Doughboys - Fuddruckers with Ryan Perez

Episode Date: November 12, 2015

The 'boys analyze Fuddruckers -- the self-proclaimed home of the World's Greatest Hamburgers -- with guest Ryan Perez of Funny or Die and Moonbeam City. Mitch and Ryan face each other down in an all new Wiger Challenge.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

San Antonio, Texas. The seventh largest city in America, the home of both the Alamo and the perennial NBA title contenders The Spurs, and the town where a New York businessman named Phil Romano decided to open his hamburger restaurant in 1979. Romano would later lend his name to the Italian chain he'd found in 1988, Romano's macaroni grill, but he invented a fictional persona named Freddy for his burger enterprise. His name was dropped in favor of just the last, in an act of undistilled hubris, Romano registered a trademark for the phrase, World's Greatest Hamburgers, to describe his restaurant's

product. The chain set itself apart by grinding their beef and baking their buns on the premises, by having a hybrid fast casual and a sit-down restaurant atmosphere where customers order at the counter and have the meal brought to their table, and by letting customers gorge on their buffet-style Fixens bar with an array of produce, condiments, and simmering hot cheese sauce. The financial crisis of 2008 nearly brought the eatery to extinction, but after shattering some locations and changing ownership, it rebounded, and now boasts nearly 200 restaurants

across North America, as well as locations in Chile, Italy, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia that serve its signature burgers, fries, and shakes. This week on Doughboys, Fudruckers. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, alongside my co-host, Mike Mitchell, the Spoon Man. How you doing, Spoon Man? Doing well. Doing well.

Freddy. He turned his name to Freddy. So, okay, so the restaurant, the original name of the restaurant, he didn't change his name to Freddy, he didn't legally change his name to Freddy, he still filled Romano to this day. If he's still alive, I don't remember if he's alive or not, I assume he's alive. Hope you're well out there, Phil. He named the restaurant Freddy Fudruckers, and then later on was like, you know what,

the Freddy, we don't need that, that's superfluous, we'll just call it Fudruckers. Oh, okay. And you know, the etymology of Fudruckers itself is in dispute, like I looked around and was trying to find out where did Fudruckers come from, and I can't find a story that like lines up, like there are people like, with just theories, someone was like, oh, it's from a fake, he was an aviation enthusiast, and there's this fake airline called Fudpuckers that flyboys like to say, like, hey, you fly for Fudpuckers? And I was like, okay, what's the, and they couldn't find a source on that, and other

people were just saying, it's just like a made up word, because it just like, he just liked how it sounded, I can't, I don't know, we don't know where, what the origin of Fudruckers is. We have a real number 23 situation going on. Yeah. I just want to say, I'll give a big, how to how, to Spoon Nation, and a, what, okay. To all the monster squatters out there. Wait, we're still referencing the monster squad now that we're two weeks into November.

That's okay. All right. You know what? Of course it's not special. I predict, if you're still doing this podcast a year from now, Mitch, if you haven't lost your mind and left, and decided to move back to Quincy and live with your mom, I imagine that there will be probably like a 20 minute portion at the beginning of every show that people will just probably listen to on three times speed of you just playing various clips

from classic comedy shows off of your phone as ways to greet Spoon Nation. You know what? If there's any MP3 geniuses out there, hook old Spoon Man up with one of those old line together, would you? MP3 geniuses. Oh, gotcha, like a string out of all these in order. Yeah. I gotcha.

Well, what is it right now? You got Heidi Ho from South Park, Mr. Hankey. You've got the little John clip from Chappelle's show. And then you've also got, it seems like you just this week have added The Church Lady, Dana Carvey's character from Saturday Night Live. We've got a special guest, and I added on The Church Lady from SNL. Great. Wonderful.

I'm looking forward to when you throw on Stuart Smalley when we get a little bit of a Brian from Family Guy. Don't spoil this. It's going to be a surprise. Yeah, no, it'll be great. lightning McQueen from Cars Whole Time In will get annoyed, it'll be great. It'll be a wonderful earned montage of audio tributes to the Spoon Man. Okay, so Spoon Man, we got to talk about something.

I don't watch those children movies, by the way. I do. I like them. I like the Pixar films. No, I know. I know. What is that? What's behind that?

I actually say, I've said this before, Cars Land at Disney California Adventure I think is the best attraction in probably both parks, and that alone made me like Cars. I watched the Cars movie, I was like, alright, what is this? And I went to Cars Land, I was like, this is great. And now I just like that the Cars universe exists, even though I don't actually like the movie. We must also say that you're the fool who thinks that Disneyland is better than Disney World.

Well, Disney aficionado, Mike Carlson, agreed with me on this very podcast. Also wrong. He loves Jimmy Buffett. That's true. That's true. So Mitch, we got to talk about something. So we're recording this the day after a prank involving you, well, centered around you, and perpetrated by your friend, Jack Allison, who's also a writer for the Jimmy Kimmel program.

My roommate, Jack Allison. Your roommate, Jack Allison, writes for Jimmy Kimmel Live. He in cahoots with the Jimmy Kimmel team, pulled an elaborate prank on you. It aired on last night's show. I think it was a rousing success, it's a very funny piece, but talk through what that prank was a little bit. Well, I believe in ghosts. I think that they're real, which is a big part of this prank, I guess.

But you guys, you and our guests have argued that that's not a big part of it, really. And I agree with you. I don't think it would have mattered either way that I do or do not believe in ghosts. But this was a couple of days before Halloween, this was last Thursday. I got home, Jack Allison, my roommate, he works at Jimmy Kimmel and he has to be up early. So I put on my headphones and started my three-hour laying on the couch watching TV. I put the headphones on, I started to hear some weird noises. I texted a group chain that you were on, Nick.

Yes. The first, I felt a big bang and I said, did anyone think there was an earthquake? And it turned out that there was a man below the floor and Jack was pranking me for the Jimmy Kimmel show. And he got me, he got me really good, he really, he got me good. Yeah, you were like, we tweeted out the piece, by the time this episode is out, it will have been on our Twitter for about a week or so, but... It will be forgotten about.

Yeah, yeah. What the fuck are these guys still talking about this thing? Yeah, but you can watch the entire clip online, it's very funny, Mitch, I think you're very endearing, very charming on it, but also legitimately scared for your life that ghosties are about to attack you. I'm glad you made me seem tougher by saying ghosties. Yeah, you know, I had a problem with the whole thing, because it aired and they actually used a little Burger Boy's tweet.

Oh yeah, well, you had been texting some of us and then Jack, we were on a group text chain with us and coincidentally our guest, Jack Allison, and a friend of the podcast, Jack Allison screen capped that group text and included a text from Evan Susser and a text from me in this montage of this clip. Evan Susser plays, Evan Susser knew that I was getting pranked and he responded, I said, was there an earthquake? And he said, I didn't feel anything, you know, and then I said, I'm here and shit, I think I'm going crazy.

You responded with, it's the wind, and you didn't, you weren't even in on it. I was not, I had no idea they were pranking you. And you just responded with like a, you fucking idiot, and it got me really mad because everyone is like, oh, so Weiger knew about it? And I'm like, no, he actually didn't, he was the one guy who didn't know about it, but still gave that awful response. Well, I assumed you were just like, afraid of nothing, and I was right, I was right, ultimately, but it also was a very, very windy night.

And I remember it was super windy. I was like about to go to bed. I think I texted you that and then like texted a sleeping emoji and then went to bed. Like it was, that was basically my timeline. That's your, that's what you, you text out a sleeping emoji to let everyone know you're about to go to bed. I want all my friends to tuck me in. Do you text that to your wife, Natalie, as you go to, right before you go to bed?

Yeah, yeah, right next to her, her phone buzzes, and she looks at me with disappointment. The charade continues. I love my wife very much. Let's introduce our guest. Our guest today is an incredibly funny writer from Funny or Die, Comedy Central's Moonbeam City, SNL. He's the writer-director of the movie I, Steve, which is hilarious. Ryan Perez is here.

Hi, Ryan. Hey guys, thanks for having me. Geez. I'm liking this energy right up top. This is incredible. I feel I've, Mitch, you survived a Kimmel prank. You're enjoying the rags of the fake twerker. The kids who's Halloween candy.

I got Kimmel'd. I lived to tell the tale. Do they give you a t-shirt and I survived Jimmy? I get to go on a date with the twerker girl, which is sad. They're forcing me, the girl to go on a date with me. It was, it was very, it was, that was a nice, it was a nice experience. I got laughed at backstage and, and you know, there's a part of me that's like, oh, I've been out here for 10 years and I've, I've done some stuff and, you know, I think the

bottom line is, is that, uh, I'll be remembered as a big coward. IMDb's star meter go up today. Oh, big time. Oh, I was sad. My eye's on it all day. Thank you guys for having me. I really, um, I don't listen to a ton of podcasts. Doughboyz is like, I know you have friends of the podcast, none of my friends are podcasts.

I, Doughboyz is my podcast and, and so it's, yeah, this is an honor and a thrill. That means a lot. I think Ryan is one of the funniest guys, one of the best writers there is. And there is this side of you too. Now I'm going to say this and I think some people will agree with me. I always want you to like me. I, I, I, I, I want you to think that I'm funny. It's a sad tale, uh, like I, I, I don't, see now, right now I'm doing a bad job.

Uh, I, I, I want you to, I, I, I, I don't want to disappoint you ever. This sounds like a weird dad issue sort of deal, but you're such a funny guy. I always want to do a good job for you. I get what you're saying. I don't, well, well, I had my reservations and then I saw the Kimmel thing and now I'm on board. No, there's no one's funnier than Mitch. We all know.

Yeah, we all know. Ryan is the, is the, and I love improvising with this guy. We were all in a group together at one point and that fell apart quickly. It did, it did, but it was a good time. One of the funniest guys that there is for real. I appreciate that. Well, shit. Now I gotta live up to something.

No, you don't. In my life. Um, Well, my mom is listening. No, there's not many people who will. Does anyone listen to this podcast? People do listen to this podcast, Mitch. We're doing well.

We have a list. You downplay it. We have a lot of listeners. We're like, I'll look at the podcast rankings and it will be us and then it will be like, like the mom show from like the, it has 3000 listeners and the, like, like, hey, wait, no one cares. Right. I feel like no one really cares about this show.

Look, you're, you want, this is what this goes down to, Mitch, is every week you want to discontinue the podcast. You want every episode to be the last podcast so you don't have to drive out to Burbank and record anymore episodes. It's a, that's what it comes out to. Nobody's listening. Let's just wrap it up. In a global sense, nobody is listening, but also in a global sense, no one I feel like

is listening to any podcast podcast or just in their infancy was I even think, what is the mom show? Why is that your poll? What are you talking about? You made me think about my mom because you mentioned her eyes going home to live with my mom and now she's stuck in my head probably for the rest of the podcast. That's okay though. Right.

I do, I love my mom. That's great. That's a good thing. This is a weird one so far. This is a real weird episode, guys. Yes, we went from ghosts to now memories of mums. A lot of... This is all my fault.

A lot of baggage. Brian's here and the pressure's just eaten me alive. I don't know what to fucking do anymore. You should feel no pressure. We're a long friend. Stay on this. We've talked about every... They're all blending together now.

They're all the same fucking thing. We put the fries. We're pretty good this time. As I eat, trying to diet and become a better person, I'm just stuffing... Should I get an Oreo shake? Yeah, do it. It's for the podcast. It's fucking...

It's all... What is it? There's nothing... Well, I might be on The Last Doe Boys. This is awesome. Yeah, it might be. Well, before it becomes a show. Yeah, well, Jesus.

True TV presents. From one extreme to the next. Brian, you're from Southern California. Yeah, that's right. Where are you from specifically? I'm from South Orange County from a place called Laguna Niguel. Yeah. We've had a few SoCal natives on the program.

So what about like a... Because I feel like Southern California kind of has... Oh, I love this shit. This is where I'm from. I can relate to someone. You won't get this. This is surfboard talk, Mitch. If you had a fucking Boston asshole on here, you'd just be like,

Hey, oh, Larry Bird, that guy's something. I never listened to that shit for 15 minutes. Oh, remember when Robert Parrish scored a slam dunk on a pass from Kevin McHale? Oh, boy, then we ate some chowder. Oh, what a day. I love this because now people know why I hate Burger Boy. I think he's better than all of Boston. No, but as a Southern California native, what food did you grow up with?

And you can talk about it that in kind of a cuisine sense, or you can talk about that in a specific restaurant sense, but however you want to run with that. Sure. In my home, my parents were both cooks, big cooks, so we ate at home a lot. That's the primary growing up. I'd say it was always home.

We always ate at home. Gotcha. And a trip out was sort of a rarity, in a sense, except for fast food, which was integrated into the weekly diet a little bit. So there would be a lot of trips to In-N-Out. Oh, yeah. I love In-N-Out. You know, you'd go home and eat at, like, make the dinner table

and kind of do that sort of thing. Sometimes that, yeah. And then, you know, you get like little Caesars or things like this, but these were very, as a cost-saving measure, really, it was really always about the cheapest way to eat that week. Sure. And eating at home is the cheapest way to eat. You had a thrifty, home-cooked, centric family, it seems like.

Yes. And so, yeah, so a lot of the chain restaurants, some of them I knew, but a lot of them I didn't. In South Orange County, it's pretty much the same as it is in anywhere, but I didn't get to know them until I was a little older. What's your feeling on In-N-Out, Burke? We talked about it on the podcast before. Oh, I love it.

And I think that Armin, I couldn't understand the whole episode, but I think my impression was he liked it. And I would agree. I'm a five, I give it five forks. Wonderful. Well, if there's a, can you add a fourth to the break? Love In-N-Out. And yeah, and Orange County also is kind of like the birth of a lot of fast food

began there. Yeah, absolutely. So, in some weird way, you can't pick where you're from. And I have very little, I don't have very much connection to Orange County in a way. But when I do think about like, okay, well, what's from there? What else is from there? Well, fast food sort of originated there as well. And, you know, I own that in some way.

I got to own that. Does the movie Orange County pretty much sum up your life? Mm-hmm. Okay. Good. Yep, perfectly. No changes, no notes. No notes for you, Jake Kazdan.

Ryan, here's a question I want to ask you. Because I consider you one of my friends who is a true film buff, a true aficionado of the art of cinema, someone with a lot of knowledge of different points of reference in the field of film. And I was wondering if you had any movies in either films about food or films with scenes that are centered on food that come to mind, anything you love, anything that you're a fan of? Seems like he loves this question.

Oh, why you're the perfect question for Ryan Peretz. No offense, Nick, but you made him look like a fucking huge loser with that question. How so? What's wrong with liking movies, the original American art form? That and jazz music, those are our contributions to the culture. Come on. Movies, it's the art form of the 20th century, not the 21st.

Not the 21st, no. Yes. That's Paul Schrader says that the 21st century will be dominated by some kind of audio-visual art form. It will not be movies. I don't know what that means. Probably Snapchat is probably what he means. Video games maybe?

Yeah, possibly. The greatest movie I know about food is a movie from 1996. I love this movie with all of my heart, a movie called Big Night with Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalu. We just talked about Big Night on a recent episode of the podcast. What was it? Was it with Zoe Jarman? Oh, yeah.

When are we talking about Big Night? Oh, yeah, I don't know. Might have been the episode before that. I either didn't know that movie or pretended that I knew it to not know. We referenced Big Night. I got something wrong. I said John Turturro was in it and I was corrected on Twitter. It's actually Stanley Tucci that was in it.

Stanley Tucci directed it as well. Oh, that's right. I remember talking about that. I don't know where it was. Yeah, I don't remember which episode it was. We did talk about it recently. But yeah, Big Night. So what about Big Night do you like?

Big Night is a great Italian story about these Italian immigrants that have a little Italian restaurant in New Jersey. And it's the sweetest movie. It's just a sweet little Indie, little 90s Indie. I love my 90s Indies. And Ian Holm is in it. He's terrific. He's funny.

It's got a great Isabella Rossellini's in it. She's wonderful, sexy. It's just one of the great small movies from the 90s that I just, I remember seeing it. I saw it like in a theater when I was like 16 years old and it stuck with me forever. And of course, I recommend that highly to anyone. Check out Big Night.

I own two copies of it because I got one for myself and then someone gave it to me as a gift. So if anyone wants my Big Night, maybe auction that off. Yeah, sure. Well, we don't ask if you want to borrow Ryan's Big Night. Yeah. And the other movie that immediately jumps to mind is Goodfellas because there's great scenes of cooking in that.

Lots of great cooking in Goodfellas. And carving up garlic and everything. Goodfellas is my favorite movie. And that's maybe where I bonded with, you knew so much more about Scorsese than I knew, but he's one of my favorites. And we bonded over that. That movie is one of the best.

And also, I think one of the best, I was talking about today actually, just one of the best like comedies I feel like of the 90s. It's one of the funniest movies ever. Yeah, it's one of the, yeah, it's by far one of the funniest movies. I saw a terrible movie about food the other day called Burnt. I was about to ask where that ranked.

Oh, this is the Bradley Cooper movie. Bradley Cooper is a bad boy chef. Oh, he's a bad boy. This is like chef. I saw a chef too. I've seen all these. I saw a chef. I saw Burnt.

Burnt is no chef. You know what's a food movie? I like, it's not a food movie, but there's food in it, and I think it's just represented a really interesting way, is the Cone Brothers feature Fargo. Yes. Which is, they just have like scenes in a buffet and then she's just, you know, Francis McDormand

is just like piling food on her plate, and they're just seeing where she goes to a Hardee's. There's a scene where her like, you know, there's just like food is represented, I feel like in a very real Midwestern way, and that's really interesting. Yeah, the Arby's. Is it Arby's or Hardee's?

Yeah, yeah. She goes, I think she goes to a Hardee's drive-through, and then she's also eating Arby's in a different scene. But yeah, I mean, I just, I really like that because I feel like you don't get that depiction a lot. A lot of times you get, I feel like the depiction of food you're getting in a movie is either, it's just incidental, like you're not even,

they're not even worrying about it, just like some business for characters to be doing while the scene is going on, or it's like kind of presented in kind of a glossier, almost commercial way, you know, like the food's like a little too pristine, a little bit represented not in a real way, and I really like that about Fargo.

Yeah, that buffet in Fargo looks good. Yeah, it actually did look really good. Yeah. Can I say my food movies? Of course. Problem Child 2. The pizza, the pizza food fight scene? I don't remember, I've never seen it.

Gilbert Godfrey comes in and they get into a big pizza fight, and the cheese looks very strange if anyone remembers a movie. And then- Like they're throwing slices of pizza? Yeah, they're throwing slices of pizzas at each other. I don't know if you have seen Problem Child 2, but it's like a really gross kind of movie.

No, I haven't seen it, yeah. Like, oh, you've never seen it? I've never seen it, no. Oh, like the second one kind of takes on a grosser- You've never seen Problem Child 2? And you work in the field of entertainment? I just thought you would be interested in comedies. The second one is kind of like-

Yeah, there's like a- There's this like weird- Like the dog gets frozen, and then at the end of the movie, he takes like a gigantic huge dog shit. Like there's like a lot of gross stuff, and then there's like this ride, and they all puke on each other.

Like it's a really gross out comedy. I don't know why they chose it. And then my second movie, food movie, would be Problem Child 1. The salad scene when Junior puts the cockroaches in the salad. Always stuck with me. And all the scenery that Michael Richards chews on. I like Michael Richards.

Still, I like him more than ever. I like it. We need statements like that on Doughboys to get us off the air, like I'm hoping. Yeah, you liked- Michael Richards doesn't- He doesn't show up as much as he used to. What happened to him?

This guy's Kramer, and then he disappears? Don't laugh, don't laugh. I remember that the old Seinfeld Letterman, the most awkward. He goes, don't laugh. The audience starts to laugh. Don't laugh, he's not being funny. This is after Michael Richards had his

extremely racist outburst, and then Jerry Seinfeld was on- I believe the context is Jerry Seinfeld was on The Late Show with David Letterman, and brought Kramer on. Was he via satellite, or was he there? So weird. What a weird way to whistle that.

And he says, in the apology, he says, so many- I offended the Afro-Americans there in the audience that night. And the audience laughs because that's a weird thing to say. And Jerry Seinfeld says, don't laugh. Which is great.

To yell, don't laugh during this- It was such a- It's kind of when entertainment started to fall apart. And now Doughboys exists and so on. The other funny thing that no one remembers from the

Kramer rant is that the guy, he's yelling at Kramer and then Kramer's yelling at him using horrible language, not suitable for the family audience of Doughboys. And then the guy retorts by saying you-

this is why you're a wash-up, you never had no movies, no shows, just Seinfeld, that's it. People forget that, but he tears into Michael Richards very specifically. No, I remember that. I do remember that the heckler is very calm and just sort of dresses him down.

And I feel like I would have to guess very much right. Right? That is probably the- I'm sure Seinfeld puts up with him and that everyone else is like, this guy is an asshole. He probably never hires him. Undoubtedly talented. And you watch

Seinfeld and he's like, oh, this guy's an amazing physical comedic actor. But I do remember after that incident happened I was reading a thing on Newsweek Online or something about Michael Richards and it was talking about him and like, yeah, this disgusting rant. But then I was reading the profile and I was like,

Richards also has a reputation as a bad tipper. And then I was like, oh, no. Oh, forget this guy. I won't stand for that. Well, I will say that Nick's been pushing for Michael Richards to be a guest since the first week of the podcast. That's not true.

Did you ever see his comedians in bars and coffee? Oh, no. He made one? Yeah, he did one with Jerry. And at the end of the episode, there's a little moment where they go out. I believe they're in Malibu or Pacific Palisades or somewhere and they in the episode, in the parking lot

of some grocery store or something and Michael Richards goes out and shakes hands with all white people. Like, he's reconnecting with his white fans and it's emotional. There's like emotional music under it. Check out that out. This is his

vindication moment in the final two minutes of his comedians in cars with coffee. The moment no one wanted. Wait, is it like a joke on his persona? Like, oh, see, he's still got his white fans. No, it's literally, it's not a joke at all. It's like here's a sweet moment of Michael Richards

reconnecting with people who appreciate him as Kramer. But it's in like, it's in Pacific Palisades, wherever in some Sanima. But, you know, it's just like, there's a thing there. Like, I mean, he's going to shake hands with people. Maybe you

wait around until an Asian guy shows up. I don't know. Something close, an Indian. Yeah, you don't have to worry as much about Michael Richards and the white community connecting. I feel like he should have pushed a little bit further,

but I don't know how deep comedians in cars getting coffee is. I've never watched an episode of it. Yeah. Like, it's, I don't know. The repair work with his reputation Michael Richards didn't need to do with Caucasians, because basically he his rant was basically

what the state of the city speech given in Quincy, Massachusetts, right? Right. Jesus. Right. That was your high school. He was your commencement thing. Yeah. Wow. All right. You know what? I got a lot of friends back in Quincy

Burger Boy. I will say I saw Jerry Seinfeld recently at the Pantages Theater home of Wicked and other great plays and musicals. Yeah.

And he was really, really, really funny. I was kind of blown away by how good he was. That's great to hear. He was really, really good. Still got his chops. Like, played that thing like

I was there with a few comedians and was so funny, was getting the guys I was in the row with cracking up and then also hitting the 50-year-old husband and wife that were there. I mean, not that it shouldn't happen that way, but

he was getting everyone to laugh and was so much better on top of everything. He was so good. Yeah, it's hard to achieve. He's great. Now, because of Cosby, he's like, the mantle is mine to take. Oh, that's true. Yes. Yeah. I am the greatest

living comedian. Yeah, he 100%. You are right. Letterman Retired. Yeah, it's kind of his, right? He's the elder statesman of the comedy community. He's the elder statesman. Don't fuck it up, Seinfeld. Yeah. And you're welcome to come on here and review some coffee

place you like or something. Let's get into this week's restaurant. Oh, fud talk. It's what we've all been waiting for. Through 27 episodes of Doe Boys, we're finally here. We're at the big one.

Fud Rockers. So, Ryan, we asked you to be on the podcast. You had two options that you gave us. One was Wienerschnitzel, which I'm curious about a little bit. Why was Wienerschnitzel in your top two? Wienerschnitzel is

I don't know. It's just, it's shitty. You know, actually, there was like, there's one thing about Wienerschnitzel that is kind of an interesting story that maybe else, maybe if I ever come to talk about Wienerschnitzel,

I'll say, but I feel like it might be too much to unload right now. Okay, all right. Hey, we love to kill a lot of time on this podcast. If you have any, if you have like a lengthy anecdote that'll just stretch things out.

So about an hour and 20 minutes. Yeah, so we can hide how little content we actually have in this podcast. Doe Boys, the podcast where they'll spend 15 to 20 minutes talking about Michael Richards. So there's like

a podcast from like 1996, right? No. 2015. Almost 2016. Oh, man. Wienerschnitzel is a very funny one. That's not an East Coast one.

Yeah, it's one I thought was national growing up in SoCal because you just see them everywhere, but it's not. It's just local. It just wasn't. Your little Orange County bubble you lived in. I was from LA County in all fairness. Whatever. Fudruckers, though, definitely was

in Boston. Was in my dad's work building. Oh, wow. So that was always kind of like, ooh, there's a Fudruckers down there, you know. My dad would usually be like, here, too fat to eat. Yeah, it's in a lot of, because it's like a, they're standalone Fudruckers, but they're a lot, I feel like

in food courts and office buildings and just kind of like in weird random places, the one we went to is kind of in a, it's just kind of like a store front right next to a radio shack and then there's a Fudruckers. I feel like they're kind of like all over the place. But why, Prez, why did you settle on Fudruckers? I guess Fudruckers is

the one restaurant that in the realm of, when you say chain restaurant and that encompasses everything from fast food to Starbucks, which inscrutably somehow was on Doe Boys. No, I love Joe Saunders.

It was a great, great episode. But there's no food there, really, but whatever. Okay, I'm running a feral audio. No, I'm with you. I'm with you. Don't listen to that Doe Boys episode. I agree. I thought it was a fun episode. I thought Joe was

a great guest. He brought us some bread. We brought us a banana quick bread. We tasted it. It was great. He brought us bread. Yeah, that was great. It was great. But I think that the Fudruckers is like one of the only chain restaurants I actually have like a I guess sit-down chain

restaurants. It was the first one that popped into my mind is like, oh, that's one we used to go to in this whole thing of not going to a ton of out a ton. There was a Fudruckers in Lake Forest about a 15-minute drive from my house and that was a

I would say three or four time-a-year trip around the holidays. It was always like, well, go out and go to Fudruckers. And so I have some memory of it. Same deal with my family. We didn't go out to eat a ton, but Fudruckers was one of the restaurants that

my family would go to. Fudruckers, Stuart Anderson's Black Angus, Denny's and Keros, which we reviewed on the podcast before. Those are the kind of spots we would go to outside of fast foods. But yeah, I don't know why as a sit-down chain, I feel like a lot of people are into Fudruckers

when it really is just it's kind of just like an upscale version of a fast food restaurant, right down to ordering at the counter. It's like, you know, you're just paying a little bit more and getting a little nicer quality product than what you might get at like a Wendy's. Well, I love Wendy's,

so I get what you're saying, but there is that strange element to it. Well, first of all, if you had told me like Fudruckers has gone out of business before we did this episode, I would have been like, oh, okay, yeah, sure, it's done. That makes sense.

And I said to Ryan, I feel like it was the first time I heard someone say Fudruckers in eight years or something. I just had completely forgotten about it. But every time I went there, I always thought it was good, but I kind of agree with you

and I went there a few times at my dad's office building and it was just that sort of thing of like, let's eat lunch and then it was like, oh, burgers, that's quick. And then it's like, yeah, it's kind of like slow, fast food in a lot of ways. It just takes a little bit longer than other

burger places, you know. But I think there's a lot of fun to be had and just to give my perspective, Fudruckers has remained a presence in my life. Yeah, I've continued to eat at Fudruckers. You confess that like, and I still go to church.

And I don't care if it makes me less cool with my comedy friends, but I do it regularly. I do believe in God. I don't know what to call it. If it's light or an energy or what, but it's fine, gay marriages are fine with

me, but I go sometimes. I feel like I've almost had this sort of conversation, but with ghosts. I've gone so far as to say that if I was going to have an ownership steak in a chain restaurant, if I could be like, oh, I can open a chain restaurant of my

choice, I think I might pick Fudruckers. Because I think it's the right balance of like, it's just a fun spot. I think it's a fun time you can have there. And I think, you know, burgers and fries are accessible. Some of the locations, a lot of locations have beer

and wine, which is fun. A little fun for mom and dad. I kind of just like kind of the atmosphere and the product there. And I feel like that's the kind of thing like, oh, I could see myself having some sort of affiliation with Fudruckers beyond just being a patron. Can I be honest with you? Yeah. I think you should do it.

I think you should open a Fudruckers. Quit this. Quit this. Quit comedy. Quit comedy. Quit my writing job. My podcast thing. Just open a Fudruckers. Wear a uniform shirt. And I would love to see you in there. Everybody in here is having fun, right?

This guy is really pushing. He's having fun. They've also like, there's some elements that are Fudruckers and I'm not sure which ones you guys went to, but I feel like every Fudruckers I've been to kind of has the feeling of it's got like a little bit of shakeies in it.

You know, it's got like a claw machine and a few arcade games, maybe a pinball machine. It's got just like a little bit of like, hey, here's a little bit of fun for you, you know? And it kind of retains that. It's weird because it feels out of place in a lot of chain restaurants,

but in the Fudruckers which kind of has this old school kind of diner, diner isn't quite the right word. This kind of, I guess, kind of 50s throwback, maybe this diner, 50s throwback sort of out in place. It kind of has that sort of feel and it feels appropriate there.

Pushing that fun again. I feel like it's fun. I feel like that's one of the things they're advancing. It's like a fun restaurant. Yeah. Growing up, the one in Lake Forest, California off El Toro Road did not have, they had like two pinball machines and an outrun, outrun driving game,

Adam's Family Pinball, Twilight Zone Pinball. Oh wow. Adam's Family Pinball is a good one. Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah. And then, didn't go to it for five years or so. Come back an Elvis booth, a Rolling Stones booth, a Beatles themed booth,

a big statue of the blues brothers in the middle. Jesus. Crazy photos of rock stars all over the walls. This is, they're trying to it's a rocktober, a rocktober, whatever that thing you did. No, I know, it was terrible. That dumb

thing we're trying to forget. Yes. And last night I went to the one in Burbank. Oh my god, this place is incredible. You gotta go, they have again, an Elvis booth, a Tonight Show with Jay Leno booth. Fun. Did they just get

all this stuff from like, like the Planet Hollywoods in Hard Rock cafes at Shutdown? Well, there is no priceless memorabilia at the Burbank Fun Records, except for there are autographs of

frequent patrons, two of which, one was an actor called Daniel Roebuck, who played Jay Leno in the late shift. Oh my god. He has an autograph, and then one is an actor, I forget the name of the actor, but he plays the pawn shop

owner in Pulp Fiction. It's a frame still from Pulp Fiction and the pawn shop owner who sodomizes Ving Reims. Oh yeah. And it's still from that movie. And it's like, hey, Zed or whatever his name

is in the movie. Thanks for the great meal. Yeah. So while you're chomping into your elk burger, you can look up on the wall and remember Bruce Willis slicing a man's torso open. Oh man, that is Weigar's new spot. That's crazy.

You know, I went to the Fudruckers in, and by the way, Jay Leno I think is totally appropriate for the Burbank Fudruckers because Jay Leno is a Burbank institution. They filmed the Tonight Show there for many years. But fake Jay Leno, the Tonight Shift Jay Leno. Yeah, well,

they have the Tonight Show booth on top of the Daniel Robo. Yeah, they have both frame photos of Jay Leno. They had autographed photos, and maybe the only restaurant in America to have an autographed photo of Jay Leno and an autographed photo of the actor who played Jay Leno. That's wonderful. That's a different time in Hollywood. I feel like that doesn't happen

right? Yeah. Do people still ask for headshots of, you know what I mean? I still see them places. But I feel like they're 20 years old. Yeah. Every place that you go, that there's no new ones. There's no new headshots getting signed

and put on wall, so I feel like. You guys, I feel like you guys should do a headshot thing. I feel like the Doe Boys could get in some restaurant. Doesn't that seem like a dumb thing that could happen? Like if you have a little picture of yourselves and you sign it and give it to

Hey, we have a podcast. Hey, Pocky Don't Mass. We have a... You can put this up on the wall. You can put it up on the wall. Don't put it up on the wall. This is the thing we have. We do it. That'll be the saddest thing when they all reject us. They don't want our photo up

on the wall. Wait, who are you? What? I kind of like that idea. Yeah, I like that idea. I'm down for taking a vintage. Nick wants to be very much like, we can't take a free meal or anything like that. We've had some offers and I know you think that

no one listens to the podcast. We've had some offers for some free food and some compensation that I have said we should turn down because I think that it distil... It dilutes the purity of our reviews if we are accepting pale. Oh, Mr. Smith goes to watch it.

Show me a hero. You know, if I looked at that Twitter account a little bit more that email ever, Spoon Man would be eating up those free mails, I'll tell you. I think that that's such bullshit. That's the

biggest pile of bullshit I've ever heard. Like, ooh, my Red Robin review is going to be corrupted. I think people want to be able to listen. I think part of the appeal for the podcast is that people can listen

and feel like they're getting our honest opinions on chain restaurants. Which I feel like it's hard to find that because, you know, on TV there's all these ad sales issues. They're like, oh, well, we can't say anything negative about Olive Garden. We've all written for TV. We know how these things work.

They're like, oh, we can't reference Olive Garden because we have a partnership with their parent company who's sponsoring the football that also is on our channel. You know what I mean? There's all that sort of stuff. So I feel like on the podcast where we're not beholden to advertisers or to the whims of all these large corporations,

I feel like we can give our honest thoughts. And I think there's some value in trying to keep that as pure as possible. Are you saying the Doughboys can't be bought? I'm putting my foot down. The Doughboys cannot be bought. Everybody can be bought in this town. I went

to the Santa Monica location. Now, me and my wife Natalie, we have some history with the Santa Monica Fudruckers location in that we first moved into our apartment and this is long enough ago that George W. Bush was still president. We've lived there a while and we moved in...

George H.W.? Yeah, George W. Bush's father George H.W. Bush was president. We had just moved in. We were newlyweds. The year was 1991. The L.A. Riots had rocked the east side, but Santa Monica was caught.

When we moved in there, George W. Bush was president. It was probably like 2007-2008 and there was a Fudruckers on the corner of 20th Street and Wilshire. Before we even had an opportunity to go there, it shut down and turned into a Cuckoo Roo.

Apparently, Fudruckers and Cuckoo Roo are owned by the same parent corporation. It was a Cuckoo Roo for many years. I went to that Cuckoo Roo a number of times. Cuckoo Roo isn't great, but it's fine. Then eventually... Our much anticipated Cuckoo Roo episode

... Count the days until that happens. Yeah, well, when that one... Then eventually, earlier in this year, actually... No, I'm sorry. In 2014, the Cuckoo Roo shut down and then there was then just an empty storefront and then

a Fudruckers sign came up again and they put a Fudruckers back in there and it took like six months after the sign went up to eventually open, but it opened this year and it's just like, oh, there's a Fudruckers in walking distance of our apartment that we're able to frequent, but it was just such a weird like sort of circle of life thing to

observe that like one chain restaurant went away, was replaced by another one. That one kind of had its life cycle. That one went away and then the first one like reclaimed the throne. Natalie, Natalie, the Cuckoo Roo that was a Fudruckers and now

it's gonna be a Fudruckers again. That's great, Nick. You mind signing these documents here? Ha ha ha ha ha ha Why did you give me the voice of a slow-witted character from a William Faulkner novel? Ha ha ha ha ha ha

I like to think that Natalie heard way too much about this Fudruckers Cuckoo Roo Ha ha ha ha So now it is a Fudruckers. It's a Fudruckers again. It's an all-new Fudruckers with an all-new interior and we went to this Fudruckers

a few nights ago. You know, you go up to Fudruckers you go up to the counter and you order and the service I find at Fudruckers is generally pretty good. I feel like they're very pleasant there, even though it's like you're not spending as much time with your server because you're basically ordering at the counter, they're bringing it to your table

but I always feel like they're very friendly there. Um... Yeah, for working in a Fudruckers they're pretty... Ha ha ha ha ha Food service is sometimes a thankless job. I appreciate it when an employee does a good job. No, they're great staff. Very good there.

So we went to this recently I got the Thunder Burger which is a San Diego Chargers promotion in Southern California. They have the Thunder Burger and the Lightning Burger and then you're basically whichever one I guess has bought more affects something. I don't know if it's going on the menu permanently or what

but it was a half-pound American Kobe patty with pepper jack cheese bacon jalapenos, onion rings and smokehouse sauce. The Lightning Burger which I didn't order had pulled pork on it in lieu of the bacon and jalapenos. Pretty good, a pretty good burger. You know, it's a half-pound burger

sometimes you get that big old slab of meat and it's just like a little too much but I feel like it was cooked well, it was cooked medium juicy, a lot of flavor I do really like their fresh baked buns they bake their own buns there and I don't know if it's a subway situation where they're getting frozen dough and they're just heating it up in their ovens

or if they really are rolling it out with rolling pins and making it from scratch but either way I feel like those buns are really good they're hot and flavorful and they do a good job of being a counterpart for that beef flavor and all the fixings I thought were really good this was like a good in the concept of a spicy barbecue burger

which I've seen a few places try this was a good execution of that The buns are nice and buttery I think they do the they grill them up on the so they're freshly baked if they're telling the truth and then they grill them up on the stove top

it seems like the buns stood out to me too now, Fudruckers that's like in The Simpsons when Moe turns into the funny Moe's place where Moe serves you fries while you eat Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag Uncle Moe, thank you

Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag that is kind of making fun of Fudruckers a little bit or is it just every I felt like Fudruckers was specifically one of those types of places it might be, I think it might have been I always perceived it as kind of a catch-all

of all kitschy chain restaurants I thought it was including places like TGI Fridays or whatever all that sort of stuff because walking into Fudruckers I went to the Sherman Oaks one which was a different one we went to three different Fudruckers there's plenty of Fudruckers

we should win an award, that should be an award like some kind of thing has that happened before? we went all separately by the way all alone like a schmuck I went alone too, we definitely should have gone did you go alone? I went with my wife

if we all went alone that should have been an award if we all went to Fudruckers alone we should have won like the golden noose or something that gets a golden noose I say same difference because she was probably tuning you out wish she was alone

that one's a golden noose award for the three sad men who went to separate Fudruckers Nick ate his thunderburger as his wife watched him text a chain full of guys I will say it sounds like it was the same place that you guys were

it felt very much like I was walking into the 90s it seemed like it had a lot of regulars and it felt like it felt like people out of the 90s too including me I felt like I was amongst my beasties

these people that I feel like evolution is left behind including me in that restaurant all of us tipping our styrofoam cups to each other and enjoying our Fudruckers burgers

it has such a funny 90s 20 years ago this was it this was a cool new experience and that was kind of funny to see again but I was with you that bun tasted good

I had the what was my burger I think it was a bacon cheddar burger yeah bacon cheddar burger it was a note I wrote right here on my notes it was a great buttery bun yeah really good bun nice little crispness too

I will say you built up that the buffet earlier on in this episode it's the condiment buffet but it's not that great looking it's a buffet style fixin's bar I think it's how I characterize it

it's not that fun of a thing I feel like that's lost I think I'm with you it was like nowadays there's like a place like a Chipotle or something where they'll do that for you and now I feel like I have to take the effort of taking my patty off of the bun putting some green leaf lettuce

on there, grabbing some tomato slices with little tongs it's just like a lot of work I kind of would rather there was a way for someone to do that for me you know what I'm gonna say tomato was too fresh when I had it it was almost not ripe

it was like a tomato out of my mom's garden gotcha I don't like that you know what I do like from that fixin's bar is they've got that hot nacho cheese ooh I didn't see that they got a regular hot nacho cheese

and then they got a hot nacho jalapeno cheese and that's good for fry dipping that's good for putting on your fries that's good for if you want to get a burger without cheese or even if you want to get a burger with cheese wanna go nuts and put a little extra cheese sauce on top of that that's a real treat, that's a lot of fun go for it

this is my mother who led the fudruckers trips she's the captain of these trips we're going to fudruckers and she's fudruckers appeals to her

because you have a little bit of control like in it cause I didn't and this is what I ordered last night any of the pre any of a named burger you can just order

at fudruckers you have the option of just ordering like a half pound burger and you go and put the fixin's on it all yourself and that was growing up that was always the order and I think that there's something about it that appeals to you if you really want to just decide

how much you get on the hamburger which is a nice thing slight control issues which I think I inherited but I was talking to her yesterday saying do you remember anything about fudruckers

and she says oh I remember that cheese and we would do we would put the cheese on the burger so you wouldn't have to spend an extra dollar on cheese so why order a cheeseburger when you can put the cheese on that's a great fudruckers hack

it's a nice little hack and also I'll say this there aren't a lot of places where you can get nacho cheese on a burger like that's a fairly unique fudruckers experience and you can control how much nacho cheese you want on that it's interesting and I like their nacho cheese I think it's pretty good

so I think that's a fun adventurous choice you can make if you're going to hit up fuds so Prez you got the standard so they basically just give you a patty and a bun and then the rest is up to you when you make that order and then you're the star

so what did you do what kind of damage did you do to that fixin's bar what did you put on that burger that burger came with let's see what was it the shredded lettuce you got your choice there you can get your green leaf, you can get your iceberg

you can get your shredded lettuce tomato some pickles the two kinds of varieties of pickles I forget which one I had oh jalapenos oh yeah they have jalapenos the cheese

out of the pump and little onions and I went into the Elvis booth ate it alone shot yourself like Elvis oh he didn't shoot himself oh I was thinking Simpsons

he shoots a TV on the Simpsons which is based on Elvis I believe it's based on Elvis I first saw Robert Goulet on a TV once and shot the TV he had a feud with Robert Goulet yeah he just hated Robert Goulet I think that's what it was

and then the old story is that when Elvis died, Robert Goulet said it's up to me now I think that's how the story goes so in the Simpsons world he has a rivalry with itchy apparently sorry my brain slipped there

which Nick is used to the cat, itchy is the mouse right I think itchy is the mouse yeah so it would have been scratchy so scratchy is getting the episode where we find out grandpa's name is Abe Simpson and he's getting the

this is the one where Bart and Lisa go straight in episode of itchy and scratchy he's getting a how does that end up oh he's in a barber chair that's what it is that's so insane and then they pour ants and then I think he pushes

the the barber chair up and goes through a TV in Elvis's room and then Elvis shoots him and explodes his skull oh man that show was good yeah I

didn't have as good of a condiment buffet it seems like the Sherman Oaks Galleria Fudruckers did not did not I don't think it had some of that stuff that you guys are talking about it's a smaller one I've been to that Sherman Oaks Galleria because

that's one that's more of like a store front it's cozy in there they don't have a lot of room can I ask you guys a question in either of your locations was there any raw meat on display yes there was okay because for years the Fudruckers that I grew up to going to the actual slabs

of meat were in the front window on display and then now it's been degraded to just under a counter wait are you saying like sides of beef actual sides of beef were in the front window and then eventually I think it grossed people out so they frosted the glass yeah I think in the Lakewood California one you can see

the slabs of beef but here at the Santa Monica location they just had like ground beef under glass they're just sort of saying like here are the patties these are fresh patties so you know interesting I mean the burger patty was good I was impressed overall with the burger it held up

and also in a in a time when you know having a really great burger is tough it was more expensive I noticed that it was it's hard out here but it's just hard out and these are these times the times are tough I agree with you

even though I think you're mocking us no it is tough you're right it's tough burger times I'm gonna buy into this it is tough burger times yeah there's a lot of options they are

they're survived the burger was good and it felt like there was good traffic in there but I'm kind of the opposite of you I love that there was a ketchup pump a mustard pump and a mayo pump

and then I was like put a little bit of mayo on there and I was like that's good but I just wish someone told me to put on this burger because I put a couple pieces of onion I put a few pickles I put a tomato and I put a slice of lettuce I guess a piece of iceberg lettuce

but I wish then I was kind of dipping it in the mustard mustard mayonnaise and ketchup I was kind of trying each one but I was like I just wish someone had made this for me because I don't know how I didn't know what to do with it and it is a little tricky when you get those pre-made

burgers like I got the thunder burger I had like barbecue sauce on it and like cheese and bacon and onion all this like crap on it so like you kind of are trying to figure out like wait how much am I supposed to put on this so like I put mayo and mustard on it but I was like wait was I supposed to do that

because I already had barbecue sauce is that going to make the condiment balance weird I put like lettuce tomato and then also I feel like I over like there's a tendency in any sort of self-service situation buffets I always just tend to overload things like I feel like I always overload my burger I put too much stuff on there and it's hard to wrap

my mouth around what did you guys do in terms of sides well I so for me I felt like I feel like fud ruckers is known for those I think those thick cut fries are pretty famous yes potato wedges yeah the potato wedges I think they are called fries

but they're like a potato wedge shape yeah yeah the thick cut fries so I got I did a what's it called fries and rings I think I think it was called which is like half and half it was half onion rings and half french fries

yeah fries and rings the onion rings were really really breaded and they were probably the worst thing about the meal but they weren't terrible you could tell that they were homemade or whatever they were just really really breaded and then the thick cut fries are good they weren't the best

I've ever had at fud ruckers but the thick cut fries are weird right they aren't potato wedge fries kind of weird I never know if I'm supposed to dip them in ketchup they have like a little bit of weird seasoning on them but I don't even know what that taste is they're like eating a potato

they're like eating a pile of potatoes it is it's like eating a big pile of potato when I want fries but I feel like fud ruckers does the best version of it

so I don't know what place on this and I also noticed the calorie count was insanely high at this place and I feel like it is your attempt to try to kill me because my meal came out to like 2,000 calories you have to put that out of your mind

at a fud ruckers any of these places because it's just insane fud ruckers stood out for whatever reason I don't know why but yeah I went with the rings and fries and those fries are good I feel like potato wedges

they're the last one I'm gonna get I'm gonna say skip the fries don't waste those calories on some fries that are basically a pile of potatoes you're not really getting the crispness you would get from a traditional order of fries

but don't they do the best version of those wedges I feel like probably I think you're right Mitch is that the potato wedges are an inherently flawed concept it's just not as satisfying as a more traditional fry I feel like some people might disagree on this though

I don't know by that I mean like one guy will tweet at us and say hey I'm not listening anymore this is bullshit but I feel like there's a few wedge fans out there I don't know so what do you do in turn and gin tillies

wow we made it over an hour before a star wars reference with the three of us fucking nerds and it's coming up the new one is coming up yeah Constable Zuvio that indelible character

Constable Zuvio who will all be quoting after episode 7 the force awakens as in theaters oh JJ JJ thank you for giving us Constable Zuvio Constable Zuvio you guys make fun of Constable Zuvio now but

you will hit someone with his stick or something and I'll like it you're gonna be putting your kid in Constable Zuvio pajamas Zuvio's a scene stealer I'm gonna call it right now Pres so what do you do if you're skipping the potato wedges what do you do in terms of sides over at the flood rockers you know honestly it was

I've never tried another side so you just get the burger and a drink and you're good yeah did you get the wedges I did do the wedges last night cause I wanted to do those dough boys the pressure was on I wanted to be able to review

the fucking fries and they get a bad review in this game in terms of sides I went with the so Nelly and I we each got combos she got the crispy buffalo chicken sandwich which I had to buy to the buffalo chicken part it was quite good the chicken inside that

crispy breaded chicken breast the chicken was very moist very well cooked she was very happy with that so she got onion rings I got the sweet potato fries which I hadn't had there before maybe we just got different batches made in different ways

but I felt like those onion rings we got were pretty crisp and well seasoned and delicious I didn't feel like they were too battered I thought they were they still weren't bad I overall enjoyed my experience my wedges my wedges and tillies

were a little cold but I liked the onion rings too they were just they're thick they're a lot to take I wonder if we have just different perceptions of what the appropriate amount of breading is for an onion ring or if we actually got separate

to me my suspicion is that we got yours were a little heavily battered these weren't I wasn't biting in these like oh this is a lot of batter I felt like they were well proportioned but maybe it's just a difference of opinion and also batter is your favorite food there was a time in my life

where people would ask me what my favorite food was and I would say gravy because my logic was that you put gravy on anything and it's better it just improves anything there was a time in my life it was like not that long ago I was fresh out the army

the sweet potato fries were pretty good they're a little sweet I feel like sweet potato fries are always a little sweet I feel like people are really I don't know what do you guys think about sweet it is right in the name you're right but what do you guys feel about sweet potato fries in the abstract

not a fan I mean come on the regular fries are better and also mashed potatoes are better than what yams or whatever I'm going to tell you right now fries in general this is a controversial statement this will get more heat than the Michael Richardson

to me my favorite potato thing is tots wow it's over fries wow over mashed potatoes over baked potato and I don't care who knows it your number one potato preparation is tots

is a tot big way baby like a little square tot you're saying like a frozen or whatever I'm going to say that is a controversial opinion I've heard people certainly make the case for baked potato which I'm like

okay you got a baked potato you just like all those sour cream and everything you can load it up with I've heard people make a case for mashed potatoes I've heard people make a case for hash browns because they're just breakfast aficionados fries certainly are probably the dominant form of potato consumption in this country perhaps the world but

tots that's an unusual opinion for an adult to have I'll say controversial I'll go out online and say wrong opinion with all due respect Mr. Perez you know that I really respect you but I think that this is one of the most controversial things I've ever heard is this a well where's the well

I don't know what kind of potatoes do you guys like I think fries might win out because there's so many good versions but if I'm going to say anything besides fries I'm a mashed potato guy I love it mashed potatoes are one of my favorite things on earth

yeah I would rank them okay if we're doing potatoes I would say fries number one and specifically I'm thinking of like a skinnier but not too skinny fry like a thinner conventional fries say fries are number one Wendy's fries are great Wendy's fries are good

number two would probably be a baked potato although to me that's a rare treat I'll have a baked potato on occasion but again I like that you can put the butter the sour cream the chives maybe some bacon bits maybe some shredded cheddar cheese you can load it up I like that customizability with that baked potato and I do really like a baked potato skin

like I feel like that's like a really tasty thing I'd probably go mashed after that no I'd go hash browns after that ooh I forgot about hash browns I put a hash browns third I forgot about the best ones hash browns are great hash browns would get the bronze metal for me after that I'd probably say mashed and scalloped

or somewhere round out my top five oh cool scalloped is right by mashed idiot that's insane scalloped potatoes are good yeah yeah yeah scalloped that's exactly what I'm thinking of those weird German it just reminds me of like

just reminds me of Christmas time and it's like there's all these fucking scalloped potatoes and I'm eating a big plate of scalloped potatoes and they suck mashed potatoes is always better than a scalloped potato they shouldn't even be close alright Scrooge

you're hatred for the Christmas season for some reason oh scalloped potatoes make me think of children opening presents people exchanging good will so rounding out our meal we got a couple of shakes

I got a vanilla shake for myself now we got a peanut butter shake man them shakes are tasty some real good shakes there I really like you know vanilla shake is my I think it's just the gold standard in terms of milkshakes they do a really good vanilla shake they've had it before very solid that peanut butter shake though might be their

best dessert it might be the best like sweet treat on their menu it's really really tasty if you like peanut butter you're getting a lot of peanut butter flavor there's just a little bit of chocolate but it's not like a peanut butter chocolate concept it's like a vanilla shake with a lot of peanut butter in it a little bit of chocolate sauce to round it out very very flavorful

and a good consistency too that's a thing where I could feel like a peanut butter shake could have that consistency that's a little too granular a little too much like just your drinking peanut butter doesn't come across like that at all real real tasty that one's a home run I got an Oreo shake it was really good I won't go

as nutty as Waggard did over here it was it was it was really good you know it kind of felt like it completed the meal for me like not that I wasn't satisfied or stuffed or anything but when I was done with my burger and fries and rings

which I didn't eat all of the rings and fries no I probably did but when I was done with that I was like oh I could have like I wanted a shake really bad and the Oreo shake was really satisfying I was thinking maybe with a burger

it's better to do the half pound patty because I think there are ones that you they weigh before they cook them what did you get at the third pound patty and it wasn't like it was gigantically huge it was it was decent but it wasn't like I was like whoa look at this guy you know it was it was kind of like a regular burger

I felt like yeah I once you start getting up to half pound I start to get a little wary that it's going to be dry and it's not going to be cooked properly true but they do a really good job at the fud ruckers my half pound patty came out really as I mentioned earlier just really juicy nice and medium inside I ordered a

two third pound patty goodness wow the big boy and I ordered it well done as I often do and it was delicious not too dry but that's about that's the ultimate test of that meat yeah the big patty well done the big patty well done if that holds

up with some moisture that you're doing all right and I think you said what you but what was what was on this guy again oh just an array of fabulous things tomato that cheese out of the pump he listed everything he got on his burger earlier man yeah let us yeah I zoned out

what was that uh jalapeno um what else one of the things can you put on the thing do you do you do you try it on mustard and mayonnaise okay yeah that sounds good this is a good order yeah um I also I gotta I gotta give a shout out because they had really great ice

I had like really chopped up ice and uh I got myself a little coca-cola classic with a chopped up ice and it was really it was a really great soda fountain experience so okay so just in terms of order of operations you had a combo meal with a soda and then decided to get like a dessert

shake afterwards yeah okay no I did the same no that's fine I think it's a fine way to proceed I just wanted to check because I'm always unsure as to what people do when they're getting a shake in terms of drink because like the shake isn't like a you can't just have that just to drink

and that's like accompanies your meal I'll usually if I'm ordering a shake with my dinner I'll probably just get a water but I guess you can also get a soda and then get that this because the thing about the shake it I'm all over the place I know I get I get what you're getting at even though you're turning red I'm really for this

riling me up for some reason so one thing at fud rockers you order your shake with your meal they're gonna bring that shake out to be almost right away and we were like halfway done with our shakes before our food arrived so I mean that you're basically getting a dessert as an appetizer and that's a thing to consider if you know

yeah if you want that shake as a dessert you got to get that afterwards but then you get a factor in that you're basically paying for a second beverage so I mean just just keep that in mind if you're going there but I mean is an Oreo shake really a beverage to drink down with my burger it's not but I think it's a fair

accompaniment with a meal I still think I need that little glass of water there for sipping um but prez what what shake did you get a chocolate shake chocolate how was that oh it was terrific yeah but I treated it like a dessert on the way out the door yeah like it wasn't that's what I did too yeah I feel like

eating eating a heavy meal like that with a shake sometimes makes me a little sick I can see that I think that you need like a little bit of a buffer of time I guess that's kind of the disadvantage of they don't have table service so you know like if you're at a conventional restaurant you might order

your meal you're just about full it's like ah how about one of those shakes and they'll bring it out to you here you have to make another trip to the counter and order it and like a to-go cup and carry it out yeah wait five more minutes and get the yeah yeah it's a little bit of an inconvenience yeah but it was great I had a to-go shake it's still uh sitting in my car

since a couple days ago is it really yep uh I probably shouldn't drink it anymore you live in squalor okay well sorry I don't have a box of Kleenex tissues in my passenger seat

which is very strange I might add what's wrong with that way okay so you're picking up in this detail from when I gave you a ride and you noticed that I have Kleenex in the I keep Kleenex in the front of my car this is a weird weird thing sometimes sometimes I feel like you do get a runny nose you need to blow your nose

or what else then I can work as a napkin in a pinch applying I'm beating off while I'm driving some guys do it it happens sometimes and also guys go see whores in cars I mean sometimes guys go get whores on the street I have never done that

I have never used my vehicle for any sort of self-pleasure I think that implication is really it's really gross that you leapt to that immediately I keep Kleenex there to blow because I get a runny nose and blow my nose sometimes especially with the AC it sometimes affects

my sinuses I also he popped his trunk and the entire trunk was just filled with Kleenex boxes let's get to our final thoughts on floodreckers so Ryan you've heard the podcast you know all this works we'll each go around you'll take your turn give your closing statement at the end of your statement give a ranking

on the order of one to five forks Ryan we'll start with you ooh golly well floodreckers this was a terrific time I thought it was great I walked in there went to Burbank floodreckers there was a I walk in and they go the lady at the counter goes are you here with the gamers

and it turns out I said dumbest mistake in my life I said no but there was a board game convention happening our board game meet-up happening there there was a there was a kids giving out there's

a soccer team a little young girls about ten years old probably getting awards for their soccer performance the Incredibles the Burbank Incredibles wow and so my the ambience of the place was family and warmth and there were fucking

nerds playing board games over here and young jocks the girls in this case getting their awards for their and so to me as an as an ambience experience there's no better picture a diverse picture of America to me then I don't know

what it was but something about this magical November night in floodreckers I actually really had a great affection for the place consistency I think is like an issue but it sounds like with with floodreckers in general and so in my heart I could

easily give floodreckers five stars I could say this is a great restaurant whatever nostalgia but I'm not a nostalgic I try to avoid nostalgia I get it I'm not I'm not one of these when

Fallon brings out the cast of friends I'm booing when Kimmel brings back Doc Brown and Marty McFly I got I have a frown on my face I try not to let the nostalgia the fact that I that my

my mom did something cute at a floodreckers once I try not to let that color my overall fork rating so I'm gonna be very very harsh here okay I'm gonna I'm gonna rate it a whole fork less than what I

really want to rate it or no is it forks yeah yeah forks yeah time someone said time once and then now I'm that's in my head all right but I'm gonna rate it a whole fork less than what I want to rate it I'm gonna give it for forks but that's me being

that's me at my harshest I'm a harsh man I'm a I'm a I'm pitiless like much like this is the I'm giving this is as if Francis McDormand we're giving a review of of of flood records we're giving it for

but you liked it didn't you know it's for I don't want to be colored by I don't want this review to be colored by nostalgia for forks for I press you had talked about how you're going so hard and you give it for forks but also

speaking of screws you're like the screws of of the Fallon studio oh I don't care for it when they I think it's by the bell I like this attitude I think it's high time someone like suck it suck it to the sort of nostalgia culture the sort of like

we're all just like thinking about the 90s all the time I think someone needs to lay into this trend and I think if someone came if I came on to flood records and I said you know I used to go there when I was a kid and so I just kind of give it by forks me my dad

you would say like well I can't really trust this guy yeah you know well guess what I loved flood rockers and I love nostalgia and I love thinking of my dad's office and being in that

old flood rockers a little young guy in the 90s running around and having his fun slimmer blonder it was a good time for me and I the nostalgia hit me when I was in there and now it felt still very 90s

like I said I was amongst people like me and we were all having a good time the sandwich was great I enjoyed the I thought the burger was really was really well done it was it was it was a good burger the fries as they're known for were not the best

but still still good everything was still good and that shake was really fantastic I will say why the Styrofoam cups I don't know because they shouldn't use them anymore but the the chopped ice and the the soda was really great and the the guy at the counter was amazing I didn't tell you this Nick he was he was a joke

he was a really he was a big jokester he said see tomorrow after he gave me my meal and I thought that was funny I mean it wasn't too funny but it was it's funny enough that's an obvious weight crack really it's kind of this kind of insulting I feel like if I were you I'd be insulted

no I see you don't get it I told you well first of all now that you turn it into a weight thing I'm pissed second of all I was amongst my people I'm telling you I was a very average sized man in this restaurant we were we were all

like me I like to think we were all like a fuck god damn it no I was a weight crack I wasn't trying to I'm not trying to fat shame anyone but that's my suspicion it might have been that I'm gonna go back and beat the shit out of it that's more of a fun record crack in the sense of

who goes to fun record all the time yeah I've never seen you before I'm telling you I think that was just Nick that's just your fucking screwed reading into it he was he was telling me I'll see you tomorrow because this burger so good you're gonna really love it and that's what it was and I don't have a weight issue anyways moving on

I apologize bitch I wasn't trying to imply anything my suspicion fuck you yeah that's that's pretty much all I had to say I talked about the nice ice it had it was it was it was it was a good experience

you know I like to get my burgers made for me so you know the toppings on ice didn't really you know I didn't really care too much about that I'd rather have them be like here's what's on it and here we go high calories high price but man I enjoyed it high price

and from yeah it cost me about 17 bucks all together which is you know for burger fries and a shake it was a little expensive it's not a value proposition yeah but I'm giving it for forks just like my buddy here we're on the same page we're one for fork

rating away from a golden plate club and possibly a hand a hand holding club pressures on like rain Perez I know I have a lot of memories attached to fud ruckers what there is a boy

I remember my friend David won his girlfriend I think her name was Elizabeth a some sort of like rabbit or bear or something out of a claw machine at the fud ruckers in my youth this is a nice memory

I was I was nearby when this happened they were both overjoyed I remember once I went with my wife Natalie we went to Nottsbury farm Southern California amusement park and we saw Thumbelina the world's smallest

horse it was the product of a two dwarf horses had mated and it had made a horse that was not much larger than a border collie so very very small horse and we saw Thumbelina the world's smallest horse we left in the early afternoon

and then we'd had our we'd had enough Nottsbury farm and we were driving out of the city of Buena Park California and we passed by a fud ruckers and we made a U-turn and we were so excited to eat there we went into that fud ruckers we sat down we had

a fed we ordered we sat down we had a fantastic meal went to this fud ruckers recently with this newly reopened fud ruckers in Santa Monica California an area of soaring real estate where there are many artists and burger options and yet this fud

ruckers is still thriving I think because it gives a burger experience that is elevated and unique but also comforting and familiar and I don't think we can necessarily fully block out those memories from our evaluation

of a chain because that is just the nature of consuming something are just as we are going to see star wars episode 7 the force awakens and we are going to enjoy the adventures of Constable Zubio part of that will be wrapped up

in our memories of the original trilogy our memories of the prequel trilogy for better or worse all of our nostalgia for star wars will come up in our evaluation and our consumption of the new star wars and as such all of my past experiences at fud ruckers at my past experiences at any

of these chains are going to affect my current experiences at these chains whether it's this is delivering on the experience I've had in the past and this is reminding me in a good way or this is a shadow of its former self and no longer can I patronize this place and have the same

experience that I have all these pleasant memories attached to I believe fud ruckers delivers in terms of giving the experience that I remember it delivers a high quality burger world's greatest burger that's hyperbole I don't think it's the world's greatest burger

but I think it's damn good and I think that place even though Mitchell give me shit for it is a whole lot of fun five forks for fud ruckers from oh my god Jesus Christ tone it down no handle the club but it's in the

it's in the gold plate welcome to the gold plate club fud ruckers hey Nick you know all those wonderful memories you had of fud ruckers now just think the manager thought you were fat you fucking asshole wow this is interesting so wow what would you what would you compare

fud ruckers to what movie what would you say what movie is fud ruckers oh if fud ruckers were a movie well you know fud ruckers is in one of the great comedies probably the last couple years in theocracy oh that's right fud ruckers is I mean as a also the place is called fud ruckers

we didn't even talk about this and in same name yes that that as a kid half the appeal was like my parents who we didn't really curse a lot in the house but my parents would say like oh we're going to fuck fucky tonight or we're going to fuck we're going to but fuckers like they would say that

as a joke and it would be like who that part of it was that part of the fun was that it sounded like the word fuck I always thought that was a strange part of that place but it's a weird body joke in the name of the franchise but it's there yeah and but I guess as a movie it's a very unpretentious place it's the most

unpretentious of restaurants so what's the what's the most unpretentious film you can think of hmm for me yeah black swan yeah yeah you guys try to crack which which movie fud ruckers is and let the discussion take

you where are you like stand by me maybe it would be that's a good choice yeah maybe it's the stand by me of I'll be right restaurants it could be the stand by me of restaurants and that it launched will we and and

features port portended the death of river phoenix now I'm going to ask you we brought up Star Wars we're only now in this podcast a few weeks away from this thing coming out six or whatever gears

are you going to be there opening day no I'm not I don't think I got the tickets in time are you going I don't know if I got the tickets in time but I'm going back to Boston so I'll be in Boston the pretty much the day I fly into Boston I think the day it opens

so I don't I don't know I don't know what out here you can't it's done I feel like you if you don't have tickets it's over with but back home I don't know what the deal is I feel like I could maybe still get a ticket to at some point but they also don't do like

like here they'll be screenings all night into the next morning yeah and I don't know if it will be the same thing about maybe in like Cambridge or something near the college I have a feeling I won't see Star Wars until after the new year like just get given the way that

the that I'll go home for the holidays and try to be like hey mom you want to go see it I don't know we can't I have a feeling it'll be like January 3rd I end up going back to see Star Wars I'm also like not that excited about it

as a film fan are you are you a fan of the Star Wars series or no are you just okay with them I like I mean like everybody it's like oh yeah that Empire Strike back is real good I have a fan of

I like Return of the Jedi buddy Nick or our friend Nick Karasi has convinced me that the prequels have merit he certainly has they're not bad which is the closest thing that it's the closest I've ever succumbed to a cult

leader's influence to making me believe an insane thing they're very watchable um alright guys it's time for our next segment I've got a mystery beverage and Mitch and Perez have to guess what it is it's the Weigert Challenge

so I've handed you each glasses of a mystery beverage and all you have is a clear glass with some sort of liquid inside of it you guys can go ahead and sniff and observe with your eyes and taste and let us know what you're experiencing what you think this might be

and Ryan I am undefeated in the Weigert Challenge yes Mitch has a very stellar record in the Weigert Challenge it's quite impressive I will say that this one smells like piss yeah it actually smells and it gives off a pungent it's a strange smell which I think

you're gonna do on the Weigert Challenge at some point I would not do that not going to give any words it's weird how you leave the entire room like I don't know if people listening at home know this but Nick leaves the studio essentially like he goes out of the room it's not like

oh in the corner we gotta we have some little beverage or whatever and I'll pour it over in the corner there's like a door he could be going down a hallway you could have gone to the parking lot and back I think he drove I tell you I value the integrity

of this stupid segment and I think if I was I used to at one point I did it in here and then Mitch was taking cues off of or trying to come up with clues based off of what kind of bottle or container it was contained in so I was just like I'll just make the process as pure as possible

I'll step out of the room and then I'll bring you back something and you guys won't have any context for what it is I think I know what this is give us some it smells really strange go ahead and it tastes really strange

I think I know what it is maybe I should go first because I don't want to be colored by your I'm going to in thinking about segments the idea of taking the Wyger challenge sent me into cold sweats because I know I don't have

any beverage identification skills this tastes like it has this tastes a little like coconut water that's what I was going to say too tastes a little like coconut water but I don't know a brand of coconut water that I wouldn't even know what to say

and like I said what is this I'm going to take a guess that it's I mean I don't know any of the coconut water brands Vitacoco let's say is that one Vitacoco is that your guess? I will say can I go ahead go in a little bit because maybe this will win or lose me this challenge

I think there's one called Vitacoco that's my guess okay I agree with you I'm certain it's coconut water but I will say this I think Vitacocas that's the box one I think that also is correct I will say

I think there might be a hint of pineapple in this as well so what is your guess coconut water with some sort of pineapple so you're guessing straight up Vitacoco coconut water you're guessing coconut water of undetermined brand with some sort of

pineapple yes Mitch you have lost the wiger challenge oh my god Ryan Perez is dead on Vitacoco brand pure coconut water wow

is the correct answer so am I now the spoon man you're the new spoon man oh shit get Heidi Ho cued up on your smartphone wow I um oh boy this I'm taking this a lot harder

I really was I know we have something of a rivalry I was kind of rooting for you I was I liked that you were undefeated I liked that you had that undertaker record of just you know you had not been bested in a major competition and now you've got a loss on your end

how many wins has this been I believe you were 5-0 going in you know what I'll say this I would have guessed coconut water and I would have guessed Vitacoco I probably shouldn't have let him guess first because

when he did that I decided to add a pineapple thing in because I yeah it felt like you were on the right track and then you overthought it you overthought yourself out of a wind or at least a draw well sorry Mitch I will say that the thing I wanted you guys to taste test was something that has been in the fridge here at Farrell audio for some time

it's a playboy energy drink and I was like oh this will be a fun one and they picked it up and I was about to open it and then just like I was like I'll check how old this is I checked it out it expired March 4th 2015 so I decided I didn't want to give you guys

an energy drink that expired 6 months ago made the audible what with Vitacoco I'm still drinking that milkshake that's the Weiger Challenge congratulations Ryan Perez the new champion this is I did not expect to win this

at all well you're going home with the balance of the container that's the prize for the Weiger Challenge you can take the rest of that Vitacoco to go great you happy Weiger I lost like a like a restaurant we value your feedback let's open up the feedback

today's email comes to us from Brandon Klaus subject line Tasters Cup Dear Doughboys Howdy, Heidi Ho and thank you for your very important podcast good man I've had a long standing policy at my apartment where if anyone in the apartment is having a drink of something whomever is present may demand a Tasters Cup

and receive a 1-2 ounce taste of said beverage when Tasters Cup is invoked the original drinker may not refuse do you have any policies like this in your personal lives also Mitch as the head of Spoon Nation what are your thoughts on Sporks

great question Sporks to me imitation spoons they're no good kind of like Weiger in a lot of ways they they try to do what the spoon does they can't do it they're kind of useless

what are you going to use them for they can't make up their mind if there were a spoon or a fork don't like the Sporks but I like the spoon thanks for that question you're a good guy nice member of Spoon Nation

any thoughts on the other part of that oh yeah what was the other part of the question do you have any policies the drink Tasters Cup this guy's insane it's a little nutty I don't like

your Tasters Cup thing here's the thing I went to high school and I'm not about to cry or something people would always be like fries and they'd eat your fries they'd eat your food they'd eat your lunch

obviously I didn't like that I don't mind giving I like the fact that you use a cup that's good oh great then we don't have to everyone's not sipping on the same thing that doesn't really bother me honestly but it's good to not get sick

but as far as sharing goes I'm the type of guy I'm a selfish when it comes to food and drink I would rather buy you a full drink I want to share it but when I have my mind

made up on what the amount of food or drink I'm going to eat I want to eat or drink that amount of food yeah I'm with you so if I'm like I got a Gatorade especially if I got a bigger one maybe this wouldn't be a big problem I give you a little poor not a big deal

but if I got a smaller Gatorade everyone wants to have a tastier Gatorade I'd be like come on now this isn't a big Gatorade I feel like when we were talking about potatoes earlier a big frustration in life is like if you get an order of fries and then your friend who didn't order fries

wants to have some of your fries and then all of a sudden it's like I wanted this many fries even you taking a few fries is pissing me off and you're going to take more than a few and I would buy you your own yeah I'll get you some fucking fries if you want them and don't kid to yourself like oh I'm not getting fries

I'm eating healthier but then I'll have a few of your fries well you're just depleting my supply and lying to yourself Brandon I agree with you that your question is insane a Taster's Cup so you mentioned a separate cup I'm not convinced that's what the Taster's Cup is

rereading it again I've had a long standing policy at my apartment where if anyone in the apartment is having a drink of something whomever is present may demand a Taster's Cup quotes his and receive a one to two ounce taste of said beverage when Taster's Cup is invoked the original drinker may not refuse

it sounds to me like that's just getting a little bit of a taste from that same glass maybe we could get some clarity from Brandon on how this is working logistically but it sounds to me like he's just taking a little sip of it which I'm not against but I feel like labeling it the Taster's Cup and saying that there's no right of refusal on the part of the person

that is having Taster's Cup invoked I don't know it just feels like a lot of like bureaucracy on top of what should be a simple request of like hey man can I have a sip of your drink I don't know what are your feelings Perez did you Google Taster's Cup is it no I did not as they say on sitcoms is that a thing

or cause I feel like this might just be Brandon just like you mean my friend we do it it's called Taster's Cup you ever do that I think it is I think that's exactly no

hey Brandon no let me clear this is going off the rails or Brandon this is going off the rails Spoon Nation guy too he did not ask specifically about the Taster's Cup he asked do you have any policies like this in your personal life anything analogous

to the Taster's Cup which I will still say I think is kind of an insane ritual but I understand that it's a thing that you and your friends do and that's fine I'm sorry Brandon that's I completely misinterpreted the question this is a word talking that's not an insane question do you do anything like that no you well you shouldn't do the Taster's Cup

for one two no I don't uh I try not to bug people the people to ask them for food and stuff like that I love to I love to share when it's thought out that that that is for sure I like to buy big

meals for people I like to feed people yeah but I but as far as that sort of thing I don't really have anything you know I don't have too much of of that sort of sort of deal yeah I can't remember I mean even trying to think of earlier in life that feels like something I probably had when I was like in high school

or middle school or something I just don't have any memory of anything specific but I don't know I guess I guess if you want to do something fun with your buddies more power to you I will say as a as a general thing in my life as I've gotten older as a young man

like drinking out of the same glass or sharing the same thing or eating off the same thing was gross and gross I don't want to do it I don't want to do it and now I'm I do it with everybody yeah we yeah I agree with you I have no problem with it Mitch is Mitch and I are very share it when we on the occasions when we eat together

with like Mitch will just offer me a bite of his burger we'll have a sip of each other's drinks I feel like that's sort of you know if everyone's happy about it if everyone's okay it's like swinging if everyone's just kind of like you know if everyone's into it you can have like a good time I honestly think you know what I think it is this is a little theory yeah I'll throw this out

to the viewers I think that when you are the listeners when you when you're a kid and you have you've never kissed anyone you that's gross yeah like someone's other mouth is gross and then when you actually kiss some people in your life

you go oh that's fine I just had my mouth all over someone else's mouth and so now it becomes a the it's broken that's a good point I'm surprised it doesn't bother you Iger because it did five years into marriage I remain chased

my lips have still not been kissed except by my mommy I'm down with sharing I'll even you know you can do a nice thing where you order two guys order a thing oh we'll split it we'll split up the meal two ways yeah

even though that gets a little tricky sometimes I think the best thing to share is a big appetizer play I don't know I don't do as many fun food games I feel like is the issue is I don't really have too many games I play when it comes to eating yeah it sounds like

some levity in your life involved with food Mitch and I are all business so there's just nothing that's really analogous to the Taster's Cup sounds like you're having a lot of fun yeah do you sound like a fun guy sound like you're having fun with your friends I think it's a little kooky but hey man go for it

hey speaking of kooky yeah I'm not happy with what happened here in the Weiger Challenge and I really feel like I kind of feel screwed out of this and I kind of want to challenge

Ryan to a taste-off wait you want to challenge what does that mean you want to challenge him to a taste-off I want a Weiger Challenge five different drinks we don't know any of them he and I do a taste-off you're saying you want to we want to bring Ryan Perez back to the studio and do a rematch and then if I win

I win this and if he wins then fine I'll take the loss okay so you're saying that this that will be you're gonna basically doubling down yes now I'd say Ryan won he has the right to refuse this I think he can say if you want to walk away with your victory

if you want to walk away with your winnings absolutely you're right I would say honestly I think you should do that because I think Mitch is bitter over the fact that he's been bested at a contest he prides himself in this isn't any sort of this isn't any sort of screw job I'm not Vince McMahon

taking the belt from Bret Hart that's not what's happening 100% R this is a fair challenge that Ryan won fair and square however I will allow it if you want to do some sort of elaborate rematch I don't know how we're going to work it into a future episode we'll figure it out

my head might just be inflated because of my victory I'm sort of on a cloud nine but I accept your challenge wow okay I don't think it's going to make for compelling radio so I say maybe don't record it a lot of tastes like good

cherry and hey was it fizzy see I think this we think this is good radio and you know what guys if you think I got screwed hashtag

wygerscrewjob that's what happened not why wygerscrewjob has been a theme oh yeah you know what wygerscrewjob I like that wygerscrewjob because I think you fucking screwed me

alright well I'll take your comparison of me to a spork because a spork is more versatile than a spoon if you can only have one I think that's what you take just end this god damn it that's overdue this was a weird one guys thanks for listening though if you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants

you can email us at dowboyspodcast at gmail.com follow us on twitter at dowboyspod check out our facebook fan page just dowboys Ryan Perez thank you so much for joining us thank you for giving us such a unique perspective on the world of food and the world of chain restaurants

on film on cinema do you have anything you would like to plug no I do this for the love wow god bless you and you know what I didn't think it was a weird one I thought it was a great one and it was a pleasure to have you it was a lot of fun weird like when we're seconds

from the finishing fucking make a man you're an asshole you know what you just did with a classic Scrooge job Ryan I wasn't putting it on your shoulders I was saying in general though it was a weird episode oh Jesus Christ

I feel like that's true I loved it I think we went through the rabbit hole man I think it's uh 5 forks for me on this episode Ryan what movie would you compare this episode to I'm kind of like buffing these movie comparison

questions that keep coming my way probably the movie talk radio I don't know because you're wearing headphones I'm wearing headphones kind of one to one sort of like I can imagine Eric Bogosian being here

being similar uh no this was apocalypse now problem child 2 for me I'm gonna go with star wars episode 7 the force awakens mitzger kylo ren uh you're uh

Ryan you're whatever daisy ridley's character is called ray and I am of course uh the breakout character constable zoo view what is a Finn McCool a character or would I make that up Finn I don't think I don't think mcool is his last name

you're thinking of droopy mcool droopy mcool is the oboe player in the max rebo band from return of the jedi who one time nick weigert an insult said you droopy mcool looking motherfucker to me I did compare you

I did compare you to droopy mcool once if you want to see what a wicked man he is look up droopy mcool and I've heard big part of episode 7 I hope so JJ doesn't have I don't want to get into it but you know he's not gonna deliver

a good one let's just be honest here I love that this is how we're closing this out some skepticism towards the force awakens I think it's good I think let's see what is it a month out less than a month out I think it's good I think I'm gonna put in my vote now

JJ blew it JJ is gonna blow it is it a joke? JJ we would love to have you on for a rebuttal Ryan will have you back for the rematch of the Weigert challenge we'll have JJ Abrams on to discuss the force awakens and rebut your claims

that it's going to be a failure we'll have Michael Richards on to give his long awaited apology to the United States and we'll see you next time here on the Doughboyz podcast for Mike Mitchell the Spoodman I'm Nick Weigert until next time happy eating

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