Fine Dining - Gordon Biersch Brewery (Review) feat. "Pretty" Peter Avalon (All Elite Wrestling, Ring of Honor) (Part Two)

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

The review for Gordon Biersch is here! All Elite Wrestling & Ring of Honor's "Pretty" Peter Avalon joins Michael to review the restaurant of the week The Gordon Biersch Brewery that Michael & Pe...ter hit up closed its doors just 7 days after the boys dined there Peter eulogizes the Burbank Gordon Biersch Ever wondered what it'd be like living in a Buffalo Wild Wings? Harrison Augustine 💸 Arrylius the XIV takes offense to vulgarities Michael pitches a restaurant-themed wrestling gimmick to Peter Peter discusses his relationship with chain restaurants while staying in shape for wrestling Peter details his injury history A review of the food, including the garlic fries Gordon Biersch invented (Michael & Peter do NOT see eye-to-eye on these) Michael swaps out the Headline Game with a brand new game tailored to Peter Avalon's specialties: it's Chain Wrestling! JUB got a phone...???   Music by: James McEnelly (@Ramshackle_Music) Theme Song by: Kyle Schieffer (@JazzyJellyfish) Segment Transitions Voiced by: Sandy Rose "Fine" Dining is on Patreon! Get an extra episode every month (October's episode explored Dave's Hot Chicken), extended Yelp from Strangers segments every other week, merch discounts, download access to our music including the 7 singles from our Olive Garden musical, and more! Patreon Producers: Sean Spademan, Joyce Van, & Sue Ornelas   Get the 5 Survival Tips for Casual Dining at www.finediningpodcast.com!   Send in your Gordon Biersch stories at finediningpodcast@gmail.com.   Follow the show on TikTok and Instagram @finediningpodcast Follow "Pretty" Peter Avalon on Twitter @PPAallday   Let me know where I should go next by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, PodcastAddict, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. I read every one!   Next week on "Fine" Dining: Katz's Delicatessen (Part One: Eat Deets & Yelp from Strangers)! I'm off to New York City with my girlfriend, Joyce! Learn the storied history of the NYC establishment that's allegedly been in business since 1888 (which has maybe been debunked). Ever work at Katz's? Send your stories to finediningpodcast@gmail.com.   Totally Not Sponsored By: Harrison Augustine 💸 Arrylius the XIV

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Starting point is 00:00:00 From this point forward, the word cheese will be bleeped because Michael finds it offensive. Hello and welcome back to week two of the Gordon Beers Brewery episode of the fine dining podcast, the search for the most mediocre restaurant in America. I am still joined by all elite wrestling's pretty Peter Avalon.
Starting point is 00:00:20 That's right, PPA. All day. All day. All day. All day. All day. All night, every day, all week all week all month all year for me I mean at this point two weeks in a row absolutely good for the listeners Good for me absolutely now for those of you who are joining the podcast for the first time This is the show where I go to restaurants and break them down based on their atmosphere based on their service and based on their them down based on their atmosphere, based on their service, and based on their food yummy. And I am looking for the perfectly mediocre restaurant that 5.00 out of 10. You have to know which right in the middle to know what is objectively good and objectively bad. Currently,
Starting point is 00:01:01 Applebee's is in the lead at a 5.02, but I can tweak it a little bit more. I can find a place that's slightly more mediocre than a 5.02. Absolutely. Always room for improvement. Absolutely. So we are going to get into it. We are going to talk about what we thought of Gordon Beers' brewery, but before we do, I kind of want to jump to the future because one week to the day, after we dined at Gordon Beers, they closed their doors.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Sure did, we shut them down. Clearly. Like, do you have speculation? I know we haven't really gotten into it. People don't have a point of reference. We haven't explained to them yet. But in last week's episode, we did mention the duke drips. Ooh, I was gonna say, you know,ucy drips, it might be that.
Starting point is 00:01:47 So we complained about the ducy. You've got brown-looking water just dripping from the ceiling above your beer tanks. I don't know if it was a malfunction of the beer tanks, and that's what the brown water was. A thick, thick beer. But one week to the day, I even saw a Reddit post that said, they've officially announced that they're closing their doors. You can still go throughout the week, but if they run out of any item,
Starting point is 00:02:11 they're not reordering it. So, oh boy. So, like, it's like when a restaurant like liquidates, like imagine a one week liquidation sale at a restaurant. Do you think they were also doing that, just selling the booths and the chairs, you come in, they're just selling things. I would buy a restaurant booth.
Starting point is 00:02:27 That would make for a great set. Yeah, true. Yeah, I get some of the beer things and the beer signs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have any thoughts or feelings or opinions? Do you have a tribute you want to lay down? I just want to send my heart out to Gorda Beersh. Thank you for the dining experience for the memories.
Starting point is 00:02:51 More of the memory and good luck. I'm sure they're still on the places. Yeah, they still have other locations, but the Burba, I mean, it'd been there like 20 or 30 years. You know, with Yard House nearby, do they really need more places for mediocre beer and mediocre food? Apparently not. So it's fine. So we're gonna jump into talking about the atmosphere and break down exactly all of the things that make Gordon Bears Brewery, Gordon Bears, or as I could say, that made Gordon Bears Brewery itself because
Starting point is 00:03:22 it's no longer there. RIP. RIP, Gordon Beersbrewries. Yes. It's self because it's no longer there. R-I-P. R-I-P. Gordon Beers. Hello, this is Margot P. And this is Margot D and we are the Margot's co-hosts of Book vs. Movie. We are the podcast that talks about films adapted from books. We read the book, watch the movie, and then decide which we like better the book or the movie.
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Starting point is 00:05:27 Well, I looked, I glanced at it. So that's all I got. I know the final product is the beer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which you had, we'll talk about later in food. There was a briefly squealing baby. Yes, that was very noteworthy to a point that I was like, we were conversing
Starting point is 00:05:43 and I was just like, mm-hmm. I got to avoid you for a second and like, I down this baby just so that they know that I see them and this baby needs to know how unpleasant I think this baby is. I think it gathered that. I think I locked eyes with the baby and I was like, okay, dude, I'll chill.
Starting point is 00:06:00 I was like, sorry. Full died-eye, dookie drips. Dookie, he was dokey dripping. I'm sure that's why he was crawling. This is off the rails. They had Yacht Rock-esque music, which I was okay with. I'm here for it, man.
Starting point is 00:06:13 I was off for it, yeah. Baker Street, just all these different, very soft, rocky things that I'm just like, this is my vibe now. I've chilled out in my 30s, right? Totally, I need that background music. I need to enjoy it. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Nothing like a sax. Like, this was just, this was the boomerest place you could be. Totally. It was completely, yeah. Yeah. It was just, my mother picked the music selection, I feel. She's actually in back, like, on the ones and two.
Starting point is 00:06:39 I love this record. Yes. They had one room that was like, this is one of my favorite things that comes up at some restaurants, or you have like an off-limits room. Yeah. They called it the Pilsner Room. It was like right next to the hallway for the bathroom,
Starting point is 00:06:53 which we'll talk about the hallway for the bathroom. Oh, it threw me off. But they had the Pilsner Room, and it was just, you know, it's a private event room or whatever. But a little bit too far away from the Pilsner Room, they also had a little table that had a sign that said room for rent. And I think smart individual and I piece together
Starting point is 00:07:14 that it was rent out the Pilsner room, have an event here. But it was like far enough away to where I'm like, are they trying to like actually have someone live here? Cause that sounds awful. That'd be something that would wanna live inside the restaurant while it's going. This didn't end up happening because of the timing and the pandemic, but Buffalo Wild Wings in 2020
Starting point is 00:07:32 was running a March Madness promotion to where you could live in a Buffalo Wild Wings where all of March Madness. Why? I don't know if they put a cot for you in the back or something. Basically, I think it was like a loft. Oh, right. It was like one Basically, I think it was like a loft. Oh, all right.
Starting point is 00:07:45 It was like one location. I think it was New York, but like these places, they have an overinflated sense of what they are. They think you want to spend more time in than then you do. Clearly. Most chain restaurants are like a, get in, get out and I hope no one saw me here. Yeah, that's the process of a chain. That's the process of a chain.
Starting point is 00:08:02 I was saved a total of 35 minutes here and that's it. Yeah, like, oh my gosh, that would be ideal. Yeah, we were there close to two hours and I was just like, oh man, it's starting to like mess with my mood. And not once to get any busier or anything, it's just stayed the same. The place is as popular as it is.
Starting point is 00:08:21 It does not get more popular, less popular, and just it is. And I mean, that's why we go to change. Consistency. Correct. I do want to talk about this restroom experience, because you went to the back hallway and I went and checked it out after you told me, but you see what I was saying? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I'll let you put it to words. I thought I was going to go into the back patio to use the restroom because the sign is just right between two doorways. The doorway on the left is for the bathroom. Doorway on the right is to go outside, but you don't see the doorway on the left.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Yeah, there's just that men's restroom sign on like that little seven inch patch of wall between the t wall between the two doorways. And you go, it really looks like it's trying to lead you outside. Like, women, you get a restroom. Men, your dogs, pee in the alley. That's what I was expecting. I was like, what the, what the, what the, what the, what the, employees. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, why is the key sticky? Yeah, go outside, share it with the employees.
Starting point is 00:09:25 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like why is the key sticky? Yeah, it's kind of storage. It's kind of a storage unit at the same time. Like there's ice in the urinal. Yeah. It's like one of those places. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:36 It's like a twist to ending when you find out there is actually a men's restroom. It was a very large men's restroom. Oh, I didn't actually go in. Pretty big. There were like two guys walking in front of me as I went to check it out. And I always feel weird. Oh, I didn't actually go in. Oh, pretty big. There were like two guys walking in front of me as I went to check it out. And I always feel weird like, I don't know, if there's other people and I'm not,
Starting point is 00:09:50 what do I go in and pretend to pee just like, why is this guy walking back here? Why is he filming? Like why is he taking pictures of this door? I don't really take a picture of us. Yeah. And the answer is yes. Yes, yeah, I want to see the experience.
Starting point is 00:10:03 But if you want to see these two unsuspecting guys pissing go to our Instagram at Find Dining Podcast. It's exclusive on the Patreon. Yeah, it's on Patreon. I did not take a photo of two guys being on it. It's not there. Legally put that out there into the world. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:18 You can't do that. So we got to put some thumbs to this atmosphere. Somewhere between two thumbs down to two thumbs up What did you think of the vibe the physical space and experience of a Gordon Beersh brewery the bathroom? I give it a firm thumbs up and the right we're subdividing this is like okay I get a nice firm single thumb up, but then the restaurant experience gets an orange Cassidy Lack of basic Like you're like at like, point five thumbs.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm just straight up a nub. I'm just, I'm just no thumbs on the atmosphere. It didn't do anything for me. It didn't do anything against me. I just was.
Starting point is 00:10:56 The one thing I didn't like is that for being a brewery, there's no event space. A lot of breweries seem to have like an event, like an extra event space. I feel like the outdoor area is typically, at least when I walk by where I There's no event space. A lot of breweries seem to have like an extra event space. I feel like the outdoor area is typically at least when I walk by where I see them hosting events. I know I've seen more than one time where I've passed by there and there are big balloons out there.
Starting point is 00:11:16 So presumably a birthday retirement. Man, let me tell you when I wanna have a real hot birthday party. I go to bed. Yeah, I go to bed. Let's turn up at GB. GB. Yeah. We are different in that way.
Starting point is 00:11:30 Yeah. I do not think of GB as my B-Day place. Oh, you know? I'm more of an outback guy. So like, I'm cultured. I travel to Australia. That's right. For a nice steak.
Starting point is 00:11:41 Yes. I'm a burger boy. The burger's giving me the Blooming Onion. Fill my arteries steak. Yes. I'm a burger boy. The burgers. Give me the Bloomin' Onion, fill my arteries up. Literally, with Bloomin' Onions, I am not going to live as long as I would have without Bloomin' Onions. But you'll live happier. So they say, when my mobility is limited to a hover round scooter,
Starting point is 00:12:01 but you'll have that Bloomin' Onions. And honestly, I'll have some sweet hardware. I'll put rims on my hover around. You might be able to get a discount on at that point being wheelchair, if you're older. Get that sweet parking. That's it. Yeah, right in front.
Starting point is 00:12:13 Yeah. Anyways, that's it for the atmosphere. Let's talk about the service. Service. This might be one of the first times where I genuinely didn't even take note of the server's name. I'll say a server's name if the service is like stellar and it's nothing but complimentary. If it's not that, you know, I'll leave them out of that. I'm not looking to get anyone targeted or anything like that.
Starting point is 00:12:37 But this was a case where I could just tell immediately. And I had nothing to do with the guy. It had to do with like the vibe, the setup. Yeah. There's something about an empty restaurant that makes you get slightly worse service than when there actually are people to attend to. Yeah. And I don't know what that phenomenon is.
Starting point is 00:12:57 But it's a very real thing. It's odd. It's real. Right? Yeah. But I also knew because our server was also the host. Yeah, that's true. The guy who takes your menus and walks you to a table
Starting point is 00:13:11 and I was like, wherever's fine. And he kind of wouldn't settle on that. He's like, no, I need you to tell me patio bar or restaurant. We should just specifically pick a table for him. Like this one next time. Yeah. That way, I think he just doesn't wanna have to make decisions.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Yeah. I think this guy just hates the process of decision-making. He might honestly hate making decisions. That's why he wants you to make all the decisions. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, he was nice enough, kind of more absent than I would have expected him to be. For sure.
Starting point is 00:13:44 But like, it was fine. Yeah. Wasn't bad. He's a chain restaurant waiter. He's not like a five star restaurant waiter. We're like, Flag him down. There were times where I think I wanted to,
Starting point is 00:13:54 but I had to play my cool because I had a guest on that. I don't know personally. Right. Like, you are literally my first guest that I don't know in life before this thing. Right. So I was like, all right Michael, play it cool. I know you want, you know, whatever it is,
Starting point is 00:14:09 but like just be chill. It's all right. I mean, I think we've all been there where you're trying to like, you're trying to do the nice thing where you just hope to make eye contact. You can just kind of stare at it. Oh man. And then just never look at you.
Starting point is 00:14:21 If you listen to some of our older episodes, there have been active Avoiding of eye contact made from service the worst we talked about Bob's big boy a little bit and man when we went to Bob's We were in a section where we were like one of four tables right next to each other Yeah, that were all in the jurisdiction of this one waiter Yeah, and he gave great service to three of them, and just actively looked away every time. Now, there is another wrinkle to that story in that,
Starting point is 00:14:52 I have since retired this, but there used to be a thing on the podcast called the You Must Pull. And the You Must Pull was something you had to draw from if ever a restaurant's final score was outside of the four to six media, the zone of mediocrity. Yeah. If you ventured too far past that you got punished for picking a place that wasn't mediocre enough. And you had to enact that punishment at the next place that you went.
Starting point is 00:15:14 That day at Bob's Big Boy, I had to show up and like make a painting of Bob's Big Boy. At Bob's Big Boy. At Bob's Big Boy, before I could go in to the restaurant. My mom did half the painting and I did the other half and both of us decided it's dog shit. I know you're looking at the painting right now. I like the little Bob. That was my half. I like it.
Starting point is 00:15:36 You're nodding as though you're like trying to be like understanding like when a kid shows you like what I'm in. Oh, yeah, good. Yeah, I see you. I can't do what you're doing. I thought my acting would be better. You're not getting away with it. Oh, not at all. But like, my mom and I thought it would be fun.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Well, I thought it would be fun and I forced my mom to do this if we both wear like French style like brahats or whatever and had mustache. So I had an actual mustache. My mom had a painted on one and we suspect that it like threw the waiter off and made him feel uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:16:08 And that's why he avoided eye contact because we were literally dressed like two French painters. Now maybe. But I don't know. I mean, if I had that as a server, I'd be like, they're fun. I would ask questions and be more into it. Yeah. So I just wasn't into it that day.
Starting point is 00:16:20 So I think I would still put him as the worst server we've had through this entire journey. And to what, the shout outs of the Bob's big go server, you're lacking, you're slacking. So now I'm gonna dox him. I'm gonna tell you his name is address. Oh good, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:32 His credit mark. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,, I now, I'm a lot more like, okay, I know what the worst can be. So we didn't have like actively bad service, but we definitely didn't have good service. I was writing between, for sure. I wanted a little bit more. Now he did do something kind of odd. We placed orders for starters. And then he looks at you and he's like, do you guys want to keep one menu? We haven't even ordered. No. Yeah. We didn't order the entrée or nothing. And he just takes your menu. Yeah, he takes my menu, I don't know why. He just must have thought we were done ordering.
Starting point is 00:17:14 And it just makes me ask a question, Pete. Can I call you Pete? Yeah. It makes me wonder, what's going on over there? What's going on over there? What's going on over there? Should I wear a shirt? Should I get what is going on over there. What's going on over there? What's going on over there? Should I wear a shirt again? What's going on over there?
Starting point is 00:17:29 Pretty Peter Avalon. What's going on over there? We kind of discussed that he doesn't seem like he's one for decision making. You know, he took away my power to make a decision. He's taken away your menu, because it's just like, look,
Starting point is 00:17:44 I don't wanna make decisions, but I also feel comfortable with you because it's just like, look, I don't want to make decisions, but I also don't feel comfortable with you doing it. He did leave the lunch special menu, which is quite a limited menu compared to the actual menu. He's trying to hone in. He's like, look, if you pick between two things, I'm in my comfort zone. If you do more than that, I'm going to have an actual freak out here in this Gordon Beers brewery.
Starting point is 00:18:02 Yeah. It was a lot. That's what the dookie stains are. Those are the results of his panic attacks from too many decisions. He goes upstairs and it just leaks to the scene. You imagine that. Oh, gross. If that was the panic that it put his body into decision-making,
Starting point is 00:18:16 is that it just gave him the worst bubble guts? Bubble guts. I have never heard that term. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. This poor guy decision-making just kills his innards. You know? I have never heard that term. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I mean, honestly, that's all being a server is is it's hey Make a decision and tell me yeah God can you imagine if we asked him for a recommendation? I was thinking I was like yeah, what would happen if we did his head might explode? He'd still go up to the roof, but he'd jump he had a bad mustache like the dude from The cocaine bear I mean I literally have a bad mustache right now
Starting point is 00:19:03 No, you do not like Not like this, dudes. You look like you upkeep your mustache. I carved this mustache out of thin air like three days ago. I had a full beard and I was just like, well, all right. You got a good, you got a good stash. Yeah, yeah. And his mustache definitely was like,
Starting point is 00:19:18 I made a choice. This is my one. Yeah, it's like, there it is. Leave it be. Like, don't make me do more. It wasn't like a firm choice. He was like, I think I'm gonna do this. And then he did it in a non-com middle mustache.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Yeah, he's like, alright. Yeah. Well, I think we figured it out. I think we have, in fact, learned what's going on over there. What's going on over there? I have to make a decision. Yeah, you're a... We gotta give a thumb rating to this service.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Damn. You know, I wanted to see a little bit more of him. I wanted him to engage with us a little more. I wanted him to realize that he was lucky enough to be in the presence of the self-proclaimed hottest boy in AEW. He must have not realized. He didn't.
Starting point is 00:19:59 So for that, I'm gonna go one thumb down. It's not an aggressive one thumb down. It's not a two thumbs down. Right. It's a slight thumb down. Yeah. You know what, I'm gonna go one thumb down. It's not an aggressive one thumb down. It's not a two thumbs down But it's a slight thumb down. Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna agree with you just because he took my menu He was gonna get no thumbs. He stole from me. He stole my decision making power Yeah, and then we had like a lady in the tramp moment where we're like both holding on to one side of the menu He's looking at it and they're like kisses It was really yeah, I don't know where this spaghetti came from,
Starting point is 00:20:25 but I don't even think they served. They don't. Yeah. Anyways, that's it for service. Actually, before we move on from service, I've got you here. I have a very specific thing to pitch to you. Okay. You're in the world of wrestling.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Kind of. Slightly. And a lot of wrestling gimmicks are occupation- you. Okay. You're in the world of wrestling. Kind of. Slightly. And a lot of wrestling gimmicks are occupation based. Yes. I have come up with the ultimate chain restaurant, wrestling gimmick. All right. And it's a part of the service team
Starting point is 00:20:56 that I didn't really notice much of at this restaurant. Bus boys. Ooh. I want to be a wrestler called the busser. The busser. Yeah, like I'll take you to the back and throw you in the sink or whatever. It's a man with a former occupational gimmick of the librarian. I am all for it.
Starting point is 00:21:17 I am all for it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean like finishing move, the busser buster. Yeah, that obviously makes sense. He comes out with that tub, the buster buster. Yeah. That obviously makes sense. He comes out with that tub, the plastic tub full of some dishes. That's like his like Raven had the shopping cart. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:32 He would just come out with a tub of like used it. Maybe like gross. You could do like a broken dish death match or something. Oh, that's grimy. Yeah. He's got the gross wet towel. He's got a wipstudes with him. Oh my gosh, that is such a heel gimmick of life.
Starting point is 00:21:45 It's not even that I'm choking you, it's that it's dirty. It's gross. It's the fact that it has been used to wipe a table. He's got like a little spray bottle of like Windex equivalent or whatever. Water in a slight bit of soap. Yeah, just a bottle of blue. Blah, a bottle of blue.
Starting point is 00:22:00 Yeah. I want you to rank this gimmick idea for the buster. Nine and a 10. Can you give me a short promo from the perspective of the buster? Oh, let me tell you something brother. I'm gonna go with him to bus those tables. I'm gonna clean him up I'm gonna wipe it down and then wipe the floor with you, buddy Yeah, I like it. Yeah, not bad. I could uh got up you got to do the Hogan 80s things right away You got in just a fanny pack full of semas. Yeah, not bad. I could uh, you gotta do the Hogan 80s things right away. You gotta just a fanny pack full of somas. Yeah, completely. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:29 Zubas. Yeah. Like, yeah, that's the buster in his in his off hours. Yeah. In his prime. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In his prime. Food. Yum. Yum. So the food for Gordon Beersh, I mean, they invented the garlic fry allegedly. We did. Yeah. We got that as a starter. Yeah. Before we actually talk about how well we liked the food, I have a question for you. You're in an industry where like your health and like body image matters. Health as well, Phil.
Starting point is 00:22:56 Do you eat at many chains? Oh, all the time. Do they have options that are like good enough to upkeep your health? Or do you just, do you not care? Everywhere's going to have. Yeah, I it's funny to go to like a waffle house with some wrestlers And they'll ask for like yeah gonna get 10 egg whites and then just toast and then it's like they get the most boring Breakfast they can get but it's healthy for them. Yeah, yeah, but then I'm getting the waffle Like I just got to eat maybe I'm a skinny boy So I got to eat, eat, eat, whatever it is.
Starting point is 00:23:26 So you've got that like overactive metabolism, so you get to like, they're looking at me like, you better get another waffle little boy. They call you little boy. Man, they've called me everything under the sun, it's wrestling. All right, so we had the Gordon Beers legendary garlic fries. We differed on these.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Yeah. I thought these were the best thing I tasted all day. I'd pass on them. Yeah. I'd pass on them again. Just too much garlic. Too much garlic, yeah. I don't know the definition of that phrase.
Starting point is 00:23:57 I like garlic. It's not like I dislike it. I just, you know, I'm skeptical now. Prove yourself. You know what I fucking hate garlic. I have a vendetta against garlic. Let me tell you something garlic. If I see you in the ring, I'm gonna beat. Prove yourself. You know what I fucking hate, Garlic? I have a vendetta against Garlic. Let me tell you something, Garlic. If I see you in the ring, I'm gonna beat the shit out of you.
Starting point is 00:24:09 You know, I have the table with you. Don't eat exactly in the busser. Yeah, I mean, I really enjoyed them. I went to Stinking Rose and loaded up my face with Garlic and they have no complaints about it. So there really isn't a thing for me as too much garlic. Yeah. I'm going eight out of 10.
Starting point is 00:24:28 That's all right. Like it's a shotgun blast of garlic to the face, but I welcome it. I'll give it a five out of 10. You're all going on five. I'm all going on five. I bet one and two of them, and I just couldn't do it. It's too much.
Starting point is 00:24:39 Too much for me. Would you say it was way too much? Yeah. This is weird because I have this award, but I don't agree with the awarding of it, but if you say so, like I'll give it to you, I'll let you award the This is Way Too Much award to the garlic fries at Gordon Beers. to the garlic fries at Gordon Beers. I mean, I think it's too much that they claim to have invented them and that the internet be right. Like, that can't be right.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Garlic fries just conceptually feel like a thing that have to predate Gordon Beers. It just seems like it has to. I was just, I saw something on, I think it was Reddit this morning that was like they were talking about the origins of the piniacalata And there's a couple places that say they invented it But then they they found a drink book from like the 20s or 30s that had the recipe in it So like I think that probably is a world that the garlic fries live in to say no we invented it But then some doodle years like hmm hold up. I invented it in 1922
Starting point is 00:25:41 And they're like yeah, well can you prove it Because we have more money than you to flood the internet. So search results show that it was up. Yeah, damn you compete with us. Poor damn. Damn, you're right. Yeah. Oh, my shit just shows about being, no one uses being.
Starting point is 00:25:56 I'll just believe you with you based from bone that you invented garlic fries. Yeah, sure. God, can you imagine the garlic breath shooting out of a trombone while you're playing? That's magic. That's right. Imagine you've had front row to that sky concert.
Starting point is 00:26:07 Man, no, thanks. You can go with like nose plugs. Yeah. Or you just breathe with your mouth open the whole time. I mean, that's what I, and then people say, but then you can taste it. No, you can't. No. When you breathe, you're not tasting.
Starting point is 00:26:19 No, yeah. I mean, I have survived a lot of situations by breathing through my mouth. Oh, absolutely. I'm also, I'm very sensitive to smell Like I'm sure you have friends that like we'll smell something that stinks and then they'll be like oh dude smell this and it's like no Yeah, you clearly indicated that I wasn't I will smell like of course I have to You do of course. Yeah, I never do. I'm so I'm foolish. I'm foolish like that I'm just like you've literally indicated that it's not gonna be a good experience for me.
Starting point is 00:26:45 It's also hilarious, that's something you wanna share. Like, oh my God, this is the most grotesque thing I've ever seen. Look at this. Like look at this infection on my arm. Oh, bro. Can I touch it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:59 And then on the other side of things, we got the crispy balsamic Brussels sprouts. How's the pan of those? I was too. These were, the balsamic was working. I was a fan of those. I was too. These were, the balsamic was working. Yeah. I feel like I had the right amount of like grease moisture from the balsamic with like the
Starting point is 00:27:11 crispiness of the Brussels sprouts, sprouts leaves, whatever you want to call them. Right. This is the thing that like I will make sure I order every time I go. I would get that again there. And I don't even have it rated higher than the garlic fries, but Brussels sprouts, I'm a little less worried about them being bad for me. Right. I went seven and a half out of fries, but Brussels sprouts, I'm a little less worried about them being bad for me. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:27 I went seven and a half out of 10 on the Brussels sprouts. I was gonna say 7.5 as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big agreement on these, the, as you can say, the BS, the Brussels sprouts. I was looking for a catchy abbreviation and then looked at, I was like, oh, it's BS. Yep, cool.
Starting point is 00:27:40 They are no BS. They were, they were all BS. Brussels sprouts. Oh, that's what they should call them. And now, a word from our totally not made up sponsor. Greetings. Harry's in Augustine flying money-water MoG really is the 14th again. Taking a brief pause from my yachting adventures to give you people some advice.
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Starting point is 00:28:59 I do hope you apply this advice, but in the meantime, I must make my way to the bespoke taile to discuss the intricate embroidery for my new set of custom-made silk pajamas. You understand? I could not possibly settle for less than absolute luxury. Even in loungewear. Tudoloo? My entree came with more fries, but it was a different fry. It wasn't the garlic fry.
Starting point is 00:29:26 It was the salt and pepper fries. Yeah, the regular fries too, yeah. Why bother? Yeah, well, salt potatoes. Like the same potato. It's the same, but the good, like, I mean, I guess we disagreed on this. The garlic, I thought, was the strong thing about the fry.
Starting point is 00:29:39 Having them without it just kind of exposed like this is a pretty mediocre fry. The garlic fries are better than the regular fries. And you didn't love the garlic. So yeah, I'm going just a, I'm just going a four and a half out of 10. So a little on the low side of the video. I'm going to go for straight for, no, straight for.
Starting point is 00:29:55 These were the chips of the fish and chips that I ultimately ordered. So yeah, it was the beer battered fish and chips and it came with a Marson battered cod, tartar sauce, apple cider slaw, salt and pepper fries. I actually didn't try the slaw in hindsight. I regret that. I wish I would have at least known what it tasted like.
Starting point is 00:30:13 But the tartar sauce, it worked. I actually, this is a fairly good fish and chip. Right. It didn't have a lot of structural integrity. Like it was falling apart. You take a bite and like the fried skin just kind of slips off. And you're just like getting like meat.
Starting point is 00:30:30 The fish out of its skin, fish out of water, fish out of water. But skin, fish out of skin. Weird. Yeah, it was good enough. Yeah, the tartar worked. It had like a green infusion. I want to say it was like a cilantro tartar.
Starting point is 00:30:46 Okay. And six out of 10. Like it got the job done. I was, I didn't need a ton. I actually, this is probably the most conservative I've been with the amount that I've eaten. Now that speaks for all of you. Any place. Yeah. You want to finish the good food. I want to finish the good food of which there wasn't a ton. I think we finished the Brussels. Yeah, it was tasty enough, but nothing blew me away, but nothing to me was bad other than just the, they had the substandard regular fries.
Starting point is 00:31:20 Yeah, yeah, six out of 10. All right, can you talk about your beer? Oh, the beer was, was tasty. Do you remember what you got? I had, I forgot the kind of beer, it was of 10. All right, can you talk about your beer? Oh, the beer was, was taste. Remember what you got? I had, I forgot the kind of beer. It was a colch beer, which I thought colchers must be like small glasses. And I got it because it reminded me
Starting point is 00:31:32 of my trip to Cologne, Germany about a year ago. So then reviewing the history that it's got all German things, I got make sense, that's cool. The beer was actually tasty. I'd give that a seven out of 10. The beer is probably what if you, if you go to Yelp
Starting point is 00:31:45 The majority of at least good reviews are talking about the beers and like listing specific ones. Yeah, the beer was good Like they're they're kind of a destination for beers at least for being a chain Mm-hmm. It's definitely like a big draw of why someone goes to a Gordon I mean a brewery in general. That's gonna be what happens brewery in the name, right? Yeah, it was good I gave that a seven seven out of ten. And then for your entree, I had the Wagyu burger. And for something to be advertised as a Wagyu, you'd expect, ooh, tasty. A little more. A little more. A little more. Yeah. And that burger was was overcooked. Was it? Yeah. I got it. I asked. It looked pink in the middle from it. It was, but I think it just like overcooked on the outside or something because it wasn't very good. That's bad balance. Yeah, it was very good. I give that a 4.5.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Wagyu coming in. That's what yeah, that's what. Coming in slow. Yeah, it's going to be Wagyu beef or Kobe beef. You'd expect to be delicious. But also it's a chain restaurant burger. Right. Right. I mean, I just did a whole month of September. Yeah. Eating nothing but chain restaurant. Eight ate 24 burgers in that month. Oh, that's pretty good. Three burgers per place, a first round, second round and third round,
Starting point is 00:32:50 even if they didn't advance, I had to taste it, so I didn't have to go back another time. Yeah, that's rough. That's rough. Well, I wouldn't recommend this hamburger. Cheap burger. Good to know. Maybe there'll be a next year's September,
Starting point is 00:33:02 I gotta have a number eight seed somewhere. Yeah, I guess you can do it then. Got to have a last place option. Just forget this show happened and then go try brand new. I'll never have this before. This show I often try to forget about. I feel like it's a fever dream. This entire podcast is just, hey, let's go slowly chip away at my life expectancy by eating out constantly at some of the worst health food, non-health food places you can go to. There you go, that's how I think of me and wrestling. Let me chip away at my life by taking bumps and then not remember a thing.
Starting point is 00:33:32 Do you hurt always? Do you really? Oh, physically? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, emotionally, I was physically. I've been once in a while, yeah. Like have you had any big injuries? Oh, yeah, I broke my, I have a scar on my wrist here that I had a plate
Starting point is 00:33:47 Actually have the plate I had this plate in my it's all my keys now. I had it in my arm for about eight months Iki yeah, I broke my arm in training my very first year training did a frog splash and didn't go right and then I training, it was a frog splash and it didn't go right. And then I tried to move out my ACL all that too long ago and I had to get PRP injections. I broke my face. You broke your face. Like your orbital or my zygomatic region right here, the little bridge right here, got your cheekbone basically. Yeah, I got popped in, so I punched it too hard and I had to get surgically to pop it back out. So I've had a facial reconstructive surgery technically.
Starting point is 00:34:27 How long is that to feel normal again? It was odd, man, because like... I imagine like every time you chew, you're feeling it. The way it broke, if I opened my mouth up really wide, I would feel the bone like in my mouth. Which now that I've seen you eat, you do eat like a snake. You kind of just, I know.
Starting point is 00:34:47 I really inhibited my unhinging at that moment. It was weird and the thing is, I didn't even realize it was broken right away. I just thought I got popped real good. Because I mean, I've been punched through wrestling. So it's like, I should be fine. My face was swollen. I was like, I have a swelling to go down. And then two weeks later, I had another match.
Starting point is 00:35:04 And that swelling went down, but I just had a hole in my face. You could see just this like dip. And I had this match in the very next day. I went to the doctor, got an x-rays, and they said, yeah, your face is broken. And cheese. You can't see the incision right here.
Starting point is 00:35:19 Oh yeah. I had to go in and pop it out. And then I had this little plate that I just wore on my face for a few weeks. How long ago was that? I remember because it was my 10th year anniversary in wrestling pre-pandemic. I forgot the exact year.
Starting point is 00:35:31 2018-19. Sure. Yeah, it was that bar wrestling. And we were wrestling. Me and my tag partner were wrestling crime time. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:35:43 Great match. They're great dudes. Sure. Yeah, you know, should happen. All right, P. Shad. Yeah, it Great match. They're great dudes. Sure. Yeah. You know, it should happen. All right. P. Shad. Yeah. It was him. It was Shad. Oh, the chat was Shad. Shad. Yeah. We did a, we were doing a spot and he popped me up to punch me as I came down and just dudes big. Yeah. Got a big ol' fist. Yeah. Yeah. Sweetheart, man. He was, he was so worried. He was like, you're, you sure I'll take you to the hospital? I'll do this. I'll do that. He was checking up on me and make a trowel a trail was good, but I just felt like
Starting point is 00:36:06 I was fine. That kind of be etiquette. Yeah, you know, he's got to take care of each other and shit happens. I've gone with people to the hospital, people have gone with me to the hospital. Like, yeah, that sense for sure, brotherhood. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:19 I missed my window, I feel like to start getting into wrestling at like 34, 35 seems like I've probably missed a boat, but it was always a thing where I was like to start getting into wrestling at like 34-35 seems like I've probably missed a boat But it was always a thing where I was like man, I know that I can just call a wrestling school and join and learn but yeah But now like I can't get your face broken. I can't and I can't stand up without grunting That's me now like shit. Yeah, but you but you earned that I just I Did nothing and ended up there. You've like put your body through stuff to get to that point.
Starting point is 00:36:50 Anyways, we're talking about Gordon Beersbrewry. Beersh. So now we can talk about the delicious afterwards party that is dessert. The brownie sundae. That hard brownie. Yeah, it was kind of hard. Like physically hard. Yeah brownie Sunday. That hard brownie. Yeah, it was kind of hard. Yeah, like physically hard. Yeah, just muscle. Yeah, this brownie had tendons. We had, we had an abdominal muscle for the brownie.
Starting point is 00:37:13 For a brownie. Yeah. And it was actively flexing. Yeah. It was, yeah, really had to like push to break through. Yeah. I had a bite. And that was it for me. You know, it was a brownie. Like, it wasn't a bad brownie. Yeah, wasn't a good one either. But it wasn't impressive. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a brownie in general, to me, is a more delicious treat than your average food.
Starting point is 00:37:32 So I have it. I have it over five, but not by much. I give it a six out of 10. Okay, I'll say 5.5, just because it was a little too hard. I like soft brownies. Yeah, I do too. And I mean, in your line of work, soft food, like that, you got, you need it. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:37:46 yeah. When you're breaking your face, you don't want to chew too hard. Exactly. These missing teeth. Yeah. But overall, I think when I put this together, I'm going to go a pretty enthusiastic one thumbs up on the food. I thought the food was the best of the three elements, like the atmosphere, kind of whatever, the service left something to be desired. The food, I didn't hate it. You know, it's not up there with like the really good meals in my life, but I call it above average. So yeah, I'm gonna go one thumbs up, approaching too,
Starting point is 00:38:13 but I'll go one. I'll give it one thumb. Yeah, I want them up. One not firm thumb up, but it's a thumb. Like if someone got that thumbs up from you, they'd be like, I think he likes me. Yeah, it's one of those ones that like you kind of acknowledge someone in the car like you really Thanks for letting me through exactly one of those. Yeah Final rating We have to boil down Gordon Beersbruhry to its essence to a number to a score and throw
Starting point is 00:39:00 it up on the Chanchaki of mediocrity, our running scoreboard of all the restaurants that I have been to so far and where they stand in search of that perfect five point double zero. Would you like to go first? Let's see. The restaurant was for sure a restaurant. The atmosphere was there. It was a brewery. There were the big vats of beer, so like you knew what they're selling. I like how in a world where you can give opinions, you're all facts. That's right, you're like, it existed.
Starting point is 00:39:36 It was in a building. It's right, there was a building. They probably pay rent for in Burbank. There was tanks, there was dukey drips from the ceiling. The bathroom was confusing, the food was food. I was dukey drips from the ceiling. The bathroom was confusing. The food was food. I would give it a 5.5. Going 5.50. All right. I think I liked this a bit more than you did. I mean, this place didn't like impress me, but I would call it above average. And to me, four to six, that's your average range, six to seven, seven,
Starting point is 00:40:06 six to eight. You're looking at good. I thought this was a comfortably good place. It's not a spot where I'm like, oh, you've got to try Gordon Beers. Never going to be one of those recommendations. But in a pinch, looking to go somewhere other than my, my usuals, my, my haunts, I think as they call them. Mm-hmm. I don't know where that term came from, but sure. Would you go to this place over another Burbank legendary place of Lancers? I've never been to Lancers. It looks sad.
Starting point is 00:40:36 It is very sad. I'm very, very so fucking sad, Robert. That practice is not bad. When your exterior looks stained, yeah, the interior's no bad. I know it's going to be equal or worse inside. I can't bring myself to do it. It's, it's, it's a, it's a place. But I have reviewed the Burger King right next to Lancers. That Burger King was in back to the future at the very beginning, Marty McFly skateboards past it. And you can
Starting point is 00:40:58 actually see the Lancers in the background behind it. Oh, I'm going to have to go back and look just for the Lancers. I rewatched it like a week ago for the first time in probably 10 years. That's awesome. Just because I was like, I went to that Burger King. So yeah, because I liked this a bit more than you, I had a neutral opinion of the atmosphere, but a positive opinion of the food, the service, I did give it a thumbs down,
Starting point is 00:41:18 but it wasn't that enthusiastic. Like I didn't hate the guy. He didn't insult me personally. He didn't spit at me or shoot me out like most of these places. Right. So this is a place where if my parents were in town and I wanted a place that was like a step above a chilees
Starting point is 00:41:33 or like something like that, I'd probably be like, sure, let's go to Gordon Pierce and my dad will get weird about it and start like making like poop faces and I'm like, Dad, knock it off. I'm gonna go 6.47. Oh. Not crazy, but like, it's a healthy rating. Yeah, right outside the zone of mediocrity.
Starting point is 00:41:53 Right outside the zone of mediocrity. It puts it just ever so slightly below like the cheesecake factory for me. The determining factor for this rating was I had macaroni grill at a 6.54. Okay. And I just would ever so slightly prefer going to macaroni grill than this Gordon Beers. Yeah, that's a place I haven't been to since that little boy. They changed the bread. It's a travesty. No. But that was the Serrito's location that I went to that the bread was
Starting point is 00:42:22 different. If you go to the Irvine location, it's a little bit closer to the old bread. Okay. And I mean, the bread is why you go to a macaroni grill. That's what's getting you in the door. That like rosemary pull apart. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With the olive oil. That was good.
Starting point is 00:42:34 All right. So when we put our ratings together, crazy enough, Gordon Beersch falls just ever so perfectly inside the zone of mediocrity at a 5.99. That is the average of our scores. Okay, so we didn't find the most mediocre restaurant. Gordon Beersh, not the 5.00, which means I've got to keep looking. I've got to go somewhere next week to review and evaluate if it's the perfectly mediocre, perfectly average restaurant. I believe in you Michael. I believe that you can find it.
Starting point is 00:43:23 You think I'm going to find it? Absolutely. I think you can find that 5.0 0 and it is a science. I have to round to the nearest hundreds. If I did a tenth, it's too vague. All of a garden week seven scored a 5.1. But when you add that extra decimal, like you're really, yeah, you're in there twisting the knobs, turning the dials.. Usually, to determine where I go next, we play a game called the headline game where I have prepared headlines about the restaurant that we went to and you would have to decipher,
Starting point is 00:43:53 are they real headlines, are they bogus headlines? But we're not gonna do that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't get to play the headline game. Because I get to make a pun, the highest form of comedy. Yes. I want to play a game that plays to your strengths. I'm calling it chain wrestling.
Starting point is 00:44:11 Now to play chain wrestling, I'm going to name either a professional wrestler or a chain restaurant. And you have to match them with someone or a place that fits the exact same vibe. So if I say a wrestler, you have to name a chain restaurant that fits their vibe. If I name a chain restaurant, you gotta tell me a wrestler that fits their vibe. All right, I'm on the spot. Are you ready to play? Yes.
Starting point is 00:44:35 All right. Cold stone, creamery. Mm. Cold stone. That's saying. I'm gonna say. Cold Stone. That's saying. I'm gonna say... Kolkobana.
Starting point is 00:44:53 Stone Cold. It's in the name, dude. I thought you wanted an honest thing, not just a joke. I was gonna say, like, Colt is reliable. Colt Stone is. You know what I mean? He's delicious. I am going to let you filibuster about Colt Cabana as long as you want.
Starting point is 00:45:12 I love Colt Cabana. There are right and wrong answers to this. This is not just word association. This is an exam. I was thinking it's word association. Let me get in my test brain. Let me take my classes off. I'm serious.
Starting point is 00:45:24 You got a study. Mm-hmm. All right daddy magic matmanard Which aim restaurant maybe About backstage cast wrong He is a Denny's after midnight. Oh, okay. Yeah, there at 2 a.m. It just has straight up cocaine energy But there's probably not actual cocaine It just has straight up cocaine energy, but there's probably not actual cocaine. That magic matminard is just a bag of cocaine
Starting point is 00:45:47 if it were a wrestler. Yeah, yeah, out of his mind. Maybe my favorite promo in wrestling these days. He's great. Father magic, if you are listening to this, come on my podcast. Father magic, yes. Orange Julius.
Starting point is 00:46:01 Orange Cassidy. Orange Julius, Julius Caesar, Cesar Bononi. Come on. He's one of your wing man. How did I not make that connection? Damn. My bad Cesar, sorry. CM Punk. I'll be a young brand's restaurant because they just serve Pepsi. That is the most political answer. Yeah. Could have given waffle house because you can rely on a brawl. I didn't say it. Tony, Tony, I didn't say it.
Starting point is 00:46:34 You didn't say it, Tony. You didn't say anything. Chris Jericho. Probably the estate house. Some kind of estate house. Let's see. Outback estate house, some kind of estate house. Let's see, Outback State House. You'll see Outback State House. The correct answer is,
Starting point is 00:46:49 sh**, cake factory. Long list, constantly reinventing itself. The Ocho, the demo god, the wizard, the list. I like that. Y2J, all the things, lion heart. Plenty to select from and in a menu sense, it's a little too much to select from sometimes. Yeah, when a guy's pulled out a list of a thousand
Starting point is 00:47:10 and four holds, sh**, cake factor. Yeah, that's absolutely. Christian Cage. Where's a restaurant that you would go with your dad? You're on the right track. Not that you would go with your dad, but Sizzler
Starting point is 00:47:27 Bubblegummp shrimp company because there was no father figure in forest gum. Oh And lastly Margaritaville Oh, there's the Jimmy Buffett wrestler Prince Mata. There you go. All right. Go to Margaritaville, maybe Swerving your drive. I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:49 All right, yeah. All right, so you got one correct. Oh, that's probably appropriate for an exam, yeah. Because I wanted this to be hard in vague. Like most exams. I'm going to New York, so I want a pick where I'm going to go in New York. So I may have rigged the game to be a little tough, but I'm going to go to the world famous
Starting point is 00:48:10 Katz's delicatessen next week. So get a pastrami on ride, try the latkes, try their hot dog. A rubin. Just, I hear it's amazing. So I'm very excited. Gonna go to Katz's delicatessen. Thanks so much, Petey, Pretty Pete. For coming on the podcast.
Starting point is 00:48:30 You're welcome. I had a blast with you. I hope you had a fun time. It was great. Is there anything you want to like plug or tell people where to follow you? Follow me on Instagram at PPA all day. You could see me kicking ass at AEW and Ring of Honor.
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Starting point is 00:49:00 And, folks, he's not lying when he says PPA all day. This guy, I was like, do you have an out time and he was like, I literally have the entire day and I'm like, you're living the gimmick man. That's right, all damn, living the gimmick. So now that we're closing in on midnight, we spent 23 hours and 50 something minutes together. I can firmly say, thank you for helping me.
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Starting point is 00:51:28 BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLE BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP How crazy this guy is driving me. Two weeks ago I texted you a phone. The sign of this podcast and very excited. He says something about it. And then you want to get me started on quartered. They rated 5.99 so conveniently. You don't need to think you a phone. And he says it's retired. It's am ready.
Starting point is 00:51:42 I got a phone. Thanks. I've got a change. You know what? Maybe I'm willing to go back to prison. I'll see what happens. I ain't got to go. Don't you hang up.
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