Doughboys - Dough Zone with Mookie Blaiklock (LIVE)

Episode Date: June 30, 2022

Mookie Blaiklock (YOU ARE WORTHY with LilMookieB) joins the 'boys to discuss Boogie Nights and DALL-E before entering the Dough Zone. Plus, Drank or Stank with the Drop King. Recorded live at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle 6/11/22.Sources for this week's intro:https://moneyinc.com/okc-thunder-owner-clay-bennett/ https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/a-brief-history-of-xiao-long-bao-shanghais-signature-dish/ https://www.thekitchn.com/xiao-long-bao-tracing-the-history-of-chinese-soup-dumplings-175364 https://seattle.eater.com/2018/11/20/17281990/dough-zone-dumpling-house-chinese-food-chain-seattle-plans-expansion https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/03/seattle-cult-favorite-dough-zone-brings-its-dumplings-to-california/ https://www.doughzonedumplinghouse.com/Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Mike Mitchell. What's up, Seattle? There were some truths. There were some true boos. There were some boos. And then someone you gestured at asked to sing to find out if they were booing. They made a gesture like eating with a spoon to indicate their allegiance. That's what you were doing, right? Your Lord. I like it. How you doing, Mitch? Head back to back shows. Who was here for the first show? Wow. To quote Gilly, sorry. I was backstage and there was earplugs for like loud rock bands. But the staff all had them in because the show sucks. What's EYs? Maybe this will be a silly show. Mitch. The second... No, Mitch, no. We have to stay on task. We simply cannot allow this to become a silly show. But maybe

it gets a little silly. Oh, boy. Look, here's the deal. When we're on tour now, you never know if you're going to get a silly show. You might say, hey, the later show will be a silly show. Maybe it's the first show. Who knows? You'll know when I come out to the awesome powers theme from here on out. So that'll be the cue. That's the cue for a silly show. You didn't get it, but this could turn into a silly show. Okay, but this is not a designated silly show. It's not a designated silly show. Silly stuff could happen, but this isn't like... This is a silly show. Yes, yes. So get ready. Okay, so... How about this? I have an idea. For any indie game developers. Hogger. It's like Frogger, but

with maybe Nick's Hog. I mean, it's just a pornographic reskin of Frogger. It's not like it necessarily... Yes. If you're an indie game developer, you probably want to do like a... Then make you be depressed or something. Yeah, that's what... Yeah, it should be like a depressed hog. Yeah, all right, fine. The hog is depressed. The hog is depressed. Goes back to his old family home, finds out the truth about his dad. This is a hog we're talking about. Yeah, this is a hog. Yeah. Between your legs hog. Sure. All right, so he goes back to his family. Okay. Yeah. Hey, sometimes silly shows aren't good. They're certainly not funny shows. We're not going to promise that. Yeah, we'll never promise that. But

Mitch, you had to come out to the Spoon Man theme at Seattle, huh? Yeah, baby. Sound Garden. Sound Garden. What a band. I've gone hungry. That's a... That's a temple of the dog. I know. That's a temple of the dog. I know. That's a temple of the dog. I know. But that's a... That's a Seattle... That's like the Seattle Super Sonics. That's a Seattle Super Group. Yes. I feel like Temple of the Dog just had that song, though. Did they have more going on? Yeah. Millions. Sound Garden had a bunch. Sound Garden did have a bunch. Super Unknown album just hit after hit. We were talking about this before the show, but I was saying how the heat is on. I was saying that they should have done a

cold version of it. Yeah. Yeah. We landed on the fan is on. The fan is on is good. And we were... Well, I guess it started with hot, hot, hot. We said that there should have been a cold, cold, cold, cold. How do they not do that? I mean, probably because it's like people usually don't do weird out parodies of their own songs. They're not like, okay, I got a song. How do I do this? The dumb version of this existing song? Could make some good money. Why? Because we were... You, we went out last night. We had a show. Yes, we sure did. We were in San Francisco.

Fucking... Their rivalry. You guys just kind of feel lukewarm. I guess there's maybe a football rivalry. What is there? Fucking Warriors suck. You don't like the Warriors. No, but no one likes the Celtics either. No one likes the Warriors. No one likes the Celtics. This is an alien versus Predator finals. For most of the country.

Well, in those movies, I was rooting for the, for the Predator, which is the Celtics, I guess, in this scenario. Yeah, I feel like the... You're not going to make a joke about how I'm the Predator in this situation. Yeah. Okay. I'll let you make it. All right.

Always rooting for the Predator. I, uh, last night, we had a show. We sure did, Mitch. We... Wigs after the show, Emma, myself, uh, Mookie, our friend Margot, who's Mike is his good friend. Margot's cool. Margot.

Had a great time with Margot. Margot was, well, hold on. You didn't come up with us. No, I didn't. He did this thing. He's like, I'm going to drop my bags off at the hotel, but I might meet up with you guys after I do that. And we're like, no, you won't. Yeah.

Why are you pretending? And you're like, yeah, I won't. You did say that. I did. Yeah. I was honest. But we went to this place called The Page in San Francisco. Yeah.

Can I be, just be, just to interrupt your anecdote real quick, I, I took the bus home back to the hotel. So you like... So fuck it. It was great. A great bus ride. I got to... That's what you did.

You shouldn't have told me that. This is the thing that maybe, and you know, we kind of had, we got into Seattle this afternoon. We had to eat at two restaurants, including this week's Shannon and come do two shows. I didn't really have time to make use of the infrastructure here, but in San Francisco, I got to ride the train. I got to ride the streetcar and I got to ride the bus. It's a fucking blast.

I'm hoping I can take the train to SeaTac tomorrow. SeaTac? SeaTac? SeaTac. SeaTac. You should take a boat right out into the ocean. Before we come back, the song All Apologies is a song by Nirvana and it's also going to be us after the show.

Sorry. No refunds, but sorry. Sorry. Yeah, no refunds, but sorry. They won't let us do refunds. We want to. No, we don't. We like the green.

It's the only reason we're here. We're just craving about the cash, baby. I'm not going to buy Wally a longer tail. Most beautiful, longest tail you'd ever seen. It's a silly show. It's a silly show. So we went out and I met this old man at the bar. His name was Thomas.

My name is Thomas. I've seen many things. I was like, when you move down here, he's like, right around the summer of love. I was like, oh man, we're going to hear great stories. And the first story he told was like, there was a charity walk for the, back in the 70s, there was a charity walk for the Golden Gate Bridge. And I was like, all right. And he's like, me and a bunch of people.

I was like, all right. He's like, we walked there and we climbed a wall and we all got poisoned oak. And I was like, this is like your summer of love story. This is like, if I grew up, if I was like of age in San Francisco during the summer of love, and people were like, we're going to Woodstock. And I'm like, I'm going to watch the monsters. Yes. But he, like all of his stories are kind of like that.

They weren't like good stories. He was a great guy. I loved him. You met, you met like boring forest gump. This guy just, just, Boris Gump. Yes. I met a boring forest gump.

He was great. I had a great time. I'd love, man, that's honestly, I'm glad I didn't go out, but the thing that makes me regret it is I could have listened to an old man tell rambling stories because that's just me. That's just, that's like ghost of future past situation for Weigert. I could see you talking back to Thomas and be like, I'm going to take off. And a bunch of Doe Boys listeners in there, like 20 Doe Boys listeners, not a lie, very

far from the venue, didn't go to the show. Very strange. Just didn't go to the fucking show. Yeah. Like, I like the show. Dude, we love you guys. Like, oh dude. Yeah.

Can we get a picture? I was like, yeah. And then I was like, do you guys like the show tonight? Like, we didn't go. I was like, what? Why? And they're like, we're having like a bro weekend. I'm like that.

Well, what? There's, you can't go to a place with more bros and less women. I know that there's some here. I know that there's some. Yes. Oh, shit. Too many. We have a limit, don't we?

Yeah. There's a, there's a, there's a cap. There's a quota. I'm sure we're exceeding it. It's fine. How the hell? Wow. To Spoon Nation.

Emma hit him with a little drop. Wally and Irma, my best friends. Your best friends are two cats? Two cats? Yes. I actually, it's kind of a toss up between which one I like better, but Irma loves me. Irma's on her talks more. Irma's a kooky cat.

Irma. Irma. She's so sweet. She has never taken human food. She put her paw in my mouth. She can drop a low lag. She can drop low arseases. Irma's the real Mrs. Mitchell.

And she will walk on two feet. Wow. Good man. When I brought up getting Wally the longer tail, I didn't know that it was a cat drop. I didn't know what the drop was. I went in, I went into it blind, like normal. But I knew it was going to be some drop about me fucking the cats in some way or something. Hey, give it up for the staff of the Neptune.

Look at the lights going back on and off. Thank you, the Neptune Theater. Great place. We always like having it for real. Great venue. Established, created, built in 1921. Wow. I didn't know that bit of history.

Fucking spooky as hell. Are you the fax guy now? I'm the new fax guy. Wow. 1921, a lot of stuff going on. For the stock market crash. Uh-huh. Yeah, sure.

The Roaring 20. So the Gilded Age. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone knows that. Aftermath of World War I. Perhaps just sending it. It doesn't need to be stated. The Great War, they called it.

They didn't know number two was coming. Oh, man. Boy, was it ever. Number two was coming. It was coming. That's like me after Dohtown today. What is it called? Dozone.

Dozone. Dohtown. You know where Dohtown is? Seattle, Washington. Yeah. That's Dohtown, USA. That's right, two shows. They're very factual here.

It's two shows, baby. Hi, everyone. My teenage son makes fun of my drops, but I found out that he played this one for his friends in the car. Oh. On the way home from school. Busted.

Chris Finke. Wow, Finke. Another Finke drop. Finke has a teenage son. How has this happened? I don't know. You're making drops. You have a teenage son?

What is your life? What the fuck did we do? I don't know. We're going to die childless. We can adopt one. Together? Yeah. Bitch, while you were setting up that...

I make them strong. While you were... When you introduced the drop, I opened my refillable water bottle. Had gum branded refillable water bottle. And I'm known for spilling. I spilled all over my pants. You certainly did.

I don't know if it's visible. It's probably not visible from there, but I have water spots all over my thighs. Yeah, right. It's like drops of urine. Not urine. All right. Nice excuse.

A little bit? How? I want to smell my... You just want to smell my pants. He's a game developer. He wants to start working on Hogger. We should get our guests out. We absolutely should.

We're trying to stay afloat here. Let me say this real quick. I forgot to mention this earlier. Michael who's sitting in the row says, Michael here? Yeah. Michael wrote... Flagging the Roast,

which is a very good roast. Please, I want to look important in front of my wife. Tonight I may get the sweetest kiss before bed. What did he say? Fingers crossed. Thanks, Michael. Good luck, Michael. Wow, it's a big Michael show, Mitch.

Yeah. Including me. Including you. Just a physically big Michael. By the way, did the goon get with the spoon to Michael's wife? And also our guest. That's right. An actor and comedian for the podcast.

You are worthy with Lil Mookie Bee. Give it up for our friend, Mookie Blakelock. Wow. Damn. Wow. Yeah. You have a hole in your pants? You have a hole in your pants?

What happened? Mookie, for people listening, Mookie was doing some scintillating dance moves as it was coming out. Just completely split over my pants. You split your pants entering the stage. Only pair of pants I brought. Oh, boy.

Dude, on the trip. Welcome to Doe Boys Tour, my man. This happened to Mitch. I'm going to smell my water again. This happened to Mitch in Boston. You split your pants in Foxwoods. Yes, I did. I did it in solidarity with my boy.

Wow. The Hegum water bottles are as good as their podcasts. It tipped over and it was leaking. Yeah, I overfilled it. That's user error. Well, I feel like a fool. You shouldn't. Fucking easy access, dude.

Nobody climb under this table right now. Thank fucking God this tablecloth is here. You guys would see everything. Every gory detail. People like it. You came out the best of my love. A great song from Speaking of Hogger. Boogie Nights.

It's in Boogie Nights. That's movies based on me. Wow. Oh, shit. Just one scene. Let me guess. Is it the last scene? No, it's the part when he's jerking off in a truck.

That's a good scene. And he can't get it up. Great scene. When I saw that movie in the theater when I was a kid, I thought... I was a teenager. I wanted a Boogie Nights plays. I have a note from above.

I could see it. That was in high school. Can you tell the projectionist to fast forward to the last three minutes? And then keep rewinding it for the length of the film. The part where he's in the truck and the guy's like... He's paying him, giving him money to jerk off. And he's like...

Maybe I'll join in later, but for now I just want to watch. And I just remember being like, why would you want to join in later? The guy couldn't piece together like, oh, this guy is getting horny for the guy jacking off. That's going to make him want to jack off himself. Yeah. You were like, why isn't he getting in there right now?

No, I was like, I understand wanting to see... You want to see this guy jack off. Like, I get that. That I can wrap my head around. But then the next step of that act makes me want to jack off. Of course, it made sense to me later. My parents rented that movie when it came out on VHS. And I remember they went out.

I was like, what were we, 13 or 14 or something? A little older than you, but yeah. I know. I love you. And they went out for the night and they were like, do not watch that movie. And the second they left, I put it in the VHS player and fast forwarded to all the scenes I could jerk off to.

And it got stuck in the VCR. Wow. Caught red-handed. No, for like an hour and a half and I finally got it out right before they came home. I almost shit myself. It was one of the scariest nights of my life. That's unbelievable.

How did you get it out? You don't want to know. Yeah. If they caught you and they were like, now you're going to watch the whole movie. You're going to jerk off to every scene until you learn your lesson. Your mom and I are going to sit here and watch. Yeah.

Even the Bert Reynolds monologue, you got Jack off to that. It's a film, Jack. Great movie. Great movie. Movie, great movie. Did you complain to the AMC owner that the prosthetic didn't look real enough? That looked pretty good.

It looks great. Yeah. It looks so good. They did a really good job. It's so hard. I just did it before. If they did, I mean, they did a great job because it's so hard to recreate flesh with...

Yeah, you're right. You don't have to go on. I've tried a million times. It's so hard. People, if you're listening at home, it's so hard to recreate flesh. It's got to look like it, but it's also got to feel like it.

It's like, pick one, you know what I mean? Well, even just the visual of it, right? Like, so often you'll see like, okay, that's a fake dick. Those are fake balls. That's a fake arm. I can't tell you how many times I've been in the theater, but like, fake flesh.

Fake. That's fake. Fake flesh. That's real. Real, fake, fake, real. Real, real. Throughout the course of a movie. I do want to ask about some food questions

because... No. This is a big coffee... This is a big coffee town. Oh, yeah. And, Mookie, I want to know, are you a caffeine fiend? Jones for Java, you got to have your Joe.

You know, I used to, and then I quit caffeinated coffee for a while, but I got to tell you, before you started booing, I'm dipping my toe back into drinking some caffeinated coffee. I had a half a coffee before we left the hotel today. Thank you. What was the impetus for abandoning the bean juice? It made my heart beat too fast.

I get it. Sure. It blew shit out the back of my ass. Yeah, I'm with you. And it made me feel insane. For me, it's the insane part. I can't do it. You don't drink coffee.

You're not a coffee guy at all. I drink decaf. But I have a couple of regular coffee. Yeah. One of those scenarios. He's going... Maybe you should have one before a silly show. You're right.

You're not caffeinated. Then also, I feel like I want to kill myself later, but that's besides the point. Do people hear, do they do... What are your feelings on Starbucks? Now, do you hate it? Yeah, ask an... Wow, they really hate it.

Starbucks... They're going brew. Oh, you guys like it. You like it. Dark roast. You're brewing it. You're brewing it. Yeah, they're making like a coffee sipping gesture.

They indicate it's brewing. Because the Starbucks in Ithaca, it just recently... They recently... Unionized. Yeah, very exciting. Thank you for getting that word out of my mouth. And then,

Starbucks is threatened to shut it down now. Yeah, it's illegal retaliation for labor. Actually, the same thing happened in the store in my hometown of Lakewood, California, when nearby Long Beach, California. I spent a lot of time also unionized. A lot of Starbucks are unionized.

That's great. Great news. And here's the deal. I said this online, but I mean it, Wags. I'm going to get Starbucks fucking shaken in their boots right now. Have you shut down that Ithaca Starbucks, like you planned to? We'll never review Starbucks on the show again.

Wow. How's that? Oh, you know Starbucks corporate is fucking scared as fuck right now. They're not going to review us for a second or possibly third time? No. I think it would be four, honestly.

I think it's four. Three Starbucks. And look, I'm not including tournaments. It's still included in tournaments. And sometimes Emma goes and gets us a quick Starbucks because it's convenient. Yes. When we need to perk up.

What do you, what do you sip it on there? It's speaking of beverages, Mitch. You got two of them. You got two. I opened up a second ago because hey, why not? This is the late side. I was going to get silly.

Only 20. Two grams of sugar. That's pretty good. Wow. Okay. Two full ciders. A shilling hard cider. Okay.

That's fun. London Drys, this one's called. Oh, Tally Ho. Cheerio. London Dry. That's how I like my humor, mate. Bang is in mash. Beans on toast.

Oi. That's all I know. It's a British comedy, like you, as this reputation, it's like, oh, it's like this dry, like subtle wit. It's like this high brow. And then you actually watch, like, you know, like a big show that's on BBC or channel.

It's just like some guy like, it's like the dumbest shit. You make a... I'm a winker. I'm a lord. And I must do a winker. It's like, everyone's British. People are like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

He right in it. He right. Oh, oh, oh, oh. You dumb fucks. And you know what else I'm saying? Fucking idiots. Fucking British actors being American. They cast them for American.

Get them out of here. They sound weird. Hey, where have you been? Doctor Strange. You sound fucking strange. Get them out of here. Yeah, I'm with you. Do any Britain, and then they're like,

they did such a good job. Because they're like, that usually sound like this, but now I talk like an American. And then like, I'm a Brooklyn guy. I'm a Brooklyn guy. They sound like shit. Yeah.

Fuck them. But Mitch, he meets Professor X. Fuck. So it's good. What? Spoiler? I came here on the X-Wing. The X-Wing's also in it.

With my friend, Jeffrey. Jeffrey E. Epstein's in the movie. Epstein's part of the multiverse. That means every one of the flight logs could be in the multiverse. Malcolm Gladwell. Bill Gates.

Bill Clinton. Need some help? Homer. Homer's in because he's also on the flight logs. That's great. Hey, Jeffrey, let's land the plane and get some frosty chocolate milkshakes. You got it, Homer.

Epstein sounds like Bo. In an alternate universe. Let's talk Chinese food a little bit. We miss Epstein. We miss Epstein. There's a solemn memorial at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It's a bronze statue inside.

A candle that never goes out. They left him off the Oscars in Memoria Muster. That bumming. Yeah, that was fucking bullshit. Real insult. Fucking bullshit. Fucking bullshit. Wise, we were talking a bit.

Hold on. Yeah. I want to get a little bit more silly. Just for a second. Okay, sure. Just a little though, Mitch. There's, I think it's called Dolly, which is a thing that you can put in.

This is the, as of now, and probably by the 10th episode releases in three weeks it will be just fucking run into the ground and people will be sick of it. As of right now, it is this AI meme generator. And it's like, uses machine learning too. That is such a 2022 sentence. Mookie, preacher of fire.

An AI meme generator. Mookie. I know. I know, buddy. Anyway. Does it get any more 2022 of a sentence than that? Yikes. Sorry.

Go ahead. Yeah, how about, I'm going to log on to Meta. There you go. What? Pooing Meta. I mean, I agree. So there's a Dolly, it's an AI generated meme thing. Yes, yes.

So you type in a few keywords and it would be like whatever. It would be a Mike Mitchell drinking hard cider. And then there would be like pictures of, of like a distorted alien version of you drinking some sort of whatever they interpret as that beverage. It looks like after you heard, after you got the phone call from Samara in the ring. Yeah.

And you took a picture yourself. Your face looks like that. It's like a twisted, weird face. Yes. A smeared photograph. A smeared photograph. Like as a filter on it. But there was one posted on the Doe Boys Reddit,

which is, you know, it was a great place to go and hang out and look at stuff. Definitely. I don't, I don't think you spend enough time there. Yeah. And it was Grimace at the January 6th riots. And it, it's really, it, it also like works so well. I'm like, fuck.

I can't imagine Grimace being there. No, Mitch, that was just a Google image search. I was just, I was just getting images. Let's talk Chinese food a little bit. Mookie. And I don't know if you, where you, where you land on Chinese food. If you have any preferences,

where it is in your hierarchy of favorite foods. Well, I love it because it's food. Sure. And I'm fat. I mean, I love Chinese food. I will say, you know, I like grew up in Massachusetts, like Mitchie did. And, you know, the Massachusetts Chinese food is like the very

American, like, you know, Poo Poo Platter, Lomain, you know, barbecue spare ribs. Yeah, it's like a category, American Chinese food. Which holds a special place in my heart. Sure. This is much more real. And we live in LA now, where we're close to San Gabriel Valley,

where there's like incredible, like, actual real authentic Chinese food there. I think there's, I imagine there's a lot of good Chinese food up here in the Pacific Northwest as well. Yes. Yeah. Like as kids,

I think you could agree with this. Like it was the most common food that was like, besides like Italian or something, it felt like it was like, oh, this is like a delicacy. But in reality it was like, you're eating a Poo Poo Platter, you're eating fried chicken wings.

Yeah, no, you're eating like, you're eating like, it's like pizza hut. Yes. But it was great. I mean, Poo Poo Platters are great. They're delicious. But I mean, I, a thing with me,

and we learned it at the restaurant, but I have a, I have a nut allergy. That's right. He can't, he can't nut, or he gets, he breaks down into hives.

Or my throat closes. So like when he was watching, like when you, when you, when you were watching, what's it called? Boogie Nights. Yeah.

Like you were like, oh God, please, oh God. Thank God I didn't nut my parents would come home to meet dead on the floor. Are you laughing or yawning? I was laughing, but I'm also yawning. It's very late.

Yapping. I call that yapping. Yaps per minute. So for me personally, like Chinese food and other kinds of like Asian food that tends to be kind of like nut heavy. Sure.

Is a little, becomes a little bit less of a choice for me sometimes. But when I do go, of course I love it, but I have to be careful and I have to ask about ingredients and things like that.

But I mean, it's delicious. It's, it's, it's the best. I am curious about one data point regarding your nut allergy, which is that it's like,

there was one dish that we got with peanut oil, and it seems like for your, like your particular body, the way you reacted things, peanut oil, you're okay with, but actual peanuts

are like a peanut sauce is dangerous. Yeah. Let's go into how allergies work. Sure. Please. Allergies dwell in proteins. Okay. So when you have the oil of a nut,

the protein is extracted and filtered out. So you have, so I can eat things that are, that have peanut oil in them that are fried in peanut oil, but I can't eat the physical protein of a nut.

Or else I'll be projectiling out of both holes. Damn. By the way, I hate when a nut's heavy. You mentioned nut heavy. Yeah. You like go to pick the clean eggs

up and you just fucking throw your arm out. Jesus. That's good. You got a. It's the silly show. I went out on a limb. You got to toss it in the trash

like a shot put. Yeah. Were you, a separate rip in his pants now? Yeah. Boogie just did a shot put throw. Are you going to say that was a really accurate shot put throw?

It looked very accurate. Yeah. Threw it in high school. Wow. And you do the spit. You do a little twirl. Yeah. It was kind of a kickback.

One time I went to a track meet and I was throwing, usually I average would throw like 36 feet. That sounds like, that sounds pretty far. And we would bring our own shot put from the school

and then we went to this track meet and I was throwing like 42. And I was like, holy shit, I got really good, like overnight. And the ref even was like,

damn, you're throwing farther than usual. And I was like, yeah, I guess I just got incredibly strong over one month or whatever. And then I went back to school after the meet

and put the shot put back. And I realized that I had grabbed the women's shot put, which is four pounds lighter. Wow. But I placed first in that meet and got my name in the paper for placing first.

Wow. And I told my coach, I was like, I think I grabbed the lighter shot put and he went, we won't tell anybody. Wow. And then the next,

and then the next meet, I was like throwing 36 again. And the guy was like, the official was like, you were throwing further last week, anything happened. And I was like,

I fucked up my shoulder. Wow. Did you, I'm all up. We won't tell anyone. I'm all about the wins. We want the wins here at school. Did you,

were you throwing other things? Were you just throwing the shot put? You throw that discus, you throw that hammer, you throw that javelin. I threw the javelin in spring track. Yeah. Wow.

That's fine. You just went in general. Was he throwing stuff? Yeah. And every now and then I'll just, I'll throw something. Sure. I'll toss somebody their keys

or something. I found out I was allergic to feathers. You mentioned this. I have. Yeah. You told, well, you really just told me this.

You're allergic to feathers. You have to get like a, you can't have a feather. It's one of the first ways a man laughed, a feather. Yes. I am allergic to them. Back in the days before language.

Yes. Before all that British humor. Yes. The original comedy was tickling someone with a little feather. They bring out a jester, he tickles someone with a feather and he go away.

I found out, but like all my life. The jester would be like, I killed tonight. I destroyed out there. I tickled them in all the right spots. I, but I used like down stuff my entire

life, right? Down blankets and stuff. So I found that out. I'm also allergic to dust, cockroaches and mold, which sucked. It sucked to find out I was

allergic to all that. Three of my favorite things. Isn't that just like, but that feels like you're in everybody territory. It's like, yeah, no, I don't want to breathe in fucking duster mold.

That's like, I'm allergic to getting stabbed with a knife. I was allergic to poison. Well, how did you, what was the allergens test? Huh? Where did you take this test?

Uh, some street corner. It was in an allergy place in Burbank. Right by the tonight show. Hey, are you going to look at an allergy test? Hey, we heard this. Mitch just got an allergen test.

Turns out he's allergic to cockroaches. That's wrong, Jay. Come on. They thought you were allergic to cockroaches and dust. Yeah, you and everyone else on the fucking planet.

Come on, Jay. Come on. I hope I'm not allergic to Cubs. I got a lot of Cubs. I found out I was allergic to Cubs. I killed myself.

Come on. I watched the new Jay Leno show. Yeah. I told you this, and it sucks so bad. It's the, it's you bet your life. Yeah, the old Groucho Marx

format. He's like, he's like half heartedly doing it now too. She's like, I'm a massage therapist. He's like, oh, you know what I think

in massages? And you're like, what the fuck has happened? Is that what happened? So we said, anyway, did you give massages? That's literally what it was.

It's like, it's like a quiz show. Yeah. He does a quiz show and Kevin Newbanks is there next to him still. Does he make comments? He does what you're doing still.

He's like, come on, Jay. That's like, that's it. Does he have a guitar? No, no guitar. He's just sitting there commenting.

They're sitting on stools. I don't know if anyone's seen this. It's crazy. It's you bet your life. Wow. Also, you don't really bet. Yeah.

It's very strange. It's sad. The show is weird, Jay. We don't really bet. It's all you bet your life. Come on, man. Hey, what are you, Kevin? Yeah.

I'm Kevin in this. Hey, what are you, Kevin, Newbanks? Yeah, that's me, Jay. Look, it's bad, but it is better than coming to see a live show

The No Boys. Not true. Not true. No. Yes. He's a fucking legend. All right. Let's get into the food.

It's just the thing of like, okay, he makes a whole big deal like I've never touched my tonight's show money. All right, great. So you have an amazing nest egg. Yeah. You have so much money,

you don't fucking know what to do with it. You drive around an old-time fire truck for fun. Yes. And you have like your entire salary from your 30-year career on television.

You've never touched because you make so much money from like other, from like endorsement and live touring. Why are you doing another TV show? You don't need to be doing that.

I can tell you though, I went and saw him like in my first couple years here. He has beautiful baby blue eyes. He was doing the concert series. Me and my sister went there

and I was like, hey, there he is. And he like looked down on us and he was like, hey, how are you doing? And I was like, oh my God, your eyes. He has beautiful eyes.

It probably is one of those things that really comes across on camera and you don't realize it. Oh, he's got beautiful eyes. Yeah. And everybody's been staring at his chin all these years.

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comparisons to Dintai Fung, which I like. Hey, we had a great time at Dintai Fung recently and I've been at Dintai Fung a number of times over the years.

I always like a meal there. Dintai Fung is great. I assume there's one up here. Look, there's no competition here. It doesn't have to be a competition.

I'm just, I'm saying it's going to invite a comparison. Sure. And I think certainly it has probably to some degree its origins

in the success of that place, although it's very much doing its own thing. And I would say... Like one is the tonight show with Jay Leno and one is you bet your life

both good. Sure, yeah. You know what? Maybe one is a little bit more snooty than the other. Well, that's, the feel of Dintai Fung is both,

it's a little bit more formal, but it's also a little bit more of a machine. And that's what's impressive about it is that it's just like they have this mechanized,

you know, infantry that's putting together all the food in a hurry and it comes out and it's fucking great and it's dancing every time.

You're always impressed with a machine. Yeah, I'm impressed with a machine. The robot man. Yes, Mitch. Yes, I am. I'm impressed with a machine.

So I'm impressed when I see that. That's what you want to hear. Yes. Yeah. You don't have to get mad. No, I'm fine. I'm not mad.

Why would I have emotions? I'm a robot apparently. Guys. This was the silly show. I love this. But, but this place is a little bit more,

at least the one we went to, it's a little more chill. It's a little more laid back. More chill vibes. I love it. I mean, still,

but still an impressive operation and the food comes out in a hurry and let me tell you, again, again, my plus,

who's here for the first show? Wow. So, I don't know. We had Ivers after this. Wait, people are saying I

bars. It's not I bars. Ivers. Don't correct me. How dare you? We had Ivers after this

and our Ivers was bad. It was terrible. We didn't like it. Ivers sucked. But this we had first and so we were primed

for like, fuck, man, this is fucking great and maybe Ivers will also be good. I will say though, I'm really glad that we went in this order

because we really had a big empty stomachs that we could use to fully appreciate the wares of this restaurant and try a sample of a bunch of different things.

And I think, I thought this was fucking great. I just, I really enjoyed my dozone experience. A newer change is that

I, a newer, a newer chain, but they seem to be scaling up well, at least, you know, whatever. We haven't been to

multiple locations, but they seem to be, they seem to have a good business plan. Before we came downstairs, I walked by a room upstairs in the green, the green room upstairs

and that's the term for the backstage areas. The upstairs room in the room upstairs in a room upstairs. That's show biz speak. And there was, there's a sea captain

on a picture of a sea captain on a wall and I saw it quickly and I was like, oh my God, it's the Ivers guy. I like,

I thought like the Ivers guy, like I was like, did he have something to do with this theater? It's just a random sea captain. No, that, that painting wasn't there before the show.

Jesus Christ. The eyes follow you across the room. Yarr, eat my shit, he's chowder. No. It was so thick.

The chowder was so thick. We, we don't need to dwell on that. We thought it was so thick. We don't need to re-litigate that bad food. You can play brick with it. Let's talk about this good food.

I, I, Emma and I got ourselves a milk tea. You got a, Mookie got a mango green tea and Mitch, you got the sour plum juice. You also got yourself a little something later.

I did. Yes. I got the sour plum juice. I am what I drink. I am a little sour man. Yes. So I got the sour plum juice and I copied,

Mookie's drink was so good that I copied what Mookie. The mango tea was extremely good. The mango tea is so, very tasty. I had a sip. So good. I love myself a milk tea.

That's like a, that's like a multi-time a week indulgence for me when I'm feeling naughty. And You ever put a little boba in the bottom? Oh, I'll put some boba in there.

Anyway, but this one, sans boba, but still a really nice execution of a milk tea. And I think a good accompaniment for this meal. Yeah. Good beverages.

I tried a sip of it. It was fantastic. Let's, I guess let's just go through, we ordered a bunch of shit and this will just go through the way it was brought out. Yeah.

Braised egg. We started with All right. One fan. Two hard boiled eggs bisected, braised in some sort of liquid.

You know, nice, nice little savory character to it. I don't like when you say bisected. Bisected. It's like disected, but in two.

And I get it. It just sounds creepy as all. Hey, they were cleaved in twain. What do you want? Cleaved in twain is better. They're cleaved in twain. Does it come bisected?

Excuse me. Excuse me, Mr. waiter. Excuse me. Does it come bisected? Can you leave sir? How do you, how do you want your eggs

bisected? Okay. Sure. You can do that for you. The eggs, I thought, look, the egg came out first

and it was fine. There were four of us. Yes. And so it was kind of like a nice little amuse-bouche. It was like a little bite, a little bite of that egg. Fine.

It was great, great starter. Reminds me of like the egg that comes in a bowl of ramen. And I just wish that it was like floating in some ramen broth because it was just like a tiny bit, like it was just a little dry.

The yolk was a little dry. I think that's fair. If you like, if you like yourself some sauce, though, sauce was an abundance as we progressed through our meal. Let's talk dazzling

presentation. That's sweet and sour cucumber. Oh my God. Now they got that. Look, this is a dish I always like, but they got this, this bad boy's spiral cut

into what seems like one continuous piece. They give you a little knife that you can divide it into sections. It looks like it was bisected multiple times over and over again.

It was, I felt like you would spiral into madness if you were looking at it too long. Because it was like so, it was very spinny and coily. Dr. Strange himself would be like,

this is too much for me. Nick, I'm not a huge cucumber fan. Cuc makes you puke. Cuc, Cuc makes me puke. Yeah.

That's not true. Cuc, you know, Cuc is okay. You want to juke a Cuc. I'll juke a Cuc. I will juke a Cuc. That's good.

I'll juke a Cuc. I'll juke a Cuc. Which by the way, being compared to Marcia, I'll take Mar, Munch on Lynch. What was it? No,

I know his name. I'm saying the dumb, he played for the Seahawks. Marcia on lunch feast mode was the Marcia on lunch. That's what it was. That's a great, that guy's great.

He's fantastic. One of the first, the first show Riley sent, he sent in a bunch of roasts and one of the ones I didn't use. But I liked, was a dickless in Seattle.

Jesus Christ. Well, thanks for not using it. I didn't want to use it. Yeah. No, good, good. That would have been so embarrassing. You were kind of cranky for before the first show.

I was like, I don't want to use that. I'm not cranky. And I have a dick, I swear. I thought this was, the presentation was, was great.

And this, this had great flavor to it. That sweet and sour dressing, I thought was, Yeah. I'm not going to juke that Cuc. No, that Cuc was great. Cuc was great.

You didn't juke it. Yes. The juke was fine. The Cuc was great. Cuc was great. I told you this, it's like, I'm being sincere here

because there's one at Din Tai Fung and I like the taste of it here better. I truly, I think it's, I think because it's also has, it's a sweet and sour Cucumber, correct? Yeah. It's just got more flavor going on.

It's fucking great. An abundance of dressing. Just, it's sitting a nice little pool there. So, no shortage of that. But also, I think the form factor

that it's presented in makes it a little bit easier to grasp because it's not like their whole, you know, you get those whole Cucumber sections. Those can sometimes be a little tricky. Here, it's got some natural handle to it.

Yeah. Yeah, sure. I really, I really liked the way this was presented and I thought it was a very good execution. It was, it was a dish that I like to get at one of these places.

And this was the second dish we got, I believe. And this, it was, look, it was, they were firing on all cylinders right out the back. I've got my outline in meal order.

So hopefully that will be the way this progresses. But, correct me if I, if I go out of order, I'll go out of sequence. Okay. Next up,

we got the Q-Bow. This is a pan-fried pork bun. These buns are filled with moist Berkshire Duroc pork and secret recipe aspic. After being steamed and pan-fried, the buns turn out perfectly soft on the top

and crispy on the bottom. Now I didn't have those, but there were four of them and you guys indulged. What did you think? Nick, these were buns that make Sir Mix-A-Lot smile.

Wow. Seattle's own. That's right. They would make him smile, wouldn't they? Certainly. He would certainly look upon them and a grin would fall up

across his face. A smile. Ah, fuck. What happened? I hit my teeth on the fucking microphone. He's pandering. You wanted that?

I thought it was a corn dog. I told Mookie, I was like, I'm going to bite the mic. Don't say anything. Don't say anything. Second show, biting the mic. It's going to go over huge.

Those buns were great. They were delicious. They were really, really great. Wow, they look good. A little crispiness to the bottom. You didn't eat them. No, I didn't. The texture looked good on the bottom.

And there was like, there was like some kind of like, whatever, like gooey gravy or something inside. It was delicious. Gooey gravy. The sound of that. That's the aspic, right?

That's what gives it that character? Oh. It's like a kind of a meat jelly. That's what the, that's kind of the, the secret of the, I don't know, I don't know if it's the same.

I think it's the same component that's inside the, the Shaolong Bao. I generally, I very generously offered you, hey, I'll cut this one in half and you can squeeze out the pork and eat it.

And you turned me down. Which is like, just eat the bun part? Yeah, basically. That still got like pork juice on it? I just felt bad that you weren't eating one. I mean, there's plenty of food.

There's an abundance of food. I know. I just felt bad because it was very, they were very, very, very good. They look good. They look good. But I will say this, and we'll get to it in a,

in a second. I do think this place, if you don't eat pork, is a little bit more friendly to, to diners, diners who, who don't have pork in their diet. Then,

then didn't tie fung. I think it's got some more options for people who maybe eat vegetarian or, or, or avoid pork, which is so prominent in a lot of these dishes. And hey,

I'm going to break for applause after this next one, because I think people will be pretty excited that we got ourselves broccoli with seafood sauce. Jesus. It worked.

It kind of worked. Kind of worked. Yeah. Uh, Emma and I destroyed this broccoli. I think we're just desperate for a vegetable, but I would say this,

it was really just, it's, it's very simple. It's just blanched, and then they've got seafood sauce. Here's my criticism of this. I want like that fucking jacuzzi of that seafood sauce. They give you like a very

shallow dish and a lot of broccoli. There's a lot of broccoli. Yeah. Good presentation though. It looks like two, you know, complete heads,

but they've been, they've been subdivided, bisected, if you will, into smaller sections. You know what I said? That seafood sauce was really great. You know what I think?

Yeah. It was so good. It would make Sir Mixlott smile. I like seafood sauce, and I cannot lie. It really, really makes me smile. It's the silly show. When a sauce is poured in an itty-bitty bowl.

I don't know. I mean, nice, nice vegetable dish. It was great. It's one of those. I said this at the restaurant. You did, Mookie. But, you know, it's like broccoli.

It's like steamed broccoli with no seasoning on it, which is gross, but then you dip it in the sauce, and the sauce just literally provides all the flavor of the bite. Yes. But it's delicious.

It's, I was saying, like, you know, when you get spring rolls with like non-seasoned vegetables in it, and then you like dip it in a sauce, and then that is, you have to, the sauce is essential.

The sauce is the whole thing, but I could have used some more of it. But I thought, well, cook broccoli? Nice little, nice little lighter side considering all the heavy food we were having,

including, let's get into the pancake town, green onion pancake, and the spicy beef pancake roll. Green onion pancake is, I'll read the menu description for people who haven't had this. Our famous green onion pancake

is made with dehydrated green onion to increase the flavor, and pan-fried with scallion-infused oil to create a crispy texture. I would say, kind of like resembling, kind of resembling like a non

or even a quesadilla. It's just like a little, you know, like folded sort of triangle sectioned bread thing. I'm pretty sure every listener knows. It's scallion pancake. It's scallion pancake.

Well, I don't fucking know. I'm doing it in some context. And the spicy beef pancake roll was more of a sandwich. It looked more, and I think like, this was more like a take on a pastrami sandwich,

you guys are saying. It looks like a pastrami sandwich. It looked so, so, so good. And weirdly, it was kind of... It looked fantastic on the menu. Kind of the... not loser. It wasn't bad.

It just... It was the dud of the group. It was kind of the dud. Yeah, I mean, and this brings me to, I didn't have this, but this does bring me to a thought. When we are,

we are way in consideration for the hallowed halls of the Golden and Platinum Plate Club, is I think one factor to consider... We take this very, very fucking seriously. We take this very seriously. We may do a silly show,

but when it comes to the fork score, it's fucking serious business. We're not fucking around. Yeah, please don't laugh. Don't laugh when we're talking about the fork scores. And thank you for not laughing earlier in the show,

because that's at the right... It's showing that you are taking this seriously. We're taking this seriously. We're taking this seriously. So, the... my thought, I had at this meal,

because you guys were pretty down on this spicy beef pancake roll. I was disappointed in that, because it looked very, very good. It looked quite toothsome. Was this meal a flawless victory? Wow. This is a concept

that Nick wants to introduce. Yes. A flawless victory meal. Is it a flawless victory? Now, I would say, to do a little pandering, Dix, for me, was a flawless victory. Everything was fucking hitting

when we went to Dix a few years ago. Remains one of my favorite tour meals ever. What would you call Ivers? A flaw-filled... A flaw-filled... sick... defeat?

Fall... Yeah, flaw-filled, sick defeat. Flaw-filled, sick defeat. Okay. An absolute zero. Brutality might be... Brutality is good. It's a brutality, that's better.

It's just the Mortal Kombat reference that's a lot cleaner than what we did. Well, let's talk about... let's talk about more dishes. Before we get into the flaw list... No, I'm not getting... I've just wanted to bring up the concept.

Would anything at Ivers make Sir Mix-A-Lot smile? Sadly, I think he'd leave straight-faced. Perhaps even slightly frowned. Yes, nay may I say frowned. I think one of the busboys did have a big ass. So maybe that. Wait, where at Ivers? At Ivers, yeah.

One busboy had a dump truck. Probably wouldn't have approved of that. Probably pretty good if you fall over the rail there and you're in the water. Yeah. You got some floats... There you go. You got that wagon.

Let's talk about the Dandan noodle. I think it's Dandan. I've heard it's Dandan. This is a Sichuan specialty, and this is mildly spicy, a little bit of numbing from the peppercorn, which is a fun sensation. The copy says,

elevates the flavor to a whole apostrophe-nother level. That is ribald. I like that. They're having fun. Wags. Yeah. The Dandan Dandan.

It's Dandan. I actually don't know. I'm going to say Dandan because that's what I've heard. It was fantastic. I love this. I thought this was fantastic. I thought this was so good.

And they have a vegetarian version of this, which is great. If you want a vegetarian version, this one doesn't come with me. It is cooked in a chicken stock, by default. But I thought, yeah, it's one of those things

where oily is sometimes used as a pejorative. It's like oily and syrupy are sometimes used as pejoratives in terms of criticizing food. But this one is like, it has like a... Wait, oily and what?

Syrupy. Syrupy. I think that's another one you'll run into, but I feel this kind of like... No good syrupy Italians. That's a pejorative. Sure, yeah.

I guess you could use it as a slur if you wanted. A little confusing. Oh, same difference. Okay. Get out of here, you syrupy fuck. It's... I thought this was oily

in a delightful way. It's just like, I really just like the way those... Those things were like slithering all over the place. Yeah, they were good as hell. Slythering and sliding into your gut.

They were like... Oil added in the right amount to mix with sauce. It was like tangy and... Damn, damn noodles. Dense with flavor. They are damn, damn noodles. There's only one thing

I can say about these things. Sir Mixalot would be smiling. Would he not? Now, Wiges, then you... I remember you dipped your hand in the numbing chilies and then did a stranger on yourself. The waiter's like,

we're cool when it happens all the time. Do you like the numbing sensation on your tongue? You know, I... It's interesting, but I don't know, it makes... It's a little strange.

It can sometimes... I've had like anxiety feelings before because it's similar to like an anaphylaxis sort of vibe. We should have sucked on a bunch of those peppercorns at Numb Your Mouth before we ate Ivers.

Ivers sucked again, once again. I don't care if the ghost chases me through the hallways. He's son of a bitch. We got ourselves the chicken veggie wonton with chili sauce. I believe we got the steamed preparation here. And this one...

Once again. It was so... This was so fucking good. That sauce was so good. The oil was so fucking good. That oily sauce was delicious. This... I said this to Wiges in the restaurant

and I know that I said this about the cucumbers, but I was like, this is the best version of this dish I've ever had. Yeah, it's a really, really good execution. I loved it. I fucking loved it. We were dipping shit in the sauce.

We were dipping it in the oil afterwards. Well, I mean, that's the thing of like a new concept that's on the scene that's expanding rapidly and has like how much of it is just hype, how much of it is just like they have a really good business plan

and they're good at marketing and how much is like actually driven by the quality of the food. And as I was eating here, I was like, this place is just fucking delicious. That's why it keeps expanding and that's why people are fans and that's why people wanted us to review it

because I get why it would be a new favorite if it opened in your city in the past 10 years. We also got the zucchini shrimp dumplings, the chicken soup dumplings, and the pork with crab soup dumplings. Those last two are the Shaolong Bao and then the zucchini shrimp dumplings,

dumplings, dumplings. Zucchini shrimp dumplings. Not till later. Steam dumplings with a zucchini and shrimp. This combination is a match made in heaven. How about that? Are you, is this from the menu or are you saying this?

No, that was from my, that was my own opinion. Oh. Oh, that was off the dome. Nice. No, that, no, that's from the menu. That's the menu. Oh. They were, all the dumplings were great.

There wasn't. I liked the zucchini shrimp a lot. I liked it too. I thought those were really good. It was pretty good. I thought the chicken, the chicken soup dumplings. Now look, I really,

this is one where I really appreciate this option because you go to Din Tai Fung again, they don't, they just have pork. They have pork and they have pork with crab. Here you can get a chicken option. Why not? I would love a veggie one as well. That would be nice.

I know it would probably be an extremely tough thing to recreate the aspect with some sort of veggie protein but I'd like to see it attempted. I agree. Because it's fun. It's a fun thing to eat. You guys, it's a dumpling with sauce in it. They're ready for bed.

Let's fucking do it. Let's wrap this shit up. You poke a hole in it and there's like, there's stuff in there and the liquid comes out. It's a blast. Yeah, we fucking know. If there was a veggie version,

if you didn't eat meat, you could experience it. We know. Be nice if it existed. Okay. Yes. The pork with crab soup dumpling was so goddamn good. Yeah, it was good. You bust it open and the broth is really like seafood-y,

like almost, maybe almost too much. Yeah. And then you get the pork and then when you bite the two together, it's like unreal. It's so good when food does that. When you take different parts and then you put them together and they do,

you know what I mean? I'm with you. You know when people give you a thing to eat and you eat the whole thing? Yeah. I love when that shit happens. That real flesh. Yeah.

Give me that real flesh. Now, this is real flesh. Yeah, and we, I mean, I was over to the moon with all the savory dishes. I thought it was just a great meal and I- Fantastic meal. Was set up for, look,

Ivers was not going to be as good by comparison, but also it probably made me too excited to be like, ooh, what else does Seattle have to offer? And it turns out, hot shit. But we did get dessert. We got the banana non-bread, which was, fuck, that was a blast, too.

It was great. It was a lot of fun. It was so much fun. Fun way to end the meal. There was also no banana in it, but it had like banana flavor. I don't know if they put like banana oil. Is that a thing? Banana oil?

Yeah, it might have been a thin layer of banana mash. It didn't seem to have any actual banana in it. Perhaps it's like they put, they mashed banana into the dough, perhaps. Maybe that's it. A little whipped cream for dipping? Sure. Why is my thought on that?

A dessert so good, it would make the Minions smile. Man, that makes me think of the Minions dancing to the Sir Mixed Alot song. It'd be fun. They haven't got a big butt. There's no way they haven't already. I don't think it's happened in a Minions movie.

Hopefully Minions do the Rise of Gru. We'll see. Wait, is Minions two? Yeah, Minions two, the Rise of Gru. Oh, it's Despicable Me. There's like five of those movies. Despicable Me is a different franchise. I mean, they're related.

All right, everyone, you can maybe take a bathroom break. It's gonna be about 15 minutes. This is only the second Minions movie? I don't believe it. Despicable Me 1 introduces the Minions. They become the breakout characters. They make Despicable Me 2.

And Despicable Me 3, but they also release a Minions solo movie. I like the idea of you explain this to a child. Then they make a sequel to Minions. And then they say there's two Minions movies. The little kid just crying. Where's my mom? So five in the franchise.

Do you want to see Young Gru? Pre-Pubed Gru? I don't want to see Pre-Pubed Gru. He already shows up at the end of Minions 1. And so they're continuing that story. Wait, as Young Gru? Yeah, that's like the button over the end of it. Okay.

We'll watch it together. We will? Yeah, tonight. We should get to our fork score on Doe Zone. Doe Boys Doe Zone, what a natural fit. I'm glad we had a good experience in the Doe Zone. Mookie, you're our guest. We'll begin with you.

Your thoughts, your score from zero to five forks. Thank you. The Doe Zone was good. It was, everything was great. There was a couple of misses. It was not perfect. If you're comparing to Din Tai Fung, listen, Din Tai Fung is great.

Doe Zone is like way more accessible. Like Din Tai Fung is, look, I love Din Tai Fung. It's expensive. Every time I've ever tried to go there, you wait for a long time. It's worth it. It's delicious. This is like extremely comparable,

really like casual and quick and very accessible. And it would be like for that fix, I would go here. I would go to Din Tai Fung one time for every like five times I went here just for the like, just for like the, the, just the overall, just like nice, easy, great, satisfying experience. I'm going for forks. Wow.

For forks. I like that point. I like that. I like the way you made that. Thank you. That's very fair. Weig's, you're traveling through another dough mention. God damn it.

A dough mention of not only of sight and sound, but of taste. A journey into a gluttonous land. I'm doing this off the top of my head. Uh-huh. Whose waist size are that of imagination. That's the signposts up ahead. Your next stop, The Doe Zone.

Or I should say your next stop, The Platinum Plate Club, for me, because I'm going five forks, Weig's. Wow. I was gonna, I, I, I, how could I go less than five forks? I don't know how Boogie went less than five forks. I, uh, And Weig's, I gotta say, flawless victory. Wow.

For you, it's a flawless victory despite the beef. The beef thing wasn't great, but I wouldn't turn it away. Well, I didn't dislike anything. I loved, I loved The Doe Zone. I was also gonna maybe do like a highway to- God damn it. You can't do two.

Yeah, I had one. And then you do your ult, which was my backup. Oops. Silly show. What could I say? Do, do one of them. No, I'm not gonna do either. Do, do, do one.

No, I'm, I'm. Do the crowd wants you to do one. I'm pivoting, I'm pivoting, I'm pivoting to option C. Get in the zone. Doe Zone. Okay. So an auto zone reference? Yeah, auto zone reference.

I didn't even do the highway to the Doe Zone. You said, you, you, what am I saying? Like, I'll just follow that by saying like, okay, I'll do the thing that Mitch just said. Highway to, you can perform it. I'm spitting everywhere. Fine. Doe Zone.

Yeah, yeah. It's fun believable food for, uh, men. I don't know if I know the original. That's the reference. That's Discovery Zone. Anybody go to Discovery Zone? Discovery Zone. I thought this was a great meal.

I just had a fucking blast. I really enjoyed, I think great place. Do you have a Twilight Zone written up or no? No, I was just going to try to riff something out. Oh, sorry. That's fine. Sorry. That's fine.

Okay, okay. It's all fine. Yeah, it's fine. We don't, there's no problem. I don't, don't, you're acting like there is a problem. No, no, it's fine. I'm glad you did what you did. All right, thank you.

And I'm glad that we didn't like talk it out ahead of time because it's better for there to be spontaneity in the show. So I think it's good. It was a good, it was a happy accident. Yes. So we're fine. It's all part of it. It's part two.

This is a great place to go with a party of four because the way, and this is, this is maybe a thing that we didn't talk about, but Sounds like a spinoff. Yeah. A party of five? Yeah. Just with the one less person.

One of them dies. I don't give a shit. It's depressing. What's his name? Matthew Fox. He's dead. Who gives a shit? One of them goes to college.

There you go. They're all like 40. Even the young girl, I believe is very old. I think the way that it's presented for people with like, like here. Okay. Hey, you got a party of four? I'm hearing something.

What am I hearing? Is that someone talking? Is it the fucking ghost of Ivar? Ah, fuck. It's Ivar. Get it right. It disappears. You know, whatever.

The braised egg comes in four sections. The cube bow comes in four pieces. Your review is very much based on dissecting these things. No, I mean, I just think like, like, like that just speaks to the, the, the consideration that's put into the menu. I feel like they're just like, they're conscious of whatever. What's a typical party size? I don't know.

Here's four. Here's six. This is, this is, you're going to share this anyway. Yeah. We know this is going to be a communal meal. What's your, what's your Mount Rushmore of party sizes? Great question. No.

One is on there. Like doing it. Like dining by myself. It's one for each head. It's just one. Two. You're going out with your sweetie or your friend. That's a date.

Yeah. It's a date. Yeah. That's a blast. Two is good. Two. I think four. Yeah.

You want an even number. I don't, I think three is weird. Someone's an odd man out. And then I go up to, I go up to six. I think six. And I think once you get larger than six, it becomes unwieldy. Like a party of, a party of eight is manageable, but a party of ten or more is tough. I don't know.

Do you guys disagree with you with any of those choices? I don't really care. I'd go 166. 69. Um, 14 and two. You're just messing around. It's the fucking silly show. It's the silly show.

Finish up this damn thought. You should have done the Twilight Zone. You did it. It's fine. I, I thought this was like, I just had a fucking blast here. I thought it was great. And this is the, I don't know. Whatever.

What are we doing here? This is a five fork establishment. I think, I think by our standards, this place absolutely deserves it. So welcome to the Golden Play Club. Golden Play Club. Congratulations. Go zone. I don't know how this works.

That's fair. You did a good job. You did perfect. Change the score. Oh man. That was very threatening. One guy just went, change the score. Change the score.

Yeah. Change the score. You understand me? You can do it right now. If you want to, or you can see what happens after the show. Listen, I just, I just want to make sure everybody knows that it doesn't really matter. Hey. It's, it's just a podcast.

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So we've got some local beverages and we're going to decide if you should pour them down your throat. It's drink or a stink and who better to supply us with drinks than Seattle's own, the Drop King, Robert Pershinga. Wow. Wow. There he comes. Wow, the Drop King.

Drop King is here. Hey, buddy. Good to see you. Emma bringing out a chair for him as well as some sodas. Good look. I like that shirt. Good to see you. Good to see you, buddy.

Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. Drop King, you reside in the Emerald City? Emerald City. That's right. We still don't know. We haven't figured this out yet. No, I figured out on our show.

The Emerald City. Yeah, the Emerald City. The Emerald City. The Emerald. The Emerald City. Bam. Got it. Filly show.

Bam. Anyway, let's go on. Drop King, you brought us the Emerald City. Yeah, the Emerald City. The Emerald City. The Emerald City. The Emerald City. Bam.

Got it. So, Drop King, you brought us this holiday pack of Jones soda. I did. 17 years too late. Yes. Drop King, we got to the venue today and Emma was like, hey, he brought these sodas. They're from 2005. Yes.

So, Drop King, DK, what the fuck happened? How are these 17 years old? I mean, I sent you photos of this week or two ago. Yes. I'm sorry, we didn't zoom in on the damn fucking T-Shown date. You had all the clues. Mr. Police. Yeah.

Fucking Riddling. Riddling. Riddling. Riddling? Fuck. He's snowmanning. You're snowmanning us. Yeah.

Going to the Plymouth Kledgerina after this and I'm going to climb up and shoot at Batman. It sounds like Nick, maybe you're not going to indulge, possibly. Look, here's the thing. Nick, drink the old sodas that will make you sick. If you don't want to, I'll do it. I don't want to drink the weird drinks from 2005. Is this also... Part of what primed me to the ancient age of these is that Emma said, commenting in the year 2005,

it was 12. So... Yes. Yes. How old were you then, Nick, in 2005? Don't worry about it. I'm going to just pull these out. We got a pecan pie soda.

That sounds okay. That one does sound good. That might be the best sounding one. Let me... As Mitch does this, I'm curious, Drop King, why Jones? Jones soda, I believe started in Canada originally and then kind of got a strong foothold in Seattle. I think they had some contracts with some sports teams.

Someone helped me out. Who was... Got it. Drop King, this does not sound real. I'm from Seattle. I want to say, if you went to a Seahawks game or something like that, they would have had Jones soda. Sure.

A lot of Jones. It's a Jonestown. But these were... Jesus. After we drink them, probably. That's what's going on. But they would usually like annually or sometimes a few times a year put out a strange holiday flavor, a holiday pack, and the money would go to charity like St. Jude's Children's

Hospital or something like that. So we're handing out red cups to the entire audience for the Jones soda. It's for a good cause. There's corn on the cob soda, broccoli casserole soda. We got turkey and gravy soda, which is Drop King. I don't even think you should drink this one. Now. Oh, that's the good stuff.

Oh, there is literally mold in this one. God. Ooh. That might be turkey. It's not happening. And this one also is looking bad. Jesus Christ. This is the smoked salmon patezo.

Please don't put these in your bodies. That's the one I think that we have to try for the time being. I can't have any of these. Absolutely will not do it. I'm not going to have any of these. Mitch, are you with me? I'll drink some of these. Am I with you?

If they were new, I'd have them, but I'm not going to have old, gross shit. There's little white pieces of shit floating in here. It is truly mold. I don't have anything going on tomorrow. So I guess this is just, Mitch, will you drink mold with me? I don't think anybody should drink that. We have a cop out. We have some like fresher currently purchased from this year, Joan Soda.

Yeah, some fun sodas that we can actually enjoy. I want to drink mold with you. Oh, there's this. Oh, they're twist-off? Oh, they're twist-off. Don't worry, DK. They're twist-off. And they're not making any noise when you open them, of course.

I think I heard them. DK, before... Mitch, don't you dare drink that. Before you drink this, I do have some questions that you can use your last words on. Yeah, do I have to sign anything before I... Do I have to sign it? Jesus, Mitch just took a drink. Why are you doing that?

Don't you fucking dare. Why did you do that? Drop King, don't drink it. Oh, my God. Put your lips on it. There's germs now. You're going to die. I'd recently had COVID and I would take COVID again over another sip.

Would you eat more Ivers? Yes. Wow. Wow. Wow. Jug, jug, jug. No, don't. Please, don't.

Jesus Christ. Why did you do that? I think it's kind of good. Which one is that? That's the broccoli. It tastes sweet. It's gone off because it tastes kind of good now to me. Yes.

It's quote unquote gone off. Robert, what do you think of Ivers and what do you think of Dozone, the two chains that we reviewed tonight? That is so gross. We went to the... I think the same location you guys did. We went to the wharf and we went to the original location. We got...

I think I got the fish and chips. I thought it was good. I got... We got some good cocktails. I thought those were tasty. I think you guys had an off time, but I'm not going to fight you on the bad score. Maybe they had... Mitch just sniffed, I believe, a salmon pate one of them gout.

I think I'll throw up. I slid a gout. I'm not going to smell that. Smell it. I'm not going to smell that. Please, Nick. Smell it. At least smell it.

Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it.

Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. I just recall this disgusting scent. Any time you fight Seattle, you'll smell this smell. What the fuck? That's not bad.

What the fuck? That's okay. I can't believe it's real. It smells like seafood. Better than Ivers? No, that's not bad. Are you... I'm not going to drink it.

I'm not going to drink it. No, I'm not going to drink... This one has... There are floating chunks of mold in this. Not on the top. I'm not going to fucking drink that. Actually, penicillin is actually made from mold. Pass it back this way.

I'll take some. I don't want you to drink it. No. No. I won't let you. Let's have some of these normal sodas, because that'll be fun. But that was your thought. That was your consideration on Ivers that maybe we had an off night.

Maybe we had an off night. Hold on a second. It would be a pretty off night. Yeah. I want him to drink the salmon soda. I'll drink it. Pass it this way. No.

Here you go. Oh, drop it. Drink some of the turkey gravy soda. Jesus Christ. Cheers. They all taste too good. I don't think they... I did have...

This one doesn't... It smells like stuffing. It just smells like stuffing. I had these in 2005. I had a different pack, you know, a fresh pack back when they actually released. They were horrendous. I feel like they're better now. You saved these.

Why? No, no, no, no. These were not the same pack I had. So you ordered some 17-year-old sodas. It was a gift to me. It tells you a lot about what kind of... I mean, I was your guy's employee, so... This was your parting.

When you left us, this was your parting gift. It was Mitch Bucks and then this pack of soda. Mitch is looking in the bottom of the bottle and examining the mold level. Don't shake it up. I'm going to show you. The PKampi one has very low mold level. Don't shake it up. Just keep it on the bottom.

That's... Oh, God, yeah. I wouldn't want it to fizz and go everywhere. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Oh, God. I can't believe I just did this.

Wow. That caused a cyclone inside. Oh, shit. It's... It's a fucking vortex. This one, I think, is safe to drink. Not bad. Oh.

Pretty good. That one's not bad. What makes a stir mix a lot small? This segment is upsetting me. I'm not having fun. Thank you for picking it. Because it's... That's good.

That one's... Try one of the... Try one of the green apple or the cream soda. Yeah, let's have some of these good sodas. What year is this, DK? This is the ripe old age of 2022. Okay, great. We got some new boards.

We got a green apple soda. Oh. What do you think of the Dough Zone? I love Dough Zone. You like the Dough Zone? I love it. I think I told you guys on the text. I think it's better than Din Tai Fung.

I don't think that's crazy. Like, I don't... I'm not sure if I'm there yet. I'd have to have it more times. But based on this experience, I don't think that's crazy. And it's definitely Tamuki's point. Just like that more casual vibe goes a long way. Yeah, 100%.

And Din Tai Fung, you have... Whole party has to be there to be seated? Yeah, I believe so. That's true. Not Dough Zone, baby. Wow. You can be annoying as fuck, customers. Alright, try forks.

Yeah! Yeah! Wow, welcome to the Platinum Plate Club Dough Zone. See, alright, here's what I think... Alright, so the green apple, so I'll say this. It has way less mold than the other ones. Yeah, that's a plus. Almost none.

Yeah, like basically no mold. So for that reason, I think it's maybe... It's probably the best one I've had so far. Sam and make it back here? I want... This one has like the... Give him the salmon. He wants to drink the damn salmon.

I don't want you to drink the salmon. This one has the... This one has the... Just can I see it? I won't give... You're gonna pass it to him. You're doing a little trick. My word on our friendship, I will not hand it...

He's gonna pass it to Robert. Listen, I will not participate if you want to reach over there... I'm gonna reach you do whatever the fuck you want. I won't give it to Drop King. I'm just gonna put it right here. And if he wants to take it and take a sip of it, that's his decision. I hate this.

It smells... Don't do it. I don't want you to do it. This is what I remember from the... When I had it back in the day. It is oily smelling. Don't encourage this. Oh, fuck.

You fucking freak. That's the first one that's bad. Also, all right. In a few minutes... We have to do a wellness check on you tomorrow. What's your address? Jesus Christ. I'm genuinely worried.

In a few minutes... We're gonna bring out a live chicken. DK's gonna bite its head off. At minimum, drink a lot of water after that. Drink maybe too much water. Probably go into dicks after this. This one, this green apple has that melted jolly rancher sort of character of these kinds of sodas.

It's not for me, but I get that people like this. But yeah, this is my bag, baby. I'm pouring out the cream soda. Here you go, Nick. Take some of mine. I meant to grab a couple other flavors. They've had one back in the day for Valentine's Day. Love potion number nine.

That was really tasty. Oh, that's fun. Had no... That's a blast. That's a soda everyone can enjoy. Wait, did you say 2009? Love potion number nine. Oh, okay.

I thought you said 2009. Probably was 2009, though. The cream soda... It's odd. It tastes like a scratch and sniff. I like it. Oh, that is kind of weird. Yeah, all of these are bad.

The mold ones, especially. Yeah, the mold ones I didn't care for. But all bad. Did you try every one of them, DK? I don't know if we got to corn on the cob. I'll open it for you. Green bean casserole or not. It looks like the lids on that.

Yeah, I'll open both of those for you. Here we go. This sucks. Do you guys ever indulge in a novelty soda? I know, like, pickle is making a big... I feel like there's some pickle novelty sodas. We've had some novelty sodas on the podcast, but it's not something you would ever drink casually.

Someone brought ice cream. I said this upstairs. Someone brought ice cream. Where was it from? Bollywood! Bring it out! Hell yeah. Bring it out, and let's...

Wags. Thank God. Wags, I'm going to say this is a whack for every one of these sodas. Yeah, I mean, drink or stank is a... Oh, sorry. A stank for every one of these sodas. A stank.

These are all stanks, but Drop King, we love you. I'm genuinely worried. I hope you're okay. Please take care of yourself. Take care of your body. Thank you so much for bringing all of these here. We will indeed.

And one last thing for what you did. You're fucking fired. Yeah, you're fired. Pack your shit. Thanks, you guys. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, Drop King. Robert Persinger, everybody.

All right. What year is this ice cream from? The people who brought it. 96. Fuck. This is... So this note was written in Sharpie on the underside of a cooler,

which feels vaguely threatening, but I'll read it. Doe Boyz, Emma, Mookie, Robert Persinger, question mark. Please enjoy these pints of ice cream from... This is another riddle from Persinger. From my Seattle ice cream company, Bluebird Ice Cream.

There are notes on the bottom of each pint. Vanilla is a flavor. Josh. Thanks, Josh. Where are you at, Josh? Check out Bluebird Ice Cream. We're going to sample these as we go, but we got to get some questions here.

It's just like a restaurant. We value your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Emma is going to call out your name if you submitted a question, and you can come on over to Stage Right, where she is standing to your left, and step up to the mic.

Emma, who are we bringing up here? All right. I got Kevin P. Reilly S. and Arlith M. Wow. Can I ask Josh a question? Josh, are you here? Any nuts in any of these? No nuts.

Thanks, brother. Do you say go nuts or no nuts? Choose your picture. All right. This is great. Which one are you tasting? The coffee isn't saying, Emma, we're going to save you the coffee.

Yeah, you better save me some of that coffee. All right. Why didn't we do this? We're doing it. Drop King said, I have some bad expired sodas. I want you to try. So we did that.

That's what was set up. All right. Let's get to our Q&A. Who got over here? I got Arlith here. Sorry. What was the name one more time? Arlith.

Like Scarlet. Hi, Arlith. How are you? Very nice. Sorry. It's the silly show. In the stylings of the band, Foreigner, what fast food menu item always feels like the first time?

Wow. Every time you eat it. I love the singing there. I'm going to say, I'm going to go to 7-Eleven and I'm going to say, when I get that fucking like perfect consistency on a Coke slurpee, that just hits so fucking hard.

That's just exactly what I'm craving. And that reminds me of why I fell in love with them. That's a great answer. I'm going to have some of this ice cream, as you guys do over this one. This one is made from Brew Dogs Brew, right here in Seattle. How about that?

These ice creams are all fantastic. Every single one of them. The Fremont Dark Star Style. They're so fucking good. I don't know if you've been to go to Bluebird. It's fucking great. Holy shit. Fremont Brewing.

What's that? Fremont Brewing. Fremont Brewing is the other, yeah. What the hell? Uh-oh. Uh, anyways, carrying on. There's some weird rivalry in the crowd. I don't know what's happening.

I think they were saying brew. Answer my question. Oh shit. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. I'm fucking... I got an answer for you.

Brewers! Brewers! What the fuck? McDonald's French fries. Wow. That's a good answer. Fresh hot McDonald's French fries. Come on, wigs. Oh, man.

I feel like this is going to be a boring... But I love Jack in the Box so much. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, fuck you too. She said fuck yeah. I thought you said fuck you. I'm so sorry. I thought you said fuck you.

Fuck you too. I love Jack in the Box so much, and I would go every single day if I didn't stop myself, but I get it on my birthday every year. And it's so good. Yeah, I love Jack in the Box. Is there a particular item you got a standard order? Just like that straight up, just like, you know,

a burger that doesn't have any of that vegetable bullshit on it. Just like two patties and bacon and cheese. The ultimate cheeseburger. It's so good. And I eat it with enough... With little enough frequency that it's like, it really hits. I also say Taco Bell Taco, just the plain classic taco. Sure, yeah.

That hits. Yeah, it takes you right back. Arlette, thank you for the question. Thank you for the energy. All right, next question. Whoever has the best question can have one of these Joan sodas. There you go. All right, this is Riley.

Riley? Hi, Riley. Hi, Riley. I'm interested in Mitch twice. Love this shirt. Thank you. So my question is, if you had the chance to make a custom hot pocket, what would your ideal filling be for a hot pocket?

Fuck. That's a really good question. You just won yourself a Joan soda. I should comment that this one is the vanilla bean. Vanilla is a flavor is written on this pint. Outstanding execution of the vanilla ice cream from Bluebird. Really enjoy it. So the question is, what you could put anything in a hot pocket?

Fuck, I kind of feel like someone should figure out the sweet hot pocket because I really like like a home run pie or a hostess pie, like a hostess vanilla pie. So if you figure out one or like honestly, like some of those fancy pop tarts, they've actually made sweet hot pockets before. They've made sweet hot pockets before. Like I had this thought. Wow.

He looked it up and they exist. When did those come out? I want to say it was somewhere weird like 2015, 2016. Wow. Like it's like soon enough that you're like, I feel like I should remember. Are you some sort of hot pocket historian? I have been down many rabbit holes late at night. Yeah.

They did come wrapped in foil. So that's as an indication. You make the hat and you protect yourself. Yeah. The, I think this is, okay. So that's taken. That's off the table because that already exists. Then I would say, I don't know.

Fucking beef stroganoff. Let's put stroganoff in there. It's a comfort food. Extra starchy. That'll fill your right up. Yeah. Like like like barbecue brisket or something. You know what I mean?

You know what I think would be good is like a, you know, like why is what about a California burrito type of deal in a hot pocket? Oh hell yeah. If you could execute that, if you could figure out how to keep. French fries, carne asada in a cheese. If you could figure out a way to heat that up with those fries staying crispy enough. I think that would be delightful. Add a sour cream, maybe the little sour cream packet.

Yeah. There'd be a little food science involved in making that work. But if you could do it, you'd be sitting pretty. French onion soup. Damn, that is a dangerous hot pocket. I'm trying to think of what your life is. If you came to the early show, you sat through that and in its entirety. You waited 45 minutes for the second show.

You sat through that in its entirety. And now you're at the point where you've been in a theater for north of three hours. And you're watching three fat guys eat ice cream. What the hell? While talking about what they'd like to hear have in a hypothetical hot pocket. Sure. Thank you for being here. Thanks.

Thank you. Thank you for the question. That was great. Thank you for the question, Riley. Last one. One more question. This is Kevin. Hi, Kevin.

What lowbrow or junk food do you want to undergo in artisanal resurgence? So for example, you've seen like artisanal cupcake spots or like cookie dough or even like craft beer kind of counts as this. Yeah, I'm with you. So yeah, we've seen a lot of that. I mean, certainly we've seen that on the savory side of the chain restaurant sector. I'm half a pint in right now. I know.

You're gorging. I get it. It's good ice cream. The chocolate, chocolate, chunk one or whatever. It's great. You know, everyone was doing the elevated, the elevated gastropub burgers for a while. The gastropub. I'm saying gastropub because that's where I feel like I see these highbrow takes on

the lowbrow foods. You know, the elevated chicken sandwich was happening. I would say, I don't know. How about like a version? I'm sure some artisanal baker has done this, but I'd like to see more takes on like a sandwich cookie, like an Oreo cookie. Or like a golden Oreo cookie. Let's see some more, some more variants on that, some more elevated versions of that.

I like the originals, but yeah, let's let's fucking artisan those up. Why not? What else we got going on? You talking to us? Yeah. What are you guys doing after the show? You got an answer? Well, uh, ice cream.

The ice cream is good. I mean, there's like, if you've had burgers never say die in LA, that's like fancy McDonald's burgers. And I know that like elevated tacos is just like tacos from a good, but I mean, like, has anybody done like the Taco Bell style of like an elevated like cheesy gordita crunch or Mexican pizza or something? They probably have, but yeah. Okay.

Well, I mean, there's a gaseous. There's no, no, I mean, like that's, that's the, that's the, the challenge of the question is so much ground has been covered. Like even you're talking about Jack in the Box. I love the Jack in the Box tacos. And there was a place in LA that was doing what they called the clown tacos, which was their take on that their elevated take on the, the Jack in the Box tacos, which are famously so trashy and so far removed from what the taco actually is.

You know, it's tough about this question is that I feel like the world is coming around. I think thanks in large part to the dough boys where like we're actually all now admitting that like the, the, the, the basic shitty version is better than the elevated version. Sure. So anything that's like anything that's lowbrow or whatever it, that's the better version. Don't elevate it. I mean, no disrespect to you, sir. I think, yeah, go on.

If you gave me like a $25 plate of nachos plus stuff in a restaurant, like plus like a, like artisanal nachos. And you're not just saying like, oh, they threw some lobster and truffle oil on it and said like, these are fancy knots. You're just saying like, like, no, I want like a traditional nacho, but just like this much craft and this quality of product. Yes. You're thinking about every chip.

You're plating every chip with tweezers. I think that something like that, if it exists, it would be so good. I think it would make sir mix a lot smile. That's our show. Mookie Blakelock. Emma Urbrink and the Drop King. Thanks to the Neptune Theater. Until next time for the Spoonman Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick White.

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