 1 Well, welcome, guys.

Speaker 1 Welcome to culture, you guys.

Speaker 3 But what do you think about when I have my coffee? I like to like it's already made when I wake up. I pour it in the cup and I drink it.

Speaker 1 Same thing with food.

Speaker 3 That's the reason I don't cook is that

Speaker 3 I don't understand the concept of taking a half an hour to cook something that's going to be a good thing.

Speaker 1 It's not Jason.

Speaker 1 Jose, did you hear that half an hour? Jason, it's not half an hour. It takes you organization, man.
Three minutes. Listen, Jason chopped stuff.

Speaker 1 Jason was this French guy, and I don't mention French guys in public conversations often. Better know.
I'm from Spain. This is great.
So he said,

Speaker 1 tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. Jason,

Speaker 1 how you eat and what you eat is a part of you, my man.

Speaker 3 Now, this is all I eat. And I want you to eat.
Jason, be honest.

Speaker 1 Be fucking honest with Jose Reynolds.

Speaker 3 I would never lie to him.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Let me tell you what I eat every single day. And I want you to give me one thing in each dish that I can add to it to just spice up my life a little bit.

Speaker 3 Number one, for breakfast every morning, I have oatmeal with almonds and raisins. and I put a little bit of amagoyam cinnamon on top.

Speaker 3 And then for lunch and dinner, I have like a 40-pound salad with chicken chopped up in it.

Speaker 1 Full stop.

Speaker 3 That's just, I'm in a rut, and I can't get out of it.

Speaker 1 Psychopathus, psychopath.

Speaker 3 But these things are quick to make, and I'm done, and I'm moving on with the rest of my life. I'm just, I'm putting some food in the tank.

Speaker 2 You eat because it's a necessity. Correct.
Not because it's out of enjoyment. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And the bare amount. Correct.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Jason, I'm so sad to hear that this is. I mean, number one, why you chop the chicken, what the chicken has done to you.
Don't chop the chicken. I mean, chicken has done nothing to us, people.

Speaker 1 Chicken are good people, right? They may have feathers, but that's fine. Let the chicken be the chicken.
Okay, but I'm not going to get there.

Speaker 1 Number one, on the appetizer and the thing you have, this weird thing with that own meal. And I mean, my wife has something like that too.
And we are discussing our

Speaker 1 marital arrangements

Speaker 1 but I will add dragon fruit dragon fruit in my own

Speaker 1 meal yeah in your own milk

Speaker 1 because dragon fruit is gonna bring freshness yeah it's gonna bring the nice crunchy seeds yeah it's gonna be a slightly sweetness not texture texture is a big part of it so good and and and on the salad i will say put spanish olive oil

Speaker 1 spanish sherry vinegar okay

Speaker 1 and i will add some sesame seeds and don't chop the chicken man use a use a fork and a knife like every human being. What? Why do you chop it? Like, chop.

Speaker 1 Nobody uses it. He uses the fork like it's just in service of shoveling it into his mouth.
Now, let me ask you. Jason, do you ever speak to your ingredients?

Speaker 1 I mean, do you speak to the chicken before you eat it? Well, do you establish a relationship with the eye?

Speaker 2 Sometimes it's the only person who will listen.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly. Because the family's usually eating already.
I chew a lot. I'm a very slow eater.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Speaker 1 It's got to be a good thing, right? Because it's... Yeah, you're chewing.

Speaker 3 You're good.

Speaker 3 I chew a lot. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 So usually there's no one else around the table. So I will.

Speaker 1 But the cows chew a lot, too.

Speaker 1 The cows are chewing all day. I mean, as you know, you feel like a cow.

Speaker 3 And then they throw it up and they re-eat it. Is that right?

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, wait, Sean, tell Jose what you eat. Tell him, because Jason obviously eats that.
It's a very sort of California, and

Speaker 1 we've become a very bland society here. He has the thing, and then he just has the salad with the chicken.
That's all he can have, and blah, blah, blah. And it's very controlled, and it's so lame.

Speaker 1 So we're done with Jason. Sean, tell him what you eat.

Speaker 2 I eat a lot of tuna fish sandwiches. I eat a lot of hamburgers.
I'll eat a lot of pizza.

Speaker 1 But you're in California, no?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you add the Monterey prawns? They're in season radio. Oh, what's that?

Speaker 3 Monterey prawns.

Speaker 1 Do they have that at Hardy's? Because if they have

Speaker 1 it. You have to go and find them.
Do you eat sea urchin? I mean, you should put sea urchin in your tuna melt. Oh, God.

Speaker 2 Sea urchin. I don't want anything with tentacles or suction cups.

Speaker 1 I don't think that. Sea urchin don't have tentacles.
What do you know? It had the spines. It's like a pineapple.
I don't want the spines.

Speaker 2 No, I don't want the spines. Sea urchin.

Speaker 1 I'm cooking. You know what I'm cooking right now? I'm cooking an octopus and a snails.
Suction cups.

Speaker 2 I don't want to.

Speaker 1 Right now. It's cooking right now at your house.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm making a paella with rabbit and snails. And I'm serving an appetizer of octopus, Galician style.
Very good. Very good.
What do you think about the French really love to cook La Pan?

Speaker 2 What do you think about the French? Lapan is bread.

Speaker 1 I mean, French are good people.

Speaker 1 They live north of Spain. Yeah, I'm goading you.

Speaker 1 They live north of Spain.

Speaker 1 Are you happy that the Pyrenees are there to separate you? Yeah,

Speaker 1 but I'm not going to lie to you. We learn a lot from us, but where do they go for the good ingredients? They come to Spain.

Speaker 1 Where do they go for the beach? They come to Spain. Where do they go for wine that actually, I mean, let's face it, people, when you go to a French restaurant,

Speaker 1 the Metro D didn't even tell you Ben Bienieu

Speaker 1 and already $20.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Only because he talks to you in French is $20.

Speaker 1 I know. I have a lot of French friends.

Speaker 1 I mean, they sit you down and

Speaker 1 the sommelier tells you something in French, $10 more dollar before you chose the wine. I mean, come on, people.
I mean,

Speaker 1 really?

Speaker 3 I like French people, but Jose, have you ever gone out on a hunting trip and killed an animal and then cooked that animal? Because, like, you just said, you got a paella going with rabbits.

Speaker 3 So I started thinking, like, where does he get these rabbits from? Have you ever gone out and like on purpose hunted for a meal that you and some other chefs might get together and cook?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know this is going to get me in trouble.

Speaker 1 We can always cut it. Hunting in the right way is good.
We'll cut it. Keeps everything.
So I've done, no, no, don't cut it. Just leave it.
Okay. But quail and partridge and pheasant and then cook it.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, many times.

Speaker 3 Well, it makes sense. I mean, every animal we've ever eaten has been killed for us to eat.

Speaker 3 And so why not have the chef himself kill that animal and then cook that animal as opposed to it being killed on some farm, right?

Speaker 1 Well, there you go. I mean, that's

Speaker 1 correct. And you only eat what you hunt, which I think is there.
Yeah, let me tell you, my friend, I like meat.

Speaker 1 I have a meat concept called bazaar meat, but but more and more we're gonna see that we're gonna eat less quantity of that meat. Yeah, of higher quality of the meat we eat.
I like that.

Speaker 1 And I think vegetables are gonna win the day. I think nothing is sexier than a pineapple, my friend.
I mean, think about it for a second. You put a steak in your mouth.

Speaker 1 Okay, first 10 seconds, the flavors, I'm a man here, a strong person.

Speaker 1 10 seconds later, what you have is a piece of shit in your mouth, tasteless, that you have to keep munching for the next 30 seconds of your life. You cannot establish a conversation.

Speaker 1 Nobody understands my English because that piece of crap is in my tongue. Shit.
You put a pineapple in your mouth. The pineapple is sexy, it's fresh, it's juicy.
You keep,

Speaker 1 everything

Speaker 1 is good.

Speaker 1 So go with pineapple is better than a steak.

Speaker 3 You know, I saw this interesting documentary once where it said, you know, that people think that you got to eat a bunch of protein to stay big and strong.

Speaker 3 And they then brought up this good point that, you know, gorillas, elephants,

Speaker 3 giraffe, they're all vegetarians. They don't eat meat and they've got all that size.
So you can live a big, robust life just eating vegetables and fruit your whole life.

Speaker 1 Is that correct?

Speaker 1 I would say, I mean, blue whales, I mean, I will say you're correct. But again, we need to be smarter the way we eat.
It's so many good things out there, it's so many good.

Speaker 1 I mean, asparagus when they are in season, strawberries when they are in season, the green peas when they are in season, the morels, the chanterelles. Oh my god, the bounty of,

Speaker 1 and do you know the most American fruit that no American knows? Sean Hayes, the most American fruit that no American knows.

Speaker 1 Pow pows, pow pows. They're very big here in the East, from Virginia all the way to Ohio.

Speaker 1 Lewis and Clark actually ate pawpaws in their way back.

Speaker 1 And paw pow is this amazing, it tastes like in between a mango and a chirimoya.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you know what the chirimoya is, but if you don't, just google it.

Speaker 1 And it's fascinating. So the most amazing fruit in America, America is unaware of it.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had, let me ask you this, Jose, have you ever had what in Canada we call a Saskatoon, which is like a wild blueberry? It's got a little red flavor, a little red color to it. Yeah, it's

Speaker 1 gross in the wild. Incredible.
So when I was growing up, I think I ate them once. Brilliant.

Speaker 1 We used to have Saskatoon pie, my grandmother would make, and you'd go out, you'd pick the Saskatoons and make it incredible. Incredible.
Jason, what are you drinking? It looks like it's

Speaker 3 water and orange-flavored electrolytes.

Speaker 3 Don't ask.

Speaker 1 Electrolytes? Chemicals. Hold on.

Speaker 1 You have electrolytes to do a podcast?

Speaker 3 I do a lot of sweating.

Speaker 1 I do a lot of sweating during this podcast. Hold on.
Oh, i love this keep going keep going electrolytes i'm prepping

Speaker 3 i'm i'm prepping for my uh for my exercise afterwards to be frank

Speaker 1 okay

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Speaker 2 Jose, you get asked this all the time, but is there a meal that sticks out in your head that is your absolute favorite that you've had?

Speaker 2 It's because of the people you're with or the food, or is there just one meal in your whole life? You're like, you'll never forget it.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, I had so many of those.

Speaker 1 Of course. I had plenty of those.
But is this guy, Ferran Adria? His restaurant is closed now. You'll never be able to eat there again.
He's probably the best chef in the history of mankind, period.

Speaker 1 Most creative. What's his name again? What's his name? Ferran F-E-R-R-A-N Adria.
A-D-R-I-A.

Speaker 1 Adria.

Speaker 1 He's my mentor. He's my master.
He's my best friend. This guy has...
a mind that goes through this prism of ideas and light and sensations and feelings and smells.

Speaker 1 And he understands, it's like a food whisperer, man. He understands food like nobody.

Speaker 1 And a meal in his restaurant that usually will be anywhere between 30 and 45 dishes without electrolytes. I mean, electrolytes they charge you extra.

Speaker 1 This this will be. What about did they have a chopped salad with chicken?

Speaker 1 But but then one I remember three Christmas ago, the 24th of December, I am in Cadiz in the south of Spain where my wife is. We began cooking at 10 a.m.
in the morning. We were cooking until 2 a.m.

Speaker 1 on the 25th. I made this very big fire with 20, 30 terracotta balls.

Speaker 1 We were grilling octopus and boiling shrimp that just came from the oceans and doing baby eels and gooseneck burnacles and thigalas.

Speaker 1 And baby, oh my god, that meal, because it was family, because we were in the middle of nowhere, because we were cooking all day, probably was one of those happy, happy

Speaker 1 moments in my life of

Speaker 1 that I want to recreate again. Sean, what's your greatest meal of all time?

Speaker 2 Probably a spaghetti from a place called Maggiano's.

Speaker 1 Is that true?

Speaker 2 Yeah, any time a week.

Speaker 1 Huh. Where is that? Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's at the grove.

Speaker 1 It's at the grove.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 It's at a shopping.

Speaker 1 Is there any part of yourself that says, just why bother?

Speaker 3 Yeah, why don't you just take yourself out around back?

Speaker 1 I have a question for Sean. So, Sean, how do you...
Please follow up, Jose. How do you eat your spaghetti? You put the entire fork in, or you get one spaghetti from the beginning of the spaghetti.

Speaker 1 Tell me how you eat your spaghetti, and I will tell you what type of podcaster you are.

Speaker 2 Okay, so Will can probably answer that for me. He cuts it.

Speaker 1 No, he eats his spaghetti. It's very hot.
First of all, it's very hot because it's just out of the microwave. So he has to peel the lid off the container because it comes in a container.

Speaker 1 And then he just pours it and he he drinks. It's like a drink.
I do like a drink, like a beverage.

Speaker 2 I shove it in my mouth.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Jason, what's your best meal? Wait, wait, wait.
We're going around the tip. We're going around the horn.

Speaker 1 Jason, go ahead. Your favorite meal? Sean, that was it.
That was your favorite meal. The spaghetti.
Spaghetti is my favorite meal of all time. Okay.

Speaker 1 Do you remember a single meal, Jason, that was your best ever?

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, but I,

Speaker 3 the Dodger Dog and Peanuts never fails at Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
How about that? Is that fair?

Speaker 1 Hold on. Peanuts as your favorite meal?

Speaker 1 At a your dog. This is so sad.
You need me in your life, Pinnacle.

Speaker 1 Jose,

Speaker 1 peanuts are full of electrolytes.

Speaker 1 They're filled with electrolytes. But my electrolytes, I know where they're coming from.
Okay, sorry.

Speaker 1 I got to go to, it was memorable because I thought, like, I'll never obviously get to do this again. And I got to eat at Chiro's restaurant in Tokyo.
Oh, yeah. In the subway stop there.

Speaker 1 Do you guys ever see that? I'm sure it was. Dreams of sushi.
Dreams of sushi. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 And I watched him make my meal and and and talked with him and whatever and as much as we could understand each other and then ate this food that he made for me right there and it was hold up it was fantastic and i was with a bunch of other americans who were like ew this is kind of gross like certain dishes they're like this is gross they didn't want to eat it and i was like i'm gonna eat every morsel of this because this is an experience it's more than just the food that we're having this is a life experience mine was i changed my answer mine was in vienna austria it was the best meal i've ever had in my entire life at some restaurant in some i don't know building at the top floor.

Speaker 2 It was incredible.

Speaker 1 It's like a great story. Really memorable.
You remember what you ate? It was meatballs and the spaghetti, and the place was called Mayanos, too. It was, it was, uh, you know, it was very meat-heavy.

Speaker 3 Uh, Jose, where do you land on microwaving?

Speaker 3 My wife gives me a lot of grief about I have to blast everything that I eat because I like to get it nice and hot so all the flavor explodes, you know, when I do happen to eat something other than a salad.

Speaker 3 That's sad.

Speaker 3 So,

Speaker 3 but she's, but she says that the microwave kills all the nutrients. And should I not be doing that? Do I have to put everything in a pan and heat it up slowly over a fire?

Speaker 1 Listen, if you have time, obviously cook in the fire, in your kitchen, and it's great. But microwaves is nothing wrong for me.

Speaker 1 It's not different than anything else. Electric cooking or induction is okay, people.
Actually, I have a recipe with eggs. You're going to love this one, Jason.

Speaker 1 You get one egg and one very big spoon of Mayo and you whisk them together. That's delicious.
Okay, and you put it in this kind of Pyrex glass bowl. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you put it in the microwave, one minute, one minute and a half. What's happening there that when you put the Mayo with the eggs, it's like a love affair, right?

Speaker 1 Because the Mayo is like, shit, what's happening here? Oh, shit, the eggs. And the eggs is like, what's happening here? Oh, shit, the Mayo.
It's the same shit, but they are in love with each other.

Speaker 1 It's like they are looking themselves at the mirror.

Speaker 1 And all the air that the Mayo brings into the mix of Mayo and egg makes you the best fluffiest kind of, I will not call it omelet, but kind of egg thing that you can make in a minute.

Speaker 1 It's just unbelievable. Unbelievable is bigger than unbelievable for you to understand.

Speaker 1 You know, there's a commercial made years ago by Errol Morris that he made there for

Speaker 1 High Life, Miller High Life, and it was just a picture of an empty mayonnaise jar and the voice of this great voiceover guy called Doug Jeffers, who was just an iconic guy. And he goes,

Speaker 1 We had to bail him out of two big ones,

Speaker 1 but we got to hand it to him on the mayo. Nice going, Pierre.

Speaker 1 That was it.

Speaker 1 Brilliant. We had to bail him out of two big ones is how this

Speaker 3 did the French invent mayonnaise, Jose?

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, no.
It was the people of Spain.

Speaker 3 Is that a Spanish word? Mayonnaise?

Speaker 1 Totally. I have the proof.
I was there.

Speaker 3 Wait, you were there when they made mayonnaise.

Speaker 1 No, you weren't. Yeah.
I mean, I had more than one life. This is my fourth or fifth time I've been on one of the.
Man, that chocolate's kicking in.

Speaker 3 Here comes the chocolate again.

Speaker 1 I've been in other systems. I mean, the solar system is the last one I decide to join.

Speaker 1 And because it's fun and my body can only be 60, 70, 80 years, so I keep coming back. So it's fine.

Speaker 1 So this mount,

Speaker 1 you have to go back to the Balearic Islands and Menorca and Maon. And the story is documented and

Speaker 1 it's obviously Spanish, like everything else very much.

Speaker 1 And more important, alioli. For the people that think alioli is mayo with garlic, they're wrong.
What is it? In Catalonia, in Barcelona, alioli is made only with garlic

Speaker 1 that you smash in a mortar with the help of the pestle.

Speaker 1 And then you start putting drop by drop of the oil and you keep doing this kind of circular motion and slowly the garlic and the oil began creating an emotion which the emotion is nothing more than the molecules of both ingredients began attaching to each other began embracing each other began like saying I love you and I will never separate away from you

Speaker 1 and you make a very big bowl where only has one garlic clove where the rest is only oil and still what you have in your hand is solid. This is mind-blowing.

Speaker 1 It's one of the most amazing traditional techniques that nobody is aware of. And therefore, Alioli and Mayo, with all due respect to everybody else, they are from the country I was born.

Speaker 3 And speaking of traditional cooking,

Speaker 3 where do you land on this wave of molecular cooking where things are, they look different and they're smaller and

Speaker 1 they get

Speaker 1 frozen, freeze-dried or what yeah i mean listen we talked about it before i mentioned you ferran adria

Speaker 1 he's the father of molecular cooking but we don't like that name that name is very natty very stupid actually let me think let me tell you why everything is molecular people everything is molecular bread gist is molecular beer is molecular wine making is molecular molec molecules and science they've been there forever sure now what happens is this before

Speaker 1 we had no clue what was happening in cooking now we have all the answers of what's happening in the cooking in the process we cook better yeah at the end it's only two types of cooking only two types Jason the bad cooking and the good cooking.

Speaker 1 You know, come on, it's people like eat chopped chicken on top of green salad and spinach.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's okay. I'm not going to use this against you.
I need better options.

Speaker 3 I just need, I need to move in with you for a few weeks, I think.

Speaker 1 I don't think I can fix you in a few weeks. I need you like a few seasons.
I need you like a few seasons. Yeah, like Orsag.

Speaker 1 I need you a few seasons with me.

Speaker 2 My dream is for you to come over and make me spaghetti sometime.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. If I make you, I have a book called Vegetables and Leash.

Speaker 1 And the tomato recipe I have, the tomato sauce recipe I have for the pasta, with permission of Marcela Hassan, is the best tomato recipe in the history of mankind for pasta. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 It's just astonishing. It's so simple.
It's so good. Now you're beefing with the people of Italy.
I mean, you attacked Italy. Now you have France.
I mean, this is... No, no, but

Speaker 1 hold on a second. I have proof.
I have proof.

Speaker 1 Listen, the first time ever, the first time ever, with permission of the Mexicans, the first time ever that something looked like tomato sauce as we understand it today,

Speaker 1 it show up. in an Italian book.
And you know what was the name of that sauce where 90% of the ingredients were tomato? You know,

Speaker 1 the name of the sauce was a Spanish sauce.

Speaker 1 It's real, I have it, I have it on the books, it's history, I know it, I can prove it. I rest my case.

Speaker 3 Uh, I've never been to Spain, and I am not proud of that at all. I'm dying to go to Spain.
If I were to go to Spain, do I go to Barcelona?

Speaker 3 If I want to eat the best food, do I go to Barcelona or do I go to Madrid or some other place?

Speaker 1 Ah, you have to go both. Obviously, I grew up in Barcelona.
I'm a Barcelona boy, and Barcelona has amazing places. But Madrid is...
And you mentioned Jamon.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Will mentions Jamon.
That's Jamon Iberico, which is this black pig that eats acorns in the last four months of their life.

Speaker 1 I remember bringing Jamon Iberico to America first time 12 years ago. And what I'm very proud is that was a series on NBC called Hannibal, which was very much the prequel of The Silence of the Lambs.

Speaker 1 And I became from Brian Fuller, the executive director, I became the culinary producer, and I was able to be helping the scriptwriters about stories.

Speaker 1 And I'm very happy that in

Speaker 1 one of the episodes, I was able to get them to put an iberico ham during two minutes as Hannibal himself was explaining how that ham was being made.

Speaker 1 And this is the moment that I said, yes, we made it. Yes.
You know what?

Speaker 1 That was another good meal that I had that I'm very memorable. And I say chamon because it's so big.
When I was in Madrid, and my friend who lives there, full-time, Andrew Newton, what's up, Newts?

Speaker 1 He was there, and we went to an Atletico game on a Sunday night

Speaker 1 and then went for dinner. You know, you go for dinner Sunday night, you go for dinner at like 11:30 or whatever it is after the game.
And that's everybody's just coming.

Speaker 1 And everybody's just coming with the families and little kids, and everybody's sitting down to eat. And

Speaker 1 I had to leave at like 1.30 because I had an early flight. And everybody's, the restaurant is still packed.
And little kids and families, 12, 15 people.

Speaker 1 That's the Spanish way, my man. You are all welcome.
You are all welcome to come and spend with me.

Speaker 1 But Sean and Will, I'm very worried because every time I look and Jason is silenced, he's having more electrolytes into his body.

Speaker 1 I am very worried that whatever he's doing after this podcast is going to be electrolyte heavy. And I don't know if this is legal.
I don't know if that's legal anymore.

Speaker 1 No, he's just malnourished. He eats like an entertainment executive.

Speaker 1 All the executives and agents in Hollywood, they all want to be thinner and in better shape than all the talent.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, why are you in shape? Nobody cares what you look like.

Speaker 1 I think they listen to your podcast. So careful what you say about that.
That's okay. Okay, if you don't want Will for any series, guys, I'm here.
I'm moving to Madrid with you, Jose.

Speaker 1 We're going to eat well and we're going to have the last laugh

Speaker 1 i invite you next year next summer tell me when you're free and i take the three of you to an eating spree i would give me five days and your life will change forever i would love it in spain in spain yeah i am jose andres and i do endorse this message oh i've never been i've never been so i want to go well guess what on our on our european tour we're gonna we're gonna hit the artless european tour which we're gonna do yeah after our north american tour we're gonna come to Madrid or Barcelona.

Speaker 1 You pick. We'll go to whatever city you're in.
What works for you, Jose. And we're going to have you on stage for Smartless.
And then we're going to go and

Speaker 1 we're going to do the culinary thing. We're going to do all of it.
We're going to shoot all of it. And we're going to keep all the money.
But here's the thing. Let's do it.

Speaker 1 We should have gammies before and then we'll do it. Well, don't you worry about it.
Defo. Defo.
Oh, Defo.

Speaker 3 Jose, you've been very, very nice with your time today, sir. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Jose. It's such a pleasure meeting you.

Speaker 1 What a delight. what an incredible person you are it's amazing such a thrill i mean i'm amazed that people like you can have a podcast guys and i still know

Speaker 1 that is amazing i still love being part of it i still what i know about america is it's an amazing country and if three people like you can have a successful podcast like this and it can be possible in america

Speaker 1 and thank you for giving me that opportunity to belong immigrants like me thank you

Speaker 1 thank you thank you same as a canadian same okay thank you jose Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 Please enjoy.

Speaker 3 Go tend to

Speaker 3 your stew, the octopus stew, guys.

Speaker 1 I will have to show you. The octopus is amazing.
I'll tell you. Bye, guys.
See you, pal. All right.

Speaker 3 Thank you. Have a great day.

Speaker 1 Bye, buddy.

Speaker 1 See ya.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 So now, when I said at the beginning that he's going to be cutting some lines up in heaven

Speaker 3 whenever he goes, it's true, right?

Speaker 1 I mean, you don't mean chopping up lines like

Speaker 3 they're not going to let make him wait going through the gates up there.

Speaker 2 You know what's interesting, though, those really famous chefs that are so talented, they're all so gregarious.

Speaker 1 They're also outgoing, aren't they?

Speaker 2 There's no like introverted chef.

Speaker 1 I don't think you can be. No.

Speaker 3 But they are famously nasty at times, right?

Speaker 1 They can be pushed.

Speaker 2 They can be. He doesn't seem nasty.

Speaker 1 And I love that it took him a while and he warmed up and he really got

Speaker 1 the flavor of what we're doing here, which is nothing

Speaker 1 and screwing around.

Speaker 1 And then he just started screwing around. And he ends it with just basically clowning us,

Speaker 1 saying that if you guys can have a podcast anybody can and I

Speaker 1 sniffed it out I love anybody like that

Speaker 1 I love I've got all the time in the world for that Jason what a great idea that I've I've often and we brought it up before to him it seems like in the last few

Speaker 1 restaurant no no just that he shows up all the time every time that there's something going on that's really major in the world where people are hungry and he's there and I it God it's incredible it's such a great example of you know of it's not dissimilar I mean we all do it in our own way Sean I know that you went down a thing and Jason I've seen you give out selfies at the Grove before.

Speaker 1 Whatever it takes.

Speaker 2 But you know what? Every single thing that Jose, every piece of food that Jose was talking about made me want to take a bite.

Speaker 1 Eat.

Speaker 1 How long have you been sitting on that? How long? I wrote it down halfway through. You did.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, that's so.

Speaker 3 Now, what did he say about planning? What happens when you overly plan?

Speaker 1 Nothing hasn't worked well. And like,

Speaker 2 because we haven't said goodbye, so my thing didn't work.

Speaker 1 Right. And we didn't even end it.

Speaker 3 We haven't ended.

Speaker 1 That's what I mean. It didn't even work.
Oh, my God. Dude, that bite.

Speaker 1 Use it the same word, but a different bite.

Speaker 3 That works. That's a win.

Speaker 1 Smart.

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