I'm just doing a little sound check here. I'm here with my wife Janie. Welcome to

welcome to my award-winning podcast. From the basement with broken equipment.

Yeah, sorry I gave you the bad mic stand.

I just don't touch the mic stand and might fall over.

This is where the magic happens.

Yeah, I mean it's not impressive.

This is the sportful.

It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show we obsessed about food to learn more about people. We are past Labor Day. I hope you had a great end of your summer. I hope you are

transitioning to the fall and doing well. As we turn to fall I want to let you know that

I have a bunch of very exciting live events coming up. I'm going to be in London in just a few days and then in

October Toronto, Brooklyn, Las Vegas, Canada, New York and a virtual cooking

class that you can join from anywhere. I'm going to tell you more about all of it later in the show

and you can get details and tickets to everything at sporkful.com slash events.

All right, let's get into it and this week on the show we are taking your calls about food-related disputes with loved ones, and your hot takes and food questions.

And who better to help me handle these questions about food and loved ones than my loved ones.

Yes, that's right, this is a Pashman Family Call-In episode.

We did this once before.

You all loved it, so we're doing it again.

My kids, Becky and Emily, will join us a little later to respond to some of your voice memos.

But first we have perhaps our all-time most favorite Sporkful guest, perhaps even more popular

than the host.

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