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Stavvy's World #122 - Dan Soder | Full Episode

Welcome everybody to Stavi's World, 904-800-STOF, call in, we'll solve all your
problems,
returning favorite, one of our kings of the inner circle, Dan Soder back on the
couch.
What's up big brother?
Good to be back in Queens.
Thanks man.
Does it feel right?
I love it.
I miss it.
Yeah.
I really do.
I miss Queens, it's a good neighborhood.
Oh, we're going to have to put in the BZ grill order halfway into this episode,
Elvis.
Alright, so when we start the calls, we're going to pause, we're going to give
you an order,
you're going to fucking call it in.
I don't even need to do that, I'll fire that fucking order off right now and
here's what
I want.
I want a gyro platter.
Yep, check.
Extra tzatziki.
Yep, check.
Can of Canada dry ginger ale.
Oh, very nice.
An extra pita.
There he is.
Let's fucking get into it.
Respect.
I want to do the cheese filled sausages, what are those?
Oh, the um...
No, it's the beef.
No, no, bifteki.
Bifteki.
Yeah.
I might have to do...
You know what?
Get a bifteki, man.
Get it all.
Flip it.
I'm going to do a bifteki platter.
Respect.
With extra tzatziki.
I love that.
I was a bifteki guy for years.
You're the one that put me on the bifteki.
I was the one that put me on the bifteki.
Thank you.
Going into that restaurant with you and you speaking Greek to them changed that
restaurant for me.
I was like, oh, this place fucking rules.
Yeah.
On this BZ grill so much.
Yeah.
Now that I don't live in Astoria.
I know.
It is tough.
When I leave, I will...
Because I've taken it for granted recently.
Where it's just like, you know what?
I've had it.
I did it.
When I first moved here, I had it like...
I had it like once a week.
Yeah.
Like it was fucked up how much I was eating.
Oh.
And I also...
I do think unfortunately the quality has gone down a little over the years.
You think so?
Just a little bit.
It's still great, but...
But man, it was...
I think every...
It feels safe to say that I feel like the quality of everything has dropped.
Yeah, that's...
No, that's probably what it is.
Like everything.
Everything's more expensive.
Everything...
Harder to run a business.
Yeah.
Everything is just like...
People are putting less into the product, more into marketing.
Yeah.
So everything's kind of like...
Wasn't this better a couple of years ago?
Yeah.
It feels that way.
And maybe...
Who knows?
Maybe that's...
The nostalgia for...
Because there's...
There's honestly a time in my life where BZ Grill was like the best part of my
life.
Because like when I very first moved here...
Yeah.
And I was crashing with my friend who...
She lived across...
She lived like one block from BZ Grill.
That's incredible.
And it was like...
I...
I...
The honeymoon period of New York was over.
Yeah.
It was right when it ended.
And I was like, "Oh, this is gonna be really hard."
I had like...
I...
Shortly thereafter would get bed bugs.
Oh!
Like...
Like my life was just so bad.
Oh, dude.
And I was like, "My life's gonna suck dick."
And I had no money.
But dude, that lunch special at BZ Grill.
I would go there.
You know what's funny is...
10 bucks, get me a gyro, fucking fries and a drink.
Oh!
Good stuff.
That was halal guys for me.
Mm.
On 54th and 6th.
Mm-hmm.
When I was living on my buddy's futon in Hoboken.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
And I was working...
And I was working at K-Rock and Dos Caminos, but also doing stand-up.
Yeah.
I moved to Astoria, lived in a windowless room on an inflated mattress.
Yeah.
And Saturday nights, I would work till two in the morning at K-Rock.
Oh, yeah.
And then I would go get that fucking...
I would get the chicken and rice.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
With extra pita.
Yep.
And a fucking 20 ounce of cold Sprite.
Yeah.
And I would fuck that shit up.
Yeah, dude.
I would say the three places that hold my heart for food are Halal Guys,
Neptune Diner,
RIP.
RIP recently.
BC Grill.
That place was...
Mid.
It sucked by the end.
By the end, it was legit bad.
Yeah.
But 10 years ago, you know, still...
20 years ago?
20 years ago, yeah.
20 years ago, Joe List and I used to go in there late night Monday.
Yeah.
Blackout drunk.
Yeah, hell yeah.
No money.
Yeah.
And we would get chicken and rice soup.
I've got lemon soup.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then we would get grilled cheese.
And...
Wow.
Talk about a little kid with the flu's order.
We'd be like...
Yeah.
That's like, I'm staying home watching The Price is Right.
My mom brings me a tray of that.
Did you take school off today?
Grilled cheese and chicken.
When they put the food down, they kiss your forehead.
Yeah.
And you have to say it like this.
You have to go, "Thank you."
Yeah.
You have to pretend you're a little sicker than you are when your mom comes to
the room.
Laughing with Joe.
And then I go, "Oh, hold on.
They're bringing our food."
Thanks.
Thank you.
Yeah, dude.
I love it.
They hated us.
Yeah.
Hated us.
They were so loud and drunk.
So loud and drunk.
Fucking running up a $9 tab.
Yeah.
They're like, "Great.
This fucking guy."
But it was Monday.
What do you want?
You're not getting any business.
Totally.
Clothes if you don't want us to.
Mm-hmm.
This is who you get at this hour.
It's two in the morning.
And we're black out on a Monday.
Oh, beautiful stuff, man.
Beautiful stuff.
I will say, in general, the diners in New York do disappoint me.
I think it's because everything is so expensive that to just run a nice, cheap
diner is kind
of impossible.
You can't.
So everyone tries to make it this, like, no man's land where it's not shitty,
greasy spoon,
but they try and make it sort of appear elevated, but it's still cheap bullshit.
Yes.
You know, it fucking sucks.
What you want is you want them to shoot straight with you and be like,
Yeah.
This is shitty eggs and shitty toast.
That's right.
But it's a little bit better than Waffle House.
And you go, "Great.
Yeah.
I'll take it."
And the ambiance is good.
You get the fucking, it's diner ambiance.
I feel like diner ambiance, it's, I feel like diners were here when I moved
here in '07, and now they're gone.
Yeah.
Now they're like holding on.
A victim of inflation and everything going bad.
Dude, the funniest one was this sandwich place on 23rd Avenue, Andrew and Frank's.
I don't know if you ever went.
Andrew and Frank's, no.
It was fucking phenomenal.
I know Sal, Chris and Charlie's.
They were down the street.
Yeah.
And so it was like Bloods and Crips.
Yeah.
I never did Sal, Chris and Tommy's.
I never did Sandwich King.
Sandwich King, yeah.
Until Andrew and Frank's shut down.
Went out of business.
But I used to go.
And then you were forced.
You were a refugee seeking.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was at the border.
They have, like, I like that place.
It's solid.
I respect it because their thing is like, our sandwiches are fucking huge.
Huge.
They're like, they're solid.
Yeah.
They're not like, we're not gonna make the best sandwiches.
They're like, we're gonna make good sandwiches that are the biggest fucking
sandwiches you've
ever seen in your life.
We have a giant dick.
We're not gonna fuck you well.
We don't eat pussy.
We don't eat pussy.
You can sit on it, get stretched out or there's nothing else.
We do not have anything else.
Dude, they, um, Andrew and Frank's, I went in when I did Edinburgh in 2019
where I did fringe.
I came back.
Then I was like, got high.
I was like, I'm gonna go to Andrew.
Walk to Andrew at Frank's.
It was like a lovely, nah, they were open.
I thought that's how you found out they shuttered.
That would have been devastating.
Yeah, that would have sucked.
It was almost worse though.
Okay.
Because they had a whole, like, what I love is, and if you live outside of New
York, there's
these places where you'll walk in.
How you know it's a good sandwich is when there's like, FDNY badges.
Yeah.
Or NYPD badges on the wall.
And like photocopied pictures of them with Robert De Niro.
Like that, a picture of them in Scorsese.
Yeah, but like low quality.
And then you're gonna see about four or five pictures of 24 year old men that
died in the
towers.
Like on the wall.
Like there's four or five and you go, fuck, I know what that's from.
Yeah.
They're just like, to Tommy, you'll always be the best brother in the world.
And you go, I'm not gonna ask.
Yeah.
That seems to be around '01.
Yeah.
But Andrew and Frank's, like the guy that operated it was awesome.
Mm-hmm.
It's very Queens.
Yep.
They had like Queens themed sandwiches.
Love that.
Love that.
The 718 did fucking rule.
What did we get on the 718?
It was a chicken cutlet with bacon, provolone.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
When the chicken cutlets, when the chicken cutlets, the base, and then there's
four more ingredients.
And there was ham.
Oh.
Or there was bacon, ham, cheese.
I might be doing a disjust.
If I'm speaking out of turn, if I fuck up, I apologize.
No, that's okay.
But he was making me a 718.
Love that.
And I was just, you know, that kind of quick.
The area code.
Where they talk to you about it.
Yeah.
Where they go like, yeah, you know what I'm saying?
I don't know.
Daniel Jones is a bum.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're just talking about the Giants or whatever.
Aaron Rodgers, honestly, fucking, he does more ayahuasca.
Maybe he'll be better.
Yeah.
I'm like, it's crazy, man, with like the rent.
Like, you know, I think rent's going up everywhere.
He goes, oh, yeah.
A landlord just raised our rent.
So we're shutting down.
And I was like, what's up?
He's like making the sandwich.
He goes, yeah, we're closed.
I was like, oh, no, like a couple months.
He goes, tomorrow.
Oh, my God.
I was like, this is the last sandwich I'm gonna buy.
He goes, yeah.
And that was it.
I took a picture of it.
I have it in my phone.
I swear to God.
Send it over, man.
We'll post the last picture you ever got.
I'm gonna fucking send you a picture of a 718.
Yeah.
Dude, it's so funny how fast I can recall the picture.
Yeah.
It's like next to you.
It's like right next to you getting engaged.
It's your last 718.
She goes, Katie goes, what is this?
I go, don't worry about it.
It's a 718.
Look, I deleted the phone, the pictures of my exes.
I got rid of all the nudes, all the sex.
I'm keeping the 718.
With the 718, dude.
There you go.
Oh, that's some fucking beauty, dude.
Yeah.
That's nice.
It's not the best.
It's not the most beautiful picture of a sandwich, but you get the idea.
But I see.
You couldn't close it if you want.
No.
The sides of the bread could not touch.
They cannot touch.
I love that.
And you got the sweet onion kettle chips.
Love that as a company.
With the sody that I got.
Probably a Canada Dry.
Look at how wet that thing is.
That thing looks nice, dude.
And I like that because it's big, but it's also like within the grip of it.
Because again, some sandwiches are just too big.
Some sandwiches you have to cut slices of.
Yeah.
And that's the one.
The slice one, you're like, what am I doing?
It's like, what is this?
What are you making me do?
I'm sending it.
Now this is lasagna.
Yeah.
Now you've turned a sandwich into a casserole.
Oh, fuck.
I got to eat it with a fork and knife like a fucking psycho.
I want to pick it up.
I want to be able to hold it.
But I expect it to be like a bouquet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
I'll go after it a little bit.
Yeah, like I'll go around it.
I have a couple bites.
Extrategic bites.
But dude, it is.
I like to eat.
And then I went to Sal and Chris's, which they're unbelievable.
Their tuna is.
Mmm.
Never been a tuna guy there.
Fuck.
I get the bomb, the Italian.
The bomb's the classic.
Which is everything.
I mean, it's literally, you just empty a deli onto a slice of bread.
Big J put me on.
Or a loaf of bread.
Big J put me on Sandwich King.
And what he does is he slices it into like pieces so you share it all.
That's what I'm saying.
Then it's great.
Well, that's what I mean.
We got to do the extra work.
They've turned it into a party sub.
Yeah.
It's like, look, I'm a fat man.
I get that.
But it's like, my complaint is the sandwich is too big.
Yeah.
And that's crazy, but you can get there.
You're a size queen too.
I am.
Yeah, that's the thing.
It'