Doughboys - Ample Hills Creamery with Jason Sheridan

Episode Date: December 12, 2019

The 'boys are joined by Jason Sheridan (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Podcast The Ride) to review Brooklyn based artisan ice cream chain Ample Hills Creamery. Plus, a holiday edition of Cereal.Sources for this week’s intro include:Cream of the Crop, Annotated from Geniushttps://genius.com/Macho-man-randy-savage-cream-of-the-crop-05-11-1987-annotatedRandy Savage: One last time, the cream will rise to the top by Matthew Martinhttps://www.cultofwhatever.com/2015/01/randy-savage-one-last-time-the-cream-will-rise-to-the-top/Brooklyn’s Ample Hills Positions Itself to Be the Next Ben & Jerry’s by Larissa Zimberoffhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/brooklyn-s-ample-hills-positions-itself-to-be-the-next-ben-jerry-sHow This Business Owner Expanded Her Neighborhood Ice Cream Shop To Disney World, Brooklyn And Beyond by Leah Waldhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/leahwald/2018/06/25/meet-the-woman-who-creates-communities-around-colorful-ice-cream/#62f4089855b1How Pop Culture Became A Part of Ample Hills Creamery's DNA by Abbey Whitehttps://www.foodandwine.com/news/ample-hills-pop-cultureAmple Hills websitehttps://www.amplehills.com/our-storyWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am the cream in the World Wrestling Federation and there is no doubt about it, yeah, mean Gene Okerland, you know that I'm the cream of the crop. These words, delivered while holding aloft a disposable single-serve container of coffee creamer, are from a legendary promo by pro wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage. One of the greatest showmen in wrestling history, as famed for his flashy wardrobe and gravel gargling voices as in-ring technique, Savage was among the biggest stars of the squared circle in the 80s and 90s and achieved mainstream exposure as the pitch man for Slim Jim's, the meat-flavored convenience store stick.

That Savage chose to boast of his kayfabe grappling prowess by using the cream of the crop cliché, commanding himself to the fatty top coat of milk, speaks to cream status as a decadent dairy delight. And as the artist and ice cream movement grew in the 21st century, cream itself became centered in many brands' marketing, as premium parlors embraced the term creamery. Among those creameries was a Brooklyn parlor opened in 2011 by the husband and wife team of Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna. With Smith focused on the product and Cuscuna focused on the brand, this sweet treat intergender

tag team drew huge lines to their shop and would soon expand throughout the borough than the city than the greater metropolitan area. Despite their relatively small footprint, they were even given the license to make ice cream for Star Wars the Force Awakens for its 2015 release and sold 40,000 pints of their limited light and dark-edition flavors. Today, with Star Wars the rise of Skywalker just weeks from release, the frozen dairy chain has 17 locations, including one in Los Angeles and one at Disney Orlando. But does this Brooklyn-based ice cream shop deserve its enormous hype?

Does their cream, as the macho man declared of himself, and as Star Wars promises of Skywalker, indeed rise? This week on Doe Boys, Ample Hill's Creamery. Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, alongside my co-host, Limp Dipshit, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. I thought it could have been like Limp Dixit or something, like why did it have to be Limp Dipshit? Ask Handsome Brian, that's who sent that one up.

If you haven't told me, I doubt your Handsome. If he is Handsome, then I think it's good that he's proud of his personal appearance. And if he's not traditionally Handsome, I think that's fine as well. Send us a picture of yourself, you coward. Yeah, Brian, let's see how handsome you are. Yeah. Let's send a pic of your hog, too. Let's see what you're packing.

Jesus. Enough hog talk. Limp Dipshit, I mean, yeah, I wanted to use that one because you are a, I'd say you're a Limp Biscuit Apologist, is that correct? What? Are you kind of a friend of Durst? No, what the fuck are you talking about? I feel like you're a hot dog flavored water guy.

I make jokes about the hot dog flavored water. I bought chocolate starfish in the hot dog flavored water when I was in high school. Yeah. Like a lot of people did. No, I've said before that they have like, Limp Biscuit has like one song, maybe that's okay. They're awful. They're an awful band.

That is like an embarrassing, that's an embarrassing time for all of us. Oh, okay. I thought you liked them. I thought you were like stuck up for Durst and company. No, I mean, anyone who gets made fun of so much, I'm like, well, whatever, he did something that people liked, I guess. You've got that red bull cap on. I do have my red backwards red ball cap on in tribute to Durst, Mitch.

I apologize. I did. Like I had it wrong. You're an apologist for Robert. Yeah. Sounds like Robert Durst. You got a raw deal. He did it now.

My stomach. What does he do? What does he talk about when he's like he's burping or whatever? He's burping. Yeah, yeah, burp. I did. I did a bad fake burp. Why?

Should I do a little drop? Yeah, let's hear it. This says it's a holiday themed. Oh boy. How exciting. We'll always be with you. No one's ever really gone. That's pretty good.

That was great. Who sent that one in? It's our old friend, Robert Persinger. Robert Persinger. We always say his name wrong. Sorry, Robert. How do you say it? Is he the drop king?

He is. Yeah, he's the drop king. Persinger. Sometime he said he's... Didn't you say he was the slop king? I said he was the slop king at one point. I was trying to start a beef with Persinger, but then he realized he's not the listener

I should be having a beef with. Hey, Mitch. I was resubmitting this drop. Figured it would be a good one for the holiday season. The Rise of Skywalker is coming out soon. Doe Boy's The Rise of Sky. He says The Rise of Wyger. Oh, I like it.

Drop by the drop king. He now refers to himself as the drop king. Slow your roll there, Persinger. Yeah, Persinger, if you're going to call yourself the drop king, send us a pic of your hog. Jesus. I just need some verification. I can't wait for you to get canceled

for requesting pictures of people's hogs. All the best to you and the Doe Boy's family, Robert Persinger. The least controversial cancellation in podcasting history. Yeah, we're just asking listeners to send them a fix of their dicks. I hope that this does happen to you.

Seattle. He's in Seattle. We knew that. Oh, boy. I'm giving out your location. That's a new thing we're doing. Say hi to Niles for me. I wanted to say, Mitch, this is a...

You know, this is our second to last new episode of 2019. We're going to have content coming every week. We're going to unlock some Patreon episodes for people who listen to the free feed. And they're going to say, Yeah, you unlocked a Patreon. I should have gotten something.

Don't be a grinch, right? Yeah, and then your Patreon subscribers are going to be like, Yeah, they gave away Winway Patreon. That's what I'm saying. No, I'm saying you're saying both sides of it. Yeah. They're the free episode people are like,

Man, this is just a Patreon episode. And the Patreon people are just like, But we already subscribed. We already heard this one. This is a new content. You know what? Fuck all of you. Fuck all of you.

All you listeners on both sides. That's our Christmas message to the Doughboys listeners. If you give us money, fuck you. And if you don't give us money, really fuck you. My mom doesn't sign up for the Patreon or anything like that. But in a way, she gave birth to the Patreon by giving birth to Mike Mitchell. Hmm.

That sounds weird. What? Your mom had the Patreon in her womb. Yeah, that sounds weird. She carried it for a while. Then she birthed it out her vulva. That's weird about this. I don't think that's where your babies come from.

It's not from the vulva. Okay. I need to learn my anatomy. Jesus. God, study something else besides dick pics. She shot that baby right out her dick hole. You know, babies are born. Mitch took up too much room.

We had to come out the vulva too. Needed the extra centimeters. Sheridan? Our guest is an actor and comedian from Comedy Bang Bang End Review. He's also a co-host of Theme Park Podcast, Podcast the Ride. Jason Sheridan is here.

Hi, Jason. Hi, guys. Thank you so much for having me. It's been far too long without you making your dope boys debut. I know. We've had your podcast cohorts, Mike Carlson and Scott Gardner on a number.

If I never had you on. We do a really bad job with stuff like that. We do do a bad job. It's okay. I'm a day one listener. So it's a real thrill to be here. Well, it's just bad when it's a friend. I mean, like it took us a couple of years

to get like Dave Ferguson on the show. I'd work with on the birthday boys. It takes us a long time to get people that we should have on the show and you're including you. And there's a lot more like that too. Why are we bad at this? And we do a bad job.

Yeah, we do a bad job. But you know, we get where we're very thrilled to have you here today. You are from the Philadelphia suburbs. Yes. So Philly, you know, and a lot of America are big food cities, but Philly in particular has some food

that is unique to its character. Wawa certainly read as water ice, which we reviewed, both of which we reviewed. Read as Italian ice rather. It's what it's proper name is, but water ice is what a lot of people call it. And of course the the cheese steak,

lots of stuff specific to Philly. Is there anything that you crave specific to your home locale? Good question. Yeah, I'm excited to go back for the holidays and have some cheese steaks. We were a big cheese steak family, like pizza and cheese steaks on Friday nights.

Pizza and wings or pizza and cheese steaks. Wow, pizza and cheese steaks. That's amazing. We needed like a couple slices of pizza and half a split of cheese steak. It's great. That's wild. Yeah, it's heavy.

It's heavy food. That was heavy food. I was a husky child. I mean, within minutes of getting off the plane, I'm going to stop at a wah-wah. Wow. Because I usually take a hot eye

and I will want a big coffee, a big flavored wah-wah coffee. What flavors do you get in that bad boy? Oh, like a hazelnut or a French vanilla. Because you're a sweet treat guy. You're a treat boy. I am a treat boy. I try not to take my coffee too sweet.

I try not to take any of my drinks too sweet because I like cookies and candy and ice cream and cakes. I don't have a lot of vices. Sweets are kind of, I don't drink that much anymore. Right. But I have to have my sweets.

Liquid calories are a killer. I'm just going to get rid of them in the new year. Yeah, I'm trying to cut out liquid calories. I told you my New Year's resolution, which people are going to be like, that's not good. I'm going to try to get down to 230. Wow, 230.

That's it. Okay, that's pretty good. It's going to be impossible. That's an improvement. You can get there though. You'll still look like you too. Great. Wah-wah, what a motivation.

I don't mean it like, I mean like you won't look like, you won't look like Al Roker. You know what I mean? Oh, thank you. Al Roker's got that sort of bobble head proportion and God bless him for losing that weight, but I mean it's just,

you're a big guy slimmed down sometimes. They look like a candy apple. Yeah. But you'll look like yourself. You'll still have some meat on your bones. All right. I like the sound of this. Send me a pic of your hog when you're done.

When it's done? Hopefully it looks bigger. Okay, so I Googled how is babby formed. I found a vaginal birth Wikipedia and I command F vulva on it nowhere to be found. So I clearly have my anatomy clearly on it. I can explain it to you if you want. Yes, please.

I'd love to hear it. It's like the outside of the vagina that protects all of the delicate bits on the inside. Okay. It's like the lips. Right. That's a common term for it. Got it.

So I guess the baby does come out of the vulva in a way, but it makes an appearance. It's not the organ that produces the baby. And I've never been any further beyond that. So that's kind of where my knowledge is. Oh, my God. Oh, dude. Emma TMI.

I'm sure I'll hear something in the Reddit comments. Some nerd is going to correct me on my vaginal knowledge. By the way, it's going to be some male nerd. I'm actually, I thought. So here's my issue with cervix. What I thought was the vulvas. In fact, the cervix and labia. I thought in vulva are like, like, oh,

they have some overlapping territory. Yes. Okay. I got to like, you got to take an anatomy class. You guys are speaking a different language. I don't know what any of this stuff is. This is satisfying because I'm usually the one on a podcast calling back something like, hey, just a clarification on

something from seven minutes ago that's been eating me alive. Well, you've got, you have the theme park fans who are, are even more pedantic than our fans. So you've really got to compete with that. I'm hoping now I have the opportunity to finally get murdered by one of your ours are too nice. So like, well, you mentioned that you, you love, you love treats.

You are a treat boy. What are your, what are your favorites? Like, what are your favorite go-tos for a, for a mouthful of sugar? I, I usually have, cause I was explaining this to someone recently cause I just kind of figured it out. Like I usually have cookies in the house sometimes. When I like to snack or it's like,

I need something real quick. Like cookies I can graze on. Do you have any particular cookie go-tos? Yeah. I like the, the Tate's Bake Shop. Oh, those Tate's are good. Fancy or the Trader Joe's. I think it's that like labeled Trader Joe's gluten free.

I think it's the same cookie. Wow. But it's usually a dollar less. Or just the like Kroger brand from Ralph's, like chocolate chip or like M&M chocolate chip ones, because those, it's just quantity. Right. Jason, we can say this because the episode came out the day

that we're recording this actually. Tate's chocolate chip cookies, one, are dunk off for Santa. Yeah. The 12 days of cookies. Christmas cookies. Best milk dunking cookie. They were dynamite those chocolate chip ones. Yeah.

They work really, really well. I couldn't believe because they're like very crispy. They're very crispy, but a few days after you open them, they get soft. Oh, interesting. Which is strange. It's a little strange. Is that true?

That's how it's supposed to work. Yeah. They get soft after you. Oh, wow. They get a little softer. It's the same with the Trader Joe. That's why I think the Trader Joe's ones are the same. Trader Joe's used to sell one called like grown up chocolate chip

cookies, which are also very similar. They get softer. Yeah. Wow. I can relate. So those, those one, they, they work so well. And when you dick them, you dump them in. And when you dick them.

When you dick them. Jesus. How you doing it? Guys. It's your fault. It's just vagina talk. We had to get a dick in there. We're in the middle of like a cold snap in LA the last few weeks.

I know. And it's just got you guys like horned up. It's cuffing season. It's coming season. Hey, bitch. Is it big boy season? It is big. It is officially big boy season.

You know what? I'm not, I'm not, I'm not taking advantage of it this year because I've been, I've been to all over the place. Why? Because you know this, I've been, it's been too crazy. Yeah. It's been too crazy. My house is a fucking mess.

You've been physically all over the place because you are traveling to different locales to shoot your big Hollywood movie. Yeah. And I might lose a role because of this fucking beard. Oh boy. But you hope you lose a role next year when you're trying to drop the 230. God. That'd be a good thing.

My big news that I announced on this podcast that I, I got another movie. You got another big Hollywood movie and you have an issue, you have a scheduling it. You have a, you know what it is? It's a Henry Cavill for Mission Impossible. I have a Cavill issue. I do. I do. And then, you know, they photoshopped out his or photoshopped out.

They, you know, use visual effects, digitally removed his mustache. But for your beard, I mean, that's like a multi-year job. You got a lot of territory to cover. Jesus. It's going to be like Wilson from Home Improvement. They're just going to make you stand behind things. It's bad. I'll get all the, I'll get all the Doughboy fans on it if I, if I have to drop out.

You're going to be like a, like a, like a save bitches acting role. Like some sort of, some sort of mail in campaign. Mail your beard trimmings into. Not to the Doughboys. Not to Doughboys. Into the studio. Mail it into the studio to show your solidarity. Like heroes.

This is basically a hero's choice. Yeah, like heroes. Yeah. Jason, you know, I have, you like cookies. I have three left over already. That doesn't sound too appealing. Sugar cookies. Now are these ones you've dicked or not?

I haven't dicked them. You said that your dick is the, it's the, the soft chips ahoy cookies. I get that they're soft. This is the only thing that is similar to your dick in these cookies, but you said that they were the width. They were like sliced. I didn't say my dick specifically. I said they looked like if you were looking at a cross section of a,

of a dick, like the way, like those circumference of them. I just don't know if I, if I agree with that. Anyways, I got that was something I said on a Patreon episode of people are confused. I got, I don't talk about Patreon stuff when the free episode is like a stack of cookie looks like a dick. Yeah. That was, yeah.

Yeah. That's a reasonable thing to say. I kind of get it. No Jesus. No God. He wants to eat dicks. He wants to eat cookies. It's all the same.

He wants to eat dicks now. Yeah. Like Hannibal Lecter style. Jesus. We're not getting into that. We're not eating any human parts in this. Fine. We're not going to eat any human.

Sure. We're not eating human. Okay. Fine. Man. Toberfest is out. I want to Disney's like, I want to like Mickey's very happy Christmas. Merry, merry Christmas.

Merry, merry Christmas parade. And they were giving out treats all around the park. Yes. What a delight. They gave out soft pretzels. I bought myself a popcorn because I was smelling popcorn all week. And I got to say this. Their popcorn is like pop secret or something.

Isn't it? Really? I think it is. Or is it? It used to be one. And then the contract flipped and it flipped. Yeah. It smells so good.

And it's like the popcorn at Disney where you're a popcorn popcorn. Ah, fuck. You're fine. Don't worry. When you're walking around Disney, you smell that the popcorn and you're like, some of that's a trick. Oh, really? That's being pumped into the air.

Whoa. Like smellerizer. I think they call it. Well, that makes sense because when you taste it, you're I'm like, oh, this just kind of does feel tastes like kind of microwaved popcorn more than it tastes like kind of fresh, like, like a buttery popcorn. But that buttery smell is so good that I needed to get it. So I bought some of that.

But then they gave out treats all around the park. It was like a hot cocoa and some cider and like a like a like little stuff like that all around the park. It was a lot of fun. It was great. And then I went on Space Mountain and they and they were playing. They played like Christmas music and it was and it was. Oh, yeah.

And it was like red and green lights and you could see the track, which was kind of terrifying. Is that you could see that is terrifying. I did not like that much at all. I've never been on Space Mountain where you could see the track. Have you ever experienced that Sheridan? I don't think I've ridden it. It's I think I've been through in Florida.

The people mover goes through like the Space Mountain building and I've I've seen the track with the lights on. Got it. It's true. It's terrifying. It's just like metal. It's just industrial steel. Steel and also you're like, could I, is there a way I could like die on this

ride? And it seems like maybe there is. Well, you're only going about 35 miles an hour. Oh, OK. But they're blasting you with cold air, too, to make you think you're going faster. Is that what it is? Yeah.

It makes you feel like you're going so fast. Yeah. Also, when you're normally going 35 miles per hour, you're surrounded by a car. That's true. And that you're pretty much in a sled. When did Space Mountain open? What year? Space Mountain opened.

I think they both opened in the 70s. OK. That's like, because in my head, like even just honestly, when I think of like whenever Pirates open and is the 50s or 60s. 67 was Pirates. Oh, OK. The year after Walt died. What's the most impressive like ride from like the 50s or something?

Are there any dark rides like a Small World, I guess is. You know, it's hard to tell. Small World comes from the 64, 65 World Fair. Oh, yes. As we know from Tomorrowland. Yes. The film. Tomorrowland, the beloved movie whose message was feed a wolf.

There are two wolves. There are two wolves. What's one you feed? Yes. Very bleak about tomorrow. We're weirdly elitist, too. It's basically saying there's like a cast of special people who will protect us from ourselves.

Yes. Very weird movie. You know what? You know what? They live in Galt's Gulch. You take a big art deco tree to get to it. There was like a weird. That was like a weird.

Like I felt like that was the beginning of bad mood. Right. Of course, bad movies always exist. But when that movie came out, I think it led to like then shortly after that, JJ's Star Wars came out. You know how I don't like any of these movies. You're connecting the film Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, which I would say is a rare misfire for Bird.

I like Bird. He makes good films mostly. I thought Bird. You're connecting that directly to JJ Abrams. This is just your agenda. Your anti-JJ agenda. The new generation of bad movies that have come out. Yeah.

I don't think it's because of Tomorrowland. I think that you could predate that. You think there's a bad robot conspiracy? I think there is a bad robot. JJ, there's a JJ. The bad robot is really bad. He's bad. There are some bad robots in Tomorrowland the film.

They are. They're evil robots. Yeah. Two of them are. It's Keegan-Michael Kay and I think Catherine Haan. Catherine Haan. Yeah. They run the like junk shop.

Yeah. They run the like novelty. And they fucking kill a cop. They're trying to kill a child and then they try to kill a robot child. Yeah. That's a bizarre movie. It's a weird film. We haven't done an episode on this, but like probably a deep dive in the future that I

want to do is there was a thing called The Optimist, which was like the viral marketing leading up to Tomorrowland. Oh, wow. It was like a giant worldwide scavenger hunt sort of thing. And it was like making you think like this is going to be a cool movie about the history of the world's fair. Yeah. The history of Imagineering and Walt's involvement and building Epcot.

Pulled from all this source material and like you had to use Google Maps and go to like Chili John's to in Burbank to get a message and like there was all this stuff. And what it was building to was the movie Tomorrowland. That's such a bummer. Yeah. It's like doc. I have like a 50 page Google doc where someone document it. Right.

All of The Optimist. And that just, I mean, you might remember the box, the mystery box. Oh, yeah. That they introduced a comic. That was a little part of it. What a fucking, and Bert hasn't really, I haven't, has he done anything since? He did The Incredibles 2. Oh, that's right.

There he is. Back on track. Yeah. People liked that. Are you excited for the new Star Wars movie, Jason? Ooh, Rise of Sky. Wait, is it Rise of Skywalker? You don't even care.

I'm excited for it. It's so fucking cynical. You're full of shit. I'm certain JJ is going to do it yet again. What do you think? What do you think Sheridan? Well, we try to stay out of this other pocket. I am interested to see how it all wraps up.

Got it. I mean, I think, you know, Disney Star Wars is very interesting, especially when it's right next to Disney Marvel, which is so like crafted and planned out in advance. And I think there was some stuff I really liked about a lot of the Disney Star Wars stuff. And I think safe to say some misfires. But I think they kind of like not planning out three movies and saying like this is the arc of the three movies where it goes, bringing on one director and then another director and then firing a director like there's so much personnel shifting.

And like, I've always been a guy who's been interested in like the behind the scenes stuff. And that's what kind of drew me to the industry to begin with. But it does make me like, oh, this kind of buns me out knowing how all this sausage gets made. Right. Definitely like knowing like with Watchmen, like how many times Alan Moore was screwed by the comics industry. Yeah.

Like all the Watchmen like spin off comics and sequel comics and the HV like, oh, and that makes me too queasy to get anywhere near that stuff. I don't. I really I watched like five or six episodes of that show to go on Leslie and Jack Allison's podcast struggle session. And it I really did not like the show at all. I don't I kind of don't want to dig into it because people who love Watchmen really, really like they love it to like an insane degree.

Like they get really, really mad at you and disliking Watchmen. I think it's a weird world. I was like making fun of Alan Moore. And like if he like he's probably all upset about like that this new Watchmen is better than like his comics. And first off, that's insane. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. I mean, it's the worst take.

It was it was it was a horrible take. But there isn't there. It is such a weird world now that I think that like this happened with George Lucas, too. You're kind of like, fuck you, George Lucas, you old fucking person who gave us something. We're going to say fuck you because we don't like its current we do. We don't like its current iteration or whatever. We don't like some decisions that were made in the past.

It's very strange. I mean, Alan Moore is such. I mean, Alan Moore pretty much invented the modern comic book. Yes, the modern comic book industry. And all he wanted to do was was make his daughter Leia Moore is an accomplished comic book writer now. And she had this heartbreaking Twitter thread of just like my father doesn't look at any of this stuff.

And he just loves comics. He still loves comics. He reads comics. All he wanted to do was make comics and the industry treated him like shit multiple times. What a bummer. And so like it's so it's that's the hardest, I think, thing to enjoy is his comics and to a certain extent comedy now, like knowing how the sausage gets made. Sure.

And we're an industry that treats you like shit. Yeah. Yeah. There's actually comics for how little money comparatively like at least like comedy and movies and TV. There's so much money going around like in comics, like a little bit of money. But like, yeah, it's just brutal. Yeah.

As for the Star Wars, I mean, I mean, yeah, I want to see how it all ends. I hope it's like the thing I keep saying, which is not a good reference that most people would understand. But I hope it's like the end of the movie eight and a half where everyone from the director, the main characters life comes back and they all like dance around. I just hope I hope it's the farthest mood of Edward. Every character is there. They're all having a big part like just come in all characters from all movies and TV coming

with everything for a big party like Game Master Anthony one. You know what? Why not? Just everyone's back. BB eight is dancing with the death sticks kid. Yeah. Yeah. He's cooking, cooking with the quarter portion man.

And Darth Maul is there. Darth Sidious is there. All the Force ghosts are making appearances. We're talking. Everyone's getting along. Luke, we're talking Yoda. They're all having a great time. Han Solo is there.

Both versions of Han Solo are there. Both versions of Han Solo are there. Both versions of Anakin are there. Jake Lloyd Anakin is also there. The guys who fly now are there. Right. We're excited for that. They fly now.

Scrooge troopers are all there. Jetpacks have only been canon in Star Wars since forever. So yeah, that's surprising. They'll call it back though on a fun way though, because they'll be working the grill. They'll be like, they fry now. And is that what's his name? Who's the Poe Dameron Poe Dameron? Oh, I thought it was right now.

I thought it was going to be who runs the Dexter. Dexter Dexter will also be there. Will Job not be there? Maybe job will be there. Job Nuck is going to be dancing with the Rancor. Job Nuck is the Gamorian Guard. Yes. Is I say correctly, Gamorian Guard?

Or Gamorian. Gamorian Guard. One of the two. That gets eaten. That gets eaten by Rancor. So I got really mad the other day. I brought this up to Wyger. Wait, he gets eaten by the Sarlacc, yes?

No, he gets eaten by the Rancor. Oh, this guy gets eaten by the Rancor. And in Old Canaan, and the Old Star Wars canon, he survived because he had metal plating on Job Nuck. So he survived being eaten by the Rancor. They cut open. I think it was like a pop-up book by Star Wars. They cut open the Rancor and Job Nuck lived.

He survived getting eaten by the Rancor. But then the new guy who took over the Star Wars canon. He had a new canon master. The Disney hired just like a Star Wars superman. This is different than the Creative Committee? The Lucas Committee? I believe so, yes. And the new canon man said, no, he's dead.

He said the Job Nuck is dead, which is fucking bullshit. What about Boba Fett? Because in the Old Canaan, he like crawls out of the Sarlacc. Boba Fett has to be alive, is my... Has to be alive. I mean, like... He's got to be in this movie, right? I think everyone's coming back is the thing.

I don't know that it'll make much sense. If Boba Fett is in the new movie that I... I could see Boba Fett being in Mandalorian, but if he somehow plays into the new trilogy, that's so stupid. Something kept speculating. When is this coming out? You might like it. December 19th.

This episode is coming out on December 12th, and then the rise of Skywalker will be out in December 19th. Someone was speculating time travel is involved? Sure, why not? That would be... Yes, sure, why not? If Earth gets involved, then I hate everything. Mitch took off his headphones and is standing up.

Oh, Mitch is leaving the room. If Earth gets involved, that's as big as fear of humans, actual humans from Earth getting involved. I don't think they're going to go that far. Let's talk a little bit about donuts, because I know you're in the treat domain, you like donuts. I like a donut. What are your favorite donut varietals?

Oh, let's see. That's a great question. I really like a glazed buttermilk, like the one that looks like a brick or like a brick of concrete. Oh, like the buttermilk bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Not the long bar.

Not the long boy. Not the long bar. You're talking about the dense one. It almost looks like a mini pound cake. You essentially eat a miniature cake for breakfast. Yeah, I love those ones. I totally agree with you. What about an old fashioned bar?

What about some apple cider donuts? I like apple cider donuts. That's mostly like, I never, I always think they're going to taste more like apple cider, but I think it's more for the texture. Is that right? It's more, it's something like that. It's a, oh, I'm sorry.

All the Star Wars talk made me tired. Oh my God. It's late and all that sort of thing. I'm really excited for it. You got exhausted talking about your favorite subject. What were you going to say, Jason? I'm really excited for Rise of the Resistance because that's open in Florida.

That's the big, like, huge e-ticket ride. It's open in Florida now. It opens. Oh, it's already open in Florida? Yes. It's opening in Anaheim soon, mid-January. What's the assessments from Florida? What's the early intel?

It's supposed to be great. Wow, it's supposed to be great. I would say universally positive. Got some lukewarm responses, and I don't say luke because of Luke Skywalker. I had some Hanwarm responses because it's to the Millennium Falcon ride. Yeah, the Millennium Falcon ride.

I think it might be hard if you, I mean, a big immediate criticism was if you're not a native English speaker, they're giving you all the instructions in English. Oh, that's tricky. Stuff lights up. But even if you are- Basic, rather.

They're giving you instructions in basic. Galactic basic, sure. But even if you're not well-versed in video games, I think you might be a little overwhelmed by it. Got it. Supposedly there are other missions in the works, like they would change it up a little more. That'd be fun.

I think the verdict is like, you have focused more on it, making it a ride. Star Tours is better. I like Star Tours. Star Tours is just better. Hopefully that ride has the capability of moving more than the Star Tours ride and can move around better than the Star Tours ride

because right now, if it can't, that ride is just a bummer to me. I just went there with family. I was in Disney World over the Thanksgiving break and I didn't say anything about the ride until we all wrote it and I was like, I don't like it very much. Almost everyone agreed that it was not that great of a ride.

It's a bummer. I think for me, I have not written it yet, but I don't love the interactive element because it stresses me out a little bit and I want to just sort of relax and enjoy the ride. Like I don't want to be doing the work. We were supposed to do a Disney month. We never did it.

We'll do it at some point. Yeah, we'll wait and then podcast the ride started. Then we're kind of intruding in their territory. No, they're going to come and do it with us. Okay, we could do like a crossover month. That's fine. I mean, well, I'm still bummed about Mantoberfest getting canceled.

It's really looking forward to the taste of human flesh. Here are some sugar cookies from the Mickey's very... Thank you. Mickey's very... Oh, they're individually wrapped. They are individually wrapped. With some Frisbee tosses of... And I gave you guys, I took the fucked up broken one.

That's okay. I mean, this one kind of splintered when you threw it onto the table from across the room. Well, sorry, why? That's okay. I'm excited for the sugar cookie. I will say, and I'm not going to crinkle this wrapper right now, but the...

We've had so much sugar today. Like we had like a huge amount of sugar. We're going to have a little bit more in a bit. But we... This is like... I don't know if I can take a sugar cookie right now. I need to wait a minute. Do you want me to eat it?

It's not very good. Oh, that's a bummer. I enjoyed it the night of. Jason, you can try it if you like. Sure. But these were handed... This was a very fun... If you're having it with cocoa,

then I think it's a little different. These are the ones that Mickey gave you. Yeah, Mickey himself. From his white-gloved hand. Yeah. Into your... Here you go, Mitch. That's what he said.

Your hand's as big as mine. You better like this fucking star. We're going to kick your ass. I'm taking a bite now. These are from Mickey's very special Christmas parade. It's a little lemony. Which I don't mind. It does have a lemon.

A little too lemony. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's okay. It's not a bad cookie. To get back to the donut question. Yes, please. I like a glazed buttermilk. I like a raised Boston cream kind of donut.

I like that. Cake donuts, much more common out here in LA. Yes. I love LA's culture of mom-and-pop donut shops. Wonderful. Really great. I'm happy Dunkin' Donuts is out here too. We had Dunkin' Donuts pretty much everywhere where I grew up, Mitch.

You know what that's like. I love it. One opened up down the street from my child at home when I was in elementary school. And that was pretty much kids' birthdays we're taking care of. Moms would show up with a couple cartons of munchkins. Everyone gets two. That's fun. Easy cleanup.

No mess. Munchkins are fun. Munchkins are fun. If you take munchkins to a party, that's a fun time. But holes are my current go-to. Oh, interesting. I like the full texture. I like the texture of you get all of it.

Do you one-shot them? I guess it depends. Strange question. What do you one-shot a donut hole? You're just a strange man. That's a reasonable question. I know. I get it.

It's just strange. I think it depends because Dunkin' makes them. Dunkin's are very one-shotable. Yes. But Randy's Donuts, they're a little puffy. They're a little bigger. You need a few bites. A little more hefty.

Let us know if you eat your donuts in one-shot. Hashtag hole in one or hashtag half-hole. I thought you were going to do Han-shot first sort of deal, but that's too complicated to stretch that out. We were just talking about Star Wars. I don't know. I thought a Han-shot first. Hashtag Han-8 first.

Oh, here's my biggest donut hot take. Yes. Dunkin', I really like the glazed chocolate cake ones. Yes. I don't like them anywhere else because they usually taste too much like the oil they're fried in. Yes, I agree with that. But Dunkin', they're very clean.

You get the flavor very well, and they're always consistent. I love a chocolate-frosted donut. That became my go-to donut. It's a chocolate-frosted. I still like a jelly every so often, but they're heavy now. I like the munchkin jellies a lot. Yeah, those are very good. Munchkins are just the sort of thing.

If they're fresh and you can tell they're fresh, they're great. If they're a little old, they suck. It's a bummer if you get them. Going back to... I'll just say more of the cooking. I'm out of myself. Go ahead. Going back to Mickey's very Christmas parade or whatever.

Shouldn't there be more Christmas mazes? Kind of like how there's Halloween mazes. Well, they're... I know they took the Christmas out of Mickey's Christmas parade. I'm saying there should be mazes. Like the Halloween time specifically. I know there's one big noticeable absence at these Christmas parties. It's called the Reason for the Season book.

I don't want to be God-specific mazes or baby Jesus mazes. I'm just saying, why doesn't Disney do a nightmare before Christmas mazes? How jarring would it be to see Jesus Christ on a float next to Princess Jasmine and Nemo? What the fuck is going on? Is he part of the Disney universe now? Big fleshy looking baby? Yeah. Trying to baby Jesus mascot.

Oh, yeah. It would have to be baby Jesus. It was Christmas. Just doing that the entire... That's an SNL sketch. That's a great SNL sketch. The crying baby Jesus... What's it called?

The... What's the setup with the... I haven't seen it. The manger. You know what I'm saying? The manger. Yeah, what do you mean? What is that setup called again?

The nativity scene? Nativity scene. It has the crying baby Jesus and the baby is crying. You don't remember this SNL sketch? No, I don't think I'm saying it. I don't remember this one. Oh boy. Anyways, why isn't there...

There should be mazes at Disney. There should be... Yeah, I know for Halloween this year they had like treat trails that you would go through and like get different candies and stuff. Okay. So they could do that with like Christmas treats. I can see... Yeah, apparently it's a big hit.

Why are you so big on mazes? I'm just... Because at the Halloween time, Universal makes a bunch of scary mazes. Right. There's like Christmas properties that you could do some sort of fucking Christmas maze. But they don't really do... Because they do a Mickey's Halloween thing too, right? And there's like a...

There's like a seasonal thing. They don't really do mazes there. It's not really Disney's thing. It's not really Disney's thing. Yeah. It's more like kind of fun. It's not like a maze. They don't have room...

They don't real estate for the mazes there. Why does Halloween get the mazes? You know what I mean? Why doesn't Christmas get a maze there too? I think in... Is it Hong Kong Disneyland? They have full scary mazes. Oh wow.

With like fucking Alice in Wonderland, like Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland, but they're all horrifying looking. Okay. That's cool. That sounds great. More horrifying looking than Johnny Depp Man had or already is. He's cool. He is cool.

He's very cool. What is the... Wait. So you're saying you're lobbying for mazes, but I don't even think mazes have any sort of tie to Christmas. That's my issue. All right. Fine.

They have a big tie. I guess Halloween, yeah, they're scary mazes. Like what's gonna happen? You're gonna go around the corner of a maze and like an alpha is gonna jump out and scare you? That's fun. No, no. You don't have to get scared.

That's funny. Yeah. That'd be weird. That's fun. You're walking around the nightmare before Christmas maze. That's fun. Happy holidays. That's fun.

Merry coffee. That's great. What's wrong with that? I guess there's nothing wrong with it. It just, I doesn't really have a strong connection. It's very immersive. All right. Fine.

All right. No, never mind. No, you won me over. It's fine. They should do a Whoville maze at Universal. Yeah. They should do some Christmas. They should do some other...

They should do a Minion Christmas mazes there. I didn't have a lot of fun doing that. There you go. Yeah. Goo would be upset at the Minions because they got into the Christmas lights and they drank all the eggnog. This is perfect. Yeah.

That sounds great. All right. I'm on board. Scary Minions maze would be great for Halloween Horror Nights. That would be such a hit. That would be a lot of fun. They could convince Illumination to do that. Yeah.

They should do that. They should do some more lighthearted stuff. I got a question. It's just too spooky for me. Is the Mario movie coming out? I don't know. I don't have any insider info. I assume so.

Illumination. I don't know. You love the Minions and stuff. I figured maybe you'd have some sort of... Is that happening? That's what I'm trying to figure out. They supposedly have been working on it. They've made some announcements.

I mean, I don't have any inside intel. I do. I'm worried that they're going to release a Mario trailer and it's going to be Sonic all over again. They're going to have to do a redesign due to his ultra realistic teeth. Everyone's going to be upset by it. Let's go. That's Mario.

Also voiced by Ben Schwartz. He's just a whole video game character now. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like Nintendo was so protective of Mario as a property. It was such a thing to even get them to have Donkey Kong in pixels and that's a pretty good scene actually. I think the Donkey Kong scene is one of the scenes I think works in pixels. A couple of fun moments in pixels.

Yeah, but they're so protective of Mario that I think they're going to get it. I feel like they're going to get it right when they do it, but it might be a little while. I mean, Universal Hollywood has already started. They're pretty far along building Super Nintendo World right on the lower lot. Damn, that's that's exciting. Japan's getting it first, of course. Yeah, but that's going to be a Mario Kart ride.

Is that correct? Yeah, there's going to be a Mario Kart ride. I don't know that might be it for Hollywood, but really. Yeah, I mean, there's going to be a restaurant and shops and stuff. I don't know if there's a second ride coming just one ride. I mean, it's supposed to be very good. There might be a Donkey Kong thing. Florida is going to have a giant Super Nintendo World because Universal is building a whole

third park and that's going to be a big land. Oh, that's fun. What do they do? They just build it on like a gator swamp, shoe the gators away. I believe it is technically a former toxic waste dump. Oh, across from the convention center by I4. Yeah, isn't isn't isn't one of the isn't one of the Disney water parks park. Oh, God.

Disney water parks just abandoned now, isn't it? Like they find they're finally bulldozing it because they're building a hotel on River Country USA River Country and what what what what sort of disease? What was it? There was like some sort of I think it was a brain parasite really is what's going to earn what happened was it was like an old swimming hole themed water park that was fed with fresh water. I wonder if I went there at some point because I went to Disney World as a kid.

This is going to start making some sense to me that I have a brain parasite. If you if we remove the brain parasite, you'd be like, hey, buddy, hey, man, how are you? Oh my God, Weigher has a personality. You can do different facial expressions. I am and recognize other people's facial expressions. So we had a no, I went to a water park as a at Disney. This is a Disney World Park.

Yes. Yeah, I mean a water park. It was open from 76 to 2001. So that was probably the one I went to in like the late 80s when I went as a child. I probably went to this park, too, in the 80s. Yeah. So either one of us could have had this brain parasite. It would make sense for either of us.

Yeah, you either went to that or like a newly opened Typhoon Lagoon. Oh, I think I actually might have gone to Typhoon Lagoon, a Six Flags one. Or is that that's a Disney? That's a Disney one. That's also Disney. The fake the fake mountain with the the boat, the fishing shrimp boat. Okay, I have very little, very few memories of this vacation, except for crying on Big Thunder Mountain.

Fucking coward. Getting getting sick on the airplane. Jesus. Buying a Dick Tracy rain slicker that I was then just then to embarrass to wear. And then the something malfunctioned with the shower and I got scalded by hot water and I like like my parents and I was like screaming and my parents was like, open the door, open the door. And then I opened the door and my whole family saw me naked.

Wow, did you go to Disney World or Banksy's Dismalant? Because that's a wow, that's a lot on one trip. Yeah, I'm just thinking of your fucking dad bringing you like I'm sick of the plane and then you get there and you fucking cry on Thunder Mountain. Yeah, scalded by hot water. You must have been so fucking pissed. Yeah, he's just angry the whole time.

That's why dads and dads on these vacations are just miserable. If you watch dads like toting around like three like kids with them, they're just like so stressed out, so pissed off. Did you do your parents because we went to Disney World and I was reminded that when I was little, I threw a tantrum because I didn't want to change rooms and I get made fun of for to this day. Oh, yeah, seven years old. Yeah, and they still bring this up to they still give you.

Are they like, hey, remember, we all saw you naked? No, I think they. No, no, no one brings that maybe wouldn't scald himself. He wore that stupid fucking slicker. We spent so much money when your parent when you open the door and everyone saw you naked. Did you start sucking your own dick in front of them? We'll take a break way back with more dough, boys.

Welcome back to Doughboys. We're here with Jason Sheridan this week's chain, Ample Hills Creamery. I just I want to go back to the Disney thing for a second. We our break was 10 minutes long. I've been ruminating on this. Well, first of all, fresh water in of the in a water park is such an insane idea. Yeah, well, it was on the Magic Kingdom is by Bay Lake and Crescent Lake. That's what all the hotels sit on those bodies of water.

And they just drew from that, I believe, to fill River Country. But I think they were going for the old swim and hole aesthetic, including the water. Yeah, that's fucking nasty. Yeah, I don't I've been in some old swimming holes. I don't love it. I used to go on those in Boy Scouts. They're just kind of always kind of gross. You went in old swimming holes. Yeah, I went in old swimming holes.

Yeah, I went in some old swimming holes. I went in old swimming holes, but it feels like a very east coasty thing. I know they're out here. Yeah. I mean, they're not as they're not as old. I feel like all the water out here like in in in the swimming holes is like dead, like such dead water. It's all salt in the sea. As well.

You know what I'm saying? Like it's like like like there's it's just like a very dry desert like place. So it just feels like sitting water or you're saying there's better fresh water on the east coast just due to your general assertion of hometown. I'm not going to say that because I think that I think that there is West Coast. But I'm saying California specifically or in Los Angeles area like the oh, there's a dog barking. Hmm. I think he knows there's cats in here.

You think so? He wants to get a Wally and Irma chase them around. I'll fucking destroy that dog. He's like Wally and Irma's in there dinner and dessert. I'll fucking knock that dog's teeth out. You're going to punch a dog? I'll punch the dog right in the head. I don't think this is going to it becomes after Wally and Irma.

Yeah, I guess if you had to defend your cats from the dog and you had no choice but to punch him, you'd have to punch him. Cats always the villains. Because they're devious. No, they're not. They're always up to something. Is this what success does to a person like death wish dog fighting panaceas?

Like Charles Bronson. Like Charles Bronson. Going around extracting vengeance. Some of the dogs that have wronged you. I like dogs, but I'm saying if they're going to try to eat Wally and Irma, I'm going to knock them out and knock their teeth out. And I won't kill them. But I'm just saying that they're going to have they're going to they're going to

it's going to be hard for them to eat treats without their teeth. Well, I hope if you do a punch a dog that they. That they did some rescue foundation, takes care of them. Jesus Christ. You're turning it real. I was just having fun with a dog that's trying to eat Wally and Irma. I think people are going to be disturbed by the image of you punching a dog. This is an evil dog who's trying to eat Wally and Irma.

So like a Cerberus. I'll give you a license to punch Cerberus. All right, fine. I'm going to punch Cerberus. OK, great. Man, I've heard of comedians doing a lot of narrative writing their head, but this is like next level shit. I love dogs.

I love dogs too. I'm a dog dude. You're not a dog. I am a dog. First of all, you got bit in the face by a dog as a boy. I still and I came to love them. I'm not fantasizing about punching them in the head. I am if they were going to eat Wally and Irma.

If you were going to eat Wally and Irma, I punch you in the head too. Maybe I will punch you in the fucking head. Good. That's how I want to go. You want to die that way? I'm going to get clobbered by your massive fists. You know, that's going to be a real problem. You guys have ever tried to book Alph on the show. It's going to be eyeballing Wally and Irma left and right.

Can I use the bathroom? Mitch? No, Alph, right? Is that how Alph sounds? It's close enough. Pretty close. Our listeners are born in 1990. I don't know what that reference is.

Fine. Forget the whole dog scenario, which is you're the one who started this whole thing. If Alph came in here, you try to eat Wally and Irma. I fucking knock his teeth out. Okay, good. Yeah, that's fine. You can punch out. You're making it weird.

You're making it seem like I'm sort of monster. You want to punch out? That's fine. I'll punch Alph and knock his teeth out. There's some perverse psycho-sexual fantasy about punching Alph. You can act that out if the situation presents itself. Ample Hill Screamer was founded in Brooklyn in 2011. Remember I sent you and Gabriel, so that guy who drew Alph on his dick. That was a good text.

I like just saving it. Yeah, because, oh, I know what I was going to say. Yeah. This is my impression of you of eight-year-old Wiger at the water park. Hey, buddy. You should go in the water so I can see the outline of your hog and your bathing suit. You're gone. So as a pre-reversed child, I was just eager to see.

I'm a little behind on the show, guys. I didn't realize this new direction you've taken. I just want to say that I love animals. I would never hurt an animal. But if an animal is coming after my cat, you don't think they have the right to not kill them, but get them away from my cat? Yes, to just to subdue them. I get it, yeah.

Oh, I got to punch his teeth out. All right, Mitch, you get to stand your ground. Are you happy? That's what you're clearly getting at, all right? Kind of my best friends, Wally and Irma. Yeah. You're talking about them getting eaten up like snacks. Your best friends are two cats?

Your cats? Yes. I love my cats. I mean, it's nice that you think of them as your friends and not as your children. I mean, they're a little bit of both. OK. I love them. OK.

Your best friends are your son and daughter, Wally and Irma. I haven't seen them in a long time, and I came back. They've been very sweet to me. You're very protective. You love your cats. You're an animal lover in this scenario, which is implausible. You maybe what took it a little far, but that's OK. Jesus Christ.

Ample Hill Screamer was founded in Brooklyn. I'm not a dog puncher. I don't punch dogs. All right, Ample Hills. I don't punch dogs. No. I mean, you punch hot dogs down your throat. Oh, amen.

Speaking Sheridan's language. Yeah, you're a big hot dog. I love hot dogs. Would you say that's one of your favorite savory savory foods? Maybe. Yeah, I would say so. What? How do you like your dogs? I think mustard relish raw onions. Oh, that's a guy.

That's a great classic combo. Classic combo. I like a Chicago dog. Me don't really like tomatoes or hot dogs. Yeah. So I usually get get that without it. Here's my here's my thing. McDonald's, I mean, I'll toss Burger King in there.

Wendy's, one of you guys get a hot dog going. Burger King try Burger King try. It wasn't very good. Yeah, yeah, it didn't look great. Yeah, I would love it. Just get a hot dog, right? I mean, like a burger and a dog. I think they look at the big hot dog chains

and what are out there? I mean, Sonic, Wienerschnitzel. These aren't top tier chains. These are chains that maybe have some trouble. Yes. You know, I mean, I'm not saying one of the big ones. One of the big ones should do it. I think they just sort of see that people aren't looking

for hot dogs as fast food anymore. Hot dogs are more of like a backyard grill or like a carnival treat. Sure, you know. Or a moose. Yeah, it's like elevated. It's like the elevated hot dog. Yes, like the gastropub hot dog.

You're seeing a lot of these artisan sausage places. And I think for some places to expand, as we'll probably get into in this, to really expand, you either need a company that helps restaurants expand or you need venture capital. Right. Yeah. Are you, let's start a little hot,

one more question about hot dogs. Corn dogs, where do you stand? Oh, I love corn dogs, especially Disneyland corn dogs. Those are good ones, those golden fire truck ones. Yeah, the little, little truck, the low red truck. Yeah. Do you, do you dip your corn dogs? And what are you dipping them in?

Ketchup or mustard. Oh yeah, both good choices. My big tip on the Disneyland corn dogs is just order it all a cart because you're paying like an extra $1.52 bucks for like chips or dried out apple slices. And you don't need those. You don't need those.

So yeah, I like corn dogs. I'm a big sausage guy too, like bratwurst. Oh yeah, okay. I eat a lot of Italian sausage growing up. Very Italian area. Right. Philly suburbs. I'm a horn dog for corn dogs. Amen.

Amen to that, my man. So moving on from corn dogs and hot dogs to ice cream. Ooh. This week's chain, ample hill cream. From hot to cold. From hot to cold. Something with cold in the name, Wags. Founded in Brooklyn in 2011, as I mentioned,

mostly clustered in the greater New York area, but there are locations in LA and Disney World and Miami. Pop culture flavors are a part of its identity. Here's a few flavors I pulled up. They had for Force Awakens, they had the light side, which had Chewbacca on it with his bowcaster. And the dark side, which had Kylo Ren with his lightsaber. And then this is one you'll love.

This is what all of us will love. They came out with some for the 2016 election. The Hillary flavor, Madam President. And the flavor for Donald Trump, Make America Orange Again. Which I find appropriate for the man I characterize as the orange buffoon. I'm kind of confused by that. They did a Trump one and said Make America Orange Again.

Yeah, he's like scowling on it. And Madam President is on it. And she's like, looks stalwart. They're saying like, he looks very pissed off to be on this ice cream container. Yeah. That new Star Wars ride, I had to leave Disney World early. I was gonna ride it.

And I think that the ride does look awesome. It has some of the new Disney Star Wars, like it's very Disney Star Wars focused. You're referring to Rise of the Resistance. Rise of the Resistance has a lot of those characters. But hey, if the ride is great, I'll very much enjoy the ride. I'm very interested in going and seeing what it's all about.

And I also play the Star Wars video game, Fucking Rules, by the way. The new Star Wars video game. So I'm not a full hater. I wanna like a lot of this stuff. You'll tolerate some Snap Wexley, depending on the context. Sure.

So let's go ahead and, speaking of these topical flavors they have, let's open up the Spider-Man one, which is one of their current ones that we pulled from the cold case when we were there earlier today. We figured we'd give this one a taste on the fly and just sort of see how it treats us.

Sheridan, you have it in front of you. What is the flavor specifically from the Spider-Man? I know it's got cherry pie. Sure. This is a sweet cream ice cream with squirrels of cherry pie filling and pieces of house-made flaky crust. I'll say that sounds delightful.

Yeah. I think that the name Aunt May's Cherry Pie is weird. You mean because it makes you think of Aunt May's Volvo. Yes. The part where Peter Parker's cousin came out of it. Oh yeah, there's a little comic strip on the pint that establishes Aunt May bacon pie. She's talking to someone.

She's talking to, is she talking to Uncle Ben? Is she saying try a piece of my cherry pie? I'll see you soon, Ben. I'll see, I miss you. This cherry pie is getting warm for you. They're not around any visible pie. I can't wait till we're together again in hell. Mitch will protect us from Cerberus.

This is named Cerberus? Cerberus. Cerberus. Cerberus, I don't know how to pronounce it exactly. I'm not some fucking classicist. What do you expect from me? Jesus. Okay, Sheridan is digging in,

getting himself a healthy spoonful out of this pint. It still looks pretty hard. It does look pretty hard. Boy, that was a man-sized bite. This is a guy who knows his treats. What do you think? He's thinking on it. It's good.

Yeah. I do like it. The cherry flavor is very good. Yeah, it's very heavy cherry flavor. Let me take a look at this one. So the comic. Okay, I am Peter Parker. I am from Queens.

My Aunt May raised me. She makes the meanest cherry pie in the five boroughs. One day on a field trip for school, I got bit by a radioactive spider and everything changed. Wait, so this is his origin story? His origin story? His origin story is on this ice cream container. Aunt May, most famous for making wheat cakes.

Like that's what she would make in the 60s gods. You go down for school in the morning. It's like, I've got your wheat cakes ready, Peter. Yeah, this ice cream is bullshit. There should be a wheat cake flavor. Should be wheat cake. And we had me a spoon. We had a spoon to the spoon, man.

My spidey sense alerts me to danger. I can cling to buildings and swing through the caverns of the city with ease, but with great power comes great responsibility. I use mine to protect the city. I am Spider-Man. Very little to do with Aunt May's cherry pie. And a lot of the origin story, which everyone knows.

Yeah, a little tangential. I would have liked a little cherry pie guide in there. Was this, let me see here. Written by Alan Moore. This is when he comes back to corporate comics. Was this writing the ice cream pints? I'm going to take a bite of this. I saw these when I was at the store,

they had the pints in the Ample Hill store. And there is Captain America and Black Panther ones too. I believe the Black Panther is Black Raspberry. Is that right? I don't remember what the Captain America one was, but this all kind of, like I was reading about it because I cannot not be on a podcast without doing research.

Right, you and me, both brother. The reason it's at Disney World is apparently they got a write up in the Wall Street Journal, Bob Iger saw it, ordered some of the ice cream and said, this is the best ice cream I've ever had. Wow. Do you want to have a location in Disney World? And I think they had space opening up at the board.

It's on the boardwalk at the boardwalk hotel right on the water. I ate there a few weeks ago when I was in Orlando, three minutes before closing. The scooper was a member of the Disney College Program from Ithaca College, Mitch's and I's very alum. Yeah, we kind of buried the lead here that you guys are both Ithaca grads.

Yeah, we went to college. Of course, my most important schooling was Nick Weiger was my Sketch 101 teacher. That's where I learned about the real world. We were both going to Ithaca College, a frozen wasteland of an area. A frozen wasteland, yeah. Sometimes it snows so much and it's so windy

it feels like the snow is coming at you sideways. Yes, it's freezing cold up there. I stepped away from the microphone for a second. I did have Sheridan as a sketch student, he was a very, very funny writer as you would expect. But I forget a lot of the times that I taught like sketch at UCB for like a year plus. Yeah, you were a great teacher.

Oh, God bless you, thank you for saying that. You both were big supporters of mine, very encouraging to me when I started at UCB. Well, yeah, because we were at Ithaca, we crossed over at Ithaca. Yeah, we crossed over a little, yeah. Well, you graduated, you were in 2007. Seven, all right, yeah, I thought so.

And I was 2005. And Weiger, you were 98, 97. I actually did graduate from high school in 1998. Jesus. But college at DNP, I didn't pass. So, wait, so you had a. I guess a DMB, I was gonna be on board. That's what I was doing in college, listening to DMB.

Wait, so you mentioned you did some research, but you were, you pitched Ample Hills to us. I pitched Ample Hills, yes. So this is a place you've been a few times. I've been a few times, yeah. But I read about it, I learned about it from like following the theme park news and like, oh, there's a place, Ample Hills.

It's an ice cream chain from Brooklyn and they're opening at the boardwalk, which is like one of the nicest hotels. Right. And a very charming little boardwalk area, right? Stay there one night when I was in Disney World. Yeah, it's nice, right? It all comes from Bob Iger then.

Oh, gone. Bob Iger, speak of the devil, also an Ithaca alum. Also an Ithaca alum, wow. Was in my like television and radio program. He also had Weiger as a sketch teacher. That's true. Iger liked to go dark, which was a thing. I tried to steer him away from, you know,

going blue so much, but he just had a lot of like really. You gotta earn it, you know? Yeah, you gotta earn it. And he was just gonna creep out the audience with some of these sketches. I'm torn on Ithaca alums. There's some that I like and some I, Iger, I'm not a huge fan of.

Yeah. I feel like I am. CCH Pounder, I like. Hey, great, great actor. What were you gonna say? I feel like I unlocked a lot about Iger when I learned that he also did the television radio program and then was a weather person in Utica.

And I was like, oh, he has that aura of like people I would see in school who like came in at 17 and was like, I'm gonna be a newscaster. And I'm like, okay. And then all they did for four years was like the news, the news program at school. And then when they graduated, they became a newscaster and I was like, all right, man.

That's that is, that is, their Ithaca is very, I mean, Ithaca is strange in many ways. I started college months after we invaded Iraq. So I wasn't like really jazzed on the news at the time. Like I wasn't really jazzed on the media at the time. Yeah. It was, it was, I think it was Iger. That was a different time.

We were all just so eager to get Saddam. Yeah. We're all demanding. We're all. Troupes get in there. I did do like just basically reading reworded AP copy on like radio news breaks. And then once, once a fucking sophomore sent out like,

guys, I know finals are coming up, but we need to be serious about this. I was like, no, fuck this out of here. You are 19 years old. You are not talking to me like, like some middle of that. This is insane, guys. Come on. Andy Daly, also one of the great guys.

Andy Secunda. It's funny. Andy Secunda. Andy Secunda, great dude. He was on the podcast before. So Apple Hills, I want to dig in a little bit more. So at this place, this place, I guess it's very, very popular in the New York area.

Like lines out the door at the Brooklyn original sometime. I don't know if it's still like that, but there was a time where this was a huge sensation and it's expanded very rapidly there. When we went to the, and I want to shout out Nicole Byer, who is a huge Apple Hills fan and introduced this chain to us originally, as my lovely wife Natalie reminded us.

Which I was shocked that she listens to the podcast. Yeah, she shouldn't. She should have better things to do with her time. I'll try to get her on podcast and ride. She'll like that one more. Is it one of the only times that you can hear you talking? But you know, Mitch, we are creamsmen. I am the dairy dude.

We love ice cream. It's been a little while since we reviewed an ice cream chain. We went to this place and it was quite as a tomb. There was no one there. Yeah, and was that your experience, that mere your experience at the Los Angeles location? It was just me and a couple of scoops men. Yeah, a couple of scoops men and women when I was there.

It was a Sunday at five o'clock and 59 degrees out. Right. So fair enough. And we went, we're recording this on a Tuesday and we went Tuesday at like 6.30 p.m. So you know, it's not Primo scooping hours, but it was pretty, you know, there were two other customers there. We were the only car in the parking lot.

In a neighborhood that doesn't have a lot of parking. The parking lot is huge. I couldn't believe that there was a parking lot here. It's on Hillhurst Avenue. It's a converted house, it seems like this location. It's a converted house. Do you know about the house? No.

The house is the former office of the pediatrician, I forget his name, is it Robert Fleiss? Heidi Fleiss's father. Wow. It used to be, he was a pediatrician. It used to be his practice. Wow. That's crazy. Hollywood man, Heidi Fleiss.

Wow. What a bananas connection to a place that now serves frozen bananas. It was a stretch, but it was like it felt like I just justified it somehow. That's insane. That's really, really weird. So the location is very cool.

Especially now that it's around the holidays and it's lit up like a little... Oh, they did a great job preserving that house. Oh yeah, it looks great. It looks awesome. It looks awesome. Yeah, the location looks great. It's a lot of fun inside.

You know, they've got a lot of great signage involving a bunch of your animal friends, you know, your typical farm animals. The cow is featured pretty prominently as you might expect because of the milk base of so many of its desserts. The employees, you mentioned the scoops men. They were great. They were so, so they were first off eager to see us.

Like they were happy to see us. They were happy to give us a ton of samples. Oh, you know the podcast, eh? What are you talking about? No, we just saw two fat guys lumbering in out of breath. And dollar signs when in your eyes. So they gave us a number of tastings. They gave us some guidance for which different flavors

to try. And one of the flavors I try ended up going with, this is apparently one of their signatures. I got two scoops on a pretzel cone. My first scoop was ooey gooey butter cake. I'll read the description. Our best seller, this creamy vanilla ice cream is mixed with housemade gobs of St. Louis style

ooey gooey butter cake. And this one is, so it is just like a cake batter ice cream with chunks of cake inside. It's great. It's very, very good. It's rich, it's creamy, it's delicious. The bites of cake are very scrumptious. It's a wonderful ice cream flavor,

and you get how you could build a brand off of this. The other flavor I got was the munchies, because I had the munchies, man. And so this one's guaranteed to sell some. You were not high. You was not high, folks. This high is a kite. It's fucking smoking reefer the whole way there.

I was in your car. It was chain smoking jazz cigarettes. I was in your electric car, and it didn't smell like anything. It smelled like a new car. Yeah, well, I got a new car air freshener to cover up all the fucking reefer I was smoking. It was hot boxin' that bad boy.

So this one, the munchies is a salty, sweet concoction, which I love, because I'm a big salty sweet guy. Are you a salty sweet guy? I am, if it's a good quality. I don't like, when the cheaper kind of cookies or ice cream got sea salt caramel, that is gross. It comes back around to being gross.

Yeah, I get what you mean. But Ample Hills makes everything pretty much from scratch. Yeah, I think this was a good execution of it. It's pretzel-infused ice cream with a mishmash of snacky mix-ins. They were neither copy. Our house made munchies mix of rich crackers, potato chips, pretzels, and crushed M&Ms.

So it's like a sweet cream with a bunch of different variety of salty snacks in there that you wouldn't normally see in there, and it's great. This is another flavor that was just like a fucking home run. I loved it. I loved how crunchy it was. I got this one on top and the Uigui butter cake on bottom, which I thought was the right move.

And they all, just like the bits of just random crunch, random salty crunch, like worked really, really well with the ice cream base. And then when I worked my way down to that pretzel cone, that pretzel cone, I don't know how fresh it was. I assume it was made in-house. It wasn't made right in front of me, but it seemed pretty fresh.

It tasted great. It was really good quality and the salty exterior with all the ice cream that had pooled in the bottom. It was just fucking great. This is just a dynamite ice cream cone. I loved every bite of it. Wow. Yeah.

Mitch, what did you get? We were there together. I got myself a Sunday wigs. Comes with two flavors. I got a brownie base, which they put- Sunday chocolate, Sunday. You know that I've always, I truly have always sang a parody song the same way.

I swear. I believe you. Sunday, brownie, Sunday. Oh, that's good. Sunday, brownie, Sunday. Ha ha. Come on, eat. Dig in, dig in, dig in, dig in.

Oh, I won't do the whole song, I guess. Boon, boon, boon. And so you put the cream on top. Wigs, you can help me here. Yeah, we should, let's beat out this song parody that I started about a massacre during the Troubles. Oh, that's right. It's my people.

I got the- Slaunch. Slaunch. I got the flavor of record, which when I run and read it, I'm a podcast head. I said record in my head. Yes. But it's the flavor of record.

No, the only podcast this is connected to is Michael Barberos The Daily. This one is made for a limited time in celebration of the New York Times Food Festival. That's right. The flavor of record is- What? Is a sweet cream ice cream mix with fudge swirls

in our house made black and white cookies, black and white cookies being a New York staple. And let me tell you, this wasn't fake chews. This was the real deal, Wigs. Wow. A treat as, yeah, iconically New York as the New York Times itself. What the fucking bullshit this whole thing is.

This was good. So I tried a bunch of, I tried a bunch of samplings. This was the one that kind of won me over a little bit. I also really liked the, there was a raspberry lime ice cream, but I was gonna get the Sunday, like I said. But the raspberry lime one had a booze in it. It had alcohol in it. Which I really liked.

Yeah, it was cool. I saw the raspberry lime Ricky, right? Yeah, yeah. And I'm a huge raspberry lime Ricky guy, but there was booze in it. And I was gonna try to do a couple of different things. I was gonna maybe do a cone and I was like, I'm gonna try to do more of like a chocolatey flavor.

I'd ask if they would microwave a big gulp cup for me of the raspberry lime one. They wouldn't do it. Where is that? Oh, the cherry lime Ricky. I think maybe that's what it was. And then the other one I got, I had this up on the other page, but...

Chocolate milk and cookies, right? Chocolate milk and cookies. Yeah, chocolate milk ice cream, chocolate full of sandwich cream cookies, pretty simple. Remember dipping your cookies in milk and drinking that glass of cookie infused milk when you ran out of cookies? We sure did.

Feel like a kid again with chocolate milk and cookies, a chocolate milk ice cream, chocolate full of sandwich cream cookies. This is like a riff on a cookies and cream, pretty much. Yes, for an indulgence, unlike any other pear, there's flavor, ooey gooey butter cake. I didn't do that.

Yeah. So I had those two flavors on top of the brownie. I had hot fudge on top of that, whip cream and a cherry. It was a lot. It was a lot. Here's the issue. And this is the same issue that happens with Ben and Jerry. Yes.

With an ice cream sundae, I fucked up. Look, I fucked up. I should have just gotten a cone. The ice cream sundae was just, there was just too much going on. It overshadowed those flavors a little bit. Yeah, always a possibility for user error when you're creating those.

Not bad, but I mean, and I didn't even go that crazy. I just went hot fudge, whip cream and a cherry on top of very classic sundae. Sure. But how was that fudge? The fudge was good. Do you, oh, do you have issues with it? Well, I wanna know because,

so I've been to Ample Hills few times recently. I've been to the one at Disney World. And that one I think has a unique thing because they didn't offer it to me here. When I was about to pay, they're like, oh, do you want any complimentary toppings? Whoa. And I was like, what?

Complimentary. And they're like, yeah. I was like, what are the, and they're like, oh, fudge, caramel, strawberry, whip cream. And I was like, okay, I'll take a little fudge and whip cream. But the fudge, it kind of has a taste. I've experienced this at Shake Shack 2

where it's like, oh, it's too good. It's too good quality. And it kind of has an aftertaste almost. Well, we'll get into the fudge a little bit later because we had something that was made from the fudge. That's true. Oh, I know what, yeah. I'm curious to hear about that.

We'll get into that a little bit. But here's my complaint about it. Well, one, this was my own doing, the fact that the brownie, the fudge, wow, I just going back at this ice cream. It's really good. The brownie and the fudge just overshadowed these flavors. Yeah.

But here's my spell complaint. And I think it's gonna play into my scoring a little bit. The ice cream was like, you know when you have ice cream in the fridge for too long and it ices up? Oh no, yeah. I had a lot of that icy taste at the actual restaurant, which is weird to call it a restaurant, at the actual restaurant and with right here

with this take home container, I got a lot of that kind of icy flavor. And I don't know what that is, but I usually just always equate it to older ice cream that's been in the freezer for too long. I wonder if the temperature was a little too high on those freezers because I noticed the same thing on your Sunday that some of the scoops

had like an icy top layer to them. Not good. Which I don't think they're shooting for at all. I think that's a little bit of a kitchen error. Because it wants to be more creamy. You know what I mean? So this was, this hurt it big time. And just sampling everything, I was like,

these flavors are good. Yeah. There's no doubt that these flavors are good. I like Jennie's, that's up the street. That still is maybe my favorite of the area. The one themed after Forrest comes girlfriend. Jennie's. Sorry, what were you gonna say, Jennie?

Oh, I was gonna say the free topping there is Listeria, that's the one. We had to shut down and destroy gallons of gallons of stock because of the. The Chipotle of ice cream parlors, yeah. That's fair. They did, they fucked up. But when we've tried all these other places,

McConnell's is nearby there too. I think I think. The one themed after the Senate Majority Leader, it's weird. Yes, the Mitch McConnell ice cream place. There's like a turtle flavor. You think they'd be running away from that in this day and age? I know, they really, they ain't into it.

It says, celebrate Mitch on the storefront and there's a picture of Mitch McConnell. And he's bottomless. You're taking selfies with this hog. That I seen has kind of lost some points for me with the ice cream. Wow, yeah. I mean, I gotta.

This is distressing to me. I mean, I just, I gotta rate it based on that, you know what I mean? And so, I do recognize that this place is a quality place, but. You can tell the product is very, very. The product is good, but yes, but it lost a couple of points there.

Oh, it's a bummer. Weigar, we can get into what we also had, which I was, we were kind of hinting at here a second ago. I do want to talk about our beverage, but before we do that, I want to give Sheridan a chance to talk about his sweet treats a bit. Sure. So when I went in Disney World,

I had, I always get the ooey gooey butter cake. Yeah. And I think honestly, that's so good. It makes a lot of the other flavors kind of pale in comparison. Interesting. It's also just fun to say, ooey gooey butter, butter cake.

And I've had St. Louis style butter cake before, which is like a dense kit. Like the ice cream on that is just like butter and confectioner sugar and it's, it's heavy. Yes. In the exclusive, because the shops have exclusive flavors. So in Disney World, their exclusive flavor is called Sally sells seashells

and it's a billowy orange marshmallow ice cream with salted dark chocolate seashells. That was pretty good when I had it. Again, but a similar thing though, I don't know if it was the fudge or like the chunks of chocolate in it where it's like, this is a, might be a little too good quality.

Like I'm not used to this because my, I'm kind of a, like, I don't discriminate with ice cream. Like I'll buy whatever's on sale. I take all comers. I just usually have either ice cream, some combination of ice cream cookies or chocolate in the house.

Usually two out of three. Yeah. So I thought, I thought that one was pretty good, but the orange flavor kind of over, like infected the ooey gooey butter cake. This time when I went, I had a sugar cone with the butter cake. And then this was a recommendation

from our friend, Anthony Geo, snap mallow pop, a deconstructed rice crispy treat, marshmallow ice cream with baked and buttery rice crispy clusters. We tasted that one there. They, then that one was super interesting. That one was delicious, I thought.

Yeah, that was very good. I think the one with that is, I have to have some sort of texture. I don't really, I'm not a big smooth ice cream, like just vanilla or just chocolate. I want some either ribbons of chocolate or marshmallow or like nuts or cake or cookies, something in it. You want to mix in?

Yeah, I want to mix in. You're like one of Ben, whichever of Ben and Jerry has a nausea and can't taste. And so he only likes the texture. Is that right? Yeah, it's true, one of them. That's why they're so mixed and heavy. Yeah.

Huh, I never knew that. Yeah, one guy just like cold texture. What a fucking sad story. Yeah, it's like a tragic. That's like a fucking movie. It is, yeah. He's fucking, he can only, he just gets off on the texture. Right.

But so the snap allopop, some of the rice crispy treats kept the texture. Like some were crispy and somewhere a little softer. The thing with the ooey gooey butter cake is the cake keeps the consistency. It does, yeah. And then once I let my stomach settle as I was leaving, I got a chocolate shake to go.

The with dark chocolate, rich dark chocolate ice cream made with 72% equitar chocolate. I don't know how to say that. Basically their dark chocolate ice cream got into a shake. Delicious. Wow. That was really good.

That was an oversight on our part, Mitch. We missed the frozen treat we missed out on was a shake. We didn't get a version of that. What we did get was, this is the thing they're pushing right now, the S'more hot chocolate. Our signature new recipe made with housemade fudge topped with whipped cream and a s'more.

There's a whole s'more on top of a healthy portion, like a Starbucks tall portion of hot chocolate, which is a lot of hot chocolate, because this is very, very dense and very flavorful and rich. Mitch, you remarked you really like the hot chocolate. I thought the hot chocolate itself was good and it did come from that fudge.

Yeah, yeah. He was making it. It's good quality. He was steaming the milk and putting that fudge in there. It was, I said that it looked like the hot chocolate that Flanders made Bart in the Simpsons movie. It did, yeah.

It was very similar to the hot chocolate that he made because this s'more on top was insane. Right. It was just, it was too much stuff. I mean, I still, I feel like wired and I feel like shit from this, still from this meal. It's weird that you see Bart's dick in the Simpsons movie. I figured you would love that.

It's funny. It's a good joke. I did love it, but it is like, it's weird. Like it's just like this mischievous little boy that we've known for like 20 years. Did we wanna see his dick? We wanna see his dick, I don't know. It was weird.

Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry. I interrupted you to go on this tangent about. I mean, I guess it is true that like it is a 10 year old boy's dick. It's a 10 year old boy's dick. Very excited for the FBI to listen to this episode. It's a 10 year old boy's uncircumcised dick.

Can I tell you something? Yeah. I started working at the Simpsons then and they used me as the model for Bart's dick. Can we do like a bigger version of this? Anyways. Yes. Yeah, I agree with you.

It's weird we see Bart's dick. Yeah. I'm sorry, you were talking about it. It's like Flanders' eyes. Yeah, it's like Flanders' fucking hot chocolate that he gets a Bart. It had so much stuff going on with it. Yeah.

And it was good. It was just, I mean, this is just too much. I was going crazy. It's too much. And the s'more was so sweet. It was like punishingly sweet. It was a well made s'more, but it was just like, it was soaking in the cocoa.

It had chocolate smeared on it. It had that big marshmallow inside. We both took a bite and we were just like, oh boy. Couldn't take more than one bite of that. It was too much. We also, we saw Amanda from the Disneyland Foodies on our way out. The only other person that came in there

the entire time we were there, which was kind of crazy, why? That was a weird, that was a weird celeb sighting. Shout out at Disneyland Foodies on Instagram. Yeah. But it was very, but it was so weird that no one, it was just us in there. I can't tell if like this place,

I don't know if it's too new or what the deal is if LA hasn't caught on yet, but it feels like a place that should be packed. Yeah. I think it was just kind of cold. You think that's what it is. You think it's just the weather. Well, I thankfully checked the hours online

because I was like, oh, I'll go Monday during the day. And they're only open to like three to nine at the moment. Yeah. One weekdays. On weekends they're open all day. So yeah, I ended up there Sunday, late afternoon and it was pretty empty. Yeah.

Well, let's get to our final thoughts on Ample Hill's Creamery. So Sheridan, you know the pod, but just a refresher will each go around. We'll say our closing statement regarding this chain. And then we will give it a score from zero to five forks. Jason, Sheridan, our guest, we begin with you. I have a lot of thoughts on the current movement

of like bourgeois craft ice cream. Like I do find a lot of it a little exhausting. I think the same thing with craft donuts. Like some of it's good. Some of it's really good. Some of it is made with really good ingredients, really good quality. But I think the thing, one of the things that appeals to me

still about like donuts and ice cream is that it's like for the people. It's for everyone. It's easy to make in big quantities. It's affordable. And I do find like some of these like your salt and straws and stuff kind of put it out of like it's too much money. It costs too much.

I agree. This is a great breakdown. Definitely fair criticism. I completely agree with this. Yeah. I think Ample Hills, it is on the more affordable end of those kind of like bougie ice cream places. The other thing that I was trying to figure out.

Would you say you don't need to have Ample Bills to dine at Ample Hills? I would say that. Okay. I would definitely say that. My question is why would you say that? Because it's a normal thing that people say. You know what?

It's a lot like South Park though. Ample parking day or night. That's true. Yeah. That's a big asset there. One of the other things, and I couldn't put my finger on it and then I was reading an article about it is that their mission is to appeal to families

and including kids. And like when you're making like goat cheese ice cream or saffron ice cream, the kids kind of aren't into that. Sure. And I do like the aesthetic of like there's a lot of hand painted murals. There's like a kids area, like it's nice. And there are, the flavors are approachable

in the way that like, they're maybe complex, but they're complex in the Ben and Jerry's way. It's not like sage and fucking rosemary and shit you wouldn't normally see in ice cream or in Western style ice cream. Like the LA's one's unique flavor is horchata flavor. So with a little cinnamon-y. Right.

And that's pretty easy to get. Once you sample it, it's like cinnamon cream ice cream. The other thing I like about it, and it doesn't seem like any of us did this, but I've killed one of these myself. The flight, did you see the flight? It's six scoops. Yeah, that's wild.

It's like six tastings. They're smaller scoops. Right. But best shared. If you're gonna try the flight, do it with a friend or loved one. Because by the time I was done eating it, all the flavors had kind of mushed together

and my throat hurt from all the sugar. We should have done the flight. Amanda told me she did the flight. We should have done that flight. Yeah, we should have done a flight. The flight's fun. And I think for a while, maybe this was just Disneyland,

they had a proprietary container, like a plastic container with a spot for each scoop. Here, it's kind of a brown paper tray. They dump it in. Right. But I like it. I'm sad to hear Mitch had a not great experience. But yeah, I think of the current trend

of an elevated ice cream, it is definitely my favorite. And I think closer to a traditional ice cream parlor, mom-and-pop ice cream parlor, Baskin Robbins, that sort of thing. I'm gonna go ahead and give it four forks. Four forks, very good score. That's a good score.

I'm gonna go and then I'm gonna let Mitch take us home. I'm gonna have another bite of this, the Spider-Man ice cream. Sure. I'm gonna do this right now. This whole factor into my diet. I like this a lot. I usually eat my chocolate guy, but I do like this cherry pie ice cream.

All right, we're keeping that Spider-Man ice cream. We're gonna turn it to Spider-Pig. Our favorite, all of our favorite carrot. This came, we were talking Simpsons recently. And I was like, did we all imagine Spider-Pig? Was Spider-Pig manufactured consent? They're like, you won't like Spider-Pig. Remember, you like Spider-Pig.

But apparently he tested very well. I like Spider-Pig. Spider-Pig, I think, was a Jim Brooks idea. Was it really? I think so. Boy. Spider-Pig! That's what he sounds like.

I mean, the Spider-Man ice cream is very good. Aunt May's cherry pie is my kind of pie. Easy now, easy. I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to say it was horny for this whole broad. I'm just saying that I like this flavor. The Brooklyn side of Ample Hills really came out of you. I didn't say I was horny for this whole broad.

I mean, I didn't eat too much Ample Hills. What'd you expect from me? I go there a lot because you don't need Ample Bills. For Brooklyn. Forget about it. Forget about it. Oh, the Nets. Oh, Kyrie Irvin shooting three pointers off.

Forget about it. I'm a Brooklyn guy. We love the Brooklyn Nets. We love how toxic he is. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I really loved my ice cream cone. I just thought it was fantastic. I thought it was dynamite.

I think this Spider-Man flavor is great. My Spidey taste buds are tingling. This is fucking great. It's great ice cream. It's a really good product. I like how great the employees were. I was trying to say, I feel like I tasted Spidey. I landed it.

Give me a fucking break. I gotcha. Get off my back. You like the employees. The employees are referred to as Amploys, which is a nice pun on an Ample. That's a lot of fun. The both flavors I had were great.

I thought the hot chocolate was a little much, but that's not what you go to a scoop shop for. I fucking loved it. I think this is dynamite ice cream. I think this place deserves its reputation. I'm going five forks. I love it. Five forks. I'm sorry, five spoons.

I'm going five spoons. I love it. I loved it. Okay, go ahead, Mitch. I'm the dairy dude, and this wasn't a dairy dud far from it. This lived up to my expectations. You're the dairy dude. Look, this belongs in the golden circle of the creamsman.

I might be dairy rude right now. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I recognize that it's quality ice cream. Yes. My ice cream was icy, and then when I ate this ice cream that was in the pint, it too was icy.

Okay, now I think I figured something out on that. What are you looking for, Weigher? Are you going to get the milk? Just let me do it. We have a cereal segment. I'm going to tee it up. But you're not going to be able to figure this out. Jesus Christ.

Emma, here's what you get. We all have spoons already. Emma, if you get us bowls from the drawer. What's this really about? Do you guys just miss you song? Have you got us on bowls from that drawer? We haven't had proper time to mourn you song. Rest in peace, you song.

Haven't notified his parents yet. He's in hell now, but at least he's with Uncle Ben. And then if you get it. Now, Emma, do you know where the snack cabinet is? It's down into the right. If you're by the sink, I think it's blocked by stuff. There's just junk sitting in my kitchen.

Weigher, it's by the 10th set of feeding bowls, which has scattered around this living quarters. This is a hell right now. My living situation is a hell. Wow, great job, Emma. You knocked it out of the park way faster than Weigher would have done it. I would have done it fine.

And of course, Emma did a good job. Look at that maze on the back. It's, wow, the captain has an enemy on the back. Wait, so they actually have a Christmas maze on the back of Christmas crunch? Wow, a Christmas maze. You were right. Wow, I am right.

This is huge for me. This is big. I think I might be the more right dough boy. Hmm, I don't know if I go that far. I think you're the alt right dough boy. Wait a minute, so I was gonna say about you. I think I figured out the iciness for the pint. So the pint went from the freezer at the store

to your freezer, and then to soften it a little, we put it in the fridge for a while. That's true. With that in mind, knowing that path that it took, I'm going to raise my score to four and a half fours. Wow. Wow. Because that may have been some human error on our part.

Have we ever, have we given four, have we, there's no, been no ice cream place that's gotten four spoons. I don't remember all the ice cream places we reviewed. Also, I went to Ample Hills opening day, and they gave out free cones to everyone. So that's nice. Oh, that's nice.

Should I, should I boost it? Look, here's, look, I'm just gonna put it up. This is the difference. You should, you should just be true to yourself. I'm going, I'm telling you right now what I'm thinking. Right now in my mind, I'm gonna give it 3.85 spoons. Wow. But hold on, the employees are really good.

The ice cream is good. It was a little bit icy though. Do I just give it the four spoons? You, you could have said something. The service was so good, you probably could have said, like, hey, this is a little icy. And I think that is from the limited turnover they're having because it's a colder time of year.

Yeah. Limited turnover is also a problem with a understaffed bakery. I'll give it four spoons. Wow, four spoons for the Spoon Man. Welcome to the Golden Plate Club. The Golden Circle. Cream's been the Golden Circle for Ample Hills Creamery.

Because of our good friend Jason Sheridan and it gets backed up by Nicole Byer. Wow. Two great friends of the podcast. I'm giving it four spoons. Wow. I need to go back. I want more of a creamy taste.

I need to go back. I need to go back with you anytime. I need to not get the Sunday. You've got to do the flight. I'll do the flight. The issue with the flight though is you've got to eat it quick because all those flavors mesh together. Mesh together.

And if I will get that creaminess out of it, I love the aesthetic of the actual place we went to. I like the employees. There were a lot of great tastes going on. Early on, I thought that this was a sure fire four to five four because we've now, because it's very hard for ice cream places to make it into the Golden Play Club.

I got to go back, but I'll go four spoons. Wow. Merry Christmas to Ample Hills. Wow. Mitch. A Christmas miracle. I think you stuck true to yourself but also gave this place the accolades it deserved.

Congratulations to Ample Hills Creamery. We just had a lovely time and I love you like it. I don't know if I feel good about it, but I did what I thought was right. Yeah. Well, hey, that was our review of Ample Hills Creamery. It's time for a segment from Double Boys Media Studios in Los Feliz.

This is Serial, a segment told one bowl at a time. This is a collect call from Count Choculo. I was standing over Tuka and Sam and I could tell that he had something on his mind. I got home and my wife, the trick's rabbit was dead. Okay, so. So is the trick's rabbit the wife of Tuka and Sam? I'm not sure.

I don't know that we quite figure. I mean, we got to listen to how this podcast plays out, how this long form true crime podcast plays out to see what happens. Count Choculo was standing over Tuka and Sam as he was thinking. Yeah, it's something on his mind. More of a fan of the Beau Bergdahl scene.

Right, we all love that. Well, yeah, that was fun. Wigs, we got a fun serial today. Oh boy. Christmas crunch. Christmas crunch, wow. The captain has, he's got Christmas crunch. Here's my question about Christmas crunch.

I guess we're gonna find out in a second here. There's also, with this Christmas maze on the back, there's a cast of characters. One is like a villain. Who's the villain there and there's a dog? It's one of the, wait, so they have the, sorry, I'm trying to pour and look at the box at the same time.

The villain is just some sort of, wait, this looks like a crossover with a different property because these look like the, the cookie crisp. It looks like the, but these also look like characters from who's that fucking Peabody and Sherman? Oh, shit. That's what it looks like to me.

I'm not sure. I don't know exactly what's going on. I don't know what's going on with the captain crunch expanded universe at this point. I don't know who the antagonist is. Is it Peabody and Sherman? I don't know. They look adjacent to them.

At least it looks like the character design is maybe borrowed from them. One guy looks like Gil again. This is very confusing. Yeah. It's confusing. How many of Z crunch pieces can you find? It's just some French guy.

Ruckus around the Christmas tree. Oh, I know who that is. There's a, they have a villain. One of his villains is a French guy. What the fuck is it called? It's like Pierre Lafau or something like that. What the fuck is the Captain Crunch's villain called? And there's a talking dog.

Can you find at least 10 candy canes? The dog is asking. These, this looks like the crunch verse. Jean LaFoultre, the barefoot pirate. That's who it is. Wow. Yeah. He's a, he's a French guy with no shoes cause he's a fucking frog freak.

Yeah. You, your eyes immediately lit up at the mention of bare feet, Nick. So here's my question with Christmas. It says Captain Crunch's Christmas crunch, sweetened corn and oat cereal, fun holiday shapes. They are fun holiday. Now here's my question though. Do these shapes taste any differently?

Because with the berries, you get a little different taste in there. This, I'm not sure. I think this just might all taste like Captain Crunch, which look, Captain Crunch is good, but what's the deal? You know what I mean? Like you gotta give me some flavor here. One of my green stars is a little brown.

That is Christmas tree has already started to die. That is, that is bizarre. That does, that looks strange. It's probably just burnt. These are, these are crunch berry flavored. The, the individual, the wood is the, the non berry part, the wood is just like a sweet corn and the, the berries are the, the fun holiday shapes rather

are the same flavor as a crunch berry. So this is just very similar to a crunch berry execution. Are you sure? It tastes, taste a berry on its, or I'm sorry, taste a fun holiday shape on its own and see if you taste a berry. You called the wood like your friend told you when you were in fucking elementary school.

But it feels like I'm getting cavities from today. It's insane. We've had so much, we've had so much sugar and dairy. I feel like we're both just gonna fucking shit our brains out. It's gonna be so deeply unpleasant when this podcast wraps. All we've had today was fucking ice cream and cookies and cereal. I'll get Wendy's later.

Yeah, I might get Wendy's later too. Why is that? Even I, the two scoops and the shake, even I was feeling a little loggy. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's great to know that that shake is high quality cause I might go with that, that direction.

Oh, the whipped cream on it was also delicious. Like clearly a high quality whipped cream. Was Captain Crunch, was this one of the cereals that had, cereals and soda I feel like, do you guys remember the urban legend about yellow five? That dye yellow number five? Oh yeah. Like that was a playground,

a schoolyard thing of like don't, oh man, don't have too much yellow five or like, Your sperm will die. Your sperm will die. Oh yes. I've heard that about, well cause it was connected to Mountain Dew, right? Cause Mountain Dew is yellow.

Yeah, it's Mountain Dew. This is fucking, I love it. I like Crunch Berries, I like this. I like Captain, I like regular Captain Crunch too. This is great. This is delightful. I think you are right that these do taste differently. Yeah.

But it doesn't say anything on it, I can't tell. I honestly can't tell. It's probably the dye is different, right? Yeah, it could be mildly different. It could have a slightly different flavor, but I think this is fucking great. I think this is delightful. I forget what metric we used for cereal,

but I'm gonna say these are, this is guilty of being delicious. That's what we do, right? Yeah, we say guilty or not guilty. This is guilty of being a great cereal. I'd be happy to find this if I could just talking. I still can't tell if there's different flavors in this. Guilty, send them to the chair.

Wow. Right, murderinos? Give them to the chair. So you have a favorite of Capital Punishment? I'm surprised. Mitch, what do you think? Should this bad boy get lethal injection? Should we send it to the gas chamber?

I think. Remember California used to execute people by gas chamber? It's so grim. Sorry, go on. Jerry Brown took the phone off the hook. I think put two cans Sam up in front of a firing squad. Wow. This is what happens when you cross

the French foreign legion, you son of a bitch. Mitch, you ever think about that? You ever think about giving everything up, going to that office you can go to in France, knock on the door, say I'd like to join up? Do you know about this? They'll take, that's the story about the French foreign legion. They would like take anyone.

Is that true? Yeah, I think they still will. I heard about that and I looked into it and I think I'm too old. I think they have an age difference. Yeah, there might be an age difference. But like they would be, if you were young enough, you could knock on a door or something

and go like, all right, well, this is the next three to five years of your life. Come on in. Maybe I do it. Depressingly few options to just pack everything up and start a new life if you're a 39 year old man. They're just aren't as many fields that will take someone at that age.

Kind of aged out of joining the Coast Guard or whatever. You should be put out to pasture basically. I got a beard hair in my bowl already, so I'm done. Okay. But it's your own. It's got to be yours. It's not happening alone. Yeah, I do see it.

It sucks. It just looks disgusting. Hopefully it's not a beard hair from the villainous, it's Jean LeFoot. Is he a part of the, that if you knock on the door, is that who answers in France? Jean LeFoot, you can tell by his bare feet.

I still can't. But you really want you to get a look at. I still can't tell and it's driving me insane. I think they're different flavors. Hold on, can let me see the box real quick? Product enlarged to show detail. Damn it. No, I already looked for flavors,

but that's what you're looking for. There's no flavor, there's nothing about flavors. I think the fun holiday shapes are different flavors, but you know, hey, we may never know. We may never know. Hey, just like a restaurant, that was cereal. Just like a restaurant, buy your feedback, let's open up the feedback.

Today's email comes to us from Sam, AKA fish671. Sam writes. I'm just gonna quickly say, Captain Crunch Not, a cereal I had as a kid and it's a good cereal. It's a very good cereal, yeah, absolutely right. And this is from Sam, fish671. An important part of my favorite restaurant is the hot sauce.

How many and what flavor of hot sauce do you put on each item at Taco Bell? On CGC, I put three fire sauce packets. Wow, I love this question. Thank you guys so much for the pod. Yeah, Mitch, go for it. For me, look, I used to get the hot sauce. What is there?

Diablo? Diablo, fire, hot and mild, right? Is that correct? I think so. I used to do the hot sauce, that was my favorite one. I think maybe I was even in the fire category at one point. This is sad. I'm now down to mild.

Boy. For the cheesy Gordy to Crunch, I do four to five mild packets on the cheesy Gordy to Crunch. And this is for intestinal reasons slash, do you get acid reflux? Is that an issue with you? That might be a part of it, I don't know. But it's more just your digestion is suffered.

Too spicy to say, the spiciness kills me now. It's such a sad Michelle of my former self. And my former self is just like a big fat maniac who ate hot, spicy stuff and was grosser. You're a shell that's formed over your former self. Yes. Like a Russian doll. Yes, yeah.

There's one, like if you went back a few, if you opened up the Russian doll a few times, like there was a cool version of me kind of. Right. In there somewhere. Here's Mitch's old sedan that used to fall asleep covered in Carl's Junior Rackers. Yeah.

But yes, four to five for the cheesy Gordy to Crunch. I mean, do you want me to go off on what my order used to be? I would get a crunchy Fritos beefy burrito or whatever. I get the cheesy Gordy to Crunch. I would do the chipotle chicken loaded grill or now that's gone. And then I would do like some other sort of thing, whether it would be a Doritos Locos Taco Supreme or a quesarito

or something like that or the five layer burrito. And all of those usually have about three, three to four mild packets, but the cheesy Gordy to Crunch, I take four to five packets. Wow. I always ask for extra. I always, I always, you know, when I go to Del Taco, Nick. Yes.

And I do the chicken rollers there. Sometimes I don't use any hot sauce on those. Really? I don't. And there's some stuff at Del Taco, like the bean and cheese burrito. Sometimes I just like to get the flavors of that without the hot sauce.

Well, that has a little sauce with the red sauce or green sauce. Yeah, I totally get that. But say for like the spicy jack chicken quesadilla, I do one hot, sorry, mild per quesadilla slice. Oh, per slice. Wow, that's a lot. That's kind of go nuts at Del Taco. So let's talk about first off, do you

have a dog in the fight Taco Bell versus Del Taco? You like them both? I like Taco Bell as its like own genre of food. Sure. I think Del Taco easy, easy given of like better quality. Got it. As food food. Also an advantage for those crinkle cut fries.

Oh, yeah, those fries are great. Del Taco, I didn't eat for years because we have such good Mexican food here in LA. Right. And then between this show and Mike Carlson, I got back into it a few years ago. But when I did, that was when they had the green hot sauce and chipotle hot sauce.

And those were great. I was so sad when they got rid of those. Yeah, they phased out the very day. My Del Taco Bell order is usually a cheesy, what is it, the cheesy bean and rice burrito. And then some combination of potato tacos or shredded chicken quesadilla because I am partly because I'm a cheapskate and then partly

because I try to really watch my portion control when eating fast food. So ordering the smaller stuff, it's just easier. But I put a lot of the hot kind of the sauce, the hot variety on all of that. No, you're talking the one labeled hot or the hottest? The one labeled hot. Got it.

It's a good, that's a good, the hot one is a good sauce. It's a good sauce. It's not overwhelming. If I have too much hot sauce, my stomach hurts. Oh, wait, is there a medium too? Man, I should know this because I love talking about it. Is it hot, medium? Is it, sorry, sorry, mild, medium, hot, fire, and Diablo?

Is that what it is? Wags. I remember there being that hot is the medium. But let me go ahead and find. That's what I thought too, but maybe I'm wrong. Yeah, because I never, I always go pretty spicy. I usually go with the, oh, in the very day, there's a Verde sauce at Taco Bell as well.

Okay, so they have mild hot, fire, and Diablo. So yes, those are the standard ones. So hot kind of takes the place of the medium. I think like three, I'll use three packets for the bean and rice burrito and like two per taco or so. I like a lot of sauce. Two per taco is what I will do generally. And at Taco Bell, I go fire sauce.

At Del Taco, I go Del Inferno. Now, Del Inferno is their hottest. That's a little hotter. Yeah, they don't. Del Scorcho is good. Del Scorcho is, I think, a better flavor, but I like the flavor of Del Inferno. And, you know, as I mentioned in the podcast,

I'm something of a heat seeker. I like things spicy. However, I like the flavor of the Del Inferno, even though I like the flavor of the, it's a trade-off, even though I like the flavor of the one a notch below a little bit better. But at Taco Bell, I don't love the Diablo sauce flavor of it. And it's just like a little too vinegary for me.

It just doesn't quite work as a hot sauce, even though it has more potency. So I usually stick with fire, which I think has a very good flavor to it. A cheesy Gordy to crunch. Yeah, I mean, like, I'd say probably four fire sauce packets, but three fire sauce packets is the right ballpark. I will usually do two, one and a half to two packets

per taco, and I will do two to three for a burrito. But it just really, it really just depends. I gotta say, Del Taco Bell, my favorite thing as a kid, we're like the chicken soft tacos. Yes. I don't know what happened to the chicken at Taco Bell. Now I find it disgusting. Unless it's that shredded chicken,

that's a little different. That's pretty good. You're saying like the grilled, like the pieces of grilled chicken. It's just like the pieces of grilled chicken. They are a little strange. I loved them in the Chipotle chicken, the chicken roller, which is gone. Oh, not chicken roller, whatever it was.

The Chipotle chicken, what are those things called that are gone now? Which one are you talking about? I forget the name of them. The Chipotle chicken, chicken wrap or whatever. Rollers or grillers? Oh, grillers. Yeah, loaded grillers.

The loaded griller, yes. That chicken, that burrito was just so good that the meat of the chicken didn't get in the way, but I think I agree with you that the shredded chicken is better, which I usually don't think is true. In a Mexican restaurant, I don't think that the shredded chicken is usually the one that is grosser and tastes almost like tuna.

I like it more grilled than stewed. I really like the chicken at Del Taco. Yeah, their chicken's good. They have the chicken soft tacos, and on Thursdays now, I think they have a chicken soft taco tonight where you can get three of them for, I think maybe $169, that's a pretty good price, maybe $269.

Yeah, I think it's up. Yeah, but the sauce on those is quite good. After three, after 3 p.m. After 3 p.m., and before 11 p.m., which is fucking before, and you know what, it's gonna fuck me tonight. It's Tuesday taco night, I'm gonna get my Del Taco tacos if I go over that. It actually might govern my decision in terms of

where I'm going to get my post-show meal. Maybe it's a Wendy's night tonight. Might be a Wendy's night, but hey, let us know your packet count, hashtag submission packet. Let us know how many packets you put on various foods, and if you have a question or comment with the word of chain restaurants, gmail us at dowboyspodcast at gmail.com,

or leave us a voicemail at 830-GO-DOE, that's 830-463-6840. We're gonna overlap into Jack going after Stephen Colbert with the submission packet hashtag. To get the Dowboys double our weekly bonus episode, join the Golden Earth Platinum Blake Club at patreon.com slash dowboys. Jason Sheridan, what a thrill to have you here.

Thank you so much, guys. It's about time we're gonna have you back soon. The Sweet Boy has joined up with the Dowboys. Oh, I love it. We're so excited. What would you like to plug at this time? My show, Podcast the Ride. Great podcast. Hosted by Mike Carlson, Scott Gairdner, and myself.

It's a comedy podcast about theme parks. And yeah, we have a Patreon too, patreon.com slash podcast the ride, the second gate. That's for kind of the more off the beaten path through tangentially related stuff. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what do we have coming up? You guys just went to Orlando.

You did a show there. We just went to Orlando. Yeah, we just put out a trip report about our trip to Orlando. We got to ride the new Hagrid's coaster at Universal. And yeah, what do we did a show in Orlando? That was also very fun. And Wigs and I were both just on there too. And you were both on, oh yeah,

we just wrapped the downtown Disney ordeal, an 18 part examination of the outdoor pedestrian mall next to Disneyland. What an odyssey that was. You both were very kind to come on. Early, Mitch, you were like a third or fourth episode of the show, Nick, you were on an early one talking about parking garages,

establishing your reign as the parking guy. Yeah, I've kind of found my niche there. If you need a parking structure reviewed, I'll come on and do it. The Dairy Dude and the Parking Guy. Yeah. Two very fun things. Yeah, but thank you both for your support of the podcast.

Yeah, of course. Thank you both for your early support of me. So that was very helpful. Well, we love you. You're a great funny dude. We love you. Thank you. And hey, if you like Doughboys,

check out our podcast or ride, you'll love it. Go for it. Oh, I was also gonna just say, and as a parting gift, we're gonna give you some of this. Captain Crunch's Christmas Crunch. An opened bag. Oh, thank you so much.

That we tried on the episode. Look, it's best before May's. Partially melted ice cream. You can take the ice cream too if you'd like. I was planning on it. May 31st, 2022, it's good till. Oh, wow. Wow.

2020, sorry. Okay. Okay. And it's opened. Well, that'll last for a little bit. Yeah, sure. You'll get through the primaries with that. Yeah, I can enjoy it

while watching this boys' Ghostbusters. Oh. No. No. No. No. No. No.

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cream of the crop promo, annotated from Genius. Randy Savage, one last time the cream will rise to the top by Matthew Martin. Brooklyn's Ample Hills positions itself to be their next Ben & Geri's by Larissa Zimberhoff. How this business owner expanded her neighborhood ice cream

shop to Disney World, Brooklyn and beyond by Lea Wald. How pop culture became a part of Ample Hills Creamery's DNA by Abby White and the Ample Hills website. Full list of sources available in the episode description.