Tosh Show - My Favorite Chocolatier - Phil Covitz

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Daniel sweet-talks Phil Covitz, a second-generation chocolatier and co-owner of andSons Chocolates, about taking over the family business with his brother, product packaging as an art form, and why chocolates differ from candy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Lincoln logs in me sock drawer. Lincoln logs in me sock drawer. Now for those of you that don't get that reference, well, little Bill Hicks for ya. Anyway, Easter. Man, I love Easter. Probably one of my favorite rabbit centric holidays. Is it rabbits or is it chickens?

Wait, what? Bunnies? Bunnies. Rabbits and bunnies are the same thing. Bunny, but I don't know what chickens. Bunnies don't like eggs. Yeah. Bunny either do rabbits.

Guys, that's not the point. It's confusing. It's as confusing as the story of Christ. No, no, no. Okay. Anyway, I love Easter. I love the Easter egg point. It's confusing. It's as confusing as the story of Christ. No, no, no, no. Okay, anyway, I love Easter. I love the Easter egg hunt. That's my favorite.

We do it every day at our house. Oh, wow. Yeah. I like that. Well, we have a chicken coop. I basically just tell my kids, go get the eggs. They're not really hidden. Although my son doesn't like to remove the hens or reach underneath them to grab the eggs.

I'm like just shoo them away, shoo them away. He's like, they bite. I'm like, they don't really bite. They peck. They peck a little bit. That's how they bite. If you go quick, they won't. They don't peck me.

I put my hands underneath there. I root around. I'm like, oh, that's not an egg. Hello. By the way, just got a new chicken. All right. Okay. Now you guys heard the tragic story of a black Betty. Okay. Black Betty has been replaced by white Peggy. Wow. She's a, she's a silky.

Now she was in a flock of my neighbor's farm and she's a silky, silky, just a beauty. Now I don't have silkies. I have showgirls, but they're in the same family. I had two white showgirls and she's like, Hey, I think my silky would do good with you because we had two silkies, but my dog killed one of them. And I'm like, Oh, that's tragic. Carl never, never messes. He's not even aggressive toward the chickens.

But anyway, she's like, can I give you my one silky? And I'm like, well, sure. We'll see if my flock will take her in. Because sometimes they'll just peck them to death and kill them if the other chickens don't like them. But I'm like, bring her on over, let's see how she does. And she seems to fit in great. But far so good.

Yeah, no, they're doing, they're all great. Well, great. I mean, I'm basically just living in this house where people just are dropping animals off. The other day somebody tried to drop a rabbit off. I said, no, it was the cutest little thing in the world. I go, no, I got wild rabbits everywhere. I don't need more.

By the way, rabbits, they are a big reason that Carl gets ticks from time to time. I didn't know that. Yeah, rabbits carry ticks. And, you know, and when Carl gets a tick, it's not a big deal. We usually find it, get rid of it. But it's so concerning because if you get bit by a tick,

you can get Lyme disease, but here's what you might not know. Now I don't want you to look it up because it's probably not true. Okay. But using the computer, don't look it up. Don't look it up. Okay. I heard to get Lyme disease, to get Lyme disease from a tick. It needs to be on you for like 48 hours to like two weeks

or something ridiculous. I'm like, well, if you don't know you have a tick on you for that long, you deserve Lyme disease. Yeah. Now that could be wrong. Why don't you look it up and see if I'm in the ballpark? Cause I'm curious now. I certainly don't want anybody in my family

to get Lyme disease, but I also think if, if it ticks on you for two weeks. At least 36 to 48 hours. Thank you. 36 to 48. So my information wasn't completely wrong. The two week thing. Whatever.

36 hours to 48. It might as well be a month. If it's on there for two days, come on. If you don't know that something's burrowed into your body and eating you for 36 hours, I mean, then you've got some problems. Dirty person. You're a filthy animal. Anyway, I don't wanna get to,

by the way, she brings this bird over and I said, what's her name? You know, I was gonna probably rename her anyway. Right. She goes, oh, we didn't name her chicken. I'm like, oh, I'm like, okay. So now her name is Peggy. I'm just thinking like, what if you had a chicken farm?

Thousands of chickens. You think they name every one of them? You better. I think so. I know they do over at Tyson. It says it on the packaging. I did hear that, yeah. You can see the names of the chicken

that are on the Tyson packaging. I think hear that, yeah. You can see the names of the chicken that are in the, on the Tyson packaging. They, I think they put that on there. You know, it's like, it's like the, when you get those lovies, those beanie babies or whatever, it is a little backstory on the tag. Yeah. You're going to love this chicken. This is Lucy. She was quite the extrovert.

Okay. Well, anyway, Peggy want to welcome her to the family and I hope, I hope a hawk doesn't get you. Speaking of Easter Eddie, Cadbury, are they still in business? Because I would go on record as saying Cadbury creamed eggs are the single grossest piece of candy in the history of the world. You ever had one? Only in an omelet.

Oh, that's interesting. Eddie's doing Cadbury creamed egged omelets. Sounds good. What do you do? You put a little spinach in there? Sometimes we go with either go that or a jelly bean and cheese burrito. Mmm. You ever had a Cadbury creamed egg for real? Yeah. You have? Yeah. It's awful. There's no way that's good.

Oh no. The best way to Cadbury cream day, I would say, is just to pour it on your back and slap yourself in the ass. Yeah, you feel like you're part of a production. And you're the star. There is no chance that that's an enjoyable experience. Now Cadbury's disgusting, I hope they go out of business.

Unless they're sponsored this show, then by all means. They did have the cute commercial. That's the only thing I like about Cadbury is, is their annual commercial. Where don't they have something? Bok bok. Yeah. I hope, I just hope before Easter that our president gets the price of Cadbury creamed eggs under control. Amen.

Now that's why you got elected. Ran on it. Because of Jesus and the price of Cadbury cream eggs. All right. Enough of this talk. control. Mm. Amen. That's why you got elected. Ran on it. Because of Jesus and the price of Cadbury cream eggs. All right. Enough of this talk. I don't believe in the Easter bunny, but I do believe in today's guest. Enjoy. Mmm.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Pa Show! My guest today is a second generation chocolatier with over 30 years of experience. He and his brother are the chocolate kings of Beverly Hills. Please welcome son number one of and son's chocolatier, Phil. My first question that I ask every guest. Yeah, okay, hit me.

Do you believe in ghosts? Oh, I don't. I don't, no. Check. Now why am I interviewing you Phil instead of your brother Mark? Was there any debate of who should be in the hot seat here? I'm son number one.

Therefore I get the priority. How much older are you than your brother? Three years older. That's a good difference. Did you enjoy him as a kid? Yeah. Like you have a good relationship? Yeah, we were always friends.

Because my brother's just two years younger than me and I have such fond memories of growing up and then I talk to my younger brother now as an adult and he's like, no, I hated you. Do you think he has the same? He hasn't surprised me with that yet. Okay. I guess I torched him a little more than I realized.

But now that we're older, we're good friends. Is working with your brother, is that a good idea? Yeah, for us it works well. How long you guys been working together? Well this project's been now five or six years. And previously we always did sort of, you know, other stuff on the side together. And we helped out my mom over the years. So it's just the two of us.

It was an easy, you know pairing You grew up in Los Angeles your parents were in a successful chocolate business in Beverly Hills selling premier chocolate This is why other parts of the country hate us here in California. You're aware of that, right? What was childhood like for you? It was wonderful Wonderful, very lucky lived in LA grew up in Westwood Uh-huh around the corner from where the shop was and had a great younger brother. Parents still together so... Growing up did you eat tons of candy? Tons of chocolate, yes. You did? Yeah. Do you

have a sweet tooth? I do, yeah. You eat dessert after every meal? Every day, yes. I eat it every day. Do you consider chocolate candy? No. You don't? No. I think I'm with you. I don't ever want candy. I always want chocolate. Yeah. Some chocolate's candy and some chocolate's chocolate too.

Anyway, why did they decide a chocolate shop? Well, my mom, she's originally from Brazil. But when she came to the United States, she figured out pretty quickly that the chocolate really wasn't that great. And so for her, European chocolate was something that was special and enjoyable, and she was able to connect with the manufacturer

and start bringing it here so that there was European chocolate here in Los Angeles. And then same thing with coffee, you know, 15 years later, I think she realized, well, she realized kind of right away, the coffee here isn't also that great. Why don't we do coffee too? And so she opened up a cafe, you know, and make local, local espressos and brewed coffee.

Yeah, it's impressive. I mean, I don't ever think I can eyeball a problem and fix it with, what do we need more of? I don't know, beats me. Obviously you grew up around it. Yeah, we grew up, we helped her out all the time. Holidays, when we opened the cafe, helped her with that. Opened the website for her in 2003

as the first e-commerce version of the website. What made you decide to take over the family business? Well, my mom had always suggested it and offered it over the years. And my brother and I didn't live in LA. And then when we came back here later, she had one last offer. And we decided, hey, you know what, now's a good time.

We're both here, we're both sort of moving on to new types of careers and it was a good time. Were you negotiating with her? Were you playing hardball? No. Is she happy with the direction that you guys have taken in the business? Yeah, she's very pumped, she's excited.

Explain, before you and your brother took over the business It wasn't you weren't making your own chocolates for you. No, we were not. Okay. Yeah, and now yeah My mom for many many years imported Swiss chocolate She had a relationship with a wonderful Swiss manufacturer and when we took over We realized it had sort of become a little out-of-date sort of boring and you know, and it was time to reimagine it. So at that point we decided, well, we should probably be making our own product as well. And so we brought on the chef, built out a kitchen,

and really started making the products the way we wanted to do it. What does Anne's Sons specialize in? Well, we've been doing this for a long time. Originally my mom started it, and then when we took over, it really was making it more modern, making it more relevant using ingredients

Ethically sourced cacao local local dairy to elevate the product to make it special and doing you know thinking about the packaging Making it an experience. So as a gift, it's a special occasion now Your chocolates are made I mean to sound cliche the finest ingredients in the world. And your chef that you hired, Chef Sandy, from the French Laundry, which is arguably, or not even arguably, the fanciest restaurant in the world. Yep, one of them. I think people say it is the top.

At least at one point it was the top. Right. All right, she's the pastry chef, was the pastry chef? She was the executive pastry chef, yeah. Executive pastry chef. For a number of years. How'd you get her to quit that dump

and then come run your world? She wanted a change of pace, a change of lifestyle. She was living in Los Angeles at the time, and you know, we connected. Is she happy with that decision? So far, yeah, so far so good. Does the chocolate change if she's not there? It does?

Yeah, I mean, she makes decisions about everything we do. About the ingredients, about the process, about the freshness, about the design. I mean, we're always thinking of new products, so. Do you know the recipes? No, I don't. You don't? I'd be fucked.

Oh. Yeah. Could she give me a recipe for one of your chocolates and I could recreate it or there's no way it would happen I don't think you get close. I bet I wouldn't I don't think you get close to it. I'm listen I enjoy I enjoy baking and the challenge, but I I bet there's no way I get close to it Yeah, no, we have you know machines and you know a bunch of equipment that help you do this process You couldn't do it at home. You could come to the kitchen

You can play with us and see if it works. I would enjoy that more than a ride along with a cop. Right. If you were to give me the two options. Right. Unless I got to pick the area that I was gonna do a ride on with a cop. Some areas are a little more interesting than others.

She's great. She'd show you a good time. You guys take a lot of pride in your packaging. Yeah. True? True. I mean, that was, is that your world? Is that what you specialized in?

Like, okay, let's make this. Yeah. Do you have any direct competition here in Los Angeles for high-end chocolate? No, not in Los Angeles. You have to go to Belgium? You gotta get on a plane. Yes, I'd say so.

Does your chocolate ever end up there? People definitely take it with them when they go back if they're visiting Los Angeles and they wanna take something home. You ever have experts from over there taste it and say, yeah, job well done? Yeah. Like that's. Yeah.

Or do they still stick their nose up because it's like, oh, you're American, so. No, we get a lot of positive feedback all the time. Why in God's name do we say the word bonbons in dumb old America? It's a generic term that we use, you we use to talk about a piece of chocolate. So some people say truffles, some people say bonbons, some people say pralines. Bonbon is just a way to sort of talk about a confection.

Who produces the best chocolate? The Swiss, the Belgians, or the fine Christian folks at Hershey, Pennsylvania? Well, they make chocolate candy. That's their thing. By the way, I don't know that they're Christian. I just guessed. That was just a shot in the dark. I performed at their theater.

Oh, really? And they had some kind of rules. You remember that, Eddie? They had some rules. I just remember it was like, oh, be careful what you say. I'm like, what? Be careful what I say. Yeah.

Get out of here. That whole town's kind of weird. Yeah, have you ever been to Hershey, Pennsylvania? No, no, but I just heard an ad It was yesterday I was with my kid and we were driving the car and it was a Hershey ad for almond joy and they're listing the ingredients And they said, you know Almonds coconut and chocolate candy and I said, oh that that's because they can't say chocolate They can say chocolate candy because it's not necessarily fully a chocolate product So this is you know what you're doing to me right now You're giving me the whole like like Pringles can't say potato chip

Right, they have to say crisp. All right, you who can't say chocolate milk. They have to say chocolate drink. Yeah That's good. So you guys do a hot chocolate and a chocolate milk. Yeah, we do and it's incredible. My kids love it Yes, I don't think I can drink chocolate milk, but I can drink a hot chocolate and a chocolate milk? Yeah, we do. And it's incredible? My kids love it, yes. I don't think I can drink chocolate milk, but I can drink a hot chocolate. That's why I like to be in Europe so much. No one looks down on you for drinking hot chocolate there. Here, if I order a hot chocolate,

they're like, do you want that lukewarm for your son? I'm like, it's for me. You ever fuck with fudge? No, we don't do that, no. Do you like fudge? Nah. I don't like fudge either. I've never liked fudge.

People always give me fudge too. I'm like, I don't want this. My brother-in-law just bought me fudge. I told him I don't like it. And he's like, oh, you'll like this. I'm like, oh, because they know I have a sweet tooth. And so they think like, oh, I'll just give you some fudge. I'm like, I don't want fudge.

But then they get mad at me because I'm like, well, just take it. I'm like, I'm not gonna take it. But then they get mad at me because I'm like, well, just take it. I'm like, I'm not gonna take it. You gave it back. Where are you at on fondue? I like fondue. Yeah. Yeah, of course. I despise it.

Really? I have to do it. I have to participate. My wife likes it. So like once, I don't know, every six months, we have a fondue night at the house. Which part don't you like about the fondue? The whole process of this is a shitty meal that I'm just dipping things into cheese and then it's

like okay now we're gonna dip stuff into chocolate and it's it's I'm consuming way too much is probably the problem. Where do you stand on marshmallows and chocolate? They're good we make marshmallows we make in-house marshmallows and they taste great. I'm down with it. What about the s'more? Yeah, I despise this really we have something for you. That's a s'more today. Really? Yeah, but it's not a s'more I the idea of making s'mores is awful because it doesn't work right the chocolate never melts, right? Right? You're just basically just playing with fire and breathing smoke all night It can't be good for you at what percentage is cacao no longer enjoyable

and just medicine for diabetics? What's your max cacao? Where you're like, all right, that's enough. Personally? I would say maybe 80%. Okay, I can go a little darker, and I can go a little more, but that's in my wheelhouse.

How old is your mother? And is she proof that you can eat sweets every day and live a long healthy life? Yes she is she was born in 1946 so she's in her late 70s and she's healthy and happy and ate a lot of chocolate. You sell a gorgeous box of four pieces of chocolate on your website for $20. Defend yourself. Each piece is made here in LA by a talented team. Each piece is fresh, made with fresh ingredients, high quality cacao, and the packaging is just as special. Why does it cost that much?

Everything. The ingredients, the labor, the packaging. I mean, you're preaching. I talked to a guy, a friend of mine, who runs a restaurant business, and he just screams at me about how impossible it is to make a hamburger to make a profit. He's like, if I don't charge $20, I make a dollar. He's like, I'm like, anyway, I get that it's expensive. Do people just come in just to eat?

Yeah, all the time. Okay. Without a box, just out of the case. Is that cheaper? It is a little cheaper, yes. That's good to know. It is. The Great Depression ended in 1941.

So can you explain why Raisinettes are still around? No, are they still around? I don't know if they are. I think they are. They are? They are. All right. Do you like old candies?

I like Milk Duds, I do Milk Dud. That'll rip your teeth out. My father-in-law eats candy that doesn't, that I don't understand. What does he like? I don't know. He won't see if he answers his phone, but he's, he's... I mean, it's confusing, the candies that he'll eat. Like old candy? Old style stuff? Yes.

Let me just, let me just see if he answers real fast. Hey! Hey, um, tell me five of the gross candies that you like to eat. Let's see. Boy, I like circus peanuts. I'm going to say, uh, any kind of jelly beans, but especially jelly belly. Uh, I like gumdrops. I like hot tamales. Those are really good.

And I like Neckos. How's that in five? That is ridiculous. Do you like any chocolates? No. All right, we'll talk to you later. Neckos, I thought they went out of business. Did he store them?

Did he bought them in bulk and keeps them? They're not fresh. You care about went out of business. Do you store them? Do you buy them in bulk and keep them? They're not fresh. You care about freshness of chocolate. Correct. How long from when you make chocolate should someone consume it? We tell them to eat it within 10 days. That's easy. Which is easy, yeah.

I don't know what's wrong with that. What about in your shop? How long until you're like, oh, that chocolate's passed its prime? We keep it there for a week. And then where does it go? It usually sells. We have a system where it's selling within, you know, what we bring from the kitchen

to the store selling. I could never understand that business. Like, it's so hard to figure out that kind of stuff. Ugh, it's a nightmare. By the way, we have some Kirkland Signature Chocolate in here. That can't be fresh either, right? I doubt it.

No, six months, one year. One year? Okay, whoa, what am I looking at here? Yeah, that can't be fresh either right? I doubt it. No six months one year one year Okay, whoa, what am I looking at here? All right, so this is our 24 piece chocolate box popular size and Box so that how it opens from the sides Yeah We have both a line of modern style and robe chocolates and then a little more traditional European style classic in robe bonbons Here's the thing. Yeah, I see a fancy box like that.

Sometimes I'll get a pair of Italian shoes and they come in a shoe box that's so much fancier than a normal shoe box. Which is what we're dealing with here. This is a fancy box. Yeah. But when I'm finished with the chocolate, I mean. You're stuck with the box.

Am I, or am I just getting rid of it? What am I supposed to do with the box is my question. Well, a lot of people keep them. We do a lot of artist collaborations. We use artist artwork and people keep them. And what am I supposed to do? Shelf it? Display it?

This is a box we did with an artist. This is, let me see this one. This is, now this you could put on, I could curate this on my daughter's shelf in her room. That makes sense. But that was an artist here in LA. He's a muralist. His name is Bumblebee Loves You.

And he has- His name's not Bumblebee Loves You. It is. I have to call him Bumblebee for short, but yes. Right, but his birth name is not Bumblebee Loves You. But he did the- He did a mural in Palisades at one of the schools that burned down.

The elementary school. Yeah, Palisades. Charter at one of the schools that burned down. The elementary school. Yeah, Palisades. Charter Elementary School. And that one burned down. I got you. And so we worked with him to create a box with the artwork. And so- This is not the one that burned down,

but you did do one of those- Correct, we did that one. And it sold out. And it sold out. And you don't have any? No, we don't have any. You didn't keep one for yourself? I might have one somewhere.

Okay. Look at that. But when we said, hey, let's go at it again, he said, all right, let's find another artwork. This is a school in Rosemead, California. That's a beautiful box. By the way, do you have to pay him to do this?

Or was this something that he wanted to do with you guys? He wanted to do it. We both, his fee was donated to the schools. We took the Pasadena School District and the Los Angeles School District. And then we also donated a portion of the proceeds Okay. All right, cuz I'm like all of a sudden now I'm buying art I mean the chocolate in and of itself is art, but now you're putting art on top of it Just want to get my fix

This is a 12 piece by the way. Yeah. Best enjoyed within 10 days. Store in a cool dry place. What do you think about refrigeration? No? We suggest you don't, no. Uh-huh. You were horrified when we received chocolates of yours from a guest. A guest of mine on the show, this watch expert,

he gave us chocolates and you guys were worried those things were a bit too old. I think you opened them in March I opened them in March yeah is and that we made him in December that's okay that's well past it is that why he gave them to me that's interesting that's funny he didn't I mean it's like you would think the watch guy would have brought me a watch right just gave me old chocolate well I thought it was nice. Anyway, all right, let's see what you brought, Phil. We even have a tasting menu for you.

Look at this, guys. This is unbelievable. We got the 64% dark chocolate, the PB&J. Can you say pecan or pecan? I say pecan. Yeah, what about you? I try not to bring it up. What the fuck is this? This is a cacao pod. I love it.

Do you go to your kids' schools and give speeches ever? They come to the factory. I brought them to the factory. That's nice of you. Yeah, you kind of win Coolest Dad job. Yeah. So this is the word chocolatier, right, as opposed to a chocolate maker. Chocolate maker, somebody who takes chocolate from the factory.

Yeah, I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker.

I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a chocolate maker. I'm a kinda win Coolest Dad job. Yeah. So this is, so we're a chocolatier, right, as opposed to a chocolate maker. A chocolate maker, somebody who takes, you know, works with the pod, right, or the beans that are inside, and they turn that into a chocolate product.

Okay. And a chocolatier then takes the chocolate product and other ingredients, so fruit, nuts, you know, marshmallows, and puts them all together to create a bonbon, to create a confection. All right. So, yeah, so that's what that's all about. And this is just to liven up the space?

This is just to show you, yeah, this is a cacao tree. Oh. That is not gonna give us something we can eat, but just to, you know, give a little juju for the room. Will it ever? What kind of climate do I need for this? More tropical. I'm not good with plants. Man, I just replace them constantly.

That's my thing. All right, so what are we looking at here? Okay, so we have got dark chocolate to start off, 64%. Going with something that I think you'll like right away. That's a safe bet. Do you want me to try one? Yeah, grab it. This one? Yeah. And what is this? This is just, what's inside of this?

It's a ganache. So it's just the chocolate, dairy and butter, green butter. Mm-hmm. And it's 64% from Madagascar. I'll eat the whole thing. That's delicious. I like how fast that went down though.

That was great. Yeah. No, I mean, it's delicious. The next one is PB&J. We use a farmer's market, strawberries, create a jam, and add another layer of peanut praline for a real sort of PB&J flavor. Which direction do I need to bite into it to get all of it?

It's all inside. Oh, I know. I didn't know if it was like jelly on this side versus peanut butter on this side. No, no, it's top to bottom. So you can take a bite, you'll see it when you, right. Mm-hmm. I mean, that's fun.

Too much milk chocolate for you? No. No? That's delicious. That's one of chef's favorites. This is too much chocolate. You're holding two of them in. I'm anticipating.

We can take a break at any point. Ah, that's funny. We can take a break. All right. All right. So the next one is a pecan praline and toasted rice. That's this one right here. You guys mess with rice crispy treats?

No, at home we do. My wife makes them. Does she? Yeah. You put chocolate in it? No, but like a salted butter, which is really good. Mm. You guys are living a good life. By the way, this is great too.

Oh, good. All right, the next one's back to fruit and back to milk chocolate. All right. Lemon meringue macadamia. This is, there's no chance I like this. Try that. I would, I would.

This is my favorite piece. I would be shocked if I enjoy this. Really? Oh yeah, I would. There's just no way that I would ever, ever see this and go, oh, lemon meringue chocolate, sure. So there's three things going on there. There's that lemon, lemon pate a fouille, right?

So like a nice citrus flavor, macadamia, praline, and then a crunchy meringue. So it's got a great texture to it. That's really good. I mean, it's confusing a little bit with the lemon, but I'm sure I like it. Are these harder to make than the other ones? Because they look so pretty and fake.

No, no, they're all hard. They're all kind of equally hard to make. I mean, I can imagine, but they are like little pieces of art. Right, no. So these are painted with cocoa butter. The team, you know, prepares all the different layers that are gonna go inside, all the different ingredients, and they use a sort of a cavity mold to prepare the final chocolate. Whereas the other ones you had are more traditional chocolate curtain and an enrode piece that goes through a chocolate curtain machine.

Okay. By the way, I just ate $10 worth of chocolate. You did. Because when I was a kid, I would go to the store with a quarter, maybe 50 cents, and I would get something. Snowcaps. You ever like those as a kid? No, I didn't like those. You didn't like snowcaps? No, no.

You've been bougie since day one. That is pretty incredible. All right, okay, where are we at now? Okay, salty caramel. This is our first molded piece. This would be my second pick if I was just to read the menu of what I would want. Oh, look at the bottom of that too. That is just so pretty.

Mm-hmm. That's what you like. You like that one? Mm-hmm. So it's local That's what you like. You like that one? Mm-hmm. So it's a local butter, milk and dark chocolate ganache and then a small sort of salt after, you know, it's sort of the end. Oh, it's starting to get hot in here now.

You can take your jacket off. No, I can't. I gotta keep it on for continuity purposes. All right, what do we got left here? So s'mores is next, but it's all made for you. This is just, you get to enjoy it without any doing of the work, doing any of the work. So a layer of vanilla marshmallow.

Is that what this is supposed to represent, the three circles? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. You did it. Layer graham cracker, house made graham cracker, and a milk chocolate shell. We did it.

We found my least favorite. I don't like marshmallows. Soon as I taste them, I'm like, ah. It's just such a, it's a consistency thing. Clown food. It's clown food, I say. This one is Pog. This one is fruit. This one, oh.

You said you wanted it off the menu. We can make a substitute. No way. Want coffee? Oh gosh, no, I don't want coffee. I don't, now you're really in my wheelhouse of things I don't like. But I like tasting things that I think

I would be furious about. Okay. What is it, passion fruit? Passion fruit, orange, guava, so three fruit flavors. Oh wow. Got a pate a fuit at the top and a ganache at the bottom. I mean, I'm gonna say that that's as good as that world can get. I mean, that's real. It is good. I get why people would say that that's amazing.

It's just not my preference for chocolate, but that's overwhelming. Yeah. I mean, I feel like I just, there's so much citrus in my mouth. What are we up to? We're up to close to 1750? I gotta get to 20 bucks here. Here you are. Okay, Huntington tea. What is this?

So it's a black tea that we use from the Huntington Gardens in San Marino with a milk chocolate ganache. It's got a very sort of jasmine, herbal, dark tea flavor, black tea flavor. I don't like tea, I don't like coffee. Mm-hmm. I think you're gonna say you like it.

That's way too much chocolate to consume. If you didn't tell me what that was, I think I was anticipating not liking it and it's good. Oh good. Yeah, I have no idea what I was tasting, but it felt, it wasn't recognizable. If I would just, again, I don't have the most sophisticated, that is amazing. I'm excited about this. This alone is the prettiest thing I've ever seen.

So do you do all this? You pick the fonts? Yes, I do. You do? Yeah. Well, that's what I care about. All right, good. Why are you laughing at that? It's just like, it's pretty, the fonts are,

people don't, so many times, my wife watched me do this the other day, I'm in a store, and I said to the lady, I said, I go, do you own this place? And she said, no. And I go, well, can I just give you my two cents? Your storefront window, you're closed a majority of the time and they don't have a lot of space,

but their storefront window, everything is facing inward. So when you're outside of the closed store, you're seeing the back of everything on this window. I'm like, what are you doing? I go, please, just turn that around. And she's like, oh, I'll pass the note around. And then anyway, she's like, oh, do you need anything?

I'm like, no, I didn't buy anything. What did they sell? You know, knickknacks, cute stuff, whatever. Like, you know, there's cards, there's blah, blah, blah. You know, a California store where you buy a coffee table book for 85 bucks. But I was just like, your window, it's not pretty on the outside and that matters.

What are people gonna do when they come on the inside? I'm like, well, at that point they're inside. Mission accomplished. I just don't want people to fail. That's my point. We have great windows. Yeah, you're right. Stuff's facing outside.

No, my point was the little things matter. You're, you know, everything looks good. Everything's pretty. Thank you. Everybody that's on the show gets a gift. Yeah. Oh, it's just stuff that I find around my house. I'm like, oh, this person might like this.

Now, do you ever make your own pizza? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yes. Here we go. What's it gonna be? I got you this. Now, do you ever make your own pizza? Yeah. Okay. Yes. Here we go. What's it gonna be? I got you this. Oh, sweet.

This peel. Thank you. For some reason I thought, oh, this is in the wheelhouse of a chocolatier. But I also, this metal peel, I'm not good at using it because when it heats up, the dough kind of, I can't slide it off. I know you had to put meal on it.

That's not my thing. Anyway, this peels doesn't work with me. I have to use a wood peel. You'll love that. All right. We should try this in the kitchen for sure. Sure. That's a nice peel for you.

Thank you. You're gonna want to put that on the floor. That'll scratch my desk all up. Probably don't lean it against the wall either. You might need to lay that flat. That thing is huge. It's a monster. Rank Gene Wilder, Johnny Depp, and Timothy Chalamet. Ooh.

Your wonkas. Rank your wonkas. Gene's number one. Mm-hmm. I'll do Johnny Depp number two and Timothy number three. Wow. Yeah. Wanna see how different ours are?

Mine, number one, Timothy Chalamet. Really? Two Gene, Yeah. Fuck Johnny. Right, right. Timothy Chalamet is a monster. This kid can act. I know. Out of the three of those people, by far the best actor. Come at me. Anybody disagree? This guy's getting nominated for Oscars. You think Johnny's been nominated for an Oscar? I don't know that. I'm gonna guess he hasn't and I know Gene was never nominated for an Oscar. Tim, don't, don't know that, I'm gonna guess he hasn't. And I know Gene was never nominated for an Oscar. Tim, don't, don't, I'm gonna employ theft. Is that a problem?

No, not that I know of. I bring it up because my wife, she worked at a chocolate place when she was a kid and it was next to a movie theater. And all her friends would come in and she would give them, like you know, it was one of those places where you'd weigh stuff and she'd like, whatever, it was employee theft, all right, is what she was doing. She was giving her friends free games. But Marissa used to come in and she was mean to my wife as a kid in school when my wife was 14 years old and my wife would, Marissa would

like, hey here's my candy I want it for free and my wife would charge her. Oh, and that made Marissa furious, I'm told. I've heard this story 300 times. But anyway, then one day the business just closed up. She goes, I showed up to work and it was closed and there was no, and I go, yeah, because you'd been fucking stealing from them for way too long.

You said that your company has 20 to 30 employees depending on the season. My question is, when is chocolate's busy season? From October, Halloween time, all the way through Mother's Day. All the way through Mother's Day? I'm not buying my mom chocolate for Mother's Day. What do you get her?

Usually I send her flowers. And then she, you know what she does with them when I send her flowers? She splits them in half. She says, they're too big for my place. And then she just gives the other half to my sister. I've never heard of that. Do people order chocolate for Christmas? Yeah, end of the year, Christmas is the busiest,

our busiest time of the year. Valentine, are people still giving away chocolate for Valentine's Day? Yeah. Do you guys force that on people? Probably a little bit with our emails Yes, we do Wait, do you get a discount if you get on the email list? No

For you that always bothers me. I see a thing. Oh first time buyer. Just give us your email We'll give you an extra 10% off. I'm like, I'd rather not have 10% All right, then then have to unsubscribe down the road four times not have 10% off, then have to unsubscribe down the road four times. By the way, what do you do at Halloween at your house? What are you giving out? Are you giving out your fancy chocolates? No.

Have you ever? Just to friends. I mean, that would be amazing, because my manager, Christy Smith, she loves to brag, I gave 300 full-sized bars out this year. And I'm like, who cares? It's shitty chocolate. Now, if you were giving out fancy chocolate,

that would be incredible. Yeah, we'd be very popular on the block. You're always in like the fancy gift bags and stuff for like the Oscars, things like that. Well, we don't do many of those, but. You don't? No. They usually want it, you know, for free.

Oh, that's the problem I find with show business in general. There's a lot of people really just cheap. They just want handouts. Cause I'm being honest about it. When I first was in show business and had a bit of success, I was so excited to get them. And now I don't want hand out. I'd rather pay to not be annoyed.

Or to be like, oh yeah, we'll give this to you, but can we have you post on your social media accounts? I can't do that. Anyway. Right, and they ask us to pay too. We have to pay to be in. So not only is it a freebie, but it's also pay to participate.

That is interesting. You hear that? All right. Is it the goal of every chocolatier to get in a kiosk in the airport? Yes, that would be awesome. We love that. You're not, you're-

I'm being serious. Really? Yeah. All right. We have people who always come to our shop, buy chocolate and take it home. And yesterday there was a family from India, they bought six or seven boxes

and they took it with them to the airport. We need to get you a duty free spot at LAX. We're always duty free by the way. There's no tax. What do you mean always duty free? There's no tax on chocolate? There's no tax, no. So we're duty free all the time, anywhere.

That's interesting. We should put that in front of the shop. Duty free chocolates. How many years has this store been here? Originally we opened in 1983. 83. Yeah. That's a good run. Yeah.

Did you guys buy the building? Did your mom buy it? No. You guys have a 40 year lease? No, we've renewed many times. Do they try to kick you out ever? No, we're like, no, we hold it down. They want you to stay? Yeah, we have a corner location.

It's a wonderful spot. Where exactly is it? We're in Beverly Hills. But you can order this no, we hold it down. Yeah, we have a corner location, it's a wonderful spot. Where exactly is it? We're in Beverly Hills. But you can order this online, yes? Oh yeah. We ship nationwide, we have friends, family, community all over. The only time I'm in Beverly Hills,

where your shop is, is for my ENT, fertility doctor, what other, all of them are just right there. Dentist. Oh, it's nice, My dentist is there too. Yeah. Is your dentist there? Yes. I'm a Kozak.

Yeah, he's around the corner. You have Kozak? He's my dentist. Ah! The other woman in the practice is my dentist. Oh, you went to the younger woman. I got Larry still on top of his game. Really?

He's older, but man. He shows up. You see him? Yeah, he's a professor at UCLA too. Really? Oh, he's the best. I remember once when I was, when I first started going there, on top of his game. He's older, but man. He shows up. You see him? He's a professor at UCLA too. Really? Oh, he's the best. I remember once when I was,

when I first started going there, I was like a young kid, fresh off the bus. And he's like, so what are you doing? I'm like, I do comedy. And then like, he's like, I got less moonves in the chair over there. Let's see if we can get him to give you a show. I was like, all right,

let's see if you pull this off, Doc. That's funny. It didn't work. By the way, is there any weird, you guys go in any of these freaky Beverly Hills sex parties? You ever get invited to those with the chocolate? I've been hearing about these things. I've never once been invited. I've never once seen one, but I know they exist.

We should be there. The chocolate should definitely be there. That's what I'm talking about. Tell me when you hear about it. I'm not gonna tell you, although it'd be funny to bring your chocolate to that party. I just thought maybe you guys would be invited because of the nature of it. Goes well.

It goes well. It pairs nicely. That's good. Well, Phil, I appreciate you guys coming by. All the best, and thank you very much for the chocolate. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right.

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On my podcast, This Is Working, leaders like Jamie Dimon, Mark Cuban, and Richard Branson share strategies for success and the real lessons that have shaped them. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I want to thank Phil and the fine chocolatiers at Anson's. I would like to point out that his brother, Mark, was here. and sons. I would like to point out that his brother, Mark, was here. And when Phil was giving out chocolates after we finished the interview to the crew here, there were some leftover chocolates

and Mark took them home. They weren't in a package or anything. They were the ones that we didn't plate. There were still probably 15 or so pieces. And the crew just watched them put those away and leave with them. I'm just going to, I'm going to be honest with you. We were disappointed. We didn't have the courage to say anything in the moment, but as soon as he walked

out, we're all like, can you believe that he took, that he took all the leftovers? The hot gossip. That was, that was the big talk. But I want to thank Phil and Mark. They do a, they do a wonderful job. We got the ToshShowStore.com. Guys, get your merch. New stuff coming soon.

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Huh? Head over to Minneapolis St. Paul. Yeah, the Twin Cities. Yeah. The twin cities. Go, go stop into Target. Oh, they love the Target there in Minneapolis. Maybe go over to the Mall of America with my boy. Let him ride the roller coaster at the Nickelodeon amusement park that's there. I really know these markets, don't I?

Omaha. Guess what we're doing in Omaha? College World Series. Father-in-law is gonna come with us he said Daniel that's a bucket list item for me I really want to thank you. Alright whatever. We're gonna we're gonna go to the College World Series. Kansas City. You know we're doing in Kansas, right? We're just gonna eat so much barbecue. We'll let people tell us where to eat and then we'll ignore that and just have some Grubhub ship us some Nashville barbecue.

Get a McRib. Yeah. Fighting words. What's that? Those are fighting words. No, we'll get some good barbecue there in Hanson City. And then in Chicago, we'll get some of that lasagna pizza and put a pickle spear on our, on our hot dog

and just be like, well, it was fun knowing ya. Have some malort. Are you ready for the free plug? Let's hit the music. Oh, look at that. Little, little scattin'. Little scattin' for the free plug. Ah. It's hard to find a good scatting little scatting for the free plug It's hard to find a good scat playlist it always changes All right, let's do this free plug

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I mean, broke out. No, maybe they've had them there before, but I have not, uh, ever been to one. I've definitely, you know, that's gotta be just the Florida. Like, there's just always bikini contests at like, the beach. Wet n' Wild used to have them. Uh-huh. That makes sense, sure. I think my sister entered one once. She do good?

She did! What'd she place? I don't remember, but I know that I was embarrassed because she was doing a French accent and acting like she didn't speak English. Oh, that's good. Yeah. That's, that's my family. Always, always going for the joke. Well, whatever.

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No, you know, if some flapjack older broad a chance Yeah, that's all we're asking Yeah Yeah, I wonder if you have to wear a two-piece in a bikini contest Yes, you think because a lot of girls I know for a while in those bikini guys We're wearing those slingshot bathing suits. You remember that Borat war? That's called the slingshot. It just like covers your hoo-ha,

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I'm Israel Gutierrez, and I'm hosting a new podcast, Dub Dynasty, the story of how the Golden State Warriors have dominated the NBA for over a decade. The Golden State Warriors once again are NBA champions. Today, the Warriors dynasty remains alive in large part because of a scrawny 6'2 hooper who everyone seems to love. For what Steph has done for the game, he's certainly on that Mount Rushmore. Come revisit this magical Warriors ride. Listen to Dubb Dynasty on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Hey kids, it's me, Kevin Smith. And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith. That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, d***less version of me. And that's the name of our podcast, Beardless D***less Me. I'm the old one. I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing. A lot of bad language. It's for adults only.

Or listen to it with your kid. It could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress. Listen to Beardless **** with me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever. You get your podcast.