Welcome to Guys, the podcast about guys. I'm Brian.

My co-host, Chris, has been chopped.

Hi, Chris.

Okay, well, now I do know what that means because we're doing the intro again.

The whole sort of crux of it was that I didn't know what that meant, but now we've done the intro a second time.

Just to peek behind the curtain, we had a technical thing. And so now I do know chopped is a something, it's a food network show in America. I'm not a big, we have all the stuff in Canada. We literally have the food network. You don't have the same. We have the same exact, we have the same exact television shows as you, but I'm not a big, I've never been a food network person. So I don't really know, I know Iron Chef. Oh, they do have chopped up there, chopped Canada. Anyway, let's get our guest on the show. We have Lauren Walker. Hi, Lauren. Hey, guys. How's it going? Great. It's not going too bad.

Are you, are you a, would you call yourself a foodie?

Do you watch the Food Network ever?

I worry, I might be a kind of food network guy of old that might not be the kind of food network

guy we're making fun of now, but remembers the

very early days of Food Network and has been disillusioned by it over the years as it has

become less and less about good cooking and more and more about competition. Listen, I would,

I don't even know any, I just know from our show that we will be covering people who are

disillusioned at the direction of the thing that we're talking about. That's a big part of guys for sure. Well, I didn't say this either, Lauren. I was the most Food Network guy in the world pandemic time. Oh, totally. Yeah. For the first like two years of the pandemic, the only thing I watched was the food network. I didn't. I don't think it lasted two years, did it? Anyway, I didn't start going. Yeah, let's not, but I didn't start going out again for two years. Yeah, I get it. So basically the whole pandemic you were, I mean, that makes. We went nuts for it. Me and Katie and my daughter were just, Gwen, I don't know why I said Katie and my daughter. I didn't sit watch chopped all day and diners drive-ins and dives. That one was good for the pandemic because you'd be like, I wish I was at a diner, drive-in or dive. I do know that one. I know that show because there's a lot of restaurants around Vancouver that have been featured on that.

I think that's Guy Fieri.

That's that's Guy Fieri. That is that is that is Guy Fierry. I think Guy Fierry likes Vancouver and likes the food because there's like, I think he's done a lot of episodes here. So that's the only reason I know that one is like it'll have a big sign in the window featured on diners drive-ins and when

their dives i think he likes pretty much everywhere i think he's been to all 50 states in

every single province anywhere there's like an english-speaking territory in in north america

he's definitely driven through a few times and been like this diner has incredible french fries

i'm not trying to be like i'm not a big big like, oh, Vancouver rocks. It's so great. I just think that, I think that it just, it's just based on the amount of restaurants that have been featured. It feels like we've got like five here. He's, yeah, we've got like, we've got like seven or eight. We've got like seven or eight, maybe even 10. I definitely do meet the foodie standard Vancouver is on the radar of like the foodies

you know Like, we've got like seven or eight. We've got like seven or eight, maybe even ten. I definitely do meet the foodie standard.

Vancouver is on the rate, the radar of like the foodies, you know. Oh, don't tell them that. No, we have good food. There's no doubt about it. I mean, one of the main reasons why. Why do you take any? They dip their wings and mayonnaise up there. That's not true. In Vancouver. Somebody tricked, somebody tricked him into doing that.

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