GMMore 2373: Are These Celebrity Restaurants Real?

Welcome to Good Mythical More. We’re gonna continue to explore the strange and unexpected world of restaurants. That sounds exciting. That’s almost good enough for cable. Yeah, yeah. I’m destined for cable. Let’s give $1,000 to the National Immigration Law Center to aid in their mission to defend and advance the rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and their family members. NILC engages in policy analysis, litigation, education and advocacy to achieve their goals. Please join us in giving at nilc.org/donate. Was that good enough for cable? That’s good enough. Yeah, that’s good enough for satellite. I can go satellite? You can go satellite. Dish? Yeah, Dish. You can go dish with that delivery. That’s gonna be on Dish. So these are what, Stevie? These are celebrity owned restaurants. Oh, celebrity owned restaurants. Like Guy Fieri’s. It could be lying about ’em. Could be. Jimmy Buffet. Telling you the truth. And you have to guess which one. You just listing celebrities? I’m listing celebrity restaurants so far. Margaritaville. Flavor Town. No, no, nothing that obvious on this list. Trust me. Okay. Spin is an international network of ping pong social clubs founded by Susan Sarandon that serve bar food like nachos, burgers and pizza and a whole lot of ping pong. I think not. Hold on. Hold on. Susan Sarandon? Susan Sarandon and ping pong? First of all, I like the idea of that. How does that work? International Ping Pong restaurant, Susan Sarandon. That’s like a, that’s like you just threw a bunch of words in a bucket and then just like, just whoops, it spilled. Sarandon keeps you guessing though. I’ve always said that about her. What does she do? Well, she’s an actor. Okay. Yeah. An activist. Yeah, I knew that. Okay. And a ping pong player. All right, let’s find out. Yeah, it’s real. There’s one, or at least there used to be one at The Standard downtown, LA. So that’s how I knew about it. A ping pong table? Spin. The restaurant. It’s like this whole floor that’s like designed and it has ping pong tables everywhere and then there’s like a full bar and food. I’ve been thinking about getting back into ping pong or getting into ping pong for the first time. We were into ping pong in. Middle school. Eighth grade. ‘Cause we would leave school and we’d go over to the. But we weren’t really into. Student union. We didn’t learn anything. For the university. There were, it’s no YouTube videos to learn how to spin it and cool stuff, you know? Yeah, yeah. So can you look up and see? Can y’all look and see if there is one of these? And I can go meet Sarandon there. It was founded in 2009. There’s 10 locations across U.S. and Canada. Oh, and we have a video of Susan Sarandon playing ping pong. I learned this from the Harlem Globetrotters. She looks horrible. The way she hit the ball. I know it’s a bit, but like. Hold on, what did you say about Sarandon? I meant. You mean at ping pong. She looks horrible at ping pong. Well, you should have clarified. Her form. Well, I mean, she wasn’t playing, the setup was wrong. It was a bit. It was a bit. Yeah. Yeah, but she still could have hit the ping pong ball like she knew how to do it. I find the people who are best at ping pong look like they’re constantly about to lose control. You know what I’m saying? Like, they don’t have it under control. That is what makes it deceptively awesome. Is there a spin in LA still? No. Does not look like it. Is there another ping pong restaurant? Yeah, there’s a competition for that niche area. Highway to Hell is a pub founded by AC/DC co-founder and guitarist Angus Young. Well, his certainly makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Customers can stop in for hell themed dishes like “Satan Sliders” and cayenne encrusted rim hot pints. Rim hot pints. Rim hot pints. Here’s the thing. I believed you until you started describing the dishes because here’s the thing about AC/DC. Angus. He would go along with this, but he would never be like, “Yeah, we’re actually gonna start like, making the dishes cute.” He would be like, “No.” I just don’t think he was interested in, he was interested enough to start it but he wasn’t interested enough to weigh in on the menu. So I think this is real. It’s fake. Dang, Link. You’re having a tough time with these real and fake restaurants. Got caught up on the rim. It happens. Made too much sense. Should have known. Audrey’s Coffee House is a coffee shop Started by married reality stars, Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon, who met on “Bachelor in Paradise.” Anyone gonna correct me on how to say those names? No one, no. They serve drinks named in homage to the show such as “The Most Dramatic Mocha Ever.” Oh, okay. Now this is potentially dicey legal territory, right? Because just because they were on this show doesn’t mean they gained the right to allude to it in a business venture, right? But it’s not in the name. Yeah, but that dish was called what? The most what? Dramatic? “Dramatic Mocha Ever.” I guess the fact that they were on a reality show. I just don’t think he would make this up if it wasn’t real. Where is it? I didn’t say. We don’t have that information. I mean, it might be real. So they met on a reality show. I got, I don’t have any more info other than what I just read. Because there is none. And then the reveal. There is no more info. There is, it’s real. It’s real. It’s named after Ashley’s mother, Audrey. You can visit Audrey’s coffee house in Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Wow, what a cute couple. Just hair for days. Just winning smiles, you know? Wow, Rhode Island. I bet you they fight. Boy, I bet you they fight. Who do you think Is usually wrong? Him. And he and he knows it. Yeah, yeah. He admits it. Yeah. She’s in charge. I mean, look into his eyes and look into her eyes. You know who’s in charge. Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. Everything he does is what she tells him to do. She’s holding the donut, so to speak. You know what I mean? She’s holding the donut. She’s holding the donut in the relationship. Yep, yep. He’s holding the coffee, which makes it seem like you’re like doing something for somebody. Right. If you’re holding the donut, you’re eating it. If you’re holding the coffee, you’re holding it for somebody. I’ve never seen, I’ve never seen their show, but like, she can get angry. I kind of think I’d like to watch her get angry. Wait, this is not on your list of reality shows, Rhett, that you watch? “Bachelor in Paradise?” No, but it might be now. What’s the, you watch “The Bachelor.” “Bachelor in Paradise” is just a spinoff. I’ve watched one season, or not even one season. I’ve watched a few episodes of “Bachelor in Paradise.” It’s not trashy enough for him. No, “Bachelor in Paradise” was like, ah. Listen, I went all the way to “MILF Manor” and then turned around. So, actually watching. When you get to “MILF Manor,” you’ve gone too far. Yeah. Hang a youie, come on back. 45 minutes. To functioning Society. 35 minutes into the first episode of “MILF Manor” did something to my reality show loving part of my brain and I haven’t watched anything. Like, Jesse was trying to get me to watch “The Bachelor” and I was like, “I just can’t do it right now.” You got burnt. Something’s recovering within my brain right now. But you’re not saying what it is ’cause you don’t wanna spoil it for people? No, he talked about it. It’s inappropriate? On our podcast. Oh, “MILF Manor?” Yeah, I talked, oh, you don’t know about this? I don’t know about the. Okay, I’m gonna give you, I’m gonna take 15 seconds of your time. It is a bunch of MILFs and a bunch of young guys, like, literally like 20 year olds on a dating show. And then the reveal halfway through the first episode. And they’re, they’re hooking up. Is that all the boys are sons of the women. Oh, that’s a, they don’t know that? They each know. They find that out. They know who their moms are. They didn’t find that out on the show. They didn’t know they were both showing up the show. Hot moms and their sons all dating each other. Wow. And Cody Ko has made, like a series of commentary videos about every episode because I mean, he struck gold. He didn’t turn around. He didn’t turn around. He struck gold. And every episode is about how he just can’t believe they’re continuing to outdo themselves. Yeah, it’s not good for his health. So just watch Cody Ko’s commentary on “MILF Manor” rather than the actual show. Okay, I’m not gonna do either thing. Something else you should watch, “A Hot Dog is a Sandwich” is Josh and Nicole’s food debate podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, including on its own YouTube channel. Find out if pork is really red meat and other things that you’re gonna learn. Note, the podcast is only about pork now. That’s one episode. Yeah, yeah. To clarify. “Fifth Period” is a kitschy, high school themed bar featuring drinks named after school subjects started by former “Saved by the Bell” star Tiffani Amber Thiessen. Oh. I don’t, I don’t think so. Only, and there’s nothing wrong with this, I’m just saying that when I heard fifth period, that wasn’t the first thing I thought. You just thought about menstruation? Right. Okay. And there’s nothing wrong. I’m not like, I’m not like, “Hey, oh, you gotta like, like in the book of Leviticus, like you don’t have to like go outside of the town when you’re on your period. Like that’s, we don’t have to do that anymore.” I’m not saying that. You’re not unclean, you know? You’re not unclean, but it’s not the first thing that you want on your mind when you’re thinking about lunch. You know what I’m saying? I’m just. Nope. I think this would be, I think this would be bad marketing. There was a “Saved by the Bell” themed pop-up restaurant here in L.A. It wasn’t called “Fifth Period.” No, it wasn’t. Yeah, it’s fake. I was going to tell you. So it looked like The Max and that’s why I knew this was fake. I agree. Having period in the, in the title of the restaurant. Fifth period. Yeah. But “Bussin’ Burrito,” a ghost kitchen operation orderable on Postmates and DoorDash serving burritos named an homage to Gen Z, like “The Rizz and “No Cap” created by influencer Cameron Dallas sounds like a great idea. It, it had, yes. Yeah. Here’s another opportunity for another endorsement of a fellow creator’s channel. Eddie Burback. You should watch Eddie Burback’s ghost kitchen rundown videos. Expose. Where it just kind of talks all about ghost kitchens and why, yes, indeed, if there is not a Cameron Dallas “Bussin’ Burrito,” there very easily could be because it’s a hop skip and a jump away. For real. Spoiler alert. All of the burgers at “Mr. Beast Burger” are made out of the people who leave the circle too early. Oh. We’re saying real. I also thought it was real until I looked down slightly and it’s fake. You look downed. Oh, you’re so proud of yourself, Brittany. You got us. Is she taunting us? She’s taunting us. Did she do this? Well, she did the version of that that we could see above the monitor, it was more like this. That’s what it was. “Nellie’s Southern Kitchen” is a North Carolina restaurant owned by the Jonas Brothers and serves chicken and waffles, fried catfish and Nashville hot chicken sandwiches. Nelly’s? Why’d they name it after Nelly? I know. It’s getting hot in here. Yeah. And I know it’s not Nelly. So order up some fish. Well, no. Nelly has a Cheerios restaurant. N E L L I E. Nelly has a Cheerios restaurant. Jonas. All the Cheerios that you want. Seems like we would know about Jonas Brothers restaurant in North Carolina. In North Carolina. I didn’t, are they from North Carolina? I didn’t think they were. I’m gonna feel bad if that’s true and I didn’t know it. This is not, yeah, this is not true. I pride myself on my Jonas Brothers trivia. But you’re saying it is true. No. Say it’s true, man. Do it. I want to say it’s true because it feels like. You don’t think you could be wrong? No, I was wrong on the last one. Might be right by being wrong. I think it’s true because it’s, why would they name it Nellie’s? It’s just a weird thing. It’s their grandma’s name. It’s real. It’s named after their great-grandmother, Nellie Jonas. Where is it? And it opened in June 2022. Looks like it’s in the middle of a warehouse. Oh, sorry. June 2022, they opened a second location at the MGM Grand. Where is it in North Carolina? Do we know? Well, I need to find this. Well, that’s at the MGM. Because that’s my grandma, that was my grandma’s name. Are you related to the Jonas Brothers? And also link’s grandmother’s name. No. They’re both named Nell. Oh my god. Yep. Yeah. But they called my grandmother Nelly. Belmont. Belmont, North Carolina? I guess they’re from Belmont. Did you know they’re from Belmont? Can you look this up? Didn’t know that. The Jonas Brothers are from North Carolina. Where the JB’s from? You know where Belmont is? Belmont College is there, right? Belmont College is in Tennessee. No, no, no. It’s like a little bit west of Charlotte. Yep. Yeah. It’s like a suburb of Charlotte. It’s not Belmont College. That’s right, ’cause that, it’s a little town. They’re from New Jersey. Didn’t your brother live in Belmont? Outside of? He lived in Matthews. Matthews. Oh, their dad is from North Carolina. Wyckoff, New Jersey. They’re from “Wack off,” New Jersey. Yep, they are. Okay. Let’s keep going. We’re earning a lot. I don’t have many more. Oh, that’s disappointing. Just make one up. Can you make one up and we’ll tell you if it’s real or not? Yeah. See you fooled us, but you ran outta steam. Find out if pork is really a red meat on “A Hot Dog is a Sandwich,” Josh and Nicole’s podcast, everywhere you get your podcasts.

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