The Will Hughes Interview with Throwing Fits

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Will Hughes Interview with Throwing Fits Release Date: January 29, 2025

Introduction In this episode of Throwing Fits, hosted by the eponymous duo, the spotlight shines on Will Hughes—a renowned content creator, chef, and entrepreneur. The conversation delves deep into Will's personal experiences, his journey in the culinary world, his take on fashion, and his unique perspectives on navigating life between New York City and London.

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1. Early Life and Personal Experiences

Circumcision Story

Will opens up about a significant and personal experience from his teenage years:

"I was 15 and had to get circumcised because my foreskin was too tight. It was... not fun." (12:04)

This revelation sets a candid tone for the interview, showcasing Will's willingness to discuss intimate topics openly.

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2. Culinary Journey and "What Will He Cook"

Passion for Cooking

Will describes his passion for cooking and how it intertwines with his content creation:

"I don't make content for the sake of a job. I make it because I genuinely enjoy cooking." (09:33)

Favorite Recipes

• Chopped Cheese Sandwich: Will emphasizes his love for this New York staple, asserting it's superior to even Philly cheesesteaks in his opinion.

  "I think the chopped cheese is way better than a Philly cheesesteak." (44:20)

• Peanut Butter Udon: An unconventional yet beloved recipe he shares:

  "Peanut butter, soy sauce, Chinese vinegar, chili oil—a simple yet delicious meal." (97:18)

Content Creation Challenges

Will discusses balancing creativity with consistency in his culinary content:

"I used to cook recipes aiming for virality, but now I focus on what I enjoy, ensuring that my content remains authentic." (96:15)

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3. Fashion and Personal Style

Apparel Choices

Will showcases his eclectic fashion sense, blending high-end brands with streetwear:

"I've got Supreme shocks and Clarks wallabies. It's about mixing comfort with style." (05:02)

Headwear Collection

His collection ranges from balaclavas to avant-garde hats:

"I've got three balaclavas. Different caps fit different ways." (92:10)

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4. Navigating Life Between New York City and London

Culinary Contrasts

Will compares the food scenes of both cities, highlighting the diversity and fusion present in London:

"British cuisine is wildly diverse, thanks to its multicultural influences. It's not just traditional dishes anymore." (47:10)

Bar and Pub Culture

He notes the difference in pub atmospheres between the two cities:

"London's pubs feel more like community centers with a welcoming vibe, whereas New York's dive bars are more ubiquitous and varied." (36:09)

Challenges in New York

From queuing for trendy spots to the fast-paced lifestyle:

"Queuing for places like Supreme is intense here. It’s a different kind of hustle compared to London." (81:02)

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5. Insights on American vs British Culture

Tipping Practices

Will expresses his perplexity over the American tipping system:

"The tipping thing is bizarre. In the UK, service is usually included, making dining out straightforward." (37:18)

Food Trends and Preferences

He discusses his aversion to certain American food trends introduced in the UK:

"Watching Mukbang videos makes me feel like I've caught a sickness bug. Some trends just don’t resonate with me." (29:44)

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6. Content Creation and Social Media Presence

Building an Audience

Will reflects on his growth as a content creator and the importance of authenticity:

"I believe in not gatekeeping. If I enjoy something, I share it, letting my audience experience it with me." (67:09)

Dealing with Unfollows

He candidly talks about losing followers, especially during the holiday season:

"I've lost quite a lot of followers over Christmas. People seem to purge during this time." (72:06)

Future Content Plans

Will hints at upcoming projects inspired by his New York experiences:

"I'll be doing a deep dive into sandwiches, especially the chopped cheese, when I get back home." (74:43)

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7. Entrepreneurial Ventures

Pleasant Homeware

Beyond food, Will is the CEO of Pleasant Home, a homeware business inspired by his time in Portugal:

"We've launched the Speckled Collection—bowls, plates, and trinket trays designed for both functionality and aesthetic appeal." (115:02)

Product Integration

He integrates his homeware products into his content:

"I incorporate our plates into my cooking videos. It elevates the presentation without compromising on taste." (116:00)

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Conclusion

The interview with Will Hughes offers a multifaceted glimpse into the life of a modern content creator juggling personal experiences, culinary passions, fashion, and entrepreneurship. His candidness, coupled with his insightful comparisons between New York and London cultures, provides listeners with both entertainment and thoughtful commentary on navigating the male zeitgeist in today's world.

Notable Quotes:

• "I trust them. If it's a mate's restaurant, I know it's going to be good." (69:50)
• "Never sacrifice deliciousness to make a dish Instagrammable." (53:27)
• "Tipping in America is not just about generosity; it's a necessity due to uneven wage structures." (37:38)

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Timestamps

• [00:00] - Introduction and Advertisements
• [05:02] - Will's Fashion Choices
• [12:04] - Circumcision Story
• [29:44] - Aversion to Mukbang Videos
• [36:09] - Pub Culture Comparison
• [37:18] - American Tipping Practices
• [44:20] - Favorite Recipes: Chopped Cheese
• [47:10] - Culinary Diversity in London
• [53:27] - Importance of Food Presentation
• [67:09] - Authenticity in Content Creation
• [72:06] - Losing Followers During Holidays
• [81:02] - Queuing for Trendy Spots in NYC
• [89:06] - Collaborations and Content Trends
• [115:02] - Launch of Speckled Collection at Pleasant Home
• [116:00] - Integrating Homeware into Content
• [74:43] - Upcoming Content on Sandwiches

(Note: Timestamps are indicative and correspond to the moments of notable discussion points within the transcript.)

Transcript

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[C]

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[Will Hughes]

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[Unknown Speaker]

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[Will Hughes]

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[Unknown Speaker]

Check us [e-mail] and listen now, wherever you get your podcasts throw gang. We are joined by the raja of the range, king of the cleaver, the homeware head honcho, not Richard Gere, but he got the chop. His pronouns, Mr. Mispronunciation, the sarny salt and the fry up pharaoh. Keep the kids stuff called chef Epstein. Not an o F. But everyone likes his meat. The voiceover Viking. Oh, you're not with his recipes. How about you rest these nuts in your mouth? Making cream off his pies. How he got one in the oven. Making money off the spice. He knows what a rack is. His sauce is seasoned. He doesn't need you herbs. CEO Pleasant home and the founder of what Willy cook, Will Hughes. Will, how the hell are you?

[Will Hughes]

That's yeah. Great. He speak for once. Yeah, that was, that was the. That was the main reason I wanted to do this.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Thank you, Will. He.

[C]

Oh wow. You get it. Kidding.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. No. Well, a lot of people let he cook don't get it and they message shut up. People that, that have followed me for like four years will message me being like, oh, I just got it. I'll be like, oh, okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

And that's it. That's all they say to you?

[Will Hughes]

That's it? Yeah. That's like A dm. I'll get. I'll be like, oh. I just. It. I'll be like, oh, all right.

[Unknown Speaker]

Wow. Your followers are really.

[Will Hughes]

I'm not gonna respond to that.

[Unknown Speaker]

How stupid are your followers? Would you say to the camera, look directly?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Some of them that send me that message, you know, they may have been kicked in the head by a horse when they were younger. It's a very.

[C]

It's a very British way of being reared and raised.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I suppose here it would be cattle, I guess.

[C]

Yeah. Cow, maybe.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you think you're so nice with the wordplay because you're from the same town as the Bard. Shakespeare.

[Will Hughes]

Yes.

[Unknown Speaker]

What do you think she likes?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, no, that is. That is. Yeah, that's. Sorry, do you want to go again?

[Unknown Speaker]

She's like a sarnay.

[Will Hughes]

What, sorry? A sarnie, A sarni or a sandwich. Oh, sorry, I thought.

[C]

Sonnet.

[Will Hughes]

I thought you were mispronouncing sonnet. I thought that's what you were doing.

[Unknown Speaker]

This bit is not working.

[C]

Your friends. Do your friends call you Willy, or is that just the IG handle?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, people that. It's weird because, like, my best mates have always called me Willy, like, for ages. But then, like, my good mates call me Will, and then people that don't really know me call me Willy because they think my name is Willie. It's like a stage name, isn't it?

[Unknown Speaker]

Is Willy in the uk? He means Dick.

[Will Hughes]

Right, yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, Willie. But then so does P.P. hughes. P.P. hughes. Mr. Dixon. I don't know. You know, Richard. Richard's dick.

[Unknown Speaker]

What is. What is spotted dick?

[Will Hughes]

Spotted dick is a pudding with raisins. Okay. It's not a good one. What.

[C]

What's blood sausage?

[Will Hughes]

That is, well, like, black pudding. Do you not have that here?

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no.

[Will Hughes]

It's so good. It's like. What? Yeah, it's so. It's. It's. It is that. It's like oats and salt and pepper. Loads of pepper mixed with oats and salt and pepper. Yeah, it sounds pretty. In the meat. Yeah, you mix. They mix it with the blood and then they put it in a casing.

[C]

Give me the blood.

[Will Hughes]

But. But it sounds. Because I know we're about to go into, like, British food being. Yes, I can smell this already.

[C]

But you can smell the blood pudding.

[Will Hughes]

I can smell the blood.

[C]

You smell blood putting in the water.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, but I want to say, like, mor. There's something called morilla, which is a Spanish. It's the. The original one, I think before the Brits were doing it. It's called Morcila and it's like a colonized before we.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Did we do Spain? I think we probably did parts of it. Did we do Spain? I think we've been about. Haven't we? But yeah. So Morcila, I mean it sounds a little bit more exotic than black pudding.

[C]

You know, sounds better.

[Will Hughes]

It's very similar. Yeah, but that's a similar thing. Similar, similar.

[Unknown Speaker]

All right, well, thank you for coming onto the only podcast that matters. There's only one way to start it off.

[C]

Fit check. Will, let's go, baby. What are you wearing today?

[Will Hughes]

I've. Oh yeah, I put on my own clothes today. Dressed.

[C]

Do you not normally dress?

[Will Hughes]

Myself? Well, you know, sometimes it's nice to have your mum give you a hand. Yeah, I've got some supreme shocks. Thought I'd wear those. It was between those awesome Amelie and. Or sort of snakeskin looking ones they did with Clarks.

[C]

Oh yeah, those are good. Yeah. The desert boot with the. It's like a creeper, right?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, but I. No, no.

[C]

Or is it a Wally?

[Will Hughes]

It's the wallaby. Yeah, I've got a. Actually I'm a big, big.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh my God.

[C]

Yo, show the camera. This man has a wallaby. Yo, that's fire, dude.

[Unknown Speaker]

Clark's.

[Will Hughes]

He prefer to be permanent.

[Unknown Speaker]

Jesus.

[Will Hughes]

I. I got that because then I thought when I started getting followers on Instagram, I could send Clark's a picture and they'd send me free wallabies.

[Unknown Speaker]

Has that did that has happened?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Worth the £60.

[Unknown Speaker]

Have you collaborated with Wallaby or with Clarks at all?

[Will Hughes]

No, I haven't.

[Unknown Speaker]

We have. And it didn't even require getting a tattoo.

[Will Hughes]

I did see. I did see that. Yeah. No, you should get tattoos anyway though.

[Unknown Speaker]

What size are you?

[Will Hughes]

A 10? Because I'm normally an 11, but. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Wait, hold on.

[Will Hughes]

10 UK. So 11.5 US down. I size down in wallabies. Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do.

[Unknown Speaker]

You gotta write that. You gotta write that out of the tattoo.

[Will Hughes]

Oh no, this one's. Yeah, this one's a size six.

[C]

I can't believe you got the tag tattoo. Like the. The hang. Like the hang tag tattooed on the wallaby.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah. I mean you gotta.

[C]

That's ridiculous.

[Unknown Speaker]

You have other. Any other John's related tattoos?

[Will Hughes]

That means clothes.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yes.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Or women.

[Will Hughes]

No.

[Unknown Speaker]

Or anything.

[Will Hughes]

I've got a frog drinking wine. Okay. He's good.

[C]

Where's that at?

[Unknown Speaker]

Did you go to the Frog Wine bar in Bed Stuy?

[Will Hughes]

Is that a thing? Yeah, here. God, I just need to get it up about this. This New York place. No, I almost went to a place yesterday that sold pickles and books.

[C]

That was a place in the Lower east side. What's that? What is it called?

[Will Hughes]

I think it might.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, Pickles and books.

[Will Hughes]

I think it's called the Pickle and Bookshop. Yeah, I think. Which is, you know, creatively named, but yeah, no, I think that's my only. My only John's related.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's a good one.

[Will Hughes]

Tattoo. It's a good one. But in terms of other clothes.

[C]

Yes, please. Socks.

[Will Hughes]

Some Edwins. Oh, socks. Actually, I've got. They're from a place called Lorenz, which is a. A UK based brand. No, but they, they make some.

[Unknown Speaker]

Some.

[Will Hughes]

They're quite. They're not a huge brand, but they make some pretty interesting stuff. L, R, N, Z. Oh, we're getting British.

[C]

Yeah, I always forget we've taken.

[Will Hughes]

Taken. Oh, sorry.

[C]

Z. Yeah, thank you.

[Will Hughes]

Z. Yeah. And then some Edwins. They're obviously Japanese.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is Edwin. I know Edwin is big in Paris. Are they big in the uk?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I mean, there's. There's a shop. That's right. And there's a shop. They. People go in the shop and they purchase the shirts and they buy jeans. They buy the jeans.

[C]

They buy the jeans.

[Will Hughes]

They actually very kindly sent me these and they're my favorite ones because they're kind of like darker blue at the bottom and then they go a little bit lighter at the top.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you get a lot of free clothes?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, more so than. I think some people that the whole thing is about cooking.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you get a lot of free food stuff?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I do.

[Unknown Speaker]

What do you get, like hots and pans or like meat tin fish?

[Will Hughes]

Weirdly, all of the above. Yeah. I work with. There's a company called Swaledale. It's just like a really good butchery in the uk. So I get sent from them, which is spotted dick. Some spotted dick? No. Well, there's no meat in spotted dick. But they don't even do black pudding, so maybe they should.

[Unknown Speaker]

Hey, yo. My spot is dig vegetarian.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I mean, I think it is actually. It might have lard in it. I don't know. A lot of British food does have.

[Unknown Speaker]

Large fat spotted dick.

[Will Hughes]

That's a big fat spotted dick. Exactly.

[Unknown Speaker]

You know why we think it's funny?

[C]

Delicious.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah. All right. Hey, hey. Okay. It is funny. Okay. I just take very serious.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, we know.

[Will Hughes]

It's. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

You're a serious guy, dude. That's what everyone says about you.

[Will Hughes]

A lot of people say that the word serious gets thrown away.

[C]

No sense of humor.

[Will Hughes]

No.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think if you.

[C]

Such a bummer.

[Will Hughes]

If you Google upsetting. Couldn't. Wouldn't go out of place at a funeral.

[Unknown Speaker]

If you Google, what is Will Hughes known for?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Which is what we do to research for the episode.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

First of all, there's a football player named Will Hughes. So say. No. No. What is Will Hughes, the content creator, known for? Known for your cheeky sense of humor.

[Will Hughes]

My cheeky sense of humor?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. According to Google AI, I don't have.

[Will Hughes]

A Wikipedia page yet, but if it.

[C]

Did, we don't either.

[Will Hughes]

If I did, that'd be cool.

[C]

Do you.

[Will Hughes]

Wait.

[C]

Do you call yourself a content creator? What do you call yourself?

[Will Hughes]

I usually say just like silly Internet.

[C]

Food, but for real, though, I know.

[Will Hughes]

Genuinely, that's what I'll go with.

[C]

Silly Internet food.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Because I don't really like.

[C]

That's your business card.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's a good one.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I don't have a business card, but if I did, it would probably say silly, silly Internet. I don't really like, you know, the influencer. The. The influencer words a bit.

[C]

Well, that's a. That's a dirty, nasty word for sure. But I think content creator. The reason I asked is because that's also kind of.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. To me. Yeah. That's kind of why I don't say that either. Because I don't like.

[C]

There we go with silly Internet food.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Well, I think it just makes more sense about what I do because I don't. I'm not like. I'm not like really, really content minded. Do you know what I mean? Like, there are people that are content creators that are like filming everything all day every day. I don't really. I kind of like to not do that because otherwise.

[C]

Because it's your job.

[Will Hughes]

Exactly. I'd find it really fucking annoying.

[Unknown Speaker]

What will he Cook? Is an Instagram chef and social media personality known for his humorous, relaxed recipe videos, tongue in cheek humor, casual tire, short videos, collaborations, casual attire. Seems like you are a favorite with Generation Z.

[Will Hughes]

Apparently so. Well, I am technically Generation Z.

[C]

Really? Well, I'm no Generation Z.

[Will Hughes]

Sorry. Zed. Yeah, I'm. I'm 96. So I think 95 was the start of. Because they've just started the new generation Beta. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Terrible.

[C]

Terrible.

[Will Hughes]

Really? Really?

[C]

Generation of cocks.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Literally. Like, what. What is. Why would they pick that? I mean, I get.

[Unknown Speaker]

Speaking of, let's talk about this pink top.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry.

[C]

This is from God is Ass.

[Will Hughes]

From. I don't know if you know. Supreme.

[Unknown Speaker]

Supreme.

[Will Hughes]

Supreme.

[C]

I've heard of it. Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I think it. New York base.

[C]

They're blowing up. They're going crazy. They're going to be big. Yeah, they're going to.

[Will Hughes]

Especially in 2025, you know, it being the start of, of a new year. But. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What about the white tea?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. White T shirt underneath? Just because no one wants to be touched by too much knit.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, for me it said I don't want to get my underarm stench on it, so I had to like dry clean it and I can just like take it off and wear it again.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, that's. That's also a thing that I had considered because it's hot in here.

[Unknown Speaker]

Was it for. Because you're here for how many days?

[Will Hughes]

This. Eight. Eight days. I think that's a long trip.

[C]

Hanukkah.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Yeah, that's why we're here. Yeah, we've come for. No, we just. Hanukkah was on Christmas Day this year. Yes.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, well there's.

[Will Hughes]

And then.

[Unknown Speaker]

Sorry, the following seven nights. There are.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, is it a seven night job?

[C]

Eight nights?

[Will Hughes]

I'm Jewish.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, you're not.

[Will Hughes]

From the waist down. Okay. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, you're British.

[C]

Well, nobody's circumcised.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, most British guys aren't. No. Yeah, I just had.

[C]

They love a foreskin in the old country.

[Will Hughes]

Well, yeah, apparently so I was like 15 and they were like, yeah, that thing needs to come off. Wait, Spotted dick cheese.

[C]

Wait, for real? You got a circumcision as an, as a, a teenager?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah. Wait, what, like discovered the, the art of oninism and then they were like, yeah, that needs to come off.

[C]

Was that your, you made that decision?

[Will Hughes]

No, no, no, no. I went to the doctors and they were, they were like, yeah, that's too tight. It's gotta go.

[C]

Your foreskin was too tight. So as a 15 year old, you got a circumcision?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was like 15 and anesthetics or. No, couldn't. Yeah, General.

[Unknown Speaker]

Raw dog, that.

[Will Hughes]

General. No, no, General. Like fully under.

[Unknown Speaker]

They already keep it and make a little bracelet out of it.

[Will Hughes]

I, I remember. So I was like 15, obviously. My mum took me to the hospital and I was there and they put the little white thing on you, the little dress thing and then, and then they put me in the, in the chair and then they go into the anesthetists or whatever and they, they plug you in and then they put the in you and you fall asleep, but because it's not like real sleep. Have you been under general aesthetic before?

[Unknown Speaker]

No.

[Will Hughes]

Like, when you go on. Have you. When you go under general anesthetic, you don't let. Your concept of time isn't there because you. You're not, like, dreaming. You're not asleep. You're just, like, completely blacked out. So literally, they put me under. They were like, this is gonna. You're gonna be three, two. And then you go. And then I woke up and half.

[C]

Your dick was gone.

[Will Hughes]

And they were rolling me around the corridor and they just done the operation, but I didn't realize. I thought that I just woken up immediately and they were about to do it, and I was going, don't cut my dick off. Don't cut my dick off. And anyway, and then I passed out again. And then I woke up and they gave me a tuna sandwich. My mum took me for a Domino's. It was the best day of my life.

[Unknown Speaker]

Cut your dick off?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. They didn't. They already had. Only. No, but only the part that they were meant to go for.

[C]

Technically not an adult circumcision because you were 15, but that's. Have you ever told anyone that? Ever, publicly?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Was it weird?

[Will Hughes]

Well, not on a podcast, but. You see, my fun guys.

[Unknown Speaker]

Did you have to get used to having, like, a new dick?

[Will Hughes]

Sort of. Yeah. Yeah, Right? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Because, yeah, it's.

[C]

It's. It's less sensitive. Right. Is the whole thing.

[Will Hughes]

I don't actually know, because it was so tight that it wouldn't come back anyway.

[C]

Wait, so you. You have jacked off with a foreskin.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

And now you have jacked off without a song. What's better?

[Will Hughes]

Well, I can't tell because it was so tight that it wouldn't come back. So.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay, so this is. Okay. All right, let's get to bottom. So when you. When you rolled the foreskin back to expose the head of your penis, it would.

[Will Hughes]

No, it didn't do that. That's what I'm saying. It wouldn't know. How do you pee? Well, it just sort of.

[Unknown Speaker]

It dribbled out.

[Will Hughes]

It sort of just came out. How do you bust it just sort of dribbled out, bro.

[Unknown Speaker]

Your dickies.

[Will Hughes]

No, no, that was south of France. It was.

[C]

No, there's no real estate for dictionary.

[Will Hughes]

I don't think that there was any of the. The cheesiness underneath it. Like, what the hell? It was so tight.

[Unknown Speaker]

Like, did it hurt?

[Will Hughes]

What the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Afterwards, your dick being strangled.

[Will Hughes]

Not Normally, no, I can't. It would, it would. It didn't hurt at the time. Afterwards, like five weeks after was like getting circumcised when you're 15. That's not fun.

[Unknown Speaker]

They just take the whole thing. They couldn't just like cut a little vent, like breathing.

[Will Hughes]

No.

[C]

Put a sunroof on that shark.

[Will Hughes]

They don't give it gills. It's just, you know. But they, they, they did what they did. And then for five weeks they were like, you can't touch that. Did you maybe after four, I don't.

[Unknown Speaker]

Know, you need to walk around with, like, oven mitts on.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. No. You'd wake up in the morning and it would hurt.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, my God.

[C]

This is crazy. I don't think there's anyone that's ever been on this podcast that has. That is circumcised, that is pre and post as an adult.

[Will Hughes]

Well, I think it's important for the young generation to know that if they have a really tight foreskin, they should probably get circumcised.

[C]

Would you?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Would you?

[Unknown Speaker]

Absolutely.

[C]

If you could have the opportunity to have it back.

[Will Hughes]

No, no, no. I would have liked to have kept it at the end, you know. Why? In a little jar or something, you.

[C]

Know, have it just as a. Ferment it.

[Unknown Speaker]

In America. In America, if you get anything amputated or cut off, they cannot refuse you. Take it home with you.

[Will Hughes]

Really? Yeah. God.

[C]

That's in the Constitution.

[Unknown Speaker]

Great health care system.

[Will Hughes]

Incredible. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

You get a little prize.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

No, that's why Luigi assassinated the CEO. They didn't let him keep his foreskin.

[Unknown Speaker]

Right. All our diabetes and all our amputated feet, you know.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

You get to keep the foot as a little prize.

[Will Hughes]

What are we.

[C]

Oh, we're in the fit check. What's your hat?

[Will Hughes]

Thames. Thames. It's actually a balaclava, but I'm not going to wear it as a balaclava.

[C]

Oh, you can.

[Will Hughes]

I'll get a hot face.

[C]

But, yeah, it's in the pin.

[Will Hughes]

It's. Yeah, it's just hems, you know. You know, blondie, blondie. Thames.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, man.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

The river.

[Will Hughes]

The river. Yeah, it's the main one.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's pronounced themes.

[Will Hughes]

It's Thames.

[C]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What about all the jewels?

[Will Hughes]

Johnny Hoxton and then that one's. That's my dad's wedding ring that he wanted as a signet ring because he didn't, because he's got fat fingers, but ironically, like your cock fingers. Just like the King.

[C]

Like the king, yeah, exactly.

[Will Hughes]

But the. The.

[C]

It's A blood sausage.

[Will Hughes]

It's a blood sausage. No, my dad's fingers are so fat that it doesn't fit him anymore because they got fatter and so now it only fits me. And hopefully, as has happened to my father and my children, perhaps my fingers will get too fat. I'll pass on the one ring, then my children can have it. They'll get fat.

[C]

You have kids or you're just.

[Will Hughes]

I don't have kids. I'm just saying, you know, potentially.

[Unknown Speaker]

Why doesn't your dad circumcise his fingers?

[Will Hughes]

I don't know if you can. Great question, but we.

[Unknown Speaker]

I didn't know you could get a 15 year old circumcision.

[Will Hughes]

There's only one way to find out today. Yeah, let's. Let's get the paper cutter.

[C]

What's the watch?

[Will Hughes]

Just an apple watch with a metal strap.

[C]

Do you use it to like keep track of the steps?

[Will Hughes]

And I eat a lot and if I didn't have this to like make me aware of how much exercise I needed to do, then I'd be the fattest cunt in the world.

[Unknown Speaker]

So you have to do a lot of exercise to keep yourself from just blowing up. 130 stone.

[Will Hughes]

The last, I'd say the last like two weeks because obviously it's been like Christmas and New Year and I'm in this country. And Hanukkah, of course, and Diwali, Shabbat Shalom and Kwanzaa.

[C]

Kwanzaa? Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

What's that?

[Unknown Speaker]

Do the Kwanzaa greeting.

[C]

Yeah, say the Kwanzaa greeting.

[Will Hughes]

What is that?

[C]

Oh, you racist piece of.

[Will Hughes]

What's Kwanzaa?

[C]

I have no idea.

[Will Hughes]

What is it? Is that like. It's Star Trek.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's African American holiday.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, right, yeah. No, sorry, we don't celebrate that.

[C]

Black Hanukkah.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, nice. Blondica Blonica. Yeah, I know.

[Unknown Speaker]

Accidental Rick Ross.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. What is the greeting for that? I don't know.

[C]

Dude.

[Will Hughes]

Hello. You're racist. Come on.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yes.

[Will Hughes]

Happy Kwanzaa. Yeah, no, I think if. Yeah, the last, the last few weeks with Christmas and everything, I've. I've let, I've let it go a little bit. You know, I've not gained like 10 pounds. I have easily gained like, I don't know what pounds are.

[C]

What's a stone?

[Will Hughes]

Stone's £14.

[Unknown Speaker]

So stupid.

[Will Hughes]

So it's probably.

[C]

What's a fortnight?

[Will Hughes]

Two weeks. That's a month of Sundays. I think. I think it's a game for kids. Yeah, no, it's nice. It's two weeks okay. Yeah. For the last fortnight. Yeah. I've been eating like a fat little twat and I haven't been doing any exercise. Although I did run across the Williamsburg Bridge and back over.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's pretty good.

[Will Hughes]

The other day and it's quite steep. Yeah.

[C]

Were you like my life is a movie?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, literally I was. Well, I filmed it. That's going in the New York video.

[C]

That I'm gonna play Francis Homo dude.

[Will Hughes]

Who's that?

[C]

It's a movie with Greta Gerwick.

[Will Hughes]

I need to get better at this. We've got an age gap, haven't we? There's a.

[C]

We're 10 years older than you.

[Will Hughes]

You're 10 years old.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah. But I' Francis H. I don't plan on it should neither.

[Will Hughes]

That's okay. I'm not gonna. Who's a Greta G. So good man. Is she acting in it or directing?

[C]

She is acting in it and she wrote it, but she did not direct it. I don't believe.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. Right. Nice.

[C]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What are the panties?

[Will Hughes]

My pants.

[C]

Panties.

[Unknown Speaker]

Your knickers.

[Will Hughes]

My boxy shorts.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

I think they might just be a pair of Calvin Klein that are a little bit small cuz I didn't want to wear them on the plane. So I've saved the worst pair for.

[Unknown Speaker]

The last day when you're at your fattest.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

They're kind of last ditch option.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah. So I've got them and they're. That, that, that's pretty fresh.

[Unknown Speaker]

Besides the, the ALD Clarks and the supreme shocks, what other footwear did you bring? Because that's always like a struggle. Right. Is like when you're. When you're traveling, you're super limited.

[Will Hughes]

I bought just those two and I bought a pair of on running trainers. Okay. Running for the Williamsburg Bridge. Yeah, for the Williamsburg Bridge. Exactly that. So that I could stomp some serious tarmac.

[Unknown Speaker]

For your one run.

[Will Hughes]

For my. I've done two. I was gonna go this morning but my friend that I'm here with was quite ill and I couldn't be to go on my own. So I just sort of freezing out. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's really, really negative 10 Celsius or whatever.

[Will Hughes]

The. It's minus two. But someone tried to explain to me the, the, the reason why Fahrenheit's better. And I didn't think about this, but I actually might be leaning slightly towards the. The way of thinking really across the pond. So some. This guy was like with Fahrenheit, you think of it as like a hundred. Like a percentage so if something's like 80 Fahrenheit, it's like really. It's quite warm. But if something's like 20 Fahrenheit, it's like 20 warm. So it's like pretty cold. No.

[C]

Kind of freezing.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's cold. So it kind of makes. It's like a glass that's full.

[C]

What's boiling?

[Will Hughes]

Well, he said if it was. If it was 100 Fahrenheit, it would be really hot.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Hughes]

But if it's 20 Fahrenheit, it's really cold. Yeah. And if it's 50, it's kind of like. Yeah, fine.

[C]

It's pretty cool.

[Will Hughes]

Well, anyway, okay, maybe that guy was a. I don't know. But that's. That's what he told me.

[C]

Yeah, I guess that is. Honestly, that is not bad logic.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. It kind of made a lot more sense and no one's ever been able to put that into perspective for me to actually understand because obviously we've got.

[C]

This was a genius.

[Will Hughes]

Celsius relayed this. Yeah, good. Good guy. Rubbish at pool.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, billiards then.

[Will Hughes]

Is that, Is that what it's called here?

[C]

Oh, I thought that's what you called it.

[Will Hughes]

No, it's.

[C]

Paul, what's billiards?

[Will Hughes]

I think billiards is a different game. Billiards is when it's in a diamond.

[Unknown Speaker]

We're thinking of snooker, man.

[C]

Oh, snooker.

[Will Hughes]

Should have said. Yeah, that's. That is a different. Real quick.

[Unknown Speaker]

Are you a big darts guy recently?

[Will Hughes]

Yes, I'm getting. Well, Steven.

[Unknown Speaker]

Bunting.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Bunting. Everyone's going bunting mental or whatever.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's the 16 year old kid's name?

[Will Hughes]

Luke the Nuke.

[Unknown Speaker]

The new.

[Will Hughes]

Well, obviously.

[Unknown Speaker]

How did he get so good at darts if he can't even be in a pub or. I guess it's the uk, you can start drinking at eight.

[Will Hughes]

No, he is. He will have been in the pub like with his dad. So all the good pubs don't allow children in. But obviously this little cunt was really good at darts. So you probably let him go. Yeah, it's like having a dog that can do like a backflip, you know what I mean?

[C]

It's like party trick.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Literally, like. But except this is like some dad going in there with his kid and being like, hey, watch him. Show him what you can get a bullseye, you know?

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Anyway, yeah, he's.

[Unknown Speaker]

My kid can throw a bullseye. You owe me a pint.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah, that's fine. I can. Have you got kids?

[Unknown Speaker]

No.

[Will Hughes]

You've Got to start getting Project Luke. Luke the nuclear.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, absolutely.

[Will Hughes]

You can start getting Project Little going because everyone's got Hitler.

[C]

Little Hitler.

[Will Hughes]

Well, yeah, I suppose if we're doing a little. Little Nazi portmanteau there, that would be. That'd be that. But no, it's like, you know, people talk about Project Mbappe.

[C]

Oh, right. You make your kid.

[Will Hughes]

It's like, obviously he was super young, made loads of money.

[C]

So you're saying James should raise the next Hitler?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yes, that's what he's saying.

[Will Hughes]

You need to raise the next Luke the Nuke Hitler. You got me. You've got. Falling over my tongue. Yeah, that guy. Luke the Nuke Littler. Get your kids chucking. I'm on it. All right.

[Unknown Speaker]

Fit checked. Oh, you're sipping on some Orion beer straight from Okinawa. What do you think?

[Will Hughes]

It's nice. Yeah. It's good, right?

[C]

Although a Chris Vlogger.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I need to know how you guys think about Miller High Life. The champagne of beers. Great.

[C]

The champagne of yours.

[Will Hughes]

Thank you. Yeah. Because that's my favorite thing.

[C]

You can't get it in the uk.

[Will Hughes]

Never had it.

[C]

They don't import it.

[Will Hughes]

No. Not anywhere I've seen. And I only clocked it because I've been watching the Holdovers. Paul Giamatti, Dominic Cessa.

[C]

Great movie.

[Will Hughes]

And in that film, they're like in the bar, and the guy's like, oh, can I have a Miller highlighter? It's the champagne. I was like, what's this? And then I saw they had it, and I didn't realize that you'd never had it before. I'd never had it before. I didn't realize that was the slogan. Yeah, that's actually what it says on the. On the thing. And I've been drinking copious amounts of that since I've been here.

[Unknown Speaker]

You like it?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I do. I really like it.

[Unknown Speaker]

Get some in Duty Free, bring it back. I introduce Colonize the UK with it.

[Will Hughes]

Someone needs to do something about it. I've had Miller beer in the uk.

[C]

Miller Light.

[Will Hughes]

I. I don't know what it was. It was like a brown bottle Miller one. It wasn't particularly good. And obviously Bud Lights Whack. So that's in the uk.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's too.

[Will Hughes]

Well, I don't like that at all. Yeah, I've heard that's a thing over.

[C]

Here, but can you confirm or deny is splitting the G corny?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it is.

[Unknown Speaker]

Thank you.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Just drink a pint of Guinness.

[Unknown Speaker]

There it is.

[Will Hughes]

It's.

[C]

Why do you think Americans are Obsessed.

[Unknown Speaker]

With it right now because it enables binge drinking.

[Will Hughes]

Okay, so there is that. We're pretty good at that over in the uk.

[Unknown Speaker]

But you don't need that. You don't need. You don't need games for that.

[Will Hughes]

No, no. Well, I think this is the thing. I think that it does introduce an ele of activity to go into the pub or going to a bar. Do you know what I mean? It's like, oh, let's see who can split the G. But actually, none of my friends are total penises, so we don't do that. That's not really the. That's not the done thing.

[C]

Total penises.

[Will Hughes]

Total penises, yeah. Because if you do, like, you see. You see it a lot in London. There's a. There's a pub called the Devonshire. Have you heard about this place? And it's owned by this Irish guy. And it's meant to be the best. I mean, everywhere in London. Oh, it's the best pint of Guinness in London. It's, you know, Guinness is good in Dublin because it's fresh. Guinness in London is slightly less fresh. But then there's something to do with, like, the nitrogen in the right tanks. It's all a load of. I don't care. Like, there's Guinness and then there's good Guinness and a Guinness. A bit like pizza is still fine.

[C]

Like sex.

[Will Hughes]

Like pizza, like pizza, Guinness. Same fucking thing. Have all three at the same time. Whoa. You got yourself a party.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, that's a creamer.

[Will Hughes]

That's New Year's Eve.

[Unknown Speaker]

All right, speaking of pizza. Fit chat, drink check complete. Let's get into. Into your trip here and your week of binge eating and, yeah, seemingly binge drinking. What have been the food highlights of your time here in New York City?

[Will Hughes]

French. French is one of my favorite restaurants. Potentially in the workplace, maybe really expensive, but, like, you know, it's. It's good.

[Unknown Speaker]

Did you ball out? Do you get, like two of everything?

[Will Hughes]

There was. There was six of us, so. And also the portions are so big in so many places here compared to what they are in the uk. Yep.

[C]

Yeah, that's America for you, baby.

[Will Hughes]

America. But so basically, that was. That was nice. You know, just ordered like a few. A few things.

[Unknown Speaker]

Wait, speaking of portions, did you see. Did you follow along? Like, right before you got here, there were these four Mancunian legends, these, like, Essex girls and gays that were in New York City and they hit up every single fast.

[Will Hughes]

Were they Mancunian or were they from Essex?

[Unknown Speaker]

Same. They were consuming about $10,000 a day. They were hitting, like, Chick Fil A Wingstop. You know what I'm talking about?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, the proper Whoppers. Yeah, yeah, I did. I did see that because my girlfriend.

[Unknown Speaker]

Was self described Big fat lazos.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Proper Whopper. I wouldn't. I don't want to fat shame anyone because I don't think that that's not like a nice.

[C]

Do whatever you want.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I mean, but seriously, they were eating a lot. Like, also, why go anywhere and eat? If you're into food, which these guys clearly are, why go anywhere and eat food that you can have in the uk?

[Unknown Speaker]

You can get Chipotle in the uk.

[C]

But it's also not the same menu.

[Will Hughes]

Chipotle you can get in Wingstop you can get in the UK.

[Unknown Speaker]

McDonald's, chick fil A, raising canes.

[Will Hughes]

There are. There's no raising canes. Raising canes. There is not crumble. What's that?

[Unknown Speaker]

Crumble?

[Will Hughes]

Does it do apple crumble?

[Unknown Speaker]

No, they do cakes that are actually cookies that are actually cakes.

[Will Hughes]

Okay, that's. That sounds nice. But no, you can't get that in the uk. But a lot of where they went, it's like, look, there's a lot of fast food restaurants in the UK that are obviously very, very inspired by us fast food restaurants.

[Unknown Speaker]

Can I say, though, I've never been more craving. Like, the place, they did an incredible job of selling the places that they went to.

[Will Hughes]

Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

And I've never been more, like, tempted to just order like a shitload of Wingstop and just eat a tub of ranch in bed.

[Will Hughes]

I think Wingstop. There's one on my. I live in Dalston and in.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's your address?

[Will Hughes]

I'll tell you my exact postcode immediately after. Okay. You can come around for dinner for Wingstops supper. Yeah, well, yeah, there's a Wing Stop, like, literally just up the road and the ranch from there. Because ranch isn't really a thing in the uk. Right. But Wingstop, obviously, fried chicken's a thing in the UK. It's been a. KFC's been the UK for ages. But, like, it's inspired by America, of course. But, like, it's fried chicken. You're frying chicken. Ranch. Wow.

[C]

Ranch.

[Will Hughes]

A ranch.

[Unknown Speaker]

You with ranch.

[Will Hughes]

I with ranch. Heavenly.

[C]

Wingstop, I think, has, for all intents and purposes, the best ranch.

[Will Hughes]

Agree. Like, it's incredible. And we don't really get that at all in the uk. Like, I like mayo. I'm a mayo.

[C]

Not the same thing.

[Will Hughes]

It's so not the same we are white. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty spicy, but I can.

[C]

So if you go into a grocery store in the uk, you can't get a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch like that.

[Will Hughes]

That. No.

[C]

No one eats it.

[Will Hughes]

Actually, I think you can get the one that's like salad dressing.

[C]

Well, that's what ranch is.

[Will Hughes]

No, but, like, you know the one that's, like, slightly more vinegary. Like, it will say it's runny. It's more runny than a dip. Than a dip, Exactly. It's not like. It's not, like, creamy. And it wouldn't stick to a wig.

[C]

Less like a condiment and more like a dressing.

[Will Hughes]

Exactly.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think guy, the. The big gay guy with glasses. Because there was another guy that I think was the boyfriend. Absolute unit. Yes. Who's that guy?

[Will Hughes]

Big gay guy.

[Unknown Speaker]

He had some ranch, and he legit just fell over. He's like, oh, it's Heav. He just fell over.

[Will Hughes]

No, it is. I, I, I do think that Wings, Wingstop Ranch, specifically, same menu.

[Unknown Speaker]

Why don't you collaborate with those guys?

[Will Hughes]

I would like to. Yeah. Is Rick Ross. Rick Ross.

[C]

A bunch of franchises.

[Unknown Speaker]

Not Wingstop. Why don't you collaborate with the four Mancunian legends that were here?

[Will Hughes]

I don't think we'd go on.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[C]

All right. You're. You're homophobic, obviously.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. That's the main thing.

[Unknown Speaker]

They wouldn't want to go to France. They want to go to Mackie Maccas.

[Will Hughes]

I'm a snob when it comes to, like, food content.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Like, there's. There's people that go and they eat, you know, mukbang. It's. Yeah, like, like bangs. Stuff's fine. It's been a thing for ages. But, like, when it's, like, pure, like, gluttony and, like, people filming themselves with, like, just around their face, like, they're stuffing their faces.

[Unknown Speaker]

I don't know, man. Their joy was. Their joy was pretty contagious.

[Will Hughes]

Well, look, that's, that's fine. But for me, I'm watching that, and I'm feeling like I've been caught by a sickness bug.

[Unknown Speaker]

Who are the food content creators you actually follow? And with.

[Will Hughes]

There's a guy in America called Chuck Cruz. He has him and his girlfriend. I think her name's Haley. They're really, really good. I think they're in Long Island.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

I'm not, I'm not sure, but he's. He's really good. He's got a really interesting, like, style of cooking. I think he's great. There's a guy called Ben Lippett in the uk.

[Unknown Speaker]

And you. Do you follow cooks versus, like, reviewers?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I mean, so, yeah, I guess so. Like, people that are like, making recipe content, but I think also now it's like you kind of have to do a bit of everything. Like, I'll do a bit of travel stuff. Yeah, I think that's more.

[C]

But no mukbangs. No asmr.

[Will Hughes]

No. I have. I do sometimes be like, oh, I'll eat never asmr, actually, because I. Again, that creeps me out. Exactly. That's.

[C]

That I love it. Is that weird that I. I love that? I don't know. It's just. I'm into it, dude. I don't know. That was gross, dude.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly. It's gross.

[C]

Well, yeah, okay.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's not. It's. It's not for me, the. The ASMR stuff. But, like, there's a guy called Sam, Sam's Eats. He's really, really big on Tick Tock and I think Instagram. He does, like, ASMR cooking stuff, but it's like more like the sound of the knife sizzling. Yeah. And that's. That's quite cool. And like, with food. God, who's that?

[Unknown Speaker]

Jonathan Etchabon?

[Will Hughes]

I don't know this.

[Unknown Speaker]

Kim Kardashian's bestie. Oh, wait, Shaybon Chabon.

[Will Hughes]

Is he the. He's been on loads of British reality tv.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, he was in the Villain House or whatever.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Or big. Big. Big Brother. What?

[Unknown Speaker]

It's called the American name.

[Will Hughes]

Is it?

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no, no.

[Will Hughes]

Would make sense.

[C]

I should create a reality show called Villain There.

[Will Hughes]

Absolutely.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is there? Absolutely.

[Will Hughes]

Well, to be fair, if the concept for a TV show is getting some of the worst people in the world and sticking them in a house, Villain House is a more fitting name than Big Brother. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Unknown Speaker]

House of Villains.

[C]

House of.

[Will Hughes]

Sorry. House of Villains. Okay. No, I, I don't have. I don't. Does he do, like, food stuff then?

[Unknown Speaker]

He does like, like, yo, look at this gluttonous ass donut. You know, like, that's covered in pizzas or whatever.

[Will Hughes]

I think. Yeah, I, I think also, I think the. The gluttony stuff is. Is bigger in the US Than it is. And there's a few creators in the UK that are doing it now, and they're doing very well by basically, you know, putting themselves in a position where they're gonna need to get on a Zen pick or something. Like, you know, it's. It's not looking good for Them, but right, you know, Whoppers. Whoppers, exactly.

[Unknown Speaker]

Real quick though, besides French yet where else have you visited that?

[Will Hughes]

We did Four Horsemen on New Year's Eve, so. Good. Always hits again. Went there last year. So, yeah, obviously last.

[Unknown Speaker]

Last year was James Murphy there?

[Will Hughes]

He was upstairs genuinely having a party. And there were these guys that came down from this party. We're outside having a cigarette and they were like this Danish couple. A fag. Sorry. Yeah, no, I didn't want to offend anyone, but yeah, you're here so we can say. All right. Yeah, nice. Oh, it gives you the pass, I suppose. Yeah. So I'm outside having a fag and there's this Danish couple that come downstairs. We're like, oh, there's party upstairs. Oh, do you know this is the guy from LCD Sound Systems restaurant. And we're like, yeah, we know. And. And they're like, oh, he's upstairs at this party. And I was like, no way. A Daft Punk playing. And he. And he was like. And they were like, what?

[C]

Or they didn't get it.

[Will Hughes]

Didn't get it. And I was, wait, are all his friends there? And they were like, like, literally, like both of them completely, like dead faced. And I was just like, I literally just threw my flag down on the ground. I went inside, I carried on having a delicious dinner.

[C]

Yeah, I applaud you on that for. That's pretty good. That's a good thing.

[Will Hughes]

It was. Yeah. I mean, but the food there, man, is so good. And the chef, the reason we went is because I thought it'd be a real. To get anywhere for New Year's Eve. Obviously it's busy time.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

And last year when I was here and I was really ill and I couldn't eat anywhere, I did manage to go and like try and eat like a little bit that I was with my girlfriend and there was a pork chop on the menu and I was like, if I eat that, I'm pooing myself in. Worth it in this restaurant. No, no. I was like, I can't risk that. It will be embarrassing. I'll be upset. But I posted about it and then the chef messaged me and I was like, oh, great, this guy follows me, so maybe I can. And his name's Nick. Lovely man. And I was like, this means that we actually have somewhere to go on New Year's Eve. Which was. Was nice because I didn't think it was going to be a bit difficult.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Because people in New York, like, sell reservations.

[C]

Yep.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, yeah, well, that's in New York. New York. They just signed a law that's trying to combat it, but.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, good. Oh, good. Because.

[Unknown Speaker]

But that's really carbone and like the grill and like, like, you know, hype.

[Will Hughes]

Really high end kind of stuff.

[Unknown Speaker]

High end. Just like, just high hypey.

[C]

You had a. You went to the Commodore, right?

[Will Hughes]

The Commodore, yeah, yeah, yeah, I had, yeah, the hot breast and just some nachos and it was. I just love that place. Yeah, I saw that place on an episode of Munchies. Like the vice thing, chef's night out or whatever it was. And obviously it was like 15 years ago or something. It was like this big, big geezer from Williamsburg with glasses and he was a chef. And I saw him there, he was saying I was great. And then we wanted to go last year but didn't have the time. And it was the first. Literally the day we got here, we were like, oh, we're a bit peckish. Went in there like 3 o'clock. Great dingy. Yeah, those. What are the drinks? The pina coladas.

[C]

Yes, sir.

[Will Hughes]

Wow. I love it. Like, I like a place. We did.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think that's. That's the only bar I still go to in my 30s that I was going to my 20s.

[Will Hughes]

Really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'm cool. I mean, also, like in the. I think in the UK there's. There's a couple of things I love about the. The differences between like New York and London. And I think it is more New York and London than America and the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Uk because what are those difference. What are those, like, biggest differences?

[Will Hughes]

Pubs, obviously. Huge thing in the uk we love. Massive. Everyone loves a pub, but we don't have dive bars. You know, like, we like pubs that we have in the uk. Like, you don't have a jukebox. Like, you don't normally. You don't normally have like a dirty pool table. Yeah, you know, you just have maybe a darts board. Yeah, but like. And it's not like dimly lit and you know, there's not someone that hates you serving you beers.

[C]

So a dive bar is a novelty to you, like.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly, exactly. But obviously there's. There's one on every corner around here. In the same way that there's one one up. There's a pub on every corner and.

[C]

You'Ve got one around the corner. Magician.

[Will Hughes]

Well, we should go there.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you not perhaps. Does anyone try to like make a dive bar in London or is it too much like a Disneyland type thing?

[Will Hughes]

I can't realize. Do you have pubs? Yeah, where they try and, like, do, like, a British pub.

[C]

I don't try.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yes, but they don't. But they don't hit.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because I do not hit.

[C]

That's not fair. They don't have good ones. Name some Brooklyn public house in Fort Green, stupidly.

[Will Hughes]

Should be called the Fart and Swan.

[C]

Yeah, well, they're. Oh, okay, whatever. You're farting on me over here. I'm trying anyway, whatever. We can move on. There's some good pubs in you.

[Will Hughes]

Okay, okay.

[C]

But just, like, there's got to be.

[Unknown Speaker]

But it doesn't feel. It doesn't feel like you're sitting in, like, an old guy's living room, like, the way they do.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. Exactly. I've never seen a good dive bar in London.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

I've never. I don't think they exist in London. And I think that, again, like, you say, like, Disney World. It. Like, it's. It would. It would be too much of a novelty to have, like, a really.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think the. The New York ones are apples and oranges. I don't think, like, you get the same feelings as you do in London.

[Will Hughes]

Right. Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is there anything about American cuisine that still confuses the. Out of you.

[Will Hughes]

The tipping thing.

[Unknown Speaker]

Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

We do it. We do it here.

[Unknown Speaker]

We don't pay our service workers living.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. So that is. Is obviously, you know, there's a lot we don't need to get into the sort of the. The political.

[C]

No.

[Will Hughes]

You know, and then the. The.

[Unknown Speaker]

What are your thoughts on the H1 economies? Sorry, what are your thoughts on H1B visas?

[Will Hughes]

Listen, I want an Esther or I'm going home, I promise. Yeah, but, yeah, I think the tipping situation is bizarre in terms of. If you go to anywhere in the world that I've been, you know, like, some places don't even have. They don't tip at all.

[Unknown Speaker]

Right.

[Will Hughes]

In the UK, 90 of restaurants, especially in London, have service included. Yeah. Which means that everyone can get paid a fair wage, and. And you might be paying a little bit extra, but it saves any confusion.

[C]

At the end and on the menu items there. It's, like, upcharged.

[Will Hughes]

Exactly. And I. You know, I don't want to name names of restaurants, but as I said, we. There was a weird situation on this trip where splitting the bill at the end and the way that, you know, dividing the. The tip up at the end was just. Just. It made the whole experience, like, confusing and just, like, you know, like, I'm very clearly not American. Like, if someone just explained to me, like, okay, look, this is how we want to do it. Rather than making it seem like we were being really difficult. That would be.

[C]

They blamed you.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt a little bit like that. And you know, obviously what's.

[Unknown Speaker]

His xenophobia is on the rise in America.

[Will Hughes]

Well, I have heard. Yeah, I have heard.

[C]

But so back.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's making a comeback in a big way. They thought it was over, but it wasn't. But. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

So tipping, so like the business organizational side of the industry.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I just think, like, if you go to a place and it's clear that, well, when you get the bill, someone should say, look, here's how the tipping system works. Because I don't think it's very, very obvious, like what a lot of.

[Unknown Speaker]

A lot of them do. A lot of them now do. Do the calculations for you. It's like, right, 20, 25, 30% and then what the total would be.

[Will Hughes]

It should be just explained in a. When you're in London, it doesn't fucking matter. Like, anywhere I've been, anywhere in the world other than America has been. You leave like 20 quid on the, on the table or services included, or you say, can we leave a tip? Whereas in America, obviously, the people aren't getting paid fairly, which is a different problem. But it does make. Especially when someone's very clearly a tourist, it makes it quite a difficult.

[C]

I think they should explain the concept.

[Will Hughes]

I think the concept should be explained a little better because it's not that obvious to someone that's coming over from. Not America.

[C]

Just Google it, dude.

[Will Hughes]

I have. And everywhere's got a different approach.

[Unknown Speaker]

When we're in London, like, we go to a restaurant or go to a bar, whatever, and you go to settle the bill. Not having a tip, I'm like, I feel like I'm getting away with a crime.

[Will Hughes]

Right, okay. Yeah.

[C]

Honestly, everywhere in Europe, I will.

[Will Hughes]

France usually leave a tip in London. Like it was just a tenor or something. Even if service is included. Because I think it's. If the service is really good, you should. Yeah, but that's the other thing. If you get service somewhere in America and you don't want to leave a tip. No, you have to. You have.

[C]

You always. You have to.

[Will Hughes]

No, I know, but then if you leave like 10% a couple of times, like, we. What you go to some places and they go, here's what do you want? And you tell them what you want and then they charge you and then all they've done is click, like, turn the thing around, and one of them says, says 35 and they want a tip of 50 quid.

[C]

The coffee shop conundrum.

[Will Hughes]

It's so stupid.

[C]

Sorry, but like, entitled service workers, right?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, God.

[C]

You heard it here first. Will Hughes hates service workers because they all.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because they're all polyamorous. So they have multiple partners they got to take care of.

[C]

You know, they have to get their hair dyed. That's expensive. Yeah, Blue hair dye is not cheap.

[Will Hughes]

You know, blue head dye is expensive. But I. Yeah, I just think that.

[Unknown Speaker]

But nothing about the food.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, look, not customs, but I think that New York and London specifically are very, very similar in terms of, like, cuisine.

[C]

Everyone's mean, too.

[Will Hughes]

A lot of people are quite mean.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

In the fancy, in the. In the sort of cool, posh way. The cool restaurants. Yeah. A little bit condescending, which is. Which is a shame.

[Unknown Speaker]

But you like it?

[Will Hughes]

Well, I like the food.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

I can tell. I can tolerate a wanker if. If the food's good. Do you know what I mean? And I think most of the. Well, pretty much all the food that I've had in New York has been really good. Because obviously you've been.

[Unknown Speaker]

You've been playing the hits.

[Will Hughes]

We've been playing the hits. Also chopped cheeses.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, yeah. From a cart.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. There's outside the Williamsburg. The Hoxton. Yeah. And the Williamsburg. I suppose that's the hotel opposite, isn't it? There's, like, a green car. It's called, like, the bodega truck. The geezer in there just does chopped cheese sandwiches and, like, other stuff. But, like, the chopped cheese is clearly, like, not very good beef. Not very good cheese. Not very good onions.

[Unknown Speaker]

Nope.

[Will Hughes]

Not very good roll. And then you eat it, and it's a cacophony of just the most beautiful mouthful.

[C]

It tastes like the greater than the parts.

[Will Hughes]

So I love that so much. Like, it's something that under any circumstances, when described, should be shite. And then you have a bite of it and it's like this. I can't remember. I wish I got his name. It's the same guy every single day that we've been. And we've been a couple times.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is it ak?

[Will Hughes]

I could be.

[C]

Are you eating it when you're, like, banged up?

[Will Hughes]

No, no, we had it for breakfast.

[C]

Hell, yeah. Good chopped cheese for breakfast.

[Will Hughes]

It wasn't much of a breakfast food. But also the other thing is, I've spent a bit of time in Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis. And obviously, like, in quality, you've got. I weirdly End up doing a load of stuff with Major League Baseball.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's why.

[Will Hughes]

I don't know.

[Unknown Speaker]

Are they trying to make a push in the uk?

[Will Hughes]

We're trying to make a push in Europe. Europe. And they. I basically, they. I hosted a show called Home Plate.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because it's dying here. So they want to make it dying here.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah, right. Well, they.

[C]

It's America's game, though.

[Will Hughes]

It's America's favorite pastime. But they. That is what they say, isn't it?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

It's America oldest pastime.

[Unknown Speaker]

So you go to, like, the ballparks and, like, eating.

[Will Hughes]

So they.

[Unknown Speaker]

Franks and pretty much.

[Will Hughes]

But in the uk, they hosted the World Series, like, a couple of years ago, and it was the cards for Cardinals versus the Cubs. So I was in St. Louis for a week and then Chicago for a week filming some stuff. But last year, I was in Philadelphia and then New York because it was Phillies versus the Mets playing in the uk And I got. When we were in New York, I had a chopped cheese, like, in City Field, and it was. No, not. Not the best. I don't know if I'm so. I feel like city.

[C]

City Field is known for having. Because it's a newer stadium, they have, like, good food.

[Will Hughes]

They're meant to have the best food out of any stadium, really, including football and, like, like, basketball.

[Unknown Speaker]

They franchised a lot. They franchised a lot of, like, famous New York spots.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, but the chop. But in Philadelphia, I did go to a couple of places that did, like, proper.

[Unknown Speaker]

You went to, like, the real.

[C]

Oh, you got cheesesteak.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Like, I mean, different than chops.

[Unknown Speaker]

Where'd you go?

[Will Hughes]

Well, I know they're different, but this is what I'm saying. I'd never. When I was in New York, no one was like, oh, the chopped cheese is something you need to go try. We had, like, one day off, and that's where I went to Frenchette for the first time. Should have gone and found a chopped cheese at this car, because I think the chopped cheese is way better than a Philly cheesesteak.

[Unknown Speaker]

Really?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I really do.

[Unknown Speaker]

Where'd you get your Philly cheesesteak?

[Will Hughes]

Like, to be fair, went to a place called Geno's in Philadelphia.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's, like, one of the. One of the biggest.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's. It's one of the big three, but.

[Unknown Speaker]

It'S the number one racist.

[C]

Do they call you the N word?

[Will Hughes]

Is he racist?

[C]

I think he's.

[Will Hughes]

Is.

[C]

That is Geno's race. I don't want to be rude or pats.

[Unknown Speaker]

I don't know. One of them is really racist.

[C]

Well, first of all, it's Philly. They're all racist.

[Will Hughes]

I've seen it's always the best is.

[C]

Angelo's the best day, but you gotta wait forever.

[Will Hughes]

But I just, I just love. I, I think the chopped cheese is a really, really good, really good. I, I.

[C]

You like that better than a Philly cheese?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I did.

[Unknown Speaker]

Genuinely, Geno's is racist.

[C]

Okay, G, we nailed it.

[Will Hughes]

It's good I met him. He was not racist to me, but I think it might be because I'm white. But anyway, the we in, in Philly, I had the roast pork.

[C]

Oh, that's, that's broccoli.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, broccoli rabe sharp provolone. Yeah, exactly. I think that's the best sandwich in Philadelphia. But I, I think that's the only one that beats the chopped cheese for me as well from American sandwiches that I've had.

[Unknown Speaker]

And he got a roast pork sandwich from Fedorov's roast pork.

[Will Hughes]

We did get a roast pork sandwich.

[Unknown Speaker]

Williamsburg Institution was really, really good.

[Will Hughes]

But the chopped cheese, that's the thing that I want to make when I get home. Like.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Oh, you should. Would you put a spin on it, you think? Like, add some beans.

[Will Hughes]

Bake beans.

[C]

Just empty a can of hinds on that.

[Will Hughes]

I'll put fish and chips, some brown sauce. A bit of brown sauce. Hp as is a parliament sauce. Actually, to be fair, I think that would slap. If you put a little bit of HP sauce.

[C]

You should do with it.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, no, I'm, I definitely.

[C]

When you do, can you tag us?

[Unknown Speaker]

Are you like, are you comments. Are you getting inspired to like, make at home?

[Will Hughes]

Because. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, I saw that you were gonna try and recreate like the Lamburger with an. Some Servos.

[Will Hughes]

Right. That was sick. That was so good that. I don't know. I mean, lamb and anchovies works. That's the thing. But I didn't know that that was a, that was a really, really.

[C]

That's a well known combo, I think.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

If you know a little tip from Servos for you.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'll definitely be, definitely be making something like that when I, when I get back.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you travel to, like, get inspired to make recipes?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I also with Christmas and like, I haven't really. Apart from cooking on Christmas Day, I haven't really cooked for like two weeks. Yeah. And so now I'm feeling a little bit like I've been away and I've.

[Unknown Speaker]

Tried some and now you hit the sticks.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I want to come back and cook some stuff.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is British cuisine unfairly hated on it? Let me preface this by saying that, like, scrolling through your reels, it's like. And, and it's like, what is British cuisine now? Right. Because it's the most, it's one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. It is. Has probably some of the best fusion, as corny as that phrase might be.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

In the world. Or in the Western world.

[Will Hughes]

Definitely.

[Unknown Speaker]

And, like, when you're scrolling through what will he cook? It's a little bit of everything.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

And it is kind of like borrowing from, like, all different parts of what, the people that make up British culture now.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I, I, I'll cook whatever. I, I'll just. If I like something or if I'm inspired by something, I'll cook whatever. But British food as a whole now, I think, I think people around the world don't consider the fact that, like, how anglicized, like the food of immigrants that have come to the UK is like, it, it's not like fusion, but it creates this own, like, Chinese food in the uk. Bosh.

[C]

Out of control.

[Unknown Speaker]

Have you chilled with Big John?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Did you eat with him?

[Will Hughes]

I introduced him to a band, me. Oh, wow. He'd never had a band. He said it boshed. Okay, well, that's actually, you've used that incorrectly. It's just it, I think it's just, it's. You can't say, like, did it bosh. It is. You can't say it's Bosch either. It's just like. It's more of a bosh. More of like a feeling, isn't it? But, yeah, he, he's.

[Unknown Speaker]

I give this five boshes.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Oh, five big bosches. Five big bushes. It's it a doom.

[C]

He never had a bond me in his life.

[Will Hughes]

He never had a bond me in his life. Obviously, like, he's obsessed with Chinese food, but it's very much like the, the Anglicized Chinese food. Like, I don't know what. You have like, PF Changs over here, don't you? We have.

[C]

Well, first of all, American Chinese food is, like, incredible.

[Unknown Speaker]

Second, only the Chinese food.

[Will Hughes]

Okay, but.

[C]

Top two. And it's not one.

[Will Hughes]

This is the thing. It's like when you want, like, sesh one food.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Like, there's places for it. But in England, every fish and chip shop. Well, not every fish and chip shop, but loads of fish and chip shops will have Chinese food as well.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

So you can get both from each one. And usually they'd be run by like a Chinese family that are doing the fish and chips to like appeal to.

[C]

Of course.

[Will Hughes]

But then the, the we, you know, some of the dishes that aren't really a thing in China, that are a thing in the UK but aren't even a thing in the us.

[Unknown Speaker]

Right, like what's an example?

[Will Hughes]

Do you have. Well like crazy like crispy chili beef, lemon chicken, like salt and pepper chips. That's the main one, bro.

[Unknown Speaker]

There's a, there's a Chinese restaurant in Scotland, right, that's been popping up on my for you page.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Where like the daughter walks in, she walks in like a proper lad and then she's like, oi, dad, let me get all curry chips with the salt and pepper squid or whatever. And he's like, makes it and it's like a Chinese family but they have a Scottish accent. It's all. And the food looks incredible.

[Will Hughes]

It's like. Yeah, salt and pepper chips is such a weird one. Sorry. Salt and pepper fries. Right.

[Unknown Speaker]

Salt and pepper fries.

[Will Hughes]

Right.

[Unknown Speaker]

French fries.

[Will Hughes]

Salt and pepper French fries. Exactly. The French are getting involved.

[C]

Chips, crisps.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, fries. Fries, chips. But it's like, it's basically just like MSG 5 Spice.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Onions, peppers and like crispy like chip shop style chips. So like fat, fat, sort of like slightly soggy but crispy as well.

[C]

Right. And yeah, when done well.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, but they're, they're great. But it's not a thing that has come from anywhere other than like Chinese.

[Unknown Speaker]

I mean it's like Kung Pao chicken here.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly that. Like we don't really have. We do have Kung Pao but it's. I didn't really notice it for a while. I think Big John's been. Been getting. Was it Kung Pao a bit bigger? We didn't. We. Yeah. We never used to order that. Like he's putting it on where I was from. Do you have a too chippy in London? Yeah, no, there's not really. I was having this conversation outside a bar the other night with this American guy and he was like, oh, he was, he was giving it all the bigger.

[C]

Do your American accent.

[Will Hughes]

He was like, oh, British food's so. I hate British food. Disgusting. Fish and chips, it's gross. And I had to be like, where did you have fish and chips? And he was like, oh, well I was in London. I was like, let me stop you there then, you stupid prick. You're not going to have of good like Most of the places that do fish and chips in London aren't going to be good fish and chips.

[Unknown Speaker]

Really?

[Will Hughes]

Well, because London's not that near the sea anyway. Okay. The best fish and chips I've ever had in the uk, Brighton, Margate, but Brighton as well, like, you can. You'd expect, like, good fish and chips, but like Margate, there's a place called, like Peter's Fish Factory or something. We had, like, fish chips and a pickled egg, which, again, that might be a British thing, and that is disgusting, but still. What's the.

[C]

What is it? What did Danny Brown, like, Monster munch.

[Will Hughes]

Pickled on your monster munch? Yeah, yeah. We have good, good, good snacks, I think. Like Chris Crisps. Exactly.

[C]

Oh, what's the. What's like the. What's like a. It's a obviously like a.

[Will Hughes]

Like fry.

[C]

No, like lays. Like lays in America. Walker.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Walkers.

[C]

Sweet chili. What's that?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, sweet chili. Sensation Walker Sensations.

[C]

Banger.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, they're really good. But my personal favorite thing is, funny, we were talking about Guinness because, like, there's also this really cliched thing in London, especially where it's like Guinness and a bag of scampi fries. Have you had scampi fries?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, they're great.

[Will Hughes]

So good. Like, genuinely. Probably one of the best.

[Unknown Speaker]

They're too small, like they are, but if the packet is like this big.

[Will Hughes]

They made them bigger. Then, you know, you'd eat too many.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'd look like big, big John.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Well, exactly.

[Unknown Speaker]

What are your favorite restaurants in London right now?

[Will Hughes]

There's a few. I've got the guys from Mangal too, if you've ever been. It's like a Turkish restaurant. No, there's Mango one and there's Mango two and they're both Turkish restaurants. They're both around the corner from each other. One of them's a slightly more modern take on, like, Turkish food, basically. The other one's like, great, but it's like, you know, it's lamb chops. It's like your Esme salad and stuff, but it's quite like traditional. And they're both really, really good. And they're really near me and the guys that run Manga too. Especially, like, really, really nice guys. And there's a restaurant called Morchella which is opened up beginning of 2024, which is just like Mediterranean. But the way it's, like, presented is really different to, like, what you'd get.

[C]

If you were like, do you care about presentation when you eat somewhere?

[Will Hughes]

Not really, but if it's interesting and it makes it and elevates a better IG pick too. Yeah, I mean, if I. I find it annoying when you go to like a fancy, fancy restaurant and something so like, like diddy and pretty. Because I think that quite often it like, sacrifices deliciousness and I don't think that that should be a thing that.

[C]

Any restaurant should sacrifice that for.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly. Like, never ever sacrifice something being tasty to make it look pretty or cutesy or Instagrammable.

[C]

If we went out to eat, are you a phone eats first guy? Are you taking pics of everything?

[Will Hughes]

Like, yeah, if I can take a picture of it and put it on my Instagram, I can stick it through the business, so.

[C]

Oh, I see.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, wow.

[C]

So it's fucking economical.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, pretty much.

[C]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is that true?

[C]

What's the tax law like?

[Will Hughes]

I don't know. I do that well. Well, yeah, because also a lot, you know, we were talking about like, like feeling inspired by a lot of it's like research and development, like, which is sick. Like, I know we were going to talk about, like, what the good things about being like a content creator and stuff are, but it's like, you know, if I go out to eat somewhere, like, I am taking inspiration from that to then, you know, apply that to making stupid little cooking videos that do seem.

[Unknown Speaker]

Don't call them stupid little cookies.

[Will Hughes]

Well, you know, they are silly, aren't they? But some of them are.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's why we love them.

[C]

Silly Internet food guy.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, look, Larry and I, we love London. If any brands are listening right now, fly us out, please. Let's do something. But if we're hitting the town with you for a day. Sorry, when we're hitting the town with you for you, what's the agenda that you're putting together for us?

[Will Hughes]

Whole day from start to finish.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, yeah, sure. Start the morning off with the chopped cheese.

[C]

Full fry up.

[Will Hughes]

Full fry up. Well, I actually, I was gonna say a place that Big John. Actually, I like that we're talking about John in Bethnal Green.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is it Chinese?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's. It's. No, it's like a proper East End calf.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

And it's like it. But weirdly, it's like an Italian family that run it. So you get like Italian. They're Italian, English. The craze. Used to eat there, you know, like Ronnie and Reggie Gray. Like, so it's like, you know, it's. It's steeped in history, this place. It's been open for like 100 years or something. Hundred even. Thirty years. Maybe, but 130 years been open a.

[Unknown Speaker]

Very, very long old country.

[Will Hughes]

It's, it's, it's a proper like old school. Like Italian immigrants moved to the UK and now like you go in there, it's Nev and Anna and they're like pro. You know, they talk like this.

[Unknown Speaker]

Peaky Blinders season four.

[Will Hughes]

No, that, that's Birmingham. Come on. Can you do a Birmingham?

[Unknown Speaker]

Adrian Brody.

[C]

Brody, dude as that the greasiest whop ever on Peaky Blinders the year.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. No, I couldn't. I'm thinking over your gin distillery. I'm. I'm from like kind of near Birmingham. So I, the, the Birmingham accent to me is like, what is it? Well, it triggers my fight or flight.

[C]

Blind. Blind.

[Will Hughes]

Hello from Birmingham.

[C]

Birmingham. You go to Liverpool mode.

[Will Hughes]

I feel like now Liverpool's a bit more Scouse like that. You got anyway E in the morning and what we get is if it was, let's say it was the three of us, maybe Mike Keys joining us. Yeah, Maybe Daniel, Danny, maybe Jordan.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, do they have chicken nuggets on the menu? Because then Danny will be there for.

[Will Hughes]

They definitely have chicken nuggets. That, that boy.

[Unknown Speaker]

Extra ranch.

[Will Hughes]

That boy loves his. His chicken, his nuggies.

[C]

Little boy needs his nuggies.

[Will Hughes]

He's going to love listening to this, isn't he?

[Unknown Speaker]

Why does he have the pallet of a child?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, because he's a child.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

Have you ever made him something fancy? He ish.

[Will Hughes]

He's. No. When I've done pop ups, he's been to my pop ups but he's never eaten.

[C]

He's a tasteful guy.

[Will Hughes]

You think it like he wears lovely, lovely clothes.

[C]

Right?

[Will Hughes]

And he is a lovely, lovely boy.

[C]

Beautiful.

[Will Hughes]

But we've been, you know, we've been out for food a few times and every time Danny and I have been out for food, mate.

[Unknown Speaker]

You have an amburger?

[Will Hughes]

No, he's. No, he'll try everything but he'll like it. Feel. It feels quite. We went. There's a friend of mine called Mike Bagnall and he had a, A popup that he was doing.

[Unknown Speaker]

You have a friend named Mike Bag and Mike Keys?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. These guys need to get together and feel the homies. Yeah, it's a good, it's a good time. But yeah, so he pop up. Mike Bagnel.

[C]

We never met Bag though.

[Will Hughes]

He's also like British. He's. He's Australian but he's working in London like. But he's like the one to watch. He's like 26 years old, and he's unbelievable. And he did this scallop dish. And Danny, I don't know if Danny had had many scallops before, but it was like a scallop with like a champagne bur blanc and like trout row on top of it. It was unbelievable. Like, it was so good. We had like, I think we had like two or three each. And Danny was just like. I thought he was gonna spunk his pants. They're like, oh, you like.

[C]

He never had a scalp in his life.

[Will Hughes]

I always. Oh, I love this. Oh, it's so good. Oh, it's amazing.

[C]

That's a good Danny, dude.

[Will Hughes]

He loves it. He loved it. But anyway, look, we're all going to eat Police. We're going to get the big Bang ciabatta. Okay? We're going to get ham, egg and chips. We're going to get one full English. We're going to get the Big Bang Shabbata. We'll share that betwixt six of us. Because the portions are fucking huge. They take a leaf out of your book. They're very big, big portions there. But the big Bang Shabbat is this sandwich, which is basically a chicken cutler pesto and ragu in a sandwich in a big ciabatta and mozzarella as well.

[C]

So it's a chicken parm with pesto.

[Will Hughes]

It's essentially a chicken parm with pest with spaghetti. Well, not spaghetti, but with Bolognese sauce in it. So it's. It's great. And then ham, egg and chips. I think this is the other thing. How the can you slag off English food when ham, egg and chips exists? It's the best. Ham fries.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

People just make fun of beans for breakfast.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, no, that is.

[C]

Which are also delicious.

[Will Hughes]

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[C]

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[Will Hughes]

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[Unknown Speaker]

You made some fancy spaghetti hoops in a real.

[Will Hughes]

Yes, right. I probably have, yeah. I think I have done that. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

I scrolled back.

[Will Hughes]

What did I put on them? You've got. You've done a deep dive. I don't know. Hey, you're like that guy. I didn't.

[Unknown Speaker]

I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it.

[Will Hughes]

Sean Evans. Yeah. So E. Paichi's Breakfast banger. That's what we're doing. Then we shall go to the Dove on Broadway Market, which is a pub.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

A public house. I like that one very much. We're gonna have to go for an early breakfast because lunch at Cafe Cecilia, which is just around the corner.

[C]

How many pints are we having at the pub?

[Will Hughes]

I think three before lunch is probably accessible.

[C]

I like that. It's a little warm up.

[Will Hughes]

Maybe sort of from midday to around 2:00, so maybe four, actually.

[Unknown Speaker]

What do you guys.

[C]

When you're at breakfast, right, and you want a little bevy, what do you guys drink over there?

[Will Hughes]

There.

[C]

Bloody Mary's, Mimosas.

[Will Hughes]

To be honest, I don't really drink with breakfast very often, but if I did and I was at a place like that, it'd probably just be a. Like a can of Stella.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

I think it's a logger. This is actually one thing that I was gonna say about. About. I don't know if this is an American thing or a New York thing. Again, it's. It's a blurred line for me. But your bars open late. Like they open till late, but they open really late. Like loads of places aren't open to like three or. Or like five. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

That's like a staff, if they have food or whatever. It depends.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. But I feel like a lot of the bars that we've been wanting to go to like haven't opened till like 3 or 5 when we've been wanting to go at like 1pm And I don't know whether that's like mild alcoholism.

[C]

Or so you're talking about.

[Unknown Speaker]

It ain't mild, brother. It ain't mild.

[Will Hughes]

No, well, it's, you know, it's just. It's. It's. It's a weird.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, that's like a close.

[Will Hughes]

They open at like 11am in London and then.

[Unknown Speaker]

You gotta wash my footy.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly. But then obviously it might be in 11am kickoff. I don't know, I'm not into football. But they shut at 11pm Whereas you guys have places that are open to like three, four, loads of them. And I think that's great.

[C]

It's beautiful.

[Will Hughes]

But we don't have that in the uk.

[C]

Anyway, Celia.

[Will Hughes]

Sorry, I'm getting. Getting distracted. Lunch at Cafesila. Then we shall take a walk up the canal. Oh, we shall go a stroll. We shall go to the three companies. We might see Paul Mescal, he's always up there.

[C]

Oh, really?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, he's just chilling, running up and down the canal, getting in shape for his gladiator films.

[Unknown Speaker]

Sure.

[Will Hughes]

He's only been in the one, hasn't he? And it was. But anyway, so we'll go up there. There's a pub called the Three Compasses. They have a darts board. We can do our best impressions of Luke the Nuke.

[Unknown Speaker]

Living Chalk and cheese.

[Will Hughes]

What does that mean?

[Unknown Speaker]

You don't know what chalk and cheese means?

[Will Hughes]

Wait, I said. Sorry, I didn't get the context of the.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's a darts thing, is it?

[C]

I was wanting cheese.

[Unknown Speaker]

I was wondering just. I was once watching darts and the announcer's like, oh, it's like talking cheese.

[Will Hughes]

I'm not the biggest. I don't watch it though.

[Unknown Speaker]

It means two things that are very different.

[Will Hughes]

I actually do know what it means, but I didn't realize what it was in the context. I do apologize. Sorry, that was.

[Unknown Speaker]

Keep it going.

[Will Hughes]

So, yeah, there, darts. Then we'll go to Mangal. One or two for Turkish at about 10pm Late.

[Unknown Speaker]

Late dinner.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, because we've had breakfast and lunch.

[C]

Sure. And pints.

[Unknown Speaker]

Right, and pints and pies. What about pudding?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, spot a dick. Yeah, but not blood pudding. That's very different.

[C]

Are we going out after we eat at 10pm?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, probably just a brickies, I guess. Yeah.

[C]

Okay. You know, what's the layers?

[Unknown Speaker]

What about a. Do you have a late night? Like go to drunk food?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I mean, when it's weird because again, like lots of places close, like fairly. Like when you say late night, you mean like 4:00am Or.

[Unknown Speaker]

Or like. I guess if a place closed at 11, maybe it could be 11:30.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I mean Wingstop is. Is a good one. When I get back, I do like a drunk McDonald's.

[Unknown Speaker]

I was trying to find, I think two times ago. We're in the UK in London. I was trying to find a. What are you, like a gyro? No.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, gyros.

[C]

What, like a donor kebab?

[Unknown Speaker]

Donor kebab. I was trying to find a donor kebab spot that was open and there weren't really that many open. We were just like working late. We weren't like out.

[Will Hughes]

I don't know what time they shut. But in Dawson, you. You have this weird thing where you, like, from Hox. Do you know what. You know where Danny lives? Like, sure. Like Geographic.

[C]

We went to his crib.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's his address?

[Will Hughes]

Imagine. Yeah, I'll give you. I'll give you his full point.

[C]

He's eating like a 711 pizza on the road.

[Will Hughes]

On the road that he lives on. There's like near a Shoreditch. It's all Vietnamese restaurants. And then as you get like further up, it's all Turkish restaurants.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

But they're all pretty good. Like, they're all like the. Well, a lot of them are pretty good. And it's like the best places you can get Vietnamese or Turkish food in London. But a bit further up you get, there's a best. Was it best Turkish kebab? And that's kebab, bro.

[Unknown Speaker]

The best late night food I ever had in, in London was Jamaican food.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. Yeah, the Jamaica we do have good, like Caribbean. Jamaican. Amazing yard, man.

[C]

The best. The best, like Indian. Best Indian food. Indian and like African inspired, like, or whatever Indian food.

[Will Hughes]

I mean, I've not been to India, but I can imagine that there's. Yeah, there's a. There's a couple of like really fancy Michelin star Indian places in the uk.

[C]

What was the place we went to that was banging?

[Unknown Speaker]

I was in. Manny.

[C]

I was in Manchester.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, there's. Yeah, Manchester, Birmingham, London. Like, the Indian food in the UK is wildly good.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's your reward for just leaving them.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I know, it's crazy. It's like we have the best, like the. The best multicultural food scene and obviously it all stems from some nastiness.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about your. What about being hungover? What do you. What's your go to visit?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah, actually there's a spot called Q that does a really, really good banh Mi, but they also do like three. The three meats on rice thing. It's so good.

[C]

Combo platter, baby.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, three meats.

[Will Hughes]

Three meats. So it's like, what are the meats? What is it? Duck. Duck. Oh, duck, pork. I think it's duck, pork and shrimp. No, I'll tell you what it is.

[C]

It's land, air, sea.

[Will Hughes]

It's. It's crispy pork. Crispy pork belly, Char suey pork and duck. Damn. I tried to go the other day, actually yesterday to the. The really famous three. There was such a massive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Wafang.

[Will Hughes]

No, yeah, we tried to go there.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'm not crazy that there's. There is such a line. It's really good. I wouldn't say it's worth waiting like more than like 30 minutes, but there's so many other places that do that dish that are just as good. Of course not Tick Tock. Famous in all Chinatown.

[Will Hughes]

I've not seen it on Tick Tock. I literally just typed in three meats on rice because we went to Lao Jang. Is that what it's called?

[Unknown Speaker]

The dim sums spot?

[Will Hughes]

The spot that I. Yeah, I put it on my Instagram story. I can't remember what it's called, but any Lang Xiao anymore. But that was really good. They did dumplings, they did like peanut noodles. And it was a nightmare trying to sit down. It was really, really busy, but it was great. So we'd already eaten, but I wasn't gonna queue for 30 minutes.

[Unknown Speaker]

Besides, besides just being a gourmand and a lover of the finer things in life, what's your favorite thing about working in food? Content creation.

[Will Hughes]

The free food. Yeah, the free food.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you move, do you move in London? Like a food influencer? Free dishes every. Anywhere you go?

[Will Hughes]

I'm. I mean, I think. I know, I know a lot of. A lot of mates have got restaurants.

[C]

Right.

[Will Hughes]

Like, I don't know, I kind of like, I like the hospitality industry like a bit more than I like the, the, the online food.

[C]

Yeah, well, one is real and one is not.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, kind of. And I think. Yeah. And I think that like when I go to, like when I go to a mates restaurant, like every now and again there might be like a little freebie or whatever, which is. It's nice.

[Unknown Speaker]

But do you feel. Do you feel pressure to post?

[Will Hughes]

No.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do they, do they hold it against you if you don't?

[Will Hughes]

No. I mean, if I go somewhere and it's a good meal, I'll always post about it because I think you shouldn't gatekeep. Do you know what I mean? Also, it's my mate. Yo.

[Unknown Speaker]

You guys heard about this place, St. John's oh, yeah, yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. St. John, I have a bad relationship with because of obviously the, the food poisoning.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, I was not trying to bring.

[Will Hughes]

That up at all.

[Unknown Speaker]

Think of the most famous restaurant in London.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah, no, that is the most famous restaurant in London and it made me myself for four weeks. Would I go back? Yes, because it's too rich.

[C]

Shout out to St. John and Drakes.

[Will Hughes]

And yeah, it's cool.

[C]

And we get invited stuff, but like, it's too much.

[Will Hughes]

It's. It depends what you have. I mean, look, Bourdain said that his favorite meal, his favorite dish was the roasted bone marrow sourdough toast parsley salad. And I think that is genius. But, you know, it made me myself. So it's really hard to sort of worth it, right? Yeah. I don't know. No, definitely, definitely not on that occasion. But look, it's been a year now. I'd go back, okay. I just won't eat the lamb's brains.

[C]

Settle something for us real quick. Right, so you go to a friend's restaurant, right. Would you rather have them send out that you don't. You're not even looking at them, they're just giving you that you didn't order, or would you rather specifically order what you want and have a little bit knocked off the bill?

[Will Hughes]

I'd rather they just sent the stuff out.

[C]

Really?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. 100. I trust I, I trust I'll eat anything. I will literally anything at any restaurant. Unless it's lamb's brains. I'm sure it's going to be nice. And they know more about food than I do. That's fair cooking it. And I trust, I trust them.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's a nice way of looking at it.

[Will Hughes]

Especially if they're like, if it is a mates restaurant, we, we are of.

[C]

The opinion that I, we'd rather choose what we want and then maybe knock some.

[Unknown Speaker]

But I do understand, it's like, okay, well, the chef is the master of this domain. Maybe they can like, you know, put me onto something. Or maybe they thought that I missed something, right? That they really want me to try.

[Will Hughes]

Whatever. Well, I mean, normally, what.

[Unknown Speaker]

But they just end up eating way too much.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much what happens when I go somewhere because I'll be like, I really want to try this. I really want to try it. My girlfriend's very much like, like, if we don't get this, I'll be really upset. And then she just can't eat any of it because she gets really full because she's tiny. But so I end up having to eat loads of it. And then one of my lovely friends she did a big girl in the kitchen.

[C]

Might need to date a Whopper dude. Next.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I need to get into chubby Jason.

[C]

Shout your bird though.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, big up Tegan. But yeah, unfortunately she's not a chubby lady that can eat loads. She's a very little Jewish lady and she can't put it away. Like, it would be helpful if she could.

[C]

And you're playing you're clean plate club. Excuse me. You, like, clean the plate?

[Will Hughes]

I do think it's important to do so when you can. Also, we have this, like. I don't know if this is the thing in America, but like a lot of restaurants when you're a kid, you go to. If you had a clean plate, you get free ice cream. What? Like when you like, only in Disney World, right? Okay. But like pubs and stuff had that. I went to a restaurant once. There's like a really prestigious restaurant in London and it's really fucking good. And I was really excited to be there. And I was with my manager and the chef. Chef. I knew one of the chefs there. And then the head chef came out at the end of the meal and was like, oh, I trust you liked the food. And it was James Bond. I trust you like the food was. He's a bit more like, I trust you like the food.

[Unknown Speaker]

Then I slept with my wife. That's Sean Connery.

[C]

Sean Connery as Borat.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Nice. We're getting. Yeah. Layers to that. This now. But yeah, basically I was like, oh, I kind of did that thing where you go like, obviously all the plates were completely clean and empty. And the guy was like, did you like the food? And I was like, no, we hated it.

[C]

Oh, nice, dude.

[Will Hughes]

And then he was like. I was like, this guy's got a sense of humor. And then I went, actually, as you can see, we've got clean plates. Does that mean we get free ice cream? The guys went, no. And I was like, just kidding. I thought that was like a really obvious joke. And then he walked back to the kitchen. I was just sat there like, oh, God, this guy thinks I must kill me.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, I'm a dick.

[Will Hughes]

Spotted dick.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you have a least favorite thing about working in food? Content creation.

[Will Hughes]

It's quite constant. That's the thing. I don't know if you guys have.

[C]

You're in a prison of your own creation.

[Will Hughes]

A little bit. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's the longest you ever gone without, like, posting some?

[Will Hughes]

Probably recently, like over Christmas. I've just.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, you've fallen off.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. I've lost. I've I've lost quite a lot of followers.

[C]

Wait, really? Yeah, people unfollow because you're not bro.

[Will Hughes]

I checked it the other day because I noticed that I'd gone like down check one, so I'm on like, something. And three, and then I was on something. And two, I was like, what's happened here? Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, loads of drop off people want you.

[C]

To put them, like to make something like, for them.

[Will Hughes]

I don't know what people's reasoning is, but who goes on their phone on Christmas Day or on like, no, no, not me on your phone. But like. And goes, now's the time. Jesus's birthday.

[Unknown Speaker]

Time to purge.

[Will Hughes]

I'm gonna unfollow this guy. Do you know what I mean? That was a bit strange, but yeah, weird.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay, so does that bother you or you're like, I need to like, keep loads of followers.

[Will Hughes]

I don't give a.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

All right. There's, you know, I'm still able to.

[C]

Work with talk your bro. Pop your.

[Unknown Speaker]

How much do you have, like, locked? Do you just have, like, drafted?

[Will Hughes]

I usually try and do, like, have like a lot. If I do a proper good working week, week of I'm really, really hammering out, like, I do all my own editing still.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because it shows.

[C]

That's a compliment.

[Will Hughes]

No way. It works. I've got the system, like with the voiceovers and like.

[C]

Right.

[Will Hughes]

It's kind of like that's how it.

[C]

Yeah, that's the brand.

[Will Hughes]

That's exactly. It doesn't really work if anyone else, you know, does the editing. And I've tried it before, so if I do like a really good week, I'll probably get like 10 videos done, what, in a week?

[C]

So then how do you brick it at the end of the year?

[Will Hughes]

Year?

[C]

You just had nothing saved, nothing ready to go.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I just. I was like, oh, it's December, it's Christmas. I'm not gonna do anything.

[C]

You're like, I want to go on vacation.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Literally. And I was. Yeah. So I just.

[Unknown Speaker]

How much New York content we're gonna see after you've a lot home a lot.

[Will Hughes]

Like, I don't know, like a sound. A sandwich. I'm gonna do one on sandwiches.

[C]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Of just like. You've tried.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like. Yeah. And I imagine the chopped cheese will be pretty prominent. But we did also go to Mission sandwich social in Williamsburg.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, they're huge.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Really big. Really big.

[Unknown Speaker]

You do hot breast to Commodore or is it too dark in there?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, do you know what? I might. I probably will do like an honorable mention, but it was very dark and obviously I'm not the guy that goes out with a fucking ring light, so. Tegan, put your flash on. I'm gonna film this. Yeah, no, I didn't want to do that. But yeah, that actually we're gonna go back there on. On the last day for brunch because obviously. Okay. We're flying like in the evening to.

[Unknown Speaker]

Go during the day. So you get up daylight.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, well, I mean, no, just to eat. Just because I really, really like it. But yeah, do one on pizza one on Chinatown.

[C]

What was the best pizza you had? Can you spoil it for. For your followers right now?

[Will Hughes]

I think I. I really, really liked Feeney.

[C]

Yeah. Really good Trump, guys.

[Will Hughes]

Guy. Is he. Yeah. Oh, no.

[Unknown Speaker]

Sorry.

[Will Hughes]

So annoying.

[Unknown Speaker]

I mean, this is allegedly.

[C]

I mean, you know what?

[Will Hughes]

It.

[C]

They're Italian, dude. They all are.

[Will Hughes]

It is.

[Unknown Speaker]

He's like. He's like a. He's like a finance tech guy.

[Will Hughes]

It is what I mean. Trump's funny anyway, isn't he? I mean, like, watch. Not like him big McDonald's guy, but he. He loves McDonald's. At least he's interesting to watch. I mean, Kia Starmer that we have over in the UK is boring.

[C]

As explain to us who that was.

[Will Hughes]

Good. I think the industry is obviously very good.

[Unknown Speaker]

How long you have to wait for that?

[Will Hughes]

That I didn't last year. I. I went last year on my last day and it was good. But we do.

[Unknown Speaker]

You didn't have to wait this year.

[Will Hughes]

This time around, we didn't go. Oh, because the queue was huge, bro.

[Unknown Speaker]

I tried. I was like in the neighborhood. It was like 2:30. I wanted to slice. I like walked by.

[Will Hughes]

I was like, yeah, it is.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

But again, huge. This is the other thing, right? So that I've been to New York four times. This is the fourth time. And the first time I came with school. The second time I was working. The third time I had food poisoning. This is the only time that I've done it properly.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

But I did get to go to the industry last year because it was on the last day and I went to Aces, the Detroit place.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Which was really nice. Paulie G's, I think is. Is good. Like the slice shop. I like that. You know, it's. But I thought, isn't he awesome guy, bro? He's a.

[C]

Have you got a picture? Prince Street Pizza, by the way. Also bad people.

[Will Hughes]

I interviewed Paulie G for. For mlb and we were doing everything about the Mets. And he's a massive Yankees fan. Fan. And he just kept on talking about the Yankees and I was like, bro, we can't.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yankees fan.

[Will Hughes]

We can't. Like, you know, we've talked. We briefed you at the beginning. Like, he looks a bit like Martin Scorsese as well. He's got, like, the big glasses.

[Unknown Speaker]

But I don't think he's a Trump guy, for the record. I think he's more like a NIMBY guy. Like, you know, okay, don't tell me how to run my restaurant. Or like, all these, all these, all this red tape and regulations to run a restaurant.

[C]

He's Italian.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's driving me out of business.

[Will Hughes]

I think that the slice that they do that has the sesame all the way underneath it.

[C]

Yes.

[Will Hughes]

The grandma slice. It's nice, it's good. Feeney, the lemon slice.

[C]

Oh, never heard that.

[Will Hughes]

The white base, lemon slice. I thought that was really, really good. But this is the thing.

[Unknown Speaker]

Gotta go to Chrissy's if you have time.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Tom as well, he. He's mates with the guys that do Chrissy's.

[C]

We gotta link you with Chrissy.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I'd love to, but. Is that a big Q spot as well for you? Yeah, well, this is the thing. I just get a pie baby queuing like, I. I can't. Oh, it's full pie spot, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Full pies, no slices has tick tock.

[Unknown Speaker]

Affected, like, eating out in restaurants in London the way it has in New York where you, like, meet up. You can't just spontaneously go to things like, you need to have a plan.

[Will Hughes]

Exactly what I wanted to talk about. So crisp pizza in London. There's a gaff called crisp pizza. I. I lived for five years in West London where nothing was really happening, and then moved to East London, like at the beginning of 2024. And there's a spot, a pub called the Chancellor's Arms by the river in Hammersmith. Okay. And this guy Carl has. He's perfected pizza. And I'm. When I say that, I mean, like, I mean British guy. Yeah, it's better than any pizza.

[Unknown Speaker]

Did you guys do Italy?

[Will Hughes]

I've been to Italy.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no. Did the Brits do Italy the way you did Spain?

[Will Hughes]

I don't think we did, no. No, because you did China, though. Italy were running their own thing, weren't they? They had what's evidence, Fascism.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, you did, you did. China, the birthplace of pizza.

[Will Hughes]

Well, it's the birthplace. I'll give him the birthplace of dumplings and then noodles. Noodles and noodles and how the Italians have now decided that obviously that they invented that with. Well there was it. They're Italian tortellini and whatever. Anyway, the Italians. Yeah.

[C]

Stay with your chest.

[Will Hughes]

I've been, I've been to Italy, I've been to New York now. The worst pizza I've ever had is St. Louis style pizza. That's.

[C]

What is that style?

[Will Hughes]

It's got Provel on it. Which is like a weird cheese. No. Well it's. It's horrible. It's.

[C]

I works with certain toppings cuz Provel.

[Will Hughes]

Can suck my ass. That was the worst pizza I've ever had. This guy, this guy Carl in London. Yeah, it is by far the best pizza I have ever had in my life. Out of it. The industry was good. Good, like really good.

[Unknown Speaker]

You had scars right here.

[Will Hughes]

Yes, we went yesterday. I did that. Very nice as well.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

But when you guys are in London, really I will take Carls Portnoy. Don't know much about it.

[C]

Sure.

[Will Hughes]

But I know that he gave it like a really, really good review when he was in London.

[C]

Really?

[Will Hughes]

Really? I think he gave it like a.

[C]

Nine or something because he's so qualified to review pizza.

[Will Hughes]

He's had a lot of pizza, hasn't he?

[C]

So yeah.

[Will Hughes]

I mean, hey, I don't know the guy. Wow.

[Unknown Speaker]

So the best pizza.

[C]

This is the best pizza you've ever had?

[Will Hughes]

I've ever had. And it's not close.

[C]

Is it a New York style slice.

[Will Hughes]

So they call it London style. Yeah, I know, I know you think that it doesn't exist.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's wet and soggy.

[Will Hughes]

It's. Yeah.

[C]

Brown sauce.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. It's basically just full of baked beans and cheddar. No, it's not bad. It's. It's sort of in between like a New York style pizza and a Neapolitan style pizza. And it's absolutely covered. Offered in parmesan. Like it's got loads and loads of palm on it but it's so crispy on the bottom. It's. I've never, I haven't. It's. It's so good. I can't, I can't speak higher enough of it. But with the tick tock thing, I know Carl a little bit. If I want to go there like I'll say, you know, can I, can I come? And he might say, you know, save me a pie if there's like a week left or. Yeah, but you go there and the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Queue is like parked so it's a big tick tock. Famous spot now yeah.

[C]

Proper restaurant or just like a. Oh.

[Unknown Speaker]

And is that true with a kitchen.

[Will Hughes]

Downstairs with just the. What they call.

[C]

Do you have pizza oven downstairs? Like, what is it?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is that true of a lot of places in London now where it's like, it blows up a tick tock and it's just impossible if you're just a regular guy just wanting a regular bite.

[Will Hughes]

I mean, there. There are places like that, like 95 of them. I wouldn't go anyway. Okay. But that place, it's hard to get reservations at some restaurants.

[Unknown Speaker]

Right.

[Will Hughes]

But the queue thing, people talk about queuing in London and like, how we're like really big cures.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, you invented the word.

[Will Hughes]

Well, yeah, but we say line. Stupid. Stupidest word ever. Isn't it Q, U, E, U. I don't know.

[Unknown Speaker]

Great Scrabble word.

[Will Hughes]

How do you spell it? Yeah, yeah. Oh, it's a. It's a heavy hit.

[C]

A lot of points.

[Will Hughes]

A lot of points. But, yeah, I found in New York actually, the queuing thing, there's a lot more of that going on.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Everywhere. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think you're also. You're also here at a unique time. Right, right. Over the holidays. A lot of tourism.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

Hence my man right here.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. But like, you know, having to queue for. You have to do it a little bit. It's becoming a worse thing. It's actually kind of worse with a lot of clothing stores. So in London, like, there's a huge queue for Stussy every time. Huge queue for Palace. Yeah. It's really weird. And then obviously, you know there's going to be a queue for supreme in New York.

[Unknown Speaker]

But like, like, who cues here besides at supreme and ald?

[C]

Well, ALD now does like a digital, bro. Yeah, Like a digital reservation.

[Will Hughes]

I don't care about ALD that much, but I wanted to go in because the store in London's paying, so I wanted to see the New York one. Like, they're nice in there, the clothes. It's a vibe.

[Unknown Speaker]

They got a car.

[Will Hughes]

What?

[Unknown Speaker]

I think there's a car in there.

[Will Hughes]

That's cool.

[C]

I don't think there's a car.

[Will Hughes]

They've got like a record thing downstairs in the London one. Like, it's a nice shot shop. You want to go in and just have a look around. Yeah, take it in.

[C]

Have a gander.

[Will Hughes]

Have a gander. Exactly. A little goosey gander. Wander down the street and there was no queue outside and we were like, oh, cool. And then you get to the door and there's some bloke he's like, oh, it's a 30 minute. Put the thing in. It's like, oh, we got an online thing now. We'll text you in 30 minutes, get.

[C]

A slice of upside pizza and come back.

[Will Hughes]

Text me in 30 minutes. I'm 30 minutes away. That's the problem.

[C]

Like gone in 30 minutes.

[Will Hughes]

Any.

[Unknown Speaker]

Have you been able to do any clothing shopping while you're here?

[Will Hughes]

I. Yeah, actually, I went into a place called Leisure Center.

[C]

Of course. Shout out. Frank the man.

[Will Hughes]

Love him.

[C]

He's the best.

[Will Hughes]

Really, really nice guy.

[Unknown Speaker]

You think he's British? Nah, dog, he's from Pittsburgh.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, well, he's got. He's definitely got like.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's a big accent. That's a big accent.

[Will Hughes]

It's a transatlantic.

[C]

Yeah, he's from Baltimore.

[Will Hughes]

Is he?

[C]

No, he's British.

[Will Hughes]

Well, yeah, no, that's what I thought. But, you know, I don't know the guy very well. I just met him yesterday for like 20 minutes and we.

[C]

I bet you guys got along great swimmingly.

[Will Hughes]

He was lovely. And I think a few of my mates.

[C]

Leisure center.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Also that's really funny because we were talking about how that's like such a thing in the uk. Like, leisure center is like.

[Unknown Speaker]

What does it mean?

[Will Hughes]

It's. No, it's like a leisure center.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's a pleasure center.

[Will Hughes]

It's like, like, we're talking like little towns in the middle of nowhere. There'll be like a leisure. Leisure center and it will have like a swimming pool that stinks. And you'll get Veruca's in and like communal showers and then maybe like a little skate park outside it. Like that is. Yeah, or like. And like. And like football. Like socce.

[C]

It's a park. You just. It's a park.

[Will Hughes]

No, it's. It's a huge building.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's like a little community center. It's like what Rishi was trying to remodel in Industry Season 3.

[Will Hughes]

No, that was a cricket pavilion.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, that was a pavilion for sure.

[Unknown Speaker]

No spoilers. I don't know.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, sorry.

[Unknown Speaker]

I don't. Caught up on. On a B. I'm.

[Will Hughes]

I'm up. I'm up to date with. With, with industry. I think that's one of the better TV shows.

[C]

Better. The best.

[Unknown Speaker]

Number one.

[Will Hughes]

It's great.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is it over in the UK yet or is it still going? Knowing.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, no, it's finished.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Season three is finished. They're doing season four, I think.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Which. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, is that out here?

[C]

No, no, no, no. Those aren't guys, though.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. So you.

[C]

They're writing it right now.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

They're English, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Mick and Con.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

So you hit Leisure Center?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Leisure center was cool.

[C]

Did you buy anything? Like, see any gp?

[Will Hughes]

I didn't. The people I was with bought some stuff, but there wasn't anything that I was like.

[Unknown Speaker]

You went to a pickle and bookstore next to one of the. No, we didn't go in.

[Will Hughes]

We just walked past it, which is.

[Unknown Speaker]

But right next. Next door is one of the best stores in New York City.

[Will Hughes]

Colbo didn't go there.

[C]

Good coffee, too.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, no, we did go there. We did go to Colbo. Yeah. And some. We got a coffee, but then I was like, there was this shirt, and I was like, oh, that's really, really nice. It was 370.

[C]

I mean, it was what you pay for there, dude.

[Unknown Speaker]

Fit shirt.

[Will Hughes]

It was nice. No, it wasn't.

[Unknown Speaker]

That was 185.

[Will Hughes]

The red one. Yeah, that was fire.

[C]

Yeah. Real quick. Right now, as a Brit.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

Is Stone island whack?

[Will Hughes]

I mean, it's. Stone island now is, I think, massive, so. Isn't Stone Island Italian, though?

[C]

Yeah, but I'm just saying. But it's, you know, it's.

[Will Hughes]

It's too terrorist culture, too associated with. With terrorist culture and, like, chavs, basically. So, like, I wouldn't really. I would probably wear, like. I'd wear Stone island because some of the stuff they make is really, really nice. It's a bit like CP as well. Like, I've recently bought a cp.

[C]

We're Gogglesman, personally.

[Will Hughes]

You are Gogglesman. Okay. Yeah. I. I bought that big, big green puffer. The CP1.

[C]

Yeah, banger.

[Will Hughes]

The really, really green one.

[C]

Like an enormous you and, like, 100.

[Unknown Speaker]

Other guys on this slime one.

[Will Hughes]

I haven't seen anyone else on Instagram. I'm very unique.

[C]

Wait, Oliver, Slime? Like, is it like slime or olive?

[Will Hughes]

It's like slime green.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Will Hughes]

The really, really good. Is that a big thing in the U.S. no.

[C]

I saw a bunch of dudes. Maybe. I'm thinking of another jacket possibly.

[Will Hughes]

Anyway, I look like a big P wearing it, and I quite like that. I got that at the beginning of last year.

[C]

But P means a P. Slang is a dollar. Like a. A dollar P. It is, but I.

[Will Hughes]

Mean, like the vegetable.

[C]

No, no, I. I know. I'm just asking you to clarify something.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, someone would say, like, that it was. If someone's like, oh, it was Peas. That would be. It was really expensive, but I'm quite posh, so I probably wouldn't say, oh, it was peas.

[C]

Right.

[Will Hughes]

Because that's rich. That would really sound like I was talking about vegetables.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, it was Burt's bees. Cocky rhyme, baby.

[Will Hughes]

I just. My favorite cocky rhyming slang is. Is Berkshire Hunt. What is cunt? Yeah, but it's funny because it sounds like it'd be quite posh. And my dad also. Berkshire Hunt gets shortened to Burke, which I think's really funny to. Cause I'll go, oh, you, Burke. Like, if someone's been a Burke.

[C]

Oh, I like that.

[Will Hughes]

My dad's been calling me a Burke since I was about three.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh.

[Will Hughes]

But obviously, you know, that means my father has been calling me a. Since I was about three. So, yeah, I am circumcised. I want truth. Yeah, I think he might be.

[C]

I like that, Burt. Yo, that's a good one. That. For the audience to use to casually, like, diss someone that wouldn't know in America, call them a bird. Burke.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Burke's good also, because it kind of sounds like a little bit like, oh, you, Burke. But also you can be. Oh, you.

[C]

Well, it's like jerk, but yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is. Is supreme on the rise in London?

[Will Hughes]

Supreme. I mean, I think Supreme's always been. I mean, it definitely had its heyday in, like, 20. I think it's like 2012-20.

[Unknown Speaker]

Like, and they got ruined by the audience.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, people queuing again, the queues. The problem, people camping for it. Resale culture, I think Supreme. Yeah, Resale culture's died now, but thank God with. With. Especially with, like, supreme and Palace. I remember used. I used to be able to buy, like, like, a Palace T shirt for whatever, like, 35 quid, and then sell it for, like, 80. Like, a year and a half later.

[C]

You're a reseller.

[Will Hughes]

Well, not, like, without flipping it, like a big reseller, but, like, if I. So when I. Before I went to uni, so before I was, like, 18, like, from probably from, like, the age of, like, 16 to 18, like, I'd occasionally buy, like, something from palace or never really anything from supreme because it was really hard to get. And I don't think the website was very good back then. But then I go to uni and then, like, if I needed, like, money to buy food or go out or something, I'd be like, oh, I've got this Palace.

[C]

Shout out, love, shout out, palacha. Great friends.

[Will Hughes]

I. I think I once tried to. I went to a Palace Stellar event. And I once tried to. They had a collab.

[C]

They did a collab.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Yeah. That was the. I think it was the first one on the saga. I can't remember. It was the second one, I think. And I went to the Blue Posts, which is that pub in Soho that like all the. All the. Like. I think it's like all the supreme and the palace lot or drink out or whatever. And I think I was really. And I went up to Live Tangeu and was like, I can get Tyson Fury wearing Palace for. Because I know Tyson Fury.

[Unknown Speaker]

Could you have what?

[Will Hughes]

So the box. So I used to do the. I was working quite closely with, like, this boxing company and then. Okay, I ended up interviewing you boys.

[Unknown Speaker]

With the Gypsy King.

[Will Hughes]

Well, no, no. But I was gonna go up to Morecambe to interview him, and then it didn't happen.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

But that week that I went to that. I was. I was meant to do it. So I very confidently went over and then I woke up the next day and I. I. I think I'd asked him to message me. He messaged me on Instagram. I had this message. It was like, yo, it's. It's Lev Pallets. And I was like, oh, yeah, I probably can't do that. Actually. Like, felt like a massive penis, but.

[Unknown Speaker]

It felt like a pee.

[C]

Like a burp.

[Will Hughes]

Felt like a total Burke. Felt like a pushing P. But no Supreme. I think in.

[Unknown Speaker]

I just wanted. Because, like, I don't know if now that the. The hordes have moved on, if now it's kind of like safer again for, you know, guys of a certain frequency to start wearing it again.

[Will Hughes]

It's still hard to. I mean, I. I've started wearing quite a bit more supreme because I think that a lot. Especially the last. Last autumn winter stuff that. Well, this is from that, isn't it? But they. The last autumn winter stuff that they put out. I thought a lot of it was really, really nice. There was that. They don't miss that leather shot one that. With the fur collar shot.

[Unknown Speaker]

Nyc.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one was.

[C]

It was a good collab every year. Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Really, really nice. I mean, I think. And also the, like that puffer that I got, the one I was wearing.

[Unknown Speaker]

If you have a Black Planet, what's that? No, I'm kidding.

[Will Hughes]

What is that?

[Unknown Speaker]

Public Enemy. Supreme Collaboration.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

No, I like Fear of a British Planet.

[Unknown Speaker]

See you wearing that.

[C]

Let's try.

[Will Hughes]

You know what?

[Unknown Speaker]

We're not going back.

[Will Hughes]

I think sometimes the supreme collabs that they do, it's Like, I'll be like, oh, that's really cool. But I don't know the reference. The reference. So I won't.

[Unknown Speaker]

Like, if it's like, do you then research the reference?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I mean, I do, but then if I don't already know it, I kind of feel like I shouldn't buy this because this isn't really for me. Yeah, but the Frank for Rosetto, the, like, comic book, the Conan the Barbarian illustrator.

[C]

Oh, the one they just did.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, my God, that jacket all over print. Yeah, yeah, the jacket and the trousers. Because I like Skyrim. I'm into fantasy shit, mainly. Skyrim.

[C]

Not like, that's a video game.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it is the video.

[C]

We're not. We're not gamers.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, but you know how this is the podcast.

[Unknown Speaker]

Skyrim's the game.

[C]

Oh, you mean this is the only podcast that matters? That's the only video game?

[Unknown Speaker]

Skyrim is the. Skyrim is the throwing fits of Gam.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, if you want to call it that. That's what it is. Like, that.

[Unknown Speaker]

I mean, I know what Skyrim is.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's Skyrim for me. It was, like, formative. Like, the best game I ever played as a kid. I'm not even a gamer, but, like, I play that game probably, like, right, once a year, I've got a fucking switch. I play it on the flight. Like, I'm obsessed with it. And I just thought that that jacket was sick because it looked like something out of Skyrim.

[Unknown Speaker]

How much money do you spend on clothing?

[Will Hughes]

Probably quite a bit too much. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

And is it all kind of in, like, the CP Supreme?

[Will Hughes]

I've literally got one cp, but it. And I like Supreme. I think palace have been good the last few years as well. I think that they've put out some.

[C]

Does your audience, like, you think there's a portion of them that find you or with you because of your swag?

[Will Hughes]

I probably. I think that there's definitely a few people that, like, message me and say, like, you know, where did you. Where did you get that id? Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Id. Id.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's that shirt that says Noah on it?

[C]

How many.

[Unknown Speaker]

How many hats do you own?

[Will Hughes]

Loads.

[Unknown Speaker]

Give us a number.

[Will Hughes]

Cat caps. Six or something.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[C]

That's so many.

[Unknown Speaker]

And then what about other. Do you find yourself?

[Will Hughes]

Like, I do kind of collect them, though. Like, if I see a cap that I think's cool, and then I'll buy it, and then I'll. I'll, like, start hating the way it fits, and then I don't end up.

[Unknown Speaker]

Wearing it, but you wear them in like, you wear them like high up and like kind of down low on your face. Right.

[Will Hughes]

Different. Different caps fit different ways, you know, like.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, yeah, brother.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. You know, like it's.

[Unknown Speaker]

And do you find yourself delving into like more esoteric avant garde headwear? Like the trapper hat that Larry saw you at.

[Will Hughes]

Very much so. Milo Black. No, from London. He. He's got this hat that he's been. He's put out a few of and it's like. It's a trapper hat, but it's like fluffy and like, it's got like the flaps, but you can like poke them up.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Do you know the one I mean, I've seen.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think I've seen what you were.

[C]

Wearing literally last night.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, that. No, not that one. The Tr. The trapper one that I was. Were in was the Thames one.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

This one's like very out there and like fluffy.

[Unknown Speaker]

How many balaclavas do you own?

[Will Hughes]

Two. Three, actually.

[C]

Road man.

[Will Hughes]

You gotta get.

[Unknown Speaker]

You gotta get yourself a true New York City shiesty while you're here.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, what like a.

[C]

It's just about. It's a ball. Clever. Which would open right?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

One hole.

[Will Hughes]

One hole. I've seen supreme do them quite. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got a lot of. Lot of headwear because I'm going gray.

[Unknown Speaker]

Really.

[Will Hughes]

Not going bald, which is nice. Nice. But going very, very gray. So I don't.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because you're stressed with all these. No low stress recipes.

[Will Hughes]

Recipes. Not just recipes. Yeah, but no, it's all these high intensity podcasts I'm doing.

[Unknown Speaker]

And what's been your most popular recipe you've ever put out?

[Will Hughes]

Steak. Steak and chips. Yeah. Really? Fries? Yeah, they stay. Because I think the nicest. The nicest meals are just like one good protein, one good carb, and maybe like a salad, you know what I mean? And a source. And I did, I did one like, I mean, it was. It was maybe like two years ago now and it was just like a huge coat. The birth. I think you'd call that like a prime rib maybe. And it's fatty. Yeah, Proper whopper. Like really, really big one. And I just did that with like a peppercorn sauce and freezer, freezer fries because I didn't want to make my.

[Unknown Speaker]

Own, but freezer chips.

[C]

Freezer chips, that was a viral movie.

[Unknown Speaker]

Crisps.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, that one did. Yeah, that one banged. And also the, the thing that was really.

[Unknown Speaker]

And how do you. Is it by views, like they're taking over the success of a. Of a recipe, I guess.

[Will Hughes]

So I don't have a lot of videos that have gone, like, viral. Okay. I think there's probably been like, four proper. Really proper.

[C]

Like a million.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Only four probably. Like, it's weird. I've got. I get ones that do really, really well, but they don't really touch a million.

[C]

You're consistent.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, I post, but this. This is the other thing. It's like, I used to cook stuff that was like, oh, I'm trying to do a recipe that will do well on the Internet, right? Got really bored of cooking and then was like, I'm gonna cook my lunch every day and my dinner every day. I'm gonna film it and I'm gonna fucking make that into silly little videos. And some of them will bang and some of them won't bang. And it will keep me consistent, but it also won't make me hate cooking, right? Because what. Obviously, what would be the point in doing it if I didn't enjoy it anymore? And I did try and do that where I'd, like, cook four video. Like, cook four recipes in a day and, like, shoot all day. And it just. I stopped finding it fun for a bit. And I've been doing it for, like, five years now, I guess. But I think the way that I've got, the routine that I've got myself into now, it's kind of like that feels natural, right? And being able to do travel stuff as well, that's really fun because obviously everyone's to. Everyone wants to feel a little bit like Anthony Bourdain sometimes times.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, if steak does really well, typically, what's like something you're always excited to put out, but it bricks all of.

[Will Hughes]

It, so much of it genuinely, like. Like, I. You know, I don't know, like, sometimes I'll just. I'll just like, do, like, slightly jazzed up, like ramen noodles, like, packet ramen, I always think. Because that's. That's a sick thing to be able to like. I don't make content for. I don't make, like, content recipe videos for. It's meant to be stuff that you can make, right? Do you know what I mean?

[C]

Like, that recipes.

[Will Hughes]

I'm not a chef. I've not trained in cooking. I just cook because I like cooking. So it's all kind of just like, if I can make it, then anyone else can fucking make it. And, like, sometimes I'll make something that could probably be, like, restaurant standard. Other times I'll make something that restaurant people might look at and go, what the fuck is that? But I don't really give a shit.

[Unknown Speaker]

Like, it's peanut butter udon.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that.

[Unknown Speaker]

Honestly, that looks delicious.

[Will Hughes]

That recipe I posted fairly recently had been sat in my drafts for, like, I don't know, four months. Because I was like, that one's not gonna do very well. I'll just wait and post a better one. And post a better one.

[Unknown Speaker]

How to do it?

[Will Hughes]

Not very well.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

But delicious. Like, literally, peanut butter soy sauce, maybe like some Chinese vinegar, chili oil, bit of water. Noodles done.

[C]

Peanut noodles, Classic.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. It's easy. Delicious kimchi on top of it. Like, that's it. That's. That's like. That's a meal. That's lunch. That's good. Sp on there.

[Unknown Speaker]

Spunions.

[Will Hughes]

Maybe. I don't know.

[Unknown Speaker]

You know your most famous followers, do you? No, we don't.

[C]

No, we're asking you.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, I don't know. Maybe, like, Niall Horan follows me from One Direction.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh.

[Will Hughes]

Which is pretty cool. You guys do not. You don't know Davina McCool, do you?

[Unknown Speaker]

No.

[Will Hughes]

She hosts Big Brother in the UK. Or used to host Big Brother in the UK.

[C]

Dylan House.

[Will Hughes]

House Villainous. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Does Brooklyn Beckham follow you? Noted. Chef Brooklyn Beckham.

[Will Hughes]

I don't think he's put out hot sauces.

[C]

Right. That was his whole thing.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, I don't think he's, like, a chef influencer guy.

[Will Hughes]

I don't think I've been lucky enough for Brooklyn Beckham to grace me with his. His follow. But, yeah, no, I. I don't really know.

[Unknown Speaker]

Besides Nepo babies becoming food content creators.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

And just deeming themselves chefs a la Brooke. Brooklyn, are there any trends in the food world that you would love to see Absolutely. Come to a screeching halt?

[Will Hughes]

Let me see if I wrote anything in my notes page. Oh, I did. I did prepare.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, I hope you're ready for the Mount Rushmore soups.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I am ready for that. I didn't know you're gonna pose it like that, but that does seem the appropriate way to oppose it, if you.

[C]

Even know what Mount Rushmore is.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

That's what I mean.

[Unknown Speaker]

In America, it's like the Stonehenge.

[Will Hughes]

Does it exist? Exist?

[Unknown Speaker]

I think so.

[C]

Wait, are you asking if Mount Rushmore.

[Will Hughes]

No, that is actually. They are carved into the stone. Yeah.

[C]

On stolen land.

[Will Hughes]

I thought it was, like, Richie Rich. I thought it was, like, in that film. And it wasn't a real thing.

[C]

Are you kidding? No, it's.

[Will Hughes]

It's for real. I didn't, I didn't know it was a real thing, but have you ever.

[Unknown Speaker]

Seen it zoomed out? It's just like that's it. And it's kind of pathetic looking, to be honest.

[C]

What, bro?

[Will Hughes]

Be there.

[C]

It's iconic, dude.

[Will Hughes]

There was one food trend that made me like really, really, really angry. And it was when. And it was a big thing in America. And actually I see a lot of. Do you know that chef reacts guy on Tick Tock? He's like a American guy. He's a chef.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, chef reacts.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So chef re Epstein. Yeah. You did that one earlier. That was a good one. Yeah. He has slagged off this a lot. But it's when. And I think it's a lot of like. Is it. Is white collar mum the right phrase?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, like suburban trad wife.

[Will Hughes]

They would put like pasta and stock, like chicken stock and like queso dip and like bits of like ready cooked bacon or chicken or whatever. And they'd bake the pasta in like a tray.

[C]

But there was this, there was this casserole kind of.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Like pasta a la casserole. Which doesn't sound good at all, does it?

[C]

But well, baked ziti is good.

[Will Hughes]

No, baked ziti is good. But this is like they do in.

[Unknown Speaker]

A way that's like crazy, canned, disgusting.

[Will Hughes]

You know, all gone in. And there was a. There was a.

[C]

Because it's like a. You just, it's one. You just put all the ingredients together, you just cook it and then you serve your family.

[Will Hughes]

Exactly. And I'm not like against like crock pot cooking, but this was just stupid.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you need a one pan, Drake.

[Will Hughes]

Nice. There was a.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're a fellow fan of combination.

[Will Hughes]

No combination.

[C]

Combination.

[Will Hughes]

I think that's one of the funniest things. Things he's said easily. Yeah. Because he's.

[Unknown Speaker]

And he said a bunch of funny things.

[Will Hughes]

He's. Yeah, I mean, he's, he's, he's come out with some stuff. But that was, that was, that was my personal favorite because it also gave me a good excuse to go do a good Jamaican accent.

[C]

Right. Patois.

[Will Hughes]

A little patois.

[C]

Combination.

[Will Hughes]

Combination. Should we carry on with that?

[Unknown Speaker]

We'll stop there.

[Will Hughes]

Do another one.

[Unknown Speaker]

Combination.

[Will Hughes]

That was better.

[C]

Well, madness and badness. Madness and badness combination.

[Unknown Speaker]

But okay, so these white collar suburban stay at home.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

There was a trend trad wife moms. I saw what they had a butt. They had a bunt cake mold. And then she put steak, then chicken, then steak on top of It.

[Will Hughes]

And just like, that is the kind of. That pisses me off. The weirdest thing was when that made its way over to the UK and people were baking, like, feta with pasta and water and like, tomato.

[Unknown Speaker]

But that was a viral.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it was hugely viral. Like a bait fat thing.

[Unknown Speaker]

I made it. I made it.

[C]

Like, was it good?

[Unknown Speaker]

Was it good?

[Will Hughes]

Was it good? That annoyed me. And I'm someone that likes the idea of, like, cutting corners and keeping it simple. Yeah. But that just seeing every. And their mum being like, oh, I'm making the viral feta pasta. I was just there, just jabbing myself in the eyes, like, no, thanks. Yeah, that one can go.

[Unknown Speaker]

But okay. Is there anything you want to see more of collaboration?

[Will Hughes]

Oh, I'll tell you actually one thing that I have noticed. Start only fans. Girls have started doing cooking stuff in a big way and it's obviously, like, sexy. No. No. Well, maybe naked on their only fans. I don't know. But they've started using only fans to, like, using like, cooking videos and Instagram to, like, promote their only fans. They'll be like, wearing skimpy outfits, cooking stuff. And I'm a bit like, that needs to.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's probably nobody more.

[Will Hughes]

No, I. I don't know about that. I think that's a bit. I'm not sure of the. The ethics of that. There are children on Instagram, you know, they should.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is it safe with, like, splattering oil and.

[Will Hughes]

Well, exactly, there's that.

[Unknown Speaker]

You gotta wear the apron.

[Will Hughes]

Be wearing aprons, gloves, protective eye gear.

[Unknown Speaker]

You should start wearing the apron with a little David dick.

[Will Hughes]

I could circumcise the circumcised spotted dick. Yeah, like. Yeah, yeah. I've just remember we started this podcast talking about my circumcised penis for like 17 minutes.

[C]

Wait, David, I think is uncircumcised.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're right, he is.

[Will Hughes]

David will have been.

[C]

He would have.

[Will Hughes]

Uncircumcised.

[C]

That's a little uncircumcised.

[Unknown Speaker]

Boy, before they use soap.

[Will Hughes]

Tiny toddler. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay, now the question we've all been waiting for.

[C]

Let's go, baby.

[Unknown Speaker]

What's on your Mount Rushmore soups.

[C]

So this is top four unranked.

[Will Hughes]

It's four. Yeah.

[C]

Unranked.

[Will Hughes]

Unranked. Oh, okay. Just like classic Far.

[Unknown Speaker]

It counts.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Tonkotsu Ramen.

[C]

That's on a soup.

[Unknown Speaker]

That doesn't count.

[Will Hughes]

Count. Really?

[Unknown Speaker]

It's soupy. But it's not.

[C]

No, it's So I think fuzz is a soup and ramen. Ramen is I mean, it's debatable. Okay.

[Will Hughes]

Okay, well, I'll that one off then. I like leak and potato.

[C]

Oh, classic.

[Will Hughes]

That's a real favorite of mine. I really, really, really like just a classic tomato. Cream of tomato though, not tomato and basil. Tomato and basil is good. But cream of tomato with a grilled.

[Unknown Speaker]

Cheese or just on its own?

[Will Hughes]

Always with a grilled cheese, if you can.

[Unknown Speaker]

With a cheesy toast.

[Will Hughes]

With a cheesy toast, exactly. Yeah. In the uk, like grilled cheese, that's really become of. That's a funny thing actually. You know, transatlantic thing. Like cooking a grilled cheese in a pan in butter, flipping over, pressing it down like how you guys do over here. That was never really like a. A thing so much in the uk.

[C]

How do you make.

[Will Hughes]

Just use a toasty, like a press. Both good, you know, but one of them probably a bit worse for you. Yeah. The one with butter but slightly more delicious.

[Unknown Speaker]

Or butter is life.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, that, that, that definitely is that three. That's three. Fourth one I made a salariac soup.

[C]

The is salari.

[Will Hughes]

I don't know if it's got a different name.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no, it's just a shitty looking vegetable.

[Will Hughes]

It looks.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Salc soup. I made a.

[Unknown Speaker]

It looks like a rock.

[Will Hughes]

Like a white rock with like, you know, in cocaine. You know, the first series of True Detectives. You know, the big murderer guy that had a face.

[Unknown Speaker]

The yellow king.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

But you want to make flowers. You want to make flowers in my belly.

[Will Hughes]

She's in everything now.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, that's right. She is.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah. She's like literally like one of the. She was in Handmaid's Tale and all that. Anyway, that celeriac looks that you were.

[C]

Talking about, the spaghetti monster.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Looks like his base because it's kind of like smooth on top and then it's like rim on the bottom. Yeah.

[C]

But you made the soup and it banked.

[Will Hughes]

It's so delicious. So it takes a while to peel it. So I think people don't use it so much at home, but it's really, really good. And that with just like some garlic, some celery and maybe a bit of potato as well. And then. Yeah, that and maybe some. Some walnuts and bacon on top. That's. That was.

[C]

That's definitely no mention of foc Fos franchise soup.

[Will Hughes]

Overrated. I like it. I like it, but it's overrated.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's French. It's French.

[Will Hughes]

It's French. Everything French is.

[C]

That is the best soup, do you think? 100.

[Will Hughes]

Okay.

[C]

If I had to. If I.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you think you haven't had the right one or you think they're all.

[Will Hughes]

Maybe I haven't had the right one. To be fair, I went to Paris for the first time a couple of months ago, and the French onion soup we had was so bad, it just.

[Unknown Speaker]

Onion soup over there.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, no, we went. Yeah, exactly. Good point. But we went to the wrong place. Place I've not had a good one, to be fair. But at the same time, everyone does.

[Unknown Speaker]

Well, Lauren, French training soup is the one thing that Lawrence knows how to make.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Really?

[C]

During the pandemic, that was my thing.

[Will Hughes]

How many frontion soups did you make?

[C]

Well, I would batch them.

[Will Hughes]

Oh.

[C]

I would make them for. We would. We were having people over. Oh, don't tell me. I don't know. What. Statute of limitations on the breaking quarantine. No.

[Unknown Speaker]

Bad boy.

[Will Hughes]

No.

[C]

Yeah, it's. I love it, dude.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Yeah. I. It. In theory, it's delicious.

[Unknown Speaker]

But you should get one in French.

[Will Hughes]

I'm pretty anti French.

[Unknown Speaker]

Except French.

[Will Hughes]

They didn't have one at French. Oh, oh, wait.

[C]

Did you ask Odon.

[Unknown Speaker]

You asked if they had French onion soup and, like. No, but the Odon down the W does the.

[Will Hughes]

No. Yeah, they didn't have it.

[C]

Best in the city.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

Let me ask you this. You've mentioned wifey, your bird, your misses a few times. What's the meal? What's the first meal you ever made for her?

[Will Hughes]

I think it was a chicken katsu curry.

[Unknown Speaker]

How did it go over when I was in. Were you making gassy sounds very gaseous, you know.

[Will Hughes]

No, it was. It was okay. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

It was fine, like.

[Unknown Speaker]

All right. Did you like it?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, well, I'm still with her six and a half years later, so I think it's done. All right. Actually, it wasn't that. It was a really weird sandwich, but then that. That was. That was the first thing I made her. But that was when she was, like, drunk and she turned up at my house and she was like, I need a sandwich. And it had.

[Unknown Speaker]

It was like, I need some spotted dick and some sandwich.

[C]

A foodie call a food.

[Unknown Speaker]

Nice.

[Will Hughes]

Now that's good. That's why they pay you the big.

[C]

I still got it.

[Will Hughes]

But yeah, katsu curry was the first, like, proper thing. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What was the first thing she made you? Did it suck?

[C]

Is she nice with it?

[Will Hughes]

She does cook now. She.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because of you.

[Will Hughes]

She did now? Yeah. She didn't cook so much when we got together the first time, but I didn't cook so much. I, I didn't cook as much as I cook now when we first got together. But yeah, I think she made me like packet tortellini with tomato sauce.

[Unknown Speaker]

It wasn't good, did it? To pretend it was good. Yeah, of course to get into that.

[Will Hughes]

To be fair, I don't really think I had to give her the. This is amazing because she knew it all came out of a packet so it was okay. But she is actually a really good.

[C]

We stand a self aware queen.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, she does good roast potatoes now. Oh. So like proper crispy. Where do you guys stand on a roast? Like an English roast?

[Unknown Speaker]

I had it on a. I had a Sunday roast at a proper pub club when I was dating a girl in wooden London and it was just like the whole experience was amazing.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

The food itself.

[C]

That'S pretty one all pomp and circumstance, bro. That is overrated.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's just like very brown and beige. Hey, beige is beautiful.

[Will Hughes]

But like spot I'll take. When you're in London, there's a spot in Hackney. Hackney Church Bruco. It's called. It's called Lagom. If you thought it was boring, then it definitely wasn't. The right place was.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no, the place was great. But the.

[Will Hughes]

Was it a brewery?

[Unknown Speaker]

It was like a.

[Will Hughes]

Was it this one? This one's literally like a brewery under an arch and. Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

No, no.

[Will Hughes]

The guy that cooks there is unbelievably good at cooking. Like he's. He, he does like Koji marinated prime rib, like, like wing cap smoked chicken. I think he's been in the US and done like barbecue stuff. But his roast is like almost like a barbecue roasted roast.

[C]

Now you're talking about language.

[Will Hughes]

Standard roast cooked by someone's mum isn't usually going to be great. Right. But it's the nostalgia I think for most people.

[Unknown Speaker]

But yeah, and it's a setting.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

Pub Sunday.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah. But a good, A good roast, great. But I don't want just a boring one. I want like a salsa matcha in the. Right on the side, you know, like some horseradish ranch, something like that. That's, that's what he does and it's good. Yeah, he's on ranch.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh yeah.

[Will Hughes]

He's on ranch in a big way.

[Unknown Speaker]

Why do you become a ranch importer and then just make it. That's how you make your millions.

[Will Hughes]

That would actually. Yeah, well I might do that.

[C]

A ranch dealer.

[Will Hughes]

A ranch dealer. But if.

[C]

Call the guy, I need a bottle.

[Will Hughes]

If anyone looks back at this and they know that you told me that you might.

[Unknown Speaker]

You can have it.

[C]

I don't care.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's fine.

[Will Hughes]

Sick. Okay, I'll do that. Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

How much money do you make?

[Will Hughes]

About £8 million an hour.

[Unknown Speaker]

How's the exchange rate these days?

[Will Hughes]

I don't know how the American dollar is.

[Unknown Speaker]

We make it off. What, like. Like brand partnerships and like.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What do you like to spend your harder money on?

[Will Hughes]

Mostly food and clothes. Yeah. And beers.

[Unknown Speaker]

What are your top. What's your Mount Rushmore beers.

[Will Hughes]

Mount Rushmore. I like Super Bok, which is a Portuguese lager. Okay. Miller High Life. The champagne of beers might be in there now. I love.

[C]

I love that late edition.

[Will Hughes]

It's. It's good. I.

[Unknown Speaker]

The bottle.

[Will Hughes]

This. I don't like drinking beer out the bottle usually, but that is really. Yeah, I like it in a pint.

[C]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

That's right.

[C]

I always prefer a bottled beer. I think is the. Is the best one.

[Will Hughes]

To a can. Yeah.

[C]

No, to. And also to a pint.

[Will Hughes]

Okay. Right, okay.

[C]

Well, not for a Guinness, but anything else.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Okay. That's fair.

[Unknown Speaker]

Depends on the beer.

[Will Hughes]

I like. Normally, I wouldn't go for a bottle or a can, but I prefer a.

[Unknown Speaker]

Bottle of Budweiser over a pint of Budweiser.

[C]

I Saporo. I want the can.

[Will Hughes]

I want the Silver Bullet Budweiser.

[C]

The king of beers.

[Will Hughes]

Really? So much.

[Unknown Speaker]

Why? Because it's.

[Will Hughes]

Because it's. It's grim.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is it expensive?

[Will Hughes]

It's like Budweiser is an import to American beers what Carling is to English beers, which is bad.

[Unknown Speaker]

So is Carling delicious? We love Budweiser. Well, we love Orient.

[Will Hughes]

Well, it's the most popular one, but it's okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

All right, so we got Super Bach, Miller High Life.

[Will Hughes]

I like Mahu, which is like a Spanish beer.

[Unknown Speaker]

Okay.

[Will Hughes]

That's quite nice.

[Unknown Speaker]

The only Spanish beer.

[Will Hughes]

Australia is a good beer. I like Australia. Oh, Deputy. The Barbados beer. My girlfriend lived in Barbados for, like, four years, so I've been over there a few times, and that I. That's definitely, like, a contest.

[C]

A cool name. Deputy.

[Will Hughes]

Dude. Yo.

[C]

Deputize me.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, it's. It's.

[C]

Yo, wench. I'm deputized.

[Will Hughes]

I'm gonna try that next time. But it's. It's very. Very much like a context beer, though, as well. Because, like, I think you got to be. You have to be there. You have to be sat on the beach and have a cold. Deputy.

[C]

So much of the right beer is context.

[Unknown Speaker]

Most times just like, sex. Pizza.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[Unknown Speaker]

What was the other one?

[Will Hughes]

Guinness.

[Unknown Speaker]

Guinness.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Bad Guinness is good. Guinness.

[Unknown Speaker]

Real quick. What's the. For all the broke boys listening. What's the ultimate meal a broke boy can make at home? Is it judged up?

[Will Hughes]

Probably. It's probably peanut Peanut noodles. Dude, that place I went yesterday, I believe you. No, the place I went yesterday, the peanut noodles there were the best peanut noodles I've ever had in my life.

[Unknown Speaker]

The dim sum spot.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. Unreal. But yeah. Peanut noodles like peanut butter soy sauce. Yeah. Easy, easy. Yeah, easy like that's like what I don't. I don't know about also do that.

[Unknown Speaker]

Make the. Using the same. Just make it. That's also just a delicious salad dressing.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I mean yeah, you could have a salad. You just get one let wedge salad. That's a weird thing in the US isn't it? Oh, we don't have that in the uk.

[Unknown Speaker]

You don't iceberg. You don't.

[C]

Blue cheese, bacon.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah. But it's just one huge bacon of.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[C]

Steakhouse starter.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, yeah, we did try that.

[Unknown Speaker]

You should go to Bernie's next time you're here. Where's that near you? Near where you're staying?

[Will Hughes]

Okay.

[Unknown Speaker]

In Greenpoint. Water. Yeah. We were proper American.

[Will Hughes]

We were going to go to Peter Luger, but we looked at the prices. It was 200 and something dollars for us, cash only. Who the is walking in there with?

[C]

Well, everyone. Cuz everyone knows.

[Will Hughes]

No, okay, no, I get that. But also like that's another thing that's quite.

[Unknown Speaker]

They do delivery. You can. You can get a burger on delivery from there.

[C]

Only at lunch.

[Unknown Speaker]

At dinner too.

[C]

They changed. Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Is it good?

[C]

Yeah, it's very good.

[Will Hughes]

Okay, so.

[C]

But it's a thick patty.

[Will Hughes]

Should we have gone?

[Unknown Speaker]

Yes, next time.

[Will Hughes]

Where does Red Hook Tavern fall?

[C]

Oh, up there.

[Will Hughes]

It's really good.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's far away though. That's one of the place that's four miles away.

[C]

That's a destination spot. Like you're going there to go there, I've been told.

[Will Hughes]

Have you had Hamburger America? Of course.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Very good.

[Unknown Speaker]

If you don't.

[Will Hughes]

I like that guy.

[Unknown Speaker]

If you don't have to wait online and if you're a fan of the guy then it's cool because he's there like smashing the burgers and throwing the onions on. But I went in there, I don't know who this guy is. But then like people walking like oh.

[Will Hughes]

My God, it's George.

[Unknown Speaker]

And that's cool for them.

[C]

I will say the one of the better smash burgers in New York is Literally right up the block. Gotham Burger Social Club. Terrible name. Honestly. Fantastic.

[Will Hughes]

On the. On the walk over here was.

[C]

Oh really?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, really big.

[Unknown Speaker]

What about maybe now? That's 3:45.

[Will Hughes]

You'll be good. Well, I'm gonna go to your mates your mate's restaurant now.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, don't. Don't.

[Will Hughes]

Not 3:40. What time is it?

[Unknown Speaker]

3:45. So we're gonna get you out here with the last question. Do you have any constructive criticism you'd like to give us? Will he. Will he or won't he on.

[Will Hughes]

On this podcast? Yeah.

[C]

You've spent almost two hours with us. Give us some constructive criticism.

[Unknown Speaker]

How can we do better?

[Will Hughes]

Are we gonna go for one beer?

[Unknown Speaker]

We have to pot after this.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

You have another pod?

[C]

Yeah, we do an after show.

[Will Hughes]

Geez. Should have mentioned that rice. That's ridiculous.

[Unknown Speaker]

We should have been reals guys.

[C]

Should pot mobiley from the magician. Yeah, Same landlord.

[Unknown Speaker]

I will wrap all this up. We'll bring in the lights. Yeah, our landlord is also the one that's good.

[Will Hughes]

No, no, no. Real criticisms from me.

[Unknown Speaker]

Where can the kids follow you? What would you like to plug?

[Will Hughes]

I actually have a homeware business that I've completely forgotten to mention.

[C]

James mentioned it.

[Unknown Speaker]

L do the salted ceramics or some.

[C]

CEO of Pleasant Home.

[Will Hughes]

CEO of Pleasant Home. But it's. It's not available for purchase in the US yet, so I don't for that.

[Unknown Speaker]

But it will be honestly a lot better than I would have expected from a food content creator.

[C]

We were talking about how tasteful and fire it is.

[Will Hughes]

Oh, I'm glad you think so.

[C]

Yeah, it looks really good.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I'm. I've spent a lot of time in Portugal. They've got a really good ceramic situation there. Mike actually helps keyer bags. Key.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you. Do you. Do you incorporate them into all your plating seeing like on your videos?

[Will Hughes]

Yeah, I'm not really playing anything. I'm just sticking it in a bowl. But yeah, honestly, very. The new. The new collection that we've done is called like the Speckled Collection. And the bowl. I love them plates.

[Unknown Speaker]

Spotted Dick collection.

[Will Hughes]

Dick collection. That could be the next one.

[C]

Yeah.

[Will Hughes]

Yeah.

[C]

That's for another free one.

[Will Hughes]

Circumcise yourself with a plate.

[Unknown Speaker]

So it's just bowls, plates, dishes.

[C]

Makes no sense.

[Will Hughes]

That'd be weird. Oh, no. Yeah. Poles.

[Unknown Speaker]

Pleasant Home.

[Will Hughes]

Both plates. Mug mugs. We do trinket trays. Actually. We've got a really good incense holder. Ashtray.

[C]

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[Will Hughes]

Which has got like a. It's got like a dome in the middle with a little. It's quite simple and I don't know if anyone's patent it and patented it and if they have, I might be in trouble. But it's a little bump in the middle with a little hole in it that doesn't go right down through the whole thing. So you can just stick an incense stick in it whilst smoking whatever and use it as an ashtray. Oh, pretty handy. Yeah.

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[Will Hughes]

Yeah or at Pleasant Home Plug.

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[Will Hughes]

It might just be pleasant Home.

[C]

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[Will Hughes]

I should know this is by the.

[C]

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[Will Hughes]

My social handles well. My main one is what will he cook or what Willie on on Tik Tok and then you can find the Pleasant homeware one one on there in.

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[Will Hughes]

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