- Welcome back to the Worth It post-mortem,
where we watch old Worth It episodes.
- I was on edge to hear what you called this show
- Right
- And
- It's still unnamed, and we've got a lot
of contenders out there.
- A lot of contenders, but post-mortem today.
- Yeah, Worth It reheated, maybe or Worth It doggy bag.
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Adam, what are we watching today?
- [Adam] Audience request
- This is an audience episode.
- [Adam] We're watching my favorite episode.
- What?
Come on down, Adam.
- I'm getting out of the chair.
- [Adam] No, actually I'm staying behind camera.
- You're staying behind camera, why?
- [Adam] Cause I don't want to be on camera.
- But he does have a mic, that he's holding.
- [Adam] My favorite episode of Worth It, sandwiches.
- No, what?
- Sandwiches
- Are you serious?
- [Adam] Yeah
- Not toast?
- [Adam] Sandwiches.
Sandwiches is just toast with extra things in between it.
- Two toasts
- Hmm, this is interesting.
I've very surprised to see that this is your episode.
- [Adam] Here's the thing, this show,
much like your favorite TV shows,
your actual favorite episodes are the ones
you don't remember because you have such a good time
watching it.
- I don't buy that.
- [Adam] It's like the funniest episode of a sitcom,
you don't remember because you were so busy laughing.
Also, this was the episode that I directed.
I was getting to control this one, so that's also part of it
- But to be truthful, you do control
pretty much every episode, so...
- He's the wizard behind the curtain.
- Today, we're doing sandwiches.
- Yes. We're taking sandwiches international.
- Great music.
- We are in Athens, Greece.
- You know what, actually this was a fun episode.
We did three cities.
Four, if you include Athens.
- A one-for-one reproduction of the Parthenon.
- I love that.
- So this is the same season as eggs in Japan,
and there's an egg fact where an egg shoots over the horizon
of the frame, and it plays that same audio cue,
so synergy.
- [Adam] Andrew, can you talk about saying
that bread isn't important?
- What is the more important part of the sandwich,
the contents or the bread?
That is a debate we are going to be putting
to bed this episode.
- To bread?
- No, it's mostly going to be about meat though.
- [Adam] Because people got really mad.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Adam] That you said bread isn't the most important part
of a sandwich.
- Apparently a lot of people were mad about this,
which Adam informs me now.
Did not know that.
- I knew that in the comments.
I see you.
- Commenters.
- It's not that we don't care about bread,
but there's a lot of different ways
to do a sandwich episode, so we just chose to focus
on the meat.
The sandwiches we chose for this episode were a lot more
about the meat than the bread, so we just wanted
to set that up in the beginning.
- Bolton's is interesting because there's a lot
of debate about who invented,
or who first popularized the Nashville hot chicken.
- Right.
- But, Bolton's is definitely one of the earliest ones.
- Yeah
- And I think, we wanted to make sure we covered a place
that we felt true to the original story
of the fried chicken Nashville sandwich.
- Right.
Adam was really eager to have a fried chicken sandwich
on the show.
But he was like, there are a lot
of places really capitalizing on that,
but we wanted to focus on one of the original places.
- Yes
- And Bolton's is one of those places.
- I can now see why this is one of Adam's favorite episodes.
- His graphics.
- That was a great one.
- That's definitely an Adam graphic treatment.
I want to eat that right now.
- Some people are like sandwiches are all about the bread.
False.
- Oh wow, I really committed to that perspective
in this episode.
I like bread.
I like bread a lot.
- Yeah
- I'm a bread lover.
- No, you are a bread lover.
I think it was just, what you were trying to do,
you were trying to make a point.
- I was trying to start the conversation.
- Yeah, and sometimes you got to be contrary
to make a competition more interesting.
You tend to sweat a lot on this show in every episode,
in every way, and I want to point this out.
A lot of comments were saying I touched my eye on purpose
to make the show more dramatic.
I am not in favor of making pain for myself,
otherwise, I would have started a different show
called Unsolved, but I didn't.
Worth It, where we get to eat food around the world,
and explore cultural stories in amazing ways,
not hunting ghosts, so no, I did not do it on purpose.
- You want to watch a show where people fake it,
watch Unsolved.
But yeah, a lot of people accused you of being like,
they're just putting on a show,
but you were really feeling the pain of the spice, right?
- Yeah, and that was my most regretful moment.
- Do not touch your eyes.
- Don't rub your eyes.
- Oh no, oh no.
Do I feel the love?
I feel the love.
Do I feel the joy?
Somewhere.
Peace?
No.
And then happiness.
- I remember watching the first cut of this,
and you could not really convey with just
like normal filmmaking, straight documentary style,
what we were going through.
- Right
- So I remember Adam jumped on the keys,
put this little thing together.
- The editing keys.
- Yeah, right, not the keyboard.
And that was a very magical and accurate display
of what we experienced.
- Yeah, kind of a funky, spooky time.
That's how I'd describe that segment, funky, spooky.
- Oh.
- [Adam] It's really hard to not do the same thing
that everyone else does when they're eating food
cause like Hot Ones has a very unique, really cool way
of visualizing being in pain from spicy food.
- Is that Binging with Babish?
No way, that's not him.
Is it really?
- Wait, hold up.
Let me open my window.
Hey, is that Binging with Babish?
- What are you guys doing?
- Filming our last episode right now.
- Enjoy. Have fun.
- So, Andrew is a friend, not of the show,
but of the people of the show, of us.
- I actually finished the editing for this location.
So because we filmed in so many different cities,
you'll see at the end we go to Japan,
the editing duties were spread out among multiple people.
You can see the credits at the end,
but for this location, I stepped in and did some
of the editing finishing.
- Yeah.
- Oh, can we eat that please?
- [Adam] This is one of my favorite restaurants
in Los Angeles.
This is probably one of my favorite restaurants period.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- Why, why is that, Adam?
- [Adam] It's good.
The food tastes good.
- Shameless self-gratifying plug.
On our last day in Japan, I went out with Annie
to film city B-roll and just kind of
like randomly stumbled across this street
and this might be my favorite thing I've ever filmed
for the show.
- Why?
- I don't know, it's just like..
- Please describe, the competition, and the...
[Adam]- The light is great.
- The light is great.
I was trying to find something that conveyed
like the simultaneous, complex density of Tokyo,
but also like the silence, so it's like a quiet street,
but there's two trains, there's a guy on the bike,
this red car here is nice.
- [Adam] Double train
- Double train, yeah.
- [Adam] Do you see that?
- Double train.
- There was actually...
- [Adam] Going opposite directions on different levels.
- There was actually a third train somewhere else
that had run previous, but you can't see in the shot.
- So, we went to this place,
let's talk about this place.
- [Adam] Talk about how good that food filming...
- Look at that triple nipple.
- Adam's saying how good this place is.
We took a one hour taxi ride to this place
to film a whatever, two dollar sandwich,
and then a one hour taxi back home
just to film this location.
That is the commitment to making the show good
and featuring good food.
- So it's funny out of all of the places
in this episode, this is the one where it's all
about the bread.
- You know, one of the weirdest things I will get
from people who are fans of the show is "you're so funny"
or "wow, you should be a comedian."
And I'm like, "Whoa, no, definitely not at all, first of all
and I don't even know how people get that.
But I think it's just the comedy of sharing this experience
together, maybe.
- Yeah, I don't know how to describe.
The show isn't funny...
but it is funny.
Like, we're not, we don't try to be funny, but...
- No.
- [Adam] It's funny in the way hanging out
with your friends is funny.
It's not funny in the way a comedian is funny.
- Yeah.
- Very good, Adam.
Yeah, it's like that final edit has a personality
that isn't the same as what it's like in real time.
It's funny how close this sandwich nears the first sandwich
in the episode, you know.
Cause it almost doesn't make sense for it to be
between two slices of bread.
- Right.
- It's a very luxurious, thick slice of steak
that's deep-fried.
- Right.
And then put between two slices of toasted white bread.
- Right.
The restaurant is so small.
- Yeah
- It's like a less than an average coffee shop size.
- There it is.
- Yeah, there's the whole thing.
You can see the menu on the right wall,
and you can see the kitchen on the left,
and there's a person for scale.
- [Adam] This is basically the whole place, just one table.
- Yeah, one, yeah.
- That's where we ate.
- This was a food that I struggled not to eat quickly.
I was like, I have this much, I cannot go fast.
I need to savor it.
- That is something that you're very bad at,
is eating slowly and pacing yourself.
- I mean, when you've got a waygu fried cutlet sandwich.
- One thing that I will say
about this particular location
when we shot at Waygu Mafia,
there were many options in the States
to do a waygu sandwich.
- Right.
- There's one in LA, one in New York,
but we decided to take the extra step
and go, this was a very intentional move
by I think, you and Adam, one of you guys,
I don't know who, to go to Japan
and actually cover one of the original locations
because that's important for the story telling
of the episode.
- Right.
- This is the one thing I hate about this show is
when you guys suggest we do ice cream
for an interstitial because I cannot focus
on talking while I'm eating something
that's melting in my hand.
- It's a ticking time bomb.
- [Adam] See, look at all that fun to be had just
by forcing you to eat ice cream sandwiches.
- Was that fun, was it?
I didn't have fun.
- Ice cream sandwich, another sandwich that's not
about the bread.
- Boom.
Well that was Adam's favorite episode, a surprise to me,
but no longer a mystery.
- You were kind of right though,
watching it again, I'm like, wow, there's a lot
of great details about this that I don't remember.
- [Adam] Yeah.
- Man, you know the last thing I'll say,
that was a fun episode.
I don't often get left with a feeling of fun,
but after watching that, I feel fun.
- So if you haven't caught it yet,
we just released another Worth It episode, noodles.
Check that out.
- Check it out, and we've got one more coming out
this coming Sunday, last one of the year.
It's also sandwiches, so...
And then also, a week from now, there will be
another Worth It watches, so watch that too.
Watch out.
- Worth It, watches.
- Maybe that's what we should call it, Worth It, watch out.
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