Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
69:38 – 76:48… Favreau said in the director commentary for some of the road scenes they used stock footage and put the truck in digitally which that was pretty convincing. Apex Mountain. Chefs? Did it ever get better for chefs than 2014? It is definitely peak chef time. Peak chef. Apex Mountain. Favreau? No. I actually think it's probably after Iron Man comes out. I think we did that. Although Van I think made the case for Mando. What did Van say for Favreau and Apex Mountain? Iron Man I think. I think it was Iron Man. I think we agree on that. You guys don't think it's the Mandalorian? As an actor or director? Because he …
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Fridays and you can briefly see Roy Choi's truck. Yeah. Kogi was in the background. Initial truck. And then Favreau said in the director commentary for some of the road scenes they used stock footage and put the truck in digitally which that was pretty convincing. Apex Mountain. Chefs? Did it ever get better for chefs than 2014? It is definitely peak chef time. Peak chef. Apex Mountain. Favreau? No. I actually think it's probably after Iron Man comes out. I think we did that. Although Van I think made the case for Mando. What did Van say for Favreau and Apex Mountain? Iron Man I think. I think it was Iron Man. I think we agree on that. You guys don't think it's the Mandalorian? As an actor or director? Because he coming at Iron Man. He thought it was Mando and then you explained why Iron Man had more juice. Yeah. Twitter. Peak Twitter. Right? Two years later Trump ruins Twitter and then Twitter turns into this just. Or do you consider that peak Twitter? I think 2014 there was still something fun about Twitter. It was still promotional but it wasn't it wasn't what it became. I mean everything in 2014 seemed possible in a good way. Right. It's true. Wow. It's one of the last nice eras we've had. It was an apex life. Yeah maybe it was. Food critics definitely. Unless you would say like two years earlier. I'm also going to say hot take. Apex Cubano sandwich. I had Cubanos next. I love a Cubano. When have Cubanos ever been used better? Do you want to do Cubanos now? Because I had this on unanswerable questions. Okay. Let's go. Want to do it now? Let's go. Why aren't they more in my life? I can't remember ever being like hey man there's this place that has these great Cubanos do you want to go? And me saying like no that sounds terrible. Or hey I made you a Cubano do you want a bite? Like I'd love a bite. It's just for some reason they kind of fell by the way the sandwich wayside in a way that I don't totally understand. They don't seem that hard to make. They're delicious number one. Yeah. And it's one of the very few sandwiches I like mustard on. I'm not a mustard guy. It's got you have to have a steady thing of pickles in there. It's got everything. The fat. If I have to be critical I think the ham is unnecessary. There's usually a slice of ham. So you would do grilled cheese with no meat. No there's ham and there's like deli ham and there's like roast pork leg in there. Oh in the official and the Cubano they made in this. And I think they put the ham in there too if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. But you don't see Cubanos maybe because there's not. I can't remember the last time I've had one. I don't even really remember what's in it. In New York I would get them a bunch. So what's you're making a Cubano for me. What are you putting in it? Pork no ham. No I mean. French bread. Here's the thing. If I'm going to make it for you I'm going to try to make it as like the real version. Yeah. And then me I probably would probably put some other salted pork in there. But you really need that for the salt because it's a lot of meat that may not be seasoned. So that's why this I think the ham slice has an actual legitimate reason to be in there but I probably would put something else in there. So when they go to Franco barbecue and they make it with the Franco barbecue meat. That's the one I want to eat. That looked like the single most delicious sandwich you could ever in your life. That would be sick. We got Philippe's French dip last week actually postmated it but put the sauce on the side and then toasted the the the French dip a little bit more and then it was fucking great. I was fucking great. The Cubano is really great because it's a walking and eating sandwich. Right. It's a great walking and not super drippy if it's made correctly. No. Yeah it seems like pretty replicable. Underrated. Apex Cubano also criminally underrated. Still. Yeah. I don't even know where you can can you even get one? It's like the Robert Horry of sandwiches. Sofia Vergara. I'm gonna say probably it's a couple years earlier when she's on Modern Family just getting nominated for Emmys year after year but it's right around her apex. Probably maybe a year before. The TV show Hell's Kitchen I think Apex Mountain. I think it's still Apex. My son still watches it on YouTube. One of the biggest shows. My son loves it. It's huge. You know I never told you this because I thought you'd get mad but my son said to me dad why doesn't Chang make a show like Hell's Kitchen where he just yells at everybody. I was like because that's because he would never do that. We'll see. He loves watching Gordon Ramsay just yell at people. Ramsay's like Eminem at yelling at people. He really is. Yeah it's tough to match. Apex Mountain for South Beach. I'm gonna make the case right now. No way. LeBron's still there. The Heat have won during the finals four straight years. Yeah maybe for that. Miami's a thing. Miami. All the hotels have really rounded in a shape in a real way. Pete the word is out that Miami is actually like the cool place to go and have fun for five days and it's a little under the radar you're not getting captured by paparazzi. All the celebrities are going down there. At that point with South Beach it was known that NBA teams like don't bet on them the day in an afternoon game after they've been in South Beach. I feel like the legend of South Beach was really going at this point. Maybe for sports and nightlife but for food it's this year. It's since the pandemic. 23. 21, 22 because there was no rules. Yeah. You can do whatever you want. So many people moved down there to operate and it's become like one of if not the best food cities in America. Really? It's crazy. Yeah for sure. It's Apex. You've talked about this on your pod so I shouldn't sound surprised. Yeah. What's the number one restaurant there now in your opinion? I don't know what's the number one but everyone's going to Carbone and all their iterations of it. Okay. Yeah. Vignettes? I think underrated not Apex. People don't know. I was trying to think maybe in a movie. Probably in a movie. I've never seen it in another movie. Yeah. They did a good job. And then Roy Choi. It's peak powers at this point. Right around when he won the award. He's got the truck. He's helping Favreau make a movie. I think it's still I think the chef more I don't know how many people watch the Netflix show. Okay. Fair. That's like to me that's when when people watch Netflix shit like really pops. Any other Apex Mountain for you? No. Okay. Best racehorse name from this movie. El Jefe is obviously the winner. I put Ramsey Michelle. Ramsey Michelle's good. I also like Cubano. It's like here comes Cubano. Pickinets. Why is Inez so wealthy? What's her deal? Is it because she married Robert Downey Jr. and I think Favreau's character implies that she's an actress that I don't this is a good pick and knit because there's a backstory with her that I don't totally understand. It's just like they were married and she was rich and that's it. They leave it alone. Probably could have been explained in 20 seconds by somebody just show her on into oh one of your
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