He's done a lot of things.

He's most probably visible right now on the Netflix series Culinary Class Wars.

We have been binging the hell out of it and we're so proud of him because he's kicking fucking ass.

And I think Netflix has revealed seven episodes.

I think there's like another seven to go, but he's known at a long time and he's, you know, now a proud son of Kentucky and he's opening up, as important as all that is, he's opening up a very important restaurant in Washington D.C. called Shia.

And you're gonna learn more about why it's so special and why it's so important in a little bit.

And we're gonna get a slice of life.

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Sometimes we do this live thing that we're still getting hang on.

And, uh, Dinner Time Live is back tomorrow night.

Yeah.

Yeah.

For our Season 2 Holiday Edition.

Woohoo!

And, uh, I'm not very excited about it, to be honest.

It's gonna be a great show, but I'm not excited because we're dealing with pumpkin spice.

I mean, that's how powerful the algorithm is.

The Netflix algorithm is so fucking powerful in that it's clearly my, my boss is getting me to cook with something that I have never worked with in my life.

I hate with the white hot heat.

I don't like pumpkin spice lattes.

I don't fucking understand it.

I hate pumpkin pie.

And now I have to make several dishes with it.

That's how powerful the algorithm is.

I have to do things against my will.

It's gonna be great.

It's gonna be great.

Tune in.

Watch me have a meltdown. 4 p.m.

Pacific Standard Time.

On, only on Netflix.

To watch a man torture himself.

And we're gonna do an interview with Chef Ed Lee in a second, but before that, a little segment we haven't done in quite some time.

Slice of Life.

Mm-hmm.

Where we talk about the neuroses, the idiosyncratic behavior, et cetera.

Unbelievable minutiae of everyday life.

Yes, and somehow we're gonna tie this in with Culinary Class Wars.

I think we're gonna make it happen.

So, this is something that has never happened to me, but I've heard this and witnessed my friends tell me these kinds of stories, not specifically this one, but what happens when your kids start to go to school, you basically make a whole new group of friends that I don't want.

Meaning the parents of your kids' friends.

My kids' friends, classmates.

And like, I have no choice but to make the circle that I've been trying to whittle down smaller.

Now it's just enormous again.

So we're at Hugo's friend's classmate's birthday over the weekend.

And there was Slice of Life.

There was literally a slice.

There's pizza from Triple Bean Pizza.

Delicious.

I believe Nancy Silverstone is still involved with that.

At least started it, yeah.

Matt, I think, is still the chef.

He used to be the chef at Mozza.

Anyway, we show up.

There's kids running around.

And I know a couple people there.

I see somebody across sort of the lawn, and I'm looking to myself.

I'm like, oh my God.

It's sort of a well-known person, and I don't know what a name drop, but I haven't seen them since before the pandemic.

And before, I'd probably see this person two or three times a year.

Love this guy.

And I was like, oh my God.

It's Dick Cheney.

And I just found out that, yes.

Listen, I do love Dick Cheney.

It's not Dick Cheney.

I call him Richard.

So I haven't seen him, but I've heard that my friend who I haven't seen had recently had twins, young twins that are like, you know, very young.

And this person that I'm looking across the distance, like a hundred feet away, wearing the same kind of clothes as my friend, looks fucking exactly like my friend.

And I don't care.

I even had to ask another person, does that person look like this person?

Because they're sort of like a well-known figure.

And he's like, yeah, I think you're right.

I'm like, wow, that's so crazy.

That's so crazy.

I can't believe that they're just here.

They're just here.

Children's birthday party.

I didn't know that.

Maybe the sibling of Hugo's friend.

I finished the conversation I'm in and then I walk up to him and he's got one of his kids in his arms.

And when I get closer, it's usually sometimes when you get closer like, no, no, no, that's not the person, right?

When you think you are.

In that moment, you're like, oh, that looks vaguely.

Maybe it is.

Let me get close to see.

Here's the problem.

The closer I got, the more I was like, oh, it's definitely this fucking person.

Okay, definitely this fucking person.

There's not a doubt in my mind.

And I'm like, yo, what's up, man?

Can't believe it's been like so long and he looks at me a little bit perplexed.

Like, of course, now retrospect, you gotta say like, yeah, it has been forever and I'm like, hey, where's your other kid?

He's like, oh, you know, here's the thing.

This person also had twins.

Get the fuck out of here, but not identical fraternal.

And I'm like, oh, the other ones are right over there.

I'm like, boy, girl, same.

And I'm like, what the fuck?

Like, this is crazy.

This is crazy.

But are you so you're in this conversation now, you're saying, hey, what's up?

Where's the other kid?

All of the biographical details, all the physical attributes are matching up.

Is there a doubt in your mind at this point?

Are you like, this is no, now I'm like, this is weird because they look so alike.

They both have twins.

Yeah, that I haven't met.

Yeah.

And I was like, similar age.

But are you, do you not want your now you're here?

So the doubt started to happen when I was like, why are you here?

I said, why are you here?

She's my sister.

The Hugo's friends mom who's hosting the party.

It's a sister.

She's like, she's my sister.

Of course.

Like is like, of course, I'd be here.

I was like, I know this person.

I know their family to a degree.

I'm like, I know he's got a sister.

I know he's got a mom.

They're also close.

I was like, what's going on here?

I know this person's got a brother.

I was like, oh, because you're like, oh, this the mom is so now I'm thinking that the mom of Hugo's friend is just randomly randomly relate.

I was like, oh, like I didn't know that.

I don't know.

So I'm like, oh man, I don't know.

Oh, this is not the first.

This is not your friend.

No, but I'm still looking at him like a weirdo being like in my head.

I'm like, I just want to touch his face because it's like he's Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible.

Like I was just expecting to rip it off.

I'm like, what the fuck man?

How is this possible?

I want to say, hey, has anyone said you look like X before but I didn't because still at this time after he told me that she's my brother.

I know enough about this person to know like that actually still checks out.

So I'm now super confused as what to do.

You keep on throwing out these little shibboleths to find out if this is the person you think it is, but they keep on passing the test.

Yes.

Yes.

Just keep on asking.

That's fucking hilarious.

But what made me realize and to this time today, I still don't know what the truth is.

I don't and I mean this.

I don't know.

And now I'm too embarrassed to text my friend, my actual friend.

Yo, man, like great seeing you.

Just to verify.

Yeah, what would what could you tell you?

You don't want to do that because I'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Right.

I didn't know that his sister XYZ like I just didn't know.

So I still don't know the reason why I'm still in the belief that I might be right because it's just uncanny.

It's fucking uncanny really is is the questions.

I was asking this individual who I don't even know whose fucking name was the perplexion.

He was just so confused like I'm being civil and I'm going to try to be nice, but you are asking me the most asinine ridiculous questions humanly possible.

This is my favorite part of this story is thinking about this other person if it is in fact your friend and you know, they just happen to have been there and it matches up and that was your friend in his mind.

He is like God Davis being so fucking weird.

I know and that's why I'm not getting a text back.

But if it's not your friend, it's a total random doppelganger evil twin situation.

Then this doppelganger is going home being like I need the weirdest thing to happen.

David Chang came up to me.

He's going to go to Hugo's friend's mom.

Be like that guy.

FYI is fucking out of his mind.

You know that chef David Chang is fucking weird.

I heard he was weird, but he's really fucking weird.

So I didn't know and I was like should I text the mom?

I was just like, you know what?

I should just see what happens.

See what happened.

And I hope people understand that this wasn't like looks like.

When I say Mission Impossible mask, that's what it was like.

Like you were getting closer and it wasn't getting less.

No, it confirmed my suspicions that it was the person I had.

Okay, so that's that's the part where I'm just like I was at.

I was at like as an airport six months ago or something and somebody called my name out and I thought it was our friend Brandon Jew and I was like, oh, it's Brandon.

I want to go hug.

I want to hug this person with my arms open to hug Brandon.

And as I got within 25 feet, I was like, that's a fucking stranger, man.

Like put your heart back.

So like the fact that you were getting closer and it was becoming more clearly this person.

It's been four and a half years since I've seen this person too.

Also, I asked another person who I was in a conversation with and he's like, yeah, I think that's him.

So I was like, what am I supposed to do?

That's my slice of life.

I don't think anybody will ever believe me.

I don't think anybody will ever experience that kind of match up of a friend slash, you know, face off type situation where I see why I see why this is going to lead us into our Edward Lee conversation because Edward Lee great chef good friend amazing contestant fucking kicks ass in this show.

There's an episode where you'll see somebody that has a resemblance to me.

Okay, it's true.

And it's another one of those things where if you you're going to see Ed on this uncolonial class wars and you're going to be like, what is he competing against Dave?

And then the closer you get to the TV, the more confirmed it is.

But the fact that there's a person that looks somewhat familiar, not nearly as fucking handsome, right?

But you know, still handsome enough to fool people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Stunt double.

He competes against Edward Lee and I'm just going to listen going to give you a spoiler here.

So if you don't want it spoiled earmuffs, Edward Lee fucking crushes this man's soul.

Sends them back to the gates of hell.

The guy that sort of looks like me.

It's interesting.

You were very.

It is like, I think there can only be one person that looks like me.

This is why I was like, this is an interesting story for your therapist.

Like, why do you take so much joy in seeing somebody who looks exactly like you get beaten?

But now I see the answer is clear because he's destroyed the duffel cake.