Gotta Try This is built for exactly this kind of moment. Get a comedian who actually eats around the globe in a chair across from Large, hit record, and let the takes fly. Segura, who tours constantly and has been pretty public about his Tokyo obsession over the years, didn't bother working his way up to the verdict. He led with it.
Segura delivering the line that's going to define the episode's clip cycle.
It's a bold swing, but it's also a defensible one. Tokyo holds more Michelin stars than any city on the planet and has for years. You can eat a $9 bowl of ramen at a counter at 1 a.m. that ruins every other bowl of ramen for you, then walk 4 blocks and pay 10x that for sushi you'll think about for the rest of your life. If you're picking one city to plant your flag on, you can do a lot worse.
The full clip of Segura making his case.
This is the bet on Gotta Try This in a nutshell. The food pod space is crowded, but most of it is either chef-talk that goes over your head or influencer slop that's all b-roll and no opinion. Plug a comedian into the chair and you get actual takes, the kind that travel. Tokyo over Paris, Tokyo over Rome, Tokyo over New York, Tokyo over everywhere — that's a headline. That's a clip. That's the whole point.
The full episode with Large and Segura is up now.
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Argue with him in the comments if you want, but the burden of proof is on whoever's nominating somebody else. Bangkok, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Lyon — all great answers. None of them are the obvious wrong answer. Segura swung first and now everyone else has to come to him.