Doughboys - Coco Ichibanya with Matt Apodaca and Heather Anne Campbell

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

Matt Apodaca (@mattapodaca) and Heather Anne Campbell (@heatherannecampbell) join the 'boys to talk GLP-1s, their recent trip, and Japanese eats. before a review of Curry House Coco Ichibanya. Plus a new edition of Frank Check.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://tastecooking.com/this-is-taste-738-how-wolfgang-puck-became-wolfgang-puck/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-curry-historyhttps://www.diasporaco.com/blogs/journal/japanese-curry-the-curious-journey-of-colonization-and-globalization-that-led-to-japan-s-favorite-dishhttps://metropolisjapan.com/the-origins-of-japanese-curry/https://www.japanesefood-franchise.com/curry/ichibanya.htmlhttps://newsonjapan.com/article/141896.phphttps://ichibanyausa.com/pages/about-usSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In the 1980s, Wolfgang Puck, a chef and restaurant tour from Beverly Hills via Austria, popularized a multicultural cross-pollination cooking style commonly known as fusion. By the 90s, Puck was a full-on celebrity with TV shows and microwavable meals, and Fusion Cuisine had become a mainstream movement. But while the trendy fine dining scene had marketed melding food from different continents as a cutting-edge innovation, the practice had happened organically since the oceans were traversed by trade. One example now popular worldwide, Korean Fried Chicken originated when American servicemen

introduced the dish to their South Korean counterparts during and after the Korean War. American Fried Chicken itself created when enslaved West Africans enhanced the seasoning of the Scottish dish they prepared in colonial kitchens. Another East-West fusion comfort food emerged from a foreign military presence, Japanese curry. Colonialism had introduced Indian-style curry to the British palate, and in the late 19th century, the British Royal Navy brought their extra mild version of the dish to Japan. The Japanese varietal, most commonly chicken or pork katsu curry served with rice, became a new national dish, and in 1978, Masayoshi and Naoko Munigetsu opened their own curry shop with a

name that literally translates as, here, number one. Today, the largest curry chain in the world, including a dozen North American locations, it feels inevitable that Japanese curry will soon enjoying ramen and sushi as a commonplace American indulgence. Thanks, Wolfgang. This week on Doe Boys, Curry House Coco Ichibanya. Coco Ichibanya, Cocoa, Cocoa, Cocoa, yeah. Welcome to Do Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

I'm Tiger Weiger, along with my co-host, The Nintendo Adult, because he repeats the same eight bits, The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. That's clever. That's well-crafted. Yeah, I just don't want to hear it, I guess. Dylan W. It's the same 8 bits.

I do more than 8 bits. I think you could have gone with 16 bits, even 64 bits. I appreciate that. Thank you. And 64 is not too bad, comparatively. Yeah, I mean, you got a repertoire. You got a, you'll get your bag, if you will. Hell yeah.

It's all about the bag in this world. It's a similar thing of some guys. on our Reddit posted, went to secret pizza. I don't know if anyone saw this. I saw this. So there's, I went to secret pizza because we have talked about it on the podcast. I think secret pizza is very, very good. Where are the kids at? It's like, it's a different pizza plan.

No, what are you said? I guess it wasn't worse than that, but was still pretty bad. He was like, I went to secret pizza and he was like, I talked to the guy and he said, I said, I got like the recommendation on a podcast and then he said as he was leaving, he heard the guy say like, oh yeah, one of the

hosts like talks us up and he's like I listen to the podcast but it's not funny I was like why did you include this in your anecdote I don't want to hear this I like secret pizza what the secret pizza guy says that yes that's what he said that place and then Reddit posted the post and then Reddit posted the post and so you're saying that's worse than uh an alleged basement of children no I don't think that that's worse than pizza game we've been to comment ping pong you can't find them kids anywhere so trust me you're not there is trust me I was me, I was looking. Is there a bomp?

What happened? What happened? What's going on? Hold on. Something. Oh my God. There was like a hissing sound for the corner. It was terrifying.

We were talking too much about... It's fixed. It's fixed. Sorry. We were talking too much about comet ping pong. We woke up a rattler. You got snakes and head gum, you know. I hope's too.

In the content minds? Oh, got to be careful down there. I feel out of control. What would be it? What would the snake equivalent in the content minds? You know what I mean? What's the rattlesnake equivalent in the content minds? I feel like some sort of a rock creature, like a rocky from Project Hail Mary? We can't talk about him. We can't talk about them. Okay, we won't talk about him. I'll start crying.

Here's something that you'll be surprised by. I don't know how I felt overall about Project Hail Mary as, I mean, I had a fine time. But I do like Rocky. I like Rocky. I like Rocky. Rocky is good. Angela. I was, I, not that Rocky. Oh, okay.

Sorry. I mean, I do love that Rocky as well, but I like, I was, I was giving Grogu shit the other day. Is your name, Angela? Their name's Adrian. Adrian. Maybe, but he might have been talking to a lady named. Where's that buzz? I need that buzz back.

Or he got punched so many times. He'd forgot the A name of his. I would assume. This is later Rocky. He's got punched. Yeah. This is like old Rocky, like forgetting. Oh, wait, is she, is Adrian dead?

Yeah, she's dead. Yeah. They wrote, they wrote, they wrote, they pulled a stew on Adrian. Yeah, Adrian died off camera. Have you watched Rocky recently? It's fucking meandering nonsense. It's insane. The first one is, yeah.

Really? Yeah, it's, you watch it and you're just like, I guess this is just the next scene that happens. They're often very unmotivated. They have a, isn't there, there's a date. And then you forget the date is on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Who goes on a date on Thanksgiving day? Oh, I remember that.

I do now. Fuck you're talking about. But isn't he like, isn't he saying like, yeah, no, it's Thanksgiving. Does he do anything like Thanksgiving? I'm fucking stupid. I wrote the movie. No, hold on a second.

He is, the character is supposed to be stupid. He is stupid. He is supposed to be stupid. He is supposed to be kind of a dumb guy. I know you probably might be spending the holiday with your family, but what if I took you out instead, idiot. I'll kick his back. Rocky versus Rocky would be fun

because one is rock made up rock. That's a great pitch. Thank you. You know, and they're doing crossover IP more and more these days. Get that little flying squirrel in the mix too. There you go. Throw him in. Why not?

Rocky and Bullwinkle. There is no email from Dylan W. He doesn't need the buzz at all. No, he doesn't need it. And no, I don't want him to fight either. He's too little. No, I meant you. You don't need the buzz?

Oh. The buzzing noise. Oh, the buzz. Okay. You think what I'm doing is good? Oh, yes. I'm enjoying it. We're having fun.

Everyone's having fun except for Heather. That's pretty usual. Is that how it goes on the show as well? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Usually what happens is it's me and Nick versus Heather. I guess you could say me and Matt are kind of the Mitch of get play. I'm sorry.

We should take that as a compliment that it is. It takes two of us to be you. To be as disruptive as you are by yourself. But also, I have to be. be the Nick? Sorry. I'm hurting Nick on this show. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I wonder if you, if you are on, well, we'll find out today, I guess, how you'll feel about Nick by the end of the episode. There was no email. I know. Right now, I'll tell you, I'm starting off pretty low. There's no email from Dylan W about the Nandendo Adult, but there was an alt from Emily C that I wanted to read Mitch because they were at the San Jose live show on the 30th we recently did.

Okay. And we read this. Also video game themed. Squint, the blacksmith from Staredo. Valley. That one's just for me and Emma. Hell yeah. This roast is in honor of the upcoming update to Starryo Valley which makes Clint Romanceable. Clint is a kind of Mitch-coded

blacksmith. So he's a big guy. He's a big guy who's an in cell. My hot doctor husband who doesn't listen to the show said this roast was fine. Oh, not fire, fine. Thanks for the laughs. Emily C. Roast at birdfuck.com. Mitch, we're just in

San Jose on the 30th in April. We were. But in May, we're going on the road to the south. That's right. The 27th, we're going to be a rally North Carolina. The 28th will be in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the 29th we will be in Atlanta, Georgia. Two shows there. Tickets are the late shows still available.

Me, M. and Amelia, have our plane tickets. You do not have one yet. I got to figure that out. Actually, I meant to ask a question at work in terms of, like, if I could get on the same flight because they'd be missing a whole day. We'll figure it out. I'll get clarity tomorrow. Okay, all right.

I'll get clarity tomorrow. By the time this episode's out, I will have my ticket. I'm going to the show. And you know who else is going to the show? Carl Tart. That's right, our guest, Carl Tart. All four shows in the South, Mississippi's own, joining us in Carolina and Georgia. He's got a tall order to carry us through four shows.

Tall guy. He's a tall guy. He's a tall over a tall guy. Rocky's bad, huh? I got to rewatch Rocky. I don't know if it's bad. Oh, I didn't know which Rocky you were talking about. Rocky's good.

Rocky is good. No, Rocky, the movie is befuddling. Is befuddling. Okay. I mean, you can be like, oh, wow, this guy wrote this movie in apparently 24. four hours. It wins Oscars. It is inspiring. But also, it's just like scenes just happen. It's like, I mean, I haven't seen it recently enough, but it's like, I'm going to a pet shop. Like, what's in the air? Is it crazy pets? All right, I'm going to go for a run.

There's a bunny. There is a bunny at one point, right? Like, isn't, is any whole? Maybe he's got a turtle. I don't remember. Yeah. Kind of like a Brian Fellows wrote a movie. Just like, what is this? From SNL? Yeah. I would watch that. I would watch Brian Fennell follows movie, too. Wait, why did you go into the Rocky with Adrian impression?

What caused you to do that? If I even could tell you, I have no idea. It's gone now. Do you have something to do with Pizagate? You were talking about Project Hail Mary came up somehow. Oh, right. I think it's your fault. It's because we were talking about little guys, right?

You're thinking of something. Oh, that's what it was. We threw out other Rockies. We'd rock at Rocky from... No, that's what it was. It was Rocky from Hail Mary, and then you did the... Yeah, I was wrong. Not Adrian Bitt.

You did Angela. And then you were talking about the different Rocky, but that was the joke you were making. Yeah, yes. And then you also brought in Rocky from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Yes. Got it. And we were talking... You and I went to Comic Pingpong.

That was... We did go to Comic Pingpong. Which may be one of our... Maybe we shouldn't have gone. We made it a Patreon episode, right? We made a Patreon episode, and we also, when we talked about it in front of the DC crowd, they clearly were like, why did you do that? Yeah.

We did not get any sort of reaction from there. Do you ever get the desired reaction from the live audience crowd? That's a great question. We're going to find out on May 27th and Rally, May 28th in Charlotte and May 29th in Atlanta, two shows, tickets for the late show still available with Carl Tart. Tickets at birdfuck.com slash life. We get some of that joker gas going through the building to get people to laugh. That'd be fun.

Or maybe we could also do kind of like an, you know, glorious bastard sort of thing. Now we're talking. Your image projected onto smoke, laughing. Mitch, I have something to share, and I'm doing it in part because you're very open about your health. I try to be open about my health as much as possible.

And basically, well, this is going to sound like a grimmer setup than it is, but basically everyone who is going to be at my funeral is in this room. Oh, my God. Natalie's a maybe I hope that you're about to reveal that you got taller I got taller It's strange to have a corpse at your funeral I started

A few weeks ago I got a prescription for oral we govy Now here's the thing Like I know that I don't have I understand I know that body dysphorbia is something I'm dealing with And I know I don't have like a I'm technically I'm overweight and I'm

enough to qualify for the threshold, but that's not the purpose of this. I would say you're quite chunky. I'm chunky-hunky, I'd like to say. I was just joking. I don't really think you're chunky. It was just funny because you said it in the nicest way you could. No, it was nice. It was like my mom asking where the husky section was for the shabler kids. Isn't it also good for like OCD in general? Yeah, so this is why I was going to bring it up because there's a bunch of off-label uses for

these GLP1 drugs that I've been reading a lot about and, you know, talk to my, my doctor about this, of course, insurance isn't covering this, because why would insurance cover something that health insurance cover something that helps improves your physical and mental well-being. But some of the off-label uses include obsessive thoughts, compulsions, addictive behavior, because we know as well as like, as well as me eating a lot of shitty food, which I do, that that is like something of an addiction, compulsion in and of itself. But I also like, once I start drinking, you all have been with me on the road, I don't stop. I like keep it going.

And it's really interesting that that has made my alcohol use a little bit more like, I've never thought I have like a drinking problem, but I am someone who will overindulge when I don't mean to. And now like last night I had a glass and a half of wine and I'm just like, I'm done, which is very out of character for me. But it's like, hey, that's a nice corrective course for, you know, my behavior. And I really admire how open you've been about it, Mitch. I think it's like just really, it's really, we had the guy who wrote in last week who said you decide to share because you'd been deciding to share. and I just think that's really, really admirable and impressive. And it's also a part of why I decided to investigate this for myself.

I don't know. It's really interesting on the, I don't know how you've, as someone who also lives with OCD, I'm not sure if you've dealt with any of this much, but I, it's like kind of almost just turned down the volume on my rumination. For sure. Yeah, and which is really strange that like the background noise of, you know, just worrying and and self-hatred and, you know, like, like depression about the past mistakes, like all that stuff has just kind of been muted a little bit,

and I can concentrate a little more in the present moment. When did you start? Because I did not know this is all news to me. It was a couple of weeks ago, and I'm on a low dosage. So I wanted to have a few, I wanted to see if I was going to stick with it before I went public with any sort of declaration. And now, like, this is a thing that is clearly, it feels like it's working for me, so I'm going to keep it going.

I think that people, when people are, you know, speak ill. these things. I think it is kind of anti-science and anti-medication and it's weird to me that people are... I mean, they've been around for a lot longer than people know because the people with diabetes have used some form of these drugs for, you know, like close to 20 years now. You know what I mean? It's not like a crazy...

Look, it doesn't solve everything for me, but I think there's weeks where I'm like, man, I feel so much more... I feel so much better, like, mentally, and I think things are more clear than I did before I started, which you knew I was having a really, really, rough time. So I think that there's a lot of benefits that they're still figuring out from these drugs. I was just talking to my barber

today about it. I got a haircut. Look it sharp. Again, he kind of... He's a line-up too on the beard. I got a lineup on the beard. He, so I well, no one knows who my barber is, but he started, I was saying... It's Sweeney Todd, right? It is Sweeney Todd. Which, so every time I get out of there just a lot with my head attached,

I'm happy about it. But the butcher of Fleet Street should probably be eating fewer people, so it's good that he's on on this drug. Yeah. I wish the drug he lays off the food and also lays off cutting my...

I wanted it more trimmed up. He kind of... I'll make it nice and trim for you. What did you want trimmed? Did the top? Do you ever go to get a haircut? You're like, they just didn't cut my hair enough.

Do you ever get that? I think you look good. Okay, all right. It's a good length for you. I think you're a little self-conscious because of your hair line, but I think it's a good length for you. Well, I wasn't thinking about that now.

You're looking great. Oh, thank you. That's very... Well, why, you look great... Heather was mentioning your skin is glowing. That's very... Yes, and I think, I think... Well, there's so many benefits I was saying from these drugs. I'm not trying to say, like, if you think...

If you have, you know, some elements that, you know, can be treated by these drugs, I always think it's worth it to try. Yeah, it's worth investigating. I mean, like, we were... We shared a thing in the group chat of, like, knowing people that have dealt with chronic migraine that just, like, it's weirdly worked for people with migraines as well. It's such a strange... It's like a, it's such a, the effect it's had on my overall health has been, like, the closest thing analog you can think of is when I'd have really bad asthma and, you know,

mostly as a kid, but sometimes as an adult and I'd get in prescription steroids. And just like the transformative feeling of like, oh my God, I'm going to these steroids, it's just like a fucking wonder drug. I don't know what the fuck this thing is doing to me exactly, but everything seems positive. So much so that I'm sure in five years my eyes are going to fall out of my head. Sure. But for now, I'm enjoying the ride. There'll be some new medication that can get them back in there, I'm sure.

You're an eye regrower. Forks. You know, Nick, in all the times that you've talked about tying one off, I'm kind of bummed that back in when I was drinking, that we weren't drinking buddies. Well, you know what it was is like because I lived on the other side of town, I drove. I don't drink and drive. And so I just be like, come on. No, I'll leave that to Mitch. fucking coward shit over there.

No, I would come sometimes like have like a beer or two after, but I'm not gonna stay in like closed down birds after a UCB show, as fun as that would be. Right, right. Yes, no, the same, look, I've, I've noticed that you can imbibe on some trips if you catch my drift.

He likes, he likes his, he likes you. We like to, hey, we like to party. We all like to party. If you catch my drift, there was nothing to catch my bag. We got you. I said it earlier. I mean, by the way, I've never, in my experience, that's never, I've never seen a problem that you have with it, but I know that's, but I know you like to have some drinks. And I know that these drugs also, they, for people who have some addiction issues, they've been very helpful.

Yeah. And again, these are off-label uses. And so it's just, I'm technically prescribed it because of my weight problem, which is, I guess, weight problem, whatever. Like, like, I shouldn't characterize it like that. Sure. Because I'm, I'm in wherever the fucking BMI chart is, uh, which is totally arbitrary. in terms of, you know, body weight to height ratio enough to qualify for it. But it's, yeah, it's less about that for me. Have you, how have you been with, have you felt nauseous at all? Or, like, what's been your reaction to it so far? Obviously, the benefit sounds great. Yeah, the weirdest thing I've had is, um, hotter loads.

That would, that would, that could do it. Physically? Yeah, just like, just like hot. Just like hot lava. You put a Kleenex on it, the Kleenex just lights up on fire. It's like an alien just burning through the table. It works out like a blaster shot in the car floor. It just keeps going.

Speaking of Lodes, Kurt Loder, 81 today. Happy birthday. 81 years young to Kurt Loder. That's his last name because his family invented jacking off. Yeah, I think so. It's just like if you were a barrel maker, you'd get last name Cooper. I think the No, to answer your honest question seriously,

the one thing I've experienced is like acid reflux Has been like on the upstream. Oh yeah, that will happen. And that's been really weird. Even when I'm like not eating that I'm just like, oh, I'm just getting acid reflux out of an hour. So I can figure out the gurd. I honestly think that you're with the job you have,

which I mean, I wouldn't classify doughboys as a job, I guess. But as one of the jobs you have. Right. with doughboys, being on something like that might not be that bad of a thing. We always feel like we have to eat more and more food and it's like good to be like, oh, I can't physically do that. And also I don't want to. It's not like, oh, I want to fucking eat this.

I just like, all right, I'm done. Which is just, again, just very weird for someone who's had a very bad relationship with food and alcohol for, you know, my entire adult life. We both have that clean the plate sort of thing. Oh, yeah. Ingrained in my head. Yeah, yeah. I'm on my fifth month of a GLP.

Oh my God, that rules. Yeah. I was prescribed it because the medication I'm on post cancer, my type of cancer was hormonal based. So in order to treat and prevent any future recurrence of that cancer, they had to kill every hormone in my body, like no more hormones of any kind. And the side effect of that is extreme metabolism changes. and also your joints all function on hormones. Like the reason your joints have liquid in them is hormonal. So GLP's treat both of those problems.

They treat metabolism changes. They also treat joint problems. So I was put on a GLP as a counterweight to the cancer meds. So I think when people are talking about, like when you see like people tweeting about it or something, they're so, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're. They're so, they haven't contextualized literally anything. And they're toxic about it. And it's, and it's, it's been such that this is the first moment I've said it publicly because I'm scared of being interrogated online about choices that I made privately with my doctor,

et cetera, et cetera. But I, you know, it was inspiring hearing you guys talk about it. And I was like, oh, fuck it. I'm going to die someday. Who cares? I'll just say it too. And I'm obviously not on one, but it sounds like you guys having a great thing. I love it.

That's very brave of you to share. Yeah, that's not brave. It's not brave. It's the same. You guys said those words. You said me getting... You're all being brave. No, we're not fucking brave.

Also, you are brave for what you went through. That's, that you are brave. That's also not brave. No, it is. It is. It is. You also characterized me getting a Vong tattoo as brave. No, I said it was heroic.

Yes. That's different. I think it's horny. It's definitely horny. Horny. Yeah. Well, I love that that's great news. Are you taking,

wax, are you on the pill? Are you on the pill? Oral, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm on the needle, the regular needle. Same, yeah, me too. Wild couple of first, the first two times or three times you do it, you're like, this is insane.

I'm allowed to do this. It's crazy. Like, you're just allowed to do it. do it in your house is nuts. I feel the same way. And nobody, there's no video where they just send it to you and they're just like, put it in. And you're like, the needle? Someone I know is on it and they, and they had to, they came over and they, they walked me

through it basically of like, it doesn't, it does not give you a lot of information at all. There's less instructions on a needle sent to your house than on like a COVID test. Yeah. Like the COVID test has like photos and everything. Like the needle is just like in a little. loose bag with like a little vial of stuff and it's just like go for it. Yeah and the little swabs

and I was like am I supposed to swab my skin and it's like no you're not even supposed to swab your skin you're supposed to swab the I mean I don't think it matters but there's like so much stuff that I just had no I had no idea about but there's so many benefits I mean like this this is the thing is like we're lucky to be alive when they're I mean not lucky in the way that a lot of this medication should be free for everyone sure Especially, Heather, for you, that medication should be free. But, uh...

Come on, you're going to pay more. That's fine with me. But I love it, Wags. I'm happy for you. Yeah, thank you for saying. That's great. That's great. It's great to have that candid discussion with my friends about it.

And you look good. You look good. Okay. That's what I was fishing for. No, you, I feel like you, in the last year or so, the thirst comments have gone up. Oh, 100%. I would agree with it. People are like, why is this looking good?

Wow, okay. I did lose a bunch of weight. Is this on the get, the get, I've noticed it in the get, yeah, they're not afraid to tell you who's looking good. Do you're over there. There is thirst comments, but I think it is about being just actual thirst. Yeah, I want water. I need, I'm hungry. Bring back surge.

The second you cut your hair short, the people online went nuts. It's honestly gotten out of hand. Yeah. Okay, well, just, you can block people. We have, we block people from the, from some things. Yeah. I've been blocked Hey, you want to hear people go real silent?

How about the thirst comments for me? People love Mitch, people love Mitch. Fucking silence. It's more will Mitch come fuck my wife first? And the answer is yes. Yeah, the answer is yes. Yeah, that's what the sort of second leg of the tour is this year, right?

Yeah. Just mail us your house keys. We'll be on our wife. Be nervously calling Carl. I need help. Carl, we're going to have fun on this tour. We're going to have a blast. Yeah, we're going to have a good time.

You guys get to hang out with Carl? What's better than that? I mean, not much, honestly. Yeah, he's the best. Yeah. We're going to be in an Airbnb for a couple days. I mean, this is a nightmare. We'll get it all sort of.

We don't need to get into logistics. Amelia hasn't, well, we have one already. We have an Airbnb. It's happening. But she's never seen, she's never seen Gremlin. So we've got to check Gremlins off the list on this tour. Oh, apparently. the assembly cut of Gremlins just was leaked or premiered.

And it's two and a half hours long. It's like almost a full extra hour of Gremlin's footage. Yeah. Let's find that shit on Plex or wherever the fuck. I mean, yeah, I think Joe Dante like they did. You have a DHS copy or something. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Yeah, he did and he did like a Q&A and stuff about it just this last week in L.A. All right. We get officially get our guests in here. Okay, all right. I'm going to hit him with a drop. Sorry. Oh, wow. I forgot where we were.

Okay. Here comes a drop. Ready? The tiggle. Howdy-Hound. Challenger's approach. Everyone is here. Mario.

Gay breast. My Gantfer. Kirby. Cidaro. Nangle. Two raccoons having sex. Carl. Tart!

Mario Codoo. Dato. Tony Sopranos. Big Mac. Mac Attack. Snack or Wack. Armin and Jack and Bugame. Luigi.

Here's Luigi saying, I'm a star. I'm a star. I'm a big, bright, shining star. Hey, our old buddy Mark Wahlberg. At the end of Boogie Nights, which he's now disowned. Yeah. His best movie. Well, I think it's actually second now with a Paul Walter Houser, a condom salesman movie.

Balls. That's your number one? My number one is Balls of Fury or whatever the fuck. It's impossible to know what it's called. And I think I might never know, actually. Balls Out or Balls Up? I think it's Balls Out. I think it's Balls Out.

I think it's balls and cock. Staring two very Christian men. Yeah. It's balls up. Balls up. Got it. We may never know. We may never,

it might be balls up, but we may never know. Balls up. God bless. God bless. A great, this just made me think of McGonagall's Pub in Boston, Dorchester.

McGonagall's Pub, L.D. loved it. I went there with my buddy, Colin Maxxie. You're going to go. It's a great. They have a spice bag, which is like curry fries basically.

Oh, that's cool. And I remembered it because it's not far away from where Mark Wahlberg beat that man. Oh, yeah. That's how I remembered the whole thing. And you sort of have like a, you have, you have, you have your Google Maps. I got the city to put a plaque there. I would love to bring some of those spice fries to at least on all guy eat, so I'll get some to go. Jesus.

Hell yeah. Oh, I'm going to read the email. Yes. That's what I have to do. Also, as I'm doing that, one of our guests had a very funny thing about talking about me being Robocop. Or coming back as a Robocop character. We'll get into it.

All right, we'll get into it. We'll make sure we bring that back up. I just said it was too funny to, it was very funny. Here's a 28-second Nintendo-inspired drop. Thanks for all the laughs. Matt Portner. Thanks, Matt. Wow, thanks, Matt.

Thanks, Matt. And, you know, that drop included. me saying everyone is here and everyone is here indeed. Admire our guest today, my co-hosts from our video game podcast get played. Matt Upadaka, Heather Ann Campbell. Wow. Are you okay? What?

Why? What an entrance. I felt like you were looking at me like you were about to say something specifically to me. No, I thought you were going to say hello everyone. Oh, no, I should have said that. I don't know what the rules are. You can do your thing. Do your thing.

Hello everyone. Hello everyone. I said it. You don't crazy? No, I'm fine. Okay. Do I look distressed? No, you look great.

I'm distressed. No, no, no. You look great. You look super fashionable, as always. You're wearing your Zeon Forces sweatshirt. No, everyone looks great. We all look great. What's the state of the pod?

How are you guys doing? Because on our side, not doing too good over here. Well, no. Is that true? You guys are doing great. We're struggling. We're in a, we're in a tough stretch of, of, I mean, you guys must be in a similar thing of, What?

We're banking quite a bit. We're banking some extra episodes. Oh, I see. Yeah, we did do like a big chunky, like quadruple. No, pentapel. We did five last. We did five in a row. Last week.

Yeah, and it was, that was a bit of a too many. So you did seven pods last, with dough boys? I'm doing five this week. Jesus. Three doughboys episodes, two get played. We did eight last week. We did two live shows and a studio episode. Oh, right.

We don't typically. We don't typically bank too far ahead, though, because, like, I feel like sometimes we're like, oh, like the video game stuff is more current than food more often than not. So we're, like, we'll record usually for the next week release. But, like, I like having some in the chamber. We can bank some, it's easier for us to bank for our Patreon. Yes. Tensions are high over Doe Boys' verse. They're high over here.

And I think part of it is that we're trying to, you know, we're trying to make it go, make it all work by ourselves here with all the, headgum staff on vacation. That is true. I shouldn't say on vacation. They're working. They're on a working trip. They're working in clubs in Miami. Their corporate retreat to Miami.

They're mid-trust fall right now. You have to give them the respect they deserve. But only one of them is not an actor. We were hoping, Rochelle Chen, ranch, our producer, could join us for this record so it could be the true podcast crossover. Unfortunately, she has been taken. She is being forced to be part of this Miami retreat. Yeah, she got Blackback.

by some headgum hong. Does Walberg have the, he has the hog, right? He has the prosthetic hawk. He has the prosthetic. Oh, you mean like, does he still have it? Yeah, I think, I don't know. He turns back on the movie, so.

He should get rid of it. If he doesn't respect his work, he should get rid of it. I agree with that. Give it to us. Give it to us. Give it to us. Yeah. Give it to us.

Play it in the tableau. YouTube would probably take that down. The headgums in the world of paint, speaking of Mark Wahlberg, They're in the pain and gain land. They're down there. They're hopefully having a good team building exercise over there in Miami. My understanding, you know, we're still recording here. But I hope they enjoy their much deserved break.

My understanding, Mitch, the breakdown is that Do Boys is paying for the hotel rooms and get played is paying for the bottle service. So that's nice. It's like a dock the highway, whichever our own section of it that we're contributing to. I hope they got bottle service. What if we all went in on a high school? That could be kind of fun. That would be pretty fun.

The Do Boys Get Played stretch of highway. I forgot that he could do it. We should do it. We should adopt a highway. I'd love to. It would also be funny to buy it in Miami. The call, how fast can we get it up while we're over there? Speaking of trips, we got to talk about, we have not talked about this on Doe Boys.

We talked about it quite a bit over on Get Played. Yes. But we all went to Japan for the podcast for Get Played. This is the thing Mitch encouraged me to do. So, you know, I was hesitant to do it. It was part of the reason to do it. I was also mad at it. I had told Nick, I was like, we should go to Japan for doughboys.

I said this like years ago. Yeah. And he was like, he was in his response was like, take your own vacation, buddy. It was kind of like what his response was. Reasonable thing to say. And I was like, I was like, okay, but I think it would be fun to do something like that. I've been worried about you this week. I was, I was going to bring us up.

I was, we were texting with Griffin and David. And I wrote, Weiger hates my ass lately. That's what I wrote. And I said, it's not my fault. We started a business together, which is also true. And then Griffin said the podcast story, which is also true. And then Wives you very nicely said, I love you, buddy.

And then you did give a glimpse to you're leaving the house at 8 and you're getting home at 11. That's a long. That's my day was yesterday. It was a bit of a... Those long days. I love you. I love you, too, even though I do hate you a lot of the time. And this is kind of a situation where I did hate him.

I wanted to go to Japan. And then he told... I don't think we would have been mad if you came, too. We would have loved to have. I mean, I would have... Well, whigs. You could have come. I could have come.

What the fuck are you talking about? I'll strangle you. I don't think Universal would have paid for your travel and accommodations, but, you know, you probably could have gone. We could have paid... Doughboys could have paid the way. Yeah, we'll talk about it. You guys got snuggled? I will say, having been there, we could have snuggled.

Having been there... Part of our rooms had two beds. It's true. Every room was big enough for two. Having been there, Mitch, I will say, you know what's the thing I like to say the least, you were right. If we could go to Japan and we could get some good doughboys-related content out of it. My whole thing is that is the travel I was always like, well, we can't do a live show there. We're not going to draw a crowd in Japan.

But what we could do is I think I can handle the flight again. I didn't. I didn't get shranked just in case. Yeah, I'm fine to get tranked. them. But like, like, there's the chain restaurants there alone, there's a lot to talk about. And I guess we could talk about our experience because we went to, Heather,

you took us to 7-Eleven. Oh, which in Japan, from what I've understood, it's like a completely different experience than they, in it, they're well-regarded. I can eat lunch five days a week at 7-Eleven in Japan. Yeah, both 7-Eleven and Family Mart and Lawson are all, like,

a triumvirate of fantastic convenience stores. And it's not, like, Well, here it's like, if you're eating at 7-Eleven, it's the last choice you want to make or the drunkest one. And there it's like, you know, it would be convenient as if I stopped somewhere in between this location and the next and got a decent piece of food. Like, that's convenient. Yeah. Yeah.

And that's, that is what it should be. Yeah. The much touted egg salad sandwich, and I had one from Family Mart as well, which was also good. But the one from 7-Eleven was an absolute knockout. I was like, I had high expectations for it. And I was like, I can't believe all fucking good this. We waited on the Shinkansen. Yeah.

And I was on the time of my life. We got that. We got that. And then we also got salmon onigiri. Yes. And just the idea of the idea of getting an egg product or a fish product from a 7-Eleven in the United States is a fucking night. Yeah, that's insane. That's insane.

But it was like, it was one of my favorite meals of the chip. It was wonderful. Yeah. You also got like a fresh fruit smoothie. Oh yeah, I got a fresh fruit smoothie. Oh, wait, I think I saw it. Was that the video that you did? Was there like a machine?

There was a machine and like you like it's. That was me. What's that? That was me. I made your smoothie. Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no.

I like handed it to like this like robot that like mixed it for me. That was, wait a minute. And he was like Robocop, but he had, but his dick was still flash. We should get back to that riff. Oh, yeah. Good. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. How do we get to that? How do we get to a robocop? Oh, we were saying stew came back as like a robocop. Stu came back as a robocop. And then I think was it Heather who was like when only your dick is fleshed? Yeah, steal from head to toe.

Full human penis hanging out of the mouth. Which I was saying would just be some sort of embarrassment that they're putting me through, some sort of ritual. Truly insult to injury. Like you're already a robocop. We have the nine-inch robot dick right here. We can attach it. It even has more nerve ending.

Nah, I can't believe in that one. The smoothie was great. Stop looking. You are under arrest. Stop looking at me. There was a smoothie that I wanted to get, though, that I wasn't able to track down popular flavor. It was like pineapple and spinach, because I feel like on a trip like that,

you can find yourself in a green vegetable deficit. That was a little bit. The food there was universally spectacular, but it was oddly hard to find vegetables at times. So I was like hoping for that one, but I just got like a strawberry banana one and it was like one of the better smoothies I've ever had. It was great. That's wild. I just want to say this, two things. One I said, I did say to you, if you don't go to Japan, I will be the most mad at you. That's what I said to you. Like, if you don't take this opportunity, I'll be really mad at you. As I hope you guys would also have been mad at you. No. We were actually, we were really nice to him.

They were too nice. Yeah, we were like, we basically were like, hey, like, I think this would be cool. We think you would like it if you came, but if you don't want to come, that's totally, totally fine with us. But you guys have traveled a lot together, not internationally, of course. We have. This was your first group. This was our first group outing, our first travel together, I would say.

We've only had, like, dinner out like four times. Yeah, yeah. We do the show. we have fun doing the show. We have our meals in between the show. We're friends. We're friends. Yeah, of course.

But traveling with people. I'm sorry, this sounded pretty pathetic when you said it. We were friends. And they kind of ignored you. It's probably doing the show with me, right? I remembered he paid me to agree, so I had to say yes. And then immediately had told me they're my friends. That's actually not okay.

But, like, yeah, that was our first time traveling together, and we spent every day and every hour together, basically, like, ate all over. Jumping in the deep end of traveling with wives. Almost every meal together. Almost every meal together. But I felt like at the end of it, you were saying this too, it felt strange not to be with each other afterward. Oh, wow.

We had such a nice time. It was wonderful, wonderful harmonious experience. It felt super weird, not literally being around them all the time. Yeah. Which also was in itself a weird feeling because, like, I'm very comfortable being alone. Me too. So to feel a vacuum felt like unusual? Sure, yeah.

You didn't have to say me too. We understood. Because going into it, too, I was kind of like, oh, you know, there might need to be like, I might need to see if there's things I might want to go do. If, like, if anybody needs, like, their own downtime. But we all. We were getting updates on the doughboys text in Wags was being very, very active. And also, almost to the point that I did, like, I mean, Susser and I were making fun of you on a side.

text you because because Weiger was like, was like, Mitch, you would hate it. There's no trash. You have to travel your trash. And also you have to be very punctual here. And then Susser was like, Wiger, the world traveler now. He's making fun of you on another

which I agree with him. You added you would hate it. I was just saying that like these are culture shocks. I didn't say you would hate it. You said something like Mitch, it would be tough for you or something like. There was a sexual thing would be. You think Mitch is just throwing trash everywhere? No, I don't think the trash thing was. The trash

was not what they're referring. Which Chankton did back I was talking Japan with Chankton who he loves Japan and his wife is half Japanese I believe but he was just like there is he's like there's a weird thing and I was like no trash he's like yeah there's no there really

is like no place to throw away trash and he's like you just have a backpack or whatever and you keep you know whatever you whatever garbage you have you take with you and you throw away at the end of the day you're walking around like a trash can Santa Claus I'm holding up my Uniclo bag which I got in Japan because my other bag, my bagu broke,

the strap broke. You were with me when that happened. Devastating. But having this bad boy, I just, like, would stick a little plastic baggy in here, and then any trash would just go, it was like the fucking easiest solve in the world. The thing that becomes difficult is cups.

Like, if you buy, like, the smoothie, I was carrying around that empty cups for a long time. And the other thing is they don't have, because I'm a refillable water bottle guy. I got my Yeti right here. And it's not like easy to fill up a water bottle. Apparently, though, that's my shortcoming because at the convenience stores, there is water stations. Wait, really?

Yeah, that was a me deficit. No, it's not a U-deficit. Not a country deficit. Not your responsibility to solve that. If you can go to Japan with Heather Ann Campbell, you should take the opportunity. I was going to say, you were probably a great, it sounded like you were nailing everything from what I ever said. I go frequently. That's my first of three trips this year that I'll be going to Japan.

and yeah, I mean, I really love it there. If the shit hits the fan here, like, for real, I've thought, I mean, they've made it a lot harder for foreign workers to stay in the country recently as, you know, the entire world sort of lurches to the right. But there are opportunities still, and I don't know, it seems like backup plan number two. Yeah. Amsterdam first, Japan second. I think sadly I'm going down with the ship, too.

Not, not, it's just out of pure laziness. Yeah. And I just go to die here, I guess. Sir, there's plenty of boats. There's plenty of boats. I've packed my stuff. I'm good. There's life boats four and a half.

The band's pretty good. Yeah. You're a guy who would go down on the Titanic. I'm enlisted. You go down on anything. Sign up for the fucking water. Here we go. Wait. You're going downstairs on the Titanic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we were in Japan, and speaking of having Heather as a guide, you know, we, we, we ended up at, they put us up in great accommodations in Kyoto.

In Tokyo, we stayed at a hotel, and this is a place that I won't docks, but the breakfast buffet at the Kyoto Hotel was like the best breakfast buffet ever had in my life until we went to that second hotel we were staying in in Tokyo. And the second one, like, first of all, it was just like the level of quality of food. Like, they didn't even have a tray of eggs. Every egg dish, even scrambled eggs were made fresh, were made to order. But the thing that we really fixated on is there was a coffee maker. There's a coffee machine that was self-serve. And they had mugs that you could have to stay. But they also had a bunch of to-go cups.

And there was a sign that was like the kindest sign any of us ever seen, you could take coffee to your room. That's what the sign said. You could take coffee to your room. You could take coffee to your room. That is a very nice sign. It's very nice. We loved it because we also couldn't figure out the tone with which it was being said. Right.

You kind of like, you could take coffee to your room. Yeah. Is it a challenge? Yeah. Is it a warning? You could take coffee to the room, but kind of like don't do it maybe. Yeah. Well, because, yeah, if it's can, you can take coffee to your room, then it's like it's okay.

Yes. Right. But could is mischief. Right. You could take coffee room. Think about it, huh? Want to have a little fun. I did do it one time.

Yeah, I know you did it. I'm glad you did. And it was nice, but I kind of felt like I was being a little bit bad. Well, that's what the sign is for. Yeah, was there any repercussions from taking your coffee to the room? Yeah, there were armed agents in my room that tased me immediately. Speaking of coffee, you also took us to a coffee house, and that was like an incredible pour we had there. I did spill, but it was fine.

Yeah, I brought them to Glitch Coffee. I'll always shout it out. Glitch has, when you walk in, has about 20 different coffee beans in these sort of like smelling caraffs. And you choose your coffee beans based on the kind of roasting or fermentation you want the beans to have. Oh, man. And so you'll pick up some and they'll be like, this one is fermented with strawberries and mango. You're like, what the fuck does that mean? It's coffee.

And you lift up the sort of decanter. and it smells like a strawberry milkshake. And you're like, okay, but that doesn't translate to the coffee, does it? And then you have a cup of coffee with no flavoring in it, no, you know, cold foam bullshit. Just a cup of coffee. And it tastes like a strawberry milkshake. That's wild. And you're like, this is a very unusual experience.

Yes. They had a flight of coffee. They had three cups each. I got two. I got two because I knew three was going to be two. I thought three was going to be too many. but we also didn't realize they were full-sized cups. We thought they'd be flight-sized cups,

like maybe like shot glasses of coffee or something. But they're just three-fold. Three full cups of that comedy. Yeah, Nick mentioned it, but can you believe it? He spilled water there. How much spillage happened on the entire trip? Was that the only spill? You know, for how long we were with him, it wasn't that much,

but I would say that the spills that did happen were pretty tough. There was a bar we went to on our final night there that had a sign on the wall that said, if you spill your drink, you buy shots for everyone in the bar. Oh, man. And it was like the three of us just lasered to that sign. And then- Sweating, we have to get out of here.

In an act of hubris, I had Matt take my picture next to the sign, like, get a load of this. We go to another bar, which we had a great time at. We ended up hanging out there. It was the three of us. It was just a bunch of Japanese locals. We were chopping it up with them. They were having a blast. They loved us.

And then the bartender, who's slashing. owner whose name I can't pull right now. Masaco. Masaco. Massaco ruled. But we were just having a great time. It reached a point where I was like, we're having something to,

oh, this is a place that was called Adam Hartmother. Oh, right. He was named after a Pink Floyd album. Yeah. I was just like, let me buy shots for the bar. And I was like, okay, yeah, yeah. I do that.

But as I'm doing that, I gesture and I take, and my own beer I have in front of me, I knock over and not only empty, but shatter. And it was fucking humiliating. Because I'd made it through the whole trip and I'd had to...

So you did the thing that you would have had to do in the other bar. Yes. But I did that in advance. And then I, like, I just ended up shattering a glass

and spilling it everywhere. And there's a sort of thing where I was, like, apologizing so much. I was like, like, so we must be like, oh,

come in a sec. Yeah. To the point where they were like, it's okay. It's just like... Yeah. Masako very sweetly said, I do this all the time

and we have to believe her because she drank an entire bottle of wine herself while we were there. She ruled. I love her. He was awesome. She was really, really great. Now, with Jack Black and Chris Pratt, did you tell them that you had met before when you interviewed them or no?

They were so, this was such a whirlwind sort of thing where I was like, we have basically 30 seconds of interaction before we start, like, before we just start filming. And so I don't, like, some, the best use of time seem to be more like, here's what our show is as opposed to like, hey, you might remember when you did Tomorrow War. my co-host Mike Mitchell was in it with you and having him be kind of like

Oh yeah, yeah, I remember Having him lie about remembering that interview I think it's a perfect use of your time Might have been, I don't know I made a call I thought that part of the show went well Yeah, they were everybody The stars are just like us

They were just like us They were being very nice And they, you know, they seemed to They were very polite about their time on the show Everybody was really nice I haven't seen Super Mario Galaxy movie yet. I am, I would just, I go to movies mostly alone now. So I feel like, like a peak children's movie when it comes on.

I don't like to just go in their solo or I go very late. Do you prefer to go alone? I mean, I like to go with friends sometimes. If you feel like you want to, buddy, I'll go with you. That's very sweet. Because it is, I always think it's a tougher one to also be like, hey, you want to go see a movie, you want to see the Super Mario Galaxy movie. It's either people who have. I'm your guy.

I'll go. All right, great. Because it's people who you either have children or other guys like movies. Like, what are you talking about? I saw every Sonic movie first screening opening day, and it was me and a bunch of dads and their children, basically. I'm into it. Sonic was my final film at Arklight. Wow.

Wow. Where it closes, February 2020. And I saw it, and then I went to New York to visit my then girlfriend, now wife. And, yeah, it was my final ticket. up at the arc light theaters, Sonic the Hedgehog. I mean, if you, like, plug the thing back in, it would probably still say Sonic. Or, like, the sign probably will still say,

there's probably promotional shit in there. Which, by the way, we've said it on here before, but whoever's the next mayor or whatever, like, they need, people, someone should run on just opening the arc light. Yeah, that's who I'll vote for. I mean, look, I'll care about other stuff, too. And it's not the most important issue, of course. But I'm saying, like,

it's in the top three, probably. I'm thinking of like the progressive people who will already have mostly good ideas. I'm just also saying, hey, I'm going to reopen the arc light. Just say it, even. Just say it. Just do it. Just reopen the damn arc. I guess the center of afto, arc light is dead.

Yeah. The brand is dead. But they, but the historic theater is there and it's just sitting vacant. This is movie town. Look, look, it is movie town, but also like we're in just an economy and also in a metropolitan area where real estate is at a premium. and so like for any property to be to be vacant for a long stretch, which ends up happening because they just decide it's more profitable to have no one live there. It's profitable because it's also a historical landmark.

The dome is a historical landmark. So what they try to do is have a fall into disrepair. And then when the dome collapses, they'll be like, this is a knockdown and now we get all of this area. And we can build even more condos and we don't have to care about the Arclight Dome. They're waiting for it to just fall apart. It's fucked up. The owners of the Cinder, the Dome,

posted, they're having a public hearing on May 12th about what to do with it. So you should go. What to do with it. It's a theater. Movies on it. Let people go see movies. I'm sad that there's no, I would love to. I send it to you on TikTok.

Okay. Let's go. You got to check your TikTok messages. That's where the good stuff is. Are you on TikTok? Yeah. I am on TikTok. Wow.

What do you do on there? There's some TikTok exclusive content I make with Amelia. Yeah. Wow. Okay. The video of me saying, Dad, what we were like in the 2010s or whatever when I'm doing this.

And then it's January 6th. That was a, Amelia helped me make that. Were the common super MAGA on TikTok? Yes, I've been getting a lot of MAGA followers. That's great. That's awesome. They're in charge.

So much on that I did put in the thing. Well, there was also like people being like, burn in hell, dude. And then so I, like, at first, but then I was like, I don't like Donald Trump. And this is just a joke. Like I put that up. Yeah.

And I don't know if it's hell. And then also that makes it less funny. Yeah. And then that brought you to say what? You said, what is dead? Satire's dead. Oh, satire's dead. Yes.

It's been dead, baby. That's true. Dead and loving it. Yeah. Have you ever said Dracula dead and loving it? I'll put it on the list. I'm sure it holds up great. Yeah.

We were talking about this. The new scary movie, Doofy is just back. Doofy's back? Yeah, but you don't want Doofy there? I do, but I'm just also like... Oh, oh, oh, right, right, right, right. Doofy, yes, of course. Of all the things that have aged poorly in the scary movie franchise,

yes, doofy is maybe not someone who, I guess, just like, whatever, anything goes to Trump's second term. So here we go. You can have Doofy. I'm not supporting a lot of what's going on in the scary movie, the new scary movie, but God knows I'm going to be there day one. I am very excited to see this, even if it's a... piece of shit. Look, yeah. They dropped a preview with Keenan as Michael.

I'm seated. I'm going. We were saying that the bit about this is a bit, the bit is that Keenan moonwalks backwards and falls down the stairs and we were like, this is a bit that you could have done 40 years ago. It's so crazy. I have to see what's going on with it. When did he first moonwalk? Was it before, after what was it like 1990 or something? 80s. Yeah, the 80s.

80s. In 1980s. It was Billy Jean, wasn't it? Yeah, and it was, it was, oh, yes, that's right. On stage. It was the 50th, we know this because we saw Michael. We saw Michael. It was the 50th anniversary of Motown where he did that on, right?

Yeah, yeah. And so whenever that was in the 80s, that's how long ago that was. And this is this bit. That's all there was to it. There was nothing else to the bit. It was just to tie it into the new release. They're like, look, this is how current we're doing it. But that's, I mean, that's, it is.

It's insane. Sherry O' Terry's character is getting the substance. It looks very fun. I mean, some of this stuff is going to be funny. It's going to be funny. And look, he's going to make me laugh. I'm just surprised he's just in it. Yeah, of course.

I'm going to say, look, I'm going to laugh at some of the bad stuff. We're going. We're going to see the new scary. Just like we saw Michael, we're not proud of going to either of these movies. I see films. I see stuff. Yeah. What do you want for me?

What is a, are you going to see the resurrection of the Christ? Yeah, of course I'll see that. They're playing it at my church, so I already going to see it. Can we adopt the stretch of highway where Mel Gibson got arrested? Yes, absolutely. That's the one. I saw an interview snippet on Twitter or whatever that was him describing how it's like an ultra-violent battle between devils and angels. And I was like, what? Like the whole whole.

thing with the first one was we're going to take the Bible story and like really be like this is it this is exactly what happens in the Bible but we're actually going to see it and then you're at the end you're like I feel like I'm going to puke forever this time he's just going to make up like

a part of the Bible like because that's not in the Bible yeah there's no first hand account of going down to hell with them yeah it's not like like seeing Christ fight devils is not part of it Jesus is the doom

God. It does sound kind of cool. In a way, it sounds kind of cool. Like he's going to have a sword, like some holy sword, and he's going to behead a devil. That's fucking cool. You're saying this like it's bad. No, I'm just astonished that it's probably going to happen. And it's going to be three and a half hours long.

He's going to call the devil sugar tits. Better than some of the other things I can call. Moon shadows. That's stretch where moon shadows us. That's what we'll adopt that highway. Yeah. We also went to some, wait, moon shadows burned down during the fires, didn't. What a bummer.

We went to a sushi place, Heather. Just again, speaking of your, you, like, curating this trip for us. This is a sushi place that you'd been to previously. It's an, oh, you'd never been. I'd never been there. There's an omacase place we went to for lunch. And it's a kind of thing of, like, I think you characterized it as, like, you expect a certain duration when you're at omicasse.

This was like two full hours of just eating. It was crazy. It was really, really intense. It was, was it sushi show saito? Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah. And it was, yeah, it was just a lunch. You know, you look for, we didn't have much of a window of time to really find restaurants

because it like all happened very rapidly, made this reservation for our lunch. I tapped out at what I thought was three pieces. of food before the end. Like I was like, I was like, we have to be winding down. I cannot physically eat any more fish. I'm so sorry. I was humiliated.

Like, I didn't want to reject the chef. I, you know, that's totally embarrassing thing to have to do. But I tapped out. And I did at least 13 work courses. Oh, my God. And I was like, oh, I'm so happy. I would have died if I had like kept pushing each round to like, oh, this will be the last piece.

This will be the last piece. But you at the end, they brought out extra fish. And they're like, you know, we also have these beautiful pieces of fish if you want to add any sushi. And you're like, I'm done. I'm so full. And Nick was like, I'm so full, but I'll have like three or four more. I was saying we were kind of like when Homer goes to hell and gets fed a bunch of donuts. We were so full, but we were so happy.

It was awesome. It was awesome. and they, like, they were like, they loved us. And it was, it was a six-seat counter. So, like, we were taking up half the restaurant and the other. And then there was a, there was a couple from China who was sitting there. And there was just the five of us dining. And so, like, it was just like, there was many chefs as there were diners.

And the quality of fish was just absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I said to them, I said, this is the best sushi I've ever had in my life. Yeah. We got to get you back there on the GLP ones. It's fucking, you won't, you won't be able to pull that shit again. Your fanny pack won't break from all the rappers, you stuff in there. I remember.

Or whatever the fuck. happened. He tried to fill it with more sushi. He became heavy. I remember I asked the guy, like the head chef there, who was awesome, how are you? Because he brought us ice creams, too.

There was a dessert course, and I said I wanted to try one of the sorbets, because I was like, I don't think dairy, with how full I am, would be a good idea. Because I also had to, I had to stop at one point

and go outside and stretch my back. I was in physical pain from how full I was, basically. Oh, my God. Because the chairs were really nice but not very comfortable. And then so I picked one of the sorbets, and then he brought me all three sorbets. And I ate them. They were really, really good.

But they were so good that I asked the guy, how are you so good at so many things? And he gave, like, an incredible answer, which is just like, oh, I just do a little bit every day, which I loved. I loved that so much. And then I said, I'm not good at anything. And he laughed at me. The That was so like the extra fish came after dessert, right? Am I correct about that?

It was sort of a tandem course where it was like You can get dessert but he's like I got some more fish if you guys want some more fish He brought out like nine different fish Yeah And then this was after again we'd get like 20 courses It was fucking insane And he had it and like there was like there must have been like a little fridge

Or some sort of cold drawer under the counter But he had like a box That the fish was like loose in that then the fish, the box goes in the fridge. And for some reason, I was captivated by this box. I was like, I got to know more about what's going on with this box. Yeah, the fish box is cool. The fish box.

Really cool. Yeah. It's really cool. And earlier we talked about the bar we went to in Golden Guy, which is this district of Japan, which is, you know, very tightly packed a bunch of bars that are, again, like, you know, oftentimes like six seat capacity. Yeah. Very small, but there's like hundreds of them.

Yeah. Used to be a pretty neat district now is, you know, post Instagram just overrun with tour. It's like a totally different experience. And I was like shocked because it's been many years since I went to the golden guy last. And the change was enormous. Like the change throughout Japan since I went for the first time 21 years ago. And it's just like the internet has terraformed the entire country. It's so wild.

It was really like, yeah, we kind of got the Bourbon Street experience. Matt and I did. But yeah, it used to be. And my mouthful brother, Nate Weiger was saying this. same thing that it used to be it used to be different but we was a bummer

yeah but we went to this other bar earlier Heather it's weird because the same problem doesn't seem to be happening here it's like I don't know why people aren't like going to like Indianapolis

and like really being like oh this is the place right strange yeah and we could and I have nothing against Indianapolis I'm a Midwest girl I like the Midwest and it seems like our country has the well

It seems like it should be able to do similar things. It's a beautiful country when you break it down. You want to see the Pacers? Yeah. I'd go see the Pacers. I would be fun to see the Pacers, but I'm just saying it seems like, I don't know, it seems like Japan has a lot going on. You're in Japan and you're like, oh, America fucking sucks. I already know America sucks, but it's just like really just crystallized.

It's clarified. And just like the lack of public infrastructure, the fact that services are getting worse while over there, everything is not just functional, but like nice. Like you'll go to subway stations that don't smell like piss, and then also like the trains are like showing up consistently and go where you need to go. Well, the first... No shit on the sidewalk? What are you going to do for a living?

That's so true. Amelia, this will get you here, though. The toilets... The endless fish. The toilets are fucking incredible. Every toilet is a totoe. It was just like, like, I felt like I had a chariot everywhere I want. I was like, this is unbelievable. Just like, like, the worst bathroom I went to in Japan was like the nice bathroom I would have been to the nicest restaurant in L.A.

There's one restaurant. Every toilet is a toto. It seems like an FDR promise or something. It really does. It's great. We could do that here. We could have high speed rail here. We're just choosing not to do it.

I also want to shout out because I talk about it a lot on GIF played. You know, Holland also, same thing. Like the public bathrooms aren't as notably incredible, but you go there and you're like, wait, the world could be nice? You know, like, the trains function, the trams function. Also, unlike Japan, there is an enormous bike infrastructure. And you're just like, oh, right, you could just invent a world where you biked everywhere. Like, in the 70s, that wasn't the case in Amsterdam.

They were like, hey, this city is becoming a city of cars. Buck this. and they literally tore up streets that had parking on them and made them into canals. So it's a question, I think, of yes, density, but also political will. And it's a shame that there's no place. Like, if Chicago did this, if Chicago was like, fuck it, we're going to become the Euro-Japanese city of America, not only would they get so much influx of tourist money because then people would go there to be like,

oh, I've gone to Chicago. It's so beautiful. And it is incredibly beautiful in Chicago. But if it also built up the infrastructure, the way that they already have, you know, the L there, they've already got all of the makings of it. All they have to do is somebody's got to step in like, you know, Chicago, Mom Donnie and be like,

we're going to make it cool here. Yeah. I it's it's like Chicago mom Donnie was one of my S&L audition characters Really really great character The the though so like but here we we And I mentioned this before it's the The approximation of a walkable neighborhood is like a Caruso

property. It's like going to the grove and the American economies outdoor malls that are very nice But it's like you're driving to this place and spending $20 on parking so that you can just have a spot You can walk around for a little bit and shop and like eat like eating an outdoor cafe That could just be everyday life. Can you imagine a bunch of happy Chicagoans if that? What a difference it would be? That was something that we noticed that Heather pointed out to me when we were walking around.

She was like, look at everybody while we're walking around. Everyone's happy as hell. It was like crazy. And I was just kind of like thinking about it. And then after a while I was like, oh, I think it's because everybody's basic human needs are being met. Like good food is not expensive? Right. Like even like the, like is an egg salad sandwich the healthiest food for you?

No. But it's also not poison. and it was like $3. It wasn't very expensive at all. So you could get like an affordable good meal for a good price and then just go about your day and feel happy and great. And everybody was so helpful everywhere he went. Yeah.

I could say that, imagine a bunch of happy Bostonians too. I'm not just picking on Chicago. No, of course. Like a, it would be funny to see a city transform like that. It's annoying. You're right that it is that thing of like, oh, we can do that and we just don't do it. And L.A. should do it. I mean, whatever.

It sucks. Heather's correct to die. political will because it's just like everything has been crushed by capital and just like no one no one is making money off of making public services in the 20 years i lived in l.A the city has got worse in many many ways like we're saying there's an empty there's a big empty structure where the arc light used to be it's just more and more stuff like that the one positive i can say ride the d they they the the d line has expanded it's expanded west so you can take that a new underground subway from um downtown all the way to you know a little i know i know i know i know

this is coming from me who we talk about come and shit or whatever all the time. For a public shirt, Ride the D a little too. I thought it was, I'm clenching my pearls a little bit here. They already had. So this is a thing that the L.A. MTA had is that they, they've been, like, all the different lines are named our letters. They used to be the colors and other letters. So like they had like ride the A shirt sort of for the A train, right the, write the E for the E line. Okay, all right.

There's a pattern. The D expands and they come out with like ride the D and is like, of course they snatched one of those up on day one. I snatched up a couple of them. I'm wearing that some bitch. But it's like, this is about the train. This is not some double entendre. You're the one making it weird. I saw a lady at Echo Park wearing one of those shirts the other day.

She was walking her kids and her dog. What about the ones that say suck the D? Yeah, we see you wearing that shirt a lot. Those are ones we're actually selling on birdfock.com. So check them out. We get some exclusive merch. Kinship did not want to participate in those. Should we just move doughboys over to Spencer?

Can we go to Spencer Gifts? I think that would be great. I think that's a good destination for us. Was there anything else we met from, like food-wise, from our Japanese experience? I mean, all the food was just, is also good. Miles better than anything we have ever eaten here. I guess the McDonald's we can touch on real quick. Yeah.

This is another fast food thing. Can I just say, again, I have another trip to Japan coming up right now, and I don't think it's still going to be there when I return. Right now they're doing a Gundam collaboration. in McDonald's at Japan. I sent you guys images of the bags. The fucking bags look gorgeous. They're doing like three special chicken sandwiches based on the heroes of the original 1970s Gundam show.

God damn it. God fucking damn it. We got the K-pop Demon Hunter's meal here. It didn't come with the card. It didn't come with the card. It didn't. It was a, the box was a huge box with barely anything.

anything in it. Right. Yeah. It's an enormous footprint of a box with just like the wreckage of French fries in one corner and like, like tossed chicken nuggets in the other corner. You shook the box when you got it though? Well, because it was like, oh my God, what a big box. It must be full of stuff.

It's like it's like a child's coffin where they didn't recover all the body. It's just like, there's just like one arm in there, part of a head. I don't even want to know what scenario this is or why you went there first. That's like something they would be on a things you shouldn't say a day calendar. The kid was probably an Iranian school. No, no, I don't like it. I don't like it either. That's what we're making a political.

You're making a political point. Yeah. We all knew you were. I just had to say that out loud. Fear. Yeah, horrible. I mean, hey, once again, highlight. how our country is a dog shit.

We're fucking spending money on our own military and funding the IDF. It's fucking sick. We just have to get this ballroom done. Yeah, yeah. As soon as the ballroom's done, it's going to be over. Are you talking about the headgun ballroom? Well, yeah, the headgun ballroom is nowhere near completed.

Actually, the headgun ballroom is an important priority for security's sake. Because where are we going to have the head gun ball? Right. Why would you... God damn it. Why would you build a bunker at the place that? everybody's going to try and, like, build the bunker off-site. That's a great call.

And why would you advertise that there's going to be a fucking bunker there? The bunker is garbage. They're not... It's funny that the bunker is. It is kind of funny the bunker is there. The evac is going to be so fast. Yeah. The bunker is like a big, it's a fake bullseye.

I wonder if it's even going to have anything in it. Because they're not going to be able to put anybody in there. He'll probably bury his relatives under it or something. Damn it. It is. In like White House down, the bunker would be under the white house. But like for, you know, for people who think the normal, it shouldn't be at, it shouldn't be there. I understand in like, at the sense of like, oh shit, the nukes are flying right now.

Get to the fucking bunker. Like, I understand that contingency. But yes, it's just like a thing of like, like, yeah, we're building the biggest, most glorious bunker ever. Like, why are we advertising this? I agree. Because it keeps people from talking about the Epstein files. True. Amelia, that's a great point.

I am. You got it. By the way, she deserves that. We got the Mandalorian and Grogu Meal yesterday, and Wags was very unimpressed with the box and everything it came in. I'm glad they put some effort.

This was last week's episode. And also we all hate Grogu. We did with our buddy Joe Wenger. We all hate Grogu? No, this is a Mitch. This is on an island here. It's Grogu. Which is the only one who dislikes Grogu.

I don't like Grogo. Yes. Oh my God, Heather. You just praised the heavens. I did. I don't like. Grogoo. You don't think he's cute at all.

No, it's not about cute. For me, it's canonical problems. Because if he's 50 years old... This is... I have a issue. I just said, but he's cute. This issue is... He's 50 years old and he's a baby.

And Yoda... That's what I was supposed to say. He's tripping over each other to fucking dump on me. It just implies, like the... Everything it implies about the life cycle of the species is very bizarre and also doesn't leave the right kind of space for when Yoda could have been a Jedi master at the height of the old republic. Like, it's, it, it, it, it, it, the math is all fucked up because baby Yoda is 50.

Yes. Like, if baby Yoda was 10, then I'd be like, um, okay. Yeah. It's all in service of the reveal in the pilot. What that is I think is a good reveal is, like, his target is 50 years old. He gets to the 50 year old target. It's a baby. It's like, oh, it's a baby Yoda.

They have it. But yes, you are correct, because the canonical implications are. So good for that one moment. It's a good moment, but canonical implications are, there's a domino effect there. Yeah, you could have the same effect of you as 20, right? Yeah. Yeah. Also, does baby, we said this yesterday, does Baby Yoda?

Does Grogu wear a diaper? Does Grogu wear a diaper? Or is he just, is nothing under that robe? Does he have gray pubs? That's a great question. Well, I think as a baby, he would not have any pubs. Well, yeah. But it's a different species, so I don't know.

Do we have any clarity? Can we look at Wikipedia and how, canonically how old Yoda is in Return to the Jedi or Empire Strikes Back. And also you might as well Google if Grogu has pubs or not. That would be helpful too. Maybe we get two laptops over there. Like I believe this episode airs after the movie has come out. So we'll have this answer.

But maybe the film ends with baby Yoda turning to Dindja Jaran and being like, train I must. And you're just like, oh, they have no adolescence. Like maybe that's like the life cycle they're going to? He leaps straight to it. Yeah. Jesus. He's like a butterfly emerging from Chrysalis.

He's like he has a caterpillar and then he has like kind of like a very quick larval stage. Larval of pupil stage. He's about 900 years old and Empire Strikes Back. Oh, because he's 900 years old. So he's 50 as a baby. But then he's very old at 900 years old. Yeah, but he's 100. So 50 doesn't make, but he's like an old man at 900 years old.

So if that's like 90, then middle age is like 500, 400, 400? Yeah, that's fucking weird though. It doesn't make sense. timeline-wise. It doesn't quite make sense. Because he's a baby at 50, which means he's a toddler at 100? Yes.

Not necessarily, but the aging could be in a different timeline. Why is he also, he's a baby? Why is he jumping around so much? The motherfucker likes to jump. He shouldn't be jumping. Do they mean toddler when they say baby? Because he walks and stuff, right? Yeah, he might be more of a toddler. So maybe he's more of a toddler at 50, and they're just saying

baby. He's very mobile. He's just not verbal. Yeah, it might be exponential. If his aging is exponential, if his aging is exponential, then it's weird and fine. But like, if this is as old as he, if he's helpless at 50 years old, then he will be. He puts in some, he puts in some work. But I don't know if he's helpless. He, like, he can't be, he won't be a 10 year old at a hundred.

Yeah. Right. Yes. Right. Yeah, I see what you're, I know what you're saying. That expedite, she's, she's in the pocket of big grogoo. She loves grogoos, by the way. Yeah.

There was a video of him at the Grove Snob. teasing. That was so cute. Who's your top green guy? Is it still Shrek? Shrek one, Grogu. You love... You're so weird to me that this cute Grogu works on you because, like I said,

you review human shit. It seems like you don't... How are those exclusive? I know they're not exclusive. I'm just saying it... It seems like the kind of saccharine cute shit you wouldn't care about... You wouldn't care about... Brogu works on me. She has a Grogu on her car.

Is it Sudecas that punches it in the face? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wonder for... that was his bit or if it was like scripted as such because it's such an insane thing. That is an insane choice. My wife has not seen any of the Mandalorian. Every time we see the preview for Mandalorian and Grogo, she was like, I have to see that.

I love him. I was like, there's a whole show about him. Do you want to see that? No interest at all. There's a really interesting demographic reveal by I think the official Star Wars account. this week, which was who watches, what each generation watches. And for Gen Z and the boomers, it's Mandelorean Grogu. So earliest part of life, oldest part of life.

Gen X and millennials watch and or, like, just in terms of like who's literally watching the shows. And then Gen Z watches Clone Wars. Yeah. That's a very... Nobody watched the Akelyte. Is that right? Nobody watches Ackleit, and none of them are watching.

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I'm not sure. Are you familiar with that at all? I have not had it. I think it's ketchupish. But you're a spaghetti fan. I love spaghetti. Yeah, spaghetti's great. Fucking love spaghetti. I love spaghetti as well. Yeah.

Well, we'll get into it. Also, by the way, wasn't it, was it Bob Chapic, but who was the guy who was, Bob Chapic, but who was the guy who went to Ithaca, the other. Oh, Iger. Iger. I wasn't he, what he saw, I said this in the last episode, but he saw Baby Yote and he's like, there's my billion dollar creation. Like, it is just so clearly. That made me want to die hearing that. It's the truth.

Get him out. Iger out. Whyger in. That's what we say. It's a regular, so Cocoaichi Banya is a regular. And you know he's going to do. He's bringing back the old splash mountain. That's what he's promised me.

Tiana's Bayou Adventurers out. You're going to bring it back. Captain Eo back in that little theater. Speaking of closed theaters, there's nothing there right now. Bring back the Captain Eo for crying out of wow. Captain Eo is a good show. Hey, I'm going to say this, bring back Stark Raving Dad. You're going to fucking, you're not going to put Stark Raving Dad in the Simpsons lineup.

Who the, what the fuck are you doing? The Simpsons Michael Jackson? episodes. Just because he talks, there's a lot of people who speak on Simpsons episodes. Sorry, Neil Campbell. Neil Campbell wrote an episode that's the Elon Musk episode. He had no part of this. It was the story he had to write.

But, like, Elon Musk is in an episode. So why the, like, why, I guess? Is there, I'm sure if Casey did a Simpsons, right? Can we look up if Tracy was on a Simpsons? Is Elon as big of a pedophile as Michael, I guess is the big question, which I'm guessing, probably. I think, well, Michael was quite a pedophile. I think Elon famously was told he wasn't welcome as a pet of all the idea. That's true.

No, yeah, he was trying to get in with Epstein. They were like, get this weird out of here. He likes it too much. I don't want to talk to this fucking guy. No, it looks like, it looks like Spacey has never voiced the Simpsons. Wow. Wow, I'm surprised, right? There's got to be some skeletons in the clock.

There's got to be some Simpsons voiceover actors who are better. I mean, Matt Graning was on the Epstein flight long. The Simpsons reference Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. Okay. They reference him. Well, that's fine. Did you see a movie while you're in Japan, by the way? We did, we saw, I mean, it was the Mario Galaxy movie.

Oh, you know, we should talk about this. You see movies, you said. You said, I see movies. I see movies. I know. You didn't have enough days. We didn't have enough days. We did see the Mario Galaxy movie, and this is a thing we can talk about, Mitch,

because you were mentioning that you're a, we know that you're a movie guy, and I also know that you're popcorn and soda guy. Yes. They have, the tray they had at the Japanese movie theater was just like a master's stroke of design. I love this. So imagine you've got your cup holder in between your seats, right? Yeah. But there's no place to store your popcorn.

When you've got your cup holder, you got to hold your popcorn on your thing. Yeah. What if you gave a tray that was a triangle, right? Yeah. And at the end of the triangle is a solid cup. You slide that into the cup holder. So now you have a popcorn holder on the end of your thing and you put your drink. behind it. It's fucking awesome. Does it swivel

swivel on your thing? The United States fucking sucks. When you order a popcorn, they just give it to you. And if it was the U.S., people would steal those or break them. Like, it was just like it would be like fucking, it would be completely unsustainable. I broke mine just to let him a taste of America?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right over my knee. Have you seen Sound of Freedom? Yeah, of course. All right, you do see movies. Okay, all right, you've proven it. You've proven. I went with my church. We bought out the theater. Cocoichi Banya, founded in January 1978, over 1,000 locations in Japan, 200

internationally. I would say this is a this is a thing. This is a regular dinner order for get played records. Yes. So we're often getting this. We're doing our double records. We're doing an episode.

We're getting, you know, some sort of dinner. Very often is Cocoichi Banya. And then we are, you're recording a second episode and being very sleepy, but feeling great. So much so has this become a staple

of our get-played records, and this is all courtesy of Heather, who is a Coco-Igibana evangelist, that we have a Coco-Ichi-Banya song we sing to the Yoshi's Island map theme, which is Coco-I-I-Banya, Coco-I-I-Bi-Banya, Coco-I-I-Bi-Banya,

Coco-I-Bi-Baniya. A lot of fun. Oh, yeah, I know that song. At the end of it, it clicked with me. I learned how to play that on piano and showed my piano teacher, and she was like, all right. By the way, this is as an adult, you're saying? Yeah, yeah.

All right, yeah, this was, this was recently. This is last year. I just want people to know. I learned it by ear. I thought that that was pretty good. We have some thought. The dough boys crew has some thoughts. The doughboys crew has some thoughts.

We think that there's been a gatekeeping here with Kokuichibania. Whoa, hold on. No gatekeeping. Maybe some girl bossing No gatekeeping Let me say this Cocoichi Banya I knew we were going to review when Get Played was able to get back

On to Do Boys So we're saving it for that review But also how often do we order This is a thing we were talking about with Emma How often do we order dinner and it's not for content? We sometimes order lunch or dinner though Sometimes but it's pretty rare I should say gatekeeping from you to be clear

Oh yeah we got Jersey mics We get Jersey mics in production meeting you're right Yeah once in a while we'll get like Jersey mics But most of the time the food is determined by the show. We're mad because we had a good time. You're mad? I don't think I ever said this. I think Ms. Just Lutz.

Amelia. Everybody hates Grogu's situation. Tell me you like Grogu and I'll say I'm mad. Fine. I like Grogu. I'm pissed. She hit the table. Look, I believe it.

Okay, that's, look. This place is great. I just didn't know anything about it. It was just, this is. It's definitely on the list now. Yes. Or have you been a Japanese curry person in the past? Are you someone who has this?

I don't eat it too often, but I loved it. Yeah, I like it quite a bit. I got back into it partly because of, you know, we were having Cocoa Giubania, but also partly the game Persona Five, which persona five you work at a coffee and curry shop, and I was like, oh, fuck, I'm going to have Japanese curry all the time, and I was doing it, and I was feeling great.

Two of the best hot brown things. Two of the best hot brown things, and leads to the third best. Yeah, yeah. Hey, if you're lucky, maybe a hot load, too. I was going to say, how is, how is, your loads are hot, is anything, is, that stuff is nice and cool, right? Like, when you say hot, is it like, oh! It's scalding.

Yeah, it seals and shut on exit. My urethra is cauterized. Heather, do you want to get, you, you've done a good job explaining this in past. Do you mind explaining the roundabout origins of Japanese curry as a dish? I was just going to ask what the differences are. Yeah, so my understanding, and I'm, you know, not Wikipedia and I'm not educated in this, is that curry did not come to Japan via India. It came via Britain.

After Britain colonizes and takes over the whole fucking world, they bring curry to Japan. So British curry is bland, right? Like, they're not known for having a spicy palate. So they bring curry to Japan, and the Japanese are like, oh, curry is a sweet to mild. dish. And so that's why Japanese curry is so specifically different from Indian curry. However, it wasn't really popular until World War II when it was, all the battleships were looking for ways to feed an enormous number of troops with a very specific vitamin that everyone was becoming deficient in on the on the battleships and realized that curry would be a very, very easy

distribution method and also easy to make in huge batch. So curry becomes popular in World War II, so much so that each battleship has its own specific curry recipe. So you can get like the, you know, this battleships curry or that battleships curry as a, as a menu item. Then it becomes sort of like when you come home from the war, it becomes like the macaroni and cheese. It's like the home-cooked like stand, like it's a standard meal. And that's, And that's how we get to today. It's interesting that you like, you know, the, I guess the one plus side of colonization is that the idea is cool. Whatever the Brits battleships were doing, probably not cool, I guess.

But it led to some, it's led to some very distinct foods, like Japanese curry or like a Bonn Me, you know, things that came from cross-cultural pollination. One of the best burritos I've ever had was a chicken tandoori burrito. fucking ruled. It was so good. Yeah, so I mean, but it's really interesting to hear that, again, you would think India's right there, and he is much closer. It would have come from the subcontinent. No, it came in this sort of circuitous way. Yep.

I really like Japanese curry. I think it's maybe become my favorite curry varietal. It could be wrong. I mean, I don't know. I like Thai curry, too. I like all curries. What am I doing? I don't need to pick favorites as far as curries go.

What about Tim? Tim Curry, I love. I love, Steph Curry I love? Yeah. Yeah. They're all great. I like Tim Curry. Yeah.

I made it for my dad this weekend. I made Japanese curry from my father this weekend. He was in town. And he ate two bowls in dead silence. And then turned to my mom and went, can you learn how to make this? So we got basically our regular order here, which is vegetable curry with a chicken cutlet.

There's different ways to order. it here and and Amelia was confused because she kind of had had four different orders she was balancing that all ended up being the same thing. They were just phrased differently because the menu just has a bunch of different options. Yeah. Heather and Matt ordered vegetable curry and chicken cutlet. Mitch and Wig's ordered a vegetable and chicken cutlet curry.

And then I did chicken cutlet curry and veggies. Chicken cutlet curry add veggies. Yeah, so all these are all different ways to get to the same thing because anything that's like a, they're just shortcuts to customizing something. It used to be on the menu if memory serves or it was just curry and then you pick every component that you were adding into it. At least for delivery. Yeah, I don't know in restaurant if that's the case. But on delivery it would be like curry, choose your options.

So we all got the vegetable curry with chicken cutlet. Yeah, you got the menu there. Which, by the way, is the default here on the menu. It's the chicken cutlet curry with vegetables. And the vegetables were talking about... I saw people order it with vegetables because I was just getting the chicken cutlet curry at one point. I redid my order like three different times.

But I loved that there were some veggies in that curry. It would have felt kind of empty without that. We've talked about Cocoichi Banya on Get Played and their arcane system for spice levels. Now, I like it spicy. I'm a little bit of a heat seeker. And so their spice levels are, mild, regular, and then one through 10. And there used to also be a 15 and a 20. It's really confusing.

You warned me about I ordered a three. Yeah. And I was like, I mean, we have to have the spice off because you think that I can't handle spice. No, I just know that like it will be as far as an experience for this and introduction to Coco Ichibanya. I feel like getting the regular is the way to go. I get the number three. And it's and so does Rochelle Chen. So does ranch. And she also is someone who likes spicy. And it's plenty spicy for us. I've gotten 10 before. In fact, I got 15 when they had 15. Heather got me a sticker that says, I survived level 15 at Cocoichi Banya that I have on my notebook. I think they still have 15. It wasn't available for ordering today because I wanted to try a 20. That's the one thing I've never gone. Why would they make this stickers if you can't get 15 and 20?

I don't know. At least maybe you're not for delivery anymore. Maybe you have to go in so they can warn you and make you sign something. Sign away for a minute. But I'm ready. I'll try the 20 at some point. So what was the most that was available to us today? 10?

The hottest was the 10, yeah. Okay. And let me see, haven't had the 10, I would characterize that as a potent mix. Three was spicy enough. Three was pretty spicy. It was pretty spicy. Yeah. But I mean, like, it's doable, though.

I mean, like, I ate the extra howlin at Howlin Rays, and I, like, ate a lot of that, and I was like, it's fine. And then the thing that killed me was the next two days I thought I was going to die. The indigestion is absolutely brutal for some of that stuff. You both got the spice level mild. Mitch, you got the regular. I got the level three. And then, Emma, you also got the regular. And what was your spice level I am?

I got a regular as well. You got a regular as well. Regular also, I think, is more archetypical in terms of the spiciness of Japanese curry. Japanese curry often will have apple in it, like chunks of apple cooked into it. So it is a sweeter dish. But, you know, here we're going to have spice on the show, so I'm glad you got some. And sometimes coffee, right? Yeah, I have a recipe for one of the battleship curries, and it has coffee,

brewed coffee made, like mixed into the curry. It's really interesting. Yeah. I mean, what did you think, Mitch? This is your first experience at this place. I loved it. I just going to be honest, I loved it. I thought it was fantastic.

I mean, like, we eat a lot of bullshit on this show. We sure do. And we had Burger King, which is back. yesterday. He gave back. But like the difference

between yesterday and today is I was so it much happier. Or last weekend this week we don't record the

podcast all in one week. Yeah, all that stuff we said earlier about recording a bunch in a row too.

That was, we were lying. Yeah, we were just lying. I was, by the way, I did get a number three,

but with a different dish. You got the udon, which I've never had their udon there. I had a little bit of it.

It was pretty good. It was pretty damn good. And I love, I love noodles as well, Heather. I was, I was a big fan of the, of the udon noodles. And I was like, oh, I wonder how this will, like a curry, kind of like a curry soup, which I guess it is. But I'm saying, like, eating the noodles straight from it seemed different.

But I love both whigs. And the chicken cutlet was just, it's crispy. It's, it's really perfect. It's great. I mean, it's fantastic. It traveled. It traveled, really. And it traveled well.

I mean, here's the thing is like, this gets, it becomes a harder thing because I'm just like, I just enjoyed the meal overall. It was, all the components of it were, were great. I can't even think of a thing to complain about. I also really admire their, um, their travel container. Yes. I was just going to ask if you eat it in the store. Is it all on one plate?

Yes, I think so. But this travel, the way they have it separated is perfect. I also, um, I purchased. So if you, if you, you know, get it postmates or whatever here in, in Los Angeles, there is a, uh, mystery item that was on the menu for friends. And I was like, I got to know what the mystery item is. And I bought the mystery item, which I think was like $30. And what came was a curry thermos, a permanent curry branded cocoa Ichabana thermos.

And you open it up on the top. And there has a collapsible spoon built into the lid, like a metal spoon that you flip open like a switchblade. And then a steam valve release. And then you open it and it keeps your curry inside. And I brought curry to work in my Koku Ichabanya curry thermos just yesterday. Wow. It's a fucking great, great experience. How cool is that?

Okay, so I have the menu open here, the physical menu, which they sent along with our order. Let's get rid of these damn QR codes. So the spice, they actually have a spice level guide, which I can circulate this, but it's mild regular. Why do you sound like Seinfeld's ghost? Let's get rid of these QR codes. I thought it was like an RFK. Send this to Lorne. Send it all to Lorne.

The level one is marked as times one, and then it is like kind of an exponential or logarithmic scale where it goes, I guess it's times two for level two, times four for level three, times six for level four, all the way up to level 10 is times 24 spice. It's 24 times spicier than level one.

If you read the fine print of that too, it says this is also how Grogu Age is. And there's a bunch of toppings you can get in here, and there's a bunch of different curry varietals. Like, there's a bunch of different ways to order it. But I feel like the chicken cutlet for, especially for first experiences, the way to go. I mean, I've gotten the stewed chicken before as well,

which I like sometimes. I like just having a different sort of texture. But the chicken cutlet is just so delectable and it travels so effectively. They have children's menu item that's chicken nuggets with curry dipping sauce, and that seems fucking amazing. Yeah, that seems great. They also have a bunch of omelets omaretsu here, and the, I, we thought about getting one, but I just like, I don't know, I can't imagine eggs traveling well, especially sitting

in a little bath. And I got a little nervous, too. I thought about maybe doing the pork cutlet, which they also had, because we had a great pork cutlet when we were in Japan. But I also, I get a little nervous about pork at restaurants sometimes. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. That was the thing in Japan, I was not worried about getting food poisoning.

No. Yeah, absolutely not. Yet I still did. That is true. Well, we did both get food poisoning for something we ate for content. I was doing great. So in addition to the vegetable and chicken cutlet curry, you also get, which is, you know, like a big thing, a brown sauce, and it's easier to eat with a spoon.

But there's also a, you know, you get some rice, of course, and you get a, like, I add spinach to my curry. You can make all these customizations as I was mentioning. And then another thing you get is some non. And so, I don't know how connected this is to curry. I imagine, like, again, just feels like it's an Indian dish. So I imagine it also got imported in the same sort of indirect way. But the garlic cheese non, which we generally get for our get played records, we got some of that.

And then Mitch you got some straight up garlic non. Or just plain non? I just got some garlic. The non-cheas one, which I didn't need to get. After I tried the garlic cheese one. I was like, oh, this is a better version. You can dip it, you can have it dry. It's so fun. It's really, really great. Fucking love it. I like that you mentioned spoons because a lot of people think, oh, it's a Japanese dish. I've got to get out the chopsticks. But no, it's eaten with a spoon. And that means that in

Tokyo, the book district is also where all the curry restaurants are because it's the only meal where you can hold a book in one hand and eat with a spoon in the other. So that's where That's where you get the best curry in Tokyo. I gotta go to this book district. Fucking rules, dude. I was trying to burn it down. I was trying to find porn. Basically, the whole time I was in Japan, I was trying to find porno.

And then when I come across it, it was like, it would either be a place that was so disgusting that I didn't want to be, like, purchasing anything from there. Or it'd be, like, basically a borders, a really nice bookstore that had, like, a porno section. It's just like, well, now I feel self-conscious. This place sells children's books, and I'm going to just bring some hentai up to the counter.

So I never actually did it. They do have porno at 7-Eleven, though. Wait, it sells children's books, and there's also porn? Yeah, no, it'd be like a regular bookstore that also just has straight up porno. They'd have a porno section. But this was like the thing we were sort of noticing about like just establishments in general is that there was not really like a divide for certain things.

Like you could go to like any coffee shop and also buy a beer if you want it to. I'll call it basically every single restaurant. Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah. It is cool. Yeah, that is cool. There was also like a thing. It was like, it was like one of those things where I was at a convenience store,

Konbini, is the loan word. And they, like, I was like, I'll buy a fucking beer. This was like my second day there. And there was a thing that was like for, you know, being of age, which I think is 18 or is it a 21 year? Whatever it is, whatever it is, I started to take out my ID and she's just like, no point at the screen. And the screen was just like the honor system. Yeah, I guess I am.

I'm over 18. You can't use a reverse on that now. Anyways. What was like? Oh, I had heard all about him going into the four-story six. Yeah, the four-story, porno story. Yeah. He was in there for three hours.

We talked about this on the episode, right? Almost an hour for each level. You couldn't go to one level. Like there was one level that you didn't really have to go to. No, I went to every level. Oh, you did go to every level. Yeah, so there's basically, this was a place that Heather had told me about, we were walking by it, and like, you were curious what was on those floors, but also I did want to go in there. Well, yeah, because there was a sign that said no women allowed, and the moment I see a sign like that, I'm like, oh, that's got to be where the crazy shit is.

Like, only boys are allowed to see it. So I sent in Nick as a, like an astronaut. Yeah, but before you even got the ask out, there was a dust cloud of Nick. Yeah. I asked Matt if you wanted to come with, and he said no. Yeah, I was like, I'm fine. So I think I told this story on Do Boys before. I can't remember if this was Maine Theater 9.

I think you told it on stage in Florida, which hasn't come out yet. Okay, so I go into this four-story porno store, and the bottom level is, the bottom level is like very conventional sort of like what you'd expect. Like, you know, dirty magazines, DVDs, like some vanilla, more vanilla sex toys. I shouldn't say vanilla, vanilla, vanilla is a flavor. but some more conventional sort of sex toys. The second floor is more oriented towards couple stuff. So, you know, the kind of like fuck swings and, like costumes, that sort of stuff. Yeah.

The third and fourth floor is... Classic couple stuff. The third... Yeah. You know what I mean? Like... In and groove. You know, there's like, there's some like BDSM stuff, but it's like all pretty...

Again, still all pretty conventional. And when I say couples, I mean, it's like man-woman couples. It's very a very heteronormative. The third floor is the first men-only floor. And so I'm there and I see the sign and I say to myself like, oh, it was one of the men-only floors. And another guy there says to me in English, that's where all the good stuff is. So we go up to the third floor. You've heard this before.

You've high-fived him. The third floor, yeah, high-five that guy. It turned out to be just a mirror. Our hands stuck together. So it went up there. Probably burned your hand. The third floor is. is like oops all fleshlights.

It's just like fleshlights for, of every shape and size, and a lot of them, you know, to specific Japanese porn stars or idols or anime characters. They're all, every orifice is available, and they're all like custom fit to, you know, whatever your tastes are. They're pixelated. They're pixelated because that's Japanese law.

In fact, your dick is pixelated when you're fucking one of them. And it's got some other stuff. up there. Did you see Gad buying a Hubert fleshlight? Gad was there, but he was buying a Hubert flashlight, but he's also crying and making a vine. We were trying to link up with Gad when we were there. We just couldn't make it happen. Couldn't make it happen.

Is he in the movie, by the way? No, no. I was going to say he could have been easily. You get to the fourth floor, and so I was like, okay, so I'm just basically, this is heightening as we go. The fourth floor is just real dolls. It's just straight up like full-on fake women. And they're just, you know, some of them are in cages, which is unnerving and I'm like are the cages

I was trying to figure out like what's not so they don't escape it's because it's so It's not a night of museum situation It's not so they don't escape it's I'm taking the night shift It's so guys That was a conscious thought you had to have is Well it's not because they are going to escape

Pulling out that possibility Which I'm sure you said out loud I said out loud It's so guys like me don't lurch at them I guess Like, because, like, because, you know, it's, or try to grab one and run off with it. It's, and so like there's... I guess that's my big question is, did Wags have someone in his middle seat on the flight home or no? Yeah.

We noticed when Nick was leaving that there was another torso, like, where his back would be. This is the other thing. Yeah, it was like a printer badlands. Which I watched twice, once on the way there and once on the way back because I loved it. That's a fun movie. It's great. They have, they, but they have like full women and then, you know, again, in very, various, various costumes, very straight states of dress, and then I don't know why I can't say that.

And then also, you know, you get like just a pelvis, just a torso, just a head, just a foot with a hole in it as feet tend to have. So, like, it's, it was just like really a really unsettling experience. The other detail, which I think I added previously, is all of the staff on the men-only floors were women. Yes. Which, again, was like a, I guess was like meant to encourage either encourage. Courage good behavior and or reassure guys that like, it's cool what you're doing.

Like, ladies are here. You can buy a fucking whole woman and take her home. But guess what? It's not cool. It's actually against God and you should be ashamed. I mean, jack off how you want to jack off. But I just kind of feel like if you're at the point where like I'm buying an $800 woman,

a fake woman and taking it home, I don't know. Maybe go to Chili's and hang out the bar for a little bit. I like the cusses. I like a triple dipper. Yeah. I like everyone being nice. you like the customs people were like oh you got a friend for your flight home like everyone is just being really sweet to you everybody i nick maybe didn't mention this everybody loved nick

everywhere we went yeah he was a star everywhere we went because he uh took some japanese within the last year or so right yeah i speak i speak enough japanese i speak like a like a first grader basically but so any level of japanese comprehension and effort there especially from a guy who looks like me they're like over the moon about so i'm just saying like con banwa to everybody you want a good evening and you know and just like doing some very basic small talk and it was enough for people to be to like just like absolutely love me this guy was basically harry styles walking around over there they loved it it was fun it was great yeah had a great cool i like that i'd try being white matt working out pretty good i kind of want to give it a go see what it's like

i might just start saying it now just in case i like that you like because i like that you feel like you maybe want to go back there. I think that that's exciting. I absolutely go back here. Yeah, it was a great time. I'm really thinking about when I can go back. I would love to go back. It was awesome.

And you, like, again, I credit every. This is what, well, we can't get into it. We can't get into this. This is a whole thing. Is it a fight? No, this is not a fight. It was, I sort of pitch. This was, this was me pitching something as sort of like a, like, one, I've never

been to the country before. Two, I know Nick is nervous about being there. So I was like, maybe if we pitched, what if we went here? And it's kind of like a, hey, this is kind of like a little taste to home, you know? Like, it's not that crazy. You're at a theme park. You're not really, who knows what you know? Like giving a dog a blanket from your... Kind of. I was a sort of built-in safe activity. But we, Heather was like, we can't do that. There's not enough time. There's too many good things. And then by the end of the trip,

it was like the, it was the easiest best cut we could have made. Yeah, it was clear there was not enough time. Yeah. We could not, we either would have to do a half day and, like, sort of speed run it or, like, we spend a full day there and then we miss out on, like, a whole neighborhood. You know, you're there for 10 days. or something, is it Disney Sea worth doing, you think? Or a subsequent trip. I will say that, so this is the other wild thing, by sheer coincidence, because this trip came together very late, it was part of a media event, part of the press tour for the

Mario premiere. My brother, my alpha brother Nate and his family had a previously planned trip to Japan that happened to have one day of overlap with our trip. And so on the final day, I was able to hang out with him and his family who had a great time and walked around Harajuku, which is one of the shopping districts there. Uncle Nick's going to take us to the four-story sex shop. I didn't tell them to go to a maid cafe, which is great. Yeah, the maid cafe.

We had a great time of the maid cafe. We didn't talk about that. Buying your nephew porn at a foreign porno shop is alpha as hell. Their first porno magazine came from Japan. Cool as hell. Let me tell you, I know my older brother, he's not going to need his uncle to buy him. Porto. Nate for my 18th birthday got me Edward Pinas Hands on DVD.

So he's going to get it for your nephew on 4K. This is a classic. When I went to London in third grade, that was the first international trip I ever been on. My godfather's son, Neil, Kylie, you know Neil, Kyle, he wanted a copy of Biggins. That was like the whole trip. And he was like probably in like middle school. or something, but he wanted a copy of Biggins.

And he got it. At the end of the trip, he got some... I don't know if it was big... I think it was in married with children or something, Biggins, and then there was some sort of real version of it. And he got it at the end of the trip. You know, I think it's a great thing to do when you're in another country to buy a porno bag. Buy a local porno.

Shop local porno. In Hadajuku, we go up and there's a New Zealand couple there. And they, like, we just... I had to talk to them in English for a little bit. they had been to Disney Sea and they were basically like, it was really disappointing. Wow. And so I'm just like, wow, if we'd spend a day doing that.

Yeah. Some people love it though. I hear people go crazy over it. I think part of what it was was just like a Disney issue where like their blind management, it was really bad. Everything was overcrowded. They spent most of the day waiting. It was like kind of spring break adjacent. I don't know what it's like there for Japan, but it kind of felt like

it was a big tourism time. So it could have been just overcrowded. Yeah, it was it was the like peak blossom for the sacro trees while we were there. So it just, everything was crazy. It would look cool as hell, but it was awesome. There were definitely tourists swarming there,

especially Westerners. I have one last question. Did you witness a Tokyo drift at all? There was a car on one of the nights when we were leaving Golden Guy. Yes. And I don't know what kind of car it was, but like a blue, you know, like drift car with the lights

under it and everything, sped past us and I said out loud, well, that just made me the happiest I've been the whole time. I loved it. It was great. You saw Tokyo drip. It was great. Or something that was going to do. It was going straight, so it wasn't really doing it. But you kind of infer if it was going to hit a curve at some point, maybe it would drip.

This sounds like a delightful trip. It was wonderful. It was really fun. We got some spicy terriaki fried chicken, which is available both as an appetizer but also as a topping for the curry. So I was confused by the way the menu is structured. I was like, should we get some of this terriaki fried chicken? spicy terriaki chicken and you're like, it's a topping. I was like, it's under appetizers.

Like, it's a topic. I saw it under toppings and that's why I was confused. But I was wrong. You got it as an appetizer. And look, I would not have a real reason to get this pre-sauced fried chicken when I'm already getting a chicken cutlet. But having it in isolation, I was like, this is a good execution. I thought it was damn. I thought just a flavor on it was so good.

Like you said, like two issues. Travel, one is you're not getting the fried chicken in the restaurant. And then two, sauced fried things. as we know is just is tough, but the flavor of that was fantastic. Spicy terriaki I'm into that. And then you got some garlic fries, Mitch, which I'd never had. Yeah, we had some, I thought they were good. They were fine.

Travel issue, but they were good. Yeah, those things will slog up. And the same thing with like the chicken. I like the spicy terriaki chicken, but yeah, not something I would necessarily elect to get. Because like the cutlet, like we were saying earlier, comes so perfectly and it's crispy every single time. And I thought today's execution generally was, it's always really, really good.

It was really hitting today. It was hitting today. It was great. And as far as starch is concerned, you're going to get rice with it. And then also I'd get the non over the fucking fries any day. But I'm glad we tried it for the purposes of this of this podcast. There also was a Thai iced tea you got, Amelia. Delicious.

It was really, really good. Amelia generously poured me half of it or a third of it because Mitch also had some too. I had a little bit of it too. I was worried because it looked so much like carrot juice. I was like, this looks, I don't know. I mean, like, I know Thai iced tea is orange, but I was like, It looks, and then the taste was decent. It was really, really good.

Emma, you got the chicken cutlet curry with veggies, and then, Emilia, you got yours a little bit of a different varietal with the spinach and tomato. But what did you think? This was also both of your first time with Cocoichi Banya? And Japanese curry in general. Oh, wow. Yeah. I've had Indian curries before, and I love them. And I had never heard of Japanese curry, a blind spot, and I loved this.

This was great. I was very impressed. Yeah. Wow. Absolutely going in my rotation. Wow, I love it. Did you like it, Amelia, because you're a mind. Why did you have diarrhea?

I like it because it's going to give me diarrhea. Hopefully not too hot. Hot loads cool turds. That's what every, that's what everyone wants. That's what every dude is like. Cool, cool turds can't lose. There's a There's a 1971 song by a musician named Kenji Endo

called curry rice, which is just this sort of like mold. mournful folk song about eating curry rice. Sometimes I'll put that song on while eating curry rice. I highly recommend. Wow. I wish we had, and I was also sad to get the song after the fact,

but it would be nice to hear this while we were eating. Because I don't have too much experience with Japanese curry. I've had it a little bit, but not too often. And I've never had a like a to go, I guess, what fits a doughboys restaurant, a chain restaurant version of it. I would say like before having it as a standard get played

meal. That was my first time ever having it too. I was like very thankful for Heather for introducing it to us. It has now entered the rotation in my home. Wow. Yeah. Of like oh what we want to get I think we should get Kokeuchi Bunyan and we'll get it. My wife doesn't sing the song and she won't

let me sing the song. But what? She would let me if I did it. But she also loves it. She has grown to really love it. She's like this was a great recommendation. It's good as fuck and I had had to sing the song. Stop sing. Shut up. Fuck up. Unmarried.

We can do that? I recently learned they can do that. Oh, fuck. Hey, buddy, sleep is so important. A good night's rest sets you up for a great day, and that's why we love helix mattresses. Mitch, how long have you had your helix? Why, because it's been seven or eight years.

It's almost time for a new helix for me, but you know what? It's as soft as the day I got it. Wow. That's true. I have a helix moonlight lux mattress. It feels like a cloud. I love it. You know who else loves it?

Wally and Irma. Cute. My mom, when she comes to town, she'll sleep on it. I'll sleep somewhere else. My sister as well. I'll sleep somewhere else. Okay. It's a beautiful bed.

I love the bed. It's been with me for a long time. I really like my helix sleep mattress. Mitch, you know, this is, I usually am interviewing a guest, but I have some interview questions for you. How, like, how is your sleep improved since you had your helix? Why, so you know me in the last seven years, I think you could say that it's an upward trajectory for me with sleep. What do you say?

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doughboys. That's Helixleep.com slash doughboys for 27% off site-wide, exclusive for our listeners. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you Helixleep.com slash do boys. I've had the Japanese curry before. I had it, but I had not had Kokoichi Banya before, Heather, introduced it to me. But, you know, like, hurry, curry of Tokyo was like a regular one that I was going to, that I still will patronize.

But I'm really been impressed by this place. And I guess we should, we could roll right into our final thoughts on Kokoichi Banya. I'll go ahead and start. I really like Japanese curry. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, uh, bat clean up. Yes, you're going to be Shohay Otani here. Wow. By the way, they loved Matt's Dodgers hat.

There was a woman who was wearing a Dodgers hat that then I was like, hey, go Dodgers. She looked mad at me. I think part of that was it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, Did you sing the song at her? I did see, I started singing Randy Newman's I love L.A. at her. I think part of it is a phoneme thing because I think Dodgers doesn't necessarily sound like anything. It's, it's more like dojessu. Yeah.

You know, it's, and it's, so she might have just genuinely been confused. Most people were upset with me everywhere I went because I was being loud and annoying everywhere. Yes. Why, I mean, I feel like I would be like, like, like, well, I'm not as honest. They'd love you. They'd love you. Even learn just like the smallest amount of Japanese. You're such a gregarious, likable man.

They'd be so happy to see. Also, is it true that like big guys, they do like big guys, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, they, they, I mean, they like kaiju there. I was going to say the one big guy they don't like famously is Godzilla. No, he helps. He helps.

Godzilla, minus one coming out in just a couple weeks. He depends on the situation. Yeah. Sometimes he helps. Yeah. Minus one is coming out. Minus zero? Oh, is that what it is?

Minus one is it. Minus zero. Then we're going to go plus one. It's going to go the whole other way. How does it work? Minus zero. That's just the same amount. It's just Godzilla.

Yeah, it's just Godzilla. It's addition by subtraction. I'm sure the movie you'll explain. I really like Cocoichi. Banya. I look forward to it every time we order it. I love the song, the Kokoichi Banya song, but I just love the meal. It's just so rich and filling and nourishing. It's such a satisfying dish. We didn't have actually, I had ramen in Japan, I had tempura in Japan, I had sushi in Japan, you know, all these kind of staple dishes, cutlet, but I didn't actually

have like, there is Kokoichi Banya you can just go to in Japan and we didn't have the opportunity to go there. I'd be curious at what their execution is on the, uh, uh, But I have to imagine they've scaled it up fairly effectively overseas because it tastes absolutely terrific. And it's really consistent. Great crispness and texture on the curry, always cooked well, on the cutlet rather, always cooked well. The curry is, you know, again, rich and delicious. And just like the amount of customizable, it's enough where you can add what you want, but you can't really ruin your curry. Like it's just if you have vegetable and chicken cutlet curry is a baseline, you're going to have a great meal.

and always happy with a garlic cheese non, but also just overall happy when I'm eating it. It's fucking great. It's so satisfying. This is an easy five forker for me. Wow. Heather Ann Campbell, your thought, your fork score. My wife and I also eat Coco Ichabanya at the house all the time.

Her go-to order is the cheese curry, which is a very interesting, delicious dish. I love Cocoa Ichabanya. I looked up just to make sure that I wasn't lying to your listeners about whether or not. They wouldn't tell you if you were. I'm sure they would. They'd come on and get played.

They'd tell me. But yeah, curry was introduced to Japan in the Meiji era in 1868 to 1912. At the time, the Indian subcontinent was under British colonial rule, and it is most likely that the British introduced the spice mix called curry powder to Japan. The very first known curry rice recipe in Japan was in 1872. Wow. I love this dish. It makes me nostalgic for a childhood I didn't have.

Very much. It occupies, I said macaroni and cheese earlier, it occupies the same sort of, like, sensory experience for me. It's like a comfort food. But unlike macaroni and cheese, which makes me feel like dog shit after I eat it, this is often, like, I feel buoyant. I sleep better after I have a curry.

And I love Coco Ichabana specifically, because it brings a reliable, consistent curry experience to us here in L.A. with more than one location. So, yeah, five forks from me as well. Wow. I think the thing they're really focus in on for me is how consistent it is. Because every time we get it, it's no less than as good as we had it today, really. I don't think we've ever ordered it.

We were kind of off to that. Right. It's always really, really great. it's become a staple for me. I look forward to when we get it. Look, I love curry. The thing I'll say about it is that, like, seeing it in, like, persona five or seeing it in, like, an anime or something sort of gave me that, like, oh, I bet you that, like, the way it's animated makes it look like it tastes really, really good. I can't wait to try it.

And it tastes as good as it looks to me. And I just, I really, really love it. I always just look forward to eating it. So that's five forks for me as well. Wow. Millie, I hope you didn't throw away my stuff that was left over in there, did you? No, I don't. I actually don't, I came in.

She didn't. She was gone when we were coming out. Oh, I was gone. You love to pour, like, half drunk drinks away. You were also acting like you did do it, but we're pretending not to do it. You really were. I forgot where I was. I was like, wait.

All right, all right. We're safe. We're safe. We're safe. I've never had this place before. It was, and I was very, very impressed by it. Do you know who it was? I said earlier, it sounds like an FDR quote,

and I was, do you know who said, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage? You know who it was? Who, uh, what, I feel like that was, was that Eisenhower? Nope, but. Trick question, it was Hitler. Look, can't argue with him.

It was the most vacuumist president there was. Hoover. Herbert Hoover. The most vacuuming. Herbert Hoover said it. And I think a Coco Ichibon on every corner would be in a bullet train on every street. Wow. I mean, maybe that's a little too much.

That might be excessive. All right, fine. You had me a bullet, by the way. We got those. America perks up. I loved this. You know, we rank it on how good it does, and this would be a perfect score for me. Wags' gatekeeping is going to make me take away a half fork.

I'm fucking with you. Five forks. Wow. Welcome to the platinum of Lago of Kokoichi Banya. Wow. I hope any of our listeners who have not experienced this who have a Kokoichi Banya nearby. A lot of locations are in California. He's telling you listeners, check where you are.

Close to when he told us the rest of the doughboys. I'm very excited to try it again. It's delightful. Cocoichi Bucon. Kokoichi Bania. Coco Ichibanya. Kokoichi Bania. All right, that's Yoshi's, I got it wrong.

Did you guys play Resident Evil 9, by the way? I fucking loved it, dude. It's cool. It's really, really good. I love it. Yeah. I feel like those, speaking of Japan, like those are like a, with the Resident Evil series, like, I know that they're like, it's like a very, like, Japan's idea of, like America, but I'm like, it still has, like, it feels like a strong Japanese game.

Like, I love the vibes of that game. gives me. It's just interesting. Does that make sense to you? No, I mean, like, I love a foreign perspective on America. I love like, like, a British director making an American film and just sort of like, oh, this is what you think of us. And it's always like a little bit insulting, but in a deserve way. And also kind of spot on in some ways, yeah. Exactly. But like, Kojima, who we absolutely adore over on Get Played, and we're very fortunate enough to, to meet and tour Kojima productions while we were there. Dale Kojima does a lot of stuff that's about America

and he's obviously a Japanese creator but like you know, when you see his perspective when he's a character like in Metal Gear Revengeance who is the who's Senator Armstrong who's just a senator who loads himself up with like fucking the equivalent of steroids and just like punches things. He's who Trump thinks he is.

He says make America great again in the game before Trump. That's so great. It's unbelievable. Grand Theft Auto is a foreign perspective on America. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I loved RE 9.

I love the, Resident Evil is now the most, I think to me, outside of like Nintendo mainline games, Resident Evil is like the most important video game series. Oh, sorry, Resident Evil is the most important video game series to me. I just played through two remake and three remake and I love four. And nine was my, like, I'm now going through seven and then eight, because I just am now obsessed with these things. You finished nine.

I finished nine, yeah. There's a great moment that I was like, there's a moment in the game that's so gloriously stupid. Or Leon acquires a vehicle and does insane things with it. And I just like, I can't believe this is happening. I love, I love this. That whole section there is very. It rocks.

It's so funny. It's very close to an open world Resident Evil game, which I don't even really want, but it was fun to play a little bit. I'm exhausted by the open world formula. Also, make a game, that game is like 15 or 20 hours to be. Oh my God, I love that. Give me all that you got. I still haven't played Pragmata, but Pragmata is apparently like a similar length campaign.

It's like, that's fucking great. I got life to live. I get things to do. Yeah. I wonder if part of the reason Resident Evil, because, you know, I was going to have the Zach Crager movie coming out as well, it Resident Evil is more relevant than ever is because here in America we're dealing with President Evil. We'll be right back.

I was talking about President Trump. I'm saying that's kind of a... Don't talk to me. Okay, we're back. I'm on Amelia. Would you go five forks as well? No pressure. But like, what would be your first?

Can I do that? Can I just say don't talk to me? Does that work? No, no, you can't do that. Five forks. Wow, perfect all around. And Amelia, I think you owe me $5. I do owe you $5.

Wait, why? We'll be right back. What the fuck happened? We had a bet as to whether you'd like the Kokoichi Banya song. I was like, Mitch is going to like it because he likes Yoshi's Island. And Amelia was like, he's going to get mad. And I was right. I'm going to get mad?

Well, you did bring up gatekeeping right after, so there was a little seed of resentment about the song. That was about gatekeeping the restaurant from us. That's not about the song. I couldn't take the action because I was like, I can't start from zero again. I can't do it. You've built up enough reputation points with Mitch. You got to just stay at that level. I fought tooth and nail to get here.

Mitch, you like Nintendo games. Have you played Pocopia? No. Pocopia is in my top 25 games of all time. Oh, my God. I highly recommend it. I'm going to buy it. It's on Switch, Switch 2?

Switch 2, yeah. Okay. The only thing I'll say is knowing your completionist tendencies, I kind of worry what Pocopia might do to you. Okay, sure. But you can complete, you can roll credits. I think you can scale your completion of Pocopia. Yeah, but I know Mitch.

He's a 100% guy. And so that's like a... I've leaned off some of that recently because it just does kill me. I just, I fear you could lapse into that. Like those old habits could be revived with this game. But again, yeah, I do think it's, you'd love it. I'm looking it up now. I'm going to, I like the looks of it.

It's fantastic. Great aesthetic, great story. Great game. Amelia, you can keep my. keep the $5. It's fine. No, no. I made a promise.

I'll take it. Yeah, give it to Emma, actually. All right. We'll buy half a coffee and share. This also looks like it might be a Emma's alley. I was just literally going to look at this. Is it only on Switch 2? It's on Switch 2 only, yeah.

Okay, maybe I'll need to get a Switch 2 at some point. As a Stardew Valley slash Animal Crossing enthusiast, yeah, I think absolutely. I was playing Mario Wonder this weekend, and I was thinking about your 100% completion is because I was like tempted to go back when I didn't like perfectly get every level and do it and I was like this if I actually was trying to do this I would maybe drive myself insane. The I that's

it's funny to say that because in wonder you know the last level that's like the marathon level I was like doing that for like I spent like two days on it and I was like I'm not gonna do this I don't need to do this and now I kind of still it's still like there's an itching me to still do that this looks so cute but at a certain point because this is a thing that Nintendo

has latched onto with the Mario franchise is that like the final like challenge level will be this extremely large long gauntlet, this prolonged sort of thing with no checkpoints that you have to make through in one go. And like you did it in Odyssey, correct? Do you finish the Odyssey one? I've done almost all of. I did an

Odyssey. I need to play the Galaxy games. Those are the two Mario games I've never played. Oh man. You'd love Galaxy. And I heard that the ending is tough. But I did it in I did it in 3D world. There's like a final challenge. Yeah, my favorite. And it's kind of, that's pretty tough. The Odyssey one is hard.

But you know you can do them. It's just a matter of like how much of my life do I want to invest in this singular task. Which I think for like Odyssey, it was like three days or four days straight of trying to do it, which is annoying. That was like me trying to beat Ishin's Sword Saint in Securo. It took me multiple days. And then I finally did it. See, the hard ones I don't even think I'll ever, you know, I just don't think I'll ever do them now. Securo and All Time are a great game.

And Baldur's Gay? I don't think I'll ever do Baldur's Gay. I don't know if... I'll just get his horny, though. Well, I like that. Yeah. All right, you know what this is actually... You can't you?

Yeah, see, we've heard everything that he's fucked in the game. Yeah, no, you can do that. You can kind of fuck a lot of things in that game. You can't do it. All right, we got to do our segment. It's the return of Frank Check. Hit it, Emma. Oh.

Frank Check with Mitchell and Wyver. Frank Check with Mitchell and Wyver. and wider, don't know what Frankfurters do expect. All you need to know is that the name of the segment's Franks check. Heather Matt, too. Another Matt, too. I just, I was watching Heather experience that because, like, I listen, I listen to the show. I listen to the show every week.

And I don't think Heather's ever heard a podcast. But, like, just watching. They're too slow. Watching Heather just sort of take that in stride was very funny to me. She just to spend entirely too much time with me. You should have made a $5.00 bet on whether she would like that. I mean, I would have taken no one. Are they going to like anything except Kokuji Banya?

So this is, like, we got dope boys, we got get played. Why don't we just loop in a blank check without permission? This is Frank Check, Get Frank D Edition. Mitch Heather and Matter give it a frame from a video game involving a food item and must guess which game it's from. One point is awarded if you get the franchise correct. Two points are awarded if you get the exact game correct. We know how that works. Okay.

Okay. All right. Do we get to the first? Do we ring in? Do we just say our names? Yeah, I think buzz in with your name. These are compiled by Amelia. Okay.

All right, here comes. Mitch. Oh, shit. I heard Heather. Yoshi's story. Yep. This is Yoshi's story, yes. The song.

The Kogo's story. Is this specifically Yoshi's story? Or is it? Not Yoshi's Island. I think it's Yosh's story. Oh, I deleted the name. from the title so that they couldn't see them on screen. I have them here.

Oh, it's right there. You had it right behind you. Because it looks like Super Nintendo graphics, but it might very well be the Yoshi story. I was going to say Yoshi Story too. She is Yoshi Story written now. Wow. Oh, then it's Yoshi Story then you get two points.

All right. Wow. Heather. All right, Heather has two. All right, here comes the next one. All right. Let's see the next one. Mitch. I heard Mitch.

GTA. Grand Theft Auto is the franchise. I mean, I guess I'm going to say GTA 5. Mitch, you are correct. get two points for that one. That's a two-pointer for the spoon man. Nice. All right, next up. Is that it in and out? Matt. Oh, shit.

That's Donkey Kong country. Yeah, this one's pretty obvious because I think Donkey Kong is maybe in it. Yeah. You also need a jeweler's loop to just see this one. Yeah, yeah. Some of these are like the Super Nintendo like emulator resolution. They really guess. Oh, there he is. It's him and ditty. It says Kong's banana horn. There's Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong standing next to it.

Look, I never played this game, so it was hard for me. You had to have known that that was Donkey Kong, though. Can we go back to the last one? Was it an in and out? It was it like an in and out? Up and Adam. Okay, yeah, huh? In an Adam out.

Which I guess is like a Simpsons reference. Oh, right. Reactive man. Oh, yeah, maybe, yeah. Oh, it's Rusty Browns. I thought that said Pussy Browns. Jesus. Pussy Browns is like the kind of joke that they'd make on Grand Theft Auto, but

it's down to Rusty Browns. I mean, with the way that the world has changed since five came out, I expect six to just be like, it fucking sucks dickshad. So the other night, I was on Grubhub, and I was ordering food, and I saw something that I was like, we live in Grand Theft Auto now. Because one of the burger options, and I took a screenshot of it, it's called Smash My Meat. Yes, I've seen this on, that comes up on like DoorDash and shit, too. What are we doing? We already smash my meat burgers or something. Yeah.

We already have egg slut. another one out there now too that's like a horny name what the fuck's it called jack me off burrito shacked me off burrito shack yeah chicken there's one that's like fuck me chicken oh yeah yeah yeah that one's real fuck me chicken it's something like something like that's like you open the door that's like fuck your diet that's like a restaurant wait what is it called like fuck your diet I don't know if it's here that's like oh f your diet or something like that no this is one what I'm thinking of there's there's there's one that's kind of like BDSM coded but it's like actually good and just

it's like oh fuck I guess I gotta go to this place you know yeah You open the door with the Ride the D bullshit, and now here we are. Ride the D is about public transit, bitch, which you were an advocate for. You said a bullet train on every street. That's true. To me, that seems excessive, but you're the governor. I am a flip-flopper. All right.

We had DonkeyComp. Is that a specific, is that a specific, is that a specific in and out, I feel like, but whatever. It's got to be the Hollywood one. Yeah, we get the Walk of Fame in front of it. Yeah. Yeah. That's my guess. All right.

I'm trying to think of the Hollywood one. There's, well, I think this. an orange you think, right? Is the one next to the Hollywood High? Yeah, I guess so. But that's on sunset. That's on sunset.

Yeah. Well, I was thinking he's in Hollywood. In Hollywood, yeah. Because you can see the Hollywood sign behind it. But I'm thinking there's got, there's probably one on Hollywood Boulevard too, right? Well, I don't know. I think the one on sunset's the only one in Hollywood.

Yeah. I used to live right by it. It was the only in and out when I lived in Hollywood that I could get to. Is Rusty Brown's like an asshole thing? I think so. What are we doing? It's not real. I'm like Joe Lieberman now

What are we doing? You're ready for the next one? Those monkeys need to wear clothes. All right, let's see the next one. Oh, Mitch. I heard Mitch. Sim City. It is not Sim City.

Heather. I heard Heather. Roller coaster tycoon. It is roller coaster tycoon. That is the franchise. Fuck. I would have said SimCity. I'm going to go with

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. It's not three. It is roller coaster tycoon 2, but you get a single point. All right, next up. Heather. I heard Heather. Red Dead Redemption 2. You are correct.

Wow. Exact franchise and game. You get two points for that one. What are the point titles out right now? Matt 2, Mitch, 2, Heather 5. Okay, great. I love food and video games. You have a lot of video game cookbooks.

I do. I have an enormous number of video game cookbooks. That is some toothsome-looking stew there. Yeah. Kind of looks like a potent myth. Also, it should be noted that the animation in Red Dead Redemption 2, they consume the stew and it goes down in the bowl. I love that. Whereas most video games, they'll just like mime eating.

That's another one. I never played Redemption 2. I bought it, but I never. That's fucking awesome. Amazing. Let's look at the next one. What's the one that you love the video game that you love? Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of Wild, the Zelda ones?

No, Star Do Valley. Oh, Star Do Valley. I bought my goddaughter a Star do Valley cookbook. Oh, how about that? Wow. Starter Valley is also a fairly kid-friendly game. Yeah, it is. You could play it as a kid, no problem.

Yeah. She loved it. She liked it. There won't be any cum burgers in that or anything. What the hell? Unless you get the mods I installed. All right, let's go to the next one. Mitch.

I heard Mitch. This is, I know this. I'm going to be so mad if I don't. Oh, this is D.K. Bonanza. Donkey Kong Bonanza. This is not Donkey Kong. Oh, my God. Oh, no.

Oh, my gosh. I don't. Can I go again? Well, when no one guesses? I think you could, but not for points if no one else guesses. I mean, like, right, you don't get multiple tries, multiple whites of the apple. Heather. Shut up. Mario Odyssey. It is Super Mario Odyssey.

I can't believe it. Big bowl of stew here. That's what we're looking at. A very different bowl of stew. It's a really strange screenshot. Hey, no stew, no stream. No stew, no stream. Hell yeah.

This is a Mitch, Mitch, Mitch's absence from Twisted Middle Season 3, really front of illustrating. I'm so mad. I just, it's the same makers of Donkey Kong Bonanza. You probably did 99% on this one then? I did, I did, I, I did, but I mean, and I also 100%ed Mario Odyssey. Do you remember the name of this biome? Uh, no, it was like the food, whatever the stupid food world was. This is, this is, this is a, this is, this is that, Amelia, this is suitably challenging, because looking at this screenshot, it does not necessarily tell you what the game is, unless you. Amelia, we zoom in, or Emma, we zoom in? It can we big in this a little bit? Is that Mario back there? Oh, no, it's some of the food he talks to you? No, it is Mario. Yeah, Mario is back there.

But he's wearing a parka. He was necessarily recognized it. I can't believe that I fucked this up. I'm so mad at myself. Pretty good. Did you find the food area in Bonanza to be absolutely disgusting for some reason? I, I'm still chasing from the Super Nintendo Mickey Mouse game when you were jumping on Jello. I thought that was really cool.

Castle of Illusion? I believe so, yes. And I was slightly disappointed by the Doc-E-Cong food world. It looked nasty to me. And also it's like ground, but it's food. There's a, there's some weird chick going on there. That whole game was Ungapachka. It was overstowed.

Yeah. Let's look at the next one. Heather, Final Fantasy 15. I knew you'd get this one. Holy shit. Holy shit. That is correct. That's good. I've been running away with it.

What's the point total? Nine. Two points for that one. The food, so it should be known. Final Fantasy 15 had a notoriously long development cycle. And many of the parts of the game had to be scrapped. It's clear to me from the food in Final Fantasy. Fantasy 15 that somebody at the beginning of the cycle was told, your job is to make the food.

And then they didn't talk to that guy for 10 years. Because the food in this game looks photorealistic. It is insanely detailed. I have the cookbook for it. Every dish you're like, that looks like a real meal. And it's a, I think it's a PS4 game. So you'll like zoom back out. And it'll like the graphics have, you know, they've aged a little bit.

but the food looks better than any food in any game. Yeah, that's like a photograph of a dish. Yeah, this was going to say, is this fully modeled and lit? Only modeled and lit. Wow, so it's not like Dragon's Dogma 2 where they use actual photographs of food. No, no, no. I mean, like that comes into frame and it's a game asset. It's nuts.

Yeah, it's incredibly detailed. All right, two more. See the next one. There's a big tell here. Can we embiggin this one a little bit? Heather. I hear Heather. Oh.

This is Skyrim. This is Skyrim. Heather gets two points again. We're getting our asses kicks. 11 points for Heather. This is a massacre. But if you showed me the heroes of most of these games other than Final Fantasy 15,

I could not identify that. Like, I don't know the name of the guy from Red Dead Redemption 2, but I can see the food and I'm like, oh, that's the food from that game. You know Mario's name. Who's that? All right, one more.

Let's clean this up. You need a save face. Mitch. I heard Mitch. I just got scared and I said Mitch. Can we impugn this one as well? I do know the answer to this. I'm going to go the breath of the wild.

No, it's not. It's not it's not. It's not breath of the wild. Matt buzzed in. So this is for our audio listeners, this is a zoomed in. This is a UI element. It does. The sausage looks like a hog.

It says dried pork sausage. is a hog-like sausage that is peeking out of the box, the U-I box, and then it says some tell details about like it's infused with copious amounts of garlic and cooked in mold wine. I spit a flavor text. You should, you should, you should beat me with this. You should beat me. It's Baldersgate 3. Matt, you are correct. And you would have got a bonus point if you'd said that a Baldur's Gate is incorrectly spelled with an E.

I wouldn't have known that. Yeah, you wouldn't know that. How could you have known that? Because who would spell Baldur's Gate with an E except for Amelia. Yeah, no, well, now you know. Lesson learned. He's pissed to you. Yeah, there's eating in Baldur's Gate.

Yeah. But it's like it's abstracted in the sense of camp supplies. So like you get it so you can have some, I mean, you can get drunk in the game. But it's like when you camp, you need to have enough supplies, which can come in the form of food and other, you know, consumables. Does it like replenish your health or whatever? And that replenishes your health and not. This is a horny. This is intentionally horny here.

Yeah, the whole game's fucking horny. Yeah, yeah, okay. You're just sucking in fucking. You see titties and dicks and, like, the character creator. Oh, okay. Because that is... Them things are swanging. You can fuck a squid.

You can fuck the devil. I ain't into that. Heather wins. What's the total score? It was Mitch two, Matt four, Heather 11. Well fought. I really blew it with Mario. Just like a restaurant of your feedback.

That's up with the feedback. Today's email is from Seamus or Seamus? How do you say that? Shamus. Seamus. Shamus. Shams. Shamus, right? This is fucking anti-Irish shit you got going on right here.

I don't know. Or are you guys doing these things? I don't know. Irish, I think. Yeah. Well, Shamus. I wish you luck finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And let me read your email.

If you can wake up from being so goddamn drunk. My wife's family loves to have U-K-U-C-H-R-E. E-U-C-H-R-E. I don't know what that. I don't know what that is. I think that's Uker. Do you know what that is? Some sort of card game?

Uker, you said it right? Yeah. Uker is a card, yeah, card game. Trick a trick-taking card game played in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, particularly in Michigan or upstate New York. My wife's spelled like Bob U-U-K-R-E. No, it's spelled E-U-C-H-R-E. My family, my wife's family loves to have Yucur this card game and or Majong tournaments.

Heather, I know you learned mahjong, as did Heather, our previous producers, you saw, and Lou, is a, is a Mahjong streamer. My mom plays Mahjong every week. She has a group where she learned it and she plays it every week. Mahjong. Mahjong.

Mahjong. Mha. Yon Junker and or Mahjong tournaments during family gatherings. The card tables we use are relatively small, so there isn't room to eat a full plate of food while playing. Most of us eat finger foods and snacks while playing rather than eating full

meals. Dry snacks are ideal because they don't make your cards slash tiles greasy. We're the best snacks to eat while playing video games so you don't make the controllers. Greasy Seamus, this is a great question and very fitting for our panel of experts. I first want to say, because yes, it sounds like your family has a nice tradition,

having Yukur and or Mahjong tournaments. That sounds like a fun thing to do. At my last family gathering, the family activities were beer pong and buzzball tastings. Oh, God. and that was not the only alcohol consumed.

My family can't play games with each other because we all get so fucking mad. It's like we just can't do it. Yeah. How are you from that family? What do you mean how am I from that family? That sounds like he was. Were they drinking a bunch? I'm saying that too, but your brother's just an alpha and your parents love to party.

Yeah, everyone's a fucking, everyone's a social butterfly, but also people like, you know, love to tie one on. You're a social butterfly, too. I guess so. but I'm also fine, like, I could be, I could take a vow of silence and be good for days. Wish you would. Fuck. Food snacks to eat while playing video. Yeah, you're a weird combo of, you don't say a lot at all, and I also wish you would shut the fuck up so often.

Someone characterized this to me as this many years ago, and I think it's pretty good, pretty astute. I generally act quiet until it's time to be loud. Pick my spots. I like it. That sounded threatening for some reason. It does. I would say that one of my favorite things to do when playing a video game is to eat the thing that the characters are eating. That rules.

So, like, I do that a lot for movies, too. If you're, like, watching a movie where it's going to be, like, you know, Lord of the Rings, you get yourself a rotisserie chicken or a stew. And you, like, try and theme out your meal a little bit. So my pitch is, even though it might require some, you know, putting down the controller during cutscenes and eating what the characters are eating. it's a really pleasurable experience. That's really fun. That sounds really immersive. I will, my answer was going to be

as far as just a snack is concerned, is just get yourself some chopsticks. Then you don't have to worry about your fingers being greasy. The other thing I love to do is I'll have a fucking bag of Cheetos. And what makes your hands dirtier than Cheetos, but I'm eating them some bitches with chopsticks, so I don't have to worry about any dust getting onto my dual shock. I do that when I'm working too

so that I don't dirty up my keyboard or my desk with my grubby fingers. Yeah. And also I'm used to playing, Games with one hand, so I can figure it out. You can't play Honeypop with two hands. You're occupied. I'm weirdly like not, I'm not like a snacks guy I've sort of noticed. Like, I don't really keep chips.

You're team meals. I'm team meals. Same. But I like, I enjoy snacks quite a bit. Like, I don't want anybody to be like, I'm going to find a photo of Matt with chips. Yeah. I'm sure it exists. More like Matt's snack of Bada, they'll be saying.

Yeah, it'll probably say it. But they probably will probably get it in one try, probably. Somebody who says things wrong all the time, myself. But I like, I love chips. I love stuff like that. I love popcorn, but I would almost go for a bag of, like, pre-popped popcorn versus popping my own for some reason. Even though I do like the hot popcorn. But that's like my movie theater.

treat, but if I'm getting like a, you know, just a store bagged popcorn, I'm pretty happy with that. I've been really into cherries right now. I've been snacking on cherries while I've been playing some games. It gets a little dicey. Yeah. Because I'll pop, I'll toss a couple in, but I'll just kind of like work the pits out on my own and I have a little cup and I do my little, I have my little spit cup for the pits. You'll do more than one at once. I'll pop two or three. Wow. Wow. I can only ever do one at a time. Otherwise, I get confused. Yeah, me too. I like to live dangerously. I'm pretty, I don't know, I'm a crazy guy. I like that. I like that. I like that. I like that you live dangerously.

I do as well. I'm laying down too, by the way. I'm doing this. Wow. Okay. You have a death wish. I don't think you could, and screen grabs don't count, but I don't think you can find a picture of me with a bag of ships.

And screen grabs don't count. Wow. I don't think you can find a picture. So you need to have a. Like a genuine photo of you with a bag of us. Like a PI photo from behind a book. Amelia's going to go into her photo. You think you can find a picture.

I mean, if anyone has one, I bet it's amazing. No, I don't think you can. But you don't want it. Not a still from a video. Not a still from a video, Amelia. Um, look, I think it's this sort of thing of like, I, like, Heather, I will, I'll eat a slice of pizza and then also game. But your hands are going to be greasy or whatever. But all the non, all the snacks that get, don't get your finger, like bugles.

So I guess you could have bugles, but that's not that fun. Well, those are going to be hard to play the game with because they're going to be all your fingers. That's a good point. Too fun. For me, I would say mombus. is like a... Oh, that's good. So something that you can put in your mouth

and then you're chewing on it for a while, you know what I mean? Like a Mamba or Starburst or something. Like a hard candy or something that you suck on for a few minutes. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, like, yeah.

Skittles or Starbursts, something like that. Yeah. Blur those out. You can't... Those both out of his hoodie pocket. Something like that. But, yeah, something that you can chew on for quite a bit. You know what I mean?

But we're going back to the next one. I was just thinking, I don't do this, but I think this could work. Heather talking about the soup thermis earlier. I think he had some... some sippable thermos soup or just like a little like slurpable bowl of like, you know, some sort of soup that you don't eat a spoon with. That's fun.

The more I think about it, I do think that like broth is maybe one of my favorite foods. Broth's pretty good. And I do think like a thermos of like, like, faga, like broth would be heavenly to me. I would love that. Do you, I don't like sipping soup out of a cup, though. A soup and a thermos and then I'll put it in a bowl or something I feel fine with. but well actually if you get the spoon that makes all the difference of the world

but like sipping it like a drink makes it for me feel like I'm having a hot drink oh man I kind of like it I like first off I like a hot drink but then also I'm just like thinking a miso soup I'm just like I love slurping that yeah the miso soup we had at the hotel was like the best I wanted to fill my hydroflask with it and take it out

with me for the day I would have loved it but you didn't have permission to do that no there was no sign indicating that that was allowed or not yes I was like too Oranges. Come on.

That's not fun. Sounds like two terms in the White House. We'll be white right back. Don't talk to me. I always have a trim of slit. What did he say? I like stumbled over my thing and then he was going to call me out and then he stumbled

over the call out. Oh boy. We're doing great. If you have a question or comment, oh my God. Sorry, Jemmy. I was resting my arm on her thinking she was a pill. a great hack for dirty fingers while playing video games. Sit next to a dog,

got dirty fingers going this. Jemmy cleans them right off. Go right back to Flynn. Uh-oh, I don't just have peanut butter on my fingers. Oh, God. I'm playing honey pot. If you have a question or coming over with the world of Shane doesn't let him watch Jimmy. Blow job from a dog

and it's on tape. Yeah, not licking. The dog's going to suck them off. If you have a question or comment about the world of chain rest johns You can email us at feedbag at birdfuck.com Or leave us a voice bill at 830-0. That's 830-4-6-8-4-4-4. Yeah, Jimmy's been usually on the other couch, but she's been snuggled up between me and Heather on the smaller couch. I feel like every time Heather and I are in the same studio, Gemmy is like as close to Heather as she can possibly be. Wow.

Last time I would get an engineer get played, it was the same thing. She was like right up against you on the chair. How about that? Makes up for my dog that hates me. Our producers, Emma Brinker, our associate producer, Emilio Marino, our video editor, Mike Dorfman, doughboys, merch at kinshipgoods.com slash doughboys.

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And you can get the Dobways, Wobloor Week, bonus episode over at patreon. I will fuck a wife on this tour. Slash Do Boys. Hell yeah. It's the Mitch fuck's a wife tour. It's not going to happen. Heather and Matt, Get Played as the podcast.

It's the three of us chopping it up about video games. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. I love doing it. It's great. I love it. I love hanging out with you guys.

You guys are my friends. It's very nice that you got to, I appreciate you having us here with your other family. Very nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. Thanks for having us. A two family guy.

A multiple family guy. I had to have a couple. Seems right. If I had a secret family, you wouldn't be shocked. Like, oh, yeah, okay. Wire actually is like six kids. One of them's like like a full-on adult.

He's actually been on the podcast before. Your son is Joe Saunders? His daughter's a million. Don't be so surprised. That was something we dealt with, though, in Japan is that we were trying to suss out what people thought the dynamic was and the safest thing we came up with was, I'm their son.

People definitely thought Heather and I were married, and then I think they were like, well, that must be their adopted son. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's like not that much younger than him. Hey, you know what? It worked out great. It worked out great. Also, we should mention, people should subscribe to get played wherever you listen to

podcast, especially if you like video games. We had all sorts of great guests over the years. That's right. And including Mitch himself a few times. It's been a lot of fun. Yep. And we also, Heather, we should mention Rick and Morty. Season 9 premieres this Sunday.

Yeah. May 24th, the premiere of Season 9 of Rick and Morty. Please check it out. It's a great season. I'm really excited. It's really, like, the season nine episodes are very, very cool. Let's go. We should check that out.

And that'll do it for this episode of Doe Boys. Until next time for the spoon, man, Mike Mitchell. I'm Tiger Wire. Happy Eaton. See ya. And you got played. Oh, shit. Yeah, fuck you guys.

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