0:00 [Music] Welcome back to another McMahon episode of Cowboys. Today we are eating for the win smash burgers sauce. There's a lot and we are talking about they're good. So good sauce. Very good. We are And then let's talk about how they number one. They barely gave us any fries. Uh the Beverly Hills location last time gave us a good amount of fries. Actually, we put only four orders of fries. So, one of you guys didn't put it in there. No, we put in the app. We saw it. I saw my own. I only saw three and I put four cuz I wanted one for myself. So, someone stole can's fries. No, man. Steve put two sweet potato fries. I saw my own eyes actually. Yeah. And then and then you asked me if I wanted it last minute and I was like, "Yeah, everybody
0:52 give a quarter of your fries and put it and give it to C. Take them." I have to give them away. They're cold. I already have some. They're not good. They're too old. They're like cold McDonald's fries. This is the thing is anytime you order fries, you got to eat it immediately or else every second it's getting worse and worse and worse. It wouldn't be fair for us to judge them this way either. No, but honestly, even though they're cold, they still taste pretty good. Mhm. For cold fries, they would taste like it was warm. They taste good cuz you have a burger, too. That's true. I like it. I'm not into cold fries, so you just have them. Have them. I'm going to let the people see what this looks like. You sure? I got a bacon triple cheeseburger. Well, I said no cheese, but they threw cheese anyway. And with jalapenos.
1:43 Dude, it's actually a really good burger though. The crispyness on the smash, they did it right. Crazy. The bread. And what I love about it is they fry everything in tallow. They don't use no seed oil. Oh, yay. No seed oil. Very healthy. RFK. RFK, though. So, what do you want to talk about? Um, top 10 failed Amber Alerts. Oh, yeah. Those got one last night where they never found the kid. Wasn't there one with the old dude too? Yeah, last night. Yeah, that one. Tell us the details of that. Old guy. Oh, probably pug steak. Oh, Jesus. Wait, so there's a old like a old guy on an Amber Alert. Yeah, I know they did that. I thought I didn't know they did that either. Some they have like older people that are missing or kidnapped or something. Old people get kidnapped. Mhm. Yeah, but
2:33 yesterday I got it, but I didn't look at it. I just turned it off. I was I was I was on a bus. Why were you on a bus? You ride buses? Well, no. You know how like you're at you're trying to go to the Uber at the airport? Oh, yeah. One of those buses. That's where I was. I was teaching class and it went off while I was teaching class and I was pissed. I yelled at somebody. I said, "Turn your ████ phone off while I'm instructing." You know what I mean? And they're like, "It's an Amber Alert. I think it's really a big emergency." And I'm like, "No, dude. We're learning jiu-jitsu right now." You probably thought it was like another fire alert, huh? Yeah. Kind of. That's instantly what I thought it was. Yeah. I was just like, "Who's calling me?" Hey, did you guys feel the earthquake the other day? the Nova one. No, I didn't feel it. I Yeah, I felt it all the way from Las Vegas, ████ You know what's funny is that me and Smack were like in the middle of some like I think we're joking around and then I uh I pulled my pants down and right when my pants hit the
3:23 ground, the earthquake hit. That's hilarious. I was like, "Wait, did you feel an earthquake?" And she was like, "No, that was just your pants." And then right after she's like, "Oh, wait. You're right. It was an earthquake." She thought her timing on that. She thought I did it. Like I shook the ground. That's funny. Because I was playing around being a stupid idiot. I love Californians just being like earthquake, earthquake, earthquake on Twitter. Yeah. The best, dude. Oh. Do you feel like a Navadian now? Oh yeah. I don't even know how to say it right. I feel like I've been a Navadian for 10 years in my brain cuz I wanted to move here for so long. You don't feel You don't have San Diego pride anymore or Oceanside Pride. Yeah, totally. Dude, is it Oceanside or San Diego Escandido? Oh, Escandido. Even worse. My family, my uh grandparents were in in Powe. Oh, wow. P. But then they croked it. So then we I I have no reason to go there. They croked it. Oh yeah. They bit the big one. They're both
4:14 at a shelf in the ████ like they're basically in a wall now. What were the What were the apartments you lived at? You lived in Ktown. I lived in Ktown. Mhm. You didn't have Ktown? 511 North Kenmore. Kenmore. Okay. It's It's a very not well lit um block. I lived um Studio City. Yeah. I live north Hollywood in the arts district. Oh, wow. You did? That was like when it was cheap. Yeah. Now it's all ████ expensive and ████ But that was when there was like, you know, a couple buildings there. Yeah. As far as like the Rena ones or whatever. Um lived in Yeah. Me and Nikki got a condo, Studio City, and then um Vegas after that. Wow. So, out of every place by far, this is your favorite? Vegas by far. Yeah. It's not even close. I lived all over the place as a kid, too. Oh yeah. I lived in
5:04 Virginia. I lived in Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Yeah. I lived in uh San Diego and then LA and Vegas by far. You think San Diego was the longest time you spent in one area? It definitely is. Yeah. Until until LA. What's number two? What's the number two spot you would? Yeah. Number two. Number two where I would live. Yeah. Out of all the places that you've you've stayed in. Cuz I'm curious. Probably Virginia cuz I like seasons. Oh. And Indianapolis is kind of boring. Not much to do. I heard it's different now. Like obviously I was a little kid so like what? But I've heard that like as far as like, you know, the city life goes, I think it's better now. But Virginia is just beautiful, man. Like I've been I've been back a couple times. Like I was in DC a couple years ago for one of the Tuber Con things and
5:55 it's still beautiful. Yeah. Did you already finish a burger? Yeah. Smoked it. That was like three bites. I know. He was eating before. It was good. I was eating while you ████ were b███████ about fries. When you used to go when you were in San Diego, did you used to go to um the Gas Lamp a lot? Yeah, I went to the Gas Lamp, but it wasn't um I'm not a clubby guy, and I'm not cool, so I never really did all that. I actually went with my buddy Jack um Jack's Films for his Bachelor Party. Wow. I spent more time in the Gas Lamp with those guys than I ever did alone. So, yeah, it's cool. Gas is nice. It's It's nicer now, too. Mhm. What's that barbecue place everyone goes to? Those dude, I'll go there just for that. It's small in San Diego. It's very good. Maybe we should do a trip. I haven't been there in ages. I'm so down, dude. Let's go. Never been. Oh, dude.
6:47 It's so barbecue trip. I like barbecue a lot. Barbecue is so bomb. And I'm sure like like people live in Texas probably don't think it's bomb, but that's the closest thing we have. I would say I would say. Plus, I got to say Texas barbecue kind of mid. It's not that it's mid. It's just that you can have good barbecue in a lot of places now. You can't you don't you can't just go to Texas to get good barbecue. Yeah. It's not like getting Yeah. There's no ingredient that's like No. Right. It's exclusive to the area. Affordable too though. Like super affordable. You can get a fat ass plate for like 20 bucks. Like I understand when Philly cheesecakes have a specific bread that they get there. And New York cheesecake. I get that too cuz I've had it. Right. Right. Right. But the other barbecue is you keep moving around. Yeah. Like I had good barbecue in New Orleans even. Oh yeah. But really I mean all it takes is a guy with a sauce that he's not telling people what's in it. That's all regionally you can ask. Hey, New
7:37 Orleans got cool ass seafood. Oh yeah. Everything. I heard I heard over there. Bro, the seafood in New Orleans is crazy. So good. They got scrimps this big. They got oysters are fat, bro. Wow. If you go there and you don't get the seafood, you're an idiot, bro. Crawfish, all that. Get the gumbo. Get the Oh, dude. I love gumbo. Jumbolaya. Oh, chamba. And they make it spicy, too. Fire. I'm still I'm a sucker for seafood. Yeah. Island shrimp. Shrimp. Let's go to Bro, New Orleans is dope. Have you guys ever been? Yeah. Yeah. I went for the first time last year and I was like, you go during Jazz Fest. Yeah. It was actually dur like right in the middle of Jazzfest and it was coincidentally I didn't know what Jazzfest was. Why are you go? for a bachelor party for my buddy Jeremy his bachelor party and he loves New Orleans so he took us around but just like the J
8:27 like we went to go watch some jazz and you were like yo this is so everyone is so good out there just all the music all the street musicians it's Yeah it's a different world bro yeah really good you feel the history over there too is kind of whack huh you know what I I I was making fun of it the whole time I was like Yeah. And then we watched we watched like a really like intimate I forgot what the hall was. It was a very it was a world famous hall. I can't believe I forgot it. But we went to go watch this really tiny intimate spot and they were just like everybody was like 60 years old that was on the stage and they were just they were ripping it ripping ripping ripping and rhyming. They played a trumpets the trumpet the bloody Mary's there. I don't drink. Pretty much every drink I had there was
9:17 insanely good. It's good. Drink a drink on the rare occasion. You got a hurricane over there. E. Whoa. Is today one of those rare occasions? Today with you, Steve only. Let's go, girl. This is like one of the only. We're going to 7-Eleven. Okay. Why? I do. I do have to get some soda. Yeah, we have to get some mixies. We're going in a clean heart. This is not a mixie. That's a mixie for sure, but we could. That's an entree for I got ginger beer. I know. Do you miss Hawaiian food not living in Hawaii? Hell yeah. What did you want to like? What's your favorite thing? Meet John. Oh yeah, that's right. The local deluxe. Meat John. Can you describe what that is? Is that how like jerk that is? It's like brisket. A dictator. Like a It's a thin It's like a thin sliced uh meat. It's like a meat omelette. Yeah. It's like a meat. So good. But it's cuz
10:08 they have the Korean sauce and Yeah. They have different kinds of meat. Yeah. And then they smash the omelette like into like um it's kind of Yeah, it's kind of like a flat and they chop it up. Yeah, I've never heard of that ever. Yeah, you got to try it, bro. It's insane. I'll take you there. Great cons in New Orleans. Huh? Great cons in New Orleans. ████ fire, dude. Great Cons New Orleans. Go to New Orleans and go to Great Cons. They speak Creole to you and ████ You guys have had Long John Silvers, right? Yeah, dude. I love it. Only the frozen. Only the frozen. Listen, at the end of the day, I haven't had like the Hawaii food still top for me. I get that. It cannot be anything else. Do you guys remember the H& Salt like fish and chips? Yeah. So, fire. Oh, there was always that one. They had one. Yeah. No.
10:58 Yeah. Down by the crooked road ████ thing that kills every where that pizza spot is. Yeah. But I don't know if they exist anymore. It's still around. They had a H salt in a Downey. Really? Yeah. Do they make it the same way? By the way, that pizza spot was pretty good, too. Which one? Pitfire. No, the other one. It's called like Little Tony's. M Little Tony's. We just came back from Mexico City. The food out there, brother. Oh, dude. The tacos. I Mexico City, bro. I thought I had a regular taco before, but everywhere you went over there, that ████ is fresh. It seems like it's like the new food hub. Like every other restaurant has a ████ Michelin star. Wow. Really? Right. Cuz apparently I heard that a lot of chefs will go to Mexico City and they'll like kind of test their concept and they get and then they'll be able to go worldwide with it or go back to the States or something like that. But like the cuz they like to feed the cartels there. Yeah. And they have a lot of
11:49 money. They're ready to pay. But like every restaurant we went to was like super Well, we went to a couple like these Michelin star ones and you're like, "Dude, this is I wouldn't get this food quality in America." And what's the price like compared to like It's it's it's it's a lot cheaper. It's a lot cheaper for like the Michelin Star stuff. So, it's like Yeah. But we Yeah, there's But there's like definitely high-end fancy spots where you're like, "Oh, ████ This is some high class ████ over here." That's expensive, you know, like even for Americans. So, my buddy Mormon has a spot in Porto Varta. Oh, really? We went there two years ago and me and Nikki and Mormon and his wife at the time and the tacos just unbuckling. Oh, I remember when you went out there. If you if you don't hand make your tortillas, you're ████ out of business, dude. You ain't going to survive out there. So, every one of those places has And they they kind of have their own spin to it. Like, we went
12:40 to this one spot where they had these tostadas and they just put like sesame seeds inside their tostadas. And I was like, it made me it blew it blew my ████ brain. I was like, "Dude, what is this? Why is this so good?" And something as simple as just putting sesame seeds in a tortilla, right? Something else though, man. They're doing a special tortilla there, you know? It's like the It's like our spot out here. It's like real corn though. You know what I'm saying? Like Sonora Town is the mods or whatever the ████ they get from Sonora. They get the corn from a specific kind of flour. Yeah. For Sonora Town for But that's what I'm saying over there. That's like where they're at. Exactly. So like they'll they'll make tortillas out of the blue corn, but it's like the best organic blue corn you can get. Their whole game is like not to put preservatives on their corn so it has like a certain type of texture and taste. So when they make the tortilla, it's like, "Oh, bro, this
13:31 is next." Everything you ate was just like, "Oh my god, that's crazy." Cheap, too, huh? Yeah. And they're they're like they're super about like they're artisal about it. They don't ████ around like And some of the cleanest restaurants I've ever been to. 100%. Portoarta, it was insane. Mexico's food scene is crazy. But Mexico's rap is like, "Oh, there's so much crime and all this ████ and it's dirty and not the case." No, like Mexico City. I was walk I was walking around Mexico City feeling like it was ████ a nicer version of Highland Park. I think that's cuz we all go to Tijuana. Nicer. I felt safer over there, bro. 100%. And walking around in Pasadena. That's like saying like America is I don't know like Skid Row. Like you can't go to the ████ up places in Mexico and be like, you know, of course, of course there's rough places, but then you know in Mexico City it's like there's so much beautiful everything. It kind of
14:21 reminded me of New Orleans a little bit like the architecture and stuff cuz it's like all old European stuff. So much history. You go to these tours and they're telling you all this ████ that are like, "Oh yeah, I have no idea this is even on the tour." Yeah, we did a couple tours. It was Cancun Tulum and Play the Carmen and all that area. Okay. How different is that area to Mexico City? So that feels like it feels like any high tourist area that you go to. Like when you go to Bali and you go to all the tourist areas, you see all the shops, all the locals selling stuff. That's what it feels like over there. But obviously there's pockets and best like secrets over there. Mexico City felt like a mish mash of like New York, Mexico, and like Europe. That's what it felt like. It felt like its own thing just because they have, bro, the parks over there are beautiful. These gino parks they take they spend a lot of time with. And you wouldn't think like,
15:11 oh, a park would be ████ nice. But to actually sit down and eat some food out there and just kick it. You're like, oh, this is you can't do this in LA, I don't think. Why? Cuz there'll be a guy shooting up. Yeah. Like, you know, there's there's so many there's families just running around. Like it just seemed So it's like Europe in a way. There's third places everywhere that people enjoy. Yeah. It just sounds like Hawaii, man. Kind of. Yeah, kind of. Like it was just like it was a lot going on. You see a big mix of like the locals and then, you know, expats and tourists and stuff. Hell yeah. No, that's Hawaii has the air though, man. The air. The air is unbelievable. Air. Yeah, I know. Cuz like Mexico, the mosquitoes and that ████ ████ me up, dude. Yeah. I love the prices of everything. It's like half price. We eat like kings out there, bro. Like I love I think the the
16:04 maybe it's the tacos that I just go to here, but I haven't had I've had like everything like the seafood or whatever, but when it comes to street tacos, I still like Tijuana style. No, LA has some bomb tacos. But that's the thing though is like you go to like a random spot in Mexico City that may not be like known for their tacos much, it's like, "Oh, I've had this taco in LA. I've had something very similar. There's other spots that are like they take their ████ artal to the next level. Exactly. And you're like, "Oh, bro, what is this?" That's true. Ridiculous. It's like tacos I've never had before. So, if you talk about just like grilled beef, regular tacos, I think LA Yeah. Even the cuts that they use for for meat over there is a little different. Like
16:54 there's one I guess it's like a Norteno style. I don't know. This is what they're telling me. Damn, gang. And yeah, kind I I guess north or whatever, but they use like the really thin slices of like like sirloin or something, but when you eat it, it doesn't taste like a regular taco that you had before just cuz it's a different cuz you know, we're used to the chopped up like corn like chuck or flat meat. Yeah. Flap or chuck. And you're like, "Oh, I've had this before." No. But then they do like these thin slices and you're like, "Oh, that changes everything then. Is this you know shabu tacos?" Yeah. And it's like it's it's like all the little things that you put together and you're like, "Oh, the sauce is crazy. their tortillas. Crazy. All right, we're going to Mexico just to eat. Let's go to Mexico City. The gu for food paradise. I feel like that's the spot. I haven't felt so like we were just full the whole time. We were just eating con. Mexican food is my favorite. We We were You couldn't trust no farts cuz I feel like half of the Mexican food
17:44 that I ate was like watered down resort ████ Yeah. Or like they're making it for tourists. So then I didn't get like the real ████ half the time. Mhm. Unless like we went out to the streets and we're just like, I want that. I want that. Yeah. You know what you're going to love in Mexico City? Everywhere you go, fresh juices. What? Whatever fruit juice you want, they'll give it to you for like a $150. You're like, "What ice?" Don't eat ice though, cuz that's what will make you ████ your pants. The the fruits in Mexico are pretty pretty damn good, though. When I was in the Bahamas, I remember um this one cab driver guy, like on our way back, I was pissing him off so bad. I was just trolling him cuz he was telling us he's like he's like, "Oh my god." He's like, "Did you have like some of the local Bahamas food and all this stuff?" And I was like, "Yeah, man. Oh my god." I was like, "At the resort, I
18:34 got a I got a brisket sandwich." And he's like, "No, he went from being so excited cuz I was like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." Cuz he wanted to talk about the local Bahama food and I was just talking about like how I got like the ████ I had a double double cheeseburger and ████ and he and I was like, "It's one of the best cheese." And this guy just like got quiet like just like, "All right, ████ ████ you, man. You suck." You're gonna be the story he tells his wife when he goes home. Oh, I know. Come Americ pork sandwiches. He's probably still saying it. Oh, I guarantee it. I pick up this one American. I was so earnest about it and like just so like you guys killed it with the chicken tenders. Oh my god. That stereotype of Americans is just because we're all trolling. Oh my god. I would just cuz Steve spreading the gospel then make us
19:27 look so good. To wrap it up, where does this burger land on the leaderboard of smash burgers you've had? When you get it fresh? Mhm. I think it's up there maybe eight nine. I think it's really good. I really I really like it. The quality is really good. The bun even even at this state it's still really good. The fact that it probably was in the car for like 45 minutes and I and I had as good a time as I did. It's pretty good. And it's still crispy. It's pretty great. Yeah. You know, I give it I give it eight out of 10, dude. Yeah, I would give I give eight. Solid eight. I go seven. Seven nine. Seven. Oh ████ 85. I changed mine. 78. 78. I want I want Steve's number.
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