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March 10, 2020 15 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Firms Represents, Show, Gandhi, Scary Brody Garrett, Danielle Nate. You know,
I love you all, but I'm a little disappointed in
each and every one of us. Why why we let

(00:25):
the most important day of the year go by without recognition? Yesterday?
Yesterday was National Meatball Day? What in the hell? And
you know how important meatballs are to us, and we
let it go. We just flew right by it without
it existing. Can we circle back? Are so fabulous? Well,
I kind of shocked our biggest meat ball in the room, scary,

(00:48):
didn't you know? A few years back we celebrated in
a big way by inviting every meatball place in the
Trust State and never again. An amazing day. Our living
room was filled with stations of different places meatballs. I'm
gonna say, look, I love meatballs, but I was repulsed
by meatballs that day. They smelled like meat for like

(01:10):
three weeks. Yes, okay with that, Remember your friend what's
her name Kim had the best meat ball her big
inside up. So okay, let's talk about the meatball for
just a moment. Some argue, well, you know, it's basically
just a little small round meat loaf. No, it's not.
There is a difference, but they are sort of the

(01:30):
same in their construction. M but some are far superior
to others. Yes, there are some places where if you
want to make the get the chat meat to make
your meatballs. Ground ground beef, the ground beef, ground beef. Sorry, um,
it comes in three different ones in the same packaging.
You get veal, pork, and beef, and you're supposed to

(01:51):
mix them together with an egg and breadcrumbs and then
throw whatever you want like raisins and nuts like Uncle
Johnny does. And you either bake them or fry them.
Right now, how do you do? I fry mine? You
have to. That's that Grandma did it. I fry mine
and then I let him finish in the sauce. Yeah, okay, gandhi,
if you made meatballs today, what would you make them
out of? Oh? Uh? Can I make like a veggie meatball?

(02:14):
You can? I would probably do that. If you can
make a veggie burger, you can make a veggie meatball. Yeah,
and I bet it would be good. It's got meat
in the name. You can't make a veggie meat boll.
You gonna make a veggie ball. Don't hold me back,
but you can't put veggie in front of meat for once.
A veggie brody is kind of accurate. Meat. We've been
talking about this meat ball. The only thing I can

(02:34):
think is what a weird word for a food that
we all just stay all the time. A meat ball.
It basically describes what But if you took that to
anything else, like a meat sandwich, that sounds weird, right,
But meat ball we all just accept it. We do, okay,
we do. You know as a kid, uh, you know,
I would eat cans and cans of you know, Chef

(02:55):
Boy or d with meat balls in it or whatever.
Gettys The thought eating that now, I was like, actually
I would try it, but you know it's full of salt. Well.
I always just wonder how do they make the meat
last on a shelf. There's something about that that makes
preserve comfortable. It's vacuum pack. I had a can of
Chef Buddy meat ravioli last week. That's ravioli, meatballs and

(03:18):
ravioli in the same can. But Franco American used to
put little hot dogs in the spaghettios. That's a dish,
So I don't know if you've ever done this being
a cook or anybody the chefs in the room. But
the last time I went to visit my mom, she'll
always make me one of my favorite meals, and she
made me spaghetti and meatball. I love it. And I
get into the house and she's throwing away a tray

(03:39):
of meatballs, and I said, what are you doing? What happened?
She goes, they didn't come out right. I don't want
you to have them. She was throwing away these meatballs
because they didn't come out right. And I did try one,
and to her credit, they weren't her usual meatballs. So
rather than have us eat infuri your meatballs, she just
went and made another back. You know what, meatballs are
not too easy. It is a complex, a plex, a

(04:00):
little dance of the ingredients. I thought about breaking up
with my boyfriend once because when we were dating, not
current boyfriend, ex boyfriend. When we were dating, I used
to cook every single day because I thought he didn't
know how. And then one day he made these meatballs
that were the best meatballs I had ever tasted, and
I was like, I should break up with you for
lying to me all these years about your cooking ability.
You just let me cook the whole time. But sometimes

(04:21):
people can cook one dish really well and nothing else.
Maybe that might have been the case. My favorite aunt
ruined her cooking career and hosting family gatherings forever because
she messed up meatballs. So she had made meatballs one
year for whatever holiday it was, and all of us
ran to the garbage pail. We're all spitting them up.
They were terrible, and so afterwards she confided in us

(04:42):
or my mom, she said, well, I didn't have enough
ground meat, and so I had some liver in their virgeration.
So she stretched the meat you had. So we're like, oh,
we're going to Aunt liver Ball's house. So from that
point on we couldn't trust her to make anything because
she messed up the meatballs, put liver in them. Just
the worst purpose, the worst balls is Froggy on with us?

(05:06):
Are you there? No, Froggy is not on with us.
I see him in the studio that he's ignoring us.
All right, back to meat balls. I make really good
meat balls. They're great. I believe you. You make great food. No,
sometimes they come out really shitty, But my meatballs I
do okay with meat balls but where did you start cooking? Like?
Was it young? Because you've been a good cook as
long as I've known you, But you remember when you

(05:27):
just started cooking. Because I'm a horrible cook. I became
a better cook than I used to be when I
was as an adult. You know, you know, I'll tell
you what. Watching the Food Network, that's where I learned
how to cook. I am the world. I'm not allowed
to cook in my house because the one time I
tried to cook, I was just told to What I
heard was take the cheese and put it in the pot.
I didn't That's what I heard. I wouldn't do that

(05:48):
exactly what Ali. What Ali said was put the pasta
in the pot, not the cheese. So I put a
thing in the pot and it and the cheese melted
in the pot. Just sense, that's stupid. But I don't
know that. You know, And that's okay. You don't have
to be a good cook. You don't have to be.
If I to make dinner, the response is always no,

(06:09):
I don't want lasagno chicken cutlets? Can I can I
tell one of your secrets? My wife? So I went
over to your place for dinner one night Elvis invited
me over. Say I'm cooking dinner. So I go there
and you make I think it was chicken part whatever
it was. It was something that you normally don't cook.
And you told me at the end that it was
your practice meal. Because you were cooking the same thing
the next night for more important people. You don't remember that. Yeah,

(06:32):
so you're like, at the end of the meal, you're like, hey,
so how was it. I goes really good, it goes okay, good,
I got it right. Then I'll do this tomorrow. I
was like, if you're having a lot of people, know,
if you're having a lot of people over and you're
making something new, be careful. I would do do a
test runt. I do the test runs a lot, and
you get sometimes you get the test runs. What I'm saying,
meatballs are great, but you have to be able to

(06:53):
make sure they're moist and so this is where this
is where the disagreements come in. So some people put
bread crumbs in them. Some people like me, I take
bread and soaked the bread in a liquid and then
put that in there and mix it in and make
a sludge, and that keeps it a little more moistly.
Eggs raw eggs in it. No I put no, I

(07:13):
put eggs in there too. Do you specify liquid? Yeah?
What liquid? You can? You just said you still get
a liquid? Well, okay, So ed a good friend of
mine who's very Italian, his grandmother Italian grandmother. She would
take like stale loaves of bread soaking in water, and
then she would wring the water out of the bread
and then she would mix that in and it keeps

(07:35):
them moist. I used sometimes, I use I use butter
milk sometimes because it has a different level of flavor,
like a little tang. And who don't love tang? Gandhi?
Everyone loves tang. Preferred to be referred to as a
good cook or should we call you a good chef?
Is there like I'm not a chef? No, not a chef.
Chef to me is a business thing and your cook

(07:57):
is you know, you just throw some in the pan.
It tastes good and mistakes all the time, by the
way it happened, not happen. So when my wife Allley
makes meatballs, she leaves a loaf of bread out for
a half a day and then she uses that as
the bread crumbs. After leaving it out, getting a little stale,
but not fully and then that's how she makes it.
But her grandmother just passed away last week. So we're

(08:19):
cleaning out her house. We came across a freezer of
frozen meatballs that she has made over the last two years.
We're talking like maybe two hundred three hundred. Still they've
been deep. Uh they were in the freezer, so yeah,
they've been frozen after after she made them. So that's

(08:41):
pushing it. I think, I know, it depends on how
seal they are. I will tell you this though. Then
this totally switched switches gears. I have friends who have
lost parents or grandparents and they will go to the
freezer and find something they cooked and they will have
a gathering. That's probably the most amazing gathering. Let's let's
have some of the grandma's meatball. I was just thinking

(09:02):
that because on an episode of Big Bang Theory, when
Howard's mother died, they went to the refrigerator and they
had a ceremony to eat all of his favorite foods
that she had put in. And I have it on
my DVR from years ago. It's my favorite episode of
Big Bang Theory. Three to four months is what you're
reading three or four months for what? Yeah, I think
you gotta get rid of those meatballs, Carrett. It said

(09:23):
cooked meatballs can last in the freezer if properly stored
for about three to four months. Did she put everything's dated?
You're probably okay. You seem to be fine to me.
How it's been four months it's frozen. Well, I think
after a while it could change the composition of something
in there. I don't know. For instance, in August, which

(09:45):
is how many months ago, it's six months ago. A
little more. Chef Peter came to our house and made
these huge vats of sauce. He made the spicy Bolonet sauce.
He made this other and it's been in my freezer.
I pulled it out of the freezer and thought it
a little bit because we froze it when it was fresh,
and uh took off a chunk of the ice and
put the rest of it back in. Made it SPERVCT.

(10:06):
Tastes great, it's great. It was great. I don't think
you're gonna get poisoned from it. Probably just maybe taste
a little off. Didn't taste off at all. I know
where you can get meat balls to go with that sauce.
Come on over. It's people who get married and they
eat the top of their wedding cake a year later.
By the way, it tastes like crap. You don't eat

(10:26):
the like freezer burned crap. Yeah, you take a little
taste and then you go, you're gonna do that with Alex.
It's just what with Alex. Put him in the freezer,
eat him later, you know. That's how I met him.
About a month ago, a month and a half ago,
I had my birthday party at this place for We're
doing Super Bowl at the same time, and they wheeled
out this huge cake. I caught it up into huge quarters,

(10:49):
put it in aluminum foil. It is in my freezer.
What birthday party? Because none of us were super Bowl
super Bowl. Yeah, but anyway, the point is, I don't
know long I'm gonna leave that cake in there. You know,
it's my birthday cake. I wasn't able to I wasn't
able to eat it at the time, but now I'm
allowed to see. But I'm frightened buy it. I don't know.
I'm thinking of this podcast. Is this podcast interesting? I

(11:12):
think absolutely? Who's gonna have meatballs today? I'm gonna make
up for lost meatball time. And I have some meatballs today.
I think I may get some. Right now, I'm gonna
go search for a veggie meatball, just to spite Bertie.
I know it exists. It doesn't make veggie does make sense?
Don't ball don't bring back memories. I'll just remember getting
up on a Saturday morning and my grandmother's kitchen and

(11:32):
you see it frying in the pan, and you see
it and you hear it sizzling, and then I go in.
I go, Grandma, can I have one yet? And she goes,
not yet, Danny. And then later on she go, Okay,
I'm almost ready to put it in the sauce, and
she let me have one right before she put it
in the sauce. Meat Balls take you back to your childhood.
There are so many veggie meatballs. I see the veggie ball.

(11:54):
Anything on the internet doesn't mean it's right. Fake news,
plastic meat is meat balls? Does it make sense? As
meat let's meat balls? They're not meat balls. Because Amy's
does a lot of good stuff. I don't trust this Amy.
What I'm gonna tell you why she makes good pizza
really does everything though she makes pizza she makes American food.

(12:19):
She can't be good at all of it. I'm going
to be good. It's always better to make it yourself.
But if you don't have time, you vegan cheese. Have
you had vegan cheese? It's good. It's crushed cash shoes
and almond and things like that can be that can
be cheese. Cheese is a formation of different things that

(12:40):
come together to make that glob. Look you know, uh milk,
I love cash cheese or is it scary? So it's
so good? I've had some. If I put some cheddar
the vegan cheese in front of you, you you would you
bring me in something? Because I've always wanted to try it,
because I think I might. I think I might have
to change. It doesn't melt as easily, does it? No?

(13:02):
I use it as a dip for I need a
good one. I got one for I want to try.
There's this place I go to all the time. I'm
telling you Whole Foods. By the way, you know they're
not a sponsor because he didn't name them. Amy makes
vegan meat balls. This Amy, I'm telling you a lot
of stuff. By the way, Amy is not a sponsor.
We just actually happened to like Amy, who is thereby

(13:26):
was smart up. I'm waiting for them to make broccoli
out of meat. All this meat taste they made, it's
just just like broccoli. But it's always the other way around,
which means meat is better. I just sent a text
alex as we're going back and forth about some home
projects we're doing, and for some reason, my microphone turned
on and I just sent him a texas said, broccoli
out of meat played out and see what he says.

(13:50):
Baby doesn't even cook her food. Amy was the daughter
of Andy and Rachel Berliner or Berliner, and they named
the company after her credibility. She had looks like a
couple of hippies, I know, But Wendy's never cooked the food,
right Dave Thomas named it after his daughter. That happens
all the time. She was a little redhead stocking girl.
Right then they named vegetables meat. So who can trust

(14:12):
these people? Take back my distrust of Amy? And I say,
Rachel and Andy Berlin or I don't trust you. We
have a Berliner that works here, Scott. Maybe they're related alright,
So meatballs? Who's having a meatball today? That's a great
way to deliver the meatballs anyway, I just like on
a plate. Hey, what's that pizza place behind the radio station.

(14:35):
They have those little meatballs they put on pizza. It's
really good places. They're even they're salad is amazing. I
haven't years. Oh my god, this this podcast is making
me a boot eat meatball with no vegetables head. Thank you.

(14:58):
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