Doughboys - 800 Degrees with Betsy Sodaro

Episode Date: November 4, 2021

Betsy Sodaro (Duncanville, We Love Trash) joins the 'boys to talk about corn, Montreal eats, and their last time touring together before a review of 800 Degrees. Plus, a Pepsi edition of Jingle All The Whey. Sources for this week's intro: https://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_2003.html https://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/fl-et-800-degrees-aventura-dwyane-wade-restaurant-review-20190116-story.html https://800degreesaventura.com/2019/09/18/wade-and-haslem-on-1st-year-800/ https://radaronline.com/p/dwyane-wade-eviction-lawsuit-udonis-haslem-restaurant/ https://www.laweekly.com/the-story-behind-800-degrees-ridiculous-pizza-deal/ Commercials featured in the Jingle All The Whey segment: The Choice of a New Generation Have a Pepsi Day You Got The Right One Baby Pepsi Challenge/Pepsi's Got Your Taste Generation NextWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the Dream Alajuan, the roundabout of rebound Charles Barkley, all-time assistant steals leader John Stockton, and of course, the consensus goat, Michael Jordan, famously passed over by the Portland Trail Blazers in favor of Sam Bowie. His career was not as successful. But the 2003 NBA draft was arguably just as top-heavy, led by its own quartet of superstars. The next-gen goat, LeBron James, one-man offense, Carmelo Anthony, five-time NBA All-Star Chris Bosch, and a Chicago native drafted by the Miami Heat, Dwayne Wade. An otherworldly scorer who also played ferocious defense, D-Wade would win the NBA title and finals MVP in just his third season, alongside an aging but still dominant Shaquille O'Neal. Wade

would go on to be a pivotal figure in NBA history by recruiting his draft classmates LeBron and Bosch to join him as free agents on the Heat in 2011, forming a heel stable known as the Heedles, who'd go to four straight finals, winning two championships. And Wade used his recruiting skills off the court as well. In 2017, enlisting longtime Heat teammate Udonis Haslam to open franchises of a burgeoning wood-fired pizza chain whose name evokes a different sort of Heat. Launched in 2012 by fine-tining chef Anthony Carone with a location just south of UCLA campus, it's one of several newfangled made-to-order personal pizza concepts aspiring to be the Chipotle of Zah. Coincidentally, one of those, Blaze Pizza, is partially owned

by LeBron James himself. Considering Papa Shaq's investment in Papa John's, Pizza just may be in the Miami Heat's DNA. Wade and Haslam's joint venture boosted the pie shop's profile and footprint and put a personal spin on the menu by adding a D-Wade burger and UD chicken wings, though one of their Florida franchises did shudder in 2020 due to non-payment of rent. Today, this personal pizzeria has locations dotting the U.S. like dollops of marinara as well as Asia and the Middle East. While LeBron James may have had a higher peak as a member of the Miami Heat, Duane Wade's commitment to the city means he'll always be the fan favorite. And while LeBron's blaze may be the larger, faster-growing

pizza chain, D-Wade's chain's commitment to chef-driven quality is evident in the output of its kitchen. This week on Doe Boys, 800 Degrees Pizza. Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Paul Fart Maulflop, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Paul Fart Maulflop. Here's the thing. That was from Peter from Clearwater, Florida, a longtime listener, first-time roaster. Thanks for the laugh. Wishing you both all the best. RoastSpoonMan at Gmail.com. The RoastSpoonMan inbox was filled with spooky horror-themed roasts because of this past month where we celebrated Dog-Dobark Fest 2021. I'm a long-grill-abration of hot dogs and

pet dogs, but that's in the past, so I had to go into the archives and found one of the first, you know, non-horror-themed ones that was submitted in recent months. Is Clearwater the name of the band and almost famous? Oh, no, Stillwater. That's Stillwater. You're thinking of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Yeah. Yeah. Mama told me not to come. Mama told me not to come.

They're famous song. I was trying to remember another... Oh, yeah. That was actually just an anecdote, I was saying. I was going to say, Creedence Clearwater Revival, we of course know their song, One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. See why people are going to get really mad at me because Mama told me not to come saying by Three Dog Night who we were confused for Creedence.

And Mitch, I guess, and did what you just did by also singing another Three Dog Night song, which will further enrage the listenership, which is our only goal at this point. So we edit this out. I mean, yeah, it sucks. It's dog shit. Well, what part? Everything? I think all of it. We'll just start the episode when our guest arrives because that's all I don't want to listen to anyway.

To Spoon Nation or Slice Nation, as they sometimes are called. People call them Slice Nation, wigs. Harder to chant. We just did a live show and we did a live show and people like to go Spoon, which is a lot of fun. Yeah, it sounds like you were getting booed. But Slice doesn't really work in the same way. Yeah, you're right.

Anyways, Slice Spoon, it's all great. Right, right, wigs? It's all good. Everyone likes it. Wait, when you're a fan of the Slice man, you can't go wrong, wigs. Whether Spoon or Slice, you're in good shape. Yeah, I thought you were going to rhyme that and it was it was easy to do it. Whether Spoon or Slice, you'll soon be nice.

You'll soon be nice? Yeah. How about it's always nice? I mean, that's all that's a near rhyme, but sure. That's a how is that a near rhyme? I was trying to rhyme both components. Oh, yeah. Oh, you did a double rhyme.

Yeah, wigs. What a dog shit start. We're back. We're back, baby. We were just in New York City. We were on fumes on stage. And then we got on a flight across the country and got back to work. On fumes on stage, on fumes in the air.

Exactly. A plane runs on gas, correct? It's true. Fuel. Yeah. By the way, keep that stuff outside the cabin, the fucking nasty freaks I was on a plane with. Fucking immediately dropping ass as soon as like we were still on the fucking runway. Yeah, people are fucking ripping ass.

Which for me, as a big guy. Yeah. You just always get blamed. I have a stupid song. My drop keeps starting over and over again. Oh, boy. For me, a big guy, I've told you this before, just that people think it's you. Yes.

You get blamed. You get blamed for your gross fucks that fart on the plane. But speaking of stinks, swags. Mm-hmm. This fucking, this stupid drop. Speaking of, speaking of stinks, I got back to my two little stinky cats. Monday night. How about that?

Wally and Irma, they've perned up a sturm. A sturm. They were, I was doing the rhyme thing again. They were perned up a sturm. Any pert in a sturm, they say. They were, they were perned up a sturm. Yeah. Very happy to see me.

They've been very, honestly, until Doughboy started. So maybe they just don't like the pod. They have not been around since the podcast. They've like not left my side until the podcast started and they're like, see you later. Like they left. You hear Marin coming from a Bluetooth speaker in the other room. Wally, you're listening to Rogan?

Wally has been a little anti-vax. I mean, I guess they both are. Neither of them got that shot. Is it available for cats? I didn't think it was. It should be. It should be. We agree.

It should be. I remember there was fear early on that, like you could give it. Like there was like some, like a dog had had it. Right. They give it to animals. It's good that that wasn't the case because, man, that would have just been extra grim on top of everything awful that we all endured. I think Spud's McKenzie got it.

The bushes baked bean dog got it. That's right. It only affected living mascots for food brands. Celebrities. I think they were out and like, I think they didn't, you know what I mean? They were all partying. They were all hanging out. Like it was like, did you see, because Grape Ape had that Instagram post

where he like got an island and like everyone was out there and they were all fighting. No one was massed. It was like Fight Island, yeah. They called it Fuck Island. They were pretty transparent about what was going on there. They were like chilling here at Fuck Island with all my bros, you know, and then like the Cookie Crisp Wolf was there.

They were all fucking and sucking some nasty shit. Of course they got it. Hey, if Spud's comes around with a grape colored pup, you know what happened. Grape Ape. I'd have to spell it out more, did I? No, I think we got it. Anyways, how the hell did Spud Nation once again, or Slice Nation, should I say? We're not going to go back around.

This is an inception, not inception. What's the one that goes backwards? Invictus? What? No, that's the, no, it's Tenet. It's Tenet. Invictus is the other movie. That's like the Morgan Freeman movie, right?

Hmm, I guess so. He was also on Fuck Island with the, he was there with all the mascot animals. It was weird. There were a few human celebrities there as well. Yeah. Corey Feldman, you know, the people you always see at stuff. Corey Feldman, birthday boy alum, great guy. Oh, how about that?

Very nice when he did the show. Wags here is... Weirdly, Madeleine Albright was there? Yeah. I guess she's having fun retirement. Hey, go wild, I say. Her and Tony the Tiger were like getting pretty close in a pic. I saw them kind of cozy enough together.

Yeah, I saw like, there was like a weird, there was like an Instagram story where Spud Mackenzie, it was like, it was like, how about a, how about Madeleine Albright's Titsa, and he goes, they're great. It's like Jesus Christ. And she said, yeah, they said, how was your night last night? And she also, she did the, yeah, she said, it was great. And it was like, does that mean? Invictus was directed by Clint Eastwood with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.

And it was the Nelson Mandela movie from 2009. It also sounds like a Harry Potter spell, like I said. Invictus. Right. Harry Potter was also on the island. Not Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter, the character. Harry Potter, the character. Yeah.

It sounds like, it doesn't, it sounds like a Harry Potter spell. Yeah. Not fighting you on that. Do you have a drop or not? What did, what did, uh, what did Harry Potter's, uh, landlord say? Evictus. Evictus. Very good.

Now for a joke that I just came up with, a brand new original joke. I liked it. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Yeah. Wise. All right. What was, uh, what was, what was Harry Potter searching for, uh, what porno

videos was he searching for? Oh. Incessitas. Fucking nasty. I don't have a brother or sister. I would like to watch it happen. This is awful. Here we go.

Here's, here's, here's, here's the start. Here's a little drop. Ah, fuck. Here's, here's a little drop. God damn it. Everyone relax. Hold on. This is my recital.

I think it's very vital to rock around. That's right on time. It's tricky. Here we go. It's tricky to rock around, to rock around. That's right on time. It's tricky. It's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky.

It's tricky to rock around, to rock around. That's right on time. It's tricky. Triggin' pie is on. Triggin' pie is what I'm all about. Ah, I want it to some other fucking drop. That's the embarrassing thing with the drops. Yeah, that's the embarrassing thing.

It goes. Once it's over, it goes into like these little songs, like these little songs. What a fucking dick I sound like. It goes into other songs that people made. Like if you made a song for your grandma, like, I love you, Grammy. I love you, Grand. Like then it will go right into that song. And then it will play.

You get what I'm saying? Grandson, that song sucked. I'm going to die now. Goodbye. And I wasn't going to before this. Your song made me decide that I'm going to die. Grab on though. Come on.

No, I'm going to walk into the ocean. With stones in my pocket. What happens to an old granny when she gets wrinkly in the ocean? Does she smooth out? Grandma, you look like a million bucks. Okay. Hey, everybody, this is too great. This episode, we're off.

We're really trying to, we have like one of the best guests you could possibly have on any podcast or anything. And we're really sandbagging her up top. All right, here we go. Just giving, just digging the deepest ditch to climb out of. Hey, everybody. It is funny if the grandma comes out looking like a looking good. Grandma, you should swim more often.

Fact, you're looking hot. Oh, yes, this is what I was searching for. Oh, fucking nasty freak. Yeah, maybe I'm gonna have to check out some incestous. I have one extra ticket to fuck Island. Grandma, grandma, please, please bring me. I am bringing who's the oat guy? The Quaker Oat Guy?

I'm bringing the Quaker Oat Man. Hey, everybody, here's a quick drop that I couldn't get out of my head after hearing Mitch say it's tricky on the Jason Sheridan episode. I didn't have to adjust the speed of the clips at all. Mitch nailed Run DMC's tempo without even trying. Wow. No evidence that Mitch's song will definitely hit number one when it comes out, which it will.

Chris, Chris Finke. So, hold on, Chris Finke. Chris Finke. He has a pronoun. He had it pronounced right next to it, Chris Finke. Um, sounds like what a shark would use to open up the door to his home. Mitch, today's guest. Returning to the show, an actor and comedian from Duncanville

and the podcast, We Love Trash, Betsy Sadaro is back. Hi, Betsy. Oh, thank you for having me. I got to say, I knew Harry Potter was a pervert, man. I knew it. I knew it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You read between the lines.

It was all right there. Betsy, we are so, so happy to have you back in the studio. And we were realizing that it's the first time we've had you on the show since we've, you did our last live shows before quarantine, Salt Lake City and Denver, near your hometown of Breckenridge, back in March of 2020. Literally, our Denver shows we've recapped numerous times in the podcast was the night that Tom Hanks announced he had COVID. Back then, I think we just were calling it coronavirus and the NBA

suspended their season. And we learned both of those, those news items before stepping on stage in front of a bunch of people. Right. That was so like, because I remember you guys hit me up being like, do you want to go like there's this, there's this, I don't know, disease had this virus happening. Right.

I was like, no, if you guys are cool, I'm cool with it. And it was still, it was so much fun. But it was constantly like, are we, are we safe? Is this okay? We were not. We were not. No, we weren't.

No, not at all. We were not safe and it was not okay. No, we did it. We, I don't know what the deal was, but we, we had, we had Q&As, which, which Weigar and I had set up and we had, we had the, we had anti-bacterial. What do we have? We have, what does it call the anti-bacterial fucking? Yeah.

The, the meat, not the Q&A in the show, but the meat agreed after the show where people can come by and say, hi, which we, which we love and we can't, we weren't able to do in New York city because of COVID protocols. But Emma, our producer had like anticipated everything. She was like, I've got hand sanitizer for everybody. And, you know, and it was the, the usage rate of hand sanitizer by people coming up to shake our hands and hug us was like, I would say about 4%. Most people were like, I don't need that shit.

I mean, we, we, we said to him, we were like, we got hand sanitizers and like, I'm good. Like people said that multiple times. It was wild. Um, but we, I used it after I shook everyone's hand and I, uh, but I was doing that before any coronavirus. That's what I was at, Mitch. Like everybody's like, whoa, we should like start washing our hands and

cleaning airplanes. And I was like, we weren't doing that. Come on. Come on. It doesn't make sense that we would, we would go on tour and Nick, we've talked about this before, but like, I would get sick after like every time and it was just like, oh wait, people are disgusting. And I have a weak immune system, but right.

I, I like, uh, you know, dough boys, fans, you want to, you want to get some Purell on your hands because it's probably barbecue sauce or whatever. But a lot of people turned it down, but it also was very early. I mean, I don't think we were wearing masks. I had a mask. Well, it was funny Betsy because I remember you stayed in the area cause we were, we were in near your, uh, your hometown, right? Yeah.

And so you stuck around, which was, which kind of worked out well for you. Nick and I like abandon ship. We canceled the, uh, Arizona show. We, we flew back to LA and then, and then it kind of, it kind of, it went from there. Really, it really started from there, but we didn't, I had a face mask, which I had during the Q and A, but I didn't really wear it. I wore it, I wore it as a bit. Why?

You wore it as a bit. When I went out on the stage in Salt Lake city, I wore that, which is our first show. I wore it as a bit. I wore the face mask as a bit and people laughed, but I did have it on standby during like the, the, the meet and greet, but I didn't wear it. And then remember we were in the airport and a nurse told me not to wear it. It was an N 95. She was like, that won't do anything.

It was so strange. Yeah. She was like, you don't need that. You don't need that. Kind of sending me because I was wearing it in the airport. Yeah. Um, which is wild, which is just, I mean, it just shows you the roller coaster was, but Betsy, that was the last time we saw you in person.

That, that's not true because we did, we did, we did have a, a Taco Bell chowdown on the High and Mighty podcast outdoors. Remember that in our backyard? Yeah. Wow. That ruled actually. That was actually, that was so fun. That was like so fun.

And that feels like it was five years ago. It does. I completely forgot about it. That was, that was, that was huge. That was a, because we hadn't seen too many people at that point. No, I haven't seen you back since the world's gone, got back to, I can't really say normal, but I haven't seen you since the world's been, uh, I know we got to hang out now that it's a little bit safer.

Yeah, I agree. Let's get Taco Bell again. Oh my God, I would love it. Yeah. What, what has your, uh, you know, like in, in recent months and then, and we talked a lot about the early days of, of quarantine, but as things have started to normalize, like, has that changed your, your meal habits at all? Have you been going out to eat more or ordering in less?

I, you know, I think it's been staying pretty, uh, pretty even because even during pandemic, I was like, I'm going to still order a bunch of food because it's fun, you know? And now it is a little bit more like, Oh, I'll go out. Why, I don't go out that much. But yeah, I feel it's been pretty even keeled of just like, okay, still having some treats during the week, like ordering out or going out, but also still kind of hunkering down.

And yeah, yeah. How about you guys? It's been a, like, we've kind of gotten into a habit of we're, we're, we're cooking four nights a week as a baseline. Like that's like, like, like four dinners as, you know, as like a minimum. And that's actually worked really well for us. Cause also that doesn't put too much pressure on, on either me or Natalie. Cause it's just like, we each get, we each cover two nights, basically.

And then if we do an extra night beyond that, that's a bonus. And then, um, yeah, usually something, something cheap, uh, to, for, for an out meal and then maybe one out meal where maybe, maybe you haven't gotten something a little nicer or, you know, dining in at some place that's got like a safe, you know, safer sort of outdoor space, a few indoor spaces here and there. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I was home with mother for a long time. So that's right. Oh, right. I, uh, I started calling her mother as a joke. And now it just feels real. And now I can't not say it. Um, I, uh, it's true. I, um, I, so I was eating a lot of at home meals, though, I would

pick some stuff up sometimes back in LA. Who knows what will happen. I got to, I got to cut some, I got to shed some pounds, especially after I was lined up that the Italian barber who want to maybe look like, uh, Ricardo Maltabon. Yes. Uh, cut my beard really short and show me a nice, uh, pandemic turkey neck. I mean, it's always been there.

I just, you're, that's one of the things you're more self-conscious about than other people notice, but because it's a, it's a thing that you, you think that is a flaw of your own, that you like your, your laser and on it, I totally, I totally understand that feeling. You're saying me or people in general, I'm saying you, I'm not saying, no, I'm not saying people, I'm saying you personally, like you're focused on it.

But like, I think other people are like, unless you point it out, aren't really noticing it. Nick, I'm a house. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta slim down to a condo. I'm too big. Maybe townhouse, townhouse is, I'd love to get down to a condo. I'd be weirded out, man. It would be too, it would be too strange.

You're not a condo, Mitch. Come on. Hello, Betsy. It's me, Mitch. I'm now a condo. Okay. Well, just don't tell me you call your mom mother for reals. Well, while I've always called mother mother for real, I, yeah,

becoming principal skinner, I guess. Um, Nick, I think the New York of it all, we were, we were just in New York City. Yes, that's right. We were walking around New York City. Nick, did you have any good eats there or did you, or not? And Betsy, do you have, do you have any favorite spots in NYC? Have you been in a while? We used to do the Del Close Marathon there.

Oh yeah, we did. I haven't been in a very long time. Since I think the last DCM that was there, like 2018, maybe. Yeah. Yeah, it's a few years now. Yeah. Yeah. We, we went for, I, this was my first trip, I think, since a previous

Doe Boyz show we'd done there. Uh, and I, as far as good eats, I'll say this, I was texting, we were texting, Mitch, you and I were texting with our, our, our friends Griffin and David from the Blank CheckPod guest, our Blank Doe text thread. And you and I both had the experience of getting some like random at like late night slices from some like three star place on Yelp place and just being like, this is like better than this would be some of the better pizza in LA. It's just like the, it's just like a different tier of pizza there that's

available, at least in terms of like the cheaper by the slice pizzas. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I, it was, it was called Lavera, I believe, the place that we went to. Yes. And I think there might be more than one of them, or maybe they're just multiple places, name that, but it was, uh, it was very good. I, I, I wanted to get to John's of Bleaker wise.

I didn't get to John's of Bleaker, which is on my pizza tour. It's a, the pizza tour that I did the last time I went to New York city. That was the one place I didn't, I didn't, uh, mark off, but I had some good food. I went, I went on a bar tour. I went on a bar crawl, a cocktail tour with, uh, Jack Shram, who's, um, who gave us those jelly cakes, the salt, the solid wiggles. Yeah. Um, which were, which were great, but I went to a few great bars and, and

why see, and then I went to a great steak house. I had one of the best steak sandwiches of my life. It was, it was a good trip. Wow. Wait, I didn't hear about the steak sandwich. Should I get some details? Uh, well, it was, uh, I didn't tell you about it yet. It was a suspense.

It was, it was keen steakhouse. Uh, uh, I had to, I had keen steakhouse on, uh, my last day there, um, with friend of the pod, Kyle Moody, Moony, Jesus friend, friend of the pod, Kyle Moony. We had, uh, we had a nice lunch. Uh, we saw Hanford and it was, it was, it was great to be back. It felt a little bit more like the world had opened up a little bit. I will say I bought a guest gym pass at, to just like try to like not, you know, try to do some, like, just a minimal amount of exercise.

And I figured if I bought one in advance, it would force me to go and it did. So that was good, uh, just cause I was like, I knew I was going to be eating like shit and drinking excessively the whole fucking weekend. Um, and, uh, and, and I went into the gym and I was surprised that New York City gyms, unlike LA gyms, no masks, everyone's maskless. Vaccine is required to enter, which is good. But I mean, like, but you go inside and not even the employees are wearing masks. Everyone's working out maskless.

And that was like probably one of the more jarring, uh, indoor space experiences I've had in some time. Yeah, it was really, really wild. I mean, New York was good with checking the, the, the vaccination card. It was, it was, uh, it was kind of cool. It was great. Yes. It made you feel more at ease a little bit.

I don't know. I mean, I know it's just a piece of paper that you could probably just make up, but you know, yes. And then I did make up. Yeah. You forged your mom's signature on it. You just wrote mother. It's going to happen in LA, they're going to start requiring, um, which a lot of

places kind of already were, or that I would go to like bars and stuff already were like, right, you got to show your, your vaccination card in order to get in. Please. Please, just, just please show it. Yeah. Please show it. Can I see the card? Shut up.

Okay. Go in. Okay, never mind. I was just in Montreal and I had one of the wildest meals I've ever had in my life. Where'd you go? Let me, I'm going to, I'm going to absolutely butcher the name cause it's French and opiate to Koshan. Yes.

Wow. You nailed it. Betsy, I was, I was just talking about this on another episode that won't come out till later, but opiate to Koshan is a, is a great, uh, is a great, uh, is a, it's a great, I went with my mom and dad years ago. It's awesome. And Mitch, you sound very French. That was good.

I'm always like, you pronounce every letter, right? And they're like, Oh God, no. It was, it was incredible. Wow. And like I went with, um, how many, four, I think four other people who were down to go nuts. And so we know. We ordered, um, do you know Brandon Scott Jones?

Oh yeah. You know him? Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, it was, uh, just a bunch of really rad people who are on that, the new CBS show ghosts, check it out. And we had two different types of foie gras, which was so good. And then duck in a can.

Yeah. That's the big one. Yeah. My mom got that when I was there. Did you, did you, did you have like the liquefied foie gras, the one that's like in a little cube? No, no, what did we had? I don't know.

It was, they were just, it was not in the cube. Wait, was it? No, it was not. It's like fried. And then you kind of break it open your mouth and it's kind of liquefied. That, that, that's the. No, we did not have that one. Uh, and then like some of the best pork chop I've ever had some incredible

pasta, it ruled, it was really rad. That rules. It's such a good restaurant. I haven't been in forever, but it's, it's so, I've been, I've been a couple of times, but it's, uh, it's, it's so, so, so good. Um, which I learned from the, uh, Wags, like I told you, I was a early adopter of the Bourdain of Bourdain show. And, and so when the birthday boys were up in, um,

and, uh, Montreal for, for just for laughs years ago, my mom and dad and I went back when like your parents thought you should go to like a lot of these shows, my parents are there. I think that was like the last time where they're like, Oh, we don't have to like go to these. So it was probably like 2008 or something, 2007, 2008. Right. Right.

My parents still talk about the corn sketch. Uh, Wow. Cause they were in town around Thanksgiving, I think, and we all did like a Thanksgiving sketch show or something. And they cons like everything's given their, did you bring the corn? Did a bunch of people bring corn into my car? I remember, I remember guys.

I remember every, like I guarantee it's going to happen this year. Like who's bringing the corn? I'm just happy that anyone fondly remembers that sketch at all. Yeah, my parents loved it. Loved it. They were the people in the audience, not checking their watches during this 12 minute sketch with like 80 beats of the same joke. So this was a corn's giving, which was a sketch, which your group, uh, the

birthday boys in my group, a kiss from daddy, uh, Mitch did as a group sketch, a joint sketch, everything's giving it was just longer, longer, longer than any SNL cold open in history, possibly. Right. It was so long. Yes. I, that's amazing that your pair, that your parents to retain that and that have fixated on that.

How about that? Yeah, right? Ever. Yeah. Cause I can't remember. It was at, it was a show at sunset. Um, and I think like, you know, I'm giving it sunset, dear God. You see theater at two, two stages in LA sunset was the newer, more recent stage.

Yeah. So it was one of those shows. And yeah, they just, everything's giving my dad. It kills him. It's great. That rules. Let, let's talk corn real quick. Are you a corn fan?

Yes. I'm, I'm, I think popped popcorn, popcorn, but give me corn on the cob. I will go to town, man. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I love that corn on the cob. Uh, I, I, hey, I'll take a creamed corn oftentimes over a cream spinach as much

as I love cream spinach, cream corn can, can do you proper. I had some great creamed corn from this, this restaurant. This is one on one of our, our sit down, uh, meals in this, this outdoor courtyard space who went to this restaurant violet and they had this cream corn side that was to, it was delicious. It was delectable. It was so good. Well, you know, I also like an alote asado.

Hmm. That's always, it's a super fun treat. So I like was blown away when I was like, wait, you could put like mayo on corn. Right. That's awesome. Like, I don't know why I always was just like, I guess just butter and salt. And then it's like, wait, no, you can go big with corn. Hmm.

I, you know what I found out recently? Uh-huh. I think, I think corn hurts my tummy. Really? I think corn is hard to digest, but just in general, but I think corn hurts my, my, my tummy a little bit. Like, yeah. Michael, I prepared dinner for tonight.

Corn. This is just the corn's giving sketch again. Your, your mom is reenacting corn's giving by herself. I've learned a magic trick. Jesus, the sketch got fucking weird. The sketch is at the end, I bring a turkey. Well, everyone talks about how I've had crying fits. That was the, the joke within the sketch up top is that I'm a, a person who has

a crying fit, I'm gonna burst into tears. Right. That I'm going to burst into tears, which I think Neil and probably you pitched on or I don't know what the deal is, but you all want me to look like a huge loser. And then at the end, I come with a turkey. Yes. Right. Tim Calpacus is his character who's, we've already established as a magician.

Who earlier brought a magic hat full, like a top hat full of corn. Full of corn. Yes. He uses his cape and his cape turns my turkey into corn. So also magic is real in this sketch. Magic is real in this sketch. And it's like, so I, I have a tray that's like in the, in like, it's tin foil in the shape of turkey.

And then like, he goes like, Alakazam. And then we pulls off the tin foil and it's revealed to be just a huge pile of corn. Yes. And then we tell him to turn it back. And he says he hasn't learned that part of the trick yet. That's right. And then we throw all the corn away.

We throw it outside. We throw, we're like, let's get rid of this corn because you say, well, first wise, you do say, this corn is pissing me off. And you know what happens when something pisses me off, it gets pissed on. Yeah. When Weigar gets pissed off, something gets pissed on. When Weigar gets pissed off, something gets pissed on. Yeah.

You pull out your, your dick and start, and you start pissing corn or later on, like you said, it was then a corn cob at one point. Yeah. And the, in the first iteration, I had a, I had a squeeze bottle that I would try to, to squeeze corn niblets out of as like a urine stream, but that was a harder stunt to pull off that gag would sometimes like, you know, it just wouldn't, it just wouldn't always work effectively. So it got changed to just having a corn cob for a dick and me being surprised by it.

So you had a corn cob for a dick. Uh-huh. This is, by the way, this is, this is, I think us retelling this is probably better than the sketch itself. And then we say, get rid of corn, like get rid of all the corn. So we put it in trash bags and throw it outside. Yeah. And then we watch TV during the big game, during the football game.

There's an update that corn is now money. And corn, corn is now like the recognized currency within the United States. Yeah. And so we go and bring the corn in and people start stuffing the corn in their pockets and some people start eating the corn for some reason. Also eating the corn. I remember eating the corn and stuffing it in their pockets. I remember one year, Dave Ferguson from the birthday boys, uh, past Doughboy's

guest took out and later my boss on a couple of jobs, um, took out his wallet and said, uh, let's see that dick, Nick. And then, and then I pissed corn into his wallet and that was like an ad lib. That wasn't in the sketch. And then the sketch ends with me crying. I get up on the table and I cry. Yeah. Yes.

Sturdy ass table. Um, anyways. It's a perfect sketch. It heightens and explores, it blows out the world. It's perfect. Jesus Christ. Yep. Yeah, it is.

Yep. It's great. It's perfect. Thanks, Betsy. You're welcome. Anyway, well, I had a couple, I know dog dough bark faceted ended, but I had a couple of, uh, dogs while I was there too. I went to a few cool bar spots that Jack shown me in the hand man and Kyle.

And we went to, uh, Temple bar, Katana, Kitty, uh, and, uh, uh, Temple bar, Katana, Kitty, what else did we go to, uh, Maison premiere and, uh, PDT. And so I'm bringing this up because PDT is called, please don't tell. It was a tassel place called Kriff dogs where they had deep fried Rippers wigs and you could get the dogs in the, in the bar. So it was like a fancy cocktail lounge where you could order the, and they had a David Chang dog. It was, they had a, and that was fantastic.

They had a lot of great dogs. So if you're ever, if you're ever in New York City, check out all those bars. I mean, give them business. They were great. Um, but yeah, what are your, it was a good time. What, what's your hot dog preferences? How do you like your, how do you like a dog? Oh man.

I love a dog that's just like covered in stuff. I love it when it's just like, like, um, there's this place, Gilly and I, we got season tickets to the Pasadena playhouse, like right before everything shut down and there's a place right across from it called the stand where they just have like burgers and hot dogs and fries and you get to build your own hot dogs. And so we would always be like, let's go there before shows. And like sometimes you're more excited for the hot dogs and the shows.

There were a couple of shows that we walked out of one for sure. Um, but. Corn's giving the play. It was like that Harry Potter show where it's like, wait, it's two, three hour shows back to back. We can't do this. You walked, you walked out when they said incestus, incestus and you were out of there. Yeah, that was four hours into it.

Then I was fed up. No, that's too nasty. That's too nasty Harry Potter. But you get to build your own dog. Um, and you can get like bacon wrapped, which I love a bacon ramped hot dog. And then it is like, I don't know. I love just kind of trying a bunch of different combos on hot dogs. Like I love a classic Chicago style, you know, but then yeah, I like just putting

anything and everything on a hot dog and seeing if it works or not. I was looking up the, as you were, as you were talking through this, the stand sounded familiar. I've not been to the Pasadena one, but I think there's one in Century City that I have been to. And yeah, that's a good dog spot. And they've also got like sandwiches too. Oh nice.

Yeah. It's good and really good fries and fun sauces to dunk everything in, which is just the best. Sounds like, sounds like the place we got today. Right? Wow, they have some sauces for sure. They got some fun dunkers. Yeah, they do.

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Why? So I'm going to Costa Rica with the family. It's going to be a lot of fun. Going to maybe see a monkey. Oh, that's fun. Going to maybe see a bird. Just that, just a one monkey, one bird. That's it.

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neighborhood just south of UCLA in 2012. Mitch, are we here? We're here, and boy, we're here in some yard work or something on your mic, I think. Yeah, that's there. Yeah, now it's right by my door. Well, we'll power through it. Man, the Halloween season lawnmower man is at my fucking door.

Oh, boy. I read that short story. It's scary, man. Wow. I've heard the short story is pretty different from the movie. I've not seen the movie, but from what I understand, it's very different. Yeah.

The movie has a lot of VR stuff, which I'm not sure if... Or I don't know if it... Is it actually VR or is it just like early CG meant to represent him being in a digital reality? Like, I don't really remember. And if you guessed it looks great, you were right. It looks fantastic. Oh, yeah, that's...

Because if I'm remembering correctly, the short story, he's like this monster. That's all I got. I'm now like, I didn't read it and I remember being blown away, but now trying to describe him like, and then it was a monster. It was cool, though. And it feels very different from what the movie ended up being, but it's a fun little read.

Yeah, check it out. It's been for... I might have to revisit the series. I probably won't read it. Look, it's just not going to happen at this point. Mitch, it's a short story if that's... Oh, all right. If that's tempting, a pretty quick short story.

I could read it to you. You know what? Man, that'd be awesome. Sounds like a double. Sounds like a double. Yeah. People would pay good money for... I mean, I'd gladly read you guys Lawnmower Man.

That's the audiobooks. That's great. Yes. So 800 degrees opens in 2012. We mentioned, Mitch, we previously reviewed Blaise Pizza, partially owned by LeBron James. Well, his Miami Heat... It stinks.

We didn't have a great time at Blaise. His Miami Heat teammate, Dwayne Wade, was an investor and had a franchise of 800 degrees. So they were kind of competing on that front. The original location did close in 2018, but it now has locations in California, New York City, the Midwest, and Florida, as well as overseas locations in Japan, Singapore, and the UAE.

Had anyone besides myself... We'll start with you, Betsy. Bend to 800 degrees before this episode. Yes, when the one in Hollywood opened up, they did a deal where they would give you a free pizza. And so, me and Mano and Gilly were like, yeah, let's go, and then we just never went back. Mmm, wow.

So you took the free pizza and just left them in the dust. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I left the big dump in the toilet and be like, That's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've had this... The Hollywood location as well on Vine. Yeah.

Yes. I've had 800 degrees before and I used to... I had the pizza, but I also would like... Sometimes just get a salad and meatballs for dinner. Like, I get a salad and then the side of the meatballs. And I'll say this, I liked it. I don't know why I stopped going there, really. I think it just kind of fell out.

I don't know if it was a thing of I didn't see it on apps or the delivery got harder to do or something, but I didn't get it delivered too much anymore. But always a fan. And then I'll get into more when we try it today. But I thought like that. I was like, oh, their sides are like pretty good. I mean, like, look, here's the deal is that this place is not...

I think that... What is LeBron's place again? There's Blaze Pizza and we also previously reviewed Mod Pizza, which are both similar concepts. Blaze and Mod are like... I think you're going to get a cheaper deal at these places. Sure. Look, I'm just going to outright say it.

I think it's damn good. I think the place is damn good. It's definitely... And I was thinking this through and I was like, it's definitely at minimum a full fork better than either Blaze or Mod, which we were both already had pretty bad experiences. I agree. I like 800 degrees.

I haven't been, I think, since quarantine, but we would go fairly regularly. There was one in Santa Monica. And one thing that they had is, and that's the location I went to for this visit, one thing 800 degrees has, speaking of deals, not the free pizza, but they will have a daily pizza special

that's no substitutions and it's half price. And so if you're not picky and you just want to go in and get a cheaper pizza, you'll go in and it'll be whatever. It's got Romanesco and barbecue chicken or whatever combo they want to... Or they have surplus product they want to get rid of. And that's what you have for the day, but it's a damn good deal and it's usually a very solid pie.

I'll say this. I got the app for this most recent 800 degrees experience and I regret to inform you that the app is crap. It's just not really well done and it's more focused on rewards than actually ordering. Ordering is a little cumbersome. And because it's a made-to-order place where you can customize it,

it's just clunky in terms of what options... A place like Chipotle breaks it down by each component. This one, just everything's in one big long list. Like all the sauces, all the toppings, all the cheeses and everything. The meat and veggies are mixed together and it's just a little bit hard to navigate. That's not... You know what? The website was not great either.

But that's sad to hear and maybe it's holding it back a little bit. Maybe the app being crap isn't helping 800 degrees. I know. I bail on stuff if it's hard to navigate. I bail in a heartbeat. I bail in a heartbeat. I'm like, uh-uh. I don't know how to do this. I'm going to the thing I know. Yeah, ease of use is a huge...

I mean, that's why some of those horrible delivery apps, which I used even to get delivered like Postmates or whatever, it's just ease of use or whatever. But in there can be really horrible. But why is that one? Because I feel like 800 isn't... I know it's not as big as the other ones, but it doesn't feel like it's as popular.

And after the meal, I'm wondering why. No, it doesn't have as many locations. I'm wondering why. Mitch, I agree with you and I wonder if it just might be like a business plan side of thing, because I think the quality is definitely there. We talked about the supply chain endlessly on this podcast and every fucking podcast talks about it,

because it's all anyone can think about. But it's like when NFTs or Karens or whatever, it's just like the thing that's in the zeitgeist right now, except this one threatens to disrupt the completely toppled the global economy. You know what sucks? Yeah. I ordered a bunch of NFTs.

I can't get them because of the damn supply chain. And then I go down there and guess what? Yeah. A Karens is the one who's holding the whole thing up. So they were just out of a ton of stuff. Mitch, you mentioned that they have good sides and a lot of the sides were just unavailable. They're just all out of stock.

Many of the desserts were out of stock, which is fine. You know, we don't go to these places for desserts anyway, but just a thing to keep in mind and that a lot of the stuff was just unavailable. That said, the pie I thought was pretty damn good and that's the reason you go to a pizza place. Yeah. Why is the pie was good?

And you know what? The sides were good. And you know what? Everything I had was good. Spoiler alert. I only had a complaint about one item, which I'll get to, but Betsy, I'm curious, what was your order? What did you get pizza-wise?

We'll start there. So pizza-wise, I got the pepperoni one that they're like, this is like a popular item and I added jalapenos. I've been on a big jalapeno cake. And I noticed when I ordered it on Grubhub and I noticed that there was an option for well done and I was like, that seems weird, but I wish I did well done.

I still enjoyed it, but it's such a thin crust that I wanted it to be a little crispier, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was, but everything was good and it has those, the fun cup pepperonis, you know, when pepperonis turn into a little cup. Those are the best pepperonis and the jalapenos were good. I've replaced all the drinking cups in my house

with cupped pepperoni. They're really good for the environment because you just eat them when you're done. Yeah, it's perfect. Just tiny little, oh. I will say, you do have to refill quite a bit. You gotta refill a lot, you gotta refill a lot. Yeah, so that was the pizza I got.

And then I got three different ranches to dunk. Yeah, baby. It is, man. I got the original ranch, the truffle ranch, and then what was that? Like, I guess kind of the spicy ranch. They have a Calabria and chili ranch, which is the one I got. That's the one I got, yeah.

Betsy, let me tell you, the three ranches I got, the original ranch, the truffle ranch, and the chili ranch. A one, two, three, a three ranch. We matched our ranches. Wow, the ranch triforce. How about that? Nick, what ranches did you get? I think, thank you for asking.

I only got the Calabria and chili ranch. Yeah, humiliating. I wish I'd gotten, because they have, I think, a pesto ranch that I was intrigued by, but I was like, but I know their ranches are pretty substantial, and I was just one man, and I was eating there, so I was like, I don't want to get, I don't want to over order,

but I should have gotten a second or third ranch. Their dipping sauces, I think, are damn good. Their ranches are thick, and you know, I'm not a huge dip in the crust and the ranch, but it worked out. If you just do a little dab of it, especially if you got one of the spicy pizzas, which I did get, I got a spicy pizza.

But yeah, that ranch is close to blue cheese. And they have a blue cheese ranch as well. Like, it's not a blue cheese dressing, it's a blue cheese ranch, yeah. I really wanted to get every ranch, but then it was like, wait, it's $1.30, that must be a lot of ranch, and it is like, oh yeah, that's a bowl of ranch. Don't worry, I'll eat it,

but there's a lot of ranch in my fridge. Yeah, it's a substantial amount of ranch. Here's one of my few complaints. It's not even a complaint, but the original ranch and the truffle ranch, very close to each other, the truffle is subtle. But you can taste it, you can taste the truffle, but it's a little bit more subtle.

But yeah, no, these things are, they're thick, just a little, all you need is like a half, not even like a half a dunk. You just need a little, you don't need to, you don't need to scoop it up onto your pie, why, because you just need a little taste of it. It's the real deal, yeah. I think they're, yes, Betsy is right, that it is an add-on, it is an added cost,

but you do get a lot of it. And so I think that's the thing to do at 800 degrees. I think you always want to get at least one little dip and cup. Maybe if you're a party of two, you get one to share, but they're fun, and they enhance the pizza. Mitch, tell us about your pie. Well, why don't you want to hear about my apps first? Oh, we're backing it up to apps?

Appetizers? You're going to go straight to the pie? Don't you want the apps first? I know. Don't tease me, tell me about the pie. Give us the pie. Oh, you all want the pie, do you? We want the pie.

Tee hee hee hee hee. Maybe I'll just start with the apps. Tee hee hee. Oh, no. Oh, God. Mitch, if you start with the apps. Michael, I want to hear about the pie. All right, Wags, I know that you're going to,

if I don't give it to you, Wags is going to bust in a second here. So here we go. Jesus Christ. I'll start with the apps, in fact. I got the meatball appetizer, Wags. Grass-fed beef, ricotta, tomato, pecorino, basil, grilled bread. It was good. I've had this before and the ricotta cheese is nice in there.

This is what I was talking about getting the meatball app and the salad. It was like it makes a good dinner. The bread wasn't great this time. It was kind of small slice pieces of bread and I thought the bread used to be kind of like bigger and more grilled and kind of more substantial. And it wasn't as much this time. And that goes for the other app I got, which is the Berrata. I got the Berrata, which is cherry tomato, pesto.

There's like kind of like a pesto oily deal there. Wild arugula and grilled bread. And the bread is that way. So the bread was kind of the issue on both of them. Both good though. I mean, $9 for both of them. So a little bit more pricey, but like they give you a chunk of Berrata. You know, it's the real deal.

And the meatball is pretty, I thought the meatball is pretty fantastic. So I really enjoyed my app Swags. Now, I guess it's time to get into the pizzas. I don't want to tease you anymore. Or maybe I'll just tell you about my salad instead. Come on, tell us about the pie. Well, if you're going to talk about your salad and your apps, I feel like Betsy should get a chance to talk about anything she ordered

that was not a pizza pie. All right, fair game. I got the wings. And I got the wings. I got the wings and I got them with their like sweet chili sauce. And they were good. They were really good. I will say they were the tiny, tiny wings, you know?

Where it's kind of like, oh, yeah, yeah, this is a little bird. This is a little tiny bird, but they were still very good. And I was like, I could eat all of these so quick, but I'll chill out. Was it, was it Tweety? It felt very Tweety. It felt very Tweety. It was Tweety. It was, yeah, it was Tweety.

It was Tweety. You know, I heard that actually they got to him because he was threatening to blow the roof off of a fuck island. He was going to testify. Fucking deep state, man. Sylvester was like, be cool, Tweety. Come on. I heard that Sylvester and Tweety kind of got along on fuck island,

but then Tweety kind of thought. I heard that Tweety was like, was really going hard after Sylvester. Sylvester said, no. And then Tweety's like, okay, I'm exposing everyone. Oh my God. Man, that's crazy. That's just another layer to it. Yeah.

Celebrities, man. It's a different world. They're not like us. Okay. Come on. Hey, you know what I heard about? You know what I heard about fuck island? What?

Chester Cheetah. Mm-hmm. Like he's not only fast as a cheetah, but he also was really quick and bitch. Sorry. Yeah, that is good. That is good. I liked it.

I was trying to think of premature ejaculation. I couldn't think of the word for it. And now I got it. Yeah. Anyways, I didn't get any of the wings, but I've had them before, Betsy. Yeah. And I think that I agree with you.

I think they're good. I think they're fun. I rarely think any chain wings are great wings outside of a wing stop in Buffalo Wild Wings. Like, and I don't know if you would classify those as great, but I'd say they're good. Those are good wings. So for this place, they're different.

It's a different kind of, it's a different kind of, they're baked, right? They're like a baked wing. I think so, yeah. Yeah. And they were good, like kind of a crunchy outside, which I really like kind of a crispy skin. And then, yeah, they felt kind of on par with,

which I'm not mad at, like Domino's, or which I like those wings too. But yeah, exactly. I kind of just that like chain, classic chain, good chicken wing. So they're wood fired, so they're oven roasted, not fried. So that's, but it was, did you get creamy blue cheese ranch dip with them? No, I think I picked the spicy one with them. Wow. Which by the way, good choice.

That is a good one. It was really good. I'm excited to dunk stuff in it, probably after this podcast. Just be like, what else can I dunk in this, man? Yeah, they were good. Did you just get the wings? Did you get any other apps? Nope.

I got wings and a pizza. Well, Mitch, I didn't get a salad, but I did, because as far as I could tell, their salads, they didn't have a clean, like veggie option. Like they have a Caesar dressing, but it doesn't stand. Yeah. Did you see 800 degree, 800 degree salad and your eyes pop out of your head? Like, I was excited about hot salad.

No, I want a room temp salad or a cold salad. I don't eat hot salad. They don't have good, like, prefab, veggie salads, at least as far as I could tell on the app. They all had, like, added meat or the Caesar you can never trust if that's going to have anchovy in the dressing or not, and they didn't have, there wasn't clarity on the ingredients there. I think it does.

I think there is anchovy in the dressing. Yeah, I think it might. So I opted for, as my appetizer, the hummus and pita plate, which is more of a, it's more of a, of honestly more of an entree, but it's a pretty damn good value because you get a, you get a tub of hummus, you get a bunch of bread that's been, pita bread that's been warmed in that oven.

So it's nice and toasty. And then you get two sides. I went with the roasted potatoes and the farm greens, and then you get a sauce. I chose the Peruvian green sauce, which was like a drizzle. I didn't really see much of the green sauce. I think it's possible they forgot it some, but that's fine. There were like two people working there in a huge restaurant.

So, you know, no complaints there. But the farm greens were nice. They were simple and the roasted potatoes, I wish had just been a little crispier because like the whole thing is like, yeah, you have that 800 degree oven, you can fire them in. Like I wish they're just been a little bit more crunch to them. But they were good quality.

The hummus and Mitch, you consume a lot more Mediterranean food than me. I think you're more of a Mediterranean aficionado than I am. And so I'd be curious your take, but like, is hummus in this situation, would it be maybe warmed up a little bit? Because this one was room temp. And I almost felt like I would have liked it to be just like, not hot, but maybe just like warmed a little bit.

You know, when I'm dipping the warm bread in there. Or is that weird? Is that weird? That's what I was thinking. Like maybe that's a weird thing. Okay. So, it was served the way it was supposed to be. I've had room temp hummus.

Humpus. I've had a humpus. It's another scary spotter spell. Hell yeah, man. I've had room temp hummus and cold hummus. I've never had a lot of hummus. Yeah. So, maybe this was properly.

This maybe as weird as your hot salad take. But look, this might have been the proper temp. I would just say that like it then, then what I'd say is that maybe it was just the texture was off or the viscosity was off because it's almost like peanut butter thick. And I kind of wish it was just like a little, like I almost wish it was just a little bit, you know, maybe it was just like an older,

had been in the fridge for longer or something. But every, every component was nice, except for the hummus just felt a little like, you know, not top shelf. That said, it was, it was a good app. And I honestly, probably a pretty good, relatively helpful meal you can build, especially for a vegetarian.

Mitch, and you had a salad. That's right. Why? Because I had a Caesar salad, which is said like the best Caesar salad or something it said on the menu, at least on postmates. I postmate in my order. It's the perfect Caesar salad.

This was a secret house recipe dressing. Parmesan or toasted croutons. I got myself a small one of that. I'll say this much. It does not look impressive. Like the lettuces look kind of like whatever. But damn, it's a good dressing. The dressing really works.

The dressing is great. And the croutons and the, and the, and the, it's just, it's just kind of like a great little pre, pre pizza salad. It was, it worked really well. Would it work as a meal? Probably. I mean, like, I think that like,

as far as like quality goes, like, I liked the burrata, but like, you don't have to order burrata from here. I think the meatball is a great deal. I think the meatball is awesome. And the burrata is good. I like that they offer it. But like, if you're, if like that in the salad,

I like, I feel like it's not going to be like the best version of those things, but it's still decently good. If you got some chicken on there, it could be good. I like, I feel everything I ate here, the ingredients were, were tasty. So I feel like it would work. And that includes the, my pizzas, why, which I, which I will, Wow.

I'll finally get into. He did it. Finally get into my pizzas, which like I said, I got all those, the ranch, the, how do you say that? Calabrian. Calabrian, I think. Calabrian, Jesus. Calabrian chili ranch dipper in the, the regular,

the truffle ranch dipper, the truffle, the truffle ranch dipper and the original ranch dipper. Yeah. And then I got my two pizzas, which were the, margarita and I got no basil on it. And I'll say this, the margarita with no basil, just like came as like a cheese pizza, which was great. That's like kind of what I wanted.

And then I also got the honey badger. Oh, I was eyeing that one. Someone did look good. Let me tell you this, that honey badger was damn good. I really, really, really liked it. I'm going to, I'm going to look at, I'm going to look at what it says about the honey badger on, on, because I don't know if there's anything on the app.

And then when I went to the website, this was the issue. All right. Here it is. This is what the honey badger has. It is on here. Spicy, uh, Sopracetta salami, garlic, Calabrian chilies, honey. Yum.

And this is just a great, just a great combo. It was, it just fucking worked for me. It was really, really, really good. Um, and that cheese pizza hit two wigs. Both of them were great. Like, like you were saying, when you go, when you go to Blaze or, or a mod or whatever, I'm like, I told you, like the pizza just isn't good.

This place, like the dough is good, the sauce is in the cheeses are good, that toppings are good. Like it all tastes like quality, good ingredients. And I'm like, shocked that this place isn't bigger or people don't get it more because I had it before and I'm like, damn, that's like, as far as getting pizzas in LA or whatever, I don't know why I do, don't do 800 degrees more for like, for yourself to just get like, uh,

an individual pizza and, and, you know, an app or something. It's, it's great. So the price point is definitely different. Maybe a little higher, but, but, but it's not like egregiously higher. I guess, I guess you're taking a whole family, you're taking a family of four and, and hey, all the kids are going to pick out their own pies and then it's probably,

it's definitely going to be cheaper to go to blazer mod because here I think at the base of a pizza is like 12 bucks. Yes. And you can eat a pizza yourself. You can eat. Yeah. Right.

And I did. And then I had the leftovers for lunch, which is like also a full pizza. It's very much like a, like a large personal pizza, pretty much. And I could have, I could have had the whole thing in one, sir, in one setting, if I, if I forced myself. In fact, I kind of wanted to, but I exercised a little

bit over strength. I had that where I was like, hey, no, chill out. You got to like, stay awake for a little bit. Like I had it right before this. I was like, I could keep going. I was like, no, no, no, no. You got to talk and see some friends. Chill out.

I had no, so I'm the only one who had no self control, which is nothing new, but I, I, it was good, man. It heated up all right too. I think, I think with these types of pizza, like these wood, wood fire oven pizzas, that's always kind of a fear in it. And it, it heated up all right. I just, I just, you can just tell the difference.

And I think that it starts with the dough or the way it's baked, like a, and then just all the ingredients, I just think are just a higher quality. I mean, it just really works. I totally agree. Yeah. It's fantastic. Yeah, I fully agree.

Fully agree. I think it's just a, it's just a, a, a tear up in terms of, of ingredients. And I, I'll talk about my pizza real quick. I got the Verde base, which is a, which is a green pie. It's got a pesto sauce, mozzarella and Parmesan. And then the toppings I added were arugula, mushroom,

red onion and roasted garlic. Now three of those toppings were like an extra dollar a piece. So again, you, you can spend some money here. And I'm surprised that like a thing like mushroom costs a dollar, but you know, cause a lot of times I think, I think it blaze, I could be getting this wrong, but I think at some of these places like include

like three toppings in the base price, not the case here. But you know who would disagree with you? Mario, who probably thinks that mushroom was worth a dollar. No doubt. We're talking about the Pratt Mario, right? Yeah.

It's me, Mario. I wonder what I was going to do. That's the only Mario to me, man. That's the only Mario to me is Pratt Mario. I will say this pizza, what I thought was incredible. I, or incredible is to, is to, that's, that's, that's hyperbolic. I thought it was very, very good.

I was like this, especially with my expectations being kind of like, all right, this is going to be, I've had this before, it's good. I hadn't had in a while. And then I was like, oh wait, no, this place is fucking great. And they do, they do a great job with their pizzas. And as a vegetarian, it was just like, it was so

rich and, and filling. And you know, it, it, like, like the, like you were saying Mitch, the ingredients taste fresh and high quality. And all that just sort of adds to the experience of just like, I thought this was a, just a, just a dynamite solo pie. And if this was like a work lunch, what do you

guess it kind of effectively was, but like the, the office is going to 800 degrees. I'd be like, yeah, I'll do 800 degrees. Yeah. Like that's, that's, it's, it's fucking great. And you can construct your, your pie in a way where you're not going to, you know, give yourself the rumblies afterwards.

I got that Calabrian chili ranch dipper, which, you know, the way I already talked about, but I love it, you know, I'm something of a heat seeker. And I think that one delivers on just a little bit of the heat, but it's also just a really good, good thick ranch. And I got an orange Pellegrino, which is a nice little treat.

The only let down, literally the only let down was the dessert, the birthday cake cookie. I love birthday flavor. I was very excited to try this because I figured they were like baked on site. They're not. And it, you know, it was, it was stale and it was legitimately cold.

Like it felt like they pulled it out of the fridge. So it was a pretty bad cookie, but every other, every other element on this, this trip, this outing was hitting. So especially the pizza, which is the whole point. Yes. Maybe it had been stuck in the supply chain for too long, the cookie.

Could be. Very well, could be. Maybe. Probably Karen's were hoarding them. The purse is full of those cookies, man. I feel, Mitch, you like, cause it, like I have, I never think of ordering or going to 800 degrees. And I wonder if it's because usually when I'm

getting pizza, it's four more than my size. Like it's usually kind of big, like we're going for it, but I'm going to, I'm going to pitch this some cause it's really fun also to get small, a bunch of smaller pizza for more people too, to be like, let's try all of the, so it's, it's, I'm going to remember this. I'm going to remember it.

Yeah. That's wow. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I just, I think I just, I'm never going to get mod or, or, or blaze if there's a 800, you know what I mean? If there's a, why would you, why would I, I'm

never going to do it. I mean, I, I said that anyways, that there, those aren't really made for me, but I wish that 800 was as readily available as blaze was because I, like, yeah, if I was at universal city walk and there was a 800 upstairs, 800 degrees, that might be my spot to go to. That's a, it's, it's, it's, it's really good.

Great shopping center option. Wise. I also got myself a Mexican Coke, a Mexi Coke on the, on the menu and a, and I ordered a grandmother cake and then the Uber, the, the Postmates guy called kind of frantic and, and, and the guy was like, Hey, we're, we're out of, we're out of the grandmother.

He put the, he put the guy who worked there on, on the line himself and he, and the Postmates guy told me that he was kind of an older guy and that he was like basically working alone. So it seems like this might be an 800 degrees thing. I don't know what's happening that there's not enough people working there or whatever. I, I think it's just, it could just be like a

restaurant industry at large issue of just all these places are understaffed. We've run into it before, but in particular, the 800 degrees in Santa Monica, the one I went to was a huge floor plan and it had two, literally two people working there during the lunch rush. I was like, this is wild, but I'm sorry, go on, Mitch.

Well, I, I ordered the grandmother cake and, and they didn't have it. I actually don't even know what it is. Like I don't know what the grandmother cake is. But he said, I got an apple pie. Is that good? And I said, sure. Cause I just didn't, you know, I didn't,

I didn't want to hold them up. And I said, thank you. And sent it on his way. And the apple pie slice was actually pretty good. It was a, it was not a bad slice of apple pie. Like you don't need to do it. You don't got to do it. But like I was surprised by the, I was like,

Hey, that's not, if you, if, if, if, especially if you had, if you heal it up a little bit, which I did not, I think it would have been a, a damn good slice of a apple pie. So all in all, fantastic showing by 800 degrees. I, I, I was, I was thoroughly impressed. We all sound pretty high on it, but will our fork scores reflect that?

We'll find out right now. It is time to get to our final thoughts. It would be weird. On this week's chain, 800 degrees. We gave it like two forks. Zero forks. This place really did it, man. Negative forks.

So, so Betsy, a veteran of the podcast, do you know how this works? We'll each go around, give our closing argument, if you will, and give this a fork score from zero to five. We'll begin with you. Okay, great. Well, I mean, I love, I, the ingredients were really good. And you could feel that we're like,

Oh yeah, this is good pepperoni. This is good jalapenos. This is awesome. I do love a thin crust. I wish it, I ordered it well done to get a little crispier. And then those ranches, man. Honestly, those ranches are a huge selling point for me.

And I got, I have, I know it's a mission to get every single one of those ranches and try it. So, yeah. I love it. Wow. It was good. It was good. And your fork score, what do you think?

Oh, right. I don't remember how this works. I'm going to give it, I'm going to give it four, I'm going to give it four forks. Four forks. Wow. Great score. Very good score.

Mr. Sly, should you go, should you go last? You're the pizza authority. Yeah, you know what? Maybe I should go last. You tease this with a pie. Now you can tease this with your fork score. Oh. Betsy, you're going to, you're going to try every ranch,

even like a, like a dirt ranch and like a. I would absolutely try dirt ranch. No, no, no. I'm not doing that Harry Potter shit because he's a pervert. I'll try dirt ranch in a heartbeat. Have you guys tried those Bud Light seltzers, the fall flavors one? Fall flavors.

Wait, no, I haven't tried the fall flavors. I've had some of them, yeah. So, they have crisp apple, they have pumpkin spice, pear maple, and roasted marshmallow. Wow. Yeah. Are any any good? No, they're all weird.

They're so weird. They're so strange, but you got to try them. You got to try them. I tried the tie dye ones and I kind of liked them. I thought the tie dye ones were good. What was those? They have, they have like a cherry lime rickie on there. Like they have, they, there's some good ones.

Okay. They taste like popsicles basically. They're good. I liked them. Some people thought they were disgusting, but I, I enjoyed them. We used to do stuff like that on this show. We used to taste them. Maybe we'll do it again at some point.

You should get those weird fall ones. Yeah. No, that's a, that's a great pitch. Yeah, they're sick. You need to kill time on this damn show. I don't know what the fuck we're doing. I got some of those white claw, ah, fuck now I'm forgetting the name of them.

They're like the white, they're like the, the, the white claws with the, they're like the extreme white claws. Yeah, but they're just stronger. That's a horse. They're just, well, no, this is the thing. I was like, I can't remember. They're, they're, they're not white claw magnum, but there's something like that.

White claw. White claw is going to be like, this is white claw beer. Isn't that crazy? It's beer now. It would be a full circle suit of like. Why? Cause I wouldn't be surprised if you got white claw magnums. Okay.

I got the white claw surge, which is the, yeah, and it's, and it's just got like twice as much alcohol. And I was like, these are fun. And then I was just like, I got so unbelievably shit faced off of some of these. What the fuck did you think was going to happen? I was like, Jesus Christ, I don't know. Oh, Natalie.

Whoa. You fucking sitting in the living room drinking white claw surge and playing some sort of fucking RPG game. That's just a fucking, it's just a fucking board. It's a board game that you play on video and video game form. Natalie walks in on that shit. The game is called dungeon encounters. And it's got a lot more depth than that.

All right, sure. So at least play Metroid, just play something where the character is running around and shooting stuff. Gotta play Metroid. I really want to. I got it. So, uh, what do you think? Samus is looking good.

So I want to shout out of an ode from the, the dough scored who maintains the dough boys Wikipedia, which is where I found out that, uh, that mod pizza and blaze pizza each got two and a half forks, two and a half forks a piece was kind of the consensus. That was my score at least. And, uh, and. This is at least a full fork better than that.

In fact, I think it's quite a bit better than that. And I'm going to go all the way up to four forks one time, because I think you go to 800 degrees for the pizza. And I think the pizza, especially if you eat it right away, which these, these personal pizza places made to order are designed to have you, uh, like eat them as ASAP. I think it's a, I think it's a dynamite pie. So four forks one time for Mick Weigar, Mr. Slice, take us home.

Nice. Now, Wags, I didn't mention that mine traveled and it traveled well. Mine traveled well. Yeah. Traveled well, which. Surprising. I mean, like you're right. I just think that the way that those pizzas are made are made,

the way they travel, like you want them sooner rather than later. Anyway, Wags, I enjoyed it quite a bit. What is the future of pizza? You know, when, when the temperature, when the temperature on the awning matches the temperature outside, where will the pizza, what will the pizza world look like when it's 800, when it's 800 degrees outside? Oceans are boiling. Weigar is just fine walking around.

Hey, buddy, talking, talking to skeletons. He's like, he's like the omega, he's like the omega man. Um, when that time comes, what will happen? You know, Domino's just feels like we'll be in the game forever. And I feel like Blaze and Mod have really cornered this market of like the Chipotle version of pizzas. But here's the thing. They're not good and 800 degrees is good.

It is legit good for a chain restaurant pizza. It is, it's not only that, but like I'm like, like I said, Wags, I'm like, damn, for what it is, like just ordering pizza in LA. This is like a good one now that I, I should consider more when I'm just ordering pizza in general. It should go up to the top of the list. The ingredients are better. The sides and apps are different and fun and taste pretty good and just high

quality pizza. The ranch dippers are fun. There's dessert options. It's a little pricey. That's for sure. But if you went and got and split one of these for lunch, if you had four slices and a salad, sure, you'd be doing all right. You know what I mean?

Like it'll be a $15 lunch, maybe 10, $12 to $15 lunch. You could get out of there with a half a pizza and some salad with your buddy. I think that this place is awesome. I, I, I, this, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good, it's a good place. I, I, this, it's a good, it's a great story to me. And you know what? I've already, I've always liked Dwayne Wade better than I liked LeBron. And I'm going four and a half forks, wigs.

Wow. Welcome to the Golden Plate Club. That's right. Welcome to the Golden Plate Club, 800 degrees. Dwayne best LeBron, at least on the pizza front and Mitch. That's right. We'll be back with more dough boys. Wow.

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or you can use promo code doughboys at checkout. Do it. Welcome back to dough boys, our guest Betsy Siddaro. And hey, it's time for a segment. I've got a set of food related songs, and Mitch and Betsy must guess which year they were released. It's another edition of Jingle All The Way, spelled W-H-E-Y. Wow.

Mitch, these compiled as always by our associate producer, the Drop King, Robert Bersinger, the rules of Jingle All The Way, spelled W-H-E-Y. Whoever guesses closest to the year without going over gets a point. Stupid. And if you guess the year exactly, you get two points, which is the Arden Marine rule. So we'll show a video.

Our producer, Emma Urbrink, will show a video found by our associate producer, Robert Bersinger, and you will guess which year. And this week's theme, Mitch, Pepsi. Wow. Okay, Pepsi. Pepsi. Betsy, do you like a Pepsi, or do you prefer Coke?

I prefer Coke, but give me a wild Jerry Pepsi. Oh, hell yeah. And I'm happy. I'm more than happy. Hey, Pepsi's got Mountain Dew, so we can't just write them off. And Pepsi had big slams back in the 90s. I mean, Pepsi was big. It was big.

Pepsi was gigantic. Yeah, yeah. My parents, like, their drink was diet Pepsi. Like, we had a lot of diet Pepsi, which I enjoy more than diet Coke. I'll say that. Yeah, well, we see the Ray Charles Pepsi commercial. Or diet Pepsi, I wonder.

We very well might. We are going to find out. Let's play this first video, this first Pepsi commercial, this first Pepsi jingle. So that add some clues featuring Lionel Ritchie, the tagline, the choice of a new generation. It had thrown to Star Trek at the very end. So, you know, we saw that was coming up, I assume, in syndication.

And also, just like, you know, the wardrobes, there's a lot of clues there. But Mitch, or I'm sorry, actually, Betsy, you get to choose whether you go first or second. And it alternates. Oh, my God! I'm going to go second. OK, Betsy's going to go second for this first one. So, Mitch, you're up first.

What year do you think this ad entitled the choice of a new generation with Lionel Ritchie first aired? I don't want to go over. See, this is the thing with the game now, where it should be closest. And then, I don't know. And then if we both are close, we just don't get it equally close. The over thing is annoying.

So, I don't want to go over. My thought is 1988. But I'm like, it's going to be earlier than that, isn't it? It's going to be earlier than that. Lionel Ritchie, I'm going to go 87. I'm going to go 1987. 1987. Do you like, are you both fans of Ritchie?

I love him. I think he's great. Nick, you know, I'll listen to Lionel Ritchie, uh, all night long, all night long. He's one where it's like, if I hear one of his songs, I'm like, oh, yeah. But I'm not, I'm never like, oh, I need to get fired up. I better listen to Lionel Ritchie.

But I do everything. I'm like, yeah. We're at like the Disney piano bar. And then I remember my godfather son at like, or maybe my, or my godfather's daughter, Sarah, who's in the Dose Discord, the Dose, Dobo's Discord, Dosecord. Hi, Sarah.

As the God sister requested that, that they play all night long. And they were like, thank you, because they had been playing like boring, like kind of like Billy Joel songs all night. And they like did like a conga line. It was great. Oh, that's awesome.

I mean, they obviously had done it before, not like they hadn't done it, but, yeah, but he's great. And this was like, this was like May, 2020. It wasn't, I mean, you know what? I think it was my senior year of college when we were there. Oh, okay. Like I do, because that's,

you have to drink in that bar. It's a bar. Yeah. Um, anyways, 87 likes. Mitch guests, 1987. Betsy, what do you think? Choice of a new generation. What year?

I'm going to do 86. Betsy's going 1986. Well, you both went over, Mitch. Oh, wow. And Betsy, you both went over 1985. This ad first premiered. Wow, shoot.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Damn. Yeah. So no point for either of you. Okay, damn it. Next up, this ad entitled,

Have a Pepsi Day. It seems too new. It seems like 85 feels too old. It's crazy. That was three. Yeah. Turning three. I was two turning three.

Um, by the way, Wags, I looked up a grandmother cake and I just want to say that it does exist. A crunchy pastry shell enriched by a delicious filling of custard in toasted pine nuts. That's a grandmother cake. Or a grandmother's cake.

At least that's the one. Yeah, that's what I got online. Anyways, go on Wags. Next clue. All right. Our next, our next ad is Have a Pepsi Day. Emma, let's go ahead and play this one. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Have a Pepsi Day. You're on the trail of something great. Today was made to celebrate. Come on.

Come on. Have a Pepsi Day. It's in January. Have a Pepsi Day. Hi. Wow. Everyone's hitting the slopes in that ad. Yes.

All right, Betsy. You went first last time. It's your turn to go first. What year do you think Have a Pepsi Day first aired? I think it's 1978. 1978. Great guess. 1978.

I was going to guess 79, the year my sister was born. Yeah. Billy Corgan's favorite year. His Billy Corgan's favorite year. That was also a very loud commercial, that one. It was loud. It was loud. Maybe it was loud.

Maybe back in the day it was loud, too. I'm going to go with the Bicentennial. America's turning two. Wow. And that Pepsi commercial's coming out. 200. You said America's turning two. 200.

Yeah. 1778. 1974 isn't when America was founded. 1774. Oh, boy. Mitch, you need to watch Hamilton. The... A year before Jaws?

Mitch, you came very close, but Betsy, you got it on the dot. 1978. You get two points. Have a Pepsi Day. More like have a Betsy Day. You nailed it. Yes. Thank you.

Nick, that's just bullshit. You're just rubbing it in my fucking face. Sorry. Have a Mitchy Day. Have a Mitch Day. Well, get it right next time. Okay, but we have a few more clues. You can still get on the board and take the lead, Mitch.

This next one. Ray Charles. And you got the right one, baby. Emma, let's play this. Okay. You know when it's right. You know when you feel it, baby. You hold it.

You hear it. Taste it. It's right. Ah, ah. You got the right one, baby. Ah, ah. Ah, ah. Now you're Betsy.

If this is irreversibly lovable, unsurpassably colorful and minimalist, soulful, you got the right one, baby. Yes. Oh, man. I really, I remember that one. Do I know the time? No, but.

Well, you get to guess second this time. Okay. Mitch, you're up first. Well, it'll be helpful if I knew this for a year. I mean, like, I know the general area. Betsy, remember it makes me want to go closer to 94? Because I was like 92 or 94, which then makes me think it's going to be 93.

I remember there was a, just like this, I have that slogan, you got the right one, baby. Uh-huh. I remember that Al Michaels during Monday Night Football or something was like, this is brought to you by Diet Pepsi. You got the right one, baby. Uh-huh.

And he just delivered it like that. I thought it was really funny as a kid. That's so funny. Yeah. Now I'm thinking because like big slams were big. Why is it we were a big slam fan? That was like the leader sized, right? Yeah.

It was just a leader of Coke, a cola. I mean, not Coke. It was Pepsi specifically. But I remember as a kid getting a big slam of Pepsi and some fucking cool ranch Doritos or something. Yeah. Yeah, holy shit. Now I want to say 91 that that came out.

It could even be 90. I'm going to go 1991. Fuck. But I thought 1992. I want that two points. I wanted exactly right. Mitch is guessing 1991. Betsy, what say you?

Betsy's going to get two points. My get was 92. I'm going to go in 1992. Wow. I can't believe it. I can't believe it's 92. Because it is like I feel between 90 and 93. It's summer in there.

If it's 1992. Dude, one of us get it exactly right. One of you sure did, Mitch. Oh my god. I'm going to be so mad. Mitch, you get two points. 1991 was the year. It's not enough.

Nice. Nice. Well played. All right. Let's hear the next one. This is Pepsi challenge. Pepsi's got your taste. It started six years ago with a simple taste test.

Pepsi versus Coke. The Pepsi challenge. Thousands have taken a taste test like this. And nationwide, more people prefer the taste of Pepsi over Coca-Cola. Nasty. Yeah, there's a lot of, this was at a carnival, a lot of shots of clowns drinking Pepsi, which for some reason is really upsetting.

It's really gross. Yeah, it's nasty. They're really scary clowns. There's just like so much stuff in this that's not even like America anymore of like, everyone at this fucking, I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe in parts of the country. I just, like everyone at this, like there's a flame blower

at this fucking, like a flame eater at this fucking circus. And yeah, a mime is, and everyone's having fun. And everybody's loving all of this. It's like, no way, this is gross. Man, but y'all, I will say this, bring back the glass bottles, better for the environment. Bring them back. Bring them back.

Recycle those bad boys. It's so fun to drink out of. Glass bottles. We had a, one time there was a substitute teacher who came in high school who was a, and he was like, he was like, hi, I'm retired. It was like a science class. He was like, I'm retired.

And I used to work in the glass industry. And I'm here to tell you all about glass. And like, all the kids are like, all right, man. And I was like, oh boy, I was so excited. That feels like a Simpsons bit. And Weigar was basically Martin Prince. He talked about, like fabricating glass bottles is a lot easier than fabricating like a,

a big flat sheet of glass, which is like, it seems like it would be more complicated, but no, I guess I kind of get it. And that's why like a window pane is way more, or windshield is fucking super expensive. And a bottle is like, you know, you can get for cents. Have you ever want to know Weig's and I relationship? Watch the episode of lemon of Troy and watch,

and watch how Nelson months and Martin Prince, when they're teamed up together. Team discovery channel. That's so perfect. That's so funny. Wise, I was, I had, I had, I had a history, uh, substitute that was there for like the full, it was like one of these things where he like took over the class for like the full year and he was a hippie.

He don't shine on you crazy diamonds on the board. At the end of the year. But, uh, maybe I've told this story before, but I fell asleep and it was a first period class and I fell asleep and Micas was in there and he was going to wake me up and Mr. Pines is like, no, no, let him sleep. And then, uh, I woke up to a bell and I had slept.

It was third period and I looked over. So the classroom is, is, is empty during second period, but it's like in this big place where like people walking in out of to go to other classrooms. And I woke up in third period and looked over and there was just a random kid sitting at the other desk. And I had slept through from, from first period all the way to third period,

just fucking slept. So that's my story. He told me this before. It's super funny. Saw Micas in New York. What a treat. Yeah. Was he sober enough for you?

Um, yeah, no, no, we had a nice convo. Wish we, wish we'd gotten more time to hang. He's mad because he always said that he's drunk every time you see him. He didn't seem mad. He seemed like he was in a good mood. Yeah. Lovely to see him.

Lovely to see the whole Quincy crew. All right. So we had Pepsi challenge. Pepsi's got your taste. We're at a carnival. And Van Jones. And Van Jones was at the show. We did not mention Van Jones came to the show

and we had a nice conversation with him afterwards. Can't believe that. He sat through that bullshit. Anyways. He said that was the biggest, uh, waste of two hours of my entire life. Thank you for showing me how bad life can get. And I started yelling, I started yelling fake news, Adam.

It was, it was a whole scene. Lovely, man. So Pepsi challenge. Pepsi's got your taste. What year do you think this came out? Betsy, you're up first. I'm going to say 72. 72, 1972.

Betsy, that's a, that's a, that's a great guess. That is a great guess. I'm going to go, a couple of years later, I'm going to go 74, uh, the year our country was founded. Mitch, you're going to take it, uh, but, and you get one point, but I, I'm astonished that this actually came out in 1982. Wow.

Isn't that ridiculous? It, it feels no way, man. Yeah. It's such a funny thing where those, where like, where quality will dip sometimes. Yes. Like, uh, like, uh, it will, like, it will be like, oh, this, cause something like that's 70s one before it.

Uh, wait, there wasn't, like, uh, right. The, the, we watched the 70s one as the first one was. No, the 70s one was the second, was have a Pepsi day. That was the one on the ski slopes. That one came out in 1978. That seems, that seems like a way newer than, than the one in 82. It seemed more recent, but this one, this one looked old as shit,

but I guess that's the year it actually. I guess the hint there is the Pepsi challenge was maybe just a later thing. Yeah, I think that's what it is. Okay. Okay. Oops. We'll also, there's the part where the clown turns to camera

and mouths, Reagan's our president. Yeah. That was a little bit of a clue. And it also shows my mom, like my mom being rushed to the emergency room to give birth to me. Okay. Uh, we've, we've got one more. We got this final clip.

My giant head extending her stomach like a Prometheus. We have one final clip. This one is generation next. Emma, if you can play this last one to decide it. Generation next. Wow. No better, no better way to get into, I think that probably said the date there,

but I didn't see anything. No better way to get into, in with generation next, the generation X slash generation next, by playing the village people's YMCA. A decade, a couple of decades old song at that point, right? With new lyrics, P E P S I. Which doesn't work. It feels like something I would pitch.

Yeah, you're ready to go home. It's a, yeah, if you just heard the audio, you'd be like, oh yeah, well this came from when the village people were relevant and this came in the 70s or whatever. But no, it's, it's like a nostalgia play. This is, this is clearly filmed more recently. Just doesn't make sense. Well, Mitch, you're up first for this last one.

Generation next. What year do you think this first premiered? Well, this is tricky because we got one in 91 already and then generation next is not that far off from here. Like at least this is, generation next is like, maybe we're out of the big slams at this point, but if I'm, if I know my Pepsi history, but like, this is the can change. This is the can change.

And like 1998, when I'm like 16 years old and like getting beer down, drinking beer down in Mike's basement. Yeah. These Pepsi cans have already existed. So I'm like, it had like 98 sounds good, but then I'm like, is it 97 or 96? And I'm going to say 90. Oh, shit.

I don't want to go over. I'm going to say 96, which might still be too late. 1996 for generation next. Not to help out my opponent here. But even, even that might be too late, but I think 96. But see, and I'm thinking it's a little later. It could just be 98. It could be 98.

I mean, 98 is what popped in my head. The, the, the, the font of the not bottle Pepsi stuff really reminds me of like 98, 99 font. Yeah. Which feels straight. Like, but I feel like I'm just like seeing horror movies where that was like, the font for the credits and it was very nine, like 99 big cell phones. Like, uh, I'm going to, I'm going to go 98. I'm going to go 98.

You're going 98. I'm going to kick myself. That, that font reminded me of, by the way, of like the, uh, the, you wouldn't download a car. It's like that same. Like, you know, maybe that's exactly what I was thinking of. A very scary movie, that piracy. Warning.

Well, a little too early, Mark. I'm Mitch. I think we're a little too early. One of you is just a little too early. One of you is just a little too late. Mitch is going to take it 1997 between the two of you. Okay. Okay.

No, Mitch, you win. Oh yeah. You got it, Mitch. You got it. You know what? Why is generation mix, ah fuck, generation Mitch. Generation Mitch indeed, uh, but a, uh, but a good round, a good outing for both of you.

Mitch, you win four to two. Nice. Just like a restaurant. We value your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Why did I win with your age? Are you 41? I'm 41.

Wait, wait, no, I'm 41. Ah, damn. Good day, Matthew song. Yeah. Good, uh, good Billy Crystal movie. Oh yeah. Wait, no, that's 61. Never mind.

I'mma edit that out. Now keep it in. The listeners must never know I made a mistake. Yeah, four to two is the score. That was jingle all the way while I way spelled W-H-E-Y, just like a restaurant value feedback. Let's open up the feedback. And today we have an email from Charlie from Portland, Maine.

Charlie writes, It's so frustrating that combination KFC Taco Bells don't offer items that combine components from both menus. What hybrid item would you like to see at a KFC TB? A caveat. You can't just put fried chicken on a Taco Bell item and call it good. I want you to think outside the box or bun.

As good as a chicken tendered, cheesy gritty to crunch sounds, it's too easy an answer and I won't accept it. All right, Charlie, calm down. P.S., come to Salvage BBQ. I'm the pit master. I make good meat. How about that?

Salvage BBQ up in Portland, Maine. Wow, cool. Yeah, I was just up there. Missed you. I'm going to say a cheesy gritty to crunch with a chicken tender in there. Bitch! I was trying to remember the name of the item.

It was the naked chicken chalupa, right? Yeah, that's what I immediately thought of where it's like, oh yeah, make it the shell, man. Yeah, make it the shell, but with the higher quality of bird. Because I like the naked chicken chalupa. I thought it was pretty damn tasty, but KFC has a little better of a higher tier of fried chicken.

Yeah. The Taco Bell pizza roll-up. Taco Bell does pizza. That's a good one. They specified KFC Taco Bell, but you're throwing a pizza hut in there. Yeah, pizza hut. It's a pizza.

It has to be. I like that. Does it have to be KFC? No, I like that. Let's throw it in. Let's get all, let's get the Yum Brands triumphant in there, triumvirate in there. I'm going to say that that makes me think of,

let's get, let's bring back the Mexican pizza and let's make it a full-size pizza. Mired in the oven. Oh. Mired in that pizza oven. I love it. Yes. I'm going to say Crunchwrap Supreme,

but with like the KFC like, chick that KFC bowl, you remember those bowls where it's like mashed potatoes. Famous bowl. Yeah. So Crunchwrap Supreme with that, those layers. I like that. I like that a lot some.

You know what, Betsy, you, I think a great, like potatoes can work well in a taco, like mashed potatoes. Yes. So you take those KFC brand mashed potatoes, Yikes. Yes. And then you put them in and then, a roll-up, like those roll-ups would be awesome.

Cheese and those mashed potatoes in a roll-up. And dunk them in stuff. Yes. Okay. How's this? The beefy, crunchy mashed potato roll-up. You got the mashed, you put it, you got the tortilla, mashed potatoes, sprinkled Fritos in there,

and you got beef. Cheese on top. And you know what? Sour cream because it's a little bit of a baked potato thing. You got to get that sour cream. That sounds awesome. That sounds really good. I'm also thinking you could do something with the,

you know, like you got that KFC coleslaw, and I feel like you could use that to approximate. Ooh, that's good. You throw that in there with some Baja sauce, and maybe like, you know, like a chicken tender. You do, it's like a chicken version of a fish taco in a soft flour tortilla. I think that could be a lot of fun.

I did the, I did the two, did you try the chicken sandwich taco at, you know what? I liked it. I thought it was pretty good. I loved it. Yeah, I thought it was good. So I had read that people didn't like it, and I thought it was, I thought it was decent.

And then I just did, I did the cantina one, I think the same day I was lucky where they overlapped at my Taco Bell. Crunchy cheesy one. It was really good. It was good. It was good. It was good.

But Taco Bell, come on, don't, there was a great TikTok someone had of their Halloween setup and the graves were all discontinued Taco Bell items. Man, they're cruel. They're cruel to their fans. Oh, we know you love this thing. Well, it's gone now.

It will be back probably, but it's gone for now. They've gotten worse. I mean, Wigs and I are mad about it. But you know, what can you do? It's frustrating. Yeah, it's deep. Do they still have the Nashville hot chicken there? Because I like, I thought they had a pretty decent

Nashville hot chicken. That just makes me think they could do like a hot chicken pizza or something. Yum. I don't know, like a good fried chicken on a pizza I think can be, or just like a good quality chicken on a pizza can oftentimes be very, very fun.

So I don't know, but my mind goes that direction as well. A lot of great options, great question. Man, this is so, I had Burger King like before this and I want, I just want more garbage now. This is making me want Taco Bell. Serious, same, same. Yeah, I want it so bad. Such a fat fuck after being, I just,

I need to fucking slow it. I gotta slow things down. It sucks, yeah. It's such a bummer. The holidays are coming up. I've never like tumbled and I'm waddling into the holidays wise. This sucks.

Yeah. Sorry, buddy. It's tough. It's tough. But well, hey, you know what, you and I, both Mitch will try to make some better sanerating decisions as, you know what, we'll start. It's not going to happen.

All right, we won't do that. Well, we'll start with what? We'll start with what? No, I was going to say, like, there's always a tendency, I think what happens is that you get in that mindset of, I'm going to start at the new year, but then what that happens is that, oh, the holidays just become one long,

like eight week binge. And because you're like, ah, fuck it, I'm all getting my shit together. But hey, I almost feel like I should just get my shit together like November 1st. I should just try to be like, try to start eating a little better. No, it's going to be the new year for me.

You can still lose your mind. You can still lose your mind on Thanksgiving. And, you know. 100% right, Betsy, I got to be like, working out and walking around the holidays, and then still, but then in the new year. And you can still go nuts, but just, yeah. Being a little bit like, okay, I'll move my body a little bit

harder so I can just pound a bunch of awesome food. Yeah. And booze. Look, Halloween's over, Wigs. It's Christmas. It's Christmas time. It's Christmas. You skipped through all of November.

I guess that's fine. I guess it is Christmas time immediately. It's Christmas time. Come on. Yeah. Hallmark Channel is like, hey, it's been Christmas since July, man. If you have a question or comment

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And a terrific guest today. Don't lie to them. One of the funniest people on Planet Earth. Betsy Cedaro, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. I love you guys so much. It's always such a delight being on this show. Thank you so, so much.

You rule. We're going to have to make up our last touring adventure. We're going to have to make up for it at some point. We got to. We will. Yeah, we will. We will. Betsy, do you have anything you'd like to plug at this time?

You know, I guess just check out Duncanville. It's all on Hulu now, season two. Season three is going to come out at some point. I don't know when. And then, yeah, go if you like hearing my voice so much, you can hear it more on my podcast, We Love Trash, where me and Mano Agapio just kind of talk about and celebrate all things trashy over on Patreon.

Yeah, that's it. That's good. Check them out. Check them both out. Check it all out. Check it all out. Check it all out. Yeah.

And hey, that'll do it for this episode of Doe Boys. Until next time, for Mr. Slice, Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. See ya. On the next Doe Boys Double. Neil Campbell joins as our Doe Boys pilot program reviews the first episode of the original Twilight Zone. And the spooky twist is, it's pay walled.

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