Doughboys - AMC Dine-In with Kevin Pollak and Jaime Fox

Episode Date: May 2, 2019

From Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, Kevin Pollak and Jaime Fox return to the show to discuss our recent trip to the AMC Dine-In, where we dined during a screening of the film Captive State. Plus, Jaime provides us with a La Croix-inspired edition of Drank or Stank.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For many filmgoers, a trip to the theater is unthinkable without that crunchy, buttery, salty snack sold by the bucketful, popcorn. Invented by indigenous peoples of the Americas approximately 5,000 years ago, it would become a sensation in the U.S. in the late 19th century, largely due to Charles Creeders, a former confectionary store owner who pivoted to the manufacturing side of the food industry. Creeders' first successful invention was a steam-powered peanut roaster, and he cannelly applied it to other purposes, like roasting chestnuts and coffee beans. But it became a gold mine when he used it to popcorn.

As this added feature became its main attraction, Creeders subsequently invented a designated popcorn wagon, with an iconic red and gold design that would become the standard look for popcorn machines. The snack became a popular novelty at fairs and carnivals and later reached its full potential after the turn of the century when movie theaters became the entertainment hub of the masses. Movie exhibitors were worried about serving food in their film houses, fearing smells, messes, and disruptions by loud snackers. But the profit margins proved irresistible, especially as audiences thinned during the

Great Depression, and theater owners began patting their coffers by selling obscenely marked-up candy, including ones that remained staples, like milk duds, raisinettes, and red licorice. And later, as Creeders and imitators mass-produced increasingly miniaturized machines, popcorn became king of the movie munchies. In 1920, the Dubinsky brothers, who had changed their family name to the more Anglo-Durwood, invested their earnings from promoting vaudeville road shows into opening a movie theater in Kansas City.

By 1961, they owned 10 theaters and transferred ownership to one of their sons, Stanley Durwood. Boasting a Harvard education and aptitude for business, the younger Durwood pioneered adding screens to his theaters to screen more movies, inventing the now standard multiplex. In the process, Durwood changed the company's name to American Multicinema, today represented as an acronym. In 2008, as the chain swelled over 300 locations and as the industry U-turned from cramming theaters with as many seats as possible into creating more comfortable, luxurious experiences. The chain introduced a concept borrowed from Austin's Alamo Draft House, servers bringing

chain restaurant-quality hot food, as well as alcoholic beverages, directly to your seat. The chain now operates several dozen of these full-service eateries with screens, the industry again creating a new profit center as audiences decline. But despite the extensive food menus and full bars, in the movie theater business, the most profitable concession remains the munchable snack invented by First Peoples and mechanized by Charles Creters. Popcorn.

This week on Doughboys, AMC Dine In. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger. Alongside my co-host, Captain Auje Picard, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. What? I think that was a pun on, obviously a pun on Jean-Luc Picard, Auje Picard. That's pretty, I mean it's kind of, it's weak, is what I want to say. That was courtesy of Blake, who wrote, love the show, live long and prosper.

If you have an insult you'd like me to use in the top of the show, roastspoonman at gmail.com. Wow. Cool, cool insult. What's his name? Blake? Blake? You fucking dork, Blake?

We get so much Star Wars stuff on here. It's like here's this. Here's a crack in a Star Trek. Yeah. We switched it out. Nick, you know, something happened to us today and I think it's worth bringing up. I think we're going to do a double about it, but I was on my way down to where we're meeting today.

Yes. And I accidentally pushed the supreme button for gas. You're getting supreme gas and I'm 91 octane. Yeah. Thank you. And so I pushed. I pushed the supreme button and then I told you guys this. I texted the the ultra dough boys chain.

Is it ultra omega dough boys chain matter? It's not important and I wrote that and then I was going to have a follow up joke and then you and I texted the same joke at the same time we're going to bring it up. You're a comedy writer. You make fun of me for being stupid all the time. I came up with the same joke you did, but I came up with mine seconds quicker. No, you didn't. I just was taping the respite.

I already had the joke. Hold on. Wait, hold on. What? Here's what? Let's see. While you're still sour sour, Mitch. Okay.

That wasn't it. Oh, cool. That's great that you read that part. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Here we go. I accidentally hit this.

This is from you. I accidentally hit the supreme button while getting gas. Me supreme bad for gas. Great for tacos. Mitch, not a bad mistake. If you're ordering a pizza. Then you reply. Come on.

Great for tacos. Yes. And then I put yes, get that sour cream and Emma chimed in. I've heard of a supreme burrito, but never supreme taco, but I'm into it. Evan Susser, taco supreme. Come on, Mitch, pricey for gas. Evan Susser, guys, he's just trying to bring some sanity to what's going on. You also wrote you can make anything supreme with a little sour cream.

You made a little rhyme in there. I stand by that. I think that a supreme pizza is more normal. I know that Taco Bell. It's a supreme. I get that. Yes. That's like a menu item.

You're getting it. I think with nachos and it's so common with commonly applied to Mexican food these days. Nachos, tacos, burritos. You think of the normal version as not having sour cream and diced tomatoes often. And then you add those two elements and it becomes a supreme version. Okay. I just, I was, I was right. My version was mine was the better version.

Hashtag Mitch was right. Hashtag Weigher was right. Are we going to do double base? Yeah, we'll do supreme. We'll settle the supreme question. I'll do it. I'll do it. Us and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is our guest.

I'll do a drop real quick. We haven't listened to this drop, Nick. So might be bad. Let's see how long it is. It's gonna be like the bad. That's rich. All right. Hold on.

The story and say his wife. Abrabron. Oh God. Here we go. That's rich. Jake. The story and say his wife. Abrabron.

The story and say his wife. This is fun. Well, that's got to be strange. Isn't it? It was in the bunker. The generals are telling me you've lost Russia. You've lost Europe. The Americans are attacking Germany.

The Russians are coming. They're coming. Ava walks in and goes, okay, we have to talk about us. I don't think we're going anywhere as a couple. You had a man. I don't know about that, Jay. Yeah, you're right. What a terrible drop.

You were getting on me for captain. I was you pick hard. What a terrible drop drop. I just I couldn't even look at our guests. We're their guests. I mean that drop made me look worse. I was the one doing the Kevin you banks impression. Hello Wally Irma.

Emma, you saw in the rest of the folks at Doughboys media. Your podcast is fun and informative and here's a drop for you to play. Thanks Michael Robin, Robin alt robe and alt at Michael Robin alt on Twitter. Very cool. Well, Mitch, I think our guests might have some. Yeah. Put on the supreme question. Introduce them from Kevin Pollack's chat show return to the podcast Kevin Pollack

and Jamie Foxx are here. Hi guys. Hey, welcome back. Thank you for letting me write Kevin's coattails. Never. No, come on. We're having fun. We actually put the chat show to rest last was last Saturday or two Saturday.

Wow. Wow. Nice to talk about our theater Jim Jeffries and Pamela Adlon that will be our last two shows three thirty nine and four hundred ten years on the button. Wow. And as the Jews are fond of saying my people, it's enough already. What if you do ten years of Doughboys? It's like a sentence.

Yeah, we're not going to live that long. Yeah, I think I think we will die. We will die before that happens, which is kind of our built in plan with this podcast. Anyways, people have been saying enough already about Doughboys since about episode twenty-five and we get it. People got it. Guys, we have we already had a we already spent the day together. We saw captive state at the AMC Dine in Theater directed by Rupert Riot.

I think. Is that the guy? Let's say sure. Will we hear from him again? Do you think? You know, he made Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I think that was it. Oh, really?

That's a good one. He made he made Rise. I think he made one of the Planet of the Apes. I think it's the Rise of. Interesting. Yeah. Because Rise of the Planet of the Apes is fun. And he pretty much had a blank check for the next one.

And this was the one he chose. I guess so. It was an odd movie. I mean, I think we'll this episode will be out in a little bit. And I think that, you know, I don't predict this being a blockbuster smash. That's the this in the pop culture zeitgeist. This may be forgotten about. You may Google listen.

It might not exist. There's a chance. Yeah, but a baffling film. I feel like my one. We're jumping right into the review of it. We're starting with them. We got a lot of movie stuff to talk about. I thought we'd talk about the movie.

Well, first of all, welcome to our home. Thank you for having us. Thanks for having us here. I can't tell you. We're in Mitch's. Yes, and I can't tell you how much of an upgrade this is. You don't have to. Oh, you mean the audience?

It wasn't. It wasn't your home. It was that we live five minutes from the theater. That's right. Yes. Understand. Yeah. Yeah.

And you have to meet our cat, Edie, who's also a tuxedo cat. I would love to. I would this. This is great. Nick. Yeah, you don't care. Nick will be afraid of the hot sauce out of the deal. I'm very excited.

Very excited about this hot sauce. I've got here. Mitch, don't take the name. Edie is a command. Oh, Edith, when she's not applying well with others. But yeah, so he chose a theater near us. Yes. For the dining experience.

We sure did. And then we also made sure we could record near us as well. Yes. A great show. A great show. You know what? My only regret about all this, but this doesn't matter anyways, is that my stomach is hurting really bad.

Yeah. After our day. I had jeans on. I have yoga pants on now. Yeah. It was it was. What are they? What is it?

It's adult pajamas people. It's pajamas that are allowed to be worn in public. That's what athleisure is. I wish I had a pay. Well, I'm not sure if you guys would allow me to just put on PJs and come into your home, but I wish I had a. I think we would both prefer it to be honest. You know what I wish?

Here's what on the way over. I was thinking. I mean, this is, I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it. Every home should have like a little dungeon bathroom for earth. For when your stomach hurts and that sort of thing is going on. Friends are coming over. They don't want to blow up your house. Yes.

Yeah. A bomb shelter. What did I say to you on the way out of the theater? You said you said it was downright courteous that Mitch used the bathroom at the cinema. Yes. Didn't bring it over to your house. A hundred percent.

That is right. Downright. We would have directed you to the bathroom that Edie's litter box is in. And you could have used that. You guys, you guys have a bomb shelter. We have a bomb shelter upstairs. That's that every home. So if people go down into the basement or wherever, wherever this is.

It's called the Pittsburgh thing. It's called because of when people would work in the steel mills, they would have to come and they would come home and they'd be like covered in soot. So there's a, we call it the Pittsburgh shitter, but there would be a shower and a toilet in the basement. So they wouldn't have to get, they could shower down there and go to the bathroom down there and not have to take it into the home. Wow.

That's genius. How steel city has it figured out. That's insane. And here we just do it for the kitty litter. And when friends go to the diner. My Pittsburgh friends who I have to say hi to Ali Chad and Robin will be very excited that I mentioned the Pittsburgh shitter. Yeah, they will.

Hashtag bombshell. If you got one, if you got it or a hashtag Pittsburgh shitter, if you got one. Yeah. That's great. That's what it's called. Give us a pic of that private bathroom. But then the dope boys Twitter mentioned, Jamie, wait, so you have a, you have a connection to Pittsburgh.

I'm from Pittsburgh. You're from Pittsburgh. That's a strong connection, Dick. Okay. Do your homework. I don't know if I'm Googleable. If you Google the name Jamie Foxx, I'm probably the ninth thing. The ninth person named Jamie Foxx is going to come up.

So from Pittsburgh, a big food city. I know we touched on this a little bit last time you guys were over at Mitch's, but the, the big thing, the fries and the sandwich. Fries on everything. Fries on everything. The permani sandwich with fries and coleslaw on it. But we also are famous for putting fries on our salad. Right.

But that's not even my, I'm using, I love a smaller chain called the hot dog shop, which I'm using. They have all their sodas come in collectible cups, which I'm using one of the holiday one from this year right now. Whoa. Very cool. Yes. It says Frank's for the memories, which is a fun one.

Exactly. I love it. I know. And they're all hot. They're hot dogs. Yes. Oh my God. You love Frank's for the memories.

All right. That side of the table is a little off if you ask me. Nick, look at, look at these monster hot dog humans. Oh my God. Oh, wait. I can hear. Distract them for a minute. I got to get them.

Yeah. These are like, this is like a nuclear family, but they've got hot dog. They're made of hot dog. They're made of hot dogs. Like they're, they're limbs and their bodies, their faces. Yes. They're hot dogs, Nick. Oh my God.

We have a Boston. Wow. This is the cast of cheers as hot dogs as hot dogs. Ted dancing is like like a attractive hot dog. Yeah. It looks great. And Woody Norman Woody kind of look similar. There's not too much of a difference hot dog.

Ted's looking like a snack in more ways than one. So enamored with this, that Jamie decided. My, when I started getting tattoos, my best friend dared me. She's like, why don't you just go full sleeve and get Ted dancing hot dog. And I did. Wow. Wow. That's wild.

That's crazy. I love that. And I hit it. It's actually, it's conducive for today because it's in like a movie snacks. Right. I hit it like in a movie snack. You got the, let's all go to the lobby gang. Let's go out to the lobby.

And then hot dog, hot dog. Ted's right. So I crammed in the middle there. That's right. That's that. I love that. That hot dog. That could be, if they did hot dog version of cheers, I'd watch that show.

Oh man. You wouldn't make that show. An animated hot dog version of cheers. You wouldn't watch it. It's like sausage party, but it's the guest. Yeah. I mean, I feel like if you put that in on YouTube in like 2007, that would be a sensation. All right.

Well, we're just a few years. Yeah. A few years too late to that. The hot dog shop is my favorite Pittsburgh chain and also we have a diner called Eaton Park. Okay. That's only in Pennsylvania. Right.

And it's just a great classic diner. That's open 24 hours. It's, I don't think there's anything, it's signature is that they have the smiley cookie, which is a sugar cookie that with icing on it that has a smiley face. It's good, not great, but the fact that it's so difficult to find a diner out here that's open 24 hours, where you can get anything you want. We have like norms. That's about it.

I've heard of Eaton Park. Yeah. Yeah. What is the, wait, let's, I want to back up the hot dog shop a little bit, like what is it about it that makes it your favorite? So it's the hot dogs, they're small. You have to get like two or three to complete a meal, but they grill them and the casings like gets that snap to it.

Oh yeah. Love a snack. And the buns are kind of wet, like steamed almost like they're wet. So you get like this, this, this crisps, the crispness of the hot dog with the casing, but then like the, the bun and then they have this cheese sauce that is to dive. Of course they do. Of course there's a Pittsburgh cheese sauce somewhere. Yes.

And they're fried. They have real fries. They're shoestring fries, but they're real. They're cut there, like cooked to order and their burgers are really good too. Do we discuss before her thing about real fries versus what real fries mean? Not frozen. Oh, got it. Fresh cut.

So when restaurants have frozen fries, which they often do, her family, they're fake fries. We're not eating fake fries. Oh my God. I love that. I like that. I came from a potato. Yeah. Yes.

I think it's a fair stance though. Okay. There is a qualitative difference in the fresh versus frozen. I mean, I feel you a lot of the, it's crazy that in and out fries are fresh. Yes. That's like, because they don't keep the skin on, right? Hot dog shop keeps the skin on. And they're not great.

No. Are they not that great? I like the in and out fries. I know you do. I get that people don't like them. I understand. They're not double cooking. I think that's what it is.

We went deep on five guys for me being the better fry because double cooking and keeping the skin on. A hot dog shop definitely has some double cooking going on, you can tell. You can find better fries in and out fries. I like them, but if people are like, I like it in and out, but not the fries, I'm like, that's not an opinion I'm going to argue with. That's fine. That's reasonable.

But I like them. They work for me. That's fine. So I stopped getting for I still get an occasional craving for an in and out burger, but I stopped getting the fries along. What would be? What's your guys normal order there? I like a single cheeseburger, whole grilled onion, ad pickle, and yeah, that's it.

That's good. Yeah. I do animal style. I do Armin style. We've talked about this. Yes. Which is animal style ad raw onions. You can't just say Armin style.

I know. People don't know. People don't know who he is. Yeah. No, they haven't listened. Armin style though. Right. Kevin, are you a fan of In and Out at all?

My order there is a five guess to answer your question more directly. I will say though, if you're trying to know carb it, they have their protein style burger. They figured it out. It's the best. It's the best. Yeah. It's the best of the lettuce burger. Yeah.

So I would freak like whenever I was like on this whole life challenge diet and I had to not eat carbs like that would be an easy and it's cheap and it's convenient. So it'd be easy. Right. Which made me really because I know I'm hard on it because I like to be mean to it because I like to be mean to you Nick. I do. It's fun.

I know where that but that's when I started doing when I started eating lettuce wrap burgers. That was when I was like, oh, the quality of the meat of the In and Out patty is it's good. It's good. It's really good. It is good ingredients there. They do. Because we've got to talk about this week's chain but I want to talk about more generally

movies and movie snacking habits. Where do you guys like because my I'm pretty I talked about this a little bit in the theater lobby after the film. I'm a little bit of a guy who just likes to have like a little bit of a soda something maybe with a little effervescence or like an iced tea just something to sip on and do you tell them your stance on pop corn? I'm pretty staunchly anti popcorn. I don't like popcorn.

I'm right a little bit of popcorn today. Not swammy. Cosms of a skeptic. I'm a popcorn skeptic. Insane. What are you skeptical about? I'm skeptical about its necessity in the cinema going experience. Like how did it how did it ever become part of the experience?

I get that. I get that but I'm skeptical about its status is like like this is the food. This is the thing you got to have. It is popcorn. It is the thing you have to have. It doesn't work for me. What are you talking about? I do love movie theater popcorn.

I don't like the artificial butter. My first job was at a movie theater when I was 16 and I was like off of movie theater butter ever since then. If this was Kevin Costner's character's argument that he made in No Way Out, they would have known he was Russian. Let me just say that Nick, your conspiracy against why is popcorn at the theater? For a man in a film with a famous twist ending you just spoiled a twist ending there. Well, if it's out for 25 years or more, yeah, I think it's fair game.

That's on you. In case of this movie a week, yeah, look, we can't captive state. We can't even spoil the ending for you because I don't it doesn't make any sense. I don't remember any character's names. I don't remember who was on Gabriel. That's all I remember. There's a game. Yeah, they did shove Gabriel down our throat as a name.

But otherwise you guys seem to be a big movie going a couple with love to go to the movie. That's great. I think that's great because people who are in the movies or in TV, I like when they go and see the movie. I go and see. I try to see almost every movie. I see whether it's good or bad. You know this.

I do. I'll see anything. I love to go to the movies, but there's a lot of bad. There is a lot of bad. A lot of bad. A lot of bad stuff. Yeah, and I've been through the process for a long, long time of trying to get a movie made as a writer or producer or director.

When you see a really bad movie and you've been through the experience of trying to get one made, you do have to kind of throw your hands up in the air and say, this is the movie that actor chose to do? This one? Right. That actor has a lot of scripts. Right. This is the one?

But I also know. It was a good cast in today's movie, I will say. I love character actors, obviously. So yeah. Kevin Dunn. You got Kevin Dunn on this one. But also from being on the other side of it, in terms of trying to make choices. Yes.

You make choices sometimes for all the best reasons and there's still eight million ways to die between saying yes and the movie coming out. I would say today's movie was a little too ambitious as my... Oh yeah. It was just, it was a really, it was really trying to show, it showed a lot. I liked it as a world building exercise. So I was like, oh, this is kind of an interesting world. Reminded me of the Half-Life games.

Sure. But it was like, I will say that I feel like this is a thing and we talked about Arrival a little bit or you mentioned Arrival. But I think there's like a thing with aliens now to make them like weirder and to make them like, okay, how can we make the language as strange as possible? Yeah. Yeah. This was the most unique alien I've seen.

Yeah. As opposed to like kind of like there was the, you know, the old Star Trek where it's going to be this as humanoid as possible. Now it's like a, yeah, we've got this weird like six limb thing with spikes all over it. Spurr slash spikes. Yeah. The fur turns into spike. That is one of the few things I liked about the movie.

When the spikes went back and forth. I liked that it was an original alien. Right. And I liked Arrival because the aliens were essentially Kodos and Kang. Yeah. Yes. That's true. Kind of weird.

They were so much so whenever they were first revealed, I think I jumped up at my seat. I went, Kodos and Kang. You didn't whisper it. I remember you stood up and yelled Kodos and Kang in a crowded theater, which is much better than fire. None of them wear clothes. No clothes on aliens anymore. Oh, that's right.

You think we should clothe them up? Yeah. Put some clothes on them. Cover up their privates. Well, first show us the privates. Yeah. Show it. Let us know what they are.

We're not certain any of them had privates. Is that why you're zooming in as soon as an alien is on screen? There's another big thing too where heads open up to mouths. Oh, yeah. You know, you have stranger things. Right. And quiet place. Quiet place.

Oh, yeah. That's a big, big thing. This one that didn't quite happen, we don't know how they killed, do we? I don't know. They stuck you with their porcupine things? With their spikes. You never really see anyone in this film get killed, but you don't even really see much of the aliens at all.

In fact, I felt after the opening scene involved a couple of crawling aliens and one little closer up with the porcupines folding into fur. After that, we went, I think, an hour 20 without seeing an alien, which made me realize, oh, what a genius thing to do for your budget. Right. Yes. Build a world, as you said, dystopian and what have you. And that's what the movie is.

Establish the alien in the first nine seconds of the film and then just leave it alone. Right. Leave it alone with the alien and the spending of money on the CGI. It's like if you saw Jaws in the first minute of, you saw a close-up of Jaws and he was smiling. And then the next time you saw him, it was one day when he was exploding. Yeah. Yeah.

That's not too far. And then at the end of the movie, Quint, like you finally learned Quint wasn't on Jaws' side. Yes. Oh, wait. Well, all right. Yeah. Okay.

And Jamie was the one laughing when the spaceship, which I think you dug. Which looked like a rod. Oh, yeah. Doorstop. It looked like a doorstop. Yes. Again, they were looking for, they're trying to go for this organic thing. It's like a weird like wood, like earth spaceship.

Rock. Yeah. Like it's rock spaceship. Which I kind of like, okay. But it just didn't look cool. Nick, where you at? So much of a thing of sci-fi is just like things should just look cool. When you were leaving the theater at the first weekend, Jaws came out, were you upset

that you couldn't see Jaws' genitalia in the water? All right. So that movie came out in 1976. 75. 75. I was born in 1980. Well, I'm not old enough to have seen Jaws in theaters. All right.

You always like to talk about like a much older than you. All right. Fine. Who cares? But besides that point. Yes. What were you upset that you didn't see Jaws'? To answer your question.

Yes. Do you guys so you, because people like a, you know, prestige TV, we're in the air of prestige TV. Golden Age of Television. Golden Age of Television. Kevin, you're on a very renowned, very successful show. As you just shared your SAG award that's displayed in your, your dining area. The very heavy, very heavy.

You should say that he puts there as a joke when you're playing poker. Rub it in my poker playing friends face. Yes. Post a weekly game. Jamie put it on the mantle by the TV where there are other things and then I realized I had to look at it every day when it was on the mantle and I didn't really want to look at it every day because we're never in this dining room unless it's Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving or the poker game.

Right. Yeah. This is not a room otherwise. A lot of dining rooms go unused, I feel like. It's just kind of like a. My sketch team does table reads here. Oh, that's right. That's right.

It's used for table reads. There's a nice flow, you know, but we just don't stop here. I catch it. Yeah. So I'm curious. Do you have, you know, because people have their own movie snacking habits, do you do anything with it when you're you're going to sit down, you're going to watch a show that you're you're into something that's like an event, a weekly event watch?

Is that something you have some sort of snacking habits for some sort of food routine at home? No, I feel like we'll tend to eat if we decided like we're staying in tonight and watching TV and we order takeout, we'll eat dinner in front of the television. Right. We don't normally sit down with this. Like humans. We have a TV trays from Target. Oh, that's fun.

You know, the plain wood ones. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nothing fancy. Right. Those are great. Yeah. Look at the job done.

I use a little table in front of my coach. That little. It's too low. I've tried to eat at that table before. It's too it's too low. That's an issue for me as well. If I have to lift things that could drip and yeah, yeah, I'm going to make I'm going to spill all over myself.

I just call them the cats. They clean that they're like little Roombas. So what about? Okay. What about watching movies at home then? Same sort of same sort of thing. Well we have a tradition on Christmas Eve. Yes.

Called Jewy Christmas Eve. That's fun. Where we will go to my favorite, certainly Chinese restaurant. I'll get takeout Yang Chao. Give them a shout out. Oh, yeah. Amazing. I'll go.

I'll drive all the way there from here. Yeah. That's I was going to say that's a that's a ride. But it's Christmas Eve. So no one's in town. You get the slippery shrimp? Of course. People who are in town, by the way, are at Yang Chao at Christmas Eve.

There's about 600 people waiting outside in line. That's why they have to go. Wow. Bring it back here. We'll watch a screener for one of the for your consideration movies. Yeah. We'll invite over a handful. Mostly Jews.

A handful of Jews. And so in that case, we're eating a Chinese feast right while watching a movie. But I don't know that we have any rituals in terms of watching TV or movies at home. Hmm. They tell by yourself. No. Not really. I mean, just dinner.

There's no real. I mean, I've done the same. I do the same thing with the screen. Can I ask you what was? What was the the the screener this year for the the Scruggs? Scruggs. Scruggs. No, no, no.

That was we watched that after Thanksgiving. Love Scruggs. No, it vice. Oh, vice. Oh, vice. And it was great because so we eat the meal and then we watch and then we'll start the movie and then we'll take a break and have pie. And that movie, if you've seen it, has a very has a false ending.

Oh, wow. And so it was perfect for intermission or as my our friend Corey called it, pieatus. Why are you haven't seen your old boss's movie? Well, vice. Yeah. McKay. He's your old boss. No, I kind of I kind of got way behind on movies last year and I just sort of gave

up. I was like, you know what? A wonderful film. He's very well for himself. What was the last movie you saw before captive state? Um, God, I saw, let's see, hold on. In the theater. Yeah.

Did you see into the spider verse? God, he's going to come up with like arachnophobia or something in a second. Hey, also with John Goodman, also with John Goodman. I do have Goodman on the brain. How can you not? He's great. I saw another movie. No, I saw some more stuff and last year in the dear God, Black Panther.

Okay. That's a year old. Wasn't Goodman on the brain of Willie Nelson's song? Sorry. You have to do a little math. Um, yeah. No, I fell way behind on movies in 2018 and then as I do is the like when I'm, I'm just like, you know what?

This year's wash because I've had years while I'll watch every single like not just call a year. Okay. You're saying for movies or just in general? Here's a wash for movies. I'll just never catch up on. Okay. I'll get back.

I'll get back in on 2019. Yeah. You picked a good year to wash. Okay. Yeah. It wasn't a great year for movies. Yeah. But no, I didn't see a lot.

And also too, I was having issues where I was like, and, and, uh, uh, I was finding this experience, but I've had issues where I get lightheaded in movie theaters. I don't know if it's like, if it's anxiety related or what, but like, like, it's like a feeling of like, oh, I feel like I'm, I'm entrapped. Yeah. So like, I feel like I, like I got to get out of here. It's kind of like the same feeling I've had. You, we were on that plane and we were on the plane to Saskatoon and I was like, I was

like, oh boy, I'm not doing great right now. Yeah. The door of the airplane. So like, I, like, I, it was like, uh, I, I sometimes had that feeling of like, even though I'm not trapped in that situation, I've like, I feel like I can't escape from here. Yeah. So I, I, for that reason, I kind of avoid theaters.

I've been avoiding theaters of late, although I think I'm, I'm doing better. Jesus Christ. You could technically escape a theater much easier than a plane. That's true. Yeah. Don't just remind yourself of that a little bit easier next time you go to a theater, I can actually get out if I want to without risking anyone's life. I don't like Nick knowing the easiest escape route from the theater for multiple reasons.

Uh, I saw, you know, the, the speaking of, of theater incidents, I, when I saw a war for the planet of the apes, this guy directed a planet of the apes, I don't think it was that one. Um, but so war for the planet of the apes, this guy, the guy was sitting seated right next to me where you were at the, uh, you know, exact same spot as you were today in the AMC theater, um, stood up, uh, walked down the aisle and then walk to the, like as you started going down the stair steps of the stadium seats, tripped, fell down face plane.

Oh my God. And lot, it was just knocked out cold. And the guy next to him like got up and like check on his friend and went and got security and they got him out. And I was like, holy shit. It was such a like, holy shit, I should do something. And then I did nothing. I could just watch this all unfold.

Well, did his friend get up pretty quickly? His friend got up immediately. So there wasn't much you could do. Yeah, you did the right thing. Cause when I, you don't want a bunch of people crowding, but I don't think I've in my entire life seen anyone knock themselves out. It was crazy. I just felt, he just like, like knocked out.

It felt like a, it was like someone had said timber, oh my God, which that's what you could have done. That's what I should have said. I should have said timber. I think if you said timber, that guy would have regained consciousness and come over and kicked your ass right there. So I truly is when I went and saw straight out of Compton, a guy threw another guy over a row of seats at the arc light in Hollywood.

And I was with Joe Saunders and Joe Saunders stood up and went, hey, you can't do that. He held it up to the people and the guys were like, oh, sorry, man, we don't want any trouble Saunders. If you know Joe Saunders, it's a very funny guy, but I gained a lot of respect for him for standing up. If you want to, if you want to, if you don't know Joe Saunders, imagine a less confident you saw. Is that a thing?

Yeah. I'm good for Joe. I'm glad he tried. You can't do that. He stood up out of his seat. It was the, I was, I just started laughing. So okay. So we were at the theater.

We went to the AMC dinin before the dinin's existed, or if you're going to, because this is a, this is not your common theater. This is not the place you go to most frequently. I don't think it's the most, it's the place most people go to most frequently, but, but the AMC, what are you talking about? Like a diner. Okay. So outside of the dinin experience, what is it?

What are your guys? Movie, theater, snack preferences, popcorn, popcorn, right? Well, I need at least a drink. Yes. What kind of beverage you go with? I like soda. I like soda. I don't like all sodas.

It just depends on, like today I got a Coke zero. Right. I like root beer. I like, I like all the sprite depends on what I'm in the mood for. I like all soda. I think at the movie theater, Coke or Cherry Coke Reign Supreme, what do you think of that, Nick? Yeah.

I mean, those are good. No, no, I mean, like a Coke or Cherry Coke are always, they're great sodas. Yeah. Dr. Pepper, is that what you got on your mind? I just don't like sweetness as much as I used to, and I have less of a sweet tooth than I did when I was a kid. So I will, I will honestly go with like an unsweetened iced tea, or if they have a sparkling water, like they have like a Perrier or a favorite of mine is one of the button options

on those self-serve. Yes. Right. Because a lot of them have the Coke freestyle machines now, so you can get a Dessani sparkling. Yeah, Dessani sparkling is not bad. That makes me happy. Yeah, that works for me. So you get a sparkling water and a piece of sugar cane that you bite on throughout the

movie? No, speaking of sugar, we, Jamie and I had a debate before we left the house. I had prepared my contraband because that is my other go-to while I go to the movies. I will sneak in my own treats. Right. Candy. Yeah. Have the candy I want, I feel.

Nor do I want to spend $60 for a box of 19 M&M's. Right. So I, from the airport, I just flew back from New York yesterday. Jesus. Thursday night. Thursday, because we came back for the Paley Fest thing, honoring the aforementioned show. And so at the airport, at JFK, in anticipation of going to the movies with the guys, I thought, I love Good and Plenty.

I don't have it very often, if ever. They rarely have it at a movie theater. Look, there's one of those Dylan's candy. Dylan's candy bar. Oh, yeah. So I'll go in and get some Good and Plenty in a bag and I'll bring it into the theater's contraband, as I normally do. And as I was preparing it on our way today, Jamie said.

Oh, this was a very heated discussion between us. Wow. I said that he couldn't take his contraband in because it would be against giving a proper review of the dining experience. Wow. Right. Wow. I said, you can buy candy when you're there and eat it, but you can't sneak your own candy

in because that's not part of the dining experience that they am seeing. And this is someone whose nickname is Depression, baby. Don't want to let you spend it. Well, let me spend a dime. And force him to eat leftovers. So my brain wasn't accepting, wait, we're going to buy candy there for a while. Well, we weren't buying it. It's on the dumb boys.

Exactly. He had done the math on that. Wow. And I hadn't. But I still got my stubs points. That's right. You got your stubs points. So you got 20 boxes of Good and Plenty.

So I didn't have it. No one ever has it. So anyway, I was going to say a very divisive candy, by the way, Good and Plenty is insanely divisive. Yeah. Yes. I like black licorice flavor. Black licorice flavor.

And I don't like Good and Plenty. Yeah. I don't know. Interesting. It's neither good, just plenty. Anyway, so that's my normal thing. I got popcorn, smuggled in, contraband candy. And I would prefer sparkling water because I've already got the sugar coming from the

candy. Got it. But otherwise, I would get, like today, Coke Zero. Mitch, you're a big, you're a big popcorn guy. I am. Yeah. And you know what? When I was younger and we would go to the movies with parents that would be like, we'll

sneak in popcorn and candy. I'd be like, I'd be so upset. Well, it was not great popcorn if it was coming from home. Yeah. You know what? Shout out to Mrs. Tufo. She would make a great popcorn. She, she, she, she, she actually, she actually really could make, but there's just, there's

something about the hot, fresh popcorn, even though you're right that I worked at a movie theater as well. My, the summer after my senior year of college, one of the coolest things you can do. Mine was the summer before my senior year, summer of ninety nine, then a man this year. Very cool. American Pie two came out and I think legally blonde two or one came out. I forget which, which one, one and it was a, you know, I saw all the people from my high school and I was wearing a big popcorn shirt and it was very, it was embarrassing

time for me, but I, I, I, it was, it was a horrible embarrassing time for me, but I enjoyed where I do it. I did enjoy working at a movie theater, but the turnoff is that movie theater butter you. I still do eat it like I'll get it on there, but it does make you sit and it just does make you sick. It's just, it's disgusting. It made you sick today. It made me sick today.

I mean, it truly it did. You had a little side of it and I put it on the popcorn and I was, I was sick. I needed a dungeon bathroom, so yeah, I was, it was, it was, it was, I'd never seen a little side of butter before. I thought that you would maybe ask for that, but they just gave that to you. No, because when I come there because it's they, they have a server, so they can't, they don't ask you. Do you want butter or not?

They just bring it to you in a little content, like a little plastic. That's one of the things to guess. We should talk about the dining experiences that there's our, their servers. Yes. Yes. I've been, have you guys been to the Alamo Draft House? I feel like I have, certainly not in LA, but out there on the road. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's, that was kind of my first experience with ever, with like, kind of like a real sit-down. I went once. I went with you and John Gabris and we saw Murder at the Orient Express. That's right. It's a lot of fun. That wasn't too long ago.

No, with Kenneth Branagh. Yeah. You did a few glasses of wine that night. I sure did. Well, then that would be the last time you were at the movie. Yeah. That was it. Murder at the Orient Express with Branagh.

Yeah, that was a, but that, that, so the Alamo Draft House experience I found, I thought the servers were, who did a good job, I just thought that the setup was, it felt intrusive. It felt like, like my movie was being interrupted. And here I think they, it's, because it's a little bit newer, it's not the innovator of the concept. That was clearly one that I think would have been, it was, we were maybe at the original one or one of the originals. But I think this one, like they do a little bit better job of not making it feel like

it's a. Yeah, exactly. It's a huge interruption for sure. Yeah. I'll give them points. Yeah. We discussed this a little bit beforehand, that this would, I feel this is one of the few that it was built to be an AMC Dine-In and not retrofitted.

Because I've been, the only other one I've been to was one in Orlando at Disney Springs. And it was always an AMC and then just some of the theaters, they retrofitted to become an AMC Dine-In and it's a completely different experience and very intrusive. Yeah. Oh, okay. So it can, it can depend on. It's almost like a rate, it's just a regular theater with like recline seating, but then they just put a bar in front of you, like a bar top in front of you.

So you have to sit up and then eat and then you, oh, that's not good. I don't like that. These have these little swinging tables that came in and out of your seats that were almost like an air, like an air, like a first class, yeah, and it was great. I thought those worked really well. Right. Should we, should we talk more about the movie captive state or are we done with it? What else is there to say?

Were you captive, Nick, where you were in a captive state? No, I was pretty, no, I was pretty uncaptive. Yeah. I was, I was, like, I was, I was waiting for it to, I felt like I was just like, in my head the whole time, I was just like, huh, I was just like, I was just, I'm like, I'm going to see that alien joke. I was just unclear on what was happening. Purposely convoluted.

It's very obtuse. So that I could explain far too much in the last four minutes. Right. Right. And then you're supposed to go, oh, I see, I'm the asshole. Thank you for that. Jamie says one thing of all the many words you just used and I wrote, instantly wrote a bad joke.

I'm just not sure I should share. This podcast is all about bad jokes. Yeah. Have you been listening to us? I once had a bed made of Disney Springs and when you lie down it went, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's fun. I like that. That's so up.

That's so up making my alley. So it was made of Disney Springs Disney Springs is Disney worlds downtown Disney. And I actually hate that I called it Disney Springs because I'm so old school. I'm like, no, it will forever be downtown Disney to me, but I was trying to be correct. You allowed for a horrible job. Everybody wins that. That is maybe the best joke that's ever been told on there was too.

What did you get an impression with that was written in the moment? You saw we got to edit that out. It makes us look bad. So we. So yeah. So so so cap to state is bad cap to state was I was not a great watch, but a lot of great actors in it. We'll say that good performances.

I thought the production design was pretty good and the direction was interesting. Compelling music was certainly driving. It was just we like the uniqueness of the aliens. Yes. It made it very annoying because you couldn't emotionally connect with anyone or anything. I just I just want to say that there was like 40 minutes of the movie that was like like setting off a chain of events where like a guy got like a coin and then

like nodded to someone and then they went and like left a dog somewhere and someone saw that and they like started up a car like change the license plate of their car to a different license plate. It was like all these little chains, these chains of events. It took like it was like literally like a half an hour than a chicken like a pecked it as some birdseed. It's a Rube Goldberg machine. It's a Rube Goldberg machine.

Let a candle on fire. And then imagine all of that while you're watching it. Yeah, you don't care. Yes. You don't care. You don't made it super special. You don't know what it means. Yeah, you were not allowed to know.

Yeah, so you can skip that one maybe for this. Yeah, I'm sure it's not still in theaters by the time this episode is out. But the but the but for the purposes of what we were doing, it actually kind of worked that it wasn't a movie that I had to be like a rapturous attention to because we got, you know, we were eating all this food and we sat down and pretty much right away, our server was over with us. I like the service overall. I thought they were very attentive and we started with some.

Well, here's what I'll say. You get cloth napkins, which I like. You have these little sort of swivel things that Mitch mentioned and these swivel trays, you get a fork, but no knife. And it like took me a second to figure that out of like, oh, yeah, they don't want you to try to use a knife in the dark because that's just going to end badly. And then what I'll say is they just give not give you a knife. Did you get a knife?

You don't get nice. We brought our own. Sorry, we should have told you guys. They clocked me walking in. Yeah, everything's meant to be like finger foods or like in a bowl. So you can shovel it into your face like a feedback. And do they normally do what they did today, which is they give the entrees before the apps, because I found that disorienting.

I don't normally order in courses. They're right. So, but I also ordered you guys. I ordered an appetizer as my entree and it came out the same time is here. I see. I think it was just because like we got like the sampler platter. Maybe it was because they had to like, you know, get everything, you know, our entrees came out.

Our entrees came first and Nick, he literally fainted. You fainted in your chair. You had to resuscitate me. So, AMC, the Dine-in theaters, they were launched in 2008. The AMC chain has been around since 1920 as part of the Dine-in theaters. They have MacGuffin's Bar, which we didn't get to spend a lot of time in. We didn't really do MacGuffin's Bar. But it's kind of like this, you know, it's it's I mean,

just look kind of like a generic sort of brightly lit sports bar. Much like it's purposed to a screenplay. It's meaningless. Yes. And so let's start with let's start with beverages. I got myself an Arnold Palmer. I like that they give you they give you an actual glass. That goes a long way.

It reminds me of big, big glass. Yeah, it's nice. I got a big glass with refills. I got refills, which I was not expecting. And did you ask for your refill or did they just come out? They just brought it over. Wow. I will say our server was excellent because that is the first time

I never had to specifically ask for a refill. And she was just right there with it. And also Kevin got popcorn and she automatically brought a cardboard box for sharing. She anticipated that. And that was I don't know if you have her name on the receipt or whatever, but five stars for her. Yeah. She was excellent.

Maybe six out of five. OK, six stars for our server. Because that allowed me to pour half of our giant bucket of popcorn into the box and hand it over to Mitch. Yes, right. And Nick took one bite of it and then I think I ate half of that. That's probably part of the reason I'm not feeling great. I ate half a tub of popcorn on top of everything else I ate.

Yeah. And you troughed that box. I did not. You don't like a pig. We our server was Evelyn. Our receipt says Evelyn is great. Very nice. She was excellent.

I call her out. So AMC Dine-In in Marina Del Rey, whatever you're paying, Evelyn is not enough. That's because my Arnold Palmer was so I got the two rounds. The first one I thought was great. The second one was a little bit too much lemonade, but whatever. Sometimes the proportions aren't aren't exactly perfect. I've mentioned before that I that I like my variant of the Arnold Palmer, the Nick Weiger, which is one third lemonade, two thirds iced tea.

I think just like a slightly better. You've named it after yourself. No, it's not a lot of people that like prefer it that way. Yeah. I don't know if I've even you can't take the name. I coined it. It's the Nick Weiger. No, it's not the Nick Weiger.

It is to him. That's insane. Thank you, Kevin. Well, how was your guys? How are you guys beverages? And what did you guys get? Oh, Mitch got a drink. I got I got I got a drink.

I got a Caribbean cool. I was looking I was looking up the menu here. I got a credit. I got it up. I can I can give it to you. All right. I got a Caribbean cooler, which it was kind of like their their fruity tropical drink. Yeah.

Why don't you click on that for me, Nick? And I actually really a rum based drink, a rum based shrimp. I was under their classic cocktails. No, Nick, you know, you don't get these are the the supernova in the mock three. They don't only have the seasonal ones. They don't have the evergreen ones. It was under the classic cocktails. It was really surprisingly good.

Look blue. It was it was blue. There was a curacao. Is that the is that the blue curacao was in there? Pineapple. I think some orange. It was it was it was really it was really tasty. It was and also there was a little cherry and an orange in there.

Both pieces of the fruit fresh. You could sometimes that's like rotten fruit. You get those drinks. Both of them were fresh. I was it was I was off to a good start. I feel like one you still did nothing happened. There's a MacGuffin's bar website is it's a wild goose chase MacGuffin. It's a MacGuffin.

They've got our don't follow it. They've got our drink menu, but there's nothing clickable here. It says from handcrafted cocktails to extents of beer and wine list. We keep our bars stocked and ready for the show. Selection will vary by location and that's where we're back to a wonderful description that you just gave me pretty much. I pretty much nailed it out of a website with no website. There was there was there was coconut.

There was cracking rum, I believe, and coconut rum and blue carrot, carrot, carousel, I said it bad and a pineapple and orange juices. It was good, right? It was great. It was I really, I really enjoyed it and was surprised by it. Right. I'm like curious what's the price point on their cocktails? Do you remember how much that cocktail was?

I think it was probably 10 to $12 got the receipt. I got the receipt, but it's not itemized Jesus. Yeah, this is just the credit card receipt. All right. I should have brought the itemized with me. Yeah, I didn't do it. It's your show. If you want to do that.

I just had a Coke Zero. Did you have the same? I did. Yeah. And I, but I do like they have a Coke freestyle machine. So there's like hundreds of options. So I like that you can get a Diet Barks root beer cream set up. How does the Coke freestyle work in a dyne in situation?

Like when you're ordering from the server, you just order what you want. Like say, I want a cherry vanilla Coke Zero and they bring it to. Wow. But it feels like it's coming from a fountain. Right. It's not coming from a can. Yeah. No, it's a fountain.

Right. No, but that's the other is a taste different. No. Yeah, definitely. I think you were just asking, how do you order it? Because like when you go to the, is that what you're going to freestyle machine? I feel like it's like a screens in front of your options that I feel like I don't know how I'd be able to keep that in my head.

Yeah, you would have to know what you want going in. I think I frequent theaters enough and use the machine that I can tell you what. We know the AMC menu drink. You know what? Now that I think about it, I think it may have been listed on the back of the like all the other, I think there was a grid on the back of the menu actually. Wow. A grid?

I think that would see us. I think there was that would give you all the options. I believe there was. Do you not believe it? No, I mean, that just like there's all the possible permutations. I feel like every time I've seen the Coke freestyle, it's like there are like a hundred and ninety thousand different way, different flavor combos you can come up with or whatever, just because of all the different, you know, like you can put vanilla

and cherry and they're all the same. They're just different bases. They all have the same syrup options. So you kind of got like a like a column, an X axis and a Y axis of your drink base and then all your different add-ons. I believe that that's on the like the back cover on the grid on the back grid, on the back cover. All right.

I'm going to head back and I'll get that item is received by the way, guys. I looked at the Caribbean cooler. I nailed the every ingredient in it, Nick. Wow. God, let me see. I'm impressed. Yeah. Thank you.

I appreciate that. I feel like it's Nick's responsibility to not be impressed. We'll take a break. We'll be back. Welcome back to Doughboys here with Jamie Foxx, Kevin Pollock. We are talking AMC Dine In. So let's get into our food. The Big Bite Sampler.

This was your entree. This was our starter. I guess let's sit on that for a second. We'll touch that and we'll touch on that when we get to when we get to entrees. What other food did you guys get? I went, we both decided that we were going to get items we'd never had before. Right. And so I normally go for the bowl, the sort of rice and shrimp or the rice and meat.

One of their bowl options. They got a lot of bowls there because I felt like I know the ingredients. I don't have to look at my food. Yes. And it doesn't matter that it's dark. Right. And one of the big drawbacks, of course, of the AMC Dine In experience is that you are basically eating in the dark.

Yes. There's a little bit of light from the screen, but it depends on the scene. Yeah. How much light you get. And in this movie today, there was a lot of darkness. A lot of darkness. For me, it's just business as usual. I usually eat in the dark like that.

Eat in the dark like that. So I went with a, what did they call it, chicken grill sandwich? The grilled chicken sandwich. Their signature grilled chicken sandwich. I think it was avocado, right? Yeah. And a brioche soft bun, which was very, very tasty. I went with the whole the onions and they did not.

Oh, no. That's a bummer. And they were red raw onion. That's a huge bummer. It changes everything. It's overpowering. That's a strong flavor. And I was, that was the one true setback for me.

But after a couple of bites of it, I opened it up and removed the red onion. But that's a bummer because it's in the dark. So you have to take that bite to discover that. Oh, I took that bite and I was able to, while I'm sad. You would think they'd be extra cautious of that. Because it, I mean, she has allergies. I saw Evelyn write it down when I asked for the no onions. So it's not on her.

No, it's not on Evelyn. Let's explain the kitchen error. And that came with french fries, but I opted out, which you can for free. As Jamie explained to me, for tater tots or onion rings, I went tater tots. Oh, wow. Nice. And I'm going to give a very big, enthusiastic thumbs up for their tots. He's doing the, our listeners can't, don't know this.

He's giving a thumbs up physically. Very pleased. Yeah. Unbelievable. And now he's pointing out the door. I think he wants us to go. And a mountain of them. Right.

Too many tots. Too many tots. I like the sound of that. Name of my fourth book. Not about child day kids. This was the avocado chicken grill that was your sandwich? Yes. Grilled chicken breast, baby arugula, tomato, onion, avocado, lime,

crema, and herb goat cheese on a toasted brioche bun. I stayed away because of the goat cheese. I opted out. Oh, smart. I said, is it possible to get a different cheese in Evelyn with a smile? Said, yes. Wow. What kind of cheese would you like?

I said, what are my options? She read them off and I went with the Monterey Jack. Great choice. Yeah. Melted Monterey Jack on a grilled chicken. It's perfect. I think Swiss or that are the two ones I would go with. Yes, because I normally have strayed from that sandwich because I believe

I feel like, because goat cheese is very, that's a very strong cheese. So my normal go-to there is under their burgers, you can opt to get a beef patty, a grilled chicken breast, a crispy chicken breast, or I think there's a veggie option. And I tend to get like one of their burgers, but I get a grilled chicken patty and then I get the tots, which we then share because it is a amount of tots. Yeah. The portions are pretty big. Right.

I almost went with what you went with, but I was scared away because of the goat cheese. I didn't, I didn't even, I should have asked Evelyn. I didn't ask her at all and we stayed away from the sushi kind of for similar reasons, which we didn't know what we were getting into. Boy, that was spooked by the sushi. We were afraid of the sushi. We were really going to order the sushi and then we got cold feet. Yeah.

I will say the last time we were there, I do remember them mentioning we're out of sushi. I think it's something, I don't, I don't know if they necessarily always have it. Okay. Yeah. I don't think that, I think that they may have taken it off their menu for obvious reasons, especially like noon, like you're going to move theater at noon. It's like just kind of opened. Yeah.

The theater's just like, this is like one of the first showings of the day. I just didn't, I was scared. I was scared. That's a dice roll. That's a real, that's a, you're, you're, I don't know if I do that. It's like Walgreens sushi. I'm just like, I don't know about this. Yeah.

No, I did. The fact that they even have sushi at Walgreens is like suspect. Yeah. Right next to the halls. Yeah. Mitch, what did you get for your, your sandwich? Nick, if you go right back there, I got the Chipotle chicken meal, which you can read off.

Yes. Grilled chicken, applewood smoked bacon, cheddar, jack cheese, Chipotle, mayo, warm, flat bread, Chipotle, mayo. It says Chipotle, mayo twice. Well, I'll tell you this, they, they give you a side of Chipotle, mayo. Is that for dipping or is that for them fries? It's, it's for dipping. I was, it's the dark, as we've said.

Right. I was fighting into the sandwich and then I dipped my fry into what I thought was ketchup. It's the Chipotle, mayo had no idea. It was nice mine came with fries. I didn't replace it. I didn't know the trick I messed up. I messed up.

I ordered. I probably would have gone with onion rings or something different, but I will say this. The fries were great. Oh, good. The fries are really good. They were really well done. I liked it.

I liked them a lot. Yeah. So why do you have regrets at all? I don't have regrets. I just at the time I was like, oh, I would try something different from French fries, which I didn't think were going to be that great. Right. And then they were.

They were really good. And I got to say, Nick, the sandwich was really, really, really good. I liked it a lot. Yeah. I was shocked. That bun is something special. Right. The bun is great.

The bun is great. That flatbread bun or whatever the hell it is, whatever the, whatever they grill, they, it was like yours, I think, but grilled down. It was they really, they really slammed this thing down. And it was panini kind of. Yeah, they flattened this thing out and it was, it was, it was tasty. It was really, I really enjoyed it. I was shocked.

I dipped it a little bit in the, in the Chipotle mayo. I was nervous about spilling a little bit, but I think they don't put that mayo on there. I don't think they lay it on too thick because they know that it can be a spilly sandwich. Yeah. I was, because the whole time I want to catch up for my fries, because I was dipping in the, in the, in the Chipotle mayo and then Evelyn comes around and

I'm like, is there, do you have ketchup? And she's like, it's right next to you. The ketchup is right next to give you a whole thing and ketchup, like a big squeeze, squeeze bottle. Every seat has a Heinz bottle. That's bizarre, right? Well, no, because you asked for it. I mean, you're right.

I mean, it should be, it's, it's, it's, I mean, it's, it just is a weird thing in the movie there. You have a Heinz bottle. To them, it's no different, I suppose, than having it at a four-top when you go out to a restaurant. Right. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I don't know why I excluded two tubs. Also, you, you, you have, you had a great system. The light is, there's a light, this, this is a detraction and they should just give you an option to shut it off or something, but there's like a pretty bright light right next to your head. So you can read the menu and, and everything like that.

And you can't turn it off and Kevin, you show me that you can open a menu, put it on top of the light and it, and it blacks everything out. A little menu tent. A little menu tent. Nick, I told you this trick. Yeah. You fucked it up so bad. I can figure it out.

I don't know how you, I don't know how you messed it up so bad. Well, there's a smaller menu. Yeah. Maybe you got stuck with that. No, he's in the right size menu. He didn't tent it. He, he opened it up. He opened up the menu and like pressed it against.

I was trying to lean it against it. As if it was going to stick to the light. What the hell were you doing? What I was trying to do is I was trying to balance it on top of another menu and sort of tilt it over. No. Jesus. Sort of like a lean to.

I should have got up. Yeah. The ladies next to me were obviously regulars. They did it before I had a chance to. Oh wow. How about that? I like the right, that's the regular move. I like that.

They did it before I had a chance to. Sweet tent. I also ordered about halfway through my meal. I ordered a diet cherry Coke and I got a cherry Coke. I got a regular cherry Coke. It was, here's what I'll say. I ordered it like and she couldn't hear me almost every time I said it. I was also kind of whispering it.

I didn't do a good job during a loud movie, but it was during a part of the movie where I think that she just couldn't, she couldn't hear what I was saying. And I was fine with that. I mean, I didn't care. I actually preferred it. It was better for me. I mean, you're eating it healthily anyway. What's one extra soda?

I got from my entree. So here's the thing. This is not normally something I would get at one of these chains because I don't think it's the most interesting option. However. This is so on brand for you that this is what you get everywhere. However, here's what I was going to say. The reason I did it here is because I wanted to see if I was going to go to one

of these dining theaters. I don't think I'd indulge in something super heavy. I think I'd be like, I might have a lighter meal and I wanted to see how they executed that. So I got the chopped cobs salad. This is grilled chicken, avocado, bacon, egg, diced tomato, blue cheese, and romaine in their ranch dressing. I feel that did come first to you. It did come.

Oh, you're saying that was your entree? I was saying that was my entree and it came before our app, which was the big bite sampler. But I think that was just, they were just confused about what was, what was what. And it didn't really ultimately matter all that much. Did you specify when you ordered that the salad is my entree and this is my starter? I didn't. So I guess this is on me. It is on you.

I think it's a timing thing because I ordered the big bite sampler as my entree. And I think it's just like a grilling of the, or frying of the chicken fingers and the wings that it's going to come out later because of the cooking time. They had two orders for the same party. And so they were just like, we'll just do them together. I think it's just a timing thing. Yeah. Yeah.

No, but I was not like emphatic about like, this is my app. This is my entree. Get it straight Evelyn. What did you think of the salad? I thought it was, I thought it was a lot better than I expected. I was expecting like an airport salad. I was expecting something to be pretty, pretty dingy. Airport salads are like, they're, they're just never, it feels like such a compromise.

Here's what you should do at an airport, not eat anything. Yeah. Sometimes it's just like a matter of necessity of timing. This is my stance on airports. Don't, if you, if you, if you're somehow in first class, eat whatever meal they serve you. And I don't, I, I, I never feel good eating Burger King before I get on a plane or whatever, whatever options you have, or like those, I've had those salads before and I never feel good. It sucks.

It's never satisfying. I just, I feel like I am going to, again, I get, I get lightheaded in certain situations, especially if I hadn't eaten, if I haven't eaten. So I'd be like, I just have to have put food in my body right now. And so what's going on with it? You're having dizzy fits and looking for the exits and you're, you're going to pat, is everything okay? No.

Obviously not. It's a lovely Saturday and we're recording a podcast about chain restaurants. And you're, and you're freaking out. Obviously things want to miss at some point in this life. The, no, this was, this was quite good. The ingredients were good. The biggest issue I had with it was the bowl was so small and so packed that I felt like I was spilling ingredients, I was going to spill ingredients all over my tray.

And slightly slanted. Slightly slanted. Yeah. Lower in front and higher in the back. Yes. I mean that element I liked it, but I wish that it was just like a little bit of a bigger bowl because it was just, I need a little bit of a splash zone. I need a little bit of something.

You got to mix it up. Exactly. It was, it was pretty mixed, but some of the stuff was like it being a cob, they just sort of layered some of the stuff on top. So I was just getting bites of like just egg and just avocado. Oh man. Yeah. So, because it was difficult to mix.

I am not a fan of the, I discuss this with my friends often of the compartmentalized salad. I want it tossed. Oh, no way. I'd rather be tossed. Like that's, because first of all, I don't want to be eating a salad in the first place. I'm eating it because I'm trying to be healthy. A hundred percent. So do the work for me.

I do not want to have to, and especially if you get like a whole grilled chicken breast and you got to cut it up. Don't even bother. Right. That's insane. The carp, carp, carp. It's hard to say. I can't do it.

Compartmentalized. Compartmentalized salad. Thank you very much. Is so wack. I hate it more. And you, you, you can go to places. I don't know what tender greens does this, but like you go to like a $15 salad place, and they still will do it sometimes.

It drives me insane. They're doing it for presentation reasons, because it like it looks a lot better, especially if you're going to photograph it for social media. That's insane. It looks better. It's so bad. Yeah. I agree.

I don't like it. Like sweet green has it right. Sweet green, you know, they toss it for you. And I also, my probably one of my favorite salads is the chopped salad at pit fire pizza. It's so on point. Oh man. That's a good salad. Wait, is that one with a vinaigrette?

What is it? Yes. Okay. I may have had that salad. Yeah. And you can opt to put in either grilled chicken or pepperoni and salami. Yes. And it's just got a lot of gear in it.

It has like olives and cheese and corn. Oh my gosh. Pepperoncino. So good. Pepperoncino. Yes. So good. Yeah.

I have had that salad. It's not bad. We've got the, and then the big bite sampler, I guess that's what that brings us to. So Jamie, what did you think of this? You had some theory on this going in. Yes. Okay. So I got this as my entree because I have, nachos are probably my favorite food.

Wow. And I have always stayed away from getting them at the dinin because you have to be able to see these. Right. Because you have to be able to create those perfect bites. And the other thing, I also love chicken wings and I've always strayed from getting chicken wings here because that's another thing that I feel like you need to be able to see them. Yep.

So as I said, my go-to is normally to get a sandwich because they wrap it in paper and it's easy to eat it and keep it all together. And yeah, like, and so, okay. So I got this sampler because I wanted to try the wings and the nachos mostly, but it also came with pretzel bites and it's supposed to be boneless wings, but I feel like we just got chicken. Did you just get chicken fingers? So the menu description is boneless wings, dry rub wings,

loaded brisket fries, and pretzel bites served with ranch, cheddar cheese, and honey Dijon dip and sauces. That's not what we got. I got nachos, not loaded brisket fries. Yes. So that's what that's what the menu description says on the website. We didn't get brisket fries either, right? No.

Yeah. On our menu is definitely nachos. On our menu is nachos and I think the boneless wings were actually bone in, or sorry, the dry rub wings, I think in lieu of boneless wings, we got tenders. Yeah. We definitely got tenders. Yeah. Those were not boneless wings.

Right. But I have a big issue with boneless wings because that's not a thing. It doesn't exist. It's a chicken nugget. Call it what it is. Oh no. Mitch is a boneless man. I'm a boneless man.

It's not a thing. You like chicken nuggets. Are you a boneless man in more ways than one? I knew that. I knew that was coming. God damn it. Are boneless chicken wings as you call them? Are they in the shape of a normal chicken wing?

Sometimes they are. Boneless buffalo fingers, which is what I... That's a different thing. That's not a boneless wing. It says finger. I love a tendy. Give me a tendy, but don't call it a tendy. That's the meaning.

I call them tendy. Okay. A tender. I think a tender is good. I'm with you. The boneless wing is itself. It's just kind of this malformed sort of... I'm going to take you to Quincy.

You're going to try some boneless wings there that you'll love. They can be flavorful. I like them, but I feel like if I'm going to get something... Call it a chicken nugget and wing sauce. Yeah. Call it a nugget. Well, I'm going to say this. There was something Neanderthalian about biting a bone in the dark.

I did not like... That was this sampler... Especially watching you do it. It's best dark though. Right for that. Yeah. What if we called it a chicken tendon? Would that make it more or less appetizing?

I like that better. It's definitely less appetizing, but that's fine for me. The bone in the dark was... That was the most off-putting part about this entire meal, weirdly. I don't care about buffalo wings. I love buffalo wings, but just gnawing on the bone and not really seeing what you were eating, I did not like that experience. Right.

Okay, so... Did you have that experience? I was gnawing on that bone in the dark there, and it was bad. Yeah, it was bad. I disagree. All right, why? Okay, no, but I'm going to go through my whole thing. Yes, please.

Of... So, nachos. I was completely right on my assumption. These cannot be eaten in the dark. Impossible. Impossible. Insane. My second chip, as you can see, I got on my shirt.

Sour cream on my shirt. And it was exactly what I predicted. Every bite was like... You got a shirt supreme. Callback. God. No, it was exactly what I predicted. It was one bite was all guacamole.

Another bite was all black beans. Another bite, once I got to my bite that was all pico de gallo, I was like, I'm done. I gave up on them. I was like, I'm done with these, because this is... This was my experiment, and I was proven... My theory was proven correct. 100%.

Cannot get ultimate nachos to eat at the dinen. It's a complete mess. The one, the platter that Mitch and I were sharing, our nachos, I think, were three-quarters untouched for that same reason. I had a very disorienting bite where I thought I was getting a big hunk of guac, and it ended up being a big hunk of beans. And that was just a weird surprise, not an unpleasant surprise, but just a momentarily jarring.

You need to be making those perfect bites. I love ultimate nachos, and you need to be making those perfect bites. There's a reason, probably, that we don't normally eat in the dark. Yes, yeah, yeah. Any food. And the nachos are there at the top, they're not made for the dark. Yeah, looking forward to a guacamole bite and getting a beans bite is not going to be enjoyable for anyone.

No, it's disorienting. Even a lover of beans. Yes. Whereas Jamie washed her hands of the nachos, I washed my hands in them. Sorry, I've interrupted for another bad joke. Please continue, Jamie. It's fine, because I'm certain people would rather hear you than me. So having done that experiment, if I want that sort of flavor palette,

I've had the quesadilla there, and it's great, and I would, that's easily eaten in the dark, and they cut it up for you. It's served on a long plate, and it's presented to you in separate triangles, and you can dip it in sour cream or guac or whatever. If I need that flavor, if I'm craving that flavor palette, go quesadilla. I was going to say this, worst bite of the meal were the nachos. Yes, I got a bean bite. It was bad.

I got a bean bite. Ours were also kind of cold. The nachos were a little bit cool, so that also didn't help the situation. But go on. Okay, the wings. I didn't have an issue with eating them in the dark, and I love a dry rub, and I think it's smart that they're dry rub and not saucy, because that would be, because that would have been a mess.

And their ranch was excellent. Good ranch, good ranch. It was garlicky. It was a really good ranch. I'm a bit of a ranch snob. Cheesecake factory being my favorite ranch. Wingstop is up there. This one was pretty good.

It was good. I thought all the dipping sauces, there was a honey mustard or ranch. Yes, they were all really good. The honey mustard and the cheese for the... The cheese. I love that cheese. And I like the dry rub. It just was very reminiscent of lullery salt, I feel,

which has got lullery seasoning salt, which I'm already a fan of. So yeah, they were good. And I didn't have a prop. I didn't have an issue eating them in the dark. I think I would order the wings again. Oh, wow. Just fantastic. I just...

The taste of the wings weren't too bad. It just was the fact of... It was just really threw me off of eating them in the dark. Yeah. I thought the whole platter was a little over fried. It just tasted very... I mean, it was a lot of fried stuff. But even those pretzel bites, they tasted kind of like deep fried...

They tasted... They tasted to me like a mall pretzel, and I love them. And I gave one to Kevin, like them too. I gave... I was like, try one of these pretzels. These are bomb. I think that was the standout of the plate, actually. That was my favorite.

The pretzel... It tasted like a what's those pretzels. Tasted like a mall pretzel. Yeah. I thought you were crazy about dry rub stuff. I like dry rubs. Yeah, you do. All right.

I like the dry rub... With my wife, it's always a dry rub. Unfortunately. Fortunately for her. I just got the truck. Excuse me, man. Evelyn. So...

Oh yeah, we're doing this live in the theater after the movie. In MacGuffin. Live from MacGuffins. Yeah, the pretzel bites were great. And that cheese dip and sauce, you were absolutely right. Yeah, it was like a mall pretzel in a great way. I loved all the salt on it. I loved the textural difference from the outside to the soft inside.

I thought they were a delight. Yeah, I just thought the plate as a whole was a lot of fried stuff. I was only doing it... Ordering the plate because I wanted to try both nachos and wings because it's something I've strayed from. I would never order all of that again. I would order the pretzel bites separately again or the wings separately again.

The chicken fingers... The chicken tenders were good. Yeah. What did you think of those tendies that we now call them? They were good. I just don't generally order chicken tenders ever. I usually get... I prefer bone and wings.

Do you know what I was talking about? But they were good. They weren't... I didn't think they were overly breaded and the honey mustard was excellent. All the dipping sauces were really good. Right. I thought they were good, but I didn't think they were great.

And I almost ordered the chicken tenders for my main meal. Yes. And I'm happy that I didn't because I really love that sandwich. Yeah, I think those are the... It seems like those sandwiches are the way to go. Yeah, they're burgers or chicken sandwiches. That's the way to go, I feel. And I would just say of that big bite sampler,

I probably wouldn't get that again or any of those again, but I might get those pretzel bites. Like, because I thought those pretzel bites were nice and they actually work really well. Easy thing to dip, easy to eat in the dark. We got one more item, I believe. We got the... And I hope the menu description for this is accurate.

The over-the-top Oreo milkshake, vanilla ice cream, Oreo pieces, giant Oreo wafer, and whipped cream. What did you guys think of that milkshake that we kind of were communally passing down? Like a joint at a Rush concert. Passing a milkshake around. Oh, my God. Like a joint at a Rush concert.

It was like suck, suck, pass. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. What's... I'm afraid to ask you what's the last concert you went to before. I mean, I'm guessing Rush. Yeah, probably Rush. It could have been a different Canadian-based band.

Yeah. Yeah, Rush and Loverboy. That's how we've seen them. No, I went with Natalie to see Ted Leo in The Pharmacist. This was, got to be 10 years ago, more than that. That's the last concert? Yeah. I don't go to live music very often.

Wow. No, you don't. No, I don't. That's insane. I mean, I like... First of all, I don't like standing. Oh, yeah, you hate concerts. Yeah, I'm not a fan, either.

Too loud, and then I get bored. You know what? You're wrong. You went to a Dave Matthews concert with me. That's right. That's right. I went to your Dave Matthews concert. And before that, I went to a Jimmy Buffett concert

with Mike Carlson. Oh, yeah. Yes, so I've been... I have an odd soft spot for Jimmy Buffett. Yeah, Buffett is great. And I'm excluding jazz and classical, because that's a different thing. But you're talking about like a rock and roll sort of concert.

But you go to jazz and classical concerts a lot? No. All right, so... I'm just, my thing with concerts is, or anything like that, sporting events, I'm not a fan of everyone arriving at the same time and everyone leaving at the same time. Roots of people and...

Right. And I'm such a Disney theme parks enthusiast that I have to, that's my max capacity on that, is having to deal with crowds. And I'm one of those people that, before I'm leaving as the fireworks are going off, like I'm getting in my car. Right now is probably a good time, right?

We're about to the good month of going to Disney is about to be over, right? I know that there's March vacation sometimes for some people, but... They're Disneyland. There is no good time. Yeah, wow. That went away.

That went away. Because Disney World, there might be, because that's more of a destination, but it's all, it's like 70% locals at Disney and whenever it's supposed to be slow, that's when like the lowest grade cheap pass can go, so it's still crowded. Right, gotcha.

This is a whole nother podcast, do not get me started. Well, are you excited for Star Wars land in Disney this summer? I'm just curious to see how this is all gonna pan out. Me too. Because I'm a huge Star Wars fan, but I'm like, I don't, I'm just very curious. It's like, clearly it's gonna be crowded. Is it gonna make the rest of the park crowded?

Is it gonna make the rest of the park slow so I could enjoy that and get to Star Wars? By the way, it should be called Star Wars land. It's Star Wars galaxy's edge. No one's gonna call it that. Yeah, it should be Star Wars land. Yeah. I just put in my resume for Unkar Plutnik.

You get a good chance again then. I think so. Yeah, just work on the line reading. Obviously, you're saying I'm a bad actor. No, you're a great actor. You're a fantastic actor. Thank you. I was trying to pimp you into saying one more portion.

Do you think I'm a good enough actor to take Kevin's award on the way home? I think you are, but I think you're not strong enough to care. It's heavy. It's unnecessarily heavy. The milkshake I thought was, I mean- I gotta say, you really, you started to like, it was almost like you were anacondaing this thing.

You like started to like, you unhinged your jaw, and you like, you really went at it. I was having issues trying to get it, like I was trying to drink from the edge of the glass, and I was having issues trying to induce it to slide down the glasses. You open your mouth wide, you put the mouth up to your face, and then you like, do the shaking. Yeah, you weren't about to take a hit off that joint of a straw.

Is that what you're saying? But I thought it was pretty good. I mean, like, it was very blended. It was, you know, I didn't get like Oreo chunks, at least from the sips that I had. But I did. Oh, you guys, okay, so maybe I just- Yeah, you fucked up.

I was missing out on the cream. You maybe got whipped cream. We used the very wide open space of a straw. Yeah, it's a big old, it is a boba straw. It was a boba straw. Oh, I don't know. Boba straw. I don't know what that is.

Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of those at Galaxy's Edge, I'm sure. What were you gonna, where were you gonna go with that? I just, I was gonna say, it was good. Freeze a solo cup in carbonate. Oh my God. That's where you were going? But I wasn't, I couldn't quite formulate it. And then when I finally did, it bailed.

We'll edit this out. Yeah. We'll edit, you know what? We'll edit Nick and I out of this episode. We'll just be you guys talking. We'll record Kevin and Jamie Griffin for a few hours afterwards and then we'll edit that into a body. Might want to edit my Disney stuff out,

because it's probably obnoxious. Oh, no way. No, no. People love that. So, but what did you guys think of that shake? Um, first and foremost, needs to be served with a spoon, like a long teaspoon. Yeah, that would help it.

Yes, because I feel like maybe by the time it got, Nick, by the time it got to you, because you were the last to try it, it may have, we may have taken the chunks out for you or it melted a little bit. But I was the first to sip from it and it was chunks were getting caught in the straw. Yes.

So that made it difficult. So Kevin and I were doing this move of we were using the straw a little bit, like as a spoon. Oh, got it. And I've ordered a shake there one time before and it was a Reese's Peacies shake. And it was, I had to ask for a spoon. They need to be served with spoons.

Yeah. I think that would... It was more of a soft serve. Right. It was almost like a blizzard. It was a blizzard. It was, it was, it was very, very thick. But once it softened up,

because it ended up between Kevin and I, as it melted a little bit, it was super easy to suck through the straw. I found the shake to be tasty and also once it became flaccid, easier to suck. I maybe stole all the chunks from you. I can, I can suck the chunk out of anything. So that might have been, that might have been the issue.

There's the sound bite. Oh, that's going to end up in a drop. I used, I used, I used the thin straw. I, I took my thins. I used your own straw. I used my own straw. How did you get anything through that? I, I, there was a lot.

I was, there was a lot of sucking going on. Yeah, there was. Which in, in, in, and I, and I actually finally did get something out of there. Nick, you're very good at sucking. I'm surprised that you didn't get anything out of there. We're both good at sucking. Just listen to Doe boys.

I thought it was good. I thought it was a good shake. Yeah, not bad. Just, just a little, just a little thick. And, and as you guys need a spoon to eat, it's tasty. Don't go to drink a price point, I think is a little high.

Yeah. It's not, it's not, it's 950. Right. That's a little high. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's like a cold stone. But you know what, when you think about all these prices

by, and you put them into movie price terms, then maybe it's not that, like, because a movie and a sodas can be 550 for a large soda or something. Yeah. I was discussing in our drive from the theater to the house. I was discussing with Nick that at a, so we're AMC A list. So which is like their, they, their movie pass,

like subscription service. So we didn't pay, we, we did, we pay a subscription monthly, but these tickets, dining tickets are included. So we didn't pay the $20 ticket today, essentially. So that factors in a lot to my experience, because I didn't really pay for this ticket. Right. Because I'm, so, because already you're going $20 in the

whole, I, we did not. That, that changes. So that fact, yeah. Technically we saved you guys 40 bucks. Well, thank you. Yes. And I got my stuff's point. Yes, yes.

Don't boys media. The, yeah, I, if you were taking a whole family, you're taking like a family. Or even just a couple. A couple. Going out for. Second Adam. On a date that's your four.

And also we went during the day. It's like $22 or $23 if you go like prime time. Oh wow. I gotta say though, besides the fact that your stomach is going to hurt terribly after the movie, at least for me, a good date spot. It's a fun little, it is a fun date spot. Also feeling meat ahead of time and like grab a cocktail

and then go into the movie. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fun little date spot. Make a whole evening out of it. But I'm back to their price points. I think that. So yeah, I don't even factor like the ticket price in,

but I think it's pretty reasonable. I mean, you get a burger or chicken sandwich for about $16 with the side of fries or onion rings or tots. That's, I think that that's the same as if you went to a restaurant, maybe a little less. And I think the quality of their food for being a, essentially a movie theater is pretty good. Right.

Yeah. And there's also the plus side of you can literally turn your chair into a bed after you've eaten all this food. Right. And lay down and. I'm surprised I didn't help you more. In terms of your stomach and discomfort. No, you were making me comfortable.

Nick was, his eyes were darting around. I was looking for the exit. He made me more uncomfortable. I kept leaning over and chiding in on the movie. You did. You made fun of the movie quite a bit. You had about, about, I'd say 70 minutes into the movie, or he said, just to let you know, I have no idea what is going on.

70 minutes in. Yeah. I sat on that joke for about 40 minutes. I wanted to lean over after 30 minutes and I thought, you know, it's a lot funnier if after 70, right? You have no idea what's going on. There was a, yeah, there was a good 25 to 35 minutes left

when you said that and no one was, no one was figuring out what was going to happen at that point. Yeah. You could have said that during the credits. It's still going to work. Yeah. Let's get to our final thoughts. Here's how this will work.

We'll each go around. We'll give a summation of our AMC dining experience and then give this a rating from zero to five forks. Jamie, we will begin with you. Okay. So I'm going to, I have like two reviews here because I am basing this on we are a list members. So we don't, we're paying a subscription to get this ticket.

So we're not really paying for our ticket and we, I don't say we frequent here. The last movie we saw there was glass. So that'll give you a perspective of so it was like two, three months. Yeah. So a couple months ago, I sat next to Buster Rhymes when I went and saw that's correct. It's a well known fact.

It's online. That's all I wanted to say. I sat next to Buster Rhymes. Thank you. So I think if you're going in like as a couple and you're paying for this ticket and you're paying for food and everything, it's going to be, it's going to be about 50 bucks a head. Right.

But the food I think is very good and they do a good job about this one specifically about being unintrusive because this one was built to be an AMC dining because the only other one I had been to, it was retrofitted and that was a total, I did not enjoy my experiences much and I feel that it was very disruptive. So I think that, yeah, I think just like going in and not having this subscription and paying, I would give it a four star or four forks.

I'd give it four forks. But we kind of, I would say we kind of frequent there because we don't have to pay for this ticket and I know what items to order and I know what's going to work for me eating in the dark and I do think that my go-tos are very, I enjoy them. I would give it a four and a half or four and a half forks. Wow, very good.

But you also have to see, like we said, a movie that you don't really have to pay too much attention to. Like we saw Glass there, I think that was perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Kevin, your thoughts? Yes. Okay.

So because I strayed from my normal menu choices to mix it up, as it were, I experienced for the first time, which should be fairly obvious or a normal experience for your average goer, which is eating in the dark a challenging idea. Yes. And maybe takes away from the movie going experience in terms of enjoying the movie or even paying attention to it. So because I had this sandwich that the first bite in,

I realized had not made it to me the way I had ordered it. I eat the red onion. That was already lost in, okay, I have to concentrate on my food now instead of this less than B average film. And so for the first time, as I said, I was drawn away and also hyper aware that I was eating in the dark. Whereas before, when I got a bowl or I get something simple, I was paying as much attention to my food as I would a box of popcorn.

Right. And it was never distracting before. So today was the first time I was distracting. So if I were to give the normal score of my usual experience of going there, it would be higher than my experience today. That's what I did. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't know, is that fair?

No, I think you're going to take that into consideration for sure. Yeah. So I would normally give it three and a half and today I would give it three. Three forks. Very solid score. Yeah, solid score. Go ahead, Mitch. I was pleasantly surprised by almost everything I had.

I think the advertiser sampler I was not as hot on as you guys were. But I loved the chicken Chipotle melt. There was some bacon in there, by the way. I don't know if I said that. I loved the Caribbean cooler. I thought it was really good. And I worked at an AMC movie theater. That was the theater that I worked at.

And I used to think that they were the shittiest movie theater. And I never wanted to go to one, but those seats are insanely comfortable. They're huge. I love the movies. Look, do I wish there was a better movie on the screen? Yes, if the great train robbery or a trip to the moon was on the screen, the great train robberies on there. If you run down to the theater, scare the hell out of me.

No, you're thinking of train coming up pulling into station. Nick has the same reaction as people who saw a train pulling at the station back in the day. He runs out of the theory that he's going to get hit by the train. Would I have enjoyed the experience more? I think yes. I think captive state was was kind of a below B movie. But I was I was enjoying the the I was enjoying the food.

I was enjoying the service when you got the popcorn. I thought that was a great time. There was a little side of butter. I poured it on there. I was having a blast. I can't. I got to say four forks now for four. I really liked it.

I like Alamo Draft House. Is that a better experience? Yes, probably. It's a fancier experience. It might actually be less money than AMC if if like you were saying, if you take into consideration the price of the ticket, if you're but if you remember, maybe not, it doesn't it doesn't matter. But Alamo Draft House is kind of like the fancier version of that.

And that probably would also get a very good score for me. I like it. I think it's a this is it is. It feels like the future of movies in a even a bad way and a good way because I enjoy it. But then also it's like, oh, they're trying to get people to come to the movie theater and they have to now serve dinner here. It's like Sinoramadome or whatever.

And this is the next step in that or whatever. But I had I had a good time. I enjoyed myself, Nick. Yeah, good company, good service, good food, the apps are a little bit of a let down. I do. I feel the need to point out that Kevin and I did and this is an option that people were probably not aware of the popcorn and the milkshake.

We ordered it up top and then you can delay the service of it till after your meal. That's what we did. That's nice. That's a nice little hack. You can also do that. Another hack is the coffee. If you're a coffee drinker, you can delay the coffee like you would

in a restaurant. Yeah, you can delay service of anything. You can order everything up top and then be like, but I would like it after my meal and you can delay it. And they put it in and they just put like Mark like delayed service and they bring it later or a dessert. I could use a cup of gel about minute 60 to keep me awake. But that's a tip for anybody that wants to go.

Man, if you had a cup of coffee and you would excitedly be telling us the plot to the movie afterwards, all the fucking connect the dots in that fucking movie. Yeah, I will just say, I thought the service was excellent. I thought the food was a lot better than I expected. I loved getting a drink in a glass. Like that in and of itself was enough that like that was like, oh, this validates the experience that I'm getting a drink in a glass.

King of the spills, you're eating dinner in the dark. Right. You don't even spill anything. I somehow didn't spill. But yeah, and I was drinking from the side of a glass. No, it all kind of worked out. No straw, no lid. Yeah, but you're very proud of that.

No straw, no lid. No straw, no lid. I didn't spill in the dark. I did pretty well for myself. That said, I think this overall, like I like that. But I think eating while this is going on, we got a little bit of a buzz here. It might be the lights that came on.

Kevin just, no, no, you don't have to. Are you guys hearing the buzz? I'm hearing it. Is there a B on your microphone? Yeah, there's a, you know what? There is a little B. Oh, it's from, it's the guy from B movie. Jerry Seinfeld?

It's Jerry Seinfeld from B movie. Listen, I can, it's no problem to turn off the lights. I'm sure that was it. Let's, I wonder if it was the lights. It sure could have been. We'll find out right now. Nick, this is, this is very fun for us. Wow.

The lights went off and the buzz stopped. But how odd. What is going on here? I'm sorry. Audio engineers out here, a hashtag mystery buzz. Let us know if you can solve that one. That was weird. It's a strange way for us to reveal

that Jamie and I are actually from the same planet represented in the film. Oh, that's why you guys have been clicking the whole time. What was the name of the planet they came from? I don't think it was ever mentioned. We don't know. They didn't say it. The doorstop.

That was the first. They were so cryptic. That's the flying doorstop. Nor did the aliens themselves have a name? No, I don't think so. Cockroaches. They called them roaches. Well, they called them roaches as a nickname.

Yeah, but they didn't say their real, their real. And it was like a derogatory name because John Goodman shut that down. Right. There was a couple of moments where you see the spaceship flying and I heard you guys laughing. Jamie thought it was one of the finest things

you've ever seen. It's just the speed of it. And then whatever it took off. Oh my gosh. I don't know. There's a moment where they're trying to make Goodman chase after me and I heard you go, you don't make Goodman run.

And then he got the car immediately and drove. Yeah, he was chasing a perp. And I thought, no, that's since Jake and the Fat Man have seen such a bad perp chase. Quick, quick. All that said, I don't like, I just don't like eating in the dark. I just didn't like that aspect of it.

I didn't like the Alamo Draft House. I did. I thought it was like, this is good. This is better than I expected, but I don't want to do this. I want to just be watching this movie. And if I was going to come to this thing, I don't want to serve her like even as good

as the service was, I just don't want to serve her interrupting me asking what I want. So you sleep with the lights on, correct? Yeah, lights, fluorescent lights, just full blast. And food nearby. I would just, so this was good, but not for me. And so I feel like I got to give this two and a half four. Wow.

I just like, I don't know. Well, you know, I don't know how I'm honest with the system. Based on the experience, not necessarily the quality of the food. Yeah, based on the experience, based on the quality of the food. Do you think if you saw a better movie, you would, you would, your rating will go higher?

Like we'd seen Despicable Me 3 and I just had one blast. Yeah, maybe. Might have affected a little bit, but it would have been like a half fork variation. I don't think it, I like, I think the, the movie wasn't the issue. It was the fact that I had the same thing at Alamo Draft House where we saw a great movie.

We saw, we saw Murderer on the Orient Express and Kenneth Gronhaw. A great movie. And Johnny Depp. And Johnny Depp. And Johnny Depp, a great, great movie. They both won Oscars, I think, for that one. But no, I just don't like, I just,

the experience just doesn't work for me. I understand that, because I feel like there's, there's just some people that that's not for them, because a movie, going to a movie is a different experience than having dinner and they want them separated. Exactly. I'd rather, I'd rather have them be two separate things. And I don't usually like eating in the dark.

We went to a restaurant recently that, you're probably familiar with Ingo's Tasty Diner. Yes, I know Ingo's. Yeah, which is, which is great, but it was so dark in there. It started at the one table that really didn't have light. And like, for that sort of me, I'm like, I can't see my food.

Knowing that I'm going in, like, I'm not going to be able to see my food. That's why in the past, not the ordered nachos are not ordered wings. Like, I go in knowing this is what's happening. Yeah, all right. But I also respect that you want to separate your experiences. Yeah.

What are we, what are we supposed to do? I just didn't disappoint in you. I don't know. It wasn't getting in the Golden Play Club either way. Wow. That was our, It seems like there's kind of a way to going into it. That was our review of AMC Dynan.

It's time for a segment. We've got a beverage. We're going to decide if you should pour it down your throat. It's Dranker's Steak. Now, Jamie got this, she told us about this and she said she had some. It kind of blew our minds. She's retrieving them right now.

These are La Croix. Now, Mitch, you are a drinker of La Croix. I'm not really, I don't love La Croix, actually. Okay, I'm sorry. Then you are you are a drinker. I love all sparkling waters. You are a drinker of sparkling. I also love sparkling waters.

I like sparkling waters, but La Croix make me more thirsty when I drink them. I like spin drifts are what I like now, which is the has just a little bit of fruit juice and it's still like under. It's usually five calories or under. I like spin drifts a lot. Yes.

So what we have is this is a La Croix variant that I didn't realize existed La Croix La Cola. This is a cola flavored La Croix sparkling water. And then on top, it says Nikola. It says night. It says, yeah, Nikola. I guess is that. I guess that's a it's based off of somebody.

That's like your name in the old country, Nick. It is like mine. Hey, if I did, the wagers had never left Estonia. Maybe I'd be Nikola wager. What are you doing over there? Nikola. Why are you not calling me? Restaurants.

Yeah, let's see. It says I'm trying to read this real quick. I'm going back to the Disney theme with the glass. I love these glasses. These are great. Not so very long ago in small villages Southwest, blah, blah, blah, Ellis Island, red, white, and blue. His wonderful America always excites with the fascist name

Nikola mine to what? I don't understand this. This is very much supposed to be soda, though. Yes. It's supposed to be a soda flavored sparkling water. Cola essence sparkling water. Naturally essence sparkling water. Very strange.

But the flavor, it was the odd part as to I believe why Jamie chose this. It's supposed to be cola as in Coca-Cola. Oh my gosh. I think it's supposed to be, LaCroix is like the essence of whatever it's supposed to be. It smells like Coca-Cola. It smells like Coca-Cola.

This is sparkling water with the essence of cola. And this was introduced to me by somebody. That is not cola. As tastes go, I just want to say that is not cola. I didn't even know this existed. Oh my god. Bizarre. I didn't even know this existed.

Oh my god. One of my sketch members. I can't even pinpoint it. Yeah. One of my fellow sketch members brought this to a rehearsal because he'd seen it and we always, you know, are constantly drinking LaCroix. I'd never seen this before.

And I think I was the only person that kind of liked it. Yeah. It's bananas. I think my first sip, I said, oh god. It's just very- This is insane. It's very perturbing. I thought I regretted the two hours I'll never get back

from watching Captive State. This may be a bigger regret. The podcast or the cola? The Nicola LaCroix. It's like, I guess, a Coke without- I think that tasted enough. Yeah. Coke without any sweetness, no sugar at all.

I think that is huge insult to Coke by saying it's like a Coke in any way besides bubbles. It's like an RC cola. It's like a generic cola without any sweetness. It's almost like an aperteef. Yeah. You kind of get- Like a palette cleanser.

Right. But I don't know what the flavor is because it's not cola. This is the best way I can describe the flavor. Here we go. You take a glass of sparkling water and you drop a Tootsie roll in and it dissolves a little bit. That's the best way. I can describe it.

I almost feel like this is Zambuca sparkling water. There's a medicinal- Yeah. Yeah, there's a slightly medicinal- Yeah, like if you put bitters, it's almost like bitters in soda. Oh, it does. It does kind of have a bitters quality. That's why, yeah.

I think it has an aftertaste. But it's tough to sell LaCroix bitters. Yeah. Who is this for? I don't know. It's got a red, white, and blue thing happening on the front. So maybe there was a patriotic element. I went to the world of Coca-Cola recently when I was in Atlanta.

Well, now you're just bragging. It was great. I got kicked out after about two hours. Because you snuck in some Jack Daniels. Why did you get? How could you get kicked out? I was just putting my mouth under every spicket. I got the boot out of that place.

But I kicked myself out after I tried the Italian. There's like an Italy soda. Beverly. Was it Beverly? It's Beverly. And this reminds me of Beverly. It reminds me of Beverly as well. I didn't mention it because it's a very specific at Epcot at Disney World.

They have a thing called Club Cool. And you can taste sodas from all over the world. And then the one from Italy is Beverly. And it kind of. It's disgusting. Why is it called Beverly? That's the brand. That's the brand of it.

And I don't even know what it is. But it's like so. I took a sip of it and I was like, I felt sick. It's, it's, it's disgusting. I don't know if anyone's ever had Beverly. I don't think it's as bad. I don't think it's as strong as Beverly. It's not as strong as Beverly at all.

But it has that. People from Epcot definitely know what they've, they've raved the Beverly. They've been to Epcot. Are we going to Skank all the way across? I give it a mild drank. I like to say Skank. I like to say Skank.

But I give it a mild. I prefer Skank. That's an option. I'll go rank for this one just to mix it up. This is rank. Ooh, rank. Yeah. I'm going big time stinky, skanky, stank.

Yeah. See, the reason I'm thinking Skank is that it reminds me of the first time I think I made out with like a bar maid who smoked and drank and maybe belts. She was a skank. It tastes like an, it tastes, it tastes like an old bar. It has an old bar. It has an old bar of taste to it.

It's, it's truly not good. Meanwhile, Nicola's going all in. He's going to finish it. I mean, I finished it. I'm then parched. But I didn't. Can we get you some more water? No, I'm okay.

Oh, okay. No, I'm, I'm all right. But you didn't like it, right? Was rank good? No, right. It's like rank. Oh, okay. It's like rank.

Like it's like it's nasty. But also I drank all of it. Jamie. I kind of, I, I give it a mild drank. Wow. I kind of, I mild. I kind of like it. Wow.

What if this is the beginning of the end? Not of the podcast. But maybe it's because I do like bitters and soda and I don't drink bitters. That's true. Right. I can't drink bitters. So.

Yeah. You do like bitters. Would you, would you call up the, that old bar woman? I think she only exists in a very foggy memory. To a reality. Yeah. That was drank or stink. Just like a restaurant about your feedback.

Let's open up the feedback. Today's email comes to us from Jay Shree. Jay Shree writes, In food movies like Ratatouille and underrated classic burnt, the chefs always know when a food critic is coming. In burnt, they explain that Michelin reviewers have certain tendencies.

They arrive in pairs, plays a fork in the ground, etc. I assume this is rooted somewhat in reality, though to be honest, I haven't googled this. My question to you is, do you have a secret signal or move when you arrive to, to review a chain restaurant? If not, what would it hypothetically be? How will chefs know that dope boys have arrived?

P.S., you song and Emma, you guys are so much fun to listen to on the podcast, which was very nice to say. Jay Shree actually included a clip from the movie burnt. Jay Shree loves burnt. You love burnt. All right, burnt. I'll say this.

Yes. They don't know who the dope boys are. And then when we tell them who we are, they still don't know who we know. Yeah, they have no, yeah, it's, there's no point for this exercise. There's no, there's, there's, what is the point of this?

No one, no one has ever, there's never been a sticker that we were, we were going to put stickers on windows of restaurants that we reviewed them like golden plate club or something like that. And we thought it would be funny to put it up there without the restaurant, without the restaurant saying that we could

just slapping it on, slapping it on the side of places that we've had. Just like hanging it in the wall of a Dairy Queen. Yeah. But yeah, no, there's, we're, we're largely anonymous. I, yeah, I, the only sign where there is like, I, like, I'm there by myself for 15 minutes waiting for Mitch to show up.

Jesus. That's the, but, but I, Is that what, does that what you want to say out of all this? No, no, no, I, I thought, I thought we could use this as an opportunity. It's a very, it's a, it's a creative and specific question. But I thought we could use this to pivot more generally

to favorite food movies. Well, I was in this world. Oh, all right. That's, that's, I was, I was, I have another question too for, for, for you, Kevin. Do you ever get, do you ever get the, at a restaurant? I'm giving this guy the celeb treatment here. Here's a, an extra dish.

Does that ever happen to you? Like a, or like any nice treatment for. Oh, so as I mentioned, we just went back to work on season three of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the dare I say multi-award winner. They actually announced the number of awards we won at the table. We read our first table read of season three.

And the day before, in New York, I had a lunch free. I text Tony Shalu, the award-winning Tony Shalu, who's marvelous. And we met for lunch at a little whole new all Italian place. Wow. Nino 46 on 46th. And it was near where he had a dental appointment. So that's how it was chosen.

And we had a lovely real old school Italian meal. Oh man. And at the end of which, when we asked for the check, the waiter said, the gentleman over there is picking up your lunch. Wow. We looked over and he was barely looking at us. And so we waved and then he smiled and we said,

thank you, this is so unnecessary. He said, I love you both. And I wanted to buy your character's lunch. Oh man. Yeah. So you had, you had a remaining character. So we had to get up and do a scene from the show, which was worth it to both of us.

That's a great story. That's amazing. That's cool. I always wondered if there's like, we're friendly with Farley Elliott, who's a food reviewer, and they'll just give him more stuff. And if it's that sort of thing where it's like, oh man, I don't really want to eat this, but here,

this is a nice gift or something like that. There's a couple places of Jamie and I frequented where they are fans, I guess, and they will send out sometimes every dessert on the menu. Wow. Yeah. And five desserts is too many for any group. Yeah.

To be honest. Which usually makes a group of four. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we agree. Well, I mean, like a group of two. Right, right. Five desserts is too many. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

Nick, we haven't won any awards yet. Has the razzies for podcasts? Does that exist yet? Because we'll be award-winning soon too. We have some Streamys in the other room, if you want to see some podcasts. Can we, can we take a Streamy? Yeah, yeah.

I think there's one that's unmarked. You can have it. Yeah, I don't think they exist anymore. Do they, just for me? But I love your question of food movies. Yes. Because I was going to ask this for that, because I think it's very appropriate for this episode.

My favorite food movie is Goodfellas. A lot of eating in that movie. I've said this before. That is a, that's one of the best food movies there is. It's a great food movie. It's so difficult for me to watch that movie, not run out and be like, I have to make sausage and peppers now.

Yeah. And the garlic that disappears in the pan. There's so much of it, them cooking in prison, like Pauly making the sausage. Yes. I'd like to get the steak medium rare. Oh, an aristocrat. Now, and then like even when he's all cooked,

Henry has all cooked up at the end, and it's like, make sure Mikey is stirring the sauce. He's like, I'm stirring, I'm stirring it. And behold, from beginning to end, nothing but food. It's my favorite movie. Yeah. It's one of my favorite movies, too. And then also that, that, that line of,

we're just, he's doing, he's doing the voiceover. And he's like, now I got Mikey stirring the sauce. So, it's so great. It's so perfect. And then also make it, bread naps of chicken cutlets, you know, as an appetizer. I'm going to fry him up nice. Oh man.

It's, it's great. That whole prison scene is great. And also the, the, the steady cam scene goes through a restaurant for kitchen, goes through the kitchen cutting the garlic with a razor blade. It's the best great move. Yeah. It's the best.

It's the best food movie. There's been one specific food thing that's been on my brain lately, been on my, it's been on my, Nick, Uncle Buck flipping that giant pancake. I don't know if I'm just, I really want that pain. It's been in my, it's been in my head though for a little bit. Yeah. But that's a, that's

You have the 3d blu-ray of that, right? 4k, I think it's a 4k. But good fellows, you can't be good fellows. Those answers, the best food movie and best movie. It's a great answer. I will, however, and this is not, I'm not just saying this because of the Tony Shalhoub shout out. It just kind of,

How did you say his name? Shalhoub, right? That's how it's spelled, but it's pronounced Shalhoub. Shalhoub. Yeah. It's definitely spelled with an H. All right.

Well, Tony Shalhoub. It makes you uncomfortable. That pained you. Yeah. He clenched his fists. And he, he raised his shoulders too. Tony Shalhoub. I'm trying to get my muscle memory to, to remember that.

Is it a great eating movie? Big Night. Oh, Big Night. Big Night is a great food movie. It's so, so good. And he's great in it. That's a delight. And if you haven't seen it,

I imagine a lot of our agency has seen good fellas, but maybe you're into food and you haven't seen this. I thought you were going to say Chef for, I didn't know where you were going. No, I wasn't. Is he in Chef? I don't think so. No, no, no, no, no.

Before, I, when you were saying another movie, I thought you were going to do Chef. No, that's the John Favreau one. John Favreau, yeah. Yeah. Where the two, the two women in love with him are Scarlett Johansson and Sophia Vergara. That's, that's fun.

That's true. He directed it too. You can do that. I'll move it. Did you talk about the last time we were on Avalon and the Thanksgiving scene? Oh, so that was the first movie, real movie. I did it.

Willow before that, of course, but that was more of a cartoon in terms of my performance. But speaking of food, you're a brownie in Willow. I was a brownie. This way. No, this way. The game board for Willow is over there. But in Avalon, there's big Thanksgiving scenes.

You cut the turkey without me. Said Lou Jekobi, who I'm now channeling as Moish Maisel on the show. But my first time in a movie where I had to eat. So we shot Thanksgiving over three days. And the very first scene, the very first take of eating Thanksgiving meal, which of course they make the actual stuff and you're eating an actual Thanksgiving meal.

I was starving. So like an idiot and inexperienced, I devoured my Thanksgiving meal and then had to repeat that from 300 angles over three days. Oh, man. And yeah, I learned what a spit bucket really was. Wow. We're all about.

That's crazy. For real. Yeah. One of the great regrets. And I've since learned and watched certain actors and I would ask you to do this. Watch actors eat in films or TV. And where they move the food around their plate.

Because the scene calls for eating. Oh, yeah. Right. A dinner with the family, at home, whatever. And you'll see people cutting. There's some cutting, maybe even forking, and then making a point when raising the fork, but never actually eating

because they know I have to repeat this. From all these various angles. And if they're eating, they're chewing on one thing for the entire. The what? But who's the best on-screen eater? Oh, and then Jack Nicholson is by far the best on-screen eater. Watch for this now.

Preetzi's honor. He devours a bowl of pasta like a champion. In the movie, Heartburn, he eats a slice of pizza while having a scene with Meryl Streep. It's amazing. He's the best on-screen eater. I love that. Because he just calls us and he says,

I don't care how many takes I have to do, bring more punch. Yeah, he's really the champion. But a little topper for you. Kevin J. O'Connor, the actor, played the sidekick to John Goodman in the film we saw today. Yes. He was also the sidekick in the movie Mummy. And he's done a lot of great work.

He's great. We worked on the film, Canadian Bacon. Oh, yeah. With the Food Motif, which is the only fiction film that Michael Moore directed, John Candy's last movie, and so on. We were shooting in Toronto, all staying at the Four Seasons. And Rip Torn is in the film.

I wrote about this in my book called How I Slept My Way to the Middle, which is not just a funny title and technically still available on Amazon. Look, when people were cool to me, I championed them in the book. And there was a few dicks over the time. Where do Nick and I rank? Rip Torn was one of them.

You guys are cool. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. So far. So far, very, very good. We don't really rank, I guess, the truth of it. You'll be in the second book. It's a sports book called Hey, Those Are My Balls.

Again, it's a sports book. Hey, comma. So Rip Torn was in the hotel room next to the actor Kevin J. O'Connor, who was staying with his new bride. And through the walls, the very thin walls of the Four Seasons in Toronto, every night they would hear Rip Torn yell something disgusting

at what they quickly determined was Hooker du Jour. That's French for of the day. Right. And it got so ridiculous that they had to make a top 10 list of things like David Letterman's top 10 list, things we heard Rip Torn yell at the Hooker through the wall.

Wow. I don't remember all of them, but I do remember the, and I'll need a drum roll when the time comes. I can't wait to hear Nick do a drum roll by the way. This is the number one thing we heard the, we heard Rip Torn yell at the Hooker through the wall. Nick.

I said milk it like a cow. All right. So that's a quote. That's a quote. And I told that story. I dined on that story for maybe 10 years until I ran into the actor Kevin J. O'Connor again. And I said, Kevin, I've been dining off

the story you shared with me for 10 years now. And I just want to make sure I have it right. And I said it back to him the same way that I just told you. Right. And his remark was, yeah, that's it. Because you know how you exaggerate stories over time and you get more of a meal out of it.

Yes. I said exactly what I told you. And in the movie today, I leaned over to Jamie and said, that's the actor who had the room next to Rip Torn when Kevin J. O'Connor came on screen in the film today. Not in the movie nearly enough. He's great.

Yeah, he's wonderful. And Jamie said, you have to tell that on the podcast later. I'm glad I remember. I love that. Love it. So fucking funny. I hope I didn't offend anyone with this ridiculous story. Oh, no.

No. I mean, I mean. I wasn't talking to the men in the room. I mean, Rip Torn is on our Patreon, but don't go there. If you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at dolboyspodcast.com or leave us a voicemail at 830 Godot.

That's 830-463-6844. And to get the Dolboys double our weekly bonus episode, join the Golden North Platinum Play Club at patreon.com slash Dolboys. JB Foxx, Kevin Pollock. Thank you so much for going to the movies with us, being so generous with your time, welcoming us into your lovely home.

Yes. Do you guys have anything you would like to plug at this time? Oh, I am part of a sketch team. We produce a new live hour of comedy every month. We're the first Wednesday of every month at 8 p.m. at West Side Comedy Theater. My team is called Back Alley Racket Club.

It's only six bucks to come see us. There's no drink minimum, so check us out. Back Alley Racket Club, 8 p.m. first Wednesday of every month. Check it out. You look like you were about to say something else when Nick was talking just now. Is there something? Oh, just I was so happy that you guys let me do this

because clearly I am not a celebrity. And I love, I have a very passionate about chain restaurants and like Americana in general. And I love that you let me come on and talk. Oh, please. And you have a passion for their podcast. Oh, absolutely. I'm a huge fan. And I brought, yeah, because I know that Nick's a heat seeker

and I started making, my friend started making his own artisanal hot sauce and I brought you a bunch of bottles to try. And maybe once you've tried them, you can talk about them. Joey's hot sauce, a bunch of different ones. Betch 12, Priscilla the Creeper. Yeah, that's our mildest one. Very good. Because it starts out sweet and then it hits you.

It's a little hot at the end, but yeah. You gonna try those later, Nick? Yeah, but at some point. I'm gonna chuck them on the drive home. I have an idea of what you're gonna do, Nick. Yeah, we have a cracker. You're gonna milk it like a cow if I ever go. I, you know, I talked a lot about the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,

but it's through the Looking Glass and the Zeitgeist. So I wanna plug a new All-Improvised Comedy podcast that I created and cast of some amazing improvisers. It's called Alchemy This. And we're only maybe three months into this thing. And it's doing very, very well. But, you know, you can never promote a podcast enough, especially in the comedy world where there are 300,000 podcasts.

Right. I'm not exaggerating. So Alchemy This, it's all improvised and people will write in scene suggestions. Otherwise, I'm the puppet master that lays out the scenes. And then I jump in with these people. And Craig Kikowski, Chris Alvarado, Joey Greer, Vanessa Raglan, and James Heaney.

That's a good crew. Really great. Yeah, it was murderers' row. Yeah, and a lot of fun. And I'm super proud of how incredibly talented these people are. So Alchemy This. Craig Kikowski taught me some improv. So that's what we have to blame for all that.

He's so good. We also discovered that the first time we did this podcast, I don't know if we mentioned it, but Nick taught me in Sketch 101 at UCB. Oh, wow, yes. Back in like 2011 or something. Yeah, 2011. And now I'm on a house sketch team.

So good, Jesse. It will work for you. Nick Weigher can work for you. And Edith came into the dining room. I love it. Say hello to Mitch. Tuxedo Junction of the House. She's a scaredy cat.

When you guys arrived, she dove under a bed where she remained until five minutes ago. I love it. Oh, there she goes again because the phone's ringing. There's someone at the buzzard. That's the call box. Well, there you go. That's what that sound is.

We're getting escorted out of here right now, aren't we? That's security. That's security. I told security to be here at 5.30 a little early. I'll do it for this episode of Dumb Boys. Next time for the Squidward, we'll get back to you. I'm Nick Weigher. Happy eating.

See ya.