El Presidente | Pizza Reviews
Category
š„
SportsTranscript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:14 All right, Pizza of Your Time.
00:15 We're at Russo's in New Hope, New Jersey.
00:18 The town's fucking beautiful, Austin.
00:20 It's like every little kid is coming down Main Street.
00:23 They've got the stores.
00:24 Feels like Thanksgiving.
00:26 They've got a bunch of Italian flags that all want-- Irish.
00:31 But yeah, just very picturesque, very New England-y,
00:34 even though we're in Jersey.
00:36 Cool vibes.
00:37 The guy in there, he's calling me cuz.
00:39 He's like, how's life out there?
00:41 Like, you're just doing it out there, huh?
00:42 I'm like, what do you mean, just everywhere?
00:44 He's like, yeah, how is it out there?
00:46 That's what he asked.
00:47 How is it out there?
00:48 It's like, just everywhere?
00:52 It's great.
00:52 They did really good for us, man.
00:54 That was really--
00:55 So now we need it, cuz.
00:57 He doesn't mean out there like life.
00:59 Yeah.
01:00 Yeah.
01:00 Yeah.
01:01 Yeah, it's good.
01:02 I mean, you brought notoriety back to small business,
01:05 mom and pop.
01:05 I appreciate that.
01:06 He's super nice.
01:07 Guys like, come, I'll make you dinner off menu.
01:09 The pizza, he's giving the story.
01:11 It's fucking huge.
01:13 You can't even get through the door with it.
01:14 $30.
01:15 He's like, you know, McDonald's.
01:16 He's right.
01:17 They've raised the price because Gavin Newsom,
01:18 who's a piece of garbage, hates small business.
01:22 But fast food, $60.
01:24 Because they raise minimum wage.
01:26 Good, but then the McDonald's jacked it.
01:28 I'm ranting.
01:29 Point is, like, you come here, $40, $50,
01:32 feed the whole family, no problem.
01:34 He gave me cannoli, meatball.
01:35 What's up with the size of these things?
01:37 It's family.
01:38 OK.
01:38 You know, like, the big bowl of pasta.
01:41 When you go out to eat with two or three kids,
01:44 you go to McDonald's now, it's $60.
01:45 Yeah, right.
01:46 So you come here, you get a $30 pie.
01:49 You leave $5 for a tip, have some sodas.
01:51 Have some $40, $50.
01:52 Give the whole--
01:53 Take the kids out.
01:54 Love it.
01:55 Cuz.
01:56 I started calling him Cuz Austin by the end.
01:58 I don't know if you caught that.
02:00 I shot his like--
02:01 he's like, here you go.
02:02 I was like, thanks, Cuz.
02:03 Nice meeting you.
02:04 Thanks.
02:04 Thanks, man.
02:05 Super nice guy.
02:06 And he's a stoolie.
02:07 Watches "Rub 'n' Rowdy."
02:08 He's like, I bet with you.
02:10 Super nice guy.
02:11 This pizza's gigantic.
02:13 He said he's from Robbinsville area.
02:15 Tomato pie.
02:16 He does a little less starch.
02:17 You grew up in Trenton, Bristol.
02:20 So I know you went out to Robbinsville.
02:22 Yeah, yeah.
02:22 That's a tomato pie land.
02:24 But my problem with them always was it was a little too
02:27 starchy sometimes.
02:28 So we all have the same ingredient.
02:32 I just put back a little bit of mine.
02:34 OK.
02:34 The one thing about doing pizza this big
02:37 is how do you keep that crunch on that big of a slice?
02:41 One bite, everybody knows the rules.
02:42 It was in the box.
02:43 My shirt, he gave it.
02:44 That's dripping in.
02:45 [CRUNCHING]
02:51 Yeah.
02:52 Listen.
02:53 [CRUNCHING]
02:55 I do like it.
02:56 [CRUNCHING]
02:59 But my only thing would be I do think
03:09 if you went a little smaller, you'd
03:11 have a tighter, crispier pizza.
03:13 It's really hard with this mega pizza
03:16 to keep it from doing that flock.
03:18 But it's good.
03:19 The sauce is good.
03:20 The bread is good.
03:22 Crust is good.
03:23 The town is phenomenal.
03:26 I'm going to go New Hope.
03:27 Of course it's called New Hope.
03:30 75?
03:32 Again, I think you just got to--
03:35 it's so hard to do a slice this big that keeps the crunch.
03:39 Now let's do all the other assorted things.
03:42 [CRUNCHING]
03:44 He didn't even say this was for--
03:47 I don't even really love cannolis,
03:48 but cuz made me do it.
03:52 Oh.
03:52 Oh.
03:58 Forgot the whole thing.
03:59 I bought a t-shirt.
04:01 This was the slogan.
04:02 Hi.
04:06 Hi there.
04:07 You ever seen--
04:08 Hey, what you're done?
04:09 Can I just get a picture?
04:10 Yeah, of course.
04:10 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:11 Thanks, Custody.
04:12 Thanks, Custody.
04:15 Russo.
04:17 Michael Jordan of pizza.
04:19 That's a 10.9 t-shirt.
04:22 That's a review.
04:23 I'm going to lie if he has a score.
04:27 How was it?
04:28 Very good.
04:29 Thanks, David.
04:30 Yep.
04:31 [INAUDIBLE]
04:31 That's my wife, Jennifer, our son,
04:33 who graduated college.
04:35 I'm Steve.
04:35 Hi, I'm Russo.
04:36 OK.
04:37 How long have you guys had this?
04:39 We're here four years at this one.
04:40 He opened this one in 2019.
04:42 You guys are like the nicest people in the world.
04:44 Very nice people.
04:47 She's a nurse, and she stopped nursing 20 years ago.
04:50 A nurse.
04:50 I don't know who's yet the nicest people.
04:52 She's all right.
04:53 That's my sweetheart.
04:54 We've been married 25 years, David.
04:55 You're a good couple.
04:56 I love it.
04:56 Congratulations.
04:57 Thank you.
04:57 It's our sixth restaurant.
04:59 Oh, wow.
05:00 We had full scale.
05:01 We were in Seattle for 10 years.
05:04 My brother was a fighter.
05:05 He was a fighter, but he didn't have no money.
05:07 And he was selling cheese steaks in between.
05:10 We were here.
05:10 We had a kid on the way.
05:12 And we were going to go to Wildwood and open up a spot.
05:14 And he heard.
05:15 My mom told him.
05:16 And he said, just come in here and get your shot.
05:18 So we took a look.
05:20 But it's Seattle, brother.
05:22 When you're from Philly and you go to Seattle,
05:24 it's like fucking--
05:25 You call people cuz they don't know what you're doing.
05:27 They don't know what you're saying.
05:28 They think you're a blutz.
05:29 Yeah.
05:30 No, I'm not kidding.
05:31 I used the word.
05:32 I said, cuz, what's up?
05:33 He goes, what do you mean by that?
05:35 My brother had the gun.
05:35 No, no, no.
05:36 You know.
05:36 You gotta watch.
05:38 There are gangbangers out here.
05:39 Cuz means one of the signs.
05:41 Oh, you meant--
05:42 I thought you meant--
05:43 I went like, yo, cuz.
05:44 I thought you, when you said, what,
05:45 I thought you meant like they thought of you as--
05:46 Yeah, the Bloods and Crips.
05:47 We had a cheese steak joint.
05:48 I thought you meant cuz and like related.
05:50 Right.
05:50 That's what we said.
05:51 I know what you mean.
05:52 But I thought they're like, wait, I'm not related to you.
05:54 I thought they were taking it literally.
05:55 No.
05:56 You said cuz.
05:57 I wish you would have taken it that way instead of like,
05:59 I'm going to get shot out front now.
06:01 You know, we had a cheese steak joint.
06:03 And then it morphed into the Pines.
06:05 Yeah.
06:05 We grew up, you know, doing pies and--
06:09 Great.
06:09 I love it.
06:10 And gambling.
06:10 Yeah, well, you're a man after my own heart.
06:13 Good to meet you guys.
06:14 Congratulations.
06:14 David, it was really cool meeting you, man.
06:16 See you.
06:17 Bye.
06:17 Nice meeting you guys.
06:19 Yeah, I will.
06:21 All right.
06:24 All right.
06:25 That's like, every once in a while,
06:28 doing these, like the Uncle Jerry's, you just run into people
06:30 who are like too nice for Earth.
06:32 Those people are so nice.
06:34 You said it when you called.
06:35 They're like, oh, he was just a happy guy
06:37 when he plays the Orc.
06:38 They're just happy fucking people.
06:40 And actually give you faith in humanity.
06:43 [Whoosh]
06:45 (whooshing)