Doughboys - Garden of Eatin': Sweet Potatoes with Dani Fernandez

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

Dani Fernandez (@msdanifernandez, In The Static) joins the 'boys to talk Catalina Island, ghosts, and microplastics before talking all things sweet potatoes. Plus, another edition of Snack or Wack.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://shepherd.com/book/elinor-fettiplaces-receipt-bookhttps://www.publishersweekly.com/9780670815920https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2010/11/a-sweet-potato-history/https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/01/22/169980441/how-the-sweet-potato-crossed-the-pacific-before-columbushttps://tanglewoodmoms.com/madeworthy/sweet-potato-pie-a-testament-to-history-and-to-family/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash doughboysmedia. In 1986, British author Hilary Sperling published Eleanor Fetteplace's receipt book, Elizabethan Country House Cooking, sourced from a recipe compilation dating to 1604. The text had been passed down through Spurling's husband's side of the family for over three centuries beginning with Fetid Place's death around 1647. The heirloom is a fascinating time capsule of early 17th century Elizabethan England and is notable for being an early Western

reference to an ingredient from the so-called New World, the sweet potato. Often confused for yams, which originate in Africa, sweet potatoes are from South America and what is now modern-day Ecuador. The plants are fully distinct. And despite the moniker, the sweet potato is only a distant relative of the less nutritious regular potato, celebrated by Irish Americans like it's Larry Bird or some shit. The versatile tuber has become a mainstay of cuisine worldwide in both savory mains and sweet treat desserts, and in Japan is even distilled into alcohol called shou-shu.

And its global prominence is not just due to European colonialism. Anthropological evidence indicates sweet potatoes migrated to the Pacific Islands centuries before Fetid Place wrote of the then novel root vegetable. Fetid Place would be confused by much of our modern world. Just imagine her trying to play Elden Ring on PlayStation 5. I find that game quite difficult and it's normal to me. But Fetid Place would hopefully be delighted that her personal collection of recipes has been widely circulated as a historical document, and she'd certainly be comforted that she can still find countless preparations of sweet potato. This week on Doughboys we continue the

Garden of Eaton, Veggie Table, The Green Goblin, a month of reviewing Mother Nature's fast food with sweet potatoes. ["Double or Don't I want?" theme music plays.] Come on! Go is the Don't I want! Double or Don't I want? ["Double or Don't I want?" theme music plays.] Welcome to Doughboyz, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Tony Suprano,

the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Tony Suprano. Huh, is that a thing? Love you guys. Happy New Year. Devin in Canada, roast at birdfuck.com, not the timeliest of roasts. Come, malized onions.

That's good. Kind of thing you would say to Carmella. Yeah. But about a soup component. Yeah. No, that's great. Well done. I can't really do a Tony.

No, he's tough. What do you mean? Huh? I mean, that's like my go-to for every. Yeah. Like mafia guy. They're all kind of the same guy to different degrees, but he's like he's.

She's the least. Yeah. How's that? Sound like Jack Nicholson. Now Jack I can do. That's fun. Wags, well, go ahead. Say your thing about the person who sent in that.

I did. I already read it. Devin in Canada. In Canada? Yeah. Hmm. Yeah, how about that? I'm heading up there. I said this yesterday, with seashells,

where you find a seashell on the shore, you can listen to it and you can hear the ocean. I can actually hear Adam Conover right now. So describe what you're doing for our audio listeners who are the overwhelming majority of our listenership. I've took the mic, what is it called? The screen? Yeah, the windscreen.

The windscreen. Yeah. The black part that covers a microphone is a little fuzzy. Mitch took it off and held it to his ear. Actually, actually. Like a seashell. Yeah.

I like that too. That's that bit. Just as good as it was yesterday. Only an hour and 28 more minutes left of bits. We got time to fill wags. Winscre's got their name because they were originally used on sailing ships. Oh cool. Okay, so Mitch, we got a couple of developments today.

First off, Emma and Jemmy are at the groomer. They're being groomed by past guests. Well, just Jemmy is being groomed by past guests. Jess Rona. Yeah. And at Jess Rona Grooming. So they're not here right now. Emma's at the groomer,

and then she's gonna come back here to the other groomer. Wait a minute. But what that means is that we've got Casey as usual, and then Amelia's sitting in today. Hi, Amelia. Good to have you. Hey, guys. Good to be here. We got to talk about something that affects the two of you. We were going through, and we were talking with our guest about Mitch's long list of Boston

Associates with increasingly dumb nicknames who are lovely people who I know I and I've met most of them But you know you yeah, I mean if you talk shit You got like Ramon D our buddy Dano of course scoop you got a frail bot you got Micah's Chankston Congrats scoop. We got you got Wu Tang, you got Chankston. Congrats, Scoop. We got, you got Wu Tang, you got LD. Who am I missing? I'm Shieldy. I wasn't really paying attention.

You got Shieldy, you got Chewy, of course. You got Poov, but Poov's a college guy. You got Poov too. I do have Poov and Poov too. Who's Chewy? Don't you have a Chewbacca? No. No, a Wookie.

Do you not have a Chewy? Wookie, that's who I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of Wookie, I'm sorry. Sorry for confusing Chewy with Wookie. Chewy is a Wookie. Wookie, that's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking of Wookie, I'm sorry. Sorry for confusing Chewie with Wookie. Chewie is a Wookie. Wookie represents the people. There was a name that I added to this list years ago that has just kind of become part of this friend group,

Canon, Fuxton. Yes, I wonder if this is breaking K-Fabe for people that maybe people don't know this. Well, this is the thing, I brought up Fuxton, and then we were talking about a guy, we won't name which guy, but we were talking about a guy who was like very, you know, very Boston, and how we're describing them,

and Amelia says more so than Fuxton. And you thought, you both thought that Fuxton was a real guy. We thought he was real, yeah. You thought Mitch had a friend named Fuxton. I mean, is that crazy to think when he's got a friend named Frailbot Wokey? There is no Fuxton.

Fuxton is like one of the more normal ones in the list. There is no Fuxton. I wish he existed. And when you said we're talking about a guy who's more Boston, you meant like a dumb, you were trying to talk about a dumb Person I didn't want to characterize someone that negatively a very Boston guy. Yeah, exactly. So you're calling all of Boston dumb No, I'm not saying that fucking say saying that fucking snob The fucks is not real. Yeah. Hey

John Adams John Quincy Adams. You think they're fucking dumb likes? No, I don't true Boston real. Yeah. Hey, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, you think they're fucking dumbwigs? No, I don't. True Bostonians. Yeah. Kind of fucked up. I think those were two of the more admirable of the class of founding fathers. We went down to- Largely because they oppose the obviously abhorrent founding practice of slavery.

That's true. And I live very close. Well, I shouldn't tell people I live very close. We live not far from the Adam's Mansion. I don't want to say difference. Jesus. We live not far from the Adam's Mansion. We walked by the Adam's Mansion.

We did, yeah. Lovely time. Yeah, Wednesday answered the door. Ha ha ha ha. Cousin It was mowing the lawn. Lurch is nice. Lurch is the best. I told you that I had a college room name that people were calling Lurch and I thought

they were talking about me. Yeah. At Ithaca, they were like, Lurch. And I was like, damn, I got the nickname Lurch already. And then it was like, no, it's your fucking roommate. And I was like, oh, phew. He kind of sucked, too. Left toenails on the floor when he left.

That's nasty. Yeah, I know. I had to pick him out of the carpet. Sucked. Be a he left. That's nasty. Yeah, I know. I had to pick him out of the carpet, so. Be a human being. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, be a Lurch, wherever you are, be a fucking human being.

Or maybe Lurch has grown out of it. Yeah, maybe. Or maybe he's still leaving little fucking piles of toenails everywhere he goes, who knows? He's a fucking asshole when I last saw him. That's a bummer. Did you have a good, I mean, you were the weird guy in your college roommates.

No, I mostly had good roommates. I was mostly very, very lucky in that regard. I don't think anyone crazy I lived with. Yeah. How was it for them when they saw you, like, unpacking, like, uh, like, multiple moisturizers? I'm saying all your jack-off material, a trunk of jack-off material.

I'm having an array of jack-off lotions brought to my dude Domus style. I did though, I did have a Darth Maul inflatable chair. That was pretty cool. All right. So that's one of your Jack off things. I can turn on a, what's the song? A duel of the fates.

The first 45 seconds of this song. I do it all the time. We were talking with our guests. Well, first of all, let's hit them with the drop. Oh no. Emma's... We have a drop? All right, hell yeah.

Let's hit them with the drop. No, they're on the ball. Rockabye baby on the treetop. The neurologist I saw told me I was actually having like panic attacks in my sleep When the wind blows the cradle will rum I usually don't remember what's happening but it's some sort of like terrifying dream It's okay, it's okay This is scary

Oh my god Welcome baby, cradle and all. Wow. I've been having fewer of those, which has been nice. Sleep's been a little bit more, you know, the length of the night, less fewer interruptions. I had a horrible night's sleep last night. Oh man, I'm sorry buddy. Didn't go to bed until really late and then woke up after an hour.

You know when you wake up after just an hour of sleep and you're like, uh-oh. You know, you're like, I feel awake. Yeah, and then you're like, that was a nap. I needed to sleep for a whole night. Did you get back to sleep? You know what I usually do in those situations? Inflate up that Darth Maul chair. Fire up Duel of the Fates.

Yeah. Duel of the Fates though, there should be two people jacking off. Three. I guess three. That's a good point. Thank you, Casey. Don't want to anger anyone, any Star Wars super fans. Three people should be jacking off. Yeah. One guy's two fisting it, I guess. How would you do a double-sided dart? Damn. who's got the Darth Mal fucking double fist? Damn, Wags. This episode is filthy already, can't believe it. I mean, I think that you just gave a little peek

into what goes on in Wags' world. Hey boys, wanted to dropify that freak's sleep story. Hugs and kisses, Big Boy Baby Guy. And it was called Rockabye Wiggy. Wow, thanks Big Boy Baby Guy. Big Boy Baby Guy, you rule. Wow. Thanks, big boy baby guy. Big boy baby guy, you rule. Yeah. I like big boy baby guy.

Big boy baby guy is the most Boston of your crew, I will say. I was gonna say this, that our guest, who we should introduce now, Yes. has been almost 10 minutes of stupid bullshit. Right. Uh.

I guess just suddenly nodding at that. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha we were going out and we were going fast. And there was like, there was a lady who was behind us and like was very much struggling with like going faster. And her husband was like at the front of the pack. And she was like, like the instructor was like, she's like, or the whatever, the guy who led the tour, the tour guide was like, she's gonna turn around and go back. And the guy was like, okay, cool.

He was just staying with us. And then we were like, go back with your fucking, what are you doing? That's an odd move. We were like in the middle of the ocean, like go back with your spouse, you fucking idiot. And then he eventually did, but they held us up for a long time.

Wow. But our guest- But he was not in your party, or was he in your party? No, he was, there was four of us. And that was just me and Shieldsie fucking tooling around the Everglades, it was great. But our guest, I'll let her tell the story. Returning to the show, an actor and writer whose new short, In the Static,

is currently on the festival circuit. Dani Fernandez is here. Hi Dani, thanks so much for being here. Hi. Yes, I was gonna say that big boy, bad baby. I don't know, that just sounds like every guy that I've ever dated. A big baby.

Yes, yeah. Anyways, I'm sorry my ex-boyfriend wrote in. No, I jet-skied to Catalina, which is psycho. It's psycho. That is crazy. I love the ocean and I was like, if I'm gonna die, I want it to be here. This is an island, a small island off the coast

of California for global listeners. And do you know how far it is? I took at least 90 minutes. Wow, okay. So it's 90 minutes there. Yeah. Damn, that's a ride. On a jet, and you're in the middle of the ocean.

Yeah. Can you see it the whole time? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. No, there are multiple times when you can't see anything but water. And also, so I did like a tour guide situation. I also thought I was gonna be the only one.

I don't know, there was at least 20 of us. It was on my actual birthday and my best friend and I signed up and yeah, so they give you a wet suit, you jet ski 90 minutes there. And our tour guide was going so fast. There were multiple times where I couldn't see him. He was like past the horizon. And so I'm trying to go fast and speaking of-

Because you're stuck in a line basically, right? No, no, no, no. You actually are not supposed to be near each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. You have to be pretty far out and you don't want to be in anyone's wake because that also is like making you- Right, yeah.

Every time I hit a big wave, it was like, it would, I would almost fall off my thing. And speaking of couples, there were a fuck ton of couples. So it would be the guy, of course, it would, I would almost fall off my thing. And speaking of couples, there were a fuck ton of couples. So it would be the guy, of course, riding it like a motorcycle. All right, boys. And a woman just clinging for dear life. And I could tell some of them that hit it,

like that hit a wave too hard, because they would definitely slow down. Like, she almost like got tossed off. Oh, man. But yeah, so I was, I felt like maybe there's one other woman that was by herself, like not clinging to a dude. And so yeah, so you get there, then you spend like a couple hours on the island,

then you jet ski back. And the reason why I personally think they were going so fast is you don't wanna fuck, you don't want 20 people as the sun is setting out in the middle of the ocean. Sure. Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah, so I know it's not. That's awesome. And also like harrowing, I want 20 people as the sun is setting out in the middle of the ocean. Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah, so I know it's that's.

That's awesome and also like harrowing. I don't know if I could do that myself, but you like you're a jet ski enthusiast. You're doing this on your birthday to celebrate. Yeah, I'd done it before. Like whenever I go to Comic-Con, I always would see, like on my day off, I would see people in the Harbor jet skiing.

So last time I was there, I was like, I'm gonna fucking do that. That's much more chill. That's not an excursion. It's just like, oh, I'm gonna fucking do that. That's much more chill. Yeah. That's not an excursion. It's just like, oh, I'm gonna dick around around the harbor. And then this other one was like, no, we need to get to Catalina in this time.

So it was, I don't know, we were going pretty quick. And if you fall overboard, your shark's snack, man. Your shark's gonna eat you, ice. Yeah, that's really scary. I mean, you saying that made me let out a cartoon eep, which wasn't even intentional. That was the only reaction I had to it, not being able to see Catalina Island

while you're going over there. And I've heard people seeing great lights on the way to Catalina, because you take a boat usually to Catalina. Right, the ferry. The ferry, yeah, which I went. My mom's sister and I went to Catalina. It was a lovely time.

I shot some stuff in love on Catalina. Oh, right, on Catalina Island. That a lovely time. I shot some stuff in love on Catalina. Oh, right, on Catalina Island. That used to be a big celebrity hangout, which is weird to wrap my head around. Like, you know, back in the day of, like, Robert Wagner and, like, you know, Natalie Wood. Clark Gable.

Clark Gable, they were back there. That's a funny example to bring up of... Oh, wait, wait. I think that was off the coast of Catalina, where Natalie Wood passed away. No, I know, but I'm saying that's, like, a big celebrity hangout, and then you brought up the murder. Oh, it was possible.

I don't know. It's what happened. It's actually very haunted. And then last year, I went to Catalina with my friends, but not via the ferry. And we did a ghost tour. They have the big casino there, the big movie theater, right? That's like the 1940s, like Gatsby, if you go inside of it.

Super fucking haunted. But actually, as you're approaching it, sorry for anyone that lives in Catalina, maybe like two of your listeners. I think it only has, it has a very small population. Very small. But it feels fucking hot and I'm just gonna say that. So, it's very haunted.

I've been there, but the only times I was there was in Boy Scouts. And that's like a less fun Catalina experience. Cause we were just hiking around and camping. The thing I liked is there's just like a Buffalo. I was like, look at that, there's a Buffalo right there. They brought those over for filming and then they never, they couldn't like bring them back.

It was too hard to wrestle them and get them back on the boat. So weird. So now there's just Buffalo and Catalina. The Wrigley's own a bunch of stuff there, right? Yes. Like a place where we went to eat, I remember the Wrigley's owned. Yeah of stuff there, right? Yes. Like a Wrigley, a place where we went to eat, I remember the Wrigley's owned.

Yeah, so the Cubs had their practice field or practice stadium there. Oh, right. So they would go there like every summer. That's wild. That's so wild. See what happens when you go on a ghost tour? Educational.

Same with New Orleans. Went on multiple ghost tours there. Now I know everything about New Orleans. Yeah, we should talk about this because Mitch also spent a substantial amount of time down in Dubai U, and you were, did you experience any hauntings? I'll say this, well, I also wanted to make a joke

about like there being gum on the bottom of the island or something, because of Wrigley's. Because of Wrigley, the Wrigley family ass, someone was like chewing a big wad and just stuck it on the other side, right? Yeah, yeah, but you know, I couldn't make that joke, so instead, you know, you just sat in there about it. I wasn't as good as it could have been.

It could have been really good. I'm a ghost believer. I am too, obviously. First of all, I also want to say, we should ride out to Catalina together. The two of us, me clinging to you? We'll be the first, no, we'll both be clinging to each other.

It'll just be, we'll get there somehow. Can I drive? Because I've done it? I bet we could get three of us on there, it would save a lot of money. If you drove, well... The doughboys on the same jet ski, that jet ski's seen the bottom of the ocean. You're gonna be in the air.

Um, I believe in ghosts. Uh, I do believe in ghosts. Look, and look, people think that I believe in classic white sheet ghosts of like, and you know what? Maybe I fucking do. I don't think people think that. Well, you know what? Maybe I do. Maybe I do believe in white sheet ghosts. It's a possibility.

But I, is it crazy to say that when something dies, it can leave some sort of energy? I don't think that that's that crazy to say. No, I think... I don't know how the world works. We've had this conversation, and I think, you know, hey, you could have a... Even if you're trying to think of it from a purely biological standpoint,

we have not solved the hard problem of consciousness, which is the idea that why does being alive feel like something? Why are we not, why do we feel like we have like... Why are we not like basically sentient dolls? You know what I mean? And so the fact that we have our own internality seems to suggest that there's something

larger going on. Now, maybe that's all chemicals in our brain, but I think there's certainly the possibility that something else is out there. I don't know, I feel like it's fair to be open-minded about that. OK, when I was on the Ghost Tour in Catalina, the tour guide who was, I think he was born and raised there,

he was explaining to us the difference between ghosts and spirits. Yeah. Do you know this? It's kind of what you're talking about. So a ghost is a snapshot in time. It's like, they would say, you know, in these old Catalina hotels,

they see bus boys in their 1940s garb, you know, with the little hat and everything that are like, but when you yell at them or you try to talk to Them they just like go right through you. It's because it's a snapshot of energy It's a random snots snapshot of energy so you can't interact with it as opposed to a spirit You know like the stories of people hearing their cupboards fling open or their water getting knocked over like that's a spirit It's different than like this snapshot of energy Wow That I like that I was in the also I was in the kitchen and there was like a That's a spirit. It's different than like the snapshot of energy. Wow.

I like that. Also, I was in the kitchen and there was like a ghostly Mark Maron in there. I'm trying to think of old podcast-y. So is there a snapshot of the energy at the time from previous podcasts? Yeah, from previous podcasts. Did you see anything like that ever in here?

Yeah, Mitch, I was in there and I saw 2007 Adam Carolla. You know, other 1.0 podcasters. What if it was a snapshot? Well, I was thinking like, it has to be, you know, that's why like with murder, cause it's so fucking heavy. That's why that's a snapshot and that makes sense to me. But what if it's like your most embarrassing moment? That is, that's probably what it would be. Cause that's also, that's also high energy.

Yeah, but is it, that's, does it, is it just a, that person is dead obviously, but is it, there's no, there's nothing attached. It got stuck, the energy got stuck. That's stuck. That's why. Yeah, it's like a Polaroid. If it's my most embarrassing moment,

it's me sitting on this couch bombing, so. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Moments. Yeah, yeah, so. ALL LAUGH Moments. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a... There's like a story going around UCLA of how there's one dorm room where there's a Darth Maul inflatable chair

with a guy jacking off in it. ALL LAUGH A ghostly figure. You're just going back. That's what it is, right? ALL LAUGH I'm a g-g-g-ghost. Mitch, this show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Wow.

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You and I were talking about the thing that I told you. We were. While we were waiting for Mitch to land, we had a discussion, a frankly disgusting discussion, but an interesting one about microplastics in cum. Every man. Every man's cum. Yes, has microplastics in it.

Yeah. That's wild. That's wild. That's crazy. I did not know it. It is wild. I agree with you guys. It's insane. Mitch is like, I have macroplastics in my home.

What? What? They're actually kind of big, so. Amelia? I was afraid of them getting clogged. I did say that. I don't know if they clogged. I did say that. I don't know if they can build up or something like that. I was afraid of having-

Just like a water bottle comes out. Stereo from packing peanuts. I was afraid of giving birth to a Lego baby. It does sound, I mean, microplastics, of course, they've been talked about for a few years now, but I saw an article about microplastics last night. Maybe this is where I saw, I just saw something like scrolling.

You see it everywhere. And like the thing I've heard, and I'm sure this is, this is related, but it's just part of our food supply now. Like you'll just find it in fertilizers on big farms. It's just like, there's microplastics in the soil and then that's becoming a part of our food. And Casey and I were talking about Casey's big Cronenberg head, but we were talking about the recent

Cronenberg film Crimes of the Future. The second time he made a film called Crimes of the Future. I haven't seen the first one. Have you seen the first one? I did. It's like kind of very loosely based on it. But in the current one with Viggo Mortensen, it's like people have, it's a future where humanity has kind of evolved to be like digesting plastic, which is really, I don't know, maybe it could, this will be a true story, one of those.

Irma likes to lick plastic, my cat Irma, she and Wally will do it a little bit too, but I know there's nanoplastics, there's nanoplastics in the air around us. We should probably stop using a lot of plastic, it seems like. I like glass bottles. I mean, what's the deal?

Sorry, it sounded like Seinfeld. No, this is the thing. It sounded a lot like Seinfeld. What's the deal with these college campuses? So, but this is the thing, and it's unavoidable for me too. Get inside. What's that? Get inside and jump in your dark fall chair.

You got the chair. It's all blown up. Just sitting there. You're saying this, Mitch, while you're having a snack by necessity that's single-use plastic. And I mean, that's just like, it's just everywhere that you can't even blame the individual. It's just systemic. It sucks. I'm not gonna eat the damn container, but. I'm just curious of the alpha males being like,

not my sperm. Exactly, right. Yeah. Not mine. Not me. I'm on that Jordan Peterson diet. I'm eating red meat and that's it. I think, yeah, I think they just don't believe, right?

They just don't believe it. Yes, yeah. It's plastic. Yeah. Plastic's not real, see through. Okay, but you were like, we can talk about this a little bit because, not microblast doesn't come,

but the idea of diets because I think this discussion was partly orthogonal because of your own diet, which is that you are like, you're pretty restrictive in what you eat. We talked about this on the podcast before. Unfortunately. Yes, yeah, unfortunately. Everybody is always like, Danny doesn't like bread.

I'm like, Danny can't eat bread. Right, right. There's a difference. Yes, yeah. Yeah. So like, what, like how, what, what's your typical diet? I mean, like, like, cause I know you, you don't eat gluten, you don't eat dairy. Yeah.

And again, these are, these are kind of like things you have to do because of your health, not things you do by choice. Right, yeah, cause I have an autoimmune disorder. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, not things you do by choice. Right, yeah, because I have an autoimmune disorder. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, it got even stricter. I feel like, yeah, it's crazy. I think about the apocalypse a lot where I'm like,

I'm gonna have to. Yeah, me too. I got Lasik because of that, I'm not even kidding. Putting contacts in every day, I'm like, this is not gonna work. Wait, you got, because I also got Lasik. And in fact, we talked about this in advance of your procedure. Oh, did we? Yes. Yeah. I think I reassured you that it in fact, we talked about this in advance of your procedure. Oh, did we?

Yes. I think I reassured you that it was gonna go fine and then you had complications I felt horrible. I don't remember that at all. Okay. Yeah. I did have some, not complications, they broke like every blood vessel in my eye.

That's wild. Is that- Didn't happen to me. My memory is, and I could be mischaracterizing this, my memory is that I was like, it's fine. It's nothing to worry about. I got it. It's like going to the dentist

and then you had some issues and I felt horrible for reassuring you. This is how bad my eyesight was, by the way. They said if it got any worse, I couldn't do LASIK. Wow. I would no longer qualify anymore. Man. And so the guy I went to, I remember,

he was like Kelly Clarkson and Chris Paul's guy. They were like on the wall. That's how I know that. It was like Brad Pitt, LeBron James. It was like, I was like, okay, I trust him with my eyes. And then they're like pushing down into your eye, right? They're making that little circle. They're cutting it.

So when they pushed down, I think they had to do it so hard or something. Anyway, it broke all my blood. And you're supposed to, it's supposed to heal within like a week or two, you know? I mean, the second you get up, when you sit up, which by the way, you're awake and you're very numb, although they had to numb me a little bit more.

I know that scares everyone. Cause I was like, hey, I can kind of feel you poking. And so they're like, oops. And they like gave me even more drops or whatever. But the second you, it's only like 15 minutes. If that 10 to 15 minutes, I sat up, they pointed to a clock in the corner and they're like, what time it is?

And I was like, oh, it's 10, 10. Like, so you can see perfect immediately. But I remember I was filming something the next week and I still, I looked like I was coked out. Like I still had all my broken blood vessels. It took like almost, it took multiple weeks. Wow. That's a bummer.

I had a, I wonder if I went to the same guy. Cause we, he had a- Did you see Kelly Clarkson and Chris Paul? I don't remember Kelly Clarkson and Chris Paul, but I do remember Weird Al and Drew Carey. It was one of those, this is why I sat down there. They like handed me an iPad in the lobby. And it was just like celebrities saying like,

like this guy did my eyes and it's the best decision of my life. And so, but he did the same thing of like, first off what I remember is that he was like very buff. He's like a muscular, like kind of like TV doctor. And he, and I'm not sure what version I got it before you so they may have modernized the procedure, but they were still using a physical saw. Like, so-

What? Yeah, so- What? Yeah, so what I remember as I was lying back and I was mildly sedated and my eyes were numbed. And then I'm just watching a little circular saw come towards my eyeball. And then it traces around, like it's peeling the top of a grape off of one eye.

And then it folded back. And then he was like, okay, don't move. And then you just see like a red light flashing for like 15 seconds. But when he folds that the top layer of your eye back, my vision went completely blurry. I could not see anything. And then he folds it back on,

repeats the process on the same eye, on the other eye rather. And then he sat me up and yeah, same thing, super fast, faster than 15 minutes, sat up and then he was like, he's like, oh, let me know what time it is. Like kind of like threw it away and I could see the clock on the opposite. Maybe we had the same guy.

It might've been the same guy, yeah. I'm dead. Maybe that is what happened. My clock trick. I know, right? And how many times a day, it takes like 10 minutes to do this procedure, so he's knocking us out so much.

Like how many times does he do that? Yes, yeah. Like go look, hey, go look over at the clock. I wonder when he discovered that. It's a clock where like the minute hands are him flexing. But it was the kind of thing, like when I did it, I was like, I had a lot less money than I have now, but I was still like, I'm not gonna spare,

I financed some of it, because I was like, I'm not going to the cheapest doctor. I'm going to like, I'm spending money. These are my fucking eyes. What was your bank account difference from then to now? Let's hear it. I had like, like four less dollars. Oh, wow. But anyway, I mean, it's the best decision.

For everyone listening, like, oh, I'll never do that. Because that sounds, no, it was the best decision I ever made. Best decision I ever made, for sure. Yeah, but the one thing, I don't know, an ex-boyfriend told me this. Again, he's a piece of shit, so who knows if this is right. He said, I can't go to space now.

Whoa. So we're gonna, yeah. You and I are stuck. If everyone leaves us, if everyone does find Earth too, and moves on, you and I, because he said that my eyes will like explode. We're gonna thrive in the wasteland. It'll be fine.

We're gonna learn how to digest plastics. Exactly, right. But I don't think that can happen because it's glued on, like it's healed by now. You're gonna thrive in the wasteland. It'll be fine. You're gonna learn how to digest plastics. Exactly, right. But I don't think that can happen because it's glued on, like it's healed by now. Yeah, I think you're probably fine, but I think it's like maybe a thing of- You might be an asshole this actually.

Thank you, thank you. Bad baby boy. Yeah. Where? Where? He's out there like, I just want you to subscribe to the Doughboy's Patreon. Oh yeah, that tracks, this all tracks. He told me, yeah, I can't go tooughboy's Patreon. Oh yeah, that tracks, it's all tracks.

He told me, yeah, I can't go to space. I wonder, cause I know there's a thing, you can't pilot a commercial plane if you've had LASIK. Yeah. But it makes your eyes better. Well, I think it's just like an old precaution that comes from the air force or something like that where certain eye surgeries disqualify you.

I don't remember, I haven't looked into this in years, but not that I ever planned to be a pilot, but he might be thinking it from the standpoint of like, you can't be an astronaut, but I don't remember, I haven't looked into this in years. But not that everyone plans to be a pilot, but he might be thinking it from the standpoint of like, you can't be an astronaut. But I don't think you're necessarily banned from like going on a commercial space flight, you know? What if my eyes explode? That'd be intense.

Can you imagine? Your eyes just popping and zero Gs. Yeah, it would be intense, I guess you could say. I guess, yeah, I'd label that as intense. But Danny's eyes exploded. I think about the apocalypse way, don't we all? Anyways, that's the answer to all my stuff. It's because of the apocalypse.

What is your biggest fear of the apocalypse? Mine is like, I think that I would probably just die during the apocalyptic event. Like, I think we all like to speculate that, we like to imagine that we like to imagine that we'll be among the thousands who survive instead of the billions who are vaporized, but I'm probably just dying right away.

I feel like I could murder someone if I needed to. Yeah, I definitely could. I don't believe I'm saying this on record. Yeah, no, I for sure can. But then I don't want to have to live in that world. Me neither. Like it just seems like the worst. My biggest fear would be I'd be the dumb one that gets pregnant.

Everybody's always pregnant, and then there's always someone that's pregnant. I'm like, can you just hold out? Dude, I don't know. Like, seriously, why are you letting someone raw dog? Every show, every movie. You can't get too horny right around the apocalypse. Yeah, what are you doing?

Yeah, what are you? That's true. I guess it is that sort of thing of if you're horny a few months before the apocalypse and the apocalypse happened, you know what I mean? It's not really that's true. I guess it is that sort of thing of, if you were horny a few months before the apocalypse and the apocalypse happened, you know what I mean? It's not really anyone's fault. But- I think a quiet place she got pregnant like while-

In the apocalypse. No, like after all the shit had happened. Yeah, that's insane. Yeah. I mean, what else are you gonna do at a certain point though? You gotta pass the time somehow. I kind of understand the instinct to repopulate the planet after.

No, no. You think that once the apocalyptic event happens, I should be the last generation. In Quiet Place, it's like no one's left. What are you gonna repopulate with? John Krasinski. Also, you're bringing the noisiest element possible into a quiet, yeah. That's true.

How do you handle with the baby? Yeah, yeah. It just sounds like you wanna fucking go wild on John Krasinski. I don't know. I don't know. Get? Into a quiet, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It just sounds like you wanna fucking go wild on John Galinsky. I don't know. Get to repopulating, John. So the thing that I, when I think, and I really like Apocalypse Fiction, but I haven't watched the TV show, but I played the video games, and in The Last of Us, Joel is always like

missing coffee. And like anytime he comes across coffee, and I was like, I think about that. I drink coffee every morning. So the idea of that being like scarce or non-existent is, that's like a huge, that would be a huge, jarring thing. And so I think like the removal of those little pressures, those little, you know, pleasures or conveniences, also just hygiene.

Like that's the other thing. And I'm just like, I'm such a, I feel like I'm a fairly hygienic person. I'm really into like washing my hands or whatever. Anytime, so that's, it's a big part of why I hate like camping, cause I'm just like dirty all the time, you know? I don't think you'll see an apocalypse. Or if you do, it won't be, it won't be the fun version.

I don't think so either, yeah. It'll be like the slow, it's too hot. Now like we're dead, you know what I mean? It won't be like, there won't be like, there won't be like the wasteland. I mean, you wouldn't, I don't know how well you do in that wasteland. I don't think you'd do that well in the wasteland. I mean, you wouldn't, I don't know how well you'd do in that wasteland. I don't think you'd do that well in the wasteland.

Yeah, I don't think so. But I also could rule it. Could you see me being like a ruling warlord of the wasteland? Not if I'm around. Is that fucking white? Is Danny still alive? Yeah.

There's just like a knife to your neck. Jack Allison always said that if there was apocalypse, he was gonna have me in like a gimp mask on like a leash. Yeah. Yeah, I think I have to, I need water. Yeah. I need water pretty regularly. Yeah, very hydrated.

That's the thing with my autoimmune stuff. Yeah, if I don't, I get migraines, I get migraines that last for days. I, yeah, need it to like flush my lymph nodes. And so if I'm restricted, that is a huge concern. Yeah. Yeah, I, look, I'm not that afraid of an apocalypse, never. I didn't say I was afraid.

I'm more afraid of ghosts. If we go back to ghosts, I was, there was a, I saw a thing on the Queen Mary, I was looking at a Queen Mary thing the other day and it was like the longest ghost encounter, it was like 10 minutes, where they were setting up on the Queen Mary and there was like, there's like a lady in here.

Was there a video of it? No, there's no video of it. Just a description of it? Just a description of it. But it was like 10 minutes of a lady sitting in the room and then she finally got up and disappeared. Ghosts scare me. Why?

Because you know that I, the apocalypse doesn't scare me as much. What would like, but why can you kind of brush off the apocalypse? Cause I don't, if the world ends, I'm like, oh well. That's it? It's over. What the fuck?

Like then, you know, I don't care. What if there's an apocalyptic event and you're trapped on the Queen Mary, the bunch of ghosts? That's horrifying. That's so scary. I also feel like they would probably be a little bit more like, hey, we're here, you know what I mean, if it's the apocalypse.

True, join us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I also wanna say I'm a very optimistic person. So I'm not here to bum y'all out. Like, I think my life is gonna be- We don't think so. Okay, I don't want anyone listening to be like, Danny thinks the world's gonna end tomorrow.

I don't, and I'm also very hopeful. Look. I think it's going to be fun. The microplastic. I think things are going to be fun, too. Thank you. The microplastics and nanoplastics now, it's scary. It is a scary thing to think about.

For sure. But we'll figure it out. Our countries really come together after the pandemic. We're not divided at all. I've never been more excited. Yeah. Everything's going to be good. Wives, most Americans think they spend about $62 per month on subscriptions. But get this, the real number is close to $300.

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And so you have to be like, I feel like hyper rigid about it if you are someone who actually, you know, your body can't handle it because a lot of people are kind of loosey goosey with it. So they're not worried about like the separation in the kitchen or whatever like that. But anyway, I was with them and we're at a family meal at a restaurant and they like asked about the mashed potatoes specifically because the mashed potatoes were not gluten-free.

They had flour for thickening. And that's the sort of thing I just would never think to even ask about, but you must encounter that stuff eating out all the time. Yeah, soup, salad dressing, like yeah, hash browns. You think you're safe. Hash browns. Yeah, they put, and a lot of times they put pancake powder in them. Oh yeah, sure.

Or pancake batter to, I don't know, make them taste better. So yeah, it's not the most, but people act very offended when you can't have it. Or yeah, like you're very LA. Right. Not being able to have bread is, that's a tough one. That is tough. It's tricky. That is tricky.

Do you like like a, do you have like something like rice flour or anything like that? Do you have any alternate flours? Do you gluten-free bread? Like will you do gluten-free bread or no? To some extent, I feel like for some of us that are really sensitive, gluten-like products can also kind of trigger a reaction.

Oh, interesting. Or like other grains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing I miss the most is spaghetti. Like I just love regular and pizza. Like I'll go, I like Mod Pizza actually. They have good gluten-free pizza. Oh yeah, I know what that is. They have gluten-free and cauliflower.

And I like it because you can make your own pizza there. Yeah. And they don't judge you. I put the most random-ish shit on there. I think a lot of times they think I'm vegan because I always get the vegan cheese and then I just cover it with bacon. And they're like, you'd be surprised.

I'm like, do people really do it? They're like, you'd be surprised. The people who call themselves vegan. But then. Why do you do the vegan cheese out of curiosity? Oh, I can't have dairy. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're living my apocalypse. I found other things, you know, there's now, like if you go to whatever like food, now in the ice cream aisle, it's like coconut ice cream or now they have avocado ice cream, which is kind of crazy. Oat milk ice cream. Like they're really, basically we're taking over is what I was gonna say.

Right. There's more of us. Not if we can help it, right? Why? I think it's because of all that, like, you know, growing up I would eat gusher. There's nothing in nature that looks like a gusher. There's nothing like, you know, my parents would constantly feed us like McDonald's

and Burger King, cause it was cheap, and now I'm like, oh, that's why I can't eat anything. Yeah, totally. What is a gusher but a juicy raspberry found in the forest? That's neon. It's Mountain Dew colored. Some of them may be Mountain Dew colored,

which there's berries that are green, right, Wags? Oh, yeah, there's an odd, underripe green berry. Yeah, I get exactly what you're saying, because like, yeah, I ate so many processed snacks. I would say that was most of my diet probably when I was young was like processed, you know, like cereals and like liquid cheeses and just like the nastiest shit, which I love.

And I'm happy to eat anytime I have the opportunity to eat it, but yeah, it can't be good for your body. And that probably alters your biology. Now your testicles are filled with fucking microplastics. I love that y'all are being, I love that they said just men, because you fucking know if you go and look at my eggs, I'm sure there's a fuck ton of plastics in them. It's like a little Easter egg or something.

But I love that you're being blamed for it. And but if our like egg and sperm combined, then yeah, we'd have a little Lego baby. So. But I love that they haven't even. Mr. Elastic, yeah. I mean, who knows what type of plasticky person we would have.

Yeah. But you're right. This is not all men's fault, right? Why? Yeah. You had that Lego baby and be like, hmm, he's got daddy's hog. I'm sorry, why? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the Lego baby and be like, hmm, he's got daddy's hog.

It's nice and smooth. Oh, I would hope he had daddy's hog. What are you talking about? I mean, like there's nothing there. Yeah, I get it. I get that the Lego baby has nothing. Remember the graduate talks about plastics. He does talk about plastics.

They've been pushing this agenda for a long time. It's a big thing. That's what I'm gonna say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's all like, it's one of those things when you look at when plastics began being manufactured and then just so much of them were basically made in a century.

It's just like this enormous change, societal change happens. They should go back to, I think they should go back to glass bottles for a lot of things. I love glass. I love glass, I love aluminum. I love glass too.

Yeah, glass is great. Glass is great. The movie too, loves it, love it. M. Night. M. Night. Buster Rhymes, saw him there. Okay. You saw Buster Rhymes seeing glass, the movie glass.

That's right, yeah. What did you say to him, remind me? Well, I was walking out of here and I stopped in between his legs and I said, thank you for everything you've done. And he was very nice and he shook my hand. That's great. In between his legs?

I was standing in between his legs like this basically and I shook his hand. It was great. Thank you for everything you've done. Anything specific? No. I said thank you for all your work. And you know, he was very kind.

That's great. He was great. And he was loving the movie. I told you that he did snore at one point Yeah, he was he was loving it. Are you sure was him? No, I Stopped in between some random guy's leg. No, I mean, no, are you sure was him who was snoring? Oh, yes No, it was it was he was like he was like where you are to me. That's like how close okay, okay? He was like, where you are to me, that's like how close we were. Okay, okay. Can we talk about Celsius a little bit?

This is the energy drink that you said you had something of an addiction to. Yeah, that goes against my autoimmune stuff by saying that. Right. No, I mean, it is. Like it's a, it brands itself as like a healthier energy drink. Right. You said you were drinking a lot of them too.

I was drinking a lot of them, yeah. And I had to, I would rationalize them as like, oh, it was like a post-workout thing, but I had to cut myself off at a certain point. Cause it was becoming like just a routine. I always thought it was just like green tea on steroids. I would have one a day, I wanna say that. I would sip on it like mostly throughout the morning.

That's not crazy. No, but one of my girlfriends was like working an event for them and she was like, Danny, these girls, they drink like three or four of them a day. Wow. And then they're like, why do I have, they drink like three or four of them a day. Wow. And then they're like, why do I have so much anxiety? Probably because you're chugging.

That is sick. That's probably what it is. You have so much caffeine. Yeah, have you had a Celsius Mitch? You're not a big caffeine guy. No, I do. Coke or Diet Coke is like the most caffeine I'll do. No, I do Coke.

No. I didn't mean like that. I didn't mean I didn't mean the Coke. I drink Coke. I didn't really like that. I didn't mean, I didn't mean, I drink Coke. Do you think that Coke should be, but speaking of bringing back the classics, remember when they had Coke and Coke and Polish? Would that hurt anyone?

Yeah, I don't know. I'd try it. Yeah, but what if it opened your world? What if you had the best? People think you got Lasik all the time. You did Lasik again? I've never tried cocaine, so I don't know what that experience would like.

I think it might, I get very anxious as the drop indicated, so I think that might send me through the roof. We'll see. I'd try it though. Do you know the thing with Buster Rhimes that was annoying during the movie? What's that? Like his partner had a popcorn

and he kept saying like, give me some more. So today we're talking about sweet potatoes. This is the garden of eating. Give me some more. Yeah, no, we got it, we got it. We're just crying after a bit doesn't work. Oh, big baby boy.

Big baby bad boy. Sweet potatoes are native to South America in the region that is now Ecuador. They have been cultivated for at least 5,000 years, and sweet potatoes are sometimes called yams in the Americas, even though they are a different species. North American soft sweet potatoes resemble African yams, so that's where things kind of got conflated. Sweet potatoes began to spread worldwide

during the 16th century and began. What is, oh, sorry. I just wonder what the hell the difference is between the two of them. I was reading through it and I was trying to figure out a way to reduce it and it's pretty complex botanically, but they're like basically completely different organisms.

And a sweet potato is actually closer to a regular potato than it is to a yam, even though visually the yam and sweet potatoes seem very similar. Okay. Yeah. But it's like the difference between like a cranberry and a pear. It's like they're very, very different

like species of vegetable. They are nutritious and easy to grow. They have become a staple food in numerous cultures worldwide. And they are a good source of dietary fiber and a great source of vitamin A and beta carotene. Today China produces 55% of the global sweet potato crop. And I didn't know this Mitch,

an ocarina is sometimes referred to as a sweet potato by ocarina enthusiasts. So how about that? That's funny. That's fun, right? Yeah, that is fun. I wanna know who was the first person to be like, look at those yams and someone to be like,

are you talking about my body? Like how did that get started? Yeah. Great question. You look like a, yeah, what? Yeah, I don't know. I'd be curious to etymology of that. Are yams, what are yams, what are they, what are they, are they the butt or the leg?

They're sweeter. Or no, I'm saying what? No, they're like your, yeah, your thighs, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it, got it, okay.'re like your, yeah, your thighs, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it, got it, got it, okay. Yams are, well, I've heard gams, but maybe gams. No, no, people say yams too. Oh, so did it start with gams and then?

That's what I wonder if it was gams and then became yams or vice versa. I don't know. That'd be so embarrassing if I just, if it was gams this whole time. No, I've heard yams. I've definitely heard yams. I think you're right.

I mean, I had that association. Bernstein, Berenstein. Have we heard yams over at the producers desk? Yes. Yeah, okay. This is a thing. Yeah, there's like a song. Can I get to the yams?

Sweet yams. What the hell? And it's just like, you know what, nevermind. Yeah. It's perfect. It's perfect. Do you know whose song that is? No, not off the top of my head.

You know what, so sweet potato is a cute, that's what I call my dog. I definitely say that. That is cute. Sweet potato, that's sweet. Yeah. I like that. Does your dog like sweet potatoes?

You ever tried that? Yeah, yeah, actually I put it in her, she's, y'all this is insane, she's 17. 17, wow. Yeah, talk about like surviving the, yeah. What kind of dog is she? She's a Beagle Boston Terrier. Cute. She's like a 17, wow. Yeah, talk about like surviving the, yeah. What kind of dog is she? She's a Beagle Boston Terrier. Cute.

She's like a mini Beagle. If you go to my Instagram, you'll see I made a, on her 17th birthday a couple of weeks ago, I made a full video of her from puppy to now. Aw. That's cute as hell. She's so cute. She, before we started, we were talking about like those old ladies that live to be 104 and they're like,

all I do is drink wine and smoke. And she reminds me of that. No, she has a good diet though, she has. She has food allergies like me. They always say the pups take after their owners. Interesting, I never thought about that from a diet standpoint. I feel most dogs now,

speaking of how shitty our food system is, most dogs I feel have food allergies. Right, because pet food, they're even fewer precautions. Yeah. Yeah. I only normally like snacks. And I'm actually weirdly not a huge snacker. I don't have a snack next to me right now,

so it seems like I'm lying. But it's the truth. I don't, I'm not a big snacker. You're more team meal than team snack. I'm team meal. That's where I stand too. I'm definitely more of a meal guy. You're more of a meal person or a snacker.

Yeah, and meat. Yeah. Like, just the way I stand too. I'm definitely more of a meal guy. You're more of a meal person or a snapper. Yeah, and meat. Yeah. Like, just the way I said that. And meat. I just need like a big meat entree. Sure. Oh, yeah. What's your favorite meat?

Like steak. What's my favorite? Honestly, you know what? I'm a lot of like a hot dog person. So we talked about dog house when you had, we had one previously. Yes, of course. You're still eating a lot of hot dogs. And they sent me all those dog, you're right, of course. You're still eating a lot of hot dogs.

And they sent me all those dogs. Yeah, that's right. They sent me like hundreds of hot dogs. Yes. And then the second I, I should have put them, I don't know what happened. I was like trying to defrost them. They sent me hundreds.

And I appreciate that. Although at some point I was like, I should not be having a hot dog a day. It was like in the height of the pandemic. Yes, I love hot dogs. Our buddy Adam Gertle sent us a bunch of dogs. Yeah. Yes, I love hot dogs.

Yeah. Thank you again. I mean, we loved those dogs. They buddy Adam Gertle sent us a bunch of dogs. Yes, I love hot dogs. Thank you again. I mean, we loved those dogs. Yeah, oh my gosh. We love them. Yes. I'll have two hot dogs a day. No, I know. I'm saying I want more, you fool.

I'm trying to get us more dogs. And you know what's so funny is because, just saying, like at Maud or other places, I think you can put honey on your pizza crust. OK, sure, yeah. So you remember I said, like, oh, they should do that at Doghouse, where you can put honey on your pizza crust, you know, it's a thing. Okay, sure, yeah. So remember I said like, oh, they should do that at dog house where you can put honey, and so they sent me honey.

Like they literally sent me a thing of honey. Wow, that's fun. That's awesome. But I love- We went Slimer on those dogs, you and I. We just, we came out of our fridge with dogs in our mouths. Right.

I love, but no bun for you, you're just cooking them up. I guess I sound a little crazy, unless it's like a gluten-free bun, but no bun for you. You're just cooking them up. I guess I sound a little crazy, unless it's like a gluten-free bun, but yeah. I normally, that's why I like my meat on a stick. I'm like a meat on a stick girl. But yeah, you can catch me like downtown, those hot dogs that are the bacon wrapped hot dogs, street dogs, LA street dogs.

Oh my gosh. What do you do in a scenario like that? Do you just have them putting it in a little sleeve or whatever? And everyone watches me eat it, just like, just the wiener. And I don't care. I, yeah, they just, I asked it for a while without a bun. And you know what?

They're probably really fucking used to that because they're in LA. Sure, right. Yeah. But do you do any of the accoutrements? Do you throw on like the peppers or anywhere or whatever? Yeah, and the onion. This is insane.

It just seems so messy. It seems so messy. It seems so messy. Yeah, I guess so. And the pickled onions. Love pickled onions. I'll ask for more today in my salad. Love pickled onions.

Yeah, and I'm also like street taco person. That's something I can have more of because a lot of times it's with corn tortilla. Right, right, right. I don't have the cilantro, Gene, I'm sorry for y'all that have that, that tastes like soap. I get cilantro, onions, like all of that.

Love all that, yeah. Love it. Let's talk about sweet potatoes specifically. So why did you wanna talk about sweet potatoes? Love all that. It was one of the few things that I could eat. Yeah. I did say, oh, avocado, but that's a fruit,

because y'all are like covering veggies right now. Yeah, we got fruits are over on the Patreon. We do it, but I don't know if we would have been too pedantic about it if you'd wanted to talk about avocado. Oh no, there was no way it was gonna slide. You think you would have just EQ'd it. But we can touch on avocado here. Oh, I eat it, everything.

I think that's why my skin looks so good. My mom uses it for everything, and she looks like 20 years younger than she is. With avocado, huh? Yeah, she made me an avocado hair mask. I haven't used it recently. She made me an avocado face mask, which is like avocado, honey.

I'm forgetting some things in it, but I also eat it every single day. It's great. How are you eating an avocado when you have it? A lot of times I'll mix it with meat, so like maybe turkey or something, times I'll mix it with meat. So like maybe turkey or something and I'll cut up avocado in a cube.

I'll put it in my smoothie in the morning to get it more thicker. I put it on my tacos. I love it, anyway I can get it. You can just, and this was a thing that I picked up from Natalie, is like you can just eat that sumbitch plain. Like you can just like, you can take that

and you can just take out half an avocado and you just put maybe put a little olive oil and some salt and pepper on it. And you can just eat that as a snack and you know what, it's good as hell. It's okay. And it's like, it keeps me, you know, sustained. Like speaking of my autoimmune issues,

if I have that, then I know like, okay, my blood sugar isn't gonna crash anytime soon. Yeah. You just eat it plain? I mean, I guess you can eat it plain. Well, not plain plain, but like, okay, my blood sugar isn't gonna crash anytime soon. Yeah. You just eat it plain? I mean, I guess you can eat it plain. Well, not plain plain, but like, yeah, you can season that a little bit, and you have that like a snack.

I feel like if we followed what you ate for a month, we'd look much better. We should. I also have fun stuff. But even still, I mean, just getting the gluten out of you. Well, I was gonna to ask you that question. It was like with some hot dogs and stuff like that, did they not put like a, they'll never.

Are they injecting the wiener with gluten? Yeah, is there any gluten? That would be insane. Do they ever use it as like a mixing agent? That's what I was wondering. Into the wieners? I don't know. Like when they mix the meat and then they tube it,

you know what I mean? I was wondering if they did that. But have you been to Red Lion? They have a great sausage plate. Oh, Red Lion, yeah. I haven't, I don't, I'm normally in the been there when people are drinking, so I haven't had their sausage. But you know, I think we talked about this,

that I grew up in Texas, so it's, I'm glad, I'm, I feel like having meat is my one saving grace, cause they're like, this bitch can't have gluten and like dairy and what, and then I'm like, I can have the brisket though. And they're like, this bitch can't have gluten and like dairy and what, and then I'm like, I can have the brisket though. And they're like, okay, she's cool. So that when I visit, I feel like is my, yeah. Do you, are you someone with a palette for barbecue?

Is there anything in LA that compares to anything in San Antonio? Oh. Our friend, I just called him our friend. I mean, he is our friend. He is our friend. Casey is a big barbecue enthusiast. Oh really? From Florida, yeah. No, I should never call him our friend. I just called him our friend. I mean, he is our friend. Casey is a big barbecue enthusiast. Oh, really?

No, I should never call him our friend. Sorry, Casey. It just changes everything. Moosecraft you just went to. And it's been in my head since you said you went there. I want to try it out. But of course, the other big one is Blood Sows. Blood Sows.

Blood Sows is good, yeah. Yeah. Well, I went to school in Austin. I feel that's where so many barbecue places have set up. the other big one is Blood Sos. Blood Sos. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I went to school in Austin. I feel that's where so many barbecue places have settled. Oh, sure. Right. How weird was it then?

Did it get weirder? I feel it used to be weirder. A lot of people from here moved there. Right. Bought up all the land in the homes, which used to be a lot cheaper and aren't anymore. Doughboy Studios is definitely moving there soon, so. Should. Just prepping everyone who works for us to let them know.

I just went there in March. I went to one of our basketball games. It was so much fun. I love Austin so much, and I love being there. I haven't been in a while, but I love it. Sorry, didn't mean to kick it off. No, it's okay. Wait, did you go to a UT basketball game?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, awesome. I feel we're annoying. No, it's okay. Wait, did you go to a UT basketball game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, awesome. I feel we're annoying. We like stick together. I know like every UT person out here. So it's a very Texan thing. But like, this is the thing of, I know it's like a big part of like

the collegiate identity there. I went to UCLA and it's just like, yeah, there's basketball and there's a football program, but no one's as like live or die with it. You know, it's just like, yeah, there's basketball and there's a football program, but no one's as like live or die with it, you know? It's less of a thing. But I don't know, I think that's kind of, I think that's kind of fun of that sort of like

when you're at a major college program that really, really is like, that's their whole thing and that's the entire Saturday. That's where all our money went. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, it's maybe ruinous for the economy, but. Well, I was like a kinesiology major, so I wanted to be a sports journalist.

Yeah, so I was actually in exercise science. And I remember like all the football players were in my, and they had like brand new Nike track suits and like Nike shoes. Shout out Nike, if you want to send me anything. But I remember they would be like, oh, the school like pays for my books. And I was like, I pay for your books.

Yes, right. I pay for your books. Yes, right. I pay for your books. The rest of us. Nike sends us a bunch of hot dogs. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, it's a. Which I wasn't super into.

I got into our sports. Actually, during our strike, I was like, what else is there to do? And so I would go to a bar, an Austin bar, that was here in Hollywood with like other UT people and just like drink. There's an Austin bar. There was, it was called Justin Casos.

It was really funny. It was packed to hell. And we were, we had a really good year this past year. So yeah, I would go with Gabriel Luna, who's also from Austin. And he would get us like tequila shots every time we scored. And so it was just like, yeah, I was like, I don't have to be anywhere tomorrow.

So anyways, I decided that I was gonna make it my entire personality this past fall. And then I kind of like got way too into it accidentally. Just going to the- Yeah, cause then I actually cared how we did. Wow. Are you a San Antonio Spurs fan at all? Kind of, I feel like because I didn't actually grow up there.

So my dad has a lot of family there, but I'll root for them. Like if they're in the finals, I'll be for them. But I also, I went to high school outside of Dallas, so they would take us to the Mavs games, like for high school day or whatever. So I kind of grew up more watching them. More into the Mavericks.

Yeah. Okay, well you're sitting next to, and we're recording this before this releases, but you're sitting next to a Celtics fan. I know. Right now his franchise is, seems poised to win a title. Yeah, wow.

He he he. You're also my favorite Boston person. Wow, that's, you know what? That's also not even really saying. There's a lot, who is your favorite Boston person? Me. No, but like who, is there like an actor or director, like who's your favorite that you're like,

this is a good guy? Cause not a lot, all of them are good. That's a good point. I kind of, I'm look, I'm very much an Affleck defender. I like that. I like Damon and Affleck. I kind of, look, I'm very much an Affleck defender. I like that. I like Damon and Affleck. I like both those guys. I like, people kind of turn on Damon a little bit,

I feel like in the last few years, but I'm trying to think about other- Wow, I feel people have turned on Ben. Yeah, people, I mean, I think it's, like, what did Damon, I don't know, they both have gotten in trouble for different things, Damon and Affleck, but I still, I stand by those guys. Not on everything.

Can you imagine if you said you didn't? Like I don't even know what you would have your B card pulled. I like those guys still. And they're pretty, I think that they're pretty intelligent guys and that's helpful. Yeah, and they make interesting choices, I feel like career wise, you know? I like the movies Affleck directs.

I like that he seems to be kind of picky there. I like that he showed his hog in Gone Girl. But then apparently it turned, ended up being CGI, which is a bummer. CGI, we were very disappointed. Yeah, not like Barry. Barry Keoghan, he was like, look at this hog. I still haven't seen Saltburn,

but I've heard it about the hog. And people are like, this has to be a fake hog, but it was a real hog. Yeah, good for him. Some of those guys are just gonna really get to show it off. Congrats. God bless him. Congrats, Barry.

I don't know what else great could go happening for your fucking movie star, huge hog. Banging Sabrina Carpenter. Is he with Sabrina Carpenter? Oh, yeah, she's the only one. Also, his Instagram is just following her. Oh, that's so sweet. Fuck off, Barry. Barry, you can slide in my DMs.

I don't stand with them. OK, wait, who's your favorite Boston person, though? Do you know? I think that it has to be, I think it has to be, I think it has to be the, I mean, like, besides sports figures, if you're talking about like, actor celebrity people, right? I can't think of anyone else who's like, isn't, like, besides sports figures, if you're talking about, like, actor celebrity people, right? I can't think of anyone else who's like, isn't, well,

Chris Pine and then Chris. Chris Pine's from there? Or is it Chris Hemsworth is from there? Oh, no, no. Definitely not Chris Hemsworth. Nope. Not Chris Hemsworth. He's Australian?

I'm dead. Yes. Wait, who is one? Chris Evans. Chris Evans is from Boston. Chris Evans is from Boston. Chris Evans is from Boston. He seems like a good guy.

I've heard that when people who have worked with him, like he'll go back to his place and party with him, which I'm like, that's cool as hell. It sounds fun. I hear everything about everyone, every guy. And I haven't heard bad, really bad, I haven't heard bad stuff about him. Evans seems like a nice guy.

So he's good. Here's what I wasn't heard bad, really bad, I haven't heard bad stuff about him. Evan seems like a nice guy, so he's good. Here's one I wasn't expecting. Uma Thurman, apparently a Bostonian, also Maura Tierney. Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. A couple of good actors. Maura Tierney, she's great. Maura Tierney, fuck. Like her.

I feel like it's a big thing for, like, the people who, it's their identity. I equate to that as us Texans. Yes, it is, it is, I think it is a big. Like Matthew McConaughey, it's like, it's their identity. I equate to that as us Texans. Yes. It is, I think it is a big. Like Matthew McConaughey. It's like, it's Texas. He's at every Texas gig.

He has to, like, he's from Texas. And like Seth MacFarlane and Affleck and Damon, it's like, we're from Boston, and that's going to be in our work. It is kind of sad that like the biggest, not, whatever. I'm not going to start a beef with bar stool sports, but it is like, I feel like it's like the new age of celebrities are kind of online people. Yeah, that's part of the Boston ecosystem.

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I guess we can talk. Yeah, but let's talk about sweet potatoes a little bit. Let's do it. Okay, so- I mean, we never really answered my Boston question. It's fine, it's fine. What was your Boston question? I mean, can you just list some more people that are from Boston there?

Hold on. Oh my God. You didn't like, if you're including celebrities, I mean, we conclude like, you know, Bill Russell and Bill Walton, RIP, and then those are both Celtics greats who I have some- Those are big, but they're not really from- From that, from there.

That's the thing, it's like, are you associating people with it from, or, you know, cause like Tom Brady's from like Northern California, right? I think the reason the thing of the chip on your shoulder, I also never thought I would be in LA ever. I think that it is like, you know, a lot of it, like it can feel like a working class city in a lot of ways. Not that I had, you know, that.

Sure. I was a little, I was a little baby boy, a little pampered baby. Bad baby. Bad baby boy. But I think that, I think that I never thought I would be in this industry at all. And I think that there is a comradery.

I love the city. It's a great city. It gets a lot of shit and rightfully so in a lot of ways. So it's hard to find a comprehensive listing. This is listing based on social media presence. So this isn't quite, you know, this is obviously a little bit skewed towards modern. Chris Evans, Ben Affleck, John Cena.

I like John Cena. Cena, that's the other one. Jennifer Coolidge, Mark Wahlberg. Coolidge is a big one. Matt Damon, John Krasinski, who we mentioned earlier. Hey, Krasinski. Hey.

Steve Carell, Megan Trainor, Elizabeth Banks, Uma Thurman, Amy Poehler, Kurt Russell, Mindy Kaling, and Joe Keery. I don't know, two of the office people, Steve Carell and John Krasinski. Yeah, how about that? Isn't BJ Novak, too? Mitch, again, this is a comprehensive list.

This is by people by social media posts. We got a lot of the office. We got a lot of the office crew. Yeah. Dang, that makes sense. Anyways, I love Boston. I hope we win the championship flags. I know that doesn't make you happy,

but I hope that we win it. At this point, it will be decided. It will be decided by the time this episode is out. Wait, who's your team? I'm from SoCal, so I'm a Laker fan. Right, of course you said that. So I'm really against- How am I gonna drop out of the Hollywood Handbook show

if we go up three nothing? Don't count your chickens before they hatch. I know, I don't want to. I'm not trying to. Recording this before game three. If they win Wednesday, I gotta drop out of the Hollywood Handbook show and I need your help. You need my help to do it.

They're so scary. Can I go dressed as you? Please, God. I would love, I would, I would, I, honestly last night I was, I was gonna, I like asked Gaber, so I'll be like, I'll pay you whatever you want to go as me to the show. Perfect.

It'll be, it's gonna be very funny, people listening to this who will have watched the Hollywood Handbook live stream while you were there during game four, while the Celtics were up three-zero because you were too scared to back out of it. I am so scared to back out. No, I will, I mean, it depends on what happens,

but I gotta do something. Anyway, we gotta talk about sweet potatoes. Yes, that's right. Okay, so here's what I'll say. Sweet potatoes, we didn't have a lot of growing up in my house that we just had them, but we did have them, but I feel like it was more of like a holiday thing. And it's now a very regular part of my diet.

Sweet potatoes all the time, we bake sweet potatoes at home. You know, I love to puree them. I love to mash them. Yeah, baked, I feel it can almost just be an entree in and of itself. And hey, you know what else? I love a sweet potato fry when I'm out at a restaurant.

Yes. That's a hoot. Sweet potato fries, man, they're good, but they're not as good as regular fries. They're not as good as regular fries, but it's a matter- I'm gonna agree with you. It's a situational thing where sometimes you want the sweet potato fries.

Oh, you like the sweet potato fries. You like them more? Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. But honestly, this feels crazy. I feel they just became popular the past decade. Yeah, for sure.

It's almost like Smashburger made them popular or something. You know? Yeah, I mean, I remember when they kind of came onto the scene, and the first context I remember them being around was like, oh, we've got like half fries, half sweet potato fries. We like mix them in. Get that bullshit out of here.

That's fun, Mitch. That's a lot of fun. What's wrong with that? You know, we used to do a good version of that actually. Who? Cafe 101, rest in peace. Yeah, that was great. Those are, that's a fun platter.

I like regular fries more than sweet potato fries. That's fine, but sweet potato fries, sometimes you want those. And some people like sweet potato fries more. You like them more. Yeah, I do. I'm just salty and they put, you know, a little like, yeah, like when they spice them up,

when they make, when they put on a little show with them. But I also, I think they were marketed as being healthier, right? I think they're- Than regular fries. They're inherently more fibrous. So yeah, they're a little bit more healthy. It's like wheat bread versus white bread.

Yeah, sure, basically. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I feel like they're less heavy than just regular fries. At least I feel like when I'm taking down a basket of them. Sweet potato fries come out, I say, they're orange. That's weird, you know, that's one thing that I mark off for sweet potato fries.

Weird, they're orange. That's fun though. I don't know how fun it is. I think it's pretty fun. I don't for sweet potato fries. Weird, they're orange. That's fun though. I don't know how fun it is. I think it's pretty fun. I don't wanna eat a pumpkin, you know? Does that mean you're getting more keratin? You do get more keratin, which is good for you. I think also like, I just think a french fry is so perfect.

It's one of my favorite foods. Yeah, of course, fries are great. And it just- I love fries. When a table orders sweet potato fries, I think if you've got fries and sweet potato fries, I'll be happy. I just never want sweet potato fries, I think if you've got fries and sweet potato fries, I'll be happy. I just never want sweet potato fries over fries. Some situationally, sometimes I do want

sweet potato fries over fries. So I like that the option exists. My mom, she makes sweet potatoes all the time. She throws them in the oven for hours. You gotta cook them for a while, don't you? Yeah, they take a while to bake, to soften up. And I don't think you'd want to bite into one raw, but are you?

Which I'm going to do today. What kind of dipping sauce do you do or can you do any dipping sauces? I guess in that regard, I'm kind of a loser. You know you're not, you're not a loser because you don't have dipping sauces. I don't know, no, but like, do you know what I mean when they bring them out and I'm trying to think

of what's on them and I don't want to say the wrong thing, do you know what I mean when they bring them out and I'm trying to think of what's on them and I don't wanna say the wrong thing. Like maybe they put a little like, I don't know if it's garlic and this, not cilantro, but there's definitely fucking stuff on them. Yeah, sure. Yeah, they're, or, oh, they go in the other direction and they put like cinnamon. Oh, that's fun.

Yeah, have you had the, what? I'm smelling the sweet potatoes and they're laughing at me. Um. We hand around the vegetable, we look at it, and we... Perfect. And I'm gonna take a little bite of it, too, and see how this is.

Do it. Oh, yeah, this is not edible right now. You can make, like, dog little chewies of these. You just, like, dry them out? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You cut them in these little discs,

and you can make them, like, for your dog. Wow. Let me be honest with you. Just eating it raw, not cooked, not bad. I mean, there's almost no taste to it. Yeah. But not bad. You take just a little nibble of the flesh.

Little nibble. Has no smell at all, if you would like to, if you would like to hand around these. Okay, it has a tiny bit of a smell. Tiny bit. Do you have COVID? Do you? I think long COVID, honestly. This one smells like dirt.

Is this a sweet? Oh yeah, cause they're different colors. Well, this is different too. This is a purple sweet potato. Oh okay, I can smell this one a little bit more. There's a bunch of different varietals. I don't have them all listed out here, but yeah, the purple sweet potato is a little different.

Do you, there's a lot of people that don't like sweet potato pie. I like sweet potato pie. Sweet potato pie is a- Do you? No, they'll like, they do pumpkin. They won't do sweet potato pie. Yeah, I like a sweet potato pie. Sweet potato pie's a thing. Do you? No, they'll like, they do pumpkin. They won't do sweet potato pie. Yeah, I like a sweet potato pie.

We had pumpkin pie when I was a kid, but I mean, I love it. I've had some good ones. You got the Dula Fates going on right now. Ha ha ha ha ha. Bum bum. Bum bum bum. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, vroom, vroom. Fuck man, it would be so cool. What would be so cool?

What would be so cool? If the sweet potatoes turned into lightsabers? I'd be fucking sick as hell. Oh, whoops. Here, you wanna try a little bite? Yeah, I guess I will. I don't know. I mean, it's not anything bad.

No, I know. It's crazy how much they change. I've never taken a bite of raw sweet potato. It's crazy how much they change. I've never taken a bite of raw sweet potato. It's crazy how much they change when you cook them. It's more like a, I mean, it's pretty unsubstantial. It's more like a raw carrot than I anticipated. Which I'll eat a raw carrot without blinking an eye, but I don't think raw sweet potato.

Are they in the same family? I think they are, yeah. So wait, what the hell is the difference between these and yams? They're fucking different. I don't know, what do you want from me? I was just asking. Oh, I'll look it up. I wonder if there's something similar.

I didn't think we were going to get into the details of it. I thought it would be enough that I could just say they're different species, but I'll look it up. Wait, what's squash? Oh, god. Squash is different. Right. And I'm chewing so much.

And then what, is marshmallows and yams, is that what it is on Thanksgiving? Yes, but I think those are actually sweet potatoes. Oh my God. And who even knows all of this? Now I just typed marshmallows into Bing because you said that. Hold on. That's not what I'm looking for.

Yeah, that's my fault. It is your fault. It got in my head. Sweet potatoes versus yam. Wait, what other sweet potato stuff do you... Squash is a gourd. Squash is a gourd. Squash is a gourd, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you're right, yeah.

Oh my gourd. Oh my... What were you asking? Wait, what other sweet potato based products have you had? Other than fries, sweet potato pie? Sweet potato pie I have had. Sweet potato chips. Sweet potato chips I do not like, I've had them before, but they are just.

Too healthy. They're just like not, it's just like, the texture is also slightly off, feel like with the sweet potato chips You know what I'm talking about? Like I feel like a potato chip is like has such a crisp to it And then you have a sweet potato chip and it's kind of like yeah You didn't get the same crunch or whatever. I like sweet potatoes by the way I know that I'm giving a hard time to sweet potatoes I like a potato more than I like a sweet potato.

But I do like sweet potatoes. And I think the best way to have a sweet potato is fresh out of the oven with some butter in it. That's the way I like a sweet potato. Okay, I asked Bing Copilot, what is the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? Sweet potatoes originated in Central or South America. They have long tapered tuberous roots with smooth skin

that can vary in color. The flesh can be white, orange, or even purple. Yams come from Africa and Asia. They grow very large, much larger than sweet potatoes can. They can grow up to five feet and weigh up to 132 pounds. They are a cylindrical shape with brown, rough, bark-like skin that softens after heating, and they are distinct from sweet potatoes

due to their size and skin. 132 pounds? Yeah, they can be big boys. What? Yeah, not always, but they can grow that big. And they have more carbs, fiber, potassium, vitamin C, B6, and E than sweet potatoes. Wow. Are they sweeter?

Are they sweeter or did I make that up in my head? I don't know if there's a clear characterization on which one's inherently sweeter, but I think of yams as sweeter, but it might also be how they're prepared. Oh, right, right, right. I don't know. Oh, that with like the caramelized like, you know, sugar.

Yeah. Oh, right. You can put cinnamon on sweet potatoes with some butter, right? I think it's maybe kind of a, and I think these two species are actually closer, but it's kind of like a bananas and plantains. Like they're similar enough,

but they've got their own unique characteristics and they're used differently. I think sweet potato seems confused. Is it, you know, is it? I'm not confused about it. I'm saying, is it the side dish? Is it savory? Is it sweet?

It's all over the place. It's all these things. That's part of its greatness as a vegetable. It's got a bunch of utilities, got a bunch of versatility. Makes me not trust it as much. You can have it as a side, you can have it as a main. Sure, it scares me.

It's great. Scares me a little bit. It's the same thing as a potato. It's got the same sort of flexibility. It's a bunch of different contexts that can be enjoyed for different meals across the day. You know what I kind of want to do with it that I haven't done?

That sounded crazy. Um, is I want to, you know, people like during the fall, they'll do like a pumpkin smoothie. Oh yeah, sure. So, but sweet potato. People do that with ube, so why couldn't you do it with the sweet potato? Seems like it'd be fun.

I don't know what the deal with the sweet potato is. Thicken it up. That was my Tony's problem, I snuck back at it again. Oh God. Oh God. No, no, I don't get it, Kam, I don't know what the deal with the sweet potato is. Thicken it up. That was my Tony's problem. I snuck back in again. Oh God. Oh God. I don't know. I don't get it, Kam. I don't get it.

I don't know what it's to deal with the sweet potato. It's pretty good. That's good. You're getting better. Like a random Italian, not Tony, but you know. We're at least in the vicinity. We're getting closer. We're getting closer.

We're in the orbit of Tonyorni Soprano. I feel like I've seen it in Italian food. I'm trying to think of what context, but I feel like I've seen like a sweet potato gnocchi. And I don't know if that's a traditional thing or not, but I've had that and that's fun. I don't think it is. I saw, I was in Arizona and I saw,

oh God, it was like Nutella tamales. And I was like, this is a, this is, what are we doing here? Oh yeah. Of course it would be in Arizona, this is, what are we doing here? Oh yeah. Of course it would be in Arizona, but. The shit they do to hummus these days. I can't imagine. Oh, what have they done to our hummus? There's so much stuff in hummus.

You're putting like hummus with cranberries in it. I'm not trying to gatekeep tamales. No, it's fine, but yeah. Yeah, Nutella tamales, that's the, you're pushing it, okay? Yeah. They're doing some crazy, they're doing some crazy stuff. Hum used to be an old-school American snack

Now they've changed it up chocolate hummus swags come on, what are they doing? I know it's not America. Whatever People know, you didn't have a kid. People think I'm dumb. I gotta explain to them sometimes. You think Mitch thinks it's actually an American snack? He doesn't think that. I don't think that. He's making a joke on the comedy podcast.

Come on. Yeah. Also everyone that's like, Danny eats healthy, but she also eats street dogs. I know, I'm not perfect. Yeah, right. I know, I got it. You don't have to tell me.

It's true, but also you eat sweet potatoes, you eat sweet potato fries, no dipping sauce, which is... No, no, I would have to, like, make it, because I feel they would put dairy in it, which I can't have, but I would do, like... How about ketchup? Ketchup, yeah. Ketchup is, I mean, ketchup is so much more of a French fry.

It's sweet potato, you don't even want ketchup. Are you hired by Big Fry? Like, Big Potato? I always love those Got Milk compa... I always love those got milk, I always love those got milk campaigns and it was like any brand, no, just buy milk. Raising awareness of milk in general. Yeah.

Yeah, the thing with ketchup and sweet potato fries is that it's kind of sweet on sweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like you want like a ranch. You want it like a honey mustard type, in my opinion. Sure, I like, I will like like a garlic aioli or something. Yeah, it like a honey mustard type, in my opinion. Sure. I like, I will like like a garlic aioli or something. Yeah, you like an aioli, I was gonna say.

A lot of fun. Yeah. I will like a, when I, here's what I do with the mashed sweet potato, is that I'll just, you can either boil it, which is fine, but you can also just bake the shit out of that sum bitch, and then you can just take it out of the skin, and then you can just mash it right up.

Who the hell got on a sum bitch thing? I love it, and then you can just take it out of the skin, and then you can just mash it right up. I really got on the sumbitch thing. I love it, every time you say it, I'm... I can stop saying it, sorry. No, no, keep saying it. I like it, I like it. I feel like we're gonna get a cease and desist from Jim Ross. Um... Bah God, that's Sweet Potatoes music.

Bah God. Speaking of apocalypse... Okay. Um... Okay. Whoa, very cool. Mitch is flipping around a sweet potato in his hand and catching it. It's really, really, really rad.

Oh. Pretty impressive, Mitch. Good stuff. Great stuff. Not bad. Hmm. Um... Well, congrats. You stuff. Not bad. Well, congrats. You fooled Penn and Teller.

That's what's popping up in my algorithm lately. Yeah. Fooled Penn and Teller. I think this is actually pretty good. I think this would make a pretty good apocalypse. In the apocalypse, I think you would do pretty good with a sweet potato. You'd love to make a pretty good apocalypse in the apocalypse. I think you would do pretty good with a sweet potato. You'd love to have a sweet potato,

because it's loaded with nutrition and, again, easy to grow. You could throw it. You put it over a fire. Yeah, sure. You're in business. Yeah, easy to cook. You're wrapping some, you know, you don't even

have to wrap it in tin foil. For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Have you ever seen? Do you guys want to try to flip it too? You could try, but I don't.

Oh, wow. I'm almost better than you. Whoa. Wow. I was going to say I love that tweet that was like, do you remember, I wonder who was the first person to make popcorn. Yeah right. It's probably just like terrifying. Or to run across a parrot.

That's, wow. Geez. Yeah, they probably killed the shit out of that thing. I'm sure the first parrot. The first, beat it, beat it. Yeah. Um, just think of the apocalypse, you know, as you do. Oscar Isaac, great job as apocalypse in the X-Men movies.

I didn't see it. No? Yeah, I didn't see that one. I actually, I think that one, I don't even hate that movie. As a man who gives Marvel a lot of grief, a lot of trash, a lot of grief. I like that one, okay. What am I missing about sweet potatoes?

I mean, you don't need to make like a whole fries or hash with them. There's not a ton to talk about sweet potatoes. The hash, I didn't even think of that. Doing like a skillet. You definitely can. Oh, no, I've definitely done that, and they're amazing. Do you think that they're that versatile as far as a...

For sure, there's all these different ways you can prepare them. I'm just asking, I'm just done that, and they're amazing. Do you think that they're that versatile as far as a? For sure. There's all these different ways you can prepare them. I'm just asking. I'm just opening up to the discussion. Because, I mean, like we said, sweet potato fry. We said mashed. Pie. Pie.

Pie. Sweet potato pie. Mashed. Mashed. Fries. Yeah. Baked. You can do the hash.

The hash. The hash. You can saute them. You can do anything you do with a potato. Yeah, they're just as versatile. In fact, I would maybe say- I think I want Amelia over here, I think she's with me.

I would maybe see more versatile than potatoes, cause what desserts are you making with potatoes? Amelia's getting a big, she's getting a big. I have no opinion on them. Yeah, it's okay to like potatoes more than sweet potatoes, but I'm just saying, like there's a lot of uses of sweet potatoes. Okay.

Yeah, that's fair. For sure. Potato has, well, I guess, saying, like, there's a lot of uses of sweet potatoes. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. For sure. I mean, potato has, well, I guess are they equally, do they have equal usage? I don't know what is consumed more globally, but I know that that's like the sweet potato, there are a lot of different cultures where it's like a staple part of the cuisine.

And I don't know, I love them. I fucking love the little things. Look, potatoes are saved my people in many ways. I... The reason I'm over here is potatoes. You have a lot of affinity as an Irish American for potatoes. That is a big part of it. I thought you were Italian.

Oh, God, no. Hey, welcome to Washington. You're definitely kidding. No, thank you. Oh, God, no. Hey, welcome to Long Beach. I'm definitely kidding. No, thank you. Oh, my God. But I don't dislike sweet potatoes. I think they are good. You said that like 20 times.

I just don't know if they're in the elite vegetable club to me. Well, let's find out. Let's make that decision. In fact, Mitch, I'll have you go last, because I think you're gonna maybe make this call in terms of where they're gonna land in the hierarchy of vegetables that we've covered this month.

So far, we've gone through broccoli. We've gone through endive. We've gone through- Man, I gave endive, am I gonna give endive a better score? You are, I know you are. Wow. But it's because sweet potatoes aren't potatoes.

That's the whole thing. And what's the last one we did? We just did something before this. Onions. Onions But it's because you, sweet potatoes aren't potatoes. That's the whole thing. And what's the last one we did? We just did something before this. Onions. Onions. Onions, that's right. Onions. Oh, man, come on, onions. Onions are really good. Onions are really fucking good.

So Danny, here's how this works. Like we did with Doghouse, like we normally do on the podcast, we're going to give this a rating, except because we are rating a food and not a, we're rating a vegetable and not a restaurant. We're going to give this out of zero to five salad forks. So you're rating out of zero to five salad forks

and any closing arguments or closing thoughts you wanna make on some potatoes. I'm gonna give it a five just so I can undo Mitch's. Wow. So I can offset. Yeah, it's versatile. It's one of the, you know, it's a starch. Yeah, sure.

And since I can't have most, like I can't have gluten. It's nice like to have a hash or something with sweet potato. I think, I don't think you're giving it its credit, and so I'm taking it personally. What do you have against South America? Oh. Yeah.

Like? No, no, I love, look, I... You can collect your thoughts. I'll go. Sure. I do love sweet potatoes. I eat sweet potatoes all the time. I love all the different contexts in which they work.

I'm thinking of this relative to my rating for onions and relative to my rating for broccoli. And like, is it at that tier? Cause I think I want five out of five salad forks for each of these. And when I really think about it, yeah, I mean, like, is it at that tier? Because I think I want five out of five salad forks for each of these. And when I really think about it, yeah, I mean, like, I'm fine being charitable towards these kinds of vegetables because I have a lot of fandom for them. And I think it's, I don't know,

I think this is how we should be eating, right? Like we should be eating the stuff that's just like, that are just like natural foods, as opposed to the poison we usually put into our bodies. Yeah, on the normal format of this podcast. So I'm gonna go five salad forks as well for sweet potatoes. Mitch, it falls to you. Adam Conover is explaining to me the difference

between yams and sweet potatoes. He's doing a much better job. I like sweet potatoes. And do I like sweet potatoes more than endives? Yes. Yeah. I do. Do I like them more than broccoli? Probably pretty close. Yeah. I think it's pretty close. I don't know what I gave broccoli. Maybe four forks? I don't think you want four forks. But you just saying onion, by the way, Amelia, you saying onion reminded me that I was gonna ask to add crispy onion to my salad.

I don't know if I can. I just placed the other side. Fuck! Fuck! Didn't you already add pickled onion? Yeah, I want crispy and crispy. Oh, and I haven't totally done that. Why the hell not?

Chopped onions and pickled onions. Yeah. I saw her on her phone. That's why I thought of it. I knew I was like a second to, you know when you see someone doing something then you just it pops into your head Yeah, I know and you said onion fucked up. You're fine. It's gonna be a fine. No, I'm gonna throw the salad away I Love onion onion is top tier for me potatoes are top tier for me. I

Know that you want... I know... I don't know if I can give it, I don't know if I can get into the golden plate. I'm trying to get myself there. Uh-huh. But to me... it doesn't just... it just doesn't cut it. Wow.

I think it's 3.754, so I think it's... You're not even gonna add an extra time to get it up to four, to get it up to four, to get up to the bare minimum threshold to get up on the elevated bed? You know what? My two friends like it a lot.

I'll give it four forks. Four salad forks. Four salad forks, which means it gets a big green thumbs up collectively. No, I will not give it the big green thumbs up. You're giving it a green thumbs down despite giving it four salad forks? No, I stay this way. I stay in the middle.

Wow. What happens to a gladiator if you give them the one in the middle? I don't know. I think they bring out the doula fate's chair. We'll find out in gladiator two. Maybe there is a middle thumb. Maybe there's a middle thumb.

It's like just right at, I don't know, it's right at three o'clock. It seems like the emperor or whatever is like, kind of like not, is it emperor? I don't know, I have no idea. Yeah, it'd be an emperor. Caesar, whoever it is. Caesar, whoever it is.

Yeah. Caesar, there we go. Caesar, yeah, he's unsure of what to do. He's just wanted to, too much coffee. A fun bit too, you could be as the emperor is like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're kind of reacting to the crowd, playing it up a little bit. Yeah, that's whoa. You're kind of reacting to the crowd,

playing it up a little bit. Yeah, that's why. You ultimately land on the thumbs up and everyone just loves it. Is that not what Joaquin did? He does egg him on a little bit. I don't know if he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't control this crazy thing, whoa, all right.

And he made out with his sister. I think that's more. He did more than that. Yeah. Yeah, they were, they were going all the way. This used to be a society. Um, you know what? I will give it a green thumbs up.

It gets real corpse. Wow. Welcome to the elevated dead. I'm gonna remember this in the, when I'm ruling the world. I'm gonna remember this. That was our review of, of sweet potatoes. Casey, how do you feel about sweet potatoes? You're a sweet potato fan?

I like sweet potatoes. I'd go four. You'd go four, yeah. And Amelia, you're just coming back with what we got for our segment, but where would you land on sweet potatoes? Jesus. I don't think about them. Okay. You don't think about them.

Yeah, I can't. They just don't enter your head. Yeah, I can't give a score in good conscience. I just. How often do you eat sweet potatoes? She's abstaining. Maybe like a few times a year. Okay. But I don't consciously think about it.

It's kind of like religion. I don't really think about God or. Yeah. What the hell? So you're comparing sweet potatoes to God. Yeah, I just don't have an opinion. I don't think about it. It doesn't come up much.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I abstain. Let her deliver. Get into the segment. I feel bad that she's holding 100 of things. Sorry, you didn't need to take your position there.

I think we should talk about God while she's holding all this shit. We don't talk about God much on this podcast. It is a Christian podcast. It is a Christian podcast. We should talk about it a little bit more. I talked about microplastics and cum. You did talk about that, yeah.

The new God. The new God. Your Lego baby, that's the new God. What the fuck is going on here, by the way? So Amelia, for our audio listeners, Amelia has a selection of various, I think these are all sweet potato chips or sweet potato adjacent.

So we have some sweet potato chips and then we also have some sweet potato beverages. These look to be some V8 varietals. So I guess we're gonna have some sips of these. What is your juice intake? I have a lot of juice, I do. You do have a lot of juice. Yeah, this is the most LA thing about me, but I do make celery juice. Wow, that's fun. Yeah.

What's your setup for that? I have a high-powered juicer, and I do celery juice, ginger, I do turmeric, because it helps with my inflammatory stuff. Like you and Melee? So, yeah, that's probably why my skin looks so good. I haven't had any work done, and I never will. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie. So, yeah, that's probably why my skin looks so good. I haven't had any work done and I never will.

And you know, my mom chugging avocados. Yeah, sure. Just drinking them just like a smoothie. All right, so this first one we have here is a, I guess we'll start with this V8, deliciously green. This supposedly has two combined servings of veggie and fruit. And I can't tell all the components in here, but it's just sort of generally vegetable juice, which also includes sweet potatoes, yellow carrots,

spinach, cucumber, celery, and kale. It's 100% juice as opposed to what would it be? Yeah, a lot of times it's like, you know, it's got a bunch of just artificial flavoring and shit, but I guess this one is actually pure juice. I was browsing for some high-powered juicers down at Muscle Beach. Okay.

I could have brought you some of my juice. Could you? Oh, I would have loved that. We would probably shit your pants. Yeah. We probably would shit our pants. This isn't bad. It's a little sweet for me. It looks like it has a good amount of added sugar,

but it like- It's a perfect room temp. This has, temperature aside, this kind of has a little bit of a syrupy character to it. I don't think it has high fructose corn syrup. Is V8 bad? I don't know what the deal is with V8, but I'm guessing it's probably,

I mean, when you're young, when we were young, it was like V8 the healthy juice, you know? And now you're like, is this just kind of like, you know? Yeah, I don't know if it's actually healthy, but yeah, so I remember the V8 vegetable juice being like a thing. Like it was at least marketed as a health food. This isn't bad.

It has a bit of like, you can taste, it's a little bit vegetable-y. It has that, it has, like it was at least marketed as a health food. This isn't bad, it has a bit of, like you can taste, it's a little bit vegetable-y, it has that, but it is sweet. Thank you, Meilyne. I can taste the pineapple in it. I love how sweet it is, I love sweet, we went over this. Right. The Celsius is a little sweet. We actually had pineapple yesterday.

On your exclusive Patreon? On your exclusive Patreon. Is that an upcoming episode? I don't even know where we are. I'm so confused. I think that one's probably out, but I could be wrong. Oh. Okay. So we also have another V8 we're having.

Amelia, what's this one called? This one. I don't know if that mic's live. You can speak into mine. This is a peach mango. Peach mango? It's got mango, apple, peach, carrot, and sweet potato. It does have sweet potato in it.

Okay. And then what was in the last one? Peach mango. It's got mango, apple, peach, carrot, and sweet potato. It does have sweet potato in it. And what was in the last one? I could taste tomato or something in this. Yeah, there's carrots, there's sweet potato. There is pineapple, spinach, apples, hint of banana. Just a hint.

Just a hint, yeah. Wait, I saw the craziest thing. Have you seen that video of the mamas and papas where she's eating a banana, I think on Ed Sullivan. No. Like while there's performing. Because they wouldn't let them sing it live, so they had to lip sync.

So she, I forgot which mama it was, but she's eating a banana. And that's not even the crazy thing. The crazy thing is in the comments, someone said, and we'll probably never taste a banana like that ever again. And someone said, I know, I think about it all the time. Yeah, a bunch of like the bananas have, I think they've altered their genetic character,

and there's like a different type of banana these days. What if you froze a banana from like, I'm sure someone has in the back of their freezer from the 80s. Yeah, I don't know if there are any heirloom bananas still existent, but yeah. Probably just like, shit. You old frozen banana. Don, I don't know if there are any heirloom bananas still existent, but yeah. Probably tastes like shit. Don't you wanna know,

what do you think bananas tasted like back then? Probably better. I mean, I think everything was more natural and less preservatives. Speaking of risottos, I'm eating these sweet potato chips. Here's what I'll say about the both V8s. I think these are both mild stanks for me. I just don't have any reason to drink this kind of,

you know, juice out of a big bottle I get from the grocery store. I feel like I am gonna have juice all, I don't know. I mean, I just feel like this specific thing is not for me. I could, this with some vodka, this is, these are the types of drinks that I would drink in college and sometimes now. Yeah.

So I do fruity stuff. Yeah. So you go, do you go drink or, if we're going to drink or stank, where do you land? Oh, yeah, I'm a fresh juice person. Yeah. So I have to do a stank. I think that's the thing,

and not to sound elitist about it, but it's just like, I don't necessarily need to have this as an adult. What do you chomp pretty much on? So I moved on to these chips. Yeah, so I've got some other chips, and we can circulate these and we can meet these in the middle. but it's just like I don't necessarily need to have this as an adult. What do you chomp? What do you chomp? I moved on to these chips. Yeah, so I've got some other chips. We can circulate these and we can meet these in the middle.

I've got the original Terra. These are the real vegetable chips. These are with sea salt. And what one do you have, Mitch? I have Terra Mediterranean. Those are my favorite. With garlic and herbs. I love those.

So these apparently have a bunch of different root vegetables. They have sweet potato. Parsnip. Parsnip. Kettle potato. Batata. Batata. And yeah, and what just says ruby dipped vegetables,

whatever that is. I feel like if you get the orange ones, you're getting the sweet potato, right? Yeah. Yeah. This is, there's a lot of good. You know what? These are really crunchy. I gotta give it to the sweet potatoes specifically.

This is just a sea salt one. The Mediterranean ones are my crunchy. Are we gonna give it to the sweet potatoes specifically? This is just a sea salt one. The Mediterranean ones are my favorite. Wow. They do have some fall ones that come out that you might enjoy in the fall. What are they like? I don't think they're like pumpkin, but they have like a, I don't know.

It tastes like fall. Limited edition. These are a hoot. I like the Mediterranean garlic and herbs. Those tastes like fall. Mm. Limited edition. These are a hoot. I like the Mediterranean garlic and herbs. Those are really, really yummy. That was some hummus? My god. That's a big time snack.

I think the sea salt, I'll give them my old snack. Mm. It's just like ASMR. These are like very earthy. We might turn it into an ASMR pocket at some point. I pay extra, I charge people extra for this. Listen to me crunch on something. My mouth sounds.

Well, we've also got some big bad baby boy listeners who will be like, my mesophonia, when you munch into the microphone it triggers my mesophonia, which is real. I was like, we have to hear that. Yeah. That's a whole thing. Yeah, phony.

Yeah. I'm dead. Be wordin' it. Some of these, I feel like the texture on some of these chips are different, maybe it's the batata or something. There's a lot of variants because you're using four different root vegetables.

Different fruits and vegetables, yeah. And some of them are like a little tougher to eat than the other ones, but. Right. I'll give a light snack to the non-flavored ones and the flavored ones get a snack. Big time snack. That goes a long way, that Mediterranean seasoning. And honestly, I give a drink to the green V8.

Uh-huh. A slight drink. I like that one more. I also like drinking green things. I think that's fun. It is very fun. Ecto cooler, what else? Oh. That? This is an ecto cooler?

Yeah, those two. Oh, Mountain Dew? Mountain Dew? Mountain Dew? Mountain Dew? That's not entirely green. That's like neon. Neon yellow.

No, like I'll get like a bunch of just green veggies like blended into something. I like that kind of juice. I think that's good. This tastes a little bit like sunscreen. You agree? into something. I like that kind of juice. I think that's a good. This tastes a little bit like sunscreen. You agree? I don't know if I got too much of a sunscreen, sunscreeny character from it. I guess I'll take another swig. So curious what your sunscreen. What do you think of that? I'm not getting a sunscreen. I know what you mean, but I'm not really getting that sort of coconutty character to it.

Yeah, maybe that's what it maybe it is just a coconut. I know what you mean, but I'm not really getting that. That sort of coconutty character to it. Yeah, maybe that's what it, maybe it is just a coconut. Is there coconut in it? I don't think there is. I don't think there is. It just seems very, it's like, it has like that tropical whatever flavor. I'll give this like, it's almost in the middle. I'd say at the mildest of drinks, nearly a stank for me. I'll be honest, I'm not excited about anything

except those Mediterranean chips, which are fucking great. Those are a delight. Tara, if you would like to send me some, I'm not excited about anything except those Mediterranean chips, which are fucking great. Those are a delight. Tara, if you would like to send me some, I eat them all the time. Save my bill. Once again, Tara and Nike, just choose the two things that are not, do not know we exist. Yeah, we'll see.

Until now. Exactly. Any, did we not get any verdicts on any of these? I think we could, we snack or whack these all. Yes, snack for the Mediterranean, slight snack for the original. Right. The slightest of drinks for, for both. The green more so than the orange.

Yeah. I agree. Hey, that was a... A good job, Emil, getting us all different sweet potatoes. Thank you. Well done, Amelia. That's all stuff I could have. Did the checkout person think you were a freak?

Cause you bought actual sweet potatoes and then like three sweet potato products, four sweet potato products. Much like how I feel about sweet potatoes, I think the checkout person also wasn't thinking about it or paying attention. Or putting it on paying attention. They're talking about the apocalypse. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. How about we call that Meals Time, that segment. I like that. A little nod to your nickname. People call Amelia Meals. How about that? That's true.

Meals. Yeah, Meals and Millie. Dan Dan. Millie? Dan Dan's fun. Dan Dan's great. Dan Dan Noodle, they would call me Dan Dan Noodle. That's fun.

That's fun. Yeah. Great, perfect, thank you. Spoon man. And why is your burger boy, I guess? I guess those ones we would go by. Our self-given nicknames. Your guys' names giving you out of affection and love.

That's what ours made up for the podcast. Hey, just like a restaurant by your feedback, let's open up the feedback. And today we have an email from Oscar G. Oscar writes... Oscar G? Oscar the Grouch? I don't think it's Oscar the Grouch, Mitch. Are you sure? I mean, it could be, but I don't think so.

He does love trash. Yeah, he's a fan of our podcast. He's a fan of our broadcast. He's a fan of the show. He's a fan of the show. Oscar writes, everyone always has a dream last meal before being executed. What's your nightmare last meal? Oh, God.

Who do you despise that will be given to you instead of something you'll like, Burger Brigade for life? P.S., live a couple miles away from former Feedback guest, Tonsu Phillip Philip and from Tonsu's Boba spot and always had great experiences there. Wow. Tonsu was on the main feed recently.

That's great. I love it. Keep supporting. Yeah. Viva la Boba is the spot. Yes. All right, Mitch, this is the scenario, nightmare last meal. You're facing the gallows,

you're gonna be executed for all your many crimes, and you know what you did. But yeah, you get one last meal, but they decide as a fuck you, they're going to make you eat your least favorite thing. What would that be? Okay, honestly, I'm trying to think of what I would order and then how they'd fuck me over.

But I don't even know if, they could just bring me a plate of dog shit, right? Or is it like something- Yeah, let's say it's food. Let's say it's not gonna be a bunch of, you know, rusty nails and broken glass or whatever. Like a cheese pizza or a cheeseburger and fries would be my last meal.

That's what you'd want, ideally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that if I got a cheeseburger and fries would be my last meal. That's what you'd want ideally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that if I got a cheeseburger and fries, first of all, they'd bring out sweet potato fries instead of regular fries. Which would kind of piss me off. Yeah. If they forgot the cheese on the,

like I'm trying to think of what's the, what is the worst version that they could do? Oh no, I got a regular burger Your nightmare scenario. What if it's like super well done? Yeah, it's like rubbery. Oh man a really well over cooked burger. Yeah, or it's cold Yeah, a cold overcooked. That's that's a combo But you're still getting a burger like that's still something you would normally eat Well, then what do you want me to say?

Like they bring me grains or something? Don't you have foods you dislike? You have things that you don't like as much as other foods. Oh, okay, sure. All right, then, all right, come back to me. I'll take that back for a second. Wow. I do have foods I don't like.

Yeah. I think for me, look, I've always said that gummy ain't yummy. I'm not a gummy guy. I don't necessarily love gummy candies. So I think if you gave me a bunch of like nerds ropes, like you're gonna eat all this nerds ropes and then we're gonna hang you with it. I'd be like, I can't.

They're gonna hang you with a nerd rope? Yeah, I know, yeah. I also feel sorry, I have to speak up as a gummy person. I don't think nerds ropes is considered, that's not gum, it's too crunchy for gummy. Okay, that's got a little bit too much texture to it. Then yeah, I don't know like- Swedish fish, if they like slap you with Swedish fish.

Yeah, maybe a bunch of Swedish fish and like black licorice. Like that stuff that I find pretty unpleasant to eat. Yeah. Both in texture and flavor. If they were hanging you with a nerds robe and you'd get one last jacket. Jesus Christ.

This is why we're hanging you. You're always doing this. Cut and knock it off. Nerds robe, Mitch, is that what you call your hog? Well, well, well. I don't know if it called by the full rope. My best friend uses the term hog all the time too. And I feel like is that,

I don't think I grew up with people calling it hog. Yeah, I also didn't grow up with people calling it hog. I definitely didn't grow up with people calling it hog. I definitely didn't grow up with people calling it hog. But now that's the accepted term. I think it's become a more common thing. Yeah, yeah. Because I think like dick is like, you know, it's just disgusting.

People used to say dick, yeah. I think hog denotes like girth. It does make you think of a more substantial one. And then I think it's kind of been genericized to mean all hogs. And let me tell you, it's not, you know, it's not normal. Yeah. The big ones aren't normal.

Um, but, uh, hmm. A plate of stuff, do you have anything that you would, I mean, for you maybe it would be a bread meal, the other people. No, I thought of those a lot of like, cause I told you I miss spaghetti. Like, I feel if I was supposed to die later that day, I would eat a bunch of shit and like die sooner.

I always think that would happen of like, oh, he gave her a lot, oh, she's passed out. I actually, I feel crazy because your love of potatoes. I don't like mashed potatoes. Wow. They're not that good compared in this grand scheme of all food. I love this day.

Oh my God. I love these days. I love these days. This really comes out Casey fucking- Wow, the truth comes out. This is like Springer. I don't, and soggy waffles? Like, oh, that would be the worst. It's like Springer's, I'm gonna fucking jump over the desk and go at Casey.

Yeah, mashed potatoes aren't that good. They're not, they're just filler. Insane. I like mashed potatoes, but I like the take that the smashed potatoes aren't that good, because that's fun. Okay. Yeah.

Out of your mind, you. I like them. I know you do. I also like a hot take. That's a great hot take. It is. They're just kind of okay. Yeah.

I feel like I've had some really shitty, like, you know, like microwave breakfast sandwiches. Like, I feel like that's like a really sad meal. So if I had to eat that, you know, like a bad like vending machine, like egg sandwich, that would be a real bummer. That'd be pretty grim. I'm trying to think of other snacks.

I really, really don't care. But the other thing is like, I am kind of a garbage disposal in terms of consuming food. Like I kind of eat and enjoy everything. So there's not too much that would, you know, really set me off. Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, I can't really think of, I mean, like you were saying, like if it's food, I mean, there's ways I would be disappointed if they're like, here's like a fucking, here's some boiled fish or something, and I'd be like, this sucks. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I mean, not to go at the guy who asked the question, but it sucks, and he's a burger brigade guy, and he's, he's a- It's a good question for Moscow G. He, but it sucks and he's a burger brigade guy. And he's, he has- It's a good question for Moscow G. He asked a bad question. It's a good question. It's a great question. You just can't come up with a good answer.

I think my aunt, I can't come up with a good answer. You're seem to be struggling there. Oh, okay. You asked for more time and we went back to you and you're like, I can't think of something. How about gravy ice cubes? Oh! There you go.

That's good. Yeah, that's good, Mitch. You put out an effort. Mitch, do you like mint chocolate chip? Are you one of those? I do like mint chocolate chip. Do you like the orange chocolate? I know a lot of people that don't.

Oh, I do like orange chocolate. You know how the orange in the chocolate. Oh. I'm okay with like orange and chocolate. I don't mix as much, but I still will eat it and be happy with it. Mint chocolate chip I like more, but I get how people don't like mint. Like I get that that is a thing that people don't mix as much, but I still will eat it and be happy with it. Mint chocolate chip I like more, but I get how people don't like mint.

Like I get that that is a thing that people don't like. But I like mint chocolate. I like a mint chocolate chip with sprinkles in a cone. When I was a boy, that's what I used to get. Yeah, that's a lot of fun. There's also a huge population of people that hate fish. Like they can't, if it's touching, sometimes I'll order like fish and there'll be fries,

I'm like, oh, you want some of my fries or something? And they're like, absolutely not. They don't want any. Nothing touching seafood. I mean, if it was a good enough seafood meal, it is just a hard question. I think it's like, I don't know, if I'm gonna die anyways, I mean like,

if it was, if it's not pizza or a cheeseburger and fries, I think I would just be sad anyways that it's not, or a cheeseburger and fries, I think I would just be sad anyways that it's not, or a steak. I'd want a nice steak for my last one. What if it was cereal with water? That's pretty fucking good. That is a real bummer. That would suck.

That sucks. It's almost like I should be the other host. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Three times. Please take it. Yeah, cereal with water. How about gravy? Ice cubes is pretty good. How about hot jello or? Then it wouldn't even be jello. Do you know? Fucking old milk. What do you want from me, Weiss? Sewage. Sewage would be bad.

Sewage would be bad. I hate eating a bunch of sewage. Yeah, sewage is bad. Yeah, shit, human shit, dog shit. God, what a bummer. Yeah, that would suck. Diarrhea, like all that stuff would be hard to eat. Like a booger platter, that would be bad.

Is that what you want from us? No, I didn't want that, I wanted actual food. Wow. Can I just ask one question? What was y'all cereal, like your go-to cereal growing up? Great question, I was a big Cap'n Crunch partisan. I really love Cap'n Crunch, but we had a bunch of breakfast cereals in my house.

I can't believe how many fucking sugary cereals my family let me eat in hindsight. But also it's like, they were just hoping kids would eat anything, so I get it. But yeah, we had that, we had Cookie Crisp. I loved Cookie Crisp. I forgot about Cookie Crisp. Cocoa Puffs I liked.

We liked Lucky Charms, but like just the marshmallows, not the wood. I'm trying to think of what else. I didn't love marshmallow cereals as else. I didn't love marshmallow. I didn't love marshmallow cereals as much. You don't love marshmallow cereals, okay. What was your cereal? I don't think I'd like them now.

Growing up, I got raisin bran quite a bit and then I also got- Is that why you're like this? I love yours is like Captain Crunch, lucky charms. Yours is raisin bran. He's the boring Lucky Charms, yours is Raisin Bran. He's the boring man. All right, well this is Boston. This is LA, this is Boston.

Okay, what was the Raisin Bran? Frosted Flakes, because my grandma would make me cornflakes and put the sugar on top of it. And so Frosted Flakes was like a big one that I liked. I did Apple Jacks for a little while. I'm preparing a couple of big ones. Honey Bunches of Oats, and then also not Apple Jacks, but- I did Fruity Pebbles as well.

Fruity Pebbles are fun. No, it should have been Toast Crunch. Oh yeah, that was great. Mine was Honeycomb. Honeycomb, yes. And it had that psycho little cocaine driven rodent, whatever it was, like a Sonic's tethered- He only just got Lasik, that was the thing.

No, it was like Sonic's tethered, it was like the evil version of Sonic. And it was like the little honeycomb, they should bring that man back. I love that guy. Yeah, they did some retconning of serial mascots. And I wasn't happy about what they did with Cookie Chris, but it used to be like a robber and a dog robber.

Right, I remember the dog. They got rid of them and then they just made it like a generic wolf. Yeah. The wolf is way less fun. Yeah, get the fuck out of here. Get that wolf out of here. Wolves don't eat cookies.

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What a hoot this was. I just thought your gummy, the sharks, have you had the gummy sharks? They're so big. Yeah? Yeah, you would hate that. I probably would. It would get stuck lodged in your throat.

I'd be eating the gummy sharks and then they'd feed me to the sharks. Perfect. Yeah. That's pretty fucking good. That'd be nasty. That was a good question after all. What a treat to have you back. Yes.

Come back again soon. Okay, I'm here tomorrow. And we'll love to try your celery juices. Oh my God, that sounds horrible stuff. Anything you would like to plug? Oh, yeah. Follow me on socials. I'm at Ms. Dani Fernandez. And then, yeah, my short in the static

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