#556 - Phil Rosenthal on Creating 'Everybody Loves Raymond' & Quitting the Show Twice + Betting Big on a Diner + Where His Love for Food Comes From + His Best David Letterman Story
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
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4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Bobby sits down with Phil Rosenthal to trace how Everybody Loves Raymond went from an idea on paper to one of the most beloved sitcoms ever—and why he actually quit the show not once, but twice. Phil talks about betting big on a real-life diner, how Somebody Feed Phil helped inspire it, and why he sees himself as a food “enthusiast,” not a snob. He shares where his obsession with great meals really began and how travel changed everything. Plus, Phil tells his favorite David Letterman story from the early days of trying to get Raymond on the air.
-PHIL'S SECOND COOKBOOK, PHIL'S FAVORITES, IS OUT NOW! Available on Amazon, Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble and more. Visit PhilRosenthalWorld.com
-HIS FAMILY DINER, MAX & HELEN'S, OPENS SOON IN LARCHMONT in Los Angeles.
WATCH: The cast of Everybody Loves Raymond will reunite for a 30th-anniversary special on November 24, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.9 | Right then and there, I go, oh, we should do an episode. |
| 0:13.4 | I think is what you mean. |
| 0:14.4 | We should do an episode where we send you to Italy as you and you come back as me. |
| 0:19.0 | I saw it happen to my friend Ray. |
| 0:21.6 | He comes running up to me. |
| 0:22.8 | Phil, have you had gelato? |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to episode 556 with Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond. |
| 0:33.6 | Also the star of Somebody Feed Phil. |
| 0:36.5 | And then, dude, I love the show when they tried to take Raymond over to Russia |
| 0:40.3 | on Netflix. |
| 0:41.7 | Did you watch that? |
| 0:42.5 | Exporting Raymond. |
| 0:43.9 | Yes, it was so good. |
| 0:45.2 | And how a lot of the humor just didn't translate. |
| 0:48.9 | Like Russian humor was so different and like on the nose, almost corny. |
| 0:53.5 | And when they would try like the humor of america |
| 0:55.4 | audience when you get it yeah but they'd be like oh you have big nose ah ha ha ha great show so |
| 1:02.7 | this was super cool and the fact that he still likes talking about everybody loves raymond |
| 1:07.7 | passionately yeah because you never know some people when they do something |
| 1:12.2 | from a long time ago and they get super successful from it and then they start on other projects |
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