Good morning you too. How are you doing? Happy to talk to you?
No, I'm happy to talk to you because you love food as much
as I do. But that girl is sitting next to you, she doesn't
like mustard. Now we've got a problem. Can I tell you something?
I like it now? Good? I was a kids, but now love
mustard preferred, not a hot dog. You need it on a soft pretzel.
Very avid mustard fan. Just want to clear my name? Okay,
but will you put the mustard on eggs? Oh? I've never done that?
Oh my god. Yes, it's unbelievable. I mean, it just
gives it a different kind of a texture. It doesn't taste so eggy anymore.
Wait wait, wait, scrambled eggs fried? What kind of egg do
you put it on? Well, it could be setdy, sided up,
and it could be scrambled. I even put it in Cotta's cheese. It's
got a whole new flavor when you when you put mustard in Cotta's cheese.
Oh my god, I learned something today. I'm so excited. I'm going
to try it. I love cottage cheese so much, so I totally we'll
try that. That sounds great. It sounds weird, but listen to people.
Just try it. That's the name of the book. That's why we're
here today to tell you about just trying the book I wrote with Lily Rosenthal.
What I love about this book is the father daughter relationship because I grew
up in an age where where dad was around, but Dad didn't have this
kind of a relationship with with especially even with my sisters. And so this
book right here opens up so many doors. Oh that's so Sie. Listen.
We wanted to make it have a book with a little bit of a
message, but it wasn't fun and funny for kids. We didn't have anything,
so that was you know, it's all these things that you have to
keep in mind when you're doing any kind of entertainment. Yes, it's good
to have a story. You have to have a story, you have to
have a message. But if it's not entertaining, nobody's gonna watch it or
read it. There are many times, Lily that when especially when you came
across the pizza. I mean, people like to invent their own piece and
their own flavor, and you know, if it doesn't have pepperoni on it,
it's it's like, I don't know, but like you say, Phil,
just try it. You got it? I mean, And now I'll
try any kind of pizza he puts in front of me. So the book
really works people. But the main thing is if you don't try things,
and I know a lot of grown ups don't try stuff, how do you
know that you will love it? Yeah? What did you find something that's
the good, greatest thing you ever did or had or I mean, you
could be one bite away from your new favorite food. How exciting is that?
One bite away from your new love? See, that's the way I
felt about spinach. As a kid, I wouldn't go anywhere near it.
But as an adult, I can't get enough of it. There you go
me too. I love spinach now like sauteed some garlic, very nice fried,
very nice fried, flashy. Do it cool too? That's a good
way. That, by the way, very good way to see. Uh,
to have kids try like a potato chip. Oh you put it in
the air fryer. Oh my god, I do that even with coliflower.
And what I'll do is instead of having nachos, I'll put coliflower in there,
and then I'll put all the other ingredients. So I have like a
couliflower nachos. Wow, we're learning from you today. Yeah, what a
teacher. Thank you. I love the humor that you guys have put in
this book, especially when eating the pretzel and Phil get you get mustard on
your shirt. Every guy goes through this. I just think that was so
relatable. Yes, it happens from birth when they spit up on you.
Is this going to lead to a cookbook? Because Phil, I mean with
everything that you have gone through around the world, that the two of you
putting a cookbook together would be amazing. Well, you know what, he
actually has a cookbook out called Somebody Feed Filled the Book, and a second
one is coming out, And we have this kid's book, and we're going
to do another kid's book. More books are coming and there might be all
cookbook as well. Yeah a little maybe maybe they'll be mustard on eggs in
that book dedicated to you, from one author to you guys as authors and
as storytellers. I love the size of the book because when I was a
kid, if you know Curious George and Clifford the Big Red Dog, they
were all huge books, and I think going back to this format is so
amazing. I love the size too. I'm glad you mentioned that it makes
it feel special, and it makes it feel like a kid's book. Kids
are excited to read the big book that the little one that fits in the
and Luke Flowers his drawings is one of the great children's illustrators of all time,
and his drawings deserve to be big, right like, I'm Max,
yeah, yeah, how did you team up with Luke? Because you're right,
the illustrations in this is amazing. I mean, first of all,
I guess I'm still a kid. I look at the pictures first, then
I read What's in the Bubbles. Yes, yes, of course, our
team was able to put us in touch with Luke and we just fell in
love with him with his illustrations, and we liked the story yep. And
he watches the show and he totally got it. So it was easy,
easy choice. I love the way that you put focus on the pretzel because
that pretzel has gone through so many evolutions, especially today, because at one
point in time that's all we did was put mustard on it. Now it
comes in several different types of flavors. In fact, there's one that's out
there right now that has brown sugar on it. And cinnamon, right,
or like a Tureau pretzel. Yeah, exactly. Listen, I'm from New
York and I know in Philly this is the thing. The mustard on a
pretzel is just how I grew up and I love it. What gave you
the idea to do the food trucks, because I mean, every city has
a food truck convention basically, and I just think this is so up to
date and modern and kids can identify with this. Yeah. Well, we
knew that we wanted it to be something that was accessible. Food trucks generally,
like when they're in a great area, you can hit a bunch of
them really fast. And we knew that it had to be kid friendly.
We knew it had to be based on something real that we love to go
to. And a food festival might be too, you know, small a
little kid at a food festival, I don't know. But a food truck
festival where it's just all the trucks and you can run around, that's fun.
What about a book that's based on fair food because here in the South,
Oh my god, we go crazy with food down here. Yes,
you do you know I'm coming? Did you know that? No? Well,
so I have a live show that I go around the country with where
we show a highlight reel of somebody feed Pilt a little bit, and then
I go on with a moderator and I tell funny stories and then talk to
the audience for most of the show Q and A and then meet and greet.
I'm actually coming. Do you know this theater, the Night Theater.
Yes, I do. It's an amazing theater. Oh it is so intimate
in there. Oh my god, I love that theater. So I'm coming
April nineteenth, and you can get tickets now. And I'm going to be
in Charlotte, North Carolina. No, sorry, that's Charlotte. I'm going
to be in Durham on the eighteenth, the night before, at the Carolina
Theater. So I'm talking to my friends in North Carolina. Come on,
we are going to be there. You guys have got to come back to
this show anytime in the future. The door is always going to be open
for you. Thank you. That's so nice. Thank you. We appreciate
you. I'm going to try mustard on eggs because of you, and in
Cottie's Cheese. Yes, yes, love Condon. Yes, all right,
you guys be brilliant today. Okay, you're brilliant. Thank you