Doughboys - Chipotle 3 with Alan Aisenberg and Mike Castle
Episode Date: April 30, 2020The stars of Netflix's Brews Brothers (Alan Aisenberg and Mike Castle) join the 'boys to review quarantine Chipotle and discuss restrictive diets. Plus, another edition of Spoonman's Treat or Skeet.Th...is Week's Sources:Multistate Outbreaks of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26 Infections Linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill Restaurants (Final Update)https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2015/o26-11-15/index.html CDC declares Chipotle-linked E. coli outbreak overhttps://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/01/cdc-declares-chipotle-linked-e-coli-outbreak-over.htmlChipotle Reportedly Believes Its E. Coli Outbreak Came From Australian Beefhttps://www.eater.com/2016/2/5/10922434/chipotle-e-coli-beef-australiaMore than 350 people report getting sick from Ohio Chipotle: Officialshttps://abcnews.go.com/US/350-people-report-sick-ohio-chipotle-officials/story?id=56942423 People are still terrified to eat at Chipotle — and it's the chain's biggest problemhttps://www.businessinsider.com/chipotle-hasnt-overcome-e-coli-fears-2018-3These Numbers Show Chipotle Still Hasn't Recovered From Its E. Coli Scandalhttps://www.fool.com/investing/2019/11/02/these-numbers-show-chipotle-still-hasnt-recovered.aspxLeading Mexican restaurant chains in the United States in 2018, by number of unitshttps://www.statista.com/statistics/307383/largest-mexican-restaurant-chains-us/Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A disease that purportedly originated on the other side of the globe ravaged North America,
sickening Americans across numerous states, 40% of whom would require hospitalization.
The year was 2015, and the disease was E. Coli.
And the suspected flashpoint?
A fast, casual Mexican restaurant that built its brand on fresh ingredients and meals assembled
to order.
While no deaths were linked to the outbreak, which the chain attributed to Australian beef,
though independent investigations were less conclusive, the foodborne illness delivered
a devastating blow to the chain that famously reminds you that guac is extra.
And that wasn't the end of it, as the widely publicized E. Coli scare was followed by
additional outbreaks.
Norovirus later in 2015 and again in 2017, a bacterial infection that sickened 368 customers
of a franchise near Columbus, Ohio in 2018, as well as a different sort of virus, a 2017
data breach that plagued locations in 47 states.
According to its financial reports, the restaurant s revenue dipped 36% after the initial E. Coli
scare, and with its other setbacks, it would take three full years for the chain sales
to return to pre-Coli levels.
But the eatery is soldiered on, and that it endures suggests it will be a fixture of
the American chain restaurant industry for decades to come.
Foodborne illness be damned.
In fact, while Yum Brand s Taco Bell remains the sector kingpin, the E. Coli survivors
nearly 2,500 locations placed its second among Mexican American restaurants out of stalwarts
like Cudoba, Moes, and Del Taco.
But where does this Colorado-founded chain named for a smoked jalapeno go from here?
And how do its burritos, bowls, and off-forgotten tacos fare five years removed from its public
health slash public relations crisis?
This week on Doughboys, we return, once again, to Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants.
I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Head Big with an Angry Inch, the Spoon Man, Mike
Mitchell.
Head Grid and the Angry Inch, is that what it is?
Head, well, the head wig and the Angry Inch is the real thing.
What the fuck?
What is that about?
What is that movie about?
Head Big with an Angry Inch.
It's a guy who's got, like, I think he's got a mangled small dick.
Is that true?
Yeah, that's like, that's what the Angry Inch is.
Oh man, I got an Angry Inch.
That's crazy.
Yeah, and people love it.
It's like a cult thing.
I mean, it's supposed to be good.
I've never seen it.
Adam from Chicago sent that one in.
What do you mean?
I don't think I even do that.
That's a strange thing.
No, I just feel like-
Why would you know that?
I feel like I've heard that movie title so many times I assumed I would know the plot
to it for some reason, and I had zero clue.
Yeah, that was very, that's an Angry Inch, huh?
Angry Inch.
RoseSpoonMan at gmail.com, if you have an insult, you like me, he was on Mitch at the
top of the show.
Shouldn't they just say to, like, I have that, like, shouldn't it have just been me?
Like, I have the-
I think that's what he was, that's what he's saying.
Oh, alright, then fuck that, that guy.
Yeah, but you can't be Angry Inch.
Yeah, here's what, it was Head Big with an Angry Inch.
He's clearly saying that you're the guy with a big head who has an Angry Inch.
Got it.
I.e. your dick.
Big head, small dick, that's what he was trying to say.
Yeah, that's what he's saying.
He should have boiled it down to that.
Nick, Nick, I got, I woke up last night, I was being bit by a spider right around my
elbow.
What?
Oh my god.
Yeah, spider bite.
You know?
You have to move now.
Do you know what type, what type of spider?
Black widow.
Jesus Christ.
You should go to urgent care.
I was torn about the whole thing, because you know, on the one hand, the Spider-Man.
Yeah, that's cool.
On the other hand, you got Arachnophobia.
Yeah, those are kind of the two, you know, the two ends that the Spider-Pengelon swings
to, either that you've got the Killer Spiders, or you get to be a superhero powered by Spiders
It's one or the other, that's the coin flip.
Instead, I just got a big bump in itches, what have I tried, what Nick?
I was just going to say, have you tried sticking to walls or anything?
No, not yet.
My fingers are sticky, of course.
I'm kind of sticking.
Is that weak related or jacking off related?
It could be either or.
It depends on the hands.
Even a jar of honey, or what happened exactly?
It depends on which hand it is.
One hand's in the journey, one hand's in the honey, and the other hand is on the angry
inch.
Nick?
Yeah.
I got a drop for you.
Yeah, go for it.
Are you ready for this one?
I think this one is going to be amazing.
Oh, I'm very excited.
Okay, you ready?
Here it comes.
Shut your heart, and you're too late, darling, you give love.
Bug main.
Hi!
Don't go.
No, it's not bad.
Hi, everybody.
Hi, everybody.
Will I eat your asshole?
No, baby, that's not what I like, baby.
Foolish man with your hands!
I'm not a predator.
Fool man.
Hey, I'm back.
Oh, what did you think, Nick?
I can't see my monitor because that thing made my head spin.
What a drop!
Yeah, it was a great drop.
What a fantastic drop.
You know who that drop came from today?
I think I do know it.
Actually, I think it came from At a Minute of Midi.
Am I correct?
Yeah, you're right.
That drop was from At a Minute of Midi.
Who says,
Hi, Spoon Man.
Hope you're well.
I've been wasting my time in quarantine re-listing to all of Doughboys from the beginning.
It was inspired to finally make my first drop.
An homage to the early drops.
Please come back to Bezzizio.
Nope, I'm going to pass on that.
Sorry.
Much love, At a Minute of Midi.
Thank you, At a Minute of Midi.
Wow, that's really nice, isn't it?
Wow, excellent quality work from our listeners, as always.
And hey, if you have a drop you'd like Mitch to play on the show, the email address is
Give it to him, Mitch.
The email address is SpoonManDrops at gmail.com.
Nick, why don't you give it to him, too?
Yeah, the email address is SpoonManDrops at gmail.com.
And hey, Mitch, we should introduce our guests.
We certainly should, Nick.
It's been too long.
It's been too long.
It's been an awkward five minutes of waiting for them.
It's always too long.
We talk for too long.
It's always too long.
But our guest star in the new series, Bruce Brothers,
which also features our own Mike Mitchell,
and is now streaming on Netflix, Alan Eisenberg and Mike Castle are here.
Hi, guys.
Hello.
Hello, hello.
Thank you, guys, for making time for us during all this madness.
How are you?
How are both of you holding up right now?
I'm in New York alone in my apartment going a little crazy,
but happy to be here and not in a hospital.
Good start, right?
It's very true.
It's a huge plus.
You are also, I feel for you, Alan, because that is,
New York does seem kind of scary right now.
So I hope you're doing well over there.
It seems terrifying.
I mean, it's certainly scary everywhere.
Yeah, but there's something about empty New York
that seems especially menacing.
It's very un-legend.
It's kind of weird, yeah.
It's like a go-to dystopian setting.
Mike, and everything's good in the Castle Castle.
Oh, yeah, everything's great in the Castle Castle, for sure.
Wait, did you guys, have you met before,
or does Nick just have this rapport with you right off the bat?
I think we just have it right off the bat.
We interacted one time at, what was that pop-up?
The burger was the...
That's right.
Mitch, you were there, too, right?
Yeah, I see you guys and maybe Paul Scheer?
This was saved by the Max.
Saved by the Belfin pop-up, where they recreated the Max Diner.
They now used that space, the last I saw it,
they had changed that space into a Breaking Bad pop-up,
which seems pretty past its sell-by date.
I feel like we should be doing the,
do the Better Call Saul pop-up, if you're going to be doing something now,
maybe they didn't have the rights to it.
Well, there's another issue with the Breaking Bad pop-up is,
who wants to eat at the, where do you want to eat at the...
Oh, El Pollo Loco.
Yeah, El Pollo Loco, Hermanos or whatever.
Yeah, Los Poyos, Hermanos.
Oh, right.
Which also, I got to make a, I mean,
do you want to eat at the place that's owned by the drug kingpin?
Yeah, right, right.
Is it going to be that great?
Yeah, I would.
I'd want to try it.
I would actually sooner like to do my laundry
at a laundromat that is a pop-up of the place
where they make the meth in Breaking Bad.
You know what I mean?
It's like high industrial machines and everything,
and they're like, and it's...
Okay.
I think if you're running a business as a front,
it's going to be really good because you don't want
like the health department coming through.
Right.
Or stuff like that.
So it's going to be very, you know, good quality food
or, you know, clean your laundry quickly.
I don't know.
And I feel like that's a thing like,
and certainly it's a New York thing,
but like, I think there's a little bit of the like,
you know, this place is mobbed up.
It's got a little panache when you're like a,
you know, you're like an Italian restaurant.
Hold on a second.
It's like, the mob owns this spot.
People like that?
That's a thing that people enjoy.
People love it.
A little bit.
Yeah, they pay extra for that.
There's a kitch value to it.
Like, if you see a guy in a leather jacket casually walking
behind a cash register, you're like,
okay, you know.
Yeah, a front is good like, you know,
just like a, just good marketing.
It's good marketing to be a front.
People like that.
I don't like that.
That's where the action is.
If I order pizza and then a horse head comes on my pizza.
You did something wrong.
I did something wrong.
Yeah, I don't think that's, again,
I think the front would try to be inconspicuous.
Exactly.
They're not going to do something like that, you know.
And so then if they do do something like that,
you know, it's kind of like a special occasion
and it's basically as special as anything else.
You know what I mean?
You go like, they don't normally go this aggressive.
But it's also a level of like,
brazen confidence to just feel so good about the fact
that you are doing things not by the books
that you're sending a head with your pizza.
Nick, would you try the horse head pizza?
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, it's already been prepared.
I mean, my whole thing is once the cost is sunk,
once it's like, well, this thing's been prepared
and it's going to go to waste otherwise,
if someone says this, if it's just there is like a fuck you,
then I'm not going to eat it.
But if it's like, hey, this is like a thing we've prepared,
like, sure, I'll try this.
Why not?
What else is going to happen?
Absolutely insane if it was there is a fuck you
and you did eat it.
That would be the most psychotic behavior for you to see it.
You're like, no, no, no, no.
That's an alpha move.
That's an alpha move.
It's in the Godfather, right?
Doesn't he eat the...
He wakes up in the bed and he starts chowing down on that thing.
One of the most confusing and scary moments in cinema.
Nick and I were talking about...
I watched the...
I had the Godfather on not for the first time.
I just...
I was putting it on this background noise.
Did we talk about this on the podcast, Nick?
We did, didn't we?
Yeah, we talked about...
Well, we talked about a...
Fuck, I don't know.
I don't remember if we did or not.
We talked...
We might have been on a double.
We can certainly recap it.
Sonny's...
Sonny's...
In the Godfather, there's a scene where someone,
a woman is holding up her hands and it's because Sonny has like a really big penis.
So Nick and I were kind of going down that...
We kind of went down that rabbit hole a little bit.
And then in the book...
Yeah, no, we talked about this a little bit.
We talked about this a little bit.
What rabbit hole is that?
What is that?
So basically, here's what's going on.
And this actually, I'm realizing this is on an episode that's yet to come out.
So this is a...
Oh, wow.
This is both a tease and a callback.
Possibly also a spoiler.
Possibly also a spoiler.
A pre-call.
This is a pre-call.
What happens is that Sonny in the book, there's like a large...
He has a famously big penis and everyone knows about it,
but it's too big for his wife.
So he finds a mistress he can sleep with who has a large vagina.
This is in the book that she has a big vagina that can accommodate his massive hog.
And they like fall in love and have a lengthy affair.
And then after he gets shot and killed,
then she like goes to have a reconstructive procedure to her vagina.
Again, this is all in the book.
It's all Mario Puzo's insane rant.
This is like 50 pages in the book.
She goes to Vegas.
Yeah, she goes to Vegas and a plastic surgeon makes her vagina tighter
after it's been just fucking cored out by Sonny's fucking massive power tool.
And then the doctor makes it too small and he says,
I apologize, this is the only person you can sleep with now.
And he hands her a piece of paper and my name's on the piece of paper.
Why is this not in the movie?
It's just your angry inch.
And then I stumbled upon all this stuff.
And I told Nick, I don't know if you knew about this previously,
but I messaged you all about this.
I learned this from you.
And her son is Andy Garcia and Godfather 3.
So we talk about this all again in another episode.
Yeah.
But it's worth it.
It's worth it to talk about it.
It's very strange.
It's also, do you think that's part of why, you know,
Don Corleone is so sad when Sonny's killed
and he's like, they massacred my boy?
He's talking to this.
There's a waste of that massive hog.
But was he talking specifically about like the dick?
Was the dick riddled with bullet holes?
They unloaded an entire Tommy gun into his fucking shlong.
I want to ask you guys, you are the Bulls Brothers.
It's going to be leaking, Nick.
If you try to suck that thing off,
it's going to become shooting out of the...
It's going to be a cartoonish amount of cum
going out of all the holes.
Classic Looney Tunes gag.
And also what Mario Puzo always intended.
They do...
I heard that he is bad with...
I hear that he's pretty bad writing female anatomy.
Who would have thought?
No.
Go ahead, Nick, sorry.
I want to ask you guys about...
So, Bruce Brothers, the show,
a BrewDog-affiliated ice cold beer,
is the subject.
Are you guys beer drinkers IRL?
Do you guys like to sip on a cold one?
I love to sip on a cold one.
In fact, the other night when we were texting a little bit
and I insisted we play chess,
I had sipped on cold ones,
which I don't do to excess very much.
And I did to excess and I was like...
It was too much.
I woke up the next morning.
I was like, oh yeah, beer can really get you very drunk.
Yeah, you really can get fucked up from BrewDogs.
Yeah, you challenged me to a chess match via text.
And then we were playing chess on an app
and then at some point you just left.
And I guess that's when you passed out.
No, it's that I don't usually play on that app as much.
So I just forgot about it.
And then at some point,
then it was that point where I remembered it,
but was drunk and was like...
Nah, just lose.
Alan, do you indulge in that ice-cold beverage
we all know and love called beer?
I used to. Yeah, I loved it.
And then 48 hours before I got the show,
I got diagnosed with celiacs.
Oh my God!
Yeah, I used to partake and really enjoy
in the partaking of the BrewDog.
And then a doctor told me if I kept doing that,
I would die.
So, you know, that really took the fun out of it for me.
I had no idea celiacs was that severe.
I thought it was just like an intolerance.
I didn't realize it was something that could actually be lethal.
Yeah, you're... I mean, this is a medical podcast, right?
Yeah.
Yes.
We like to dig into our guest's diagnosis.
No, sorry, you don't have to be going to any depth.
In the way that Nick and I's bodies will be studied
after we're dead, I think it is.
Yeah, you fuck up your GI.
The whole track, every time you eat or drink something
with wheat in it.
And so you're slowly chipping away at it and doing damage.
And I didn't want to do that because I don't know
what's inside there, but I want to leave it as is.
Right.
So, are you...
So, do you still drink, though?
I do.
I've become a tequila man,
which you cannot drink in the same quantities as beer.
I have learned.
No.
But, you know, it's taking time.
And then there's a beer called Glutenberg,
which is a celiac, like gluten-free beer
that's really good.
And Castle and I were doing an interview on Thursday,
which might have been the night that you guys were playing chess,
and I had like three or four of those before, during,
and after the interview, and I felt real good.
It was that frambois I had.
That's what put me over the edge.
It like made me...
I was drunk.
I mean, that's the cool thing about being on a show about beer.
Is that like a lot of the interviews we've done
they're like actively encouraging it.
Like, I don't have a drink.
It'll be fun.
But, like, it's work for 20 minutes,
and then you just keep drinking, and your justification is gone.
Right after that interview ended,
we then all, like, with two producers
and one of the writers, like Marcus Ray and Carmen,
we like then all face-timed,
and then all of us were just clearly just drunk.
And we were like, the interview was fun.
We had a good time.
You know, and it was a real sloppy night.
I said the word tattoo, how did I...
I said something really weird.
Me too, I think.
And I was like that whole band, those two girls,
that was tattoo.
Oh, yeah, I remember that band.
That was a weird horny period in pop culture.
Every music video had women in, like,
tank tops underwater, like water was dumping on them.
I feel like there were a lot of that style of music video
at that time, and tattoo was at, like, the height of it.
And the most scandalous thing imaginable
was, like, two women kissing.
Yeah, right.
It feels like that's age drill.
It's just a very different culture than it was then.
But then it was like, oh, two women kiss.
That tattoo, these girls kiss.
This is crazy.
I remember people in my neighborhood were all like,
they can't really be dating.
I was like, why not?
What?
No fucking way, man.
That's insane.
It's for the band.
They're sisters.
I feel like when we look back on that time period,
it will be considered like we were the doucheiest.
I mean, who knows?
Maybe we can get doucheier than we were then.
I hope so.
It wasn't late 90s into the 2000s.
When were we kind of a douchey?
We were kind of douchey.
We were kind of a douchey.
I mean, we probably still are in many ways.
Yeah, I mean, that was like, you know,
it was a pretty obnoxious culture.
New Metal was kind of at its apex.
I feel like New Metal is like a very,
and hey, I'm something of a New Metal apologist,
but it is a very douchey genre of music,
and a lot of those guys and their fans
are pretty douchey.
It's just the nature of it.
There was also like a weird wealth thing.
I feel like people were really coming into
spending to bizarre excess
and like amassing massive debts and shit
that I feel like just created this like weird,
burning itself alive culture.
But I also feel like we're all exempt from the culture
of the 90s since we were mainly victims of it
and like snow participants.
It's true.
Yeah, wealth flaunting is kind of,
now there's like a stigma on flaunting wealth.
Unless you want to just be an asshole,
unless your whole thing is like, yeah, I'm rich,
what do you want to do about it?
Unless you just want to go like for that demo,
a lot of times people try to hide how wealthy they are.
The rich like altruism now where it's like,
yeah, it's Tesla, but it's good for the earth.
You know, like everything is expensive,
but I'm actually a really, I'm a better person than you.
But I love the guys who are like still,
like yesterday I was walking in the city and saw a dude,
Lambo convertible,
revving doing the whole thing, but wearing a mask.
And there was no one around to hear his revving.
So like he has this,
that is just like the greatest bit.
That's a living painting, that's an unbelievable
image to imagine.
It's so empty, you could probably hear that
in all the boroughs, I'm sure,
it probably echoed throughout the city.
In all five boroughs, Manhattan, Staten Island,
Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.
You're dude, dude.
He listens to the Beastie Boys.
He's definitely reading that off a notes app, Nick,
to be honest.
Always open.
Just the New York Wikipedia page.
Just in case.
And they have Tribeca.
And...
A pizza slice, you gotta fold in half.
Forget about it.
Forget about it.
I feel bad for Pizza Rat during these times.
Boy, trying times for Pizza Rat.
You know, I mean,
I think a lot of animals who scavenge off of humans,
they are like,
that's been a whole thing where they're like,
they can't find food.
They're used to like,
the seagulls and deer and stuff.
He usually eat people's trash.
It's just not around anymore.
It's gotta be a wild time to be a seagull right now.
Gotta be very strong.
Nick, be honest with me.
Do you think Pizza Rat's still alive?
Yeah, yeah, Mitch.
Yeah, Pizza Rat's alive.
Yeah, he's doing great.
He went and lived on a farm?
Yeah, yeah, that's right, Mitch.
I hope that he's an old rat now telling stories
of how he took a pizza down the subway one day.
He definitely is.
Yeah, they're all like,
what's pizza?
Alan, have you ever ran into Pizza Rat in New York?
Yeah, he was actually,
he was in the waiting room when I got diagnosed with celiacs.
The doctor was telling me,
you can't do this anymore in my hands.
Pizza Rat has celiacs?
You gotta go to a farm, you gotta go work at a farm
and live out your days.
Pizza Rat has celiacs.
It's tough because not only does he have celiac,
but he also is lactose intolerant.
That's another double whammy.
And then also,
he has an allergy to
fucking tomato sauce.
Oh my god.
So Pizza Rat on a bender?
Did he know this all before?
This was his night out where he was like,
fuck it, I'm basically trying to die.
You know what else I heard, Nick?
I heard Pizza Rat has
sunny Corleone disease.
That's
no tail dragging behind him.
Oh my god.
What do you guys like to
eat when you're drinking a beer?
What's your favorite beer adjacent
or even just generally alcohol adjacent
snack?
Mmm.
When I go to the beer,
go ahead.
I can kick things off, I'll say,
I like very salty foods.
Like a big plate of nachos
and a real treat.
That's a lot of fun.
Obviously pretzels are classic.
I'm not much of a pretzel man,
but I'll indulge in some pretzels.
What about a warm pretzel, Nick?
A warm, different pretzel.
Oh, a soft pretzel is great.
You're in a ball game, you've got yourself
a soft pretzel in one hand,
a brew dog in the other hand.
Boy, there's nothing like it.
The saltiest french fries in the world
with a beer is kind of the most perfect combo.
Shit ton of ketchup.
That is how I would like to go.
I would go with, and this is
regrettably
annoying, but I would probably go with
sushi.
Interesting.
Different Japanese beers
I just fucking, I love.
There's one place I'm
picturing in Tokyo that is the coolest
place to sit and drink a beer.
There's something about the beer
and then sushi or ramen
where I could just drink
a thousand beers and feel
comfortable and not drunk
or full or, I don't know.
I will say that's a very,
that's actually an
unexpected but a very reasonable take,
because when I think of being stationed at a sushi bar
and having a bunch of sushi and having myself a beer,
that's a lot of fun.
That's a real hoot.
Both of you, that sucks.
No, it does not.
This is a fine take.
That we're bonding.
It's very clear to me, through this whole thing,
that you're worried about losing me.
You're not going to lose me.
You're not going to lose me.
I have faith in Nick never making attempts
to talk to anyone here, including me, ever again.
That's smart.
If it wasn't for the podcast,
I wouldn't hear for Nick for like two years, most likely.
True. Yes.
One of my favorite things to do
is to completely forgive people
for not being communicative.
I expect to always be let off the hook
for not communicating.
I think among my group of friends,
I am the most unlikely to respond to a text message.
But I think my core group of friends,
they have given me that.
They don't even hold it against me anymore.
Right.
But why do you want to be that guy?
I'm the other side.
Because I never want to have,
I hate feeling beholden to my phone.
And so...
But that's different.
If someone makes an effort to reach out to you,
it's my biggest pet peeve in the world,
people who don't respond to text,
and when you don't respond to my text,
I go into a tailspin.
But why do you take pride in being that guy
or being let off the hook?
I don't know.
I don't know that I would necessarily say
I take pride in it.
It feels like extremely unavoidable to me.
You're smiling.
I actually am happy that we're fighting right now.
I don't know. It's not so much like the pride.
It's that...
Can I give you a little history about myself?
Please.
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with technology
from the moment...
The first moment I got my hand on a phone,
I was fucking all in.
T9 every day.
Texting, fucking...
Robot chat things.
Second, I got AIM.
I was just all over that shit all the time.
And I think that for a super long time,
I communicated with anybody.
And so it was like all day, every day,
I was AIMing, fucking, on my phone.
Texting anyone whose number I had.
And then as phones are more and more popular,
I'm like a beast at it.
I'm like, I could type for fucking days.
I can text in AIM and all that shit.
Now I'm at this point where I'm like,
I have all my close friends.
I'm married.
I don't want to do it.
I don't want to think about my phone.
I don't want to think about responding thoroughly.
If you really need to talk,
call me or something.
But I just can't do it.
This is utter bullshit.
This is all a lie.
Castle, you and I have spent a lot of time together.
Now you're going to call out the chess thing.
But I'm like...
The text interrupts that.
The text interrupts that.
I get joy from playing
2,000 games a day.
But I don't get joy from responding
to text messages.
I do agree with you in that
it is really annoying
that because of emails
and text, you can just always...
You can always be reached.
Everyone is always on call, always.
I don't like to talk on the phone.
I don't like to text. I don't like any of that stuff.
Which maybe just means I'm like...
You don't like to come on. You don't like to text?
No, I don't really like to text, no.
You're texting constantly.
Because I have to respond to people.
I am texting constantly as well.
But I feel like...
It's so much all the time.
There are so many people.
I feel like if I scroll through my phone
I can find so many things.
I'm like, oh, I guess I should have said
okay to that.
There's just so many goddamn things to respond to.
I'm with you, Nick.
You're right. When it is a group of friends
and we're talking about stuff.
If we start a text thread about how much text
and sucks, I would love to text about that.
That's true.
You don't like to have to reply
into normal communications.
But if it's just like, hey, I'm just going to shoot the shit.
You like that.
I'll do a bit.
I literally have a friend
where we did just a continuous bit
for four months.
I specifically called him before we started.
I was like, hey, I'm going to start a bit with you tomorrow
where we're just going to be two different characters
and then let's just not break that for a couple months.
We changed characters all throughout.
All these different people kept getting the phones.
I can commit to. I will literally wake up
and be like, oh, I got to say, I'm doing this now for that.
But if it's like real stuff,
I'm just like, I don't want to do it.
I don't know.
So, Alan, you've now figured out the solution.
I have to do landscape castles.
You got to text...
Or you got to play chess, my man.
But not text UNC if you'll be like a blood donor.
That you won't respond to.
I will not respond to that. I don't want to have to think about that.
Great.
You got to text him as
like a fuzzy bottom or something.
Exactly.
And ask him if he'll do a blood transfusion
or whatever you're sick with.
Is this a celiac thing?
Melted down cotton candy in my blood
and what can we do about that?
And I will work on that.
What is truly a diagnosable disease
you have turned into a fun thing?
The way that you go about your life
is something that people should study.
I was going to say to both of you
well, and Alan, I wonder how
because Mike, you're a vegetarian.
Correct? Or are you vegan?
Vegetarian.
And Alan, you have celiac disease
and I'll be honest with you.
If tomorrow I was told I had to be vegetarian
or that I had celiac disease
I maybe would kill myself.
So, my question
my question to you guys is
Mike, what sent you on that course?
And Alan, this is new.
This is what's crazy to me
is that you said that you like this beer
and this is new.
In your mind, do you like this beer is okay
for what I can now
what I must now drink?
Or is it that sort of thing
of like, no, this is genuinely good.
And also, can you have cider still?
Or is that out of the question?
I can't have cider.
I'm a robot with food
so I also
I'm very fun to eat with.
I have a crippling nut allergy
six or seven times.
So, I've had that for like 10, 15 years
I kind of developed it.
What kind of nuts?
All nuts.
But I've gone to baseball games
where I've gone to the hospital
because of peanuts, almonds, the whole thing.
Again, is this a medical podcast?
So, because I had that
I just became very mechanical
about food
and whenever I eat
there's a little bit of thinking about my own mortality
so because I had that for such a long time
when I got diagnosed with celiacs
like the doctor was like
alright, you can't do this anymore
I was going to do a week of eating
whatever the fuck I wanted
then I had a trip planned to go to Italy with my friends
which I was going to eat all of the bread
ever
and we called that trip a wheat vederci
which is easily the worst pun ever
and the idea was to then never eat bread
and I just
it's a switch for me, man
I don't know, I was just like
alright, I'm going to take a week and then I'm done
and I never thought about it again
that also the nut allergy compounds
the celiacs though because
nut flowers are a lot of times the substitute for
the common flower
I can eat four things
water, lettuce
he can eat water
and popcorn kernels
wow
dear god, that's tricky
how do you
navigate that on set
because when you're working
on a show
and for our listeners who aren't in entertainment
you're kind of captive, you're kind of there
you can't go anywhere, they provide food for you
you're kind of eating what they bring you
how do you navigate that?
you just ask as many
questions as you can
and you hope that enough people know
that if you accidentally eat a nut
they're probably not shooting for the rest of the day
so
you try to sell it to them in a bad way
it's a threat
yeah, it's a threat
I'm making it very clear that
if at any point I don't want to shoot anymore
I will go over to the crafty table and just eat
a bunch of almonds because I'm done with it
this is where I feel bad because
on days I want to go home early
I started throwing peanuts at you
and it worked
but you didn't know he was allergic
and
you shot the
shortest day on Bruce Brothers
which was by 8.19 a.m. we were going home
because you were just like fed up and just throwing peanuts at me
although as I recall
he put all of them into his mouth and then
spit them out at you like an elephant in a cartoon
this is just shocking to me that Mitch was up
by 8.19 a.m.
well, he was not cool about it
yeah, Nick, even when there's a call time of
6 a.m. I sleep until noon
and I'm getting a fucking dick
I do feel like Mike
you were late a few times, weren't you?
yeah, of course
I was going to say I kind of remember
some of the delayed ones because you weren't there
that is not true
that wasn't me, that was my scene partner
oh, it was like he had an audition or something
that was James, that wasn't you
there was one day where I had an audition
and I told them that I had an audition
and they
and I had to go to that audition
even if I'm wrong, please make note of how
just nervous he just sounded
that was stress
no, no
look
there's 6 a.m. call times, you gotta be the set at 6 a.m.
it sucks, it does
although sometimes it's nice
how empty the streets are and stuff
although now that means something else
yeah
there is like
a window when you have a 6 a.m. call time
for actors, you guys know this
you have like a 10 to 15 minute window
where you can still be late and not get in trouble
definitely, definitely
but then, like you were saying, Mike
if you, if the scariest thing on earth
is being late into the window
where you cause any issue
and then it is, then that is terrifying
like you will be greeted on set with
the most panicked PA you have ever seen
in your life
who is like, I'm gonna lose my job
why, what the hell, what is the politics here
and it's always the youngest person on set
that they give that position to
we're obviously thinking of the same person
on Bruce Brothers
and it sucks, they shouldn't be in charge
that's a miserable job
well, I really think that it's a key
choice to pick a
young and very nice person
to be that person on set because
you then feel bad and you're like
I would want to be resentful of this girl
who would always come and be like
they need you back on set and I would be like
I was just there but she's so nice that I would be like
okay, alright, cool, cool, sorry
I don't want to be mad at you ever
yeah, and also this is an
annoying actor thing, your time
is wasted constantly, it's just
absolutely constant, it's weird
yeah, I mean that's a lot of
jobs but in particular you were idle
a lot, there's a lot of just
sitting there, there's a lot of waiting to do something
and then they say they need you and then they don't
need you
it's like the key
it's infantilizing is the main way
it always feels where you want to walk away
and you're like I'm gonna go sit over there and they're like
actually they need you right here and you're like alright
and then you stand there for like 20 minutes and they're like
okay, you're free, I want to just
sit over there
I will say this
the one plus side to Bruce Brothers
it was very hot because it was a summertime
is that when you did walk away you could walk into
a giant fridge, Nick
oh my god, that fridge
there's a big functioning
walk-in fridge
we shot it
an actual brewery, an old brewery
wow
yeah, so there was an actual functional
walk-in fridge
I would tell you, a walk-in fridge
that's like
if you work in a restaurant obviously that's an everyday
experience, people are used to that
but like for me that is just
I always feels like I'm
going into Willy Wonka's factory
it's just like this is amazing
this is like a big cold room
in a rich person's home
I've been in one rich person's home where they had
a walk-in fridge and it was the most fucking insane
shit
that's insane, that's wild
was it uh
oh shit, I forget her name, Nick, what's her name
who do you think, I don't
what's her name
Cher, who
who are you talking about
Jenny's Ice Cream
Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, I got it
yeah, Mike, were you in Nancy Pelosi's house
I feel like
that's what Mitch wants to know
lost the thread of how we ever could have gotten there
just from the search that had to happen
to get there
I forgot Nancy Pelosi's name for a second
I forgot Nancy Pelosi's name
also that's the wealthiest person you could think of
that's the first
she recently just
showed off her like two
gigantic very expensive fridges
and there was Jenny's Ice Cream
and Nick I thought you would
I thought you knew what I would be talking about
she's got two sub-zeros
it was not Nancy Pelosi
it was someone else
I won't say who but they
did this thing that I
I commend myself for my reaction to
which is they were like yeah it's a walk-in
and I was like oh cool
and they were like yeah you can walk into it
and I walk in and then they close the door
and then they're like you're locked in
and I just
I gave absolutely no reaction
I just stood there like
cause what is that
and then they opened it
I was like
but also the joke to you in that scenario
is that like oh we could kill you
in here
well don't do that
yeah that's not fun
Nick I got a monkey paw wish for you
right now
wishing for two sub-zeros
two sub-zero fridges
but you said can I get two sub-zeros
yeah you get two mortal combat sub-zeros
yeah
and then you get decapitated and your spine is
dangling down
yeah that's no picnic
you guys really have your own language huh
I'm glad you agree Nick
let me tell you about how I became vegetarian
I've been vegetarian for like 15 years
or so
or 14 years
since I was in high school
oh yeah
my best friend and I became vegetarian
basically at the same time as a general
act of defiance
at the time
but also I had
I was in England when I was 16
for some fucking
study abroad kind of program
and while I was there I ate a horse burger
or I was like tricked into eating a horse burger
wow
we made this show girl you actually ate a horse burger
actually when you guys were talking about it
I was like sure I'll say this little anecdote
of mine coming up
so that was a pre-call for your horse burger
but it made me feel really sick
but also like
it was one of those things where I was like oh my god that's so fucked up
I can't believe anyone would ever
eat that
and then it kind of was one of those things
where you see like suddenly no distinction between
two things when you're a teenager where I was like oh wait it's the same as cow
and then it was like
it was all gross to me suddenly
I had a similar experience
I didn't actually eat horse
no wait I ate a horse
we had a horse meat sausage you brought back from Italy Mitch
we weren't going to say that off the double
oh yeah well I ate some of that
anyway
again once it's food
this is either going in the trash
or it's going in someone's mouth
if someone came to you and I was roasted on a spit
you would eat some of me
no I don't think
because I don't think you would want that
if you want if I knew that you would like
you'd wanted me to eat you
as like part of your
basically your morality with it
is the ontological preference of the thing
I think I feel
I probably and maybe this is an issue
with how I view life forms
but I think I view people a little differently
whereas I feel like if an animal
has been killed and has turned into meat
I would have less of a problem eating that
but a person I would be like
well this is
this is too much for me unless the person
gave their explicit permission
and then you would
yeah I give my permission
yeah if you did then yeah I would have a bite of you
I do think that like one of the most
common responses I would hear growing up
because both my parents really hated
the vegetarian thing
my mom still claims to like not understand
that I can't eat chicken
and shit like that
it's like 15 years
but
they always would say like
something is already
getting made so it's like
you might as well eat it was basically
always the perspective
is that a south side of Chicago thing do you think
in terms of how they eat food
yeah it's like Irishness
I lived in a really Irish neighborhood and I feel like
both my parents were like
they couldn't believe it
when I said I wasn't going to eat meat
I feel like my parents would have an
like an issue with that
with not eating any sort of meat product
I think it would annoy them
I have some random friends back in
Chicago where when I last saw them
after not seeing them for like many years
one of them was like hey do you still
not eat meat and I was like oh yeah
and he was like whoa
and I was like
that guy gets blown away too easy
yeah now that I think about it
he's always like that
he's never committed to anything in his life
is your mom's house still across the street
are you a
a deep
we'll talk about both of your food histories here
but are you like a deep dish pizza person
do you like a lot of the Chicago
are you a fan of a lot of Chicago food
yeah I kind of always wish
I always like to not have
my like hat in the ring
with any of these like geographic
specific things you know like
people always say oh you grew up on the south side of Chicago
so you love the socks
and I'm like I don't give a fuck about baseball
so it's like you've already
lost me and so I don't want to do the pizza thing
but
Chicago's pizza is better than New York's
and it is better than LA's
and it is the most superior pizza available
wow Alan is vigorously shaking
his head Alan you're from
New Jersey originally right and obviously live in the city now
yeah born in New York
grew up in Jersey back here but either way
good pizza depending on you know
the side of the river doesn't affect it but
right I mean this is the argument
that every New Yorker makes but the water
right the water makes the pizza what it is
and you just can't make that
dirty dirty water yeah
give me that gross water
that makes me
happy I don't know
that's that's uh
there's the
the water bagel what's that what's Larry King's
place out here Wiger
Larry King has a I forget what I think it's called
the Brooklyn water bagel company something like that
his whole thing and then he
supposedly it's very wasteful
imports the tap water from
the five boroughs
Manhattan Queens the Bronx Brooklyn
and satin island and he
and he uses it to make their
their bagels out here and it's supposedly
I don't know if it makes a difference and people say
it makes a difference but who knows if it's
confirmation bias I don't know
yeah I mean we heard there was a like an anecdote
we got actually on set about beer
and like the beer from
Pilsen which I think is Germany
or where's Pilsen Alan
was that Germany or was it Austria or something
no I thought he was talking about wasn't like
how Bud Light how they can make the same
and yeah I originally
the name of Pilsner came from
beer brewed off of this lake
in Pilsen and basically
like when they were trying to
replicate the
recipe for it
when they like expanded the beer wouldn't
taste the same because it didn't have the same
water source
as the original beer and so they work
like through the Zimerge to make it
more like that by slightly
tweaking it so that it would all taste the same
no matter where it's brewed
I was not there for that story we have different
oh yeah well I really
dug in with
Kale on set I think
Alan what is this Bud Light story here
because I'm a Bud Light was my beer for
a very long time and I know that everyone thinks it's a bad beer
but you know whatever it gets the job done
well the guy who ran the brewery
that we shot at said that the greatest
scientific achievement of
all time was the fact
that you could drink a Bud Light
in the United States
you could drink it in Australia you could drink it
anywhere in the world like one made
in that country and it tasted the same
that they were
engineering the ingredients around
the water so that it tasted the same regardless
of where you had it
and he was again convinced that
you know any research we had
done to cure or you know
AIDS or cancer or the iPhone
technology none of it compared
to the achievement that was
drinking Bud Light in any place
and having it taste the same
Wow just in terms of
the content of my anecdote and yours
I feel like what must have happened
was he said that
and then I like took an arm around him and I was like
tell me a little bit more and then he told me
the following
that's very likely
and when you pulled him over
you had the chess app open on your phone
you were only half paying attention
but dude I dominated
Kale in chess and he was not cool about it
was he one of the few who beat you
no but he had one opportunity
and I told him after the game and he was
furious
he was like the guy who owned the brewery
and so he was like our beer teacher
he would like take us
through all the history and stuff
kind of kind of a
technical advisor if you will
yeah
sure
Mike I heard that you walked away from the
you fell asleep is that what happened with
Nick's game
yeah
you heard this earlier on the episode
yeah well guess what just like Mike
just like Mike I fucking fell asleep
during that segment of the episode
I gotta say this
the downside
to
to all of you know
to drinking beer on set is that the beer was
a non-alcoholic fake beer that was not good
and it just makes you burping farts
so much man I hate it
it doesn't
and also I would be like drinking it to kind of
make it look realistic and it
it was just drinking empty fucking calories
that tastes like shit it was a bummer
like if we could get around that whatever
like claws is
that means you can't have alcohol on set
or whatever I would
I would prefer to drink real beer while we're filming
I mean yes
you wouldn't drink more than like two or three
you know
right and also like when you have that fake beer
I can't even sip it
you know I just go it's just gonna make me
full and feel like shit
I was
I was raised on Bud Light as you know
from a young boy
a young boy raised you
and then I
I started to get into like more craft beers
and I used to get some stuff at Oaks Gourmet
but now in the last few years
I've kind of I don't drink as much beer anymore
it kind of bums me out I just can't do it anymore
it's kind of I'm with you guys
or I'm with Alan I guess
it just doesn't happen as much
I'd rather do it to keel in soda water than
it's nice to drink like two beers
yes
something that I really enjoy
you have like a sixer that's excessive
certainly at my age
I feel like I have gotten
as I've gotten older I've gotten less hoppy
I used to like
give me that hoppy and now I'm
like a Pilsner
even if I'm drinking a craft beer give me something light
yeah it was a startling turn for me
when I was first getting into beer I was all about
IPAs and then
sharp turn sharp turn at
like 24-25
and now there was this one
beer we would drink after filming a lot there was
like a bovic Pils and it was the
fucking best man wow
yeah it was so good I literally would crave it
by like it was like pure like Pavlovian
alcoholism by like 5pm every
day I'd be like literally I would feel myself
salivating I was like dude I need to get
one of those pills
let's edit that out
did you say
did you say
creepy like that
yeah it was whoever I was standing closest to I would say it exactly like that
in their ear with no context
around it at all
Weiger so your beer taste
your beer taste is
kind of like an aging bunny rabbit
yes like an aging
bunny rabbit I have gotten less
hoppy
alright
now we can take our break now we'll take
a break we'll be back with more Doe Boys
welcome back
to Doe Boys our guest Alan Eisenberg
Mike Castle of the new series
Bruise Brothers now streaming on Netflix
our chain this week Chipotle but before
we get into that Alan there's a biographical
detail of yours that we wanted to touch on
both your parents are from
Argentina
yeah they were
born out there and they actually met here
but that is like
the true core of my
cuisine growing up was
Argentinian food
what are your Argentinians favorites
both in you know
I guess just like what you'd have
stuff you'd have at home and then also like if you're going to go out for
Argentinian food
what are your go-tos I mean the staples
in the house always were you know empanadas
which are a little like flour
I mean people know what empanadas are
I'm explaining it like no one's ever
you guys know what pizza is so pizzas is like
dope
yeah empanadas and milanesas
which is just a fancy word for chicken
cutlet I've never understood why
our culture is so
crazed on this breaded chicken
and wants to call it a fancy name when that's
all it is and you don't really put anything on it
it's just breaded chicken
and then a shit ton of meat
like my fondest memories of coming home
or like my dad grilling
like sausage and skirt steak
and just a shit ton
of chimichurri sauce and like that is I grew up
on kind of those three things on loop
man
skirt steak and chimichurri sauce
that is a great
I mean that's I never even think of
skirt steak and chimichurri sauce that often and that's
one of the best Nick it's fucking delicious
chimichurri sauce is a quality sauce
a top tier sauce
and when you come across it it's just like oh yeah
this is this is gonna be okay
and it's not hard to make
dude I'm just
dead-eyed over here I have no I
it's been so long since I've had meat I don't
oh that's right I just don't even know
but I regularly
Lauren will say something like
someone will say something about like a steak or something
I'll be like I can't
even do an example of what I don't understand
because I understand it so little I don't know anything about it
well you have it because
I've known some long-time vegetarians don't really
like the impossible burger
or the beyond burger because it's
recreating meat too too closely
I love it I think it tastes delicious
yeah yeah yeah I first had one at like
some burger place
in Chicago I was like this is fucking unbelievable
I honestly like started craving it
I like all the meat substitutes
now although when I was
first like in my first three or four years
when I would eat something that tasted too much
like meat it would freak me out
now I'm just like hey look at that
nice job
Alan we I want to talk about empanadas
real quick because I love empanadas
and there's I found like
maybe one place in LA
that I like but like are there
have you found are there good empanada places
in New York at all
yeah there's a spot in Corona
Queens the name is
one of the five brothers
yeah El Chiquito Gaucho
I think it's called
that has empanadas that feel like you're
in Buenos Aires
I go to Argentina probably
twice a year
and like know what that tastes like
and this is the closest thing to it
if not you know it's
pretty perfect it's the equivalent of
I think Larry King's where they ship out
the water to LA they're doing something
that they're bringing from Argentina
that makes it just taste like home
what was the place
where you took me and Lauren to
was that
that was a place no that was a Brazilian
place so Mike
Mike doesn't know where countries
sometimes are Mike where did you think
Argentina was when you first met me
somewhere around Spain
yeah
I honestly am almost proud
of how stupid this moment is
which is that Alan said
you know something about South America
and then I was like oh yeah
he's talking about Argentina and I was like oh that's awesome
yeah I love Barcelona
and I was uh what else
I like Madrid and then he's like
why are you saying that and I was like
uh
wait where's Argentina and then you know
and so on and so forth
but then like all day long I think I said
at the beginning of the day and all day long
anything you would talk to me about I go
I can't believe I thought Argentina
it was great and you kept saying let it go
no but I took you guys to
Beco which is a place in Williamsburg
out here that is a Brazilian spot
that makes a gluten free
I think like all the cheese bread
whatever those fucking things were
I can taste it the second I think of that
that thing was so delicious it's just like
tapioca breaded
cheese with like a jam
that like we walked into the restaurant
I said to Castle and Lauren I'm like I'm ordering these
like trust me you'll have them they're like okay
and we just like devoured them
wow
do you you mentioned going to
Argentina what is the is there
are there any delicacies that
you can only get in Argentina you can't really get in the
Argentinian restaurants in the States
the ice cream is really specific
out there like they pride themselves
there's probably like two or
three ice cream shops per block
in parts of Buenos Aires
which is insane and their
whole thing is like no toppings nothing special
it's just about the flavor
of the ice cream and you can't really
recreate it out here there's a spot called
Freddo which is a chain and I think they have
one in Miami that's kind of
you know it tastes pretty close
but that's the only thing that I haven't really
been able to fake out here
you can get cows up here so I think
they found a way to make the meat taste the same
but you can't get
the ice cream
I don't think I've ever had
go ahead
go ahead
what is it about the ice cream that's so specific
it's so full of flavor
and they're not
it's not like an ice cream here where
there's cookies and potato chips or whatever
bullshit like here it's just about
or in Argentina it's like my favorite
one is a raspberry
one from Wissa that just tastes
like you're eating a raspberry
they're clearly using
actual fruit and there's like very low sugar
in it and it's just very
Buenos Aires
I don't think I've ever had Argentinian food before
like I've never been to an Argentinian
restaurant I believe
I've had Peruvian food which is I guess
close and I love
what is it is a saltado
saltado
yeah those are that's great
that's a great meal but I don't think I've ever had
any Argentinian food
I haven't found a spot in LA yet
but next time I'm out there let's find a spot and try it
I love it how exciting
well moving from
South America to North America
what a segue
Chipotle established
in Denver and giving the
and presenting the food of
Mexico we reviewed Chipotle
twice once very early
on in the podcast we reviewed it very positively
and then we revisited it Mitch
not just for our tournament of champions
but also when they released queso
we gave it another full review with our pal
Chelsea Davison and it took a huge
dive ratings wise between reviews
a reverse Burger King if you will
Burger King made a comeback
and Chipotle is
made a major decline
I didn't think you have to go into details I think people just get
when you say reverse Burger King
yeah people know the trajectory
are you guys are either you guys Chipotle
regulars
no
wait
were those opposite answers
were opposite answers
simultaneous yeah
yeah yeah yeah
this is the makings of
a brotherly rivalry
right now
and I'll tell you
my rating is not going to be positive today
wow I'm a fan
Alan is a fan
what do you get normally at Chipotle
and obviously your order I bet
has changed since your diagnosis
it has my new go to order
which I had today
burrito bowl
brown rice
black and pinto beans
which is I believe called fiesta
a shit ton of corn
a little bit of the green salsa
sour cream lots of it
lettuce and then the main protein being
the sofritas the tofu
and then chips
and then more corn on the side for the chips
that is the go to
I can have that 2, 3, 4 times a week
a whole bunch of corn
I said that out loud that's
I can't be having Chipotle that often
the number kept going up
2, 3, 10, 25 times a week
doesn't matter
I agree with you
it's something that I will talk about
with my final thoughts
but like Chipotle
for what it is
if you get a bowl
you can get a pretty low calorie
not that bad meal Nick
it can be decent
admitting that tortilla goes a long way
it's that sort of thing
that we talked about like a subway
if you go into a subway and you do it up your way
you can get something that is okay for lunch
but you know
how is it
how is the food
is always a question with Chipotle
it's very intense when you look into that other camera
I mean
it deserved that
it deserved that look here
Chipotle
but you guys don't like that
I'm sorry
for our listeners, Mitch has
two angles on himself
when he records these zoom calls
he sets up his phone as kind of a side camera
and then when he has a point
he really wants to lean in
he'll turn to that side camera and deliver it
it's like a confession booth to one side
yeah
so kind of like the thing with Chipotle is
it needs to be more consistent
and I bet you guys can be your way to turn a curve
you're literally six people
that's
but it landed on me and I just thought
that felt like an old SNL bit
Alan
Doe Boyz is
funny for about six different people
so we're
we've a lot of publishers
we're hitting those numbers
so not a Chipotle fan
not a place you go to regularly
let me say
when I first moved to LA
Chipotle
I feel like it was more
around in my life
when I lived in the Hollywood-ish area
when I first moved here
for those of you who don't know Hollywood
there's a Chipotle on every corner
it's truly man
it is Chipotle rich over there
and I liked it then
but then you know what, I think that
my major deductions that are going to happen today
almost all have to do with the pandemic
and ordering it
on an app
I made decisions I would not
have made
had I actually been there
well here's the
and that is an issue with Chipotle
and any of these assemble your own
meal places
is that you can
you add one extra thing and it's ungepochka
it's you got too much going on
and you've ruined your meal
you say the word too much
no, I say it the right amount
if I said it a little too much
it might be ungepochka, my usage of it
but I think currently my usage is fine
the Chipotle I go to
is right next to a cold stone creamery
same sort of thing on the dessert side
you can just fuck up your mix-ins
and sweet creamery
combo and then all of a sudden you've got a dessert that's no good
it's like when Link completely butchers
a recipe in Breath of the Wild
that's just a fucking big mound of fucking
mush
Chipotle and a cold stone creamery
they should just knock down the wall
and make a big fucking hot and cold mush store
stop acting like you're separate entities
you got
it's one long chain
so Mike I ordered with the app
as you did
I like the app
I'd never used it before
my lovely wife Natalie helped me through it
I made a tremendous mistake with it
which is that
first of all I wanted to
I was gonna get a burrito bowl thing
but I
believed that either Alan or Mitch
would make fun of me
because that seems like what I would get
and so I
preemptively lashed out
against them and got something different
from what I would get
and I went with just the burrito
but then I just clicked
veggie burrito
but then all it had in it was rice
what you didn't customize
no I didn't understand
I just clicked veggie burrito
and I was like ah just whatever the fuck
and so it was the driest trash
I've ever taken like four bites of
and I was like what the fuck
so I understand it's I didn't know
that for the app
I couldn't
it should not the base of a veggie burrito
should not just be rice
should not just be beans
rice
a couple other fucking things
or contact you and ask is this a mistake
you got a flour tortilla filled with white rice
that was your meal
and I took a bite into it and I was like
no
and the key
really my least favorite part of the whole thing
it was like this big
it was like the smallest
little nothing of a burrito
I've ever received
now look
Doe Boyz is not a test
Doe Boyz is not a test but Mike
you somehow failed Doe Boyz
yeah
I'll take that
I was gonna say Castle held up his hand
and kind of like a reverse sunny
Corleone sizes
give us a sense of how big it was
a very very smart
modest burrito
that was not that small by the way
what did you do so far
so here's the thing
that is confusing
and the app should be more clear
because if you click veggie burrito
my app said includes guacamole
so it
that felt like more of a prefab thing
but I also did a veggie burrito
and I would normally get a bowl
but I wanted to get something different for this episode
as you did Mike
and so I got a veggie burrito
I threw in
so it comes with guac I added pinto beans
they used to include bacon
but they are vegan now
white rice, fajita veggies
tomatillo green chili
which is their medium salsa
I believe that is the
salsa that Alan got
and also cheese and sour cream
so I loaded it up I also got some chips and guac
I'd say a decent burrito
I messed up you know
but I still
and this is my American right
I blame Chipotle for my mess up
I put it into the app
all you have to do is continue to scroll
you put veggie and then all of the other options
that are there bud
it's an ad but I was like
so it didn't say
that it will come with nothing
so I was like oh in addition to
whatever the base veggie burrito is
if it said
I basically ordered a rice burrito
so why would it say veggie
it felt like if you're picking veggie
that means more than just rice
like it initially said chicken
if you ordered the chicken one
would there be no chicken in it
until you add chicken
here's what I'll say in your defense
Mike is that a lot of these
chains where they're all about customization
five guys suffer from this as well
they don't have like a default option
and I think if you're someone who's not familiar
with this chain or not familiar with their ordering
process or
a total newbie you've never been there before
you're taking your maiden voyage to Chipotle
you might be confused
and it would be nice if they're like
I'll just get the number one
I felt that
if I were getting the like open burrito
bowl thing
for some reason I was like that you would customize
more if it says veggie
burrito I just assumed it was like
going into any place and ordering a veggie burrito
yeah
I will say that mine was ready
right on time I arrived
just like right when the app said it was
going to be delivered and they were like finishing
making it and handed it to me so they
you know it was very well handled on their
end and the chips
I think their guac is good I will say this
I think Chipotle's guacamole is maybe their
best menu item
guac is extra but I think it's the thing
that's always consistent there
I disagree
with you you know what I think is their best thing
is the sour cream
they have quality sour cream
they have good sour cream
a little liquidy for my taste
but I still like it
it's like almost like fluff like
it's like fluff and utter
it's like very it's like
I mean I love it
Nick I want a little different today too
I got myself a
burrito bowl I ordered from the app
I ordered from the Chipotle app itself
and they have free delivery right now
during the
quarantine
and I got myself a burrito bowl
with white rice I want pinto beans
which I which I never get
and I got
oh my god
I did barbacoa as my meat
cheese sour cream
tomato salsa
green salsa
and then I got a side of chips with
green salsa so I could also put it on
oh and I also got red salsa which I never do
to make it a little bit spicier
and I also got
a little side of queso for those chips
Nick it tasted
like my meal was prepared on that
cold stone creamery board
the ice board or whatever the hell it is
it was cold as hell
oh no that's right and also it came
so fast it came
within 23 minutes the delivery
from when I ordered it which is crazy
so that strikes me as maybe a
you know and again everyone's figuring this out
this our current hell world
on the fly but that strikes
me as they did not have a good delivery protocol
for like they don't have like an insulated bag
need like our old Rachel Ray
bag that we used to use that would keep something hot
for delivery
there was something there was something so
I mean like even in 23 minutes
it felt like I felt like the food
at the restaurant was cold
it shouldn't get cold that quickly
and here's what I think it's like
I don't think Subway is good
and for but for a long
time it was just the sort of thing of like I know
what I'm gonna go get if I go get a fucking
get my way and get a turkey
and cheese sub
and toasted or whatever I know it's gonna be a certain quality
Chipotle is just so it's all over
the place man it's a
the quality control of it
it needs to be more like a
like when you go to McDonald's
usually we talk about this where it's like
85% of the time 90%
of the time it's pretty good
yeah I think McDonald's doesn't have as much variance
as some other chains in its
price category
you know like like you know my
one of my favorites Del Taco
that's kind of all over the map
and that's kind of the negative about Del Taco
you'll have some rough Del Tacos
but and Wendy's I've heard across
the country there's some very bad Wendy's
particularly in the south like I guess that's just a bad
region for Wendy's
whereas other regions it's like the best
it's like the highest caliber
so I think Chipotle has some inconsistency
between franchises for sure
the consistency issue is
and I feel like just like on a
like I said it can be a nice little treat for lunch
you can do a salad or a bowl
not feel really guilty if you get some chicken
and some salsa in there it can be
alright you know what I mean but
the quality just kind of goes all over the place
and today was just
it was just a cold fucking goopy mess
the
the case of
the case of which by the way does taste better than when we first had it
they've improved it a little
and that was the part of the reason I got it was to
to try the case again and I thought it was better
but it was cold and it was like half of the
container there was like this much case
an angry inch
that's a better metric to use I shouldn't have even used
my fingers I should have said my burrito
was the size of an angry inch
but no it was
I was like
to me I was like
I wanted it to be like that kind of like
it's
Chipotle the world in the last
15 to 20 years has changed in that Chipotle
is not a special restaurant anymore
it's not fancy
like it once felt like like whoa these are like
real quality burritos doesn't feel that way anymore
in 2020
that is not the case
we've seen this with Quiznos
Quiznos came on the scene and was like
oh this is like the nice sandwich place
and then they scaled up too quickly and the quality
took a dive and yeah same things happened with Chipotle
Umami Burger too is the other one
Umami Burger for sure yeah
just in LA but the same thing
it scaled up too fast
yeah they opened up too many Umamis
and it stopped being this special
thing that it once was
Baja Fresh you know that's the big one for me
a lot of people if you're not from SoCal
you may not know that Baja Fresh at some point was
like a nice like Mexican
fast casual Mexican place
like it was like a higher quality
when I moved out here in 2005 Nick
it was I think that was starting to end
at that point but it still was nice
yeah everything was fresh
and it was just it was like very good quality
and then actually part of it was
them being acquired by Wendy's
who we touched on in the other part was them
having to compete with Chipotle
it's so weird to me
that Chipotle was
acquired by McDonald's and I know that
I think since then maybe they're not anymore
but I don't know what the deal is
they flipped it
they held on to Chipotle for a hot
second and they flipped it oh no shit
yeah like a
like a house in foreclosure
was it related to the E. Coli stuff
which I'm still amazed that they were able to
you know rebound from that
it's unbelievable they survived that I will say Jack in the box
had an even more severe E. Coli scare that
led to some deaths in the 90s
didn't you and John's having an E. Coli scare as well
yeah same yeah they also had a similar thing
they like took the sprouts out as a result
which was about I love those fucking sprouts
those sprouts are nice
I hate Jimmy John's to remind me of a
chain that I fucking don't like
I for some reason love it I don't mind it
I don't mind Jimmy John's I think Jimmy John's is pretty good
I like their veggie sandwich
Jimmy John himself is like a piece of shit
isn't he like a big game hunter
he's an awful man truly terrible man
everyone who runs one of these companies is a cool
that's just you know the nature of it
yeah the thought of any of the guys running
any of these companies just even looking
at the food I'm gonna eat makes me not want to eat it
but I know they never have so it doesn't matter
do you know what they should change Jimmy
Jimmy John's to and I think that they should
do the same thing with Papa John's
mm-hmm is a Jimmy Shax
and Papa John should be Papa Shax
Shax should get involved
we talked about Papa John's rebranding as Papa Shax
which I think would be a smart move
Papa Shax would be great they should call it Papa Shax
Cousin of Shake Shack
Cousin of Shake Shack
how often do you guys think
about that the former CEO
of
Papa John's
him talking about eating pizza
I've eaten pizza every day
for the last 40 days
video I think about it
so often it comes to me many
times a day I'll just hear it
so I have a question about that
video is his
there's a version where his voice is
slowed down or does his voice sound gross
like what is happening in that
I think that's what his voice sounds like
his voice just got all fucked up
he sounds yeah right no
I think we are familiar with
the commercial voice but in reality
he's like a Dick Tracy
villain who sounds like that
they dub him
in the commercials to not tell me
it's hell it's hell to film
these things I remember if you
actually say the word so he's just mouthing
they put pizza sauce
in his mouth
the man hates that
I think it was when Peyton Manning won
Super Bowl either with the Colts
or maybe it was the Broncos
and Jimmy John
Papa John came out into the fucking field
with him and it's fucking sucked
yeah it's good
I was sad to see Peyton Manning win the Super Bowl
and then also at the same time I hated that
Papa John was with him and then
that's trumped though by
Jimmy Fallon running out onto the field
when the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time
to shoot fever pitch
to shoot the end of fever pitch
yeah which
what a fucking I remember being so happy
like being like yeah we won and then like
looking up at the screen and being like huh
Jimmy Fallon is out there
what is Jimmy Fallon doing here
it sucks
again that was like what it was mid-2000s
when was that
yeah that's the same mayor we were talking about earlier
2004
very uh very douchey time in American culture
well we should get to our final thoughts on Chipotle
did we hear from Alan
yeah we heard from Alan, Alan talked about his bowl
you got the same order as usual yes
yeah I actually just remembered an old thing from Chipotle
that I don't know if it's still a thing
do you guys ever have the quesarito
yes they I don't know if they
we tried one once anymore
I've had that before
I just remembered that it's the most disgusting wonderful thing in the world
and how that never caught on
it's a burrito made out of a quesadilla
and it was incredible
yeah it's vile and delicious
and I think it was one of those things where they got
they they got spooked by their own secret menu
and a lot of that stuff
they just won't even make for you anymore
yeah I think we don't do that
it was too messy and now Taco Bell
is just taking over the quesarito
they stole it it's theirs
yeah they have it now
so for our final thoughts
we'll each take a second
and give a summation
of our evaluation of Chipotle
and then finish
by giving
a fork score from 0 to 5 forks
that will be our final verdict
on this chain
our guests usually go first
Alan let's begin with you
Chipotle is a staple
it is part of everyday life
you pass it you know what you're going to get
I like a place
that doesn't have a menu
with numbers
I like a place that trusts me
and really
means that whatever I choose
is going to be a good meal
and that's what I look for
in a restaurant really
I thought we were reviewing it and not doing
a sappy commercial for it
I'm proposing Chipotle
let me have this moment
no it is
something that I truly feel like
you can't go wrong as someone
with a lot of bullshit
dietary restrictions and by bullshit
I mean it sucks not that they're fake
I should play with that
I have the paperwork
I like that I can
eat anything there and not worry about
dying or shitting my pants for 12 hours
though
if you eat too many beans you will probably
shit your pants for a while at Chipotle
this is what happens it was inspirational
and fun and then Castle threw me off
and now I'm talking about crapping my pants
Chipotle for me is 4
4.5 forks
wow
very high score
might cast you ahead
I would say
Chipotle obviously not a staple for me
I walk by it and I
quicken my pace a little bit I would say
typically
and while
I deserve some hate
and I'll take some online bullying
for my mess up with my order
I blame them
I blame democracy
and I blame Chipotle
for letting it be too democratic for me
I want them to tell me what I want
so I'll give it
I'm gonna give it 2 forks
2 forks
alright spoon man what do you think
I'm kinda with Mike
I think that it is
his right as a citizen
of the United States to blame the company
instead of himself
for what happened
to you in that
I don't trust myself
I'm gonna fuck this up
if I have to do this I'm gonna fuck it up
I'm not a burrito creator
I'm not
I don't make meals
Nick you're right
it's not as big of a problem there
the customization is not as big of a problem
it's consistency like I said
and today I got
something that was cooked on those
cold stone fucking ice slabs
and it was served to me within 23 minutes
and I've had Chipotle
that's been sitting around longer
than 23 minutes, truly 23 minutes
and
going into this
I wanted this to be a three and a half fork place
because I was like oh like
you know what you're getting there
you're getting a bowl
it's like a subway but it's actually kind of
tastier than a subway
it can be healthy enough
not that I'm saying it's healthy but
burrito bowl is not that bad with some
protein and a little bit of rice
and some veggies or whatever
but it's not
Nick it's just the consistency
for me and that's not just today
this is always the case
and I think that
I think it's the sort of thing
that it's fun to toss in more rice and stuff like that
but you always get uneven
you can get a burrito that's just filled with rice
you know this happens you can get a bowl
that doesn't have enough protein
that doesn't happen
and I think that they need to figure that out
I know that it's right now
it's difficult times for delivery
and those people who are working there
are essential workers, they're heroes
but it's not getting the three and a half forks
for me and I don't even know if it's going to get
three forks it needs to be
it needs to take what McDonald
it needs to have that just
it needs to be consistent like that
it needs it
so I'm going to go 2.9 forks Nick
2 standard forks
1.10 pronged fork
with 9 of them activated
that's right 9 activated
I am going to
I feel like I'm going
I feel like what's going to happen here Mitch
is that we may be and I don't know if we
do we have a stair step club
a ladder club do we have some sort of
we did do that at one point yes
I'm trying to remember what it was exactly
because I feel like my score
is going to land a little bit
south of Allen's
but north of your guys's
I will say I like the app
I think the app is pretty easy
you're saying the Chipotle app
the Chipotle app I like the Chipotle app
I use Postmates which I
maybe
that may be the issue
I think if you use the Chipotle proper app
you can't make that kind of mistake
I think that the
I will say that this is one thing in
Chipotle's favor
looking for a chain to review
both of you guys have restrictive diets that we've
touched on and Chipotle is a place that can
accommodate that a lot of fast food places
cannot do that a lot of fast food places
it's like what I'm going to have a bun
I'm going to have you know
yeah exactly you're going to have something
that's not particularly satisfying that's maybe
not even a meal to try to
if you're going to try to eat vegetarian
or eat you know gluten free
so you can accommodate that
at Chipotle pretty well and I think their
options are decent
my veggie burrito I enjoyed
I'd rather have one from like you know
like a good local Mexican spot
but thinking of it as a chain restaurant
it's pretty good
the guacamole is very good
I really like legit like their guac
I don't like their chips because I think they just
have that hint of lime
I like that they're warm but that hint of lime always tastes artificial to me
although I do really like their guac
I got myself a grapefruit Izzy
which is like their grapefruit soda they have there
I got this for dinner so I made it into a
Paloma with a little bit of Casamigos
a little tequila in there and that was a treat
I'm going to say
this gets
3.25
forks
3 forks, 1 tine, a conventional 4 tined forks
that's where I think Chipotle lands
it's a little bit above average
and I think it can improve
a little bit more if they up their consistency
the consideration you're making
about the availability
the options
I agree with that actually
it's a good point about one of their benefits
it's nice when you go to a place and you go
I can definitely eat something here
100%
and that is an asset of Chipotle
and hey that's our verdict on Chipotle
it's time for a segment
Mitch has a food stuff that he is going to taste test solo
it's another edition
of Spoon Man's treat or skeet
Mitch does not have the item
prepared so he is standing up
I'm going to go over and
that's not really fair because it's a refrigerated item
okay it is a refrigerated item
we're going to find out what he's going to whip up here
whip out
I almost did say whip out
and they also said whip up which also didn't make sense
yeah but then because you initially
said the out it felt like
you were describing the dick coming out
and then whipping it up as well
it became extreme it was moving
it was not I hated it
this thing is not whipping anywhere
Nick today I got
Twix
chocolate milk
wow
that looks intense
chocolate low fat milk
Twix flavored
Nick we've never really discussed
what
it's a treat or skeet
what would this be
oh we need a drink equivalent
it's a drink equivalent
hmm
so drinker stank is our normal one
but that involves everyone taste testing
if it's solo
um yeah
sipper ship
yeah I like it sipper ship you're going to ship it off
I love it
okay how about sipper shit
sipper shit
right yeah it's easier because it's more confusing to say
I'm going to say
if I don't like it I'll pour the rest of it down the toilet
great is this going in your mouth
or in the toilet skipping in the middle man
let's find out
Irma's up on the table she must be interested in this
Twix chocolate milk
you guys can think
you guys can discuss what you think
it's going to be real rich
I'm just curious what Twix flavor means exactly
if that means it's kind of a caramel
caramel chocolate
I'm taking a little sniff of it right now
it smells like a Twix candy bar
Irma is meowing
it smells very much like a Twix chocolate milk
she's interested in it for some reason
we saw her on camera briefly
it smells very much like a Twix candy bar
it's very strange
it would say on the bottle
good for cats
yeah they should let you know
if that's cat safe
are either of you guys big candy guys
do you like a sweet treat
occasionally
not when I'm home
but I feel like if I'm ever traveling
a candy bar calls out to me
significantly more
especially if you're in a foreign country
I feel like a Snickers
feels more like sustaining to me
or something
Snickers is one of the best candy bars ever
it's unbelievable
top to your candy
I'm a big starburst Skittles guy
and since the
quarantine I have had conservatively
10 plus pounds
wow
I ordered groceries the other day
and got a 3 pound bag
of starburst and that was last
Monday and they're gone
wow gone
those are the two that I'm real hooked on
I just want to show
I just want to show that there's like
Twix bars like being enveloped
by a
like a chocolatey milk here on the bottle
Nick yeah we're kind of getting their origin story here
wait what is it
it looks like Pompeii
yeah it does look like a
is it a beaker or a volcano
I can't
what they're in
it's like when the Joker fell into the
acid basically it looks like to me
thinking back on the original Tim Burton Batman
yeah yeah
or maybe the T2
falling into the molten
lava or whatever the fuck it was
they need to bring back the Joker falling
in acid like in the recent ones
it's just been like he's wearing makeup and fine
but give me the acid guy
doesn't he fall in in Suicide Squad
doesn't he leap into acid
am I making that up
I think he's just is the Joker at the start
of that from what I've only saw it once
he's already in jail isn't he
I think he's already the Joker
I think Harley Quinn maybe falls into acid
oh that's what that is okay
can I say this is not really related to anything
but this is a little bit about candy
I want to tell you guys this one thing I used to love to make
when I was a teenager
my take on a classic
a classic candy so
I will get crushed up ice
alright and I would put it inside
alright you open up a fruit roll up
you know and you know
you remove all the stuff you put the ice right in the center
you wrap it up like a little ball
alright so that the ice is inside of the fruit roll up
and then you just keep that in your mouth
and occasionally slowly but surely
you are biting into it as the
fruit roll up starts to get like frozen
and it becomes kind of like crunchy
and it's
so that's all the fuck
that is wild
that is a wild thing you just described
I'm just thinking look we're all home
you know we're wanting to try some stuff out
this is the thing I started doing I was like 16
I was like this is fucking this is what it's all about
16
well that was when I first smoked weed
it occurred to me
the only podcast you can tell that story on
and it's semi-real
that's why I jumped at the opportunity
alright here we go
twix I'm trying it dick
you still haven't taken a sip yet?
that's fucked up I thought you had it already
I love that we have two video angles on this
oh man
definitely give reaction to the other camera
oh man this
this is bad this is for sure bad
wow
can we go any other way
bad in what specific way
the caramel
taste of it makes it taste like kind of like
old coffee that's been sitting around
it's fucking
bad this is bad
bad bad
so it's a shit?
yeah it's a shit
he's still drinking it
I'll drink the whole bottle for science sake
it does seem like a Dunkin Donuts thing
there is a creaminess to it
that makes me keep coming back to it
I don't want to take another sip of it
but it
man that like caramel
and whatever chemicals
they use to make it taste like that caramel
and you can taste like the chunky
the wafer part of the bar
a little bit
this is Nick
this is going down the toilet
they tried to get the wafer flavor in there
there's a wafer flavor
you want to skip that part
yeah that's gross
that seems like one of those
decisions that's so bad
it clearly comes down to one person
they were like we got the flavor completely
and he's like what's the consistency
does it feel like there's little wafers in there
and they said no and he's like we're going to need that
yeah someone on the twix board gave that note
and they're like we can do it
and he's like yeah I think you should
he's one of those guys who just likes to give a note
and then just after he hears himself say
he's like you have to do that now
yeah I have to feel like he has ownership over this somehow
in Hollywood in a lot of ways
I think that's where I'm pulling from
you know what I'll say
there is like a creamy chocolate milk flavor
to it
that is tasty
and then it just is overcome by this kind of caramel
cookie twixy taste that's not good
you'd rather just have chocolate milk right
you'd rather have and there is like
there is some version of chocolate milk in this
because I think it's a Nesquik product
I think it is
but it tastes like kind of like Nesquik
if it isn't it's definitely
openly infringing on some
Nesquik copyright shit
this just strikes me
as one of those things where if you'd rather have
the normal thing if you'd rather just have
chocolate milk
than that's in Gopatchka
they threw too much stuff in there
that is now it's too many
now it's too many
I can just picture myself
I can picture myself
strangling you
and you
and you're just as I'm strangling you
you just keep saying Ungopatchka
sounds like sounds that you would
eke out as you're being strangled for sure
Ungopatchka
you'd be rubbing it in my face as I was
fucking crushing your neck
I thought you were saying that it's just the
sounds of that action of you strangling
Nick would make
Ungopatchka
that too I like that too
this word
you love this word
it's a useful word hey that was Spoonman's
sip or shit our new segment
just like a restaurant we value your feedback
no sip or ship
to keep it clean
sip or ship
so it's a proper rhyme not a near rhyme
if you're gonna sip it you're gonna ship it off
you're gonna ship this one off
even though it seems like you drank about 80% of the bottle
just like a restaurant we value your feedback
let's open the feedback and hey we've got a voicemail today
let's go ahead and hear this
and share my screen real quick
is that 80% of the bottle
come on Mitch let it go
oh boy Mitch took the label off to prove
that most of it is still in there
all right fine I stand corrected
let's listen to this voicemail
that's where you'll mix it up every time
so for example I always get the same thing
at Chipotle and at Subway every single time
but at like on McDonald's or Taco Bell
I always make a decision about what I'm into
for when I get to the restaurant
thanks bye
so Alan you already touched on that you have a regular order at Chipotle
there any other change you have a regular standing order at?
yeah pretty much
every spot that I go to
I like I said I'm a robot
with food and I find the thing that I like
and like end of list like I'm done
I need to experiment
I like the consistency and just knowing that
like I get the one thing and it'll be fine
what's another of your chain go-to orders?
I'm trying to think
like I've really changed
all of my restaurants now with this new thing
which is a great answer to give on a food
podcast
I think like at a burger spot like I will get the same thing
on a burger pretty much anywhere I go
you know
mayo, pickles, lettuce, onion
bacon
cheese
it doesn't matter if I'm at a burger spot
what did you say?
mustard, onions, tomato
kale
I just named the whole thing
I like the simpleness and the consistency of it
Mike is still making fun of me so I'm just going to talk over him
you know what this is a question I've had since the show
since we did the show
do you guys like each other?
we do
but it's you know that brotherly way
any outward affection
is immediately pushed back upon
right
did anything while we were shooting make you think that we didn't
actually like each other?
no not at all I was just joking I know that you love each other
and also I
I'm sorry that I answered it honestly
I'm also jealous
because I'm in a work relationship
where I feel like
one side doesn't really love
the other side
oh bud you should really consider it it's really wonderful to have
like a partner who trusts you
it's really nice it's a good feeling
for sure yeah no we actively dislike each other
I think that's our magic
no I know that's what makes listening to it
so you know
electric I feel that the first time I listened to an episode
and Mitch was saying something
and I think I rolled my eyes
and then he called you out for rolling your eyes
and I was like yes oh great
Castle did you not eat a cheese often?
you're the Mitch of the podcast I guess
which is a good thing by the way
and you know what Nick didn't either
until a few months ago
and it shows and how much he uses it
I love your information
when I like became vegetarian
it was like immediately
everything in my diet changed
because I grew up like right off a
big street in Chicago where it was like
all these fucking Taco Bell
KFC, McDonald's all that shit
and so when I became vegetarian it was like
I suddenly can't go to any of those places
you know
and so now it's like
13 or 14 years later
and the places are all starting to
get you know like the impossible burger
and all that shit but it's like
I don't even have the instinct
to go there anymore but I'm like a major
frequenter of like all these local places
in my neighborhood
I go to a place 4 times a week
order the same thing all the time
every time I walk in there the guy
knows my name but is like not
friendly to me it's great
I used to have a deli
in the city that I would walk in
and the guy behind the counter
started making my sandwich
and that went on for about 4 or 5 years
where we never spoke
I have like an
apologist instinct with it
like I feel embarrassed
I would walk there
now I'm like you did everything right
now that I can't leave the house anymore
but there would be a lot
I would start to feel this real like big shame
right before I'd walk in or I'd be like oh my god
they know I was here yesterday
and I got the exact same fucking thing
and I'm gonna get it again today
man what a feeling that
just is missing right now
just someone just knowing your order
yeah boy what a nice
just a small like real return to normalcy
so gratifying is like
that regular bartender
regular waiter
what a fucking treat that'll be
Mitch you are holding one of your cats right now
Nick
it's gotta be Irma
you're such a piece of shit
now I think you do it on purpose so you can say the wrong one
that's not Irma
she was just on the table
oh okay hi Wally
white stripe down his face
okay white stripe for Wally
I'll remember
I'm gonna fucking drive to whatever city you move to
I'm gonna find you I swear to god
the inside Weigar's head
follow up to I'll remember was
and then I'll intentionally not say it
I sadly think about what I'm gonna order
besides a restaurant
where I'm going down to sit at and I don't
and even still then I'll look at the menu
but if like I'm with a group of people and then we're gonna
we decide to go to a restaurant and just sit down
and eat that's like maybe the only time
that I'm not looking at the menu or thinking
about it like if I'm gonna get
go get myself some Taco Bell I'm like I think I'm
gonna get this tonight and I think about it
at least an hour or so before I do it
always always Nick there's
not a time that I don't think about it
no we're on the same page here but I do start
thinking well in advance and I'll sometimes
even practice like my order
like I'll just like I'll be like okay I gotta
get this right especially if I have to order
the phone which that's because yes this is
this is more of a thing
that you can't talk to human beings
yeah so I have to like just I have to
warm up to it a little bit
but I so as you do a thing
that's like hello sir madame I would like
to order
and then quickly like not madame not madame
no
to answer the question from Amanda
my the standing order for me
my go-to I mentioned it already is
is you know two of my favorite chains
Del Taco in and out burger
I just have a
kind of a pretty straight forward go-to
that I'll get most of the time
some with some minor deviations
but I just pretty much have my thing I know
what I want I want that you know
I want that animal style double
double with chilies
because I'm gonna be a heat seeker from
from in and out burger and fries and
if I'm gonna get a sweet treat of vanilla shake
and then at Del Taco you know my
two Del Tacos
two half pound bean and cheese chargers
with green sauce and fries
of some sort often the deluxe chili
cheese fries that's usually my go-to
sometimes I'll mix it up with a quesadilla
sometimes I'll throw in that double Del burger
which is indulgent delicious but
places I'll mix it up
for me the answer is pizza
pizza I will tend to get just like
different toppings and Natalie and I'll talk
through what we want and sometimes we'll get
and I feel like it's always
it's always something a little bit
a little bit different every time we order some
Mitch what about you what are your
what are your consistent ones what are places where you mix it up
I think that
like I said I'm always thinking about it
so for me like
you know it's probably a combination of the two
I'm like I'm gonna order pizza today
at some point but where am I
gonna get it from and then that always
determines about like kind of what style
I'm gonna get or what toppings I'm gonna get
like if I'm going to Taco Bell I know what like I know
I'm getting a cheesy Gordy to crunch
cheesy Gordy to crunch no matter what
and so it's probably
like a combo of like
my regulars and then a little room to
experiment maybe I'll get this and I'll get
and I'll also get whatever the special
is or whatever they have a buffalo chicken
burrito all right I'll try that
you know what I mean right
if it's if I'm getting Domino's like oh maybe
I'll do thin crust tonight or maybe I'll do whatever but like
oh I kind of want to do like half cheese
sausage and onion or something like that like I always
kind of have an idea going into it
so I can I say
when I ate meat
and frequent in Taco Bell as a teenager
I
loved the cheesy Gordy to crunch it was
like when I became vegetarian I kid you
not it was the only thing I was like
oh my god I'm gonna fucking miss that
so much
and it was with beans
so I've heard yeah I didn't
I think I might do that but it feels like it'll break
like a certain seal for me if I go
through like a Taco Bell
drive-thru it's been so many years
I say
it's a great time
right away I picture just
chugging some mild sauce
just to get it going before I eat something
I do love the mild
I used to be a hot
sauce guy there and I'm now a mild sauce guy
doesn't hurt the stomach still has a pretty good taste
it's good
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poor sir mix a lot
I'm not asking people to add
sir mix a lot leave sir mix a lot alone
he's going to see sir mix a lot trending
he's going to say what's happening
all right we'll make it food themed
hashtag
stir mix a lot
wow perfect
can I add just like a sub
question that I think would be helpful
yes
it's worth knowing
when you order
anyone who might answer this
when you order the same thing you always get
do you do it
automatically or do you act
it out like you're searching for it
because sometimes I'll act like I'm drinking of it
but I actually
yeah you were going well let's see
you know what no tomatoes but I knew that
going in I wasn't going to get tomatoes but
yeah or you'll add tomatoes and then
scrapping
that's the next level
have too many tomatoes today
no no tomatoes
there's like an embarrassment fact
like a
the sort of thing if you order too much food in the fast food
drive through and you're like
on the phone being like what do you want
okay yeah and then also can I get that
that's like a next level
embarrassing
but
I have done that before I'm like let me get
honestly I think I am just thinking of
other I'm trying to think of what I should get
besides that for me it's stalling
and I'm like let me get
let me see here cheesy gordita crunch
I knew that was coming I knew I wanted a cheesy
gordita crunch but I'm also trying to think of
what else I should get my fear is that
they'll go like oh geez
man you're dying for that cheesy gordita
huh you can seem a little aggro
if you don't have the
you can seem a little like aggressive like I'm going to
be like a difficult customer if you have this very
precise order that you just rattle off
yeah or like ungrateful to yes
yeah so I have any kind of rhythm of normal
order is helpful I always say
hey how are you doing every time I'm at the thing
and which also can be a turnoff
some people are like good
what do you want to eat
shouldn't have said this is a mistake
for me it's a fear of being judged
by a stranger like if I order too quickly
yep I'm just looking for
everyone to you know
validate me so
to not get it from the guy in and out
is you know really going to ruin my day
also the
the acting of it you know trying to find your order
I knew this guy
in Chicago and
I like caught him doing something like that
but he didn't like know that
which was that he had on multiple
occasions when we'd be in a grocery store looking
to get like beer for after a show
he would be like oh
Bud Light with lime
right I would try that
but I'd actually had it with him multiple times before
and I was like I just know he likes this
and then like after I clocked that
I remember like months later we met up again
and he was like oh I'm going to get a Bud Light
actually can I get a
I'm going to do a Bud Light line
but it was always like I knew it was active
so I was like dude you like that
you are acting like you're it's a discovery
and also I got to say for that one too
is like it is a gross one
so I almost understand
Bud Light lime is not that good
I don't think so you don't want people to think you like it
so
yeah castle name this freak
who is this freak
I can't he lives in LA
he lives in LA
hashtag
stand by bean and hashtag
stir mix a lot to make it food related
okay hashtag stand by bean
hashtag stir mix a lot
let us know but also question
will Mr. Bean think the hashtag is about him
oh
if he gets me too in the next week
and there's people who are like praising him
that's a good point
how about hashtag
which by bean
okay
that makes the most sense
that's the best one
that's like making sure the wafer is in the twix drink
yeah
Alan Eisenberg, Mike Castle
thank you guys so much for joining us
check out bruce brothers it's streaming now
on netflix
anything else you guys would like to plug
uh spoon man
on bruce brothers he is very funny on it
oh man
you guys are both so funny
on the show and very talented guys
and very funny
offset as well so it was fun working with you
your check is in the mail
I was just gonna
plug Zach Reno's Animal Crossing Island
I was just there earlier today and it's amazing
it's spectacular
it's really really something
oh and if you ever listen to this
Zach I stole one flower from you even though I told you
I wasn't taking anything
wow
I hope he listens and he shut it off like 30 seconds ago
because he thought it was the end of the podcast
they all love my island
that'll do it for this week's Doe Boys
and the next time for the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell
I'm Nick Weigher happy eating see ya
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