Doughboys - Dogdoughbarkfest: Nathan's Famous with Jon Gabrus, Mike Hanford & Griffin Newman (Live)
Episode Date: October 28, 2021Jon Gabrus (High and Mighty), Mike Hanford (The Sloppy Boys) and Griffin Newman (Blank Check) join the 'boys for the live finale of Dogdoughbarkfest in New York City and review Nathan's Famous. Record...ed live at the Gramercy Theater in New York City. Sources for this week's intro: https://www.mashed.com/317485/heres-why-kobayashi-was-once-arrested-at-a-hot-dog-eating-contest/ https://www.espn.com/new-york/news/story?id=5355723 https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/14/kobayashi-joey-chestnut-hot-dog-eating-cheating/ https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/07/02/joey-chestnut-the-good-the-bad-the-hungry-interview/ https://nathansfranks.smithfieldfoods.com/en-us/articles/hot-dog-eating-contest/hdec-fun-facts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%27s_Hot_Dog_Eating_Contest#By_year_(color-coded_by_belt_color) Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Everyone in the crowd kept chanting, let him eat. Let him eat. So I jumped onto the stage
to prove that I am still the champ. But I was arrested. These are the words of Takero
Kobayashi, remarking on his 2010 trespassing arrest at the Coney Island Hot Dog Contest
he once dominated. Kobayashi, a.k.a. the tsunami, a.k.a. the prince, a.k.a. the godfather
of competitive eating, became an instant celebrity at the event on July 4th, 2001, when he shattered
the world record by consuming 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes, twice as many as the previous
year's champion. Kobayashi's jaw-dropping feet, no doubt amplified by his wiry frame
and his Fosbury flop-level innovation of separating the dogs and buns before consumption, made
him competitive eating's first breakout star and helped turn the burgeoning sport into
just a sport. He went on to win the competition's mustard belt six straight times, thrice, breaking
the world record, ultimately raising the bar to 53 and three-quarter HDB. That's competitive
eating lingo for hot dog with bun. Few would suspect in 2005 that the third place finisher
who consumed a comparatively modest 32 HDB would be the one to soon claim Kobayashi's
throne, American Joey Chestnut, a.k.a. Jaws. Chestnut returned to the contest in 2006 and
made a spirited turn, but the tsunami's tide could not be held back and he finished second,
but in his third attempt in 2007, ironically aided by a Kobayashi jaw injury, the man named
Jaws, finally won it all, 66 HDB to 63, both of which broke the world record. Chestnut
would win the rematches in 2008 and 2009, and the bitter rivalry would find its bitter
end in a contract dispute that led to Kobayashi's aforementioned arrest. Kobayashi has not
returned to the contest since. Chestnut suspects his defeated foe is dodging a rematch while
Kobayashi has floated unsubstantiated allegations Jaws is cheating at eating. As with the contest
itself, it traces its origins to 1966. To 1916, the same year a hot dog stand was opened
by a Polish immigrant who gave it his first name, but the competition in its current form
wasn't officially convened until July 4th, 1972. The one-time neighborhood competition
is now the super bowl of eating conducted amidst throngs of cheering fans and broadcasts
live on ESPN, an appropriately American Independence Day tradition, people eating processed food
until they throw up. And though Kobayashi may have been the man who put the contest on
the map, Chestnut has asserted his dominance as its all-time go. His Coney Island contest
record stands at 74 HDB. And the mustard belt has found its way around his surprisingly
slender waistline a record 14 times. But Jaws considers his greatest accomplishment his
first win over the tsunami back in 2007. Quote, it's the only time in my life where I did
something where the majority of people thought was impossible. This week on Doughboys, we
conclude Dog Dog Fest 2021. A month-long grillabration of hot dogs and pet dogs with Nathan's famous.
Wow.
Welcome to Doughboys Live. How you doing New York City?
We'll give you some context for why I almost just knocked over this table in a second.
But first let me bring out my co-host.
Hi.
Folks, this week's roast is courtesy of Mixmaster Moody. Let me introduce my co-host, Edward
Glyzzie Hans, Mr. Slice Mike Mitchell.
What's up, New Donk City?
You like that one? Is it a Mario reference? I try to see...
You're a New Donk.
I try to see as far away from you as possible.
Yeah, I'm with you. You could have gotten New Pork City, also a video game reference,
and also Hot Dog adjacent.
Oh, all right. Well, shut the fuck up for a moment.
Mitch, so...
We're here at Head Gum Live, and don't we love all the Head Gums podcast folks?
Yeah.
Hey, who out there is ready to create the Doughboys variant?
Yeah.
Goodbye, COVID-19. Hello, Dovid 21.
Should we tell them?
Yeah.
We planned those jokes.
We wrote it!
And it didn't do that well.
So, we're here at Head Gum Live, and a lovely festival, a lot of great podcasts over this
two-day stretch. We, before this show, did the power hour for High and Mighty.
And I'll give some context for those of you in the audience who don't know what that is,
and those of you who listen to this podcast later.
That entails Mitch and I and the other people who are doing the podcast with us,
one of whom is going to be in this very show,
to consume 60 shots of beer over the course of 60 minutes,
which doesn't sound like a lot, but I assure you it's a lot.
Yeah.
So, we're...
And I'm also still pretty confident that we're more sober than the crowd.
But in addition to that, on top of that, Mitch,
you had what I would characterize as several whippets.
I said whip it, you got it.
Yeah, no, we got it, we got it.
Are you hanging in there?
You doing all right?
No, I'm doing bad.
My legs feel like jello, I'm fucked up.
Huge mistake.
We're going to be fine.
Yeah, we got funny people here, that helps.
Mitch, we sure do.
Not in the audience.
Hey, yeah, I'm pretty funny.
I'm at my work, everyone says I'm the funny guy.
I'm always saying hot salad, and they're like, yeah, sure.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Why are you dressed like an insidious villain?
So, the aforementioned power hour, I had a different wardrobe,
and I was like, I think to get myself in the right mindset,
and also to have the audience who stays for both shows.
Anyone here for the first show?
Oh, wow.
Anyone here for the first show and participated in the power hour?
Oh, no.
Okay, you guys are not allowed to ask questions at the Q&A.
So, but I was like, I think I got to put myself in a different mindset,
and so I did a little wardrobe change.
Let me tell you though, Mitch, we were texting about this.
Putting on your suit for the first time after 18 months of quarantine.
That's not a fun try-on.
That's not fun.
When I was standing up, that button was hanging on for dear life.
It was like Captain America holding on to a fucking helicopter.
Yeah, the suit looks sad when you brought it into the bathroom.
I felt bad for it.
Why not stay in the Kirkland?
It looked comfortable.
You were feeling comfortable.
I was comfortable, but I'm trying to just put myself...
I had a Gatorade, I had several waters.
I got three waters here.
Wow.
I drink three waters.
Wow.
I'm just trying to hydrate and not have more alcohol
and maintain for this fucking show we're doing,
which is second after the fucking power hour.
We're going to be okay.
We're going to be fine.
We'll be okay.
We're going to be fine.
How the hell to Spoon Nation?
I'm supposed to bark.
I'm not doing it.
We're over with it.
This month is over.
It's over now.
It's over.
By the way, I just said that was great,
but I sent it into my water bottle instead of my microphone.
Let's play a little drop.
Marika, play a drop for us, would you please?
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
Can I say that?
Can I say that?
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
Can I say that?
Can I say that?
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
I'm on the cusp of vomiting.
Can I say that?
Can I say that?
Wow.
Is that true right now?
I'm hanging in there.
All right.
How about yourself?
I can't speak that well.
Do you know right before I left?
I got to say this.
We were in the car.
There's like the second to last night before I left.
In that song, if you want my body.
You know the song?
My mom sang that part of the song to me.
She looked at me and she went, if you want my body
and you think I'm sexy.
And I was like, I got to go back to LA.
This is too much.
So I'm heading back, Wigs, Monday.
Wow.
Damn, she looked good.
Anyways, um, Christ.
Dude, you know.
I'm in that house for two months.
We're not going to hook up, dude.
Michael, let's finally make subtext text.
Hey, dope boys, my buddy is super into the show,
goes to all your live events and shit.
Made this original drop, so maybe he will hear it
and be embarrassed.
Keep destroying your bodies for random people on the internet.
P.S. Nick is a fake news heat seeker.
I want to see him put it to the test
and do the Buffalo Wild Wing Super Hot Wing Challenge.
Love Sunny.
So he's basically questioning my credentials
when I say I'm something of a heat seeker.
That's true.
He's saying that to borrow a phrase
that I can't handle the heat,
that I should stay out of the kitchen.
Yes.
I guess.
First off, it doesn't all have to be
a fucking dick measuring contest.
I would lose against you.
I don't know.
We need a second tape measure for you.
Eat what you want.
If you, whatever, who fucking cares?
Yeah.
But yeah, I could dip 100% handle this spicy sauce.
No problem.
Sunny said it, not me.
I don't know.
Introduce our guests for God's sakes.
They're funny and sober.
A couple of them are sober.
Yeah.
They're here at least.
Yeah.
One is not sober.
Yes.
And he, you know, from High and Mighty in Action Boys.
Give it up for the great John Gabriel.
Come here.
We didn't discuss seating arrangements in advance.
And Mitch, you were,
Gabriel was going to come sit next to me and Mitch was like,
no, come sit next to me.
I didn't want to put someone in the position to be sitting
in between me and Mitch for an entire show.
It's like, it's eight degrees warmer in this part already.
Yeah.
Had a way out the stage from Wiger's fat ass over there.
Our next guest, you know, from the birthday boys
and the sloppy boys, it's Mike Hanford.
What are you doing?
Wow, he's in the audience.
Oh boy.
He's climbing up onto the stage.
Wow.
He's running on like Brock Lesnar.
Seems to be pain.
Come here.
Mike Hanford's in the building.
Hanford now crawling underneath the table,
emerging on the other side to situate himself
between Mitch and Gabriel.
Hello, New York.
Wow.
Our third guest.
Can I say what you said last night?
Yeah.
I saw Wiger, I was, I was on the way home from,
I had two slices of pizza.
Yes.
And I was walking back to the,
and then you were going to get wine.
You wanted to have a few glasses of wine.
And you came up to me in the first words you said to me,
this city fucking sucks.
And guess what, New York?
I love you.
This, the nickname, one of the nicknames of the city
is the greatest city in the world.
Yeah.
What's, what's the opposite of pandering?
Cause that's what Mitch is doing.
Can you easily get a pop for being like,
oh, the subway.
There we go.
No, they just support subway, the brand.
This is, this is a big free Jared contingent.
There's a group of people outside holding up
giant khakis in protest.
Release his hard drives.
Our third guest tonight, you know, from blank check
in the George Lucas talk show,
the king of crotch, Griffin Newman.
Wow.
Wow, crotch.
Wow.
He walked out with a bottle of crotch, folks.
King of crotch.
King of crotch.
I also want to say I showed up wearing my
Kirkland signature sweatshirt
and Weigar was wearing the same thing.
This is true.
Yep.
And he had to change.
He had to change.
Finally, we have jock's table and nerd's table set up.
Come on, man.
Thanks.
Thanks, sir.
It's great to be a jock.
Two jocks at a water border.
My Hanford is an athlete too,
just because he doesn't bring up college sports
on every episode of his podcast.
I try.
I rode crew at Ithaca.
I used to be able to move.
I missed you guys, all of you.
This is really fucking exciting.
Yeah.
What better way to bring it back
with an all-white male straight,
all-straight white male pale caps?
I think you could just call it a podcast,
and people know it's going to be five white guys
shouting bullshit for the entire time.
Like, I know there have been worse shows
that have happened at this venue.
Well, there was one at seven that was pretty shit.
No, it does just feel absurd when you're like,
and now the Gramercy Theater is used
to let five guys sit in lounge wear
and talk about hot dogs
motionless behind a table for two hours.
Oh, spoil-y.
Wow.
Wow.
Hey, the new Dinner for Five right here?
Wow.
Okay.
But please, it's got to be at least nine servings.
Dinner for five.
We need eight chairs and two waders, seriously.
Between us, we have every stage of Favreau.
Weigar, you're so money, my man.
I know which one I am.
Weigar's J-O-N Favreau from Crooked Media.
Yes.
That Supreme Court seat was stolen, my friends.
Anyway, let's talk hot dogs.
Because this is a big topic.
This is the topic of the month.
Hot dogs and pet dogs.
What's the month?
Dog Bark Fest 2021,
a month-long celebration of hot dogs and pet dogs.
You don't like it.
You people don't like that.
Dogtober, right?
Dog-Dobark Fest.
Right.
Dogtober.
I learned about this theme out on the sidewalk.
Got it.
Nobody told me what was going on.
The people in the line were, would you believe there was a group of white men in the line over-explaining do-boys to people?
Honey, there's the do-boys.
Can you go up to them and ask them to take a picture up with me?
Can I ask specifically, is there anyone here who has brought someone to this show as a second date?
That's what I'm curious about.
Any second-daters out there?
Any second-daters.
Okay, pretty good.
Pretty good.
I think what we've learned is that our fans don't date.
Is anyone on a date?
Someone's on a date.
Has anyone had sex in this room?
In this room?
Once.
Is anyone eating a date?
The crowd goes wild.
Is anyone here on a casual encounter?
An NSA meetup.
Or whatever they're called.
Sounds right.
Handman, let's start with you.
Me?
Do you like yourself a hot dog, and what do you like on one of them bad boys?
I like a hot dog.
The culinary world's Johnson, as they say.
Yes, yes.
They do.
You don't have to remind us.
They do.
You're from garbage play country for God's sake.
An edible cock.
Yeah, I like a hot dog, okay?
I put ketchup mustard on it.
And sauerkraut should the situation present itself.
Wow.
Alright.
Yeah.
I like it.
I came from a place, I came from Rochester, New York.
We had White Hots.
Anyone know White Hots?
White Hots.
Yeah, it's a white hot dog.
Is it really?
Yep.
And Syracuse, they call them conies.
Is that true?
Because that's the first time I had a White Hots.
I thought it was dog shit on a bus.
Was it Swigels?
Swigels.
Swigels is the company.
Swigels brand.
Far and land of Syracuse from Rochester.
Never heard of it.
Are you snacking on some sort of weed gummies?
Yeah.
Jerry's picks.
Garcia handpicked.
Okay.
Just snacking.
I feel like a 30-pad since I've seen you.
I feel like now that the show's started,
this can't potentially ruin the show for me.
Okay.
Handman, you were saying it's the culinary world's Johnson, I believe.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I didn't mean to step on that.
I don't know what else you want to know about me and the hot dogs.
Tell me, what is a white hot?
Is it spicy?
No, I think I heard some cheers from Rochester.
A pork?
Is it pork?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, as pork as it can be, I guess.
And it's good.
It's got a nice snap to it, but I prefer a red hot.
Oh, nice.
I don't like a snap in the hot dog.
You don't.
What?
Oh, don't give me a snap.
I want a boiled, mushy hot dog.
Well, Mitch, you got to start biting them to know that.
Throat Lord Mitchell takes five glizzies to the dome.
Must be a porno premium member to watch.
That's how they go down.
Like the pneumatic tubes and banks in the 70s.
Whoa, Mitch.
Like a reverse magician trick instead of pulling out ribbons.
You're just pulling sausage into your mouth.
I was on display at the magic castle for a while.
In a glass case, like a King Kong.
Hey, you think they could...
I meant to ask you guys this backstage.
You think they could fit King Kong in here?
Wait, how tall was King Kong in the original?
I'm going to say they could fit King Kong in here with plenty of room.
Hell yeah.
I think the ceiling is high enough for a...
Not the modern Kong.
The modern Kong is far too big.
I think the original Kong is like 45, 50 feet, something like that.
45 feet.
So what are we dealing with?
Original Kong.
A original Kong, six foot seven.
Not that big.
Should me and Mitch just stand next to each other under a black blanket
so you can get an idea for what it might be like to have Kong here?
You want Mitch to throw a dinosaur bone through a pterodactyl's neck or some shit?
You want us to kill Eugene Cordero?
No spoilers.
I haven't seen it yet.
I started it before the pandemic.
I have not finished it.
He started God's...
He started King...
I'm not...
I just wasn't in the mood.
I've been watching one minute a day.
Yeah.
I should be recording it for movies.
Well, that'd be...
Yeah, why don't you...
I'll do that as my next podcast.
One minute of Kong a day.
From any of the movies.
You never know which minute you're going to be talking about.
Okay.
King Kong's black and white in this one.
Oh, guess what?
He's still pissed.
He was misunderstood.
That was the whole point of the movie.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess you're right.
Yeah.
I wish those movies had more big bananas in them.
That would be fine.
But that is my problem with every movie I see.
Yeah.
Griffin, what do you do?
What do you like to do with a hot dog?
You defrost it in your ass and you eat it in your mouth.
I mean, off the top of my head, number one on the list,
I would say eat it.
Okay.
That's probably my favorite thing to do with a hot dog.
I grew up in Manhattan, New York City.
Wow.
Home of Kong.
My father, we grew up...
You do have extreme...
I rode the subway in high school energy, I should say.
You pulled that.
Man, I've had all these locked and loaded.
It feels so good to be back with what I call my friends.
I grew up very close to a Grey's Papaya location.
Wow.
Oh, yeah, sure.
My father used to eat Grey's Papaya for breakfast every morning.
Wow.
He's now a dead man, I assume.
He is somehow beating all of the odds.
The doctors are so proud of him.
No, he truly...
There was...
I think they still do, but the price has changed, called the Recession Special.
That was, you'd get two dogs and a fruit drink.
Papaya, banana, daiquiri, what have you for...
I think it used to be two dollars, and it's gone up and up and up and up.
He used to do the Recession Special every single morning.
He'd wake up, drink a bunch of coffee, take an hour-long shit,
drop my brother and I off at school,
and then his way to decompress after that was to get a Recession Special.
Wow.
What the fuck was driving you and your brother to school life?
Dad.
It drove your dad to hot dogs every morning?
Dad.
Bad.
You're a condom, people.
His doctor was like, you have two hot dogs
and a processed fruit drink every single morning?
You should change that.
So then he called it the Modified Atkins, which was,
he'd get the two hot dogs and he asked them to put them in one bun,
and he'd still drink the thing.
But the point is, this was like my father's daily routine,
and my mother didn't work, my father worked way too much.
Point of contention.
And on the weekends, my mom would be like,
I'm not getting out of bed, you fucking take care of the boys.
And he'd be like, I don't know, Grace Papaya.
So the cornerstone of my weekend was going to Grace Papaya with my father,
Saturday and Sunday, knowing that's also what he had eaten all week.
But I didn't get to be part of that.
So I truly was kind of raised on hot dogs in a lot of ways.
And if we weren't going to Grace Papaya, by the way,
the activity was, let's go to Washington Square Park
and watch street performers,
in which case our lunch is going to be hot water cart dogs.
So either way, I had hot dogs almost every weekend of my life
for 10 plus years.
Wow, wow.
So I feel like maybe...
And for the listeners, you're in the best shape on stage.
Yeah, you look great.
Gamer's not going to seriously text about the modified Ackens diet out of us.
I'd be like, we're having two dogs on three buns.
I will say, my father looks like a co-host of Doe Boys.
I got my mother's metabolism.
Wow.
It's pure luck.
That's fire, Jesus Christ.
And I don't think they were at Weiger.
Ouch.
It was like, Jesus Christ, I look like Weiger.
I better get it together.
Not when me and Mitch are also sitting there, is what I'm saying.
Are you auditioning for the sequel to many scenes
at Newark after this with that suit?
Yeah, is there a mobster who gets the shit beaten out of him
and then pisses himself?
I could pull that off.
Is there a coward?
Gamer's, what's your hot dog protocol?
What do you like to eat?
I had my first one last night for this show.
I'm poor.
I ate off the barbecue like six nights a week.
You know what I mean?
I eat hot dogs a lot in my life.
But for me specifically, the restaurant we're talking about tonight,
Nathan's holds a super dear place in my heart,
but has nothing to do with hot dogs.
I was going to save this for you.
Why did you play this or whatever the fuck video game?
How did this get played?
It's coming back to me.
Jerry, RIP.
I can't wait to try John Mayer's gummies.
They should be just as good.
Nathan's, for the one on Long Island,
the couple that were on Long Island also had arcades attached to them.
The Nathan's and Long Beach,
my parents both worked like shift hours,
so they were gone every weekend,
most weekends.
So my grandfather would watch us
and he was too old to do almost anything,
except give us a roll of quarters,
a little tray of hot dog nuggets
and three hours of just greasing up joysticks around the Long Beach,
Nathan's,
blowing money on Dragon's Lair and the Galaxy,
all the stupid expensive ones.
When pop-up gives you the money,
you have like, you're flossing.
And he, and this was,
this is some poor people's shit,
but my grandpa was legendary
because he would let you get one more re-up from him.
No one else in my family.
Like if I was like, my dad would be like,
I already gave you two dollars.
He'd be like, can I have one more?
He's like, I already gave you.
Wow.
Pop-up was like, okay, tell no one.
He has another eight quarters.
Go fucking play Street Fighter
against a 21-year-old kid.
And then I was eventually
that 21-year-old kid as well.
Wow.
Nathan's means a lot to me.
Hot dog nuggets for life.
Wow.
What are you getting exactly with a hot dog nugget?
You're getting a cocktail wiener, more or less,
but it's got a little,
it's a little closer to pretzel
than full-on puff pastry, you know?
It's like a,
I think it's approximating a bun
and it doesn't really do it.
And they're not even that good,
neither are the hot dogs really, you'll hear,
but the hot dog nuggets just felt like
so novelty that you were like.
And the red plastic sport.
Yes.
It's a lot about.
The little Biden, I think it's called.
Yeah.
That's how my fam, Joe Biden.
It's the form factor, it's the fun,
it's the novelty of the activity.
It feels invented by a child, right?
It's like pigs in a blanket that you're allowed to have for lunch.
Right.
Rules.
Whoa.
It is the, so we've got three,
all three of our guests are from New York State,
different parts.
Again.
New York.
Dint, dint, dint, dint, dint.
What do you want me to do?
Not that.
Back.
Back to New York.
Back to the New York groove.
Yeah.
That's what I play whenever I land at LaGuardia,
so I don't blow my fucking brains out
when I get to the airport.
She came from Boston.
So much searing for the idea of blowing your brains out,
specifically me killing myself.
Do.
As New Yorkers,
the debate I always, as an outsider, think of
is hot dogs versus pizza.
I feel like I'm getting some hot dog
leanings from the panel,
but I'm curious if you have to choose.
You are?
You inferred that they like hot dogs more
than pizza.
Because you've only asked this one.
They're all talking about hot dogs.
They didn't once mention their love of burritos,
I noticed.
I just mean from the established fondness
for hot dogs.
It seems like there's some,
very like, I like these things,
I like these bad boys,
but how do they stack up against the slices off?
If I can go first, if I may.
Please.
I do think,
once again, you ask us questions only about hot dogs.
We express our fondness for hot dogs.
Yes.
I also think there is perhaps
a little less competition
in the hot dog category.
Do you know what I'm saying?
There's a little more proprietary,
Chicago's coming at us,
but people will give you,
that's a different form factor,
the classic New York street dog,
whereas pizza everyone's throwing their hat
into the ring and claiming that they deserve to,
you know, to chart.
Yeah, I would say I like pizza more,
but hot dogs might be more New York.
That's my exact.
Interesting.
Maybe, I don't know.
To me, I'm from Rhode Island,
so it's bagels that I think is pizza.
I also think,
well bagels is the third,
that's the trifecta.
I think New York pizza is better than New York hot dogs,
but I think New York hot dogs are more New York
than New York pizza,
if that makes any sense.
Interesting.
People are agreeing with that.
Hanford, what do you feel?
No, no, no.
Griffin and John,
I think your points are very astute.
He just woke up for the list of questions.
Yeah.
Why did I sleep here?
I am from the western part of the state,
and I think that is a big chicken wings sign.
So I'm, that's where I'm coming from.
We're being very city-centric.
We are.
We're being very city-centric.
I'm used to it.
We're thinking tri-state.
We're thinking tri-state.
You're from north of the other Mason-Dixon line
that's in New York.
Yeah.
We're somehow the rednecks are north of us.
The Mount Kisco line?
Yeah.
Trust me,
I'm from Long Island, the Bronx,
I call upstate.
Liger, you told,
you promised me I wouldn't be bullied on this show,
and if it does happen one more time,
I'm walking.
Oh, boy.
Do people get hot dogs?
Are those carts popular?
That wasn't what I was trying to figure out.
Are those hot dog carts?
Oh, fuck.
Hot dog carts.
I'm barely holding it together because of your show.
I'm so fucked up.
Let's just take a second to say,
between shows, you and I, we discussed,
and it was like, hey, you know what,
let's just try to sober up.
You can, and I just drank waters.
I had some pizza,
and I had a Gatorade.
You, I would say, mostly had more Whippets.
You know you painted yourself into a corner
where people, strangers cheer for you doing Whippets.
Talk about the end of King Kong.
It's like, people's attention is what finally killed the beast.
Can I also, may I also throw out that,
for reasons we'll get into,
we had to get my Nathan's delivered here to the theater.
And I was eating at backstage
in between the power hour in this show,
and the other two performers who were on the power hour
looked at me, scarfing Nathan's,
and went, you're going to eat that and then go on stage?
And they had just done a power hour.
You're disgusting, man.
How are you going to have any control
out of the words coming out of your mouth?
Anyway, Mitch, how are the Whippets?
Well, I was trying to get the cream out of it
like I told you before.
Yeah, you've told me that a few times.
Just get the cream out, then you can go to sleep.
My hot dog nugget.
Hot dog nugget.
Were there 18 U's in that?
Wags, I had a Fenway Frank last week.
Oh, interesting.
We lost, shut up, we lost.
We lost.
They might be saying Spoon.
Oh.
I did the complete mom thing back there.
When you came out and they all said Spoon,
I was like, are they booing him? Why are they booing him?
No, Mike, they like him.
Who can?
I'll be booed before the end of it.
I had a Fenway Frank.
Now they're booing, that's clearly booing.
That was a distinct B on that one.
I mean, he's saying Fenway over and over again
in New York City.
New York City?
Salsa anyone?
Stop eating those.
I'm done, I will.
You've cleaned out a tin of gummies.
Wow.
Wags, we ate a lot of hot dogs this month was my point.
That's right.
We ate a lot of hot dogs and I'm done for a while.
I don't need them anymore.
Really? Yes.
Well, you're going to have your Christmas hot dog, of course.
You'll have your Thanksgiving.
Christmas Eve, we've got a big hot dog.
My mom and sister, I all eat it at the same time.
You eat it from different sides.
Mitch, in delayed answer to your question,
and I will circle back to this when it's relevant.
I, before the show tonight,
had a New York City cart hot dog
for comparison.
And I will say it took more of an effort
than I expected to find one.
I think the popularity has dipped substantially.
Wow, fascinating.
I think street meat like shawarma, kebab
had kind of surpassed.
I walk past so many shawarma carts
looking for a hot dog cart.
I think that was the hardest thing to find.
That was the peak cart now in Schwarma, I believe.
Absolutely.
And I am here for it.
Ask any hotel bed that I've eaten in a double...
Hey, cleaning lady,
that's mostly white sauce.
You love eating in a hotel
because you could use a fucking bath towel
as a napkin and feel like a king.
You were trying to get the cream out.
It's not...
You know, Mitch,
you're about to take a little trip abroad.
You're going to Costa Rica.
That's right, why?
I'm going to Costa Rica with the family.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Gonna maybe see a monkey.
Oh, that's fun.
Gonna maybe see a bird.
Just that, just a one monkey, one bird.
Knowing some Spanish might be helpful down there.
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How do you all feel about movie hot dogs?
You're sitting down in a movie,
you're sitting down to watch a feature film,
you're in the theater, you can have your choice of snacks,
but you can get yourself a hot dog.
I really embarrassed myself once.
Not by going to see solo,
but I was happening
to go see solo with some friends.
We were seeing an 11 a.m. screening
and I was so fucking high
and I didn't want like
popcorn or chocolate and we were at the arc light
and I got like they have like the mango
that mango habanero sausage.
And I got it on a roll
with like onions and mustard and I was like perfect.
And then like in the middle of the movie
I'm sitting in between friends of the show
Ben Rogers and Dom Turcus and I take out
and they are just both like
and Ben goes
are you eating a fucking sausage?
Yeah, I don't like snacks.
I like entrees.
I've said this before, but I went and saw silence on a date.
Right. And my stomach was rumbling.
Not the right movie to take her to then.
Should have took her to something loud.
Trust me, that is very much the truth.
I was like, oh, my stomach is rumbling.
I mean, it's very, it is a quiet movie.
And well, as you know this,
that I told her I had to go to the bathroom
and I ate a hot dog at the concession stand.
Thinking that would settle everything out.
People think it's crazy that I smoke weed
to take care of my anxiety.
You're fucking secreting hot dogs.
They know you're excited.
When you came back, she was like,
you smell like a hot dog.
But more so than you did earlier.
Oh, son's wrong in the bathroom. I don't know.
I saw it like a toilet flush
and a hot dog shot out and it went in my mouth.
Do you believe this, ma'am?
Just please stop talking.
You go up to the eat two hot dogs
and then bring two back for you and her.
Hey, I thought I would grab us these random hot dogs.
Did you want one? No, I'll eat yours.
I ate your other one too.
I'm a regular movie goer.
I go to the theater several times a week.
Wow.
I like snacks. I've been eating less snacks
post-coronavirus
than usual.
Is that a Fauci thing? Why is it less snacks?
I'm paranoid.
I want to keep the thing on my face
and not put things in my mouth.
Oh, right.
Is that a Fauci thing?
What did you mean?
Look, that guy's saying a lot of bullshit.
Look, we're pretty close to Long Island.
Be careful what you start here.
Fauci changes.
Try like 12 off-duty firefighters
that are like, yo!
Told ya.
In 2018, Fauci said there wasn't a pandemic.
In 2020, he said there was.
This guy changes his mind all the time.
He's a flip-flopper.
Put him on a swift boat.
I think
movie theater hot dog is
the absolute
bottom of my
movie theater snack.
I was astonished to hear you guys
put AMC
in the Golden Play Club. Perhaps I haven't tried one.
Recently enough, I will say
my most recent AMC hot dog
related memory was about
10 years ago now.
I went to see Moonrise Kingdom.
The AMC Lincoln Square.
It's nice to see yourself represented on screen.
Finally.
Holy shit.
Wow.
Gabriel has many times
referred to me as the only
adult child actor.
It's like
when you're watching a play
in the 1940s and you're like, that child
is an adult.
Interesting.
Bird bone disease or something.
Did they shave him three times?
Not at all? Really?
No.
Nick, you saw Moonrise Theater
at the Tiki Theater, right?
The one where Fred Willard was arrested
for public masturbation, that's what you're saying.
You're saying I went to Moonrise Kingdom.
I said you went to Moonrise Kingdom.
Fred Willard was caught jacking off.
I had a special screening.
So did you, yeah?
No, Mitch. I did not watch
Moonrise Kingdom at the Tiki Theater,
the Porno Theater.
Was it like when the Alamo Draft House
was advertised as a rowdy screening?
You did jerk off to Moonrise Kingdom.
Wherever you were.
I know you are, but what am I?
Pee-wee Herman.
I tried to, but my voice is shattered.
The point of my anecdote, which is going to be
all the more bleak now after all of this riffing,
I went to see Moonrise Kingdom.
I went by myself as I want to do
because I'm a person who does not know how to interact
with other human beings, and I sat
in the front row as I'm...
Well, now and now in the confines,
the proscenium, the golden arch.
I go to see it, I sit by myself.
Someone say golden arch, we should do McDonald's also tonight.
Everyone stay here, we're going to go get some.
I sit in the front row.
I assume no one else is going to sit in the front row.
I sit about five minutes into the trailers.
Artie Lange sits next to me.
Wow.
Well, it's nice to see myself represented in your stories.
We're both the Leonardo DiCaprio memes.
Artie Lange has popcorn, a soda,
and two hot dogs.
Wow.
He cackles loudly throughout the entire film.
He scarfs it all down,
halfway through the screening,
and he leaves.
I go, did he not like it?
He comes back a third hot dog.
Wow.
And I thought in that moment,
does anyone like movie theater hot dogs
more than Artie Lange?
But last week, much to my surprise,
I heard
Nick Weiger and Mike Mitchell
induct AMC
into the Golden Play Club,
and I don't know what to make of it anymore.
We had a good experience.
We had a good time.
Also, the bar is pretty low
to get in the Golden Play Club.
Most stuff just kind of gets in there
by default.
I mean, also, being the best hot dog people had
in October is a fucking
world's tallest little person competition.
It's like, it's a weird brag.
It's like, I was the least awful
poor meat food
of the week, of the month.
Do you think that someone at AMC
is running into the corporate office
to create news?
We got the Doe Boys Bump.
Dog Doe Bark Fest
has given us
the honorific of Golden Play Club
acceptance.
I don't think that's happening.
I feel like the only time
the White Castle guy came
to the live show at this theater
the last time we did it, and we gave them
a bad time at the White Castle.
You were here.
That was a rough experience.
I mean, if he's tried it, he agrees.
It's okay to be proud
of your business and not your taste.
I appreciate your honesty.
Let's talk about Nathan's a little bit,
because that's why we're here.
Gabriel, you've shared your history,
but Griffin, you talked about your father
earlier, and my understanding
is that he has some connection
to the competitive eating world.
We have talked about this
in our group text.
My father became a very passionate
fan of the IFOCE,
which I don't know if they changed their name
since, but in the early 2000s was the
International Federation of
Competitive Eating.
He was not only going to
the Fourth of July Coney Island,
Nathan's competition,
but he was going to like
qualifying matches?
Wow.
Off season?
He was going to like the gym
wrestling shows, versions of
competitive eating.
His favorite guy was Don
Moses Lairman, who was the
King of Pickles.
But never even got to the
Nathan stage. He was the King of Pickles,
and he used to wear a jacket
that was
the ten commandments on the two tablets
being struck by a pickle in between.
And
my dad was like Don
and by the way, he just
I'm also remembering his nickname
was Moses. Don
Moses Lairman.
That's my denomination.
I actually believe that.
My dad was just a guy
who would go to all of these events until
the guys knew him because he was the only
regular.
And irregular all at the same time.
Yeah, he complimented Don Moses Lairman
on the jacket. And then maybe
a year later at the next pickle competition,
Don gifted
him a jacket.
And he was like, how did you remember?
He was like, you're the only person who ever
complimented me on the jacket.
I didn't even want to do this. I just felt like
I had to do this for you.
Does he still have it?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
But all those bad lands,
of course, Badland Shugs, Badland Booker,
Don Moses Lairman.
All these people, he was friends with all of them.
I never went
because I think
my dad's investment
this is embarrassing, but my dad's
investment in competitive eating was the exact
age where I was feeling the most like
angsty, teenagery, and I didn't want to do anything with my family.
But the rest
of my family would go every
year. And I knew these guys, like they would
come over for dinner.
Wow, damn it.
Not Kobayashi, not Kobayashi, but yeah.
Can I ask, was your dad
betting on competitive eating?
My dad. I know two things about your dad
right now.
He was a degenerate sports gambler for many years.
And the terms
of my mother marrying him were
you have to stop betting and you have to stop seeing
these 15 people ever again.
My sports friends.
When I was like 10, my parents
showed me a video of a
movie, like a VHS
camcorder movie my mother made
for my dad's birthday with all of his best
friends. And I was like, who are any
of these? I'm the oldest child. I've never
met one of these people and she was like, he was
a gambler again.
All of them were just ruled out.
Pete Rose, Lawrence Taylor, you're like,
whoa.
Your dad had
a bunch of competitive eaters over the house
for dinner.
Your mom's like, what should I make? He's like
a thousand hard boiled eggs.
That's wild.
Yeah, he was like, he was
really, really into it. And this was the
reign of Kobayashi. This was pretty Joey
Chestnut. Joey Chestnut was the guy where it's
like, oh fuck, this is the most competitive
American. Yeah. Was he like, Joey was
like a baby at this point, like a very hungry baby?
Yeah. Where's Crazy Legs
Conti? Crazy Legs Conti
was his best friend. That's how he got into
all of this. Wait, Crazy Legs is your dad's
friend? He was like my dad's
guy who he connected to and then he got
pulled into this whole universe. Wow. I fucking
love Crazy Legs. Crazy Legs Conti, who was
the alcohol manager at the penthouse
executive club. That was his day job.
And then at night, he ate food.
Don't we all
Crazy Legs?
When these guys would come over, would like
watching them eat, was it interesting to watch
them eat? All
these guys had different strategies. It's like your dad
being Scotty Pippin and having people come over
to shoot around from work.
Everyone had
different strategies because there was this woman at the time
I don't know if she competes anymore, but there was
this woman at the time named Sonia Thomas, who
I was always the most fascinated by. I think she was
called the Black Widow. Yeah, the oyster eater.
Right. And her whole thing was that she was
like an 18 wheel
truck driver
and she would just drive like
for 20 hours a day
and then once a day, she would stop at like a
rest stop diner and order
everything and eat the most
insane meal anyone had ever seen
and then just like wipe the corners of her mouth
and leave. And someone like
spotted her
like a recruiter was like
like fucking plenty used to would in trouble with the
curve was like, I haven't seen
someone eat like that. Let me guess
the guy looked exactly like
Margaret does now. Absolutely.
You got talent, babe.
You got the goods.
But like she was a person where she was watching
you from the gas pumps.
I was pumping something else.
She was someone
who wouldn't eat much
other than in competition.
And other people were eating all the time to make
sure their stomach was constantly expanding.
I mean, it was like a balance of things and you talk
to these guys and they'd be like, I'm working on butter
right now next week's butter and you're like butter
and you're like, yeah, butter is not
a big one. 10 people show up in the audience
but I want to win butter because that way
I'll like, if I can crack
the top 20. It's really fun.
That was the thing. We know
Crazy Legs and then there'll be someone else
and it's like this guy's name is Ron Timson
and he has second place
in 40 events and it's like
wait, this guy needs more credit.
He has eaten 1,000 oyster.
You know, it's like, yeah, but not
tubs of mayonnaise is a category.
I think Crazy Legs
had oysters also, by the way, no one else
here knows Crazy Legs other than you and I.
We're inclined to like him.
No one at the Doe Boys Live
show knows anything about competitive eaters.
But it would be this
thing where like only the 20 top
competitors off season get to
do Nathan. So you have
to win some of these sort of side
specific exhibition matches and some
of them were like seasonal
based on holidays. Some of them were based
on they have a
collaboration with this restaurant who wants them
to eat their food like, oh, Thanksgiving
it's the Turducan competition.
But this one is like this place specializes
in tamales. How many tamales can you eat
whatever it is. So like, if you're not
an A-lister, you have to be making
a mark the rest of the year
in order to get to the Nathan stage.
Which is for them
like the Coliseum.
I mean, you guys took the trip. It's like the Gramercy
for Doe Boys.
It's fucking pinnacle, bro.
I went to the Nathan's
competition this past 4th of July.
Did you? It was great. Yeah, it was very fun.
It was one of the cyclones play whatever
stage it is. What does it smell like there?
Like a big
culinary
Johnson.
I thought I would think of something funny.
That was one of my favorite t-shirts.
Mom, can you give me another big culinary Johnson t-shirt?
So many people had
hot dog costumes on.
That's fun.
Like the one Betsy wears at like every
birthday party even though her birthday is not even
wearing it. It was great. I saw Joey Chestnut beat
the record. 76 hot dogs.
Wow. Yeah, let's cheer for him.
I'm working on
the street. I met the Michelle Lasko,
the female champ.
She was walking around with a big trophy. I was like,
did you just win that? She's like, can I get a picture?
She said, no. I said,
you're like...
Wow.
I'm working on butter. I like that as like a goodbye message.
I'm working on butter.
Well, if you told us you were working on butter,
we would know to say goodbye.
Our final goodbye. That's my end of Goodwill
Hunting. Wags is going to read a letter that says
I'll see you around. I'm working on butter.
Son of a bitch stole my
line.
You get two gunshots in the distance.
Yours have passed. I don't know if he still can,
but Crazy Legs Conti used to be able to
in real time, not during a match,
but in practice, take
like 10 sticks of butter
from fridge to the dome.
Wow. Incredible.
How many hot dogs do you think
you guys could eat in 10 minutes? Which is like
the...
Hanford, great question. Bring them out, Marika.
I don't know what I mean. Like, that amount of
butter is insane. With buns,
I think I could do 14.
14 hot dogs. Jesus.
I think like... I'm being...
I think I could do
14. And I feel like in my head,
I was like, you could definitely do 16.
And I was like, just say 14.
You don't want to seem like that.
That was your correction. Your correction was from 16
to 14.
I really said in my head, I could do 15
or 16. I'm like, well, say 14.
Just in case they call you on it, you can pull it off.
Well, before... Before you said 14,
I was like, four?
I'm going to say, one
in a quarter!
I don't
have a big appetite. I just...
I love to eat, but I don't... I get
full very quickly. So I think I could probably...
I could think I could force myself
to do six.
Which kind of buns you're not eating hot dogs, just to be clear.
But how many hot dogs
can you lay on your erect penis?
A dozen easily,
I've seen at least.
If I was eating hot dogs,
I think I could take down five
or six. And it would be uncomfortable,
but I think I could do it. Mitch, how about yourself?
As fast as you can, like... In 10 minutes?
If I had 10 minutes, yeah. I think I could maybe
do that. Because I've eaten four hot dogs,
just like to eat them. By accident.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Well, guys, I think that I could do...
I think I could have another three dog night.
Give me three
dogs, give me three dogs, mister.
Give me three dogs to the door.
We got... People got mad at us that we...
Mixed up CCR and...
And the three dog night.
Only Vietnam vets got mad.
Yeah.
Wait, that's not CCR. Who is this?
Isn't that, uh, Skinner?
Yeah, I think that's Skinnered.
Okay.
I could do about four or five dogs and then check out.
No, yeah, definitely do. In 10 minutes?
Oh, 10 minutes.
I thought it was... I thought you meant one minute.
So probably times that by 10.
40 to 50.
40 to 50 dogs.
Wow. I know for a fact
that if I eat faster than my body
can register, it's full.
I've done it so many fucking times in my life.
I've seen you do it. You start moving like the matrix
where you kind of see you over here and there.
Like the agents when you shoot at the agents.
It's a similar thing.
I know, gout.
Do you want to take the red pill or the...
Sir!
So you got a Keanu
and you got a peewee Herman.
Yeah. Lord, I know your ears.
Jesus Christ.
Probably not going to have Alec on anymore.
I could do a solid trump.
I was...
Oh, come on now.
When I came here tonight...
He's Long Island Trash.
I'm Long Island Trash.
On the train to myself tonight, I thought,
it's got to be too soon for one of these guys to make a joke like that.
And it was not too soon.
How dare you?
Anford, you and Mitch were in the other room.
And Capers, Weigart and I looked at each other
and we're like, okay, so we're the three guys
at risk of making a Baldwin crack.
Yes.
Have we gotten it out of our system?
Do we think we're clean?
We shouldn't do it under any circumstances.
Alec left me a voicemail
that I want to play for.
It was an accident, you fat fucking pig.
Capers, you little piggy.
Capers, you little piggy.
I'm on the hunt for Red Ducktoberfest
Buns School or whatever.
It was her birthday today
or yesterday, his daughters.
I didn't know that.
Mitch.
The end of entertainment tonight lets me know.
It shows all the birthdays.
And I was just like,
she probably got fucking reamed out today
by fucking angry.
He was probably in a bad mood.
Probably.
Hopefully he was.
He at least let him feel that
for a fucking day.
The audience doesn't want us to talk about Alec anymore.
I don't want to talk about it anymore
and I started it, I feel awful.
Nathan's famous was founded in 1916
in Brooklyn.
Co-founded by Polish immigrants,
Nathan and Ida Handwerker
named for Nathan
and over 200 physical locations worldwide
and over 100 virtual locations
due to the pandemic.
Griffin, you got yours from a virtual location,
a ghost kitchen.
You ate yours in Second Life, right?
A digi-dog.
I uploaded an NFT
of cheesy fries.
I was not free last night
when you guys were making your program
to Coney Island.
I was planning to go to a location today
and I woke up and I found out that there
seemed to be no open locations
in any more.
They have multiple ghost kitchens.
You guys ordered me Nathan's
to hear from Black Iron Burger.
So there's
weird murkiness in terms of
how much am I getting Nathan's
versus whatever Black Iron is working on
in their own kitchen.
We'll talk about it, but your rings
look decidedly different than the rings that Mitch and I had.
I didn't eat them at a protest
because I don't think they were true Nathan's.
Right.
You're welcome.
Gabriel, I believe you also,
and I don't know if it was a location
or if it was a virtual location,
but you got yours in Portland.
Yeah, because when I realized I was landing
in New York at 4.30,
I would have to eat Nathan's
before the power hour.
And I was like, I just can't do it.
And last night, I'm texting these guys.
I'm like, I gotta figure out something healthy to eat
so that I can handle Nathan's before the show.
And then I'm on Grubhub in Portland, Oregon
and Nathan's pops up and I'm like,
oh, fuck, am I gonna do
Nathan's at 11 o'clock at night?
And I got Nathan's delivery
and the delivery guy
looked at me like,
wellness check.
He's like, you're in Portland, Oregon.
Like every restaurant is open
till midnight. You can eat any hipster,
any fucking
couture food you want.
You want two weird hot dogs
that deliver worse than they're served,
which is bad.
And that's what I ate in my hotel room
alone last night.
These guys will post the picture.
It looks like a fucking prison meal.
It looks like
Firefest was delivered hot dogs
to my hotel room.
Davies, you're like one of these 24-7
On Your Grind guys.
It's like, how do we make the schedule work
so I can eat the right shit?
Because of my career on this tour,
I had to eat Nathan's and I have to watch Dune.
I painted myself
into this career corner where it's like
you got to talk about Dune for a little bit of money.
You got to talk about hot dogs for a little bit of money.
You keep hustling, Gabriel.
How did we get so lucky?
Look at us now.
I told you, Dad, I would sort of do
comedy and art.
I can't tell you how many times I've been like,
Ma, be quiet. I'm watching Muppet Christmas Carol
for double boys.
This is a real thing. It's a real job.
It feels good to tell your partner though
like, babe, I'm sorry, I have to order
a shit ton of Chick-fil-A tonight.
She's like, why? I'm like, it's for a podcast.
She'll text us
and she's like, is he doing it? We're like, no.
No, he was on tour
with you all last weekend, right?
Uh...
Oh, I checked into the China Buffet
Hotel.
They set your bed up next to the Rangoonz.
It is telling to me though
that Nathan's was never, even in New York,
you know, it's hub, yes.
A chain that had
a lot of full locations,
but it was a place that had like,
there's a fucking Nathan's in Penn Station,
there's a Nathan's in Port Authority,
there's the fucking Hell's Kitchen New York
food court
that has like a church's chicken.
There's a Nathan's in this barbershop
that's bought by the one train
subway entrance.
There were a lot of places that were not necessarily
even food places that had a Nathan's
in the back, and like, all of them have closed
in the last year. Nathan seems to primarily
exist as virtual kitchen
within other establishments.
I get my hot dogs from my tailor.
Yeah, let's take up the cuffs,
and of course, another dozen, please.
Served on Wiger's Cock, if we could?
I don't know, it was said earlier.
I thought that was the thing you guys talk about.
It's a thing I talk about, for sure,
with my therapist.
I can't stop thinking about that guy
with hot dogs on his dick.
Why are you looking like you're about to say something?
I was going...
Thank you, Hanford.
I was going to ask you... I like Baldwin's Innocent.
Oh, alright, wise. Mitch.
Mitch.
It's Wiger saying it
in that snare. Oh, okay.
Wiger. Wiger.
So, Hanford,
you got Nathan's, you went on your own.
I went alone on this one.
Wow.
I went alone, I went with a friend of the pod, Ben Axelred.
Oh, hell yeah.
Passed gas.
That was me kissing Ben on the lips.
Yes, we went to a gas station.
There was a Nathan's and a gas station.
Really?
Because all the other restaurants, in big quotes,
were closed permanently.
We went to the gas station, there was a counter
that they had Nathan's going on.
This sounds like a true lie.
There's exactly...
We were at a gas station and there was a counter.
And I...
And I went into the bathroom and this guy served me a hot dog
through the hole in the bathroom door.
This storefront is a Nathan's slash watch repair?
I used to work in this weird
downtown advertising agency
and we used to get the best...
Ooh, Mad Men.
Yes, that was the one.
I drove a lawn mower around the conference room.
There was a...
a jewelry store that had the best
Bon Me sandwiches in it.
It was a jewelry store until he got to the back
and there was four Vietnamese ladies
operating 14 toaster ovens.
Not like a...
just a bunch of plugged-in toaster ovens
and they're just cranking them out and there were $5 a pop.
I ate two a day for the three-week gig.
It's funny that when you walk in,
the back of the house is scared they're going to get robbed.
Yeah, they're just two guys with rifles
right by the toaster ovens.
Cover the pate.
This one's a fucking freak.
I run in with, like, a Nixon mask on.
Make it two, Utah.
Two Bon Me's.
So you're at the gas station, Nathan's.
Yes, and, you know, the people behind the counter were...
Is it true that you were going to go by yourself
and then when you realize it was a gas station,
you're like, I got a call, Ben.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He'll eat me alive over there.
No, I was going to get gas.
I don't know the car here, but I was going to get
a gallon of gas anyway. I keep it on hand.
Just make it up a drink for the show.
I was going to bring a half a gallon at 87.
With the supply chain stuff, it's good to have gas.
You're going to have some gas around.
What do you think's in here?
I'm a potter.
You're a liver?
There's a liver I got to bring to Seattle
tomorrow for my show.
Who would you like to bring?
My show.
Sean Kemp needs it.
For those of you who aren't aware,
Gabriel is in the midst of his own tour right now.
He made time for us,
but your tour is taking you,
took you from San Francisco to Portland,
to New York City,
and tomorrow night back to Seattle.
Five days,
five flights, I'm either on stage,
asleep, or on a plane,
for like, for five straight days.
Oh, watch and doon!
Thank God I have a black...
You live from New York City.
Thank God I have amic, delta amic,
so I can shit in the lounge in all of these cities.
You mean delta variant, right?
What's that? Delta variant?
Yeah, delta platinum variant.
Why, do you want to know about my hot dog visit?
I certainly do, Mitch.
Perfect time for me to go piss.
Yeah, same here.
Okay.
You want to go too?
Hanford is also leaving.
Come on for me to fucking lounge.
Out!
I went to the original Coney Island location yesterday.
I drove with Dan-o.
Everyone knows Dan-o.
What the fuck are you doing?
My hamstring just cramped.
He's stretching.
You're stretching?
My hamstring just cramped up.
Let's see how we can do it, right?
A live glimpse of how flexible Nick is.
You get it now.
I don't know what happened.
I think I need a...
Did you pull a Belvedere?
What happened over there?
I had a little... I moved my leg
and my hamstring just cramped up,
like abruptly.
Yeah, sorry.
It's probably time to put you down.
I went to the original
Coney Island location, the Nathan's.
Mitch, as did I.
Wow.
You were a couple hours after me.
I did not wait for you, but...
That's right.
I drove from Quincy, Massachusetts.
I said goodbye to my mom.
I said I'll see you in a few weeks.
And I drove with Dan-o, as we know,
and Cato, his Dan-o's wife,
their husband and wife.
We drove from Quincy directly
to Coney Island to
Nathan's.
And it was
a nightmare. I mean, it took us, like,
six hours to get there.
Right.
And Dave King joined us.
Oh, here he is. Everyone's back.
Gabris is back with a slice of pizza.
That is the most I've run
in a long time.
Did you run to a pizzeria?
It's the only bathroom I can use
in New York City.
I miss rays.
You know, you can just go to a restaurant
and watch someone eat a slice of pizza.
No, they want to tear it here.
Let's do that.
So I went to the Coney Island location
and Dave King joined us, friend of the podcast.
Hi, Dave.
He's out there. You don't look at me when you say that.
And then we ordered
from the self-order kiosk.
There wasn't a lot of people there. Now, the last time
I was here, I went on a pizza tour of New York City.
I went to DeFares.
I went to F&F Pizzeria.
Hold for applause each time.
I went to Spamoni, and what is it?
Ellen B. Spamoni Gardens?
And that one sucked shit.
Fuck you.
It was bad.
The Spamoni was good. Wow.
Whatever.
He didn't like me from the start. Fuck off.
Um...
So we ordered from the self-order kiosk,
and we put it all in.
And it was a gigantic order.
Oh, my God, damn it.
Hanford has climbed back on stage from the audience again.
He don't have to do it the same way.
Once again, he's climbing under the table
to take his seat at the chair.
So we put in our order of, like, 19 items.
Right.
And the computer said...
The computer said,
there's an issue sending your order to the kitchen,
which I assumed was just because it was too big.
And when I said the computer said it,
it said it on the screen. The computer didn't say it there.
It didn't talk.
Mitch, there's a no-order problem.
Well, what would it sound like if it did, Mitch?
It would sound like one half of this podcast.
Hey, buddy.
If a computer could talk to Harambe,
you would have dough boys.
Do you say Harambe?
I heard...
This is, like, the second Harambe...
Harambe?
He's back.
Mitch, who's Harambe?
Oh, I've got a story for you.
Mitch, you were just talking about a hot dog computer.
I like this.
That's Mitch's...
Three of the people on stage went to the bathroom.
We came back, we got up to,
so we placed our order as...
Ha-ha-ha!
Oh, my...
Well, my hamstring is cramped up.
I would not have ran if I knew you would get to...
We went to a computer, so...
I was happy when Harambe died.
I was rooting for it, even.
Wow.
Oh, fuck off!
They pull people's testicles off.
They go for your face and your...
Yeah, face and genitals, first thing, yeah.
So they disarm somebody.
Griffin, can you get this podcast back on drink?
Yeah, absolutely.
This is a mess.
You went to the fucking Coney Island...
Mitch, you placed the order in the computer...
It's the mayor who put it in the bathroom!
Stop yelling at me!
I went and I put in the order that there was a problem
with the computer. There was a computer issue.
I don't know if the computers were down all across the country,
or if it was just in this restaurant.
There was a nationwide...
Nathan's blackout!
It may have been a nationwide issue.
The whole system is down.
In a 2K situation, the guy behind it said,
I don't know, and I said, I don't know either!
I don't know.
And so, eventually,
he said, can I see your receipt?
And the receipt was...
Like CVS length?
In my hand, in the end of it was in the ocean.
There was a fish on the end of the receipt
when we pulled it in.
And it was a gigantic receipt, said Mitch on it.
That's my name.
Not my real name, my name is Mark Mitchell.
Don't worry about it.
It's just for Top Dog,
or Big Dog, or whatever it is.
No, it's Top Dog.
And so, I gave the person behind the counter
my receipt, and he said, we're going to work on this.
And they went to town.
Should I just talk about what I got?
Yeah, I mean, we're almost...
We should be getting to our final thoughts right now.
The people in the kitchen are like,
a Little League team just came in.
We got the order.
Oh, never mind, it's one guy.
One dead gorilla.
Hot dogs killed the beast.
I got myself a...
Should we do an improv?
Should we take a suggestion and do an improv?
Let's do a hair roll.
We just had to do one.
That's the one thing worse than live podcast.
And it was the thing we also used to do.
And backstage, we're talking about
think, oh, we don't do that anymore.
It's like D&D nerds looking down
on people who play Magic the Gathering.
It's like...
It's like...
By the way, who went to the live D&D podcast
here last night?
Headgun Presents!
I got myself...
Here's what I got.
This is what I got when I went to the Nathan's location.
Let's just get...
We just got it.
Just start saying words out loud, Mitch.
Just read it.
Nobody's going anywhere. This is it.
An orange cream shake.
I also got one of those.
I got myself a large Coke, which was very big.
An order of onion rings.
I got onion rings.
Who else got onion rings?
I only got fries.
And you got those weird rings.
An order of cheese fries.
An order of fried oysters.
What?
A, Nathan's has them.
B, you ordered them?
They do say...
In his defense on the signage outside
where this tourist mecca
it does say that Nathan's seafood.
They really push the seafood.
An order of fried oysters.
I did have a three dog night.
I can't think of a parody song
off the top of my head.
Big Wheel, keep on turning.
It's a hot dog
roller grill.
Joy to the world
is a three dog night.
Joy to the dog, of course.
Of course.
I had a bacon chili cheese dog.
I had a chili cheese dog with onions.
Yes.
The bacon chili cheese dog had onions and sauerkraut
and was a well done dog.
This reads like the Unabomber
except for a suicide note.
Did George Weiger write this?
Mitch, when you told me that I was doing
Nathan's for this, you said
just go and just get hot dogs.
Maybe I'll do a chicken sandwich and a burger too.
He said no, that will disqualify you.
I did say it would disqualify you.
I said, man.
And here you're eating seafood and a hot dog.
I got a plain hot dog with onions on it
and I put ketchup and mustard on everything.
Gabriel, you got a burger.
Daniel got a burger.
I was catching up on Doug Lobster,
man, and
I was ordering my Nathan's
off the Grubhub app listening to you guys
and Susser says out loud
and no cheeseburgers.
And I just added a cheeseburger
as like a full blown reactionary
queen moment.
I was like, fuck you, commish.
And I just put it in.
And it wasn't good.
Can I tell you something?
I got a cheeseburger too.
Oh my God.
The rules are out the window.
No hot dogs.
Oh, I got hot dogs. I'm not an idiot.
I got hot dogs coming out the yin-yang, bro.
On that note, Griffin,
you got yourself a Philly Cheese Steak
dog.
In theory, in theory.
My order was
plain hot dog, Philly Cheese Steak dog.
The menu you sent me had three options.
Regular dog, chili cheese dog,
Philly Cheese Steak dog.
Third one's the new option.
I've had a chili cheese dog.
I want a regular dog to refresh my memory.
Let me try the Philly Cheese Steak dog on top of that.
I asked for onion rings instead of fries
because I thought they travel better.
And I asked for the
orange dream shake.
Shake's not available.
That was the first text you sent me.
I went, okay.
Really, the first thing I ever said to you.
It's the first time we've ever spoken.
New text, unknown number.
Remember
shakes go with the snakes?
What?
I believe what you texted me was
no ho on shakes.
And then the next text was
no go.
Yeah.
That would be like an evil Santa.
What, you want more Baldwin shit, you animals?
Evil Santa is good clean fun.
And we have two people on stage
who could fucking kill that role.
I want it so bad.
I'm glad Mel Gibson
got to play the fat man.
Finally, give him another crack.
I went to a dirty water
hot dog stand
outside Grand Central on my way
over here. Yes.
The hot dog cost me five
dollars. Wow.
Now, for the sake of the podcast,
I said, okay,
that is the price you are charging me here.
I am paying for it, but then I went and googled
the New York's Park Commission
and apparently the approved
rate is two dollars and fifty
cents. Oh boy.
This guy double charged me, but part
of the judgment is, is this worth the
amount you're telling me a cost? Right.
Another thing was, this cart had no prices
advertised on the outside, which apparently
is not illegal, but is a violation.
You can get a demerit
for it. Did you report them?
I did.
I did. We're all going down
to the commissioner's office tonight.
Who's coming with us?
It's been a 19 month pandemic.
I was like, shut these motherfuckers.
I can't believe I made it through.
Oh, the food podcast is shutting
me down.
I went searching for carts.
I found three outside of
Grand Central. They all were
Sabaret carts. I couldn't find a Hebrew
national. I wanted one for comparison
sake. I asked the other
two carts how much you charge them for the dog, five
dollars. Wow.
Oner among thieves. They're all
charging five dollars for these people getting
right off of the fucking metro
north. Yeah, I think
if you're away from Grand Central and Penn Station
you can find two fifties. I know, but this is part of what
I'm judging.
For the Nathan's episode, part of what are you
judging is the price gouging that local
hot dog cartoony.
For comparison sake,
I have my dog, ketchup,
mustard, I eat it, I go,
look, that cost
2.5 times more than I thought I was about
to pay. Pretty good.
I had a cart dog in a while.
Get on the subway immediately start
feeling terrible. That thing set
horribly. So I'm coming over here knowing
I'm about to get Nathan's backstage.
I bite into that Nathan's
dog. It rules.
Wow. It rules.
It rules. Now, comparison
sake, once again, I just had a shitty dog that
was overpriced. Sure. This Nathan's dog
at a more upscale
establishment by comparison
probably cost less
than the cart dog I got.
And unfair
advantage, I will admit,
I threw a little crunch on that dog.
On that Nathan's dog.
Unfortunately, I think according to this
commissioner's rule, that does disqualify you.
I threw a little crunch on the dog. No crunch.
Thanks, commissioner.
Tastes great.
Opened up the onion rings. You guys
said that looks different than the onion rings you
got. Looks very different. Very different.
Then it's in the sidelines. It doesn't count.
Tried one. A little crunch. Tastes a good.
Doesn't count.
And those are still down there? Yes.
Then I opened up what was supposed
to be my Philly cheesesteak
dog. I bit into it. I went, this is
really good.
Then I went, not tasting the dog.
I opened it up. I rifled my fingers
through it. No dog
in there. They fucked up.
They forgot the hot dog.
I just got a straight up
dog. They fucked up.
Do all the Philly cheesesteak
dog. That's the ultimate fuck up
is even order. They were like, someone
clicked on it. They were like, I don't know.
Dice up hot dogs and put it in a bun.
It's just for show. I didn't know you could
click it.
That's like ordering
beer.
And you open it up. Open the beer.
And there's nothing in it.
Well, oh yeah.
That was good.
Very similar situation.
Pretty much follow that.
The three part questioning
backstage. Why didn't you just say what
Hanford said? I don't get it.
I can think of one more
example.
Three part questioning backstage.
Adam Pally was on the power hour.
He did not stay. I'm here and said, I'm
sorry. This is what we wanted.
He watched me eating this.
He said, why would you order a Philly
cheesesteak from Nathan's? I said, I thought
Philly cheesesteak hot dog.
He said, why would you order that?
Yes.
I broke down my logic. Wanted to try a
variety comprehensiveness sake of the
podcast. Question number two was, and
you're going to go on stage and perform
after that. He says this while taking
whippets.
I continue to explain my logic
and his third and final question was,
you're single, right?
And I went, yes,
you've read me perfectly. You're like, I told
you when I said I ordered the Philly
cheesesteak hot dog. You have no
attachments to anyone else in this world.
But the Philly cheesesteak
was good. It doesn't count. I don't want to
anger Susser. The hot dog in comparison
was much better than the street dog
that I tried, which I feel like is
the base reference point that I should
throw out here. Wow, fair enough.
Should we get to final thoughts on Nathan's?
I think we're about that point where we
need to get to our fork scores.
I do want to say real quick, my experience
was that I took the train straight
from the airport.
Actually, that's a thing. I took the train
from Nathan's to
back to the hotel,
but I had to take a
timing-wise to get to Nathan's before it closed.
I had to take a fucking cab
and it was miserable. It was an awful ride.
Anyway,
just as it was bad traffic, I wanted
to ride the choo-choo out of the fucking
airport. Anyway, I didn't get to.
But I got there. The service was great.
I had my luggage with me
and I ordered a
bun.
Then...
You sent me the receipt and I hadn't
listened. I was like, oh, right.
He's plant-based.
I have all my luggage with me and I
asked, I believe Nassir was his name.
Nassir was a prince. I said,
can I get just
a bun?
And he had to take it up the chain
of command.
He took it all the way to Nathan, I heard.
He goes up to Nathan and
I can see him mouthing like
just a bun in the distance.
But he helped me take
the shot.
What? Sniper shoots, Nick.
That's like getting just the bun
is like, if you go to Wendy's and you're like,
I'll take, what's their famous?
Quarter pounder or something? I'll get the quarter
pounder.
And you open it up and there's no
meat in it.
You know what that is?
It's a very similar thing.
It's a very similar thing. It's like going to Wendy's
and ordering the quarter pounder.
The famous
Wendy's quarter pounder.
So you got this bun,
you took your luggage and you got on the
Cyclone, is that correct? Yeah, straight to the
Cyclone. He was like, this choo-choo train
is going in circles.
And I want to confirm you're
committed to putting no condiments on these
buns. You're just... Dry buns.
So I got a...
A millennials nightmare.
Liger is the...
Aren't we millennials, Mitch?
I don't know.
This is an ass-eating joke.
I know, don't we eat ass, Mitch?
No, thank you.
We did a 96 last night.
Nassir's
brow was furrowed throughout the entire encounter,
but he was very patient with me,
and it's the only place I've been to
during this month that charged me for
bread only.
They had an item, line item on the
receipt, bread only
79 cents. So I got a bun,
and I was not gouged for it. I also got cheese
fries, onion rings, creamy orange shake.
Mitch, I agree with you that the creamy orange shake,
I like that. I don't know if you got your thoughts.
The cheese fries were great, the onion rings were oily,
but the...
I also got something that we have not addressed here
in this Dog Doe Bark Fest month,
which is a brew dog. I got myself a Coney Island
Brewery Beach Beer, which is a colch,
and it was nice. It was a nice little treat with my meal.
Why? Our order took so long that
the man behind the counter gave me one for free.
They seem understaffed,
and like maybe they don't, you know,
the supply chain, maybe they don't have everything
they need, but the service
was very, very pleasant there.
I thought they were very helpful. And patient.
I got to say this about Wagga.
This is not really about the podcast.
It's the perfect time to start this.
You...
Hey, I guess it is.
Nick must be the best actor I've ever seen,
because what he said was insane.
He went to a hot dog restaurant
and he ordered a bun.
And there was no crack
in his smile or anything.
You know that's the craziest thing
in the world, but you're not like...
And then, I couldn't say that
without...
You're gonna smile unless you show him a flash card
on his face.
But Cheeto himself couldn't kill it.
It is bizarre that you often
criticize yourself, Wagga, on the podcast,
as not being a very good actor
when you walk amongst us
undetected every day
your entire life.
Anyway, let's get
to our final thoughts on Nathan's.
So
I am a...
I am a human man.
I am a regular person.
And as part of that,
I badly need to do what you did earlier
which was urinate.
So I'm going to
leave the stage and empty my bladder
and we're gonna go down the line.
And I think by the time I return, we'll have gotten...
Mitch will be like the computer said.
It will be my turn
to speak. So Griffin Newman,
what is your fork score for Nathan's famous?
Look, I think a dirty water
cart dog is my baseline
and I'm biased.
It's a childhood attachment.
But Grace Papaya is my high water
mark at this point.
What used to be a little bit of a chain
I think is reduced to only one location
now but it still is the best
as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, I think
Nathan's is a chain
particularly
underserved by moving to a
digital kitchen primary
platform because the things
that they offer do not travel
well. You don't want a delivered
hot dog. I didn't even order fries
because I knew they wouldn't make it intact
and I couldn't get the shake
I wanted. It's hard to hold that against
them but also I tried to go to location
and I couldn't. So
I have to judge
from that vantage point I like the cheese steak
but it doesn't count. I do not want to incur
the wrath of supper. He's tearing up listeners.
He's welling up like Demi
and Ghost. I think
if Grace Papaya is a five
and the cart dog I had was a one
then the plain dog I had from Nathan's
was a three.
That's fair.
Three forks? Is that three forks?
Three forks. Three forks.
I ordered Nathan's
to a courtyard Marriott
in Portland last night.
I had it delivered to the lobby
and the guy wouldn't make eye contact
with me. I got two dogs
one chili cheese, one plain
that I dressed with mustard
and relish. I like the neon green
relish. I'm a big fan.
I thought everything was pretty
fucking gross and I don't hold
it completely against Nathan's. Nostalgia
is so strong with this one. But I
will say
I had one bite at the end
I was like I had like half a hot dog there
I couldn't even fuck with it anymore. I took
just the dog, like the little dog off the bun
and bit it and I was like
fuck that's really good.
That tastes really fucking good.
The bun sucks is what I
Do you guys hear ticking coming from underweiger's chair?
Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha
We need Robert Langdon here stat.
The bathroom's empty.
I do agree
with you though that like having two dogs
back to back within the course of an hour
you do recognize that the quality of the
frank itself at Nathan's
is above average.
I would say their buns were worse than
I remember. Potentially they don't have the good ones
in Portland and they
travel awful. They don't tinfoil
them. They put them in like paper
so when they come it's literally like
a cold movie theater dog
but the fucking meat itself is so good
that I gotta go with two and a half
forks. Wow. Wow.
Wow.
I was like why am I still talking
just say a number and you can be done.
Ha ha ha ha
We're stalling because it takes two hours
for the urine to drain out of Weiger's
penis. He's back. He's back.
He's back. I timed it poorly. He's back.
You have to get two stage hands
to help him put it back.
Ha ha ha
Weiger leaving when it's time to like
talk about your like hot dog stuff
it's like if you were like
training your whole life
you're an Olympic figure skater
you train, train, train, train so you wake up
every morning at 4am and you get the Olympics
and the judges aren't there
You know what?
That's good. That's a good point.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
I went to Nathan's at a gas station
I got a cheeseburger which I did not like
I got the french fries
which were
bloated and weird and soggy
and I did not like them
I got a chili cheese dog
and a regular
hot dog with a mustard and ketchup
Did you guys just do ketchup and mustard on yours?
I did crunch. I did crunch.
Oh right.
The ketchup came in a zigzag
formed down the
down the culinary Johnson
and then a stripe
just a stripe of mustard so we
crisscross, stripe
and I thought that was a good way of doing
the ratio of mustard to hot dog
to ketchup
It was with Ben Axelred he pointed that out to me
Oh
Thank God he was there
So thanks Ben
Did I like the hot dog?
I love the hot dog
Did I enjoy the chili cheese dog?
More than I could even express to you
Five forks for me
Four forks
Wow
Wow
My goodness
He's one coy mother fucker
the hand man
baby
You might have a combination for that Oscar way
Remember the rules
Only the hot dogs count
My man threaded that needle
Good work hand man
I also had a cherry coke
That's fun
Drinks in the stink and one in the pink
What is the expression?
Jesus
Drinking the sink
The drinks are allowed
Pour the drink in the sink and one in the pink
I have to pee so bad
and I haven't gone and I won't
That's not true
That is not true
For this crowd I'm going to hold it
the whole night
Yeah
Yeah
I can only pee in a Quincy basement
Wise I had good company
while I was at Nathan's
but for a place that is
some sort of landmark of sorts
Yeah
It sucked really bad
And my thought wise
I don't know how you feel about it
but first of all
the fry clams
were fried little husks
We didn't know what they were
Did they fry the clam shells as well
or was it only
That might have been the issue
The clams
The thing that stood out to me
the bun was bad
It was a stale ass bun
at the original Nathan's
That's like
Never mind
The elusive fifth beat
Wiger
I said if I got bullied one more time
I was going to leave
but I know he's a good guy
Wiger
I said if Hanford complimented me one more time
I was going to storm off this fucking stage
Oh boy
Sorry
It was really bad
Look when you go to Regina in Boston
Here we go
Here we go
I forgot where I was from
No
We saw your face
For a landmark place
For all I care knock it into the sea
You knock all the fucking Coney Island into the sea
Jesus
You know what
Boardwalk empire fuck it
Fuck New York
Fuck all of you
Fuck
Boardwalk empire is very funny
Hey that crossed the line
He better not say
Fuck Brooklyn 99 next
Never
I love that show
It's a Boston guy
I love New York
It's a great place
Coney Island
Nathan's Coney Island doesn't live up to
Look I had Defars
Pizza
Spamoni gardens
We won't go over that again
You can't start pandering now
I know I turned on him
But I can never turn on him
I love the crowd
2.5 forks
It's bad
It's bad
Not to me
You were at a gas station
How dare you
There wasn't much of a line at the original Coney Island location
Service was good
But it was very slow
It was over 20 minutes before I got my order
It's also off season
I would say in the summertime you're getting like the full
The lines were around the corner
When I was there on this pizza tour
It was down the block
Which is insane
For anyone to wait that long for this shit
Shut my ass up
Well I am reminded a little bit
And I think this is better
But of band LA Landmark
Pinks
Which we're not allowed to talk about this month
Pinks is in the stink
But it is a similar sort of thing where
That is like a place that always has a line
And there's an attraction
It's a very distinct looking building
But its location and the crowds
Are like almost like the interesting part about it
Like it's almost like the food kind of takes a backseat
I will say
It's like what occurred first
There's commercials
Right
I don't know but they both appeared at the same time
And a lot
And you were like
What is
The cheese fries were
You gotta go on that cruise by the way
Again?
We went for your bachelor party
The cheese fries were very very good
They were, I love them honestly
I thought they were fantastic cheese fries
I love the sauce, I love the texture of the potatoes
I did not get a little weird little red fork
Which was a bummer
That's what I was looking for to do the most
But
I did not get that
So I had to eat it with my fingers
And the onion rings were just greasy
And not nearly as good
Creamy orange shake was good
Beer was good
I'm with Mitch, the bun was stale
It was a stale bun that they tried to bring back to life
The bun was stale
Wait can I double check something
Orange cream shake, a beer
And then rode the queue train back to the midtown
Yeah it was a real
And by riding the queue train you were just walking
You were saying that you were a member of few and on
I mean you had a sergeant Mike
General Mike Flynn rally
In Coney Island
I'm on the queue train, choo choo
Here we go one
Dominion finishing it
Don't even fucking get on
What was the
Five forks
So Gabriel what was your score?
Two and a half
Griffin what did you do?
Three
In comparison to the dirty water cart dog
You want this show to end
End of the show for God's sakes
There's definitely two more segments
I thought we were gonna
Eat some candy and talk about that
Or guess where the flavor soda was from
I'm gonna go three forks
For Nathan
I think it was a three fork experience
So now do I win
Because I had the highest number
You walk away
With a prize
Which is a quarter pounder
With no patty in it
Wow
Don't steal my jokes
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Hey, uh, okay, so that was our review
That was Ethan's famous
Um, and we were
We were gonna do a segment but we're running long
I do wanna make sure we get everyone's questions in
So we're gonna skip right to the Q&A for time's sake
Sorry
SNL is starting, we gotta watch
Just like
Just like a restaurant
We value your feedback
Let's open up the feedback
So we're gonna take some audience questions now
Listen to yourselves
Listen to yourselves
Please
Imagine telling your kids about this one day
So like the man
Never mind
So when I call your name, come on down
And the first question I have that I see here
Is from a Daniel O
Can Daniel O come to the mic?
Is there Daniel O here?
Down there
Hey!
Oh my god, it's Quincy's own
Oh, Daniel
Wow
This is like a Clark Kent Superman
Moment
Hi everyone
Hi, Daniel
You have a question for us
Nick
The burger boy, Wyga
That's right
But what is your full legal name?
Oh
Thanks, Daniel
I'm surprised I've never had this conversation
With you, my full legal name is Nicholas
Frank Wyger
God, this
Show is so embarrassed
This is so long
It's so insane
It's a Saturday night
We talked about competitive
Eaters for 30 minutes
What's going on?
I said it's a Saturday night
You're just pointing out people
In the audience, just stop it
We're ending the show
I thought we were doing a segment
Where we do Let's Be Frank
My full legal name is Nicholas Frank
And sometimes I go by Frank
Which means it's time to review the weekend hot dog news
In another edition of our regular segment
Let Me Be Frank
Wow
Hot dog simmer in the city
Great am I grill getting greasy and gritty
Toast bun, don't it look pretty
Sucking on a dog like you're sucking on a titty
Pork and bean, sausages and long bread
Rolling on a roller girl, ketchup and mustard
One bite, it's a different world
Swap dog bites with a girl
Munch on, munch on and chomp all night
Despite the farts, it'll be alright
That taste, when the casein' has snapped
Later that day, you'll for sure have to nap
As it simmers in the city
Like you're sucking on a titty
Sucking on a titty
You ain't nothing but a hot dog
Frying all the time
You ain't nothing but a hot dog
Frying all the time
You ain't never been a burger
And you ain't no lunch of mine
Well they said you were sandwich
Well that was just a lie
They said you were sandwich
Well that was just a lie
You ain't just bummin' on the wiener
And you sure don't qualify
You got a Frank in me
You got a Frank in me
When your pantry's
Out of bed
And it's hours and hours
Till you might be fed
You just remember what the do-boys said
But you've got a friend in me
Colonel Ketchup
Did you order the hot dog?
You on answers
I think I'm entitled to
You on answers
I wanna be Frank
You can't handle being Frank
Son, we live in a world
That has grills
And these grills
Have to be guarded by men with tongs
Who's gonna do it?
You?
You, Lieutenant Cheeseburg
I have a greater appetite
Than you could possibly fathom
You weep for sausage
And you curse the barbecue
You have that luxury
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know
That sausage being overcooked
While tragic, probably saved calories
In my existence
While grotesque and incomprehensible to you
Saves calories
You don't want to be Frank
Because deep down in places you don't want to talk about at restaurants
You want me on that grill
You need me on that grill
We use words like
Honor, code, medium rare
We use these words
As the baby back rib bone of a life
Spent defending something
You use them on a menu
I have neither the time nor the inclination
To explain myself to a man
Who rises and eats atop the tablecloth
Of the very freedom that I deep fry
And then questions the manner in which I prepare it
I would rather you just said
That's tasty and went on your way
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a spatula
And stand a post
Either way, I don't give a ham
What you think you're entitled to
Did you order the hot dog?
I prepare the dishes
Did you order the hot dog?
You're goddamn right, I did!
You say my franks are slightly cold
We won't find out
Until
They're grilled
Well, I don't know
If all that's true
Cause you got me
And baby
I got you
Frank
I got you, Frank
I got you, Frank
Ok, let's go ahead and google hot dogs
Oh, boy
That was so funny
I'm so glad that
Mitch, your friend, Dano asked that question
Yeah, you know those
Quincy's Dano, everyone
Wow
For the first time ever
We don't have time to look up hot dog news
So let's move on to the questions
Yeah, these are all
We're gonna google hot dogs, hold on
I'm looking at Microsoft being my preferred search engine
There's a lot of these ones about someone
Dying during a hot dog eating contest
Which is a real bummer
Well, that's it
So let's get some questions
That was let me be frank
Let's open up the feedback
12 year old runs hot dog stand with parents
To help pay for medical bills
Hey, that's good
No, 12 year old girl
No, the SNL character drunk girl
Scorsese's the Irishman receives a long
Oh, no, I don't know what this is
They named a hot dog after Scorsese's the Irishman
Wow, there you go
And then that's kinda it, all the other news is weirdly sad
Yeah, a lot of sad hot dog news this week
What a bummer
Oh, yeah, here's a real bummer
Doughboys have a live show in New York City
The saddest one of all
Okay, let's move on
Hey, that was let me be frank
Just like a restaurant, we value your feedback
Let's go ahead and open up the feedback
So here's what we're doing
We're not screening questions for this first show
It's been 18 months since we've performed live shows
We started screening questions
The same ones that we got a lot of people
Trying to have a laugh
So we're not screening questions, but there are some ground rules
No bit requests
And if you're so shitfaced that you think
You are at Harmontown
Please don't step to the microphone
So we're not gonna
That's gonna ignite everyone in the crowd
Step out of line
I'm talking to you
So yeah, we're not gonna do a character on
Command or anything
But if you have a question about hot dogs or food
Feel free, we'd love to hear them
You can step on up to this microphone
We'll only take two or three questions
I see someone from the front row
We got two people coming
Hey, what's up dude
Is this on? Am I good?
What's your name? What's your question?
I see you're wearing a Doughboys t-shirt
Hell yeah, I'm Sean
I saw the Bond movie today was good
You know how Bond orders
Vodka, martini, shaken, not stirred
What would your signature order be
If you were like a famous character
Wow, you know
That's a great question
Sir, if you could direct that to the
Sloppy Boys podcast
We can gladly answer that for you
You know what, mine would be
Mine would be quarter pounder
No burger
That's good Mitch
Mine would be chicken cutlet
Bacon, cheese, lettuce, mayo
No tomato
Mine would be another one of those
Nathan's Hot Dogs
Let me hear you folks
Deno just meandered off stage
Well, we called him out here
And forgot to interact with him
I kept handing the microphone
He's like, well no one's really talking to me
The host won't acknowledge me
We shared to all boys
That's enough
The shaken, not stirred thing is interesting
Because that was meant to be a working class affectation
Is my understanding
He's not a sophisticated guy
Who demands a stirred drink
He's a regular guy
He'll take a shaken drink
I think I'd do a margarita
On the rocks with salt
Wow, that's a great beverage judge
Thank you Mitch
I used to make a hurricane Mitch
Which was Captain Morgan and orange juice
You remember these
We used to call those brass monkeys
Vodka, captain and orange juice
We're not going to get to all of your questions
By the way
Let's get to the next one
Hi, what's your name?
My name is Channing
You called me insincere one time
We called you insincere
What was the context?
I was like, thank you for your class
Oh, you see, you thanked us
Sorry
It was your fucking question
Someone appreciates us so we don't know how to compute that
I don't fuck this person up
So I recently was traveling on a plane
And I was like, I brought a lot of snacks
And then I realized it's like a pandemic
With an airborne virus
And I didn't eat any of my snacks
Sucked
What are your favorite midflights?
Munchies, like what's good?
Good question
I fill my mask with trail mix
Before I even get on the plane
And I just
Never have to take the mask off
Just chew it down throughout the whole plane
I usually do mid-flight
He's gone
He's left the building
I usually do like a chicken corndog
With like a scallop potato
Did you think that guy
Really meant his question?
Yeah
Low-key insincere
There was that vibe
For me, you know, whatever first class is serving
Is usually what I watch on
I go
I'm fat, I fill my first class
Okay, next question
I just wanted to get your bagel orders
Not from like
A bagel bagel store
I want to know what you order at a bagel store
Whole eat everything
Scallion cream cheese, lox
Wow, I love it
Everything bagel with
either plain or chive cream cheese
Onion and chive cream cheese
Regular everything
Pastrami, lox, tomato
Onions, capers
Scallion cream cheese
Wow, what an order
That's some real, I wrote the subway in high school energy
If I've ever seen it
All right, I'll step back and beat
Toasted sesame
Garden cream cheese
We're ducking
What's the fruit
Tomato and
Lemon
What's the fruit, the tomato?
Really, Mitch, that is a fucking fruit
I know it is
I know it is, you rub it in my face all the time
I know it is
What's your order?
Just kidding, go back to your seat
Salt bagel, plain cream cheese
That's my most common go-to
I love a salt bagel
Pretzels for breakfast, baby
Thank you for your question
I was going to give my bagel order
Yeah, but you kind of read the room
Tofu cream cheese
We have three more guys
Waiting, and I think we can get
To all of them, and then we'll call it a show
This guy's pissing on the microphone
I think he thinks he's in the bathroom
No, this is another preference
Question
I don't know how anybody can think
That there's anything better than Heinz
For ketchup, but for mustard
There's so many
Different types
And even
Even like Dijon, there's like
Five different ones that taste very different
I have a shelf of mustard
In my fridge
Truly, I'm married to a white woman
So we have like a thousand mustards
And the one I like
For hot dogs, though, is just
French is yellow
That's my jam on hot dogs
French is yellow all the way
I love a French is yellow
I did because I take
Umbridge with your assumption
Inherent in the question
That there's nothing better than Heinz's
For ketchup, and the answer is
Heinz is for
French!
Throwing French into the audience
Good God
Thank God
All of them were almost caught
I think one maybe did hit someone
Oh, please, please
I hope no one got hurt and it didn't pop
It's all open to the air
Everyone's covered
I would have caught that in my mouth
Like puppy
And sucked the crunch in
Pallies calling me
Your show's not over
Alright, last two questions
And then we're done
Mitch, you're famously known as the Dorito kid
That's right, like Nana used to call me the Dorito kid
Also, famously Doritos can be used as
Kindling in a fire
What the hell?
Okay, I like where you're going with this
I've done it camping a couple of times
To start a fire really easily with them
With Doritos?
That's how you know they're good for you
Hold on a second, I'm going down in the crowd
I'm going to kick this guy's fucking ass
The waste of Doritos
Can you guys think
I know Nick has multiple uses for an apple
But are there any other uses
For food items
Beside eating that you can think of
And a follow up question
Will each of you have sex with my wife?
I'm going to answer
Coconut oil
For like, cracked skin
And like, chapped lips
And yes, but I want to go last
Congrats on the Nick season, by the way
They're doing great, one last question
With the Doug Dobark fest t-shirt
That's the one we sold
I ordered it just in time
To get there
So I went to college in Montgomery, Alabama
And the minor league team
Is the Montgomery Biscuits, that's right
Wow, the hell's going on
And so during in-between innings
They shoot biscuits into the stands
Like literal biscuits
So I know you've talked about this before
Yeah, it's a new way to end it, buddy
What food stuff
Would you guys like to be shot
Into the crowd at sporting events?
Oh shit
I think Groves just did it with the
I got one answer, the answer is
French!
Folks, that's our show
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Mike Hanford
Until next time, for Mr. Slice Mike Mitchell
I'm Nick Weigher, happy eating
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Oh, he ate my hot dog
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