Doughboys - Burger King 8 with Joe Wengert

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Joe Wengert (@joewengert, Kevin) joins the 'boys to talk Kevin the cat, Wawa University, and Philly eats before a review of Burger King's Mandalorian and Grogu menu. Plus another edition of Servin' USA.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://gizmodo.com/george-lucas-ideas-for-his-own-star-wars-sequel-trilogy-1826798496https://screenrant.com/george-lucas-star-wars-sale-more-secretive/https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/disney-acquire-lucasfilm/https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Mandalorianhttps://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-movies-and-series-guidehttps://news.bk.com/blog-posts/burger-king-r-launches-out-of-this-galaxy-limited-time-menu-inspired-by-the-highly-anticipated-upcoming-movie---star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-groguEXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/doughboys Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guaranteeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com slash doughboys media. Hey, buddy, Mitch, we've been doing a lot of live dates this year, and we're going some places we've never been before. We're going to North Carolina and Georgia. That's right, we're going to the south.

That's right, Wags, some southern shows. We're going to be there at May 27th, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 28th, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 29th, Atlanta, times two. That's right. City Winery, two shows. shows in a row, Wags. We're going to blow the doors off the place. Tickets still available for the late show. And our guest... You know what? Georgia Peach. Ooh, it's really sweet. I need something tart.

Carl Tart. That's right. Our guest will be Carl Tart joining us for every show. From the South himself. And who better to accompany us to rally Charlotte in Atlanta times two? One of the funniest people ever. A peach of a man. A peach of a man. That's right, Wags. We're going to turn the South upside down. We're going to turn the South upside down. It's going to be the North. Literacy rates skyrocket.

We're not going to make those kind of jokes. No. Because we're guests. And we're going to be Southern gentlemen. We're going to be Southern gentlemen. And we're going to have a great time. Enjoy some of that Southern hospitality. Can't wait to be there.

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To get your 20% off, text Doe Boys to 64,000. Texted. Toys to 64,000, that's Do Boys to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply, see terms or details. They were going to get into a microbiotic world. But there's this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the wills. And the wills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the force. This was George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, describing his admittedly bizarre plans for his sequel trilogy. plans quickly binned by Disney after they purchased Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012. The ensuing canonical Disney episode 7 through 9 were sloppily planned and heavily reshot.

And while fans were sharply split on the Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, 2019's disastrous The Rise of Skywalker made both sides agree that the scattershot exquisite corpse trilogy was a massive waste of everyone's time. But the fandom also united to celebrate a 2019 Star Wars TV series built around a bounty hunter clad in the same armor as Fets Jango and Boba, and paired with the biggest breakout character of the Disney era, the adorable force-sensitive green guy, informally known as Baby Yoda. But while the Favreofiloni co-lab injected a needed dose of breezy fun, the House of Mouse quickly began beating their streaming success like a dead taun-ton,

over-expanding its reach by speed-releasing seven Star Wars series of varying quality. And now with a theatrical film that has the appearance of a years-too-late TV special, will this seemingly desperate IP Holdo maneuver break the franchise's current Tatooine-esque dry spell? With a tie-in menu for the nation's second largest burglary, the company is hoping the space opera epic will will its way back to fan goodwill, if you will, without the wills.

This week on Doe Boys, we return once again to Burger King for the Mandalorian and Grogu Meal. Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Weiger, along with my co-host. The Spoon Mandalorian, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. That's not that bad of a roast? I think it's pretty clever. But it's not roasting, here.

It's kind of just a complies. I mean, I think they know that I think that I'm not going to like the movie is probably why that is kind of a roast. It could be that. It could also be thinking like the Spoon Mandalorian as opposed to the Mandalorian, you know, instead of saying like, this is the way he says like, this is the W-E-I-G-H. You imply I eat weigh? No. No, he implied that you have weights. Way is W. He Y.

Oh, that's even worse. I didn't listen to how you spelled way. I thought you were saying W.H. I thought you were being curds and ways. I was thinking curds and way. Oh, so yeah, I am out of you. That is, yeah, I guess that's meaner. I should have even another way one that wasn't that.

have it your this is instead of this is the way you say have it your way which is fitting for today's episode yes yeah yeah it is fitting for today's episode hi doughboys fam including

guests and ghosts of doughboys past present and future I was just driving in Los Phila listening to the latest episode of Do Boys when who do I see walking down the street but Mitchie himself and redacted

I pulled over probably scaring you by yelling Mitch and proving to you I was listening to the newest episode Baskin Robbins 2 with Emmy Botnick by blaring my car stereo, which I really didn't need to do because it'd be a weird thing to lie about. Being a dope boys fan is embarrassing enough.

I've been on Zepbound, bounding, they call it, for almost a year and a half now, and I'm down 100 pounds after a lifetime of struggling with weight. You being honest, as is talking to Mitch, you being honest and open about it in the pod has been extremely brave and has inspired me to be more honest about talking about it in my day-to-day life. Anyway, I wanted to think of a roast that honored the strange GLP-1 poops and probably terrible Star Wars movie about to come out. Thanks. Alex Wally Nuts. And yes, everybody calls me Walnuts. There you go. Hey, it's probably bad at cheers with a burking shake, but cheers to you on the

100 pound weight loss. That's fantastic. Well done Wally Nuts. Or Wally Nets, I'm sorry. Alex Wally Wally Nets, but everyone calls him Walnuts. I'll just call you Walnuts. Well done walnuts. Yeah, I'm trying to, is the... I remember... Did you remember this interaction? Impossible not to remember. Very much pulled, like almost dangerously out. Redacted would have a lot to say about this, but he is currently kidnapped. Right. So I don't know if that gives a hint to who redacted is.

He was out on leave, like he gets a couple hours of like outside time a day, but he's currently kidnapped. He's currently kidnapped. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, I mean, Redacted was like, was like, what the fuck? Like a guy pulled over and almost came up on. under the curb. But we were, we were,

he was, he ruled, he was a very nice guy in the, uh, that's great. I want to do it. I want to yell at people and I see them from my car so bad, but it,

it never goes well. And I saw Alex Fernie from UCB who we all know in his, like Deb, Tarika a couple weeks ago. Love them. They were in Silver Lake. I was near the Trader Joe's in Silver Lake. And for some reason I yelled,

do a group game at them, which is not funny and doesn't make sense. And it's all. Only two of them. And they also didn't understand what I said or know it was me. So then I have to text them afterwards and go, hey, you looked scared when a man yelled at you from the car. It was me. I didn't tell them what I said either.

Maybe they'll find out now from this episode because I was embarrassed. Do a group game. I would laugh if someone yelled at me. This is like an improv scene type. It's a part of this, a very important part of the Herald. Yes. If you're not doing a group game, you haven't done a herald. It's true.

You get sent to the basement. And life is a harold, as we say on the show. Life is a herald, as Charna Halpern says, in her inimitable book, Truth in Comedy, which is really more like just truth in reality. Last book I read. I think I read that. I was like, I don't have to read anything else after this. Fully illuminated, Roastedbirdfuck.com.

Mitch, made the four. May the full, go ahead. May the fourth be with you, my friend. And may the fourth be with you as well, my friend. I think this is an opportunity. We're recording this on May the 4th. This episode is coming out a little bit later, closer to when the Mandalorian and Grogu movie is going to be in theaters.

But we're celebrating today. We're celebrating May the 4th, and it gives me occasion to do my character, Yoda in the sauna with Mitch. Yoda in the sauna with Mitch. Here we go. I feel like this is going to end bad for me. Smaller than mine it is. Well, we don't know what that We don't know what Yoda's packing

We don't know what Yoda's packing We've never seen we've never seen Yoda without his robin, have we? Have we? I don't think we've ever seen Yoda without his robot In one of the Star Wars movies, Mitch I don't think that scene has happened Um Do you think also you think I'm just gonna be fully nude in the sauna?

In this scenario. Yeah, me and Yoda fully nude in the sauna. I'm beating Grogu at least, right? I was picturing that you had him in the little backpack. Oh, right. You kind of peek under your towel. Mitch, we have a... And I wonder if he's going to be able to come over here,

but there's one person at Headgum right now. That is our intern, Ryan. This has been the case every day we've been here. The entire week, there's one person here. That is Ryan. Because last week is... But this week in particular, everyone... is at the headgum retreat.

The, I guess three people who actually work here, who, you know, Rochelle, Allie, and Will, I think is basically it. And then, you know, all... Who we love. Who we love. But then everyone else who, like, has a job, but I've never seen at the office.

They're in Miami. They're in Miami. They're in Miami on a corporate retreat. So, enjoy a mohito on the dough boys. Have fun. I think they're enjoying more than mojito. It's good. It's good.

It's good. We're glad you're having fun. It's good to have massive layoffs and then go to Miami. Here's what I'll also say. Mitch and I have been on the road. We know how I was off here. Should I not say that out loud? I mean, that's what...

No, it is. It's good to do that. It only took two weeks to get the AC fit. It shows the correct priorities that you laid a bunch of people off and then took a corporate retreat to Miami. And the only person here right now... I should have brought that up. We're in trouble.

Is our intern, Ryan. I would also just say, like, we know how. exhausting travel. Let's not get our intern in trouble here. Our intern has nothing to do with what the doughboys are saying. We're saying this. We, the doughboys of doughboys media, are speaking for us. Ryan, you didn't get invited to Miami. No, I'm not a full-time employee. Got it. So, I only worked two days a week. And they brought you in because there was a package to pick up today. Now, hold on a second. If you only work two days a week, and that's what makes you not a real employee. I don't know if anyone a head gum is the real employee. I think it works too much as

the issue. Because you're too often. I, yeah, I had to sign for the spin drift. You had to sign for spin drift. I was already going to come in, probably. But then I woke up this morning and I felt really bad. And I was like, oh, I don't think I'm going to come in. But then they didn't know that.

So they'd already ordered the spin drift. For who, though? No one's here. There's a lot of people coming this week. So we have to keep the fridge stock. Tomorrow there's five different shows recording. Wow. How about that?

Which is more than like we ever have. That's amazing. It's almost like the people who make podcast here can continue to do that without the head-come staff. It's so strange. Wild. We're happy we see you every day. We're happy we see you, Ryan. You do a great job.

You're the only person we see. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's usually like a few people. I see Will. I see Will sometimes. Yeah, I see Will. I mean, the three people that you just named are people who I will see.

Ali, Marty. Yeah. Yeah. Marty, who's the CEO of the company, I think. That's pretty much the fullest. Well, it's our last good episode. Congratulations on our last episode here, I feel like. Ryan, are you a fan of the Star Wars franchise?

Yeah, in general, yeah. There's ups and downs. Are you a Mandalorian guy? I really liked the first season. And then after I felt, I liked how it stood on its own. I felt like after season one, it kind of became just every episode was another Star Wars character coming in.

Right. Do you add as... What do you think of Baby Yoda? Yeah, what do you think of Grogu? It's fine. But the film students are clamoring to see the Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen. It's the most anticipated film of the year.

Wait, really? No. That's what I was going to say, because like you're kind of the, in the demographic of like, this is someone who, you know, came up with Disney, grew up with Disney Star Wars and is going to,

like, like, we're targeting this movie towards people who, like, love that side of things, love Babu Frick, I love the Mandalorian, and- You love Babu-Fric. Joe loves Babu-Frick as well. Don't care for that movie, but... The movie's bad. I love Babu Frick, and I love Boo Leo,

who is in that movie as well. He's voiced by Mark Hamel, and he's an alien who, when Finn and Poe have their epic break-ins, to whatever, he's there and he's like, and Finn's like, Boulio, how can we repay you? And Boileo's like, win the war.

That's good. I do not even remember this part at all. I have a cardboard cutout of him in my room. Wow. Oh, so you do kind of like, okay, you like this guy. Well, just because I wanted to get a cardboard cutout when I was 14 or 15, whenever.

Of anything or of a Star Wars? Something. Yeah. I just found like the most random one I could find. Then I became a fan of him after I had the cardboard cut out. They had Mark Hamill do the voice because they were, they were going $800 over budget, right? But they were like, if we just had Mark Hamill double up

and do Booleo, then we're good. Somebody's got a voice, Booleo. So I'm doing the math here, 14 or 15. I don't like Babu Frick, to just be clear. That's fine. We know you all like Babu Frick. I said, Babu Frick can suck my baby dick, is what I said. I didn't say that on a...

He's in Rise of Skywalker. He's like the only good part of it. Oh, Jesus. All right, so Amelia's, Googling Babu Frick. He's a little guy and he's like, yeah, he's like, Grobu is little and then they got a little guy.

Oh, he's so cute. That's the thing. That was the reaction. That was like the one breakout character of Rise of Skywalker, which is otherwise indefensible. Amelia asked me if I wanted to save this cup because it's a plastic cup

because Baby Yoda is cute. So cute. Wow, you love Baby Yoda too. I have a sticker of him on my car. Do you want the? Do you want the cup? Do you want it? That's okay.

I don't like to have stuff. It's just a plastic. Just a plastic cup. I'm not keeping the cup, to be clear. Maybe one of these cups I'll keep, but I don't know. I don't know. Wait, we were going to say 14 or 50. What are you saying?

Maybe I was 16 when I got the cardboard cut out. That's the thing, because I'm doing the math of like when Rise of Skywalker came out. So that means we're clocking you at age 16 in like 2019, 2020? I was, no, because I got it a few years after Rise of Skywalker. Okay. Even better. But you like this guy in an eye. ironic way, right?

Well, now I like him sincerely. I got it because it was like funny because no one's, no one knows who that is. Why did they have this character? But now I really like him because he watches over me while I sleep. And everyone who comes into my room signs the back of him. So it's like a guest book. Oh, that's cute.

All this said, your enthusiasm level for Mandalorian Grogu, especially as a film buff, as someone who watches a lot of movies, is a film student pretty low. Is this in your dorm room or is this at your home? at your home. It was in my home now. It's in my dorm room. It's in your dorm room. Yeah. Should we make, get doughboys cardboard cutouts made? I think Ryan should bring the doughboys to the dorm. Doe Boys go dorm. You're not legally allowed.

You can come to the dorm. You can sign Booleo. If you guys want, it's like an hour away from here. Would it help for us to go undercover as college students? You guys, yeah, I mean, there's college students who look old. Yeah, right? We'll skateboard behind you while while. I can't skateboard, but I always wish I could because they get everywhere around. Yeah, these are your two new skateboard teachers. That's why they're coming up into the door.

You got to work inside and get comfortable there before you get to skate around outside. Well, thank you, Ryan. Thanks for putting the hours in. Keeping the lights on. I guess I'm in charge so you can go home. I have work to do. Okay, all right. Actually, there's

I just order up some spin drips if you don't mind sign They're gonna arrive at 9 p.m. tonight If that's... Can't spiners just go to the fucking front door? There's more than six spin drifts They need somebody there to sign.

Also, if the gates close, I don't know if they'll leave packages. Oh, oh. I'm not sure how that was. Super excited for Jeremy Allen White has buff java. That looks cool. Buff java is...

And again, we've talked about, yes. It's a buffed java. Jabba's son Rada from the first arc of the Clone Wars animated show grown up and now he's ripped. I think it's weird that a hut speaks basic, but I'm gonna roll with it. But what about Uncle Zero or whatever his name is?

Yeah, I guess there is president for it. Ryan, I'm gonna ask you to get the fuck out of here. I'm joking. I was joking. How is Jeff for Ryan? He's great. We love Ryan. I can't believe that he knew so much about I guess the Star Wars is not lost on that, on that younger generation. I think they still use it to teach a lot.

Like I, in college, like a lot of my sound design classes, like if you didn't, have you hadn't seen Star Wars? They were like, get out, go watch it, and come back. Also, Ryan logs like five letterbox movies, movies on Letterbox a day. He watches a lot of movies. Yeah. He's a great guy.

I don't think, I don't, first of all, I don't like that job. The job is buffed now. It's like the buffed Santas. We were talking about how Santa's are buff. And now also Jabba is buff. All the fat guy roles are becoming hunk roles. Yeah, it's not fair. I don't like it.

I was, we were in San Jose. You and I were just in San Jose. We were in San Jose. And we were up there. I just want to tell people about, I had a few drinks. I was just from friends from back home. And then they were like, you should, it would be funny if you did a snack or whack. with this placenta pill.

I have a placenta pill. And I was like, ha, ha, ha. And then we had some drinks. And as the night went on, they were like, you should do it and chase it with breast milk. I have breast milk. Now, this was with, uh, no,

no, but we're dacting names. We don't only say names, but this is with your friends and, and the rest of the team is not there. We've left. Oh, so you just want to make it clear that you guys were not here for all this. Well, yeah, no, no, I'm just, I'm just giving context.

So people want to picture what's happening. Amelia had just recently, we reviewed shit. Amelia has a TikTok where she reviews shit on the street. And we were walking down the street and I was like, oh, there's like shit over there. Be careful. Don't want to review it. And she reviewed shit. But she was right before that was saying.

You were my special guests on. We were your special guests. You were reviewing like dog shit or something? Okay. Yeah. It's always human. It's always human. I don't do dog.

Okay. Of course you don't. Naturally. Was that a, like, because I remember you were telling us that video was not performing well. Did it pick up at all to pick up any momentum? No, it didn't. I think it was just too long. I think I just need to cut it down because people don't have attention span, so it needs to be less than a minute.

You think there's also an aspect of people find it unpleasant to look at shit and hear you talk about it? No, some of them go viral. Oh, wow, okay. You will, at this, you were saying to me that, you were also saying that I don't try, enough stuff. You were having this conversation with me also. All I said is that I could picture why you're at a rave sooner

than I could picture you at a rave. So this conversation was happening as well. Which only had came up because we walked by a bar that sounded like a rave. It was an empty bar, but it sounded like a rave. First of all, you were wrong about that. I would, you, whatever. Hey, who was spoken reefer on the walk back?

That's true. One of us. And one knew. And it wasn't me. It was me. It wasn't just me. I think you should have been arrested for that outdoor reifer activity.

San Jose is going down the tube. And so I was, you had said, you had said this thing to me of, you know, of you're, in my mind, it was like, you don't try enough stuff. No, actually, I said, I, I've seen Weiger try a lot of things. I've seen him, you know, change his mind about stuff. I've seen him travel and in the past he didn't want to. I've seen him get tattoos. I've seen him try new things.

And you interpreted that as like a diss against yourself. Well, this must have been in my head when I finally, when I finally did take a placenta pill and chased it with breast milk. And I recorded it for snack or whack. And we all decided that we think it could never be seen by anyone. that it's too weird to ever show. Well, Senta pill is your friend had it made from her placenta. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what does it do for you again?

It's supposed to give you, like, iron. And it was like, it seems fine to just do it. And then watching the video back, I don't know. It felt very, like, uh. It seemed a little odd for some reason. It seems like Pizza Gatey or what people claim Pizza Gate is or something. I was like, am I eating human in some way? Like, I don't think any of us felt comfortable.

Like, is this a Peter Thiel, like, blood transfusion thing to say, Yeah. And I just thought it was funny. And then in hindsight, I think, and in the video I'm even, you know, the video ends with me saying, did I eat, is this eating human? Like, it's kind of me spiraling out a little bit. Yeah, Mitch is like, am I a cannibal now? Yeah.

In a way, man. And he's like, I have no one to talk to. Placenta is like a, it's your stem cells. It's like, holds your stem cells and stuff. And they put it in capsules to help with, like, postpartum stuff. Yeah, yeah. Wow. I wasn't the only one who took it.

Someone else took it as well. Okay. But doesn't she have a finite amount of this? She does. There were like just a couple left, and she was like, you guys can just have the rest of them. And then we shot it with, with some breast milk. So, so. A lot of fun.

No, you know, I did, I just, I just, I thought that I could tell the story on here and at least. And maybe we cut this out. What did the breast milk taste like? It tasted very, it was very, it was very, it's. Me. It tastes very sweet. It's almost like soy, like, almost like soy or oat milk or something. And I had had a few drinks.

But it was, it was, it was, it was, it was kind of uncanny valley as they, it was, it was, there was something that was also. It was a little, it was a little off. Yeah. Only drink that stuff straight from the tap. I mean. So we have a dough boys video nasty that no one will ever, yeah, to see ever. We're not going to show. I think we should post it.

I mean, maybe when this episode comes out. Yeah, I know you liked it. You, of course, you liked it. It's making me want to see it. Yeah, it is. I think you're maybe stoking interest in something. Now you might have to release it. If it was just described to me, I would know.

I would pass back. But now I'm like, I gotta see it. I just, so that was my, that was my trip to San Jose. And then I came back and I got some, right near the Burbank Airport. I got some, what's it called? The Chinese food, the Pandexpress. Pandexpress. I got some Panda Express.

How fun is that? It's great. Burr-break Airport makes it feel like you're not traveling at all. It's the best. It's, it's, for people who aren't from L.A., it's like one of those smaller airports as contrast to, you maybe have these in some city, some satellite city that's not the major city in wherever you live. And it's just, you know, there's like four terminals or something like that. Security's a breeze. You can arrive very close to your flight time. It's just like a completely different experience from something like L.A.X where you've got to give yourself like an extra

three hours just to get through everything. I will say, I think I have been craving placenta and breast milk ever since then, though. So, yeah, I think that I, I, I may be, this is maybe just a dangerous game I've played where I, do you think you're turning into a baby? There was a, there was a fear. I didn't want to do it because I was like, can you turn into a baby? There was that thought that went through my head. And then when my friend did it, I was like, at least we'll both turn into babies.

Yeah, at least we'll both be babality. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there was that, there was that, there was that thinking. Dick gets bigger. You gotta play a drop, Mitch. Am I hit him? I think I've been, I haven't seen any weird side effects since then. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. If anything, you're like invincible now. Yeah, I feel pretty good. Yeah, hit him with a drop, yes. Call this in my family. It's known as the Brown Unicorn. Washington Monument, but Brown. Exactly.

It looked just like that. Raisinette is funny because it's like rabbit turned. I've had some raisinette. I've been in that area. I took a shit that somehow breached the surface of the toilet. Toil. Toil. Toil.

Toil. Toil. Toil. Toil. Toil. Toil. Toil. Toil.

Wow. Now I know how Mitch feels every time a drop place. Yeah. Yeah, it's not always so fun, is it? It's not fun. A truly disgusting story that I was reminded of. Yeah. I don't know.

It's happening. No, there are no baby side effects. I didn't think when you, I thought you were going to say that you went to the Pandexpress and then got more breast milked in. That would have been the better setup to a joke, but I'm a dumb. Hi, I'm going to be at your San Jose. show and would be so grateful if you played this shitty drop. Oh, well. Sorry. Jesus. Good. Great job. Drop King. I'd like to show how cool I am to my two friends, Jake and Nick, who I convinced to attend, despite them never having heard the show, XOXO. Kimia.

Wow. Thank you, Kimia. Thanks, Kimia. I would have loved to watch Amelia hear that in a theater. It would have been the same as watching it here, I think. Yeah, we could have, we could have played it because I think the drop. I think the drop. we played at San Jose did not have someone from the audience. Oh, really? I don't remember it. Damn. Or I don't know.

I don't remember. It was only a day ago. Anyway. Your job got heard by a lot more people, which means that Amelia's disgusting anecdote got heard by a lot more people. So there you go. And it would have at the live show. On the other end of thin people taking fat roles,

there's a lot of AIing of movies like, like putting fat people. I just saw a video for the dining take on the Shining where they're all fat. So AI, AI is, a lot of people were making people. I saw Jurassic Park, Jurassic Pork, where they were all fat. They're all fat people. That's fun. So AI is being really useful in some ways of.

They come up on my feet and I try not to look at it real quick because I'm like, no, I don't like this, but like they know I like it. I've given me more stuff. Like, no, this is actively killing my industry and my friends, but stop showing it to me because I won't stop looking at it. I kept getting engrossed in the AI fruit videos that Amelia introduced to us. Which are weirder than my, me eating placenta and drinking breast milk, I believe. They're like soap opera speed runs. They're basically, it will be like every scene from the beat of like a romance that like falls apart.

Someone gets betrayed. There's adultery. Someone hires a hit man. But they're fruit people. But they're fruit people, but the fruit has nothing to do with it. Like, at no point does anyone make any sort of fruit joke. It's, they're disorienting. They're addicting.

They are addicting. There's cat ones like that where the cats are, and it's a lot of like pregnancy drama. Right. Yeah. We were watching them all the time in the Kevin Writers' Room, and I was like, this is, this is actively hurting what we're trying to do. Like, we should not be supporting this. Rose at BirdFuck.com drops at BirdFuck.com. I would say the fruit does stand in for, I mean, I don't think you can define what race it's supposed to be, but fruit seems to be a race placeholder in these videos.

Is what I say, I'm just being honest with, we can't let these videos go. Like, there is some weird racial, like, it's like a, you know, like bananas versus oranges. Yes, and you're like, oh, this seems like, like, and then the orange is giving birth to like a not an orange or, you know what I mean? you're like, oh, this is, and then like the other person is being surprised that, say, like, a tomato is being born. And so it's like clearly like there's some race elements going. I'm just saying, I'm just being on it. There are racial elements in the fruit videos. So just a thing to track.

There are. I'm reacting to your reaction to what you're saying. You've not said anything wrong. But then you like became like so. scared that I will say so. I'm not saying anything wrong. There is, there's these videos that you send us,

these weird videos you send us, they're very strange. And you love them. I hated them. I'm not sure if I love them, but I found myself unable to stop watching. They just kind of got their hooks into my brain. Mitch,

we got to introduce our guest. He's been waiting way too long. A creator of the new animated series, Kevin, now streaming on Prime. Joe Wenger is back. Hi, Joe. Hi.

Thanks so much for coming in studio. You know, last time we had you was a COVID episode. It sure was, yeah. And so it's great to see in the flesh. We need to talk about Kevin. Yes. So tell us about, tell us about the story. I'm not, hold on, hold on.

We're talking about Kevin, your show. We're not referencing the film. The film is that movie about, is he kind of a, is he a school shootery type? He's a bad kid. He's a bad kid. He ultimately does something, an act of horrific violence at the end. Oh, wow. And the parents kind of know ahead of time.

They know what's going to do it. Oh. Oh, Jesus. Well, we're not talking about that. We're talking about Kevin. And really, completely different. Maybe we should have changed the name.

But our cat's name really was Kevin. And then I remember, like, even at some point we were like shopping it around. Like, that was like the title of like the email and stuff. And I'm like, this is a very dark movie that we're right from the job. But not a dark show. If I get a time machine. the one thing I'm going to do is go back in time and tell myself not to name my cat after UCB improviser Kevin Heinz.

What year did you get in the cat, Kevin? Oh, I want to say like 2007. 2007, okay. There's nothing you could warn about from 2007 onwards besides that. I feel like there's nothing really. That was the main thing. We were already on a bad path. There's nothing anybody could do at that point.

Yeah, we're on the quiet path of autocracy. Do you have a, like, like your, you know, your cat, Kevin, you had many lovely times with him. Obviously, the show is, is called Kevin and has to have some inspiration from your own cat. Yes. Yeah, it's funny. It's like, it's about, you know, I had this cat and his brother were cats that I adopted with Aubrey Plaza when we were dating. And then we almost immediately broke up. and then I kept the cats and I think it was sort of you know she was acting so she was going out of town and I was just like you know just teaching improv and doing stand-up so I was going nowhere so I have time to spend with these cats but then so the show is about you know the Mitch actually plays sort of the stand-in for me in the show I was honored yes this couple breaks up and then Kevin is kind of like well fuck you I'm breaking up with you guys instead of having to choose and then he goes off for

and lives in a pet rescue and kind of figures out if he wants to be with people again or if he wants to be just on his own. But then when you really get down to writing it, it's like, you know, I'm projecting all sorts of things onto Kevin, but he is ultimately a cat. So it's like you kind of have to then create a new character there. So he's really, the Kevin character is more me, really, than I think your character, Dan was. And played by the great Jason Schwartzman as well as well. Yes.

is really, really great in the show. We talked about this when we had Gillesery, our buddy on last week, but the cast of the show is unreal beyond just the aforementioned Mike Mitchell, of course. Yes, it's really great. It's Jason plays Kevin. I stole a sip of shake while he was, and I was afraid it was going to cut back to me. I deliberately cut to you. You're a piece of shit.

I saw you laugh. There's more shit now, and now it's on your nose. There's something else going on. Yeah, we got Jason Schwartzman, So then he moves into, we kind of treat it like a YMCA. He moves into this pet rescue in a story of where we lived. And Gil plays the guy who runs it along with his dog, who's voiced by Amy Sedaris. And then he sort of makes friends with these other cats who are independent cats.

And Jason, we got Jason first. So then once you have Jason, like, we wanted these other cats to be kind of mentors to him. And so like our like sort of like we'll never get this person dream casting for the sort of this one cat who's very like erudite and he like hates people and he doesn't think he needs people. We're like it'd be funny if it was like John Waters. He seems like a good like curmudgeon like mentor to Jason. And John Waters said yes. Why? I still don't understand why.

I mean I loved. I was in a Zoom. I think one time when I had to call in. I was maybe doing doughboys stuff or something like that. Or maybe it was actually even for, I was doing a twist of metal. But I, but I zoomed in once.

It was just me and John Waters in the Zoom together. I was like, hello. And I, who doesn't love John Waters? Yeah. He's, he loves working and he loves like,

you know, just like doing cool things and hanging out with people. So he like came to every table read, even though he was, he's like summers in Provincetown. But he showed up to every table. He, His only thing was he's so old school.

He was like, I'd like to have a hard copy of the script for the table read. So we, like, called a theater in Provincetown. And we were like, hey, you know John Waters is? And they were like, yeah. It was like 200 people that live in Provincetown. And this guy that runs this theater there would print out the script and bring it to John every week. And then he would zoom in to the table read. He was, I mean, and he's so funny.

He's so funny in the show. I also have to say that at the, we did a screening for like a, some cast members and stuff like that just recently. And when I was there, the Celtics had really beat the 76ers. Yeah. And now, yeah, Jimmy, I agree. You upset? Jimmy's a little upset.

She's got New England and her. She's, yeah, she's cared about her Uncle Mitchie's team. And then it was like, I was kind of on top of the world. And now things have just flipped completely. And it's game one of Knicks in, tonight and you're here with us. And you're a Sixers fan. We should say for our audio audience that Joe is wearing a Philadelphia 76ers hat, and

you can already picture the Celtics hat that's permanently grafted onto Mitch's head. I take it off for sleeping and put on my Celtics nightcap. Well, you showed up in that, and like my line producer is from Philly as well. And so he was like, can you believe this guy's wearing the Celtics hat here? And I was kind of like, my Mitch is always wearing a Celtics. In the same way, like, I'm sure, like, I'm wearing this because this is one of my, like, three hats that I have. I love the Celtics.

I always wear this hat. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful to you, but it blew up in my face anyways. We lost. It's like a Philly person to take it that way of, like, this is a disrespectful thing you're doing to me. Not just simply, like, putting on a hat before you leave the house. I am now towing whether to do I root sixers? Because I never, and Bede's always kind of been funny with the Celtics and has respected them in the, Knicks really do piss me off.

So who do you have the greater rivalry? Because you don't really have a rivalry with us. You guys just kick our ass every time. I guess now, well, now things are changing. But forever it was like I used to hate the Pacers back in the day. Like in the heat. I mean, like I will still. Oh, yeah, the heat.

The heat I'll hate way, way more. I guess the Lakers. But the Lakers long time ago. Yeah, and it's also kind of like when does that really match up? Like, when they play them in the regular season. But I am kind of like. When it happens in the finals, though, it's great. It is great.

Oh, the Knicks are playing for Rudy Giuliani now probably. So that is a tough. Do it for Rudy. All you Knicks fans, I'm sure. Well, and I should say, and it wasn't our intention we were making the show, but now Kevin is for Rudy Giuliani. It takes place in New York. And everything about the show is for him, and I wish him well.

I hope he's getting a lot of laughs from the show. So the Sixers were playing the Celtics in the previous series is for people who don't follow the NBA. The Sixers won in game seven and are now, as of this recording, facing the New York Knicks. Which, by the way, you said today, you were like,

you almost brought up the Celtics playing. You're like, when are the Celtics playing next? There's such a fixture of the Polk season. I was like, I wanted to make sure we were recording at the same time as one of the Celtics games. And then it was like, oh, the Celtics. Then we would have been if today was the day.

The Celtics were eliminated. You would have moved it. We, I don't know how this happened because, but I mean, I guess it was just that we came, we came to this decision to record this day and we just forgot there was a game this day. We didn't know. We didn't know the schedule because we were in the previous round.

They don't have to send the next round until the previous round was finished. It was really like the day before because it was two days ago. Yeah. I'm so thankful that this happened because I get way too stressed out at the playoffs and it's just like better for my heart and for my like life to not watch it live. Isn't that sad as you become an older man that you can't just watch like exciting playoff basketball? Like I was in game seven, I was like, I should turn this off.

I shouldn't watch any more of this, which is such a sad thing to do. You know, Ben Rogers, friend of the show, friend of you guys, he like doesn't watch Buffalo Bills games anymore. Yeah. Am I allowed to announce something like that? Yes, you know. Yeah, of course. He just waits still afterwards because it's just like too much.

Yeah. And I was at a wedding for Game 7, so I had access to my phone, but I shut it. I had it off for the first quarter because not a total monster. These people are declaring love to each other. I don't have to be watching that. But then I was a total monster for the whole rest of the reception. I was just like, getting there. So, but now I'm psyched to just, and if they lose, I can just go, I just don't have to experience it.

Wags and I had a good wedding like this. We're talking about this beforehand where we left and kind of left the wedding and went and watched some playoff basketball. We did. It was a good time. It was fun. We came back for the reception later. I mean, playoff basketball was more fun to watch than a wedding.

We can, everyone can agree with that. What round? It was the final round for. the wedding and then for I think it was like maybe the second round. I think it was these semis. Oh, okay, yeah.

But it was like an important game. It was like a game six or something. I believe the Celtics maybe did lose. Yeah. I think it was another, some more bad news. Anyways, the show is great. You're great in it. You're both great in it.

Thank you so much. You were kind of enough to cast me in an episode and along with Mitch, we're a little ants. Yes. And Wig's I got to give Wig's credit. He says he will, he just doesn't do, he doesn't, he's retired from acting. Well, I never really was acting, but I just like, I don't really do, you know, I don't really do it very often.

So like when I had the opportunity, I was like, okay, yeah, sure, I'll give me a shot. You were great. You were so funny. And it's like, of course you were. But I remember when you came in, you were like, I don't do this anymore. And I'm like, don't say this in front of the other people. I'm the one who's having you come in. Yeah, you guys are two ants and you're kind of like fighting with each other.

but you love each other. And so, you know, with animation like that, usually you try to get people to do multiple voices. And I was like, oh, it might be fun if it was Mitch and Liger. I had a black, and it was a very funny moment in the show. Also, the show had, when I was in Boston, it was when it was during pandemic, when we did the pilot presentation.

You were at your mom's house, right? I was at my mom's. I was living back home. This is the COVID days, Wags. This is maybe pre-Rob Lowe for us. Wow. This is, which is kind of like our like year zero,

like the BC and AD of the podcast is when, or BCE, you know, CE is when Rob Lowe did his episode review in Now Burger. Yeah, PRL is. PRL, yeah. PRL was this, it was pre-R-Blo.

And now we're in the ARL era, which we'll stretch on for all of time. Yes, yeah. But, but yeah, I was, I remember I was at a studio in Boston where Emma used to work. Yeah,

Soundtrack Boston, where I interned. Wow. And that's where I recorded my lines for the pilot, the pilot. And then. Emma, when you interned at Soundtrack Boston, were there other people there? Yeah. Would you imagine? It was full of people all the time.

Wow. Lots of them. All over the place. Interesting experience you had. Yeah, crazy. You said that because you saw Ryan out of the corner of your eye and you were reminded that someone is here. You're really sticking it to headgum today.

But you know what? I don't give me. a shit. I'm fine with it. But yeah, that's I was a, it was a, it was, it was, it was, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a, when the news came that it was happening, it was so excited. It was a, development in just takes a long time any, any project. But then, especially with this show, like they, we did a version of it and then they initially passed on it. And then a couple of years went

by and then they were like, you know what? We think we messed up, which almost never happens. So I feel Like it was like, I remember like getting to reach out to people like you and other people that were involved in the pilot and like Pam Murphy is in the show. She's great. And she's very funny. We've never had Pam. We've got to get Pam on the show. Yes. We've never had Pam on the show.

It's insane. Wow. She's the one friend who did a voice who just like every time I would see her, she would be like, isn't it a shame they didn't do your show? And I'm like, yes, Pam, it is. Is this going to be the rest of my life? You're talking about this thing that was very heartbroken and upsetting? So it was like really great when I was able to go, hey, guess what? It's actually happening again.

Well, they made the right choice to do it. And everyone should watch the damn show. And if you don't have Amazon, get Amazon and watch it, I say. I absolutely hate like asking people like, please watch the show, but please watch the show. We're like almost at the end of the first month. And they're like those first month numbers are what makes them make all their decisions. So watch that shit. If you don't have Prime, sign it for Prime, send it for a Prime, try to,

watch the show because that is a metric that the streamers look at as if someone's signing up specifically to watch something. Or like watching multiple episodes is important than finishing the series. And it's a it's a, it's, I also do think like with a lot of first season shows, I think it gets better by the end. And so it's even if you don't like it, watch it. They're going to hate watch it. Hate watch the whole thing. So you got a cat show, but in your home, what you share with a pasto was. guest Holly Prezoff, you're now a dog dude. I'm a dog dude now. Yeah. Tone. Have you become a dog dude?

I always have liked dogs and cats. I think when I was living in New York. That wasn't waited by I mean, that maybe sounded like I was heartbroken that you became a dog dude. But I love all animals. I do think like now that I'm starting to engage with people who are watching the show, like, I do sometimes get a sense that people are like, oh, they're like, what's your cat's name now? And I'm like, I have a dog and you can tell that like some of the really extreme cat people don't like that. Yeah, we're a fickle bunch. I'm not anti-cat. I love cats and I would have another cat again.

I'm also pro-cat. The actual, hmm. I'm pro-cat. I'm also pro-cat. What, what, does that sound like Nixonian or something? Like, it's alive? It sounded like Pokemon Go to the polls. It sounded fake as far.

It didn't seem real. I'm pro cat. I mean, I think you would get, you would be great with a dog because you'd be, you would be the only person in the world who is waking up the dog to go out for a walk. Oh yeah, I'm an early riser and I'm a walking machine. I get my steps in. That's what I'm saying. So you and a dog would be pretty good.

I would be pretty good fit with a dog. You don't travel. That's true. You would wake up before the dog. You love to walk. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you would be perfect.

It would be perfect. I can sit in silence for hours. You bag your shit. Yeah. I do bag my own shit. If you get a dog, you got to make sure that they're like an active dog, though. Because I was excited about that for Tony and I would take him on like jogs at the beginning and he just like doesn't want to do it. And if I take him on too long of a walk at a certain point, he makes you carry him.

Oh, wow. Like if you try to do the Rose Bowl, he can't do the whole Rose Bowl. I do that with Yikes sometimes too. Jimmy's very active. Yeah, she's pretty good. You wouldn't know it for the podcast. No, she'll snooze all day or she'll go on like a six mile hike. whatever we're doing, she's down.

We walk like two or three miles every morning, though. She's used to it. Kevin has passed. Kevin is across the rainbow bridge. All right, first and peace to Kevin. The worst pitch we had was at Netflix. It was the first question they asked. For some reason, we did the whole pitch, and they were like,

and is Kevin still alive? And we were like, no. And then just like the whole rest of the vibe had that like, oh, you're thinking about how he's dead. And don't you think about how he's dead. He lived a good long, natural life. Also, I think what a way to honor him, too, on top of that. Yeah.

How about that? Like, he lives forever. I was doing a lot of, like, stand up about him when he was still alive. And so people really, like, associated me with my cat. And then when he did pass away, the Christmas after he died, I received three portraits of him from three different people in my life. How kind. And it's nice. But it did also make me go, like, am I talking about my?

cat too much that I've had three different people go. And now I'm never beating the talking about his cat too much allegations. I've made the whole fucking joke. Once Wally or Irma go, which is going to be many years from now, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going with them. I'm going to get, I'm getting in the, I'm getting into the grave with them. Are you going to be buried in a pet cemetery or are they going to be buried in your family plot? Man, do you want to know my honest truth? Yes.

True thought about it. So you could, if I. die before they die, I would like their ashes to be put with me later if possible. I thought you said later. Not like a pharaoh, or they immediately go to their two. No, not like a pharaoh, you piece of shit.

I have said before that I'd want them to eat me if I, but I would. And if I, if they pass before me, which I, you know, I guess timeline, it seems like that's probably the case, but I don't like to think about it at all. I would like them by

my feet when I get buried just like my other two I have two other cats zip and buster and I would want them by uh by my feet I have like I have they they'll do a little paw print after they go and then I have the ashes and they're in a little it's in a little chest and I've like moved it from multiple apartments into my house now yeah and now I have it sitting in the TV room and I have the show playing on a loop which is also good for the numbers and I just but I just want to make sure that he's seeing it that's that's uh I I I have the I have I have I have Zip and Buster's ashes from back in the day. But I thought, like, by your legs where a cat would sleep when I'm in bed.

Yeah, that's cute. You know, you mean, I shouldn't be thinking about my death too much, but now you know, so you know my last. Not too. Yeah. You know, whatever. Yeah. I kind of always top of mind. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I guess so. Sometimes you're like, maybe it would be a relief. Wouldn't have any problems. But then you have to get those thoughts out of your head, you know. You can't, you can't chase that too long. We'll be right back with more dough boys. Hey, buddy, there's so many foods I love, but mac and cheese may be one of my longest running favorites.

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Yeah, you know, obviously there's a Philadelphia connection. We recently had, we were in Florida, and I had PubSub, Public Subs for the first time. Okay. Now, Publix, obviously, and Publix's a grocery store, Wawa, convenience store, but they both are doing, you know, it's a place you go to get a sandwich. Yes. I will say, I was very kind to Publix on the episode, but I think I overall liked Wawa better. Wow. I imagine you're a Wawa partisan.

I'm very torn on Wawa. Did I talk about my Wawa? experience the last time I was on the job? I'm sure we talked about, but we can revisit it. I am a big fan of Wawa, but I feel immense guilt when I go to Wawa because I am a graduate of Wawa University. When I was in college, my college did trimester. There was like a six-week winter semester, and if you didn't do it, you had six weeks off, and I wanted to make money, and so I got a job at my local Wawa at home. And when you get a job at Wawa, they send you to Wawa University for a couple of days. And the manager at the Wawa was like, so you're just like quit in college now? And I was like,

yeah, it wasn't for me. Just straight up lying to this man. And they spent the money to invest in me to become a Wawa employee. And then I like at the end of the six weeks, I quit. And I've never, it was the first time I remember another adult man being really mad at me. Wow. Like as an adult. He was like, just get out. I didn't work my ship that day and he was mad. What was why. What is Wawa University entail? I had to go to another part of the city and like in like a strip mall and you're basically

just like watching videos and like they're teaching you about like HR and etiquette and making sandwiches. So you are a graduate of Wawa University. This was paid. It was like a pay. It was like two days of paid work. You're not a Wawa dropout because you did. I graduated.

You graduated. But I don't think I'm sure. I'm on a list somewhere and I don't think I could ever be hired at another Wawa ever again. Oh my God. Definitely every time I go into the Wawa in Roslyn, Pennsylvania, I feel like I'm afraid somebody's going to recognize me there. Is that manager guy still? I'm a public enemy number one at that place. How did you graduate Summa Kum sandwich?

Yeah, did you graduate Summa Kum sandwich? I did. Oh, that's cool. That's great. Summa, Summa Kum sub. Yes. Yeah. Sub-cum-l-l-a-cum-late.

Sub-acum-late. Sub-ac-cum-late. Thank you, Emma. All right, reset. Did you graduate? Fuck. All right, reset. All right, reset.

Did you graduate sub-a-cum-late? Yes, I did. What a great joke. Emma, we can use that one. Sure. Have you got, you know, have you heard of Siptopia from Wawa? No, boy, we must have gotten into it when we did the episode. but it was years ago. Siptopia, I remind us.

Now they just like, because they started with Hogi Fest, which is just part of the year. Now they're trying to have something like Hogi Fest happened all year long. And Siptopia is truly just like highlighting the drinks. And Holly Prazoff really likes the drinks at Wawa. She's all about like the smoothies and stuff. We'll go back. Wow. I'm kind of in a Sipotopia myself over here.

You may be heard a little, but I, I'm having fun sipping on this bad boy here. That shake is dangerous. We'll talk about it. but I intentionally parted ways with mine early because I was like, I'm going to drink that whole sum bitch. I've done that. Yeah.

I've now done that. Yeah. I, I, I, I'm liking it. It's pretty damn good. It's pretty damn good.

A little tease. We shouldn't, we shouldn't get into it. But possibly the best thing to come out of the Mandalorian as an IP. I mean, yeah, I agree. That's very,

very tasty. Very tasty. So the sip, sipopia, is it like, is it just like, is it just like founting drinks? Is it,

is it, is it just like founting drinks? Or is it? It's fountain drinks. And then they also have smoothies made to order there. It's like one of the bigger like parts of the Wawa. You know, Wawa's everything is made to order and it's like tapping it into the screen. Oh, okay.

I didn't know about the Siptopia. We could have had some fun with that back in. We reviewed Wawa in Pennsylvania. It was on it. We did. There was a live show in Philadelphia. The crowd was a very drunk. Carl Tart and Nangle were there.

Christine Nangle. A lot of fun. That's when we sang Philadelphia. of cream cheese. Is it that show? We did two shows that night. We did Wawa and Rita. Rita's.

Oh, Rita's Water, right? His Water Ice, yeah. We did a bang bang. Oh, and we had a John Taffer cameo. You remember that? Oh, I bought a John Taffer cameo. Or did you did? Who knows?

I think you did. I used to buy cameos all the time for the show. I think there were a lot of cameos on that tour. Was that the Cameo tour? Was that the Cameo tour, too? Oh, possibly. Yes. Yeah, we got a stormy,

Daniel. Jesus, I don't remember any of the stupid shit we did. When you think about Philadelphia, are you more of a cheese steak guy or are you the pork sandwich kind of guy? I'm more of cheese steak kind of guy. Okay, yeah.

I feel like the pork sandwich is pushing to be like the... It is. And that is a real like divider because I say I'm from Philadelphia for ease, but I'm like really from like the suburbs, like right outside. Right. And like the cheese steaks are everywhere there.

But the pork sandwich is more like Philly proper. Okay. So I feel like that is like a dividing line for people. What is your, we probably asked you this before, but what is your go-to cheese steak? I mean, there's a place called Lee's Hogi House, which I know this sounds confusing, but they also do cheese steak. Okay. And that's actually my favorite one. And there was also one called like, there was this place called like Mr. Pease that opened up late after I'd moved away that became.

my parents' favorite place. And their food was really good. And also, they just had, like, insane merch that, like, didn't quite make sense. Like, it had, they also served pasta there. And their logo was, like, a big piece of pasta that looked like a rigatoni. And then there was, like, another smaller noodle that was, like, shy that was also. I have a shirt. I'll take a picture of this shirt and I'll send it to me.

Oh, yeah. I want to see this. But I was like, what does this? What does this mean and how was this the one that you guys landed on? I love that. I love that. I was buried in my iPad for a second because I was trying to find what our order was when we did that episode in Philadelphia back in 2019. I got a peach mango smoothie, which I remember now and was delightful.

You got a strawberry lemonade? Do you have any memory of that strawberry lemonade? I think I liked that strawberry lemonade. Yeah, it would have been part of the Sipopia. So maybe we did experience Sympiotech. We did, but I don't think Siptopia, it's an event, right? I think it's like a deal on that stuff for one part of the years. Got it.

So it's like, it's like a shrimp fest or whatever. You know, it's like, that's not called shrimp fest. What the fuck's it called? You know what I mean? Red Lobster. Shrimp of Palooza. Shrimp of Paloza. That's what it is.

Wait, is it not endless shrimp. Endless shrimp. But there's some sort of, there's some sort of fest that they have somewhere. What do you think of? I mean, your names were both way better than what it actually is. Endless shrimp? Well, you said it's shrimp fast? No, it's endless shrimp.

I mean, endless shrimp? Yeah. Endless shrimp doesn't sound like a name. It sounds like what's happening. Shrimps and shrimp are way better. What is it actually? It's just red lobster, endless shrimp. It's just endless shrimp, okay.

Yeah. Endless shrimp kind of sounds gross, too. It does. Yeah. I don't like the sound of it. It sounds like a wish that's gone wrong. Oh, there's a lot of asses. That's fun.

Like the endless is endless. That's fun. I like shrimpa paloosa. Shrimpah paloosa is a better. I like shrimp a paloosa. Yeah, I like shrimp a paloosa. What to you makes a good cheese steak? Do you need the braided roll?

Yeah, the bread is a big part of it. Okay. And then. Because I felt like breaded roll. I like the very thin when it's really chopped up the meat. Sometimes you get like the big slabs and I don't like the slabs. I remember when I was rowing on the scoicle. I rode on the scoicle.

And, uh, and, oh, wait, the skukle's not, oh, no, it is. That's the, that's the, that's the, the scoicle is a river. The river and, yes. But there's like, there's like, uh, like a, what are you talking about? A highway? Yeah, what are you saying? I, I rode on, I rode on the, I rode, crew on the scoicle river. Oh, yeah, yeah. I rode crew. I rode crew on the scogeal river. And then I was like, my mom and dad came and we're like, we're gonna, let's get cheese sticks. And it was pats and genos. But at the time, and this is 2002 or whatever, like,

you know, the Googling you did led you to Pat, like you know that Pat's and Gene. Those are still like the main spots. There's another, in Philly, there's a place called Steve's Prince of Steaks that I really like.

Oh, okay. And that's kind of like, that's another like, you know, not coming up to the top of the Google. I feel like Philadelphiaans who are, they are very opinionated.

They're like, it's funny that we ever, we always have rivals because we are, two very asshole cities that are very similar in many, many ways. I think we're each convinced the other is the bigger asshole. Every other city is like, look at these two. It's kind of the doughboys dynamic. You're the bigger asshole.

But Pat and Gene, like, I feel like Philadelphians, don't you fucking, don't get involved. I didn't say anything. Don't get involved. Philadelphia's I'm watching you Philadelphia's both of you actually

Philadelphia's Philadelphia's I think are very like Patch and Gino suck now Yeah they're like the They're like the two commercial answer or something Tourist traps

It'll be on like a Guy Fieri show But honestly they're good there too I mean it is not a difficult sandwich to make So there's lots of places that do it well Sure. Ooh, is this a, is it a penthouse item wise?

Is it a cheese steak a penthouse item? This is a thing we have on. No, there's a lot of bad. I didn't get a really bad. So the idea of a penthouse item is a thing we're talking about now on the podcast, which is an item with a high floor. Okay. So it's like, like, for me, a grilled cheese sandwich is like a penthouse.

Oh, okay. And the standard grilled cheese sandwich is going to be good because it's a grilled cheese sandwich. Yeah. It's not a thing you can completely fuck up like a steak. You can like ruin a steak, you know, by overcooking it. Yeah. I do feel like now and now I'm wondering is like a is a steak and cheese one that gets made poorly like a lot. I shouldn't use steak as an example.

Like I was trying to. No, I know. But I'm saying steak and cheese is something. I'm saying steak and cheese sauce. I'm saying is that something that gets made like a and is it like hard to find the ones that are that are decent? I don't think it's a penhouse item. I think you'd probably find some pretty bad ones. I think particularly if you're a cheese steak enthusiast.

There's a, you're probably dismissing a lot of cheese steaks. Yeah, I think it's like I never am ever. getting it anywhere else because it's something that'll be on any menu or you'll like encounter it at the airport or like wherever you go like I think because the the ingredients are cheap and it's easy to make they'll throw it on there this is what I'm saying is that and like you know and eat one in like Utah or so right this is this is my thought on it where I'm like maybe it's a basement I or is that what the other term was a basement I'm because I'm like I never order steak and cheese but I love them so like the so a thing that I love I'm never

ordering them because I feel like I don't like the versions I get almost always. Like, I always think that they're not good or, or, or kind of not great quality. And so, like, to me, it's like, if I'm at a place that has a great steak and cheese, like, I love it. And it's, this is one of the best sandwiches in the world. But in L.A., I'm not ordering a steak and cheese too. Honestly, Jersey Mikes is a place where I order steak and cheese from the most. And that is like, and I think that that's way better than a lot of other Philly cheese steaks anywhere. Yeah, I think the Jersey Bikes one is pretty good. But again, I mean, Joe, you might turn up your nose at it.

Yeah. Yeah. You probably would not approach what you have in Philly. Don't apologize. I'm not hurt that you had that. I'm saying in Los Angeles, Jersey Mikes makes a good steak and cheese. And then there's like booze, Philly cheese steak. But even with booze, I'm like, whatever.

For what it is, I like booze. I lived right near, I lived like two blocks from booze. And I think they do them decently there. Yeah. And there was something nice about like if I was going to watch a Sixers game or something going and getting that feels like. That's fair. Feels nice. We, the, the, the, the owner of booze, it is like the son of someone who had a cheese steak shop, not in Philadelphia, but nearby in New Jersey. And it was. So it is someone who's like bringing that over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I'm just saying like a, like, there's not a ton of places like that in L.A. that I'm ex-so. So I'm not eating cheese steaks a lot of the time. All of that stuff. is all about like the bread and how they're like shappies pretzels. Yeah.

He's an actor that's figured out how to do the soft pretzels. And it's like he's really figured out he's using the same process that they use back. And those are damn good. They taste very authentic. They were bringing those to the WJ picket lines all the time. God bless them. We were eating plenty of eating our weight and pretzels. Wow.

I didn't realize that. Yeah. This wedding I went to. I was there sometimes. No one told me there was going to be Shappies pretzels. I would have been there all the time. You writers, where were you when I, when, you were there, weren't you? I was there, yeah.

Pretty consistently. Write better parts for me. I did, to be clear, I picketed for the WG, against the WGA. Get back to work for me. Let's talk about the Burger King Mandalorian meal. Can I also just say that? Like when he said pretzels, I was like, man, what is, what is, I said, is it the pork sandwich or the steak and cheese? But now I'm like, is it the pretzel or the steak and cheese?

For me, the pretzels number one. The pretzel is number one. Cretel over the steak and cheese. But I really, I'm like, I like, I'm a snacky person. So do you do you do anything in particular with your pretzel? Like, like, you know, I imagine salted or are you someone, you dip in a deli mustard, you dip in a cheese sauce? It's a perfect food and it needs no alter it. I also like, I'm not like a big like sauce person.

So you're just eating a dry guy. I'm just eating a dry guy. And this, I went to a wedding this weekend and they had Shappie's pretzels, but they were cutting them in half. And it was in idle wild. So it was like at a high altitude and they were very dry. Oh, man. And I think other people were kind of like, these are too dry, but wasn't stopping me.

A warm, a warm, soft pretzel that with nothing on it, I can, I can get down with that. It's very, it's, they're delicious. I agree with you. You don't, you don't, it doesn't need mustard or, or cheese sauce. I even like in the Philly airport, they have real, they have like federal, federal donuts also does pretzels. And they have them in little individual, uh, plastic like baggies that are like sealed that keeps them like moist. And like, when I fly back from being at home, I'll get like six of those in my bag and just like eat them the entire plane ride home. Yeah.

I like them. I, I, I, I, I don't. I don't need them hot, but I need them to have a little moisture. More sure, yeah. I'm more of a sauce queen, and so I do like sauces, but I'm also eating a lot of subpar pretzels where the sauce is doing the heavy left. You got, yeah, yeah. Something like a shappish, I'm like, yeah.

But I still would. Are you more of, like, a cheese or ranch, or what are you doing? I do like a cheese sauce. I've gone over from mustard to cheese with the pretzel. I do like a cheese sauce, but if I've got something that's a little bit more, the higher quality, I'll just do like a mustard, you know? It just needs a lot. Spicy mustard or yellow mustard on that bad boy?

I mean, well, I'm a bit of a heat seeker, so I generally go spicy. My dad was always a spicy brown mustard, and I was, I was always a, which made me feel like I'm doing something wrong, because I was always a yellow, I'm just, I'm a yellow mustard man over spicy brown mustard. I was this for a take. Okay. All mustards are valid. I like that.

And you know what, Shappies does have the great packet that has both yellow and spicy brown mustard. That's, it's all in one. It's all in one. Yeah, I love that. All right. This is good to know, because. I did not know.

And also, by the way, like, they are faint. When I was a boy, I went to Amish country and we made pretzels. Philadelphia is the, it's the home of the pretzel. It's very different than like, because then I remember when I moved to New York and they're selling pretzels on the, on like the streetcarts, like completely different thing. Yeah. The big pretzels, like those are, and I think those are dog shit. Wow. I love that.

Because those are all often very, very dry. Fuck those pretzels and fuck the Knicks as well. But, Wags, we got not as much of a twisted food to talk about here today. I'm not really doing too well with this. I don't know how to really get us into us, but we ate the Grogoo menu today. That's right. It's the... Fuck you.

What? I was laughing at that segue. I was trying to segue. I didn't know what to do. It was good. It was good. It's the Burger King Mandolorean meal. This meal went national.

on May the 4th, which is day to day. We're recording it. Mandelarian Grogu in theaters, I believe, May 22nd. And Burger King has been doing a lot of these tie-in menus recently. We covered the How to Train Your Dragon menu on here. I'm not sure there was another one we did in the interim. This one, there's a little bit more craft into it than the How to Train Your Dragon meal. There's a few, there's some more bespoke items, and then there's also some unique packaging,

which I guess we probably should have brought some of the packaging in here. Yeah, we threw it all the way. How long. Can I try the segue again? Yeah, go ahead. Pretzels are pretty twisted, but you know how it's even more twisted. the dark side of the force, am I right? That's pretty great.

The only thing I say, Mitch, is that I think your usage of twisted evokes twisted metal and then just bums people out that, you know, you're not going to be present in the next season and no stew, no stream. Thank you, Wags. Yes. Okay, so fuck, all right. All right, give me a minute. I'll think of a new segue. Yeah, I mean, I think there's maybe something to do with, like, I think you can use twisted as a baseline.

But I think you've got to pivot to something else off of that. God damn it. Okay. We'll think of something. Okay, great. But we're talking about the Gros meal there at Burger King. The Burger King, Mandelorian and Gros meal. Which there actually is a Gros meal, which is a smaller thing, which we almost made a mistake.

Like, it's just a kid's meal, right? It's just the chicken fried. It's just the chicken fried. But this overall is a Mando meal or something like that. Yeah, this overall is themed for the bounty bundle is the big one. But this overall, what I'm saying is the menu is themed for the Mandalorian and Grogu, the film. Where are you on Burger King? Like, just generally?

I have very fond memories of it. I liked the BK Kids Club. I didn't like it when they changed their fries. And I was like more of like, I don't know, just I was more of a McDonald's guy and more, we were a McDonald's house. Did you have a favorite member of the BK Kids Club? Kid Vid guy? Yeah, we're wheels guy.

I think Wheels was the main one that I remembered. I remember. the one time Burger King got me was when Alf came out, they did Alf puppets. And it was like, I want to say it was like every week for a month, there was a different Alf hand puppet. One of them, he was a chef. Can't remember the rest of them. But I like had all of them. Wow. Because I was very into Alf. And I feel like that's kind of like a high end thing for like a happy meal. That's pretty good. Now, no, I was also very into, I don't like Alf anymore because he is a cat killer. Yes.

I got like the Alf trading cards when I was a boy. Did you get those where they're playing baseball in Melnack? Melnack. Is it Melmac? I think it's Melmac, yeah. Mel Mac. I tried to get into the Alf animated series, and then there were like action figures and stuff,

but I was like, you need the Tanner family for Alf to really work. For me, that's my Alf. Yes, yeah, you agree. I had like a Teddy Rucksbin type thing that was an Alf where you'd put a tape in its back and it would play and it would speak the tape. How fun is that? That was fun. Pretty fun.

Sounds pretty fun. I got to tell you, I, I, just looking, I liked Boomer, the Redhead. I had a little bit of a crush on, on. Yeah, I knew you had a crush on one of them. I couldn't remember the name of the girl. And Snaps was the other, the other. I think I had a crush on both. On the Al show?

Oh, oh, on the BKKG. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But did you have a crush on the, oh, okay, all right, all right. Did you have the full roster there, Mitch? I do have a full roster here. I can give you a little rundown. There's a jaws, right? There is a jaws, right?

Jaws, yes. There's IQ, who is the smart one. Yeah. A little nerdy guy with glasses. There's Kid Vid, that's the famous one. He's cool. There's snaps, the blonde girl with the camera. There's Lingo, who

is a Latino fellow who I'm guessing also speaks different languages, is my guess. There's Jaws, and there's a, sorry, they're boomers, sorry boomers. There is this little white

white red-haired girl who I had a crush on as a boy. And then wheels, the guy who is, the one who was in a wheelchair is wheels. And the dog's name is J.D. Kind of a boring name for a dog. A boring name for a dog. Yeah. I was a member of the Burger King's Kids Club.

I got like a, I got Burger King Kids Club stuff sent to me for a very too long of a period of time. That was like a mail-away thing. It was a male thing. Yeah, yeah. they would send you like a little thing every remember when they did a lot of stuff like like i was in a Nintendo Power kid which i know you were as well yeah i joined the Nintendo Fun Club yeah is that what it was called it's the Nintendo Fun Club oh I did not

yeah you remember the Nintendo Fun Club and then you got Nintendo Power as a result okay all right then I was also a member of the Nintendo Fun Club in in the game punchout earlier Mike Tyson's punchout then got retconned replaced Mike Tyson with Mr. Dream well it was because he went to prison um but no I I got it. I was joking. I understood why it happened. But they,

in the punch out, there is your, your trainer doc is, will give you a little like, bits of advice in between rounds, your boxer little Mac. And one of his bits of advice is join the Nintendo fun club,

Mac. Oh, I did not know that. Yeah. Do they ever, do they ever turn it back? Or is it still just called Punch? Is it,

No, it's still punch out. It's just punch it. Yeah, I don't think they re-released it. But it's easy to find it wrong. And then Nintendo's never really done like a celebrity tie-in thing ever, like a, right, ever again. You ever beat Mike Tyson? No, I got pretty far in that game, but I never beat Tyson. kicked his ass.

You did? Did you? I did. It was like the first time I really dedicated myself to like, I'm going to finish this game. And I just sat down and I just like did it over and over again, kept learning the patterns, kept fighting him, kept losing to him, would make a little bit more progress. eventually got to it where I could knock him out in the second round. Wow. You were competing Mike Tyson, yeah.

You were really good to punch him. I could just dodge. I knew every single one of his tells. I probably couldn't do it anymore, although with a little bit of practice, I'm sure he can get into muscle memory. But as a kid, yeah, absolutely. What happens at the game?

Yeah, what's the, you punch him and he falls into a prison cell. You get, and you get interviewed by Barbara Walker. You're married to Robin Given. My memory is the ending is pretty slight. It's just like, you know, like, do da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da and lo max doing that and it's just like you are the champion now i think you maybe get one little fun graphic does tyson say like good match or whatever do you get anything out of him or no or he's like i can't remember if he has some parting

words for you or not i think you just knock him out and you move on with your life but i don't know he leaves and goes and raises his pigeons or whatever he ended up doing uh i i didn't know that you We were so, that's, that, that, that, he's notoriously tough, too. I'm impressed. I did beat it. He's like the Dark Souls boss of the, of the eight bidder. It is. I'm actually remembering I did beat it once.

And there is, maybe you didn't get it, but I got a message from him that says, I hope this isn't a spoiler, but I'm going to be in the movie The Hangover. Wow. 20, 30 years from now, I'm going to be in a movie called The Hangover. Amazing. Like you're saying, development takes forever. So I guess they were working on a while. They have that going for a long time.

And he stayed attached. God bless him. Yeah, he did. He never gave up on it. I believe, that's the beautiful story. Wags, I, I, I love Mike Tyson's Poncho. And I, and, but I don't, I'm not a fan of Star Wars anymore. I don't.

You're not a fan of Star Wars anymore? I love the original Star Wars. I'm just saying the new Star Wars stuff I don't really watch. I like John Farbrough. I like Farbrough. I like Swingers. I like a lot of stuff that he's done in the past. I'm not sure how I feel.

about this movie? I think it's a fun thing to do, but I'm not overly excited for this. How did you feel about the actual packaging? Were you impressed? I like that. We got a big happy meal. I'll say that. The packaging, I thought, they put some effort into, and I like that, because so many these meals are half-assed. And this one, it's like a re-skinned existing

item that they just, like, call, like, if they were going to do this, like, like, Denny's has been doing these menus recently, it would be like, they would just re-release the, like, the rodeo burger or something like that and call it like, hey, here's the, this is now the Mandelorian burger. You know what I mean? They do no alterations their base menu and it wouldn't come in any fun packaging. So here's my take.

Do you, they're redoing the Wopper for this. They're giving a different version of the Wopper, which Burger King does a lot. Like, McDonald's won't do a different version of the Big Mac really ever. They'll do the, they'll do the big arcs or whatever. But the Big Mac is like, that's our sandwich. We're not going to share it. How do you feel about reworking the Wopper? Do you like that?

Well, I do. If they're going to make it the special meal, I do. I don't just want, like, a Wopper. It's like the Mandalorian meal, but it's a Wopper that comes in a Mandalorian packaging. It's just like, that's nothing exciting. But this is a different Wopper. It's a bespoke item. Yeah, I like that.

I like that about it. But I want it to be a, at least a little bit unique. Now, McDonald's has, the McDonald's whole thing is they're all tied to happy meals. So it's like, it's a different sort of experience there. You know what you're getting. You're getting your old favorites, but you're getting a toy with them. But here's my other take is that I like the regular Wopper more than I like all the, variations. I do too. The varietals are not as good. It's, it's mostly the case with Oreos, although

golden Oreos are better, birthday Oreos are better, but the default Oreo is kind of hard to top. I do think this is the, this wopper. I like a golden Oreo more than a regular Oreo. Me too. That's what I was saying. I was saying, those are exceptions. I like the golden or, I think golden birthday Oreo is my favorite Oreo varietal. Wow. But the B.B. Hugh Bounty Wopper, which is the one we have, which is a, it's in a carton shape like a Mandalorian's helmet, which it's not really. It's just the normal carton with the Mandalorian. It's got the design. You were pretty pissed. You were pissed about this. Well, because there's a problem as shape like. I was like, okay, we're going to get in the form factor of Dingerin's famed helmet, which he never takes off. Except now he takes it off all the fucking time. Always see a dude's face. Did he, did he, did he do the body work in that show? Or was he just like not, or was he just doing the voiceover? I think a lot, I think he does some of it, but I think a lot of the stuff was done by a stunt guy.

Okay. Yeah. All right. I thought in season one, he, he did the body too. And then maybe it got taken over. I don't fucking, I don't know the work flow. Yeah. He doesn't take his helmet off in season one. At the very end, he does.

At the very end, he does. Yeah. But it's like, but like, that would be the sort of thing. That would be his whole presence in the show would basically, when he, you know, be not exist and he wasn't taking his helmet off. So yeah, I don't know. I remember being impressed that it stayed on for as long as it did.

Because that's, that's what always drove me nuts about like the Batman and Spider-Man movies of like the 80s and 90s is like, they're always ripping that shit off at the end. And it's like, that's the one thing that Spider-Man really shouldn't do is take his mask off. But I understand why. That's, that's,

as a man. As a man, I get it too. But I feel like it felt like with that show. he just wasn't there. That's why I thought it was, that's what I felt like it was on all the time. Well, it may have, it may have been the case as it continued and as he got

busier, right? They may have been, they may be doing some more stuff with the... I'm just gonna be honest. I don't care about Mandalorian Grogu. I don't know I've been kind of nice this whole time. I don't give a shit about these two guys. I don't either. I thought the first season, first season was fun. It's not even, it's whatever.

The first season. Yeah, it's like Hercules, Star Wars Hercules. Like, it's like a fun, serial show. there's some good adventure episodes, you know, there's some good guest stars. You get all the way through two seasons, and then that's one of the grogoo, and it feels like the grogoo and mandolary. We live in a world where I have to be nice to fucking grogoo. I have to be nice to this little shit. I think the backlash is coming.

The Mandalorian Grogu. He's a baby. He's a baby. He's very old. He's acting like a baby, but he's a hundred. If that placenta pill is turning you into a baby, then you can be mad at him because you are on equal footing and you are two babies. Then I hope I'm turning into a baby because I would love to get that.

And he's 50. He's 50 years old. He's acting like a baby. Let me tell you. Somebody say that about me a lot of the time. What's that? With this tantrum you're throwing, you kind of are. I know, I get it.

I know, there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of things that I do that is the same thing with Grogu. He's a 50-year-old and he's acting like a baby. But I don't care about it. I don't give a shit about this little guy. You don't have to. He also, he also is just a career. creation for money. That's like always what, like they remember whoever it was who was the head

of Disney was like, show me my little billion dollar invention. Like that's like what it was the entire time was this thing was made in a in, in, in the way that like people just, they didn't care about what it was. They cared about what it was going to create money like financially. I was, doesn't that suck? Doesn't that bad? It's cynical. But I mean, I also just, I do like the character design of Grogu. I think he's cute. And I also think that he's Yoda would be Zota. But he's little, he's cute. He's better than Yoda. And also...

Oh, fuck you, what? He's the wild take. He's better than Yoda? It's the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. They are, you cannot compare the two. I know it sounds insane, but there couldn't be two more different characters to me. And he steals everything about Yoda and just puts it into a kitten. Did you see, I saw a video of Joe Dante this weekend.

Did you see this Joe Dante video? No. They showed some, like, work cut of, like, uh, Gremlins and they did like Oh yes, I heard about this. And Joe Dante was there and they asked him about Grogle on the red carpet and he was like, they ripped off Gizmo.

And I was kind of like, yeah, Joe Danty. They did rip off Gizmo. Have you seen Gizmo? I didn't put it together until this rant. I was like, oh my God. You haven't seen Gremlins. No, I haven't. They did rip off Gizmo. You're right. But I think it's well executed. And like to me, Grogu is not the problem

with Mandalorian. The problem with Mandolori best part of it, I think. He's the best part of it. The problem with Mandalorian is that they stretched this thin premise on interminably, and it runs out of steam. It ran out of steam by the second season, but I enjoyed it through the end of the second season. The remaining, is it three or four seasons? How many fucking times, how many seasons they've done at this show? Like, I'm just like, I eventually fell off of it entirely, and this movie's coming out. I was like, I think this movie should have come out five years ago. Where does the movie fit in the timeline of the show? I don't know. If I was a bad guy in that, I would drop-kick

that little fucker and be over with it. He's a little I gotta say it. Oh, you're mad at me? Shut up. It was like you were saying you were to drop kick amelia because you said drop kick that little fucker in point right. I would love to drop kick amelia. I would sooner have you drop kick me than Grogu. Wow. Very noble of you.

There's the thing, Grogu wouldn't need your protection because Grogu is for sensitive. We've seen him wrecked house. I think he'd fuck up Mitch. You think you would fuck? Oh, he would not fuck me up. He would absolutely. I'd stop on that little fucker. He'd do some force shit on you. You wouldn't be able to move. You do some what shit on me?

Some force shit on you. Fuck that. I would... He put you flat on your ass with the force. He has a power to do that? Yeah. I would fucking stomp his ass. Old fuck acting like a baby, a freak.

That's a fun twist, though. Again, I think the pilot of it is fun. He's got a 50-year-old bounty. He goes to reveal a 50-year-old bounty. It's a fucking baby Yoda. That's really clever. I don't have a problem with that. And again, thinking of it like, well, like the Kevin Sorbo, Hercules, it's like what I liked about is like, oh, that's kind of low stakes.

It's just a little slice of the Star Wars universe. We're just kind of doing this fun action genre thing that, you know what I mean? But now they're like trying to turn this big expensive thing. And I don't really, I just don't really see this as something that people are going to want to see in IMAX. I could always be wrong. But they do have this big tie-in menu as a result. Let me read the rest of what's going on with the BKBK boundary. He's 50 years old.

He's got an infancy fetish. He's a fucking freak. The idea is that they, because Yoda has such a long lifespan, lived hundreds of years, that their, you know, their period of being a child would be extended. Okay, can I speak to that?

Yeah. That's fucking stupid. I think it's kind of fun. They got in like Lord of the Rings. Isn't Ergorne like 90? Yeah, he's always, yeah, but he wasn't like, at like 50, he wasn't doing that shit.

Maybe at 20 he was. Yeah, we don't see how the baby, like the, because the elves are immortal. We don't know how long their period. The elves aren't acting like, for 20 years? Who knows? I don't fucking know.

I know. They haven't shown a baby elf in the Lord of the Rings franchise. Yeah, because it's cynical. And it's that, I mean, they will, I'm sure, soon at some point. That's a good idea. It's also so nice to have a practical puppet. I do like that. In the modern era.

It's just so cute. You were openly hostile. I'm okay with Muppet Babies. I like Muppet Babies. You're openly hostile towards Grogoo and also Babu Frick. And I don't really have a problem with either of them. Like, like, I think, I think this is this. It's just a microcosm of your disdain.

I'm going to see Mandelorian and Grogu. There goes Ryan. He's left. The building is now empty. Wow, that's us. I'm going in hopes that Grogu and Babu Frick die in this movie. I mean, look, if Grogu dies, it's like, children crying everywhere.

Me standing up and applauding. If Grogu dies or the Mandalorian dies in this movie, it's like, okay, I guess this is a reason to be a movie. It's like concluding a saga. But they're not going to do that because they want to just like, this is working for us, let's just keep it going. Yeah, yeah. You sent a clip today that looked like dog shit, too, by the way.

That clip, the hop-on clip where it's Grogu doing like a... And to give you, and to... Everyone always thinks, you sent it and said, bad clip alert. That's what you said when you sent it. Yeah, it's really bad. It's bad. I don't know, maybe the movie will be good. I want every...

I'm sorry, I just thought I was being too nice to this thing, and I... No one's thought you were being too nice to it. You've been ranted at Disney Star Wars for 10 years. I just watched the hot. on clip, it's incredible. Yeah. It's good. Amelia, what the fuck is going on?

It's hilarious. This looks amazing. I'm not even being ironic. You're out of your fucking mind. It looks great. The way he hops in is the cutest thing I have ever witnessed. It looks drawn on in there. It looks like it looks like they forgot to include a jump animation.

Yeah. It looks like they reversed it. Yeah, literally just goes up down. It doesn't have any anticipation. doesn't have any feeling of physics. We're saying they're a reverse it? It's just all CG. There's nothing there. There's no, there's no, it's no, it's no, not practical at all? Probably not, no.

In the IMAX movie, probably. I'm sure there's some practical stuff in there, but that, that, I think that effect looks very bad. Not enough for Joe Dante, I'll tell you that. Let's talk about, I want to say that like three hour cut of gremlins or whatever. It sounds awesome. So we're disappointed at the barbecue bounty whopper doesn't come in a Mandalorian and shaped helmet. That was more on you. At least that's me. I'm disappointed in that. But it does have have the, it is fully skinned with Mandalorian art. It has Swiss cheese, crispy pickle chips,

bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and creamy bounty barbecue sauce on a bun. I didn't taste what was distinct about the bounty barbecue sauce. It tastes like barbecue sauce. It tasted just like barbecue sauce, which I don't like on a bread. Oh, you're a sauce skeptic. You know what's funny is that I don't know if I would have known it was barbecue sauce. I just thought

it tasted kind of like a nothing, so, like it just tasted like ketchupy or something. Like I didn't, I had no idea. I thought this was fine. Because it's a, it's a, it's a light color, right? It's kind of like an orangey hue. Same deal with the cheese. I was like, what kind of cheese is this? Is this white American? You're like, it's Swiss. I'm like, had some of the cheese in isolation. It's like, I guess it's got holes in it, but it doesn't taste like anything distinct. It's a vague sort of assemblage of flavors and textures, but it's fundamentally a

wopper, so I liked it from that standpoint. Yes, I'd rather have a regular wopper. Yeah, I would rather have a regular whopper. But I actually thought that the burger itself was okay. Yeah, I thought it was okay. Yeah, yeah. I love pickles. I was excited about the crispy pickles and I like that that is now a thing. I feel like that like pickle flavor is a is a flavor that these places keep going to like the Grinch salt was pickles. Oh yeah. Right. Did you think you got enough taste of the pickle chips to me were almost just like fried flakes. I wished that I feel like they were getting overpowered by the barbecue sauce. That's fair. I would have if I could have had double pickle flakes I would have. Yeah. We maybe maybe could have we could have tried to up the pickle

but I'm going to say this. Not on day one. They're basically, they're holding it together. I'm not going to ask that on May the Fort. Well, it's not in the spirit of the day. That's right. It's May the, I should be nicer to Grogu on May the 4th.

I, speaking of it being day one, yesterday, Wags, your day off on the phone. I text the doughboys chain. I said, should I get Burger King today? Because I wasn't sure if we had planned on eating it beforehand or I didn't know what the deal was. I know there was BK lunch, but I was like,

I could just eat this all and then not eat like shit on a Monday. And Amelia was like, yes. And I was like, okay, I'm going to go up and get the, the,

the, the, the Mandalorian meal. And I got up there and there was no Mandalorian meal. And I texted Amelia, and I was like,

I don't think it's happening today. And you thought I was just asking your permission if I could get BK for the day. Yeah. So you're, you're leading out a lot of context here. Or you're adding,

you're adding too much context. Oh, okay. All he said was in the group chat, should I get BK? Me and Susser both say, yeah. Like, I thought he was like, I'm going to be naughty. I know we're having it tomorrow, but should I get it today too? And you were like, have fun if you want to. That's how I interpret it.

That's how I interpreted it. If I had known, I would have said it comes out tomorrow. I don't, I think that you have taken away context. Hold on a second. I'm trying to remember because I thought I'd sent to the chat already. Weig says it comes out May 4.

Yeah, I say that in the chat. Should I get BK today, I said? There was a today included. Yeah, I know. Yeah, but she said should I get BK? Or should I get BK today? Yeah, go for it, King. And then she said, yeah.

And then Evan Susser said, get a chicken long boy for me. And I said, I should get it today, question mark? And I said, okay, I'll get it. So you thought that I was just asking you permission to be naughty. So now you went there and they didn't have it. And then did you get a different BK item? I did get BK. I knew it.

No, no, you're pointing at me like you knew it. I did not want to get BK on two days in a row. You could have driven away from the BK. I could have driven away from the BK. But I had to do an audition. So you knew this, which I finished today, which was fine. So I did part of it last night and then I did the other part of it today. but I didn't need to get BK, but I'm happy that I did.

I'll say that. You side-texted me, and then you were like, when have I ever, like, asked permission for that kind of stuff? We did all the time, I feel like. So then I typed in my phone, like in text search, should I get? And then one of the first things that comes up is Mitch saying, hmm, should I go get some free pizza? But that's me thinking out loud.

That's what it sounded like. That's what it sounded like yesterday. No, we're doing BK for the show. I thought you knew it came out today because it comes out on May 4th. That's the whole thing. I'm on Mitch's side. Hell yes. No, but we had talked about it coming out May 4th in that same group chat multiple times before.

I found it because it was hard to search for her. Emma, stay out of this. I was trying to search for May 4th and unfortunately just brought a text message as for May 4th, but I searched for Mandalorian. I had texted the group chat. The Mandelorian and Groo group. Burger King Meals out on May 4th. So that was established. That was something you could have read.

When was this? Not on Sunday, though. No, this was on April 27. Wow. That's when we picked the meal. Also, you know, like, Google exists. You also said, like, is it out yet? You could have Google it on your own. We always get the meal before the record. Yeah. I was so excited because I found I was doing this this weekend. And then you were texting me, do you have a place you want to go or I'll send you the list? I said, send me the list. And already I said, I said,

to have to help me figure out. I was going to really agonize over that. And then there was another email that was like, change of plans, Mandelorian and Groku. Like, yes, I felt like I was like here for something important or something. We must. It's an emergency. You have no other choice.

Got to do it. This is the way. This is the way. Amelia, if you're so on top of it, why are we not wearing Mandalorian crowns right now? This is a thing. And Wiger is pissed. There were Mandalorian crowns that we, you know,

I would have liked to have had, but we did not get the Mandalorian fans. Were they available at RBK? I didn't know they existed. Yeah, so this is something that I... So Wiger's now pissed off. Wygher's pissed. I'm okay.

I would have liked to have had Mandalorian crowns, but it's fine. And you're pissed off because the garlic sauce wasn't there. Look, did you fuck up really bad? Yes. That sounds like a BK fuck up. No?

I should have checked. I did say, I was like, oh, get rants, but make sure you say it at the end because we need garlic sauce. It's not your fault They forgot the gallery. Of course,

nothing is your fault. The fact that I was at BK isn't your fault. It was fun to give you shit about it. But it did give me a chance to eat the original wopper, which is now redone and new. So I did have a wopper yesterday.

What do you think about that wapper? They've changed the wopper, but I'm going to say this, and this is the two things from this, from yesterday and today. Is that bun? Is the bun a little too, like, stale? The bun's got a little bunnier.

The bun's got a little bit. bunny or a little like, kind of like the bread is cracklier or something. What exactly is new about the new whopper? They just are like, we're like having more fresh ingredients and like we're making it better. It's the Domino's thing again too. We're trying. We're trying. That is kind of what it is.

What they like versus Wendy's is just like we're trying to save money. We're making everything shittier. Yes. And they're like, check the new and improved spicy chicken sandwichers like, this is you've, and shittified it. You've made it worse and your marketing is like new and improved. I'll go off on this. mind if I go off on this for a second.

Of course not. Imagine McDonald's changing the Big Mac. Like, what the fuck are you doing? Why would you do that? Why would you do that? Why would you do that? Whoever's in charge, they're still, like, their restaurants are closing, but it doesn't matter to any of these people who are, like, it matters to the public because the public,

you know, like a lot of people eat fast food and depend on fast food, unfortunately. That's the truth. And the prices are just getting higher at Wendy's and the quality is getting worse. And these people don't give a shit. And then they change. changed the thing that's their Big Mac. They made it worse. They changed the ingredients. Like, what the fuck are you thinking? I mean, it's like they, basically, they saw what private equity did to Toys R Us, you know,

a decade plus ago and we're like, hey, that was a wild success. It's this mafia bust out approach towards retail, towards, towards businesses. And it's just like, and they did the same thing with the Red Lobster. I'm sorry to say it again. People up against the fucking wall. I'm sorry. But we'll hollow out. Hallowed out. We'll use as much. much, you know, we'll make, we'll slice everything to have, like, the, the biggest margins possible and, like, with the worst quality we can get away with. And we can also, you know, just, like, make that gradually worse over time so people won't, won't notice it as prominently. In the same way, they'll, like, slowly ratchet up gas prices. It's, it's just, you know,

it's fucking, it sucks. It's the insidification of everything, which is cliche to say, but that's where we are. But isn't it insane to, to, like, change, like, I get Burger King being like, we're going to put up, and also I don't think that the new bun is working as well. No, I think. So they have to figure something out with this. This bun, this bun is what Natalie would characterize as glue bread. It's kind of like this weird sort of like, like texture to it that tastes, almost pasted together. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. And that was today and yesterday. That was my holdup. The fries were great yesterday when I got fries. Wow. We did not get fries today. We got the Imperial cheddar ranch tots, which are crispy tots with melt, stuffed with melted cheddar cheese, and fluffy,

potatoes and ranch seasoning served in a Star Wars themed carton. That was a fun carton. And I thought these tauts were hitting. I liked them. Yeah, I thought they were pretty fun. Yeah, put in the ranch. I wish they were a little bit more cheesy. I wish you lose that a little bit in the deep friar or whatever, I guess. I wish they were slightly more cheesy, but I thought they were fun. I didn't mind those bad boys one bit. What did you think? I would want to go have them like fresh at the restaurant. Super fresh. It felt like even just in the car ride, they lost something. But they're still delicious. I like that. If you can get back behind, if you can get in the kitchen and grab it straight from

fryer, I think that is probably the best way these things are, our taste. We, ours traveled, but, but we didn't get the garlic sauce for the, the chicken fries, but we, I ordered some new ones on Grubhub, and they came and we got just one, finally we got one. Did you order from a different one? A different Burger King? No, same one. Amelia was that. Yeah, no, so she did fuck up really bad. Here's the thing. It's on the menu It's Grogu's garlic chicken fries Crispy chicken fries Breaded with Parmesan and garlic seasoning

And served with garlic sauce In a Grogoo carton So it comes with garlic sauce By default Did you like But you didn't specify garlic sauce So they didn't... I wrote a whole thing that was confusing to her

That I was like I was like I want ranch to dip the tater tots in the ranch And I was like ask for that at the end Because I don't like I want the garlic So I said all of this And I felt like a big fat loser Because like I'm asking I'm like trying to be clear that I want the garlic sauce.

I assumed it would be in the boxes, which I should have looked inside and they weren't. But I did ask for the ranch. But when did you ask for the ranch? At the end. So I bet they, I wonder if that was like, do you want any sauce? And that's where you like, I guess, asked for the garlic sauce instead. Which, how would you have known? Or maybe they thought you were asking a sub ranch for garlic.

That's what I think they did. No, but online, online I made it the Yoda sauce. they, this sounds like they fucked up. Yeah. Well, I should have checked. Usually you should check before you. Quite a few fuck-ups, howling up here and then.

Well, the thing is, I wanted to make sure that the main items were there because they did forget your burger and I had to, and I had to say. Oh, shit. Usually, if you did this,

you picked this up, it's different, but usually if you did like a door dash delivery, you can't open those, the boxes, like the theme boxes, they're sealed. So, like, they wouldn't have, a door dash driver

wouldn't have even been able to look at. Oh, no, the door-dast driver would have definitely. They must have just, Though, our grubhub guy did get it, did, it came. It came. There, one thing of sauce did come. Let's talk about the garlic chicken fries first. But I just want to say, like, you know.

I'm on, I'm on thin ice. No. This seems like it. I just would never ask you permission to go to Burger King for real. You do that all time. We do that all the time. So, I mean, it's you do it too. You say, should I get this?

I don't really care what the fuck you guys think. Should I get a little Jersey mics for dinner? Exactly. I'll be like, yeah. I'll be like, should I get del Taco on the way home? You guys have never swayed my opinion one way or the other. But the fun is, like, I'm looking for the devil over my shoulder. I know that will always come from the double-y-gris.

I always have that over my shoulder. I don't, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I got two devils. Emma and Amelia. It was, this is all to say, we did get the fries with the sauce. Eventually. And everyone was just okay with the, the sauce is fine. No one really liked the sauce, except for maybe me. It was very much butter.

It was very butter. This was your observation, Mitch, and I think it might be true because we know that Burger King is actually, no, they're not. Was Burger King, who owns Burger King? Which private equity owns Burger King? And I think what he's looking for is it Papa John's. Restaurant Brands International. Yeah, Restaurant Brands International. Is there a pizza chain that's a part of it?

I think Jimmy just had a little nightmare because she growled. I thought it was a motorcycle outside. She just growled. She's getting mad at me. I'm yelling at you too. She does. Sometimes she sleep barks. It's very cute.

Wally, he'll, he'll like dream. Yeah, Tony does little barks. Tim Horton's Burger King, Popeye's, Firehouse subs.

Yeah, so there's maybe not a clean this is like in the same way that if it was part of Yum brands where they'd be like, well,

Pizza Hut, they just took the garlic butter sauce from Pizza Hut and put a grogo label on it. But I don't know if that's the case. Whatever it is, it's a pretty,

I'm sure it's a pretty, it's a pretty, it's a pretty, generic sauce that tasted more buttery than garlicky. I got more garlic from the chicken fries themselves. From the chicken fries themselves, but if you're dipping those chicken fries in ranch, it's just going to overtake that. Because I thought they just were regular chicken fries at first.

I liked them better because I just like ranch better than that garlic sauce. They like ranch better than the garlic seasoning on the chicken fries. And I love fried chicken. Fried chicken is my favorite food. There's something about the garlic chicken fries or chicken fries in general that makes me so conscious of how process they are. They're in this little weird tube form factor. It does feel like...

All of it's pretty processed, though. I know, I know, but it makes me hyper-conscious of it because of how misshapen it is. It's like the chicken stars from Carl's Jr. Nuggets don't do that for you, though? No, because a nugget is close enough to be like a hunk of me. They come in three shapes, though. I know that, but I'm just saying, like,

that's what my brain does. And if I see something that's a little bit more like, like the dinosaur nugget, I was like, well, I know that this is ultra-process. Although I know intellectually the nugget is as well, it doesn't hit me the same way. Same thing with like a boneless wing. Again, I know this is processed in the same way. It doesn't hit me as effectively.

But still, I'd always rather take a bone in chicken. I like them because if I'm going to Burger King, something is wrong. And if I just order a normal meal, it's not going to be enough. And they are the perfect little like, I need a little extra something to add on to this. And I also, I think it's like the extra breading factor because I'm like, oh, I just want as much breading as possible. I think the goop being shaped into forms doesn't bother me as much as it bothers you. I'm fine with whatever shape they want. And honestly, I think the long fingers are kind of fun.

It's a me thing. I'm just, I'm just speaking for myself, which is all I can do. That said, I thought these are pretty good. I thought they were, I thought they were pretty good. I think that the, I liked the garlic sauce, but it is very much like a garlic butter sauce. You did a dip. What do you think, Amelia? It just tasted like butter.

Yeah. Yeah, it was too strong. It was too overpowering. Well, you like the fries. I loved the fries. The chicken fries? The chicken fries. And you got, you didn't get the, the bounty wopper.

You just got a regular whopper. Yes. I brought it to you and I said, like, here's a wop if you want a cop. And then I walked away and then I turned around and came back. I was like, I realized that I delivered this to you and said an Italian slur. And you are Italian American. Yes. She said I love Italian slurs.

You got a favorite? Skinny Guinea. That's pretty good. Skinny, skinny, I've never heard that before. Christopher calls it himself that on the sopranos, I think. That's just a variation on Guinea. It's not specific, yeah. I like Ginzo.

Gabra says Ginzo. Gino's pretty good. I got into a fist fight with my friend when I was younger and he was an Italian guy. He called me a Mick during the fight. Oh, that's an Irish. He's like, you fucking Mick? And I was like, oh my God, this feels like a like a 1950s fight. or something.

You said, no, my name is Mitch. I'd love to be called a honky. You don't want that to happen. You're a fucking honky, honky ass. Coming from you, it's not the same. Whatever, I tried. Well, coming from a Mick, is that what you're saying? Yeah.

All right. Why do you love Italian slurs? I don't know. It's just funny. Italians love slurs in general, I feel like. I think Italian Americans do like their own slurs. I think we do like, I don't know. It may be other slurs.

Part of my family is Italian-American and they're all very proud of all of our anti-heroes. And, you know, like, they just love it. My family's acting like they're mobbed up. They're not. They wish they were. So that's it for the savory side. I mean, I think the, again, the GroGoo, carton, the packaging is fun.

We got to talk about the Grogu's blue cookie shake, because that to me was the highlight. Creamy vanilla soft serve mixed with blue sugar cookie syrup and topped with Grogu's favorite snack, blue cookies. Now, I asked in the kitchen, is that canon, is that established in the show that Grogu likes blue cookies? I don't think he ever eats blue cookies. Maybe he doesn't season four sometime, but. By the way, his favorite snack is blue cookies, quote on saying.

That sucks. Not a lot of effort is put into the copy there if that's an invention. Is that like cookies to go with your blue milk? But why would the cookies be blue? I don't know. They just stole it. Yeah. Wouldn't it be blue milk?

It does feel like a lazy extension of the blue milk. It really does. I don't know why. I'm hoping it pops up in the movie. They already have a blue food, so it feels like by calling it blue cookies, you're invoking that, right? Yeah, why wouldn't it be blue milk syrup? Like, just call it blue milk syrup and topped with Grogu's favorite snack cookies.

or I'm searching blue cookies. I don't fucking know. Let's see if there's a Wikipedia even on this. I don't think this is established in Mandalorian. Star Wars blue cookies often called, okay, so here we go. Oh my God, all right. Am I wrong? Star Wars blue cookies often called Navarro Numbies or Navarro macaroons are iconic

iconic blue-colored French mac. How do you say macs? Are you saying macro? There's macaroons and macaroons. Is it 1-0 or 2? 1-0. Then it's macarones. Macarones.

Okay, macrones. With the creaming filling, famously stolen by Grogu and the Mandalorian. So it was... Wow, so it happened. So, never mind. Oh, yeah, he's eating a blue macaroni and this. Macroons.

Well, I should shut the fuck up. What am I doing? What am I saying? I don't remember it either, though. When is this? Wait, is that from the movie? No, I think that... Wait, like, maybe...

Let me make sure it's not a burger game commercial. I will have... that sort, this is just a Burger King commercial. They're going to go back and put it in the show. They got it. They got a record. They just go back and they are widely available as official William Sonoma macrons.

Oh my God. William Sonoma? Why is everything like this now? Walmart's blue nilla nummies or blue tinted Oreo cookies as of 2006. So this is, okay, and there are Nilla Wafers. We have seen the Grokoe Nilla Wafers.

Yes. But him liking the cookies is not a normal. That's not a normal thing. They're also not the Nila Wafers. They're a different blue cookie. I would honestly like the Burger King copy of it just said like the whatever, the weird Star Wars Nabarro Numbies or something. I would have liked it more.

Yeah. Anyway. It feels less lazy than just blue cookie. Blue cookie is pretty app-assed. I clicked on this image and it took me to a William Sonoma website. Yeah, so I think this is maybe just a commercial. It's hard to say. Yeah. I don't fucking know.

I don't know what's real anymore. I'm sure some pedantic Star Wars fan will let us know if this has been. Is that what they do? They'll do that sometimes. Are they keeping track of stuff? They'll sometimes give you a correction, yeah. It's all commercial. It's just it works on you. You love the little shitty thing. I love him. I do like Groga's fine.

What do you mean you do like Grogue? He's cute. He's good. Yeah, he's good. He's a good character design. He's funny and you like him. Him eating the little frog eggs is fun. Talking about him eating stuff. What's happening?

Like even having like the feelings of like, God, this is so cynical and everything. Like they just, the execution is so good. They nailed it. It's good enough that it gets you over that feeling. Yeah. This is sad to say, but I'm now realizing that I'm not needed in this world anymore. You're the outlier on Grogu. I'm the outlier I should get out of here.

My opinion's not based on the movie or the TV show at all. It's just the fact that he's cute. I haven't seen any of the other shit. That's enough. This world has passed me by. I'm done. They've tapped into something because I had like a friend of ours like got their kid a Grosgud doll before they were even like on screens.

Yeah. She just loved it. Does no. Yeah. It just is a cute thing. It's cute as fuck. It reminds me a little bit of Furbies though. It has like a little bit of that creepy eye like the Furbies did.

And if the Furby also inspired by Gizmo. Yeah. I love Gizmo, but Gizmo seemed like an original fun creation. Gizmo seems real. Yes, yeah. Grogu doesn't feel real. I believed I could find a Gizmo somewhere at some point. Which they never really came back with a new Gremlin.

And Amelia, we do next trip. I think we've got to watch Gremlin. Look, all this said, the Grogu's blue cookie shake is fucking great. It was so yummy. It's birthday flavor. Look, if there's a reason to like, It is his blue cookie shake. It's vanilla base, which I, which I love.

You know, vanilla is a flavor. And then also the blue sugar cookie syrup is like birthday flavor. So it works in there. It's like vanilla and birthday. There's nice texture from the blue cookies that were just kind of crumbled on top. I thought this was a fucking delight. And I had a, I had a couple sip, like, spoonfuls. It was like, do I love this?

And I kept having it. I was like, I'm going to finish this motherfucker. I thought it was so good. I think everyone was very happy with it. I heard you coming out, and you asked if I had any of the crusties. Yeah, it was so good. My favorite part was that it was not too sweet at all. No.

It was the perfect amount of sweetness. The crusties on top are really good. And, yeah, I could have eaten the whole thing. Joe, did you end up having a sip of it? I think you did. I had a sip, and I wanted more. Yeah, it really yummy. Well, because you labeled it like Michael Jackson's eighth studio.

I have an album, Dangerous. That's what you said. The shake is dangerous. was that really number eight? That's number eight for Michael Jackson. I think because of Jackson five. Oh, the Jackson five ones count. Okay.

Because otherwise I was in reality, solo Michael Jackson, what is it, number three? Yeah, because off the wall, thriller, the bad and dangerous. Right? And I think that's it. Yeah, that's it. Does Dangerous have any, I mean, there's good songs on, there's good songs on all the album. Dangerous. Oh.

Dangerous is great. Remember the time? Yes, and black or white? Yeah, that's okay. This is great. Yes, it is. Yeah. I'll bring him a dangerous track listing right now.

There's a bunch of bangers. I agree with you. A dangerous drink. I did drink this whole thing. I'm going to feel extremely sick from it. Joe, I know that's why you didn't order one. Yeah,

I just can't have that much of a milkshake. But, like, I'm, my daughter only ever gets vanilla things because Holly is allergic to chocolate. So now she's, like, copying Holly. I forgot. But she doesn't ever finish a dessert.

So I'm going to push her towards this in the hopes that then, I can have the amount of shake that I can handle. It took me like a couple of years of her life to start to just like, I don't order anything at the ice cream shop now because she never finishes it. And then I eat like an appropriate amount as opposed to one and a half of every ice cream. Are you, are you a chocolate fan? Is this, has this, uh, I'm like, I'm like fine on chocolate.

Okay. I'm not like a chocoholic or anything. That's me too. I'm kind of fine on chocolate. I like chocolate. but I love vanilla. Yeah. And I love, I like...

Vanilla is my preferred flavor. Oh, yeah. So I'm... All right. Then you're in business. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't have the same, like, when we go to, like, a kid's party and there is, like, a chocolate dessert.

Holly is, like, offended. But I'm like, they're not thinking about the allergies of the moms. Right. Here's the, here are the singles from Dangerous. Black or White. Remember the time. Okay. In the closet.

Okay. Jam. Jam. is it? Who is it? I don't remember who is it. Who is it? Oh, now we remember. It's good. Heal the world. I'm saying

at the Super Bowl. Heal the world is from Dangerous? Yeah. Oh my God. Give it to me, will you be there and gone too soon? Yeah, he had a whole bunch of bangers on that. Scream is Janet Jackson, right? That's like the last day video I remember. Okay. Also, scream a good song.

Okay. I'm sorry. Michael, I like Michael Jackson. Yeah. Did you watch the black or white video debut on TV? We talk about this constantly because it was such a big moment.

I feel like it was a very important time for our generation. Like I watched it with my dad. Yeah, I watched it with her whole family and it was after the Simpsons. Yep. Do you remember what episode of The Simpsons it was? It's not the Michael Jackson won, is it?

I don't think it was. I don't know, yeah. But anyway, yeah, the Simpsons, we can try to look that up. The Simpsons-Bart introduces it, right? Bart introduces it. And then there was the originally

the extended tag where Michael Jackson, like, the whole video ends. And then he walks outside of the studio and just starts breaking cars. It starts kicking him and smashing himself. People were offended by that. People were offended by it. I remember it was like a whole thing at... He was grabbing his crotch a lot. That's right.

Yeah. Okay. That's right. That's the other part of it. That's what I remember. There was more outrage about that than him smashing a car. Yeah. Yes.

Yeah. He was grabbing his crotch quite a bit in the... I remember there was quite a controversy in my school. But talk about the combo of Bart Simpson, introducing a video by Michael Jackson with Macaulay Culkin in it. You're hitting on all the... And George Went. And George Went from Cheers.

You hit on everything I loved. Isn't there... There's also someone famous in the morphation... Because, like, morphing is like... Tyra Banks. Ira Banks is one of the people... She's one of the morphers. Yeah, yeah.

Before she was Tyra Banks. That's right, yeah. Who was the Simpsons episode Saturdays of the Thunder? Okay, this was the... And then at the end of the music video, Bart's jumping on the sofa and Homer walks in and turns the TV off. That's pretty funny. Yeah.

It's a, that was the, that was like a go-kart episode. Yeah. Like a soapbox racer. So that's season two maybe or season two, yeah. Or three. Season three episode, season three. Season three, wow, never mind. But you're right, it's, it's, it's, uh, Homer realizes he's being a neglectful

father and they go soapbox racing. Yeah. What a show. Uh, anyways. What a man. Homer? Or Michael. Michael.

Michael. I think Homer is a great man And there's been nothing said about bad about Homer Do they cover the black and white video release In the major motion of Richard Michael? No, no They don't do any of it at all? The film abruptly ends in 1988

Yeah, weirdly it doesn't get to black and black. And that is that Yeah, and then it says His story continues Like it's like a Marvel movie And that's it, that's the end of it. it would have been so fun to see MJ meet like Bart and Homer. If we saw a little bit more, it would have been fun to see him go in the studio.

Yeah, and meet Bart and Homer. That would have been awesome, Mitch, I agree. I didn't mean like a who framed Roger Rabbit thing. Hey, buddy, sleep is so important. A good night's rest sets you up for a great day, and that's why we love helix mattresses. Mitch, how long have you had your helix? Why? It's been seven or eight years. It's almost time for new Helix for me. But you know what? It's as soft as the day I got it. Wow. That's true. I have a helix moonlight lux mattress. It feels like a cloud. I love it. You know who else loves it? Wally and Irma? Cute. My mom when she comes down, she'll sleep on it. I'll sleep somewhere else. My sister as well. I'll sleep somewhere else. It's a beautiful bed. I love the bed. It's been with me for a long time. I really like my Helix sleep mattress. Mitch, you know, This is, I usually am interviewing a guest, but I have some interview questions for you.

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We love them. Wow. All right, let's review this to get done with it. Yes. Let's let this man watch his sixers for crying out loud. Joe, this is how this works. We'll each go around. We'll each give our closing argument, if you will, on the Burger King, Mandalorian meal,

and then give it a score from zero to five lightsaber forks? I love that, Wags. Lightaber forks is as good as anything in New Star Wars. It's better than Blue Cookies. Joe, you're a guest. We'll start with you. Your fork score. I am going to

I really liked the tots I felt like they didn't really do anything different with the fries because I could barely taste the garlic and parmesan but the burger was okay and I regretted not getting I think I was like in a two

but then when I tried the shake I liked it so that would have bumped it up to three for me so I'm giving it a three four three lightsaber force um is we've said BK's

for a long time. I do think that the new, them focusing on quality again is just it's helpful for the brand. And look, Burger King always goes from restaurant to restaurant. If you're up in the valley, I've said this like Glendale or Burbank, like you're going to get a better BK

experience. I have a fantastic, consistent Burger King on the west side. I hit up. So they're, there, it's very locational dependent. It's locational dependent. The Whopper yesterday I had was good, except I don't love that. The new bun needs some rejiggering and they need to figure that out a little bit. This meal, everything was like fine with this meal.

The tauts were like fun. I think like the garlic fries I could barely taste it. With the sauce it was better, but like nothing really like stood out as great in the meal. The sandwich is okay, but this is the way right here, Amelia, you're right. This shake is the way. It's really, really good. that's this is a home run. And it brings my score up for the meal.

I'd say 3.5 for all the components. For Burger King itself, I'm going Golden Play Club Yikes. I'm going four for Forks for Burger King. I like Burger King. I think BK is back. BK is back. I agree with you there. If we're talking about BK at large, then the fork is strong with this one.

I would give Burger King four forks. Oh, four lightsaber forks. And three and a half lightsaber forks. Well, no, Burger King just gets forks because it's like, that's an ever-grant. Okay.

The Mando meal gets three and a half lightsaber forks and Burger King itself gets four metal forks then. Is that what you want? Okay, all right. This pole acts as the How to Train Your Dragon menu. Like this is so much better than that. A thousand percent.

They put some real effort into it. And I think I genuinely like both the cheddar rand tauts and despite me being a little bit put off by them the garlic chicken fries. I thought the barbecue bounty whopper was fine. And the shake was delicious, the Grogoos Blue Cookie Shake. I loved it. I would have liked to have had Amando Crown, but I can't hold that against Burger King. It's weird that didn't include the garlic sauce by default. And I wish the packaging had a little bit more effort into it. But overall, there is a lot of packaging going on here. There's a lot of

packaging going on and compared to a lot of other chain's efforts, for instance, the he man meal, which we did, we just did from Denny's which was so fucking half-assed and tasted like shit. I think this is a big step up. So for that reason, I am in the handholding club

with the mando to my grogoo. Or wait, it's the other way around, right? I'm grogoo. I think you're grogoo. The grogoo to my mando. I hate myself as much as I dislike grogoo, I guess. I'm going to say three and a half lightsaber for the Mandalorian meal.

That's fair. All right, it's time for a segment. Gringo gets zero forks, and I hope he dies in the movie. How dare you? It's time for a segment. How could a baby die? He's 50.

Who gives a shit? He's old. 50 is very sad for someone to do that. 50 is too young. When you hear about somebody dying at 50 years, that's horrible. It's horrible for someone to die. Now Grogu died.

50, I'm okay. So him as a baby. Yeah, he's fake, first of all. He's fake. He's fake. Fifty-year-old Grogu dies of SIDS. You're like, good, good riddance. Hold on a second. S-Y-D-I-D-S.

Sudden Yoda death sentence. Not your, not your way. I would be fine with, with Grogu dying. Let Grogu die. What? No, I agree. Like, here's the thing. I don't see any reason for this movie to be a movie.

That's my core problem with it. If they're going to do something seismic, like Grogu or Mandalorian is going to die in the movie, then, like, great. Okay, this has a reason for, I'm restating something I said earlier, but I don't think they're going to be that bold. I think they can try. People don't care anymore. I'm just being a grinch. No one cares. No one cares.

I would be devastated if Grogu died. We don't have good things in this world anymore. Give us Grogu. Let us have him. Yeah, we don't have good things in this world anymore. You're speaking. Grogu is a part of the... Just do the segment.

You're on an island with Grogu. Yeah. This is a you thing. I think there's a lot of people that think Grogu is like a dumb, cynical marketing bullshit, right? I don't know. I think by and large... I mean, it can be that and also be cute.

It's fine. It's cute. All right, you know what? Grogu is cute. I'm on your side. I'm on your side. I'm on Grogo walked in here right now. You'd be like, that's pretty cute.

Stop his ass out. As far as the list of things to complain about in terms of Disney's stewardship of Star Wars, Grogu is pretty far down the list. Fine, fair. I mean, there's just like, if what they were doing with the Star Wars license was making Mandalorian and Grogu. Is that little motherfucker wearing a diaper? Nothing else.

I don't know if he has a diaper because he's got the little robes on. So he's just sitting freely is what you think? I imagine he's got a diaper on under those rows, but I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if it's established. Maybe he's toilet trained. Maybe that's the ending of this movie that you see Vandalorian change grow.

They don't really talk about pissing and shitting in the Star Wars universe. The whole movie is him learning how to use the pot. Yeah, the whole movie is potty training. Which would be great for our baby-brained generation, including Amelia, will be giving a standing ovation. Like, has anyone did the blueprints for the Millennium Falcon? Like, where's the toilet?

There must be one on there. Oh, there's got to be a toilet on there. But we've never seen a toilet. Like, we've never seen like Han Solo coming out of the restroom. That's funny to think of Chewbacca like on the toilet in there. Yeah, at some point Chewbacca's going to take a big shit. Yeah. Was that him, is that your impression of Chewbacca going to the bathroom?

Yeah. He's feeling relief. That sounded like relief. All right, let's do a segue. Yeah, we're going to end this show. It's the return of serving USA. Hit it, Emma. If everybody had a portion across the USA,

then everybody. Everybody'd be serving A California Britos You'd see them snacking from bays And eating sandos too A bushel, bushel tomatoes

Serving USA Deep fried pan-fried USA Deep fried pan-fried USA Deep fried pan-fried USA Deep fried pan-fried USA Come on Mitch deep fried pan fried u s a deep fried pan fried u s everybody's going serving serving u s a

okay so here's how serving u s a match and jo are going to guess the amounts of servings per container for each object that is named the closest guess wins a point for that round and according to the vlc rule which is the bennessa chester rule Vanessa chester you do sound like a little haunted doll when you say The best of Chester Roll over the great film The Napa Boys Which you are also in Now on BOD You get two points

If you get it on the dot So Joe, do you understand the premise I'll read food stuff And then guess how many Servings are in a size You're singing in that Michael Jackson Octav has scared Jemmy She's like stood up

And it's staring at you Beach Boys, right? The Beach Boys, but I'm saying He's saying it's a Michael Jackson's He was doing it He was doing a little false out Are you a beach boys guy? I like some of them

Yeah You made it you made a bold claim today That sounds is good like pet sounds You said pet sounds is better than Than I wasn't the person who said pet PetSounds is better than Sergeant Pepper's But but I agree

You did say that thriller is better than You said Thriller is better than pet sounds I agree Pet Sounds is better than Then Sergeant Pepper's The Beatles Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band Which is also a good album And that I think like

I think Thriller is better than pet sounds, but whatever, rank them however you like. Yeah. I don't disagree with them. I kind of like pet sounds, but the Beach Boys like just, they have individual songs that are great, but like, like, I

think California girls is a great song. Great song. But like, you just have to like not pay attention to their lyrics ever. Because it's either like that or it's like just about surfing or it's like about vegetables. It's just like, they're always placeholder lyrics. I should get Matt

Except for like don't worry baby, I guess is good. Oh, yeah, Christmas is great. Yeah. I should get mad at a Geardner. I'm going to get mad at him tonight for this because he was making fun of Dave Matthews saying, uh, I'm the king of the castle, you're the dirty rascal.

And I'm like, yeah, wait, Beach Boys do have some dumb lyrics. Yeah. I'm going to, anyways, I'm going to start a fight later. Just start it right now. Okay.

Let's get the ball wrong. Okay, first up, Snyders of Hanover pretzel pieces, honey, mustard, and onion. This is an 11.25 ounce bag. How many servings are perkins? container. I'm going to say three servings.

I'm going to go six servings per container. Mitch is going to take it, though you both way undershot it. There are 11 servings per container. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a thousand calories in these bags, over a thousand calories in these bag. They're saying that a one ounce is a serving in this bag, which is like ridiculous.

A third of a cup is so small. I've never sat down and had a snack of one third cup of bread. All right, next up, Ben and Jerry's half-paked. This is a one pint. How many servings are in a Ben and Jerry's pint? Half-baked, the chocolate and vanilla ice creams with gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough and fudge brownies. That's a good flavor. I'm going to say 16?

Am I going first every time? Oh, I can go first. Oh, yeah, you can alternate. I'm going to go with eight servings on this one. In a pint. In a pint. Eight servings in a pint. Like this.

Yeah. Well, yeah, I know what a pint. Do I not know sizes and shapes? Is that what we're finding out here? I guess I'll go, I'll go 10. You both overshot it, but there's no Price's Right rule. There are three servings per container. Three?

In a pint, yeah. So I think they're being, that's fairer to me. I could take down a whole pint and one go. This, because look, they also put the whole thing there, which I know sometimes other products do do that. But. The per container. So the pint of ice cream versus a bag of Snyder.

I would way go the pint of ice cream over the bag of Snyder. Yeah, you're wasting. It would be more fun in terms of caloric indulgence. All right, next up, Quaker white cheddar rice cakes. This is a bag of 14 rice cakes. Well, you can go first. 14? I mean, if you got it 100% right.

Oh, you know what? I'll say 28. I'll just double it. That's a good guess, Mitch. But actually, Joe is going to get two points here because the VLC rule, Vanessa Chester rule, and it is going, it is because there's exactly

14 servings in a bag of 14. That's, I think we, I think we both were thinking the same thing there. I got it a little advantage by going for it. First, I know, hey, that's where you choose it. That's, it's a huge part. There's a lot of thinking that goes into this game into serving

USA. I heard Colonel Tom was not particularly intrigued by the cheddar rice cakes until he found out, oh, they're white. Someone was saying that they don't really even do that in the movie And we've kind of like a they do they do it in the movie Next up

Mamba fruit shoes this is a seven ounce bag How many servings are in a seven ounce bag seven point zero five ounces to be pronounced to be precise the flavors included in the mamba strawberry raspberry orange cherry and lemon I said that there's probably like three pieces of mambas per serving And then I'm gonna guess that there's like hmm Like 50 of these in a bag So I'm going to go, I'm going to say that there's,

hmm, there's, uh, 20 servings per container. 20 servings. Now, you don't have to guess how many pieces, but I, if you, if you got it, I'd consider that a bonus,

but you don't have to guess so many pieces. But Joe, how many servings do you think are in this? Uh, I'll go, I'll go 12. 12. Joe is closer because there's seven servings per bag.

Oh, wow. Yeah, five pieces is a service size. Oh, I understand. Okay. Also, the strawberry on this looks a lot. I like the strawberry from the fruit videos. That's true. It looks good.

It looks fucking delicious. Straboleena is her name. She has a name? Yeah, her name is Straboleena. So she's going to get, she's going to get pregnant by a banana. Or puck to her something. It depends on the story. So she, like let's say in one, for example, she gets pregnant by a banana.

Her mango husband finds out she's pregnant and is excited. She gives birth to a little banana. And then the banana is like, I got a fucking killer. and then hires a hit man. This is what these videos do, basically. Or he'll get really, the banana, will get really revenge hot. No, the mango will.

Or the mango will, yeah. The mango would get really revenge hot and then go beat the shit out of the banana. Or actually, there was one where he goes and has sex with a banana as like a show of dominance. Yeah, yeah, like the two guy fruits will get together at the end sometimes.

Yeah, a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a blast. Just good classic. Just storytelling. Yeah. Next up. Sabra classic hummus. This is a roasted red pepper flavor.

This is a 10 ounce container. You a hummus guy? Don't like, oh, because you're not a sauce guy. Not a sauce guy. Is there any sauce you do fuck with? I mean, I like ranch. Yeah, ranch is good. This is, this is, this is kind of turning into the Celtics Sixers series

in that I had a two nothing lead at first and then now Joe has come back and is in the lead. Well, do you want to go first or do you want me to go first? Wait, did I go first? No, I don't know. I've been alternating. I think you're up for first. Am I think you are up for first? I'm going to go, I'm going to say four?

Four servings. Yeah. I'm going to double that and say eight. Two points for Mitch because you were right, correct, eight servings per container. Mitch is now in the lead four to three. Whoa. I wish that's what happened. Mitch you'll go first here.

Squirt. This is a two-lier bottle of squirt grapefruit soda. This is tricky because it's two leaders. Oh, you know what? One serving. Which says one serving for two later. No, I fucked up. Joe, what say you?

I'll say 12. Hmm. I think Mitch actually gets it because he's closer. Oh. It's six servings per container. But Mitch, by virtue of guessing one, you were closer than the... Because I remember there was a trick with like the...

I think it is just the regular-sized Coke, like the small bottles. Just one serving. But a two-liter's a big boy. I know, I fucked up. Last time we did two liters back to back and it like, mine fucked you guys. Yes.

There wasn't one of them just one. It was a trick question. No, they were both the same. They were the same 30 size, but that's what... One was diet or zero calorie or something. Yeah. Okay.

All right. We have a 1.7 ounce container of Tick-Tack Freshments. how many servings are in one of these? Joe, you'll go first. I'm going to say two servings. Joe says two. I'm going to say that this is one of the weird ones where one serving is one tick-tac. And so I'm going to go 40 servings.

Mitch is going to take it because they're in fact a hundred serving serving. Oh, my God. And you are correct. One mint is one serving. One mint is one serving. What's the score right now? Seven to three.

Seven to three. Well, there's one left. They're not being honest with how we're doing tit-tac. No. It is a victory if I am not just immediately eating the entire time. I used to like stress eat them because it feels like there's no consequence. They're very poppable. Finally, gray Poupon mustard.

This is an eight-ounce container. Ooh, this is tricky. You or me first. I think it's used. This will be you. All mustards are valid. All mustards are valid. That's right. All mustard is valid. This is made with white wine if that makes a difference.

That does actually make a little bit of a difference for me. I'm going to go, ooh, this is weird because I'm like, is this just one serving? But no. Eight ounces is a cup. Eight ounces is a cup. Four servings. I'm going to go eight. Joe takes it.

They're in fact 45 servings. Oh my God. One teaspoon is one. serving. It was another back-to-back sort of thing. Yeah. I feel so ashamed because I cook a lot. I'm dealing with these serving sizes and teaspoons and I feel like I was way off.

Would you ever look at the serving size on a sauce, though? I don't know. That's the thing. It's like the serving size is so deceptive because like one teaspoon. I can kind of see that. I probably still am spreading a little bit more on a sandwich. Yeah. But still I can kind of buy that more than some of these other ones are like the

the Snyders of Hanover thing is ridiculous. No one's eating a fucking third cup of pretzels, as was said earlier. I mean, you know what I'd like to do with that, Gregoupon? Open it up. Dip grogoo in there. Hope, fucking swallow them whole. Like Jabba eating a little amphibian?

Yeah, I guess it's like Java eating something. Yes, thank you, Wikes. Mitch wins, right? Mitch wins. Yeah, Mitch wins. Congratulations, buddy. Just like a restaurant, about your feedback. Let's open up to the feedback. Today's emails. Thing that doesn't matter at all. Today's email is from Pissmaster.

Pissmaster writes, Hi, guys, I'm waiting my baby off of breastfeeding. Hey, wait at breastfeeding earlier. And as a result, he has really long crying fits over not sucking on a titty. The other night as he was wailing, I reached for my phone and accidentally turned on one of your episodes on full volume. To my surprise, he stopped crying upon hearing your voices, which is the opposite of how I usually react, and fell right back asleep. I've kept playing Doughboy's episodes for him to great effect, although I'm concerned about the long-term effects on his mental health.

My question is, what food or drink? would make you cry like a baby if it was denied to you by your parents. Love from Norway the Pissmaster. You are, Joe, the parent in the room. Yeah. I imagine have some experience with this sort of thing. But is there anything in particular that would calm your child that you were surprised by? Yes, we would play her the theme song from Taxi, which is not surprising because it's a very soothing, beautiful song.

Right. And also Nick at night when that would come on, it was kind of like a thing I associate with going to sleep. It's like a nice little lullaby of a theme song. I just like that guy. That guy, his name's Bob James. He has a whole, he put a whole album of like the songs that are like the interstitial music from Taxi. And I don't know how we stumbled upon it, but it's really only the beginning melody that's like the main theme song. The beginning part of it seems like a lullaby.

But then it gets into like a funkier like the dino dino dino dino. And that was the part that she liked. But she liked the movement of like rocking her to asleep. And so then we would sing it, but there's no words. So we would just sort of like sing it how I just did it. Except for it, we would go, and Danny DeVito do, do, do. And then she loved it. It's adorable.

The Cheers theme song has some extra verses. I don't know if you've ever heard of the full. And they're not as. No, I feel like it puts a chill down my spine when I hear the whole thing. It's like the extra verses of the Star Spangled banner or Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Yeah, we just learned about the extra, what is her name again? Katie Casey? Yeah, Katie Casey.

Yeah, it's like, I don't know this. It's very strange. It's about Katie Casey like wanting to go see a baseball game. That's the prelude to take me out of the ball game. She is the person that wants to go to the ball game. It's like Katie Casey was baseball mad. That's like the start of the song. And then it goes in to take me out to the.

That's the only of this last. Which we did not know. And Chia, the other verses of Cheers, a great theme song. There was a fan who, I don't know if we, I can't know what their account was, but played the. We'll plug it. We'll put it right here. Played the additional verses on piano, so you can hear what it sounded like. I was really disoriented.

I can probably find it. Wow. Anyway, Mitch, is there any food or drink that would make you cry like a baby if it was denied to you by your parents? Placenta pills and breast milk are probably, I was going to say the Grogube meal garlic dip sauce. Now, hold on a second. I didn't cry about it. I just ordered that straight up.

I guess that is, if I lived in a world where you could just order it straight up, I wouldn't, I wouldn't cry about anything. But if my mom and dad wouldn't let me have pizza, they're like no pizza for a week, I would cry like a baby. Yeah, I'm trying to, like, as a kid, you know, I was kind of like more a kid who would eat everything, which is kind of, you know, except for, I was, I was a first like fish. You wanted me to not do the due diligence and not get the garlic sauce, Emma, is that what you're saying? No, I want an incomplete review for the viewers. No, I was just saying you were, you were crying about it. I never cried a single tear. Sobing.

You're going to make me cry now. I'm trying to think of what I was younger When they would say You can't have soda or something I think probably it would have been more sweets Like my grandma's chocolate chip cookies If so you can't have any more cookies I'd probably be really upset

But I also was like A pretty emotionless child So I wasn't like It's prone to crying feds I'm not surprised by this info I guess I would say that I would like that I really liked lasagna as a kid. Were you one of those quiet babies that they were like,

are we not sure if there's something wrong with him or like a... Yeah, I honestly don't know. I remember my baby period. But I do know that I was a very large baby, Mitch. Like you and I were both, I was 10 pounds. Oh, yeah. I was about 10 pounds when I was born. Like Jay-Z.

I was 10 pounds, three ounces. Wow. Big babies. Five babies in here. I was two weeks late too, so I was late and big. Wow. Yeah, I was close to 10. Maybe 9 points on, but okay.

Close to 10. I was like 10 pounds, six ounces. It was a big motherfucker. That's huge, yeah. Fat as fuck. And 10 of those ounces were cock. There's an old story, Frank Sinatra's story. That's very good.

I will say that I loved lasagna as a kid. And it was my favorite food. If I had a birthday, I still like lasagna, but it's not in the same level. If we had a birthday, I was like, I want to go get lasagna. I was so excited for it. If my parents, if my parents ever made lasagna at home, I'd lose my mom. And I also would intentionally invite comparisons to Garfield because I was like, I like Garfield. He's very funny.

I like that he likes lasagna. And I also like lasagna. It's like, this is so cool as a kid. Would, is there anything that would make you cry as an adult if they were like, this food is gone forever? Is you think there's, like, if they were like fried chickens gone forever, you don't think you would cry? I think it made peace with it pretty soon. Oh. Yeah.

There's nothing that can make you cry as an adult. I mean, I don't mean. There's things that it could make me cry as an adult, a handful of things. But I mean, like, I think that was the fried chicken disappearing as much as I love fried chicken. I could live without it. I think like anywhere from zero to 15, if you told me pizza was gone forever, I'd cry. You'd cry. Yeah, I cried like a baby.

Yeah, probably close to 50. Yeah, I mean, your favorite food in the world being gone. I think I'd be sad now. I just don't think I'd have that emotional response. Me neither. Yeah. I think I'd be closer to anger or something. Or I'd be like, why?

We have to do something about this. I don't think I would go to crying. He's the right answer to half. Why is this happening? There's some weird rule that it's gone. It doesn't make any sense. Because plausibly, and this is the thing they've been talking about for years. I don't know if it ever happened, but they'll be like, like bananas could just disappear.

Like, if there are no more bananas anymore. And that is one of your favorite foods. I love bananas. I've been bananas all the time, a banana. It's a regular part of my diet. So if I just had to live with no more bananas, I'd be. like a little bit. Imagine Donkey Kong in that scenario?

Well, like, we already experienced what it is when his whole banana hoard goes missing. That's true. And he kind of goes on a rampage. He does, yeah. Yeah, I just, he would be very upset. He would be, he would have that mad reaction. Yeah. Was there any food though, Joe, as a kid where you were like, I really, really wanted this.

If it, if it got restricted from me, I'd be upset. I really loved root beer. I think if there was, if I was denied root beer. I was such a good boy. I'm having a hard time putting myself in this position. I can't imagine my parents ever saying no to me about anything. What's the food, like, as an adult, if you, if this was the scenario. I think soda, though, is a good thing.

I think soda, especially children of the 80s is like a... I just, like, fucking would fantasize about soda. And they weren't restricting it from me. We weren't like a no soda house and I have to go somewhere else. But I remember being in school, being like, it would be so great. to have a whole swimming pool full of root beer. That's the most disgusting thing in the world. I think soda was just so big when we were growing up that was that was, that to me is

a thing a child would cry over. It's like no soda. Yeah, I think sugary cereals too was one. Like I loved having bad cereals. And so I think if like that was taken away from me, never was. But that would have upset me or, or if there was ever a thing I really was craving like Pop Tarts and I couldn't get it. I could see that making me upset.

I remember there being a lot of tears, like when if we were spending the weekend with my cousins, I had three cousins that were around the same age as me and my sister and getting the variety pack of the little mini boxes of cereal, like fighting over who was going to get what from that. You were just in Orlando and I bought a couple of those mini packs and they were fun to get. Yeah. Yeah. Good time. Amelia, Emma, any childhood favorite foods that would you throw a fit if you didn't have?

First, I want to shout out Sam Golden from Holiday Heart Studio. He is the pianist who played that song. Thanks for sharing, Sam. Hell, yeah. I remember my mom not letting me drink milk anymore when I was like... And that upset you? I used to have a bottle. Regular milk.

I used to, or like, maybe it was like four. I remember having a bottle of milk and honey every night before bed. Wow. And then maybe around five or six, I remember her saying, you're too old for this now. And then she was like, this is the last one you're getting. And I... I was devastated.

You should have stayed up in San Jose a couple days more. It wasn't breast milk, though. It was cow's milk. You would also easily drink breast milk. Oh, easy. I would shoot that. You'd still have milk in other context, though. It just was not the pre-bed milk, or would you, that was it for milk for you?

Milk with dinner or no. I think that was it for milk. That's wild. Yeah. You had milk with dinner, like every night, I think. Yeah, us too. It was skin milk, and I didn't love that. I can't think of anything.

I guess if my parents took dessert away, I probably would have been upset. But we used to, my grandmother had this rule that if you didn't finish dinner, you didn't eat all your dinner to her satisfaction, you had to go to bed. And that would make me cry. Because the dinner was early at her house at like 5.30. And she was not a good cook. There were many nights when grandma was babysitting that I was in bed at like 6.30 p.m. And I hated that.

That would make me cry. I actually just remembered one of my favorite things as a kid that I didn't think of, one of my favorite treats, and I would cry if these weren't given to me. Blue cookies. If you have a question or comment about the world of the chain restaurants. I have seven more years to cry about it because I'll be the age of 50 and I'll still be a child, supposedly. You can email us at Fugge at birdfuck.com or leave us a voicemail to 830-go-go-d-o. That's 8304-6-8-4.

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It's a lot of fun stuff. I got to talk pavement. My character gets to talk pavement in an episode. Yeah. And I remember you were like, is there really going to be pavement at that point? I was like, I hope so. Or otherwise, this might put that. Wow.

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