
Bob has a Facebook Marketplace addiction and bought himself an instructional album on how to dance like John Travolta. Jay also wants to jump in on the disco action. Jay hurts Bob's feelings by criticizing his sweatsuits. Chris Faga & Robbie Bernstein have specials out now on YouTube. They help the guys create a new food truck idea which favors Armenian chicken and rice. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolf
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Big J Okerson
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Robert Kelly
I haven't, but I'm very excited to check it out this weekend.
Big J Okerson
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Robert Kelly
I love guy talk. And I love manly alpha male places. And this sounds like the best place for me.
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Big J Okerson
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Robert Kelly
I got strong. Thanks, buddy. Don, I'm just going to let you know that I purchased something and I. And it's just the way it is. I bought Danny Terrio's Night Moves for LP album on how to dance like Tony Monero in Saturday Night Fever. And it's going to be here Friday. And I bought it. It's unopened. And I'm going to learn to dance like Tony Monero. Down.
Big J Okerson
What's the way it is? And that's the way it is.
Robert Kelly
Watch the movie. I can show you the moves. What? You don't know that from Heart by Heart? No, I don't know it from.
Big J Okerson
I didn't see this angle coming.
Robert Kelly
No, from Saturday Night Fever. No, I. I know you need. I want to know how to do it right. I want to do it good. And Danny Terrio has a four album instructional. Instructional. Awesome. Did you buy the suit to go with it? Okay, that's condescending that is condescending, Dawn. And I'm not trying. I'm not. I'm not. All right, don't be condescending. I'm serious about something, and you should back me on this. I gotta go. What? I have stuff in the cart that is unfreezing that needs to go home. Okay. Well, that's attractive and just, you know.
Big J Okerson
And I'm a man and I'm gonna dance.
Robert Kelly
I'm a man and I'm gonna. I'm. I'm in the dance. I'm in. I'm gonna dance. I'm into dancing. I'm gonna dance. Okay. I can't wait to video it. Yeah, well, you're. I'm gonna usher you off the dance floor like he did to Fran Drescher. I'm like, enough of this. Oh, fantastic. Okay. All right, bye. I love you.
Big J Okerson
Bye. I feel like somewhere that she laughed her whole way. She. She laughed her outro. That might be a Face on the Glass situation. I'm gonna tell you how to live your life. I know. It's the holiday week.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, it might be.
Big J Okerson
Oh, my God. Dude, we should both get leisure suits.
Robert Kelly
But do they make that in double xl? Does True Classic make a version of that?
Big J Okerson
I can't do this unless the True Classic is involved. Bobby, I'm telling you, at any given one of the. It could be a skank fest. It could be a holiday party. It could be something. When we are able to. I will put in the work with you to do a wonderfully choreographed dance. It's both of our dreams.
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Big J Okerson
We both want this. We both have friends who would be like, I'm not doing right because this is our gay thing that we're going to be like, I don't care. I like it.
Robert Kelly
Right?
Big J Okerson
This is our going to the Grateful Dead. Or I think we have a vision and it's that the two of us destroy a room. Destroy a room with just the art of dance for the first time. No words. We don't have to be clever. We don't have to think. Our body's activity moves an audience, moves.
Robert Kelly
The audience to where we. And when we're done, you know what we do? We leave. We walk.
Big J Okerson
We walk off.
Robert Kelly
We walk off.
Big J Okerson
We walk off. It's not a thing. You know, we want to be talked to. We're not going to sit there and laugh and let people go. It's like, holy shit. It's crazy. You guys did. No, no. We leave. It goes. You're not talking to comedian Bob and Jay right now.
Robert Kelly
You know what we do? I'll tell you what we do, right? When we walk out and we walk up 6 Ave. And we strut.
Big J Okerson
Strut.
Robert Kelly
We strut.
Big J Okerson
We fucking strut. And maybe every time we see, like a pretty girl, we give her a little, like couple seconds of dance.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And then woo her and then send her back to her boyfriend. But she's gonna be like, what the hell was that?
Robert Kelly
We strut right over to Joe's Pizza, get two slices, fold them up, fold it right. Maybe get a pay can.
Big J Okerson
Oh, I could definitely walk to this. Ooh, Going to my dad's hardware store.
Robert Kelly
Look at those shoes. I can't afford them yet.
Big J Okerson
Oh, well, we're getting them. They're coming. Remember the dumb scene when he puts his brother's priest collar on?
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And then the symbol symbolism where he hangs it like a noose. He's like, oh, look at this. It's like hanging by your neck.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, the Al Pacino.
Big J Okerson
Attica. Al Pacino.
Robert Kelly
It's coming Friday. And I'm. I've never been more excited about something that I've bought myself.
Big J Okerson
Let me tell you something, Robert Hayes, an airplane pulled off a pretty good version of that dance.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
If Robert Hayes can do it, I'm going to argue we can do it.
Robert Kelly
I think we can.
Big J Okerson
Robert Hayes had a. Maybe an unfortunate career is the wrong word. But it never really popped after the Airplane films. He was never the guy in anything else. Christine. Yes, you, please. You could bring up Airplane. Saturday Night Fever dance. It's maybe one of the funniest things in a movie ever. I love slapstick shit. When it was like, when it came out. I know, like the early stuff.
Robert Kelly
I just.
Big J Okerson
Good writers and shit too. I mean, they started making so many shitty ones. You never saw Airplane? Christine.
Robert Kelly
You never saw A Saturday Night Fever and Airplane?
Christine
No, I was born in 1985.
Big J Okerson
This is great.
Robert Kelly
That doesn't mean.
Big J Okerson
They say it's. They say it's a bad bar. It's just two girl scouts fight. Beat the out of each other. God damn, these movies were great. You could skip it low. Oh, I love that. Yeah. When her panties come out. That was a big deal when I was a kid.
Robert Kelly
That's a big deal now.
Big J Okerson
Also. Airplane movies always had a great. They just knew what they were doing. Every time there was a scene where everybody went nuts inside the airplane, just tits would come across the screen. Oh, yeah. Is this the volume on it? This is maybe one of the funniest things ever.
Robert Kelly
He's in a bar. There's Merchant Marines. Old fat ladies in sundresses.
Big J Okerson
I mean, it's complete slapstick movie. So.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. And everybody just took their clothes off when this song came on. And this whole bar turned into a disco. It's fantastic.
Big J Okerson
Go get our guests and we will take a break.
Robert Kelly
Please go get our guests and we.
Big J Okerson
Will get a break.
Robert Kelly
She just rolled her eyes.
Big J Okerson
What?
Robert Kelly
You have no manners, man.
Big J Okerson
What do you mean?
Robert Kelly
You say, go get our guests, and you pointed to the door.
Big J Okerson
He's your fucking producer. Go get a guest.
Robert Kelly
All right. Okay.
Big J Okerson
Just running a show. Go get the guests. We're gonna do plugs and we'll take a break and we'll come back with our guests.
Robert Kelly
That's a little better. The tone changed a little bit. I like it. It's the bonfire. We'll be right back. We got great guests coming in today, and we're gonna have great news, everyone.
Big J Okerson
There's a Sunday show with some tickets left in Philly now. I was unaware of it. It's happening.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Make sure you go to check this out. Big plug. Robert Kelly, comedy at YouTube. Robert Kelly. All stand up. Just stand up is going up there. All stand up.
Big J Okerson
Nice.
Robert Kelly
Check it out. And mom gonna be putting my special up there. Wouldn't be putting my comedy because I realized that none of my standup is really on YouTube. And we're gonna change that for all you out there.
Big J Okerson
I think I'll be putting my crowdwork specials on YouTube. Yeah, I think so.
Robert Kelly
I think my other special, Live from the Village Underground, going to punch up live.
Big J Okerson
Nice. I think Netflix didn't give two fucking shits about my scrapbook special.
Robert Kelly
Who does your dance partner?
Big J Okerson
Bobby Kelly, my dance partner and life partner.
Robert Kelly
We'll be right back. It's the bonfire.
Big J Okerson
This is Bonfire faction talk series XM103. We're back, everybody. Big Jokers and Robert Kelly, two fun guests joining us in the studio. Bobby, you want to practice your intros?
Robert Kelly
I'd love to.
Big J Okerson
Nice.
Robert Kelly
Right now, man. We got a unbelievable guests been on before and glad to have him back right now live in the studio. Robbie Bernstein. And we're promoting is. Nope. I fucked up because there's a lot of shit up here. Dude.
Big J Okerson
These are just little Cliff Notes. Bobby, you gotta throw your. Bobby, can I tell you something? Can I talk to you?
Robert Kelly
Yeah, yeah, please, go ahead.
Big J Okerson
You've got pizzazz, my friend, and you got it in spades. So what you're doing is you're panicking.
Robert Kelly
Yep.
Big J Okerson
And you're starting to read. And you're just trying to stick to the word like. Can I read this right? Take it as fact, everybody.
Robbie Bernstein
Pizzazz. Are those little wafery Italian cookies, right?
Big J Okerson
Yes, Bobby, you understand pizzazz.
Robert Kelly
I love those cookies.
Big J Okerson
Watch how good this is. Ready?
Robert Kelly
You gonna do it?
Big J Okerson
I'll do it.
Robert Kelly
You do it?
Big J Okerson
I'll do it. We have two amazing guests, everybody. Our first guest, live from the Denver Comedy Garage, is streaming right now on YouTube, everybody. It's the hilarious Robbie Bernstein joining us in the studio. And speaking of specials. So good, right? Speaking of specials, our next guest also returning the show, everybody, has a new special called Burn after saying, also available right now on YouTube. Make some noise for Chris Fag. Everybody. Make some noise. Blue. I blew it. What? Makes some noise. That's a live intro.
Robert Kelly
Here's the thing, though.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Is the first time where I had the intro. Two.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
The last time it was one, and I nailed it.
Big J Okerson
Correct.
Robert Kelly
And now you.
Big J Okerson
Some of your lips started flipping right away because you.
Robert Kelly
It was two. It was separate. And they were promoting two. It wasn't. They were promoting the same thing. They're promoting two different. So if I knew that going in, if I knew, if I had the info, the intel before going in, I would have had a better shot.
Christine
You got to work your way up. Maybe get one and a half.
Robert Kelly
First I got one, and then it's like, I would have nailed yours. But then I looked down, I'm like.
Robbie Bernstein
And Bobby remembered he doesn't know how to pronounce my last name.
Robert Kelly
Faga.
Robbie Bernstein
Close.
Robert Kelly
Faga.
Robbie Bernstein
All right.
Big J Okerson
Faga.
Robert Kelly
Faga.
Big J Okerson
That's right.
Robert Kelly
I got it. I had that.
Big J Okerson
He wants to say faga really bad. Oh, really?
Robert Kelly
Does I did not. Does not.
Big J Okerson
No, no, no, no, no. You're always there instinctually. Like, your Boston thing is like, leaning it to say that Faga. You're. It's. Yeah, yeah. You see those letters and you're like, it's only said one way.
Robert Kelly
Faggot. Fag. A kid.
Big J Okerson
I mean, I don't know how. We've never talked about this. Was that a nightmare? Growing up, did you have to learn how to fight pretty quick? But no one made a thing at all.
Robbie Bernstein
Didn't come up very often at all. People say that to me all the time, and I'm like, once in a while.
Robert Kelly
When did you grow up? What years?
Robbie Bernstein
I was born in 1983, so late 90s. I mean, people were. I was calling people and rarely front.
Big J Okerson
Was it rarely when people didn't notice, it was more of a friend that would say it. Not even like a yeah. Somebody coming at you.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, I remember I was the only person who ever caught a really good burn on me was a corrections officer in Brooklyn who was like, which one of you is Fag A?
Big J Okerson
I'm Fag C, sir. Fag A's over there. That's fantastic.
Robert Kelly
That was a great intro till the end. You did blow it at the end.
Big J Okerson
I did whiff a little bit at the end. Robbie happy. Almost Hanukkah. I guess I'm trying to find some Jewish common ground with Robbie. We're the only Jews here in this room. Now that Jacob's in Florida, where Jews go.
Robert Kelly
You're not really Jewish.
Big J Okerson
What do you mean?
Robert Kelly
You're Jewish by a little tiny bit.
Big J Okerson
A little bit. Rob, you grew up religious, right?
Christine
I grew up religious. And Hanukkah is a good one because you can show up for the holiday and you don't have to actually do anything. It's just lighting candles. You eat something, you move on. You don't have to show up to synagogue. You don't have to do anything.
Robert Kelly
You pretty much. You were jealous that the Catholics had Christmas. And you were like, you know what? Let's do eight days, not one.
Christine
When you were a kid, like that Sega Genesis commercial, you felt like you were missing out on so much.
Robert Kelly
You were Jesus Christ getting into heaven salvation.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Our Lord and Savior. Yes.
Big J Okerson
Well, I remember the thing was with. It depends also, again, I grew up broke. We were like dirt broke when I was younger. My mom worked like retail and stuff. It was nothing. Like we have any money, so I never had. I'm sure Hanukkah in a well to do Jewish household is awesome. I'd have to assume it's awesome. Like gifts wise and everything. But like when it's broken eight gifts, like, that's a commitment to how many you have to get now versus Christmas, where you can get one thing. So the problem was like, it'd be exactly like if you. If God forbid, somehow you were getting a video game system or something. For Hanukkah, in my house, it was like Sega Genesis Day 1, the game that came with it, a second day, you know, the other controller that was always there. Another day, the RGB came.
Robert Kelly
They had to open the box and wrap it separately.
Big J Okerson
Absolutely.
Robert Kelly
I mean, Christmas still, no offense, Christmas rocks. I mean, you guys, it's. It's fine. But Christmas, well, it's the energy.
Big J Okerson
You're not. You don't get in. Judy. I bet in Israel or something it's pretty fucking cool. No, I really. I think everyone's partaking. No one's partaking in it but you when you're here.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, but Hanukkah, it's like, it's still traditional, like Christmas is. It's a buildup. It's a. And we have a lot of going on before. And then the Christmas Eve is an awesome night. And then when you wake up Christmas.
Big J Okerson
Morning, it's trying to sell. You're trying to sell Christianity to two Jewish people. No, you don't understand.
Robert Kelly
It's way better.
Christine
Family, church, it always seemed more spectacular. And as a kid, it felt like you were missing out on something. As an adult, I love the quiet of Christmas.
Big J Okerson
Oh, yeah, because you're a Jew.
Christine
Yeah, because I don't know, there's nothing going on. No one's calling you, no one needs anything. It feels like you're living during the apocalypse.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
We have Thanksgiving. That's what we call.
Christine
No, but Thanksgiving, you feel sad if you're not doing something because you're like, I don't have a. I haven't had that. But if you don't do things on Thanksgiving, I think you feel sad on Christmas. Now I don't feel like I'm missing out. I feel like it's a peaceful day where I can. I have the roads to myself. I can go anywhere. But there's something very nice about it.
Big J Okerson
Chinese New Year.
Robbie Bernstein
I remember my buddy called me on a Christmas. It was like after my dad died, I wasn't doing anything for Christmas for a while after my dad passed away. And then my buddy Dave, right after he got married, he calls me, he goes, what are you doing today? Fucking jerking off and playing video games. I gotta go see my divorced parents. And then tomorrow we're gonna go see my wife's fucking divorced parents. My whole fucking week is shot. Go fuck yourself. And just hung up on me on Christmas morning. And I felt really good about being alone on Christmas.
Big J Okerson
Yeah. Yeah. Now there's times definitely for sure. I like the. Going to a movie on Christmas is nice. A lot of people there. You get to kind of dominate the theater.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. I mean, Christmas for me is the best.
Robbie Bernstein
It's the only time the Chinese are happy to see you. Thank God somebody's here.
Christine
She's like some of those iconic moments you saw as a kid, like Home alone when he tosses him the gift.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Christine
There's just so many iconic moments. You feel like you never. To this day, I could see myself running down to a Christmas tree and opening up a gift and being a four year old for that why don't.
Robert Kelly
You come over this Christmas?
Christine
I would love to, if you're actually inviting me.
Robert Kelly
You come over for Christmas, and I will have a bunch of little gifts waiting for you.
Christine
Little gingerbread cookies. I've always wanted a nice gingerbread cookie.
Big J Okerson
Love, Robbie the Fire. And little personalized pajamas.
Robert Kelly
But you have to. Yeah, you have to wear a onesie. You have to wear little feetsy pajamas. And you have to pretend like you're Max's age.
Christine
I could see myself as an adult, getting stuck in the zipper and pissing myself in one of those.
Big J Okerson
When you open up presents, I want you to just be child whimsy. Like, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.
Robert Kelly
And I'm going to hold one present back, and you'll be like, I didn't get what I wanted. And be like, what's behind the tree over there? What is that?
Big J Okerson
What's wrong, little Robbie? Did you ask Santa for something you didn't get? Yeah, just stupid Sega Genesis.
Christine
Do you guys do good cookies on Christmas?
Robert Kelly
Oh, my God. Dude, we have Christmas Eve. We have a big party. People come over. We have food. What's that?
Christine
A roast. Don't you got to do a big roast? Isn't that the Christmas thing?
Robert Kelly
No. In my house, we were Irish. It was a ham. It was a ham.
Big J Okerson
What is it now? I always say Christmas is a great time to go Italian.
Robert Kelly
We do Appetite.
Big J Okerson
Hardcore Italian.
Robert Kelly
We do pasta. We do appetizers, stuff like that.
Big J Okerson
A lasagna. Maybe that's the time the lasagna gets pulled out.
Robert Kelly
Christmas morning is breakfast. Big breakfast. You do the stockings. You guys don't have stockings. Dude, you don't get to open a stocking.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, but you know what you don't get, dude?
Robert Kelly
What?
Big J Okerson
Giant saltines. Unleavened bread. You don't get that, do you? Thank God you don't get a fish hot dog called gefilte fish.
Robert Kelly
Oh, that is the worst.
Christine
Why did you ever eat that?
Big J Okerson
I still love it.
Robert Kelly
What?
Robbie Bernstein
You're the one we were just talking about. I like a Jewish. I like a herring with cream. And certain Jewish things I like.
Robert Kelly
I'm gonna put my filter fish.
Robbie Bernstein
I can't do.
Big J Okerson
Really? You can do herring.
Robbie Bernstein
I can do herring, no problem.
Big J Okerson
And no.
Robert Kelly
Wow, white fish. I'm into whitefish.
Christine
Yes.
Big J Okerson
Fine whitefish. Salad.
Robert Kelly
Whitefish.
Big J Okerson
Yeah. Salad.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I know. I know it's a salad.
Big J Okerson
You just weren't.
Robbie Bernstein
It looks like a tumor, Jay. It looks like what they pull out of your lungs.
Robert Kelly
It's disgusting.
Big J Okerson
It's like tofu. It's a blank, tasteless vehicle to get that awesome horseradish that, I mean, opens up brainwaves you didn't know you had before.
Robert Kelly
Just get the horseradish. It's disgusting.
Big J Okerson
There's nothing to put beet horseradish on besides this.
Christine
A white horseradish, like on meatballs or a roast, like white horseradish all day.
Big J Okerson
White horseradish goes on all kinds of oysters.
Robert Kelly
Kefelta fish is the worst. And I've tried all Jewish food. I was friends with Lenny.
Big J Okerson
Did you try gefelta fish?
Robert Kelly
Yeah, Lenny Marcus. We used to have lunch with Lenny every Tuesday.
Big J Okerson
Oh, really?
Robert Kelly
And we would go until Leslie.
Big J Okerson
Until Leslie Jones took him out of your life.
Robert Kelly
So she stole that little Jew boy.
Big J Okerson
Grabbed him right in her fist and ran out of the city.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Where's Lenny?
Robbie Bernstein
The opposite of a Mice and Men. She just pets him and breaks his neck.
Robert Kelly
And every day, every week, we try a new Jewish thing. And I loved it all. I love the little pancakes. Great.
Big J Okerson
Don't call them that.
Robert Kelly
What are they called?
Big J Okerson
Latkes.
Robert Kelly
Latke.
Big J Okerson
Potato.
Robert Kelly
It's a potato pancake.
Big J Okerson
Right, but you're saying pancake connotates something sweet.
Robert Kelly
It's a pancake. And you get it with applesauce.
Big J Okerson
You can't put applesauce on it.
Robert Kelly
Or sweet.
Christine
It's also great with sour.
Big J Okerson
Listen, I tell you what.
Robert Kelly
I've had it both ways.
Big J Okerson
I'll do both. How about sour cream and applesauce?
Robert Kelly
And I'll tell you right now, fucking amazing. I loved it.
Big J Okerson
Blintz.
Robert Kelly
A blintz. I love a blitz. What's the thing with the knish?
Christine
Knishes are great.
Robert Kelly
Let me tell you. Knish with mustard.
Robbie Bernstein
This is a food that's fallen out of favor for no reason.
Christine
You know what's great? A ground mustard and a knish. And then you throw some pastrami on top of that.
Robert Kelly
Listen, bro, I'm with you with all.
Big J Okerson
Some of the good pastrami places. Make a pastrami knish already.
Robbie Bernstein
Listen, there's places that'll do like a press sandwich. Like, almost like a panini with a knish.
Big J Okerson
Really?
Robert Kelly
Yeah, it's great. But when you get to the kefelta fish and I.
Big J Okerson
You don't get to it. The gefilte fish comes in way early.
Robert Kelly
I.
Big J Okerson
And a good mom and a good mamam will put a little carrot circle. But on top of it, I had.
Robert Kelly
A Jewish foster father for three years.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
And I went through the whole.
Christine
You're like, put me back in prison.
Robert Kelly
And I had the kefelta fish. Then I was. And then I did it again with lunch with Lenny years later. Let me retry my. I'm a man now. I'm a grown adult. Let me retry this. And we did all this, and I loved all of the stuff I didn't like. And then we got to the kefelta fish, and it's gross. It's disgusting.
Big J Okerson
Could you. What, for the holiday season?
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Big J Okerson
Would you try to fill to fish one more time for me in here? A little beat horseradish. I'll zhuzh it up like my mom did.
Robbie Bernstein
Are you gonna make it or.
Christine
I gotta know what you can fill to fish. Because there's two styles. There's the. That style, which comes out of a jar, and then there's the one that you gotta prepare, which is the flat surface.
Big J Okerson
I don't like the flat surface ones. No, I'm a. I'm definitely there.
Christine
You're an out of the Man Shevitz jelly.
Big J Okerson
I want the brain. I want the jelly. The jelly's gonna be off it, Bobby. It pulls right out of the jelly.
Robert Kelly
Why do you need jelly? To keep something alive.
Christine
It's got the texture like you're eating someone's testicle.
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Robbie Bernstein
I like how your hors d'oeuvres come out of the matrix before you eat them.
Big J Okerson
Definitely tastes like. Absolutely. You gotta bring up a video of gefilte fish being pulled out of that gel. That gel, by the way, is unappetizing looking. I'll always give you that.
Robert Kelly
And the sound when you take it out sounds like you're pulling your fist out of a woman's vagina.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. It's definitely. Yeah, it's definitely queef.
Robert Kelly
It's the same sound when you filter queefs. When you clean a fleshlight, it's the same sound.
Big J Okerson
Look at those little carrot pieces.
Robert Kelly
Jacob from space. You're a Jewish person. Do you like kefelta fish?
Big J Okerson
Ground control to major, Jacob.
Robert Kelly
No, I think it's horrific. Good.
Big J Okerson
Thank you. We don't eat. I've never, never liked it.
Robert Kelly
It's something that's European.
Big J Okerson
That's European juice.
Christine
It's never served in my house the couple times a year. I mean, I had it in over a decade, but every once in a while, I'd end up at some rabbi's house for a more traditional, like, meal. And you'd have to just get it down. Oh, my God. That looks like the turd of a person with cancer. Like an Ethiopian person who can't get their hands.
Robbie Bernstein
No nutrients.
Robert Kelly
You shouldn't have to clean something off before.
Big J Okerson
You have to clean everything before you eat it. Not.
Robert Kelly
Not what?
Big J Okerson
We don't have a jar.
Christine
Like, you would never take a pickle out of and wash it off before eating it.
Big J Okerson
If it was in goop, I would.
Robert Kelly
Dude, if you had to take your hamburger, go back.
Big J Okerson
I want to see. I want to see how they. How they act.
Robert Kelly
It's disgusting. All right, here we go.
Big J Okerson
This guy's having a good reaction, probably.
Robert Kelly
And covered in batter. What are we watching?
Big J Okerson
This is people trying to get filter fish for the first.
Christine
That guy looks like he was conceived after his mom ate gefilte.
Robert Kelly
That looks like every comic at the Cellar right now.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, that was Jeremiah Walken's brunette brother.
Robbie Bernstein
About it going in blind.
Robert Kelly
Oh, look at that. Herpey on his lip.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
In gelled broth.
Robert Kelly
I mean, this really is the cast of the Cellar on Friday and Saturday night.
Big J Okerson
Smells like tuna.
Robert Kelly
There you go. It smells like chicken broth. A white black girl.
Big J Okerson
I thought it was. All right, that's an overreaction.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, I think so.
Big J Okerson
This giant jelly. Oh, that's a good gefilte fish right there. Okay.
Robert Kelly
Oh, it's cold.
Robbie Bernstein
That's a keeper.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, that's another.
Robbie Bernstein
You're not throwing that back.
Big J Okerson
This guy is not long for the world. The guy who's over the. He's overreacting, buddy.
Robert Kelly
It's cold. Why? Fish shouldn't be cold.
Big J Okerson
What are you talking about?
Robbie Bernstein
Sushi.
Robert Kelly
It's cold. That's a different fish, Bobby.
Big J Okerson
You don't think about anything you say before you.
Robbie Bernstein
What about ceviche?
Robert Kelly
I do. Let me tell you something right now. Sushi is different.
Big J Okerson
That's like, what am I going to have? A hot soup? All soups hot, right?
Robert Kelly
No, that's not what I said.
Big J Okerson
No, I know. You did the opposite.
Robert Kelly
That is a tuna. Can I just say something? It's not even cold. It's warm. It's like in a jar.
Big J Okerson
No, it's cold.
Christine
Let's go with the room temperature.
Robert Kelly
Exactly. It's disgusting. It comes out of a jar. It's not refrigerated.
Big J Okerson
You do refrigerate once it's open. You do.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, but when you take it out of the shelf and you open it, it's literally. It's like the top of the beef stew where you put it in the fridge and the stuff on the top congealed. It's in that.
Big J Okerson
Right? And then you pull it out of that.
Robert Kelly
But why couldn't you Heat it up. Why wouldn't you heat it up?
Big J Okerson
You could.
Robbie Bernstein
I'm sure people deep fry it just to make it more palatable. Ooh.
Big J Okerson
I would not try deep fried gefilte fish. Sounds horrible. It's supposed to be cold and plain. It is a vehicle for horseradish. I'm telling you, there's nothing else to it.
Robert Kelly
Just eat the horseradish.
Big J Okerson
Nobody just wants a nice gefilte fish. No one's ever fucking grabbed like, a candy bar and started eating.
Robert Kelly
Why get a prime rib, throw some horseradish on it, eat some too fatty. Too fatty prime rib?
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Are you crazy?
Christine
How often do you eat gefilte fish? Well, every once in a while. Just pop open a jar in the apartment?
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
No. No, you don't.
Big J Okerson
When it starts showing up on the shelves sometimes for, like, the holidays, I will absolutely pass overall. Grab it from the store. If I go to the store.
Robert Kelly
Wow.
Big J Okerson
There's always beef horseradish.
Robert Kelly
Jacob, from space. Filter fish is the Spam of Jewish food.
Big J Okerson
That's how it is, man.
Robert Kelly
I look at. I like. I eat Spam.
Big J Okerson
Jacob, take your protein pills and put your engines on.
Robert Kelly
You know why Spam is better? Spam, you can throw in a pan and fry it. You can. You can cook it. Take it out.
Big J Okerson
You're saying Spam is better than your filter fish?
Robert Kelly
100.
Big J Okerson
Why?
Robert Kelly
Because you can cook it.
Big J Okerson
Okay. You can cook a filter fish.
Robert Kelly
You. You're not supposed to cook it. You're supposed to eat it out of the jar and then wipe the jelly shit off.
Big J Okerson
Sure, you can cook ice cream. You're not supposed to, though.
Robert Kelly
They do fried ice cream. Mexicans cook fry everything. And they made it better.
Big J Okerson
Did they make it better?
Robert Kelly
I mean, not as. I mean regular ice cream. I will eat more than confelter fish. Felt a fish is disgusting. Christine, when you see him eating it, does it. Is it gross?
Christine
No, it's just not. I think I have tried it.
Robert Kelly
And you walk out of the room now right when he eats it.
Christine
No, I just don't want to.
Robert Kelly
When he turns into an old Jew and puts a sweater on TV and watches pbs.
Robbie Bernstein
I'll be honest now.
Robert Kelly
I watch.
Big J Okerson
Ethnic foods are the dumbest.
Robert Kelly
What's hers?
Big J Okerson
I don't know. It's like.
Christine
It's just Middle Eastern food.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, it's just shitty Middle Eastern, but it's not the good kind. It's Armenian. Twists on it.
Robert Kelly
Well, isn't all the food the same? Isn't Hummus, hummus, hummus.
Big J Okerson
So far, what I'VE gathered is rice a roni. The San Francisco treat is what Christine's native country's food is somehow, somehow Asian. Rice a roni is what Christine makes as her that's the chief dish of the Armenian culture.
Robert Kelly
Let me tell you something. I love a rice a roni.
Christine
Well, I do it homemade.
Robert Kelly
Oh you do home.
Robbie Bernstein
What's homemade rice around like a biryani kind?
Big J Okerson
It's rice a roni with water from our house.
Christine
I hate to be so uncultured, but I'm not familiar with this rice a roni.
Big J Okerson
You don't know rice the San Francisco Tree? Are you crazy?
Christine
Not familiar with rice?
Robert Kelly
Let me tell you something. You were beth thick when I was a kid.
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Go back to college so you can enjoy this. When work gets crazy, I like to stop by the bar after, have a few cold ones.
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I don't drink at all until 4:00. We limit ourselves to one bottle of wine a night. Excessive drinking has a way of sneaking up on us. A few drinks a few nights a week, it can add up and suddenly.
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We'Re at greater risk for long term.
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Problems like heart disease, cancer and depression. Reason enough to rethink the Drink more.
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Christine
Maybe I was just never poor enough for rice.
Robert Kelly
Right. We were possible, but every. Like every once in a while my mom would make a box of rice a roni. And we knew tonight was a special night.
Christine
You knew that it was the end of the month and you were waiting on a paycheck.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robbie Bernstein
She got her. She had her tax return that day.
Robert Kelly
I knew she blew somebody at work. Here's the thing with rice. Roni. The best part about rice. Roni. Let it get a little cold and it like a little room temperature. It's hot, great. But when it gets a little room, then it becomes like together clumps and then you scoop it out in a clump and then when you. Oh my God. Rice. And it has. I don't know what. It's like a little rice and then it has the long. What are the long.
Big J Okerson
Long brown ones. Long grain.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, long grain.
Big J Okerson
But I'll tell you, it's a variety pack of 12 flavors. Christine. Oh my God. That's. We could have a celebration Armenian dinner once a month.
Christine
Ours is the pilaf.
Big J Okerson
Huh?
Christine
Ours is a peel off. Although I do enjoy a cheddar broccoli.
Robert Kelly
Cheddar broccoli is great. I like the chicken one is my favorite.
Big J Okerson
Just a regular old rice a roni chicken.
Robert Kelly
I want it right now. Let's get rice.
Christine
It's rice and pasta is what it is.
Robert Kelly
Is that so?
Christine
It's vermicelli noodles. And you crunch those up and you brown.
Robert Kelly
That's butter.
Christine
And then you cook them chicken stock.
Robert Kelly
It's not long grain. It's. The long one is the pasta.
Christine
Sometimes they do orzo. Orzo.
Robert Kelly
Hang on one second. What'd you say?
Big J Okerson
No.
Robert Kelly
What do you mean, no?
Big J Okerson
That's long grain rice.
Robert Kelly
No, I'm pretty sure she's right. I think it's.
Robbie Bernstein
Well, there's one right there that says long grain and wild rice.
Big J Okerson
Well, this is Armenia's national food, so maybe Christine's right, but I don't think so, actually.
Christine
Not sure if there's pasta in rice a roni, but in peel off. That's what it is.
Robert Kelly
The herb. The herb one. See the long one? The long brown looks like a little maggot.
Big J Okerson
It looks like maggots, actually. The white ones look like maggots, Bobby. I don't even know what maggots look like.
Robert Kelly
I think. I think the long ones look like maggots.
Big J Okerson
The long ones are brown.
Robert Kelly
Can you go back?
Big J Okerson
Maggots are white.
Robert Kelly
When you cook them.
Big J Okerson
When you cook maggots, they turn brown. Okay, you know what?
Robbie Bernstein
You gotta search on them. You gotta use a cast iron pivot.
Robert Kelly
I got a pivot.
Christine
If you made a bowl of all the rice and roni flavors, would that work?
Big J Okerson
Oh, a suicide. Yeah, probably Suicide. Suicide rice. A roni rice made from a mixture of rice and pasta. Usually either Rosa Marina or cut vermicelli. Browning the mixture gives it a toasted flavor and prevents the rice from becoming mushy.
Robert Kelly
Okay.
Big J Okerson
You're very self satisfied, Christine. But I told you, I know it's the food of your people, so I deferred to you.
Robert Kelly
He did. He did.
Christine
You said no.
Robert Kelly
No. He conceded.
Big J Okerson
You can see, I go. It is. It is in fact your national food.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Robbie Bernstein
So is this just a thing that they had to change the name to Rice a Roni so fucking mooks in America would eat this product?
Big J Okerson
Oh, yeah. You can't just call it fucking Armenian rice. Yeah, yeah.
Robert Kelly
We actually take stuff and make it taste good.
Big J Okerson
Sit down, come over, everyone for a traditional Armenian rice, a Roni feast.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, Nobody likes that. While I flip the bowl over with my grandmother and hopefully don't drop it all over the fucking floor.
Big J Okerson
It goes. Are you coming over for the ceremony of the 12 rice a Ronis, where Christine will make one. You will try one taste of all kinds.
Robert Kelly
I would love that. What a little snack that would be.
Big J Okerson
And then Christ put on to us cheddar broccoli.
Christine
Like, if you walked into a party and they had a separate bowl of every 12, would you. You go, this is the greatest party I've ever spread. I've ever seen.
Big J Okerson
The most Armenian.
Robert Kelly
I'd lose my mind. If you. If everybody got a. Like a big spoon. If they had little spoons, I'd be a little mad. But I got.
Christine
I got one more rice a Roni question for you.
Robert Kelly
Sure.
Christine
All right, let's say then there was a separate station with, like, a little bit of chicken, a little bit of beef. Would you be adding that to the rice a Roni? Would that ruin the experience?
Robert Kelly
I say me and you start a brick and mortar. Right now. That would be.
Robbie Bernstein
Maybe start with a truck.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, that. Let's go. Right. We do a brick and mortar rice a Roni restaurant. All we call it rice.
Big J Okerson
The chicken's got to be added.
Robbie Bernstein
No, if you have a truck, you can call it rice rolling because you're rolling around.
Robert Kelly
Okay. That's why I like.
Big J Okerson
What is that called? That's called deceptive marketing, where you're like. You're taking like. It's. You know, when they have like. Like. Like Dugston Donuts, you know, I mean, it's. But it's like, spelled. It's like a same color scheme.
Robbie Bernstein
Kennedy fried chicken.
Robert Kelly
Rice a roli.
Big J Okerson
Rice a roli.
Robert Kelly
I like it.
Christine
I like the idea of some smoked meats in there, like some brisket.
Robert Kelly
Buddy, here's the thing you're coming up with. You're killing me right now, and I love you. We get the rice a ronis Rice a rollies, right? It's all rice. Add your protein.
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Robert Kelly
We have a separate protein. You could have what you want on it. Throw that on. Let's go nuts. And then add some more stuff.
Christine
Get some good sauces.
Big J Okerson
Can I throw my hat in the mix?
Robert Kelly
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Big J Okerson
Wrong. He's not wrong. You want a hot sauce, A little side of broth. Little hot sauce. Absolutely.
Robert Kelly
Wait a minute.
Robbie Bernstein
Oh, it.
Robert Kelly
Now you got me back. You're talking about a broth.
Big J Okerson
Maybe a gravy. Maybe that's the thing. Maybe that's the fun thing is that, like, when you get it, always next to your thing is a cup of broth this high, a half inch high. And just to give it A little jazz it on the top.
Robert Kelly
I'm in. I'm back in. I apologize.
Big J Okerson
May I also add, because people talk about that. Oh, and they give you a little thing at the end. It's like the same way the mentality of how much we love a milkshake is only a milkshake when they give you the extra.
Christine
Oh, yeah, the tin.
Robert Kelly
How about this, though? How about this?
Big J Okerson
Or you were treated like a. At this ice cream shop.
Robert Kelly
How about this? At the end, they got little shakers. One with some cheese, a little parmesan cheese. One with fried onion flakes, one with little bacon bits. You can toss that on just a little on the top. Give it a little crunch.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, that would be. That's a little too touristy. But I think your proteins for sure should be. Here's how I'm picturing it. The tray that you will. That we will have. That you will have.
Robert Kelly
I don't like that you with his broth idea, but you won't fucking roll with me with my texture idea.
Big J Okerson
I think broth is my idea.
Robert Kelly
You're okay, well, whatever.
Big J Okerson
I'm giving all these to the company.
Robert Kelly
I rolled with that. First of all, me and him are the head of the company.
Big J Okerson
Absolutely.
Robert Kelly
Okay, So I think the texture idea, I'm going to. I'm going to say that's a good idea.
Christine
I just want to make one augmentation to the add ins. Because I like the add in idea. But I think that should be your station. I like the. You doing that for people and jazzing it up.
Robert Kelly
Oh, you mean saying, what do you want? But call it something.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Christine
What are you looking for?
Robert Kelly
Hey, no, we call it this. Ready?
Christine
The sprinkle station.
Robert Kelly
No, you want it jazzed up. Yeah, right? You want it. You want it jazzed up.
Christine
That made me feel good.
Robert Kelly
How do you want it jazzed? You want. You want it? You want it? You want.
Robbie Bernstein
You want me to jazz all over this? Shake a little jazz on this?
Robert Kelly
We call it the faga.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, that's.
Robert Kelly
I like that.
Robbie Bernstein
I like that. I'll license that name to you.
Robert Kelly
I'm, I'm, I'm happy with this idea. Let's get this truck going. We park it right out front.
Big J Okerson
Okay, guys, actually, before I put this out there, I'm gonna trademark this so you guys can't steal this, but what the fuck?
Robert Kelly
Wow, you're all business.
Robbie Bernstein
This is a bento box that you've drawn.
Big J Okerson
Here's what I'm picturing a box, but it's sorted a certain way. This Is your rice a Roni. It's gonna go in the big bowl.
Robert Kelly
Okay.
Big J Okerson
And then the little small section over here, that's like little half. That's where your protein will go. You don't gotta throw your protein on the rice because rice a Roni, historically, in your mind, is nice when you have your chicken on the side cut up. And then you go. You get your chicken. He goes, you grab a little bit of that rice a Roni on there. So you get to do it the way you like to do it. And then two little circles for your broth and sauce choices.
Robert Kelly
I like it.
Christine
It's like Dunkaroo style almost.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
I mean, rice a roll.
Robert Kelly
I want to say this. Dude, I love it. I love that.
Robbie Bernstein
And all those should be removable cups so you could. You could dump the meat on top.
Robert Kelly
Can I just say one thing?
Big J Okerson
Absolutely.
Robert Kelly
Can I say one thing? Is there any way on the chicken we don't go full breast? We go thigh skin on.
Big J Okerson
I'm out.
Robert Kelly
No skin on.
Big J Okerson
It's not about me. This is about you guys.
Robert Kelly
It's fine. Trademark the box we're gonna have to use. So now you're in.
Big J Okerson
Listen, you guys are definitely gonna have to get the boxes from me.
Robert Kelly
All right, Listen, we're getting the boxes from you. So we'll go breast.
Big J Okerson
You guys are starting this company. I just started a box company.
Robert Kelly
Dude, are you really just. That's actually. You're not a thigh guy, you're a breast guy.
Big J Okerson
I don't mind. The taste of dark meat is delicious. What you might get in your mouth when you're going for dark meat, though, is not worth the dark meat.
Robert Kelly
What about crispy skin?
Big J Okerson
Crispy skin is delightful.
Robbie Bernstein
I think that should be your. I think that should be one of your crunchy shake ons.
Robert Kelly
Thank you.
Big J Okerson
Now if you could tell me.
Robert Kelly
Texture. It'll be a texture. Now if you could tell me, it'll be a jazz.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
If you could tell me, though, that, like, this chicken has been so combed over that you are, in fact, there is no gristle, there is no fat, there is no tendon. There's no any of that in this.
Robbie Bernstein
I had a rooster comb over it.
Big J Okerson
Some places don't give a fuck. Some places give you a piece of fucking dark meat chicken, and it's gamey and shitty.
Robert Kelly
Who do you think we are?
Robbie Bernstein
A chicken leg will have just a vein in it and be a little bloody in the middle even though it's cooked.
Christine
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Robert Kelly
Our chicken will be pure thigh Chicken. How about this choice breast? Thigh meat. But the thigh meat will always, always be perfect, juicy thigh meat. No gristle, no ligaments, no tendons. No shit.
Big J Okerson
How about.
Robert Kelly
Oh, God, he has his. He has his thought fingers. Guys, we're in for something. Let me tell you something right now, guys.
Big J Okerson
How do you feel about grinding up the dark meat chicken and making it into like your own kind of like, maybe skewers of like. What is that called? Raval does that Kuba de. But it's like they're gonna fight just. Yeah, the kumite, the dark arts.
Robbie Bernstein
You gotta dip it in glass.
Christine
What about like a shawarma chicken?
Big J Okerson
Oh, it's sort of what I mean. Yeah, sort of what I mean. But this is ground, this place. It's. It's almost like kefta or something. Yes, but it's chicken.
Robert Kelly
Right.
Big J Okerson
So you do that with the dark meat. So it's a super tasty, like chicken burger, almost piece.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And then you don't have to worry about anyone going. Because when you go, well, it's thigh meat. And they go, I don't like dark thighs with all this stuff. And they go, oh, no, no, it's ground.
Robert Kelly
I love it.
Big J Okerson
So it's like burp. I jump back in.
Robert Kelly
You're back in. Great. I'm with that. Let's do that. But here's another thing. Let me just throw this in the mix. Our spoons are like, you know, the soup spoons.
Robbie Bernstein
You get good Asian spoons.
Robert Kelly
A good big. So when you scoop out.
Christine
What about a spork? I feel like this could be a spork activity.
Robert Kelly
Nose pork. No spork. We go spoon and you scoop it out. But a big. Like a big spoon. Like the soup spoon, you know, the one you get in the miso soup or the. Where it hangs on the side. We get our own spoon where it's.
Christine
Big and that way you scoop on special occasions. Can we do turkey legs?
Robbie Bernstein
Ooh, for like the Ren fair. Can I see the ren fair?
Robert Kelly
Here's the thing about the turkey leg. It's overrated. The turkey leg is over. It looks like it's going to be great. And it's. It's never been great. And it always has that pink steak meat in it, which I.
Big J Okerson
Look, that's what your chicken things would look like.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I'm in.
Big J Okerson
Listen, I hate to just stay over here on the Jewish side of the table with our ideas.
Christine
Don't take a filter fish. You'll be canceled off of this.
Robert Kelly
I will make my own bento Box. We will create our own box. And you'll.
Big J Okerson
Buddy, I've already got.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, but we.
Big J Okerson
I'm already out to the. What do they call that?
Robbie Bernstein
That's intellectual property.
Big J Okerson
Right? Yeah, but I don't know if you saw that.
Robbie Bernstein
You see that blue thing on the side? That's a patency.
Robert Kelly
What is that? What is that on the corner?
Big J Okerson
Trademark.
Robert Kelly
What is it? What's. What does it say?
Big J Okerson
TM don't usually do a registered.
Robert Kelly
Isn't it?
Christine
Isn't it?
Robert Kelly
Take the paper.
Big J Okerson
Also, these are parv. Which is another Jewish thing. Yeah. You're gonna need these boxes. And I'm probably gonna charge out the ass.
Robert Kelly
Well, not if you. Not if we.
Big J Okerson
What?
Robert Kelly
If we bring you into the fold.
Big J Okerson
I'm not interested in getting in business. I.
Robbie Bernstein
Well, the box is already folded.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, the box is going.
Robert Kelly
So what kind of box is it? Is this a plastic box? Is this a paper box?
Big J Okerson
It's a paper box. Thick stock. And it comes together in a very fun way. As my friend Robby here said too. Everything being or might have been, Chris. Everything.
Robert Kelly
Individual cups fits ramekins into this little ramek plastic.
Big J Okerson
Without ramek, everything is like this is the shape of the box. But you could always have ready. Also, it makes things move quick when you have a rush. You could already have all the rice. A Ronis, can I give you a bit? And this thing ready to go. You dropping a rice, Roni, what's your thing? The little bowl, the protein and what's your sauces? Pow pow.
Robert Kelly
Can I make up a suggestion for your box for your company? Even though it's going to affect my company. Our company. Sorry.
Big J Okerson
I might make these plastic and really make them really cut into your profits.
Robert Kelly
Make them plastic and make the top top of the box pop out. Spoon.
Big J Okerson
Okay. I don't mind that. I think it's. I think any kind of marketing thing is gonna be fun. But again, not to jump over on team Robbie here, but you really bowled over his spork idea. Which I don't love because the spork.
Robert Kelly
We don't.
Big J Okerson
No. But here. But you have to. I think a collaborator. Bobby.
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Big J Okerson
Builds upon ideas.
Christine
I think what Bobby was getting at. If I may.
Robert Kelly
Please, Robbie.
Christine
I don't want to put words in.
Robert Kelly
Your mouth, but I partners.
Christine
I picked up on your energy.
Robert Kelly
Thank you.
Christine
That you know, the idea of the spork is nice because you get the grip going in, but then you don't have the smooth texture against your tongue.
Robert Kelly
And another thing, Robby, if I may. If I may he wants the clump. When you. When you. My thing I don't like. If someone gives me a. When I eat rice, it's with a spoon.
Christine
Interesting.
Robert Kelly
If you eat rice with a fork, it falls through. Rice goes through the fork. It should be, you know, not a long grain. Chinese people eat rice with chopsticks. Nothing to do with what I'm saying. But here's the thing.
Christine
It feels like too much work.
Robert Kelly
Here's the thing. You get it with a spoon, but you can put the chicken but the other stuff on it and in one bite you have it all. And you get enough of the rice to feel like you got it. When you get a fork, it falls through the fork.
Big J Okerson
You ready for a collaborators voice here to come in?
Robert Kelly
I mean, I thought we were.
Big J Okerson
Instead of you just chastising. I'm not Robbie the fire.
Robert Kelly
First of all, don't even try to. Me and my partner are just working on.
Robbie Bernstein
Can you make like a soup spork? Is that a thing? Maybe we can maybe start designing this.
Big J Okerson
Can't. You know what, While you say that, let me trademark this. Son, real quick.
Robert Kelly
God damn it. Somebody get a piece of pen and a paper, please.
Big J Okerson
Now. Sorry. Trademark your big soup spoon.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Which is a great idea.
Robert Kelly
Thank you.
Big J Okerson
And it just has a little bit of, by the way, not coming above on the same flat surface. The top of the spoon you get a little spork action. This way when you grab your rice, you just go over to your chicken thing and snag a few off. That's going to have a little grip on it. So spork at the top. Spork. But four sporks on the. On the top rim, outside rim of your soup.
Robert Kelly
Can I say something?
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Robert Kelly
It's a fantastic idea.
Big J Okerson
It's a fantastic idea. I think we're moving and shaking.
Robert Kelly
I mean, it's a great idea.
Robbie Bernstein
But here's the thing. Now do you have to go ambidextrous? Do you have to have one? Because if it's only four on one side, you have to have them for left handers and right handers. You know what I mean?
Big J Okerson
No, it's not on one side. It's the front. It's going to be the front. Yeah, you're going to go down with your fork and then you can kind of just go over and just grab a couple of your chickens with it.
Robert Kelly
And then you have that too and you get it all in your mouth. But it has to.
Big J Okerson
Or you can grab the chicken first, get the chicken base and then you. Oh, Buddy.
Robert Kelly
Is it a deep spoon?
Big J Okerson
The spoon's deep. Look how.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, you need a deep spoon.
Big J Okerson
Look how deep I made that spoon.
Robert Kelly
Oh, that. There's nothing worse than a shallow spoon.
Big J Okerson
This is a top shot of it with the teeth.
Robert Kelly
That's fantastic. I'm in.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, it's great.
Robert Kelly
And it's. It's part of the box that you make. So we buy the spoons and the box.
Big J Okerson
All.
Robert Kelly
It comes in one.
Christine
Are you willing to throw that in at no added charge?
Big J Okerson
I'll throw in the spork.
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Big J Okerson
For you. I'll be handling all of your packaging. I don't really want in grass roots level with. With the actual truck itself, but your packaging.
Robert Kelly
Listen, I'm gonna pay for all of this. You guys are gonna run it.
Robbie Bernstein
Okay.
Robert Kelly
And I come in every once in a while.
Robbie Bernstein
We can sell weed out of it.
Big J Okerson
Yes, of course. You have to sell weed out of it.
Robbie Bernstein
Out of every.
Big J Okerson
Get that California stuff. People will come back.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. You sell it before they buy their food. Yes, absolutely.
Big J Okerson
And you go, oh, nothing, officer. Just selling rice a roli.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. And you can sell Zen out of if you want to.
Big J Okerson
I think also if we start making some profits community, I would tap in with this with you guys too. We really try to do a local payoff situation where we start getting some of these cops on the payroll.
Robbie Bernstein
Oh, yeah, sure.
Robert Kelly
Of course we're going to. How are we going to get a prime spot in front of serious.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, I'd say it's probably a matter of sheer months before we're officially above the law. We take back what's ours.
Robert Kelly
How funny would be if listeners listening right now and in three months it already exists.
Big J Okerson
This whole thing.
Robert Kelly
A rice truck is the greatest lunch thing ever.
Robbie Bernstein
Or somebody sitting on this like this is their great idea and they're like.
Big J Okerson
Fuck, I love that. It's the ethnic memory food of Christine's entire childhood. And we have not even incorporated her one.
Robert Kelly
We are. First of all, she's going to be the cartoon face of it. We're going to have her in a gypsy thing with some type of gypsy jewelry.
Robbie Bernstein
The little symbols.
Christine
Well, just to speak to the market opportunity here. I feel like the halal carts have owned chicken over rice for too long. And there aren't enough rice options.
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Christine
With just greasy chicken. I really feel like we're filling a market need here.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. We don't have to bleed our chickens out so there's no blood in them.
Robbie Bernstein
Oh, good. Good American chicken and rice.
Robert Kelly
Good American chicken and rice.
Big J Okerson
And we should get on that KFC thing where they're just made of breasts and thighs and head. You know what I mean? Those freaky ones, they're growing.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, we get steroid chickens.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, like the. The Megan the stallion of chickens.
Robert Kelly
Is there, Is there?
Big J Okerson
If you're gonna make Christine the cartoon like person, like the, you know, it's like the face of rice A Roli. I would probably just make her eyes like ambiguously far apart. So you know, I mean where it's like. So they go, oh, maybe she's slow. Because some people think they're when they're helping out something like we did for Christine. Maybe Christine's like, oh, and she might be people looking. They go, we did this to inspis is inspired all by this kid right here. And then it'll be a picture of Christine where they go, oh, I think she might be retarded.
Robert Kelly
We should have one eye going. One eye, the other eye looking straight. Yes, 100%. But he's onto something.
Big J Okerson
Biggie small size.
Robert Kelly
She should have a partner in it. Camel.
Robbie Bernstein
Isn't that getting back to the Arabian?
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Well, let's find out. What is your animal of your country? What? The sloth? What are you guys. What weird animal?
Christine
No idea.
Big J Okerson
What is the camel work? I think.
Robert Kelly
Is it a camel? Maybe it might be a camel.
Big J Okerson
Most the desert, I assume.
Robert Kelly
I don't know. You don't know?
Robbie Bernstein
I don't really know.
Big J Okerson
It's near stuff that's kind of desert. Yeah.
Robbie Bernstein
Turkey. That's kind of. Yeah, it's deserted.
Robert Kelly
I bet it's a fox. There you go, Mouflon.
Big J Okerson
Oh, the mouflon.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, the mouflon. Her pet mouflon.
Robbie Bernstein
Mouflon is the dessert. But it's.
Christine
Armenia. She's going to come back with Armenia convenience, by the way.
Big J Okerson
There's a couple of them. Wait, go back to get out of the mufa because there was a couple over there. The ortolan bunting. Okay, now we're cooking with gas. The scenarios vulture. That should be our special.
Robert Kelly
I like that and I like the last.
Big J Okerson
He goes, would you like chicken or beef with that? And someone just goes vulture. And you go, secret menu.
Robbie Bernstein
That's the big gang bang.
Big J Okerson
There you go. He goes and fuck the Turks. And you go. Yeah, with some vulture meat.
Robert Kelly
Dude, what's that one?
Big J Okerson
The ibex.
Robert Kelly
The ibex. The bizarre ibex that looks like the.
Robbie Bernstein
Kind of thing you eat that and it gives you a fucking hard on. Right. The Chinese are poaching this thing for its penis.
Big J Okerson
Right.
Robert Kelly
There you go. That's that should be it right there.
Big J Okerson
Look at those. Oh, yeah, that should be. That's. That is nice.
Christine
That almost Christine is gonna be you.
Big J Okerson
Like this lady is gonna be you jacking off the horn of a fucking ibex. Ibex.
Robbie Bernstein
For tourists, we have, like, a big horn that you can get your soda in. Right. Like that's what you're drinking.
Big J Okerson
The ibex horn.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah.
Christine
That looks like a dumb animal, because I feel like if you ram something, the horns end up going into your back.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, it is a really dumb animal.
Robert Kelly
It kills itself every time.
Christine
That's what it looks like. Yeah.
Robert Kelly
That one actually probably just hasn't cut its horns.
Robbie Bernstein
The horns are actually evolved to help it. Zip line just hooks on.
Big J Okerson
I like the picture of Christine holding both horns, standing on the ibex back like she's water skiing.
Christine
Like one of the worms in whatever. That dumb dune.
Big J Okerson
Yes. Like a sand worm. And then also, though, if you're not gonna do the eyes because you wanted to make sure it doesn't look Christine maybe have, like, the tongue just, like, dangling out of the mouth, like.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, yeah.
Big J Okerson
If she comes off handy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I really like her. If Christine could seem special needs, I think does. And we could always say the proceeds go to her. We don't have to say it's to fix anything. We go. The proceeds go to her to go. What's wrong with her? And you'd be like, why don't you tell me? Look at that woman riding that ibex with reckless Amanda.
Christine
I kind of like the idea of Bobby riding one of these, holding a giant ladle.
Robert Kelly
I can't be in it. I can't. I mean, I do. Listen, I love it, but we need Christine to be involved in this at some point. You know what I mean? I don't want to take too much shine off of that. And it's her country's dish.
Big J Okerson
How about Christine wearing a rice hat? We give her two buck teeth and we call her phony rice. A Roni.
Robert Kelly
I like it.
Big J Okerson
I'm just thinking out loud, guys.
Robert Kelly
A spoon in one hand.
Big J Okerson
Yeah. Spork spoon.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, Spork spoon in one hand.
Big J Okerson
Is there vulture? You want some vulture meat? Vulture meat.
Robert Kelly
I mean, I can't wait to get this going. Are you guys ready to rock and roll?
Christine
I'm quitting comedy. This is, you know, put a special out. That's it. Let's get into the rice business.
Robert Kelly
Don't quit comedy. I mean, you have a. You have stuff happening right now. You have a lot of stuff going. Both of you guys have a lot of stuff going down right now.
Big J Okerson
He's got a special right now called Live from Denver Comedy Garage. Not an actual place.
Robert Kelly
Can you please explain that to me?
Christine
I filmed it from a fan's garage out in Denver, Colorado. And we. I mean, went great. Two shows, 40 people. First show was a dud, so we took 100% of the second show. That's why make sure to film too.
Robert Kelly
That's why you filmed two.
Christine
That's why you filmed too.
Robert Kelly
And then he have a heart attack. My first.
Big J Okerson
Really? People came and were. I mean, I think if you come to something that like acutely, like marketed, you know, I mean, you come with a pretty good attitude. They were just like the low energy.
Christine
No, no, the show was fine. I. I was uncomfortable filming.
Robert Kelly
Because you were in a garage.
Christine
Yeah, yeah, it was fun. If I had to put it out, I just wouldn't have been as. But the second show was like electric start. That's what you want in a film. Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Were you next to like a. Like a lawnmower and a weed whacker with a thing or did you make the garage like a set?
Christine
No, we say. I put up a nice flag in the backdrop and American we. No, I. I made my own flag for the. From the podcast. I took my logo.
Robert Kelly
Oh, nice.
Christine
Yeah, we put up some nice lighting. We put the chairs in.
Robert Kelly
What did they do with all. What did they do with all this guy's stuff in the garage? Was that like the driveway?
Christine
That was the afternoon activity. Was clearing out a garage.
Big J Okerson
Taught Rob. He had it goes. Hey, Rob, you want to hand me that 3 inches wrench? Yeah, sure. Let's build this thing. Chris, burn. After saying you're special, I'm assuming you just filmed it in a comedy club like some jerk off.
Robbie Bernstein
It was actually a libertarian clubhouse. Rob.
Robert Kelly
Where did you film it? New Hampshire.
Robbie Bernstein
Rollinsford, New Hampshire.
Robert Kelly
Oh, where is that? What is that? Up upstate or.
Robbie Bernstein
I don't know. He drove.
Robert Kelly
Where is that near?
Christine
That's a great question. It's not far from like Manchester. It's like a four hour drive.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah, it's right near. Is that Porchester?
Christine
I think they call it the seacoast.
Robbie Bernstein
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Manchester is one of my favorite places. To murder your family by forgotten fire.
Christine
It's not far from Portsmouth, which is beautiful.
Robert Kelly
They got a great comedy club in there.
Christine
Do they really?
Robert Kelly
Yeah, they got an awesome comedy club there in Portsmouth.
Big J Okerson
Guilford, New Hampshire.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, it's great.
Big J Okerson
I'm a Guilford guy.
Robert Kelly
Are you Guilford? I'm a Portsmouth That's a little more.
Big J Okerson
Up class if we're talking New Hampshire. I'm a Guilford guy.
Christine
Portsmouth's fun because I always make sure to go there. And I walk around, I go, this is really pretty. I'm at the end and then you turn around, you're like. But it's really pretty for this one block.
Robert Kelly
Great cigar lounge there.
Robbie Bernstein
Oh, really?
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Awesome cigar lounge. Great nightlife. And the comedy club's awesome. It's like a little tiny 150seater and it's, it's perfect. Perfect room.
Big J Okerson
Well, make sure you check out both specials, everybody. Robbie Bernstein live from the Denver Comedy Garage. Not an actual place. And Chris Vega Byrne after saying, filmed live in New Hampshire. Both out right now on YouTube. It's just two clicks away from watching both of them. Everybody get those views up. Get it in the algorithm, comment, all that stuff, man. Make sure you just interact with it. That's what helps out when these things come out and keeps them moving.
Robert Kelly
So you got to leave comments, you got to like, you got to subscribe all that stuff.
Big J Okerson
Guys are long time buddies. Absolutely fucking hilarious. Make sure you check them out. Burn. After saying. Chris Vega, live from the Denver Comedy Garage, Robbie Bernstein. We hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Make sure you check out my new YouTube page with all my comedy on it. Robert Kelly comedy at YouTube. Brand new. My special is going up there. I got a bunch of all my standup is going up there. So go there, subscribe and support the channel over there if you want to see my stand up, which is not really available.
Big J Okerson
Hey, guess what everyone. There was a Sunday show I totally didn't know about in Philly. So get tickets for that.
Robert Kelly
Please fill it up and make sure. I got a pivot today, by the way. I got the only pivot.
Big J Okerson
Only pivot of the day.
Robert Kelly
Very excited. Go to Thanksgiving with the only pivot.
Big J Okerson
Yes, indeed. It's a good. Christine's only down one.
Robert Kelly
Well, we don't know that.
Big J Okerson
BigJ comedy.com Punchup Live. Robert Kelly. Check us out. We're all over the place. And we'll be back with you Monday, Monday, Monday. Fun day building. Everybody cracked. Cracked. When work gets crazy, I like to stop by the bar after, have a few cold ones.
Robert Kelly
I don't drink at all until 4:00. We limit ourselves to one bottle of wine a night. Excessive drinking has a way of sneaking up on us. A few drinks a few nights a week, it can add up and suddenly.
Big J Okerson
We'Re at greater risk for long term.
Robert Kelly
Problems like heart disease, cancer and depression. Reason enough to rethink the Drink. More@rethinkthedrink.com An OHA initiative to realize the future America needs. We understand what's needed from us to face each threat head on. We've earned our place in the fight for our nation's future. We are Marines.
Big J Okerson
We were made for this.
Podcast Summary: The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly – Episode: Rice A Rollie w/Chris Faga & Robbie Bernstein
Release Date: December 5, 2024
In this lively episode of The Bonfire hosted by Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly, the duo engages in their trademark candid and humorous banter, delving into a variety of topics ranging from personal anecdotes and holiday traditions to Jewish culinary delights and a whimsical business venture. Joined by guests Chris Faga and Robbie Bernstein, the conversation is both entertaining and insightful, offering listeners a glimpse into the hosts' comedic minds.
The episode kicks off with Robert Kelly excitedly sharing his recent purchase of Danny Terrio's "Night Moves" instructional album, aiming to master the dance moves of Tony Manero from Saturday Night Fever.
Big Jay playfully teases Robert about his dance ambitions, leading to a humorous exchange about their potential dance partnership and the challenges of performing in public.
The conversation transitions to a discussion about holiday traditions, specifically comparing Hanukkah and Christmas. Big Jay shares memories of enjoying multiple gifts during Hanukkah, contrasting it with the singular focus of Christmas presents.
Christine adds her perspective, highlighting the simplicity and peace she finds in celebrating Christmas as an adult.
The hosts humorously reminisce about their childhood experiences, the pressures of gift-giving, and the unique aspects of their respective cultural celebrations.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to an in-depth and comedic exploration of Jewish food, focusing on dishes like gefilte fish and rice a Roni. The hosts debate the merits and drawbacks of gefilte fish, sharing personal anecdotes and exaggerated descriptions to elicit laughs.
Robert Kelly [20:10]: "It's disgusting. Just eat the horseradish."
Big Jay Oakerson [21:06]: "It's like tofu. It's a blank, tasteless vehicle to get that awesome horseradish that opens up brainwaves you didn't know you had before."
Christine interjects with her love for certain Jewish foods, balancing the humor with genuine appreciation.
The highlight of the episode is the spontaneous brainstorming session where Big Jay and Robert Kelly concoct a fictional business idea for a Rice A Roni-themed restaurant. Joined by Robbie Bernstein, they dive into the absurdities and creative possibilities of branding, packaging, and menu design.
They discuss everything from the type of rice and pasta to the design of their own bento boxes, complete with humorous takes on trademarks and product names.
The conversation evolves into a mock business plan, filled with inside jokes and playful banter about potential menu items and marketing strategies.
Towards the end of the episode, the hosts and guests shift focus to promoting their respective comedy specials and YouTube channels. They encourage listeners to engage with their content online, emphasizing the importance of support through views, likes, and subscriptions.
Robbie Bernstein [07:59]: "Check it out. And mom gonna be putting my special up there."
Big Jay Oakerson [53:09]: "Check them out. Burn. After saying. Chris Vega, live from the Denver Comedy Garage."
Robert Kelly [01:34]: "I bought Danny Terrio's Night Moves for LP album on how to dance like Tony Monero in Saturday Night Fever."
Big Jay Oakerson [03:35]: "We both want this. We both have friends who would be like, 'I'm not doing right because this is our gay thing.'"
Robert Kelly [20:10]: "It's disgusting. Just eat the horseradish."
Big Jay Oakerson [35:07]: "We call it the faga."
Robbie Bernstein [07:59]: "Check it out. And mom gonna be putting my special up there."
This episode of The Bonfire masterfully blends humor with personal storytelling, offering listeners a range of entertaining topics from dance aspirations and holiday traditions to a satirical business proposal centered around Rice A Roni. The chemistry between Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly, complemented by the contributions of Chris Faga and Robbie Bernstein, ensures an engaging and memorable listening experience. Whether you're a fan of stand-up comedy, enjoy humorous takes on cultural topics, or simply appreciate the hosts' candid conversations, this episode delivers on all fronts.
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