Doughboys - Ameci Pizza and Pasta with Gilli Nissim

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

Gilli Nissim (@time2getgill, The Other Two) joins the 'boys to talk Tiki Mirage, writers’ room eats, and pizza preferences before a review of Ameci Pizza and Pasta. Plus, another edition of Slop Quiz.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_Cityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Los_Angeleshttps://www.amecipizzaandpasta.com/about/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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If that name sounds unfamiliar, you may know it by the name assigned by the British Crown after assuming control of the settlement in 1664. New York. New York City, also known as the Big Apple and the City that Never Sleeps, would go on to become the most populous city in the new nation of America, as well as one of the most famous cities in the entire world. Musicians from Frank Sinatra to Beyonce have even serenaded the center of habitation and culture in beloved songs. But what if a resident of New York City were to move all the way across the country to the city of Los Angeles? This unprecedented

cross-continental displacement was exactly what Nick Andressano did in 1979, trading the subways of New York for the freeways of Los Angeles. Andressano quickly noticed something was missing in the Southern California metropolis, also known as the City of Angels or simply LA, Italian food. New York City boasts a thriving Italian culinary scene, most notably pizza, served in a signature New York style due to its sizeable population of Italian immigrants and their descendants. But Los Angeles, a settlement that borders the Pacific Ocean as opposed to the Atlantic, and is historically linked to Mexico and its Spanish colonizers, has far weaker ties to the European nation of Italy.

So Andresano, himself an Italian-American whose family operated a pizza restaurant or Pizzeria in New York, opened an upscale Italian establishment in Los Angeles, which quickly grew to three locations. After partnering with fellow Italian-American Angelo Falato, the duo opened a fast casual version of the concept, which today has 40 restaurants not just in Los Angeles, but across California, which is the most populous of the 50 United States. Today, New York and Los Angeles continue to be different in many ways. But in other, perhaps even more significant ways, the two cities are alike.

And one of those ways, thanks to trailblazers like Nick Andresano, is the availability of pizza and pasta. This week on Doughboy's Amici Pizza and Pasta. like Nick Andressano is the availability of pizza and pasta. This week on Doughboyz, Amici pizza and pasta. Welcome to Doughboyz, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger along with my co-host Cream Scenario. The Spoon Man Mike Mitchell. Dream scenario? After recently seeing the film where Nicolas Cage enters people's dreams and now Mitch is following sweet a la life imitating art. I came up with a roast cream scenario, peace and love from Melbourne, Down Under, Nidos,

Nidos sent that in, roastedbirdfuck.com. What a roast from Down Under. What a roast. What a roast. What a roast from Down Under. I can't really do the Australian accent it turns out. I'm finding right now in real time. Down Under.

Down Under. Let's hit up Hungry Jacks down under. Big pick. Big pick. Big pick. Big pick. Don't have Burger King down here, it's Hungry Jacks. Down under.

You sound like a main guy. You sound like the guy from, you sound like the guy from Pet Cemetery. These pets are coming back to life. Speaking of. Hope the lobsters don't. Speaking of Stephen King, you have a Pennywise hat on, I guess. It's got some balloons on it. This is our buddy Ben Hossley from the Great Blank Check Podcast.

Has his own clothing line, congrats youlations. And then youlations.com, and I got some of his merch. And that's the hat that I'm wearing. We were saying before we started, you couldn't look more like a child. Yeah, so for our audio listeners, I've got these beachy sort of his merch, and that's the hat that I'm wearing. We were saying before we started, you couldn't look more like a child with your getup. So for our audio listeners, I've got like these beachy sort of white shorts, which have stains on them, but it has kind of a print where you got like, you know, a happy little... Food stains.

Yeah, it's got food stains. And then I'm wearing a Minion sweater, which also has a food stain on it, and then I got this little balloon hat. Just to let you know, when they asked you if you wanted to be on to catch a predator didn't mean as one of the kids And like I come in to see myself You got a fucking what's the Will Smith Ang Lee movie it's's a it's a fucking 120 FPS. What the fuck's that movie called? Gemini man Two wigs. Oh shit. You would be able to beat me with two of you would be able to you could take me down. Yeah easily

Well, I don't know about easily. I don't know if we need both of us Look you know you say you need neither? I got to say something before we start. There was a big moment. Mike Dorfman, our audio editor. Audio editor, sorry. I know who is who in this. I know who does what in this damn outfit.

I know what happens here. Who's that? Craigor. Craigor the Mouse Man, he clicks around. Okay, all right, you know Craigor the Mouse Man, all right. Story checks out. Hey buddy. I try not to remember that guy.

So we were in the kitchen. We had, we were going to introduce our guests. It's weird for me to be telling this story, but we were in the kitchen. We had just eaten great bread for a double spoiler alert for a future double. Patreon episode. For a past double for so, so post spoiler for a past double. Where we did sour dough boys. We did sour dough boys and, uh, we were in there and, in there, and Adam Conover walks in.

That's right. He says, what's in there? And he said, bread. He said, you should try it, it's fantastic. He picked up a loaf of wine bread, and he said, he's looking at it, he says, can I pull a piece off of, will that ruin it? And I said, oh my God.

Yeah. He did the thing. You texted me. He asked. You texted me. I texted Wags right after. His word, he was gonna ruin it. He said the thing. You texted me. He asked. You texted me. I texted Wags right after. His word he was gonna ruin it. He said his thing.

He asked us if he was gonna ruin it. And you know what we said? We said, no, that won't ruin it. That's not gonna ruin it. That won't ruin anything. I guess there's one thing he won't ruin. Ha ha ha ha ha. It did not ruin, it did not,

he loved the Hawaii. Oh yeah he loved the Hawaiian rolls. And I give an actually to him. Because I said, do you know, he said, this Hawaiian is very nice. And I said, actually, Hawaiian rolls are actually made with pineapple juice. I said that to him. That's right, you did.

And he had no idea. I actually'd him. It was a great moment. And then my hair grew, my hat went up because my hair grew a little bit. We like Adam. We have a good time with him in here. Love Adam.

Good friend. Good guy. But he did the thing. He did the thing. It was very exciting. He did the thing. It was very exciting. Emma, let's hit him with the drop because I wasted everyone's time.

Is this what you do on every episode? Wendy's has gotten real. I love Wendy. Is this what you do on every episode? Wendy's has the... Well, they do the same thing. They do the same thing. They do the same thing.

They do the same thing. They do the same thing. They do the same thing. They do the same thing. They do the same thing. They do the same thing. They do the same thing. Wendy's has gotten real, I love Wendy's. Is this what you do on every episode? Wendy's has, well they change their fries. Is this what you do on every episode? Wendy's has gotten real, I love Wendy's. Is this what you do on every episode?

Wendy's has, well they change their fries. Is this what you do on every episode? What are we on Doughboys? Let's get the hell out of here. I like the piano there. The great Tim Heidecker. This is important for our guests. I'm texting with Samoa Joe.

Wow, how about that? That is important to me. That will make sense when we introduce our guests. Here's the Tim Hydecker. Wait, is this a timely text? Did he just happen to text you? Yes. Oh wow, how about that?

Hi Doughboys, on a recent episode of Office Hours Live with Tim Hydecker, in an attempt to move the show along from a discussion about a bag of fiery mango flavored Dorito chips, Tim exclaimed, what are we on, Doughboys? Let's get the hell out of here, that's great. That is good, that's a lot of fun the hell out of here. That's great. That is good. That's a lot of fun. That's great.

I mean, one of the funniest people in the world. I felt compelled to put together a drop since Tim's appearance on Doughboys is what turned me onto the show. And the first place, a new listener. You're not gonna be here long, my friend. Love the show. I typically listen while walking my dog.

Hey, picture attached. Thanks, Daniel. We got a picture. Let's go look at this dog. Oh my god, this is a sultry photo. It's a sultry photo? Oh, OK. Dogs are always naked.

They're all sultry photos. You guys will see it, and you'll agree with me. Oh, that's a bedroom photo. Yeah, that dog's a little bit. One belongs in the boudoir. Hummina, hummina, hummina, hummina. Hummina for sure. Jamie?

He's lying with the little teepees. Jamie, lower your sunglasses. Brr, na, na, na, na, hummin'a. You want it for sure. He's fine with the little teepees. Jemmy, lower your sunglasses. Brr, na, na, na, na, na. We've got like a dog in this. I describe them as splayed. Jemmy lays like that sometimes. Yeah. It's very, very cute.

What a cute dog. I lay like that sometimes after the shower on a hot day. That's a great move. You gotta do it. If you've got a box fan, you angle that right. Dry up in no time. I'm a never nude man a lot of the time. I don't like to be reminded of what's going on with me.

So most mirrors in my house are covered with black sheets. Sure. It very much looks like a Dracula's home. You've been there once. We're always in mourning at Mitch's house. Anyways, excuse me. I will finish texting Samoa Joe. Do you want a minute?

Yes, please. OK. We'll take a break. No, no, don't take a break. Keep it going, you idiot. All right, we're back. Mitch is still texting. Our guest today, a writer and comedian from the other two

in Twisted Metal, Gillie Nassim is here. Hi, Gillie. Hi, Dick. Thanks soie Nassim is here. Hi, Gillie. Hi, Dick. Thanks so much for making time for us. Hi, Vashj. Hi, how are you? I'm really obviously stoked about this. We're very excited to have you.

Long overdue. Long overdue. We've known you for a long time. Thanks for admitting it. Thank you for admitting it. It is true. There's people. There are many funny people that we are friends with

that we haven't had on the show. And it is, oh, I. And there's some that are like there's even people I will say this you've never asked to be on which I also think is a good thing yeah have you ever asked to be invited to a wedding no yes I didn't know that was an option I have heard of people doing this and it is just bizarre of just like if you were meant to be invited, you would have gotten that piece of paper in the mail. That's a great point.

Yeah, you know, today was meant to be, today was meant to be. That's also completely foreign from my experience because I'm hoping to not be invited to a wedding. It's almost a punishment. Yeah, exactly. Also one person I'm thinking of in particular didn't end up going.

That's after they asked? Yeah. That's very funny. Things were moved around, like concessions were made, and then they didn't go. God, I wish I had a little bit more of that in me. My brother came up to, this was many years ago, I think I could tell the story,

but he came up to stay with me because he was going to a wedding near where we live the next day. And he came over and we hung out and he got really drunk. And then the next day is like, I'm not going that way. That fucking rules.

I wonder what he said, you know, like what was his excuse of just like, plane never made it. Yeah, who knows? I'm sick. Here's a gift that covers my part of it. Yeah. That sucks. That's an expensive ditch. Knowing Nate, I got drunk at my brother's place and I decided not to go.

Good man, good man. Yeah. Oh, God, I love that guy. It's a bummer to me that he's so much cooler than Nick. It's crazy. Have you met him? I haven't met him. I've heard, obviously, a lot about him.

And that's part of the reason why I never asked, because to be on the pod, because I was hoping maybe it'd catch a swap. They'll bring in the alpha wiger at a certain point. If I waited long enough. Yeah. Well, it is. We're also dumb and bad at booking the show, They'll bring in the Alpha Weiger at a certain point. If I waited long enough. Yeah. Well, it is, we're also dumb and bad at booking the show,

but it's been far too long. Too long, yeah. It's been far too long. I want to, wait, but we, I think the last time we saw you socially, is this correct, was at Tiki Mirage with our buddy Farley Elliott. We went to a Tiki bar, which we talked about in the Doughboyz double with Farley.

But that was a hoot. I had a great time. I had an absolutely great time. I thought we were in transit, but it turns out we were stationary the entire time. It was inside of the back of a box truck. That's right. I'm sure you explained this before,

but there were just enough, like, tiki accoutrements, like, you know, little dangling shell strings and, like, wind chimes and stuff that were swaying. And we were in a vehicle that I straight up thought we were slowly driving around the streets of Santa Monica. And when I found out we weren't moving, I had to kind of like take a night to be like, well, did I like this?

I don't know why, but it like took but it really sucked a lot of the magic out. I had such a good time. I was very conscious. I was a late ad. I'm a late ad a lot. Sure. Which I think I wasn't referring to you guys. Stop apologizing.

We're sorry. I really wasn't referring to that. I think it's a compliment. I think it's like. Why didn't you even have Gillian earlier? She's fucking roasting us. I know.'s a compliment. I think it's like, Why didn't you even have Gillian earlier? She's fucking roasting us. I know. Hey, look, it was me who got you on here. OK, the truth comes out.

Nate would have asked sooner. I get added to things late of like, oh, our actual close friends couldn't make it, or someone dropped. Who would be fun to ask? And luckily enough, sometimes it's me. And I didn't know I was doing that until like 2 PM that day. Wow.

So it was kind of a quick turnaround. Yeah. And that is also something also I would probably never do, but you definitely would never do. Day of, have you heard about that at 2 PM? No, I wouldn't do. Not a chance you'd be there. I would more likely be the person

who bails who someone else is going to. Thank you for that. My social calendar is simply booked. Thank you for that. My social calendar is simply booked cleaning up your messes. I, it was sort of like an intense thing, right? We had like have cash. We had to have a thing to sacrifice to the gods.

Yeah, so it's like an experiential thing. Like you were saying, it is a parked box truck, but you know, there is the illusion that perhaps you're in motion once you get on board. And as part of it, you have box truck, but there is the illusion that perhaps you're in motion once you get on board. And as part of it, you have to bring, yeah, there's payment, you can tip in cash, and then also they want an offering, some sort of gift that you're going to give that they'll maybe add to the tiki bar, a Couchermont.

And they make it clear, you're not getting this back. So it's like, what is something I've both kept around but don't want anymore? Like, I'm pretty good at pairing my apartment down to, like, the bare bones. So it's like, I don't have trash around. So it's like, I'm either going to give them, like, my college diploma or, like, something that matters. But it was-

That stressed me out, that whole part of it. I didn't like, like, it was like, you have to give something that means something to you. I gave a doughboy's patch. Yeah. Which, I gotta be honest with you, didn't mean shit. No, they did not. They didn't mean to it was like, you have to give something that means something to you. I gave a Doughboyz patch. Yeah. Which, I gotta be honest with you, didn't mean shit. No, they did not. They did not care.

It's literally something you got to give away. Yes. Yes, basically, yes. So you sort of copped out a little bit. I believe you gave a minion of sorts. I did. I gave them, I had a minion wearing a grass skirt from the first Minions movie.

And it was pretty fitting. It was down between that and his wedding ring. And he actually gave the more sentimental thing. Yeah, yeah. from the first Minions movie. It was pretty fitting. It was down between that and his wedding ring. And he actually gave the more sentimental thing. Yeah, yeah. But you sat next to me. It was sort of like how we walked into the box truck. And it was like a single seat.

Luck of the Draw sucks on that one for you. No, I felt bad because it was your friend group. And then you had to sit next to me. We had a great time. We had a great time. I had a great time. Also, by the way, friend group. Little loose? I mean, yeah.

Was that was like one of our few hangs last year, outside of Doughboys, I would say. We'll hang out. Oh, we turned it into content too. So it was within Doughboys. It wasn't even a fucking. The intent wasn't to make it a content, but we're like, I guess we can. We turn every fucking thing into content too, so it was within, oh boy, so it wasn't even a fucking. The intent wasn't to make it a content,

but we're like, I guess we can. We turn every fucking thing into content. Yeah, exactly. I got a colonoscopy next week. It's gonna, we're gonna talk about it. Content. It's gonna be content. I'm excited about it, we'll see what happens.

We're live streaming it. We're gonna do it from inside my colon? Yeah, you're gonna do the, Nick's doing the play by play. Yeah. Are you curious? Is there a world where you're, I know from personal experience that when they throw anything away

that came from your body, you have to sign for it. Oh man. It's like one of the many signatures you will sign on the day. Is there a world where you can be like, let me see it? I would love to see it. And they cut something out like polyps, I guess are the only things that, this is horrifying. Yeah, sure. I'm sorry, I never heard of it. I they cut something out like polyps, I guess they're the only things that are, this is horrifying. But it's like what they would.

I'm sorry, I never heard of it. I think it would be polyps or something that they would cut out, right? Is what it would be. But- Yeah. Or an old Papa John's papadilla just wedged in there. Yeah. I shoved it up my ass.

I didn't eat it or like, did I eat it so quick that it's like a whale's stomach? I think that's what I was more thinking. Yeah. It's more of a whale scenario. But now I'm thinking maybe you sat on it. Yeah. Yeah. To just know what came out of there.

Because other people in the room are going to see it. Right. And you're just gone. You know what's funny? The first time I did it, I was awake when they put the camera up my ass. And my dad was in there. I told him you made that dad joke of like,

I always said he was full of shit. Yeah, very funny. Good joke. He like loved and he was so proud of it. And it was wild to see a camera going up inside of your body. It was very, it was a very strange. And then I felt like it felt like you took a Mario P balloon. I've said this to you where like,

you're filled with air and basically look. What am I doing? the tubular stage here in Super Mario World, what's going on? I hope not, it's a hard stage. But you're filled with, it's a hard stage, folks. It's a tough stage. It's a really tough stage. You get to the bonus worlds in Super Mario World,

that one's tough. It's the special world. It's part of the special world, yeah. Super Mario World, do you know of it? I've heard of it, yeah. There's 96 exits, and if you get all 96 exits, you get a little star next to your save file, which is a lot of fun.

That's quite a high number. Yeah, it's a lot. I had 100% on Super Mario World. My sister's friend fucking deleted it. Just a true nightmare. That's fine. Fucking nightmare. Why did that happen?

And you can see how it was for my sister who was having a high school party with her friends and me being like, what happened? Going downstairs and being so pissed off. Why did she delete that? Because it was a fucking dumb, he was like, and he just deleted it. The one to start a new file,

blown to play himself and accidentally delete your file, that sucks. Fucking idiot. So it sounds like your sister didn't do it. My sister didn't, but I mean, she's still responsible in a way. She's responsible in a way. I haven't spoke to her since, so I don't know.

Um, but it is, it was very wild, and you get big, and there's no way around this, but you fart the air out, basically. You're basically like, they're like, you're just gonna get the air out of you, you're just gonna kind of fart it out of you, that's what happens. And so like, you just go in the bathroom,

you're like laughing as you're like, shooting air out of yourself. That's fun. I just-huh. And so you just go in the bathroom, you're laughing as you're shooting air out of yourself. That's fun. I just felt so relaxed thinking about that. Like a medically induced fart. Yes. I mean, it was. There was where you're like, you're farting,

and sometimes shit is blowing out of you, and you're just laughing. All you can do is laugh, Wags. Yeah. You know what else is a big fart? An artichoke. You guys artichoke eaters? I do like an artichoke you guys are to choke eaters

I don't like an artichoke, but I don't it's not a frequent thing for me. It's like a restaurant thing I'm back fancy. I'm back on our chokes big time. I'll tell you why please Me and sus do walks we do those feel as walks. We walk around those feelers together and Little Dom's is back. We go to Little Dom's we get a salad But we get the grilled artichoke before our salad and the grilled artichoke from Little Dom's is back. We go to Little Dom's, we get a salad, but we get the grilled artichoke before our salad. And the grilled artichoke from Little Dom's is fantastic. It's so good. They, a lot, if you get it from a restaurant,

they'll be really watery. And you know, they didn't do it on fire. Little Dom's is definitely grilled. It's like. 100% grilled. Yeah. No, Hillstone does a great one too. If you go to like a Houston's or a South Beverly Grill

band area. We're talking Little Dom's over here. Little Dom's. I'm trying to include myself in the conversation. Is that banned on this fucking podcast? Sorry, no. Well, let's talk specifically about Little Dom's in the Los Feliz neighborhood and set up something

more universal on our chain restaurant podcast, Hillstone, a nationwide chain. No, let's keep it specific to Little Dom's. I'm sorry, Mitch. Did you ever get air blowing up your ass? Yeah. You ever drink the artichoke water after you boiled an artichoke at home and then shit violently all day?

No, I didn't know you could do that. Because it is a natural diuretic, and you didn't know that when you thought, kind of looks like soup. Ha ha ha ha. When you boil an artichoke, the water is like, like a true blue green. I have trouble with like turquoise.

Like when it was, when is the line between like blue and green and where does it blur? This is blue green people. And you're like, hmm, that looks like nutrients. Like whatever leached out of the artichoke to boil it. And it just like called me like the spindle to sleeping toilet. And it just, like, called me, like, the spindle, the sleeping beauty. I was like, I got to chug this. And then was literally on the toilet googling, like,

what happens when you drink artichoke water? And it is a diuretic. I, like, had so... It was, like, one of the craziest things I've ever experienced. And let me tell you, I'm a diarrhea connoisseur. And it was... Uh, now I know and still do it,

but at least I'm prepared. Yeah, right. At least I can clear my day. I was going to say, it sounds like it could be useful wise in some ways. Yes. I have suggested it. What situations would I come up with handing in?

I've suggested it to backed up friends. I am a backed up friend. I got that artichoke from Little Dom's just this last week. Yeah. Back on Little Dom's. I just gotta say. It's all right, let me just do a little jump tension. I just gotta say this,

it's marinated in white wine, and then they grill it up, and then they put a red wine vinegar on it. There's no butter, and I think there's maybe a little olive oil when they grill it, but it's a healthy, I mean, it's a fat, but it's a fantastic. Do you have a dipping sauce there? No dipping sauce.

Wow, you're just having it like that. Don't they have drawn butter? That isn't butter. That's in it. It's red wine vinegar and olive oil. There's no butter. I could have sworn it was butter. I know.

And it's nice to be at a restaurant and to be able to use your front bottom teeth for once. There's not a lot of items that get a scrape effect. And the artichoke, we're all sitting there talking and just scraping a little leaf against our little like squirrel teeth. There's just something like intimate about that. I don't know.

What a great specific using your front bottom teeth. They don't think about that. They don't get play at all. Yeah, they don't get a lot of use. Wow. Yeah, these guys, they don't get a lot, you know. How are they doing? I don't know.

Fucking freeloaders. I mean, on a dog, those teeth are like almost pasted on willy nilly. Like those teeth aren't doing anything. Yeah. I do like a dog with a big underbite though. Jemma, can you show us your teeth really quick? Love it.

She's got great teethies. Does she really? Yeah, every time they get checked, everyone says they look healthy and beautiful and she can chew a perfectly straight line into her toy. We call her the surgeon. What? Yeah.

Good for you. She cuts it like scissors. The surgical pup. Yeah. I'm not going to stick my fingers in Jemmy's mouth, but I... She's never bitten any people, but you could be a first. There's always a first. There's always a first.

If she bit me and then I've never allowed her back on the podcast ever again. She would never bite Uncle Mitch. People would be mad at you. Also, if she did bite you, she'd still be allowed, don't you think? Yeah. She would never bite Uncle Mitch. People would be mad at you. Also, if she did bite you, she'd still be allowed, don't you think? I think I'd be out. Jimmy was right to bite Mitch. Okay, so like me, you're from California.

Yes, sir. And I'm curious, growing up out here, growing up in LA County, do you have any childhood favorites? We're obviously gonna talk about Amici in a second, but are there any chains where you're like, ah, that was a thing I loved to get as a kid, or I still love to get? Absolutely.

We were a very healthy family, so me getting my license was an explosion of fast food. That was me rebelling against my parents, was eating fast food, and I know we just did this as a bracket, but Taco Bell was so massive. Yes. I watched a friend of mine who is now a doctor

throw a tantrum at the child behind the counter because they were no longer serving cheesy gordita crunches. Wow. That's how much time we spent in Taco Bell's. My car in high school constantly had shredded lettuce. Yeah. You know, classic.

Whose car does it? Whose car does it? Sure. And then we had Panda Inn. Oh, yeah, Panda Inn, which became Panda Express. Became Panda Express. And we still are lucky enough in Los Angeles to have one in Glendale.

I've never done Panda Inn. It's fucking good. Is it? And we should do it for the podcast. They have the same items. in Los Angeles to have one in Glendale. I've never done Panda Inn, is it? It's fucking good. Is it? We should do it for the podcast. They have the same items. I went with a big group of friends, we ordered a bunch of stuff and we all agreed

it is more expensive. Sure. But it is, and I love Panda Express for the record. Still a family-owned business. Still a family-owned business, you get to learn a lot about the growth of the business on the back of the menu. It is a little more expensive, but it is a little better quality. Like, it's exactly the intersection of,

I'm paying more, but I'm getting more. And I literally have plans with Becca and Alyssa, two other writers from Twisted Metal, to do a bang bang of Panda Express into Panda Inn in one night. I love it. And we will be ordering the exact same items, of course, to do a proper comparison.

The crab rangoon. Bang Bang made famous by Louis CK, correct or no? You think it's Scott Ackerman. Yeah. Yeah. Haven't you been? You've probably been on it. Louis?

Yeah. You've been on Louis CK's Bang Bang? I've been on it. I've eaten with Louis. We've done Bang Bang Bang? Yeah, yeah. I've been on, I've eaten with Louis, done Bang Bang. Still, we, like, uh, I hang out with him, and, like, I split time between him and the Rogan crew. Yeah. You guys all play cards. It's a lot of fun.

Oh, yeah. They don't eat fun, but they're good for a meal. The Rogan crew? No. No. It's a bunch of Soylent drinkers. That's a thing I've never been able to understand, is that, and, you know, I've known people in the periphery who have done Soylent. Your cohost on another podcast has done it.

That's true, Heather Ann Campbell has done Soylent. And I do not understand removing the pleasure of eating food in the sake of efficiency. It's supposed to be somebody who doesn't like, you know, just doesn't like the, yeah. I did a UCB tour show where we performed improv for hire. We do that all the time at different companies. Yeah, lucrative.

Extremely lucrative. Me quitting a full-time job to do that was very smart. But it was at a, some kind of like coding hive. Okay. Like they weren't a specific company. They were like a group of coders for hire for different like apps that would come to them and stuff and terrible improv audience, let me tell you that.

But they were Soylent drinkers. So we were able, I just felt comfortable just straight up afterward. There were like stacks of boxes of Soylent and just asked straight up like, why do you hurt yourself like this? Like, why are you so sad? And the guy was like, I forget to eat.

So at the end of a day when I realized I haven't eaten, which like, I've never forgotten eating in my life. No, I'm thinking about it first thing when I wake up. I'm planning my meals like a Victorian, like a lady of the manor. I like wake up in the morning, I'm like, well, this will be breakfast. And if I've eaten an egg, that means

I can have another boiled egg at dinner. But what will the chicken be? Like, it's the most fun thing of the day. And he was literally like, I, it's a survival, and they do have flavors. I was happy to learn they have flavors. I thought it was, like, it tasted as gray as it looks, but it does have a flavor.

And he just was like, I won't eat otherwise, and then I remember and I just have one of these shakes and it's my nutrients for the day. Wow, that sucks. Bummer, but he was really smart in other ways. Yeah. Sounds like a dumb ass. I can't wait to not care.

Once I'm on NoZempic, I'm not gonna care about food anymore. It's gonna happen soon, legs. You're gonna go on the big O? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck, I'm gonna look good as hell. I'm not gonna go on NoZempic. If I lose, it's gonna suck if I lose weight and people are gonna think that I was on NoZempic.

But no, yeah. I'm trying. I just gotepic. If I lose, it's gonna suck if I lose weight and people are gonna think that I was on Zepic. But no, yeah. I'm trying. I just got a message that there's a rumor, speaking of Taco Bell, so this is breaking news. Is this from Samoa Joe? So this will now, it's Samoa Joe who's texting me this. It's not from Samoa Joe. Okay.

It's a friend of the pod Drew McQueenie who's texting me this. So you're just texting now. You're just texting now. I wasn't texting. I was texting Samoa Joe, Drew McQueenie texted me while I was texting Samoa Joe. Rumor thatie texted me while I was texting Samoa Joe. Rumor that Taco Bell's gonna get rid of the potato items. Oh my God, Betsy's gonna lose it.

Yeah, I don't love that. Oh, you mean Judas is gonna lose it? Judas, who turned her back on the fucking cheesy Gordita Crunch for the potato soft taco? So I don't know if you know this controversy, Gilly, why would you, but for our live finale of Munch Madness 2020 for, what the fuck is it called?

Betsy and Mano. Dokiaro Talk-O-Belle. Betsy and Mano and me all voted for the spicy potato soft taco as we voted it for over the cheesy gordita crunch. And, how much did you sell Jesus help for? Was it 30? Was it $30?

$30. I don't think it was $30. I didn't know there was like a, a, I don't think there maybe was. There was no, no money. He sold Jesus out. How could you do that, Judas? Makes me sick. I would have voted with Mitch. Yeah. However, if we're talking lifestyle, of course Betsy voted for the potato. Like it's a weekly order. Yeah, I stand by my friends. Jamie left. Jamie left.

You made me really scared when I said bang bang and you said that Louis CK invented it. I was like, what else am I saying that Louis CK invented? What if I'm just out there just saying like, back at X? You were singing the Louis theme song when he walked in. I don't know if you knew that. But that he invented that?

He created the Louis theme song. Oh my god, I assumed it was a jingle man. We're going to get him on soon. Don't worry, everybody. You ate half a slice of pizza, and then you threw it in the trash, but then we saw your mistake, so we fished it out and we ate it.

You know what? I pulled a Louie in that way today. I ate a slice of a, I ate a half slice of pizza and kind of tossed it at the end of the meal. Very out of character, but I get it. And then I did jack off, right? I was watching. I can confirm. And then I did jack off, right? I was watching.

I can confirm. I gotta tell you this. We hear, speaking of Taco Bell, speaking of Betsy, we had heard from Betsy that, I think on the Taco Bell text, Shane- Oh, I can bring up the text. I'll let Wiggs bring up the official texts, but all I want to say is that I'm jealous

and I wanna be a part of it next time. Putting a crunchy taco inside of a uncut quesadilla? No, but I wanna be a part of that too, that sounds great. What the fuck? This is Betsy's late night, this was not a late night text, it was referencing a late night thing. Mano already knows this,

but last night at three in the morning, Gilly ordered $150 of Taco Bell for three people. It was incredible. She also put Gilly in all caps, which. Yes, I did. I tried so hard to be like, it's okay, I'm just gonna eat it for dinner the next day. I like to be fun. Yeah, that's fun. That's a fun thing to do. Yeah, it's okay, I'm just gonna eat it for dinner the next day. Yeah. I like to be fun.

Yeah, that's fun. That's a fun thing to do. Yeah, it was really fun. And they were convinced, oh, this is Alyssa again. I made really good friends with my last group of coworkers. This is really nice. We- What's that like?

I- I think I wanted to impress her. Yeah. Like Betsy and I order and overorder and have fun. And that's something we already know about each other and it's lovely. And I'm very happy with my living situation, but with a new friend, I was like, how do I seem cool?

Yeah. I did that once during COVID too. A bunch of friends were, I'm sure we all attempted sad moments like this of like, let's have a hang tonight, but it's on Zoom. And me and my boyfriend at the time, and a bunch of friends were on Zoom together hanging out. And we all were like agreeing that it felt really good. I think this was early Zoom. So it was like the fact that we could all see each other at once actually was novel and like important. And we were drinking as we were all hanging out separately. And I towards the end of we were all hanging out separately and I

towards the end of the hang started ordering Taco Bell and I'm ordering things that the people on the screen would have wanted but they were never in my house and I'm like getting drunker and drunker to the point of like almost blacking out and then everyone like turned their computers like closed their computers and it was just me and one other person. And I had ordered for like 12. But it still felt good ordering as though my friends were there. I love that.

That's nice. That was, I had similar hangouts with Quincy people on Zoom where we would blackout until, what a time. What a time that was. What a time. And now even though I learned, oh, I can hang out with my friends who don't live in this city on Zoom,

I don't do it anymore. Yeah, no, that's done. It's over. But it was strange, because I do remember- Were you just in a fucking empty Zoom room? I do remember specifically getting drunk on a video call and looking back, I was like,

that was a weird thing to do. It is weird. But I guess you're just trying to have anything approximating, you know, human contact. We were trying our best. A bunch of us watched the Jumbos clown room, our dancers would put on poll shows. Oh, that's right. On Zoom. Yes.

I saw one of those. It was awesome. It was awesome. We got to see what their living rooms looked like. A shocking rate of cats. The like Venn diagram of talented, flexible women who can pole dance and cat owners is tight. How the hell was I not watching this fucking video?

It was so awesome. Cats and pole dancing sounds great. And you could tip them, they would put their Venmos up and we were tipping like crazy and yeah, it was really smart. How'd you miss this? Craig was watching. Craig was on his mouse clicking away.

Okay, I wanna, cause since you mentioned your recent job and you mentioned writing, I wanted to talk about the question I like to ask, which is you're eating in the writer's room. That's a big thing. The Twisted Metal writer's room, folks. Yeah, the Twisted Metal writer's room specifically.

Season two, she knows all the things. She's got everything in her head. Mitch is my little puppet. You know nothing, and I know everything, and you're gonna dance. Man, I can't even, oh, shit. Oh! Oh!

That wasn't a bit? No. I was like, oh! I thought. Oh, shi. Oh! Oh. That wasn't a bit? No. I was like, no. I thought they were doing a bit. No. I got a real sneeze can. That was a bit of allergies is what it was. The allergies got me.

I can only imagine what it is to put words to paper for me to read. That's what you were going to say before you sneezed. Before I sneezed. Before I sneezed. What are your go-to snacks and what are you hoping to get on a lunch order? Oh shit.

So I learned after my first season of working in a room at all that you can't order like you would on the weekend, because that makes me want to go to sleep. So it's not like, I remember my first season of TV, I ordered like a ramen burger, which is like beef in between two noodle patties. Gilly, that's an insane order for a work order.

A ramen burger is wild, I love it. Someone else is paying, and it's like, I maybe wouldn't order it normally, so here's my shot. I'm not looking for the salad on a menu, but unfortunately now I'm looking for big amount of protein and like just a lot of veggies. I hate that this is my answer. Yeah, I know it's a bummer.

I'm furious, but I have the ability to fall asleep while locked eyes with someone else, and I have done it. Not at work, but I've done it in class. I guess that's totally different, one where you're sort of forced to be there and one where you're lucky to be there, but. It will happen in this episode, you're false. I truly, truly can.

I also fall asleep with my eyes open, and so. Wait, really? Yes, I think I'm taking a big blink, and then I realize I can't follow the conversation, and no one else has noticed, no one's woken me up, because I'm just sort of... Wow. It's pretty wild.

I do also sometimes do the full, like, slow nodding. Eyes closed, it's not every time, but, uh... So I had to, like, really be careful to not get so sleepy. Uh, so, yeah, it's not every time. But so I had to like really be careful to not get so sleepy. So yeah, it's just like half a sandwich and a salad is the ideal. Like we did Mendocino Farms a lot, so love the Farmers Club. And then they had like an Italian chopped sandwich

or salad that had a lot of like salami, olives, and garbanzo. So it was really hard. When we were doing Birthday Boys, Mendo was right next door, so we did it. And funner or die, Mendo would- Oh yeah. Everyone would get a fair share of Mendo. I think Mendo's gone down a little bit. Never liked it.

Yeah, interesting. It's practical. It's practical for me. I think the couscous is good. It's one of my favorite flavors that they have. It's like the only flavor that they have. There, I said it. It's so mild. The banh mi doesn't have pate.

To me, a banh mi needs to have pork and pate. I love pate, but I will say I do like that they have like a vegan banh mi that you can get. That's nice if you don't want to eat plantain. I'm so happy for the vegan people. They got rid of the chicken prosciutto salad, which was a great salad. They got rid of like a lot of their like,

it feels like they're becoming more chain-like, which I think they just are. But I was going to say this. In the writers' room, in the week, you can do one or two sandwiches a week, right? Like, you can still do a sandwich. I'm always doing a sandwich, but it's got to be half a sandwich if I eat.

I can, for dinner, I'm eating a whole sandwich, and I feel good and fine. But I'm drifting off to Dreamland shortly after. So, yeah, in the room, I, even if I get good and fine, but I'm drifting off to dreamland shortly after. So yeah, in the room, even if I get a whole sandwich, I only eat half and then I want something else. I'm not just gonna stop there. Like wax paper will turn any of their sandwiches into a salad.

And I don't want to, but I was doing that. And what I learned, the Otty Cornish, which is my favorite, has like a sweet salty butter, in addition to a really nice ham and then sort of like dressed greens. They put the butter in the salad. A brick of butter, like the size of my fist. Wow.

And I have no problem with it, it's easy to remove it. It did take away some of the shredded cheddar, which is a little sad. You can't sit there and pick every piece off of the butter. And I did it once and everyone, like, I showed it around, we all laughed and it was like some new person probably just like thought I don't want to like skimp on their ingredients, so I'll give her the butter.

Ordered it several more times every time it came with a fist of butter. That's wild. Like so much butter on a bed of lettuce. They're really, they're not thinking about it at all. They're just like, here's all the components of the sandwich we're just putting in the salad. I think, I think cause they charge the same. In fact, I think it's even an upcharge, which is wild cause your sans bread.

But I guess vegetables are expensive. More greens. More greens. I love those greens. But yeah, that's a great way to like, hey, we're hitting the flavor. I have had the audacity to get a full Italian sub as a lettuce wrap. Wow.

Wow. And coworkers, you know, in a writer's room, like people can get up and leave for lunch, but if you like each other, a lot of times you just keep talking, except now it's not about work, it's about anything else. And so you're like making eye contact with all your coworkers and they're having to watch me

struggle through like a brick of Italian cold cuts between two big pieces of lettuce and they dress it. That's what's important. I'm gonna love when I go back to my doctor and he's gonna be like, you been eating salads? I'm gonna be like, yeah. Yeah, I mean. Is there big chunks of butter in the salad? I'm like love when I go back to my doctor and he's gonna be like, you've been eating salads? I'm gonna be like, yeah. Yeah, me too. He's gonna be like,

is there big chunks of butter in the salad? I'm like, yeah. Cause you can't get the sandwich and take the bread off cause then you're taking any sauce, any dressing, that's just coming off. You gotta order it lettuce wrap so they put the sauce in between. I used to do a little.

You did. I used to do an old lettuce. Don't, Mitch. Don't do it. A wax paper for our listeners, not in LA, is a sandwich shop, there's a few locations- Onions that I'm a freak. What I just ordered, it's called a Greek. Lettuce wrap, it's the lettuce wrap.

I told you not to do it, Mitch. Then you did it, now you feel bad. Yeah. Listen to your buddy. All of their sandwiches. I thought you were saying, like, hey, good job on your lettuce wrap. All of the sandwiches are named after NPR personalities.

So they've got, like, I'm looking at them, and you have the Ira Glass, the Lakshmi Singh, you have fake ass news, NPR. The Adi Cornish, which you mentioned, the Terry Gross. It's a little twee in that way, but they're good sandwiches. Agreed, very twee. They're good sandwiches, they're good, they're good. Yeah, it's good.

I mean, Terry Gross, a great news reporter, showing how much I know. But to have a sandwich with the word gross in it seems strange, I say. Yeah, you have to be like, you have to piece it together. Oh, that's someone's name. The sandwich is not itself gross. I think since they've established that they're NPR names,

I think you can get away with gross. You have the pattern at that point, yeah. Whatever it was like, the garbage pail kid hoagie. Would you get that? Absolutely. I think I'd probably like it probably would. That's good. It's probably like a mishmash in a fun way. Yeah.

There's mozzarella sticks on it or something, but that'd be good. By the way, speaking of, oh fuck. I mean, it is just like a- It's a fat sales. It's a fat sales sandwich. Yeah, it's a fat sales. I'm a Jersey Mike's fan.

I did a Jersey Mike sandwich yesterday. On wheat, no cheese. Very gel. That's what I did though. I did eat cheese today for the restaurant we're talking about. I was gonna say this. The fear you have about eating a big lunch and being tired, it's exactly what we did today.

We sure did. And not only that, but we had an appetizer of bread. We did, we had a lot of bread earlier. Wags and I ate like a loaf of bread before you came. We're really weighed down with carbs. So that's what we're powering through. I didn't notice if that helps. I expected this little from you.

Oh, how about that? No, I eat everything. You just have to time it right. That's what I've learned at work. And I'm sure other jobs, it's the same. same or it's like this just isn't a lunch. This is like a post, if you had run a marathon we ate what someone made post marathon. For sure. By the way, I gotta tell you something. I was filling out, I was trying to fill this thing for my, the butt doctor. Colonoscopy. Are you trying to make sure only we hear this and no one else?

For the butt doctor. And I might have him put on a new ass when I'm in there when I get the colonoscopy. If I get a Brazilian butt lift or something like that. If I came back with a great ass in here, wouldn't it be great? Bitch is looking good. You get a BBL?

People are saying like Shania Twain, I guess, just got, supposedly got a lot of work, and it's fine if she did. It's fine if she didn't. And she also dyed her hair pink. So the joke is like, yeah, we all know why you dyed your hair pink to distract from respect. Yeah, sure.

Are you going to like dye your ass hairs pink? I get it confused and dye my ass hair pink. Something's different about this bitch. What's up with the ass? He's got pink pubes. I can see it through his white pants. Yeah. I can't really... I still can't see his dick, but pubes are pink.

He doesn't have a lot of pubes. Yeah. Should I try and get a Brazilian butt lift? That does impress me much. Yeah. Is that her song she's saying to sit on one. So if you do, please let us know. Is it comfier? Yeah, is it like sitting on a cushion? Yeah, that's a great question. I don't know.

It's because if you're talking about having some sort of implants or something. Yeah, or is it like when you first sit on a waterbed where it's like, whoa. That's a little disorienting. It takes time for it to settle. Right. I'm also just thinking about using a toilet,

because that's it's awesome. I mean, I'm not saying that it's a bad idea. I'm just saying that it's a good idea. I mean, I'm not saying that it's a bad idea sit on a waterbed where it's like Right, I'm also just thinking about using a toilet cuz that's its own sort of sitting Yeah, you might have to get my bread before you sit exactly you cannot get a brother in but live that you're it would be disaster You'd be getting stuck in the chairs and shit. You got a big ass already. You already have like a pretty healthy Gigantic ass I. I do already have a pretty healthy ass. I don't get the fascination with the gigantic ass, I guess. Oh, Mike. Mitch, I can explain it to you.

I'm no Al Pacino over here. You know what I mean? I like, sure. But also, some of these Brazilian butt lifts, they're gigantic. You don't want to go too extreme, but I don't feel like that's like, you know, some people can do whatever they want with their bodies, but I feel like a lot of times it's a procedure where you're maybe not even, like if it's well done, you're not even noticing that it's something surgical, you know, it's just like, oh wow.

There's more than we know. Exactly, right. My ass looks like a Tyson's chicken, basically. It's like two big Tyson's chickens back there. Breasts or whole chickens? Yes, yeah. Basically two whole chickens. Looks like shit back there.

It doesn't look good, but I don't think I'm gonna, I'm gonna get the colonoscopy. We'll see what happens from there. What does it feel like to sit on your butt? I know that's hard to answer. That's a great question. Cause you've only ever had your butt. Yeah, I feel comfortable when I'm sitting down.

I don't know if it feels- Your butt never hurts. Your back is always hurting more than your butt. It's my back more, yeah. But that's usually pain for my lower body that's radiating up. Okay, or you gotta get a fat back. You gotta get a back lift, man. Brazilian back lift?

I have a little butt, and sometimes if I'm sitting for too long, I'm like, this hurts. Yeah. I got a sore butt as well. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably pretty good for you. It's pretty good for me, but I think with anybody,

you don't wanna sit forever. You have to keep moving positions a little bit. You gotta shiffle. Sounds like you're walking around with a couch. Look, we'll get into this more on the episode where Weiger sits on me and I rake it. I remember that. He was gonna crush me. It would be nice.

I used to, like, use my leg muscles to help so that I wasn't sitting all the way on boys' laps. I didn't want... Because I was scared my, like, razor sharp... I don't know what this bone was scared my like razor sharp, I don't know what this bone is that sort of would cut through your cheeks. You're just bringing back like such a,

like a, Yeah, the like being aware of every moment of like someone sitting on my lap or I'm sitting on someone's lap, oh my God. Yeah, I used to like, it wasn't, so that they wouldn't feel my weight, it was so that I wouldn't cut them with my butt. Wow. That's, I had a very similar experience, like,

when I would film stuff or something, and it would be like, this is like an old chair or something like that. And I'm just like, there's so much going through my legs to like hold me up without breaking something, you know? I remember on birthday boys, like, they were like, we like rented these cots. They're actually like old military cots.

And I got it, and I was like, goof, went right through it. Sucked. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Yeah, you military cots, and I got it and I was like, went right through it. Sucked! Yeah, you break one thing and it's with you for life. That's for sure. I know that feeling too of sitting with someone or near, it's just that's it, yeah, god, that sucks. It sucks. Like hyper aware of every second and you're supposed to be relaxed.

Yeah. Right, right. Uh... Uh... Beautiful times. For you, I mean,, uh, uh, uh, a. Dump. Dorm. I had a bit of a dumper on me. You got a dumper?

I'm not a little like a, like a massive ass. I'm not gonna like, like a, like a, I wouldn't even necessarily say, be like, I have a good ass, but I, yeah, I have a fairly sizable ass. Yeah. And I, but, but part of that, that's, that's not just. Probably evens your weights, weighs you out from the front to back. If you catch my drift. I think a little, I think there is a genetic

component, but I also like, I do, you know, I do some strength training. I'll do squats, you know, I'll do lower body work. So I think that's part of it too. And part of that was also a response to back pain because I had to strengthen my lower body so that they had. You also ride a bike. And they ride a bike, yeah.

Oh right. I do get a lot of lower body stuff. Your dad's got a dumper? My dad's got a good ass. What do you want from me? You're talking about my dad's ass? I'll talk about it. You've got your dad's ass. That's so nice.

Looks like you're wearing your dad's hat, fucking clown ass dad. Don't call my dad a clown. Also, we don't know when sequentially when this episode's gonna come out. Oh, I was a callback to that. Maybe a callback. It may be coming in the future.

That one'll come out first. Okay, got it. You can call back this script from several months ago. I love your dad. It's great to hear he's a good ass. It's nice that you checked it out. Yeah. I...

Can we, what are you gonna say? I wanna hear it. I was gonna say that I was doing like, I was paying for a thing and it was like, trying to check if I wasn't a robot. And I was like, click these stairs. And I was like, this is like, I'm the stair guy.

It feels like it's getting rubbed in my, I was like, which one of these are stairs? And I was like... The algorithm knew it's getting rubbed in my, it was like, which one of these are stairs? And I was like, the algorithm knew it was you. The algorithm fucking knew it was me or some fucking listener runs the fucking robot thing. Or you did, your Google, your last Google search entry was more stairs.

And so they're like, okay, we'll feed this guy some stairs. I don't Google more stairs. Maybe you were thinking of putting a few more in. They make fun of me because I have stairs in my home. What are you, a billionaire? This is the issue. What were you gonna say, Wags? I was gonna bring something up,

which Susser was telling us beforehand. One of our mutual friends who he won't dox was asking Susser, is the rumor true that Mitch and Weiger aren't friends anymore and they just keep doing Dope Boys for the money? That we hate each other in real life? And my answer to that is we never were friends. Yeah, no, come on.

It was all a fiction. This is one of the most we ever were friends. Didn't that happen to the Jerky Boys? Wow. There's precedence. I think they did. There's precedence for such a... I think they did have a schism.

Yeah, a schism. That's wild. There are no more. That's so sad to think of the Jerky Boys not being buds. I know. I'm sorry to break the news. From day one, we didn't get along that well. Yeah, sure.

We don't hate each other. No. Are we different men? Of course. But are we alike in many sad ways? Of course. That's true. That's the foundation of a successful podcast.

Does it make you feel good that people are thinking about you enough to just start a rumor about you? I guess so. He probably doesn't like that as much. Well, I mean, as far as rumors go, could be worse. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Snopes is not going to deny this one.

OK, good. I mean, like, it's like, what, yellow, you would say, on Snopes? Sure, yeah. Yeah. Two Pinocchios, would affect. I don't know what the, where it would be. We still like each other.

We still like each other. We are friends. The Doughboys are friends. And also, I would like to be invited to any sort of a, if you get $150 worth of Taco Bell again, bring in the closer. Yeah, that sounds fun. That's all I ask. I will invite you guys, but if I invite two more people,

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before we get into it? I am always an advocate for olive mushroom and garlic as the topping on top of the cheese. And I don't have very many friends I can order that with. So it was fun to get to order my own pizza. Like I actually don't get to get it a lot because of compromise. Yeah, sure.

I'm making a lot of compromise when I order pizzas. And I do like a non-thin crust, but a not thick crust. I don't really know what the, I guess regular. Regular crust, sure. I like for when I take it out for it to not immediately flop over. So I guess that's a non-New York pizza. I like a huge slice, but I don't like

when it bends completely over. You like crispy. A crispier slice. Or just a little thicker, maybe. Not crispy, but yeah, thicker, a little firmer. But again, I'm not talking about a thick crust. No. I guess I'm looking for like-

Not a pan. Not a pan. I'm looking for a lot of medium points here. I like a lot of cheese. I have traveled to Italy, and I hated the fucking pizza. Wow. Come for me, Italy. I went to Italy, too, and I did have

some good pizza at one spot. But it is, it's a toss up, basically. If you're in it for the cheese, it's not an Italian pizza for me. I was studying abroad, I went to UC Santa Barbara, which is a party school in California and happened to have a lot of other- Is that the slugs?

No, that's the UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, okay, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara's the Tritons, what are you? I wish, wait, the Gauchos. The Gauchos, right. Santa Cruz is way more laid back, right? Santa Barbara's also laid back. They're both beachy communities.

Beachy, hippy. Santa Cruz is a little crunchy, hippier, and Santa Barbara's a little more like babes and bikinis, if I'm being honest. Yeah. Look at me, look at me. I'm sitting here, a babe in a bikini. But it was, this other girl from my school was also in Italy.

We didn't know each other before. And she had her boyfriend, when he came to visit, bring a suitcase full of Hidden Valley, so that ranch, so that she could have it in her purse when we went to Italian restaurants. And I actually was in was not quite embarrassed, but I was a little bit like, like, cool your jets, Emily. Sure, yeah.

But now looking back, I'm like, I totally get where she was coming from. She wanted to enjoy the pizza, and this is what she needed to enjoy it. Wow. I really didn't think Italian pizza, because I'm in it for the cheese specifically. They're so skimpy on the cheese.

Interesting. There's probably a few places, yeah, or the cheese specifically. They're so skimpy on the cheese. Interesting. There's probably a few places, yeah, because they do a lot of margarita style pizzas. They do a lot of, but like, I had like the Italian kind of like square style. What is it like a? Oh yeah, I think it was.

Sicilian? Sicilian. Yeah, Sicilian, thank you. And they have like places you can just walk up and it's called a tavolo caldo, like hot plate, where you just like point to how much you want them to cut off. Yeah. That's very fun.

Yeah. Very fun lunch. They do it at the Nancy Silverton place here too. The, what is it called? Mozza? No, not Mozza, the one, what's the one that's the- Austria? No, the one that where,

the Nancy Silverton one where you cut the, it's in Silver Lake. What? Thank you. I don't have it either. Too quick to take it. I don't know what you're talking about. Damn it.

I don't know. We'll figure it out. Triple beam? Tremble beam. Tremble beam. I didn't know that was Nancy Silverton. That's Silverton, that's a Silverton joint. I don't think it is, Mitch.

No it is, I'm looking at it. It is? Well, well, well. Oh, I'm gonna eat the microphone. I'm so sorry. That's, yeah, that's a fun pizza. Yeah, they cut off, I love quarter sheets. I've been to quarter sheets multiple times.

I love quarter sheets. A great- Quarter sheets, triple beam, what's next? Double plate? Yeah. Yeah. I thought you were going to Unkarplot with that. Did we swap bodies? Quarter sheets, triple B. I thought you were going to do some sort of circus thing, but I guess it is kind of construction.

What was his name again? Kregger? Kregger. Thank you Kregger. And Emmer., Craig, and Emmer, Craig or Emmer? I gotta thank both of them. Craig didn't do shit. Yeah, I know. He didn't know it in the end. Look, he almost remembered it, so that was helpful.

So I guess more so Emmer. Craig, though, it was the first person that gave you guys hope that I knew what I was talking about. Yeah. I had something sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I really enjoyed this. Like I was in Rome. So I guess that's specific too, cause they regionally, you know, Italy's one of those places where it's like, we think of them as one country, but they think of themselves as their regions. Like a Roman is like, I'm Roman.

They don't call themselves Italian. Like a Sicilian is like, I'm Sicilian. They don't say they're Italian. I have a question for you. Yeah. Your roommate wasn't Foxy Knoxy, was it? I was like the year before. Oh my god. Or the year after or something.

I'm right around there. Yeah, we're about the same age. Wow. Foxy Knoxy. Well, you don't remember that they called her Foxy Knoxy? I'm bracing it together now, yes. She and I both had a lot of sex and did a lot of cart reels in Italy, but I didn't murder a single one,

not to my knowledge. But yeah, I was like a virgin before I went and I got rid of my virginity like I was getting my passport ready. Like I was, I needed to shed it real quick to prepare for Italy. So I was not really there. They should have shipped my virgin ass over there,

boy, that sounds helpful. They would have taken, oh, it was very difficult for the men. It was like totally unequal on everyone's experience of like whether we're getting like. Someone's finally saying it. It is difficult for the men. But I wasn't there for the cuisine.

I also didn't have money for it. So I hope to go back one day and give Italy or Rome or any region it's like redemption arc. But yeah, that's what I look for. Do you guys have pizza requirements or preferences? I weirdly went to... So, this is gonna make me seem like Silver Spoon Man, but when I went to private school, there was a trip to Italy.

So, my first time in Italy was in ninth grade. And it was like, I think it was kind of, here's the bonus of sending you to a school where you hate yourself and wanna jump off a building. And I was like, great. And I kind of, here's the bonus of sending you to a school where you hate yourself and want to jump off a building. And I was like, great. And I went, I mean, it wasn't, it was nice because I always want to go to Italy, but it was like a cheap school trip. And it was like, we're eating and like, we're like, I think we had like a taste of wine or something and like, you know, snuck some stuff like that. But I think it was very like basic, but that's the crazy thing in, in Rome, you can go anywhere

and it's, and it can be really good. But then I went back as an adult, I went with was very like basic. But that's the crazy thing in Rome, you can go anywhere and it can be really good. But then I went back as an adult, I went with the Quincy boys. And I picked out, I was kind of the food guy in charge and we went to Rome and Florence and Venice. I was gonna say, what's the canal one? Yeah. Venice, I retained a lot of stuff by going over there. But Roma Sporita, I went gonna say, what's the canal one. Yeah. Venice. I've retained a lot of stuff by going over there.

But Roma Sporita I went to one night. There was like a lot of great restaurants that were like, these are some of the best meals of my life. Pizza though was a little trickier and we did find a good place in Rome and there's I guess a place right next to the Vatican, why, because it has great pizza. How about that?

There's a place that has like really good- I went to a McDonald's right next to the Vatican. That's fun, what was that like? My first time having mayo with fries and I really loved it. Yeah, I loved that combo. Good combo. Really, it was really a good combo. I just liked the idea of the Pope being like,

hey, Big Mac, that's fun, that's fun. It's funny, it's funny, it's funny. It's funny, it is, it is funny. It's like, excuse me, I asked for the honey mustard, you gave me the hot mustard. I thought he was gonna sound German, cause he is German. There is there's well the current one is is So sir, and I were talking about the Yeah, we're thinking about Ratzenberger. There's like the Nazi Pope. There was like all these like they were like there was the Nazi Pope

There was a cool Pope and then like the Nazi Pope isn't even the worst Pope. There's like a worst Pope before that Yeah, there's a worst pope before that. There's the two popes, young pope. What was the other one? Well, there's the new pope. The young pope became the new pope. Young pope and new pope. Hot pope. But that's the TV show.

But I think what Mitch is doing is kind of like the generic, I'm the president of the United States. It's like a generic sort of like improv. You're like, I'm the pope of Rome. You're like a general Italian stereotype pope. Supersize. Supa-oh. Oh, Morgan Sporlock ruined everything.

Oh, Morgan Sporlock ruined everything. Rest in peace, Morgan Sporlock. Uh, I don't know. He's kind of a bad guy, we think. We don't know. But rest in peace. Rest in peace. None the same.

I need one more nugget buddy to complete the collection. There you go. That's good. I feel uncomfortable. We gave a lot of shit to Morgan Spurlock on the podcast. This is gonna be so dated. I know, I'm sorry. I don't know why you're insisting on doing this.

I'm gonna get him off my chest. I feel, cause I know that he wasn't a, you know, but I don't like when anyone dies when they die young. I feel bad about it. He was very young to die, yes. And also, I wanna be clear when I say the they die young. I feel bad about it. Who's very young to die, yes. And also I wanna be clear when I say the Nazi Pope wasn't even the bad Pope. We might have to edit some stuff around there.

What? Emory, let's just mark all of this for edits. Okay. Okay, you asked about pizza preferences. I've never crossed the notion, I've never been to Italy. But as far as pizza goes. What are you gonna get? What are you gonna get? We'll see. as far as pizza goes, we'll see.

As far as pizza goes. What if we transport you like Nosferatu or something? In a big crate with like wooden hay, whatever that packing stuff is. In a ship. Yeah. We'll free throw him rats. Do you think a ship would be desirable?

I don't know if I'd want to do a ship. It's going to be a big ship. Yeah, but I did. It's going to take like two weeks to get there. That's the thing. I mean, I don't mind the I want to do a ship. It's gonna be a big ship. Yeah, but I did. It's gonna take like two weeks to get there. That's the thing, I mean, I don't mind that the duration of the journey, it's just like I do get seasick, I don't know. You don't even mind planes,

it's just the fact that you don't wanna go overseas. I don't want planes. You don't have to. Yeah, but anyway, what I was gonna say is the, as far as pizza is concerned, which is the topic at hand, I think I'm kind of with you, although I do really like a New York-style pizza. I mean, that's just like the best slices I've had.

I've just been from, like, random spots in New York City. That's just like, that's, to me, that's the apex of pizza. Yes, I've had very good pizza. So Comet Ping Pong, New York. Yeah. I'm not there just for the pizza in Comet Ping Pong. I've got other stuff. But I also went over to...

I want to shout out Pizzeria Regina, which is like, that's like the platonic ideal of like a cheese pizza. And we got a cheese pizza today from a Meche as a baseline. You know how happy I was when Regina was good when we went? Yeah, we had a great time. Because there's not always like, you know,

there's some chances that sometimes it's not gonna be the best version of it. You go away, you come back, you can't trust it's the same thing you left. It's, oh, God, terrifying, especially when you've been talking it up. Yes. Oh, man, the worst. That may be the case with Amici Pizza and Pasta,

which I imagine is a place that you grew up with. Yes, it was my sleepover pizza. Your sleepover pizza. Yes, more than Pizza Hut or Domino's, because at the time, Amici's was the same price. Yeah. It still is, I think. I mean, I didn Because at the time, Amici's was the same price. Yeah. It still is, I think. I mean, I didn't pay for it.

But it's still, because at this point, you're getting Lucifer's pizza. You're spending $100 on two pizzas. Yes. It is a bummer how much pizza costs. It's very expensive. I don't know if people know this, but stuff is expensive these days.

LA markup is bad, too. I mean, if you get anything like, if you get like a fancier pizza, you're gonna pay, you're paying a lot of money for it. It's just the way it is. To the point where when people offer to pay and I do the dividing in my head, I'm like, they're not gonna, they ate two slices and I'm gonna ask for 20 bucks.

But if I'm really gonna break even here, is 20 bucks a... But Amici's was, yeah, it was like the same as if we were to get Domino's or Pizza Hut. And Amici's was just like, that means we're at, we got friends over, ma'am. And also birthday parties, of course. Amici is closer price wise, it's closer to like a Pizza Hut

or a Domino's or a Pomp and John's still as opposed to Lucifer's that we reviewed on the podcast and that's a more LA specific chain, but that's like a little bit more of an upscale, you know, at a higher price point. I just want to say that speaking of the Pope, Amici sounds like the Pope talking to me. Totally. Amici, Amici. Sounds like he's talking to me. He calls you the plural for friend. Is that what it is?

Yeah, man. Whoa. Amici's. Amici. Yeah, Amici is friends in a mixed sex group. How about that? Wow. Amici Pizza & Pasta was founded in 1979.

Nick Andressano, who was the son of Italian immigrants, he opened a sit-down restaurant, similar to the Panda Express thing. And then in 1984, Nick partnered with Angelo Filato and they opened Amici Pizza and Pasta as it currently stands, which is the more casual sort of takeout center concept and has 40 locations across California. I've had Amici before, I had no idea it was this big. So just to set the scene, it would be like,

brrrr, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and then like, Amici is on, like, Amici is on. That would, so scene would be like, brrrr-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no, and then like, a meat cheese is on. Like, a meat cheese is on. That would be happening? Yeah, we'd all come running to sit around the TV. Or the front door, the front door. Yes. It's Rossi and Il Chandler. Hey, there's a slice missing from my pizza.

We were on a break. Hey, there's a slice missing from my pizza. We put it on a break. If my name was Angelo, I would just like license my name out. Start a pizza company with me, everybody. You can just put my name on it. I'm happy to do it. Angelo's is a great name. Angelo Filato, great name.

I didn't realize it was 40, but I knew it was a lot. And what I like is on the website, under like, you know, locations, hours, menu, there is a tab for if you want to own a franchise. They are pushing the franchisee. And I actually have, I captured a little bit of text from here because they're franchising FAQ. The fact clearly is using AI text.

Let me read this paragraph. Oh, man, a Michi. Michi, the W-A-G-A. The eating habits in America have changed with the advancement of food technology and the advent of the two-member working family. The recent trends show that outside eating, especially fast food and outside food preparedness,

will continue to increase because of increasing time constraints and overall economics. Amici. You know that word salad. Women in the work force for pizza. Amici. Women in the workforce for pizza. Holy shit. How did we get dragged into this?

Amici, let Weigar write up your fucking thing. Come on. Let Weigar do it. Second, that is so bizarre and absolutely unnecessary. Totally strange. Like none of that information makes you go like, you know what, I will invest in franchise. Yeah, what is that? Is that their, it's not their mission statement.

No, it's their franchise. Because this is as Gilley was saying, they are, they are, they are trying to expand this place trying to get people by franchises. There's 40 of them. Yeah. So part of it is like, hey, if you want to have your own Amici, you want to open one in wherever you want to open one in Culver City, put get together the franchising fee and there you go. There's only one Amici. You're Pope's little Amici.

I'm Pope's little Amici. Would that be like an exciting thing for you to find out that you like inherited a franchise of Amicis? Boy, honestly. I think that'd be stressful. It would be stressful. I would have nothing to do with it. I would I would, I would, if I inherited it, I would do whatever I had to do to make sure it was operational

and then get out of it most likely. So we're not looking to get in the biz. I'm just imagining, as soon as you said it was stressful, I just imagined you with like a pizza on each finger, just spinning both, phones ringing off the hook. Yeah, yeah. Just too much. I got the cats too. It's gonna be, you know, it's just gonna- Well, you gotta bring the cats to the pizza parlor.

Spin one on each tail, he's pie. That's true. You know, they make biscuits. They make biscuits, why? That's true, that would be cute. Cats are bakers. That would be really cute. Just have to shave them beforehand.

Ratatouille too? Big hairnet. Catatouille? A shave or a big hairnet? That's funny, a cat just in a hairnet. That is like a Disney sort of look. Yeah, that's cute. That's cute as hell. I in a hairnet. That is like a Disney sort of look.

That's cute. Cute as hell. I'll say this. I don't think I've ever had a Meche. You had it today. I had it today. Okay. But I was eating it in there.

When I saw the box, I was like, oh yeah, this looks familiar. And I was looking at the website and I was like, the website needs to be updated for sure. It is frozen in time. It's frozen in time, which I kind of love, by the way. I was like, the website needs to be updated for sure. It is frozen in time. It's frozen in time, which I kind of love, by the way. I do like that, it's charming. But I was like, have I ever had this? Not that familiar with it if I had.

It's a California chain, correct? It's only in California? Yes, only in California. I was looking at it, I was like, there's been like a few local, remember, was it Louise's Trattoria? Yes, yes, yes, yeah. There's like a few California pasta remember, was it Louise's Trattoria? Yes, yes, yes, yeah.

There's like a few California pasta pizza chains I've tried and none have been great. There's been some pizza, what's the Beverly pizza place? Whatever, there's like a couple pizza places. Oh, you mean like the, I know what you're talking about. Oh, Craigor will pretend to know it. Yeah. Yeah.

Craigor, help me out here. What the fuck was it? I know what you're talking about. Mul, Craigor will pretend to know it. Yeah. Yeah. Craigor, help me out here. What the fuck was it? I know what you're talking about. Mulberry Street, yes. Mulberry Street. So like I had good pizza in LA, and Mulberry Street's good. That's good.

It's like a Beverly Hills, it was like $25 back like in 2007. So I'm sure that it's like $50 per pizza now. But seeing this, I was like, we're in for some bad pizza. Let me tell you, I had a blast with almost everything I ate, except for one. There was one entree that it was, I thought was bad, but everything else. I was like, this is like the perfect. Mid of middle of the road.

If I was like at some sort of like meeting or some shit and there was this pizza was here, I would be like happy. I was weirdly impressed by Amici way more than I ever thought I would be. Interesting. And Amici doesn't impress, me Amici doesn't impress anybody. This Amici, I was fucking shocked. I have had Amici before.

I would never have thought to review it because I would never conceive that it could be a chain of this size because it's like, oh yeah, there's got to be like three of them in LA or whatever. But no, I had no idea that it was this big. But when I've ordered from it, it's like, oh, I got a door hanging flyer that has like a 50% off coupon. All right, sure, I'll get it for that reason.

And I've always thought it's fine. Like I've never been, I would never thought it was an exciting place. There were there. I thought there were already so many, there were so many pizza options that readily accessible that I thought were superior. Honestly, probably rather have Domino's most of the time. But it was interesting to revisit it here and I revisited it with an open mind. And I talked about getting cheese pizza as a baseline, which we did.

Sounds like you like that cheese pizza. I loved it. You loved it. I think for what it is, I think that it is like, it's like, if I went into, like I said, if I went into some sort of fucking, ugh, some sort of comedy bullshit meeting that we don't even do anymore, like whatever,

there was a writers, our sketch group had a writers meeting, we're starting a new sketch group, there's a writers meeting, and a meaty pizza was on the table, I would be happy. I was that sort of thing where I was like, I love Domino's, but like we said before, Domino's is different than pizza. If you're craving Domino's, you're craving Domino's.

If you're craving pizza, you're craving pizza. And this is like such a kind of like mid-level quality pizza. And I thought that it was just really well done. It was like a, it was a nice firm slice, like you were saying, it's had some weight to it. A little b done. It was like a, it was a nice firm slice, like you were saying. It had, it's had some weight to it. A little bready, a little carby, but I thought there was a nice amount of sauce and cheese on there. Like it's not a pizza that's going to blow you away. You're not going to think that this pizza is that great, but I've had so much worse pizza.

And, and like I've gotten together with people and they've got a bunch of people, pizzas. And I had like a slice of Domino's pizza. That's worse than that. I've gotten together with people and they've got a bunch of people, uh, pizzas and I had like a slice of Domino's pizza that's worse than that. I've definitely had worse pizza than that. And the other things blew me away too. The wings were good. The wings had a good fry to them. They tasted good. The cheese bites were good. I, there was a lot of things I liked. I thought the cheese bites were, uh, perfunctory. They were perfunctory. And also I didn't like that it was clearly, so I'm expecting more of a tot, even though the description takes great pains

to make it sound like something other than a tot. It said it was like a cheese potato blend or something. So here's the thing, they called it the cheese munchers on the menu. That's on the website. Muncher is a fun word. Muncher is a fun word. Muncher is a fun word. I don't know why they wanna take that word away from us.

You can't say muncher anymore. I know, you can't say muncher. They're trying to take muncher away a fun word. I don't know why they want to take that word away from us. You can't say muncher anymore. I know, you can't say muncher. They're trying to take muncher away from us now. I'll say it on the podcast, muncher. Muncher. Muncher. OK, wait, tomorrow, or when this goes up. We're sorry for saying muncher.

It's only your career. Should never have used that word. That's you, but me, I'm on Rogue. And I'm like, yeah, I still say muncher all the time. I fucking love it. Rogue's. Has your bitch got a comedy special? He's totally I fucking love it. It's not a comedy special. He's totally unprepared for it.

He doesn't have any material. 95% is about muncher? What is muncher? We don't really know. Cheese munchers, so this is the thing. On the website it says cheese munchers. The online ordering is pretty wonky. Amelia went to the trouble of calling, God bless her,

and she asked about the cheese munchers. We don't have cheese munchers. You mean like Chalamet wonky or? You mean like Willy Wonka? Yeah, I mean like Willy Wonka. Go on the journey for a minute, why don't ya? For God's sakes. She's trying to parse what you're saying. So, suspension of disbelief.

Just go with it. Just come with me and you will see a world of pure imagination. I did it, ma. I forget what Chalamet's walk-along was. Wasn't it like, I'm doing it for you, ma. Wasn't there some sort of thing with this mom? Yeah, I think at the end of the movie it's like, I did it, ma.

This was all for you, ma. Ma wonka, oh boy. Okay, so the... They said there are no munchers here. They're like gas litter about the munchers. They're like, we don't have munchers. We have cheese tots. They called those cheese tots.

Those were not tots, because when I say cheese tots, I'm thinking of tater tots with cheese on them. That's not what we received. We had little, basically cheese curds. We had little bites of- Are you pissed off? I'm a little pissed off, because it's very confusing.

Oh, really? They're like little breaded cheese bites. They're basically curds. But I got what I was expecting to get. No. There was, see, there was like mozzarella, there was like, did you want mozzarella stick balls, basically?

I thought we were gonna get something closer to that, or I honestly thought what we were gonna get was more of like an integrated potato slash cheese sort of hybrid. That's kind of what they were, weren't they? No, it was, there was no, like, I thought the same thing. And when I've had those, you could still feel, so tots are almost like the particle board of potato.

Yeah, sure. Are you leaving? Mitch got up. I'm sorry I pissed you off. I'm so sorry I pissed you off. I was with you on the Wonka thing, bro. All right, Mitch is leaving the room. Not because of you specifically.

Okay, bye Mitch. Shit. Should I keep talking about potatoes? Yeah. Did he go to the bathroom? No, he just left. Can't see him, we closed the curtains. We closed the curtains, we can't see where he's going.

Is he mad because he liked the munchers so much or the not munchers? I think the leftovers, did he just go get them? He went the opposite way of the kitchen, I think. I legit don't know what just happened. Mitch just walked out of the studio. It was kind of a bit, but then I was like, is this not a bit? This is what always happens. I finally get the thing. I get to come on the thing that I've been waiting for and it all falls apart the moment I get here.

He'll be back because he left his phone. He got it. Okay. He got it. All right. He went and got them. He got the munchers. Oh, you're right. He'll be back cause he left his phone. He got it. Okay. He got it. All right, he got them. He got the munchers. We're going to investigate the munchers. Here's what I was really upset about with the munchers.

They were clearly in a mold and there's a little crust around them. I got this too. Oh, and Mitch also got some cheesecake. I don't know if you- I got a slice of cheesecake while I was out. You procured one. Like, did you feel this too? There's a little like edge on them. Yes. cheesecake while I was off. You procured one.

Did you feel this too? There's a little edge on them. Yes. That to me, it's like what you see sometimes, there's a fun dessert at a lot of Thai places that are made in a little mold, like a waffle iron. Right, right. That is so weird to me. It has a little spaceship halo around it that is just a crust for no reason.

Are you looking for potato in there? It is potato. This is potato and cheese. It is potato and cheese. I just want to say that. That's not just the cheese that's been kind of solidified a little bit. It's congealed a little bit.

But it is potato and cheese in here. Let me taste one. Can we get me off of that bad boy? Let's just throw one to Gilly, too. I mean, they're cold. They've been in the fridge, just so you know. There you go. Thank you. We tried to not touch it very much

and then in turn just touched it so much. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, I was... It's minimally potato-y. This is insane. I actually like a better cold. It is a little better cold. Wow. I thought the munchers,

I thought they did a good job with the munchers. Not supposed to call them that. Fuck. You're gonna get a call from Angelo. Angelo Amici. I liked that a lot better cold. It is better cold, weirdly. I liked them.

I knew what was coming though. There was, the mozzarella was like mozzarella, it was like a mozzarella brick, wasn't it? Yeah, I actually thought that looked cool. Yeah, me too. A mozzarella, it was like a mozzarella brick, wasn't it? It was like a... Yeah, I actually thought that looked cool. Yeah, me too. A fun, like sometimes just changing the shape of a food can do so much.

Wives wouldn't let us get it. We could have gotten it. You could have had your input to the order. I'll say this, I said my input to the order. Yeah, which was get an Italian salad. That's what you wanted. You put out, and he put out a list of food. I was just looking at the menu, I was like,

hey, there's some big things that we could get. And you know what? I saw cheese munchers and a specific thing. I'm about to fucking compliment you. I thought you knocked it out of the park. Thank you. And I just, I was the one who said, how about a salad? Which is that's not, it's usually the other way around. But you listed all the things. I thought that there was like, there was like a, an Italian sausage sub, which maybe would have been, but you're not eating pork. So, and I'm not sure. I think the meatballs were beef meatballs, so I think you were fine. But there were a couple subs that looked interesting, but I thought that the order you put down was great.

A cheese pizza, classic cheese pizza as a baseline. You were getting kind of a different, interesting pizza. You got a cauliflower crust with cheese, garlic, mushrooms, and black olives, your standard topping combo. I got my standard topping combo, not my standard below combo. I don't normally get cauliflower crust, but I think we're making headway and I wanted to try it.

I also, I am pre-diabetic, which is the most boring thing to talk about. I wish I didn't say it just now. I hate that I said it. I'm so sorry. Welcome to our world. So boring. What, being boring?

Oh no, no, being pre-diabetic and boring. I mean, yes, yes. And boring at both the combo. But, so yeah, so boring? Oh, no, no, being pre-diabetic and boring. I mean, yes. And boring as both a combo. But so, yeah, so I was like, if I can learn something as we're doing this podcast, and I thought it was quite good. And was that, who was that, who was gluten-free who ate some of it? So yes, Anya.

Anya, the wire queen, she liked the gluten-free crust. She was like, this is good. She endorsed it. She really seemed to enthusiastically endorse it. Is it anyone's preferred crust? I don't think so. No. But when it's done well, there's sort of like a chewiness. Like if you like stale chips like I do, I'll open a bag and walk away for a month.

I just ate some chips, some tortilla chips that like could bend if I tried to. Like, they wouldn't snap if I... I am, you're losing me slightly, but I can get a little bit stale. I thought that this pizza was very well done. Like, it was cooked almost, it was almost burnt. The regular crust.

I thought yours was almost burnt. Oh, yes, yes, yes. And I think you have to with that crust. Like, you gotta do weird stuff to it. It Oh, yes, yes, yes. And I think you have to with that crust. Like, you've got to do weird stuff to it. It was a cauliflower. I was impressed. It was a cauliflower crust I was eating, and I was like,

I don't taste cauliflower that much. I thought they did a good job. Overall, I'm surprised that you guys didn't like this. The thing to me which was bad was the fettuccine Alfredo. Fettuccine Alfredo, I thought, tasted putrid. I just, I did. I don't know about putrid. I thought it was gross. I did not like it at all. It just didn't thought tasted putrid. I just, I did, I thought it was gross.

I did not like it at all. It just didn't taste like almost anything. It was like kinda, so that made it gross. That is the crime that is constantly committed with fettuccine Alfredo. I hate when you eat like a fried food or an Alfredo, something that's super rich and it tastes like nothing. Yeah.

Like it literally just needs maybe more salt or something. Like have you ever had a good fettuccine? I have not. I've had good fettuccine, but not a fettuccine alfredo is not my favorite. We basically got it because there weren't a lot of options that weren't red sauces and everything else we were getting was tomato sauce.

We said that or chicken alfredo? I thought it was a great order. Did you pull the trigger on fettuccine alfredo? Yeah, because we had the buffalo wings. I was like, OK, we're trying some chicken. Where did you do this? Is this a secret side chain with Amelia? Where waso? Yeah, because we had the buffalo wings. I was like, OK, we're trying some chicken. Where did you do this? Is this a secret side chain with Amelia?

Where was it? No, we were just talking in person. We were waiting for you to get here. Oh. Oh. No, it's because I was late. We had to get the order together. I did want to try the mozzarella sticks,

because I think something flat like that, instead of it being like a finger, it was like a credit card. Yeah, sure. Because I'm describing the shapes in a gross enough way. Yeah. That like hitting your tongue that way could be really nice. But I already ordered a medium pizza,

and I didn't know if we were sharing it all, and I thought that was already a little greedy. And I cannot do a personal pan. I think personal pan pizzas. I don't. I don't like it. No, I agree. It ruins the, it's like so much more crusts to center toppings and cheese. I agree.

It's such a sad, like, delivery at your table, you're like, I'm getting six bites that isn't crust here. Yeah. So thank you for letting me get a medium. He's not used to do a good one back in the day, but of course, you can, look, it's like walking into Wonka's factory. Right.

You thank Ma, and then you have as many, you can have anything you want. Okay. Thanks Ma, for helping me Willy Wonky achieve my dream. Oh, back to the Wonky thing. It's really funny when he does it. We were happy that you got your own pie, because we also wanted to try some sub. I thought the meatball sub was a good choice to try the meatballs.

Yeah, would the whale have approved? that you got your own pie, because we also wanted to try some stuff. I thought the meatball sub was a good choice to try the meatballs. Yeah. Would the whale have approved? We weren't watching porno while we were eating it, so I feel like he probably would have been a little upset that we didn't have some porno on. Right. The whale loves porno.

The whale loves watching porno and eating meatball subs. Jacking off. Have you seen the whale? That's cute for him. I missed the whale. Okay, well the whale, it's like he's just, yeah, he likes to watch laptop with his porno, and he just like beats off, and then blows his load in on his porno and he like beats off and then blows his load

in his sweatpants and he eats a big ball of salt and has a heart attack. And then he's like, read my daughter's essay and then someone reads his daughter's essay about Moby-Dais. And then also he floats at one point. He floats, he floats to the end. I don't like pointing out when people misspeak,

but you just said he watches laptop on his porno. No. He watches porno on his laptop, yeah. I was like, maybe, you know, like, for his thing is he works on a porn set, and it's just a bunch of like. It's numb to it, so he's just looking at his, he's buried in his laptop. He's looking at Google Sheet while everyone's

doing the porno. We can't let the whale on a porno set. He would not be able to. No, he would not be. He'd have a heart attack. Yeah. His heart attacks are a big part of the movie. Anyway, I think the whale actually would have approved

the meatball sub. I thought the meatball sub was good. I thought it was good. It was good. I'm surprised at everyone. I ordered the Italian salad and I ordered creamy Italian dressing. Now I have a complaint here

because they didn't have the creamy Italian dressing. The dressing they gave was pretty light. I don't know if you guys had it, tried it at all. It was like very oil-based and you could barely taste almost anything. The problem with those dressings is it comes in a little to-go container and you're seeing all these like good herbs and you know, spices at the bottom. Yeah. Right.

And you need to like do a like a quick stir and a pour. I believe that's an episode of Friends where they try instant coffee because the coffee, because the perk is closed. So they have to like constantly stir and sip. This is some sitcom. It's not ringing a bell to either one of you guys. No, I remember this.

Amici's? This is Amici's, yeah. This is Amici's. Na na na na na na na na na. But yeah, if you could put the lid on and give it a good shake, but like that's risky, that it's just gonna come flying off. I feel like no one takes the time to do that. You could see the herbs and spices in there though.

The kernel would approve. It looked good. At least 12, and I don't think it's a secret, but you need to stir it before you pour it. And no one's taking the time to do that. So you're just doing pure oil. Yeah, a lot of oil was coming out. Stir it before you pour it.

I like that. It is always better with the dressings. It just, there was too much in that container, like you were saying. I got a bit of the, I got the herbs and stuff like that. It still was just kind of a weak, it was a weak dressing. The salad though, I'll say this, that salad,

you think about Domino's, you think about any other place, I mean, Domino's, you can maybe get a salad, right? But like, you can. But I'm just like, that salad was comparatively, that looked like a good salad. It was a good salad. It's interesting. Looks like you didn't try it.

You're bragging about how you ordered it. I ate the cheese off the top of it. I hear it was good. I thought it was composed well. There was some, what was in there? Not fava beans. Garbanzo. Garbanzo beans and some Roma tomatoes.

I mean, I was not impressed by the salad. I guess I just like, I feel like you can get a good salad so many places. And I guess like it's like this kind of pizza place just has to have a salad that's the expectation that we're gonna have an Italian salad, we're gonna have a Greek salad, we're gonna have some. But I was just like, this is not a thing

I would ever see fit to order. In fact, I feel like I have better luck having a bag of greens from the grocery store. You know what I mean? I don't know if I need to pay $15 for this. You're a real grumpus today. No, I'm in a fine mood. I'm just trying to evaluate this place. I think the Italian salad and the fettuccine alfredo are the kind of things where you look

at this place and it is, like its website, kind of frozen in time. The world has kind of passed it by in that regard. You can get better pizza, better pasta, you can get better salads a lot of places now. And so what's just kind of offered as a toss on at a pizza parlor, it isn't really, you know, up to par anymore. You do sound mad.

I'm pretty mad. I did like the salad and it was for exactly the reason why I said it met expectations. Sure. Growing up at my pizza party, whatever slumber party I'm talking about, my mom would have had a grocery bag salad kit. She would not have ordered the salad from the pizza place.

I don't think that was out, I think that was out of frugality, not out of like, I don't like the salad. To me, this was, the iceberg was fresh. The tomato wasn't mushy. I never do the Greek salad, even though I love a Greek salad, because I don't want to trust them to have firm cucumber. That's asking too much.

Yeah, yeah. And this was a salad that did not rely on like super firm freshness. Yeah. And I just thought it was like ton of cheese. Those black olives are mimicking the pizza. You have like a little through line through the, like two items. Like, and I love a little bit of salad. I love a performative amount of salad

next to two to three slices of pizza. I think it is like perfect. I'm with you. I'm with you a hundred percent. You're a grumpus. You're dressed up. You dress up all happy. If I, if I'm in the writer's room

and I ordered that for lunch, I'm so bummed. That would be a horrible meal. And that's, yeah, so bummed, which like, are we asking our salads to fill in as a whole meal all the time? No, you know that's the salad you're getting from there. Yeah, I knew what I was getting. I'm just saying like, I'm not impressed

with that kind of salad, the salad that every pizza place has. The buffalo wings, I agree, were pretty good execution of a buffalo wing. They're good fried to them. You know, I like mine with a little less breading, but I thought they were well-sauced, and I like the, hey, big old buffalo wings, I agree, were pretty good execution of a buffalo wing. They had a good fry to them. I like mine with a little less breading, but I thought they were all sauced, and I like the big old Jacuzzi, a ranch they gave you.

So I like that for the dip. And yes, we also have a cheesecake that we can taste. I'm surprised you went with the cheesecake over the cannoli, which feels a little bit more Italian specific. I just said they had both. Amelia went with it. Wow, it was Amelia's executive decision. Maybe that's what they had,

because again, they didn't have everything that they had in the menu. I do like a cheesecake better than a cannoli. Yeah. DeSano's have, thank you. Oh yeah, we've been to DeSano. We were just talking about DeSano's. DeSano's has a, it's a pizza parlor

where you can dine in, but it's still like a pretty casual atmosphere. But yeah, they have a That's usually where I go for my birthday. Yeah. Oh, that's such a nice. That's a great it's a they've got big long tables. You can get a big group or a big old gathering.

I don't want to presume what your birthdays look like. It's a small table. And you know what? Wags came last year. I come all the time. That's good. They're most years. Right.

That's a good cheesecake. I wonder if that's there. That's made in the house. If they buy it from somewhere. Either way. That's good. They're most years. That's a great cheesecake. I wonder if that's made in-house or if they buy it from somewhere. Either way, it's good. I was just going to say, could this possibly be Trader Joe's? Yeah, it's totally possible. The hell is this hate? Good. I'm not hating on it. I'm just saying a lot of these places aren't making their own desserts in-house.

You're dressed up like a happy child and you're giving shit to fucking Amici. Why are you so defensive of Amici, a place you never had before? I liked it. It was fun. It was to fucking Amici. Why are you so defensive of Amici, a place you never had before? I liked it. It was fun. It was fine. Amici's was fun. You know how I am with Italians.

I'm not so sure about them. And this place kind of, it impressed me. And it was, it's like, you know, trapped in time. It's a, you know, it's, it's, it's, it definitely feels dated. Yeah. But I thought the quality of the food was actually pretty good, pretty damn good. Well, let's get to our final thoughts

on Amici pizza and pasta. So Gilly, here's how this will work. That is good. I'm still rocking on that bite. Yeah, me too. Good cheesecake. Guys? A little bit of a different film on top.

Want to try? Soft in the middle. That very soft graham cracker bottom. Nice texture to it. This is my fork, if you guys don't care. Man, that is a graham cracker bottom. Nice texture to it. This is my fork, if you guys don't care. Man, that is a, that sort of, I'm a little shocked. Yeah.

It's fucking, it's good. I like a cheesecake too. Cheesecakes are hard to make too, so I feel like the chances of a pizza place baking cheesecakes in the back is probably not happening. I'm feeling pretty firm that that was made like at a factory. Yeah, for sure. And not in a bad way.

Let the factory make the cheesecake. I don't need a grandma sweating over my cheesecake. No, it's quality. Oh, yeah. Casey's doing the thing. Craigor loves it. Craigor loves it. Craigor's doing it.

Craigor might be Italian. He's doing the hamster. I am half Italian. Oh, wow. You insulted his people. Before my grandpa chose the name Nisim seemed my name would have been Gilly Venezia Wow, which is Venice Wow that I think it's pretty great. She's like maybe a magician. Okay, she's definitely not a comedy writer Okay, wait, hey wags leave the gun get the the cannolis? How about Leave the Gun bring the cheesecake?

There you go. I think you're gonna change it up. Jenny likes the cheesecake. She just lifted it all off. Wow. Jenny. Cute. Her opinion matters the most. Cute. I know I can't name all of mine. Doughboy's Patreon,

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That's BetterHelp. H-E-L- p dot com slash. No boys. Okay, we'll get to our final thoughts on a meaty pizza and pasta. Gilly will each give our closing arguments if you will our summation of all of our thoughts of this chain from our lifetime of experiences, including this meal, and then give it a score from zero to five forks. You are a guest, we'll begin with you. Your thoughts, your fork score. Zero to five?

Zero to five. Five is the most. I'm going to borrow something from what you said a little bit earlier that Taco Bell is not necessarily Mexican food, it's something else, or Domino's isn't necessarily pizza, it's something else. To me, this is the beginning of pizza.

This is when we've left the Domino's Pizza Hut realm of like, this is just sort of like in another category. We are now entering real pizza category. And the first stop on a long journey is a Michi's Pizza. And I'm so happy to hit this stop. It's a great rest stop on the journey. I'm giving it a solid three. Three forks. I love it.

Wow. What a great breakdown too. For- Appreciate it. How the hell did we not have you on sooner? I can't believe it now. Don't stop apologizing. Don't stop.

Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. All right Mitch, what do you think? Your thoughts, your forks score.

I'm gonna borrow something from my old friend James Taylor. Winter, spring, summer, fall. All you got to do is call and I'll be there, yeah, I'll be there. Are we getting DMCA'd yet? You got a me-chee. A me-chee. You got a meachie. A meachie. You got a friend. I've learned that friend is I've learned in this episode is a meachie.

I love that this place is trapped in time. I really thought it was, I mean, maybe I was so prepared to have such a bad lunch. And I thought that it was like quality food and it was still decently hot when we were eating it. Everything about it, I just think it's like a perfect place. If I was at some sort of dumb meeting or it was like, whatever, a neighborhood meeting, they're complaining about me. Yes, right.

I go to this neighborhood meeting. There's a monster that lurks up here. Let's invite the monster. What are you guys talking about? They scream as I walk in. And there was a meat cheese there, and there was slices of meat cheese. I'd be like, that's pretty fucking good.

I would enjoy it. That's the type of tier it is. I think it's the sort of thing too of like, if I had a big party and there was like, I had some people over the Oscars. Yeah. I don't know if the Oscar, Oscar, Oscars. Yeah. I don't know if you watched the Oscars this year. I watched-

I did see the Oscars. It was a great show. It was great, it was really good. Instead of a statue, they give you a rating one from 10. I, I, it was a great time watching the Oscars, but I ordered pizza and I and I believe that I got, and I do love this pizza. Quarter Sheets is my favorite, I believe, in town right now,

but Prime Pizza, I ordered Prime Pizza. I ordered like five or six Prime Pizzas. Prime Pizza's great. It cost me like almost $300 with everything. Surprised all your limbs are intact because you paid an arm and a leg. Why? Because I 100% agree with you.

That was the issue. I could get what? How many Amici pizzas? And probably the same thing for half the price, is my guess. Not that it's super cheap, but it still is cheaper. No, Jimmy, just we'll stare at you. She's being funny. I'm sorry.

Jimmy's being very funny. The issue with the show is that she is often more funny than us. She's way more entertaining. She looks stoned, kind of, too. From the cheesesteak. I wonder why. She lives with me. We were being so passionate and interesting,

and then I accidentally locked eyes with Tom. And she drew me in. I'm so sorry. And she has her eyes kind of half open. She looks very funny. She's being very cute. She's got her neck pulled back a little bit. Like, if I do it, it's how I would get a double chin.

Or how I would continue to have a double chin. And she's just kind of doing that and closing her eyes. She's being very cute. You're being very cute. Okay, Mitch, I'm so sorry. I mean, she looks very in her eyes. Look, I don't have that much more to say. Like, I think that it, I think it's a damn good,

I think it's a, it's a, it's a, what's it called? Shit. Time capsule. Time capsule. But it's stuck in timewags, turtles in time, it's there. It reminds me of the 80s. It reminds me of early 90s. I love it.

And it's a first time having it. I'm sure that you can have this and it cannot be good. I've had Domino's when it hasn't been good. I've had all these pizza chains that you can get a bad experience with. We had a good experience and for what it is, I'm actually going three and a half forks. Three and a half forks. Wow. I liked it quite a bit.

I like how you just threw in turtles and time in the middle of there. Perference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat about. Look. I liked it quite a bit. I like how you just threw in turtles and time in the middle of there, in reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles slide. You got pizza on the brain. I got pizza on the brain. I got to say this. I got Krang's body, we've said before. If you come to LA, don't get a Mechis pizza.

No, yeah, of course not. Yeah, because people have been like, I'm going to do a Doughboyz tour or whatever. Don't get a Mechis. You shouldn't get a Mechis pizza. No, yeah, of course not. Yeah, like it's like, because people have been like, I'm gonna do a dough boys tour or whatever. Don't get a Meche's, you shouldn't get a Meche's. Go to Quarter Sheets. If you're ordering, delivering pizza one night, get some prime pizza. Apollonias, go down there, try that out.

Oh yeah. But don't, you don't have to get a Meche's. But if you live here, it serves a purpose wise, it does. I think that's well argued, Mitch. I'm also waiting for some dipshit on the subreddit to be like I went to a meet you like they recommended it wasn't good Doing fucking it is the show you idiot don't come to California because of us don't come at all Sus went two and a half forks Anya seemed pretty positive piece of shit. He came in also by the way, took half of the meatball sub I wanted.

I was like, this fucking, he- He took a full half of the meatball sub? He just came in and fucking bouldered in, fucking ate the food. I'm so sorry. He didn't put in any, you know, he didn't put in an order with us. He just assumed he was, which he was right.

I guess we, I guess I just mentioned that Susser gave it to an Afworx, and this is the first mention that he was here, but people could maybe just assume that Susser was here. Susser was here. Susser gave it to an afforx and this the first mention that he was here, but people could maybe just assume that Susser was here. Susser showed up. Susser texted what time is food coming and then he showed up. He showed up.

I just imagine he has his own little entrance to the studio. He just slip in and out for mealtime. Bigger door. Yeah. Yeah. Look, we're always happy to see him. Always happy to see him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. reviewed it so favorably as someone who's had a lot of GF. To what you're saying, Mitch, I gotta reference our friends, the Golden Girls. Thank you for being a Meachie.

I traveled down that road and back a Meachie. Your sub is true. You got salad and also calzone. That's true. And if you made some pasta, invited everyone you chew. Everyone you chew? Yeah. You would see the biggest slice would be for me.

And the cheese attached would say thank you for being a meachie. The biggest slice would be for me Say thank you for being a me All right, which one's which Blanch Yeah, wait, I'm the horny one. Yeah. Oh wait blanch. Oh wait. I didn't mean blanch. I meant Dorothy Dorothy's the dumb one. I'm Gonna say oh you're rose. Yeah. Yeah, okay, then I am Dorothy. Yeah, but Dorothy's I'm talking he jumped on me being rose quick. He's like the one that keeps them all like alive and in check She's kind of the yeah, she's the bee. She's the dog. She is she's the bee Arthur. She's got the little tiny mom Yeah, I gotta say she is I think she's MVP

And she is so funny, but Betty White, Rest In Peace. Yeah, Betty White's great, yeah. But actually all Golden Girls, Rest In Peace at this point, but Bea Arthur is so funny on that show. Bea Arthur's amazing. They're all so funny. They're all so good.

I'm gonna say I'm the Sophia. I'm just gonna come in. You're Sophia. And just punch you both in the nuts and then shuffle out. Sophia also maybe. She's blanch. That makes Jemmy blanch, yeah. Jemmy, you horny little thing. It's not just that she's horny,

it's that everybody wants to fuck her. She did that face again after. She's doing that face, and we're locked eyes again. It's fun to think of Jemmy having a Ruth McClanahan internal monologue. Yeah. Oh, heavens me, I'll shoot like a bone. Oh.

Ha ha ha. I sound just like all my ex-husbands. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. All that said, I agree with Susser. I think this is two and a half forks. And I will say that because I think this place, I think two and a half on the five fork scale

is right in the middle. I think this place is right in the and a half on the five fork scale is right in the middle. I think this place is right in the middle. I think it's right at the top of the bell curve. This is exactly, exactly average pizza. And I think a lot of the other stuff is periphery, is perfunctory to borrow your word. And I just feel like there's no reason for me to ever get this place unless I have a coupon.

But if I'm gonna indulge in pizza, even as someone who lives within delivery range of an Amici, I can just think of other options that I would get. So I don't know, I'm glad some people like it, and I'm glad it's a decent value. For me, this is a two and a half forker. I thought you were gonna go way lower. I would not go lower than two and a half.

I'm thrilled. I maybe shouldn't have chosen a place that I have like a personal attachment to, but I did, and I do. And I'm so glad you both didn't like totally hate it. I really thought it was, I thought it was fun. And I didn't bring this up before, but it just hit me when you were talking about

like the nostalgia of it all. Chuck E. Cheese pizza. Yeah, Chuck E. Cheese pizza, sure. It feels very on that level where you're like, this is better than it could have been. I'm trapped in this place right now. Do you guys agree or is this too great? What are you saying trapped in this place

being Doughboys for you? No, you're trapped in a Chuck E. Cheese. Yeah, sure. We went to Chuck E. Cheese together. It was a very awful experience because they- Doughboys in a company was an unaccompanied adult. Yeah, don't do that. I have, but again, it's tough out there to be a man.

We found the two places- Hell yeah! Italy and a Chuck E. Cheese without a child are the two places on earth where it's actually worse for you. But yeah, I can flow through those spaces pretty easily. I look like a mom or a babysitter. But yeah, same idea where it's like, it just feels good to be eating this pie. And it could be worse.

For sure. Hey, that was our review of Amici pizza and pasta. Hold on, this is what Suss said. I'm just gonna say this. Yes, please. Let's just say you came across any random pizza and pasta place anywhere. What are the chances it would be worse,

I'm sorry, what are the chances it would be worse than Amici's or better? Is this you or Suss, sir? I think 50-50, and I think he's wrong. You think he's wrong? I think he's wrong. You think half of the pizza places are worse than this? I think there's so much bad pizza

that I actually think that it's actually probably on the better side. That's kind of an indictment of pizza at large, I feel. Yeah, that's like a sorry state of pizza that we're in. Is that- LA has gotten more and more better pizza. There's great pizza like the place I mentioned before, secret pizza I didn't mention.

There's a lot of good pizza spots. But I think that if you're going by like a random sit down There's great pizza like the place I mentioned before, secret pizza I didn't mention. There's a lot of good pizza spots. But I think that if you're going by like a random sit down place, if you're not including Domino's or Pizza Hut or whatever. That's what I need to know. Are you including Pizza Hut or Domino's in that? I guess maybe you have to, right?

I don't know. Yeah. So if you put that into it, I don't know. I think it's better than most. I think it's perfectly fine. And that's where we are. It lands with a three fork average among the three of us. It's time for a segment. This is Slop Quiz, The Palette Palette.

This is a compiled by Amelia Moreno, our associate producer. Mitch and Gillie are given a palette of colors and must determine the fast food logo to which it corresponds. Note, all palettes are for current logos as of May 2024, except for question number one. Question number one is the only one that's a throwback. Oh my God, fun.

You said producer like I said it. I was gonna say you coached Christian to Mitch, you said produca. Emmer, stop correcting me. I'm sorry. I keep forgetting Casey's fake name, which, uh. Craigor. Craigor. Yeah. You mean his real name. Oh, his real name, sorry. I keep forgetting Casey's fake name, which, uh. Craigor. Craigor. Yeah.

You mean his real name. Oh, his real name, sorry. This is gonna be, this sounds like a fun one. Yeah. All right, this is the palette palette. Here we go, first up. And buzz in with your name if you think you know. Mitch.

I heard Mitch. Oh, shit. Taco Bell. Yes, you are correct. This is the old school Taco Bell color way. Oh my God, it is. I hate the new one without the color. I don't like the new one as much. It looks faded.

It looks like the sun bleached the color out. I agree. It's less fun. Faded is also like a word for something that looks bad, right? Like, like, right? Yeah, it's faded. Faded.

It's stone. Yeah, that's what I always think of it as. Oh, right. That's what it is. I'm pretty competitive and also bad at things. So this game is going to really get me up. Well, don't worry. I'm also bad at things.

Wow, you were so good at that. Mitch is very competitive. Next up. Jesus Christ. Oh, shit. Mitch. Gilly. I heard Mitch.

We'll give it to Gilly. No, I said it a minute after you. You have to go. I want to give our guesses. I know what it is. OK, I think it is it A and W? A, W, whatever? Not A, W.

Did Mitch say one? Yeah, go ahead. Burger King. It is Burger King. Nice. Oh my god. I don't know it A and W, A W whatever? Not A W. Did Mitch say one? Yeah, go ahead. Burger King. It is Burger King. Nice, oh my God. I don't know if you saw this Mitch, but I just realized that the clue was in the corner when I opened it, it says Burger King.

Oh, I did not see that. Well now I can't even read that with glasses on, but now I'm gonna try to cheat. I moved it off screen so this shouldn't happen again. Burger King. Okay, next up. Wow, God. Gilly.

I heard Gilly. Chevron. You, next up. Wow, god. Gilly. I heard Gilly. Chevron. Steve. You're not wrong. They sell food. It's true. They got the last mile store, right? I don't know if they're considered a fast food restaurant.

I just don't wanna lose even though I'm bad at this. I think I know what this is too. Go ahead, Mitch. This is a little tricky. Is it Domino's? Not Domino's, no. This is the current colorway for Wendy's. Oh my god, of course.

This is tough because these blocks have no respect for ratio. Yeah, I should describe to our listeners what we're seeing here. Let's go to the next one. So what we have here is five or six different vertical blocks of color. It's like a paint swath of just solid colors, and they break down the individual components of a logo.

I heard Gilly buzzing on this one. I think I cheated by doing that. Is it Del Taco? It is Del Taco. Gilly's on the board. It is two to one. I care so much about this. Wow.

That one has a little Irish-y to me. I was gonna guess some fucking Irish shit. It is a little bit. Oh yeah, I tell you. Yeah, it does. I'm going to Ireland next week. Wow. What are you gonna do there? Where are you going? I'm gonna guess some fucking Irish chain. It is a little bit. Oh, yeah, I tell you. Yeah, it does. I'm going to Ireland next week. Wow! What are you gonna do there?

Where are you going? I'm gonna get really drunk. I'm going with Betsy, Mono, and Tony. Oh, that's fun. What a crew. I know, and I really hope I can survive it. Yeah, we're just going to... Let me get in on that.

Can I come? Yeah, you wanna come? I'm gonna get $130 of Taco Bell. It would be funny if I went next week, we have like three records of you right now. OK, sorry. I feel good that I got one for you.

Are you going to Dublin? We're going to Dublin. We're going to, I already forget all the names, Killarney, Pork, Killkenny. You're doing the southern route. This is what I did. You're going to where my family is from. Really? I mean,, uh-huh.

I mean, anyone we should say hi to? You could go to the Dunovan Farm if you want to. Wait, that's so cool. What do they do on the farm? Gus, this guy Gus works there. I don't think you know what they do. He's like a guy like a. They grow Gus's.

It was like a cow farm, I believe at one point. I don't know how much, but like we went there, and it was like a big Irish version of me, basically, that was there, that lived in the house with his mom, and I think he lives there alone now, but a very nice man. Jesus, I think the men and women of Ireland, I think I'm gonna go over very well in Ireland, and I'm really excited to give them a chance to.

Are you going to the Cliffs of Moor? We're going to the Cliffs of Moor. We're not sleeping in Galway, but we're going to hit it on our way to Killarney. OK. Are you going to Kinsale? I don't think so. We're doing something called Dingle,

or the Isle of the Circle of Dingle, or Circle of Cary. I need to know this, because we're going less than a week. Is there any sort of agenda for this, or are you just going for funsies? It will be Betsy's birthday while we're there. Oh, that's fun. She's going to have her birthday in Cork.

Yeah. But in general, like, we're pretty pretty fit. Yeah, very lucky. But we all travel, and now we're going to do it together. How fun. That's so exciting. And if you just cross your arms over your chest

and let us pack you into a box. Here you come. We'll feed you rats. Let us put a bunch of chains around the box. All right. Throw you in with the crane. This could be you too. I think I'm in a grave finally.

Ah, here we go. The piece. You should be shipped with some sarcophagus that's going from the British Museum or from here back there. We get back from the trip, they're like, how do I go? He stayed in the fucking crate the whole time. Yeah, he loved it. He never left the crate. We kept. We get back from the trip like, Howard Weigert is like, he stayed in the fucking crate the whole time. Yeah, he loved it. He never left the crate.

We kept telling him about how good the buffet was and he said, I'm fine. Yeah. Came out at night occasionally. You're going to have a blast. Kinsale is very nice, but it's very laid back. I think you guys are going to be wanting to party more. I mean, there's only so much partying we can do to the point

where I'm actually starting to have, I don't know if you have this sometimes where like, I'm excited to party more. I mean, there's only so much partying we can do to the point where I'm actually starting to have, I don't know if you have this sometimes where like, I'm excited to party, but I'm getting anxious that I won't be able to take a break. Yeah. And I might need to like tug on someone's sleeve and be like, I'm going to go by myself for two hours. Yeah, sure.

And then I'll come back, but I'm gonna go just sort of like put myself away and be quiet. But you're all adults, so I think you can have those conversations. We can communicate. It's important to be able to communicate with the people you're traveling with. I have the issue of I got my, what were these levels? Hold on here. I got my ferritin levels back, which are my level liver, like for my liver. They're pretty high. 250. That's what I scored.

What's the normal range? 274 is 20, 21.8 to 274 is the normal range. Oh, so you're on the tie end of normal. You're zero. No, it's not good. My IGA is high too. I wish we all had the way you could use a breathalyzer to test, I wish we had a thermostat for the liver

of just like, I should take a break tonight, but tomorrow I'm good to go. Sure. That'd be nice. So now I'll have to go to a doctor for that. I'm borderline fatty liver. I do a show about fast food and chain restaurants, but the doctor did say he was like,

he's like, you know, when you like drink booze, it's gonna like fuck you up so much more. I was like, oh, that like makes so much sense. Cause I've been like killing myself for like a decade. But anyways, Ireland, you're gonna drink a lot, but it is gonna be very fun. I'm from Cork and Munster Island, Monster Island, basically.

We were right. All right, that was number four of 10. Let's go to the next one. Oh, that's why he wants to keep moving along. Ooh, this is tricky. Oh, I know it, Mitch. Yes. White Castle.

Mitch is correct, this is White Castle. Oh, sorry, I'm screaming. Next color way, after this. Ooh. This is a little. Nice, yes. Oh, sorry, I'm screaming. Next color way after this. Ooh. This is a little- Gilly? I heard Gilly. I think I already guessed this, so I feel crazy, but is it A and W?

It's not A and W. God, why am I guessing that for everything? It's not Arby's because of the pink. White, orange- This is a pretty strong indicator. Tan, pink, and brown. There's a strong indicator? Yeah.

Gilly? Am I allowed to say? Yeah, why not? I was gonna say Baskin-Robbins, but that's not a fast food chain. So I'm just guessing random shit. Well, Baskin-Robbins would qualify as a guess. We have reviewed Baskin-Robbins.

It's not Baskin-Robbins. You put me in my head with the, you said there's a strong indicator here. You're also closer to Baskin-Robbins than you think. Yeah, you're pretty close because it is the same company these days. Dunkin' Donuts. Oh! Yeah these days. Dunkin' Donuts. Oh!

Yeah, it is Dunkin' Donuts. That looks pink. I can't believe that I didn't get it. There's an apostrophe of pink. I do think the donuts used to be, but it was Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah, the donuts was more. Donuts wasn't pink.

This is the coffee logo, which is a little different. Is that what you're saying? The pink was the indicator? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was such a tricky thing because I was thinking, whatever. That was tough. I'm also-

It's my hometown. Oh, oh, oh! Okay, we've got another one. You're also what, what were you gonna say? You're also what? What were you gonna say? I was gonna say I'm also- Do I give Mitch a point for that one?

We give him a hint, I'll give him a point. Yeah, he gets the point. I was gonna say I'm like, pretending like I know all versions of these logos, and I don't. All right, we've got another one. This is like a mint, a white, a forest green, and a red. Gilly.

I heard gilly. Sbarro? It's not Sbarro, but that's a good green, and a red. Gilly. I heard gilly. Sbarro. It's not Sbarro, but that's a good guess. That is a great guess. It looks very Italian. I can't believe it's not Sbarro. Coduncanose is my hometown place, I should know it. That's pretty sweet.

Cork and Munster? Ooh, is this Starbucks? No, this isn't Starbucks. This is Krispy Kreme. Famous Krispy Kreme color. I was wondering if the Little Mermaid had hot red lips or something. I knew a guy who worked at the first Krispy Kreme in my hometown. I'm not saying the first Krispy Kreme, just the first one near Taft High School in Soquel.

And he put a spoon under the waterfall of glaze for me. That's cool. Nothing better has happened since. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha That's maybe one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Wags and I went and we visited and we both fell in and we got sucked up the tube. Oh, no. Wait, I know Wonka's ma. Willy Wonka came out. Yeah, yeah. Wonka.

Thanked his mom. Nice ol' Wonka. That it was for her. Next up. All right, we've got a couple of shades of blue. We got a red, we got a white, we got a gold or a kind of- What the fuck is this one? Yeah, orangey yellow maybe.

God, oh, I want to be good. I would not get this one, I will say, knowing what it is. Oh. But it wants to just take a wild guess. I was like, Foster's Freeze or something crazy, but I don't think it's that. Sonic? It's not Sonic, that's a good guess.

And honestly, Foster's Freeze is a good guess too. You guys keep telling me That's a good guess. And honestly, Foster's Freeze is a good guess, too. You guys keep telling me it's a good guess. You know what a good guess is? Being right. Foster's Freeze and Sabara were both good guesses. They were good. We're mad at you. They were good, right, Wags?

Fine. Although you guessed Foster's Freeze, so you're complimenting yourself. Foster's is a great guess. I'm going to go go with hmm. I mean, yeah, I don't really, I don't. This one is, Craig or Emory, do either of you know it? Oh, sorry, I blew it.

No, it's okay, this is Dairy Queen. Do either of you know this one? I would not have gotten this one. No. Honestly, the orange color is really funny. The orange is the one that got me. Because it's such a small element of the overall logo. But when it's given an equal weight, it really misdirects you.

I wonder if it were a pie chart. I bet you I would do just as poorly. Yeah, where it's like the same proportion of the pie charts. Oh, that's a good logo. So the biggest vice would be the darker blue. The next big, yeah. Pie chart would be fun. That would be more of a hint.

All right, next up. Mitch. Arby's? Not Arby's, good guess. Oh my God, Gilly, is it A&W? Gilly, it is A&W, you are correct. Oh my God! This one is A&W, I'm so glad that you got it.

I'm so scared you were gonna talk yourself out of it. I would have actually, you would have seen me cry and you've been like, I'm surprised Gilly's crying. And I'd be like, no, this is what makes me cry. I went to Quebec in December and just for fun, I like was wasting time at an airport and got everything on the A&W menu and it's really fucking good.

So do you know the distinction between A&W America and A&W Canada, that they're separate brands? I did know that they were separate brands and I heard that it was better in Canada. I've never had it in the US. The chicken nuggets were shaped like a drumstick, which is so great because it's shaped like something else. Right.

Like a nugget is what a nugget is shaped like. That's fun. And they were really great. And actually the shape makes it really great to dip in those little sauce cups. Yeah, a lot of fun. How far is Montreal from Toronto? I said Quebec, I don't know.

Montreal is in Quebec. Quebec, yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry. I went to Quebec City, but I really don't know Canada. I don't. And I think they're opposites. No, I don't know. Why am I guessing? Quebec is like a province, I believe't know Canada. I don't. And I think they're opposites. No?

I don't know, why am I guessing? Quebec is like a province, I believe, in Canada, and it's large, so it could be very far away from each other. And is Toronto right next to it? Toronto is drivable from Boston, and so is Montreal is a closer one. I don't know anything. I know in my head that Canada is like a vastly larger land

area than the US, but when I think of it, I'm just like, everything's like a half hour drive. Same. It's like fucking Alberta is right next to it. I'm just like, everything's like a half hour drive. Same. It's like fucking Alberta's right next to it. It's fucking gigantic. I know it's big, but I just always think of like, oh yeah, Vancouver, Toronto, they're right next to each other, you know?

That's such an American thing. Exactly, yeah. I'm just like, well, the people are like friendly, so I guess the place is small. They got one NBA team for the whole country, it can't be that big. I respect and salute my Canadian brothers and sisters. A five and a half hour drive from Montreal to Toronto.

It's a ride. A little bit of a haul. It's a little bit of a haul. Our way to San Francisco. Okay, we have a couple more. Next up. That felt so good. Ooh.

Wait, I know this. Tropical Starburst? Ha ha ha ha. Not Tropical Starburst. This is a food brand. But you're in the correct vicinity with your kind of... Mitch, is it... Oh shit, now...

Fucking the bee. The bee? The bee, go ahead. Baja Fresh? It's not Baja Fresh. It's not Jollibee, which is what you're creating. Oh, Jollibee, great. What the fuck is this one?

I feel like I should know it. This is tricky. We can move on. This one is Jolly Be Great. What the fuck is this one? I feel like I should know it. This is tricky. We can move on. This one is Jamba Juice. Jamba Juice. This is Jamba. Oh, man. Often right next to the Baja Fresh in a strip mall.

Very much so, yeah. That is true. Give her a half point, I'd say. I know. All right, we'll give Gillie a half point. We have one more. Oh. It's the last one.

Oh. We're looking at, we have sort of two different shades of pink. We're gonna kind of have the Italian flag in the middle. I hate how stumped I am at the last several. Well, this is not an easy exercise. Cause again, this isn't how we normally look at these logos and some of them color is not the strongest element.

We think of something else. I'm gonna say. I'm trying to sort of like exorcist my eyes a little bit, like I'm blinking and squinting to see if I can trick my brain into having seen it. You know, when you sometimes can see Nick Cage in an image? Sure. Is this one Sbarro?

I was gonna say the same thing. It's not Sbarro, but this is an Italian chain. Ooh. Amicis? Mitch is correct. This is an Italian chain. Ooh. Amicis? Mitch is correct. This is Amici Pizza. Oh, no! Nice one, dude.

Mitch wins. Oh, this was a really smart game, honestly. Like, maybe too smart for me, but... For the show, for sure. That was Slop Quiz the Palate Palate, just like a restaurant, we value your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. And today's email is from Nick, not me,

though that is my name. Nick writes, hey, dough crew, what are my pet peeves is when products like Gatorade don't actually describe the flavor of the bottle. Things like Glacier Freeze, Cool Blue, and Ice Punch. My question is, do you have any food-based pet peeves? Hope to see y'all sometime soon in Texas. How about that?

Yeah, how about that? Nick is wondering about flavors that don't describe the flavor. I will argue that Glacier Freeze does a pretty good job of evoking what it tastes like. Me too. I also think in general, blue is a flavor at this point. Blue is a flavor, yes.

So just like birthday is a flavor. Yes. Yeah. I mean, he just asked for pet peeves in general. I guess just general food-based pet peeves. They could be namering related. I don't know. I guess just general food-based pet peeves. They could be name-ring related. Yeah, I don't know. I guess I kind of got this feels like old hat now, but just to say, to get the ball rolling,

I feel like I'm just kind of exasperated by the presence of bacon in a dessert. I'm just like, I'm just reached a point where I was like, that we've done this too many times. Too many people have done this trick. I'm just kind of, I've just kind of burned out on it. Also as someone who doesn't eat pork anymore, but it's also like just even when I was, I was like, I feel like five years ago

that was a dated thing. Oh yeah, I feel pretty passionately about sandwiches not being wet enough. Okay. If we're, there are sandwiches that are wet enough and there's many that are not. Cheese is a dry item and we're putting lettuce and we're putting veggies, hopefully,

when then we've got our meats. I like this. Bread is dry. Yeah. So just putting like mustard, not enough. No, I agree with you. It's a great flavor addition, but I need a drippy sandwich. I like that.

I'm talking a vinaigrette, an olive oil, maybe an aioli. And hopefully two. Avocado sometimes can be a little slippery. I need my sandwiches to be wet and slippery. And I wish there were non-sexual words that I could use to describe that. But yeah, just getting like meat, cheese, and bread is absolutely, you're not done with your sandwich.

You need to keep going. Fully agree with you. The only things I get when our sandwich is basically. I have a pet peeve. I got a good one for you. And it was with pizza. When your baseline cheese pizza is a margarita, give me a cheese pizza as well.

When it's like. Yeah, I think I have a default cheese. You know what I'm saying? It's like, oh, you can get this margarita. I'm a cheese pizza as well." When it's like, Yeah, I think I have a default cheese. You know what I'm saying? It's like, or you can get this margarita. I'm like, there should be a default cheese. That's a little, a small pet peeve. Here's another pet peeve. We said, maybe not a great guy.

Definitely sounds like a bad guy, but also too young to die. Morgan Sporlock, he's passed away. Here's my pet peeve. Bring back Super Size. I did like Super Size. I want the fucking Super Size back. Ding dong the witch is dead. I did like Super Size. I want the fucking Super Size back. Ding dong, the witch is dead.

Let's let Super Size come out, come out wherever you are. Get some Super Size back. Why not? I think now's a good time. That documenter was a sham. Come on, let's get the fucking Super Size back. Did he say Super Size will come back over my dead body? Maybe, it might've been a thing.

He didn't personally discontinue it, but yeah, like he didn't call for its discontinuance, but they did after the production. They should bring it back for sure, why not? I'm gonna do a Twitter, who is it? Is it Michelle Obama who's not gonna let it come back? She's gonna let it come back. I'm gonna tweet at her later tonight,

I'm gonna yell at her. What else is new? Here's one, this again, kind of, kind of, kind of a thing that people have brought up in the past. A house ketchup. I don't need a house ketchup. Just give me, just give me like a ketchup out of a bottle. I don't need whatever fancy concoction you have

that you want to call your own brew of ketchup. It's also never salty enough. I don't know if my taste buds are blown out or what, but just like a house ketchup is, that is a baseline. We all agree what ketchup tastes like. Yes. You don't get to mess with that. Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, I don't need that. That's a really good one.

I'd say pet peeves, I like a cheese... I'm going back to cheese pizza again. When people put like the... I'm just realizing I sound like a child. When people put the hot pepper and the parmesan cheese on it, I like it just cheese. I want a cheese pizza. I think it's situational. There are times when I might want to plus it. I like it just cheese. I want a cheese pizza. It's situational. There are times when I might want to plus it up with a little red pepper. I'm trying to think of pet peeves,

things that like annoy you at, I mean, for me, it's just that my order is wrong. That's the only thing that will really annoy me, I feel like. I got a pet peeve when my bowl is empty. Jimmy! Jimmy! You Southern harlot. There's gotta be other pet peeves that we,

I mean, you've listened to the podcast, I think we named a few good ones. I'm trying to think, like, the one he said specifically being about colors as flavors, like, I've actually really accepted that, yeah. Yeah, I don't mind that. That does not bother me at all. I get that that's his thing,

but it's not a big thing for me. I don't like that you can't find the blue Gatorade in the mini. Ooh, that's a good one. I see a lot of the other ones in the like, is it six or 12 pack mini, which to me is just sort of like, I just have a lot of half Gatorades in the fridge

that I never get back to, because the mini is the size I actually wanna drink. It's the correct form factor. For me, yes, and that is my hangover, like someone introduced it to me in college over at UC Santa Barbara Banana Slug Party School, man. It's not for banana slugs. Yeah, the, blue's my favorite flavor,

and they're like, this one we won't do in a small. So you run into that, that actually is a great one when there's a configuration of something that's available, but it's not available in the way that you want it, in the delivery mechanism that you want it. I found that with the specifically the Gator Lite zeros, because the Gator Lites have too much sugar.

But the Gator Lite zeros are flavorful, but the Gator Lite, I couldn't find like, the Gatorlite Zeroes weren't regularly at the liquor store I was going to. Why do they hate the blue? Yeah, exactly, yeah. Strawberry Kiwi Gatorlite Zero. That's one of my, that's my big go-to.

I'll try it. That's a go-to. It's good. I forgot that it was the Zero in addition to the size that I was looking for, and they were just, to me, I'd assume it's the most popular flavor. Right. It's very different, because it's like a Pedialyte.

It's like baby juice, but still pretty good. It's electrolytes, baby. Yeah. Let us know what yours is, hashtag my food pet peeve. And if you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at feedbag at birdfuck.com

or leave us a voicemail at 830-GO-DOE, that's 830-463-6844. And to get the Doughboys double our weekly bonus episode plus our entire pre-2018 back catalog, subscribe at patreon.com slash doughboys. Our producer is Emma Erdbrink, our associate producer is Emilio Moreno, our engineer is Craig O'Donoghue, and our video editor is Mike Dorfman. Birdpluck.com as well. Birdpluck.com is also, it's also the other, the alternate URL you can use.

Gillian Assine, thank you so much for being here. What a treat. What an absolute delight. This was so fun. It was long overdue, thank you. Was there anything you would like to plug? Nah. Nah.

Twisted metal. Oh, I guess you want to plug it. Twisted metal. Yeah, no, we gotta plug twisted metal. Season two coming out. Who knows when season two will come out, but season one is available on Peacock. Season one is available.

I didn't have anything to do with it, but this guy did. I'm in there. Wow, there you go. Yeah, season two's gonna be great. I can't wait to- Congrats on season two. I'm excited to check out what y'all do. It's gonna be great.

And I can't wait to bring your words to life. Yes, my little puppet. Dance. That'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Now, next time for The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. We did it, mama.

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