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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast, and I like to
fancy myself a bit of a foodie.
So joining me for this particular episode across the desk is my co-host.
And a man that will light up a grill on you if you let him.
He is Chad, welcome sir.
I'm having a really hard time talking over this song because I love it so much.
But you know what time of year it is sir?
I am making a pledge.
We are going to be more active in grill use this summer.
You promise?
I'm putting it down right now.
Okay.
There's we've been very lacks in our duties.
Yeah, you can't do these.
So joining us is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who does like to critique food everyone's in again.
You may know him is fondong though, but his mom and name him down for it I'm a column
down for it.
Welcome sir.
If it's edible, I like it.
Now to the grilling.
You saw that Jared's barbecue sauce that you said would share one time together with
that you know, remember that?
I don't know if there's any left of that I don't know.
We were supposed to crack it together.
Well, crack a new one.
I'm sure they can get another one.
You tell us like what?
Three years ago.
Wait in the barbecue with you that long.
Oh, we're doing this summer, brother.
Okay.
Whatever we do one of these, it is always to review something.
This is no exception.
I still have a bottle of I think today we are reviewing for you said listener the brand
new documentary from documentary in Laura Gabbert.
It is called City of Gold.
Before we start this whole thing.
Sir, we got to think our best friends.
We love it.
Everybody now I did a great marketing.
Thank you so much Josh when the invite guys are awesome.
You rock, we love you guys.
As I said, this is a documentary.
Runs right out of our mouth.
Roughly.
And the subject of the documentary is one Jonathan Gold hence the name.
He is a critic for the LA times as well as the LA weekly, which is kind of a subsidiary
they're in.
But he's not the kind of restaurant critic or food critic that's good to spend a
long time a small go.
My kill go there.
And he likes to find these out of the way places, trucks, trucks, strip malls,
strip malls, carts and front of stores that haven't opened yet.
Exactly.
And it's not just mainstream food.
I'm just going to go ahead and say it at one point.
There are fried grasshoppers.
Yeah, it's all I'm saying.
I try it.
It's on my brother.
Why not?
I'll tell you why not.
It's freesty.
But Chad was not able to join us for this one.
He is here for moral support and ask any questions.
Not really much to discuss when it comes to documentaries, but I kind of want to go into
this a little bit.
Go, Hitzer.
If you go to my written review at www.theclubospacas.com, that is our website.
It reminded me a lot of that documentary we critique also for our like supermish.
The legend of the show.
That is what we were walking on.
I thought it was a very interesting view on it.
Go ahead.
Because it's a guy who's well respected in their field.
He's like, you know, Gordon isn't his field, but you have so many people of importance
who of different realms who respect this person.
Now, Chad can I drop a name on you when he talks about that?
Sure.
Andrew Zimmern is one of the interviews in this film that doesn't surprise me when you
mentioned grasshoppers.
He was the first person I thought and he is featured in this thing.
So it's kind of like it had a lot of the field, just like the one we saw in Shep Gordon
there, which really impressed me because it's everybody who they put in this film respects
the guy.
He's a simple looking guy.
He's a very simplistic, drives a truck, but he reminds me a little bit of David
Crossby.
Yeah, you could say that too.
The look there.
But the thing is when he went to load his restaurant, this guy is like a judge on the on the
taste on ABC, well respected chef, and he goes, oh, he's coming in when he comes
in.
I give this guy something super.
Chad, that's him.
Okay.
Yeah.
So you have these well respected chefs when he walks in the door, they will bid over
backwards for him.
Like the same time the next day, he's going to go hit a food truck.
Yeah.
And can I drop another name on you, Chad?
Roy Choi isn't this.
Does that name anything to you?
Not quite sure.
He was the guy that was the technical advisor on Shep.
Okay.
He's the guy at the end that's teaching him how to do the grilled cheese sandwich.
Oh, God.
I saw this guy's name and I'm like, done.
I still aspire to make a grilled cheese sandwich.
It looks that good.
But it just reminded me of the respect that this guy has.
And he's more than just a food critic, just like we saw in a supermanch where it's more
than just what you see of a food critic, this guy can does the cello, does a bunch of other
stuff on this.
So it's a guy with a lot of stuff you never expect in a very simple guy, but with
that ton of race and can I reference your review at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
Something that maybe you and I differed on, what's up in your review, you talk about
how this kind of did the same thing for your hunger pains that Shep did.
Yeah.
For me, it didn't.
Let me tell you what.
Okay, go ahead.
Where to me, Shep was more about the food.
In this film, there was a balance between the food and the man, but it was more about
the man.
So kind of the food came secondary, like what I walked out of Shep, I was like, I need
to go somewhere and get something right now.
Yeah.
With this, I was comfortable.
I was like, you know, some of that was cool, some of it was a little creepy.
But it didn't affect me in that way, Shep did.
You know what I mean?
I can see your point, but for me, it did, and to make a point, because I learned
this from watching Shep, is when there's certain times I got to the point where you
actually budget me thinking I was asleep.
I had to close my eyes so much during this film, because if I kept on looking at the
food, I would forget what the guy is saying.
So there was time, so I'm going to ask, just close my eyes to this side, because I just
wanted to hear what they were talking about, and I kind of, I like that.
You know what I'm saying?
That's interesting take on that.
Yeah, that's why I go, I'm up, I'm up.
You know, the food took that me to that level, watching some of the stuff, yes, I got hungry,
and a lot of people who watch this will probably get hungry watching this.
So, eat before you go in to be fair warned.
And can we do a minor spoiler alert here?
Yeah, and I think Chad will be interested in this.
Don says how he was a musician, he paid the cello.
You want to hear something that he was present for the recording of?
That Don was present?
No, that the subject of this was present.
Oh, okay.
You're ready?
What?
He was there.
And they talk about it a little bit in the film.
Interesting.
Yeah, he played with, he played cello in a punk band for a while, like, this dude has levels.
It's just like a super big, yeah, it's Jonathan Gold.
It's a great study of a person, because he doesn't, he's not one of these food snobs,
he drives around, he has a brother who's an environmentalist.
And he talks about how, you know, my brother is trying to save the world, and I went out
and bought the probably the worst car for the environment you could have five years ago.
He drives around this Dodge pickup truck.
And what I really kind of dug about the way they tell the story is they give you this
big map of LA.
And then one point they'll zoom in, sometimes on a specific street in a section of LA.
And you really don't understand the power of critique as much.
I think I got a better, of even better understanding, even though we are critics.
Sometimes we don't understand how we affect people.
And one of the stories they tell in this thing is about a lady that owns an Ethiopian restaurant.
And basically her son was helping keep it open because they weren't getting any people
in the doors after 9-11.
She says, went to bed one night, woke up the next day, and I had people wrapped around
the block.
And I didn't know what was going on, and somebody told me that Jonathan Gold had written
a review of my restaurant in LA Weekly.
She goes on.
She goes on.
She goes, I haven't been able to keep people away ever since.
You're just what I like times.
Well, this was also featured in LA Weekly, because I think the weekly is a subsidiary of
times.
Kind of like if the observer worked for the Dallas Marine, that's what I mean.
And it shows you the power of your words.
If you have a following, and there are people that are going to rely on your opinion
of what to go, where to go, and what to see, I mean, these people, there are people,
and you see it all through this film, that frame have matted and framed copies of his
reviews of their restaurants on their walls, his word is gospel.
And when we went to the screening, Allied was awesome enough to give us a little booklet
of his top 100 restaurants in LA for 2015.
And if we can only get him to come here, believe me, he's got plenty of work to do in
LA.
I mean, he's all over the map.
He's in Hollywood, then he's in, you know, he's, he's in Alhambra, and it's kind of cool
because they show you the areas, and he kind of gives you a brief history of some of
the areas.
And I don't, don't quote me on this, but I could have sworn, I saw the car wash from
car wash at some point in film, but pretty sure I saw he said he will eat their multiple
times.
The most was 17.
Yeah, so he's there.
He won't just eat their ones before he reviews.
He'll eat a few times.
He said the most of the several things on the menu.
It's several different days.
Yeah, back in this half of the watch I filmed 17 times and I view it.
Hands on the film.
Not a couple.
But I thought that was really neat how he just doesn't eat somewhere once and right to review.
Now granted, that's a get that does that does tend to annoy his editors because they're
waiting for the article.
He's a real procrastinator, he missed that.
But I really, really, I wasn't sure going into this what I was going to think, but
I really, really enjoyed this documentary.
Of course, we talk about time on our normal show on Sunday nights, how as I'm getting
older, I'm getting a better appreciation for documentaries, and this is a prime example of
that.
Yeah, and then the thing that really sunk to me, which I said earlier, but how he'll
walk to the taco stand, but then he'll walk into a restaurant owned by, like I said,
Ludo, who's on the taste.
He'll show it him in there.
Oh, he goes.
Yeah, he was a guy with a beard and stuff and he showed him that little like the little
bull thing.
It says, when he walks in, I give him the whole thing or whatever he's talking about.
He's getting.
They're cooking.
I didn't know that he was on the taste.
Yeah.
He's a well-respected chef who owns the lion restaurants, and these are a high dollar
restaurants.
He goes, when Jonathan walks in, I give him a him the five star.
Oh, absolutely.
Then the next night, he's, you know, he's spending that place that's, you know, fifty
dollars a plate, then goes to a taco stand on the corner.
The next next day.
Yeah.
And when he goes to the taco chance, then Chad, the reason he goes to the taco stand is
because they tweeted something out that morning of a brand new thing called the Poseidon
that they were trying.
He's like, I want that.
You put the tweet up.
I want that.
Like, and you mentioned earlier, you know, I kind of want to piggyback or something
you said just a moment ago, where you wish he was in Dallas, there's a guy from New
York in this that says, I would kill to have him come to New York.
Like that's how, well, he's the first food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
And yeah.
I mean, this, it's, and he's not, he doesn't like, look at my Pulitzer.
It's like everybody else talking about his Pulitzer and then they show it in his house.
He's like, he's very, he's just very cool about everything.
And that just made my enjoyment of this documentary that much deeper.
He seems really accessible.
He, he's out there walking the street with his wife and kids and, oh, he's married with kids.
I didn't realize that.
Yes.
It is wife works for the, the times also.
It is life as an arts and entertainment editor, I believe that they meet while they
worked on the paper, while he, well, they were interning.
That's how they met.
Anything else we want to go before we to final analysis?
No, no, no, no, you've got to be intrigued.
You've got to be sold the way we do the final analysis on the show.
We're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you one to 10.
We're not going to give you letter grade stars.
Anything like that, our audience, whom we affectionately refer to as the empire.
They like us to go deeper than that.
So we're going to don't and I are going to answer up to two questions.
Question number one, is would you see this film again?
The answer is no, we're done here.
The answer is yes.
Then it's how far are you willing to go?
Full price is the top ranking.
Right below that twilight, not the movie, the time.
Matt and A, early morning weekend, second run at the dollar theater, red box rental,
Netflix streaming cable.
Dawn, would you see this film again?
Oh, yeah, how far are you willing to go?
I'm, I'm going to recommend it as something like in a mid or late afternoon in what
I'm technically a Matt and A, you can say, or twilight in what I'm saying is, eat once
before you go in and maybe wait a couple hours, but then go and see that because when you leave
you're going to want to have dinner after see, I'm going to agree with you, but flip
to script.
Okay.
I would definitely see this again, see it at a twilight and then go find dinner.
Yeah, so say, because what you're going to need what I'm saying is this film may inspire
you to seek out a different style of food that you're used to because he goes to all these
different styles of food and it may make you go, you know what, maybe I want to try
that tonight.
Yeah.
But you see, I can find that in my area.
Yeah, I don't see any cats running around the kitchen.
So let's give it a shot.
Easy, killer.
It is called City of Gold.
It is directed by Laura Gabbert.
Again, before we end this thing, thank you so much to Josh and everybody at Alite for
inviting us to this thing.
Some of our favorite people in the world, they take care of us more than they ever
have to.
Go check out this film.
It is called City of Gold.
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