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The Matty Matheson Episode

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The Matty Matheson Episode

The transcript captures a lighthearted and intimate conversation among friends centered around food, personal experiences, and shared memories. Maddie, a chef and internet food content pioneer, is celebrated for his unique blend of culinary skill and authenticity. The group shares their excitement about cooking together, starting with a humorous bologna sandwich attempt that turns into a creative, heartfelt meal. They reflect on childhood, family, and personal milestones, including Maddie’s unforgettable steakhouse experience and a moment of vulnerability when one of them had a heart attack at 29. The story also reveals deep personal truths about addiction, sobriety, and emotional intimacy, emphasizing how relationships evolve through honesty and resilience. A recurring theme is the value of simple, honest meals—like a classic sandwich or a family recipe from a mother—over elaborate or flashy experiences. The conversation ends with playful humor about fashion, Gen Z trends, and communication styles, underscoring the group’s bond built on shared laughter, food, and real-life challenges. Food serves not just as sustenance, but as a symbol of connection, memory, and authenticity in everyday life.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Maddie ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Let me tell you a little bit something about my friend ♪ ♪ His name's Maddie, he's a chef, he's an entertainer ♪ ♪ He's a good old man ♪ ♪ We love him, yeah ♪ ♪ ♪ Guys, I know we have a chef coming. Yeah? And I honestly want to cook for each other when he comes, 'cause I think I can impress him chef-wise. But before we do, Domino's has been kind enough to bless us with some more thin crust. I love Domino's thin crust pizza with pineapple, and I gotta say. What do you have to say? I don't even think we're supposed to be promoting this, but I-- or whatever, I love the marinara sauce. Chuck, what's that? Is that a bread bite? Bread bite. Thank you for clarifying. Um, these things are like the chicken nuggets of garlic bread. That's something that I love. It's something that no one's told me to say, and they might not want me to say that. Chuck, do me a favor. Take a bite. A bite? Sure. I love Domino's thin crust. Let's talk about Maddie. Is he a chef or is he an actor? Chuck, he's a chef. What do you mean? He's also an actor. Like, you're a comedian and you're a rapper. You're mostly known for being-- And a podcaster. He kind of invented, like, online food content celebrity chef. He's definitely, like, a pillar to that world. You know, when he made that web series with Maddie, that was the first time I ever heard of him, and you described it to me back then as, "I have this opportunity to do this thing with my idol." Did you know that? Yeah. You described Maddie as your idol. He was one of my, like, idols for food stuff. That's sweet. 'Cause he doesn't care. He just, like, does whatever he wants. He can cook so high level, like, Michelin star level, but then he can also cook something super approachable and with heart and love, and he's just always himself. And that's him now. What more could you ask for? Don't-- Menos. Hold on. Hello? Hello? Hello? He's here! We're here. How are you? Maddie has the best steakhouse I've ever been to in my entire life. So I'm good? I'm gonna stuff you. You guys need, like, a shower or something. No, they, like, never cook. That's disgusting. Oh, no. I have a special guest. Patricia! That snapped. We would all just be like, "No." You guys are crazy. Me and Maddie have, like, the same outfit on. I know. Kind of. Wow. You do look like you dressed, like, to promote something together. Wait. Do you like the pants? They're great. Lots of patches. Lots of patches. Jesus. Jesus is nice. Jesus is great. You would say you're a fashionable guy. I would say. What do you mean? He gets voted, like, most fashionable man. Yeah. Nobody cares anymore, though. What? It was up and gone. Because of the bear? No. I don't know. Now they don't care? No. They don't. I don't know. You are fashionable. I'm fashionable? Yeah. I wear the same thing every day. Do you think when you got skinny, they stopped caring? No. I'm not skinny. What's your hat say? Psycho zombies. Maddie, can we get you anything to drink from our fridge? Yeah. They only have alcohol. Yeah. What do you have? Pop. Olipop. Gatorade. We got it all, brother. We got everything. I'll have water. You got syrup? Yeah. Bologna? Can we have bologna later? Yeah. Let's try a piece. You want to try these right? Yeah. We'll have just a piece of bologna right now? I haven't had it in so long. I've never had bologna. I can't even. What do you mean? I've never had it. I love bologna. I used to, but what is it? You've never had it either, Chuck? What is it? It's just an emulsified, like, sausage. Oh, my God. That looks so gross to me. Wait. You know what would make it so good? What? If you go like this. No. You can't use that pan for the bologna. Watch this. Watch this. What are you going to cook me? We're not ruining it with bologna. I'm sorry. I'll clean it for one second. All right. You're washing it. Do you have bread? Watch. Watch what I'm about to do for Maddie. The best sandwich in the world is like two slices of bologna, one slice of that, like shitty white bread and mustard. Yeah. Of course. Mmm. I love mustard. Here. Yeah. It's like a canapé. Watch what I'm about to do for you right now. Watch how good this is going to taste. Here. Could you take this piece and fry it? Actually, Kristen, pass me the chariot. You got to put a slice in it so it doesn't bubble. I was going to go like this and put cheese on it. Thank you, my love. Watch. I don't like the way that looks. Yeah. Oh. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, sick. Oh, so it won't bubble up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at you guys cooking. Yeah. We're not even going to put the what's it called on yet. Do you have toast? We'll see what he has. Do you have a toaster? I don't know what he has. Do you have bread? You don't have bread? You do have bread. He has a weird bread. We have rice. Like a bad health bread. Yeah. What is that? Like a Dave's Killer bread? Yeah, you don't want that. Oh, we got matzo. Should we take the bread off someone else's sandwich? No, here. Just use this. Yeah. These buns are good. That's my Mexican chicken bun. No, they're so bad. But yeah, I wouldn't ask that. They're the worst buns. Oh my gosh. See, you've never had bologna, but you like simple foods. I do like simple foods. I feel like this is like a low resistance. I seem to like every meat. Yeah. There's something about, I don't, this is, I hate sausage. Yeah. Is this sausage adjacent? No. What is in bologna? Do you like hot dogs? What's in bologna? Not a big hot dog guy. I don't like bologna. roast the chicken whole? No, it's crazy. Do you just throw everything in his hand? I'll give you a play-by-play. Do you, like, develop color? This is a great recipe. You have to wait. It's insane. First thing I did, a little bit of house Italian, mix it up in the bottle. Go like this. Make sure to shake it. Then you put it in there. Yeah. Then I'm going to add some. So it's kind of fusion because you've got Italian. Then I'm going to add some taco seasoning. With the fucking Italian. Old El Paso. Mix it up. Yeah. Then I'm going to take this chicken. I'm going to cut it into cubic pieces. Cubic. Then I'm going to mix it all up. Then I'm going to start the thing. I'm going to cook it in the liquid. That's the combination of this and the Italian dressing. Then when they're cooked, I'm going to add probably this entire bag. No, stop it. Three quarters of the bag. Don't do too much cheese. I won't do too much cheese, but. Do it how you do it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to make you the best pass possible. So it's like a casserole. I don't know what a casserole is, but it's. Like you bake it? It's not baked. And then it's served on a sandwich. It's actually a sandwich. Wait. Because I'm excited. What? You're having pho for breakfast. Then what happens? I would love like a nice pho-ga. Yeah. For breakfast. Yeah. And then maybe like lunch, I would have like fried clams, like a perfect lobster roll. I'd have like my dad's bisque. Lobster bisque. You're a seafood guy. Steve Savage? Steve Savage. Steve Savage. Okay. Steve Savage. And then his lobster bisque. I would have that like for lunch with like really good coleslaw. Creamy coleslaw. Creamy or vinegary? I like creamy. Creamy? I do like creamy. Oh my God. And then. But good creamy. Not too creamy. Yeah, yeah, I know. Just like perfect cream. Yeah. And then. Dinner? And then dinner, truly, I'd probably. It's hard. I'd love like. Like the perfect like prime rib dinner. Just like mashed potatoes, cream corn, cream spinach, and like perfect prime rib, and like Yorkshire pudding, and like au jus. And like. And then for dessert, I'd have Trisha's like fresh baked Hello Dollies and a glass of milk. And then you could kill me. A glass of milk. Isn't that sweet? Would you want to have sex? Would I want to have sex? If you're like allowed to. Eh, maybe. Last day of your life, no sex? Last day of my life, no sex? I don't know. Yeah, sure. You'd be pretty full having three big meals like that. No, no, but it's. Being full. Yeah, but you're dying. It's like when I asked my mom this and she's like, well, I wouldn't have too much like dairy. Like, and I said. She was like, my stomach will hurt. I said, you're going to die. You're going to die. I don't know. I think sex is tough when you're really, really full. Yeah. That's why we always have to decide. Would you pick sex? No, here's what I really want. Okay. Someone told you you could have the best meal of your life, the best meal you'll ever have in your entire life. Yeah. Or you can have one of the best sex you've ever had. And you'll. Or you can have the best sex of your life. And you'll have neither one of those ever if you choose one of the others. So do you either want the best sex of your life or the best meal of your life? Honestly? Well, I think, I think, I think best food because. Like, even good sex is great. Great. Like, I'm just happy to be in the game. I had sex for like a minute and a half like the other day. Really? Yeah. One minute. Is that a long time? I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think, I think typically no. I don't think a minute and a half is long. I feel like I'd hold your breath for as long as. I prematurely ejaculated with Kristen this week. Yeah. What do you think is the longest you've ever had sex for? The other day. A minute and a half? No. No. Wait, how long was the other day? No. The other day, legitimately, I don't know what it was. I finished work and before we flew out here, Trish was like at the hotel and I went there. Honestly, we had sex for like two hours. And it was like, and do you come once? Yeah. Just once? Yeah. It was like the greatest thing of all time. And your kids aren't here so it's like. Yeah. We were just at the hotel and it was nice. We were coming out here. I don't know how people do it with kids. You can't do it spontaneously. Do you know what the worst thing is? When you're like coming and you look and then there's like a toy or like their photos or like. It's like a thing that like when you're house. Like I'm like, I get it. Like I've seen like things on Instagram be like, yo, like trying to keep your relationship like hot and sexy after you have kids and they're like, make sure you're in your bedroom like just don't have like kids photos. But our bedroom is like, Trish has like honor dressers like just like, you know, it's like every photo. Yeah. It's like every photo and I'm just like, bro, like what are we doing? Yeah, you gotta have a sex room. Yeah. A sex room. Do you know one time Maddie had, he was in Chicago thumbing the bear and he had like, you know, Trish had visited and stuff and he had like all this like extra fun stuff and he had this like sex swing. Like a door jam one. Like a door jam one. Like a baby bouncer? No, like the one that if you put it on the door and close the door, like it has the door jam. No, I've never had one of those. I've never had one of those. Here, can we show a photo? Is it actually, it's for adults, not. No, it's for sex. All I think of when I think of sex swings, maybe this is because I've never seen one in real life, are the baby bouncers. Yeah, they're for baby bouncers. Yeah. And then my mom loved it and she wanted to get in. So she said, put me in. I said, have you ever used a sex swing? And she said, yeah, but just not one like this. And she said, never one that jams in a door. She said, and then when she got out, she had so much fun. She said, I got to get one of these for home. They're not that expensive. They're incredible. Is it good? Is it exactly what you dream it to be? Guys, I got to lock in. I'm sorry. I can't really answer you. So he has to make it how he likes it. That's good chicken. Who's your favorite cook, Dave? Benny and my parents. My mom's my favorite cook. I got this recipe from my mom. Are you excited to taste it? Yeah. Did you guys forget about the bun? Look what he's doing over here. As good as food could be. It's like a chicken cheesy nugget sandwich. Chef, why is it towering? I would add more, but I think I got to play it safe. Okay, taste it. Take a bite. Dip it in the ketchup. Take a bite. Take a bite first. Take a bite first. One bite raw. One bite first. It looks good. Honestly, I love it. Wow. I do. You know what's crazy? My mom, in my cookbook, I have this thing called Cheesy Things. And she used to make homemade whole grain bread. And we would put like cheese on it and Hey! Ew! Bless you. Is that the white thing on your tattoo? No, I think that's just food. I'm going to I'm going to clean that off. You keep talking though. You were bringing up something about your childhood. So, my mom Yeah, my mom. Yeah, that was a bit much. Excuse me. All good. And so, and we would put like Mexican chili powder. On top of it. And so, it would be like this fresh made whole wheat bread. So, this bun that's a whole wheat grainy kind of thing. And just kind of like with the cheese and the old El Paso seasoning. Yeah. It reminds me of something my mom used to make me. Your mom always made fresh bread? Yeah, she would mill her own grain. Mill her own grain? We had a mill and we would put in grain and she would make her own flour. Where do you stand on wheat? Did wheat domesticate humans or is it the other way around? Yeah. Wow. No. Is it good? It's great. I taste it. I don't think You're being honest. Wholeheartedly, one of the best things I've had recently. Wow. It's an honor serving you. Tell the people the recipe, Dave, so people can make it. I thought it was going to be disgusting. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I love it. I wish I didn't eat anything before that, Dave. That's what I'm thinking about right now. I wish I didn't have that bologna sandwich. Because you loved it so much? It was so good. Guys, I'm really proud of you. Domino's time. You know, a lot of people like to take one slice, but I like to take four or five slices and I'd like to show you one thing really quick. You hear that? That's crunchy thin crust. I love it. Love it, love it, love it. I love a crunchy thin crust. And I love pineapple. It's my favorite. Yeah, pineapple. You can do a lot of different flavors. Can I tell you something that you can do that's even better than even, well, it's not better than eating the pizza, but it's the next best thing. Hmm. Blending it in a smoothie and drinking it? No, Chuck. You can go to the Domino's app and you can order online without even having an interface with a human being. You could stay inside for days on end and just keep ordering pizza over and over again. And what else you can do is you can take your order and you order it once and if you're like me who orders the same chi every time, you can just press the button, delivers directly to your door. Beautiful. No even, just repeat order. And if you don't feel like downloading the app, I don't know why you wouldn't, but if you don't, you can go to Domino's.com and do a lot of good stuff as well. This off to college season save on college, save the every day. Amazon has turned this whole room into a dorm room. I know, it's a good dorm and it reminds me of my good old days in my dorm room. How about you? My dorm room was small. Are you drawing the S? Oh yeah, I was. Michigan State. Yeah, I thought the S was for Michigan State but it turns out everybody drew the S for different reasons. Do you guys remember this S? Zoom in. Wow. You know what that S stands for? Satisfying to Amazon customers who've gone to the off to college option online Yeah, I think it might have been because look, I remember back in the day when I went to college you had to go to one store then the next store and just have this whole cobbled together like not even cool room. Now I can be strategic if I'm in college which I'm not or I'm sure would. And you can get it done quickly. And you can get a shoot. So remember, with Amazon's low off to college prices just save on college, save the every day. You guys are very stylish men but like not in a way that feels it's like a cool style. You both are like have the coolest style and Dave. Dave has the coolest style. I know. Dave does. He's sharp. You instantly made me feel like you're lying to us when you say Dave has good style. No, I like when he, no. But the thing is is like I think it's like When he showed when you showed up what party did we go to when you almost walked in with the balloon at the balloon? you walked in with headphones as part of the outfit and I and you were wearing like Gucci shoes and like all different things that was a good outfit on that was a great But that the thing is is like nobody else looked like that So that means he's actually doing something cool And we're all losers that all look the same and are all striving towards this one thing We're a true outsider you guys don't all look you two don't look the same look like that We're literally wearing like almost the same thing like compared to everybody else. You don't just dresses like me Obviously look I love your shirt. Yeah, that's my shirt Rosa Virgoza of my shit No, wait, did you design that like he does? Yeah. Well Ray Ray's our designer We I work with Ray but like this is like just and the pants. These are all we're the same person as Benny No, no, no, I'm a clothing company you do. Yeah, Rosa Virgoza. He has everything He's got a pan sells pants. Why are we paying these pants? We should have bought your pants. Yeah, his pants expensive You know my is like I think 250 a big wait list, but it's a no, it's fine. They're available How high-end is Cuisinart? Like where does that fall? I like all that stuff. You have a few restaurants. Yeah, you serve butter in any of them. Yeah with like bread Yeah, we have at privacy for palace. We have three different butters with our bread. How come sometimes? The butter is so cold. You can't spread it. It's that's that's that's that's wait a horrible thing. Where are your restaurant? I have wait before he says anything You guys are crazy. I have something I have something I have to say I have to get you have to say yes, okay my hair Say it. Okay. Say it. Okay. I have to get it off of my chest Maddie has It's either number one or number two of the best steak house I've ever been to in my entire life and this is not like not like joking not anything like like it's definitely it's it's like Battling between like one two and three spot in the world of everything I've ever tasted well-reviewed. Yeah, where's like the Toronto? Yeah, is it hard to get in? Yeah, sure I am not for you guys. What do you gotta know? What's the dress like? You guys can come in anytime. It's also the most beautiful restaurant. It's not that hard to get in. The most beautiful restaurant. It's been around for three years. Do you ever go there? Sometimes I was there like last week as a patron. Yeah, I love like I went there recently. Do they even give you a bill now? Yeah, I pay full in all my restaurants. I like to pay full because I'm just like I think it's just like a respect thing Yeah, of course, but it's also like what is that? I'm comping myself and that's my bit Like I'm just like it's weird. You're like stealing from your own company. It's like a loser move And he doesn't pay. No, cuz I pay I pay for all my friends That's my dog. Even like when my friends go if I comp their bill, I still pay it. We will pay it our way And we will earn our respect from you She said it was the best steak she ever went to. When I think of Toronto I think of the one road with like the stores. I like that. Trisha tried to describe a restaurant the other day Trish literally tried to that's incredible. I like the the street with the stores I like that, but the Trish tried to describe a restaurant. Dude, we got here the other day and she's like "trolley" and I was just like I was like where we're gonna go for lunch. She's like I want to go to that place it's got the bar and it's got the kitchen in the back and And it was like what? Trish. Uncle Paulie. Oh no. The Sopranos? No. Airplane mode? He's shooting a podcast. Yo, what up? Not a podcast. Yo, what are you doing? What podcast you doing? I'm doing Vanny and Dave's Dude, nah, I'm doing Vanny and Dave's Oh shit. Am I on the phone right now? Yeah, you're on. You're on time right now. We just need to know your thoughts. We need to throw I feel I appreciated this. I wasn't gonna. I was fine. No, I know. Hey, we brought it here. We brought it here. It's actually Kristen's podcast. It's mine, it's about cooking. Yeah. It's about cooking. Huh? Balibuco. She's um. Balibuco? Balibuco. Are you? Are you? We're on air now. We're on air right now. And we need to know your thoughts. What are you doing with my favorite sandwiches? What's your favorite sandwich? A BLT. What do you need? What do you need? I just wanted to say hi. I had a question for you. What? What is it? It's nothing I can talk to you about over the air. I'll get canceled. Okay. Okay. I love you. Okay. I'll talk to you. I'll call you after this. Is he Italian? Yeah. Me too. Okay, wait. Wait. Trish is Italian. We're all over the place. No. We gotta get back. Okay, let's get back. We were talking about, we were talking about. But you were telling, you were telling the world. I was saying that your restaurant is the best thing. How great my restaurant is. Yeah. Okay. First I'll tell you how I met him. Then we're gonna go back and talk about his restaurant. Yeah. It was 2000, what year was it? 2000. What year did you get sober? I was 31. So 12 years, like 12 years ago? Okay, so it was 12 years ago. Okay, 12 years ago. And he had like an old manager that knew someone I knew. And I'm in town and I like followed his stuff because at this point he was like just starting to do stuff on like Vice. And he, do you know, do you know what Vice is? Oh yeah, I have a friend that used to edit for Vice. So he like started becoming like a big chef. He was like, he invented pretty much, I guess you invented, I guess you invented the online chef really. You kind of invented like, like food chefing. Really? No, I think there was like a lot of stuff. I think- You definitely popularized it. I think you were like the first- I think there was, there was nobody really like me on, online doing, cooking the way I was cooking. Yeah. Online, it was before content. There was no content. It was, yeah. He invented con, you invented like food- I invented like, I was a part of a group of people that invented food content, I feel. Oh really? I think Munchies- You were like Babish. Oh Munchies, I know. No, before that. Or you were before Babish. Yeah, but it's like, no, Munchies, I think Munchies as a whole created- Matty's cool. Right? Okay. You know what's cooler? What's pop I say, are you? Olipop. Yeah, I love pop. And when I say cool, I don't just mean cold, because it is refrigerated. I stumbled with my words there, it doesn't matter. I mean, it's good for you. This is legitimately like, I love drinking soda that's good for you. What a gift. And grape, when I think of grape, I think of Sundays on the couch of my grandfathers, Poppy Jack. And so this is a celebration of PJ. PJ, my grandfather. And I'm going to take a sip because I got to get back to Matty. Some things must be done. Instagram started in 2008. I'll finish this later. Always good seeing you guys. Okay, so we're going back and I'm in Canada and I'm there and I'm on tour with Ed Sheeran. And first I have dinner with him. Like the day before or something. And we have like, we're instantly like friends. And he's literally, the first day I met him, he put me on his shoulder. Like I'm in a picture, I'm like on his shoulders in a kitchen. He's like freshly sober. And then I say, hey, the next day we're doing, we're on tour with Ed Sheeran. He's like, who's Ed Sheeran? And I'm like, and this isn't like when Ed Sheeran wasn't big. Ed Sheeran's like huge at the time. He's playing like four nights in a row, sold out at the airport. Sold out at the arena or whatever. And he's like, who's Ed Sheeran? I'm like, dude, just come tomorrow. And like, you got to like bring this burger. Like, cause he was, he was cooking a burger at a place called Parts and Labor. And he was like, and he was, he like ran the kitchen. It was delicious. And, and he says, okay, I'm going to come. And he comes and he has no idea who Ed is. And he like, he says, all right, I'm going to, I'm going to like, I'm going to pull my truck around the back. And he pulls his truck around the back. And he doesn't realize that there's like, we're going to come out. And there's like a sea of kids. And like, they have like fences. They're like pushing the kids back. And we, and like, he like pulls in his big truck. I back it up to the door. He backs it up. There's like not enough space in the car. And like me and Ed get out and people are like, ah, they're like running. And we, we hop in and we, we, we hop in the flatbed of his truck. So we're just in. And me and Ed. We had to drive over curves. Yeah, me and Ed are in the flatbed. And all of a sudden people are literally like dangling off like the back of his car. Were you wondering, do you think they're all for Benny? No. He did not. No, like I understood like. No, I, I, I understood that. It clicked. Like yeah, it clicked. Yeah. It clicked as soon as I was like, I Googled who he was after. Literally the people were driving into the highway and people are hanging onto his actual like bumper. Yeah. And then like finally. Nightmare. Nobody was hurt. We get in, we get in. And Ed, like he, you know, he doesn't know. He'd never met people like that. And he's like, he's like, I was like, oh, we just want to go to like a party. And he's like, he's like fresh and sober. Doesn't know anything. He's like, okay, let me call some people. And we're, me and Ed are laying down in the flatbed in the back, like just talking. Yeah. We went to my buddy Jamie's house for a house party. Oh, that sounds like a dream. We went to a house party. We're just in a basement and people still talk about it to this day. Like anytime I'm in Canada, anytime people are like, remember that time when like Ed Sheeran was just like hanging out like in the basement of like our friend's house? House parties are the best parties. Yeah. We party. Okay. Tell us about the restaurants. I want to know about the Italian one. Rizzo's. Rizzo's House of Parm. Rizzo's after Greece? Yeah. After my daughter. I named my daughter Rizzo. Rizzo Louise. Oh my God. Incredible name. That's the best name I've ever heard. - Do you care if we take it? - No, take it. - Or can we take Louise? - Louise is Trish's grandmother. Louise is amazing. - My mom is Jean Louise Bird. - Dude, that's great. - So calling the kid Lou? - Yeah, but I love the name Rizzo as a girl. - Rizzo's a great one. - Oh my God, Lou? - Lou's great. - Stevie, Lou Bird? - Lou Bird? - I'm gonna take Lou. - Lou Bird's good. - I like Lou. - I'm gonna take Lou right now. - You can't take Lou. - I like Lou Lou. - My mom's middle name is Louise. - Yeah, you can't have it. - You can't have it. - Lou Bailey. - Are you writing it down right now? - Yeah, Lou Lou. - When the kids were born, did you know that you made the right choice with the name or do you question it and think to yourself, oh my God, is that-- - Yeah, because it's weird because having a kid is the same as, you have to teach yourself to call your kid its name. And it is a thing where when you first have a child, you're like, oh crap, I have this child. And then you have to, there is that natural love. There is that crazy thing that's happening to you, but you still have to be like, what the fuck was that fucking, I gotta like, you start have to saying this name. - 'Cause you feel like it was like all, it doesn't happen naturally? - Yeah, it's like a thing 'cause like, yeah, it's not natural where I'm like, I'm Matthew. You know, I'm Matthew, I'm Matthew. I'm always gonna be Matthew. - Wait, I thought you were Maddie. - I am Maddie. - Do you go by Matthew more? - My mom calls me Matthew. Like Trish will call me Matt. Like it's funny 'cause like back home, I didn't start getting called Maddie 'til college. - Really? I like that. - 'Cause people called me Maddie Rucks. - Oh, that's cool. Wait, Rucks? - Rucks, like Teddy Ruxpin. So I had some like, when I lived in the dorms, like everyone gets like nicknames and all that stuff and I was like Maddie Rucks. - That's cool. - At the cooking school? - At the, yeah, at Humber. - Do you have, do you regret any tattoo? - Yeah, you know, just take 'em all off, you know? - Really, you want none of 'em? - No, I wanna get like all my neck stuff done. - Underneath, it's totally a tat. Like that, starting there, all the way back is tat. - No, the whole, my whole head's-- - I want a tattoo so bad. Can I have one? - Yeah. - Can you give me one of those? And I can just, I just don't know what to get. - Go on. - I don't know what to get. - Do you know, I saw Bad Bunny. - Just bird, just bird. - I saw Bad Bunny, like his chest, and he was like, it was kinda like a nude photo in the mirror, and I saw Bad Bunny's chest and I was like, moved. And I-- - 'Cause it looks so good. - I called Dave and I said, "I need to get tattoos." - Yeah. - Chuck, would you ever get a tattoo? - No. - Ever? - No. - What if your mom died? - What? - What? What if your mom died? I need to go get my first tattoo for your dad. - Yeah, no. - That's the only way he can remember his parents. - No, I don't wanna get tattoos, no. - Yeah. - It's too permanent. - Yeah, it's literally, that's it. - I hear that, to me, I really wonder why there's not an insane business where I could be tatted like you for like 20 days. - Yeah. - And it disappears completely. I would definitely have 20-day spurts of my life where I did that, no question. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But it doesn't seem to be happening, but then when I said this one time, people said, "No, there is one," and then I haven't looked it up. - People can like, like stickers. - I love when a man has a chest tattoo and then it pops out of their collar. Like, you just see it a little bit out of the collar. - A little bit, you love that. - Yeah. - Wait, what's the worst day of your life? - The worst day of my life? - Yeah. - I don't know, Benny, like what are we doing here? - I want to know. - The worst day of my life, honestly? - Yeah. - I don't know, probably like when I had my heart attack. Or like probably, you know, around, the worst day of my life is like around those days. - Like what was happening? - Just like tons of drugs and I was like, you know, I was young and like had a lot of attention at that time and I was like a lot of ego and a lot of crazy shit and I, I didn't know how to deal with a lot of it. And then I just like was in, built a restaurant, like Parts and Labor was like this crazy restaurant that had a venue in the basement and like, it was the sickest, it was like the craziest restaurant ever. It was amazing. And like, I think it was just the end of everything. And I was just, I don't know. I had like, it was like probably after, like I wasn't like an everyday guy. I was just like a big binge guy, like every weekend. And then like, you know, maybe a couple of times during the week. So almost everyday kind of guy, but like not everyday guy. - But the restaurant world kind of requires such a stamina. - Yeah, like you're all psychos. Like it is like, I think it's all like cliche where I'm like, there's drunk lawyers, there's drunk bus drivers, there's drunk everybody. Like life is stressful. I don't, I don't, I think restaurants are typically like, yeah, it is stressful, cool. But it's just like, also you're just in a bar. Like, you know, like it is like a thing where like, like people in a bar can drink. And I think before social media and before everyone all of a sudden knows everything, it's like, yeah, everyone used to get fucked up and have a good time. And like, everyone would work really hard, make a lot of cash. And then you would just party with everybody. And everything was like, I don't know. It was kind of like an actual vibe and a family and a crazy ass thing. And then I think at the end of it, it was just like, I was like one of the, you know, it was like one of those like cliche things, like last guy at the party kind of vibe. But it was like, when I had my heart attack, I had it when I was like sleeping. And I woke up because it was after probably a couple of days of partying and going crazy. And I went home and I fell asleep and I woke up and I was just like, you know, like I was just like, you know, I was an avid drug user and like whatever. And I was just like, I was like, Trish, I was just like. - She was there? - Yeah, she was in the bed. - How old were you? - I was 29. - Oh my God. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then I was like, I was just like, I was like, it was like two years after opening up Parts and Labor, like two years of just like insane shit. And then, and then I was just like, I was just like, I think I should go to the hospital. Like, I think I'm going to have a heart attack. - What did you feel? - Like an uncompromising force and like something squishing my insides. - Wow. - It felt like this crazy thing. And I was just like, and I was just like having this thing and it wasn't a panic attack and it wasn't like, I've had like palpitations and I was like, it was this thing that wouldn't stop. And, and so I went to the hospital. And so I, when you go in, like, I was just like, yeah, I was just like, I think I'm having like, I'm like, something's the matter with my heart. And I was like, yes, I do drugs. I do this, I do the like, yes, yes, yes. I smoke, I do all this crap, whatever the fuck. And then they go in and they take, they take your blood right away. As soon as you say like heart stuff, they take you like right away. I didn't have to wait. - So you, did you get an ambulance? Did you call and say? - No, Trish drove me and then she went to work. Yeah, Trish dropped me off there. - Did she not even think it was real? - I don't know. I was just like, kind of like, it was like in the morning and I was just like, yo, like, I'm like, I'm not a panicky guy. - I was going to say, you don't seem like that. - I'm not a panicky guy. So I was just like, yo, like drop me off. If I fucking have a heart attack, I'll let you know. And like, I was just like, I don't think I'm really having a heart attack, but I don't know what's going on. I'm at the hospital. So like, you can go to work and like, I'm here. I'm not like gasping for air. - But did you feel like it was just going to happen? Like any second? - No, it was at the point where I was just like something, like something's not right. And so then they took my blood and they're like, oh, they're like, you had a heart attack. Like with the information they had, they're like, you had a heart attack like four hours ago. And I was just like, what? And so then I was just kind of like, so I'm good? Kind of thing. I was just kind of like sick. I'm like, I'm, I'm good. - Yeah. - I'm here. - What'd they say? - And they're like, no, like we need to put you into like ER and like make sure. And then they started hooking me up to all this shit. And then I was just like, can I call my mom? And like, can I call my dad? And they're like, yeah, make it like, you can like let people like call your parents. And so like, like go out to the, the parking lot of the. - You're like, do you have a heart attack? And they're like, you can go and talk. - I went outside and I started having like a cigarette right away. Cause I was just like, had, having a cig. - They didn't admit you right away? They didn't strap you down? - They didn't strap me down. I was like, can I make a phone call? And they're like, yeah. So I went outside and then I had a call and I was like, like, you know, just like instantly, just like, like not even thinking, you know? We were like, whatever. We're like, I'm having a cigarette. I like calling my mom and dad and I just like, Hey, like you guys don't have to cry. Or like, you know, like I was just like, Hey, you know, like you're still telling your parents something like, like, I feel like I got in trouble at school or something, you know, like I have to like confess like this thing. And like, my parents are like sweet. Like they know who the fuck I am. Like, they're not like this thing. And I wasn't really a problem for them. So it was like, I was just like, yo, like, I was just like, yeah, I don't know. I had this heart attack and they're like, okay, like we're coming, you know? I was just like, okay. But it was so funny. Like, so I go back in and then they, then they like, I go get in the bed. They hook me up, I'm fucking doing all this shit. And it's so funny. Like I have like my headphones. I had like my headphones for some reason. Cause it like Trish, like, I think I brought a bag or maybe that was like after like Trish came back. Maybe once I said that I had a heart attack. But I remember at one point I'm like laying in ER and I'm like sitting there and like listening to like explosions in the sky, literally just like kind of like crying a little bit and just like being like crazy. And there was like the, the dude next to me, I felt so bad. He was like this old dude. And he was like screaming. Cause they were trying to put like a catheter in him. - Oh my gosh. - And he was like, it was such a commotion next door. And I felt so bad for this old guy. Cause he didn't want to do it. And he couldn't speak English. And it was just like this whole thing. And it was like crazy. And then I got a room after I did, I spent like one night down in there. And then I ended up getting a room the next day. And then I just had to stay in, I had to stay in the hospital for like 10 days. They did like an angiogram. - 10 days? - Yeah, cause I had to wait. - I'm surprised, 10 days, I'm shocked by that. - Yeah, like, so I had to like stay in the hospital because your, your like blood type or like your enzymes, your blood cells flip, I guess. That's how they know right away if you've had like a heart attack or something of that. - All the white become red and all the red become white? - Something like that. And so then I had to stay in the hospital until my body like pushed back, kind of thing or some shit. - So all the blood cells? - Yeah, like I had to wait until. - Were you scared at all? - Was I scared? - Yeah, when were you scared? - There was a moment, I don't know. I don't know what scared is. Like I'm like, you know, like I'm like. - I don't know what scared is? What, Chuck's scared. - Those 10 days, I imagine, you know, like we only think of heart attacks the way I'm like, where you're like standing there and all of a sudden you like grab your chest. falls and like yeah for sure and that happened but I think I just like I was so exhausted like that's the thing is like my heart attack and like what I think I was doing to my body and everything was like exhaustion like not sleeping for like 15 years you know like working in restaurants is like the craziest thing the craziest thing about like working in restaurants or working in any type of job is like like I was under like sleep deprivation like I would go to bed typically like three four nights a week like my bedtime like I had to be home like for Trish not to freak out and like start blowing me up was like 6 a.m. that was like me getting home on time so because like just think like I would be done work at like one like one in the morning then we would all go out to the bars then we'd go to the after hours then we'd go to our friend's house and then we'd go home and you do it the next day and then yeah you do that like three four times a week yeah so it's just like I think I was and then I'd be at work by like you know 10 30 11. What changed for you like was there when you were in the hospital post heart attack were you thinking? Oh I gotta make a change or were you thinking thank god I just thank god I'm still here. I think it was like one of those things where I was just like okay like this can be okay I'm not gonna look like a complete loser if I stop drinking you know like I have in a thing but then I was just like. But did you want to stop drinking? Were you immediately like I gotta change everything? No no I went harder because I thought I didn't die I went psycho. You did drugs after? Yeah I didn't get I didn't I didn't get clean until 31 that's what that's what almost like killed that's what like really ruined my life because then the thing was when I after my heart attack you know all my homies know all my friends know all the people I hang out with everyone knows it's like Maddie Matheson has a heart attack then all of a sudden I'm a problem and I was never really a problem before I was just like everyone's partying. Of course you're a problem. Huh? You have a heart attack at 29. No but it's so hard because then all of a sudden you're being like you're being criticized. Or like I would pull up to my friends bars and then they'd be like no like we're not giving you shots we're not giving you because I would be like I'm not gonna do like no more like Jameson like I could chug Jameson or like chug like vodka or whatever. Because even at the end like my drink would be like I was drinking you know pints of vodka so I'd get a pint glass I'd get a pint glass fill it with ice fill it with vodka and like three lime squeezes. Really? And then I would drink like a lot of those then I would start drinking beer. Do you miss alcohol at all? No. No. Why don't you tell people about a time where your OCD has prevented you from moving forward in some way? Oh my god every night? Every night when I had to brush my teeth and it took 25 minutes to brush my teeth because the water faucet had to be left on 15 seconds no ripple in the water right on 15 seconds no rip I mean it was every night I dreaded it. Well I'll tell you this no CD is the world's leading OCD treatment provider and all of their licensed therapists specialize in ERP therapy which is proven to be the most effective treatment for OCD. 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Chuck right now you would be so angry. Chuck can you see the thing I'm talking about? Sorry my camera keeps slipping the wrong way. Can you see it Chuck? If you use product Dave you'll never have to adjust it. No that's not true. No it looks like you should spread it. Do you ever think you should part it in the middle? We'll just give up for today. Do you like it parted? Have you ever parted it? I'll wear it bad. No Chuck you can't wear it bad. You gotta fix it. Let's see. I like that. Well I like it like that Chuck. Chuck it's pretty cool like that. I honestly think that that looks great. Is this a new rebrand for me? No you parted it in the middle. Chuck right there it's pretty cool. It's like sweet and like European. It's pretty cool there. Yeah you look way more distinguished. Chuck I really like it there. You look like Bill Hader. I don't look like I'm bald? No. What? How can you look bald? What are you talking about? You have a giant beautiful head of hair. Do you know one time Matty hurt himself and I had to shower him. He had to shower me. I broke my foot. I showered him. You took care of me. I carried him. Sophia had to really help me. Yeah I had to like borderline carry him. So you broke your foot and then you were there. In LA and I was staying at Benny's house and he had to like bathe me and help me. And I put him in the shower. The dog shower. The dog shower. He had to wash me like a dog. We were shooting stupid fucking cooking show. Like this thing that we did but because of the contract we had and because of COVID I was like and I was flying in international. I was coming from Canada. So I didn't have to like. I just wasn't in the thing. It said that I wasn't supposed to be. There was like a day before. There was a day between me arriving and getting to set. So to narrow COVID whatever I had to stay in my hotel room. So I didn't and I told Benny I was like Benny I'm going to go like hang out with my friends. He's like yeah whatever who cares. And then he. Then I broke my. Snapped my foot in half. Snapped this foot in half. Just casually riding? No. No I was like ripping. We were like. You were jumping But he had to pretend. He had to make this whole thing up. No I fell off a curb. I had to lie. And Trisha still to this day doesn't believe. Like I lied so hard and she hates me for it because you know lying is not good. Right. And so. But I had to lie to like my team. Everybody. You didn't want people to be out of luck. What was your lie? He said he like fell off a curb. My lie was I was just standing and I went to cross the road and I was standing at like Myrtle and Melrose and my being because you guys have really tall curbs here. And so my body is not. You know when you go to somebody's house and their steps are just a little weird or something. Yeah. So I was like standing on the curb. And he was really big at the time. And I said I fell and my foot got jammed and I fell over and crumpled onto it. My foot just snapped from the bare weight. That's a great. I know. And I just said that I like literally. Smart. Yeah and I just said like and because I was like almost like 350 at that time. I was way bigger. And so then everyone like nobody would bat an eye at me saying that I like crushed my own foot. No one questioned. No. You know like going into the thing. Well I had a cast on. Like it's like my foot was broken. Yeah. But it was like one of those things where I was just like oh I was on a curb rather than visiting somebody. I was like I just went and got some food or something. I don't know. I forgot that. But like the whole thing we had to shoot this whole cooking video series. And he did it with a cast. And it happened the day before. Were you in pain? Well yeah I broke my foot. But it doesn't matter. I don't take painkillers. No. Nothing. I got my little soother. My little bub bub. My little soup sup. My daughter just started doing hip hop dance. Oh my God. Dude look at this. Oh my God. It's so much better. You know everyone can see you behind. Okay blur that out. Chuck do you remember when you used to not hang out with people if he was like shaving his dick and he like nicked his dick a little bit and there was like a little bit of like blood. What were the hardest things to get over or like learning who the real Dave was? Well he was he was a certain way in person. He was so sweet and like he acted like he liked me. And then I felt like texting if I just texted too much over the limit. Yeah. There was a big just pull out. Yeah. He's the worst texter. He's the worst texter in the history of the world. I don't like texting at all. I'm the worst texter. No he's way worse. Me and Trish will go like four days without texting. Really? You're the worst. No. He's the worst communicator. You're the worst. You're not great. I'll text him and he'll text me three days later. You literally respond three days later and you go like oh ha ha. Like no one's in the conversation anymore talking about the thing. That's right. That's mindlessness. You're actively texting. I'm passionately texting. Being an asshole. No I'm just being a matter of fact. No. No I used to think Dave was that and then Benny what Benny does when he texts you back the second like the three days later. Yeah. Not three days. It's two letters. No it isn't. I have a 48. It's like the smallest. I have a 48 hour window unless it's something important to talk about. And then if it's something that's too important to talk about you try to talk about things that are not meant to be talked about over a text message. Exactly. You over you you you do stuff. You can't read. No I can read. I can read. He can read. You can't read. No I can read. Is he illiterate? If I text like if I text I do I agree that I am like that. Have you guys have you guys read out loud from a book to see? No he can't read. Why'd you get him to read out loud? He can't read. He doesn't engage in any sort of email. He would read your scripts. No I don't think he would. Do you think he would read a script? He would. No I read the scripts. Yeah. I am like that for sure. Yeah. But I can send just one paragraph. Yeah. That doesn't need to be a phone call. See I send I send like half a sentence half a sentence half a sentence. Me too. I send like brrrr. I send like text that way. - Do you text with me? - And then I completely forget that I texted and I never look at the, message again like i there to me there's no more effective way to communicate everything i'm thinking than send like one like four paragraph text raised but you also like we will be talking about something you will ignore what i said yeah right before that and you will just ask me like the stupidest question that's so self-serving the worst part is when i read the text the four paragraph things it is the most redundant drawn out thing me and love me talk about all the time he'll write 15 sentences that could be one and a half sentence or a 15 second phone call yeah yeah he does you do your brain is that the same bottle from the it can i tell you a story about this water bottle everybody here 80 pounds he texted me he was like i'm so sad i lost my water bottle i thought this water bottle that you have so many of this water bottle he we redid our bathroom yeah one morning i'm in bed and dave goes into the bathroom to brush his teeth yeah all of a sudden i hear like a like a smash and i thought oh my god he probably just like spilt his water on the floor and then he just keeps saying oh no oh no we have a big problem such a big problem i thought he's just being annoying he doesn't want to clean up the water that he spilled on the floor and then like after five minutes he's like don't you want to know what the problem is he yells and i said what's the problem and he says you gotta come here he dropped i don't even know how this happens he dropped this into our sink completely smashed open no more sink the sink the sink's gone all the inside of the sink is gone and this thing wasn't even dented no more sink we have to completely replace that thing was perfect yeah the thing was perfect crazy no more sink my contractor said he's never seen any and he's never had to deal with this particular problem he doesn't know what to do they were like because it's like a custom like what happened he dropped this thing i just i was just drinking the water oh like that you see what just happened it was just like that it's also the thing's 80 pounds but it's empty right now drink out of a normal plastic when it's full it's like a hundred pounds when it's full it's like a pepsi max it's not this is an expensive bottle now you have to replace what was the best day of your life i was just thinking about it the best day of my life yeah i don't know it's hard i just like you know like i think it's like like our wedding day all my stuff is like cliche because i'm like our wedding day is like tight like in retrospect what about when you got trish back like kids like wasn't that the best day of your life when you got her back yeah where'd she go well she didn't really want to be with me you know after being a crazy person she thought you guys are like such a good couple yeah because i think we're i don't know because i think we're genuinely like life partners and i think we're genuinely like i'm like we talk it's funny like she's very independent and i'm very independent we're not needy and we're very like self-aware of our love languages where we've been together for so long we know what we need we know we're very like when the second that i know that she's mad with me i want to like address it and talk through it and like be like okay like i can work you know like i think it's just like one of those things and i think it is just being like good with each other and not like i think it's like we like when you when you want to be with somebody and something bad happens what do you do it's like fight or flight shit and it's just like no like let's figure this out like is this truly horrible is this truly scary is this are you willing to forgive and are you willing to like allow me to work on things and like all that kind of stuff it's just like it's it's it's hard and then those hard times pass and it's fucking good and it's incredible and then you're like oh this is sick and it's just like one of those things where i'm like it's just a cycle yeah and it's just like i don't know i spent the last like 12 years of my life making sure that our lives are the best they can be when's the last time you cried do you remember a long time ago really yeah but you feel a lot like you you'll get a lot i just i don't it's the thing that i've i can't physically cry do you get really mad or really sad or really i get really mad but i think i've like made myself like this shell where i can't cry or like this thing where i've like just pushed it down i don't know it's the thing where i've like tried to cry or like i feel like it's like you know i don't know i feel like i want to have like trisha's grandparents passing or like my grandparents passing maybe but like like my eyes get wet but there's no like sobbing like i want to sob like i've tried to make myself sob and i've like tried to like scream and like try to do the thing and try to break down everything no like just get to the point where i'm like i'm like so beaten down and like there's like moments in your life where you're just like what do i have like i want to allow myself to cry i want to i want to like sob i want to like cry until i fall asleep it's my favorite thing to do like when it doesn't happen to me all the time like i feel like i've only seen you cry like with disco yeah no and i cry about like i cry about like movies and i cry when like something like bad happens yeah like obviously like when i watch tag at the end yeah yeah that stuff gets me the the movie yeah where they chase but at the end when all of a sudden they start showing all the real people playing tag because it's based on a real story yeah like a game night yeah maddie likes watching the movie and i'm like oh my god i'm so happy that i'm watching movies with me and then he'll beg to watch a movie and he falls asleep within the first 15 seconds of the movie he'll beg he'll beg to watch a movie yeah and then he turns sideways and he goes like this and he goes he goes oh i don't snore anymore no because i'm like i love i love going into like the movie room yeah i love getting super cozy yeah i love it i love it what's your favorite thing that you cook like if someone was like how people like love performing their favorite songs yeah what is your favorite thing to cook i honestly like i love my taco bowl that i make i make like literally it's just like rice and then i make like shitty ground beef with like taco seasoning and then it's just like chopped up tomatoes green onions cheese and like maybe like thick like greek yogurt or sour cream i love that sort of thing i make and i just call it my dog bowl and then i make my dog bowl and then i like make it for everybody and then they're like oh my god it's so good i have an idea for you we could go in on it okay i would i'd put my money into it a noodle house just a small small noodles or any noodles i think a perfect restaurant is literally like and i don't i know that they probably exist somewhere but like honestly like a pasta bar that only like you can like there's so many times where i want to go in and just have like imagine five short noodles five stuffed and then and then like some long noodles but you could go and it's only pasta and it's only that like there's no fucking nothing because there's so many times i just want a cacio pepe or i want a fucking carbonara i want just that and i don't want to fucking eat all this other stuff and get full i want to get full i want to go and eat like three or four different pasta can we start that for us yeah let's go tell them your restaurant idea what's your idea company chicken birds birds a chicken chicken joint yeah and nobody's doing chicken right now so it's really no it's only chicken it's only chicken but it's every single chicken so it's got rotisserie fried chicken fingers buffalo wings chicken cheese steak yeah like chicken quesadilla yeah no sides unless they're like chicken fries or chicken nuggets yeah there's full soda bar full there's a full soda chicken and soda do you know what mine i love that what thanks and every day you go in it's just thanksgiving yeah and it's like you it's just all you can eat thanksgiving yeah and you're sitting at a table like of people you don't know do you think that would work as a restaurant i do what was the other restaurant we came wasn't there one other one that was so do you like what's your favorite chicken finger or chicken tender see do you guys call them chicken tenders always or do you call them chicken fingers no they're the same to me the same thing i love a chicken finger i really don't like bone-in fried chicken it's surprising i don't i like buffalo wings with the sauce but i don't like breaded bone-in chicken for whatever reason but i love you know chicken nuggets i do love chicken fingers and my favorite type of chicken finger is probably like that great chicken finger i don't like that great restaurant in a town what are your favorite types of fried chicken like if you have to rate them like like a chicken cutlet is like up there for me chicken cutlets huge yeah i think the the the chicken breast the sauced chicken breasts oh my god and it may be diced like the way i just prepared mexican chicken like i love like a chicken cheesesteak where that where the meat is not shredded like a cheesesteak is it's more kind of small cubes that's my favorite property type of chicken who's the first famous person ever to acknowledge you and your food oh you i was maybe one of them like famous people i like the first time like a famous person really came in our restaurant no like the first person like like someone like dm'd you and they were like oh my god you're you're amazing oh i don't know who was the i honestly think it's like yeah like i don't know like i remember rancid came to odd fellows when i was like i was like 25 26 when we opened odd fellows yeah and like uh lars was tattooing at my buddy's tattoo shop he tattooed kind of sporadically and i remember rancid came to odd fellows uh which was like the craziest thing and then like a year later honestly one of the first times ever like cooking for like a real select like odd future came and i knew man face and uh he brought them in uh matthew mccormick uh the artist now spice yeah yeah wow yeah matthew mccormick there from the spices and uh like that was like one of the first times ever like seeing like odd future because at that time like it was a crazy thing and so they came in for dinner which was kind of wild but uh corn you ever cook for corn i've never met for no never cooked for corn oh do you ever get anxious for cooking for like another chef yeah yeah i remember i cooked a giant meal for martin picard once and it was like he's like he's like our like scorsese or like you know like he's our guy you know he's our he's our ld you know like martin is is is like the king um and i remember he was doing like a interview thing and we i set up like he came for lunch and i like covered a 12-foot table just full of food and you like yeah yeah yeah it was all right yeah would you say that the bulk of the money that you make comes from the restaurants you own no zero so it's just i've never taken a penny from my restaurants ever but do they make money and then uh sometimes so it's hard it's a really hard at that at like the level that we're at some make money some don't and then all the money that we make goes into the ones that they don't and then it's just yeah a snake eating its own tail oh we have my bachelorette house on airbnb her house was so good i'm obsessed we tried to book it for a vacation like two weeks later bachelorette parties do the women all insult the no the groom no it was tame we were just like hanging out 78 photos it's so cozy yeah i love the little teepee that might just be for show no oh my god you know what i can tell can we get right now i want to go there see when it's available you know what i can see right now there's a lot of h2o there yeah it's on a lake yeah it's on lake tahoe lake's not h2o it's not a lake is not h2o wait a lake is not water oh i meant oxygen there i didn't even mean h2o did you hydrogen i have a special guest oh patricia here be your twin be your twin i've heard so much about you yeah we're both the same people we're both the same people i've heard so much about you yeah we're both the same people i've heard so much about you yeah we're both the same people italian we're both italian she's i'm italian irish i have irish in me yeah i think yeah they're like twins look wait dave let let her sit next to her husband oh it doesn't matter it doesn't matter i got real i got real questions for you okay okay okay well first he wanted to say he had a question first no i just always get at they ask me they're like you know like how do you do it you know be together for so long so so he just wants to hear but this was after like everything you can say whatever you want no no it's just like every like you know i said what i said but you know you said what i don't know i just i don't know i don't know the answer to this i knew how do i put it i'm very patient in that sense okay calm down yeah yeah but i kind of like gave up yeah at 10 years i think yeah i figured i was never gonna get married there you go that's good i asked my aunt who gives out a lecressette pot every to every married couple for my lecressette because i was never gonna get married to maddie yeah but we were together and yeah she gave it to me and then he proposed to me so then yeah was it in the lecressette pot no oh that would be such a good proposal no you guys were together for 10 years before i'm i was complaining about we were together for 14 yeah it took a minute just to marry we just had 11 year wedding anniversary you guys fight ever yeah yeah we fight what do you think that what are the fights usually stem from back in the day it was more so money and him spending the money all the time okay cocksucker what about now yeah but now it's like parenting styles parenting styles yeah i want to know a little bit more about this what like what like what are what are the fights over parenting styles because like he's not around so then when he is around then he gets mad at how things sometimes are or like what the kids are doing and then i get defensive because i'm like well i'm always here yeah like what what are the things like what they eat and what you don't want it well they talk well no our kids just eat sugar a lot of sugar which is fine i don't think it's going to turn them into why are they eating everyone just so hyper aware of everything so like i'm like no but he gets mad because like he'll make a really nice meal and then the kids won't eat it and then and then and then and then ozzy will go and just grab a fucking giant cookie and start chewing a cookie okay okay wait i want to i want to both of you both of you guys say your say your side and i want to know i want to know okay maddie this is a fight maddie maddie so so what what's your issue with the food habits because they i think they get a lot of sugars but i'm also bad because because i am not home all the time that i'm just like let's go get ice cream like every night or like let's go out but i find that it's like more family time but then it's just like the the the the the the things that bum me out is like i think ozzy our youngest is like a full sugar fiend and like we'll only she'll like kick and scream and then she we're just like fine and i think like it's just hard sometimes where you're just like fine but then our kid is only eating sugar all day long and i don't think it's her fault or my fault it's just like we're i'm both like ozzy's a beast what's she's undefeated what's yours also like we grew i grew up where like we never had sugar in her house and i grew up in such a way and then i'm like you even if you don't realize you're becoming your parents you're becoming your parents because the only real parenting style you know is your parents good or bad yeah and so then all of a sudden i'm like i do stuff that like and i don't want to necessarily be exactly like my like my parents were stern like like if i was ground i would be grounded i would be grounded for a week and and i would be having my meals in my room like like not hanging like no television different but i grew up with like no tell like we were only allowed to watch television on saturday mornings for like an hour you know so i grew up super like in a very stern house but my parents are the least stern people ever and like the most chill loving amazing people except there was like actual rules yeah and i think it was just like one of these things that like the rules couldn't be broken and it's just like uh that's probably why you got so tatted up yeah all of it yeah my whole family's just drug addicts and psychopaths and i'm like good job good job everybody we should have had sugar with our rice krispies you know like but that's the thing too like that's the funny thing and like we make jokes about it to our parents like we're like maybe should have had it uh maybe some sugar yeah maybe i was maybe i didn't have to wait till i was 14 to have a coca-cola yeah no maybe at all were there any drug addicts in your family no oh so the sugar works no trish is not an addict either so then shut up and stop questioning her parenting stuff exactly i want to know what your favorite thing is about maddie and your least favorite thing oh my god favorite thing his wrist tattoo on his hand nope oh he was gonna punch her oh he was gonna what's your favorite never favorite thing my favorite thing how chill he is and how he makes me laugh all the time he's just a little teddy bear what's your least favorite thing my least favorite thing that he won't do the dishes no that he's like dirty as all like dirty like if i i think about like being that like wife to just roll over and like give a nice blow job in the morning and then i think in my head i'm like no he didn't shower then he didn't oh no he flew a plane and then like no definitely not going in my mouth wait so what are your what's your favorite and least favorite thing my favorite thing about his favorite that's good is that she's chilling puts your dirty dick no my favorite my honestly my favorite thing is that she's chilling puts your dirty dick in her mouth is that ride or die yeah like i think you're trust or like you're unwit like you're yeah like you're you're just like yeah you've been saying we're soulmates since like we first started dating yeah i love and now you guys seem like you're soulmates yeah no it is like i yeah how come you're not speaking english anymore not even using like the right word no it is oh my god it's my beauty yeah least favorite thing no uh my least favorite thing about trish i don't know i think since moving back to fort erie your accents may just turned a little more fort erie it's kind of weird really yeah you say like it sounds a little more like it's been holding us in for a while yeah that's great what like this morning when i said oats and the waiter like her accent like from like we lived in toronto for like 18 years or whatever but i think moving back to fort erie we've lived there for seven years now yeah no the accent it's just come it's funny that's not my least favorite that's even no see that my least favorite thing i don't even have a least favorite okay good all right like i don't good easy yeah easy her least favorite thing is that your dick stinks which is fair it's fair he does he doesn't but i will tell you he does for a man who never changes or showers he doesn't really smell no it's only his underwear like his underwear do smell like paint well no but folding see that's the accent right there no yeah that's her accent that's what i'm talking about that's what i'm talking about she's canadian no i'm not gonna talk no i'm not gonna talk i'm not you just said you just said no that's the craziest no that's a perfect example i've never heard you talk like that no in conclusion one two three all in for friends okay okay what what one two three friends oh wait maddie didn't get to do it it's bad luck come back in one two three friends now four on three - Four on three. - What? - One, two, three, four! - Thank you Domino's for sponsoring this episode. - And for the pizza.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Maddie is a celebrated chef and entertainer who blends high-level culinary expertise with approachable, heartfelt cooking, becoming a pioneer in online food content.
  2. The group shares a playful, humorous interaction around food, including a surprise visit from Maddie, who has a renowned steakhouse experience, and a failed attempt to prepare a bologna sandwich that evolves into a creative, shared cooking moment.
  3. The conversation highlights personal values, including the importance of family, simple pleasures, and food memories, while also touching on deep personal experiences like a heart attack, sobriety, and the challenges of emotional vulnerability and communication.

Summary:

The transcript captures a lighthearted and intimate conversation among friends centered around food, personal experiences, and shared memories. Maddie, a chef and internet food content pioneer, is celebrated for his unique blend of culinary skill and authenticity. The group shares their excitement about cooking together, starting with a humorous bologna sandwich attempt that turns into a creative, heartfelt meal.

They reflect on childhood, family, and personal milestones, including Maddie’s unforgettable steakhouse experience and a moment of vulnerability when one of them had a heart attack at 29. The story also reveals deep personal truths about addiction, sobriety, and emotional intimacy, emphasizing how relationships evolve through honesty and resilience. A recurring theme is the value of simple, honest meals—like a classic sandwich or a family recipe from a mother—over elaborate or flashy experiences.

The conversation ends with playful humor about fashion, Gen Z trends, and communication styles, underscoring the group’s bond built on shared laughter, food, and real-life challenges. Food serves not just as sustenance, but as a symbol of connection, memory, and authenticity in everyday life.

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Maddie is known as a chef, entertainer, and a pioneer in online food content. He is recognized for his unique blend of high-level, Michelin-star-level cooking and approachable, heartfelt dishes that reflect his authentic self.

Maddie says it's the best steakhouse he's ever been to, and he rates it among the top in the world of food. He describes it as the most beautiful restaurant he's ever seen and notes that it's easy to access and welcoming.

Maddie opened a restaurant called Rizzo's House of Parm, named after his daughter Rizzo Louise. The restaurant became a significant part of his culinary journey and is remembered for its unique charm and Italian roots.

Maddie loves Domino's thin crust pizza, especially with pineapple, and calls it his favorite. He praises the marinara sauce and enjoys the crunchy texture, saying he usually orders multiple slices.

The 'Gen Z llama haircut' is mentioned as a viral trend among young people, symbolizing a cultural shift in fashion. The conversation highlights how it's becoming a style reference, with characters jokingly comparing their hair to it.

Maddie played a key role in popularizing online food content, especially through his web series. He credits himself with helping to invent the modern 'online food celebrity chef' model, which changed how food is shared and consumed digitally.

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