Doughboys - Chili's 2 with Joey Janela

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

AEW wrestler "The Bad Boy" Joey Janela joins as the 'boys return to their first ever reviewed restaurant chain, Chili's, for a sampling of their to-go menu, and to discuss New Jersey food, travel eats, and more. Plus, another edition of Spooman's Treat or Skeet. Sources for this week's intro:TV Guide: Mike Myershttps://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mike-myers/bio/166681/Mike Myers - International Man of Mirth; Austin Powers Creator Mike Myers Explains to Peter Elson How His Liverpool Parents Helped Shape His Humourhttps://www.questia.com/read/1G1-89729450/mike-myers-international-man-of-mirth-austin'Austin Powers': Secret Agent, Manhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/austinpowerskelly.htmDomestic Box Office For 1999https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1999/The Inventor of the Chili’s Baby Back Ribs Song Has Never Eaten Their Ribshttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ypx4dy/the-inventor-of-the-chilis-baby-back-ribs-song-has-never-eaten-their-ribsChili's: Our Storyhttps://www.chilisjobs.com/our-story/Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In January of 1989, in the middle of the 14th season of Saturday Night Live, a new featured player joined the cast, a Toronto-raised and Chicago-trained sketch comedian named Mike Myers. Even among a famously strong cast, Myers' character work made him a quick standout, especially his Wayne Campbell, a rock-obsessed slacker with a public-access talk show filmed in his parents' basement. The recurring Wayne's World sketches starring Myers and Dana Carvey as his beta sidekick Garth would become as much an SNL staple as Weekend Update, and in 1992, the duo starred

in the feature film version of Wayne's World, directed by Penelope Sphereis. Myers had successfully graduated from SNL player to movie star, and after following it with Wayne's World 2 and offbeat rom-com So I Married an Axe murderer, in 1997 he co-wrote and starred in Austin Powers' International Man of Mystery, playing both a titular frozen-in-time British secret-agent horn dog and the film's antagonist, a cue ball supervillain named Dr. Evil, purportedly based on SNL kingpin Lauren Michaels. With a laundry list of catchphrases that would be endlessly repeated by annoying kids at school and annoying adults at work, the film became a cult hit and had a second life as

a big-seller on the new home video format of DVD. In 1999, the same summer as the much-anticipated Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace, Myers released Austin Powers' Episode 2, The Spy Who Shagged Me, a mega hit that would become the third highest-grossing film of the year, outpacing Toy Story 2 and The Matrix. The now franchise added more outrageous characters, including pint-sized Dr. Evil clone Mini-Me, played by the late Fern Troyer, and grotesque Scotsman Fat Bastard, played by Myers himself in clump-style prosthetics. And as the gluttonous bastard, Myers would make theaters erupt in laughs of recognition

by singing a beloved chain restaurant jingle, expressing his craving for baby back ribs. The meaty earworm, in use since the early 90s by the Dallas-founded Tex-Max Edery, would lead to a surge in rib sales when deployed by its marketing team, in addition to the Fat Bastard cover, was also sung by boy band N-Sync. While the song, much like Myers, has been less prominent in recent years, its status, like Wayne's world in Austin Powers, is entrenched in American pop culture history. As for the restaurant itself, today, 45 years after its first location opened, diners across America still respond like Fat Bastard himself, saying to its offerings, quote, get in my belly.

This week on Doughboys, we return, once again, to Chili's. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, a man with a head so big he needs two cameras for a zoom call, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Alright, I mean, that's like barely- You do use two cameras. Isn't it supposed to be like a creative- yeah, I know. We know this, we talk about it on the show.

He's saying the reason you're using two cameras is not your shoddy internet, it's that you have a head that's too big to be captured by one lens. Maybe I just don't like it today because my head looks especially big. Yeah, you do have a little bit of a jack-o'-lantern thing going on today, in particular. What happened? Just a lot of salt, maybe? Oh, I don't know. I got hit by the fucking Honey I Blew Up the Kids Ray this weekend and my head got bigger,

your fucking dick head. Tim Sullivan sent that in, roastspoonman at gmail.com, if you have an insult you'd like me to use on Mitch at the top of the show. Tim Sullivan, huh? Sounds like he's from my neck of the woods. You mean Irish? Yeah. And if he is, he better watch his fucking back.

Wow. If anyone from the Quinzi area sends in a roast I don't like, my Quinzi boys are gonna fucking beat the shit out of you. Wow. Quinzi on notice. That's right. Unless it's my Quinzi boys who send in the roast and then, you know, what can I do? Yeah, they send in a lot, actually, since most of the e-mail.

Nick, how'd it go? From Spoon Nation. And you know what, people are getting mad that we don't play the drops live. There's a reason we don't. It's technical. Yes. It's because also the internet is a little bit shoddy. Yes.

And so we're gonna try to play them live from here or not. I'm just telling people that now. I'm gonna try to do it. Do you mean today or do you mean after today? No. Not today. So for one last time, Nick, here's a drop from ToneDaddy who writes, Hi, first time making a drop ever.

Enjoy. Spoon Nation with an exclamation point. I like it. And look, this is too long, but you know, what are we gonna do? I'm recording these separately. So here it is. It's a minute long and it's a nice beat. Enjoy.

Wow. Wow. What a drop that was. So you said here's a drop from and left room for their name and then who writes leaving a name, a space for their email, but at no point did you say like, let's hear that drop. It's cool. I'm sure I dropped it in somewhere. Okay.

Hey, Nick. Yeah. Let's hear that drop. Okay. I guess I dropped it in right here. Grandma's freezer. Grandma's freezer. Grandma's freezer.

Grandma's freezer. Grandma's freezer. That's a good grandma freezer item. Frozen Ho益 empt Pfrozen Hoche. Frozen Ho- guilt, Frozen Ho- guilt. Frozen Ho- guilt. Frozen Ho-zan, Frozen Ho-side! Frozen ho-gent, Frozen Ho-egg, Frozen ho-tee dСtFf protein.

All right, yeah yeah yeah, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the. Grandma's freezer. Frozen Ho-gent, Frozen Ho-gent. Frozen Ho-igg, Helen Donovan- That's a good grandma freezer item. Helen Donovan was a same-same thing. Grandma's freezer- Frozen Ho- Scream.

Grandma's freezer, Frozen Ho-game. Grandma's freezer. Wow, and if you have a drop you'd like to submit for the show, send it into that email address. What you know is SpoonmanDrops at gmail.com. That's right, one more time. That email address is SpoonmanDrops at gmail.com.

All right, Nick. I love how you open your mouth. It's a great commitment to that bit. I told you I'm hoping food flies in there. We have a very exciting guest today. You can see him Wednesday nights on All Elite Wrestling Dynamite on TNT. He is the bad boy, Joey Janella. Hi, Joey.

Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. It's been a long time coming. People have been wanting me to do this podcast for a long time. I don't know. It's maybe because I'm chubby. I have no idea. Man, if you're the standard for chubby, me and Mitch are in trouble.

I'm the wrestling standard for chubby. Oh, got it, yeah. That's like, because that is a thing, having to have your shirt off all the time, which I think I can say you do now on the Zoom call, that's got to be a thing that gets in your head, right? Oh, of course. You don't even care about it? No, it gets in your head, especially when you go from indie wrestlers, people are like,

all right, he's chubby. We don't give a shit. He falls off things. He's kind of cool. But when you go on TV, they're like, why the fuck would you hire this guy? I don't know what it means. Like me at a bar with a shirt on, I look like a normal skinny guy, but in wrestling standards, I don't know.

I look like I have no idea. I look obese to them. You're so beyond like a goal weight for Nick or even to be even just as built as you are. And so to us, that idea is crazy. The only scenario in which I could look like you with my shirt off is if I find some sort of artifact that grants me a wish. So I think you're doing all right. You know what I do if I got that artifact, Nick?

Nick? What? I didn't know if you want to take a guess. I thought you're going to say something about me. No, you know what I would do if I found the artifact? What? I was going to wish for a bigger head. So I'd have the biggest head of all.

Let's be a walk-in lollipop. Some Rip Police, believe it or not, in the book. Show up in Greatest Showman, Director Scott. Joey, I wanted to ask you, you are in Florida right now. You're living and working there. What is the food scene like around where you live? I'm still in Jersey, actually. You're in Jersey?

Yeah, I live in Jersey. I'm here in Florida. I just kind of just go with the flow, you know? Oh, got it. But the food here, over the last few weeks of me being here, the food is actually pretty good here. Of course, they don't have like the great pizza we have in Jersey, New York, or some of pork roll egg and cheese.

I don't know if you guys know about that. That's a big deal in New Jersey. But yeah, the food here is not too bad. I went to some taco joint last night. It was pretty damn good. Capital Taco, it was pretty good. Wow, Capital Taco. Florida has chains aplenty, right?

There's just any chain you could shake a stick at, basically. There's definitely a lot of chains. Actually, I went on the menu for Capital Taco yesterday. I was looking at what I wanted to eat. And for some reason, they just had a picture of Jinder Mahal on there. I have no idea why. I guess he had some taco there. Yeah, it caught me off guard.

So that's where we're trying to get. We're trying to get some sort of menu item. We're in the process right now of maybe getting an Ike's sandwich. But possibly in the works, we'll see. We're just afraid that it's going to be. It's going to taste bad and it will be appropriate for the for the menu item. But it would be a bummer. But that's the American dream.

Yeah. So you're from New Jersey. You mentioned the pizza there. What what is this pork roll egg and cheese? This is a sandwich I'm unfamiliar with. You can look it up on YouTube. It's kind of like the gold standard in New Jersey of breakfast sandwiches. You know, you know, they have a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich and a lot of that.

Pork roll is kind of a it's also called Taylor Ham in some parts, New Jersey. OK, it's kind of a. A fried, I'd say a fried bologna. Uh, kind of I don't know what to compare it to. I someone compared it to a bologna the other day. Now it's been stuck in my head. But it's kind of like a grilled fried bologna and egg and cheese. And it's just it's delicious.

And this is usually like a thing you can pick up at like like a like a deli or like a place where you get coffee and stuff, right? They're pretty are they're pretty widely available. I think yeah, I think anywhere you can get breakfast, you can get a pork roll and cheese. It's really it's like that's what New Jersey is known for. It's pork roll and cheese, which is weird. I've gone on kind of a deep dive with this wager because I heard of it. And I, you know, there's something with pork in the name I don't know about.

I I googled it for about three hours. It's kind of like a thick ham. I got it. Yeah, it's it's good. It's great. Is that your go to? Like if you're going to get like an unhealthy breakfast, is that your go to? Yeah, that's that's a good one.

It's a good quick one. It's like, you know, you eat a pork roll, you get cheese real quick and you go on with your day, you know, right? So I was going to share the screen and show you one, but you disabled sharing. OK, you know, you're afraid I'm going to show something during the fucking record. Hold on. I don't even know how to use the advanced sharing options. Oh, my God. Why are you in charge of this?

Well, I mean, I get why you're in charge of the machine to ask that question. It should be Emma, but she's got enough to do. Yeah, I don't know. It's I don't see anything about it being disabled. I was doing Quincy trivia and I was like, can I can I get the zoom sign in because like I only have the 45 minute limit? And you know, actually, I signed up for the zoom under my own personal email. And my question to you is how many times have you used the zoom to connect

with family and friends? Great question. Hasn't happened a lot. I did have a I did have a zoom. I do have a periodic zoom call with my parents and my brother and sister-in-law and their kids. But that is like, you know, that's it. That's it. I think zoom for me has become such a thing about it's so work like related

that it feels like it's Emma's nodding along that it that it does not feel relaxing if I'm having a zoom hang with somebody in the early days. It did. But now I'm just like it doesn't feel I don't feel like I'm connecting with someone. I feel like I'm in the office. Tam, Joey, I'm I am jealous of your of your Florida background. It seems fucking nice over there. Yeah, it's nice. It's very nice. The weather is great.

Seeing trees. Blue sky. All right. Mitch's and now we're seeing a screen full of pork. Mitch has successfully shared his pork roll, egg and cheese, Google search. Nick, actually, this is just this is just my computer background. Hold on a second. That is a toothsome looking chunk of meat. That big of that big old thick ham.

It's thick. It's very thick. There's a sandwich by me, one of the most famous pork roll, egg and cheese sandwiches in all of New Jersey is about 10 minutes away from me, where they I think there's about 14 slices of pork roll on the sandwich. Wow, is a mammoth mammoth sandwich. Damn, that one looks good. Yeah, these look these look these look really great. We're going to get one, Wags.

I'm curious to try it. I also like the name Taylor Ham, Taylor Ham. Like that feels it feels like you would you would hear about Taylor Ham and then find out she's like on TicTac and on TicTac with 1.8 million followers. And now this is like a name I have to know for some reason. Let's see if there's any any people that come up in a Taylor Ham search. I believe it's the guy's name was his last name was Taylor, the guy who brought it to the forefront of breakfast.

Oh, got it. So you can call it some people call it Taylor Ham. And then the other half of the state calls it pork roll and they are you with each other like idiots, which is right. Here's here is a Taylor pork roll. Also, like a lot of there's a lot of like t-shirt. There's a lot of merchandising for for pork. You got a lot of.

Biggest feud was there. There's a t-shirt that says pork roll versus Taylor Ham. I had no idea this was like a this was like a ironically a beef over pork. I think that's a t-shirt you can get at the North airport. I think I've seen that there before. It's in the gift shop over there. So it's in North Jersey versus South Jersey thing. So I have to assume that you are South Jersey is where you're from.

I'm from like central. I'm like from central. I'm between Philly and New York City. Got it. I'm kind of like the beginning of the shore. So I don't know. Some people call it pork roll. Some people call it Taylor Ham.

I I don't know. I just call it pork roll because that's what I've come to know. So you're right on the Jersey equivalent of the Mason Dixon line. That's it. I'm right. I'm right there. The pork roll pork roll Taylor Ham divide. I'm curious. So you mentioned pizza earlier, the New Jersey pizza.

Like what do you what's the what is New Jersey style pizza? Is it adjacent to New York and what kinds do you like to get out there? New Jersey style pizza is basically New York City style pizza. Got it. So you're getting good quality slice. Even that slice spots in New York City are better than most of the pizza in the United States, right? So New Jersey has pretty, pretty good pizza.

I think like top three states in the United States are the best pizzas, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. So wow, shots fired in Illinois. Chicagoans will not be happy about that. I'd like to I'd like to deep dish. Don't get me wrong. When I'm in Chicago, I do. I do go to the deep dish spots and, you know, munch down on that.

But I think as far as just stopping into a pizza shop and getting a couple of slices, I think New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, so that's especially when it comes to quality. That Chicago deep dish is kind of a that's a task. Right. It is. It that's that's a that's a it's a dayruiner, for sure. I the I've look, it's become too. It's becoming really popular, especially here in LA.

But Nick, and you you love it yourself. That Detroit pan salad is really great. Yeah, Detroit. There's a case for Detroit style. There's LA. It's becoming a thing in LA where where Detroit style pan pizza, which they're calling LA style now, just because, of course, we're just stealing it.

I've had some good pizza in LA, too, to be honest. If you go to the right spots, it's but it's in somewhere like Jersey, you can just any I'm sure in just any neighborhood or any block, you can get really good pizza. Yeah, there's more the the there's more of sort of like the artisan, you know, chefs who are kind of in that gastropub category, making pizzas out here. It's a little bit more, you know, a little bit more pricey versus there.

There isn't like the pizza culture that I think is such a big thing in the East Coast. But you mentioned Connecticut. What Mitch, have you had much Connecticut pizza? That's where all the pizza places are, Nick. That's where I try to take you down there to do a little pizza tour. But yes, but, you know, you don't want to. You don't want to do you don't want to do you don't want to do anything. You don't want to do anything you want.

You want to spend extra time with me? Are you kidding me? I've done that. I've done that. I've I've I've went to Hartford into the pizza triangle deal. You know, I stopped at a place, you know, a couple of places every time I'm driving from Massachusetts back to Jersey doing a show, I would stop at Hartford, Connecticut pizza place.

And those are those are like the critically acclaimed. Buck and heavily reviewed to got rated pizza places over there. Right. What do you think of it? I think it's good. It's not like they're famous for their white clam pizza. Oh, yeah. That's a big deal. Yeah, that that that that continued that like always ranks number one on on like the like 100 ranked pizza lists or whatever is that is that place

in Connecticut, which I should know the name of and I can't think of it right now. But that that white clam pizza specifically. Have you had it? I mean, no, I haven't. No, fuck Connecticut. I've had it. I've had it. It's great, actually. And wow.

And also, there's there's a spot down the street from there, which this is weird. We stopped there on the way home from a show right down the street from that pizza triangle of those critically acclaimed pizza places. There's a burger joint, which is the oldest burger joint and first burger joint in America. Wow, shit. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard of this place.

Yeah. And it has that like that the cast iron, like the things that they cook the burgers in, right? That kind of weird. Yeah, it just comes on white bread and they're pretty good. You know, they're open till like 2 a.m. Because that's why we stopped there. We didn't want to stop at like a McDonald's or something. So let's go here. It's pretty good.

They cook them in those cast iron ovens from like the night early 1900s. So Frank Pepe's Frank Pepe's. That's what's called. But it's almost like a steamed inside, right? Like like a like a steamed ham. Yeah. All right. Fucking Simpsons reference, man. I'm just saying it's the thing that was on the show. And that's how the actual authentic preparation was.

Also, do you think that like it's like a thing that like steamed hams become is like the biggest thing amongst millennials? They're fucking eating each other's asses and putting on steamed the steamed ham episode. They love that steamed ham vapor wave. Right after an anal lingo sesh. Maybe maybe maybe it's because Steve Ham sounds like a fucking codeword for eaten ass.

Maybe it is. Joey, Joey, I was I was going to say quickly, just a big upside to you. I mean, I know we and we know from doing this and probably one one hundredth of what you've done or even probably less. But traveling the country, it seems like you've been able to eat out a lot of places. That seems like a good upside, even though I know that traveling is exhausting, especially with what you do. But is that is that a sort of thing of like when you're going from from like

state to state, do you pick out a spot that you think is kind of like, oh, this place is well known for this or that and you try to stop in there? Yeah, I'm a I'm a big weirdo when it comes to that. I'm cool with going out to eat by myself and just finding a a well reviewed, well talked about restaurant on the Internet after a show and go just sitting at the bar and having a few drinks and eating a good meal. I fucking hate like all the guys. They just want to go to Denny's every fucking time or a waffle house.

If you're I want to eat something good. I'm I have the gift of traveling the world on someone else's dime. I might as well make the best out of it instead of fucking go into Denny's every single time when we did PWG in California, that's the thing. Everyone wants to go to Denny's and I fucking hate Denny's. Denny's is not. I mean, I would say the only thing to to support that is that we when Nick and I are traveling, we'll often give up and it will be like a place

that's open late. You're just looking for any place that you can actually sit down and get food. But I'm with you 100 percent of trying to find like, oh, this place is known for to be good here and it's a local place and you get drinks and something. We we try we try to do better than Denny's. But sometimes you just end up at fucking Denny's and it kind of does suck. I agree with you. And I told the guys I told the guys at PWG one time, like two doors down

from the hotel, there's a well reviewed Mexican restaurant that's open at 2 a.m. Let's go there. Let's have margaritas. Let's have fucking this great. I went there one afternoon when I had all it was great. I said, let's go there. And they're like, no, let's go to Denny's. So it's like, what the fuck?

I've. Yeah, I understand the comfort of your traveling and you want something predictable. But if there is just another option right there, I don't know what we've really we've we've lucked out with some of the spots we've hit up, Mitch and or we've had there's a little research in advance has helped guide us. But I'm curious, Joey, do you just like hop on Yelp? Like, how do you find these places when you're traveling somewhere? Sometimes beforehand, if I see it on a food network or something or I'll

go online and read, read about it and go there. But usually it's just on the road going on Google and then just kind of. Just comparing everything else and seeing, you know, going on Google and seeing how many stars it has and then going on Yelp and seeing, you know, right, yeah, and then you just find somewhere like it's it's it's made sometimes it's made my road trips a lot longer than they should have been. So but, you know, it's perfect, I think. Do you have any?

I obviously travel is a very different thing right now, but do you have from like the past, you know, the past year when you guys were traveling more, you were doing either on the Indie Circuit or when you were doing A. W. Shows across the nation. Do you have any recent favorites from any particular city? Not really, because at A. W. You know, the catering is great, you know, so you have catering all day. And then afterwards you're getting more free food.

So it's really not like and there's usually an after party somewhere. So we really don't get the opportunity now to go and like I did on the indies, I'm an independent guy, I do the show and then go get something to eat by myself. It's really that's not the case anymore. So having in a while. Yeah, it's catering is interesting because obviously that's a thing me and me and Mitch will run into on working on TV shows and and and movie shoots. And the the thing is like a lot of times it's just at least on the shows

I've worked on, it's shitty and that sucks because you want to get like it's free. So it's essentially part of your compensation. So you want to take it, but then it's like this sucks and you get so exhausted by it that at some point you're going out of pocket just to like eat something that's not the slop that you're getting fed on set. If you can even if you even have the time to do that. But that's that's like that's rad that AEW has good catering. Yeah, they're catering since Grand Slam every week.

That's something everyone looks forward to. And then afterwards Tony Khan, we always go back to the hotel. He draws a party. This happens every week and eventually after an hour or two who order about a hundred Whopper sandwiches for no reason. And we'll probably we'll eat 30 of them and then the hotel staff will give them out to the rest of the hotel staff, whoever's up. But it's always an excessive amount of food with him.

It's like like it's just excessive. There's like he'll be like 18 people partying and then he'll order 300 tacos and we'll be like, all right, whatever. That rules. That's always we've talked about this before, Weiger. But if you go to a party and you bring like 20 McDonald's cheeseburgers, you're the king of a party. It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. If you're at a Tony Khan party, you're getting 300 McDonald's

cheeseburgers for 30 people. I get to get into one of these Tony Khan parties. Damn. So, Joey, I want to ask because you're as you're traveling and as you're or even if you're not traveling, like as a pro wrestler, what is your eating regimen before a match? Or like, like, do you have to because I would always get like a like a nervous stomach if I was going to like do a show or something like that. So for a long time, I couldn't eat anything.

But obviously, like what I'm doing, what me and Mitch are doing is not even like a physical activity. How are you filling yourself up before you wrestle? I kind of ever since I started doing TV wrestling and I lost a bunch of weight and getting better shape, I've kind of gotten a grasp of how to eat before a show. Not a lot of carbs, then nothing would like cheese or not. Just a piece of meat and maybe some rice and some vegetables. Sometimes just a couple of protein bars.

But back in the day when I was doing the indies, I didn't give a shit. I was going to do PWG. I'd be at in and out in the afternoon before I wrestle and didn't care. But now it's kind of like you realize that like if you eat in and out before a match, you're going to look like shit. You're going to be bloated on TV. So you don't want to do that, right? We do that.

We do the same thing before Doughboy's live shows. We make sure that we're not bloated before we go on stage. I can't imagine doing a show and not feeling like shit. That's like that's my experience every time. Joe, is there is there is there at post shows? I mean, just just, you know, you're working out your burning tons of calories and everything like that. Is that where you then turn it on?

Can you eat anything you want? Are you and you're starving too? I just remember this from from when I actually did intense workouts, which I haven't done in like a 15 or so years, close to 20 years. But just being able to fucking eat a shitload and just go at it after kind of like after like a big, long day of working out or something. But is that is that kind of do people just feast? Do you go nuts?

I think everyone just goes nuts. That's what I see, even the even the body guys. So just if like, like I said, Tony Khan is going wild after the show ordering. He's not only so he'll order Uber Eats and then he'll order Dordache and Grubhub, he'll order from three different restaurants. And we'll just get bombarded with food and we'll be trashed. So everyone's eating it. Unless you're like a Brian Cage, then you have your meals

and your cooler is around your back the whole time. So Brian Cage are people who don't follow wrestling. Just a huge jacked dude, just super duper shredded. He looks like everyone, how everyone is supposed to look as a professional wrestler, not this vanilla wrestling paradise that it's become. Brian Cage has like the body that I would if I when I was like a kid and I like draw, I just like drawing big muscles. That was like the kind of guy I would draw.

Like that's what I like dreamed of being of someday having that body. Come on, Nick, be honest, you still draw. I've been working at it. I'm in hunks. Yeah. Man, I wish I could draw hunks. Save myself some Google searches. You mentioned Joey, Joey, I know also that you are a white claw enthusiast. Yes.

I actually have a Joey Janella white claw themed shirt in my in my possession in my I do as well, Joey. Oh, yeah. From when we used to see in the PWG days. And I don't want to say to the world what I just saw you drinking and I won't even say it. I put it out there. I put it out there.

I said, these are great. I'm drinking claws, too. But I hate trulys. I hate trulys. I hate them. I think there's syrupy shit. But the they came out with this lemonade variety pack and it's just incredible. And it tastes like lemonade.

Wow. We we were we we did we did we did we did a double where we reviewed a few of them and we I had a bunch of them left over. And I didn't love them when we first had them. And then I as I was drinking my what during these Quincy trivia nights that I do wigs, I also agree with you. They're they're very, very good, especially after you've had a couple of them. They taste great.

They taste great. They taste like Mike's hard lemonade, but without sugar and and only 100 calories. So I don't think you go wrong with that. The white claws, I love them still, but I've drinking them so much. So much that it's just like, you know, you want to switch it up once in a while. 100 percent. Do you have a a like a favorite white claw flavor go to? I used to like black cherry that I got into the lime.

But then I started drinking the new variety pack with the watermelon and the lemon. I think they're all pretty good. I think the watermelon's pretty good. And I hate watermelon flavored shit. So, you know, they got me with that one. So right. I think it's good. I think I like white claw. The reason I started drinking white claws is because I was drinking too much

craft beer. And yeah, you know how that is. You know how it is. Like drinking a loaf of bread. Yeah, 100 percent. I put I mean, I put on so much weight when I used to drink more beer. And it's it's crazy what what subtracting that can do because it's just so many rock calories. But so that's the white claws, the all the varietals of

of, you know, these these carbonated, sweetened like LaCroix variants. Those of all those have been kind of a godsend for you, it seems. I think, yeah, I think they're great. And that's like I was the first one to drink them. And I think I went on a date with a girl and she started to drink a white claws and like, oh, that's gross. And I had one. I was like, that's not too bad.

And then I started drinking them. And then and then I started posting about me drinking them. And then I started showing up to indie shows and I would pull up to the indie show and it would be fans outside early in the afternoon with coolers of white claw, just drink up, hey, Joe, you want a white claw? And then I realized that I did something. Joey, I'm like you. I've stayed away from the from beer.

I've cut I've cut out beer quite a bit, which I feel like is a big thing. But then Nick, at the end of the night, I'm blending up a loaf of bread and I'm drinking it like a fool. Yeah, it's the white claws and then and then and then I got Tony Khan into the white claws and he he got really into it. So now he carries around a duffel bag with white claws. So even after after party, we go to a restaurant and they don't have white claws. You know, there's a duffel bag of white claws underneath the table.

And that's what everyone's drinking. So that's the official, the official unofficial drink of AEW is white claw. You're rarely severe at the after party. You'll have to bring the beer yourself if you want to drink beer or else you're drinking claw because I even I pitched a truly eliminated Tony Khan and he's like, no, no, we can't do that. We have to drink white claw. Wow.

Tony Khan, we should mention anyone who doesn't, who may not follow wrestling billion, billionaire, like it just literally and when you talk about stuff like like ordering 300 whoppers or, you know, carrying around a duffel bag full of white claw, that's like the kind of rich guy opulence that I can get behind because, you know, when that when it's like the guy who's like fucking I don't know, like someone like I feel like people are like just like super into like marble or like, you know, like eating like fucking hot like caviar and shit, like that's always you're collecting $10,000 bottles of wine.

That that stuff always is just like, man, that just seems so wasteful. But if it's just like, I can just get a bunch of stuff for to hand to people. That seems fun. Warren Buffett doesn't have a duffel bag, a fucking white claw. I think Warren Buffett actually is an excite Warren Buffett is like a guy who lives in Omaha and like drinks cherry coax. He is another like kind of every man, you know, god damn it. Super rich guy.

Yeah, you pick like maybe the one example that contradicts your premise. All right, help me out. Give me some bad, give me a bad billionaire, man. Elon Musk. Fuck Elon Musk. I don't even want to talk about him. He's eating metal. He's eating metal and computer parts.

SpaceX had that launch, Nick. It there was a launch this just just recently. Yeah, I know rocket. I couldn't. It felt too dystopian for me to even take in. We've we've we've talked about this, but Tom Cruise is going to is going to work with Elon Musk for a movie where he's in space. And you and I are very scared because we think that Elon Musk is going

to fuck up and kill Tom Cruise. I'm scared on Cruz's behalf. I love Cruz. And yeah, I would. I mean, that's the kind of I think the death that he would deserve in the in the line of duty, if you will, making a film, doing a stunt that's just so perilous that finally it fells him. But it's man, I don't want it.

I don't want the day to come. I love. Yeah, I mean, neither. Joey, we I want to say congrats on Double or Nothing, which happened happened a few weeks ago now at this point. But you were great in that that big ladder match there. It was it was it was an awesome match, something that just consistent moves that that that scare the shit out of me. And I know I can't even flip.

And and you make fun of yourself for being a being a chubby guy, but you're just doing insane acrobatic stuff. Right. And you were known the way my Carlson, when we went to PWG, you were introduced to us as a guy who would who kind of took extreme. You know, extreme bumps. And I don't I don't want to talk like like I know the business that well because I don't and I sound like a fool. But but you're you do you still to this day?

Do you do you have this thing where you feel like you've got to take it to that next level or now that you're you're you're with AEW AEW? Does it feel like a thing where you're like, I don't have to do as crazy as things as I used to do or how do you feel about all that? Now it's more when the time is right. Back in the day, it was just do it every show. I didn't know why I did it or just did it. But now it's like, pick your pick and choose your your poison.

And, you know, I bring it out. I did a couple. I did a couple of crazy things in the ladder match. But if you follow me during my independent run, you know, that was nothing compared to what I used to do. Some of the crazy shit getting thrown off buildings or no money or falling off. Falling off ladders, 18 times in one match. And somehow getting up and walking around and then wrestling the next three days.

But now it's pick and choose your poison. And, you know, I'm 30 now. And I need to grow along my body. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it. I never felt it. I always like, oh, I'm invincible. No, and now I feel it. It sucks. Yeah, there's a great documentary on on YouTube about you, Joey. That's that. That was the first way I was introduced to you.

And it and I don't know the exact name of it. I can we can figure it out and we'll we'll please, please don't die. Please don't die. Please don't die. That's right. Yes. And it's it's it's it's it's wild. It's a great doc. It's it's it really shows you putting yourself out there for your for your art. And it's really cool. Oh, yeah. It's cool as hell.

Fun. Please don't die. They chant that at wrestling shows. They chant that at Doughboy shows. They can't please do die. Yeah, it's people who have it out for us while you're buying a ticket. Um, so you're so like, is there a stunt that is there a thing you mentioned? Um, you mentioned, you know, falling off a ladder 18 times. Like, is there something that stands out in your head is like, man,

this is one I really regret, or this is one that was like, maybe I took it a notch too far. Well, the one the roof one that right viral, of course. But if that never happened, who knows where I'd be right now? So so it's kind of if I went back to the past and did that, if I had a choice to do that again, yeah, I would do it again because it's kind of made me who I am. Right. For those who don't know, it was a spot where where Joey basically

you fell off a how how how big was that building, Joey? It was a it was what it was what 35 feet? 35 feet Christ. Yeah. And this it's it's it's really it's really something else. And it's in that and it's featured in that that documentary, the please don't die doc. But that led to that led to that led to to good things for you and as far as in the indie world, correct?

That was a sort of thing that 100 percent. That's what that's what a boom my wrestling career for sure was that because it was so ridiculous and especially at that time when all the concussion knowledge was coming out and and whatnot, they were like, why would someone do something like this? Right, Joey, you're also a guy who promotes kind of young and new wrestlers, which is really awesome. That's a that's a thing that Nick and I are the opposite.

When we hear of a new funny person, we we we saying you're they get a lifetime ban from ever coming on the pod. We don't want anyone shining us. Unfortunately, everyone always does. Yeah, no matter who is on here. But but that's that's a really cool thing. Is that it was that just something that was always important to you? Is it something that you came up with and you kind of, you know,

guys did the same thing for you or what's the deal? The thing is, people really didn't help me coming up, you know, like that. Just give it just, you know, and a big thing with me is, you know, building the future of independency and because now with the WWE and A.W. and New Japan and everything that goes on in the UK, it's like, you know, people are getting brought up to TV a lot faster than they would say 20 years ago. When you heard someone got signed from the independents 15 years ago,

like a CM Punk or a Daniel Bryan, you were like, wow, they got signed. Now it's like if you make it to a certain level, you know that person is going to get signed no matter what. Right. Where? So so now it's I think for me, it's my job as someone, you know, who loves the independents is to push out new guys, new faces to keep things going on the independent. So the independent wrestling scene doesn't die, you know. But yeah, so it's it's it's pretty cool.

And that's it's been happening just organically, you know. So I really don't have to go out of my way to find someone. I just have to give them one shot on one big show. And I know in that moment, they'll make a name for themselves. And there'll be a new, a new name on in the wrestling scene. That's awesome. Yeah, that's rad. That is great. And also it is it is seems very different from the comedy world where there is I feel like so much bitterness and jealousy with people.

I mean, Nick, you know, this is true. I feel like that is just the case with a like a new guy, a new person comes in. A lot of the times when you have a person's funny, they're funny. And you're like, oh great, this is great that this person's doing it. But there is a lot of people who get jealous and and be like, fuck this person. You know, there is that is that is a cycle. You'll see of like, wow, this new person's great. And then and then that shifts into resentment of this person having

what appears to be rapid success, however long they'd worked at it beforehand. And then that's yeah, that's I think a common pattern. It's it's interesting. I mean, I'm sure that happened. I'm sure that's universal to to everything, though. I'm sure that that happens a lot. You know, you see someone coming up quickly and and everyone's everyone's some inherent jealousy comes out of some people.

And it just depends on that's a wrestling business as well. Like Warren Buffett seems a new billionaire, Wager. Yeah. Buffett's fucking stewing over. That's wrestling as well. You know, yeah, you know, it happens. People get jealous of someone that's rising pretty fast. You know, that's why I feel like, you know, I I helped a lot of guys out. So yeah, that's awesome.

I think that's that's that's that's that's that's really cool. Yeah, that's a big thumbs up for that. That's cool. While we're on this topic. So we've been the benefit. We've been the benefit of it, too. Why is just from yeah, we've been the beneficiary. I've seen some of your the shows that you would you say that you produce,

that you promote like Joey Janela's escape from L.A. I was at where, yeah, a lot of this young this young talent gets in the ring. And yeah, those shows are fucking great. Yeah, Jungle Boy was made in L.A. From one of my shows. And when I hit up Jungle Boy originally for those that don't know Jungle Boy, they're listening, you guys don't have a lot of wrestling fans. Jungle Boy is the son of Luke Perry from 90210.

And he was wrestling since he was like 13 years old. Right. But he was just a local California indie guy. And we started getting we started seeing him really improve and do some cool stuff. So we decided to throw him on the L.A. show. And before that, he had no social media. I had to flat out tell him, listen, you're going to blow up after this match.

You need to sign up for Twitter right now. Right. And he was like, OK, and then he signed up for Twitter. And you know, the rest is history. Now he's on TV every week. So that's awesome. His recent piece to his dad, Luke Perry, would we saw him at a few PWG shows and things like that.

He would he would come and watch Jungle Boy, which is really cool. He was a cool dude for sure. Yeah. Jungle Boy R.I.P. Luke Perry and Jungle Boy fucking is fucking rules. I did think I do think I saw him for the first time at one of your shows. The thing about him, like he's very athletic, but he's just an amazing head of hair. I'm not saying this is his main asset or anything,

but you just like that guy's got a fucking main. Joey, Joey, you got a you got a good head of hair to yourself. And I said, we're the hair boys. We're snatching up all the women because our hair. Well, the hair boys would beat the shit out of the dough boys. That's it. We're the hair. Why are you challenging to the white? Don't challenge the hair boys.

Why are you doing not at all to a hair off? We got to challenge to a hair off. We don't fight. Grow it out. The most hair wiger and I have her is probably on our face. And then the rest of our bodies pretty much looks like a Ken doll. Yeah, I'm a pretty smooth. I'm a pretty smooth man.

My body below the the the waist looks like a Ken doll, too, by the way. We'll be back with more dough boys. Welcome back to dough boys. Our guest today, Joey Janella, and we are returning to Chili's. Joey, you got a white claw over the break, a tangerine flavor, which I have not encountered. Pretty good. Pretty good, to be honest. I like it a lot. Yeah.

Hmm. Is that one of the new it might be one of the newer flavors, right? Tangerine, I think that's in a new variety pack. Yeah. They keep them coming out. It's like when it's it's like Pringles, I feel like now, you know, Pringles just started coming out with like a thousand flavors and they'll have like a fucking, you know,

like a pizza flavor or whatever. They'll have all these weird concoctions and some of them hit and some of them don't. I feel like that's what there's too many of those. Oh, I fully agree with you. I saw I saw a pig come. Yeah, that seems like a miscalculation. I know who's going to want to eat that. I got him.

And you know what? So you bought you bought the you saw a pig come on the label and you bought him. And you know what? They're pretty good, honestly. Well, then there you go. I feel like you answered your own question. To be honest, they probably have something like that in Japan. We had a when we went to Japan, we had an app on our phone to scan items that we couldn't read and it would translate it.

And there were some some of them like a pig come and whatnot that we were like, what the fuck? Jesus. Do you have a when you were in Japan? Do you have any like any favorite food spots you'd hit up? Or any great meals? Just all of it's pretty good. If you walk to the 7-Eleven in Japan, it's like walking in a

walking in a gourmet restaurant. Wow. It's pretty cool. We got to do Japan, not Wiger. We got to do Doe Boys in Japan. Yeah, I've never crossed an ocean. So it's always fascinating for me to try to talk to someone well traveled. I don't have no idea what to do with myself.

You never crossed the ocean. That's right. God. I've lived my whole life in North America. Landlocked. Yeah, I guess I'm kind of landlocked. Let's discuss let's discuss Chili's. So, Joey, we wanted to have you on the show for a while. We're thrilled we can we can have you here, but why in this specific moment

is Chili's the chain that you want to cover? I think Chili's is my favorite chain, to be honest. And wow. And and I think it all stems from going to the wrestling shows as a kid, like the NWA Jersey shows. NWA was like the biggest independent in New Jersey at that time. And going to those shows and my dad taking me to Chili's. And that's like the first place I eat chicken wings.

And I think when I was a baby, I would go to Chili's a lot often. So, yeah, I just like Chili's. I always like Chili's. I like I like the food. I like the margaritas. And yeah, it just kind of came to light lately as. Rumors were spread that me and Zip Cornette. Enjoyed our time at Chili's together and had a little mandate.

So now for for our listeners who maybe don't know, how it who is Jim Cornette? Jim Cornette is an eighties and nineties wrestling personality. He was a manager, mainly he came to light in the eighties as a big manager in the NWA. And he just hates the wrestling today. He hates the wrestlers of today. And as far as his list, I got to be in the top five

of the public enemies for that fucking guy. So. So I went. So I went, someone asked me about Jim Cornette on one of my Instagram lives, and I told everyone I said, no, mid, it's a work work. We're cool. He we just give each other publicity.

We were actually at Chili's last week and we had a good time. And then someone asked him on Twitter, did you really meet up with Joey Janella Chili's? And Jim Cornette said, I rather get coronavirus than meet up with Joey Janella Chili's God. Jesus, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't survive coronavirus. So I'm pretty sure I wish you would walk into a supermarket in New York City without a mask, to be honest, at this point,

but as fucked up as it sounds. But anyways, he so then Chili's got involved and Chili started messing with Jim Cornette saying, oh, yeah, you guys were at Chili's, you know, and they were teasing Cornette. They were setting him up. Check your DMs, Jim. We sent you a free coupon for a margarita to the point

that he blocked everyone and went on a tear. All the dirt sheets picked it up on wrestling dirt sheets. Picked it up as a top story that Chili's confirms Joey Janella and Jim Cornette had a great time at Chili's. All right, here. So man, I got that. That's probably the coolest, like a chain restaurant, social media move I've ever seen.

I like that more than Wendy's being kind of like a hip, funny Twitter account. That's that cheeky or Denny's was mentioned earlier. Denny's was always recycling memes. Like that was just kind of like, all right, it's kind of an eye rolling. But yeah, Chili's is Chili's seems like that. They're they're managing their brand pretty well on social.

They're someone cool who did that. That's great. Yeah, this went on for like five days, too. So it's not like they just put out one tweet every time we wrote a tweet. And we would team up against Jim to the point that he blocked me, blocked Chili's, he blocked everyone. So he blocked me for a third time. It's just funny, like this, like this 60 year old man or 50 year old man blocking Chili's is just a very funny thing.

That's such a that's such a like that feels like you've just snapped at that point. If you're blocking Chili's on social media, something has gone very wrong. He's actually blocked me three times. He's blocked me to unblock me to talk shit about me, to block me again. And then he unblocked me for about maybe a year only to block me again when me and Chili started double feeding Jim on. If if my if my mom was like, I like she called me up and was like, I blocked Chili's they're they're they're lying to me.

I'd be like, yeah, oh, I would be pretty nervous. Let's look into assisted living facilities, mom. The Joey, so so you actually have we normally eat in advance, but you have your meal it arrived as we started recording. And you're going to be eating some of this live. I guess you were saying it's kind of an ASMR version of the of the pod. We're going to get a little bit of that. Yeah, I didn't know I didn't know the rules.

I didn't know if I ate it during or or before the podcast. You guys ate your food yesterday, but I had some gentle 85 year old woman pop out of the passenger seat to hand me this from a door dash just before I went on air. So oh, wow. Well, let's get into what we ordered. So I will say that I ordered online and I went to pick mine up. And the from the the Manhattan Beach location here in the LA area. I will say their text messaging system for picking up is very slick

because they they send you a text and then you text here when you're in the curbside area. I just literally text them and then they'll bring your food out. I was very convenient and the the worker there was was very kind and conscious of of, you know, a PPE and social distancing. I got a Patron Margarita, which comes. This is this is Patron Silver Tequila. Wow, so that's one big road. So to their wider.

Well, this is the thing. So they make a point of it being shaken 25 times and then they put it in a styrofoam cup, but you have to put it in your trunk. Oh, wow. Because, you know, you can't. Yeah, there's the open carry laws. So and let me guess. There were some things in your trunk that they couldn't see. It is a thing where you have to like you really have to kind of wedge it in there.

Like it's like a trunk is not a great place for a beverage. Yeah. So that was a little bit of a it worked out fine because they had. That's that should be the Doughboys epitaph. A trunk is not a great place for a beverage. So it's a little bit inconvenient. I also got a a side house salad with their avocado ranch dressing, which is their unique dressing, original chili, which they describe as, yeah, chili is our thing.

You sometimes forget the chilies has chili, but it's not their thing. That's not true. It's not their thing. Well, I mean, that's they they're claiming that it is. I think they began as a chili restaurant when their original Texas locations that began. That was one of the big things that they were they were selling. And I also got the boss burger, which is described as the burger. All other burgers report to it's got brisket,

rib meat, jalapeno cheddar, smoked sausage, bacon and cheddar on that. And then a chicky chicky blue sandwich, which is crispy chicken, lettuce, tomato, red onion, avocado, bacon and blue cheese crumbles on a brioche bun. Hold on a boss of these bad bad boys. It's like the asshole boss that that that people don't want to like. He's everyone has to report to this guy. Yes, this burger is a fucking dick.

It's a task master. And I got an order of Texas cheese fries, which is a which is fries with cheese, bacon, jalapenos and green onions. And it comes a little bit of ranch. Mitch, how about you? Let's run through your roster of of what you ordered. All right, this is what might take a couple of minutes. I also did the the curbside pickup.

I I ordered online and then I got the text message. Drove to Encino drove up there to Encino and my order and I got to say, the staff was great. They did a really, really, really great job. They like you were saying, Nick, socially distanced. They came up to my car even before because I texted that I was here. It just says say you're here and you give your your your vehicle

make basically and they right just come out and know your car. And even before that, just the guy came and he said, what's the name on the order? And I said, like, Mitchell and he went off and I got it probably within five minutes or so. I don't think it was I don't think it was done when I got there, but I got it pretty quickly. I ordered some Southwestern egg rolls, Nick, the the classic from there,

which came with the avocado ranch dressing. I got extra on that. Mine wasn't too green. Was your avocado ranch dressing green? Not particularly green. In fact, I wonder if I got the right dressing even I wondered as well. Maybe there's some sort of avocado shorted or something right now or I don't know what the deal is, but it wasn't as green as I thought it would be.

Yes. I got chips and salsa, Nick. I got a bag of chips and some salsa. I did the boneless wings with buffalo sauce. I got blue cheese, extra blue cheese and extra ranch. A Southwestern smoke smokehouse burger was my my entree and no pink. That's what it said on the order. No pink, which wouldn't fly in the 90s.

But it worked pretty well. What? Wait, what do you mean? In the 90s, you want pink, the singer pink. She was great. That's what you were referring to. OK. Pink is like so many things.

I didn't realize you're just specifically subscribing, describing the singer pink. I'm saying as a statement, no pink wouldn't have flown in the 90s. Got it. Yes, people were people were hungry for pink back then. I think it was more than two thousands. Wasn't picked in more than two thousands. God damn it, Joey. You know what?

You're right. All right, great. Joey's a better wrestler and comedian than me. I guess the wrestling wasn't really a question. I I rest. I rest. I wrestled my freshman year of high school and then. And then I did it for one day.

My junior year of high school and I was done. They paired me up. You know, Joey, you know how you do like those those exercises where you like you'll put like a guy on your back. Yeah. And you're like and then like we'd you'd run upstairs with a guy on your back. Wrestling is so intense. It's that like like high school and in in college.

Just I mean, the sport as a whole is just so intense. And the guy who was the guy who was the closest away to me was this guy named Tug Boat and Tug Boat. He weighed like he weighed like 300 pounds when we were in and he was a big he was a big dude. And so I couldn't carry. You know what I mean? I couldn't get that guy on my back.

I was a little I was weak. He was the other heavy dude, but he was way heavier than you is what you're saying. I'm big, but I'm weak. That's the thing with me. I went and then I got some some bonus. Some bonus by the wings of spuff low sauce. Actually, I already said that the smokehouse burger and then Nick. I got a dessert.

I got the molten chocolate cake for dessert. And also, I got two Coca-Cola's because it was Sunday in my cheat day and I drank sodas on my cheat day. Anyways, that was my full order. The the molten chocolate cake, the ice cream came in a separate container. Yes. And it melted a little bit, but it actually kind of worked out pretty well. But I'll get to that when we're when we're breaking down the food a little bit more.

Yes, as you mentioned, desserts, I did. I also got a Paradise Pie, which is a chocolate chip walnut and coconut bar that comes with also a little a little a la mode on the side, a little vanilla ice cream on the side that I put in the freezer immediately. And it stayed pretty pretty well until it was time and stayed pretty well put together until it was time to meal to eat it. Also had some hot fudge and caramel to drizzle over. It's actually kind of had to assemble it.

There was a lot of work to do to put that one together, but it worked out. There was like there was like a caramel sauce with the with the molten lava cake to that you had to pour on. But I think actually more like a chocolate sauce, but it was still great. It was like as many steps as like assembling like a fucking Ikea bookshelf. Like I had to like do so many things to make this dessert ready. Joey, at a at a Doughboy's live show, would you ever come out and super kick why are you and I in the face?

Absolutely. Hell, yeah. Absolutely. I didn't agree to this. It's on. Thank you, Joey. It's happening. Hell, yeah.

Hell, yeah. Nick, don't worry about it. It will happen. It will be a surprise to you. So, Joey, you're nibbling on some things as we were talking through our roster of menu items. What did you order today? So I ordered the appetizer, the triple dipper, which I usually get.

It's probably the best appetizer sampler out of all the out of all the chain restaurants. Wow, it's really great. Because they have such a great selection of stuff you can get on there. But I went with the chicken wings regular. Probably the first chicken wing I ever ate in my life was from Chili's. So it kind of brings me back. I got the Southwestern egg rolls, which the weird thing is when you order Southwest egg rolls to go, they're not sliced like they are in the restaurant.

They look like actual egg rolls. They're not sliced in half. And I got the chicken crispers, but I got them in the original batter, not the new batter, the new batter sucks. I hate, I'm not a big fan of chicken crispers, but with the original batter, it's kind of like a funnel cake-esque batter. I really like them. I like the honey mustard.

I got this and I got the the chips at Chili's. The big thing is the bottomless chips. Yes. And if you go in neat, you can get as much chips as you want and be a fat fuck. So I got those as well. And yeah, they give you, they give you a good portion of those chips and they put them in a bag and basically it says toss in the microwave for 45 seconds. It says it right on the side of the bag.

I put, I put some of mine in the air fryer, Nick. And I, and I also microwave some of them. It works better than you think it would if they really, it really feels like you're at a restaurant and you got a bag of these kind of hot, fresh chips. It works well. Is it, they work in the air fryer? They work in the air fryer, yeah. Oh wow.

Yeah, I'm going to try that. I kept my eye on them and I just like, and I did like, you know, like a minute and was just kind of looking at them. And, and yeah, they, it worked really well. So Joe, you have an air fryer? Right now where I'm at, we do have an air fryer here. Hell yeah. What do you, what do you like to whip up in that bad boy?

I never whipped up anything in it to be honest, but I'm going to have to fuck with it. You know, the chips, the chips, the chips work really well on it. Anything that like that, that like it doesn't matter if it dries it out too much. I think that's the thing that I've come, like I've learned from the air fryer is basically it can dry some stuff out. I, I ate some pizza yesterday, Nick, for, for on Sunday, for, for, for another show. And I put a slice in there, kind of, kind of dried it out a little bit, a little bit too much, but it does a really great job with a lot of things.

Dried it out. It's kind of like a dough boy with a sexual partner. I don't think it needs to be a sexual partner. I think you can just do it to anyone. Just be in someone's presence. Um, so I'll say that the, the Patron Margarita was good. I mean, travel, taking it home was a bit of a pain in the ass because of the trunk reason, but that's not Chili's fault.

But the, you know, had a lot of ice in there and it, and it, it tasted pretty good. I mean, it tasted like a Chili's Margarita. And I feel like of the chain restaurants, Chili's has, has pretty good cocktails. Nick, did it make it from your car to the house? Or was it already gone by the time we got to the door? They actually have, it has like a piece of tape over it, like a piece of caution tape that lets you know that it's sealed, that you like have to, to remove. I guess it's in case you get pulled over or something.

Hey, we should get Chili's to fucking do that to every one of your drinks. This guy spills a lot, Joey. I am a, I am a spiller. I did not spill this. It was a quality drink, the side house solid. And I just felt like there was no reason for me to get this. I mean, I, I think it was the avocado ranch dressing is the issue. Like I thought that this was going to give me, give it a little bit of something

over just like a generic dinner salad, but it didn't. And the produce wasn't anything particularly special. I do like the presence of cucumbers, but overall didn't blow me away. The chili is such, it's such, it's such a dip, dip. Like to me, just because it comes with those Southwest egg rolls, it just seems like such a dipper. So it's interesting to put it on. And look, and I know ranch goes on a dressing on a salad, whatever.

Is a good dressing for salad. But the avocado just, it almost feels like more like a dip to me. So I'm an interesting choice swags. Well, I'll say that it just, that I didn't get much avocado from it anyway. Like it's just like it, to me, it was, it might as well have just been ranch. In fact, they might have just given me ranch, but that's what I selected on the app, the, the chili, I will say, very good. And honestly, maybe the, maybe the highlight of this meal.

It, like their chilies, chili is good. And I haven't had it in a while. I don't think maybe the last time we reviewed it, or maybe the first time we reviewed it, which was our very first episode, I, I had the chili from chilies, um, and remember, and, and, and it, it, it kind of jogged my members like, oh yeah, this is fucking great. There's a reason this is their name. Wow.

Yeah. Man, this was our first episode, huh? Damn. This was our first episode. And then we went to Chili's two, which is the airport version for our 250th episode. And now here we are. Joey, this is going to Chili's just reminds us of that we shouldn't

have ever started the show. Yeah. Five years of our lives wasted. Um, I didn't know, I didn't know that was your guys first episode was chilies. Yeah. We've, and then we flew, we flew to Vegas for Chili's two and we didn't leave the airport.

We just sat in the airport in Vegas. Maybe the first people to ever do that in Vegas. So do we just visited the Vegas airport, but okay. So flew back. Yeah. Uh, but the, uh, the, I will say of the, of these, the drink and the starter, the chili was the standout. In fact, even talking about the boss burger, I think just was like,

ungepochka at too much going on. They're just like so much, so many of the meats just turned into like a, it, because it, it, the way it's presented, it sounds like it's ground up with the beef, but it's not. It's just kind of layered on there. So it's just this mushy, uh, the, the texture is all, is all, you know, ooey, gooey, so soft and chewy in a bad way. It's not what you want in a burger.

Um, and it's just got too, too much going on. The, the chicky, chicky, blue sandwich was pretty good, but I think the blue cheese was like, it just was a, it just wasn't enough of a presence. I feel like I wanted more of it. You sound like such a child. You just ooey, gooey, so soft and chewy, chicky, chicky sandwich. You sound like a fucking fool. I just like it.

It's called the chicky, chicky, blue sandwich. That's the one, the name of the menu item. I know. I'm just telling you that all the other stuff you combine with it, you sounded like a fool. What do you want me to say? I don't know. Maybe don't insult me.

I'm doing my best. You're mad at me? No, it's fine. I sound like a fool all the time. I think that's why people listen. They just want to hear it sound like idiots. They want to feel better about themselves. It's pretty cool.

That's what I say. Nick, I'm going to say this. Joey pointed this out. Yes. The Southwestern egg rolls, like Joey said, come as like a big full egg roll. And look, travel is also a part of this. Travel, travel, traveling with this food for like 20 minutes. The closest Chili's is about 20.

So 25 minutes basically till I got the food back to my place. Yes. But when it comes as a full egg roll, I think there might be something where it's just not crispy and heated up as much as it would be with if when it's cut in half at the restaurant, I don't know if they cook it a little bit more after it's cut in two or what the deal is, but it just felt a little bit more. And I ate, I ate one. I mean, I ate all of them just as, as kind of like a big egg roll and I put one

in my air fryer a little later, like the next day or whatever. And that actually helped a little bit because it, it crisped it up a little bit more, but when it's a big egg roll, it's just kind of, there's a lot, it needs to be cut in two. Those are, those, it's a good, it turns out it's a good restaurant. It's a, it's a, it's a good app to have in restaurant. Right. Yeah.

I can see that with a lot of deep fried things, just don't travel all that well. And that's one reason I got the cheese fries over just the regular fries. Cause I knew those fries would just probably get soggy, but having all those toppings on there actually helped quite a bit. And I like that it comes with ranch by default because that helps it from, from being dry as well. You know, again, it's, it's a, I could maybe use, get rid of one element among the cheese, bacon, jalapenos and green onions.

I could maybe lose one of those, but they are, they're good cheese fries. So Joey, you've been, I've been watching you eat a, eat wings shirtlessly, like a king. I'm curious, how was your, how was your, how was your food holding up? How was your meal? It's pretty good. You know, of course, when you, like you guys said, when you order it to go, it's, it's kind of soggy.

It's not like the in-house chili meal that you would have. Yeah. This is not too bad. If I was, if I was absolutely hammered right now or stoned off my ass, I would be in absolute heaven saying this is the greatest food I ever eaten in my life. But right now it's being, it's still pretty good to be honest, even though it's a little soggy with chicken crispers, they're always juicy.

The original batter ones, I don't know what it is. You can eat those cold and they'll be great. As long as you dip them in that honey mustard. So you specified the original batter, like, is that a thing you just tell the employees and they know what you're talking about? At first, when they changed the batter, it was kind of like a secret menu item. But I guess it's the original batter of the chicken crispers was so popular that they added, added to the menu as well.

God bless America. Where like the batter can change and so many people like, the batter is different and they'll change it back. It's a great thing, Nick. Yeah. That's the, that's the outrage that will be addressed. The, I'm curious that the, but like, why do they even have the new batter if people want the original batter?

It's like Coca-Cola is still selling new Coke. It's like people have rejected your innovation. Just make the original the default. You don't even make an option. The new batter kind of just tastes like chicken fingers. You can get on a boardwalk somewhere like for, for overpriced, you know, value. Yeah. But the original batter tastes like probably the best chicken thing.

I'm not a chicken finger fan unless it's chili chicken fingers. And I, I love these chicken fingers. Yeah. It's a bold move getting both wings and chicken fingers. I love it. But they kind of do different things. Um, Nick, I agree with Joey. There's the, the food, when it, when it, when you travel, it kind of

becomes strike a fight. It's, it's swampy. Yes. It's got, it's got, it's got a swamp thing going on with it. Um, and that was kind of the issue I had with a few of my things. The Southwest, Western egg rolls, for sure. More so the bonus buffalo wings, which I love, I love them, but they were, they were sogged out, strike a fight.

The, the batter, the batter was basically falling off of them in the, in the, the actual meat was kind of like tough and they were, that was one of them, that was one of the worst and I, and I love those. I mean, that's, that's what kind of made me fall in love with chilies is those boneless wings. When I was in college, we go and get chips and salsa, the bottomless chips and salsa, some strawberry, frozen, strawberry margaritas. And then you go out that night and be too afraid to talk to any woman.

That was kind of the first kind of the deal. And, um, and the, the, the wings were just a real, real downside. The, the chips and salsa were, were great. And when I heated them up, it worked great. That was really great. They give you, they give you some extra salsa. They would, if you, if you want, you just order a little bit extra and they give you a good amount of it, uh, because they really, and I,

I would say I suggest doing it because they just give you a ton of chips. Right. My, my Southern smokehouse burger, it was that same thing of, of, of coming, feel like it's coming from a bog. You know what I mean? It, it felt, uh, and, and on that Southern smokehouse burger, you got bacon, cheddar, pickles, awesome blossom petals, lettuce, tomato, garlic, aioli served with the side of original barbecue sauce.

I didn't get the original barbecue sauce, which, you know, what can you do? Yes. Um, and the awesome blossom petals were, that was kind of the issue with it. They were strike-ified, swamped out and so the burger itself, it was still decent, but it was not what it would be in store. And look, we know what's going on pandemic. It's crazy right now. And, and, and honestly, the service was really, really good.

Yes. But for me, the, the bite of the night, Spoo Man's by the night, Nick, was that molten chocolate cake, man. It was fucking ruled. It was so good. I put it in the microwave and I heated it up for just a, like, uh, for like 30, 40 seconds, put the ice cream in the freezer, took that out. It was fantastic.

And honestly, if anyone during, you know, during the pandemic wants to just pick up a surprise dessert or something, you can't go wrong with this fucking molten chocolate cake. It's great. Contra your experience, my paradise pie was not a particularly exciting dessert. And I did, I did warm it up a little bit in the microwave. I mentioned all the different steps of assembly that were required.

And I think I made it, you know, pretty, well, a pretty good presentation, you know, considering my, my resources at home and my skill in the kitchen. But the, it's just like, it just didn't, that bar just didn't have a lot of flavor. And that was like the core of it, but it just felt like I was eating something. It was eating just this kind of inert, like just sort of generally sweet with a little bit of coconut, you know, thing with the texture of a

fig Newton. It just wasn't particularly exciting. And I think if I, if I got that mountain lava cake, I would have had a better experience. Joey, any other, any other notable things from your notable observations from the meal you're eating in front of you? To be honest, it's not too bad because I, before I started eating this, I was sitting here talking to you guys for about what, a good 45 minutes to an

hour. Yeah. Yeah. I was sitting there in the fucking heat and to be honest, it's not too bad. The chips are still crispy. I didn't have to heat them up. You know, it's good. Wow.

Wow. But the Southwestern egg rolls, you know, they're my favorite chilies item, I think, and they're a little soggy, a little bit of a let down, but you can't beat the Southwestern egg rolls in chilies in the sliced in half, the way they're supposed to be crispy and whatnot. Yep. Wow. Well, Joey, Florida working as kind of like a natural diner heat lamp for

your food. You're right. To be honest, you're right. That rules. You mentioned Shrek a vacation, but being in the swamp seems to help this. Wow. Shrek showed me there, huh? Nick, I'm surprised you didn't have a similar dessert as to what Elon Musk

prefers. Like Joey said, the microchips and so on. Metal. Because I'm a robot. That's right. Some sort of Android. No, I don't eat tungsten for nutrition. You eat tungsten.

I have a little tungsten. Tungsten is shanked in his cousin. That's just shanked in with like a professor, a fucking professor suit. Well, it's come to the time in our show where we should give our final thoughts on this week's chain, Chili's. Hopefully, we'll have to give a review of this week's show. If we ever had a review shows. Oh, Jesus Christ.

Zero forks for five years. All around. Just a bunch of utensils with no prongs. So, Joey, we will each go around, give our closing thoughts on Chili's and then give it a rating from zero to five forks. You are our guest. We will begin with you. Okay.

Zero to five forks. If it was in the Tokyo Dome, I would give it five forks. But since I'm in Land O'Lakes, Florida, I give it three forks. Wow. Three forks right down the middle. I can't bash it. It's chili. It's too nostalgic to bash for me.

But I also let the food sit out there for a good hour. So, I had to give it a fair review because it could be on me. There you go. Joey, I like Chili's a lot. Like I said, I went there in college and I like the idea of it. As far as like those kind of like in the TGI Fridays world and I actually enjoy Chili's. I like it quite a bit. When I was telling people I was going to Chili's, everyone was like, man, I want some Chili's

right now. I was telling my Quincy trivia. My Quincy trivia friends on our Tom Cruise Sunday because we watch Tom Cruise movies on Sundays, Nick. Wow. We were watching Risky Business, I believe, the day that I got Chili's. Not necessarily an action movie. You're just watching a Tom Cruise movie.

Chang didn't want to watch Risky Business. Got it. We watched Oblivion the other day, which by the way, for the last 10 years, I think it's like one of the top 10 underrated movies of the last 10 years. People forget about Oblivion. Oblivion's good. Risky Business, I think was Tom Cruise's breakout role and that movie is fucking horny as shit. It's way too horny.

It's crazy how horny it is. Nick, you and I, you know that we're trying to put an end to horny-ness, you and I. The movie is way too horny and also it's kind of like the origin stories of like a yuppie, like a shitty, like a shitty- Right. Like a shitty 80s yuppie man. It's like his character sucks. Yeah.

Anyway, my friends were all excited that I was getting Chili's and they're like, that rules. And I was like, yeah, I'm excited too. And I got it and look, the travel was an issue and it wasn't great. But I still think that Chili's is pretty good and I'm with Joey for this visit. I'm going to go just a little bit higher. I'm going to go three and a quarter forks because I do, I do, I do enjoy it and I, and it holds a place in my heart too, Joey.

And, and, and, but the quality this time around was just not good. You know, when the country's open back up, Nick, I think it would be, it would be fun to go and sit in the Chili's again. I'm looking forward to it because I think a lot of things would benefit from that. I will say the highlights for me, that molten lava cake is great. Pick it up if you got a chance. Joey, go pick up some chips and salsa. You got yourself an app and pick up the molten lava cake and you're good to go.

It's there. So you got, you got an app and you got a dessert for, for a fun family night. So, but, but, but overall, not the greatest outing by Chili's. They're doing their best there. Their staff was great. Yes. But, but the food just kind of suffered a little bit. So yes, I will say, and, and I think my, you know, my thoughts parallel your guys's

because we all had a similar experience of the food sitting for some amount of time, whether it was, you know, in your, in your possession or being transported. I think this, it doesn't travel great. It doesn't, you know, it suffers a little bit from that and it's much better in the restaurant. And also that's a big part of the Chili's experience is just like sitting in there and being there and hanging out and having the margarite in the big dumb cup. Like that's, that to me is a lot of the fun of it. For sure.

Just really evaluating the product that you're getting. And what I would say here. Nick, it's like my buddy Nick Weiger. Nick, it's not well traveled. It's true. The, the, I will say that, that to, you know, to talk in wrestling terms, I think my issue with my meal is the main event did not deliver. The Boss Burger and the Chicky Chicky Blue Sandwich were just not all that great.

They were not particularly exciting entrees, but all the apps overall were good. Everything else I got, the cheese fries, the chili, the, the, the Margarite, the Margarite was great. The, the salad I mentioned wasn't particularly noteworthy, but it was functional. The Paradise Pie get a different dessert. But overall, I think this was a good meal. I really liked how easy it was as far as getting to go food from a chain restaurant. This was like the easiest, slickest system I'd experienced in terms of interfacing directly with a chain. And, and the service was good.

And I think this, it did make me much like you, Mitch. It did make me crave the actual dine-in chilies experience. So I think evaluating in those terms, I think this one is also right down the middle. This is, this is for me. This is three forks. This was a three forks chili experience, chilies experience. Nick. Yes.

Why don't I just put it in a fucking, a three fork experience and we got, and we got a hand-holding club. Wow. We're in the hand-holding club. How exciting. That's it. Hey, that was our review of chilies. It's time for a segment. Mitch has a food stuff.

He's going to taste test solo. It's another edition of Spoon Man's treat or skeet. Mitch, what do you have with us today? Nick, I got two treats here. I got Skittles dips, which can only be described as kind of like, I mean, look, we use come too much on this show, but there's no other way to describe these things. They're cummy Skittles. There, yeah.

And then, and then I got these, this Mountain Dew game fuel. Very exciting. Game fuel, Nick. Charged Berry Blast. Alertness, accuracy, vitamins A and B to enhance your gaming. Wow. Which, should I do both of them or should I just try one? What do you think?

Well, I think that you teased them both. Now I think you have to do them both. All right. I think you can do a combo. Let's, let's do a combo. Yeah, put free to bust out the Skittles. All right. Joey, are you a, as candies go, are you a Skittles man?

I think Skittles are all right. Irma's come over. She's, she's, she's interested in the, in the cummy Skittles for whatever reason. They're like, they're like raisin, they're like raisinettes, but they're Skittles. Basically, yes. They're covered in this, they're covered in this creamy yogurt flavored coating. That's, and by the way, that is exactly what's on the package. It says creamy yogurt flavored coating.

You can't tell, you can see it right there a little bit. Oh, I see the less on it. You can't. Yeah. They still, they still managed to put the S on there. You can't tell what color is in there. You can kind of, I think this is a green. Let's see.

So this is part of the, the eating experience of these. You don't know what you're going to buy it until you get in, until you chomp it. Yeah. This is it. Man, this is shaking his head vigorously. I think that was a green. You can kind of see the color. But not really.

Man, the yogurt. That to me seems like a deficiency that you're a moving, knowing in advance what Skittle you're going to eat. I mean, yeah, like that's the, first of all, you'd like to eat a bunch of them at once, which maybe I should try the yogurt flavor, the yogurt, the creamy yogurt flavored coating is a bit, it's a bit too much. It's also kind of like dry. And the Skittles inside are kind of hard.

Okay, that was, that was a yellow. Wow, Nick. Yes. Not only does it look like Skittles with Skeet on them, it's a big time Skeet itself. This is, this is not a fucking. Wow. This is not a treat. This is a Skeet.

This is when you'd fling into the air and, and shoot with a shotgun. Mitch, what's the, what's a, you got the game fuel too. You're, you're wincing. You're actively wincing. I did like a bunch at once. But there's so much yogurt coating in my mouth. Ugh. God.

This fucking sucks. Jesus Christ. Who wants yogurt on Skittles? Who wanted yogurt on Skittles? I mean, it seems like a product that no one was asking for. I'm with you there. No one wanted that. Yeah.

All right. I'm opening up this Mountain Dew game fuel. A Skeet from the Spoon Man. He's opening up the, and I should mention it's a, it's a big can. This is a tall boy. It is. It's also very hard to open. Hmm.

Now how much of that is the cans designed and how much of that is your oven mitt sized hands? Just fumbling with something small. If you didn't notice here, there's, it's like a very, it's like a, it's like a futuristic opening can. Like a, there's a slider. That's fucking weird as shit. You can actually close it for later.

Weird. Fuck. What happened? I got game fuel in my fucking eyes. Jesus. I'm falling apart over here, Wags. Joey, are you a Mountain Dew guy? A big Mountain Dew guy.

I love Mountain Dew. Do you like the regular or do you like any of the variants? I had a code red yesterday. Yeah. I haven't had one in like 10 years. It was great. Baja blast, of course. I had a lot of Taco Bell.

Excuse me. I had a lot of Taco Bell. I think I like all the Mountain Dews to be honest. I, my quarantine, the drink of my quarantine besides alcohol has been Mountain Dew zero. Wow. Oh hell yeah. How is that Mountain Dew zero? We haven't tried it yet.

It's great. It tastes like Mountain Dew. Good try. They have Baja variant and they have regular. So it's great. Wow. This whole can only 90 calories, Nick, which is surprising. It seems like it would be 300 calories or something.

Yeah. It looks like a sugar bomb. So you can reclose this. It got my eyes and I don't know if my, I think my eyes are turning green from the dew. I'm going to try sipping this right now, Nick. Let's see how it is. That was a big chug. It's good.

You take a big old swig. What are you tasting? It's good. It's like, it's got a very, it is like a blueberry taste, almost like an icy, like a blue icy flavor. Wow. And it is an energy drink. And yeah, you pull up the tab and you slide it back.

It's basically made so that you can, when you're gaming and you want to close it up, you know, so you don't spill everywhere. You know what I mean? If you're, if you're, I don't know. Classic gamer faux pas, classic gamer accident. And last of us too, if you're in a boss battle, you close up the can and you're good to go. You get a little frantic. You get a little, yeah, exactly.

This is, I'm going to give this one a drink, Nick. It's good. Game fuel. I also give the origins of this. This was just shipped to my house and I don't know who gave it to me or why. Smart. Smart to drink that. Good judgment.

Do you feel, Mitch, do you feel like you're better at gaming now? I think, I actually do feel like I'm better at gaming right now. Wow. I think that I would fucking pwn your ass, you fucking noob. Well, he talks the talk. This stuff really works. Wow. So a split decision, a, a skeet on the snack, a drink on the drink.

Yeah. A treat. That was, that was Spoonman's, oh yes, a treat. I'm sorry, a treat on the drink. That was Spoonman's treat or skeet. Just like I will say this, terrible combo. Don't have them together. Don't have the Skittles ever.

I think the issue is the yogurt Skittles. I think the yogurt Skittles paired with anything would have been awful. Yeah. You know what though, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to take all the yogurt off the Skittles and then I'm going to have it for breakfast tomorrow. You know, you guys have to try. If you haven't yet, the Kit Kat birthday cake. Wow.

Nick likes birthday flavor. I love birthday flavor. That sounds fantastic. I got to seek that out. Pretty incredible. Wow. Wow. Hey, just like a restaurant, you're via your feedback.

Let's open up the feedback. Today's email comes from Mitch F. Mitch writes. Huh? When I was a kid, my mom used to accidentally burn chocolate chip cookies in the oven almost every time she cooked them. As a result, I came to love those slightly burnt cookies and even now like overcooked sweets. At the opposite end of the spectrum, I like when my little Caesar's pepperoni pizza is

undercooked and doughy. That's probably a health hazard, but I enjoy the texture and flavor. What technically wrong preparations do you personally enjoy? P.S. tell Mitch that by claiming part of his last name as a first name, he is stealing real Mitch Valor. So there you go. Fuck off, Mitch. Joey.

I got to say this. First name, Mitch is our villains. Wow. They're not, you're out. I think they'd be your natural allies. And I'll fuck them. They're my unnatural enemy. Geez.

This guy and Mitch McConnell hate them both. Are there any, I mean, do you know any Mitch, any other Mitchells like last name Mitchell, who go by Mitch? Because you might be the only one. Not that I can think of. No, I don't know anyone else. I mean, the rest of my family. So this is just, that's right.

Your mom goes by Mitch, your sister. It's confusing. It's like a George Foreman situation. I used to wrestle with a Mike Mitchell. Really? Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Was he pretty tough? He was a cool dude. He was a cool dude. He was in pretty good shape. He was pretty jacked up. Wow. Wow.

Yeah. That's kind of a common thing amongst us, Mike Mitchell's. Joey, is there anything, any wrong preparation of something that, that, that tickles your fancy that you personally enjoy? I can't, I can't even tell you. I don't even know. Yeah. It's a, it's a great question.

I'm trying to think of one. I have one. Mine is a hard question. Mine is, yeah. Mine is burnt hot dogs. A hot dog that's just burnt to shit, I think can be on the grill or, or in the, in like a saute pan even. It can be great when that casing really, really crisps up.

Are you talking like spawn after he goes to hell? I mean, that wasn't what I was, that wasn't my mental image. I wasn't thinking of eating spawns charred flesh, these tormented in the devil's domain, but I did, but I, but it is kind of look like that. Yeah. It gets really that, that red leathery texture, but I really like it. I think a burnt hot dog is great. I feel like I have one and I can't, and I'm not, it's not coming to me, Nick.

Another one, a lot of people like is a, is burnt toast. Mmm. I don't like burnt toast. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't like it. I don't, I don't like it burnt. What about burnt cheese? I do like some burnt cheese. Like the edges of like a lasagna or something.

Yeah. Yeah. That absolutely works. Or if you're like, you're making like a, you know, like an omelet or a burger or something like that. And then some of the cheese just like comes off of it and just gets really, really crispy. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm into that. There's some, there's some stuff that I like that's like undercooked and will be like a little bit doughier and I can't think of what it is, but like, I feel like with chocolate chip cookies, I like them like kind of like less, like I want them to be doughy and kind of like less cooked. Does that make sense? Right. Yeah.

I know what you mean. But, uh, but I can't think of anything. That's a great question. I'm going to think on it more, but I can't think of, I like, I like, I like my, I like my Skittles dips un-yogurted. I don't know if I've mentioned this before on the, on the podcast, but I worked on a Skittles ad years ago and the, they call an individual Skittle, the Skittles, the company calls an individual Skittle a Skittles lentil.

You have said that before and I think it's gross. Fucking weird. It's just, it makes me think, it makes me think of Skittles as gross. It makes me think of Sixth Duke. Yeah. That's weird. Yeah. But I think because the brand is Skittles plural, they need a word, they need a term

for one Skittle that isn't Skittle. So Skittles lentil. A lentil? Yeah. That's fucking, I don't like it. It's fucking weird. Hey, if you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at doboyspodcasts at gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 830 Godot.

That's 830-463-6844. And to get the Do Boys Double R Weekly Bonus Episode, join the Golden Or Platinum Plate Club at patreon.com slash doboys. Joey Janella, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. Yeah. Anything, anything you'd like to plug at this point. I'm glad we can finally make it happen guys.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It's not just my Twitter and my Instagram, my Twitter is Janella, and then baby, like the word baby, like a little crying baby, and then my Instagram is the bad boy, Joey Janella. As soon as you click on it, you'll know it's me. You'll see a bunch of sexy pictures of me with my hair down looking like a complete sex god.

Besides that, check me out on TV Wednesday nights at 8pm on TNT, All the Wrestling Dynamite. That's about it. Thank you guys. Hell yeah. Thank you Joey. Hell yeah. And hey, that'll do it for this episode of Do Boys. Until next time, for the Spoonman, Mike Mitchell.

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