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Meeting the Cast of Hot Spots Wannabes
from Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine) · #74
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1 minThey describe arriving to find a dozen other aspiring food personalities screen testing at a Hoboken clam bar, comparing the scene to a bootleg archetype lineup from the Food Network.
- 5:49A Food Network producer called claiming he wanted Tim and Mike to test for a show, making it sound like just the two of them.
- 6:05They arrived at the meeting to find twelve people there instead of the intimate audition they'd been led to expect.
- 6:40The producers actually liked Tim and Mike and were impressed with how they incorporated AIDS talk into gnocchi recipes.
- 6:59The network took them to a clam bar in Hoboken to test the show instead of a proper studio.
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