

Mad Food
Jordan Okun and Max Shapiro
Comedic food talk covering restaurants, cooking, eating habits, hospitality, and even some respectful interviews with big name chefs, celebrities, and regular schnooks hosted by Jordan Okun and Max Shapiro (the team formerly of Air Jordan: A Food Podcast). Straight outta Los Angeles, but covering this entire mad food world.
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Mar 21, 2019 • 1h 43min
Eater LA's Farley Elliott & Matt Kang
Farley Elliott and Matt Kang discuss Essential Los Angeles restaurants, the best breakfast burrito ingredients, and LA Michelin Award predictions.

Mar 14, 2019 • 1h 25min
Jamie Sigler Talks The Sopranos & LA Food
Jamie Sigler enters the Sherman Oaks Food Building to talk Sushi Park, best LA restaurants for kids, that iconic cut to black Sopranos ending, and it's Dave vs. Jamie in everyone's favorite food trivia game The Gabagool Showdown!

Mar 7, 2019 • 1h 38min
The Silver Bough with Phillip Frankland Lee & Margarita Lee PLUS Tartine, Viale, and Unpopular L.A. Food Opinions with Andy Wang and Hillary Eaton
Jordan hits Montecito to experience the $550 fine dining stunner The Silver Bough and sits down with chefs and co-owners Phillip Frankland Lee & Margarita Lee to break it all down. Then back in the Sherman Oaks food building, he's joined by food writers Andy Wang and Hillary Eaton to talk Tartine Manufactory flatbreads, Viale dei Romani's greatness, and some very unpopular L.A. restaurant opinions.

Feb 28, 2019 • 1h 36min
The Jon & Vinny Episode
Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo talk everything Animal, Son of a Gun, and we go deep into Jon & Vinny's menu. Plus, Jordan forces Dave to play "Fuck, Marry, Kill" with linguine and lobster, and it all started with roasted chicken on top of Mulholland.

Feb 21, 2019 • 1h 4min
Alfred's Josh Zad
Founder of Alfred Coffee Shop and Tea Room, Josh Zad discusses everything caffeine and his new Mexican beer line Calidad. We also talk Hillstone's Honor Bar, Matsuhisa, chicken parm, and of course Mastro's.

Feb 14, 2019 • 1h 15min
The Rustic Canyon Family Episode
Zoe Nathan and Josh Loeb discuss everything Rustic Canyon Family including how they met (spoiler: Jewish mothers), Josh's Caesar salad addiction, Milo & Olive's garlic knot, the old Rustic burger, the new Esters' burgers, Huckleberry's 10th anniversary, the upcoming Jeremy Fox restaurant Birdie G's, and Jordan reveals his top ten pies list, which does NOT earn Zoe's approval.

Feb 7, 2019 • 1h 39min
Shay Mitchell and Lawrence Longo Go Off The Menu & Super Bowl Eating
Shay and Lawrence discuss their exclusive foodie app Off The Menu and we break down the best off the menu dishes in Los Angeles. Then, Dave and Jordan talk how they stuffed face on Super Bowl Sunday. Join invite-only app Off The Menu by using Air Jordan special code "OKUN" and begin redeeming seven different curated off the menu dishes across Los Angeles every week for $20 a month.

Feb 4, 2019 • 1h 5min
Billy Harris aka The Culinary MC
The man behind the hottest dinner series cooked by the most celebrated chefs in the country's best restaurants benefiting the most important charities.

Jan 31, 2019 • 1h 16min
L.A. Sugar with Valerie Gordon
It's the Valentine's Day episode and we talk signature L.A. desserts with sugar queen, Valerie Gordon of Valerie Confections, chocolates from Valerie's Pour Elle, Pour Homme, and Gilded Truffles boxes are tasted, and Dave can fuck right the hell off.

Jan 24, 2019 • 1h 41min
Chef Tim Hollingsworth & Dave Went to Bavel
Dave finally went to Bavel, Jordan breaks down recent visits to Kura, Jon & Vinny's Brentwood, ETA, and Simone, and then 40 minutes in talks with chef Tim Hollingsworth of Otium and Netflix's The Final Table.


