My Yeastie Boy - Evan Fox

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Tosh Show – “My Yeastie Boy”: Featuring Evan Fox

Host: Daniel Tosh
Guest: Evan Fox, Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels
Original Air Date: October 14, 2025

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Episode Overview

This lively episode spotlights Evan Fox, the founder of LA’s cult bagel truck fleet, Yeasty Boys Bagels. Daniel Tosh brings his trademark irreverence and curiosity to discuss creativity, Jewish roots, food entrepreneurship, and the realities of running a food truck empire. Evan breaks down how punk rock, New York nostalgia, and good old-fashioned grit built Yeasty Boys’ distinctive brand and massive local following.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Jewish Roots, Upbringing, & Bagel Lore

• On Scottsdale’s Jewish Community
  • Tosh jests about Phoenix/Scottsdale being "heavily Jewish" and asks if Evan felt like an outsider.
    • Evan: “It’s pretty Jewy over there. It’s very like Palm Springs esque... a pretty big Jewish community.” (10:26)
  • Evan recalls being told he was "going to hell" by classmates for not celebrating Christmas, a culture shock compared to LA.
• Bagel Origins
  • Fun fact exchange: Both learn that bagels originated in Poland, brought to America by Jewish immigrants.
    • Evan: “Polish immigrants. Jews. They brought them to America and then it just became this American Jewish food…” (12:58)

Music to Bagels: Pivot from Punk to Pastry

• Failed Punk Band to Bagel Boss
  • Tosh notes Evan is the latest guest with a failed punk band past.
    • Evan: “I toured with other bands… did music marketing… used my PR channels to pump [Yeasty Boys].” (12:01)
• The Beastie Boys Connection
  • The Yeasty Boys name is a loving riff. Both share admiration for the Beastie Boys.
    • Evan: “I loved the Beastie Boys growing up.” (12:31)
    • Tosh: “I’m a Paul's Boutique [fan].” (12:40)

Building a Bagel Truck Empire

• From Apartment Baking to Rolling Fleets
  • Started out making bagels in a tiny 1950s oven, just “a couple dozen” a day.
    • Evan: “At the height of the apartment, a couple dozen [bagels] tops... I was instantly, like, not into it.” (14:05)
• First Kitchen & Early Fails
  • Leveled up to a kitchen through connections, led to catering for “The Voice”—with disastrous results.
    • Evan: “We showed up with burnt… bagel dogs… It was a horrible thing.” (16:10)
  • Turning point was Coachella: “Lines were like, holy shit, this is it.” (17:05)
• Food Truck Mechanics
  • Practical advice for would-be operators: "It's not so hard to get a truck; it's hard to keep it up and do well." (17:41)
  • Permits, random health checks, meter feeding, and the (sometimes rough) lifestyle of the truck yard vividly described.
    • Evan: “You dump your drainage… there’s people living, like, literally on that lot… The mechanics are fully blackened by all the grease….” (19:27)

Logistics, Branding, and Daily Grind

• Fleet Growth & Culture
  • Nine trucks and counting, each with its own backstory (including OG truck with graffiti).
• Trucking Schedules
  • Typical day starts at 4:30 or 5am, prep and commute, serve 8am–2pm, with the city’s traffic and temperature ever-present challenges.
• Branding & Menu
  • Notable for irreverent menu language—“bagels, lox, shmear, other shit”—and hip-hop references for bagel names (“Cheddi Wap”).
    • Evan: “At the time when the Cheddi Wap came out, Fetty Wap was at the prime…” (29:11)
• Permits and Parking Woes
  • Daily battles with parking meters, tickets, and the “chalk on wheels” enforcement tactic, plus creative (tongue-in-cheek) suggestions from Tosh to beat parking regulations.
    • Tosh: “If you hired a disabled driver, can they park in the handicap? And disabled drivers also don’t have to pay meters.” (25:32)

Bagel Craft & Menu Philosophy

• Bagel Making Process

  • Kettle boiled, then baked. Dough needs close monitoring; heat in the trucks means recipe tweaks are constant.
    • Evan: “11 years later, it’s not like a plug and play… you have to have people watching it.” (28:37)

• Water Myth

  • LA water is “hard” vs. NY’s “soft” water—a real factor, but also a “marketing stunt.”
    • Evan: “The water thing is a component… but… with the New York thing, it’s a marketing stunt.” (26:49)

• Bagel Hierarchies

  • Poppy seed: “Least ordered bagel… we bring like a couple a day for some old guys…” (29:52)
  • Everything bagel: “You’re just sweeping out your truck all night long.” (30:42, Tosh)

• Schmears & Toppings

  • Top five: scallion (with lemon zest), roasted veggie, plain, olive, and sweet options like strawberry.
    • Evan: “I love a toasted sesame bagel with butter and strawberry cream cheese. That is a fire combo.” (31:32)
  • Tosh: “I want a good amount of cream cheese… I honestly could scrape off two thirds of it, dude.” (32:24)

• On Cream Cheese Brands

  • Philadelphia reigns: “It’s like ketchup, dude. You don’t make your own ketchup… Philly is…” (33:17)

• Gluten-free & Sweets

  • Gluten-free bagels offered, but Evan’s clear: “...if you’re a gluten free guy, they’re great. Because gluten free sucks. Like, I’ve never had anything good gluten free.” (34:56)
  • Sweets like black and white cookies “not good”—they stick to bagels, maybe a cinnamon roll.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On entrepreneurship:

  • “I went so hard on the like, collaborations, the marketing, the branding of it, that now I had to bring in someone way more savvy than me. I brought on a CFO… ‘Evan, you’re bleeding here…’” (42:52)

• Industry realities and expansion dreams:

  • “Goal: 50 trucks. New York, Miami… San Antonio… NorCal…” (43:52)
  • “You need a central. Each region needs a central hub.” (44:22)

• On bagels as a meal:

  • Tosh: “When you have a bagel as the bread, that’s a meal.” (34:22)
  • Evan: “Three to five [bagels] a day, which is gnarly.” (34:12)

• Gift Segment:

  • Daniel gifts Evan random items from his house—including a portable toilet (“It’s never been pooped in. It has been peed in, yes, but it’s cleaned out…”) and a collectible skateboard. (35:38–38:35)
  • Evan: “This is amazing… This is so sick. Putting it in the office.” (38:31)

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Additional Highlights

Running the Business & Collaborations

• Delivery platforms were a steep learning curve.
  • Evan: “Renegotiating our terms with those guys—lot of money left on the table there… It could be pretty predatory if you don’t know what you’re doing.” (43:13)
• Tosh and Evan riff on possible retail locations and drive-thru models, plus the need for a “central hub” for expansion.

LA Culture, Food Scene, and Humor

• Jokes about LA parking, morning truck strategy (less competition), and food truck “spot politics.”
• Frequent Jewish cultural in-jokes, gentle ribbing about “Jewy” tastes, “Palm Springs vibes,” and “schvitzing.”
• Pop-culture nods: The “Mitch Hedberg sesame” joke, run-ins at delis with celebrities (“I saw Ashton Kutcher... at the deli and he was wearing the J. Lux hat…” –42:25)

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Notable Timestamps

• 09:47: Recording on Rosh Hashanah, Jewish holidays, ghost belief
• 12:01: Evan’s music background, transitioning to bagels
• 13:07: Bootstrapping Yeasty Boys in his apartment
• 16:10: Food truck & menu evolution (Coachella breakthrough)
• 19:27: Behind-the-scenes food truck lot life
• 26:07: Scale: 50,000 bagels a month
• 28:49: Bagel-making science & environmental challenges
• 31:32: Favorite schmears and cream cheese philosophies
• 35:38: Gift segment—stickers, instant yeast, a toilet, and a skateboard
• 41:39: Brick-and-mortar plans, collaborating with Alfred Coffee
• 42:52: Getting business help, CEO role, and expansion
• 44:22: Logistics of expansion, need for a central hub

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Daniel Tosh: Typically deadpan, mocking, self-deprecating, but clearly curious.
• Evan Fox: Earnest, practical, with dry humor and evident passion for both bagels and brand-building.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a fast-paced, funny, and surprisingly informative snapshot into pivoting from arts to food entrepreneurship in LA. It’s filled with practical insights for aspiring business owners, plus warmhearted banter about Jewish food, culture, and how to make a damn good bagel.
One-liner from Tosh:

“When you have a bagel as the bread, that’s a meal.” (34:22)
And from Evan:
“50,000 bagels a month, which is not too crazy, but also wow.” (26:12)

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For those curious about Yeasty Boys, food truck life, or LA food culture—or just in for a hilarious ride with Daniel Tosh—this episode delivers.

Transcript

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[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

They are. That's where they started.

[Daniel Tosh]

Did you know that?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I didn't know that.

[Daniel Tosh]

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[John]

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[Daniel Tosh]

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[John]

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[John]

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[Daniel Tosh]

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[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I was going to say my mom would, she'd kill me about if she knew I was here.

[Daniel Tosh]

But you know, okay, we could act like it wasn't.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, like day, like day after vibes.

[Daniel Tosh]

My bad. First question. Do you believe in ghosts?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh man, that's a good, that's a good question. Hard hitting, you know, so hard hitting in the traditional sense. I don't think so. I've never seen a ghost like all these things.

[Daniel Tosh]

No one has because they're not real. But go on.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

But what's with all these guys with ghosts? How come I've never seen it?

[Daniel Tosh]

Right. That's the answer.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I wish these guys. I've never seen a ghost. I'm glad I could speak freely. No, I don't believe in ghosts.

[Daniel Tosh]

Forget Jesus. What was it like growing up in the heavily Jewish town of Phoenix Scottsdale?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's pretty Jewy. It's pretty Jewy over there. I gotta say. It's very like Palm Springs esque.

[John]

Oh.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

But there's a pretty big Jewish community. Surprisingly there was a few people growing up. It was like, you know, never met a Jew and thought I was going to hell. Told me I don't celebrate Christmas in school. You don't get that in Los Angeles.

[Daniel Tosh]

But no.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, a couple of those. But for the most part. It's, you know, it's not bad.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, I didn't know a lot of Jewish kids growing up in my little town in Florida as a young kid, but my instinct would never to be, you're going to hell.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Right, Right.

[Daniel Tosh]

I just always the. The different types of people's always agreed it's weird. Did you enjoy being misted on growing up in Phoenix?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, it's nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's not.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Well, it's not too humid.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I meant just the restaurants that have the fucking Mr. Machines.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh my God, the misters. By the way, that is totally like exclusively a Scottsdale thing.

[Daniel Tosh]

Palm Springs as well, but sure, exactly.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Eh, it doesn't do much for me. And then it just starts to drip from the thing.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, dripping's no good. No, dude, you don't want to be dripped on while you're eating.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Pass.

[Daniel Tosh]

You're now the third guest we've had on this show who was in a failed punk band and then changed careers.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Tell me, were you leaning more towards Falconer or helicopter Medic before deciding on bagels?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

What is a Falconer?

[Daniel Tosh]

Guy that fucking flies falcons.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's sick. Yeah, that's the answer. Found out about it. I'd be no good as a medic. Helicopter medic. Forget it.

[Daniel Tosh]

But how was the punk band?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It was cool, man. We played music, you know, obviously we played music. But I toured with other bands, like tour managing and being part of that whole thing for a long time. So I would tour with bands, play in bands. I even did like music marketing, which is, I think a lot of the. How I sort of learned to promote Yeastie Boys in a way, I'm sure you know what I mean. Like, once I had this product that I believed in and this idea I believed in, and it was easy to use my sort of like PR channels to pump it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Did you actually like the Beastie Boys music growing up?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I did. I loved the Beastie Boys growing up.

[Daniel Tosh]

Favorite album.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I grew up right when hello Nasty came out. I was like in 8th grade when that came out, you know, So I mean, yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

And I'm a Paul's Boutique.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Wow.

[Daniel Tosh]

OG yeah. That's who I am.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

How did you like the documentary on Apple?

[Daniel Tosh]

I've watched it. Mike D lives down the street.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I haven't met Mike D yet. I've met Ad Rock.

[Daniel Tosh]

He's very nice. Mike is very nice. Kids are nice. They all surf with kids.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Seems like a sweet guy.

[Daniel Tosh]

Bagels are Polish.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Polish immigrants. Jews. They brought them to America and then it just Became this. This American Jewish food, you know?

[Daniel Tosh]

How the fuck did you get into the bagel making?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

So my ex partner and I, we were just bartending and I had come back from. On a trip from New York, and I lived in New York briefly, but came back and I was like, dude, like the New York bagel thing, there's bagels on every block. Like, why isn't there any bagels like this in la? Like, there's so many Jews. I grew up on deli. I grew up on bagels. There was just like these. This old school mentality of, like, bagel places that were so out of date and they weren't doing anything, like, cool or unique or whatever. And I just was like, dude, like, we. There's something here. There's totally something.

[Daniel Tosh]

When you say partner, was this. Was it a boyfriend or business relationship?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Business relationship at the time, yeah, that's a good question also.

[Daniel Tosh]

But you do you start. Tell the story how you started the whole thing.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

So it was basically out of the apartment making bagels with my ex partner at the time, and we were just sending them out to different, you know, tastemakers. I remember.

[Daniel Tosh]

But you were baking at this point?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, we were. We were baking together at this point. Absolutely.

[Daniel Tosh]

And how many bagels at the height of the apartment?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Like, it's a couple dozen, tops. Dude. This oven I had was like this like 1950s apartment oven, convection oven. That was like, not it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Couple dozen a day.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Man, that's a lot of work.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I was instantly, like, not into it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

But I loved the final product and the packaged product. That was like my thing.

[Daniel Tosh]

What kind of apartment was this?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh, dude. It was right behind Cantor's Deli on Oakwood and Hayworth.

[Daniel Tosh]

I used to. I live over Laurel.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh, yeah, right there. Literally right there.

[Daniel Tosh]

One over Laurel.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Edinburgh. Yeah, Hayworth.

[Daniel Tosh]

One time. This story sucks.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I'm gonna do it for it. Talk to me.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's just one block over. It's an apartment complex, and there's a staircase that goes up on the others on the side of it to, like, the first level of apartments there.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

Right behind Cantor.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yes, yes.

[Daniel Tosh]

And there was this kid, young kid, skateboarding, and he was gonna. He was gonna jump the whole thing. It was probably 10 to 12 stairs down. And this woman, I'm not gonna speculate, but she was Jewish.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, for sure.

[Daniel Tosh]

She was blocking the bottom of the staircase and wouldn't let him do it. His friends were gonna film. And I was just there and I tried to override her. I said, I said, I said Ma', am, I know this is.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is how anti Semitism starts. The women that stop the ollies over the stairs.

[Daniel Tosh]

Well, I felt bad about. I was like, just. I'm like, let him do it. Let him go.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Let him go.

[Daniel Tosh]

And she wouldn't. She wouldn't let him go. How long did you go from the apartment till? It's like, okay, let's give this a shot and get a truck.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

One of our first investments. This person knew a guy that used to own Lure nightclub, like in Hollywood. Connected to Amoeba, like, right behind it. They used to do the do over there. They had this massive kitchen they never used. We moved right in there. That was a nightmare.

[Daniel Tosh]

They give it to you for free.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It was not free necessarily, but it was like part of this group that we were working with at the time. So, yeah, we didn't really pay rent.

[Daniel Tosh]

But you get this kitchen, you say it was disaster, but it allowed you to do.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Dude, our first. Our first real catering out of that kitchen was the voice. We got offered the voice.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, that's a good show, dude. We haven't watched it yet.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Bombed that shit. We showed up with burnt. Like, we wouldn't even serve bagels. We did bagel dogs. While it was the only bagel related item we served on that. We showed up with, like, catering with like burnt cheeseburgers. Bagel dog. Like, it wasn't. It was a horrible thing. And I don't know how we even got that. A friend of mine, I think maybe worked on the show at some point, and I was like, dude, we gotta go back to the drawing table. Like, we can't just be doing catering like that. Like, that is not what we're gonna do. So we over time sort of tailored our menu and figured out what it is we were actually doing. Bagels was always sort of the mainstay, but it wasn't until we did Coachella, which was really sort of our first real. This is what we do. Customer facing menu. We did the locks. We did the game over, which was.

[Daniel Tosh]

Wait, locks in during Coachella.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's a surprisingly. Dude, people wanted that.

[Daniel Tosh]

Sure.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

They woke up in the morning, hungover trash. They want breakfast.

[Daniel Tosh]

So you did well at Coachella. Year one.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Year one, like, out the gate lines were like, holy shit, this is it.

[Daniel Tosh]

2014. Where are we at? 2015.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah. So 2014, we started doing this thing out of the apartment. And then 2015 wins Coachella. Like March. So it was like a few months after.

[Daniel Tosh]

Have you been to Coachella before you went to work there?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That was actually my first time.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I'm not a festival dude.

[Daniel Tosh]

No. No one should be.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's a horrible. It's not for me. I need back support. Nice cozy shoes. I was. Not for me. I'm schfitzing in here. Like, come on. Like I'm dying out there.

[Daniel Tosh]

How easy is it to get a truck in Los Angeles?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's not so hard. I will say. I'll tell you so it's hard to keep it up and do well. But to get an actual truck, there's.

[Daniel Tosh]

A few ways but legally allowed to do it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

My recommendation to somebody would be if you have a concept and you want to try it out, rent it from somebody. Because if you rent it from somebody, it's usually their responsibility to have it permitted to have everything in working order. And if you have a permit, just an LA county permit, you can pretty much go anywhere where there's a meter and a bathroom within 100 yards. 100 yards. 100ft. 100 yards seems a little. Yeah, 100ft. So yeah, so that's, that's fairly easily. But if you want to go to like a Manhattan beach or a Beverly Hills or Santa Monica, you need special permits.

[Daniel Tosh]

Those places just require individual permits. You need to get. Because of fancy.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You get a separate business license, you need to get a separate permit. Health permit. Like Pasadena, for example, they have their own fire marshal, they have their own health department. Like it's a whole song.

[Daniel Tosh]

And how often is the health department coming up?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Twice a year.

[Daniel Tosh]

Twice a year.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

And it's like they'll just show up unannounced. No plan. That's the goal. They want to like, you know, catch you off guard.

[Daniel Tosh]

How much does a truck cost?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Depends if you go the rental route or the buying.

[Daniel Tosh]

Buy, buy buying. A good clean for us. For us a beauty.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

150 to 170.

[Daniel Tosh]

And that's decked out. It's got everything you need to go decked out.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Everything that's full service. We're ready.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you remember the first day you got in and drove?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yes. I was the driver also.

[Daniel Tosh]

Was it terrifying or.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Dude, there's some fucking scary, scary shit. The brakes went out on me. The ax. I have pictures of this too. That the brakes went out. We're like, okay, this is not good. That was gnarly. That was when I was like, wow, this is like prison work. This is like going to like. It was, it was gnarly.

[Daniel Tosh]

Uh huh. So I take it you've never been to prison.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I've never been to Prison. But let me tell you, in my head, this is what I imagined, okay? Going to the lot in Sun Valley behind the Burbank Airport. This truck lot, dude, they need to document this. This is a whole other world. You go in there, you dump your drainage, and it's like a whole sewer system. You have to, like, dump your drainage. There's people living, like, literally on that lot. Like the mechanics, they're like greaseball dudes that are just like, literally. They're fully blackened by all of the grease that they have to deal with from fixing these trucks all day.

[Daniel Tosh]

Eight trucks now. Ten trucks. Where you at?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We're almost. Nine is almost open. We're almost done being built. We started, I think on Truck 6, we started doing our custom trucks.

[Daniel Tosh]

And you wrap them?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We wrap them up.

[Daniel Tosh]

You always put swear words on him.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I mean, you know, that was something we did. Like, actually, I was making the menu for Coachella and I just put bagels, lox, shmear, other shit. And I thought it was funny, and it just stuck.

[Daniel Tosh]

So are you allowed to do that? Do you ever get grief for that?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Surprisingly, not enough grief. I'm very surprised at how little grief we got. Yeah, more people. More love than hate.

[Daniel Tosh]

I'm not going to give you grief for it. My kids know what words are.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, was it called Yeastie Boys from day one?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

From day one.

[Daniel Tosh]

And who came up with the name?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Actually, my ex partner did. Yeastie Boys.

[Daniel Tosh]

What time do you guys pick the trucks up in the morning?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

The first person is usually there at five because they got to sit in traffic. I mean, like our Venice location, There's no traffic.

[Daniel Tosh]

5, 5:30.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

No, there isn't. But it depends if you. If you leave too late, you're going to get nailed.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I know. That's the beauty of certain businesses when you can avoid traffic entirely. The city is your oyster.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I would never open a lunch or dinner truck. Not a chance.

[Daniel Tosh]

What's your window for your trucks?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

So we. We get there at 5. Some drivers get there at 4:30. Actually, now that I think about it, we make sure everything's legit. They start the truck, let it run for a little bit. They go get whatever they need for the day. Aprons, you know, towels, whatever. They're out of the lot by 5, 5:30, they get to the stop by 6. 6:30, we finished prep. We're open by 8. We're done by 2. Depending on which location you're at that 2 to whatever, some people get back to the lot by 2:30. Some people get back to the lot by 4, depending on traffic. So that's. Yeah, that's the day.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's a day.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's a day, dude. That's why. And it's hot. Like, it's hot.

[Daniel Tosh]

There's no AC in the trucks.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

No, I mean, our newer trucks have it, but even that. The heat coming off of the grill is so hot that even if you had air conditioning, you're. You're. Yeah, it's trouble.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, that's. Yeah, it's. It's a. That's a gig.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, it is.

[Daniel Tosh]

What kind of miles per gallon those trucks getting, by the way?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Not good. I. It costs about 150 bucks to fill those things up a week, which actually, you know, isn't too bad if you think about it, because it goes out every day.

[Daniel Tosh]

I know who we need to get getting with the Yeasty boys. Yeah, we got to get my boy RJ Rivian those Amazon deals that he's making these trucks. Boom.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That is. I love how you think. There was a company called Canoo C A N O O. They went under. I sort of was talking to them briefly about potentially doing some custom trucks, because, dude, that's the next wave for sure.

[Daniel Tosh]

I told him I wanted one of these Amazon trucks, and he says, you have to have some. I don't know what he said. Some LLC workaround.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We gotta do a Yeasty Boys kosh wrap.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, I don't want. I don't want this. I like being the idea guy and helping, but I want. Here's what I want in return. Nothing.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Come on.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Wow. What a mensch. That's what we call a mensch.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's where I'm at in my life right now. I want a G. I don't want it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's brilliant. That's brilliant.

[Daniel Tosh]

I also. Because I don't want the responsibility either. Your idea was shitty.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I don't blame you.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you have. Still own the truck that you got the very first truck, or. No?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

So we actually rented that truck, and I actually still rent it from the owner because it's our OG truck, and it's got, like, Retina the Artist graffiti on it. It's got all the stickers. It's just got so much history. I love that truck. Actually, we still rent it. And the guy that I rent it from became our manager during COVID He owned a couple trucks, and he was like, yo, I don't have work. And now he's. He's still our gm. And he's also the guy who helps with keeping up maintenance.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you personally pick the locations of where these trucks are going?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I pick the locations.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, how often are you rotating it or do you want it to be like pretty consistent? So people know when we had one.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Truck it was rotation. It was like what works, what doesn't. Once I sort of got a lay of the land on like, okay, this is a good spot. This is a good spot. This is a good spot. Okay, we need more trucks. So now the model is pull up to a spot, six to eight hours service and that's where you can find us every day. And you can get delivery. You could get walk up, whatever that looks like.

[Daniel Tosh]

What's delivery? You gotta hire somebody else. Like an uber driver for that.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Postmates doordash the whole night. Uber is.

[Daniel Tosh]

They come all the way here? They do.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I think the Venice location might hit it. You know what though, dude? We were, we were posting up in palisades until shit hit the fan. That was a great spot for us. And I sucks but because I think that you would have been able to get that out here.

[Daniel Tosh]

There's so many confusing street signs in L. A for when you can and can't park. You guys ever get towed?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We've gotten towed. When like the transmission dies. Last week that happened.

[Daniel Tosh]

Are you feeding meters all day long?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

How's all day long we got to feed the meters.

[Daniel Tosh]

How many meters does it take up?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Depends on what neighborhood. Meaning whoever's on patrol will be a little bit more lenient. But like in Manhattan beach, always to always feeding the two. And still we get tickets. Like it depends how insane their parking meter guy.

[Daniel Tosh]

In manhattan beach, do they do the chalk on the wheels?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

They do the chalk on the wheels. How is that legal by the way?

[Daniel Tosh]

Well, because it says you can only stay there for two hours. So you can't just keep feeding it for eight hours. You have to roll your wheel a quarter.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Isn't that a w? Wow, I didn't realize that. I always think there's gotta be a rule against, you know, it's like vandalism, you know, there's gotta be some sort.

[Daniel Tosh]

Of putting white chalk on your tire something.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I'd love to just get these guys in some way.

[Daniel Tosh]

You're not gonna get them.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I'm not gonna get em. It sucks. We pay a lot in tickets. To answer your question, if you hired.

[Daniel Tosh]

A disabled driver, can they park in the handicap? And disabled drivers also don't have to pay meters.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I literally have never thought about this. And that is brilliant.

[Daniel Tosh]

What is wrong with you, man? And they're great employees because, you know, they work hard. Although I don't know that food trucks are going to. You have to get somebody with a disability that's not overwhelming.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Hire them with the placard. Like it. Like it's part of the deal. Like, that's a really good idea, dude. That's brilliant.

[Daniel Tosh]

I just found a way to get those meter maids.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Wow, that's so good.

[Daniel Tosh]

How many bagels in a day does yeasty boys make? Now?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's a good question. I think our monthly figure was like 50,000amonth.

[Daniel Tosh]

50,000 bagels a month, which is not.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Too crazy, but also, wow. To think about that over the years.

[Daniel Tosh]

Compared to a couple dozen a day out of your apartment. I've always enjoyed fresh bagels. Love it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Same.

[Daniel Tosh]

But when I'm someplace else, they're like, oh, I can't eat this. I'm like, I can still eat it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I can still eat it. Too bad. I mean, throw a crappy bagel in front of me, I'll still crush it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Well, crappy bagel versus. Versus, like, some other version of a nice bagel. I'm not somebody that's like, oh, my goodness, it has to be New York, right? Is the water. Is the pizza dough is all that.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

The water thing is a component of it. The bagels in New York, the reason why they're so renowned, I think, is the water there is so soft. It's natural. Like from the Catskills versus here. It's. We put so much shit in it. The minerals to clean it, and it just. We have really hard water. So in essence, yes, that is a component. But I really think, dude, like, with the New York thing, it's a marketing stunt. Like, it's part of it, but it's not all of it.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean, one.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's what. You know what I mean? It won for sure. Even if you go on the subway in New York, it's in the water. It's in the water. It's like a slogan. It's like a New York thing.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yet their tap water tastes disgusting.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It is trash. It is trash.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah. You know, so you make bagels with Tahoe tap water. I tell you what, it's money. Oh, it's gonna be delicious.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Delish.

[Daniel Tosh]

What's the water that makes you. Is it hard or soft? That makes you feel slimy when you're in the shower?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's soft water, which I'm not a fan of either.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's where I grew up in Florida. Just always feeling slimy.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, I don't get it, not for me.

[Daniel Tosh]

You kettle boil, then bake. What's your process?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh yeah. Put all the ingredients together, you mix it, you let it sit to kind of rise a little bit for about an hour, weigh the dough out, cut it, weigh it, shape it goes in the walk in. 24 to 48 hour process, bring it out, boil it, bake it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Was this the same process from day one?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yes, but it's changed over time. Different recipe tweaks. Like the, the recipe changes with the weather. Honestly, when it gets hot, you gotta, you gotta treat the dough differently and you gotta make sure your walk in cooler doesn't. Even if it goes shifts a degree, you're gonna have a different bagel outcome.

[Daniel Tosh]

And you can tell how to adjust based on those things.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, but even still, we miss sometimes. And you'll get a bagel that's maybe a little more dense or drier because.

[Daniel Tosh]

You just figured all this out on your own.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, but dude, even 11 years later, it's not like a plug and play. Like you still have to have people watching it, you know, it's also not like a bagel shop because it gets so hot in our trucks. So what happens is the bagels, they just keep cooking to a degree. It depending like in the summer months. Like, dude, brutal. So you have to adjust your recipe if you don't want it to turn into hard bread by the end of the day.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's a whole impressive. Yeah. Some of your menu items have names that are hip hop references. So I'm relieved to see that you are in fact Jewish. Do you love Fetty Wap and Birdman both?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah. I mean at the time when the Cheddi Wap came out, Fetty Wap was sort of like at the prime. I don't know what happened to that guy. I think he went to jail for a little while.

[Daniel Tosh]

The, the, the Cheddi Wap is that, that's, that's the eggs and that. Ah, that's a good.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's just the bacon, egg and cheese standards. Nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know what I mean? Nice.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

Does smoked salmon exist exclusively for eating on bagels?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I would say like 90% of all smoked salmon is eaten on a bagel. I've seen them on Benedict's in Scandinavia. You just eat it like you just straight up eat it with anything. But I'd say yeah, 90% bagels.

[Daniel Tosh]

I mean I do smoked salmon once a week. My daughter eats it. She's two.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

She houses amazing.

[Daniel Tosh]

She just houses it. Poppy seed. Who? The.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

What Not a fan.

[Daniel Tosh]

What are they for?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I don't know. It's our least ordered bagel and we, we bring like a couple a day for some old guys that come and want them whenever there's leftover bagels. At the end of the day, 99% of the time, Poppy.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's heroin addicts. Right?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Good points.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's all I ever think of when I think of poppies is, oh, it's gonna like, so you can mess with your drug test or something. I understand. Plain bagels make sense to me. That's my world. Egg bagels. Mm. I don't. I don't care at all.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's one of my faves. For some reason I would say sesame and egg are my tops.

[Daniel Tosh]

Sesame and egg.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Maybe it's kind of Jewy thing. Maybe I just. I don't know what it is.

[Daniel Tosh]

I love the sesame. I only like sesame. Just because of Mitch Hedberg. Yeah.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Amazing. What's the Mitch Hedberg reference?

[Daniel Tosh]

Has anyone ever seen a sesame?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Wow.

[Daniel Tosh]

Pretty good. That's all his joke is.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's pretty good.

[Daniel Tosh]

He knows what a seed is. He just wants to know what a sesame is. My question was, and I can understand cinnamon raisin fine, but the everything bagel has just gotten to a point where I'm like, you're just sweeping out your truck all night long.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, it's true. Exactly. It's literally that to me, it feels like that. It's like, yeah. When you clean your bar off and it's all the leftover. It's not. Who wants that?

[Daniel Tosh]

Everything bagels are perfect for a food truck because you should only be allowed to eat them outside.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's everywhere, you know? You know, shmut's everywhere.

[Daniel Tosh]

Let's talk schmears.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Schmears. Top five scallion roasted veggie plain. Oh, but the scallion has to have a little lemon zest in it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you have to add that separate?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You add it when you make it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Uh huh.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's part of it. You're taking care of it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's part of it.

[Daniel Tosh]

I like the veggie.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I like. Dude. I like an olive cream cheese.

[Daniel Tosh]

I could go with that. I wouldn't be afraid of it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

My favorite sweet cream. I love a strawberry. I love a toasted sesame bagel with butter and strawberry cream cheese. That is a fire combo.

[Daniel Tosh]

Dude, where do you stand on butter?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I'm a big butter guy.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know, as a kid, I remember my mom would butter her bagel and then put cream cheese on top of it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Smart woman. Love her.

[Daniel Tosh]

Smart.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Cause then you got the, like. You got the like, little flavor, like, nooks and that just like. It just like sits in the little crater of. In the bagel. The butter. It's so nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

This is getting me all excited. Hungry. Nothing better than a bagel that doesn't actually have a proper hole.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, love that. That's my favorite.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, it's sealed all the way in.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah.

[Daniel Tosh]

Love like a tight little splinter.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Plump.

[Daniel Tosh]

By the way, the amount of schmear in a bagel, please. I, like, I'm not somebody who's like, oh, I don't want a lot on. I. I want a good amount of cream cheese on my bagel.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Right.

[Daniel Tosh]

Why. Why are we doing it at such a level that it's. I honestly could scrape off two thirds of it, dude.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I'm the same. I hate it, like, when they. When you go to New York, they, like, stack and I.

[Daniel Tosh]

But you guys do it too.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We do, but, like, I. I prefer just like a two and a half ounce. Nothing more.

[Daniel Tosh]

Anything more. I certainly don't know the ounces, but I just know that it's just a comical what you guys do.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's like this. I. Is my. Is my, like, sweet spot anymore, which we do anymore is like, I have to remove it.

[Daniel Tosh]

It just feels like it's a huge cost.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, we stack our shit pretty high.

[Daniel Tosh]

What about just putting it. Making it purely a. Is it too. Is that cost not effective to do it in a little.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

The little cup, the little ramekins, as they say.

[Daniel Tosh]

The little ramekins.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We do, like when someone's like, I want extra cream cheese on the side. We'll pull it out.

[Daniel Tosh]

Philadelphia.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Love them.

[Daniel Tosh]

Why is their cream cheese so good?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's so good. I don't know, dude. When people are like, I make my own cream cheese. No, it's like ketchup, dude. You don't make your own ketchup. It's fucking already Heinz ketchup. That is fire.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's like bagels. Yes, I understand. You don't want lenders. You don't want a trash bagel. But, dude, Philly is.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's how I felt about ranch dressing. It's like Hidden Valley figured it out.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I know.

[Daniel Tosh]

I didn't like other people's ranch dressing, but then John and Vinny has made a better ranch dressing.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Fire. J and V Crush. They do everything better, those guys.

[Daniel Tosh]

Soft serve.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh, my God. It's my favorite soft serve in la, maybe ever. The consistency, dude, is so good.

[Daniel Tosh]

How many bagels a Week. Do you eat?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Dude? Wow. That's changed over the years. When I used to deliver the bagels to the trucks and we used to do wholesale and I would deliver them, I would just eat them, like pop them. Like cheddar bagels. They were hot. Next to me on the passenger seat, I would just pop them.

[Daniel Tosh]

Them.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I was at like three to five a day, which is gnarly. I mean, gnarly. How wouldn't you be?

[Daniel Tosh]

You can't do that.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You can't. You turn out like this.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's not good. When you have a bagel as the bread, it's. That's a meal.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's big now once a week, maybe.

[Daniel Tosh]

You with English muffins?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You know, I do. I do with them the McDonald's like egg McMuffin, sausage McMuffin with egg. Like, I love that shit. But like as a toast with butter, like a bagel with butter. It's not even close. It's no good.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know the English muffins, I do like the San Francisco big sourdough ones that are super thick.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Fire.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Can't really get those.

[Daniel Tosh]

You can't. And they're dense.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, I do like those.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you do gluten free bagels?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We do.

[Daniel Tosh]

Are they actually, Are they good?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I mean, if you're a gluten free guy, they're great. Because gluten free sucks. Like, I've never had anything good gluten free.

[Daniel Tosh]

The texture is just off.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's not good.

[Daniel Tosh]

I had a gluten free brownie the other day and I just. I might as well. You may as well have just been fucking rubbing cocoa powder almost.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

No, you may as well just have fruit for dessert. Cause that's not gonna cut it.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you do any desserts?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Well, we were doing some black and whites for a while, but like, how good can a black and white cookie really be?

[Daniel Tosh]

The answer is it's not.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's not good. We tried. We tried. You can't reinvent that wheel. It's not good. We do sweet bagels, but we don't really do desserts.

[Daniel Tosh]

Maybe a cinnamon roll.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's. Psst.

[Daniel Tosh]

Wow.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's nice. That's nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

Everybody that's on my show gets a gift. Okay. And it's just stuff from my house that I don't want anymore. So some guests do better than others. First thing I got is just a sticker for one of your trucks if you want to. It's two men doing 69 on each other. A son with an assault rifle and the child and daughter.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is really good.

[Daniel Tosh]

You can put this on. Here's what you do.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Wow, this is sick.

[Daniel Tosh]

You put this on a competitor's truck. That's been.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is going on my truck.

[Daniel Tosh]

By the way, my son has a book that I used to read him. It's about food trucks. And I don't know if you ever read it. It's like the Little Taco Truck. Did you ever read this book?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I need this book. I haven't seen it.

[Daniel Tosh]

It's a nice book. And it talks about how his spot gets taken in the morning. And then he learns to get along with other people. How bad is it with other people? In fighting for spots.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's actually. It's not bad, I gotta say. And again, this goes back to my sort of. If you're a morning truck, the streets are empty in the morning. So if you're a lunch dinner truck, that. That would be fucked up. This is beautiful. I love this so much.

[Daniel Tosh]

I use regular yeast. My wife recently bought me instant yeast. I don't need that. I don't need that.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Thank you.

[Daniel Tosh]

Hey, this, this. Now this. This is a toilet.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Now, I could use one of these.

[Daniel Tosh]

This is for the truck. You give this to you. Now this.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is so good.

[Daniel Tosh]

This is a good toilet too. This one is, by the way. You hear it, right?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This was in the house.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, I travel with this, but it's. No, that's. It's never been pooped in.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Okay, thank you.

[Daniel Tosh]

It has been peed in, yes, but it's cleaned out. But, yeah, this. I bring this with me on road trips and just having it, you know, my ibs, I got the same. It lets me drive a little more relaxed knowing that if things got out of control.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Thank you for this.

[Daniel Tosh]

But this, this toilet.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Are you sure you're willing to part ways with this?

[Daniel Tosh]

Huh? I got a different. And you just throw one of those mixes in the. In the bott. That'll keep it.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is unbelievable.

[Daniel Tosh]

I think that's commercial grade. You might not.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's commercial grade, babe.

[Daniel Tosh]

But now maybe you have somebody a little more uptight and like, well, is this the male bathroom or the female? By the. So that I got you two gender. This could be the female one. It's pink.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We're gonna need this for sure. We got a lot of women on these trucks.

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't understand the whole bathroom issue with. With some of the trans problems debate. It seems. It's just. It's really just where you wash your hands that is the shared space. Anyway, let's get this off my desk.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Let's get this the hell out of here.

[Daniel Tosh]

There's your new toilet. You're gonna love this toilet.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You can really hear the.

[Daniel Tosh]

Throw all that on the floor, please. Yeah, please, all of this. Just throw it on the floor. You don't have to. Here, here's this. I'm excited to give away because that's sick. This is my last. The tours they used to put this is Tosh tour on ice, which was a Canadian tour I did.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is amazing.

[Daniel Tosh]

They gave me so many of these skateboards. This is my final one. I have no more skateboard.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Are you sure you want to depart?

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, I'm so happy to get rid of things. Okay.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is amazing.

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah, that's good.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is so sick. Putting it in the office. We used to take old decks and that's how we made our menus for Coachella.

[Daniel Tosh]

Feel free to scratch that off and make a menu.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

This is a collector's item. Thank you for that. Wow. I came empty handed.

[Daniel Tosh]

No, no, you're not.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Listen, I tried to bring the bagels.

[Daniel Tosh]

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[Dylan]

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[Daniel Tosh]

Pa show you haven't opened a brick and mortar.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

We haven't dude. We. We did a pop up at Alfred Coffee in for like a year. It went great.

[Daniel Tosh]

But dude, I think you're always in front of Alfred's.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, we're in Alfred. Melrose Place. Alfred and Studio City. Alfred.

[Daniel Tosh]

You got a little. You got a little deal with them.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, a little set little deal with. You know those guys for sure does Alfred.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do they make bagels?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

They don't make bagels.

[Daniel Tosh]

Okay.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah. To answer your question about the brick and mortar, eventually I think we'll do a brick and mortar. I don't know. I really want to do like a bagel and coffee drive through.

[Daniel Tosh]

You know where they're giving good deals right now is the new Cross Creek J. Lux.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Man. We've talked a bunch about that. My fear was Jay Lux, he's the best. He's the king, bro.

[Daniel Tosh]

He's like every king of LA, this guy. Yeah, 100% get Jay Lux on this show.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I saw Ashton Kutcher the other day just like at the deli and he was wearing the J. Lux hat with the sign.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, that seems to now Jay Lux has jumped the shark.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's all. It's merch, it's real estate, it's everything.

[Daniel Tosh]

But anyway, there are deals to Be had that new plaza they've opened up.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, it's very dope. You know what? You remind him. I'll reach out to him after we, you know, wrap.

[Daniel Tosh]

How hard is. Did you figure out all the business aspect of it, like, knowing what to price things at?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I went. I went so hard on the, like, collaborations, the marketing, the branding of it, that now I had to bring in someone way more savvy than me. I brought on a cfo. Smart dude like Evan. You're bleeding here, Evan. You need to change this to that.

[Daniel Tosh]

What was something that you were overlooking? Just like an example of like. Oh, that was a good change.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Wow. A few things. I think our delivery. I think the delivery aspect of it was one. Renegotiating our terms with those guys. A lot of money was left on the table there.

[Daniel Tosh]

Deliver with doordash.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

With doordash, with postmates with all those things.

[Daniel Tosh]

Restaurants individually negotiate.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Dude, these guys are. I mean, it could be pretty predatory if you don't know what you're doing, honestly.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, man, that's a nightmare.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Not to talk shit, but it is a nightmare. It's a nightmare. And I'm not. I'm a creative dude, like the business savvy shit. I'm not an Excel wizard, I'm not a data wizard, but this guy I brought in is definitely that part, so.

[Daniel Tosh]

And what's the goal?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

50 trucks. New York, Miami, I don't know.

[Daniel Tosh]

San Antonio.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Texas was on the list. NorCal.

[Daniel Tosh]

Is there no trucks in NorCal, dude.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Palo Alto and Berkeley and SF. Like, I feel like that would be a good for us.

[Daniel Tosh]

There's none up there right now.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Not really. You're only in LA County. 9. So we're opening our ninth truck soon in the valley. Deep Valley.

[Daniel Tosh]

What about Orange County?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

No trucks there yet.

[Daniel Tosh]

Do you have to always have it centered here, then they have to go out, or is that.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You need a central. Each region needs a central hub.

[Daniel Tosh]

For sure. You gotta get one back into Scottsdale.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

I was gonna say that's on the list too. I think it would do well there. It's just so hot, you know?

[Daniel Tosh]

Yeah.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

The brick and mortar potential model would be good there, though.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, your hometown.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's what I'm saying. Hometown.

[Daniel Tosh]

You go back there often?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

My little brothers work there, live there. My dad still lives there. Like, I'll probably go back for Thanksgiving, you know.

[Daniel Tosh]

Such a good time of year to be in.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You are. You know about the desert. It's like velvet on your skin. The Dryness in the winter. It's so nice. So nice.

[Daniel Tosh]

I like Phoenix. I've always liked being in Phoenix.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

It's nice, dude. You know, it's like. It's a little.

[Daniel Tosh]

Did you say Tempe or Tempee?

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Tempe. Yeah, Tempe.

[Daniel Tosh]

I always feel like I'm saying it all.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Do you play the improv in tv?

[Daniel Tosh]

I used to all the time, you know, then I graduated to much larger venues, stadiums. I've never played a stadium. I play at theaters and stuff. Like, I stay in my lane.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Where do you play there, Theater wise?

[Daniel Tosh]

There's that one in the round. What's that? Circle one.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

Oh, Gammage.

[Daniel Tosh]

Is that it? Sick.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

That's in Tempe. That's a cool. Wow.

[Daniel Tosh]

Good for you, Evan. Thanks for being on the show.

[Evan (Founder of Yeasty Boys Bagels)]

You too, man. Thank you for having me.

[Daniel Tosh]

My pleasure. Paw show. I want to thank Evan for being on the show. And if I seem just a. Just a skosh hangry, it's because Eddie, who is not here. Eddie booked Evan to be on the show and we were so excited because we all love the yeasty boys bagels. And then Eddie writes before the beginning of the day, in the morning, he sends us an email. He says, hey, guys, come in hungry because he's going to hook us up with bagels. Then I would say 30 minutes in to the interview, Evan casually says, hey, sorry, sorry, I couldn't bring any bagels in today. And that was the first that any of us had gotten wind that we were not getting bagels. And you could find. Feel the. Just the air being sucked out of the podcast studio where everyone was like, we're gonna fucking kill Eddie. Yeah. Because we were all hungry and we were all excited. We didn't want to waste. I actually took a single bite of a chomp stick and put the rest back because I didn't want to ruin my appetite for some bagels.

[John]

I thought he drove the truck.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, my God. I thought the truck would be outside. I didn't know what was going to happen. I was just excited. And then it was just. And then Eddie acts like nothing after it was done, like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, he said he was going to, but he couldn't. And I'm like, eddie, you have to take more responsibility because you wrote to us, come hungry. So now we've been here for hours because, you know, it's not just the interview. We're here before, we're doing some prep work, et cetera. And then, sure enough, no bagels.

[John]

Should have at least offered to Buy lunch.

[Daniel Tosh]

Carl, I was going to share a Chetty Whop with you. How can you. How do you get so excited to get in that chair and then you can't keep your eyes open for, like, two minutes? Now I'm sure Evan is going to watch this or hear this. It's going to get back to him, like, hey, they were pretty upset that you didn't bring bagels, and he's going to do us, right. And I'll be honest, when that day comes, I'll be excited and all will be, you know, forgive and forget. But until that happens. Oh, I don't like the way my wife says bagel. Did I ever say that on the podcast?

[John]

No, I don't think so.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's awful.

[John]

How did she say it?

[Daniel Tosh]

Bagel. Like, it doesn't sound like she's saying bagel. Let me see.

[John]

Yellow.

[Daniel Tosh]

Say bagel.

[John]

Bagel.

[Daniel Tosh]

I don't know if that was. That's not how she normally says it. Oy vey. All right, let's plug some stuff. Eddie and I are doing tours. I got a new tour coming out in 2026, and I can't come up with a good name for the tour. So if you have any ideas, feel free to write them down in the comments section. And if I use your tour name, you and three friends can have tickets to any show on the tour of your choosing. Actually, sounds like a deal, and I just came up with that off the top of my head.

[John]

Yeah, that's good.

[Daniel Tosh]

That's not bad. All right, so check out the tour. You better jump in on my house. I believe there's some offers that have come in, but I'll take a backup offer now, Panda, my wife's cousin, she's starting to date. It's happening. She has a couple lined up this week, so keep leaving those VMs for me. I got a few more today. Okay, let's hear it.

[Caller]

Hi. Marcus Black. I'm 30. I'm terrible.

[Daniel Tosh]

Ah, he just gave up. Guy just gave up. You know what? He was probably hoping for that. Like, if you're satisfied with your message, press 1. And our phone setup doesn't have that, so he just bailed. But I. I appreciate that. That's how I leave voice messages like I've never spoke before. All right, so he's out. He's not going to get to date her. Anybody else?

[John]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Holy crap. That's a lot of stuff to remember. I'm five foot nine away, 195 pounds. I'm a fat, and I'm 64 years old.

[Daniel Tosh]

Oh, geez.

[Caller]

And you'll have to pay for me to have my vasectomy reversed. But I'll do it. Quit. I'd love to bang your sister in law.

[Daniel Tosh]

That guy's crazy. Listen, it's not my sister in law. You want to bang my sister in law? Have at her. That's, that's fine. I give you her number right now on air. See what her number is. Just call her. Something is 352. 352 area code. That's Florida. Three one, four. All right, see you next week.