And you can actually enjoy this podcast raw because it's of the highest quality. Welcome to the off-menu podcast. Thank you very much, Ed Gamble. James A. Castor here. How are you? Very well. Thank you. You sound like a sort of a 1940s man today. Yeah, well.

Everyday really really? Oh, yeah, that's what I'm going for. No, no, no, it's not. Yeah, you've really missed. No, fair enough. Maybe I'll just tell you a man in his 40s. Yes, that's possibly it's a gentleman. This is the off-menu podcast. It's a food podcast where we chat to a special guest about a certain thing. James, what is that certain thing? Oh, we're going to ask them their favorite ever starter, manquils dessert, side dish and drink. Yes, we are. And our special guest this week from LA Los Angeles, where we're

are right now is the comedian and the genius. He is a very, very good comedian. You may have seen his work. He's got specials out there. He's pretty excellent, to be honest, all around. What a guy. So we are going to be welcoming him into the off-menu restaurant to have a chat to him about his dream meal. But James, if he says a secret ingredient, we will be kicking him out of the restaurant. Bye bye Anthony. Absolutely. And this week the secret ingredient is iced gems.

Ice gems, I've always hated them, never liked them. Where do you stand on ice gems? I don't really get it. I don't think the biscuit or the ice in a bit of good separately. Let alone to get rid of it. The texture is going very well together. Correct. I don't really see the point. There's no variance in texture. They crumbly biscuit, too dry and a sharp gem. Yeah, dangerous for the mouth. So if Anthony just says ice gems, we will remove him from the restaurant. Yeah. So without further ado, this is the off-menu video of

Anthony J.S. on air. Welcome Anthony J.S. on air to the Dream Restaurant. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Welcome Anthony J.S. on air to the Dream Restaurant. I'm going to spend you for some time. That's a very quick way of talking there. I thought I'd speak talk. Speak talk. I thought I'd speak talk quick here. Yeah. And you know, you said you'd been waiting for me.

I think I'm a little bit early. Yeah, you are early actually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is very good. Do you like to be early for things? Or are you? Yes. I think of being a comedian. You're either early or you're always really, really late. That I'm excited. I'm going to be on the early side. You've always been getting that I'm like that. I get there early a lot. And then I always think, if I'm waiting for the people, why have I done this to myself again? I get really annoyed that like I'm the guy waiting around. Yeah. I'm being taken advantage of. But the stress I have being late is worse than being annoyed at someone from being late.

And then you have moral superiority. Sure. Yeah. You get to do that. I imagine when I'm late, I start to imagine what they're going to say to me for being like, even though normally if you're late, those go, oh, hi. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. In my head, they're going to be like, oh, yeah. Nice of you to join us mate. We was out of weight around here. Now I've got to think of an excuse and something that and then you ask for that. It's always a lie. Whenever someone's like, I'm late because you're like, you don't have to lie to me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Just yeah, just didn't leave old time. You didn't care enough about me. Yeah. Yeah. That's what happened. I'm always

early for stuff. I like being organised, I like being early. I've tried being the late guy. I've literally gone, I'm going to try and be late and see how it feels. It feels fucking awful. It's terrible. Yeah. I've tried being the late guy with a coffee as well. Late with a coffee is I think the worst sort of human being, you can be. Yeah. But you were late and you still wouldn't get a coffee. Yeah. Late with a coffee really stings when they turn up, this holding the coffee and, oh, sorry, I was. No, you're not sorry. You better have two coffees. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That stuff is, yeah, I don't, sometimes I'm with a person who is always late and we're leaving together and watching what makes them late is infuriated. Yeah. Especially if they have nothing to do. Yeah. You just, you just started getting ready late. Yeah. I just came from work and I'm here to pick you up and you're not ready, unacceptable. This is so, so frustrating. And the amount of time when you get into a town there, mine works as well. I was like, wow, it just takes us 25 minutes to get there. And you know it's an hour walk. Yeah.

And you're like, how have you survived it? 25? Yeah. How has that come into your head? But you're here early for the restaurant reservation. Is that something that you'll do? Get somewhere early for a restaurant reservation and then have a drink in the bar or something? Mm-hmm. Yeah. If I'm meeting someone there, if it's just me with my, with my date or with my, my friends, then I can show. I don't mind being five minutes late. Yeah. You know, if I'm, if I'm getting to a table, I tip well. So which is an American thing. I don't know if you guys even do that. We don't do it. Yeah. If anything, we'll steal money out of the waitresses pocket. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've gone, I've been in Europe and an art tip and they're like, oh, we don't do that here. And I just say, I'm American and leave it anyway. I'm like, they must be grateful in some way. But I think they just think you're a jerk. No, no, no. I think it's quite nice. Uh, in the UK, if you tips. Yeah. No, you do. But I like the tip and culture here. I enjoy it. It makes me feel like I'm actually contributing towards something. Yeah. I just want people to like me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just do that for everyone. Just leave some money. When you leave tonight, are we going to see a little,

cool in on the table? Check under your pillow. We always start with a still sparkling water on the podcast, the choice of. I'm going to go sparkling. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I'm not always sparkling, but I enjoy. Like, if I'm on an empty stomach, I like to open it up a little bit with some sparkling water. Oh, do you feel like the sparkling is opening up the stomach? I do. I do. I drink a bottle of it in the morning, and I feel like it opens it up a little bit. I'm not a hungry person in the morning. Yeah. So yeah. So empty stomach sparkling water.

And the bubbles kind of like push it out. And you get a big bubbly stomach. You sound like you're making fun of me right now, but yes. That's absolutely true. That's how James sounds. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I talk.

I think that, you know, that sparked a more a clean jutee. So that's mad. That's what I've said on the podcast before. So something that he's banned the stomach isn't going to sound worse than me.

I have heard that scientifically the fastest way to hydrate, if you're dehydrated, is cold sparkling water. Right. Yeah. So if I'm hung over where I come home late, and I've had too much to drink, I order a bunch of cold sparkling water and drink as much as I can. I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that. Have you found it helps? I've no idea. No, it just fell over. Let me pass out five seconds. Like, I'm old enough now that like hang over cures can only do so much. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they're lost in longer or the head harder. Both.

Merry Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Me and Ed went out recently together and Ed hang out had a hangover. I know I didn't. And we drank pretty much the same amount. And it made me feel not having a hangover feels even better when you know that someone else.

Oh, absolutely. You think, God. Did you guys drink the same liquor or the same beer? Like, no, not exactly the same to be fair. We're having the wines and the taste of menu.

Oh, yeah. So we had the same wines and then we went out afterwards. And then then I that's when I make mistakes. Because then I'm switching to I think I had a beer and then I had a gin and tonic. Yeah.

And then I might have had another wine and then it's just game over. Yeah. The gin and tonic, I think is the deal break ice to think that that was a like a healthy drink. Yeah. And it's not a lot. And it's a bit of sort of sparkly. I thought, I'll over my stomach. I'll get the hangover cure in now. But it didn't work like that. It was awful. No, that is where you went.

I remember I just had beers after the wine. But I remember seeing you get a gin and tonic and I thought, uh oh, but I was thinking beer than wine feeling fine. And you went wine and beer. Oh, dear. Yeah. And I went wine and beer. The gin and tonic.

I was going to be chronic. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know the rhyme. Wow. You know that. I mean, I've never agreed with any of those rhymes. No, they say beer before liquor and never sick. But it's just because you drink beer faster. Yeah.

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