#1594 - Yannis Pappas

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Good to see you here.

Yannis Pappas (0:17)

Good to see you.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Nice to have you in Texas.

Yannis Pappas (0:19)

Yeah, well, it's been, yeah, this is nice. I'm trying to work on being a better New Yorker, by not comparing everything the first day to New York. That's how New Yorkers are. Every time you go to a new city, you're like, ah, this is like the Brooklyn of, this is like the Queens of, this is like the Brooklyn Bridge of.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Yeah, this is a different animal down here.

Yannis Pappas (0:40)

Yeah, it's like hipsters who have guns. I like it.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

That's a good way of putting it. Hipsters with concealed carry permits.

Yannis Pappas (0:47)

Yeah, I hung out last night with one of the dudes from the Drinking Bros podcast. And yeah, he was like, I'm gonna walk home in the park. And then he made a joke. He was like, yeah, if anyone talks to me, I'll just shoot him. And he was like, don't worry, I haven't killed anyone stateside. I was like, he means that shit.

Yeah, so it's, I went to Terry's too.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

Terry Black's?

Yannis Pappas (1:09)

Is that?

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Yeah, Terry Black's barbecue?

Yannis Pappas (1:11)

Yeah. That was the best brisket I've ever had in my entire life.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Yeah, people say that, oh, you're gonna go to this place. I'm like, no, I don't. If barbecue is better than that, I don't want it.

I don't, I just like, you can't, I don't know how you can get better. I mean, I don't want to ruin my life. If barbecue is better than that, I don't know how I'm gonna eat anything else.

Yannis Pappas (1:29)

Yeah, it's, it was the best I've ever had, and they were telling me it's the fourth best.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

So I was like, who says that?

Yannis Pappas (1:35)

That's what they were saying. They were going like, you gotta go to this other.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

Yeah, they don't, they always do that here though. Oh, you gotta go to Franklin's because you gotta wait in line.

I've had Franklin's, it's fucking amazing. It's really good. It's not that much different. I mean, it's just all great.

The brisket at Terry Black's is fucking insane. They slice it, it's sopping wet. The juices are pouring out of it. You eat it, it's melting in your mouth. You don't need any teeth to chew it.

Yannis Pappas (2:01)

Yeah, it's tender, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Like, what the fuck is better than this? How does it get better?

Yannis Pappas (2:05)

Yeah, you could feed it to a baby, you'll go down. Yeah, you don't need teeth. Just throw it in the gums and it melts.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

It's so good. And did you have their beef ribs?

Yannis Pappas (2:12)

No, we had the sausage with the cheese in it.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Oh, that's good.

Yannis Pappas (2:15)

Yeah, that was real good.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

The jalapeno cheddar, bro, the beef ribs, you pick up the rib and you try to hold the rib up and it just slides off the rib and slaps onto the plate.

Yannis Pappas (2:24)

Oh, that's nice.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Yeah.

Yannis Pappas (2:26)

It was so good.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

They gave me a tour of the smokers. Like they have someone make their own smokers out of propane tanks. So there's these giant propane tank smokers.

Yannis Pappas (2:36)

It's next level down. Like this Austin, you could tell is kind of like the way Brooklyn was when it started.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

You're doing it.

Yannis Pappas (2:43)

I'm doing it right now. Yeah, I just fucking did it. Yeah, I'm like retarded New York. We're like, we think we're better than everyone and we're just, it's just all bravado. Like we can't do anything except you take us out of New York and we're like, where am I? Where's the bodega? Where's the pizza? Where can I get a slice?

Joe Rogan (3:01)

We can't. But at its best, New York is the ultimate city. At its best, it's the ultimate place. It really is.

It's jammed with people. There's a million different flavors. There's all kinds of different restaurants and neighborhoods, and it's a legitimate melting pot where you get on the subway, you sit, there's millionaires next to homeless people, and everybody's together, and everybody walks down the street together.

And that is one thing that separates it and makes it superior to Los Angeles. Los Angeles is isolated. Everyone's isolated in their little community, isolated in their car. They drive to a place. They give their key to a valet. They don't mingle as much. In New York, people are out there, they're mingling.