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Jordan, Jesse, GO!

Minotaur Milking, with Erin Cholakian

Jordan, Jesse, GO!

Jesse Thorn

Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, we welcome comedian Erin Cholakian, to the show to chat with us about the wide, fast streets of Santa Clarita, being a Six Flags kid, Jimmy Angel: Teen Idol and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Give a little time for the child within you.

0:03.0

Don't be afraid to be young and free.

0:06.0

On to the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and sex and run you.

0:11.0

It's Jordan Jesse.

0:12.0

Oh, I am Jesse Thorne America's Radio, sweetheart.

0:14.0

Jordan Morris, boy, detective.

0:16.0

Can I tell you what I love, Jordan?

0:17.0

I would love to hear about something you love.

0:20.0

It's a classic dining experience.

0:22.0

Yeah. I went the other day with my wife. There's one of these 61st floor or 71st floor

0:28.5

restaurants, like where there's windows all the way around. You can see everything that's just a

0:33.3

couple blocks from our office on Pershing Square. I went there. I ate a steak. Right. Somebody

0:40.2

proposed to somebody at the next table. Really? Oh, cool. What did they say? Will you marry me?

0:45.4

But what did the person say in response? Oh, yes. She said yes. Oh, thank God. Jesse. I almost had a

0:51.4

heart attack. I follow. Yeah. Yeah. He asked if she would marry him, and she said, yes, I will marry you. And now she looked so excited when it happened. And then later, I was like looking at her face and I'm like, she no longer seems that happy. But maybe she has resting, I should have said no face. Could be. That's also possible. It was very sweet. It was like not corny. People can't control that, Jesse. It's just how they look. It was like genuinely sweet. It was not like, it was because of the nature of the restaurant. It was like a romantic context and it was not super public. Like I saw it, but it wasn't one of those things where someone was press Doing like a, oh, yeah, or doing like a flash mob or something. Anyway, it made me think that from now on, I'm only eating in legendary restaurants, rotating restaurants. Right. And legendary rotating restaurants. That plays of that, like, a space building at LAX maybe still has a restaurant in it. I'd like to go to that.

1:45.2

Oh boy, does it? I don't, yeah, I feel like they talk about bringing that back every couple years. Maybe they haven't yet. I went to the Tamo Shanter, the Tamo Shanter with Elliot Kalin. Oh, that's a great place to go. I had a wonderful experience in such a place. Jesse, when's the last time you've been to the smokehouse?

2:02.3

Oh, the smokehouse of Burbank, California? That's the one. The one and only. Finally, we're talking Burbank on Jordan Jesse. We got there. You can stop sending us letters. We're going to talk about Burbank. My wife and I, because of various family situations that were happening in the years 2020, 2021, and possibly 22, we did not go out together for like multiple years in a row.

2:28.0

And when we finally went out, I mean, I think one time we like went to a local park for 45 minutes.

2:35.2

That sounds nice. But when we finally went out, when we finally went out to dinner, I put on a

2:41.5

cream-colored turtleneck and a wide-lapled blue blazer. My wife put on a dress. And we went to

2:48.4

the Burbank Smokehouse. That's how you dress and that's where you go.

2:51.9

Like a couple of Hey Now Hank Kingsley's. Yeah. The smokehouse is a suburban steakhouse of absolute

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