Canal Street Dreams

This week on Canal Street Dreams, Eddie and Natashia sit down with Dana Brown of Caper Media to talk about restaurants as cultural institutions and what makes a place matter beyond the food. Dana explains why he started Caper and how its Mario Batali piece began with a headline he’d written before the company existed. They discuss whether Batali has “served his time,” accountability, and how the Me Too movement has evolved over the years. Then we round things out with a rapid-fire rundown of Dana’s favorite NYC restaurants for hospitality: the places that know how to take care of you.

This week, we're joined by the legendary homie Theophilus London. We kick things off with what he's been up to in his hiatus from music, and how he's been spending his time away. We talk writing processes, reminisce on the old days in New York and the value of taking a break in your creative career. We also get into some conspiracies, from all things aliens, UFOs and of course, sports betting.

This week on Canal Street Dreams, Eddie and Natashia recap the Save Our Stories banned books event, which Eddie spoke at regarding the statewide-ban of Fresh Off The Boat in Texas. They talked about Ali Velshi’s particularly touching speech on the affect of Perks of Being a Wallflower on a student, the books that find you when you need them, and why people are so pressed about what other people read.

Then we get into Vanity Fair’s Thomas Straker and Keith McNally article and how sh*t talking is back. That’s also a perfect segue to breakdown Chet Hanks pressing Eric Andre.

Plus, the Brooklyn teachers in Issey Miyake dupes, Eddie’s Stone Island school for criminal kids, Natashia’s farm school lore and Dallas Cowboys cheerleader ambitions and apple picking. Eddie discusses what it was like going from working with Ryan Mcginley at VICE in the old days to being featured in New York Magazine’s first-ever men’s issue. We close with Natashia’s best stories of pulling up on people as a teenager.

This week on Canal Street Dreams, it’s just Eddie and Natashia, and they’re feeling too Unc’d for the VMAs. The VMAs spark a conversation about conversation about aging, keeping up with culture, and figuring out where they fit in.

After celebrating Senna’s fly new bowl cut, they check in on Diddy’s prison situation. Eddie takes us to the trenches of bowel movements behind bars, and they imagine what would happen if Natashia did a bid. They also unpack the insane story about a Tennessee woman who survived two lethal injections.

To wrap things up, a listener asks how to stop hating men in 2026, which somehow leads into the ultimate showdown: Harry Styles versus Channing Tatum in a krump-off.

Today we've got a wild episode with Greg Yuna. After recently settling Eddie and Natashia's US Open fight, Greg takes his victory lap on Canal Street Dreams. We get into how Greg built his company and his experience and aspirations in acting. We take you inside the principals office with us when we got in trouble with Ronnie Fieg (shoutout Ronnie). Then we nerd out a bit on most iconic men's jewelry pieces for rapid fire and more!

This week on Canal Street Dreams, we're starting hot with Natashia and Eddie's US Open fight leading into the Stone Island Dinner. We talk about running into people from high school that now know everything happening in our personal lives from the pod. We then get into the debate of when it's time to unfollow your old hoes?? Then, we respond to the comment section backlash on our Girly Boys reel from last week and Natashia takes a deep listener question.

This week we are joined by Joyce Wrice to talk all things dating, music and more. Joyce is getting ready to drop MACHIKO, her first full length project since 2021's Overgrown. We talk about the inspiration and experiences those five years have lent to the album. We talk to Joyce about the themes of avoidance in the new work, the problems with the dating scene and much more!

This week on Canal Street Dreams, we’re back breaking down the culture clash at the US Open from our perspective. We talk influencer culture since the pandemic and how it interacts with Tennis etiquette. Natashia gets got on Instagram for posting an altered AI image. We get into the recent story around an Anthropic researcher’s resignation, what it means for the next decade of humanity and more!

This week we are joined by comedian and writer Mycal Dédé. We recently came across Mycal’s essay “You Have No Bitches, You’ve Never Been With a Baddie, & You Are Scaring the Hoes” and knew immediately that we had to have him on the show. Our goal was simple; we had to understand what was scaring these hoes. Why were they scared? Who scared them the most? When was the first time the hoes had been scared? And finally, to truly do our part as philanthropists, we asked Mycal how the bros could stop scaring the hoes altogether (or at least a tad bit less). We had a great time with Mycal discussing all this and much more!

This week we have our trusted stylist, friend and return guest Jian DeLeon on the pod. We address all the looming fashion concerns for the return of Huang's World and dig into the stylistic direction for this season. We sub out rapid fire for a very special edition of The Huangstien Files, powered by Natashia, to see if 2010's Eddie beats the fit allegations. This episode is a must watch so please join us for a hell of a kickback!

Today we have Chef Ryan Bartlow joining us for all things Basque in an into the mind of a chef episode of Canal Street Dreams. Ryan talks about his journey working through restaurants in the US and then Spain before detailing the inspiration he brought home to his own restaurants Bartolo and Ernesto's. We talk Eddie's favorites from Ryan's new book Essentially Basque which goes on sale October 13th. We put Ryan to the test ranking his favorite Spanish dishes and much more!

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WE ARE SO BACK. Ecstatic to announce that Huang's World is back on Complex with an all new season coming soon. Eddie and Natashia spend this episode reflecting on all the times where they thought the show might come back in the past, losing hope and then when the tide started to turn for the show to make its return. We talk the old show versus the new, inspirations for this season and some possible ideas for a follow up season. We've got so much to share with you guys and want to welcome and thank you to celebrate with us.

This week, we’re joined by Ian and Jonah whom Natashia and I met at the Baohaus bar grabbing our post-work drinks. After overhearing their film debate, I quickly went and got some rainbow cookies and struck up what would become a multi-hour conversation with them nerding out about film. So filling in for Natashia this week is Ian and Jonah, discussing the hard hitting topics. What is the greatest Blasian film of all? Has Will Smith ever made a black movie? How do black men beat the whole milk allegations after dating one white woman decades ago? All this and much more is unraveled in this week’s Canal Street Dreams.

This week, Eddie and Natashia break down The Odyssey after seeing it, talking through what hit, what missed, and whether the movie actually lives up to the massive expectations. They get into the performances, standout scenes, Nolan's approach to the story, and where it stacks up against his other films, giving their honest reactions and unpacking the biggest moments from the film.

This week it’s Eddie and Natashia recapping the highly anticipated Tuna Melt table read at Baohaus. We talk about all it took to bring this script to life and the many times it almost didn’t get made. We talk the amazing true-to-screen cast, what it was like seeing them bring it to life and more!

We got First Supper this week on Canal Street Dreams as Chef Ray and the boys from the kitchen pull up to talk all the items on the new menu. We talk getting back to the essence of this Chinese s*** after an experimental period with Italian fusion during the most legendary playoff run and championship in NBA history (it's still Knicks in 5). We talk everyone's story coming to Baohaus, favorite dishes and more!

Eddie and Natashia are live podding on the road again this week from London. In this episode they revisit the place where Eddie began to write what would become Come Undone on a flight back to LA. They talk favorite London food spots, their plans for revisiting the city for the first time in ages kid free. They answer questions from the game inspired by the book, speak to the London crowd and more!

This week we have a very special guest, Chef de Cuisine at Baohaus AKA Chef Ray. We dive right into dating life and explore the intricacies of the dating scene in New York. We talk about how Eddie and Chef Ray met and what it's like working together. We also take some listener questions and get into much more!

This week we have Tasha Beg aka @thepopastrologist joining us to nerd out on all things astrology. We talk about the Knicks and Trump having similar charts (and how we saged the arena by booing him). We talk about New York City setting the tone for the transformation of the country as a whole. Eddie and Natashia get read and we talk best and worst signs.

This week, Eddie and Natashia hit the stage at The Strand Bookstore with editor Chris Jackson to talk Eddie's brand new novel, Come Undone. We get into the themes of the book and auto-fiction inspired by real life experience. Eddie and Natashia talk about how they've grown in their relationship to communicate through writing, and how writing has affected their relationship differently over the years. Eddie and Chris reflect on working together on projects like Fresh Off The Boat and Double Cup Love over the years, and discuss the differences this time around jumping into the worlds of fiction and romance. Come Undone is now available at Amazon at the link below and in select stores now!! Get yours today:https://www.amazon.com/Come-Undone-Novel-Eddie-Huang/dp/0399591907