Tissi Wars ft. Johnny Novo | You Gotta Try This Ep. 40
You Gotta Try This
Barstool Sports
4.9 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Johhny Novo was the 2024 Yelp Explorer of the Year and has blown up on social media reviewing grocery store rotisserie chickens. He joins the show to discuss the Chicken Wars, his upbringing in a Croatian-Mexican household, what food he'll review next & more. Tissi Rankings --> https://johnnynovo.com/ Meet the all-new Tony's Cajun Kick. Turn up the heat, turn up the flavor. Cajun Kick brings bold spice, zesty garlic, and just the right burn to wake up anything on your plate. Shop now at https://www.cajunkick.com/barstool Start your 7 Day Free Trial today. Offers are subject to change. Go to FOX One for complete terms and conditions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you got to try this listeners. |
| 0:01.4 | You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:06.0 | And Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome on back. |
| 0:10.9 | It's the You Gotta Try This podcast starring Johnny Novo. |
| 0:15.1 | Johnny Novo is in the motherfucking house. |
| 0:17.3 | It's myself and Ian, just kind of riding shotgun today. |
| 0:20.2 | If you're asking yourself, who's Johnny Novo? I had a gentleman here at KFC. Kevin came out to me. He's like, you know the rotisserie guy? I'm like, I do. I've seen him on social media doing the rotisserie chicken stuff. He's in everybody's algorithm. Kevin's like, I think he's the next big thing, whatever this guy does. |
| 0:38.2 | Why don't you have him on? |
| 0:39.3 | So I reached out to you where I got slid into your DMs. Yeah. Like a bitch. Respect. Yeah, yeah. And you were like, yeah, let's do it. Let's like sit down and talk. Close mouth. Don't get fed. Sorry to interrupt. Correct. Got to get some bars off. Yeah. I think that if you see what a lot of people are doing, especially in the food game, |
| 0:56.5 | and when we spoke to guys like Scott Conan and Chef Greenie and Zimmer and Chef Michael |
| 1:03.2 | Ferraro, they told us how when I first started on Wall Street, it was Zaggots. |
| 1:09.2 | Everybody had a Zagots in their desk, and that was the |
| 1:11.4 | Bible. It was New York Times. New York Times giving you a good review was everything. Obviously, |
| 1:17.6 | Michelin and all that kind of stuff has been around. Those are gone. And now people just go to people |
| 1:24.1 | that they trust to tell them to where to go eat. It is kind of crazy. It's just absolute strangers. You find one because there's so many of us because I consider myself one now because we've done like, how many reviews have we done, just random food reviews? 108. Wow. It's tight. Ian's fucking tight with that. So 108. You know that off the top? |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.2 | We just posted one yesterday. |
| 1:47.2 | And it has the playlist and how many videos in the playlist. |
| 1:50.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:50.9 | And Ian's that guy too. |
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