What’s up, world? It’s 24kGoldn. And my last meal would be sushi, blackened brussels sprouts, Caesar salad, lobster mac and cheese, A5 Wagyu with 24k gold flakes, chicken tikka masala, an Oreo milkshake, eggnog, and cheesecake. All humans have exactly two things in common. We’re all slowly dying, and we all gotta eat. 24kGoldn, welcome to “Last Meals”. Thank you for having me. Of course, man. So your last meal, it’s really eclectic. It is all over the place, but it’s got a lot of awesome stuff in here. When I read it, I was literally like, let’s go. Like, uni, the saba, everything. Had you thought about this before? Nah, I was just, when they told me that I could be as outrageous as I wanted to be, I really took that to heart. And I was like, let me make these guys’ job as hard as possible. No, no, no. You got it twisted though. Because you made our jobs as awesome as possible, because then we just get to spend $500 on steak, and I’m taking half of it home. And I’m not gonna apologize for that. That’s incredible. Well, it’s a win-win situation, then. Boom. That’s what I’m saying, man. All right. So you’re 21 years old. You’re coming off of a massive, massive single. A gold record. You’re really young. You’re on top of the world. How often do you think about death? I try to think about it as little as possible, so I don’t have a existential crisis. You’re on a great show, man. Do you wanna have an existential crisis right now in front of the camera? Uh, if there’s any time to have an existential crisis, probably on camera is best, right? Let’s get to it, then. Let’s do it. All right, Goldn. Right now we have the epitome of luxury. This is A5 Wagyu, this is a rib eye. This is from the Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. This cow was only fed olives for its entire life. And we just quickly seared it with some salt and then topped it with 24 carrot gold flake. Wow. Please, man, dig in. It’s getting cold, don’t let that sit. You gotta jump in. I, you don’t gotta tell me twice. I’m just gonna watch you. If I make you uncomfortable at any point, just tell me to stop being so close. And I might breathe on you. All right. Boom, just look at that marbling. You got the nice 24k on top. What are we thinking? Oh, my God. So the first time I ever had Wagyu beef was when I was in Japan and we went to, like, this like, kind of shady, like, second floor of some office building restaurant. But it was the craziest steak I’d ever had in my whole life. Like, this is not like regular steak. Yeah. Like, this should be a food of its own. No, it’s like a completely different category, yeah. Exactly. Like the cow is just melting in its own fat. The gold on top really does nothing for the flavor is just cause I wanted to see if y’all were gonna let me do it. For my last meal. This is the test. This is like Van Halen and their writers saying don’t put the brown M&M’s in there. Exactly, you want some? Yeah, can I grab a bite? You wanna, yeah. Sure go crazy. Thank you. I just, you know, I don’t want pause the show, but like, damn this looks so good. I know, I can’t just eat this in front of you. Such a hefty meal, right? Aight man, so first up we have the hokkaido sea urchin. Now you’re saying that this looks a little bit more orange than the stuff you you’re used to. You’ve probably been eating Santa Barbara sea urchin, which is gonna have a more light creamier flavor. Hokkaido for me is like the ultra premium coveted stuff can have real deep funk to it. And then we got Saba sushi. So this is mackerel right here. It’s marinated aged in a little bit of vinegar, sushi rice, ginger, wasabi, soy, have at it man. I’m stoked for you. All right. Oh yeah, then we cut the sea urchin’s organs. I killed that sea urchin. When we went to a sea urchin factory, it wasn’t like, I didn’t like murder it in a wild, like I’m, I’m a soft boy. Oh, you just murdered it in a controlled environment. Yeah, correct. Like, it sounds messed up when you say it like that, but I don’t know what to tell you. How else do you think it gets on your plate? I just don’t wanna think about that. Do you wanna think about the fact that you’re actually eating gonads? What? That sea urchin is technically the sea urchin genitalia, but enjoy. This is genitalia I’m about to eat right now? Yeah but don’t be worried about it. You’re making it weird, not me. I wish, I didn’t know that. That’s my bad. I should have said it till after. All right, little soy sauce dipping. Mm you’re right. The flavor is way different. It’s almost like concentrate. Like it’s more uni per uni. Yeah. Yeah. Uni square. All right, let’s just hit the other one. Dude, you’re gonna be full by course three. I told you before, man, I did not eat breakfast today. I came prepared to eat. Aight man, so tell me about the choice of saba. Like uni a lot of people know that as a really luxurious option. Saba’s a deep cut man. That’s not like the bluefin tuna. Yeah. Like you’re a foodie. You’re a capital F Foodie, man. I definitely am a foodie. Like I grew up in San Francisco and San Francisco has got all different types of food. You know, we got Japanese food, we got Mexican food, like Ethiopian, like just the whole list. So my mom actually put me on to Saba. She, ’cause this is her favorite, her favorite sushi. So that was just, this is like a little slice of home for me right here. What’s like your favorite dish that either your mom and dad used to make. My pops makes a crazy turkey bowl anas. Yeah? Yeah, goes crazy. I’m guessing you grew up eating a little bit of healthy too. Cause he is putting the turkey in there. Yeah yeah, yeah. Like they told me I was allergic to, to red meat for like the, the first 10 years of my life. And then I found out I wasn’t. That’s a weird thing to miss out on for a while. Yeah. Right? So Especially missing out on that. Exactly. So no bacon, no waygu, no beef burgers. So then I just kind of like went crazy after that and like ate bacon every day. And then I, I kind of just overdid it and now we got a gotta balance. You gotta, you gotta find that medium. Exactly. Yo, speaking of your dad. You said something in an interview once I thought was really fascinating about the creases in your palm. So like basically in my palms and I think a lot of other people have this too, but my creases form a w and you don’t really get that until you’re older. My dad, he kind of gave me this framework of like, oh, there’s w that stands for, for warrior. And that’s just, there’s a certain code of ethics or morals, or just how to be like a great individual and like mind, body, spirit. And just, that was kind of the way that he raised me with the hopes of one day, having these creases in my palms, if you can abide by this way of living. Yeah. What’s like the single greatest lesson you took from that warrior mentality that you can like bestow on to other people. Like treat people the way you want to be treated like that that golden rule, no pun intended. What you put out into the world is what you’re gonna get back. So just don’t be a head. Don’t be a head. The warrior mindset, baby. Yeah. 24kGoldn said it himself. You know, certified. Aight Goldn. Now we’re moving on to the vegetable course right here. First you have your steak, then you have your sushi. And then you get on the vegetables is how it works. A little backwards, but you know, I ain’t tripping. We’ll iron it out. So we got blackened brussel sprouts here. There’s a little homemade blackening seasoning with some duck fat, a little bit of Sherry vinegar to finish. Then we have a classic Caesar salad right here. Roma dressing made from scratch, of course, grana padano cheese, homemade croutons. Smell good. Yeah. You always smell your salads first. It’s like a test of quality? Yeah, yeah, you know, wine, salad. Same difference. Tell me about why brussel sprouts and why Caesar salad. So I used to hate brussel sprouts because like the only brussel sprouts I ever had were like boiled and like very like, like Cold War-esque, you know? What do you mean Cold War-esque? I just imagine like they like boiled brussel sprouts, like that’s like an old, some of these old Russian grandmas making brussell sprouts. And then one time I went to this restaurant and they had like blackened brussell sprouts with like some bacon in there and like this like little cream spicy sauce. And I tried it just kind of like on some why not. And then I was like, whoa, I’ve been sleeping on this vegetable for a very long time. We left the bacon out. I didn’t know how you felt about pork products in the brussels. It’s okay, I forgive you. But. Mmm. Yeah, you get ’em nice and crispy and they just sing. These are going crazy. All right, man. So we were talking about the warrior mentality earlier. I’m curious how that leads into fear. You posted an Instagram selfie. That was six days before El Dorado came out, stream wherever you can stream it, buy it wherever you can buy it. I like to plug early in the show. Hey cool with me, sure. But you posted a selfie of you crying the mirror about six days before saying that you were down bad, worse than you’ve ever been. Tell me about the decision to post that. Tell me about the emotions that were going through your mind at the time. I remember just feeling like, just like that day, you know, it was right after the, the mood thing and that having a song that big in, in that early in your career was it can, it can be very, just volatile because some days you feel like you’re on top of the world and some days you feel like you’re not good enough, or you don’t deserve this, you get imposter syndrome. And I remember I took that picture just because I never wanted to forget how I felt in that moment. And I was like, damn like, I’m really like ugly crying right now. I hadn’t cried in years and I’m really just balling my eyes out. Still fly though. You seen the sweater. Oh yeah, yeah, no, you’re, you’re sneaking that for sure. Yeah. But my whole thing was, if there’s just one person out there that saw that, that was like, “Damn, I feel better seeing that somebody that I listen to or admire feels the same way as I do.” I think that make them feel better. And like the response was overwhelming on how many people were just like, “Damn, like you, you’re real for posting this” or “Thank you for sharing this.” So yeah, that was that. There’s a weird paradox with success, right? Where you think you want to get to a place because you’ll be happier, but then you actually get there and you find out that the pressure makes you anxious, makes you depressed. And we’ve seen that among a ton of people. How do you stop that? We think that like having some sort of monetary success or career success kind of makes all your problems go away, but it doesn’t, it just makes the problems that can be solved with money, go away, you know? When you have all your money problems gone away, all the problems you have left are the problems that are the real hard ones. They actually matter, yeah. The ones that can’t be solved with money, you know, family problems, problems with your friends. And those problems aren’t the ones that can be solved the easiest. So that’s why I think a lot of people like get sad after they achieve success. Cause they thought that achieving this financial goal or career goal was gonna fix everything. And it really doesn’t. It just kind of makes the things that you can’t fix more apparent. How do you actually fix those things? Other than just like years of therapy and talking to people? I think it’s really yo I go to therapy. That was one of the best decisions I made in my whole life. Like having somebody that you could talk to that’s isolated from your everyday life. It just gives you good perspective. But unfortunately not everybody’s able to afford it, but if you can’t, you know, just there’s people that I think everybody has somebody that genuinely and unconditionally loves them or cares about them. And it’s just knowing who those people are and trusting them enough to, to share how you’re feeling. Aight Goldn, next up, we got the lobster mac and cheese. So this entire lobster tail with a lot of the claw meat also baked in, we got the garlic and herb Panco breadcrumbs. We got fontina, we got emmental. We got some Gruyere baked on top. Then we got chicken tiki masala, pretty classic recipe right here. Got the Curry cooked down all the ginger, the garlic, the onion, some grilled chicken thighs in there. Yogurt. All of it. Of course you gotta have the garlic naan with it. Got to. Dig in man, I’m excited. It’s mandatory. I don’t even know where I wanna start. This is, this is two of my favorite foods right here. Going head to head like. It’s your last meal, man. Make it your own. If this is my last meal, at least we’re going out with a bang. Cheers. This might be the best mac and cheese I’ve had in my entire life. Yes, sir. This might be the best mac and cheese I had in my entire life. Hey that’s from Nicole. This is Nicole’s, we posted the recipe for this. Nicole’s mac and cheese. Whoa. It rules so hard. Don’t tell my grandma I said that, but whoa, this is crazy. We specifically are sending a YouTube link to her. Does she know how to get on YouTube? No. Aight, that’s fine. Yeah, my grandma has no idea what I do for a job. My grandma asked me to burn my album onto a CD for her so she could listen into it. At least she knows how to use CDS and you’re not going back to like, “Hey, you got a Victrola?” Yeah or like yeah, you put on the record player. And I, she, not that old. Shout out grandma though. Love you. We love our grandmas out here. Oh my God. This right here. This is a, this is a delicacy. Like I could really go on about this mac and cheese for days but I’m not, Mean like, can you write a song about it? I could. At least start a freestyle with lobster mac and cheese. And we’ll be happy. Actually, in one of my early songs, like on SoundCloud called Trapper’s Anthem. I said, what you know about busting down the bag, Gucci durag get my track suit black might blow some stacks safe, get by the rack cheese straps go clap need cheese with the mac. And that’s a, this is that’s this right here. I’m gonna act like that was about this mac and cheese, you just didn’t know it yet. You know, some of my songs are pretty prophetic. There’s this restaurant that was nearby my house in San Francisco, it was called Ante’s Indian pizza restaurant and they did Indian food. They did pizza. And then they did a combination. Indian pizza. Hell yeah. So I would get the Indian pizza and I would just dip it in my chicken Tiki Masala. And to that, to this day, that’s still one of my like favorite dining experiences. All right. So first we just going sample the sauce. Wow. Creamy, little mild spice. Pretty hit. You posted an Instagram of you rocking the Tallis and eating a latkes on Hanukkah. Oh yeah. Did you grow up like close to the Jewish faith? Or more just kind of culturally Jewish like me. That wasn’t a Tallis. That was a Gucci scarf that I just decided to wear on my head. Fooled, fooled this Jew, man. My mom is Jewish and we weren’t like super Orthodox, strict Jewish, but she wanted me to understand her culture too. And my dad he’s Catholic and he wanted me to understand his culture. So it was like just, we would do both sides of, of the family. You know, we’d go to Christmas or go to midnight mass and then we’d do Hanukkah and Passover and stuff like that too. So growing up, I definitely had my, my fair share of latkes, but I never had like a, a Bar Mitzvah. And yet, unfortunately, so I didn’t get that nice checks. The mountain of checks, you know? I think, I think you’re, you’re gonna be getting checks for the rest of your life. Just fine, man. I don’t think you gotta worry about the Bar Mitzvah money. I’ve been performing at Bar Mitzvahs. So I’m still getting Bar Mitzvah money one way or another. I guess. I love that, man. Did you get any messages about, say like an afterlife, right? You said your dad was Catholic. Mom is Jewish. They tend to have like pretty different views of death in the afterlife. I don’t know. We didn’t really, really talk about life after death. I really don’t know what I believe is gonna happen after we die. Like I think the most comforting thought to me is reincarnation, ’cause energy never dies. So if we, if I could just keep coming back and like experiencing this over and over again, that’d be ideal. ‘Cause I do really love being alive. Aight Goldn, we’re coming into the last course. We got dessert. We have a classic New York cheesecake right here. Yep. A little bit of strawberry sauce and a beautiful strawberry rosette had to put a couple gold flakes on it. You know, just to sell the name in the motif throughout, we got an Oreo milkshake right here. It’s got a little bit of malt powder in it. It’s like a salted malted milkshake. I think it gives it that nice little extra juge to it. And then the wild card. One of the wildest things I’ve ever seen on any last meal, eggnog. Yes. Tell me about the dessert choices. You know, cheesecake is to me top three cake, and I’d say it’s a pie, but that’s fine. We could fight about it after. I think it’s just something about the crust and how it, you know, juxtaposes with the softness of the, the cheese. Is it cheese? Is it real cheese in cheesecake? Yeah, it’s a cream cheese. We cut it with a little bit of ricotta too. Yeah, I mean, I really like how you guys plated it too with the little gold flakes and everything. Oreo milkshake, I used to be addicted to these, actually. I would go and get Oreo milkshake two to three times a a week. Damn. We went on a, on like a search around Los Angeles to find who had the best Oreo milkshake. And one of the most surprising milkshakes that we had was a Jack in the box. Oreo milkshake is like top tier. I gotta put you on to Carl’s Jr’s milkshakes, man. I’m just saying better than Jack in the box. They’re hitting? Yeah. Oreo? Yeah, oh they got Oreo. Okay, well. And then the elephant in the room, dude. What, eggnog? Oh yeah. Come on. This is a wintertime delicacy right here. I like the presentation of this too. I feel very game of throne. We had to get a little extra on it. Hey man, I appreciate the extra. Man, I got, I got my own goblet of eggnog ’cause I just, I just wanna join in with you please dig in. I’m gonna start with the cheesecake. I’m just, you know, I’m gonna leave that. That’s too nice. I don’t want destroy that. Really it’s too beautiful. But start from the, from the top or the. Start from the top, now we’re. Now we’re here. Yeah that fit the song Ha ha ha ha ha ha This is really good. Cheesecake. Yeah? It’s got good consistency to it and it’s not too sweet and it’s not too sour. Its the ricotta that balances it. Mm. Now we got this Oreo milkshake. My, my previous addiction. I’m about to relapse real quick. Aight Goldnn. You are a really smart guy and like anything that’s been written about you, a lot of people talk about 1400 SAT, full academic scholarship to USC, 4.16 GPA. You just made really smart decisions throughout out your young career as well. You were also seemed like a very philosophical guy. You tweeted once about are pancakes actual cakes. Do you have any like weird, deep philosophical questions that you think about all the time? Like you’re laying in bed. What’s racing through your mind? If no, I can give you one. I can prompt you. Give me, come on, give a prompt. I’ll give you a Okay, okay For instance, for instance, like, do you think we could be living in a computer simulation? Cause that would solve the fear of death. It’s crazy that you said that. Cause that was a thing that I was thinking of right now. Like maybe so maybe we are in a simulation because I don’t know, that’s, that’s weird. Like so many weird things happen. This is a really weird thing to be doing right now. This almost doesn’t make sense to real life. Dude, you’re drinking a giant goblet of eggnog after eating lobster mac and cheese. It makes more sense for that to be in a computer simulation than for it to be real. Okay, now I’m about to have my existential crisis. Thanks so much. Do it man, of course. Of course, no problem. But does that matter? I think, I think it really doesn’t matter. Like I think simulation or not, the experience you’re having is real. If you think about it from a biological perspective our whole purpose of being alive is to like get somebody pregnant and then and die, right? Yeah. So like why, why even consider purpose in the first place? I feel like your next EP’s gonna be called, Get Someone Pregnant and Die. Aight man. Lemme know when you wanna cheers this egg nog. I gotta, I gotta try it. Come on, let hit it. All right. Hey. Boom. Cheers Man. Cheers. Whoa. A little fresh grated nutmeg on top. Yeah we bought store bought egg mog, but we egg mog. That just sticks to your lips man. Yeah, right? It’s kind of good though. I, I do love eggnog. It’s very good. I wish they had eggnog year round. Like as a kid, I, I would be so excited every time it was like November, October, cuz then the eggnog would finally come into the stores and then boom, you could drink it and stuff. And like bath in it or like whatever you guys do with your eggnog. You do eggnog baths? Is that the skincare routine? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s why I look like this, yeah. You’re about to get a weird eggnog sponsorship coming up, man. The nog industry’s gonna love you. Hit me up, let’s do a a year long eggnog, 24 K flakes in it. All right, man. You ready for a quick lightning round as we end, end of this meal? Let’s do it. All right, man. So what’s the craziest thing on your bucket list that you wanna do before you die? I want to shoot a music video in outer space. That’s rad dude Yeah. What’s the song called? Nicole’s Mac and cheese. Nicole’s because outta this world. All right man, you get one person to share your actual last meal with who is it? Can I bring a them back from the dead? Yeah, you can bring them back from the dead. They die right after the last meal. Oh Yeah, you don’t get to like revive. I’m making up the rules as I go. Okay, all right. I feel like the person that I want share my last meal with, I haven’t met yet. It’ll probably be like my future shorty or whatever. Like my kids or something. Well what my kids die after the last meal. No, no, no. It doesn’t automatically It’s like am I give them death death sentence these people? Only if they’re already dead. Do they then redeaded Okay, okay, okay, okay Your kids stay living. Cause I would be like a cool, like I could like take out like a, like an evil dictator or something. That’s just smart. Yeah, you know? Yeah, yeah Damn, you’re thinking, you’re thinking smart. You ain’t thinking hard. All, right, how do you wanna be remembered after you die? What’s your biggest legacy that you’re leaving? The sexiest men to ever walk the face of planet earth. I feel you gotta compete with Trevor, but like other than that, I mean that’s a pretty good one. Do you have any regrets in life? So there’s this clothing store, right? And they had this hoodie that was like really cool. It was like a knit hoodie. It kind of looked like one of them like Baja, like hippie hate street hoodies. Right. But it was like high fashion. They were holding it for me. And for some reason, some somebody at the store thought it would be a good idea to show it to Young Thug when he decided to walk into to the store. And obviously Young Thug has great taste. So he bought the hoodie Fair. And there’s only one hoodie in that size damn near in the whole state. I ended up going to the studio and with Thug and I told him, “I was like, yo man, like, listen, like I’m kind of upset with you right now.” And he was like, “What?” These are the rap beefs that you don’t hear about. Yeah. Like. And he was like, but you know what? You could have it if you want, like you could have it. It’s in the back room right there. And I was so kind of just shocked that he was like that nice and considerate and like generous. But I was like, I don’t want to just take this hoodie for free from, from Thugger. Like would feel bad cuz he had it first. And ever since that day, I, I haven’t had a, a night without replaying that moment in my head before bed. If you could tell Young Thug one thing, 24K Goldn, I want you to stare in that camera right now and, and say listen up Young Thug. Did I say young, Young Thug? Yeah, Young Thug. What did, what did I blank out Thugger, Thugger. Yeah? And say listen up Young Thug. What are you telling him? I’m sorry for rejecting your generous offer. And I would like to, to make you a counter offer and purchase that hoodie from you for retail price so that we can both feel good about the transaction and the interaction and the swap. Aight, man. I got one last question for you. Are you happy? Yeah, right now I am happy. I just ate this great meal. You know, we had a great conversation. Oh whoa, my stomach is not My stomach’s not happy, no. Your stomach’s not happy. No, no, no. But yeah, I would say, I would say I am happy. And I’ve kind of just learned like happiness is not something that you achieve and you’re just happy all the time. Like it’s something that you kind of gotta practice and work for. And happiness is just like gratitude at the end of the day. Like accepting things for what they are and being grateful that, you know, no matter what happens, you’re at least you’re still alive, like. Yeah, aight man, Goldn. I had a blast sharing this meal with you. Thank you for the wisdom. Thank you for all the Zen knowledge that you dropped. Thank you for eating so much of the damn food This is a huge compliment to me. That’s this is what I do. This is what I do, Josh. I eat delicious food. I love that, man. Thanks for making it. But before you go, what are your last words? Speak ’em right to that camera. The secret treasure is hidden under the that’s it, yeah. Aight, thank you so much for joining us in Mythical Kitchen. Check out 24kGoldn’s debut album. El Dorado. I’ve actually listened to it like three times driving to work and again, the songs are absolutely stuck in my head. Oh thank you. It’s the first line off the top. Sorry I’m drawing this out. It’s “sushi and scallops, but she wants Italian” and that’s just stuck in my brain for forever. Check out his YouTube channel as well. You got anything else you wanna plug? Shout out, Nicole’s grandma. And the eggnog industry. Yeah and the eggnog industry. Make eggnog a a year long thing. I think we can make it happen and drop a comment below what your last meal would be. Anybody else you wanna see on this show? Subscribe to our TikTok and Instagram @mythicalkitchen. Listen to our podcast. You know the drill. See y’all next time. Goldn thanks again, man. Yeah my pleasure. Hey you! Cook up your own feast while wearing the Mythical Kitchen apron available now mythical.com.